Episode 1098 Scott Adams: I Grade the Democrat Convention, Trump and Q, Goodyear Gets Deflated

Date: 2020-08-20 | Duration: 1:16:14

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• Joe’s best feature…is a flaw

• President Trump’s response to question about Q

• DNC speech reviews

• Barak Obama, Michelle Obama, Kamala, Hillary, Warren

• Parents need to see what their children are being taught

• President Trump’s call for boycott of Goodyear

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day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous hip who would be calling me during the simultaneous step i mean really who call who calls me during the simultaneous sin and join me now for the simultaneous simultaneous step that makes everything better go
now you might ask yourself scott how is it that today is the day you can remember the entire sequence of the simultaneous sip and the answer is this it has to do with how people learn i think it was yesterday i got in the mail a suspicious box i opened it up and it was

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suspicious box i opened it up and it was a whole bunch of wrapped up different items and i thought to myself uh this could be bad i don't know what this is all about and i started opening them up and it's a whole bunch of different items and it was presented as a puzzle it was a little noted there saying it was a mystery box and so i assembled the mystery and i realized that it was one item for each of the things that i say in the simultaneous step so i organized them on my table and by the way this was sent by somebody named amy that's that's all i know somebody who watches the simultaneous sip i assume you're watching now hi amy and thank you for solving my problem so my problem was that people learn different ways and i could read something a million times and i would never be able to memorize it no matter how much exposure i had my brain just doesn't work that specific way but

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that specific way but the moment it was visual and i could touch it and feel it and put it on my table and then look at it
it memory was instant so now let me take this to the world of education if you're thinking to yourself hey school got worse because you used to be in person people think that's pretty good for a lot of reasons now it's just watching a video of a teacher much much worse but if you can imagine what the world will be like when you can learn anything in a virtual reality world or an augmented reality where they're you know you see the real world but there are items placed into it that weren't there before so for example if i were trying to remember that sequence i could have just you know called up those images looked at them and then memorized them the
the the ability to give you the kind of learning you need everybody being a little bit different is extraordinary so pretty much all of the all of the

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so pretty much all of the all of the stuff that's non-visual in the current learning environment could become visual that one change just taking all the stuff that you just had to memorize names and dates and stuff like that and just turn them into something visual an actual movie that you live in you're not watching it you're living inside it so where education can go it's probably three times as good as what it is now but we're not there we will be i'll bet in five years you're gonna have uh the beginning of the augmented reality education and it's gonna be mind blowing it'll be better than in person by far all right i've got a new rule that i try not to watch the news after 5 pm my time is hard but the news is so unpleasant and by the way i would also lump in there any kind of entertainment drama anything that has an element to the entertainment that

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an element to the entertainment that there's danger or you know tension or stress or just bad things happening to people i'm going to try to avoid them after 5 pm i would try to avoid them all day long except that i do this it would be hard to avoid the news and do these periscopes so uh i tried that last night and that involved not watching the democratic convention but that doesn't mean i'm not going to comment on it because i did catch up on it this morning watch the key videos and the highlights and i think that watching the highlights tells you maybe even more than watching every detail of the actual convention and here's the reason the things that get pulled down as the the highlight clips or the things to remember and you imagine cnn msnbc etc they're deciding what what opinions to give the public you can watch it in real time so you you may have watched the convention on your own and had your

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the convention on your own and had your own opinions about it but then you turn on the news and they tell you what to think about it and at the end of the news programs after you've seen a few of these opinions that are similar you start thinking yeah that's what i think it actually you you can watch them assign your opinion to you about what you felt about the convention after you watched it so your own feelings about it you brought to cnn and by the time you're done watching you're thinking yeah kamala harris didn't wish he was a tour de force you know assuming that you're you're leading in that direction to begin with so watching that in real time is disturbing and fascinating um so i have lots of comments about that first of all have you noticed that the big thing that people are saying about joe biden is that he listens he cares and he has empathy i assume that's because democrats

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i assume that's because democrats believe that's the part of his brain that's still working because if they thought to themselves you know joe biden is a lot smarter than president trump i feel as if they would mention that if they thought that joe biden was better at let's say strategy than president trump i feel like they would have mentioned that if you were better at really just getting things done i feel like they would have mentioned
that but instead they go for the one thing that you are sure is true the biden cares and he listens and he shows empathy and i would say that he does all of those things in fact i will go further i would say that biden shows the caring and the empathy better than president trump boom better than president trump that's also why
why you should not elect him your president

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you should not elect him your president because the best feature of joe biden is literally a flaw now why do i say that it's the same reason i say that i'm a terrible manager if you want somebody to manage your let's say your big division of your corporation don't ask me to do it because i'm bad at that and the main reason i'm bad at that is too much empathy too much empathy it the the job of a manager and or a leader is to make people do stuff they don't want to do that's really the point getting people to do what they want to do well that doesn't take much skill do you want to eat this cookie yes give me a cookie there you go that's it but if you want somebody to enlist in the military and go fight a war
war you've got to make a pretty good case for that so i would say that the job of president

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i would say that the job of president leader manager you know anything in that domain is really about not being too empathetic empathy is what makes you a bad leader now you have to have some right if you had no empathy you would be sociopath and that would be dangerous but if you have too much empathy you lead with empathy then you make the problem that all that all democrats seem to make it goes like this if you're designing a system for human beings the the number one thing you're going to have to think about is their motivation and their incentives because whatever humans are motivated to do whatever their incentive is that's what's going to happen in the long run so i think that the the republicans have a less less empathy focused view of the world because that view of the world gets you

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because that view of the world gets you the best result for the people you care about so in other words in the republican view of things the best way to show your empathy or to act on it is to do a good job designing a stable system that makes the country as a whole work and if you do that it's going to be worse for some people nobody likes that but it is going to be you you can't make everything equal all the time it's just not it's not something that works you can try
try it could be your goal you could try to make everything better for everybody all the time it could be your your number one thing you're interested in
in but you still need to design the system and systems tend to be not perfectly um even in terms of how they distribute benefits so that would be the main difference is that the democrats seem to want to build systems whether it's how the economy works or anything else they want to build systems that are based on good intentions compare these two

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good intentions compare these two systems one that is based on good intentions of human beings good intentions and the other based on real motivations of humans our greed our you know our uh impulse to get away with stuff if we can you know really the dark side of humans which is you know we're not all that good all the time if you if you design a system that harnesses the good and the bad of people such as capitalism such as democracies i would say that they harness both the good and the bad of people in other words they they understand the whole human being and if you can build a system that can withstand the worst of humans that's a good system capitalism does that so capitalism you still need you know oversight and control so capitalism doesn't become too far out of control but you can't really build a system on good

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you can't really build a system on good intentions do you know what would be a system built on good intentions jazz right the capitol hill thing the protests the protests are like a little civilization because it's every night now
now if it were one off you'd say it's just a protest but once you do it every night it becomes almost like a lifestyle a system if you will and that's allegedly built on
on people's good intentions the good intention of having no racism of having a fairer society that's better for everybody that's a good intention wouldn't you say socialism all these things are very good intentions and i don't think you should take that away from indeed i've said that the the big problem with republicans in terms of their messaging i've said that they should embrace the goal of the democrats the goals of the democrats are great goals they're great you know equality

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they're great you know equality everybody's got a chance there are no artificial you know systemic things that are holding anybody back who who hates that that's all great stuff it's just how you get there the republicans will build systems that understand human motivation the democrats will build one based on good intentions and you don't have to be a genius to know which one's going to work it's pretty clear that's that's well beyond the it's well beyond the realm of opinion that a system built on understanding the whole motivation of people is going to work better than one based on good intentions we all know that's true and so here's what i would do if i were the
the republicans and i wanted to kneecap the democrats further for their approach so they're taking the the president doesn't care about his job approach and he has no empathy here's how i deal with that

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with that i would say you know what democrats are really good with empathy the world needs plenty of empathy in fact i i commend the democrats for their attention to caring and empathy and i give them my full respect but the world doesn't run on good intentions the world runs when you've developed a system that understands human beings that's what we're offering we're offering you something that works because it's a tested motivation driven incentive based system that we can tweak it but that's what we're going for the democrats are very very uh obviously and they're not hiding anything they're going for a dis different kind of system one that's built on good intentions you know how that works you're watching the protesters and the burning of the cities that's what good intentions get you

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that's what good intentions get you every bit of that problem the burning of the cities every bit of that is based on good intentions don't want to lose your good intentions but you don't want to build a system that thinks that that's what drives human beings because it's just not so i think that would completely kneecap the entire democrats point of view which by the way is a similar play to when bob dole was running against uh bill clinton and clinton gore said you know all this all the niceness of uh of dole we should appreciate it very honorable great service to the country but he's planning for the past and we're planning for the future it's the same play just updated to the current situation which is you give the other team their full due so the democrats are trying to claim the mantle of the ones who care the most you should give it to him you should

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you should give it to him you should give it to him and say you know i wish we could be more like you it's really the the amount and by the way
way um there's nothing artificial about what i'm going to say right now this this is literally true you have to respect the democrats for the caring and the fairness stuff you have to respect that because their vision of where they'd like to be is incredible i'd like to be there too wouldn't that be great but we live in a real world where you have to make real decisions and deal with real limitations all right that's enough of that uh jeffrey miller on twitter had this interesting poll he said if joe biden turned up as your uber driver are you confident he'd get you where you need to go
now i feel like that's something you could say of any president because by the time you're president you're a little disconnected from the real world

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real world you know stuff you don't know what a what a loaf of bread costs and you probably don't know how to drive a car after a while but that image is wonderfully visual because you see joe biden you actually see him sitting up there in his prius and he's confused he's trying to use his phone and he can't figure out how to navigate that that is just a devastatingly good um persuasive question joe biden as your uber driver and he can't get it done
so here's my favorite part of yesterday every now and then when you're watching the the ugliness of politics there'll be this little flower that grows through the crack in the pavement you know it's this bleak landscape of politics and there'll just be this little flower that finds a way pushes its way through the concrete and gives you this little little feeling of happiness and this happened yesterday

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happened yesterday when the president was doing his press conference and he was asked he was asked about q you know the cue anon group who uh here's here's the question and the answer so the reporter asks q anon believes you are secretly saving the world from this cult of pedophiles and cannibals are you behind that and the president as he often does you know there this is a sort of a yes no question you'd expect the president to give some kind of an answer that another human being might have given that's what you're thinking it's like well here comes an answer that i i would guess there may be a couple of ways you could go with this answer it's going to be one of those ways but it wasn't it wasn't here's what the president said because is that supposed to be a bad thing

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is that supposed to be a bad thing and he says
we are actually we're we are saving the world
now this is what i call the the ping theory i have to explain that the ping theory was developed when i was a teenager and a guy i was working with we were talking about our summer job and this other person and this other person we were talking about we agreed that he had this unusual quality which is that he'll say nine things you think he shouldn't have said or were awkward or the wrong thing and you'll think you know what's wrong with this guy he's like socially there's something wrong and then the tenth thing he says will be so smart that you just say what happened because you don't understand how this person who is one way so

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how this person who is one way so consistently but then that tenth thing that he does will be beyond anything you could have done and you say i don't know what i'm watching here and that's the ping and you can think of this as like a an ekg you know a chart on a machine and the person is like averaging agent below average unit averaging below average union ping and all of a sudden the meter just goes off the chart and you go what the hell just happened it's like this little slice of brilliance that just comes out of nowhere and that is gone again and you have to wait for it again it's like i think there's another one in there so you wait for the the nine the nine bad tweets you know the the things that were imperfect the the time you didn't pass the fact checking and you're starting to think man you know this is sort of ordinary and then ping this cute answer was a ping this is one of those times

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where somebody said this to me first but i was feeling it too that there are times when trump makes you hate him makes you annoyed you know you're you might be disgusted with the way he did something that you would have handled differently but then there are these moments and this is just for trump supporters of course it's very subjective but there are these moments when he makes you fall in love with him do you know what i mean there are moments when he makes you fall in love
with him and this was one of those moments because the fact that he was well i i called him the
the commander in troll for this answer and it felt like the moment he was activating the troll army i felt that this answer when trump said is that supposed to be a bad thing we are actually we're saving the world and i think he said some more on the topic but he was also not not condemning q whatsoever and he acted like he didn't quite know what

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acted like he didn't quite know what they were about but if they liked him that was great and that they probably and that they probably also liked you know a better world etc now here's why it felt like he was activating his troll army and if you don't know what i mean by his troll army come on you know what i mean it's all of us right it's it's basically the entire online world um now i don't think he had that intention but it just had that feeling of like you know that the election started yesterday like that was the beginning of the serious you know election everything else was sort of okay you better do some training with the troops all right maybe we should position our troops um wouldn't it be good if we had some you know assets over here i feel like everything was just getting ready until he said this about q anon and then i feel like that was like this the bad signal to just re you know just

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the bad signal to just re you know just release the trolls the troll army joe biden has no idea what's coming for him but all right so the reason i love this is that um what is the biggest problem that the democrats have made that i would consider just a blunder hillary clinton did it they're doing it now and the blunder is this that they would ever treat any americans no matter how much they disagree with them they won't treat them as you know bad people and the president as long as these q and non people are not breaking any laws they're not they're not acting like racists right he did condemn the neo-nazis that's an easy one but if you're just a citizen you just have a different opinion you might be right you might be wrong you might be following a conspiracy theory maybe you're not but don't you want a president who's not going to throw you under the bus as long as you're obeying the law think about it if you're obeying the law no matter how

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if you're obeying the law no matter how crazy you are or not or not yeah who gets to judge who's crazy that as long as you're obeying the law you're in you're in the club that that's the
the the trump proposition we got our constitution we got our laws if you follow those things you're in the club period i'm not going to tell you what to think what to write what to say if you follow those rules you're on my side and i'm on your side very powerful even you know the way he did it was not as explicit as i just said but the fact that he wouldn't throw q under the bus he wouldn't throw them under the bus boom i love that even i've thrown q under the bus right but i'm not the president of the united states if you're just a pundit you can say whatever you want as long as you're following the constitution following the law
law and i guess following the terms of

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and i guess following the terms of service in this case but for the president to do that knowing that's why i call him the commander in troll knowing exactly the response he's going to get and knowing that his supporters are going to think this is the funniest thing that's ever happened that's why you fall in love with him he just refuses to do what the other side wants them to do and he refuses also to throw throw americans under the bus unless they've done some horrible thing all right does it seem to you that
the democrats were trying to portray themselves as the party of women primarily almost a almost a female supremacy kind of a vibe do you get that from the the democratic convention it felt like it had very much a female superiority vibe and if i had to make one prediction

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and if i had to make one prediction about you know one demographic group and how they vote i think black men maybe not women probably not women but i think black men are way way more let's say trump curious than is going to be picked up in any poll i feel as though black men are watching if they watch the convention they're saying to themselves this doesn't seem so much about me this feels like a party for and about women i'm not saying that's good or bad i'm not putting a value on that i'm just saying that that's what it looks like it feels like that's what they're trying to project so much so that hilariously if you saw the people magazine photo i tweeted this earlier they they have biden and harris posing for
for a photo but as someone else pointed out they had harris with the male pose male body language and they had biden

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male body language and they had biden with female body language and somebody asked if that was intentional i don't know so biden or so harris was sitting on top of a table and she she had sort of you know the a male male looking pose now of course there's no such thing as a bail pose or a female pose so what i'm talking about is sort of at the traditional you know 50s kind of what you'd expect would be a male or female pose uh and then biden was below her surprise surprise right he's below her but he's a little bit closer just a little bit he's like a foot closer doesn't make much difference but he's below her now to me the photography is sending a clear message that she's in charge she had the superior body language she had the in charge position and he had the more submissive position i don't think that's a coincidence i think everybody's trying to present her as the real leader

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her as the real leader now i wanted to teach you in case you didn't know how to do this you're seeing this on cnn and msnbc how to pronounce vice president kamala harris because when they say she's running for the position or that she will be if she wins the first vice president there's a certain way that you need to say it and it's how you say the first part the vice you want to kind of mumble that a little bit and emphasize the president part so here's how to do it incorrectly if she's elected she'll be vice president kamala harris that's all wrong that's all wrong too much advice on there here's how to say it if she's elected she'll be the first winner president uh kabul harris so you just wonder so instead of vice you just go first first it might sound like there was a sound in

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it might sound like there was a sound in the room and it just gets swallowed up and you want to hit the president part so you'll notice that there's a lot of christ president harris all right so now you know how to pronounce that so that's good um so i've been fascinated to see how the pro-democrat press would describe harris's ethnic background because it's kind of tricky right because she is jamaican and south asian so neither of those are you know your standard words that you hear a lot in american politics and it didn't it feel like she started out being black i feel as though it was only yesterday that she was described as black and there must have been a lot of pole testing on this because imagine if you were a south

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because imagine if you were a south asian woman or just south asian and you see somebody that's you identify with as being you know at least half or whatever the percentage is you identify as oh i'm south asian she's south asian and then you see her party describe her as black all the time how would that make you feel you'd be thinking well half black isn't it what about the half that's like me you know why am i not included in this in this party so in order not to lose the people who would identify with one half of her in order to make sure you nail down you know the other half it's kind of a tricky thing to balance and so it looks like they might be going for jamaican and south asian as their best description oh wait now i take that back they called their first black and south asian it was somebody else who described her as jamaican and south asian yeah so they're calling the first black and south asian

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the first black and south asian now i'm not black and i'm not south asian but i have a curiosity about how you receive that if you are black or you are south asian i don't know the answer to i because i wonder if does it feel pandering here's how i think i'd feel if you gave me somebody who is half of whatever i am and tried to sell it as you know representing me i feel like my my first impression would be something along the lines of why am i only getting half you couldn't find you know a completely south asian candidate you know what why are you trying to sell me half a candidate and if you're black are you saying the same thing are you saying are you telling me you scoured the country and you couldn't find a woman who was just black right because you know that's the population we're trying to represent it's a fairly tiny part of the population who is both black and south

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population who is both black and south south asian you have the combination of the two that's a pretty small number but why can't you give us somebody who's just black 13 of the public a big part of the democratic party are you are you selling this a little bit short here i don't know that i would feel that i saw a video of a woman who apparently is south asian who was just delighted she was like crying because she was so happy so it could be that um the the ideal situation is that kamala harris just appeals to everybody because everybody finds something to like about her maybe i'm just curious about how people do actually respond to that i'll never find out probably
then hillary clinton talked and elizabeth warren talked and you're going to think this is sexist so let me tell you ahead of time this would apply to men and women so the comment i now make i deny

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so the comment i now make i deny somehow specifically about women because it's a universal comment but it just happens to be about these two individuals who happen to be women have i protected myself enough no cancellation for me today and it goes like this hillary clinton and elizabeth warren both have crazy eyes crazy eyes now specifically it's a it's a specific kind it's the eyes are too wide when they're trying to convince you of something i've talked about this before right that if somebody is is talking to you with these eyes right now that i'm modeling that you can't see if you're only listening to this if their eyes are normal and they're telling you what you should believe and why you should think this these are your priorities that could be convincing but if somebody widens their eyes to make their case and if you pick joe biden everything will be good and we'll have unicorns and popcorn every day

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and popcorn every day the wider the eyes this is this is my personal interpretation of body language i don't know if there's any expert who would agree with this but keep an eye on it so to speak and see if over time you see this pattern if somebody doesn't believe their own story that's how they tell it if you don't believe your own story you open your eyes wide when you tell it because it gives because you're trying to sell that you're honest if you're if you if you wanted people to not think you're being clever and shifty you know you don't want to you don't want to have squinty eyes you don't want to be no eye contact and sort of looking around because that that would sell that you're trying to put one over on somebody but almost as obvious as if you correct for that and you over correct no i'm not i'm not shifting and looking away my message is so believable oh look

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my message is so believable oh look you're right in the eyes i'll look you right in the eyes and i'll i'll wipe my eyes like big old saucers oh yeah if you see that that's somebody who doesn't believe their own message and you saw that from hillary you saw that from elizabeth warren uh you can think of other people that you've seen that from so look for that um i watched calmly speech this morning and i want to say two things first of all uh the chris cuomo and uh don lemon were doing their duo act um talking about the convention and both of them mispronounced kamala harris's name they both called her camelot and this is after yeah this is after the democratic operative gave tucker carlson a hard time acting as if he was disrespectful to her by intentionally

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disrespectful to her by intentionally mispronouncing her name as camelot and then you turn on cnn
cnn and their her two biggest supporters don lemon and chris cuomo both calling her camelot
um here's what i think kamala was going for in her speech i think she was trying to sell herself as more friendly personable relatable human kind empathetic etc because you think of her with a little bit of harshness right if all you know is before the democratic convention that's what you know of her you'd remember her for attacking joe biden her friend for being a racist on the debates that's pretty harsh you'd remember her for attacking the president saying bad things about him lots of times you remember her for being unkind to brett kavanaugh you remember her as a cop allegedly

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you remember her as a cop allegedly kept innocent people in jail after their bend exculpatory evidence so these are all the you know allegations and feelings so if you're trying to soften that hard edge you might want to have you know an impactful speech in which you try to be the softer kinder happier version who can give a positive message about the world i would say it failed completely um it's very obvious that she's been coached hard meaning that there there's some serious outside influence that's really obvious in her presentation and she gave a speech yesterday that i'd never seen before in other words her mannerisms her approach her delivery uh her body language everything was completely different than anything i've seen from her before and i would say it completely failed in my opinion now i think she can correct that

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correct that because she was she was in the general area of where she needed to be but she missed and the the mismatch is that her personality does not fit with the skin she was trying to put on herself let me make it not skim because somebody's gonna say that was racist uh i'll it didn't fit the uniform she was trying to put on and i think she would have done a lot better if she had found an artificial personality that was closer to her actual personality and what i saw was somebody who was trying to smile and it wasn't real so she had this sort of over smiled i'm not going to lose the smile on my face and even if i'm going to say something that doesn't make you happy you just look at my mouth it's ready to smile it's so ready to smile i'm the happiest person look at my optimism my mouth it looks

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look at my optimism my mouth it looks scrunched up like i just ate a lemon but i'm still smiling i'm still smiling and look at my eyes my eyes are i've got kind eyes and i'm smiling no matter what i say i'm so sorry i'm smiling and it it looked yeah there was some sort of uncanny valley situation going on that it looked so fake that i was really sort of turned off by it and i kept wanting her to just stop making that face but i think that was the face that she was coached into and then in terms of her delivery it was slow boring forgettable
it was really bad as speeches go i thought it was quite quite bad that said how do you think democrats received it because they're the only ones who matter

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because they're the only ones who matter and the answer is they probably loved it they probably loved it or at least the people on television talking about it said it was an amazing speech and she was introduced to the world and everything will be different but i think she got a little over coached and she didn't get rid of her nervous body language i makes i make fun of this all the time that she moves too much when she talks and she was doing that again so now she had a mismatch between the trying to talk slow and kind i'm trying to talk slow and kind about all the things in my background and what made me the person i am but her body was doing something out of touch with what she was talking about her body was acting like there was a problem i got ants in my pants i've got a little itch i wish i could i've got an itch in the middle of my back i wish i could scratch it but i'm talking so so the the the facial expression the voice the body language were they just looked like bad acting

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were they just looked like bad acting so i would say it didn't work at all however where her coaches are trying to get her is definitely closer to what she did last night than what she normally does that they haven't found that sweet spot i don't know if they will but what i've said before about harris is
is don't underestimate her ability to learn because she is ambitious she is smart she got all the way to here you know that's not an accident she can learn so you might see even in you know in 30 days you might see an entirely different look from her and it might be good because i you know her ability to find the right sweet spot that actually matches her natural personality better i think she can do it but she's not she's not there um i predicted that you would see last night what i call generic attacks on trump because they can't attack him on specifics the reason they can't attack him on

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the reason they can't attack him on specifics is that leads to many counter-attack possibilities if you say well he ruined the economy i think people would reasonably say uh there was a coronavirus sort of made a difference people will say well he he he botched the coronavirus response and then people would say well what is it you're proposing we would do and if they asked that you would find out is what we're already doing so anything that they would attack on the
the you know and how about you're not good with terrorists and then the republicans would say uh tell solomons sallam any of that salome so many tell isis he's not good with terrorists i mean it's really hard to make an attack on the uh on the details because he's so good on the details if you can measure it he probably did well can you measure the number of people he put on the supreme court you can you could just count them it's a

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you can you could just count them it's a measurable thing and according to the people who voted for him did well can you measure unemployment before the coronavirus you can can you measure gdp you can can you look at the stock market and see if at least the people are optimistic about the future which is sort of what it tells you
you you can there's an actual number it's called the you know the dow jones so they're staying away from anything you can measure because that's just trouble which is it if you only knew that let's say you came from another planet you're trying to decide who to be the next best president for the next term and the only thing you knew is that one side was talking about measurable accomplishments and the other side was criticizing them on things that had nothing to do with the accomplishments who would you pick if that's all you knew so here are the here are the non-words and generic attacks that we heard from last night

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last night by the way i tweeted yesterday before the before last night's stuff that what you'd see is this people would be saying orange man is and they fill in the character flaw whatever character flaw they want to give trump and therefore some bad outcome but they won't be connected right yeah baghdadi solomon a he did get rid of a few people trump did all right so here are some of the things that they said about trump so they said that biden has decency honor and dignity which implies that trump doesn't have decency honor and dignity so then i say okay i suppose that's true suppose everything you said is true how does that matter to me you're not connecting the dots okay let's say trump doesn't have as much decency honor and dignity as joe biden let's say i accept that how did that

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let's say i accept that how did that make my taxes change did china attack us did did nato kick us out how in the world does any of this translate into anything that matters to the bottom line i can't see any i can't even see the argument for it much less see it in the outcome uh here's some more kamalaris said that one of the things that trump has done that's bad is we have a loss of certainty a loss of certainty when did we ever have certainty do you ever remember a time back in obama's days when we had certainty about what we don't live in a world with certainty what kind of a dumbass thing is that to say about a president that he's caused a loss of certainty i don't know and of course chaos they like to use chaos what is the republican version of chaos

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republican version of chaos if you're going to say if you're going to say this president has too much chaos here's what i'm going to say we call it shaken the box i'm not a republican but i'll use we in this case as pro-trump he shakes the box and we talk about this in positive terms all the time in every realm that he enters the first thing he does is he shakes the box because whatever was happening before he got there wasn't working and if and if you couldn't fix it with the current situation whatever topic you're talking about if there's something about it that's just stuck and a solution is hard the first thing he does is he just grabs it and shakes it all right now what it looks like things are a little different at least the way we're looking at it is different did that work no let me shake it again and watching that happen in real time it's easy to say that's chaos because it looks like he's just trying stuff all the time he'll just he'll just

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stuff all the time he'll just he'll just toss out an idea how many times have you heard uh has it been has it happened that trump would tweet something and then some agency within the government would say no we don't do that or we can't do that or they'll disagree with them or that's not our policy or something happens all the time is that chaos nope because do you know what you know what happens every time that happens every time that happens the entire brain of the country you know all of us individually we start focusing on that thing he wanted us to focus on maybe he was right maybe he was wrong maybe he disagrees with his own administration but what happens is the actual practical outcome is we all learn about that thing we learned why he was wrong if he was wrong we learn what is right we learn why they're doing it the way they're doing it and we learn what the obstacle is and we learn it instantly and sometimes that helps does it ever hurt not yet i can't think of a time can you

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not yet i can't think of a time can you think of a time that trump tweeted that thing that wasn't true and something bad happened i can't the only times that something like that may have sort of happened is when the illegitimate press the fake news turns it into something it wasn't if you take away the the impact of the you know the bad intentions of the press if you took that into the equation he doesn't really cause any trouble with his tweets that are accurate inaccurate provocative not provocative offensive not offensive it doesn't really seem to hurt anything it just makes us smarter and it makes us focus
the other thing uh harris says is we need a president who will do the work do the work that's sort of a um a what do you call identity politics term doing the work means brainwashing yourself into a new point of view

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yourself into a new point of view because you do have to brainwash yourself to adopt any view you know the current view you have is probably a result of brainwashing but doing the work is the process of re-brainwashing yourself in a different way
way but it's kind of non-specific and then obama so watching the cnn hosts and guests talk about obama and michelle obama's speeches is really it's really fun if you're not on the same page because you're just seeing like it's like a different world and apparently they think that michelle obama did a great speech one that was better than anybody else's speech i watched much of it i didn't see that at all i didn't think it was even good did you now i can't tell how much of this is bias because you know that the team element of just wanting to agree with your team is so strong but i don't feel as if aoc

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but i don't feel as if aoc had given a speech i use her as my generic example of somebody who's a good communicator i don't feel like i would have had that same feeling if aoc had given a speech because i think she's a whole different level i don't think michelle obama as you know good as her intentions are i think she's a quite honorable person but her speech i didn't even feel that was above average really and then obama gave his speech and i thought well you know i've watched him for a long time that that man can give a speech and i thought to myself obama's going to be strong he's really going to be bringing the bring in the heat and of course cnn says that's exactly what happened that he was he just you know eviscerated the president and you know really came strong and then i listened to what he said it was the weakest damn thing here here's some of the things he said now remember i told you that the leaf blower would find leaves

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blower would find leaves leaves directly below my office window for a solid hour i wasn't wrong it's been a solid hour of weed blowing right below my window how is that even possible anyway here's what obama
i might murder the wit the leaf blower guy in a minute
obama said that uh i never expected that my successor meaning trump would embrace my vision or continue my policies so i'm already bored my successor would embrace
policies so that's pure obama talk uh every word is a lawyer trying seriously i think the lay flower is going to come into my all right don't swear cursing but if that leaf blower shows up in my office i would not be surprised i

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in my office i would not be surprised i don't know how much closer he can get to where i'm sitting um oh god this is bugging me i i'm gonna try to get over this but and by the way that never mind
so this is this is what obama said this if you can hear me over the leaf blower this is what obama said i didn't expect him to embrace my vision or continue my policies i did hope for the sake of the country that donald trump might show some interest in taking the job seriously what his attack his attack on trump is that he read his mind and he saw on the inside of trump's mind where nobody else can see it he saw in there that trump doesn't take the job seriously do you get that is that what you're seeing are you feeling as if the president doesn't take the job seriously

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doesn't take the job seriously how about why don't we ask isis hey isis do you think the president took the job seriously oh that's right you're all dead how about uh let's let's talk to iran hey ram do you think the president's taking his job seriously yeah you do how about china that we're decoupling from didn't see that coming didn't you china hey china do you think the president's taking it seriously he's decoupling and destroying your whole damn country for the benefit of the united states is that taking you seriously because that sounds pretty serious to me the president is willing to send in the national guard to fix the democratic violence in the cities but they have to ask
ask they're ready does that sound like not taking the job seriously no it's the opposite that's taking the job really really seriously how about the fact that he brags about before coronavirus how good

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brags about before coronavirus how good the
the employment was for black americans and every every other group does he say that a lot yeah he can't stop saying how good employment was before this trouble so i've never seen anybody take anything more seriously than the presidency and for that to be the thing their line of attack they're reading his mind and he's not taking it seriously are you kidding me if there's one thing that i would say with complete certainty he's taking it seriously and here's the other thing
i always think that you know it's true that the person changes the presidency it's true that trump has changed the presidency everybody who inhabits the office changes the presidency a little bit but for more than that the office changes the person and it's my belief and i'm quite firm in this belief the less you have somebody who's literally crazy by the time they become president

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president they are so indoctrinated in being a good president and making sure the country does well that they can't do anything else now some will do a better job some will be a worse job but they all care by the time they get to the presidency even if they didn't on day one they become indistinguishable from the country once you're the president it's not like you have a good day but the country has a bad day that can't happen it can't happen when you're the president if the country does well you had a good day if the country did poorly you had a bad day and i don't care who you are trump obama clinton reagan it doesn't matter if the country does well you had a good day period if the country doesn't you didn't have a good day and there's no way that changes and there's no way that you should be dumb enough to think that obama can read trump's mind and see in there there's a lack of seriousness

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lack of seriousness because that would be just bad crazy it doesn't matter who it is trump or anybody else they're serious by the time they're in that job there's no option you don't have that you don't have the option of just playing at that job
job you know you maybe you can find ways to enjoy yourself but he's not playing it's serious business
um here's here's some other faint praise he said about biden this is obama quote he was my brother in the white house he made me a better president he will make it a better country now how do you interpret he made me a better president wasn't that obama bragging about himself if the best compliment you could give another person is that they made you better that's a little bit more about you isn't it yeah i think obama was bragging how he got better because of biden i don't know exactly how what was it that biden did that made him a better

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that biden did that made him a better president i don't know it's unstated and then he says he was my brother in the white house what's that mean are we supposed to like him as our president because he was your brother in the white house it's all these it's it's nonsense kind of words that if you didn't put any critical thinking to it you'd say oh this makes sense i love biden because he was like obama's brother in the white house it doesn't mean anything there's no meaning all right uh what else did he say that was
was he but he never did this is obama talk about trump for close to four years now he's shown no interest in putting in the work so this is the phrase here the work he has no interest in putting in the work no interest in finding common ground based on what how can you tell somebody has no interest and using the awesome power uh it's just

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so i would say that obama's speech was weak now part of that is that if you watch uh trump for four years trump brings the entertainment he brings the energy he brings the provocation he brings the whole package to a speech and we used to think obama was really good at this but now i watch it and even you know even though other people are saying he nailed it and this was a powerful speech i didn't see any of that i it felt empty and listless and uh and completely bereft of energy uh i saw it as a pillow fight against a knife attack really um
on another topic i think we need an executive order to allow parents to always have a telestream a live video into classrooms because as you know the teachers unions are destroying america and by the way if you don't know how they're doing it the teachers unions have tons of money because there are lots of teachers as long as there are lots of teachers

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as long as there are lots of teachers and they all pay dues you can have a lot of money so the nature of who they represent just because there are a lot of them guarantees that they'll have a lot of money from the dues and then they can use that money politically so part of what the teachers unions do is you know they get the teachers good uh you know good representation and they do that very well because the teachers have really good representation it's a strong union but part of the reason that they do that or that they can do it is that they're buying politicians they can they can fund a campaign at the local level and pretty much get whoever they want elected which is democrats because they have so much money and then once elected they basically own that politician because the politician needs continued support or they can't get reelected so the the school the teachers unions are are rich enough that they can control local politics which allows them to control basically

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which allows them to control basically way too much and it also they can control so much politically seriously how is there still a leaf blower outside my my window i'm gonna i'm gonna lose it in a minute here i mean i'm just gonna lose it
it you can't blow that many leaves in a 10-foot square area it's just not possible all right enough of that uh i don't even know what i was talking about i'm so angry now about the classrooms and the teachers unions so that's how the teachers unions do what they're doing which is destroying the lives of families and perpetuating systemic racism because they're so powerful that they can get rid of their own competition they can even make it impossible to have a charter school or a private school because they'll they control the politicians and the politicians control whether there's competition for schools it's the worst system you could ever imagine do you know who designed that

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imagine do you know who designed that system and who's in favor of that democrats because as i've told you their empathy is excellent excellent empathy caring first-rate those don't if you want if you want somebody to just care about something call a democrat they are pretty good at that i give it to them but they also have too much power and they've designed a system that doesn't um it doesn't take into account human motivation right the human motivation of the teachers union is to protect itself is that a high goal no it's not but it but republicans would design systems that understand that people have motivations and the incentives and if you create a teachers union and you give them that much money they're going to want to stay in power they're going to want to keep their money and they're not going to do things that are good for the public they're going to do things that are good for the teachers and the teachers unions

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for the teachers and the teachers unions it's a bad system so one way around that system would be uh i i don't think you could do this necessarily with an executive order but
but who knows what you can do with an executive order these days and that is um
seriously there's still a leaf blower out there it's been over an hour for one hour that leaf blower has been directly below my window an hour how is that even possible and if i go outside with the camera to show you you'll see him right below there blowing leaves for another half hour i don't know what's going on there i can't even talk about this anymore i'm so mad all right [Music] yeah i can't even i can't even go on anymore i've done enough we'll talk about this other stuff later and i will talk to you tomorrow oh hold on did he just stop oh my god that just happened didn't it the moment i touched my screen to end this periscope

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this periscope at exactly that moment the leaf blower stopped that really happened all right well let me say what i was going to say i will go on i can actually think now it is really hard to think when that's going on um watch so we should have cameras in the classrooms if the if an executive order could do that that'd be great i doubt it can
can but you know i imagine the schools would have some control over that there might be some privacy issues but unless the parents can directly see what's happening in the schools it's not going to change so if we can have body cams on police why can't we have a body cam so to speak in a classroom not on a teacher but just in the classroom there might be some privacy issues but if there's something happening in that classroom that you don't want parents to see isn't that a problem i feel like the parents need to have control of that and that would be a better system now

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and that would be a better system now would you get too many complaining parents probably but it's a better system than what we have um rasmussen is teasing that something happened with the president's approval apparently overnight the president's job approval jumped up sharply he got way more approval overnight is there anything that's been happening let's say the last i don't know day or two days is there anything happening politically that would make the president's approval go up could it be the democratic convention because it's sort of the only thing that's happening that hasn't you know that isn't just a continuation of things that have been happening kind of feels kind of feels like uh feels like that all right

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uh in normal years i would say the fake news is a good term for the fake news but in a election year this is just disinformation wouldn't you say
say it feels to me like the news is just a disinformation operation now it's definitely worse than it was even during the well i don't know if it's worse but watching chris cuomo trying to spin the russia collusion as if it sort of sort of kind of in a way actually happened but didn't technically happen but in a sort of kind of way that you can talk about it maybe it did happen and that the idea that there was some kind of a conspiracy and that obama was involved is just crazy talk because obama wasn't involved with the fisa that was actually a reason that chris cuomo gave that since obama wasn't involved with the fisa process therefore logically he wasn't wasn't he didn't know what was going on doesn't make any sense then he complains

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doesn't make any sense then he complains bitterly that the campaign was not spied on what it wasn't spied on it was definitely spied on that we don't have to wonder about but they use the word spied you know well the definition of the word spied may apply to a slightly different situation we know that we know that the word spied you know has a more specific meaning you're not really answering the question if they intentionally surveilled the president's people which is obviously what happened that was spying you can try to put a different word on it but that's not gonna change anything all right um the president also signaled that uh boycotts are gonna work both ways from now on and he actually called for a boycott on goodyear tires now i don't know if that was a good idea or a bad idea because it turns out that goodyear has sixty thousand employees

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sixty thousand employees and if you're any of those sixty thousand employees and you just found out that the president targeted your company for destruction you might not want to vote republican this time around so i'm not positive that going after a company with that many employees i'm not positive that was a good play but here's what i love about it and again there are times when you you fall in love with trump you don't just like what he did and here's what i do like about this the problem of these boycotts in other words people being canceled losing their job for a political opinion etc is so big that the president basically said he would put an american company and a business for doing it think about that the president of the united states has identified this problem as big enough that he would put
put a huge american company right out of business he's the jobs president and he would put this

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jobs president and he would put this damn company right out of business for just that do you hate that
i don't know if it gets them elected i just don't know if it's wise politically but you kind of like it don't you you kind of like it if you don't work for a good year of course that'd be pretty bad over there but if you see that he's willing to actually bankrupt and i don't think this will happen by the way i doubt there will be much difference in goodyear's business but he showed a clear willingness to bankrupt a major american company over this are you okay with that you kind of are aren't you you kind of are
are because this canceled culture would destroy the country and he's and he's put he just dropped the gauntlet he said i'll tell you what if you want to play this game it's not going to be one-sided you're not going to be the only one playing and let me show you by putting on the line an entire american company an entire

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an entire punt i kind of liked it even though i don't know if that helps him get elected but i kind of like he would bankrupt a major american company over this because that feels like he has your back a little bit right if you've been canceled if you have you know if you're afraid to talk up at work and have an opinion feels like he's got your back a little bit now doesn't it yeah and you're looking at the comments people are saying they love it now i don't want anything bad to happen to goodyear and i think the details of what they did is a little murky i think they were trying to be inclusive and not political they just sort of misfired a little bit on the messaging so you know i don't know that good year is worth boycotting but i do like the fact that the president was willing to actually execute a major american company over this that's how important it was over this he was willing to execute them totally on board with the attitude but

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totally on board with the attitude but maybe not goodyear here's a little red pill for you that might get me assassinated i said in the long run that all governments will be controlled by their own intelligence services but then if trump wins we we can stall that a little bit because trump is not
not um but you can't hold it off indefinitely and here's here's the thinking the intelligence operation of any country will eventually have control of the leaders and the country because that's what they do that's that's their skill set and while they might not succeed in any given year so maybe you know 1989 maybe nobody was trying to take over the government or get control but if you wait long enough and you have enough different people who cycle through the intelligence agencies somebody's going to make a play for

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somebody's going to make a play for controlling the country they'll have an argument where it's good for the country or not but somebody's going to make a play let's say 9 and a 10 times they fail they only have to succeed once and then they own the country you could argue that j edgar hoover succeeded that way he had enough blackmail i guess on different politicians that effectively if it was an issue that hoover cared about he controlled it so in effect hoover kind of ran the country but only cared about certain things so it didn't matter so much what if they start caring about more stuff so in the long run the only way it can go because the the math is inevitable if you've got a agency that has the talent to take over a country that's what they do it's what they do and you give them infinite time to try it well it didn't happen in the 60s well didn't happen in the 70s yeah they tried but it didn't happen in the 80s the 90s took a run at it

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80s the 90s took a run at it didn't work it's not going to not work forever and also you wouldn't know if it already worked now if you're russia and you've got putin as the head of your country you could say well looks like it worked in that case you don't think that his kbgb stuff helped him become the leader of course it did is it a coincidence that george bush the senior worked for was ahead of the cia and then became president maybe it's a coincidence maybe so the question you have to ask yourself is
is since it's a guarantee just mathematically risk management it's a guarantee that intelligence agencies eventually control every country they're in has it happened yet
yet has it you don't know and you wouldn't know but one of the things you'd look for is that the media the messaging coming out of the news would be fake in a certain way and it is

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fake in a certain way and it is so if you look at the news it looks like it's just coming out of intelligence agencies because now it's it's just disinformation it's no longer this harmless little fake news where they're picking aside and they know who their audience is and all that it's way beyond that now the you know the cnns and the new york times are directly trying to run the country through the way they cover the news who does that tell you is in charge is it the fake news making their own decisions that they've all decided to cover things a certain way maybe could be could be that but it suggests that intelligence services are already controlling at least the news so president trump i believe is free of that influence but that's the thing he has to beat so he's fighting the fake news and the fake news may or may not already be controlled by intelligence agencies now if you uh follow say glenn greenwald

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now if you uh follow say glenn greenwald and a lot of other people they will tell you the nbc and therefore i suppose msnbc are just direct organs of the cia and that they basically are just cia cutouts i don't know what a cutout is i shouldn't use official words when i don't know what they mean but the question is how many of the other organizations are the same situation all right that's all i wanted to talk about today and i will talk to you later