Episode 1096 Scott Adams: TDS Telethon, Coronavirus Craziness, Coup Two, Mailboxgate, Failing States

Date: 2020-08-18 | Duration: 1:00:50

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• Kimberly Klacik’s excellent campaign commercial
• DNC TDS convention, Day 1
• Michelle Obama’s convention speech
• Is President Trump stealing mailboxes?
• FOX writer, Arnon Mishkin, shy Trump voters?
• Financial incentive for death from COVID19

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hey everybody come on in it's time once again for coffee with scott adams and i promise you
you this this will be the best coffee with scott adams since i don't know yesterday at least and you're gonna love it it's going to kick your day off to a good start and uh all you need is a copper mug or glass a tanker chelsea steiner canteen jugger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better except the democratic convention i don't think coffee can help that but let's try go
nope didn't help a bit but everything else it makes better well thank god the president finally got around to pardoning susan b anthony i don't know

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pardoning susan b anthony i don't know if you saw the news but uh yeah susan b anthony she's apparently been released from jail i'm being told she's she's dead so she's not really happy about it but the weirdest part about trump pardoning susan b anthony is that by sometime this afternoon you would expect the democrats to do a a full-scale attack on susan anthony so the funniest part about it is if he pardoned susan b anthony what's what are the democrats gonna say uh we hate that it doesn't leave much to say so i think they'll just ignore it or say it's trivial which it is but it's not it's not unentertaining so we got that so how many of you saw there's a very viral video it's a campaign ad by kimberly classic

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it's a campaign ad by kimberly classic klasik kla cik she's running for uh let's see us house candidate in maryland and if you saw you have to see it i tweeted it but it's all over the internet and it is one of the best made campaign commercials you'll ever see in your life and if you haven't seen it it's a this young woman kimberly klasik who's wearing a tight-fitting red dress which is important to the story it's not sexist it's important to the story and heals and she's walking through a broken down baltimore neighborhood that just looks terrible and it's all gray and brown and she's wearing this bright red dress and walking through it and talking about how things are bad and she can fix it i gotta say whoever put that commercial together she either has really good advisors or or she knows how to do this kind of

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or or she knows how to do this kind of stuff or or something but keep an eye on keep an eye on that race it looks like um she's going to be an up-and-comer but you have to see the commercial to realize how powerful it is how many of you watched the tds telethon last night i didn't see any numbers about how much they raised to cure tds but i assume that's what that was about i made the mistake of turning on cnn last evening and i had to i had to take a silkwood shower after that for those of you who know what that movie was about i thought my eyes were gonna fall out of my head it's like ah it's burning my eyes there were some there were some bad visuals on that program uh mostly the entertainment stuff but among the highlights um by far the the worst like

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by far the the worst like you always think well they can't go any lower now what would be the the lowest most disgusting thing somebody could do to try to win an election well the democrats have a good entry they brought a woman in who said that trump basically killed her father by saying the wrong things about coronavirus her her argument is that her 65 year old dad
dad had no pre-existing conditions and that it was simply that he believed trump saying something like the virus wasn't going to hurt him and then he got it and he died now you can kind of see where this is going right if if you're if you're watching something on cnn just something they're covering in this case the convention and you hear about somebody who died with no pre-existing conditions what's your first thought

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what's your first thought no pre-existing conditions huh what's the first thing you think if it's on cnn the first thing you think is
is i'd like to see a picture of this person who had no pre-existing conditions is this person oh i don't know obese
so it turns out her dad was 65 and could have could have lost about 65 pounds now i don't want to speak ill of the dead but because the daughter of the deceased brought it into the political realm it is now as the lawyers say fair game so it wasn't me who wanted to politicize it it was his own daughter he of course would be spinning in his grave because i don't i don't think she was saying stuff that he would have necessarily approved of
but here's the thing how are we supposed to ignore

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to ignore the picture of the guy who is obviously way overweight and doesn't look healthy at all and his daughter's saying no pre-existing conditions have they heard that weight is highly correlated with a bad outcome have they heard that being 65 doesn't really give you the best chances in the world
and i don't recall trump ever telling the public that overweight senior citizens had low risk do you remember him saying that did anybody say oh it's okay if you're a senior citizen and you're overweight go ahead go nuts you don't need a mask you don't need anything i don't remember trump saying that it feels as if he said the very opposite of that and lots of times that it's bad for the senior citizens it's bad if you have pre-existing conditions oh but i guess he didn't have any except that the picture shows he clearly did
did so that's some more fake news we'll

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so that's some more fake news we'll circle back to that point
so do you see the uh coup two taking place now coup number one was the russia collusion coup that failed but you can see the coup ii i call it just has a nice ring to it kutu so kutu is shaping up and it's so ridiculously obvious that it's almost funny but the fact that it's obvious that you can see this plot taking shape it won't change it at all the fact that we can see it happening no difference it will happen just the same just like we didn't know it was happening and the plot goes like this number one is you have to do something that guarantees the election outcome will not be credible in other words no matter who wins the public is going to look at it and say i don't think so not so sure that we actually counted the

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not so sure that we actually counted the votes right now how could you have an election that nobody thinks the votes were counted right well one way would be to have you know massive mail-in votes so that's what the democrats want they want they're they're fighting to have a election system that guarantees you won't know who won exactly think about that they're fighting for a system that guarantees you won't know who won why would they do that could it be you know the the the the obvious is that they plan to cheat but wouldn't the republicans cheat too i mean it's not like all the cheaters are in one party i mean you might think they are but probably not probably not so you think there's a different play here is if the play is not to out-cheat the republicans because once it's a competition if it's a competition the republicans are going to come to play if you know what i mean so if you think you're going to

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so if you think you're going to out-cheat the republicans well you know they're not the ones who made it a competition i don't approve of cheating on the on the elections i'm just saying you should expect a lot of it but i don't think the plan is to out-cheat the republicans it seems to me the real plan is to make sure that the election results are not credible because trump's going to win and if you want to press a second coup you're going to need to have this narrative hey the president rigged the election either by
by stopping mail-in votes or by whatever whatever and therefore he must be removed from office by any means necessary and that will be coo too now you've seen that that they've already floated the idea that the military should be looking at removing him if he doesn't leave so they're they're they're softening up the room they're setting the table they're

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they're they're priests waiting if you want although priest waiting is a different specific term they're softening you up to expect that you're going to have an a bad or an undependable result if that undependable result says trump won they're going to say the the election doesn't count and he's a dictator staying in office and then they're going to call for the military to remove him that's actually happening right in front of you and we're just every day we'll just wake up and you know go to work and eat dinner just like it's not happening which is the just the craziest thing the fact that we can see it and then act like it's not happening all at the same time it's a very human thing to do
let's talk about michelle obama's uh incredible incredible speech if if you've heard any democrats talk about

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if you've heard any democrats talk about it it was a speech for the ages it was a tour de force she laid into the president and and just made that case because she's the most popular woman in the world um except i watched part of it and apparently there's some subjectivity involved in deciding how good that was
um even the ap had to fact her imagine the ap fact-checked her as false when she went well not false but they gave context when she mentioned the kids in cages even the ap couldn't take it anymore and they're like oh we can't let that go kids in cages your husband put the kids in cages those cages were built and you know acquired by your husband for that uh and i guess that policy has been discontinued probably

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policy has been discontinued probably because there's less volume at the border so
so the the big problem that the democrats are having with president trump is they talk about his character and not telling the truth now what they complain about his character do they also always lie in a way that you can very easily determine is a lie yes pretty much every time they will tell a lie at the same time they're telling you that your president is a liar or his character is bad or he's not up to it or whatever they're saying and the more you see them use these generic insults for the president the more you know they know they don't have anything because if they were going to lead with policies like oh we got them our policies are so much better than the sitting president wait wait till the public sees our policies

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public sees our policies then we're going to get all the votes no they don't because they don't have any policies that they think can win an election if they did if they did that would be front and center so they're signaling to you by talking about the president's character while they're lying in a transparent way they're talking about the president's character and they're selling you on this idea that that that's all you need to think about policies schmalcy's let's not worry about the policies let's let's not look at that shiny object all right and of course the press is in full uh full support so my take on the michelle obama speech is that she looked angry she looked like she had trump derangement syndrome and when she says that she's so confident that biden is capable of doing the job you just have to shake your head like

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you just have to shake your head like okay i get that trump isn't your man like i get that you'd prefer somebody else but don't tell me you think biden is capable of the job come on i just tweeted out before i get done uh just a brutal video that shows joe biden just five years ago looking completely coherent and command juxtaposed by his current bumbling mode and when you see him five years just five years ago now you've seen this before like i think they showed when he was maybe in his 30s and he was you know quite quite capable or he seemed it and then they show that you know today and he doesn't look capable today but if you see that just five years ago he was a whole different person that's kind of all you need to that's kind of all you need okay so so for michelle obama to get up there talk nothing about policy only about character and tell two of the

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only about character and tell two of the biggest whopping lies that are completely obvious as lies i i don't want to call it down as hypocrisy i'll just call it out as just head shakingly that's all you got really that's all you got is stuff like uh we've got to end the chaos can you be more specific about the chaos that the president caused did the president cause the chaos in uh in seattle or portland or new york city no he didn't cause that that was the fake news and the democrats so there they actually cause chaos and then they try to blame him for it so they can get a promotion for the trouble that they've caused to the country uh it's amazing all right um there was i was watching a guest on cnn
cnn i think it was maybe might have been the

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i think it was maybe might have been the atlanta i don't know some atlanta politician who was saying that i'm just guessing i don't know who it was but i think it was one of the vice presidential candidates who was passed over anyway uh this guest on jake tapper's program on cnn states as a fact that trump is taking the mailboxes away so that people can't vote and jake tapper just let that go
can you believe that on cnn somebody says that they're stealing the mailboxes so you can't vote which if you don't know is not true uh and jake tapper didn't correct her i mean he had plenty of time it wasn't like there were other guests cutting it or anything it was just the two of them it was just the two of them and he didn't correct her now that's like not even trying is it i mean if you thought he was trying to be you know objective you could get rid of

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you know objective you could get rid of that idea
now people have been sending me evidence on twitter to show me that the stealing the mailboxes story is not true do you know what you didn't need to do to convince me that send me any evidence in any other topic i would say yeah let me see the evidence so i can be sure this is true or sure it's not true it's always good to have evidence sources it's good on the mailbox story i didn't really need to see proof that that was fake if you didn't know that was fake the moment you heard it your filters are not quite set to where they should be now i i was so bored by that story that i didn't even bother looking into it as to specifically why it was fake didn't even matter it's just so obviously fake i don't even need to know about it but uh apparently the the fakeness is

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but uh apparently the the fakeness is just extraordinary so reuters showed some photographs of a whole bunch of mailboxes and some kind of a junkyard looking situation so it looked like all the mailboxes had been collected up and put in this parking lot to be destroyed or something and reuters actually you know they're they're a news service so other people are going to be picking up that news and and presenting it and it turns out they took a picture of a mailbag mailbox re rehab place where they just do maintenance on the mailboxes you know shine them up and repaint them or whatever and then put them back in the field
that's what it was it was just a business that rehabs mailboxes for the post office they have a contract to do that it didn't take much time for somebody on the internet to contact the business and say what's up with the mailboxes and for them to say oh yeah we've been doing this for years we just rehab them

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doing this for years we just rehab them and send them back to the field complete fake story will reuters correct it
it maybe probably not probably not and i wondered if democrats are actually believing that story probably
so um if you have not had this experience you really have to do it when you're talking with just the the random trolls and idiots on on twitter and they'll say something about their democratic side and something against your side and you'll say to yourself huh this sounds like sort of a dumb person and so you might argue a little bit but in your mind you're thinking what's going on is it's just a dumb person right that's that's what you're thinking because they don't seem to know as much as you know because conservatives tend to know mostly what the democrats know but the democrats don't know what the

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but the democrats don't know what the republicans know it's just completely different news sources and the conservatives tend to see both
so you know that's that's my view of the world but you have to have the experience of talking to somebody who's a
a a strict democrat who is really well educated that is freaky i mean it's really freaky because when you're talking to somebody that you can confirm has a very high iq and is very well informed follows the news every day you know really gets into world events and so one one of my friends i've known forever has the worst case of tds you'll ever see but he fits that category of being really well informed and when you talk to somebody who you would say is really well informed and they don't know anything about this they don't know anything well they know what the democrats say but that's the fake news version let me just give you an example of how

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let me just give you an example of how bad it is all right just one example and now magnify this by 20 to get a full idea of of how bad it is my friend i mentioned fake news in one of our back and forths and my friend said and i'm not making this up he actually said this there's no such thing as fake news as something that the right made up
what there's no such thing as fake news it's something that was just made up by the right he thinks the fake news is fake news so i responded with six examples of obvious fake news that we all know is fake news right so you know the drinking disinfectant the overfeeding the goldfish the russia collusion so i just gave him six quick examples the post office box stuff so i gave him

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the post office box stuff so i gave him six quick examples there you know there are hundreds but six easy ones so now if you give somebody six definite verifiable answers that are fake news and were major stories not not trivial pretty big stories isn't that a complete answer to the question of does fake news exist well here are six examples that should be the end of it right this doesn't exist here are six examples that you you already know you don't even have to research it you are here they are six of them you already know these are fake what do you think was the result of that do you think the result of that was my very smart friend said oh huh well there's six good examples i guess there is fake news do you think that happened no no that didn't happen that didn't happen at all now somebody's saying the laundry list the laundry list is when you're trying to make an

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is when you're trying to make an argument and all of your argument is weak so you give you know lots of them under the theory that lots of arguments of zero value will add up to something the way i did it is um an answer to a does something exist if somebody says does something exist well you only need one counter example but since somebody could maybe argue against one here are six so that's a different context of the laundry list the laundry list being not persuasive but
but showing that something exists when somebody said it didn't that could be persuasive so my friend who is not persuaded as it turns out simply changed the subject now how many times in the past has he said to me that fake news doesn't exist and how many times have i given him examples that are easy to verify and then how many times do i get talked to him again a few weeks later

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to him again a few weeks later and he doesn't know that fake news exists it's like it didn't happen it's like it didn't happen and it's the freakiest thing and uh you know eventually he always devolves into something about trump's personality blah blah blah the fact checkers blah blah blah you know con man blah blah and whenever anybody retreats to trump's personality you know that they're experiencing some cognitive dissonance because we didn't really hire him to have a good personality that really wasn't part of the job description and indeed the people who voted for him got what they thought they were going to get
get was there anybody who voted for trump who said you know fingers crossed i don't think he's ever going to fail the fact checking again anybody did anybody think that wasn't gonna happen or that was gonna happen how about uh

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or that was gonna happen how about uh people who thought that there would never be more accusations of one kind of impropriety or another nobody nobody thought there would be no more accusations how about people who thought there would be some stories that popped up about some financial thing that somebody thinks is illegal and other people don't or something of that nature how many thought that would happen everybody everybody thought so when when new york was at the attorney general when they go digging into trump's tax returns do you expect that there'll be anything in there that his critics will say hey that looks bad of course there will be it doesn't mean it is bad but if it's a complicated you know situation they'll find something that looks bad if you don't look at the whole context you know they will but as long as the people who voted for him are getting their conservative judges a good at good economy when we don't have a coronavirus

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have a coronavirus they're going to be pretty happy right if he gets the big stuff right so for some reason the democrats don't understand that trump is delivering or trying very hard let's say in the case of the wall it's clear that he's trying and that nobody else would try that hard so i don't know how i don't know how the left cannot understand why he's popular because i don't know if we've seen this combination before somebody who uh makes promises and then really works hard on the the promises somebody said ask my friend about charlottesville i think i have in the past and you know how that went um it's always the same they always go down the funnel until until they've changed the subject and then they think changing the subject is winning the argument that they are no longer talking about it's always the same um all right so

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uh california had just texted me and everybody else saying that they're going to do rolling power outages meaning we're all going to take turns not having electricity during a heat wave that's actually happening we're going to take turns not having electricity in a record-setting heat wave why do we have to do that because california is so poorly managed they can't keep the lights on actually literally specifically can't keep the lights on and when when people talk about keeping the lights on that's like you know a ridiculous example of you know if you can't at least keep the lights on you've done everything wrong and in california we actually can't keep the lights on how how incompetent do you have to be to get rid of your border security have you know no laws that allow you to deal with all the mental illness on the streets um

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mental illness on the streets um let people out of jail even if they've committed crimes raise taxes i mean and the reason that we don't have power is that it's been poorly managed they tried to be green and you just can't get there with green and so we didn't so what a bad state yeah i would be amazed if well no i won't be surprised gavin newsom will probably get reelected because it's a democratic state
so i was listening to van jones uh talk about michelle obama's speech he was quite impressed with it
and but this is how van jones sort of summarized the situation he said in 2016 there were many decent people thank you thank you so he's talking about many of you as decent people

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about many of you as decent people willing to give trump a chance and the hope that he would rise to the level of the office well that was generous of you van jones to say that decent people were willing to give him a chance but he goes on over the past four years they have been dismayed by his tweets and exasperated by his general behavior in office that's a little generic isn't it yeah i i think it's fair to say that people have been dismayed by his tweets but is that a reason not to re-elect him i i like what he did with isis the economy killing solomony i like that he's decoupling with china he's the best bet for getting the economy going but oh those tweets they're they're dismaying me i like to make money and i like to be safe from all of our foreign and domestic enemies and he does good job on that but i'm dismayed he sends a tweet and

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but i'm dismayed he sends a tweet and i get this feeling that comes over me of dismayment that's probably almost a word and not only am i exact i dismayed by his tweets it's worse i'm exasperated by his general behavior exasperated by his general behavior oh his
his his outcomes are good his solutions are good but i'm oh boy am i exasperated by his general behavior so if you've got people who are not willing to talk about policies and only somebody's general behavior and dismaying tweets uh i don't see how biden has a chance of winning
um so i'm just looking at my own notes here because sometimes i write stuff down i don't know what the hell i meant

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oh so cnn james griffith is writing an opinion piece on cnn and he says that there's a there's a model for how to handle these the pandemic and if only the united states had followed the model we would be doing better so here's the model that the united states apparently has not followed and so james griffith says this but there's a model for responding to such waves meaning new waves of infections and it's the one being used across much of asia pacific and i'm thinking oh good we're going to find out something we're not doing that's like something that they're doing over there and it's working well so maybe we could borrow that and it says that what they're doing is they stamp out community infections through lockdowns mask wearing and social distancing well that sounds very familiar gradually lift controls as infections go down and reintroduce them if they go up again um i think you just described the united

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um i think you just described the united states so
so what kind of criticism is that to say if only we could be like those other countries and then describe our exact strategy that's both stated and observable what exactly is cnn selling us i don't know
somebody said that the democratic convention was all about unity what how in the world can you see the democrats being about unity aren't they exactly the opposite isn't identity politics the opposite of unity i mean it's as opposite as you can get it could be no more opposite isn't globalism the opposite of national unity it's really the opposite isn't it the fake news associated with the democrats who caused black lives matter to be a

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who caused black lives matter to be a gigantic movement focusing on the wrong things this is all the fake news causing all the problems in the country at this point and all the the unity problems so between the democrats and their pet press they are the cause of just about all of the national disunity now now i know what you're going to say if there are any trump haters here you're going to say scott scott scott when president trump said things about immigrants coming into this country he was being divisive no he wasn't because he was talking about the united states if somebody is outside the united states and wants to get in that's not the people we're trying to have unity with because you can't have unity with the whole world unless you want to give away all your stuff so anyway to imagine that the democrats are about unity

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are about unity when they are so obviously aggressively the opposite i mean their most fundamental beliefs are the opposite of unity for example look at all the protests are the protests about unity not even a little bit they're not about unity they're exactly the opposite of unity by design um over at fox who president on fox news who president trump says is sounding more like cnn every day i'll let you judge so there's an opinion piece by arnon michigan
who questions whether there is such a thing as a shy trump voter which he describes as someone who knows that they're going to be voting for trump that is willing to tell a stranger let's say a pollster their education religion income and somehow when it comes to their vote deliberately lie and or none says

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lie and or none says i don't think so so here's somebody writing for fox who doesn't believe that conservatives will lie to pollsters about their support for trump really really you don't believe that
while i don't encourage people to be gullible and to believe things that you know they don't have evidence for i'm pretty sure that one's a safe bet we don't know how big it is but
but oh yeah there are people who lie to pollsters that's definitely a thing i speak from experience because when a pollster called i was going to lie so you know i'm not representative of the world but i think they're more like me
why did the seattle police keep going to work so last night more protests more police got hurt um some of them pretty hurt and so it's this dangerous job

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this dangerous job and they're completely unprotected by the government officials because they can't do what they need to do which is to clear the streets and stop the protest they can just they just show up as targets i would i would approve of the seattle police just having a you know a sick out and just not coming to work anymore at least the ones who are just the ones who are doing something about the protests i don't think the protests i don't think the police should be asked to go into harm's way if they're also not allowed to do their job you can't have both you know if they're allowed to kick some ass and do their job and lock people up and they'll stay in jail under those conditions i'd say yeah that's that's what they signed up for it's dangerous work but that is the job they chose and we're happy they did but if you're not going to protect the police if you don't have their back i think they have a right not to go and i wouldn't i wouldn't feel bad if they

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i wouldn't i wouldn't feel bad if they just abandoned the city just let it happen because what would happen if they did well somebody would have to figure out what to do and they would either call in federal forces or they'd back the police or something but i think the police should just let the let the riders go nuts do whatever they want they don't have any support from their own from their own city so screw the city that's what i say um
so here's a uh a thought for you on hydroxychloroquine studies so there have been this is a different way to look at it i may have mentioned this before but i think i can say it better which will make a difference so there have been 53 studies that showed positive results from hydroxychloroquine now those studies were not the randomized controlled gold standard studies so the fact that

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gold standard studies so the fact that there are 53 you can't add up a whole bunch of studies that are not gold standard to get a gold standard it doesn't work that way but there were also 14 studies that showed neutral or negative results but 10 of the 14 were patients who were near death and they were using it in the wrong way so that that wasn't really the intended use of it so that would leave four that say that it doesn't work and 53 this as it does of the four that says it works i believe two of them were by the same researcher right and so here's here's the point if you've got 53 studies that show positive results but they're not gold standard can you still make say anything about it well here's the thing imagine that every one of those 53 studies had a flaw

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studies had a flaw but imagine they were different flaws what are the odds that 53 flawed studies no matter what the flaw was
was it would all show that hydroxychloroquine worked why couldn't the flaws ever be in the other direction why couldn't some of those flawed studies show that it doesn't work because remember a flaw is something you don't know is there so why can't there be surprises in the it doesn't work um direction as much as it seems like what 95 percent of all this of all the results are in one direction so i put this out here there as a challenge to you do you buy that if the studies are are different and they have different flaws but no matter the flaw it all points in the same direction what are the odds that all of those flaws with different ones would point the same direction well there is a possibility which is

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well there is a possibility which is that all of the studies cherry-pick data the same way so if the way they all collected their data was all the same and all flawed well then yeah it wouldn't matter what else they did maybe they would have bad data so we don't know but i would say that the the evidence that hydroxychloroquine works 30 i'm going to still put it at 30 odds it's a game changer meanwhile over at south korea uh who was held out as a model of how to do things they're uh they're experiencing and i quote the early stages of massive recurrence of the virus so south korea is back at it uh no they'll probably get a handle on it and beat it back down because they do seem to be pretty good at that and then of course new zealand had a little bit of an uptick not much compared to the united states now
now i ask you this in the united states

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i ask you this in the united states there was apparently a massive um financial advantage in declaring something to be a coveted death is this true do do a little fact check me on me here in real time it is true that hospitals have a big a very big financial incentive to code something as a coronavirus death whether it was or not so so far that's true right fact check true number two for countries that have uh socialized health care meaning that nobody pays extra for their health care did they have the same incentive because i believe they did not i believe that if you have universal health care or if you just have a different system and you're not you're not rewarding people for declaring that coronavirus wouldn't you expect that there would be a gigantic difference in the numbers reported because it's the perfect crime here's a i i've told you before that the

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i i've told you before that the if you have this situation where there's a big upside there's a lot to gain and there was a lot to gain by saying something was a coronavirus death financially it was a big big difference there's a lot to gain there's lots of people involved so it's not like there might be one honest person who was the only person who saw this opportunity but they were honest you don't have to worry about that because there's so many people you can always get some dishonest ones and then thirdly no real risk of getting caught what would be the risk to a doctor or even the hospital who said all right this patient has coronavirus they also died so we'll call it a coronavirus death and then maybe later there was an autopsy and they find out it wasn't a coronavirus death what would be the penalty nothing nothing there would be no penalty it would just be a routine difference of opinion it was a you know an educated guess that was

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you know an educated guess that was wrong it would be nothing there would be no penalty so uh i would say that we should at least be looking at that for some kind of a multiplier of how many um fake deaths we might have had compared to other countries now i wouldn't put an estimate on it but some number of deaths are probably fake
all right um now there are at least three or four different correlations that people claim and i wonder about them all one is the correlation to hydroxychloroquine use
use and you've seen you've seen evidence that anybody who used it did better but i think that might be cherry picking some data so i don't trust that you've seen also that vitamin d seems highly correlated because people who doesn't have good vitamin d uh black people and i think half of the deaths in the united states

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deaths in the united states are black americans by the way how many black people in sweden how many black people in these other countries that we're being compared to if half of our deaths are black americans and we're comparing ourselves to a country that doesn't have many uh black people living in it is that really apples and oranges not really right same as if you're comparing it to you know with that one city in italy where they have tons of old people you can't really compare that to anything else they had tons of old people so you uh so that's a problem so so the other correlation so you've got your hydroxychloroquine correlation that i don't believe you've got your vitamin d correlation because people who are diabetic they're old they're black they've got some comorbidity is almost always correlated with low vitamin d because the black folks

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because the black folks have less vitamin d in general which is a problem health-wise um and then the last one is there's a correlation with the bcg vaccination right
now somebody says what about africa the the other factors let me just finish up with the bcg thing now who is it who is it who knows me well enough to have my phone number to text me who doesn't know i'm doing this right now
i'll have to talk to him all right so you've got four different correlations all of which i imagine are could be fake maybe one of them's real but we can't tell the difference um somebody said what about africa which doesn't seem to have as much uh as much of a problem with the virus here are a few things number one probably a lot more outdoor living wouldn't you say probably people are

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wouldn't you say probably people are spaced out a little bit better probably it's under reported there may be people who have it that are not being reported people dying from it they don't know they were never tested um but there's uh but there's al and if people are outdoors more they're not only socially distancing but they might get more sun so if you're a black person living in new york city and you walk outside and you're in shade because of the big buildings or you're a black person living in africa and you walk outside and there's sun everywhere i would think that there'd be a difference in vitamin d there's definitely a difference in age the african continent is really young like super young so if you just factored in you know social distancing and density and youth and more sun and all that stuff you could easily explain it away and then of course

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explain it away and then of course there's the sweden thing which is did they reach some kind of
of herd immunity at 20 did that really happen i guess we'll have to just keep watching we don't know um and then uh somebody else said that there's a correlation with countries that have malaria as as an issue that they already have widespread hydroxychloroquine so that probably makes a difference let me ask you this did german doctors use hydroxychloroquine do you know do you know i don't know i know that when the the virus first broke out i did hear from you know indirectly from a high-level german official that they were using hydroxychloroquine widely in other words it was widespread use
use now since then i've heard others other

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now since then i've heard others other reports so is it true that that the doctors are prescribing it and could that be the reason germany is doing so well could it don't know
why don't we know that like could somebody just find that one thing out for me just find out this one thing for me are the german doctors forget about what the policy is you know there may be a national like fed you know policy but what are the doctors actually doing yeah as somebody says in the comments bayer is a german company and bayer is one of the makers of hydroxychloroquine in fact they shared some with the united states early on so why don't we know that doesn't that feel like exactly what you want to know in fact i would like to know any country that's not an island because i think the islands have to be compared to just each other you know new zealand south korea is kind

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you know new zealand south korea is kind of an island because of the dmz etc somebody says talk about spygate spike it's sort of uh that's been disappeared hasn't it you think the spygate happened but according to cnn and msnbc nothing happened so it's going into the memory hole and it will be disappeared nothing to see here it was only a coup nothing to see here somebody says all german doctors i know take it
yeah 100 and what is it only 1100 deaths in germany well if germany was taking hydroxychloroquine which they might have been and they got that good result because of that well that would change things wouldn't it

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it all right is there anything else i haven't talked about
why would democrats promote riots during the pandemic well this gets to who's in control of the riots if you've looked at all the mugshots of the antifa people who got arrested they all have clear mental illness is there anybody who disagrees with that if
if if you're wondering watch you know you know andy know for example his account and he'll sometimes tweet the antifa mugshots the ones who just got arrested a hundred percent of them look obviously mentally ill like just obviously you just look at him you go well that person's mentally ill that's kind of obvious so you've got a lot of people with different motivations you've got the sincere people who just want you know a more equal world um

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you know a more equal world um you've got people who were there for mischief people were bored people were just joining in and then you've got some assumption about foreign interference there are probably some and the leaders being marxists and want to turn this into a communist country and that everything you see is part of that master plan from wearing masks to you know to the coronavirus it's all part of the master plan for the communists to take over i don't know about that i don't know about that it feels to me like there are indeed people who want to take over the country and make it as socialist slash communist country but there are so few of them and i think that they're not really the ones who are you know moving the ball forward too much i think the fact that the mainstream democrats are not trying to stop the the protests is why they can go on as soon as democrats found it not convenient to have them or they or they wanted to stop them for

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or they or they wanted to stop them for whatever reason i think they could because then you'd have democrats and republicans who want to stop it how hard would it be then
um somebody says you can't instill socialism without controlling enforcement yeah so the the play here would be that the the marxists if you will are trying to take over well or have succeeded and taking over education and then neutering law enforcement and of course they own the media so if you've got the media the schools and law enforcement you you can make just about anything happen after that you would have the you would be able to control minds and bodies so effectively you could kind of make anything happen somebody says why won't you run for president can you imagine the opposition the opposition research on me i would last about a minute i would be kicked i would be canceled in

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i would be kicked i would be canceled in about a hot minute
yeah the babylon bee got shut down on twitter for a while they're back i don't know what they did
so here's the thing that guarantees that the
the press is the enemy of the people and at this point you know when when trump first started saying that the press were the enemy of the people i wasn't completely buying into that notion i just thought they should be more accurate and less biased for a side but at this point i think you can say it's unambiguously true that they're not just rooting for a side that they are actually a malign influence and maybe the most dangerous influence in the country i would say that the fake news is probably the biggest problem in the country because it the fake news prevents you

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because it the fake news prevents you from solving any of the other problems right because it hypnotizes people into some kind of a gridlock where we're just fighting each other instead of working together to solve anything so i would say the fake news is the biggest problem in the world and that i think you could say that they're evil in this case because here's something that you don't see them doing getting some antifa or black lives matter organizers you know people who can speak for more than themselves getting them on tv and say can you describe the world that you're trying to create what's it look like if you get everything you want what kind of system is it how does it make money how is how are taxes handled under the system because the reason that you don't see that is because the answers would be completely disqualifying and the protest would have to just stop because you would see that there's no no context or there's no there's no

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no context or there's no there's no positive intention there besides words like black lives matter which is not a plan right so if you actually ask them what they want that's different it would sound so shocking or stupid that nobody would support them again so the fact that you don't see the news even attempting to interview them should tell you something and by the way where's fox news interviewing the leaders you know maybe they won't go on fox news i don't know but it seems like the news business is just not doing the job and then of course as you know the teachers unions are the primary source of of systemic racism and maybe the cause of just about all of our problems just about all but it looks like school is going to be in for a big change we'll see what happens um something that noam chomsky said on a video i watched recently scared the crap

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video i watched recently scared the crap out of me and i wasn't going to mention it but i feel like it's too important not to and it goes like this that you know even when i was young it was true that if you worked hard and and stayed down to jail you were pretty much guaranteed that you could get some kind of an okay job at least and have some kind of a life with maybe a house and a family and kids can go to college and all the american dream stuff and as chomsky points out that that all collapsed and i thought about that for a minute and i thought did it did it collapse because if you're if you're a 12 year old in let's say public school in the united states and you do the right stuff you study you stay out of stay out of jail you don't do drugs if you just do the basics and you're you're you know doesn't matter what you are white or black if you just do the basics

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you just do the basics can you still not have a good life now i realize you might have some college debt and i realize that you won't be able to live anywhere you want so you're not going to be able to live in san francisco well maybe you can now maybe the rents will be dropping in san francisco but i don't know if it's completely true here's what it feels like it feels like that's another fake news problem because i think the fake news has hypnotized at least the black community that they have obstacles that will slow them down no matter what this systemic racism imagine if the fake news told people the opposite that if you just do these basic things right you'll be fine they don't they don't tell you that in fact they go as far away from that as they can to make sure that you know that somebody's doing better than somebody else so that's unfair and it's got to stop the opposite of any kind of a positive message

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message so i'm not sure noam chomsky is right that it's collapsed i believe that we think it's collapsed and the fake news is the primary cause of that but that indeed if you did everything right you could work out a pretty good life for yourself even today i do think the education system uh is just crap at this point yeah and i would say that even if you thought even if you thought people could get a good education in public school the damage that's done to kids just by hanging out with other kids is pretty substantial you know the biggest uh risk to kids is other kids because that's who's talking them into drugs and bad behavior and stuff it's just other kids and when you send them to public school the
the the the bad influence is just horrendous and um you know

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and um you know i live in an upscale place so you know mine's probably better than most and it's still just horrendous it's a disaster i would say
all right that is enough for me and i will talk to you tomorrow