Episode 1110 Scott Adams: Spooky Plane Passengers, Trump Health, Mental Slavery, Debunking Hoaxes

Date: 2020-09-01 | Duration: 31:09

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• Antifa sets fire to apartment building home of Portland Mayor

• Spinning the narrative, “there’s no riots” to “they’re Trump riots”

• Who’s funding the “out of town” agitators?

• Political prisoner Kyle Rittenhouse

• Only 6% of COVID19 deaths had NO comorbidity

• Mental slavery, the worst outcome of systemic racism

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hey everybody come on in it's time for coffee with scott adams yes it's a good time aren't you glad you're here all the good stuff is going to happen here in a moment yeah this will be one of the best coffees with scott adams and all you need is well not much really doesn't take much just a cough copper bug or a glass a tanker chalice or steiner canteen sugar 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 end of the day the thing that makes everything better including riots it's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now go
delightful so i woke up this morning to some uh some some trolling from tom arnold

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some some trolling from tom arnold it's it's weird to be a little bit famous like me because you have encounters with other people who are a little bit famous and so tom arnold came after me and he used the the so attack where you where you start your tweet with so i guess you're saying and it doesn't matter what comes after the word so everything that comes after the word so can just be ignored because the word so says whatever that follows is going to be a misinterpretation of your opinion followed by a snarky comment on my own misinterpretation of your opinion so rather than try to interact with people like that i just tweet it and note it as the so tell for you know a tell as an indicator for uh i know you're just looking at my cat behind me you stopped you stopped watching me completely as soon as the cat walked by anyway it's the sotel for cognitive

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anyway it's the sotel for cognitive dissonance so tom arnold is not what i'd call a good debater
so it looks like the the trump strategy for winning the presidency is and
and this isn't funny but it is um i've said this before in my own defense there are things that make me laugh that aren't funny meaning that there is something bad happening to somebody and there's nothing funny about bad things happening to somebody but sometimes they make you laugh under just the right conditions i'm not proud of it but here's one of those cases
it appears that trump's strategy for winning the election is to let the democrats burn down their own stuff

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because they seem to think they the people on the left well first of all the democrats believe that the protesters are on their side okay that's the first funny part the protesters are not on the democrat side now that should be obvious by the fact that they that they've surrounded mayor ted wheeler's apartment and set it on fire
here's here's it's not funny there's nothing funny about setting somebody's apartment on fire that would be the worst tragedy ever so i'm not laughing but so the democrats believe that they're they're helping to protect the people who are literally trapping them in their homes and setting them on fire
maybe this strategy doesn't seem sound so good on paper but let us play this out a little bit give us

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give us give us a little space we can make this work
and trump is just sitting back there saying i got a whole army if you want we could start with a national guard but if that's not enough i've got a whole army you just have to say
say send them in because you know i'm no dictator i'm not some kind of an authoritarian authoritarian uh despot i can't just send in military can't do that so you're gonna have to ask
ask me i'm just just checking with you again would you like to ask me and because they can't do anything that he wants them to do is just it's just impossible they just can't agree with them it's the it's the most diabolical trap i've ever seen because what makes it

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i've ever seen because what makes it good is it preys on their own stupidity but it does it in a public way the public is looking at this and saying um wait i didn't catch the part about why you don't want the federal help to stop an enormous problem i i wasn't catching the reason oh oh i get it when when the law enforcement comes in in sufficient numbers to make a problem go away it makes it worse that's their argument that if you make a problem go away it makes it worse
i guess so the president has the democrats in this impossible kill box i mean there's just no way out so they've they've decided to try to chew through the wall you know because they're totally trapped in this you know backing the uh backing domestic terrorism

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and every time one of the leaders of like black lives matter one of the organizers says something on the streets that gets recorded something like you know they really want to kill all the police or uh you know they're going to burn down everything and you can see all of the you can just imagine all the democrats thinking oh we backed the wrong team
we must maybe we should have done a little research before we went all in on the protesters so the president has them in this total kill box they're trying to chew through the wall as has been widely reported they're they're trying to go from there's no riots here to hey these must be donald trump's riots that are happening entirely in democratic-led cities and that's what we're promising to give you more of more of the stuff that trump can stop in an hour if you just ask you just have to ask so the fact that the democrats are

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so the fact that the democrats are burning down their own stuff to try to win this election
is uh i don't know it just seems funny to me so i i had an experiment i've told you before i have one friend in particular who who will just argue to the end of the earth that trump is uh orange man bad and i i've tried to not engage him because the tds is just off the chart like you can't really deal with them but the thing that fascinates me is that he's a very rational very smart very smart um you know higher iq than mind i would i would think and and well informed for you know citizens in general but of course he's well informed in that democrat way the democrat way of being well informed is to not know anything because they only watch the fake news

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because they only watch the fake news which they are sure is real news which is funny it's like what they're watching professional wrestling and and they're saying no no that's real that professional wrestling you see up there i know people say it's fake but i'm looking right at it with my own eyes i mean look at it it's obviously real and of course the republicans are saying um
um you're saying that professional wrestling is real because just look at it it's obviously not real if you're an adult just look at it and the democrats say i am looking at it with my own eyes that's obviously real so this this weird world we're in where the democrats think that their fake news is actually real news uh now of course i believe the fake news comes from both the left and the right so don't put me in don't put me in the box that says fake news is only coming from one direction because that's not the box i'm

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direction because that's not the box i'm in
in somebody's mentioning jim gaffigan i you know i told you i met jim gaff again a few times and he was a great guy but i had to just block him and delete him from my life
for going full tds anyway so i talked to my friend who's so smart and i said and i tried to convince him that he was only watching fake news so i started talking talking amount of the fine people hoax and i would send him you know send him the transcript i would show him you know sending various people debunking it and finally finally i actually got him to understand that the most central part of his belief system the fine people hoax didn't happen i actually accomplished that i didn't think it could be done but remember i told you i'm dealing with somebody who is hyper rational

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rational super smart so i thought under those that that specific condition i should be able to break through if i just keep hammering on this and actually succeeded in convincing him that the fine people hoax didn't happen then i had to go to work on the drinking bleach
hello i don't know who that was so um so i convinced him that the drinking bleach thing was fake too so just try to hold this in your mind i now convinced him that his two biggest belief systems about why the president wouldn't be good for coronavirus and his racial thoughts the two biggest things were fake news and and i got through i actually made that case and and was

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i actually made that case and and was successful with lots of sources so then he was he was angry at me because he saw a clip somebody sent him a clip of me apparently believing that joe biden was satanic now those if you've been watching me know that that was a a trick that i played let's call it a public demonstration in which i said something that i knew would be turned into fake news through the same editing trick as the fine people hoax and the drinking bleach oaks which is you just take off the clarifying part so i made sure the clarifying part could be easily deleted and it was so sure enough i became national news you know at the the b level news not it never reached the highest levels but it became a big news story my friend saw it and said what's this this craziness about you being believing there's a satanic connection

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there's a satanic connection and then i showed him the video in which i had explained the entire trick from the original showing you know showing that i had said i don't believe in any of this it's just confirmation bias then i showed him how i planned to have it taken out of context it was and it was a good demonstration do you know what he said he said that i uh that i had embarrassed him
him i had embarrassed him because the people who had contacted him had met me through him some time in the past and therefore it was embarrassing to him to be associated with me wait for it because the fake news had taken something that wasn't bad in any way and turned it into fake news that he knew was fake news but his friends didn't and so it was embarrassing to him and so i'm kind of a jerk

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nothing about this is even close to a rational situation and then of course as you know it always doubles back to but there weren't any fine people at the charlottesville and then i always go back to the top and i say all right this will be the third or fourth time i've said the following thing that you pretend i've never said and i'll say it again and and i will predict and this is how i finally ended the conversation i think i said i predict that by tomorrow you're going to pretend i didn't say what i'm going to say right now which is it doesn't matter who was there at charlottesville because the president stated his assumption of who was there spoke to his assumption that there were some people who were not racist who just like the monuments that might be true it might be false it is irrelevant whether it's true or false because the only person who checked on it was me nobody else checked on it so if he was wrong

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wrong he was just wrong about an assumption which was actually a completely reasonable assumption which i later validated personally by talking to attendees that he was right now even if he was wrong doesn't make any difference because he spoke to his assumption and the whole point is what were you thinking when you said it that's the point what were you thinking and what he was thinking is determined by
by his assumption which he stated so uh by predicting that he would forget that again in 24 hours i think it caused him to
to not pretend he forgot it in 24 hours so i think that's that was my breakthrough i'm not sure um so we got protests in dc we had police shot a allegedly armed black man uh i think killed them and yeah they did kill so la is erupting so you got la dc

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is erupting so you got la dc portland and here's the interesting part rand paul and the president are both suggesting that there are out of town agitators and if we can find out who's funding them somebody's going to be in a lot of and do you think we don't know yet who is funding the people that trump alleged trump alleged came in on airplanes and rand paul said they had to change a close so it's like they know something already that they're not ready to tell the public or it's not confirmed i suppose but uh i think we're going to find out something interesting there so some of you are guessing soros i'm going to guess i'm going to be a contrarian i wouldn't say it's impossible i wouldn't say it's impossible that george soros funded an organization that funded

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soros funded an organization that funded some people to travel and protest that feels like it could have been possibly but i think we're gonna find somebody else i don't know who i don't have a i don't have a hypothesis but i think you're going to find somebody else i would extend that to say that the tiki torch guys who were marching into charlottesville i don't think they were organic either they were a little bit too good for the camera if you know what i mean and why have we never seen anybody who looked kind of like that group the tiki torch guys never saw them before anybody who looked or presented themselves that way never seen it since would you say that the neo-nazis all went away after that day or would you say that they lost interest in any kind of public display
lots of questions so i would guess that what we're seeing now is not completely organic it's

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is not completely organic it's definitely not organic uh the trolls that are coming after me and other people online are definitely not organic those are coordinated we know that and i think charlottesville was
was some kind of a some kind of an operation i don't know entirely but it was something going on there uh the big story today is that trump was uh that they alleged that trump went to walter reed some some time ago and that uh
uh pence was put on alert that he could be in charge depending on what happened there and uh there's rumors from the insiders that oh how interesting we don't know the names of the anonymous sources well as you know anonymous sources are never wrong all right there is nothing less reliable than an anonymous source in the white house that is the least it's got to be the

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that is the least it's got to be the least credible source of any information but they're saying that they think he had some mini strokes and then there's a video of him appearing to slur his words now uh i sent the video around and asked if it looked doctored and people said no at least one expert said nope not doctored uh it does look like he either had some um some dental work that day he definitely was slurring his speech there's no doubt about that but it looks like it was more like dental work there there certainly doesn't seem to be anything wrong with them at the moment we've watched the president in public you know continuously and extensively for months that i haven't seen any problem so uh we shall keep an eye on that but it sounds more like an election year thing that you say is more of a response because biden is falling apart rasmussen uh the rasmussen report polling company they continue to

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polling company they continue to entertain me by noting that their competitors are when they went silent after the republican convention they just stopped publishing their polls for a while don't know why they just stopped publishing could it be could it be because the polls are so favorable relative to what they were for trump could it be because the ones who aren't publishing are the ones with that we know are sort of trump unfriendly if you know what i mean so i think that part is hilarious that's a lot of dogs not barking right now um
um the everything that we're seeing now seems to be what i call word thinking where you you simply replace the words that fit with your own words and then you act like you said something for example when kyle rittenhouse shot three people

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when kyle rittenhouse shot three people in kenosha how is that being described well if you don't like republicans you say he was a vigilante or no no you say he was a a militia member or a white supremacist there's no indication he was either of those things no evidence of either those things and you say that he uh killed two protesters so if you're cnn that's what he is he's a militia member or or a white supremacist and he killed two protesters those poor innocent protesters or if you're republican you say he was a patriot who went there to
to protect people and property brought his own medical gear to help protesters in case they got shot and three separate people attacked him
him and he shot him in self-defense so he was neither a vigilante he was he wasn't going there to to hurt anybody he was actually going there to reduce the amount of

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there to reduce the amount of damage and maybe the amount of death because he literally literally bought brought medical equipment with him to help and he even stopped to see if he could help the guy he shot so you know he was closer to a boy scout than a white supremacist who wants to go shoot people but that's the world we live in where kyle is now for all practical purposes he's a political prisoner wouldn't you say wouldn't you say that kyle is a political prisoner at this point because the video is pretty clear that he was being chased and was at great bodily risk immediately before he's shooting i mean that's right on the video you can just see it now the question about the legality of the gun according to his lawyer who was on tucker last night the gun did not cross state lines he does have a right to have it it's open carry it was legal

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have it it's open carry it was legal apparently it was a legal firearm that he had legal right to have in his possession now it may not have been a good idea which is a separate question but what we know so far is that no crime was even close to being committed uh if you take you know reasonable doubt as a standard because there the video it has at the very least even if you were the most anti-kyle person in the world you'd have to admit that the video at the very least shows a massive amount of doubt about what happened that's all you need to be innocent if there's doubt and i would i would say that my interpretation is that it went beyond doubt and that it's it's obvious that it was self-defense it's just obvious uh if you watch the videos but videos live so maybe there's something we don't know the most ridiculous story is this one about uh the the finding

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is this one about uh the the finding that maybe only six percent of the uh coronavirus deaths in this country were from people who had no comorbidities and in fact they they usually had two or three if they died now people are hailing this as a big insight that changes everything i don't understand that this is exactly what i thought was the situation what did you think was the situation i thought the situation was if you had comorbidities you'd be in trouble if you didn't you wouldn't be in that much trouble the risk was low did this change anything that i think people are taking the six percent to mean more than it means because the whole point of it is that we live in a country where there are just tens of millions of people who have comorbidities what are they gonna do stay home that you know uh if you just took people were overweight and said all right all right

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overweight and said all right all right only the overweight people have to stay home and everybody else can go about their business that would still be two-thirds of adults they'd have to stay home isn't that something like two-thirds of adults are are heavier than they need to be
be and then you throw in anything else that they might have like hypertension
um i mean i i've got two comorbidities i'm 63 probably in better shape than you know 99 of people my age and even i have two comorbidities so it's so common i don't know that it changes anything compared to what we thought was the situation jp morgan is warning people or alerting them i guess that they should be prepared for the rising odds of a trump win so they're looking at all the trends and saying uh if these trends continue it looks like it's trump all the way so i would argue that the stock market has already built that in

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has already built that in so the the predicted model has totally closed the gap to almost statistical tie the the stock market is clearly voting in favor of a trump win that's obvious and now jp morgan is saying it directly all right um i have an opinion that mental slavery is one of the worst outcomes from systemic uh racism and it goes like this you know it's it's been said people have made the analogy that uh the the black the black vote usually goes for the democrats so that's some kind of a plantation thing people like to use that imagery i find that a little offensive the plantation part of it anyway so i don't i don't like to use the plantation part you know if you're black you can say that if you're not black maybe stay away from that plantation word it just feels a little icky and inappropriate uh but i would say that one of the

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uh but i would say that one of the outcomes of systemic racism that is just a hundred percent a big problem is uh the school systems not being adequate and of course it's the the teachers unions that are the cause of all the problems and because the teachers unions you know perpetuate uh bad education by removing competition which would allow it to improve um you end up with uh black citizens who are
are under educated compared to what what we would all like to see a better situation and i think that that also allows them to be duped by democrats a little bit easier in other words your your total level of education is one of the things that can protect you as i as i said with my other example of my highly educated smart friend it took a lot of convincing to convince him that he was watching fake news but suppose you had a much lower level of education

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of education it would be a lot harder to convince you that you were being fooled and so the democrats take advantage of that situation to feed the the black voters ridiculous um version of reality in which they're they're trapped in this world they can't get out of and it's somebody else's fault i guess but uh kanye to pick pick a uh classic example or somebody like
seoul you know economist seoul or candace owens um have have seen through the illusion and they can see the open door and they can see that okay sure maybe not every door is open to every black person in every situation yes it's an imperfect system we need to fix all that stuff too but there is an open door if if white people have three doors and black

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white people have three doors and black people have one or two you can still all get out you can still all get out and because you got a door now your door is different than my door maybe but everybody's got a door and if you can't see the door somebody is blinding you to it and that's the the mental slavery part is that um so so right now you're seeing uh you're seeing the the protesters seemingly in favor of no police protection
that's just a lack of education isn't it anybody who is in favor of getting rid of police protection it's hard to see that as a philosophy that's not a political opinion that is just a law a an educational failure i would say so a lot of what the protesters are asking for are things that if they got them it would be the worst thing that could possibly happen

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worst thing that could possibly happen it would be the end of everything and they don't know that and i think education has a has a big role in that yeah thomas sowell is is someone who can see the open door uh better than most larry elder another good example yeah all right um
somebody says not necessarily but i don't know who you're talking about all right that's uh i don't have much else to say today uh it's gonna be just a lit totally crazy week
all right i don't have much else today uh but as everybody has noted this next few months are just going to be so full of news it's going to be crazy but it looks like for the moment the trump campaign is just going to let the let the democrats have their way which is burn up their own stuff until there's

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is burn up their own stuff until there's nothing left and they think they'll win with that maybe anything's possible all right i'll talk to you later