Episode 1105 Scott Adams: RNC Night 3, Video HOAXES, Hurricanes and Persuasion, Strategy and Riots

Date: 2020-08-27 | Duration: 55:34

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• RNC Day 3 review

• Jack Brewer debunked the “Fine People” HOAX

• Kenosha shooting details

• Idolizing criminals and mocking good role models

• Anderson Cooper and the “drinking bleach” HOAX

• 4 Steps: How the FAKE NEWS creates their HOAXES

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hey everybody come on in it's time it's time for coffee with scott adams the best time of the day yeah it is and all you need to enjoy this incredible experience is not much really all it takes is a copper bug or glass of tanker shells to stein the canteen checker flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i'm partial to coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine to the day the thing that makes everything better except riots apparently it's called this it's called the simultaneous step it happens now go
ah no i was wrong i did make the riots a little bit better you might not notice it with all the fake news but pretty sure there was a benefit there

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well um i was uh at first happy to hear the report that there were no deaths from hurricane laura but the update is there is a 14 year old who lost his life so that is tragic um and while not uh downplaying the loss of life it is remarkable that there was that little bit uh that the loss of life was small and part of the solution for that might be we're getting smarter maybe we're we just have better communication part of it is that it was predicted to be bigger than it was so that's good news but i saw this bit of persuasion coming out of the local government trying to get people to evacuate and listen to how good this persuasion is
is this is as good as you can persuade they announced before the waters game to try to get everybody to leave they said quote please evacuate and if

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they said quote please evacuate and if you choose to stay and we can't get to you write your name address and social security number and next of kin and put it in a ziploc bag in your pocket praying that it does not come to this oh my god that's good in fact they should use this the same exact line for every single situation where you're trying to get people to evacuate because i've taught you that the strongest form of persuasion is fear so if you can make somebody afraid of something nothing there's nothing that's as good as that it might be used in a bad way but there's nothing as effective as that as scaring people but if you're going to scare people you want to make it visual this is really visual you can imagine the baggy you can imagine yourself filling it out you can imagine putting it in your pocket because you think well would i how would i attach it to myself put it

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how would i attach it to myself put it in my pocket very visual it makes you deal with the question of how you would do it which makes you think past the sale the sale is doing it and you're thinking about how to do it do i have a baggie yeah would that be good enough whose name would i put on it thinking past the sale fear visual and then they put it in a story you could actually see the movie of this part of your life where you're getting the baggie you're filling it out you're putting in your pocket and then here's the here's the really powerful part you can see your own lifeless body being discovered and they find the baggy in your pocket try to top that take take the the best persuader in the history of persuaders try to top that you can't that's as good as you can persuade

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that's as good as you can persuade there's nothing left you know there's no money left on the table with this one this is putting it all out there now i don't know if the person who came up with this idea was trying to persuade and actually understood technique or it could be that this was simply a good idea and it is a good idea but it also has a persuasive element so i'd be very curious whoever came up with this framing if they had any actual training and persuasion because if they hit this by accident you know if you stumbled across something this powerful just randomly i mean it's possible but i'd be surprised i think there's somebody who's got some skill some serious skill who came up with that all right um as you've noticed the mainstream s mess the mainstream press which is sort of a mainstream mess

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which is sort of a mainstream mess is realizing that the poll numbers are plunging for biden the more violence there is in the midwest especially that's the last place you'd want to have any violence because those are the battleground states for the election and i think politico and cnn and you're seeing some other people say hey
hey wait a minute i don't think this rioting slash protesting slash looting i don't think this is working in our favor and by the way a public service announcement if i ever talk in a generality such as there were looters in the city or there were there were some bad eggs you should be smart enough to translate that into your head try to follow along because i know these you know my followers are smarter than the average you should translate that into your head into he doesn't mean every single person might not even mean

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every single person might not even mean most of them i might be talking about just the bad eggs and the bunch you should be able to to handle the fact that when people use generalities that way they don't really mean every person it doesn't mean every person when i say it doesn't mean every person when you say it doesn't mean every single person when anybody says it so if you're going to be that idiot who says oh he says every single person oh every single person there was violent oh that's right scott sure every single person that is a case of using sarcasm instead of reasons mixed with a little intentional bad reading comprehension um here's the way the fake news is spinning tucker carlson's show last night so tucker said and i'll paraphrase but tucker was essentially saying that nobody should be surprised

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surprised that a vigilante kind of a shooting or really just violence in general came out of these protest slash looting slash riots again not every person was writing not every single person was looting some of them were good just in case there's anybody new to my periscopes who needed that little extra clarification every once in a while a biden supporter floats in here not knowing what they're going to get so i like to make sure that they know what they're getting
so all right so tucker makes the completely ordinary obvious clearly justifiable non-provocative totally non-provocative statement that if you let this situation go on it's very predictable that it turns into two sides and at least one of them is going to have guns

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least one of them is going to have guns probably both as we saw in kenosha there were guns on both sides only one of them fired it turns out so how controversial is it to say that it's predictable where this ends that's not predictable that's that's not controversial at all in fact i think tucker said something that a hundred percent of people would agree with how can you be provocative saying things that everybody agrees with and is obvious that if you allow you know this chaos to continue the obvious conclusion is people getting killed obviously that's not even a political statement that's just a statement of duh so how did the bad people in the fake news business spin it uh well here we we have somebody from politico blake uh houndshell he's the editorial director of the website politico and he says

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of the website politico and he says quote vigilante violence was always one of my greatest worries about the present moment tweeted blake has now now keep in mind he just completely agreed with tucker carlson because he said vigilante violence was always my greatest worry meaning it was
was predictable predictable that's what tucker said so now he's completely agreed with tucker so we're done right there's nothing else to say you just agreed with what tucker said oh no he continues and he goes talking about tucker he goes and here we have a prominent tv host a man who had the president's ear excusing it rationalizing it no nothing like that happened it's not rationalizing something to predict it because you know who else predicted it the guy who's criticizing tucker carlson it's the most ridiculous criticism in the world

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criticism in the world he agrees with them and then he criticizes them without any awareness that they have the same opinion incredible is he the only one who is this blind to the obvious no turns out that nicole hannah jones who is a new york times magazine reporter who won the pulitzer prize for her work on the 1619 project which you've heard of what was her opinion of tucker's point of view quote he just justified murder no nothing like that happened nobody justified murder not tucker not his listeners not anybody nothing even remotely like that happened how about max boot a conservative washington post columnist you can trust a concert you can trust a conservative washington post call him this can't you

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this can't you wait he's a conservative but he tweeted that uh carlson was quote inciting violence and abetting terrorism was he because the video shows that the terrorists are the ones who were chasing and trying to physically hurt if not kill the person who ended up shooting in self-defense more on that in a minute but no it wasn't anything like that he was just predicting as i have i have also predicted it but i don't encourage it it's just obvious it's going to happen and there's nothing else that could happen i'll go further than any of them which is to say it's guaranteed to happen you can't you can't change that with your preference tucker carlson can't change the course of events by wishing it wouldn't happen he could even encourage it not to happen

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even encourage it not to happen he could come out strongly against it happening it wouldn't make any difference it wouldn't make any difference because the people who are doing stuff are not watching tucker carlson and saying well there you go i better not do this thing i was going to do that's not a thing you know maybe you could change the minds of some people who are on the fence in some weird situations but in general it's not going to move the needle at all all right so that part is insane let's talk about the rnc convention night three i would say it was another solid performance and i think everybody agreed i think the democrats agreed i think the republicans agreed and um i would go even further than to say it was solid um there were some standouts really star turns i thought jack brewer because because it's 20 20 and you have to specify these things

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to specify these things can we can we get to the point in history where if you have the first black female inspector general of the post office i don't know maybe that's already happened that we don't make it a story that is the first black female who has you know got this particular job can can't we get past that can't we get to the point where we say why wouldn't she get the job can't we get to the point where we say something you know we're glad it's happening but why is it news is there somebody on the other side of this who doesn't think that in my hypothetical example is there someone who doesn't think a black woman can get a good job when all evidence clearly shows that the other succeeding at the highest levels especially in congress they're killing it in congress so why do we make this news i feel like we've reached the point where talking about it makes it worse you know when it's if you go back 20 years or even 10 years i suppose

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even 10 years i suppose yeah it's worth mentioning you know it's definitely worth mentioning if you get the first let's say whatever group for president or vice president even for uh you know for congress i think that that's fair to point out somebody you know getting a powerful position but yeah at some point we just have to stop calling out people's race for the news story it just needs to be less important and we're all going to be better off i think both for the good news and the bad news anyway jack brewer african-american man was very pro-trump and the part that is stood out aside from the fact that he's really good on camera i mean you know there's some people you put them on camera and they just disappear and then there are other people who just not only light up the screen but they seem to enter your they enter your space that's what trump does trump doesn't just light up the screen

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trump doesn't just light up the screen when you're watching him he's in your house i mean he gets off the screen he gets into your bones he's in your dna and you know i'm not sure that you can you can't really coach somebody to do that i don't think you can make somebody better at communicating but whatever that thing is that trump has that makes him light up the screen and then leave the screen and enter your house that just comes along once every who knows but jack brewer has a strong version of that thing that that charisma that natural star power i guess you'd call it and it was interesting to watch that but the point that i i was most interested in is that he directly debunked the fine people hoax does it make a matter does it matter that he is a black man who debunked the fine people hoax yeah it matters matters a lot you know i had challenged anybody who believes this hoax to find me anybody in leadership

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me anybody in leadership in israel who thinks it was true under the theory that if israel doesn't think that the president was praising these people who were anti-semitic if israel didn't see it they've got pretty pretty good filters on this stuff i don't think they'd let it go at the very least they would have said hey could you clarify this you know were worried that you were supporting them anything like that anything like that no because israel is not taken in by the fake news that so many of us are so uh watching a black man who had tremendous just star power really impressive um to watch him light up the screen and to some extent not quite a president trump level but come into your your life you know he leaves the screen as well to see him debunk that was useful but what happened the fake news immediately

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what happened the fake news immediately fact-checked them they fact fact-checked him incorrectly and said no he got that wrong there's just nothing you can do if the fact that if the fake news has a a news silo which they do and nobody gets outside of that so they don't see the other argument they can just fact check it so cnn you know ran much or most of the rnc convention on their network so here's if you're wondering why the polls are moving let me just put this idea in your head and you're going to laugh that you haven't seen somebody say this yet unless you have maybe somebody said this i haven't seen it think about this cnn carrying the the republican convention was the first time uh a lot of cnn viewers had seen actual news meaning the other side of the story they've seen a version of the you know filtered through the fake news

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filtered through the fake news you know messaging but they've never seen they've never heard the other argument they've never seen a picture of republicans looking like they have empathy i don't think people knew they were black republicans i mean of course they knew on some level but i don't think that they knew that there were black republicans who are um so powerful that you know we're talking about them as the next president you know if you were if you were a democrat who had only watched the fake news and you'd never seen any republican messaging counter messaging you know any any of the strengths if you've never seen any of that what did you think when tim scott got up there and gave his you know incredible speech did you say to yourself who is he probably you probably said who's he i didn't know there were any black republicans and when you know jack uh when jack uh brewster brewer i'm sorry jack brewer was
was talking last night how many people

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talking last night how many people said wait a minute why is a black guy saying that the fine people thing was a hoax do you think it at least caused some curiosity in people saying hmm i wonder why that would happen because it would be a strange thing for him to claim in public if it could be so easily disproven by just looking at the transcript of course if you do look at the transcript you'll see he's completely right most people only see the first part that's misleading they don't read the second part of the transcript that clarifies anyway cnn uh made the mistake of accidentally allowing their people to see republican messaging for the first time what should be the predictable outcome of that the predictable outcome of that should be
be a little bit of movement on the pole it should be now i don't know that it works the other way because fox news can cover

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way because fox news can cover the uh the democratic convention and almost everything that conservatives hear from the democrats is things that they already know now they may know it's false or they may know it's true but they know the story and they know the the counter to it if there is one so you should expect that if both networks carry both uh conventions that one would get a significant bump in the polls and one would not because one is giving no new information to to the public and one is giving a lot of new information to the public like a whole different world you didn't think was there it's like ah really seriously are you telling me that president trump did all of these things that are conspicuously designed to be good for the black voters in this country did they know that well they know it now if they watch the convention so it should make a difference i thought it was very interesting and

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i thought it was very interesting and very smart that trump tweeted a thank you to cnn for carrying most of the rnc and there was no joke in it i'm just just sort of hold this in your head trump
tweeted a thank you to cnn with no joke it was you know obviously he was doing it for persuasion purposes because you know what i've taught you that one of the most powerful persuasion things you can do is if somebody is your critic you go as hard as you can again against them while they're being a critic but the moment they say something that's not critical you should go just as hard in the other direction to praise them and thank them and and call it out as good behavior that's good persuasion trump does that better than anybody and there's nobody in the public sphere who has ever done that specific trick of

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who has ever done that specific trick of persuasion as perfectly as he does he will he will try to bury you if you're a critic but the moment you're on his side it doesn't matter what you do right doesn't matter if you're cue doesn't matter what you are if you're on his side thank you i'm glad you support america so that is good persuasion it's you know obviously persuasion but it's it's good persuasion um so we learned a bit about the the shooter in kenosha so as you know the 17 year old with the ar shot and killed two white people and injured a third again it's important that they're all white the shooter and the the people got shot it shouldn't be important but it's 20 20 so i have to throw that in there that that makes

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in there that that makes it's just disgusting that mentioning people's ethnicity in a news story should matter but it does it does in this case and so here's what we know about them this is andy now if you're not following him his last name is spelled n-g-o he's got pretty much all of the all of the useful information about these protests and what comes out of them and he reported this morning that one of them was a 36 year old he's the first one who's shot and the video shows him chasing after the shooter and throwing something at him
him in other words attacking him with the risk of grievous bodily harm and if he got shot for that and of course we're still in fog of war but that's that's what it looks like that was uh turns out that the guy he shot was also coincidentally a registered sex offender

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offender for a sex crime involving a minor
that's good context to know isn't it um how about the next one the other one was uh 26 and he was shot uh and he was uh filmed chasing down the the teen who did the shooting and hitting that team when he was on the ground with a skateboard now that was again risk of not risk of but grievous bodily harm he actually hit him and then the teen shot him dead the person who got shot dead has a criminal history that includes charges of battery and repeat domestic abuse so so far the the kid with a gun shot a registered sex offender and somebody with repeat domestic abuse allegations doesn't mean they were guilty they're allegations the third person was shot

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shot this one survived he was 26 and he's a member of the people's revolution movement um he was photographed with a gun in his hand i don't know if that was real but it looked like it um he was filmed chasing after the team with a pistol right and he was shot at close range in the upper arm turns out he also has a criminal record that includes being intoxicated and armed with a gun so um i said quite clearly that i don't have i don't care about them i don't care about any of the white men because again it's 20 20. so in order to make a statement about anything you got to specify their their ethnicity and their their race so i will those are the rules i don't care about those white guys i somebody said the third guy is unarmed i was gonna make that joke but it

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i was gonna make that joke but it sounded a little too cruel but i don't mind mentioning it when you did
did um i don't care about them and let me say it as directly as possible their lives don't matter to me their lives don't matter because they made choices that made them um worthy of being shot and it wouldn't matter who who it was doesn't matter that they're white men or men or weapon or anything if they made choices that earned them getting shot and that's looks like what happened as far as we know i mean it could change if we learn something else but if they made those choices i don't care about them i don't care about them at all to me their lives don't matter now i will also extend this concept to anyone no matter their race or ethnicity or gender or age or religion to anyone who resists arrest and gets shot

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arrest and gets shot even if the police acted inappropriately i don't care about them their lives literally don't matter to me now it's hard to say that in public and again i'm not talking about black lives or white lives or blue lives or any other specific person anybody who makes the choice to resist arrest doesn't matter to me at that point i totally care about their families because there's a lot of pain that's left behind that's bad i care about any anybody who gets you know mistakenly blamed for something because they get caught up in the political moment of 2020. i feel bad for them and certainly if anybody made a mistake or could have done something better that needs to be addressed you know i'm not giving police some kind of a pass to shoe people they need to do it right and if there's any way we could do it more right i'm all for it i just think that as a principal if you allow people to resist the rest

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if you allow people to resist the rest without consequence and without serious consequence including death if you allow that to be your new standard that resisting arrest can be okay you have created the situation that will destroy civilization itself because unfortunately nobody's figured out how to have a civilization without some kind of law enforcement and you can't have law enforcement if people are allowed to walk away from the rest or if they're allowed to go pick up a weapon during the middle of an arrest can you let somebody go into their car and pick up their weapon while the rest is in progress i don't think so and let me say as clearly as possible i don't care about that guy who got shot reaching for his knife i don't care about him i really don't and has nothing to do with being black or being white has nothing to do with that he made choices that if he got his way

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he made choices that if he got his way and his supporters got their way resisting arrest would be as a de facto kind of real world case resisting arrest would be legalized effectively if you could do it without consequence and i'd say in that case i just don't care about so i couldn't say that until there were some serious white people who got killed that i could say i don't care about too because otherwise it gets misconstrued but there it was all right now i've been joking slash not joking about biden's satanic influences meaning that there are a lot of satanic coincidences about joe biden that he lives underground like satan that he that lucifer's name is
is bringer of light and that's literally what biden announced he would do he would bring light uh there's the fact that kamala harris

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there's the fact that kamala harris both are six letters kablon six harris six
six president of or vice president of the united states is six so he's got the 666 thing going for his vice president um but this one this little bit sort of tells it to y'all so one of my uh one of my trolls or my critics online has been posting a picture of my deceased stepson who died of a fentanyl overdose in 2018 as as a comment no matter what i'm commenting on and then he says it's my fault that uh that my stepson died now i accept that that's true i would never argue with that in the sense that was there anything i could have done in hindsight that would have prevented it and the answer is always yes if you have somebody in your family who commit suicide yeah there was something you could do

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yeah there was something you could do you could have been in the room all the time you could have tried harder whatever so it's not like i disagree with the point that anybody who has a loss in the family they could have done something different but it's the real world people don't know until hindsight makes us all smart how much they could have done or should have done under the circumstances but i don't disagree with the point that somebody could have done more and that into somebody in this case was me but when you see the the degree of evil that it takes for this person to do that and it's repeated it's not once it's somebody who i block them they create a neutral account they do it on the next comment etc
but that that feels closer to satanic i'm not a believer but just in terms of categorizing it feels closer to satanic than it does to somebody who's just a troll but

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somebody who's just a troll but i'll leave that to you the the rnc last night made and for the last three days they've made a number of positive comments about school choice but i think that they have failed in their messaging so even though the republicans have fairly consistently said hey school choice will will help you there's a there's a part they leave out that makes their preference for school choice inert in other words it's the most powerful thing or could be it should be the most powerful thing that they say but the way they say it turns it from potentially the most powerful thing they could say to absolutely nothing and here's here's the problem when you simply say this it's not enough and this is what they do they say we want more school choice because you know competition is good and then you know uh parents can raise their children

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children and the way they want it's it's freedom uh it's right they say that sort of thing that has no persuasive power except to republicans which is not good enough if you're running for election what they should say and they're leaving out and it must be intentional is that the cause of not being able to have this freedom of education if you will is the teachers unions specifically the teachers unions if you unpair those two ideas and then you unpair it from systemic racism you've lost all your persuasive juice all right the way to make it persuasive is to say systemic racism the biggest cause of it and it's real if you're still arguing the systemic racism doesn't exist because you're a republican and you don't want it to exist it's a losing argument and the reason is

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it's a losing argument and the reason is a losing argument is a it totally exists it may not be in the form and type that other people are talking about it but obviously exists any system will be optimized for some types of people and sub-optimize for other types doesn't mean anybody did it intentionally doesn't mean it's anybody's fault per se but it is something that needs to be addressed and certainly there is a ripple from slavery and other effects that clearly have an effect but i would say that the biggest lever for fixing that and i think everybody would like to fix it if it's fixable in in the sense of giving everybody a fair shot because anything you fix for the black community as is often said and it's one of the strongest points is going to help everybody it's going to help everybody there is no way to give the black community a boost that doesn't help everybody

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a boost that doesn't help everybody unless you're just transferring money which is sort of the dumb way to do it but if you were to uh state quite accurately that the teachers unions are the primary cause of locking the black community into the lower socioeconomic grouping that's just true that's demonstrably obviously observably true they're doing literally that by being the strongest force they're a huge political force and the reason they're a big political forces there's so many teachers lots of teachers means lots of money from dues lots of money from dues means you can do things beyond what the school is doing at the moment you know beyond the negotiating for the teachers you can use that money a lot of it to influence politics and they do and they have so much money because there's so many teachers that they can actually determine you know local uh local politicians who gets elected and

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local politicians who gets elected and then they can just cement their power uh and they can lock in
in structural or systemic racism and and school choice is the primary way that anybody's ever thought of if somebody comes up with a better idea i'm open to that but in terms of ideas that people actually have like real suggestions that are actually something you could do something about getting rid of the power of the teachers unions and moving more towards school choice is the thing the number one thing that the black community needs to you know to get a fair shake because they're not there anybody who says that that you're getting a fair shake when you're black especially if you're living in some you know urban place that's not so good anybody who thinks that they're getting a fair shake not paying attention because not only are they not getting a fair shake but

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are they not getting a fair shake but anybody who's in the same socioeconomic group also not getting a fair shake all right and it's because the teachers unions so when the republicans leave that out they also guarantee that their message is weak i don't know why they do it honestly
all right so here's what else i would say also that nobody succeeds without a good strategy uh would you agree that the the asian americans have a good strategy as a group again when you talk about a group you're not talking about every single person in the group if you know i'm hoping you're adult enough to know that but isn't it true that the asian american community has a strategy which is stay out of trouble you know legal trouble especially stay out of trouble and emphasize education right

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emphasize education right and it seems to work because they've they've done unusually well would you say that wealthy white people also have a strategy that works well of course they have an advantage if they're coming from wealth but they also hear good strategies just by being around it they can observe what works and what doesn't because they're around success if you've never been around success you kind of don't know what it looks like you know it has to be personal you have to know somebody who is successful it's not really good to just watch them on tv or read a book about a successful person if you've not met one it's a real disadvantage i mean a serious disadvantage and i've often said that one of the biggest strategic mistakes and it's just one of them is if you're idolizing uh if you're idolizing criminals if they are your heroes literally criminals and you are de-emphasizing

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criminals and you are de-emphasizing people who are doing it right and succeeding then you can't really succeed i don't know that there's a culture who has ever idolized or or put most of their let's say identity into a criminal element that has succeeded now you see this in two ways and i get this from from leaders in the black community tell me this right so the next thing i say is not my white guy interpretation of anything because again it's always a mistake to think you can put yourself in somebody else's head if they're if they have a really different situation but black leaders will tell you that one of the problems is that if you're black and young especially if you don't have a father who is doing well that they're looking for role models and the people who are doing the best in a bad situation might be drug dealers so if the only people who seem to be living some kind of a high quality life

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living some kind of a high quality life are literally criminals that's a bad strategy you know you need to replace that that role model mental situation with some other kind of positive role model or you just can't there's nothing that can be fixed if you don't get that first that's sort of like starting place right now you see this also with the police shooting stuff and and i hope i model this correctly it is a good strategy when you see three uh scumbags of your own ethnicity getting waxed by a guy with a gun which is basically what happened in kenosha that you should call the three who got waxed as bad people i don't make them my role models i don't make them my cause i say screw them i don't care about them but if somebody does something awesome i'm gonna call that out right i'm gonna call that out and i'm gonna make them my

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call that out and i'm gonna make them my hero so you know when i see jack brewer who not only was spectacular as a personality as charisma as a communicator i mean really really good but apparently he has a um his life lives up to that same standard so what i call him out as a role model i feel like that's a good strategy doesn't matter what ethnicity is he's my role model because he works hard i would say the same thing about kanye one of the the greatest parts about kanye is unstated this is the thing nobody talks about but it should be the most important thing about kanye he knows how to succeed he works hard stays on a jail takes the right kinds of risks learns what he needs to builds his talent stack has a rock solid strategy for life i mean really solid strategy

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for life i mean really solid strategy you can see it in everything he does right he makes the right kind of risks you know when he does things that are provocative he makes that work for him it makes him yeah makes his voice more important you've seen him succeed in three different fields at this point because i would say that his his uh spiritual stuff he's doing now is hugely successful so he's hugely successful in music you know producing performing those are you know pretty different uh hugely successful in fashion and now hugely successful as a spiritual leader in this country so look at kanye and
and the fact that we don't and what do we say when kanye's in the news what do we talk about he gets mocked he gets mocked for you know that one thing he said that he didn't like or you know that that one time taylor swift you know was winning an award or or they mock him for i don't know liking trump it it as long as you're mocking your

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it it as long as you're mocking your good role models and you're and you're making heroes and if you're literally criminals or people who weren't resisting rest and again don't take this generalization to apply to every situation i'm not saying that police made all the right decisions i'm not saying that you know all of the shootings were justified or good nothing like that police clearly make mistakes because they're human if your police didn't make any mistakes it would mean were already taken over by ai and the robots and even they would make mistakes so i have a better strategy is what i'm saying all right so i finally figured out i've been uh and this is because anderson cooper said last night to his group shot of gas he said that the president suggested drinking bleach for the coronavirus if you're listening to this don't drink bleach for anything it'll

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don't drink bleach for anything it'll kill you and anderson cooper said that and his he had
had at least one conservative uh i think two conservative voices on the screen at the same time which is a lot actually um and so i'll give them credit for that they had two trump-friendly people on the screen with two others which which i i give them credit for that so uh taking president trump's um let's take him as a role model in this when cnn does bad things i will viciously attack them because i think it's really bad for the country the fake news but when the when they do something that's clearly a good thing anderson cooper had two not just one because you often see just one he had two
two pro conservative voices on with with two on the other side and i thought that was reasonable so i'm going to call that out as a compliment but so anderson cooper states this

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but so anderson cooper states this this fake news that uh the president suggested drinking bleach and both of the uh conservatives just went
you know they just they just made this noise like i can't believe it and then here's the amazing part i always wonder do the people who are pushing the fake news how aware of it are they don't you wonder that are they doing it completely intentionally or are they actually not sure what the real news is and anderson cooper in my opinion again there's an interpretation that's coming but in the way he dealt with their objections he was saying what you didn't see that are you telling me that didn't happen and they're like like it didn't happen he's like seriously you're telling me that didn't happen and though and the genuine way he responded to that indicated to me it could be wrong but it indicated

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wrong but it indicated that he thought it really happened and i thought my god my god he thinks that actually happened and so i had to go back and look at what the president said to figure out how somebody who does news for a living could believe that actually happened and i figured out what the how they did the trick and it's the way they did uh there are at least four other hoaxes that fall into the same category all you have to do is edit the video so you're taking out a clarifier you just remove the clarifier if it comes before or after the statement so they did the same trick with the find people hoax they edit out the part where trump says i'm not talking about the white nationalists and neo-nazis they should be condemned completely if you take that out it does look like he was praising the the racist which is why he clarified they just take the clarification out and

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they just take the clarification out and even he was aware that it could be misunderstood and so he clarified and then they just added out the clarification uh but they did the same trick for the uh the overfeeding the japanese koi fish all they do is lop off the part where his host uh shinzo abe if i pronounce it right did the same thing by dumping the rest of the food in there so trump was just doing what he did but if you don't see that context it looks like trump's just being a jerk and throwing all the food in there and then the george floyd case is it is slightly different but it's instructive video can't tell you that george floyd had a fentanyl overdose in him and it was going to kill him no matter what video doesn't show that so if you show a video that can't show the central variable that mattered which was was he going to die anyway is that why he couldn't breathe turns out that's the case so that video

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turns out that's the case so that video is fake somewhat accidentally it's sort of organically fake because it can't show you the inside of anybody's chemistry video doesn't do that so you believe with your own eyes what you saw but of course you're fooled because the video is misleading but here's how they did the drinking disinfectant and or that that morphed into drinking bleach and i looked at it again and i and i played a few videos and i was like holy cow they did it again so here's what they do to to pull off that trick so prior to trump mentioning the injecting disinfectant the immediate conversation before that was light used as a disinfectant now if you take out the context that was light as a disinfectant initially talking about outside the body it was trump who talked about moving

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it was trump who talked about moving that idea inside the body uh if you take out the first part of the concept you're confused then to make matters worse later trump uses the word disinfectant they also cut off the end where he brought it back to light to clarify that he was talking about light so they take out the first part where the context is light as a disinfectant using specifically the word disinfectant so that when you see disinfectant as a word in the in the part that they do show you it's out of context because now you think it's two different things and i know that that's true because people in the comments said hey i heard it with my own ears i saw it with my own eyes he said disinfectant not light disinfectant if you didn't know the context you would think those were two different things if you see that he finishes talking about light and it's introduced talking about light

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and it's introduced talking about light as a disinfectant you see it differently also if you don't know that in the news there was a a specific high-tech company that was testing literally injecting in a ventilator light into your trachea maybe into your lungs if they can figure out how to do it
it as a disinfectant if you didn't know that and the fake news will never report that you would not know it was a thing and therefore that context would be missing so now of course this hoax would be debunked if the fake if the fake news ever showed you
you that uh the same week the president mentioned this light as a disinfectant it was in the news and not only was it in the news but his some of his biggest supporters online were tweeting about it you know big blue check pro-trump accounts were tweeting about this exact thing so

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thing so do you think that trump notices or his staff notices and brings it to his attention when there's something important that might be optimistic might be good news about the coronavirus do you think his staff doesn't mention that to him if if his supporters are chatting about it and it's a real thing and it's in the news of course of course of course they're going to tell him that there's some potential good news brewing that's exactly what he wants to hear he needs to hear the bad news too but of course he wants to hear that there's potential good news is there any chance he didn't hear that before talking about it well anything's possible but not much chance given that he spoke to it specifically i mean he was it's pretty obvious that's what he's talking about and so i remind you that video lies nothing lies as well as video so if you say to yourself anytime you anytime you hear these statements are you saying that's false

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you saying that's false i saw it with my own eyes or are you saying that's false i heard it with my own ears or i watched him say it if you see any of those statements that's somebody who saw a fake edited video because they can't understand how they saw something with their own eyes and until people are sophisticated enough to know what the fake news is doing because it's you know it seems intentional at this point until you reach that level of sophistication you're just locked in your little silo and you can't get out um
yes thank you for noticing i am back in my house and my house is safe so i got lucky because the um i was within walking distance of the fire evacuation zone i wasn't walking distance to the fire but the evacuation zone you know is ahead of the fire so that that got as close as i could get

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close as i could get that was pretty scary so i'm glad that worked out
yes so speaking of spying i have a guest tomorrow on periscope if my technology works uh george papadopoulos will be joining me
me live on periscope tomorrow morning usual time and he's got he's got a book out we'll talk about that but um i don't know why it feels to me see if you have the same feeling it feels to me as if george papadopoulos isn't getting enough attention for how much he knows about this story so i'm gonna fix that a little bit um because it was reported as fake news that uh there was spying on the trump campaign the the fake news still reports that like it didn't happen or they still reported like they had perfectly good reasons to you know be looking into stuff which

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to you know be looking into stuff which is amazing it's amazing that there's still people who believe that but maybe george papadopoulos will give us a little context uh and we'll talk to him if the technology works you know i always have a little trouble taking guests on periscope but we'll we'll we'll we'll push through it
it all right that's all for now i'll talk to you later