Episode 1111 Scott Adams: Portland Mayhem, CDC Death Count, Crazy Bernie Bad Math, Middle East Peace

Date: 2020-09-02 | Duration: 1:07:12

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• Democrat “devil’s bargain”

• 81 Nobel prize winners fail to impress

• Dumb people check list

• Chicago PD requests help identifying looters in photo

• Biden’s value proposition

• State Department monitored 13 key conservatives

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hey everybody come on in come on in you know it's going to be a tremendous coffee with scott adams possibly the kick off to an amazing day we'll see about that a lot of that's on you but i'll do what i can and that's a lot which is to give you the entertainment which is this following hour started by the simultaneous sip and all you need is a copper mug or a glass of tanker shells just diamond candy jugger 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's happening right now go
[Music] i would like to begin this wonderful hour by reading you this little story which i just received from my

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just received from my secret source deeply embedded in rural america and it goes like this somebody named miller 36 of tannersville this is the area that i grew up in upstate new york was driving a ups truck on august 21st when it struck two parked cars in the city according to hudson police but then apparently the truck continued on
on two police vehicles and a bicycle patrol officer responded to a 911 report and located the truck at the corner of north blah blah following the accident now here's the good part hudson police officer randy stratman jumped onto the moving ups truck turned off the ignition to stop the vehicle and administered two doses of narcan to miller the driver meaning that the driver of the the ups truck

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the driver of the the ups truck probably was suffering an overdose probably fentanyl and was asleep in the truck while the truck was careening through traffic a police officer jumped on a moving ups truck just like indiana and frickin jones turns it off controls the truck and administers a life-saving narcan to the driver now here's what i'd like to suggest i don't know if a social worker could have pulled that off you know what i mean you know this is a this is the sort of stuff that's literally happening every single day all over america where there are police officers running toward trouble jumping on moving vehicles and saving lives every day don't hear about much about this but i give you that as your little array of good news want some more okay more good news okay here it comes

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okay here it comes saudi saudi arabia has apparently given the green light for israel to uae flights the civil kind not not a military one of course now it happened just a few times because there were a few specific flights that they exempted one of them had jared kushner on it but then apparently they talked about it and moved that into a more of a permanent situation but here's the fun part this is from uh ned yahoo so he was talking about it and called it historic uh big breakthrough you know you're probably thinking to yourself is that really a big breakthrough to be able to fly over a country that's it you just have permission to fly
fly a commercial flight over somebody's country yeah turns out that's a pretty big deal because in this case it shortens the route to the point where it makes tourism much less expensive

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it makes tourism much less expensive so it is so it actually has a specific and immediate economic stimulus component but that's not the fun part uh so netanyahu yahoo said and i quote these are the fruits of peace he said predicting that quote more good news would be coming now when you say more good news will be coming and your prime minister you don't say that unless you know more good news is coming meaning that things are really starting to shape up in the middle east why is this not the biggest story in the world it's political season and it's something that is not just good from trump but one of the best things ever i think you could make the argument already that trump is the best president the united states has ever had for
for international relations now the counter argument to that is but wait what about those countries that

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but wait what about those countries that don't respect us as much anymore um [Music] i don't know is that costing me money how do that affect me are they not taking our phone calls because i think they're taking our phone calls are they not doing trade deals with us because they think origin man bad no i haven't heard any reporting on that i think countries do whatever is in their best interest in this case what's in the best interest of the middle east was working with the united states productively to get what looks like the beginning of something that could be lasting and good so uh you know we're in a world where it's hard to know what is true and all of our information is bad but i feel as though historians are going to conclude that trump was the best president just in the first four years it wouldn't even matter what happens after this but just the first four years

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after this but just the first four years i think would be the most successful presidency for international stuff for domestic stuff you could still make your arguments
here's something that only i would say in public [Laughter] that's why you have me there are some things that only i will say in public you ready you know those are retail businesses that are being driven out of business by the the riots they were not good businesses and by that i don't mean that they all lost money although most of them probably were operating close to break even but they were businesses that were going to go on a business maybe this year maybe next year maybe five years but amazon was going to polish off all of those companies any retail store yet the exceptions would be maybe an apple store but that's that's such an exception that most of these smaller retail

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that most of these smaller retail smaller restaurants they were all going to go out of business and here's the thing that i don't think we've fully incorporated into our economic estimates a lot of the small retail places especially the small independent restaurants are basically criminal organizations
this is why i'm the only one who'll say this small businesses like to do a thing i call not pay their taxes now uh or they you know they'll hire a lot of illegal workers restaurants especially so what what happened that just demolished all those downtown restaurants probably was just an acceleration of something that was going to happen probably doesn't have nearly the economic impact that you think it does except unemployment and uh and i think that cities probably we're going to have less foot traffic anyway

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going to have less foot traffic anyway because all the other things happening the rich people moving away so i feel like the stock market is not crazy to be so high lately despite what looks like you know trouble on the ground because i think the stock market realizes that you know if amazon and apple are making money like crazy but that little restaurant on the corner went from break even only by cheating on their taxes to non-existent probably those people are going to find work as something that's maybe a better thing yeah the the short-term disruption is devastating so i don't want to minimize the impact on the on the humans who are involved with those businesses it's extreme and it's you know life ruining in many cases but if you're looking at the the larger economy it's a brutal economy people go out of business all the time it's just that it when it's distributed across the country you don't notice

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across the country you don't notice when it's concentrated on one main street well then you notice but it's not worse than sort of the the baseline of companies going out of business all over the place as a normal part of capitalism um so i don't want to act happy that anybody's going out of business i'm just saying it's it's accelerating a trend that was going to happen
another i think well never mind um i'm noticing that republicans are using a phrase i hadn't seen as much of before they're saying that the democrats have made a devil's bargain with the progressives a devil's bargain watch how much satanic imagery comes out of the biden kamala harris campaign again just sort of a fun coincidence by the way i i tricked another a couple of publications into running a story about me believing

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into running a story about me believing that satan is behind the biden campaign so every time they do a head piece on me so there's another one this morning a hip piece on me they don't quite know what's going on because first of all i don't know if they know that they've changed the story from me saying explicitly i don't believe that satan exists they've changed it all the way to i'm promoting satan being part of the biden campaign literally the opposite of what i said but i did it intentionally i allowed them to take me out of context i created it so that they could do it easily not because they were fooled but because they're bad people and they would take it out of context which they did so so now when i see a hip piece like that that is falling into my trap i just retweet it you can't fault you can't fail harder at a hit piece than to have the target of your hit piece just retweet it

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of your hit piece just retweet it that's it just retweets it that's as hard as you can fail all right um 81 nobel prize winners endorsed joe biden for president in an open letter 81 nobel prize winners wow smart capable people the best of the best and 81 of them all nobel prize winners and they all think that biden is is better but let's see what are the reasons because if you've got 81 nobel prize winners and they offer their reasons these are going to be good reasons i mean these are not we're not talking about a bunch of idiots these are smart people the the best best humanity has to offer so when i read their reasons to you for supporting by biden i think you'll find them quite quite brilliant so sit down uh because sometimes this level of brilliance

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brilliance can blind you momentarily so if you are operating a motor vehicle just pull over to the side of the road because i'm gonna give you some brilliance that honestly i was thinking of wearing sunglasses just to read this but i think we can get away with it just you know playing it straight all right the reasons that the 81 nobel prize winners give is that biden has a willingness to listen to experts okay that part's stupid because literally every president listens to experts there's never been one that didn't listen to experts there never will be one that doesn't listen to experts so the first part is kind of a throwaway um that's obviously not the brilliant part because like i said these are 81 nobel prize winners so they're not going to rest on you know unwilling to listen to experts when that's the stupidest thing you could ever say in public so it's the second part where the brilliance comes out here goes

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brilliance comes out here goes um and he has joe biden has a deep appreciation for using science to find solutions okay let me look a little further in the paragraph because i'm looking for the smart part because i know they wouldn't just say he has a deeper appreciation for using science because again that would be literally every living human being would fall into this description trump biden strangers people you've never met people with severe brain damage people in other countries people have never been to school people have been to school people who have phds people who will never have phds pretty much a hundred percent of all humanity has a deep appreciation for using science to find these solutions so there must be something else in this paragraph where they get to the smart part uh oh that's the end of the paragraph huh huh

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huh huh i i i guess what they're telling us is that the nobel prize is no longer prestigious uh i i actually wanted to get a nobel prize until i read this and now i see that there's not really any point to it they've actually ruined the prestige of the nobel prize now by the way i had this same experience when i was younger i always wished because i'm in sort of a writing business i wish that i could win at a pulitzer prize because imagine how cool that would be right i mean just for the bragging it's like yeah i don't like to brag about it but i did win a pulitzer prize you know i always wanted to be able to say that or have other people introduce me
me as pool and surprise winning cartoonist scott adams i thought that would be pretty pretty cool and i felt that until i met somebody who

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and i felt that until i met somebody who told me how the pulitzer prize committee works it's just people who read books and pick the one they liked that's it it's just a small group of people who read some books that have been submitted it's not all the books in the world just the people who filled out an application and said i think my work is so good it should be considered and then a small group of people read their stuff and say which one do you like i kind of like this one that's it winning the pulitzer prize has no prestige nothing there's just there's just nothing to recommend about that award except somehow we got it in our heads that it's important it isn't it's just several people read some books and they decided which one they liked that's it likewise when i won the top award in cartooning it's called the reuben it's like the academy award for a cartoonist and one year and i'd you know lusted after it when i was a new cartoonist i thought

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was a new cartoonist i thought if only someday i could win the top award in cartooning my life would be complete and one day i won the top two awards the top award for a cartoon strip but also the same year i won the top award for all cartoonists of any kind the number one in the entire world and after i won it i realized oh it's just because i had a good year financially basically i made a lot of noise i was in the press the award committee said you know what would be good if we nominate somebody who's already getting a lot of attention and then we'll have more attendance at our event that was it it had nothing to do with the quality of my work and everything to do with the fact that it was unusually commercially valuable that year that was sort of a peak period for
for commercial success of dilbert i thought okay well that's off the list so now i have no

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that's off the list so now i have no respect whatsoever for the top award in cartooning because i want it i took took all the value out of it i have no respect for the pool of surprise because it's just some people saying what book they like that's it and now 81 nobel prize winners just came out with the dumbest open letter in all the world and i just looked at it and said if that's all it takes to be a nobel prize winner is to be this dumb i'm not sure i want one of those either so
so didn't expect that to happen here i made a list um to help you identify all the dumb people so you don't have to interact with them so these these are the complaints about trump that if you see any of these you can just stop listening to whoever is talking or tweeting all right if somebody says that trump doesn't believe in science just stop listening just walk away nothing that somebody says after that sentence

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sentence is worth listening to likewise doesn't listen to experts basically the same thing don't listen to anything that anybody says after they say that how about this one
one trump is unwilling to do his job what unwilling to do his job if you hear somebody say that just walk away you don't need to hear anything else they say after that moreover you should actively try to forget anything they said before that just in case you inadvertently believe in any of it
it because somebody who is so dumb that they would say and it doesn't matter if you talk about trump or any other human if you say they're unwilling to do their job once they're president because a lot of people are watching right they're doing their job trump obama it doesn't matter who you're talking about by the time you become president you're willing to do the job you didn't get there by being lazy or not caring how about this one he only

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or not caring how about this one he only cares about himself
that's one that you can just say ah uh i'm out anybody who could say something that monumentally is stupid that he only cares about himself there's no such thing as a president whose personal fate is disconnected from the fate of the country he is running or she is running you can't disconnect those things it's the most transparent job in the entire world there's no job more transparent we're looking at everything trump is doing everything we see it all and how in the world would anybody be in that job and think you know i think i'll do some stuff that's just good for me bad for the country good for me i don't think anybody will notice that's not a thing the president knows with dead certainty i don't have to be a mind reader i just have to know that the president

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i just have to know that the president has an iq over 20 because anybody with an iq over 20 i might be exaggerating a little bit knows that they have to do a good job for the country the entire world is watching every minute of every day we're all watching he doesn't have that option of i think i'll just do something that's good for me that's not a thing even when the president goes golfing again i don't care if it's clinton or obama or trump do you want your leader to have some time you know with his own head get outdoors to clear his mind maybe meet a few people that he wouldn't have time to talk to otherwise yeah you should want that and you should want him to do a copious amount because it's good for him does he still work hard enough yes yes he works hard enough he works really hard it's obvious all right the other ones that are crazy is he's a dictator

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that are crazy is he's a dictator when a hundred percent of what we observe violates that assumption or that he's a racist when again everything we observe shows that he cares about people who are citizens more than those who are not but beyond that that's it that's it that's his whole preference and he prefers people who obey the law of course but if you do those two things you're a citizen and you obey the law he likes you and not just a little bit ask hershel walker does he like hershel walker yeah yeah for years and years and years now am i saying that because trump has a black friend no trump has a lot of black friends people he's worked with people who have given him awards you know he has a very deep relationship with a lot of different people uh all right and here's here's my favorite one and i tweeted this if your main criticism of your opponent

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criticism of your opponent is chaos that that's what's wrong with your opponent they're bringing chaos you don't really have a complaint what you have there is a perception problem if you're saying somebody else is all about the chaos that's not really a statement about the other person that's sort of a public confession that you don't understand things well enough to get to know what's going on it's more about the limits of your own ability to understand the world and here's why chaos isn't something that one person brings to the situation chaos is the situation the world is chaos all the time if you knew what was going to happen would you need the news why would there be a news industry if we already knew what was going to happen the whole reason that we're having this conversation and a lot of you are finding out things you know this morning in the news and

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you know this morning in the news and maybe some of you hearing it from me for the first time it's because you didn't know it was going to happen that's what the news is stuff you didn't know was going to happen for the most part and if you don't know what's going to happen it's chaos so just putting a clever word on it and labeling it doesn't change the fact that the world is unpredicted unpredictable all the time do you think you could hire or elect a president who would make the chaos go away i hope not because if the chaos goes away we're all dead the only way you could have no chaos is to literally be dead because the world serves up a lot of chaos you hope that you have a president who knows how to deal with it and one way not to deal with all the chaos is to really dig into all the details i i have much less respect for the presidents

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presidents who try to master all the details of the topics i know that sounds counterintuitive you think well scott that's exactly what you need isn't it don't you want the president who really gets into the the nuts and bolts really digs in a little bit deeper no no you want that kind of person who has
has like if somebody works in a cubicle you want somebody who can really dig into the details because that's your job if you work in a cubicle i'm not disparaging people working in cubicles i spent much of my career there i'm just saying that that's a different job some people's job it is to get into the details other people are sitting on top of this giant ball of you know chaos let's call it and they're trying to nudge the chaos in intelligent ways whenever there's an opportunity and understanding all the details of all the chaos would be the least predictive productive thing you could do

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thing you could do it's not what a leader does it's what the cubicle does the cubicle can dig in but they only dig into their topic the cubicle that's one cubicle over they also dig in but only to their topic because the level of complexity sue would overwhelm anybody if you don't chunk it down to its smallest part so the last thing you want is a leader who's obsessing over the details you just can't lead that way you you know you wish that were possible but that's wishful thinking instead you have leaders who are dealing with do i trust this person does the general thrust of this fit with my philosophy is this something i could fix if i break it
it is this something that would cause maybe a predictable problem uh if i go this way versus that it's a risk management situation a lot of it is guessing a lot of its intuition so anybody who is operating at the child level that says that a candidate

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child level that says that a candidate is
is bringing chaos when in fact chaos is the canvas they're not really a good observer
i've noticed this this correlation anecdotally and i want to see if you can notice it as i've famously called out the democrats who come out come after me on twitter uh if they say completely irrational things and i check their profile they're usually artists of some kind and you can tell they're an artist because their comments depart from rational thought so so grotesquely but there's another category because not all democrats and not all critics of the trump are are artists some of them have jobs where they've learned critical thinking what do the people who have actually learned critical thinking let's say your economist your lawyers your your business people there are lots of other jobs but ones who actually have

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who actually have skill and experience and critical thinking and risk management what did they say when they come after me
me i will give you an example sure dilbert or well that's from the cartoonist that's it they give the they just do sarcasm as if that says everything that needs to be said well there's the cartoonist nothing else needs to be said and i want you to see if you find that correlation so check profiles when somebody comes at you with nothing but sarcasm and see if this pattern holds i don't know if it will but it might just see if the critical thinkers use sarcasm and the artist try to use logic but it's not working for them all right there's a i guess rand paul has called for uh the subpoena of antifa's plane records

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the subpoena of antifa's plane records and hotel records and travel and stuff to find out who's funding antifa and i think that's everything you know it feels to me it's too early to know but it feels to me that if we find out who's funding at least the primary agitators that you know get everybody else going it only takes a small number of people to get the rest of the crowd you know going in some direction so just for clarification nobody believes that all of antifa are being paid to be there there are no there are no conservatives who believe that no republicans nobody on twitter nobody's ever suggested that all the blm or all of the antifa or even most are being paid to be there clearly not the case the the assertion is
is the allegation if you will that there is a high likelihood based on

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a high likelihood based on evidence a high likelihood that some number of them some kernel of them small colonel are paid professional agitators and it would be good to know who's paying them because they might be the ones who are driving the animal spirits of the rest so rand paul continues to be one of the most productive members of congress seemingly being the only person who's willing to do useful things on a regular basis
i don't know what to say about this like how many times have i told you there was a good thing happening and then the name attached to it was rand paul it's a fairly common event and and i say to myself aren't there a lot of other people in congress like why is it all the smart stuff comes from just a handful of people it's pretty consistent so nancy pelosi's got some political trouble she was caught on security camera

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she was caught on security camera indoors getting her hair blown out some kind of a wash and a blow for her hair now i guess the shop was closed to other people but she was in the shop and she had her mask off and so she got a lot of pushback from that i guess her response was that she didn't know it was wrong now here's my opinion about that don't care at all i don't care even a little bit that nancy pelosi was indoors when other people are not allowed indoors you know because it's against the rules and i don't mind that she didn't have her mask off when she was getting this particular treatment um by the way a lot of personal services such as massages it's not that uncommon for the the provider to have a mask as in nancy's case but the person receiving the service to not have a mask depending on what the services

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for example but in most cases when you could wear a mask it's recommended now i i and the reason the reason i'm not going to climb all over pelosi for what is being called the massive hypocrisy is not because it isn't it is it's massive hypocrisy but it's also not important and i would like to establish the belief that the leaders of our country should not be treated like the rest of us
i don't think that's wrong i believe that nancy pelosi should be able to get her hair done indoors because she's the speaker of the house and
and you know there are things that you can't do
do on the sidewalk if you're the speaker of the house now if everybody else was on the sidewalk they're anonymous people walk by that's fine it's safe it's good enough but if you're the president of the united states or you're the you know you're the

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or you're the you know you're the speaker of the house or your rand paul yeah that's okay with me if they take you alone because being indoors the problem is not just indoors the problem is indoors with lots of people if you take nancy indoors with one person who's wearing a mask and let's say that nancy has been tested she probably has been recently it's not the biggest risk in the world and she is safer indoors than she would be outdoors
you know i i get that other people say hey
hey other people we did our own hair we worked it out but she's also in her 80s i don't know can she do her own hair being in her 80s is a bigger problem to me than the fact she got her hair blown out
out so i would like to be consistent because there's no way in the world there won't be you know republicans and other people who get caught without masks etc you know maybe it'll happen to me you know maybe i'll get caught on some

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you know maybe i'll get caught on some video without a mask or something and it's just i can't get i can't get interested in it all right but i understand it's a fun story in a political season um chicago police released surveillance video of suspects looting the store and they're asking for help identifying them now the people that they're showing are don't have masks on some do but most of them don't now what do you tell yourself when you see that chicago is asking the public to help them identify the pictures that they're publishing presumably online i don't know if it's in any newspapers too what does that tell you think think through what do you know is true if chicago is printing photos of people and saying public can you identify them

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here's what you know is true chicago are really really incompetent do you know how hard it would be to identify every person in that photo here's how hard it would be all right i'm going to demonstrate this this will be the entire effort to identify every single one within two seconds so the entire time to identify every picture my claim is sub two seconds and it looks let me demonstrate it looks like this let's say this is the picture now this is my phone and i look at the picture and i push this button and then their face comes up and i've identified them you can do that with an app it's an app that law enforcement uses routinely in other places what this tells me is that chicago for whatever reason is the only place that's not buying an

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is the only place that's not buying an easily purchasable app that every law enforcement person knows about knows how to get knows how to use literally it's this easy point your phone at the picture you don't even have to paint point it at the person point it at a photo press one button done the name of the person appears on your phone almost every time close to 100 now what's wrong with chicago that they can't buy this little app well obviously there's somebody who told them that you're here i'm speculating a little bit so i feel like i'm speculating responsibly but it's speculation so i don't wanna i don't wanna sell this as fact they have to not be using these apps clearview is the the leader in that field they're obviously not using clear view why not why not what is the difference between using that app and getting their answer in two

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that app and getting their answer in two seconds versus publishing these in public and asking the public to identify them which probably will work it's just really really hard it's crazy yeah facial recognition would have them in two seconds and when i say two seconds that's not an exaggeration the app doesn't even have to sit there and process it's actually two seconds now and some of the apps are better than others at recognizing african american faces i think clear views might be the leader in getting that right but of course you still have to verify you don't want to you don't want to trust the app for the final final uh identification but it tells you where to look all right uh there's a report that the number of people looking for divorces was 34 higher from march through june ouch and the data shows that 31 of the couple's admitted lockdown has caused irreparable

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caused irreparable damage to their relationships 31 of couples believe they have irreparable damage to their relationship irreparable this is gonna tear apart the you know the nature of uh society now i always had a theory that part of a successful relationship is distance in other words the fact that uh let's say one of the adults goes off and works all day uh or maybe both of the adults go off and work all day it's probably a really healthy thing because if you're in each other's business all the time that can cause some tension and it looks like we've proven that i've said before that the the nuclear family needs to be not eliminated that's black lives matters ideas sort of get rid of the nuclear family i think if i have that right i hope i have that right i've said something compatible with that

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i've said something compatible with that but different which is that you shouldn't be the only model because so many people won't be able to achieve it not everybody can have a nuclear family sometimes it requires a certain amount of money sometimes you got to be lucky you know to get the right person there's a lot that can go wrong with the nuclear family but if it works for you i would agree that for those families where it works it's tremendous it'd be hard to beat as a organizing principle but we do need something for the people who can't make that work um and i think that shows it joy reid uh i don't think she'll get cancelled because she's on the side that doesn't try to cancel itself as much as he cancels other people but she's being accused of being
islamophobic i guess uh who who accused her of that oh uh elon omar representative omar actually said she said of joy reid honestly this kind of

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of joy reid honestly this kind of casual islamophobia is hurtful and dangerous we deserve better need an apology etc so what is it that joy reid said that would cause her own side to try to cancel her how bad was it well let me read it she said leaders let's say in the muslim world talk talk a lot of violent talk and encourage their supporters to be willing to commit violence including on their own bodies in order to win against whoever they decide as the enemy and she said other things so she got in trouble for comparing muslims to republicans i think because the next part of this was she was saying about uh radicalizing supporters so so joy reid might get cancelled or at least she's getting in trouble for comparing
muslims to republicans is could that be any better is there

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is could that be any better is there anything more entertaining than watching joy read get cancelled by elon omar for comparing muslims to republicans that's just everything the the whole the whole year 2020 was just put into that one little package if you only needed to know that one thing you'd know how the rest of the year went all right here's my problem with intersectionality and critical race theory two categories of things which i am no expert on but i'll just ask this question isn't the guaranteed end result of those things that we keep carving each other into smaller and smaller categories until everybody has a reason to hate everybody how else can it go because i would love to hear the thinking that says how this brings us to a better place it certainly brings us to um it's certainly good

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certainly good to talk about you know racism and sexism and all those things and try to deal with them as practically as we can but if the moment you've dealt with it you said okay okay we're doing the best we can to let's say make the world just as good for black people and white people of course we're not there but let's say we're doing a good job on that the next thing that happens is well what about black people who are also muslims and then you say all right all right that's a new category it feels like every time you slice the category well what about if you're black a muslim and gay okay okay we better do something about that category i don't see how you ever take this philosophy to a good end point it feels like it's a it's one direction to complete destruction and i don't i can't even conceive

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and i don't i can't even conceive of the exit path i don't see the exit path where where things get better and better and then you reach a good place i i'd love to have somebody explain to me the thinking behind that because i think like most left versus right differences it doesn't take into account human motivation it doesn't take into account human psychology or the way an average person thinks or acts this is the thing that the conservatives consistently get right and the left consistently gets wrong which is forgetting that humans will always act like humans if you design a system that can't work for humans don't be surprised if it doesn't work i mean why would that be surprising
all right bernie sanders said one of the dumber things you'll ever hear he said this the mainstream media doesn't talk about it space space space congress doesn't talk

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space space space congress doesn't talk about it space space space trump doesn't talk about it space space space but three multi-billionaires now own more wealth than the bottom half of our society and he goes he suggests that that would be
be very very bad now here's what's wrong with that now i've i've described myself as being left to bernie but with this special uh caveat that i'm also good at math i use good at math as a proxy for a good thinking and good at logic and i'm not like the world's best at any of those things i'm just better than bernie so i can see the obvious idiocy that he brings to the table and here's the problem suppose nobody knew how much money those billionaires had it's just here's a mental experiment all right so bernie has said it's a real problem

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so bernie has said it's a real problem that three billionaires have as much as the bottom half of the entire united states that's an amazing statistic it's like it's you know mind-numbingly jaw-droppingly amazing but imagine a world where you just didn't know they existed exactly like they exist now the only difference is you didn't know how much money they had
would you be worse off it doesn't make any sense if the only reason we're complaining about it is that we know about it but there's nothing underlying in terms of it won't hurt you if you didn't know about it why is this his biggest problem why is he raising this in a time of you know great uncertainty in this world and you know problems that are as big as any problems we've ever had why is he raising the only problem i could think of where if you literally didn't know it existed you would never find out because nothing would go wrong

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would go wrong in fact you'd be hearing bill gates is you know giving away hundreds of millions of dollars and curing malaria or polio or some damn thing in africa and you'd hear that story and you say huh i wonder how he's paying for it but would you be unhappy that bill gates was
was you know curing a disease in africa no no you'd be kind of happy about it you just wouldn't know how he paid for it would you be unhappy if you found that elon musk had figured out not only a way to go to mars but he had created an entire competitive space industry which makes the future of the earth possibly far better than it would have been without our ability to someday you know effectively leave our gravity force gravitational force what would you think about that if you didn't know that that elon musk was worth billions and all you knew is that he was a guy who opened up space

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is that he was a guy who opened up space he was a guy who built a network of solar shingles for your house that could work into your your battery which someday might be part of a solution for green energy that would make the world a better place suppose you didn't know he was a billionaire but you knew he did all of those things would you be less happy what exactly is sanders talking about other than jealousy does sanders understand that the money that the billionaires own is being used you know jeff bezos ownership of amazon is still mostly in the stock that's why he's so rich it's in the stock if if bezos pulled his money out of the stock what would he do with it would he buy more food for himself no he probably eats all the food he needs to stay fed there's a limit to how many

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to stay fed there's a limit to how many things a rich guy can buy you know bezos got his got his yacht which he probably hardly ever uses and he'll be tired of it and then he'll get rid of it but he got one billionaires don't really have a way to consume the wealth they have they have to put it into something that benefits the economy they have to they don't really have an option so he has to put it in stock where it's bolstering you know the market in different ways or you put it in the bank and then the bank can you know use that for lending but money doesn't just sit in the mattress these billionaires aren't sitting on a gigantic pile of dollar bills it's in their money is in the system working they're the ones who are funding startups you know where where do all of your uh you know important startups come from they come from some billionaire who who said well i can put a million dollars into this startup it might work it might not but i got an extra million i don't care so for bernie not to understand the most

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so for bernie not to understand the most basic basic basic stuff about economics is really embarrassing all right uh and uh bernie goes on to say that that level of inequality is immoral and unsustainable but again if you didn't know they had the money it wouldn't make any difference at all it would be completely sustainable if you just didn't know about it that's it now i could argue that maybe warren buffett is not adding as much to the world because he's more of a financial manipulator but even he is making markets and companies more efficient because when he buys a piece of a company he doesn't just buy it often he'll you know improve it in small ways and big the the people who are worthless are the hedge fund types who are just making just you know taking money out of the system but they're not adding anything all right it seems to me that biden's

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all right it seems to me that biden's value proposition has devolved into some form of vote for biden or biden's followers will hunt you down and kill you now that's hyperbole but it's starting to feel that way isn't it because the way you feel isn't necessarily the exact way that things are but the way it feels as a trump supporter is that biden is literally threatening us that if you know and other people have made this observation but i'm just piling on it does feel like the left is threatening us but here's what they don't get the left has not yet fully internalized that the protesters are not on their side you get that right the left doesn't quite understand they're just starting to understand that's why they're coming out against them that the the protesters are not on their side the protesters are on their own side whatever that is but they're definitely not on the

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but they're definitely not on the democrat side and they're not on trump's side they're not on america's side you could argue
there's a big non-story two big non-stories in the um conservative world now for those of you who say scott why do you only say good things about trump why don't you never say any bad things about the other side well i do all the time and i'm gonna do that now so there's this tape you heard it on uh tucker's show some of you chris cuomo talking to of all people michael cohen the disgraced and jailed lawyer ex-lawyer for trump so apparently chris cuomo and cohen knew each other pretty well who knew that that's sort of a weird little backstory but on this uh on this audio recording chris cuomo is heard to say things which are
are completely exculpatory and

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completely exculpatory and make chris cuomo look like he did not do the things he's accused of how did conservative pundits treat an audio tape in which it's pretty clear that chris cuomo legitimately believes he was not involved in the things that he was accused of doing the the metoo-ish accusations how does conservative world treat the fact that it really shows he doesn't think he did these things in private he acts like he he believes that they didn't happen they treat it like it happened like like he didn't say what he said and i watch this and i think we're seeing more and more of this where somebody will say they'll hand you an apple and they'll say what do you think of this banana and you'll say what banana you just handed me an apple this is clearly an apple it's red it's round i take a bite out of it it's an apple stop saying this is a banana because that's an apple and then the person will look right at

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and then the person will look right at you like nothing had ever happened and they'll say is the banana good and you'll say what's going on here this is no banana we're both looking at this it's an apple and the other person will look right at it and say now that's a banana
i don't i've never seen this before so it happened with the cuomo story there's there's nothing on there that should be embarrassing to chris cuomo and is treated as a national story of something that's embarrassing to chris cuomo it's literally the opposite it's completely exculpatory
i don't even know what to think about that all right is that the only time that's happened no how about this one so dr scott alice he's part of the trump uh team you know the coronavirus team i guess and cnn was reporting that he was pushing for herd immunity so he came on

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for herd immunity so he came on i think it was fox and they said uh were you doing that he was like no no i've never pushed for herd immunity nobody has it's not even a thing it's never been brought up the president's never mentioned it it's never been in a conversation it's never been floated as a possibility nobody thinks it's something we should pursue there's zero times zero times zero to this story what will people say once the the person who
who is the most closest to the story what will cnn say now that he has said no there's nothing to it they'll just act like he didn't say it and they'll just keep reporting that it's happening like it didn't even happen this is just a weird world how about uh there's another one how about the the story that the cdc had uh modified their death count and it wasn't 180 000 or whatever it was closer to 9 000

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or whatever it was closer to 9 000 because there were only six percent of the people were dying without comorbidities therefore it's all it's all the big fraud etc nothing like that happened it again it's like a big national story but it didn't happen it literally didn't happen none of that happened all that happened is they just sliced it a different way and as the experts say um pretty much everybody who dies of anything has comorbidities it's very rare for a person to die unless it's you know say an accident or some rare genetic disease or something but it's actually really unusual for anybody to die without comorbidities so the fact that 94 of people who die from coronavirus have comorbidities it's kind of like everything else now what do conservatives say but they say but but scott i know what you're saying but still what

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i know what you're saying but still what that proves scott you're missing the whole point scott scotty people who disagree with me like to call me scotty scotty you're missing the whole point the point is that those people who don't have the comorbidities should not have been afraid because their their odds of dying are just vanishingly small so let's send the kids back to school because why in the world would you not send kids to school when a you know it's good for the kids you know that their risk is tiny there's no reason there's no logic whatsoever for not sending the kids to school and i look at that and i go what's wrong with you what's wrong with you that you would say that in public the reason that they don't want to send the kids to school is not that the kids will die it's that they'll be part of the transmission that will get to the 94 percent of people with comorbidities and there's more spread could could put the teachers at risk in some cases we

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the teachers at risk in some cases we don't know how much risk but could put him at risk well it would put him at risk we don't know how much and i think to myself if you leave out the part where the kids bring it home or or help spread it you're not part of the you you can't consider your part self part of the adult conversation right the the minimum minimum requirement to be an adult in the conversation is you have to at least acknowledge the big factors in the in the conversation one big factor is the kids themselves and i think almost everybody agrees that they would be mostly fine and the risk would be so small that the benefits to the kids themselves would be tremendous benefit to the parents tremendous because the parents would now be freed up to you know do what they need to do but if you leave out the part about this clearly would contribute to the spread if you leave that part out you're not in the adult conversation

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the adult conversation you really aren't
now you could argue that it won't spread it but that would be a scientific question i think the evidence is that it probably does but maybe we don't know but still if you leave it out you're not part of the adult conversation uh the funniest story is the uh portland's mayor has just reportedly i would look for confirmation on this but reportedly he's considered considering selling his home in portland because the protests so the guy who has been most supportive of the protesters and literally joined in with him is learning that these protesters are not on his side as he had hoped but rather are a maligned force as they like to say on tv here's another non-story reported as a big story the state department i guess in kiev something about ukrainians you know the state department our our state department was illegally monitoring conservatives

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was illegally monitoring conservatives on twitter and social media jack possabic hannity laura ingram and others to which i say why is that a story do you know who else is illegally monitoring jack posabic i am i am yeah i'm illegally uh reading his twitter account and when he tweets i i break the law i break the law and i read it and if he tweets again i don't like to broadcast this but i'm probably going to break the law again and read what he tweeted now you might say that you say to me scott that's not what they're talking about they're not talking about reading his tweets what are they talking about do are they talking about hacking twitter no that's not in the story that all they're talking about is asking some third party to keep an eye on various accounts that were of importance

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importance and tell them what they saw so that they didn't have to do it themselves is that is that a real story
now if there's more to it if there was some hacking an actual illegal act i would say yeah let's look at that but the way it's reported and again could be more to the story i don't know but the way it's reported is they asked somebody to read the tweets of people who are important to their livelihoods and their jobs and i thought to myself i don't think that's illegal
if it is it shouldn't be trump is fighting against fighting back against the so-called fake news that he had some kind of stroke or mini strokes or something the the best evidence against it is that he uh his trip to walter reed was brief and he went home if you had if you had any of the things that he was alleged to have had do you go in and then just go home and go back to your job the next day

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go back to your job the next day is that a thing well so i think this is debunked the president has debunked it in the the clearest possible words but i know that you know the public isn't going to trust him on that if i had to guess
i would guess his slurred speech and a few of his speeches could be fatigue it could be dental work could be anything but my guess is that whatever they rushed him in for was something embarrassing or something that wasn't really a problem and if it wasn't really a problem did you need to do anything have any of you ever gone to the emergency room only to be told oh that's no big deal you have right you know unless you're bleeding or you've got a broken arm or something how many of you have gone in and the emergency room just says oh that's that's nothing take an aspirin it's a pretty common thing so i wouldn't be surprised if they did rush the president in for you

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they did rush the president in for you know some greater medical treatment than uh than they had available in the white house and i guess there's a lot in the white house and then they checked it out and it was no big deal or something easily treatable and he just wants it out of the news which i can understand
what was biden's exact quote when he did his speech and he said do i look like some kind of wild-eyed progressive what were his exact words do i look like some kind of wild-eyed
progressive and i thought to myself how does that get him the vote of the wild eyed progressives because it feels like he's insulting how they look isn't it because he's saying do i look do i look like like literally look he didn't say have i acted like do i have a record of you know have i have i ever promised anything in that nature he didn't say that he said look at me

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he didn't say that he said look at me like literally with your eyes look at me do i look like some wild-eyed progressive it feels like he was mocking the protesters their actual physical look not that we haven't done that but it would be news if he did and i wondered how this completely escaped the uh the pouncing i thought there'd be more pouncing on that
all right um apparently trump is down depending on what polls you want to believe they're all over the place but uh i think it was an a silver who said trump is down four to five percent or he said if it was more of an if it's based on where things are heading nay silver said that if trump ends up being down four to five percent of the battleground states it's actually a close race here's what i say what does it mean to be down four or five percent in a world where 12 percent of the gop says that they won't tell pollsters

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says that they won't tell pollsters their honest opinion so 12 percent of republicans would lie and trump's only down 4 to 5 what does that tell you now i want you to correct me on the math of this but sometimes there are things that seem really obvious that are your brain isn't quite processed in the right so this might be one of those but here's what people are missing if a republican voter simply refuses to talk to a pollster they'll just call until they get another republican so refusing to answer probably doesn't change the result that much because they'll just find somebody who's willing to answer until they have enough answers but if the gop people who are being surveyed are lying it's a double impact because not only are they are they taking a vote away from trump that they intend to cast

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that they intend to cast but they're giving it to biden doesn't that double the impact because it's not just a vote that's missing it's a vote that the lie puts on the wrong tally so it's a so so that one person makes a difference of two
two one away from trump and one for biden am i thinking of that right i feel like i'm confusing myself but that's right right so this is a good example of why i'm never embarrassed to be stupid in public it's a good skill you should learn it because sometimes i'll hit on something that's useful and other times i'll say something that's like uh okay so people in the comments are agreeing with me but so therefore that four or five percent is really nothing because if 12 are lying that's a gigantic swing if their lie is that they're voting for biden and they're not

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uh yeah i guess that's all i got for today and um
it's like losing a stroke in golf is it no it's not like losing a stroke in golf because that doesn't add a stroke to the person you're golfing against
all right yes it's a double dipper okay um that's all i've got for now and i will talk to you tomorrow