Episode 1103 Scott Adams: The RNC Persuasion Masterpiece, Biden Satanic Coincidences, BLM Terrorism

Date: 2020-08-25 | Duration: 39:10

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• Strong visual persuasion at RNC

• President Trump, the “bodyguard of western civilization”

• Telehealth legalization, freed hostages, McCloskey’s

• Homeowner fires a warning shot

• Joe Biden and Satanic coincidences

• What happens when China loses a billion jobs to robots?

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hey everybody come on in it's time for coffee with scott adams best part of the day every single time and today is going to be i don't like to brag but it's going to be the best coffee with scott adams since i don't know yesterday at least and what do you need to participate what do you need well all you need it is a copper bug or a glass you need a tanker chalice or stein you could use a canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now go

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well if you can't tell from looking behind me i am not in my house in california i've escaped to arizona for a couple days uh the update on my house in california is
is that as of last night it's off the danger zone so it looks like the fire department and all of their volunteers made a stand but also the the weather miraculously changed so if the weather forecast had gone as forecast with lots of dry lightning and
and lots of wind in the wrong direction my house may have gone up in smoke would have been happening right now actually but got a little text last night that says the wind changed and the conditions have softened and my house will not be burning down today now i want to give you a little

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today now i want to give you a little vacation tip um it's hard to take any kind of a vacation arizona's kind of a free state so we got to pop over here for a couple days and if you've ever arranged to have a massage at the same time that your house may or may not be burning down i would recommend this is just sort of a travel tip don't schedule a massage at approximately the same time as your house might be on fire because those two activities they're not entirely compatible it's hard to relax um i changed my uh yeah all the pets are okay the the house is fine uh and obviously i have somebody at the house watching it so there was no danger for the pets um i have changed my hotel accommodations as you can see it's a little bit better

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as you can see it's a little bit better than it was before got a great view here today the uh first place the first place that we were staying we always try to get a place that's got at least two bathrooms because we we hate to overlap i like my privacy in my bathroom and it's just good to have two bathrooms so it's one of my my only serious luxuries in life yeah i'm not too big on collecting stuff but i like to have two bathrooms when i travel it's where i'd like to spend my money and the other place had two bathrooms but one of them was like a dog's shower i didn't realize that until i tried to take a shower in it and apparently it was just sort of for washing your dog wasn't exactly what i was hoping for but this place quite good it's actually a house it's a rented house all right let's talk about all the stuff all the stuff enough about me there's a big story about jerry falwell

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there's a big story about jerry falwell jr
jr in a sex scandal kind of situation and for some reason this is national news now i don't know why because i'm not going to repeat the details of the allegations but they don't involve any victims there's no victims there's nobody you know underage there's nobody who cheated there's nobody who lied there's nobody who broke a commandment but there's this little private story about jerry felwell jr and his wife and i'm thinking who exactly thinks this should be national news i get that it's interesting but making it national news that is just so wrong um and if you're on the left i would think you would be especially eager not to make this national news because isn't a big part of the left's philosophy and by the way one that i buy

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philosophy and by the way one that i buy into completely that everybody's different you know are we trying to get away from you know on the left anyway trying to get away from everybody's fitting into one box you're either gay or you're uh you're either your man or a woman you know isn't the whole idea of the left that you could be anywhere on the rainbow anywhere on the spectrum as long as you're not bothering anybody and breaking the law i thought that was their own philosophy so if the people on the right care about it and i doubt it i don't know why they would care because again he didn't break a commandment didn't break a law there are no victims there was nothing dishonest in any of the allegations so under those situations why is this news it just it's disgusting really um let's talk about the rnc convention now i sometimes watch the the big events uh after the fact so that i can see the

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uh after the fact so that i can see the highlight clips without seeing the texture of the entire thing the theory for this is that most voters also will not see the entire event what the voters will see is the highlight clips and whatever whatever comes out of it so sometimes if i'm trying to evaluate how persuasive it is i will skip the event and look at what highlights came out of it because it's the highlights that will persuade or not persuade it's good to see them without being biased by the whole event because the rest of the country is not going to be biased that way they'll be biased by the clips this also assumes that anybody who watches the entire event has already decided right if you watch that whole event you're really into politics and you've already made up your mind a long time ago
ago so here's what i took from the highlights the the rnc is really good at visual persuasion

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really good at visual persuasion like really good and i've never seen a better consistent example than how they paired up now let me tell you all the things they did right number one i thought it was clever that they went second because correct me if i'm wrong but wasn't it in 2016 it seems like the dnc the democrats went second with their convention do i have that wrong and that allowed them to label the uh the rnc as dark so you remember everybody says it was dark after uh after trump's first twenty-six yeah 2016 uh convention and this time the rnc went first or the i'm sorry the dnc went first and so the republicans immediately after the dnc do you know what they said they said that they said it was dark so the republicans and trump actually used this too

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and trump actually used this too cleverly got out there first and called the democrat vision dark you all heard that right and i laughed every time i heard it because what they were doing quite obviously is they were softening up the message that they knew was going to come from the other the other way the republicans knew in advance that no matter what they did the democrats were going to say well that's dark that's a dark vision and i think they don't have expert help this time in 2016 i said i think godzilla is helping him because that word dark just sounds a little bit too well designed professional but they're reusing it it's four years later and they don't have a better play than saying it's dark so they signaled it from a mile away the republicans co-opted it and said you guys are dark we're not dark you're dark and then of course after the republican convention you wake up and what did all the democrats say about the demo the republican

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demo the republican event it was dark but doesn't it look stupid now don't they don't they look like clowns this time because the whole dark thing is just so overused and didn't really fit the content the the content really i don't think was dark at all so here's what um here's some pull quotes from the from stuff that the trump supporter said and i want you to feel how visual this is okay so i'll just give you some quotes that were uh important enough i guess that they were pulled out for twitter and people were mentioning them so charlie kirk started out and he said this line trump is the bodyguard of western civilization now think about that if he had said he's the protector of western civilization that's just a concept not bad but not really good but he said he's the bodyguard

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he's the bodyguard the bodyguard that's that's visual you can see him standing there at literally just guarding all right so that's charlie kirk opening i think he was the opening speech then we get to uh matt gates this is not in any particular order and here's something kate said he said donald trump like all builders is a visionary notice that vision is actually part of it so he's you know you're activating your your visual part of your brain just by saying that word that which is built in the mind is even more powerful than the brick and mortar that holds it together wow isn't that good writing that's unusually good writing for a speech but think of a visual that is he's saying what's built in the mind you see the mind and then is more powerful than the brick and mortar and then you see the building so you've seen the the vision of it in the mind like a little movie playing in

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the mind like a little movie playing in the mind then you see another you know visual of the brick and mortar very visual hard to forget um gates went on to say president trump sometimes raises his voice into a ruckus now the first part of that which i love is he's he's reframing trump's personality if you will into somebody who's necessary he's not somebody who's just making a lot of noise he's raising a he's raising his voice and raising a ruckus ruckus is a good unusual word it draws your attention to it because people don't use ruckus too much so when you see a word you know what it means but you don't see it often in this context as you pause that's good persuasion making you pause in the middle of somebody's sentence and and think about it that's good stuff just nails you to the the sentence and then case one he said he
he he says he knows what it takes to raise an army of patriots

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an army of patriots who love america and will protect her an army of patriots you can see them you can see them in your head can't you you know what they look like they're an army of patriots everybody has their own vision so you're not thinking exactly the same thing some of you are seeing a militia some of you are seeing your neighbors they just happen to be armed or unarmed it doesn't have to be armed in this context um then uh herschel walker said uh that this is less visual but it was it was just well done so hershel walker apparently has been friends with trump for decades and hershel walker said he's personally insulted that people would think he's had a decades-long relationship with someone who is a racist and then he said he's seen real racism and donald trump is not it and i thought that is a really good way to frame that i don't know if herschel walker wrote his own speech

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his own speech he's a smart guy he probably did but that is a really good way to phrase that he is personally insulted that's different it's different than talking politics when you talk personally people respond to it differently than when you're talking politics concept republicans blah blah i thought that was really strong then here's more visual persuasion from donald trump jr and this this one i think wins the evening if there's one you're going to remember uh listen to don jr's uh quote he said job joe biden is basically the loch ness monster of the swamp for the past century he's been lurking around in there okay that is really good writing because it's funny right anything funny is going to get your attention and more likely will be quoted the next day
day sure enough he wrote it funny it was quoted the next day that's that's a home run in persuasion if you can get

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a home run in persuasion if you can get somebody to quote it but he has this loch ness monster so visual you see the swamp you see the loch ness monster and then he uses the word lurking again perfect writing for persuasion the word lurking is not normally a again it's not normally a political word so words like ruckus and lurking and loch ness monster when you when you airdrop those into a political context they're the things you remember because they don't belong it's it's like what thing doesn't belong with the other things loch ness monster that doesn't belong there that's why you remember it's perfect then how about uh amy johnson ford she was a nurse practitioner and she was applauding uh medicare and medicaid coverage for telehealth now think about that they bring a first responder so you you when a nurse shows up

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so you you when a nurse shows up you imagine the nurse working right it's visual the moment a nurse shows up similar with a military or a police officer or any first responder anybody who's a front line first responder type they they take you right to the scene you know if somebody shows up in uniform uh let's say it's a a firefighter you see a firefighter in a uniform your brain is immediately transported to the fire you see the you see you see a little movie in your head of that person doing their thing so having a nurse just in general is a good good persuasion but she talked about the importance of telehealth now telehealth is i don't care what you say about what you do or do not like about president trump with a stroke of a pen president trump removed a useless and destructive regulation that was costing the united states a lot

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that was costing the united states a lot and it was the restriction against telehealth you know having a video call with your doctor that if the doctor was across state lines there may have been some other restrictions there but trump ran for office saying i'm going to get rid of red tape there is no better example than getting rid of this telehealth restriction it is the ultimate example it never never had a good reason probably was just because of some you know doctor special interest group but he just wiped it away and who is complaining about it who's on the other side saying oh i wish we didn't have telehealth nobody nobody that's exactly what trump promised when he said i'm going to get rid of the red tape he didn't say i'm going to get rid of things that some people like and some people don't like he said i'm going to get rid of stuff that's useless shouldn't have been there got rid of the telehealth restriction who's complaining nobody

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restriction who's complaining nobody he actually launched an entire industry with the stroke of the pen let's get rid of this and see what happens you've seen all the advertisements for new telehealth businesses they're just popping up like crazy and one of the most important changes in the country and it was just one stroke of the pen and nobody else would have done that i believe i don't believe a democrat would have done that don't know but i don't believe it all right um then also visual
trump had uh i guess it was a recorded package where he was talking to a number of freed hostages which caused even the even the press and pundits who don't like trump when they when they saw him highlighting how many um hostages he's he's freed from various regimes with captured americans even his his critic said okay we got to give you that we got to give you that when it comes to

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we got to give you that when it comes to freeing hostages american hostages that's one thing we just have nothing bad to say about he did do that and he apparently he's done it you know more aggressively and more successfully than anyone since reagan which is pretty awesome now think of the power of this now first of all that was visual as well because the the people who had been hostages and in unfriendly countries were sitting in the white house they're sitting in the white house with the president who who freed him that is visual that hits you right in the in the fields and here's the important part you know how important it is in the military when the military has this rule that they don't leave anybody behind you know if you're dead you're wounded we're coming for you and even if even if we get killed coming for you
you we're coming for you so that if you're you know if you're part of that you know that you're always part of it you know you're not you're not the

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you know you're not you're not the person who got left on the battlefield you're still part of it no matter how separated you are you don't have to wonder if they're coming for you right if you're in the military and you're missing you don't have to wonder if they're looking for you they're looking for you right so the president has created this similar kind of thing with with the hostages he's made it clear that he will burn down your whole damn country if you don't let them let them lose and i think he makes it looks like he makes the threat look real now imagine you are put yourself in the mind of somebody in another country and you get picked up by an unfriendly regime and you're jailed you're all alone you're all alone in a in a prison cell in a foreign unfriendly country what did you think when obama was president you thought i might get out he might care he might not right that's what you think

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he might not right that's what you think you would hope he was trying to get you out but you wouldn't have a lot of certainty about it now imagine that it president trump is in the second term second term second term right and you get picked up by another country and you're all alone in a jail what do you know here's what you know that whole damn country is going to burn down if they don't let you out he will burn down the whole country figuratively speaking i mean he will he will take their economy out he'll he'll take their diplomats out he will ruin them if they don't let you and you're going to know that you're going to be sitting all alone and some sell in some foreign country and you're going to sit there knowing that your president is dismantling that freaking country until they let you out that's powerful uh here's some more stuff the mccloskeys were were featured of course that was brilliant casting

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brilliant casting because they they are visual again there's nothing more visual than the mccloskeys holding their guns protecting their territory their home that was great now compare that to what the democrats offer you saw spectacular visual excellence if you compare that to what and the visual part by the way was often in your mind the visual part wasn't just what you saw on the screen so what the republicans did right if i can put this in a tighter package what the republicans did right is since the recorded kind of non-live audience situation removes the visual and i don't know kinesthetic auditory it takes all that stuff away because there's no live audience they replaced it with uh mental visions think about that they couldn't give you so much on the screen

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so much on the screen because the limitations of chronovirus so instead they made you think the movies when the mccloskeys got up it was you know because there's no live audience and stuff ordinarily it would be kind of a dead a dead segment but because you remember them you imagine them you you see them with their weapons it's a movie so somehow the republicans managed to show movies while nothing was on the screen except people talking that ladies and gentlemen is good good production so the whoever produced it you know if if in fact they were encouraging their everybody to speak visually oh my god that's good that's like as good as you can get for the limitations that were imposed and now look at one new york times political reporter the this would be a a counter or a criticism of the rnc event last

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or a criticism of the rnc event last night and this i'm not even going to give his name it's not worth it but he's an anti-trumper it looks like and he says if vernon jones quickly goes to this quote the democratic party does not want black people to leave their mental plantations so what the democrats have for a complaint is sarcasm no reason it's just eye rolling oh there they go again complaining about uh black people being not well served by the democrats and i'm thinking that's all you have i would expect something more like a counter argument if they have no counter argument they just give you sarcasm and eye rolling it's like uh looks like the republicans are complaining because the cities are burning down again those old complaints about it's just same old thing from those republicans you're burning our cities you're burning our cities i'm thinking you're gonna have to do

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i'm thinking you're gonna have to do better than sarcasm because the republicans are just bulldozing you right now this is not a fair fight at this moment the republicans have like this army of bulldozers
coming at you and the and the democrats are responding to an army of bulldozers with eye rolling there they go again that's all that's typical that's it they got nothing all right so we've got one one side in the political spectrum is opposed to burning our own cities that would be the republicans if you're paying attention the democrats appear to be on the side of the people who are burning the cities i don't think that plays very well burning your own cities putting your own people out of work doesn't feel like a good political thing to side with and yet i was seeing a tweet from joel

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and yet i was seeing a tweet from joel pollock and he was mentioning that uh that biden did not condemn the rioting and stuff of last night and i'm thinking you need to condemn that or you are not even close to being qualified to be the leader of this country if you can't condemn setting on fire the stores of innocent people and breaking cars and setting things on fire if you can't condemn that you are not qualified but worse well we'll get to worse in a moment did you see the video of the homeowner i think it was in milwaukee who when the crowds uh came near his his home or their home in the suburbs he fired a warning shot did you see that so i guess it was a black lives matter riot slash protest more like a riot i guess that came into this guy's neighborhood he walks outside with it with some kind of a weapon it just fires off a warning round

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off a warning round and then you watch all the everybody scurry back into their cars like all right run run he's got a gun he's got a gun
gun and i thought to myself what is the law on warning shots can somebody can somebody give me a fact check on that i imagine it it varies by state so if you're in wisconsin and you're in a dangerous situation you're a law abiding let's say it's a legally owned gun and you're on your own property is it legal to fire a warning shot yeah let's say the warning shot is nowhere near the people let's say you i don't know is it dangerous to shoot it in the air because that bullet's got to come down somewhere right so it might be illegal to shoot in the air i don't know if he shot in the air he could have shot you know he might have just shot his own lawn just to make a point so what exactly is legal because i need to know that because i would i would shoot i would fire a warning shot if my house

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i would fire a warning shot if my house was you know was being uh at risk and so somebody says the warning shot is illegal but uh i'd really like a a ruling on that yeah because wouldn't it matter how much danger you're in because i would think that if you're in imminent danger a warning shot would be the
the um the preferred method versus shooting at the people who are threatening you so i guess it depends yeah it's unsafe it's obviously unsafe to fire in air so i would assume that's illegal so somebody says it's illegal to discharge a firearm in most places but what if it's self-defense you know does a warning shot fit under self-defense all right i have questions on that get back to me on that um now here's something that's uh caught my attention and i can't release on it uh as you know i'm not a believer in any kind of religious anything

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in any kind of religious anything but i can't help noticing how many satanic coincidences there are with the joe biden campaign and they just have to be mentioned now again i'm not a believer but it's becoming a weird coincidence of how many things look satanic for example joe biden is in favor of what he said bringing the light to the darkness and what is happening as he's speaking as he's speaking saying i'll bring the light to the darkness cities are actually on fire california is on fire up in arizona and i'm watching the entire valley is full of smoke because some part of the phoenix area is on fire so if you were satan wouldn't you expect the satan would speak in terms which are true but misleading meaning he will bring you the light but there's

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he will bring you the light but there's a catch it's fire and it's burning your stuff that's exactly what satan would say if satan existed now i'm not saying that that joe biden is possessed by satan i'm just saying it would look exactly like this now are there any other clues well how many people or entities do you know who prefer to live underground i can think of satan living in hell and who would be another person who prefers to live underground could it be basement dwelling biden i only know two people who are famous for living underground can you think of even a third one i don't think so i don't think so so but that could be a coincidence right i mean you know there are coincidences so if there was anything to this satanic thing you would see

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thing you would see lots of little hints because don't they say that that satan uh his biggest trick is telling you he doesn't exist so you would he would be hiding in plain sight but there would be lots of clues if you were not blinded by the satanic influences for example um what is joe biden's uh slogan build back better build back better bbb if you were going to imagine 6 6 6 and you wanted to show it to people and disguise it at the same time can you think of any letter that the numeral 6 would fit inside completely only capital b capital b is the only letter that you could put a 6
6 on the inside of it and it would be concealed if you put a 6 over the number 1

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if you put a 6 over the number 1 you'd say hey why'd you write a 6 over the number 1 it would be obvious but you could hide a 6 in a capital b could be a coincidence how about the name joe biden well there's no six six six there right so joe is that's you know three letters biden is five you know so there's no symbolism there except i was looking at a little bit closer and do you know if you took the capital letter j just imagine the capital letter j in your mind now think of the next letter in joe it's an o now just move in your mind the o
o to the left until it's on top of the j it's a backwards six so that's the j and the o the form of backward six now suppose the next letter is these the lowercase e what does a lowercase e look like if you turn it upside down well it looks

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if you turn it upside down well it looks like a six so you got the j and the o together if you combine them it looks like a backwards six you've got this lowercase e that looks like an ups upside down six but that's just two sixes six six wouldn't be anything right but the next letter is capital b for biden and capital b is where you hide your six so even j o e b is 666 but then you say to yourself scott scott you can find a pattern in anything how do you explain the rest of the word biden like you know it's easy if you just if you just cherry pick if you just cherry pick you know you can get that but what is the what what is left of the word biden if you take out the b because that's where the six is hiding what's left of the word biden are you ready for this i d e n i d

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i d e n i d e n identity 6 6 6 identity that's what joe biden's name actually is 666
666 identity now you say to yourself scott you could pick any complicated situation and you can find all these random patterns and it's been proven a million times and i say yeah i agree they're like i'm not saying that he's possessed by satan i'm just saying there are a lot of coincidences so let's look at kamala harris for example kamala harris um you'd you'd be looking for the same sort of thing so what how many letters are there in kamala k-a-m-a-l-a well six but what are the odds that that means anything how many letters in harris h-a-r-r six all right so that but that's just two sixes right

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sixes right two sixes means nothing and that's just a coincidence what is she running for vice president of the united states so kamala harris vice president of the united states is three sixes um is that a coincidence be could be so there's one there is one uh candidate joe biden who has a coincidental association with the number six six sex in a variety of ways he lives underground exactly like satan and he talks exactly like satan telling you he'll bring you good news but it's really a trek of language that it's bad news is he bringing you the light yeah yes your house is going to burn down you're welcome for all the light so i'm just putting that out there uh as i said i'm not a believer so i don't believe in

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i'm not a believer so i don't believe in either religion or satan i'm just pointing out there's a lot of coincidences going on that's all i've got a final thought to you
you for leaving you today and
it goes like this what happens when a billion chinese are put on work by american robots because oh i'm seeing a lot of you are getting into the
the getting into the looking for clues on the biden campaign you're going to find a lot more of them when you start looking [Music] but it seems to me that the future looks like this the us is uh wisely you know decoupling from china and pulling back manufacturing as quickly as it can and eventually our robots will be replacing jobs in the united states but at least we'll have a big robot business you know the

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business you know the whoever owns the robots will get be getting rich so there might be something producing money that if you taxed or had a ubi or something we could get by but what happens in china what happens in china when they lose a billion jobs to robots because they can't make stuff for other countries because we can do that our robots will be more efficient than their their humans so if we replace low-cost labor with american robots the america is going to be looking pretty good but china is going to have a really big problem because even if they try to make robots for themselves and of course they will and even if they try to use them all they're going to be doing is putting a million chinese on a business or a billion and a work so i don't know if china can go crazy with robots the way that we can in the united states so my my prediction is that china is doomed they're largely doomed and i think technology is going to be

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and i think technology is going to be the cause of that and decoupling from them so that we can keep our intellectual property and our technology with us the united states is probably one of the most important things that will ever happen in the united states in the history maybe in the history of humankind it will be one of the most important decisions which candidate will guarantee that we continue our decoupling with china it's not biden biden's been very clear that's not his goal trump has been very clear that if we don't get a lot more than what we're getting from china and we're not going to we're not going to get anything we want from china um that he'll decouple and he will he will do it so uh i think china has got a lot of problems coming and it's gonna be robots that take them out
out all right somebody says there's no light in biden's eyes well he's very squinty i call him uh angry squinty caring

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i call him uh angry squinty caring joe the caring being the part we can't be sure about but he tells us that all right that's all for now and i will talk to you