Episode 1101 Scott Adams: BBC Debunks the Joe Biden Race HOAX, Solving Portland, FDA Corruption

Date: 2020-08-23 | Duration: 58:27

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• The Post Office HOAX

• College tuition SCAM

• President Trump calls out FDA for corruption

• Portland “fight club” vacation tour packages

• The “fine people” HOAX FUNNEL

• President Trump’s principles

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hey everybody come on in it's time for coffee with scott adams the best part of your whole day i'm talking about the entire 24 hours yeah this is it the best part now i'm not saying the rest of your day will be all downhill i'm just saying this is the best part it might get the rest of it to a higher average than it would have been and all you need to participate all you need is a what copper mugger glass tanker chalice or stein canteen jugger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called this simultaneous sip and it happens now
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ah i can feel a new therapeutic coming online that seems to be effective against coronavirus yeah that's what i feel and it's all because of the simultaneous step i don't think that stuff happens on its own
own all right let's get into the news uh as you know the uh investigation on the russia collusion stuff and how that all started they interviewed this happened a few days ago they interviewed brennan and brennan was not a target so they were not talking to him as a target of the investigation however smart people have clarified the following there's a reason you save some people for last do you know what that reason is the reason you save some people in an investigation the reason you save them for last is that you're trying to trap them into lying

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lying because you found out all the truth from all the other people you've talked to so if there's somebody that you've decided should be last that means you've decided that they're in the target zone shall we say but not technically a target because in order to be a target you'd have to have some evidence against you
you but the the interview with brennan the whole point of it was to get evidence against him apparently or to find out if there was none i suppose if you want to take the positive view of it so uh watch for the cleveland clever weasel words around john brennan because he might be in trouble if he said anything that was conflicting with what they knew to be true but we don't know that so we'll wait here's a question i've had for the fake news i have to admit i've had a real problem

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i have to admit i've had a real problem getting interested in the post office scandal or lack of scandal whatever it is
is and the reason is that i've mentioned this before my father worked for the post office for i don't know 30 years or whatever it was and
and i've heard so many post office stories in my life i don't have room in my brain for another post office story but for the benefit of the public i clear down a little space i forgot a few things that happened in fourth grade just to just make make room for some more memories of the post office and i immediately came to this question i've been watching the news and trying to see how long it would take for the news to inform me about the most obvious question the one that should be at the top of your mind the only one that matters really which is why do we think that having fewer postal services

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that having fewer postal services let's say whether it be post office boxes that have been debunked or removing the sorting devices which has also been debunked you know none of that was came about recently those were all long planned activities because there's less mail in general but um why is it why is it that turnout only helps that why is it that low turnout which is what you might get if you were intentionally trying to degrade the post office so that voting by mail wasn't so good the first of all the first part of that that if the the mail service is not dependable that will only affect democrats so as i understand the argument from the democrats that if the the mail doesn't look dependable and that's one of if not the only way to man to vote in your area that

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vote in your area that you won't vote if you think the mail is not completely dependable even though voting would certainly help no matter what because at least there's a chance it would get delivered i would say even if there were massive male fraud even if that were true isn't there still a 98 chance your vote gets you know your focus counted because massive you know imagine if there was a two percent fraud i don't think that's even possible it's a gigantic number but there's still a 98 chance your vote gets counted worst case and you're telling me that democrats would look at that situation and say ah you know i was going to vote i was totally going to vote but now i see nc and then there's a 2 chance it might not go through or not get counted on time i guess i won't vote

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on time i guess i won't vote but the republicans weirdly weirdly they're watching the same news they may be watching a different network but that news is telling them also that there might be some risk that their mailed vote wouldn't get counted but for reasons that are not explained by the fake news the republicans have a different opinion of it like 98 chance it'll be counted if it gets counted that's good for me why wouldn't i vote if there's a 98 chance it helps wouldn't you do something that had a 98 chance it helps well apparently the thinking i so want to swear but if i don't give you warning to it i don't think it's fair even though i do it sometimes trying to cut down but the the belief is the democrats are so stupid and this is their own opinion by the way this is not my external critical opinion of democrats i'm

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critical opinion of democrats i'm describing their own opinion of their own group that if there's only a 98 chance that something will make the world better in their in their opinion you know a vote for joe biden and their view would make the world better if they only have a 98 chance they're filling out a form and dropping it in their own mailbox which you can do because the mail will be picked up from your own mailbox if you have a mailbox uh not if you don't and i'm thinking are they calling their own people really stupid because i don't know how else to interpret it if the republicans think a 98 chance of something good is good enough to act and the democrats think a 98 chance of a good outcome is not good enough to act on some average level you know it doesn't affect every person of course but on some average isn't that democrats calling their own voters

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voters incredibly dumb it's almost as if democrats don't know how to do risk management oh wait they don't consistently it doesn't matter what topic you're looking at democrats seem to have the same blind spot that permeates the entire party which is they can see let's say the cost of something but not the benefit or they can see the benefit of something but they can't see the cost so they don't seem to be able to do the most basic risk management or even cost benefit calculation and you you don't see it any more clearly than in this mailbox thing that their own party believes a 98 chance of something working will not motivate their own base
how do you explain that other than that they think they are stupid i mean seriously how do you explain it

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i mean seriously how do you explain it without saying the democrats believe their own people are too stupid to know a 98 chance of something being good isn't good enough to try i don't know how to explain that what's the alternative other explanation for this now the new york times had his story that i may have tweeted i was going to that or maybe i didn't that said that even the experts say it's not clear if voting by mail even if there was some problem with it meaning that people thought there was it wasn't easy or something the new york times says it's not clear who that would help because it used to be that the republicans had the more educated people they were more likely to vote by mail but now that group seems to have migrated to the democrats blah blah but um but they didn't mention that there seem to be more seniors among the republicans who vote for trump

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among the republicans who vote for trump i think that's true and so seniors would presumably be a little more comfortable with mailing something because they grew up their whole life mailing something but let me put let me inject a thought to you that might make you laugh you ready would you agree the democrats skew younger i think you'd agree right more more 20-somethings are democrat i think by far i'm not positive the ratio but i think it's it's unbalanced that the young people are mostly democrat now how many people under let's say the age of 25 and this is going to make you laugh have ever mailed anything think about it just think of the people you know personally just think of anybody you know between 18 is voting age right 18 and 25 how many people do you know under 25 who have ever ever put a stamp on something

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ever ever put a stamp on something if it needed a stamp and nailed it can you think of anybody the young people literally don't know how to vote i would think that trump would be all over this vote by mail because a big chunk of the democrat base is going to say um how do you mail something do i need to buy a stamp uh or do i need to put like two addresses on it like one big one and then one little one or like how's this how does this mailing thing work can't we have an app for that because they're they're smart i'm not saying that you know they're not smart enough to figure stuff out but your comfort with something will definitely depend will definitely determine whether you do more of it and i would think young people would be uncomfortable with mailing just because they don't do it all right colleges have completely exposed themselves and i

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have completely exposed themselves and i don't think there's any going back because a number of them are doing this bait and switch thing where they say yeah yeah it's if you give us your full tuition we'll probably almost certainly have classes in person which is what you think you're paying for but you know if something comes up if you if you students don't follow the rules and socially distance well we might have to send you home and then you'll do online learning and we'll keep your tuition now what are the odds that there is any college anywhere that will be able to keep its students from having parties kind of zero kind of zero because they're in college they're gonna have parties they're not gonna wear masks and they're going to spread the coronavirus so the college gets to say well you know we did everything we could but you you darn students party too hard now
now the coronavirus is spreading you're going to have to go home and just pay us the same same amount you're going to pay

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the same same amount you're going to pay anyway or or don't get a college degree you know it's up to you so i feel like the last bit of credibility in the college systems is being drained out of it and certainly this creates i think it's creating a market opportunity for every alternative form of education that you couldn't have foreseen because as long as colleges were still as let's say a positive looking in our minds as long as that was like the goal that if you could afford it and if you could get in you wanted to go to college as long as we were all oriented toward that that being the thing we all wanted for for the kids that is um it was hard to
to create a market for an alternative but now that the credibility of college has just been demolished suddenly the opportunity for alternatives alternative education pops up so you might see the free market fixing that that would be the ultimate

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fixing that that would be the ultimate um
um amazingly trump called out his own fda for corruption yet i think yesterday and this is one of the coolest things i've ever seen in government you know if you ask when people say how can you possibly support the orange man who's bad i always look for stuff like this can you think of any other sitting president who would accuse his own fda of corruption in a tweet now i'm using the word corruption but let me read the tweet and you can you replace that with the word if you think there's a word that says it better so trump actually tweeted this the deep state or whoever over at the fda is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics in other words to get volunteers to test uh and trump goes on obviously they're hoping to delay the answer until after november third must focus on speed and saving

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third must focus on speed and saving lives and then he he adds the head of the fda and i'm thinking he's literally accusing the fda of killing tens of thousands of americans to rig the election or at least change the results of the election now before the president of the united states decided to throw his own fda under the under the bus do you think he had enough information to do that well it's possible you know you'd want to hear what the fda side of the story is is it possible that this is a little bit hyperbole that wouldn't be unusual is it possible that the president is just using it as sort of a political you know talking point and maybe there's not much of a problem at the fda maybe maybe the fda being conservative is exactly what you want them to be because you don't want them approving

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because you don't want them approving things that would be dangerous you'd want them to sort of err on the side of caution right when you want that so i believe the fda probably has an argument but let me pile on a little bit with our president i've been mentioning now for some time the
the lack of the lack of ability to use these cheap at-home over-the-counter test strips that apparently are easy to produce and do not require any kind of expensive machine to read the results you just sort of look at it it takes a few minutes and um you don't have to send it anywhere you just do it at home might cost you 25 cents per test could cost you a dollar per test but basically you can make a gazillion of them and everybody could test like crazy now they won't catch the first day or so of an infection but nothing else will either because by the time you send a way to

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because by the time you send a way to attest to one of these other kinds of tests it's been several days and you've already infected you know half the world and so if you can simply find people who have a serious infection already it's already been more than a day get rid of all those people and by get rid of them i mean quarantine not get rid of them if you could just find out right away if you've had it for more than a day you would pretty much get rid of the virus in maybe three weeks basically and if it popped up you could smack it down in probably a week as long as everybody had access to these cheap strips especially where there might be hot spots so i've said a number of times that if the fda has a reason that those can't be approved and i think part of the restriction is the fda has a reporting requirement that anybody who tests positive or maybe more than that

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more than that they have to report to the government whereas these test trips if you did it at home people would not be reporting to the government and therefore there might be some reporting
deficiency there but that's not really much of a reason so here's my take the fda failing to say yes or no on these test strips is such a gigantic red flag for corruption that you can't really ignore it anymore if you see your president calling out his own fda for something that looks at least political possibly incompetent maybe fully corrupt because you know the pharmaceutical companies are the ones who will hire these fda people after they're done with the fda right that's how it works they don't want anybody to be mad before they get that big job offer but on top of that the fact that they won't give us a yes or no and i'd be happy with a no if the fda

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and i'd be happy with a no if the fda said hey a lot of people are asking us about these cheap over-the-counter strip paper strip tests we just want you to know that there is some risk here that we're looking into we'll get you an answer in a couple weeks if i heard that i'd say all right you're on top of it that's exactly what i want my fda to do i don't want them just to re you know approve it because the social media says we should you know if a few experts on social media are saying it's a good thing you don't want the fda to just bend to that right you want to look into it so if they tell me they've looked into it and there are reasons i'll listen to those reasons probably good ones if they say give us two more weeks because we really need to understand this i'll say very good very good fda i wish you were i wish you were faster but two weeks perfectly reasonable under the situation i'd say that's a that's an fda who's doing his job if they were to approve it they say

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if they were to approve it they say we've looked into it the risk reward it looks looks good this is an unusual situation so we're gonna break some rules and we're gonna we're just gonna prove that and then i would say
say fda good job good job looks like you made the right decision so i can see at least three situations in which your fda would demonstrate that they are a credible useful organization without corruption of the type that you would notice anyway but they didn't do any of those three things as far as i know i believe they've chosen the fourth path which is to not comment
now if they're not commenting on the most important thing we can do as far as we can tell you know without full confirmation that's got to be corruption and if it's not corruption they could just tell us what the delay is we don't have to assume

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is we don't have to assume corruption if they could just tell us what it is just inform us so without that information i think you have to say that the fda is no longer on your side in the way that you would like them to be you have to assume corruption and i would assume that trump is right about something fishy going on over there now again i'm not saying they have to approve the test strips they just have to communicate that's it it's a very low bar just communicate where are you on this question that's it it's a very very easy thing to ask do you think they're unaware that the public or at least some part of it the informed part is asking about it oh they know of course they know there's no chance they don't know about the topic there's something going on
likewise some of you might remember before i was talking about politics a lot back in the obama days

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lot back in the obama days when obama reversed himself on his opinion about dispensaries marijuana dispensaries in california and decided that he was going to put a marijuana dispensary guy in jail for 10 years and he'd reversed himself from his initial campaigning when he said oh the federal government isn't going to get into it and that he reversed himself and they decided not only to get into it but to jail people from my state who had a reasonable reason to believe they could start a business that was okay with the government because the president said he wasn't going to go after him and then he did exactly like that i said this if he gives us a reason i'll listen to it
it i might not agree with it but i'm going to listen to a reason if obama doesn't give you a reason for this radical change in opinion that is actually going to send somebody to jail for in the united states you have to assume that that obama is corrupt you have to

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that that obama is corrupt you have to assume that he's been bought off or bribed or coerced by something that's not the benefit of the
the people all right he has never explained that reversal never you by the way if if you want to fact check that if he did and i missed it let me know but as far as i know he never explained it and there isn't any other reason other than somebody got to him there was either money on the line there was something political a job after the presidency there was something on the line and he wasn't telling us the fact that he didn't tell us i said was grounds for impeachment not his opinion on it that's not grounds for impeachment the fact that he wouldn't tell us why he reversed it and that reversing wasn't trivial it was it meant somebody going to jail for 10 years in my state right my state he was going to put somebody in jail for 10 years

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somebody in jail for 10 years because he bait and switched them that's impeachment and all and by the way all he had to do was say well i had a reason i changed my mind i was thinking this now i'm thinking that it wouldn't have taken much and i would say okay i just disagree with you that's not impeachment but this fda thing is just like that you gotta at least tell us you've got to tell us what you're thinking otherwise you have to assume that the fda is corrupt in a seriously a serious way corrupt to the point of killing tens of thousands of americans who didn't need to die probably for money probably for money now that's that has to be your working assumption given the evidence of today your president called them out that's not proof right because the president's failed the fact checking before that's not proof but the fact that they don't mention these test strips

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the longer they go the more you have to assume it's just corrupt i've got questions about portland i i was enjoying watching the highlight clips from the big game last night in portland that featured a number of uh right leaning people the proud boys somebody called trump's troops and who knows who else was there showed up to do a pro-police thing which of course attracted all the uh
uh antifa anarchists and of course it turned into a little bit of street fighting and most of it was play acting with pepper spray and shields and stuff but there were some good highlights of a hundred pound antifa person trying to punch one of the proud boys now let me ask you what do you think happens when somebody who weighs a hundred pounds punches one of the proud boys now if you've seen the proud voice they're not small individuals

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not small individuals they're pretty big they're really big yeah and i'm not going to promote them or side with them i don't know exactly what they believe in so i'm not pro proud boys or pro anybody else's life i don't know exactly what their what their deal is so i'm not pro or anti i just don't know what their deal is exactly uh and i know that it's been misreported the the proud boys especially so i i don't know what's going on but watching the video clip of the hundred pound antifa anarchist punch one of the punch one of the uh the proud boys i think they were proud boys the guy who's getting punched basically just waves away the punch that like it's it's like this kind of a punch and and the first guy just waves it away he just like he just swipes the guy's arb away basically but there was this 300 pounder a proud boy who happened to be looking over his his shoulder and he saw the 100 pound guy throw throw

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and he saw the 100 pound guy throw throw a punch at his buddy and the 300 pound guy just turns around and punches this guy full force in the face and i think to myself and then and here's the funny part the proud boys were way outnumbered i don't know probably five to one inter or more in terms of numbers this proud boy just punches this guy in the face so hard i've never even seen the punch that hard i mean he put all 300 pounds behind it and uh it didn't start a bigger fight that was the funny part because you'd think if that happened it'd be like it'd be on it'd be like yeah you know full full-on brawl but but they watched this guy just take out their friend and i'm thinking i think that one guy could have taken all of them because he would you he just has to punch each of them once in the face and that's the end of that part of the fight and i was i was kind of hoping for some kind of a

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i was kind of hoping for some kind of a jackie chan kind of a you know uh enter the dragon situation bruce lee where where all of them would attack this one guy and it would have been a great video so if you're appalled that i'm treating this violence as a sport be welcome you're welcome to your being appalled but it is a sport it has evolved into a sport there are two teams they wear uniforms they're trying to control territory they're trying to score points you know in terms of the public in terms of you know politically and the the police act as the referees but they only whistle the really serious stuff so that you know they're not looking for the little fouls they're looking for the big stuff and everybody there volunteered all of the combatants were there because they wanted to and this made me wonder how long will it

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and this made me wonder how long will it be
be before the free market fixes this situation because now that it's evolved from a law enforcement situation into a sporting event in which the law enforcement doesn't want to get too deeply involved you know they'll call a foul and they'll you know do a little stuff but basically it's no longer about the police as long as these right-wingers are coming in i thought somebody's going to come up with a vacation package called fight club and it will be specifically aimed at people who just like fighting because for everybody who doesn't want to fight every every 10 people who would not want to get in the fight no matter what you know somebody that for every 10 who are completely peaceful and they won't even punch back if you punch them first there's at least one person who likes a fight i mean you know that right you know people in your life they prefer the fight

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they prefer the fight if the police are going to allow the fighting it is effectively legal once the free market senses an opportunity that is both legal and underserved you would expect they might pop up so i would not be surprised to see some kind of
of tour packages in which right wing people are maybe given a little training given their own shields and helmets and stuff maybe a little mace a little club baseball bat or something and you just buy a package and you get on a bus so you're with lots of other people you're not alone and you just get enough people that you have numbers so you're not badly outnumbered and you just go there and fight and maybe not because you want to change political events maybe you just like it now by analogy people go on safaris happens all the time people go on safaris and they hunt big game big game that wasn't bothering them do the people who go on safaris do it

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the people who go on safaris do it because they they hate big animals no no i don't understand what's in the head of anybody who would do big game hunting it's not my thing but you can see that people like to go hurt stuff they like to hurt big animals they might like to get in a fight there's got to be a big market for people who would just want to go there and fight and in that way the free market would eventually solve the problem because the more people who go there just to fight eventually if that crowd grows big enough and i would say that the number would need to be about one third of the antifa people as long if you got the people who came there to fight assuming that they're big people because that's who goes to fight you know the people who know they can win um i think about one third their size would be enough to clear out all of antifa or to make it a lot less fun all right

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or to make it a lot less fun all right the bbc world i don't know if bbc world is the same as they got a lot of bbc's over there and not what you're thinking but uh the bbc let's call it the british broadcasting uh corporation they fact checked the fine people hoax that joe biden did in his speech and they showed the transcript specifically the part where the president says you know he's not talking about the neo-nazis so even the bbc has now fact checked it as false if you're keeping track the politifact did not give it a rating but debunked it by showing the transcript so politifact has fact checked it is false they don't say it but they fact-checked it as false wikipedia unless it's been updated fact-checked it is false the bbc has fact checked it is false breitbart has fact-checked it as faults uh at least

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uh at least some components of fox news greg guffeld in particular has fact checked it as false but people are still clinging to it because our fake news is pretty darn effective and here's the thing that i tweeted just before i got on there um a poll found that half of hispanics were in favor of keeping confederate statues half half of hispanic americans were in favor of keeping confederate statues likewise something like 20 some percent of black americans were in favor of keeping confederate
statues the people who find out that the fine people hoax has been debunked meaning that the president said i'm not talking about those neo-nazis and white nationalists they retreat down what i call the hoax funnel to this they say okay okay maybe that's true he did he did

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maybe that's true he did he did he did call them out specifically but what about all those other people who were marching with them you can't march with them and still be a good person to which i say i totally agree i totally agree who would disagree with that if if somebody was marching with the neo-nazis obviously obviously they're with them and supporting them it doesn't mean that they necessarily paid dues to be in neo-nazi it doesn't mean they identify themselves as white supremacists necessarily but i would agree fully that if they were marching with him they'd be bad people they'd be bad people not find people at all
all however there is no reporting that any of the people that trump was referring to the so-called fine people were marching they were just there and i of course have interviewed some people as i told you
you so i know that there were lots of just milling around

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milling around some small part of them were marchers they got all the attention but mostly it was people that you didn't know who was with who it was just lots of people some of them were for the town from the town they just walked over to find out what was going on lots of different people for lots of different reasons and i would say to those who say yeah but nobody is a fine person if they um if they support confederate statues because the statues are racist to which i say joe biden has now called half of hispanics uh shitty people there's no other way to interpret it because if half hispanics are in favor of keeping the confederate statues and joe biden says you can't be a fine person and the left says this you can't be a fine person if you're on that side he's basically called 50 of hispanic americans not fine people as well as twenty percent of african americans who support the statues so joe biden

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who support the statues so joe biden please explain why you think that hispanics and black people twenty percent of black people and half of hispanics are shitty people i think you have to explain that the president says they're not
not the president says they're fine people joe biden says they're not effectively by inference um so he's got to explain that president has a what he what he's calling a big announcement on therapeutics today oh god do i want to hear that now what do you expect is going to come out of that if the president has said there's a big announcement presumably good news on therapeutics what do you think is the likely outcome of this number one that therapeutic is probably going to be a pharma product do you agree it's going to be a pharma product meaning that there's somebody who's going to make a lot of money probably if it turns out there's a study on hydroxychloroquine that it works

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hydroxychloroquine that it works or some easily available drug and it works i'm going to be pretty surprised i think it's going to be something expensive so that's the first thing second thing is what is the anti-trump press going to do if the science says it works what are they going to do i think they're going to say the science says it doesn't work what else could they do because they've said that the president you know can't get this done that you know the world is falling apart only joe biden can save us what if what if this farm this therapeutic actually is the big deal somebody says probably vitamin d i don't think so because vitamin d is too
too inexpensive something tells me i don't think it's going to be rem deserver because i feel like we know i think we know that and i don't think that would be worthy of an announcement it's going to be something that maybe

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it's going to be something that maybe wasn't on your radar i don't know exactly what it is but watch watch the problem it causes with the mainstream press when they don't know how to say it will kill you if it doesn't it's going to be epic if that's what it is
is now the other possibility is it's not such a bug a big deal and the president likes attention so he's making it a big deal but maybe it's not a big deal you know we'll find out but i also love that there's no leak have you have you noticed that there's no leak why is there no leak about what this announcement is going to be have you ever heard of that when was the last time we had something like this where there's a big announcement the country cares and it's not already leaked how often does that happen not too much right so yeah i don't think it's hydroxychloroquine uh

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hydroxychloroquine uh that would be the ultimate simulation great script if it were you know that would assume that there's some some trial that we don't know about that went well but i don't know i don't think that's going to be the case anyway we'll find out about that um and let me say this about that uh what oh there's also a story about trump's sister she's in in her 80s and she was recorded secretly by trump's niece mary uh so so mary trump is not looking good if you're secretly recording your relatives
you've got some explaining to do um but apparently the uh the sister of trump said that said of donald trump that he has quote no principles and you can't trust him now does that ring true to you does it

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now does that ring true to you does it ring true that he has no principles and you can't trust him because i think to myself i feel like i know his principles don't you so here are a few that seem obvious to me does the president like the constitution
is that a principle i think that obeying the constitution is a principle that playing by the same rules all playing by the same rules that's a principle right how about america or patriotism does the president have that as a principle yes very much so how's that not a principle and he and he always has nobody has suggested that that trump's love of america the flag the symbolism the country even his critics have not suggested that he only suddenly became patriotic all right he has a long history of pro-america that's so clear

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pro-america that's so clear how's that not a principle that's pretty clear how about the sanctity of life now i don't weigh in on this opinion so don't you're not looking at my opinion in any of this but the president has said that the sanctity of life is important innocent life at least um and he's anti-abortion how is that not a how's that not a principle right how can you possibly say that's not a principle how about the principle of free markets and competition and trying hard to win and fighting hard to win and never quitting are those principles well they're i don't know character principles they're in there somewhere so here's my way of interpreting what trump's sister said first of all don't believe disgruntled employees and family members who have a beef you can't really

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can't really get credibility from any of those groups so that's that's the first thing but here's how i see the uh trump i see he doesn't have artificial limits meaning that unless something is illegal or impossible it's on the table he says this all the time you know are you considering a nuclear strike never take it off the table right are you going to question the result of the election i don't know we'll wait to see what happens always keeps his options open so do you want the person who closes their options because they've got some kind of principles that's exactly who i don't want for president i don't want the one who says there's nothing we can do because we have this principle here's a principle don't talk to dictators right what would the pre what would president

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what would the pre what would president trump's result with north korea been if he had followed this little stupid principle that we don't talk to dictators it wouldn't have gone well but you know wherever north korea is going you would have to admit the temperature is down and we're at far less risk of any kind of war with north korea it's way less because the president violated that little principle because he just didn't recognize it as important and it wasn't so you want the person who will do the thing that other people won't do let's say uh dealing with dictators in say china or russia let's take china as my example wouldn't you think that a principle would be you're either you're going to deal with them or you're going to completely shun them wouldn't that be the principle it's like okay this country and this leader is bad so we're just not going to deal with them that'd be a principle or they're good enough

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enough they're imperfect so we're going to deal with them and put up with the imperfection trump picks neither of those trump says i'm going to respect the leaders can be nice as possible i'm going to try to get a good deal once i've determined that that can't happen then we decouple that's what i want i want the one who says there's no artificial principle holding me back i do have these beliefs in you know america the constitution sanctity of life let's not have unnecessary wars is that good enough for me yes yes that's good enough for me that's about as principled as i want any present president i don't want him over principled that person doesn't have options i want the president to have options then how about this you can't trust him well you can make up your own mind about you know what he has or has not done and whether you could trust him but wouldn't you say

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you could trust him but wouldn't you say that one of the outcomes of this is that you also can't predict him doesn't the president hold that out as one of his superpowers he does he says it explicitly that the fact that he's unpredictable gives him advantages and it does so the fact that he has a set of principles that are not the same as somebody else because his is you know constitution america competition fight hard win you know a sanctity of life respect the flag you know police are important military is important you know that's a lot of principles the fact that he doesn't have the ones that hold you back and limit your and limit your not only limit your options but limit your unpredictability i've said that there's no such thing as a perfect or or even a good president there's no such thing as a good president

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thing as a good president there are only presidents who and sometimes it's just luck are well suited for the tasks that happen to come up during the presidency i wanted a president who could deal with with china boom got it i wanted a president who could talk up the economy and make sure that even even the unemployed had the best chance of getting a job done i wanted a president who wouldn't get us into a war for somebody else's profit done all right now after those things are completed after isis has been completed do you know why president trump was able to defeat isis at least territorially when obama had a little more trouble it's this principle thing apparently apparently obama had some kind of a principle about the military he had to check with the civilian leadership before they made a move on the battlefield and trump thought well that's a bad principle why don't we

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well that's a bad principle why don't we not do that and why don't we let the military take care of business and then they did so be open-minded about uh what kind of personality you need to solve what kind of problems i could easily believe that after two terms of trump that what the country needs more than a third term of a trump person might be something different it might be that the times have changed you might need you know you could easily imagine that the situation changes and what you need is an andrew yang right because if the if the robots are taking over and technology is more important than other things well you need somebody who can understand that stuff you can easily imagine a mark cuban being the ideal president sometime in the future when the situation is is really requires that kind of a personality does that mean that mark cuban would be the perfect president right now it doesn't mean that it means

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right now it doesn't mean that it means he might be the perfect president for some future set of situations trump is really well suited for most of our situations i would say the coronavirus was not a perfect fit because that required a lot of empathy sympathy stuff that he just doesn't do as well as some empathy empathy people do but i don't think it changed much the performance it just changed that empathy part um south korea reports almost 400 new cases of covet on saturday the highest single day increase since march remember i told you that all those countries that might be gloating about their early success might have some surprises coming now south korea to their credit is doing a good job of tamping it down and it probably won't get out of hand probably won't but if you're comparing countries i would ask you this isn't the right comparison to imagine that the president of one of

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to imagine that the president of one of these countries that's doing well new zealand or south korea let's say imagine that specific leader the new zealand president just transports into the united states and is magically the president of the united states would that person be able to solve covet in the united states as quickly and easily as they could solve it in little new zealand or fairly well controlled south korea if you can answer that question a you're an idiot because nobody knows you don't know how somebody else would have done the job you don't know there's no way to know that could have done worse could have done better you don't know but
but to imagine that we can compare ourselves to other countries uh is just really not sophisticated thinking we can't it's not possible now the news will the pundits will but it's not rational um

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but it's not rational um here's an update on the big fire in my area i'm i'm on the boundaries of the one of the biggest fires in california parts of the area i'm living are already evacuating or at least they're under an evacuation warning i think and it is 10 controlled as of this morning 10 biggest fire heading right for my town 10 controlled
not fun so we don't know where that's going to go but i do think that that 10 is misleading because i think they put up a stiff resistance when it starts hitting houses and they probably don't try to put up too stiff a resistance when it's burning through the the forest and the the empty spaces so i think we'll see a good defense when it gets right up to my gate we'll see um a funny story that isn't funny for the family but kellyanne

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family but kellyanne conway's daughter who's 15 and she's on social media and she's saying that she wants to be emancipated because she can't stand being in the family because her mom is you know her mom is works for trump and apparently she sides with her her dad against trump now if ever and i i feel bad for i feel bad for kellyanne she has to to deal with this but there there's something fantastic about the family at the same time that you know you wouldn't maybe you wouldn't want this problem for yourself but i do love the fact that there's no soft spoken person in the family well i don't know if they have other kids but i love the fact that they're all a certain way meaning that meaning that they're all fighters uh you know if if if kellyanne conway's daughter doesn't get like she'll probably be one of the most successful people ever if she wants to be

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people ever if she wants to be because she's a fighter i kind of like that anyways uh i have a theory that is a crackpot theory you want to hear it crackbot theory anybody you like your crackpot theories goes like this the energy can't really ever disappear it can move but it can't disappear now uh i'm gonna be talking about energy in the in the human sense so have you been surprised that at least until uh last night with portland with this little bit of a few right-wing people showed up to do battle with antifa but i think they were doing it for fun look more like entertainment have you been surprised at how little physical activity there has been from republicans and conservatives pushing back on the you know antifa and pushing back on really anything have you noticed i feel as if the republican energy

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i feel as if the republican energy is going to come out on election day it feels like there's a whole bunch of republican energy that's really really pent up not only because we're locked locked in our homes but every day you turn on and you watch this a city be destroyed and you say to yourself i want to do something about that but hold hold not yet hold and i'm going to go with newt gingrich on this who says that he's predicting maybe a more remarkable trump uh landslide than we imagine he didn't say landslide but i'll say big victory and uh he uses this this uh anecdote this was newt said this uh you know we have the mayor of chicago announcing that she's going to have the police on her own personal street because she wants her family to be safe

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because she wants her family to be safe but good luck to the rest of the city gingrich added well i think this stuff sinks in at a level of reality that even nbc news can't cover up so new as a perfect way of putting things often and i think he really nailed it there there's there's something that conservatives are holding in and when it comes out it's going to come out in filling out a ballot that's going to come out and voting registering and and i think that they're as i've said before i think that the pollsters may have some surprises now i did see a tweet and i would not put high credibility on this nor would i say it's necessarily false you can be the judge so there's a tweet that says somebody had some a doctor had some internal polling from the democrats showing that biden was only up five in new york state

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five in new york state do you think that's true because if biden is only up five in new york state new york state's in play what now i i'm kind of skeptical kind of skeptical but if you lived in new york state and you watched new york city get destroyed by democrats would you be immune to that would you just say yeah moving on or would you say that's pretty close to home i feel like and by the way i'm from upstate new york uh i feel like i know my upstate new yorkers and they would not they would not move until it was time for the kill shot and the kill shot is election day so i think that there are a lot of silent defectors from the the democratic side and that those silent defectors are storing their energy up it is all

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are storing their energy up it is all going to come out on election day that's just my theory stored energy theory all right um that is all i wanted to talk about today
um somebody says in the in the comments that the internal polling must be disabled because the washington post is testing out the second 22nd amendment i thought it was the 25th but maybe you're talking about something else uh all right well we'll keep on joe biden i believe that the flying people hoax would be enough to take him out but i think his own uh i think i think it's happening so i i think biden's going down well i think the uh the mystery will be if kamal harris tries to take the top spot one way or the other before actual election day possibly yes we'll see all right

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yes we'll see all right i will talk to you tomorrow