Episode 1114 Scott Adams: Bad Twitter Takes, Anonymous Fakes, The Atlantic Treason Article, BLMKKK

Date: 2020-09-05 | Duration: 1:10:05

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• BLM is a racist group

• The Worst Takes on Twitter

• “Losers and suckers” HOAX

• Hit piece on First Lady, Melania Trump

• Hit piece on President Trump in The Atlantic

• Christopher Rufo’s success, divisive, un-American training halted

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i can feel trump's approval level climbing by one percent

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climbing by one percent yes according to rasmussen he's up to 52 percent approval now if the 52 percent holds and and it turns out that that's accurate that's pretty much the end of the game because at that level you pretty much always get re-elected but we'll see if that holds lots of plenty there's plenty of time for excitement between now and election day uh well the biden riots continue in rochester portland and new york city i've been trying to figure out what's the best way to characterize them and i think biden riots would be the best way because they they do have a variety of things that you know the protesters and the and the rioters and the looters have different motivations but the one thing they all have in common is that they support they support joe biden it's the only thing they have in common

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thing they have in common so i think it's fair to call them biden biden riots
i've decided that i'm not going to make a distinction anymore between black lives matter and the kkk now you might say to me uh scott those are
are literally opposites and i would say not really not really because both both groups are um expressly racist that's why they exist they're um yeah they're both racist groups as soon as you as soon as you identify as a racist organization i don't really need to hear the details i'm kind of out on that here's what i don't do scott here's a racist organization um why don't you stay well and you know listen to some of the details because i know it sounds bad on the surface

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know it sounds bad on the surface that it's a racist organization and you know maybe they're involved in some protests that turn into a little bit of looting and rioting but that's a small percentage of them i think you should stay and hear the the full explanation of what you're doing no no i don't stay for the meeting i say wait what was that first thing you said they say oh we're a racist organization come and stay and listen to the details no i feel like i don't need to stay for the details because whether your black lives matter or if you're the kkk i'm still kind of out on the first the first sentence it's like yeah we're a racist organization i'm out i'm out but wait you haven't heard our reasons i'm not going to stay for that so those of you who would like to discuss the fine differences between one racist organization and

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between one racist organization and another you're welcome to do that just don't invite me i don't need to be part of that conversation but if any of those people would like to be on team united states and try to make the best world for everybody as best we can under realistic constraints i'm okay with that but for now my current take is that blm and the kkk are different yeah i get that they're different but they're different in the way that uber and lyft are different sure it's a different app it's a different organization there's a lot of differences between uber and lyft but what's not different is that they don't care they're the same to me i get that they're different to them i get the uber knows it's not lyft and lyft and knows it's not uber but it doesn't matter to me those things are relevant to me

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are relevant to me so here's my new segment i call worst takes on twitter and these are the ones that are so bad you don't necessarily have to have any discussion about them you could just put them out there and they could just sit there as worst takes so here's one from
it doesn't even matter who said some of these things so sometimes i'll tell you who did and sometimes i won't um somebody says nobody states anything bad about the kkk
so this is somebody who is pro black lives matter and he was noting that there's a hashtag called blm terrorists and this gentleman says you know hashtag blm terrace but nobody says anything bad about the kkk to which i say i think a lot of people say bad things about the kkk i haven't done a research project on it i can't say that i've done

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i can't say that i've done a randomized control study but observationally back me up in the comments here i feel as though i've heard bad things about the kkk where have you lived in the united states where you're not hearing bad things about the kkk so that's a worse take
this also from twitter so a professor at nyu
nyu salvatore felica he tweeted about the rochester protests and said quote how much you want to bet these are not blm people that they're right-wing operatives trying to scare suburban folks i'll take that bat
does anybody else want to get in on this there's a there's somebody who's smart enough to be a professor and smart enough to be teaching uh college students at nyu and so he's smart enough to do that but he's willing to take a bet that uh

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but he's willing to take a bet that uh that the people presenting themselves as black lives matter are really right-wing operatives uh i'm gonna take that bet how much you want to put on that now i'm not going to say that it has never happened that some right-wing operative dressed up as anti-farmer black lives matter you know it's a big it's a big world it's probably happened but no not most of them i think the the vast majority of them are actually exactly what they look like protesters [Music] here's one from carnell blackwell
and because this is a simulation and only because it's a simulation this has nothing to do with race it's just a coincidence that cornell blackwell is a black man i always i always think it's interesting when people's uh names suggest what they do for a life

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uh names suggest what they do for a life or
or or how they're identified but he's he's uh mr blackwell says there's he's talking about the video of a restaurant an outdoor restaurant where the the alleged black lives matter protesters were going through the restaurant kind of chasing people out and pushing over the tables and carnell blackwell says in his tweet there's actually not one black person going through that restaurant disturbing those people like that those are all white people who are trying to put a bad light on blm i wonder who hired them now the first problem with this is that i saw the video there were black people with the white people so first of all what's wrong with your eyesight but secondly do you think that's what that was do you think it was a false flag it was a bunch of white people pretending to be black lives matter turning over tables in a restaurant

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turning over tables in a restaurant i suppose anything's possible but i'm going to say this isn't the strongest take i'm guessing that's not what was happening there
and here's here's one of my favorite this is from christine morris on twitter and christine says i am white i am also a race scholar okay so here's somebody who's a race scholar so this should be a good take right she goes on i do not understand how any reasonable rational intelligent person can look at our system and say it is not built to keep white people in power the only way to miss it is to refuse to look and i tweeted back that all systems are designed to keep the power to people who are in power in power there's no exception to that what is a system that is not designed to keep the people who have power in power it's not that's never existed

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in power it's not that's never existed the fact that the white people are in power is you know an artifact of history it just worked out that way but it doesn't matter who's in power whoever is in power is going to make damn sure the system keeps them in power that's all that's happening the fact that that also has a racial component is sort of the outcome of it but it wouldn't matter if all of our leaders magically became filipino americans they would still design the system to keep the system with the powerful people powerful and would have the effect of you know probably keeping more people like them in power but you have to you have to kind of take that extra leap to imagine that the reason that's being done is racial you don't need the racial reason because you have the other reason which is everybody in power wants to stay there there's no exception to that if tomorrow things got turned upside down

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things got turned upside down and black americans were in power they would make sure the system maintained that situation why wouldn't they why wouldn't they everybody would it's just the most common thing in the world
well anyway now that we're seeing uh lots of speculation from uh black people who support black lives matter speculating that the white people who are helping them let's say antifa maybe you're not helping them after all maybe the white people who are allegedly on their side are making things worse as in much much worse now speaking for the team that is the target of persuasion let's say white people who have some money when you say that the the group that is mostly trying to be persuaded by the protests would be the people in

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by the protests would be the people in power and mostly white people in power i think that's a fair statement it's an over generalization of course there are other people in power but as you know in terms of the social construct of these protests that's kind of what it is and doesn't assume to you that black lives matter and those white people who are helping them are going to be at each other's throats fairly soon i think fairly soon the the black people who have completely legitimate complaints you know just to refresh if anybody's new to this i'm completely on the side that says that systemic racism exists and i'm completely on the side that says hey let's see what we can do about that you know there must be a variety of things we can do to minimize that which is different than you know destroying the entire system and turning it upside down for example you could put a lot of

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for example you could put a lot of attention black black americans and republicans of all type could concentrate on defeating the teachers unions because the teachers unions are the ones that prevent competition in schools which makes which makes uh an ossified situation in other words because the school system can't allow people easily to rise from whatever situation they were born into that's the problem so if you're looking for the biggest problem you have all the allies in the world tons of allies that democrats not enough of them republicans almost all of them black population most of them should be on exactly the same side on the major point of systemic racism which is the teachers unions why not just acknowledge that and then work on it get it done so anybody who's not working on such an

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so anybody who's not working on such an obvious big target and instead is working on the smallest priority which is the the total number of people who get killed by the police tragic as it is as much as we should fix that it's also the smallest problem just in terms of numbers you know the school system destroys an entire generation violence from police as bad as it is doesn't come anywhere near that it doesn't destroy a all right so i think there's almost certainly going to be a big battle between black lives matter activists who are actually black and black lives matter helpers who are white who are not helping those two groups are going to come to blows there's a story in the news about melania and i had to go do some research to find out what's up with this and the i the idea is that melania the critics say

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the idea is that melania the critics say that she's no better than trump because she supported the birther racist idea some time back she was pro-birtherism i guess now i thought i wonder what she actually said because in the in the world of fake news you say to yourself that is exactly the kind of story that might be taking that context or or change somehow so i looked it up and that it sounds like the worst thing she did was go on the view and she said something along the lines of um that the birth certificate for obama everybody would like to see the real one and they weren't sure they had seen the real birth certificate yet now does that sound racist does it sound racist that you'd like the that you think the entire country would be interested in making sure that the birth certificate is exactly what you hope it would be which is legal and

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you hope it would be which is legal and appropriate that just sounds like what everybody wanted there were there were no democrats who didn't want that because they assumed that if they had you know the the full birth certificate it would show that they're right so of course democrats wanted that republicans wanted it because they thought well maybe there's something here but they they wanted the same thing they wanted to know so melania basically characterized the accurately the opinion of every democrat and every republican and everyone in the media that's literally all she did she just characterized everybody's opinion that they'd like to know for sure and get and move on with life and that turned into she must be a racist because and this is how it was worded in one hit piece on her many see birtherism as racist due to the fact that no other u.s president was ever questioned about his birthplace until obama the first black president

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until obama the first black president so therefore it is a direct attack on his legitimacy to which i say um who is the other president who you could have made this attack on who was the other president who had any kind of unknown about their uh about their birth certificate this is completely stupid thinking you would have to be a to go from hey obama is the only one who is black and president and also the only one who was asked about his birth certificate therefore it's obviously racist couldn't you make this same statement about literally every every complaint about obama could you now say you know the only person that we ever say that he promised you could keep your doctor and then he didn't of all the presidents look at him how many

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many how many white presidents were ever criticized even once for saying you could keep your doctor and then turns out you couldn't just one right all these white presidents and the only one
one the only one who gets picked on for saying that you can keep your present you
you your doctor when you couldn't is the black one you're telling me that's not racist uh do the math one out of 45 or whatever i guess you have to count the two terms et cetera so one out of whatever that's a pretty big coincidence cut isn't that proof no it's not proof of anything the only thing is proof of is that obama had a certain set of things he could be attacked on and he was attacked on every one of them that's it that's the whole story everything that he could be attacked on

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everything that he could be attacked on he was attacked on what about all the other presidents is it true that everything they could be attacked on they were attacked on yes every single thing in fact ted cruz was was attacked on you know his potential citizenship because of some canadian connection obviously that wasn't racist unless it was racist against quasi-canadians
so i would say that the people who say the birther thing is obviously racist just on the surface it's obvious that's just stupid i i don't even think that's political i think it's just stupid because that's not how thinking works thinking does not take every coincidence and put meaning to it that's not thinking that's the opposite that's just some kind of bad pattern recognition that is uh president trump's approval rating like i said is up to

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like i said is up to 52 but apparently he is according to rasmussen anyway his approval among black likely voters is historic now we don't know if that translates into election day because there's so many unknowns but there is a very very high likelihood i would say that president trump will be re-elected with a a percentage of the black vote that nobody saw coming because the press is no longer a legitimate you know reporter of fact it is it's just a propaganda outfit so it's looking like it i'm not sure if you could say it's going to happen yet but the indication or he'll have the biggest black uh support of any president
let's talk about that atlantic article probably in 24 hours it won't even be news anymore but did you all know that the atlantic

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but did you all know that the atlantic the uh disreputable publication that has no credibility whatsoever basically a propaganda rag that is owned by
by steve jobs widow or she's the biggest shareholder i guess so lorena jobs do you know what's also is a big coincidence about lorena jobs in addition to owning the biggest chunk of the atlantic she's also joe biden's biggest donor well there's a big coincidence so the completely disreputable publication which is nothing which is well understood to be just a propaganda rag
rag which is run by jeffrey goldberg who other people who seem to know this stuff consider him almost an emblem of unreliable journalists he's almost not almost within journalism he's actually famous for making up stories he's literally you know his name is almost synonymous

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you know his name is almost synonymous with fake news so you've got a propaganda rag that's a majority owned by biden's biggest donor and an article written by the least credible journalist in all of america and that's what we're talking about
so then but you say to yourself bescot the big news is that jennifer griffin of fox news has confirmed it well what is confirmed to mean so it turns out that there's a lot of mocking uh coming out about the the word confirmed so here's what happened so when jennifer griffin looked into it she found that bolton john bolton and at least one other who were present the whole time these decisions were being made you know the subject of the atlantic story says no that it was not true and he's definitely sure of it and he doesn't like trump but he's just

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and he doesn't like trump but he's just being honest it did not happen that trump wanted to cancel for any reason other than whether the event that got canceled for trump and
and so the only thing that could be confirmed by another person was debunked the parts that were considered confirmed were just talking to the same anonymous sources and they just repeated their story we think because jennifer griffin did not mention that she talked to other people so the assumption is she talked to the same sources in in the reporting business that's called not confirmed that is the the definition of a story that you have not confirmed is one in which there are several claims you've debunked the ones that can be debunked and all you've done is talk to the same anonymous sources that stayed anonymous that is closer to debunking a story

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that is closer to debunking a story and it's actually been labeled as confirming it's a debunk because once you've debunked any part of a story conclusively then you sort of debunk the rest of the story because it is presented as a package and if any part of the package can be easily proven to be false well then the rest of the package especially if it's anonymous sources has to be rejected the news and much of social media called that debunking a confirmation of the story incredible a confirmation of the story and we're at that point in history where somebody can show you a banana and say it's an apple and you'll say um no i'm looking right in your hand and that's a banana and people will look right at you and say apple now what's wrong with you is there something wrong with your brain because that's clearly a banana you know it's got a it's just long you can peel it it's yellow i can ask a

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you can peel it it's yellow i can ask a hundred people you can take a picture you can google it every way you can check this that's a banana and the person will look at you and say it's an apple and you say i don't know where to go with this i just don't know where to go with this it's literally we've got to the point where people will look you right in the eye and tell you that there's an elephant standing in the room when there isn't and that's sort of where we're at now but let me let me talk about some of the specific claims in the jennifer griffin debunk which she calls or others call her confirmation so she said uh two sources confirmed the president did not want flags lowered right confirmed no that's the opposite of confirmed unless she's telling us these are new people she talked to but she didn't say that so it's the opposite of confirmed

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and that the white house ordered them a half mass there was a standoff and then the president relented here's another way to tell that same story um advisers wanted the flag to be at half staff for uh who was this what's his names um why am i blanking out on john john mccain's death so there were some people wanted it to be half-mast they're reporting that the president didn't but the people who wanted it to be half-mast prevailed let me tell you the other way to tell this story president trump listened to the arguments and decided to fly the fly the flags at half-mast that's the same story yeah thank you mccain um it's the same story it's just worded differently all i did was put different words that are completely accurate on the same set of facts do you know how decisions are made like this every decision is made this

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like this every decision is made this way
way there's a pro there's a con the boss makes the decision that's it it doesn't make the con arguments go away it doesn't make the pro arguments right it's just how everything works people argue the decision is made so when president trump says it was his decision to lower the flags to half-mast that is literally technically 100 accurate it might also be that there was a conversation about it it might also be that he wasn't immediately on that page doesn't matter it doesn't matter it only matters what he decided he was in charge and he decided to do this and then he said i'm the one who decided to do it that's the end of the story if you're digging into what the argument was why there's an argument on everything he made the decision everybody agreed with the decision it's over all right so that was one

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it's over all right so that was one and by the way that was only about mccain it was not about service people all right then griffin also said she confirmed that trump had asked why uh
uh why why veterans served and the quote attributed to trump is what's in it for them they don't make any money now how do you interpret that if trump did say this and of course none of this is credible but if he did say it if he was looking at a a cemetery of dead service people and if he said what's in it for them they don't make money how do you interpret that i not being batshit crazy interpret it the most obvious way which is that they're heroes they're heroes because they did it for selfless reasons which is exactly what trump is getting at or that's the way i interpret the sentence when he says what's in it for them he's he's noting explicitly that there's

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he's he's noting explicitly that there's not a selfish game involved and he says they don't make money again there's no selfish gain involved that's what a hero is somebody who put their their life on the line without financial gain for other people this is nothing but a compliment it's nothing but a compliment and it's reported as some kind of an insult how about the next one
but griffin said she could not confirm quote the most salacious part so the salacious part was that uh trump had called the world war one soldiers buried at the einmarn american cemetery near paris losers and suckers do you know why nobody could confirm that because there's no chance that that happened there is zero chance that the president of the united states president donald trump ever stood

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president donald trump ever stood at a world war one cemetery in someone else's country with americans apparently in the cemetery um right yeah amer were are there americans there well whoever is there they were on our side so it doesn't make much difference um there is no chance that he called them losers and suckers it is so completely opposite of his personality now you say to me but scott he said terrible things about people yes terrible people who are his critics he doesn't have any critics buried in the cemetery there are no critics in the cemetery they're not complaining about anything unfortunately so to imagine that because trump says bad things about his critics that he would also say something about the people he admires and supports the most law enforcement first responders the military he's really really consistent

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military he's really really consistent about this i mean if there's one thing he's crystal clear about is his respect for people in the service he's always been clear about that uh regarding the july 4th military parade when somebody said about the inclusion of wounded soldiers trump is said reported to have said that's not a good look americans don't like that here's the problem that's just true i hate to say it but if you were if you were going to a military parade the point of which is to make you feel good about the country the wounded soldiers uh although we should give them the highest level of respect i think most americans do yeah i think we get that right that the highest level of respect we give to our wounded and and certainly the soldiers

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wounded and and certainly the soldiers who
who passed away but that said that doesn't mean you use every group and every purpose all the time you know you don't use them for every purpose because they're the most respected a military prey it is really about the look and the feel and if you put the people who had a tragic let's say a permanent disability or something from war what are you telling the spectators what are you telling the country well one thing you're telling them is that you're respecting that group a plus that part's good but you're also trying to sell the military and it's not the way you sell it have you ever seen a recruiting commercial on television for the marines let's say which showed a wounded soldier have you ever seen that do you think that the people who make commercials that are intended to recruit people and make our volunteer army work from

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and make our volunteer army work from the voluntary military voluntary military work do you think that the madison avenue commercial people don't think exactly like trump does which is no we're trying to make this look like people want to get involved if you show the wounded no matter how much respect you give them and they deserve every bit of it it does detract from the message now here's my big complaint here that is the sort of thing that you could say privately and nobody would get too offended right if you said the same thing i just said if you were dumb enough to say it in public good luck i'll be canceled by tomorrow but if you had said something like that privately let's say it was you and whoever was working on the event would that be a problem two people private conversation would that be a problem no no that wouldn't be even disrespectful because it would be two people trying to

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because it would be two people trying to solve a problem how do you communicate this thing how do you sell the military and they would not be even a little bit disrespecting any wounded service people they would just be saying what's what's the time in the place you know how do you arrange things for the best result the problem came when it was reported so in other words whoever told the story took it out of a private conversation where it was not disrespectful and could not have hurt anybody because it was in a private conversation and they made it a public statement which now opens up the question of whether it was disrespectful and so you see the democrats once again throwing under the bus some part of the american public to make a political point in this case surfacing this is the most distasteful thing you might ever see and so the the reporters you know the

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and so the the reporters you know the the jeffrey goldbergs the atlantic and even the people who told them the story you would have to put them at the lowest level of reputable americans i'd put the wounded soldiers at the top you know if you're just going to rank people for how much have they given to the country what is their value to society wounded service people at the top people who told that freaking story in public to even bring into the conversation disrespect for the wounded soldiers whoever told that story and made that public for political reasons most disgusting people on earth horrible yet we're also trained and brainwashed to look at the the players instead of the messengers sometimes the messenger is the problem this is a clean case where the messenger was the problem not the message because the message was

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not the message because the message was you know in its safe place until the messenger made it public all right
then the question about whether he went why he didn't go to the cemetery that was all debunked all right here's uh chris saliza at cnn now cnn is covering this in a very interesting way i would say that cnn's coverage signals that they don't believe it's true because when cnn reports it as this is not confirmed or actually i think what seliza said was that cnn has not confirmed the story now you know how much cnn wants to confirm the story and you know that they will do reckless things if it's bad for trump so they'll take the the thinnest story and make it real through the reporting
routinely and even cnn is still careful with their language and

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is still careful with their language and says cnn has not confirmed the story but despite that chris eliza makes a valiant attempt to make the point that this story whether it's true or false the atlantic story whether it's true or false it's still in the
the the family of things that trump has done that have similar vibes of badness and he's going to list them all so that you can see even if this story isn't true in the atlantic it's true-ish in the sense that it it's a good uh it's sort of it sort of acts as a proxy for all the things he has done that we know he's done so let's look at this list this powerful list of things we know that the president has done um he once made a joke about john mccain not being a war hero because he was captured and he says i like people who weren't

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and he says i like people who weren't captured literally a joke a chris rock joke before it was a trump joke literally a well-known joke i recognized it immediately i recognized the form of the joke as soon as i heard it oh it's one of those jokes because there are only 100 jokes in the universe and everybody just populates them with different different variables but it's the same joke the moment i heard this i was like oh it's one it's that one it's that type of joke where you take somebody who's the highest level of respect a war hero and you just find a clever way to redefine them into the lowest level of respect which is uh he's just the guy who got captured now is this disrespectful of military people or is it clearly just a joke about somebody he's running for president against well it's clearly just a joke and it's somebody who's his critic and it's obviously just designed about this one person

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this one person if you try to generalize this a joke to to other captured service people do you imagine for one minute do you imagine in your wildest imagination that trump would have extended this thought to anybody else if you said to trump okay you said that about mccain but would you say that about all the other captured service people what would trump say do you think he would say oh yeah that's that's just generally true no no not only would he not say it there isn't the slightest chance he thinks it because obviously you know people get drafted that's not their choice things happen people get captured it's not their fault obviously trump knows that because everybody knows that so to imagine that his one or his one jokey attack on a political opponent was somehow his opinion about service people that's just dumb right to extend that

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that's just dumb right to extend that as an indication of his attitude about other service people that's just dumb there's no other way to express it i'd love to say you know the facts are wrong or but no that's just dumb it's obviously just about one person here's another one from chris saliza uh in the wake of the gold star father uh kaiser khan's speech at the democratic national convention in 2016 in which khan suggested trump had never sacrificed anything in life the billionaire businessman suggested the hillary clinton speechwriters had actually written the speech oh my goodness how disrespectful to a gold star family to suggest that the most obvious thing that's clearly true is obviously clearly true it is obviously clearly true that if you're going to give a speech at the democratic or republican convention that people associated with organizing the convention will need to

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organizing the convention will need to hear what your speech is they will have input all right it's just normal so so far the president has accused them of just being normal people doing the normal thing you do if you're going to be a keynote at an event like that so so so far it's nothing but he goes on uh and uh and he he wondered aloud about khan's wife who stood silent by silently by her husband but was not allowed to speak and trump said not allowed to speak now is that insulting service people what does that have to do with the military talking about this man's relationship with his wife was obviously pointing out that he was not treating his wife well that's fair what for trump to point out why does why doesn't the woman get to speak that is progressive so he's being blamed

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that is progressive so he's being blamed for being anti-military for literally speaking in favor of a gold star mother's respect for being willing able to speak not allowed to speak in public that's kind of disrespectful isn't it make her stand there and not speak i'm not sure that shows her respect so trump calling out for more respect for a gold star family mother has been turned into trump being anti-military this is not even close they're not even in the same conversation so so now you've got these two ridiculous laundry list examples that don't have anything to do with the military then there was uh last fall so listen goes on trump referred to as uh to james mattis his former secretary of defense a highly decorated marine he called them the most the world's most overrated general

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overrated general now isn't that just trump insulting a critic there's nothing to that has nothing to do with the military has everything to do with one guy you can insult one guy who insulted you first especially if you've already fired him i mean this is the most basic stuff how is this have to do with the military has to do with this one guy that he doesn't like um and then then there's so liz goes on well campaigning campaigning in iowa in 2015 trump said i know more about isis than the generals do
do isn't that just trump being trump in in what world is that an insult to the military if anything it's an insult to his own generals and they're well paid i don't think that they they figure that's the biggest problem in their life i i think it's just trump being trump has nothing to do with respecting the

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has nothing to do with respecting the military anyway and then the funniest part is that seliza ends it up these are these are his strongest examples and all of them are empty they're completely empty vessels there's nothing in them any of them and then he he rounds it out with this there's more much more and then there's a link to something i didn't bother clicking but you get the idea yeah i get the idea i get the idea that you don't have a damn thing there's nothing here all right um i noticed that clay travis was tweeting that the washington post wrote a 2300 word hit piece on him and took all of his quotes out of context etc and he mentioned that he expected it to happen which is why he recorded the interview so you can see all the all the despicable things they did now remember i've told you about the the murray gel man amnesia effect

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gel man amnesia effect so if you are the subject of news stories you get to see firsthand how they've distorted everything but then you read about somebody else's story and you think well that's probably true no no it's almost it's almost never true and until you learn that profile stories are almost never true and in terms of you know accurate and all their points uh it's hard to believe until you see enough examples of it but here's my uh advice to you if anybody needs to hear this in the political season do not agree to a profile piece no matter how complementary that feels i fell for that with bloomberg so bloomberg did they one of those things back in the last election cycle where they have a reporter follows you around you know half a day and asks lots of questions and really sorts tries to dig in into a a profile of you don't do those

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a profile of you don't do those those are nothing but hit pieces in which they build up your ego it's like hey
hey you know hey clay uh you are so important now you're doing great clay uh the washington post highly prestigious publication we'd like to do a nice profile piece of you
you now clay travis was as you can tell from the story smart enough to know that it was a trap so he he set his own trap to trap the trappers but i don't think it worked because the people who read the washington post are going to believe what they read and not as many people are going to read his debunk so the washington post still won his his trapping of the trap is good but not as good as if he'd not done it at all so if you get an opportunity to do a profile piece with one of these big publications during a political season the only purpose is to take you off the board and that the next time you say something

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and that the next time you say something clever against biden then all the people who have seen that article the hip beast can say oh well here's the guy who eats babies you know some some lie that they'd make up in the hippies here's the link to it so you can see i'm not making it up here's an article that says he eats babies and now he says joe biden looks sleepy oh i guess we can't believe this guy because this profile piece says he eats babies
so don't do a proof profile piece it's a trap
so this is the because the media can cause trouble and then blame somebody else for it it's an amazing power that you can be the source of the problem and then you can completely frame somebody else for it because you the power of owning the airwaves uh and here are the times they've done this so with the fine people hoax they basically threw black america onto the bus

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bus in my opinion this was essentially a scam on black americans because the idea was for white people who pretend to be helping to tell black people that the president of the united states complemented white supremacists imagine you're a black american some of you are so you don't have to imagine it imagine you're a black american and you hear credible news organizations or ones you think should be credible turns out they're not credible but you think they are because somebody's got to be credible and they tell you that the president of the united states just sided with people who would like you gone how would that feel you're you're just a black american citizen you're you're working taking care of your family you're contributing maybe you've been in the military you know you've you've done some stuff you've contributed you know you're you're uh

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contributed you know you're you're uh you have the right to every bit of respect and good treatment as every american of course that's the the bedrock of our system and then the freaking democrats run this hoax in which they convince you that with this scam because the fine people hoax as you know didn't really happen they they edit the the thing to take out the clarifier that says when the president said he's condemning the white nationalists and neo-nazis they leave that out if you don't know how the scam was done so isn't that just about the worst thing you've ever heard anybody to do do to citizens of this country to actually convince them that they're living in a country where the leader was pro-white supremacist he's not didn't happen but that's like one of the worst cons i've ever seen and they sold it to most of the country that is despicable is it as despicable as this latest one

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this latest one where they are throwing the gold star families and the service people under the under the bus because with this con or scam if you will they've decided that they will convince the people who are you know giving the most you know literally sacrificing life and limb for this country they're telling that group that their leader doesn't respect them now it's not true it's the opposite of true but how would you feel if you'd given you know your legs or you know or or you had somebody in your family who died fighting for this country and then you hear the scam that says that the the leader doesn't even respect you not true completely false but that is a bad thing to do to the people we should be respecting the most that's that's as low as you can get so

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that's that's as low as you can get so the republic the democrats seem to consistently be willing to do hoaxes that would target black americans really badly i mean it's hard to think of anything that would be worse than that um and target service people i mean this is disgusting disgusting stuff that they're doing all right i of course was waiting when i heard the atlantic story hoax uh i was waiting for my my smart liberal friend that i talk about all the time so he's my friend that i argue with usually by email and he has one characteristic which makes him fun to to talk with he believes everything in the news
he actually just believes it uncritically and it re it creates hilarious results because i take a side

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because i take a side but i'm certainly you've heard me how many times criticize fox news for various craziness criticized the left i criticized the right i've criticized the president so i'm pretty well you know willing to criticize anything and i'll call bs whether it comes from the left to the right i never bought into the birther thing for example for there was never one moment that i thought the birther thing was true there's never one moment i thought the uranium one thing was true that there's a complete stuff um so i call out the hoaxes everywhere doesn't matter where they come from if it's not true obviously not true i'm gonna call it out but my liberal friend only thinks that cnn is right and only thinks that the the people on the right are wrong and there's no exception and and he's sort of stuck in the past where the news was somewhat believable maybe it wasn't true but it was easily at least we believed it back then and of course he bought every part of

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and of course he bought every part of the atlantic story i and i thought to myself surely surely he's not going to believe this one because this one is so obviously i mean this one they're not even really trying too hard this is just so obviously a hoax and sure enough i check my email and there it is he but he believed every part of it every part of it you believed it's quite a head shaker all right um we were all laughing about the uh press conference that biden did yesterday in which he uh he read he was reading off the teleprompter and read the part you're not supposed to read uh end of quote because it just says that in the tall teleprompter [Laughter] maybe he was supposed to say it i don't know but it looked funny and of course he looked degraded and he looked in bad shape but they gave him these little softball questions most of his questions were of this form

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most of his questions were of this form um
um how do you feel about the badness of donald trump or uh what should we think about how dumb donald trump is so that's the kind of questions he got uh all right
um so christopher ruffo rufo um has quite a big win to his credit so on tuesday the president called to now he called on the president to abolish critical race theory the training courses on that in the federal government and uh last night that became the the standard so it wasn't the president himself who did it but somebody who had that authority in the government has decided that that training will no longer be allowed in uh in the government now here's what's interesting they give the reasons in their official

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they give the reasons in their official uh letter and called it divisive and un-american the training that is the critical race training
and here are the here's how they explained it said one paragraph said in the meantime all agencies are directed to begin to identify all contracts or other agencies spending related to any training unquote critical race theory white privilege or any other training or propaganda effort they actually call it propaganda effort that teaches or suggests either one
one that the united states is an inherently racist or evil country or two that any race or ethnicity is inherently racist or evil now uh that's a pretty strong statement from the government now here's what's interesting once your government has said something is uh un-american how do the colleges continue teaching it

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teaching it think about that if you're a college and you know or a private business and you wanted to keep doing this kind of uh training you would have to do it knowing that the government of the united states has stated that it's they don't say unconstitutional but sort of is uh in this in in the spirit of the constitution anyway it's unconstitutional uh and that it's inherently uh that's just bad it's un-american will they still do it when the government has labeled it as un-american i think they will but they're going to get more pushback
um so that that happened um and i had to do a little more reading to figure out what this critical race theory is but it kind of boils down to blaming white people for everything white people are racist the country is natural naturally racist and
and unlike most critics

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unlike most critics i'm willing to say oh there's something to that there's definitely something to it it would be one thing to say there's nothing to it but separately should it be taught right there are lots of things that are true they shouldn't be taught right you know it
it it might be true well i don't want to give any bad analogies but um so there's certainly some systemic racism that supports the people in power some you know a lot of them are white so that's all true but what you do about it
it should not be informed by that what you do about it should be whatever works you shouldn't start with you know here's the problem and therefore we need solutions that deal specifically with this root problem how about just solutions that work for everybody so here's a mystery pakistan is doing great with the coronavirus despite not really having much in terms of

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of you know modern medical stuff so why is pakistan doing so well relative to other countries and does that mean that their leadership is extra good because you're going to see people say oh the countries that did right they've got better leadership and i told you from the start nope nope leadership might be the least important variable because most of the leaders were just doing what the experts told them to do and mostly experts were telling them similar stuff but they're getting wildly different outcomes if you get wildly different outcomes and the leaders are largely doing the same basic stuff that kind of tells you that leadership isn't the thing that is the main variable there's something else and with pakistan it remains a mystery they actually don't know why they're doing so well so i did a little digging in
in and some of you are a little ahead of me in the comments

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in the comments i looked at the obesity rates for different countries and i i thought well i'll just compare some of the big countries that we talk about let's say germany and the united states so the united states has 36 percent obesity 36 of of adult americans or is it all americans i don't know probably adults but 36 percent are obese or overweight we rank 12th you know so we're we're in the top 12 and of uh 191 countries so out of 191 countries we're in the top 12
12 of fatness now we know that obesity is one of the biggest comorbidities so all things being equal if we had the best president ever how should we do compared to say germany that's 22 now the difference between 22 obesity

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now the difference between 22 obesity and 36 that's a big difference that's a big difference so germany is ranked 79th in obesity we're ranked 12th they're ranked all the way down in 79th so if germany and the united states did exactly the same capable job what would be the outcome well the outcome should be if we did just as good leadership both ways we would have way more deaths in the united states because we're fatter does anybody disagree with that i feel like that's just a plain statement of the obvious then i looked at the other comorbidity if i could call it that i shouldn't call it that because somebody's going to say that sounds racist but since black americans are are way disproportionately affected you would the next question you'd ask is how many black people live in germany

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is how many black people live in germany how many black people live in the united states and see if there's any difference because if they had the same amount of black people that would be at least that variable would be somewhat controlled and you could say oh the difference might be the obesity and maybe a little leadership but it has nothing to do with the number of black people who live there even though we know black people get you know far more hit by the coronavirus because they have the same amount do they have the same amount well um the united states has 13 and germany has uh rounds to zero i think all uh so i had a little trouble finding the exact number but germany has fewer than 2 million black germans and the united states is 13 times 300 x million 40 50 million so we've got 40 or 50 million black citizens who are you know the most

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black citizens who are you know the most at risk and and we and germany has like less than 2 million
how do we not run the numbers and normalize for this let me say it as clearly as possible anybody who says to you well germany did well in the united states didn't therefore leadership is different is just an idiot that that's that's really dumb because these gigantic variables that we do know matter we do know that age matters we do know that obesity matters we do know that you know the quality of the health care matters a lot of these things matter let's say let's go further would you think that if if it's true oh and by the way let's talk about obesity some more so uh where is china on the list of obesity or japan would you agree that china and japan are two

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two populated dense countries in which they seem to be giving credit for doing a good job of getting on top of the the coronavirus and in in japan especially they've got a lot of older people and they still did a good job where did they rank on obesity and of 191 china is 169th they're toward the bottom only six percent of chinese citizens are obese compared to
to 36 percent in the united states six times more how many black people live in china not a lot not a lot that's got to be a variable how about japan japan ranks 185th out of 191 countries on obesity four percent of japanese citizens are obese four percent again united states 36 percent

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36 percent all right but now let's look at the number of uh black residents so i ranked uh i ranked the various countries by the number of black residents this is not every country and i think i don't have africa in here because africa has a unique characteristic a couple of unique characteristics one is that they're real young africa is a super young country so that makes a difference but also we don't know if the record keeping is telling us what's going on there so you've heard that brazil it has one of the worst death rates right and they also have one of the most the biggest black populations so brazil has lots of black people who live there and the highest mortality now some of these numbers may need to be updated a week or two but these are relatively good next highest on the list is the united states and they're right behind brazil for

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and they're right behind brazil for their death rate so brazil and the united states have the most black people of you know outside of africa i think and
and and also the biggest death rate coincidence who knows now haiti is next and they've got almost none and jamaica is on the list of the top ten and they have like almost no death rate and venezuela shows as almost no death rate so those are countries with the large black population outside of africa that have almost no deaths but they also have in common that their record-keeping is very suspect venezuela haiti and jamaica don't quite know what's going on in those places but at least in the cases of haiti and jamaica you've got an island so we know that being on an island helps all right so you take those exceptions out
out what are the other countries that have large black populations outside of africa colombia and it's right at the top of the death list

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the death list here's another one france france is way high on the list of deaths per hundred thousand how about the uk very high black population you know for something outside of africa very high death rate how about mexico mexico has a very large black population for outside of africa very high death rate how about peru very high death rate lots of black citizens how about canada not so bad but canada is not as dense i would think so canada might be a special case anyway here's the thing if anybody ever tells you this country did better than this country with the coronavirus and they don't normalize it by doing some actual math to adjust to adjust for the obesity the age and the percentage of black citizens who live there who get hit the hardest if you don't adjust for those things and you just say oh

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you just say oh canada was doing better than new zealand you are an idiot you're an idiot you are so dumb that you should not be talking about anything in public you should only mumble to yourself behind your mask so nobody can hear you talk have i made that point is there anybody here who disagrees with me that if you haven't adjusted for those gigantic variables trying to say if it was the leadership that made the difference is stupid super super stupid
and how about russia i'm not sure we know what's going on in russia and then maybe hydroxychloroquine is part of the story i don't know and then there's a big variable about um whether they used ventilators or not if you used ventilators early on you probably killed people if you were a country that didn't have enough ventilators you got lucky because it turns out not

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you got lucky because it turns out not having enough ventilators probably really helped you because you would have fewer people on them and it was the ventilators that were killing people i guess we know that now so that is all i got to say today i've already said too much and i did mention canada you missed it and i will talk to you later