Episode 1112 Scott Adams: Why Everyone is an Ignorant Hypocrite Except for You and Me

Date: 2020-09-03 | Duration: 1:03:53

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• COVID19 complaints and accusations

• Minnesota police training manual: Knee on neck

• How to tell someone their success strategy won’t work

• AG Barr: outside agitators are instigating

• Governor Cuomo irresponsibly encourages violence

• King Leopold killed 10-15 million Black people

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hey everybody here's a little quiz for you what's the best time of the day i'm waiting i'm waiting that's right that's right the best time of the day is right now and it's happening with coffee with scott adams and the simultaneous sap how good is that what a way to kick off a great day have you noticed that 2020 has been generally quite crappy i don't like to over generalize but i think you'd agree with me 2020 a little bit crappy things are going to look up though i'm calling today the turn today's the turn today is the day when there will be slightly more things going right than going wrong and watch how the number of things going right continues to increase while the number of things going wrong continues to diminish 2021 is going to be lit off the hook and any other old hackneyed expression you'd like to put on that

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expression you'd like to put on that but first the simultaneous sip what do you need you need a copper mug or glass a tanker chelsea stein a canteen sugar flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the dopamine of the day the thing that makes everything better including 20 20. it's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now go
yeah yeah that's working i can feel the improvement coming well let's talk about hair gait what could be more important in a time of multiple crises what could be more important than nancy pelosi's hair nothing i can think of so let's talk about that endlessly so you know the story nancy pelosi went to a hairdresser didn't wear her mask when and went inside where people are not supposed to

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inside where people are not supposed to be
be claimed that her her her explanation is that she was set up that the local hairdresser set her up now even don lemon didn't buy that excuse if if you can't sell your democrat uh if you can't sell your democrat uh story to don lemon you can't sell it to anybody so don lemon even rejected her story
that was pretty funny but here's the here's the question unanswered how did fox news get a copy i think fox news got it first how did fox news get a copy of a security camera in a specific hairdresser nobody asked that question it's like so even tucker carlson had the proprietor on the uh the woman who was uh owned the

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the uh the woman who was uh owned the shop that nancy pelosi was at and uh and tucker never asked the question so whose idea was it to give the security camera footage to fox news let's just not ask that question because that doesn't matter
this is the dumbest story i couldn't care less about nancy pelosi wearing or not wearing her mask and i get it it's you know hypocrisy and everything literally the smallest problem i have and by the way uh if somebody had told nancy pelosi it's okay to be indoors if it's just one person doesn't that actually make sense the whole point of not being indoors is you don't want multiple people indoors but if the only people indoors are the the same person who would have worked on them if it were outdoors

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outdoors i don't know does that make a difference that you're indoors it doesn't seem like it was a big health risk but i get why people say it's hypocrisy all right here's a little uh quiz for you i'm get it's a very simple quiz and i want to see if you can pass it okay and this this will be a test to see if i've taught you anything if i've taught you anything you will get this test right and if you think hey is there a trick to this well there might be there might be so keep keep one part of your brain alert for a trick and it goes like this suppose you had two opposing armies they all had exactly the same kind of a gun no difference same kind of gun whatever gun it is it's the same one one army are sharp shooters and every single person in that one army

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and every single person in that one army hits their target every time they shoot every time the other army is not so good as shootings they only hit their target 80 of the time it's pretty good it's pretty good right 80 of the time but they're up against an army that hits their target every single time literally every bullet they fire will hit the other the other army people you know in a deadly place so they have a battle exactly the same guns let's say just to keep it fun exactly the same amount of ammo same guns same ammo they face off two armies one is a hundred percent accuracy the other is eighty percent who wins the battle go have i taught you anything have i taught you anything i'll know in a moment when i see your uh responses all right it looks like you're still talking about the hairdressing stuff

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talking about the hairdressing stuff so uh too much of a lag for a group question yeah there is a little bit of a lag there here's the answer to the question it depends how many people are in each army if you didn't get that i've taught you nothing and here's why this is important because the
the imagine if you will the army that shoots perfectly has five people in it that's it the whole army it's just five people the army they're up against who are not as good as shooting but they're about eighty percent accurate has a thousand people in it it's not even close the thousand shooters who are eighty percent accurate would destroy the five people who were perfectly accurate in the first second the entire art the entire battle would last less than a second right now that's obvious to you once i explain it isn't it

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it isn't it but when i first set this up you said to yourself probably if i set it up correctly well obviously the people who are better at shooting if all the weapons are the same the good shooters should win why is this important because this is the same mental trick that is preventing us i think from having inexpensive saliva strips as coronavirus tests so here are the here's the competing sides we have these accurate tests that'll get the right answer really really well but they're slow and they require a healthcare professional and you need some kind of a device usually that means that as accurate as you are you can't do much in other words your volume is always going to be really low because the limitations of the testing device the one that's not legal yet the fta doesn't allow it are these little uh saliva test strips

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are these little uh saliva test strips which haven't been built by the way you can build them in the laboratory to know that it's possible there's not much to the construction of it so we're not too worried that you could make them in volume it's just nobody's doing it because it's not legal but let's say those test scripts were i think it's more than 80 but let's say they're 85 accurate but they're a dollar you can do it at home without a health care professional and you could do it all day long you could test every person coming into the building every person coming into a sporting event every person everywhere several times a day because you get an instant result cost you a dollar eighty-five percent accurate there's no competition between which of them is the better method they're not even close but your your brain first says why would i ever want an inaccurate test when i could have an accurate one and that's why i gave you the analogy of the two armies

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i gave you the analogy of the two armies it's just like that now of course i i teach you quite famously that analogies are not persuasive there's no persuasion going on here analogies are good for introducing a new concept if the concept itself makes sense then i guess in some sense you say oh i just learned a new thing and therefore i'm convinced but that's not persuasion that's just if you knew more you might make better decisions that's all that is so i use the analogy just to reorient your brain to think you have two armies the bigger army which is a zillion test scripts that everybody's testing testing testing all day long versus these very pinpoint very accurate tests that you can't do very many of them no matter what you do you just can't ramp them up enough
so uh i still don't know why we're not doing more of these test trips

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we're not doing more of these test trips i think it's because somebody doesn't understand that the big army always beats the small army even if they're less accurate but maybe there's something else so i'll be open-minded there might be some excuse or explanation that i don't know let me give you an update on my funniest liberal friend who i debate just to see what kind of craziness comes out of them he told me yesterday he doesn't watch my periscopes so so i can speak with complete abandon now what's interesting about my liberal friend is not that he's dumb it's the opposite what makes it interesting is he's really smart not even just ordinary smart i'm talking about way above average smart but disagrees with me completely on you know trump related stuff so here here's the tortured path that he takes i i try to get him to admit just one thing at a time because he likes to do the

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at a time because he likes to do the laundry list approach uh and the one thing i'm trying to get him to admit is that russian collusion was shown to not exist just that very one thing and what do you think is his response oh no mueller said there was plenty of obstruction and what about all those people who did get charged and went to jail and what about the fact that the russia troll farms tried to interfere to which i say none of that is russian collusion you understand that none of that is russian collusion and as smart as he is he's conflated all of those things into being something that he's willing to argue is in the same category of russia and collusion but he won't say that directly because it would be crazy to say it directly so this is clear cognitive dissonance because he he existed for i don't know

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because he he existed for i don't know two years or whatever thinking that russia and collusion because he told me was real once it was proven not to be real or proven that there's no evidence to suggest it's real he couldn't leave it so he's decided to just redefine it as a whole bunch of other things that are not russia collusion and just call it that and literally just give it a different name that is the most classic cognitive dissonance you'll ever see but here's the funny part he he accused me in the same conversation of having cognitive dissonance and he gave this this following example he said i know you have cognitive dissonance i'm paraphrasing because a hundred percent of the time you just say that trump is right and since we know that couldn't be possibly you know legitimate that trump is just always right and everything he does is good that can't be true so therefore we have proven that you

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so therefore we have proven that you scott have cognitive dissonance to which i said the very email i sent before this had a long explanation of me viciously criticizing the president on this very question of the test strips so without prompting i just viciously criticized president trump for this one topic within the testing category and immediately after watching that my friend accuses me of never being able to criticize the president to which i say i just did that i just did that right in front of you very very noticeably i made a big point of it without even being asked no prompting whatsoever big vicious criticism and i noted that i've done it many times before it's just pure craziness anyway um i asked my friend

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um i asked my friend and i'll ask you the same question so my liberal friend says there are many examples of trump failing in terms of the coronavirus situation and so i try to ask what are those examples and i'm not i'm not claiming that there are no examples my claim from the start before anybody has any track record of managing this crisis i said at the very first start everybody's going to be guessing and so if you're looking back later and say oh these people got it wrong you're just being a jerk because nobody knew what to do on day one nobody knew everybody did different things some were going to work some weren't it wasn't because they were smart it was because everybody guessed differently and somebody was going to get a better result so i asked for specifics and hear that the types of things i get and i don't quite understand here's the here's the biggest one there's a belief

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there's a belief that if we had been better at testing early on we could have in other words if the president had done something differently in terms of testing we could have tested our way to safety the way other countries did now can you do me a fact check my understanding is that there were no experts who thought we could test our way to safety in other words my claim and i want to fact check on this is that fouchy and berks you know the two experts that we looked at the most i believe that neither them thought that we had the testing facilities or could get them quickly enough that we could ever just test our way out
somebody says wrong again scotty i can't tell if you're being sarcastic i was going to block you but i think you're just joking um can somebody confirm that and why is it that i don't i'm somebody

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and why is it that i don't i'm somebody says i'm being correct yeah so my understanding is if you had a little island country and you've got a you know a dozen people with it you could pretty pretty well do some contact tracing in that situation but i don't think i don't think that our experts ever told trump that with the testing we did have what was possible at the time again the limitation is we just didn't have enough testing of the right type which isn't exactly trump's fault is it how could you be ready to test something that didn't exist yet i don't know how that would even work and i would point out that if we didn't have the ability to rapidly ramp up new kinds of tests that we also didn't have that during the obama administration so wouldn't they be identical obama didn't have an ability to rapidly ramp up for a test for a coronavirus that didn't yet exist trump also didn't have the ability to quickly ramp up to test

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up to test for a coronavirus that didn't exist how are they different all right so that i think he's just uninformed but maybe i'm the one here's another one um he didn't have enough ppe and ventilators right but wouldn't it be true that we didn't have any in the warehouse from obama either did obama have any was there any other country that had stockpiled enough ppe and ventilators i think the answer is no correct me if i'm wrong but i think every single country in the world didn't didn't prepare in the way that we ultimately wish we had of with you know the ppe etc so i don't think he was any different than any other leader was he unprepared some say he should use the war powers act sooner but what exactly would that have gotten us because there's no evidence that shows that that would have therefore

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that that would have therefore done what i don't know we nobody died for a lack of ppe therefore the way we did it worked nobody nobody imagines that the war power act could have created enough testing fast enough i don't think does anybody think that i didn't see fouchy and berks recommending that
there's the argument that trump disbanded some uh whatever it was some epidemiology group or pandemic group in the government i think that it's true that they were disbanded but i think it's fake news that it made any difference because my understanding is those functions just were distributed to existing departments so it wasn't a real change it was a sort of a change on paper wasn't a change in function so probably didn't make any difference what about the the you know you should have shut down more aggressively

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have shut down more aggressively well that ignores the fact that the economy is the other part of the equation nobody really knows what was the right amount to shut down do they i don't think anybody knows that because you would have to wait for the economy to play out over years to find out if more people died from the shutdown and the economic disruption then died from the coronavirus so that's sort of an unknown all right uh let's talk about black lives matter and all that uh jack posabic on twitter yesterday was tweeting that and actually showed the minnesota police training manual specifically shows using your knee on a suspect's head exactly the way chauvin wasn't put his knee on george floyd's neck and or head in other words the minnesota police training has an actual photo of

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police training has an actual photo of how to do it and he's doing it exactly the way the george floyd thing went down and so i tell you again there's just no way they're going to get convicted of murder with the fentanyl in george floyd and the fact that they asked them if he i mean consider this they asked him two or three times if he was on anything and he said no each time if he had said yes
yes any one of those times they would have been alerted to treat him as more of a medical problem and less as a resisting arrest so maybe george floyd could have said yes i have something in me and that might be a factor so a lot of mistakes were made
cheryl atkinson you all know a writer on political stuff and she noticed some friend of hers was automatically unfollowed from her account

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account and i saw her tweet on that and i tweeted to ask other people if they had had the same experience on her account what do you think we found yes of course lots and lots of people thought they had been following her but now they're not and they had to re-follow now what are we supposed to do with the fact that it's so blatantly obvious that the social media algorithm or at least who is following who is clearly being manipulated if it couldn't be more obvious it's it's public we can all check it ourselves you can have massive confirmation because you've seen it on my account you've seen it on richard grinnell's account you've seen it on matt gates account you've seen it on sheryl atkinson's account now i still don't know if it's happening to any liberals but i haven't heard of any so we certainly have uh election interference in the context

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uh election interference in the context of twitter but no action shouldn't there be something happening such as twitter being regulated or some kind of investigation why is why is the fbi not already in twitter like i don't understand and this is an honest question i don't understand why
i don't i don't understand why literally twitter hasn't been taken over by the fbi at this point they should actually be on the floor of twitter trying to figure out why this is happening is there some law that says that that they don't that there's no reason that there's any law broken i know given the context of election interference i would think that the fbi would be all over twitter but i don't understand what's going on there speaking if i don't understand that was the main line that that joe biden used when he made the

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that joe biden used when he made the mistake of taking questions in public he kept saying i don't understand why this president i i just don't understand i i i'm confused i just don't understand now let me tell you if you're being blamed or at least accused of having some kind of mental slowdown you don't want to get in public and repeat the phrase i don't understand over and over again it's a really bad look it's bad enough when i do it but most people are not accusing me of dementia all right so here's a here's an awkward question how do you tell somebody that their strategy for success is completely wrong in other words they've developed a strategy that guarantees failure but they think it's a strategy for success how do you tell them that it's all wrong here what i'm talking about here is black lives matter let me i made a list of all the things that they're doing

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of all the things that they're doing wrong strategically that no one would argue with okay so this is specifically a list that i believe something close to a hundred percent of people who understand management leadership success and anybody who has any expertise and how to guess stuff done i believe would agree with me that these are strategy mistakes all right here's the list selling past the close have i ever talked about that is when you've already closed the sale the the buyer has agreed to buy you've agreed to sell now all you have to do is take their money the biggest strategic mistake you could make if you're the seller is to keep talking because anything you say
say at that point can't make you the sale because you already have the sale but it could lose you the sale and that's what happened with the george floyd thing the moment the country saw the video of george floyd the sale had been made oh my goodness

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the sale had been made oh my goodness we have to fix this every white person every black person every republican every democrat complete sale sale has been made what happened they kept selling they kept protesting until there was danger cities were destroyed now wouldn't you say that the george floyd initial reactions which could have been one of the best things that ever happened in this country it was a gift in a sense a tragedy of course but it was a gift to the country you know almost like you know george floyd died for our sins kind of thing there was almost a jesus-like i know that's offensive but just follow the analogy his death could have been in in sort of an analogous way that jesus's death could have been a positive in the christian religion it is his death as tragic as it was could have been a

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as tragic as it was could have been a positive because we all were on the same side but it turned into a gigantic negative people are fleeing the cities it's the worst situation so that's the first mistake selling past the close here's the next one putting the least capable people in charge what what expert would say let's scour the earth and find the least capable leaders and we'll put them in charge i'm pretty sure that's what's happening with black lives matter because of all the other mistakes of leadership that all that i'll mention so clearly the worst people are in charge nobody would make that mistake if they knew how to do anything how about this seeing the world as a zero-sum situation meaning i can't win unless you lose versus an abundance situation which is i'm glad you have yours now i'll work on getting mine hey look we can both have as much as we want if we all do the same if we all do the right stuff we all get benefits

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all get benefits i don't know that there's any successful anything that has ever started with the zero sum i can't win unless you lose motivation in the long run that always fails always and that's what you're seeing with black lives matter nothing about let's build something together it's all about how can you give me something zero sum how about uh canonizing your criminals how about the idea of making your heroes the people who are literally criminals now you could have i think you can hold both thoughts simultaneously you can certainly hold the thought that somebody should not be shot by the police because of some past criminal behavior if it wasn't part of the actual incident we all agree with that there's no argument with that you don't get a shot today for something you did you know a year ago nobody wants to live in that world

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but is it a good strategy to hold up your criminals as your heroes no martin luther king was the example of doing it right holding up as your hero somebody who had the right set of values that was a good idea holding up the people who have been killed by police that have records very bad idea nobody has ever made a good outcome out of making heroes and the people who they should not now the weird thing about this is the whole controversy about let's say confederate statues the whole point of that is you don't want to hold up as role models people who have a sketchy past and there's nothing could be sketchier than being a past slave owner so if you know the concept of getting rid of confederate statues because it sends a bad message as a role model why are we why are we making role models out of slave owners that makes no sense but how about extending that to

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sense but how about extending that to your own your own population how about bringing that forward into current times how about making heroes out of thomas sowell or anybody who's got a positive view of of abundance or strategy so you got that problem how about always voting for the same political party has anybody ever made that work always voting for the same party reliably is guaranteed to take away your political power it's guaranteed and what are they doing this year they're trying even harder to make that strategy that never works can't work has never worked for anybody they're doubling down on a strategy they know can't work because it takes away their own power if you always vote for the same side how about the idea of never taking personal responsibility yes the police should be better trained have more options we should look into every possibility

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we should look into every possibility for better police service to the community to keep us safer etcetera nobody argues with that it's a hundred percent agreed that every anything can be done better especially that but does that take away your responsibility to teach your kids how not to resist arrest if you can't even have the conversation about you know maybe we should resist arrest a little bit you know a little bit better if you can't even discuss it you have a failing strategy because nobody ever succeeded by saying all the problems were with somebody else it's just not a strategy that's ever worked for anybody ever in the long run how about this not asking to do small tests do you know what works almost every time well if you don't know exactly what to do to make something better you say hey if we can't agree what to do

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you say hey if we can't agree what to do can we at least agree to test some things and see if those work if you're not suggesting let's do some trials and some tests you don't have a strategy that can work you don't you don't don't even pretend you're doing something useful if you're not talking about how to create a small test it's the only way you can improve if people don't automatically agree on what's the right thing to do how about this about turning it into a racial problem instead of just figuring out how you can fix it how could they ever work to turn it into a hate problem instead of a what do you do about a problem because again they're selling past the clothes if you're talking about how it's racist or not racist you're already in the wrong conversation because all the people you're calling racist have already said um i think we agree with you that we can do this better why are you still talking you're just making it worse

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making it worse bad strategy all right how about uh focusing on your smallest problem instead of your biggest problem has anyone ever made that work let's let's make a list of all our priorities and we'll spend all of our time on the lowest one what's the lowest priority police mistreatment of the minority community is it real it seems like it it seems like there's definitely a disproportionate thing should it be worked on absolutely should we put you know a lot of attention on it sure but should you ignore the biggest problem which is obviously the school system is not serving a lot of communities and therefore they get off to the wrong start and of course you'll have more crime if you have more crime you have more police action just everything falls apart from that one thing and that's of course caused by the teachers unions are rejecting

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rejecting competition in the schools so nobody ever made working on your smallest problem successful how about this one violence whoever you know is there a long history of minor violence working there's there's a long history of major violence working the civil war i mean you could say that worked in a sense about the american revolution that was violence that worked but but what case has violence worked in individual cases like where i'll just shoot this guy or i'll kill this person when has that worked that just feels like the worst strategy in the world
how about ignoring the concept of reciprocity it's like the white person superpower that people will do things for you for nothing and then maybe someday it'll come back it's very similar to the the idea of abundance versus a zero-sum world but the idea of reciprocity works every

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but the idea of reciprocity works every time what are the black lives matter people doing opposite they're asking somebody else to give them stuff they have their arguments but that's the opposite of any strategy anybody's ever made work reciprocity works i do something for you and something will come back to me forcing you to give me stuff with no end in sight because i could never get enough to to be equal to you that's never worked i mean it might have some temporary gain but in the long term it's a terrible strategy how about uh
developing systems that ignore human motivation such as socialism and marxism they've never worked not in their pure form you can have a little socialism on top of capitalism but they've never worked in their pure form anywhere because they ignore human motivation that's bad strategy how about the fact that black lives matter they have leaders

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matter they have leaders but they don't seem to be present in other words i i couldn't even give you the name of the head of black lives matter or the three of them or were they just founders but now they're not running things is it a local organization i don't even know so if you can't identify the leaders there's nobody to negotiate with there's nobody to negotiate for you there's nobody to get you what you want they don't have a structure which would allow them to get anything because there's nobody to talk to and the demands are all over the place until you have a leader who can solidify demands you don't have anything how about ignoring you know free markets in school choice how about believing the news that's a bad strategy a lot of the black lives matter stuff comes from believing the news that there's some kind of epidemic of black people being hunted and shot by police if you believe the news then you believe

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if you believe the news then you believe that's a problem and you orient yourself to fixing that problem if you didn't believe the news in other words you understood that their business model causes them to make things look worse than they are
are because that gets some clicks if you understood that it would be a better strategy to look at the data et cetera all right the the obvious outcome of doing literally everything wrong is segregation and you're seeing that but we're not calling it that yet when when you see these news stories about all the rich people who are moving out of new york city what is your brain translating that into maybe you have to be a certain age for this to happen this isn't exactly about rich people moving to where it's safe this is a lot about rich white people moving away from black people can we be honest you know if you if you

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can we be honest you know if you if you ask them privately hey um you know why are you getting out of new york city they'd probably give you
you you know let's say politically correct sounding answers they'd say well there's too much crime and you know it's unsafe blah blah blah but in their little prejudiced you know racist minds these are people who were the most let's say politically allied with the black world four months ago so four months ago the very people who were probably packing up and leaving new york city would be the greatest advocates for the black community yeah they would be you know elite democrats very reliably pro-black community as i am i would consider myself very pro-black in the sense that if you can help the black community everybody's better off so i buy into that completely um but now now that they're moving out of the city that they love

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of the city that they love i feel like you've converted them into racists and that privately they're thinking uh that they're just getting away from black people don't you don't you think that that's probably true i'm not saying that's good or bad i'm not endorsing that i'm not saying they should think that nothing like that i'm just saying predictably this is making everything worse
somebody says it's mind reading it's not mind reading if you present it as speculation if you present it as fact as mind reading if i said that's what they're thinking that would be
be mind reading if i say what would you be thinking in that case or what what do you imagine people are thinking what's what's the likely thing that some number of them are thinking then that's just speculating which is fair all right um peter navarro tweeted about a new hydroxychloroquine study

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hydroxychloroquine study that's a retrospective meaning that it's not a gold standard study but rather they looked at the experience of whether people got better or not and it showed that with this uh these older patients the ones who are most at risk there was another retrospective study that found that the people who got the hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin did better had better outcomes so i tweeted uh why is it that 95 of the retrospective tests which are admittedly not as good as gold standard you know randomized control tests why is it that even though they're not great kinds of studies why is it that 95 of them all lean in the same direction is it because there's the same analytical mistake every time and uh andres uh backhouse who is my my go-to person for
for uh understanding data and how to how to

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uh understanding data and how to how to analyze data so he's the most rational person that i i've seen yet on in on twitter in general in terms of just picking out what's logical and what isn't and he makes he makes this observation that made me slap myself in the head and go okay yeah that's a pretty good point and it goes like this if you don't have a randomized control study then the doctors are deciding who gets hydroxychloroquine and who doesn't given that there is a suggestion that there could be more of a side effect problem if somebody is close to death who do you think the doctors give the hydroxychloroquine to
yeah they don't give it to the people who are the sickest because the assumption is that the side effects might push them over the edge so there's a very good reason to believe that the doctors have self-selected to give it to people who have less of an illness

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illness and are less at risk and therefore when you look at the results at the end it's like oh all the people who got hydroxychloroquine on average they did better but it could be just a selection bias that the only people who got it in the first place were people who didn't look like they were going to die five minutes after getting hydroxychloroquine if they had some side effects which we don't imagine the side effects are bad now i don't think that applies to any early might not apply to you know getting it early versus getting it later in the disease but there still could be a selection bias there's still good so be aware of the selection bias and we i'm still going to be at 30 odds the hydroxychloroquine in the end we'll find out was a good thing and we didn't use it as much all right here's a question oh uh william barr is indicating that we are certain meaning the government is certain that

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meaning the government is certain that outside agitators are coming in for these protests to cause trouble we we don't have a lot of detail on that but bill barr says we have plenty of evidence that that's happening um i have a question and i think there were like three new police shooting stories on cnn just alone this morning one of them is there's something called a spit bag if somebody's spitting on you the police will put a bag over your head they put a bag over a guy's head because he was had mental illness or something he was spitting on him and then he died like a week later and they're being blamed for some asphyxiation related complications that lasted a week i don't know maybe but here's what here's my take on this we
we we have a zombie apocalypse that we think is a police problem the zombie apocalypse is that people who are on drugs or have mental illness don't know how to not resist arrest

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don't know how to not resist arrest they are not in their right minds if the police are shooting people who are on drugs or have mental illness and that those are the ones who are doing the most resisting arrest that's a problem that needs to be solved and we definitely need some more non-lethal means of doing that somebody sent me a uh on twitter a video of this bolo rope i guess they shoot it out of some kind of special gun and it just wraps around your legs almost instantly and i thought to myself okay the bolo gun that sort of you know captures somebody by the legs that's good but in a lot of these cases i don't think they would have had a chance to use it because it seems like you know people grab a gun that you didn't know they had or they reach in their pocket or there's it seems like i'm not sure the timing would be right to use that bolo rope and and i can't imagine that you would use it if somebody's running toward you with a weapon you're not going to want to try the bolo

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you're not going to want to try the bolo rope first you're probably going to want to shoot so
so treating it like it's a crime problem entirely is probably a problem it's it's more of a zombie apocalypse
a let's see a new study out of australia suggests that venom from honeybees and bumblebees can totally kill breast cancer without injuring the cells around them now this is like a billion other studies that i've seen in the past that don't end up working out
out but it's always good to hear these things um it seems painful to have all those bees stinging you and your your breasts but maybe they have some other way of administering it just joking of course they do uh sarah sanders has a new book out and one of the anecdotes is funny apparently kim jong-un winked at her on when they when they visited with him and

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when they when they visited with him and uh
uh trump later joked to sarah sanders that she might have to leave leave her family and you know go live with kim jong-un to quote take one for the team which is pretty funny [Laughter]
governor andrew cuomo who i was surprised to find out is younger than me i feel like he looks older but i think that's just because i think i i fooled myself into thinking i look younger but he after president trump was uh noodling on the idea of with withholding federal funds from cities that are just not taking care of the chaos cuomo didn't like that and he said that quote talking about trump he can't have enough bodyguards to walk through new york city cuomo said forget bodyguards he better have an army if he thinks he's going to walk down the streets in new york

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streets in new york now he went on to explain that he meant the
the the president is unwelcome in new york but
but is that the way you say somebody's unwelcome you literally talk about killing him i've never seen democrats go completely so obviously into let's murder the president it's the most irresponsible thing i've ever seen from a governor and i would think you should be removed from office in a you know an impeachment governor cuomo should just for saying that that is so bad and the impact it has on people who will literally now think oh i guess we can attack trump supporters so andrew cuomo uh i haven't i haven't warned you all about swearing so i'll hold back for now but andrew cuomo you just made my life more dangerous you made the chance of me getting attacked a little bit higher that's what the

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a little bit higher that's what the governor of new york just did now i get that he doesn't like what trump is doing but he did just make violence more acceptable and i don't know what would be more impeachable than that if that's not the most impeachable thing in the world i don't know what is
uh the apparently the russians we have some information that the russians are trying to spread misinformation about joe biden's health now and apparently uh cnn is using this the fact that the department of homeland security they quote withheld an intelligence bulletin bulletin warning of a russian plot to spread misinformation about joe biden's health which they note mirrors the president's own attacks now let me ask you this

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now let me ask you this cnn has said some dumb things before but if you're alive and you're in the united states and you're following politics or even if you're not were you unaware that president trump and all republicans are saying that joe biden has some kind of mental decline did you need to wait and hear that from putin is there anybody in the united states who has somehow missed an avalanche of non-stop news about joe biden's mental capacity they've missed all of that you know wall-to-wall coverage of it it seems like every day but they did see something that the russians did that suggested the same thing and it was that russian suggestion that flipped them it's like oh oh i had noticed that but i saw this meme on facebook that looks like it was made by a sixth grader in russia

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grader in russia oh now i'm convinced now i think joe biden has a mental problem i don't think this is quite the problem that cnn thinks it is
barr said when he was talking to wolf blitzer in an interview he said quote this is playing with fire he was talking about mail and ballots and
and how they're not dependable so we're a very closely divided country here uh and so it's playing with fire and and he said it's just logical that votes could be faked now here's the really fun part the president apparently in his speech i guess in pennsylvania where the the polls by the way are showing is pretty tight the president suggested that if everybody is so sure
there's nobody else in the world who would have done this because it's either brilliant or reckless and even i can't decide which one it is so president trump has suggested that if

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so president trump has suggested that if everybody is so sure that mail-in votes are secure that why don't you try to vote twice and see what happens
try to vote once in person and once with the mail in and see if in fact the system flags it and gives you only one vote now that's either brilliant or is really really reckless it's one of those two things maybe it's both i don't know but when you hear that and you hear the president say well just try it do you think that the government records in every state are good enough that they will be able to determine in a timely fashion that you voted twice now what makes this reckless is that it's a federal offense right but i can't imagine you would be necessarily convicted you know if if your grandmother votes twice and the system allows it when we had

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and the system allows it when we had been told that the system wouldn't allow it see here's the cool part that makes this maybe genius could you be convicted of voting twice once at a once at a voting booth but also once separately you dropped your ballot in the mail if you had been told that there's no scenario in which your vote would be counted twice did he hear that you have been told non-stop by your respected media that there's no chance that voting twice would work so what if you tried it the president suggests what if you tried it could you go to jail for a crime that you've been told by your own government and the entire media can't happen in other words you would have a complete expectation that you did not vote twice even if you went through the steps of voting twice you would have the

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voting twice you would have the expectation reasonable completely reasonable you've been told by cnn and others that they got this locked down there's there's no way that fraud happens the it's all good
you would have you would be able to say it is my belief that i've only voted once because every expert told me that only one of them would count i just wanted to make sure that my vote didn't get lost in the mail so i voted in person i also voted by the mail just to make sure one of them got through obviously your database will will immediately detect it toss one out no harm right it's gonna be a messy situation
all right so it might be terrible that the president said that but on the other hand once he did say it you you can really see the problem in a way you couldn't see before i would say that that provocative way of

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i would say that that provocative way of putting it really solidifies in your head that you've been lied to because there's nobody in the world who is dumb enough to think that all the states have good records and that the timing would work that they could line up your mail vote with your in-person vote there's nobody who thinks your government is that efficient and when the president puts that out there it's really hard to argue that this is going to be a credible outcome all right
the the father of jacob blake the the person who has killed with seven bullets and the police stop they cause a lot of the riots uh apparently he is uh anti-semitic now here's my take on that i'm not jewish so i'm going to rely on people who are to tell me whether this this guy is being anti-semitic because i have a rule that i don't get

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because i have a rule that i don't get offended on behalf of other people i might get offended on behalf of myself i don't know if it's ever happened i don't really get offended by much but i'm not going to get offended on behalf of other people they have to tell me they're offended and then i'll deal with that but you know i can't judge it myself so credible people have said they've looked at
at jacob blake seniors social media stuff and it's important because there's some thought that joe biden will go meet with him and he said some things about about jews that if you looked at it you would say to yourself okay i can see why people are uncomfortable with this but again i'm going to let other people decide what's wrong and what's offensive in that mode but certainly you could look at it and say okay i see what they're talking about however

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i happen to read through jacob blake seniors posts and comments and one of them really stuck out and you know if you could pick out the one good thing that's coming out of all this badness i mean there's a lot of badness coming out of all this protest situation but at the same time i feel like i've learned things that would make me feel a little more empathetic or more understanding and oddly enough jacob blake senior wha whatever his other flaws might be uh laid down a little red pill on me that i'd never heard before i said well i take that back i think i sort of heard it but it didn't really register and i went like this and this is in a anti-semitic context from jacob blake senior but he points out that everybody's aware i'm paraphrasing here but he points out that everybody's aware of the holocaust you would agree right everybody's aware of the holocaust and any informed adult

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of the holocaust and any informed adult would even know the number six million-ish you know dead in the holocaust and then jacob blake senior asks but why don't you know about king leopold of the belgian king and the congo and when he said when i read that i said
who is he talking about who's this king leopold belgium king why do i care about him and what did he do in the congo so i checked it out did a little google search did you know that king leopold the belgian king in the
the late 1800s killed 10 to 15 million black people 10 to 15 million in the congo he basically took over the congo turned everybody into slave labor and between directly killing people and harsh conditions etc 10 to 15 million people died now

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10 to 15 million people died now did you know that did you know that now the way jacob lake senior puts it he's comparing it to the holocaust and then it becomes anti-semitic because of the context but does he have a good point not to diminish the holocaust of course but rather to say why didn't you learn this in school i mean seriously somebody says shame on you scott you could put more of a reason on that you get blocked for saying shame on you scott without a reason if you would be included any reason you would not be getting getting blocked even if i disagreed with the reason that's my rule somebody says no agenda had it on a month ago yeah and you know if there's one thing you can do in this situation you should spend at least a hot minute trying to put yourself in the head of your fellow citizens

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your fellow citizens who are greatly distressed and just try to understand like what would it feel like to live in a country that had statues of people who were slave owners like what would that feel like would you like it i wouldn't like it so that's why i agree that the confederate statues of the ones who supported slavery anyway you should at least put in be put in context if nothing else and should we not teach more about this king leopold so that that's not general knowledge because i feel like that is a little bit you know it fits right into the do black lives matter if we're not if that's not common knowledge that king leopold killed 10 to 15 million black people i feel like that's something we should know about right if you're being if you're being fair you should know about that uh so we won't we will not we will not uh excuse jacob blake senior of any

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uh excuse jacob blake senior of any other opinions which you may think are offensive they do at least feel that way to me to my uncritical eye all right uh cnn's van jones is urging democrats to only protest during the daytime because the nighttime stuff is where all the bad stuff happens and it's just gonna help trump get reelected he is correct that is exactly what's gonna happen
are you having trouble figuring out what any of the political polls mean uh it's really hard to figure out if trump is ahead or behind you can't even really tell because the the idea of the i guess kellyanne conway called them the undercover what you call them the undercover trump supporters because there's a lot of data that says people don't want to give their opinion to anybody including a pollster so it seems to me that trump within four

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so it seems to me that trump within four percent is a trump landslide it feels like that is that the number what number would you put on it trump within two percent is a definite victory trump within four percent of let's say the average of the polls as opposed to the ones that tend to be accurate rasmussen tends to be accurate and a few others but if you just took the average and it came out to about four percent advantage for biden i feel like he loses with a four percent advantage because of the
the hidden vote situation
all right yeah joe haydn joe hiden by i think i talked about everything i want to talk about i think i did yeah the stalin and mao killed millions but they killed mostly people like themselves which feels up feels different
somebody says the betting odds are now in trump's favor did it did it crossover

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um oh somebody says how many armenians killed good question yeah the armenian genocide is so-called um i don't know that actually i don't know the the alleged death count on that but yeah that's why don't we know about all the all the holocausts
uh somebody says proud boys are going to portland at the end of september that's a long ways away end of september do you think we'll still be doing the protests probably somebody says seven percent seven percent would be tough
uh somebody says why does van jones not support trump well you can't ask too many you can't ask a lifelong democrat to support a republican it's just not
realistic all right that's all i got for now

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all right that's all i got for now and i will talk to you a bit later i believe you should all be looking for an adam townsend he's going to be doing a live stream with mark schneider i think that's today so look for that i'll tweet about it if i get a chance and i will talk to you later