Episode 1121 Scott Adams: “Losing Strategy” of BLM and Palestinians, a New Black-Only Town, Kurds

Date: 2020-09-12 | Duration: 1:03:19

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• President Trump’s 1st term, most successful of any Presidency
• Losing strategy examples: BLM and Palestinians
• Bill Maher: Democrats running cover for looting…bad idea
• The Atlantic now wants Nobel Peace Prize ended
• 19 Black families building a Black-Only town from scratch
• California is embarrassingly anti-science on climate change

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we are at we're on what would you call it
it house arrest i'm on house arrest but i hope the rest of you can get out and enjoy your day and what's a good way to start the day what would be the best way to get your day off to a great start yeah that's right it's the simultaneous sip you got it right on the first try and all you need is a copper mug or a glass of tanker chelsea style a canteen

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my most favored possession my my e-bike i cannot use i literally you know i barely can walk the dog you know i take the dog out for 10 minutes to do her business and that's it
it i wake up in this house i go to sleep in this house and uh it's very much like being on house arrest but let's talk about some of the news some of the things happening um as rush limbaugh noted the bob woodward book

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limbaugh noted the bob woodward book do you remember the bob woodward book i know it seems like a long time ago doesn't it
time time is so wonky now because there's so much news yeah you try to think back there was this book by bob woodward i don't know was it 10 years ago oh no it was this week and as rush limbaugh pointed out he had what 18 interviews with the president he had all the the time to write this book and the biggest the biggest bombshell he could make out of all that work and and of course the point is to come up with bombshells so you can sell your book the best bombshell he could come up with is something that the president has said publicly and often himself
that that's it the best bombshell revelation is something that you can go to the tape and say um that's not really so much of a bombshell

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that's not really so much of a bombshell because here's a here's a video of the president saying in public exactly what he said privately saying it to the world at a press conference and here's the date on it you can look at it and if you wondered if he took it seriously even at the same time he was saying i'm being a cheerleader for the country i don't want to panic you and he was telling you that he was doing that directly fully transparent at the same time he had you know closed travel or release much of it from china to signal that he thought it was deadly serious so then the bombshell comes out and tells you those two things which you knew were true you knew he took it seriously you knew he intentionally and transparently was playing it down admitted it in public at the time and that was it that was your best bombshell

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uh honestly if we were even a little bit objective about this president the the first term of trump you could make your case is the most successful term of any president i think you could make that case and here's the interesting part you could make the case that trump's first term is the most successful of any president even acknowledging all the criticisms you could even say all right let's just say just for argument's sake let's just say every single thing the democrats said was true every every criticism just said it's all true he would still still his accomplishments are still so substantial they would still be the best presidency of all time and the criticisms are not all true they're not they're not even close to true they're mostly a series of hoaxes and fake news so now we have the news that uh afghanistan

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afghanistan and the taliban the government of afghanistan and taliban are having some talks now i don't think you can get too optimistic about afghanistan you know finding peace but when you have said that a little while ago about north korea and south korea shaking hands didn't seem likely did it how about the middle east breaking down in peace you might not have seen that coming so in the age of trump there is a magic there's a magic thing that happens and if you don't see it yet you'll start to see it as it takes for him and it goes like this have you heard the word zeitgeist it's a german word there's no equivalent in english it has something to do with how our
our our common opinions of things can change all at the same time almost like we're connected

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like we're connected now we're not at least as far as i know but there are some things that just become sort of true in the in the ether just in the
the atmosphere and everybody just sort of wakes up the same feeling all at once and here's the thing that i think trump does and you're going to see this accelerate when trump took office even people who didn't like him said hey well at least he's a deal maker right so the first part of the zeitgeist was seven billion people who however many pay attention to american politics some billions woke up to say hey the united states has somebody who's famous for being a deal maker now he's not made any deals as president and some people will say you know yeah they'll critic criticize his business past but we would all agree that his brand and now it's sort of in our head is deal making right the other thing he

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is deal making right the other thing he did was he made the impossible look possible you don't have to do that too many times before everybody starts looking at the other pile of impossibles think about it just uh conceptually you you believe in your mind there are a hundred impossible things about the world we're never going to get anywhere with north korea you know we'll never get a better deal with china um the palestinian the uh the middle east will never see any more peace you know you could make a whole list of things which you know to be impossible you'll never get that stuff done and then you see the president do one of them and you say to yourself whoa okay didn't see that coming there he is standing on the dmz shaking hands with kim yeah we don't have a deal yeah he didn't give up his nukes but are you still worried about kim jong-un nuking the

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worried about kim jong-un nuking the united states nope nope you're worried about that one pretty close to zero from i gotta say i was kind of worried about it to be honest i was legitimately worried about north korea for a while and trump just took that away and you say to yourself all right all right he got lucky got lucky once sure anybody can get lucky then he drove the unemployment rate before the chronovirus down to levels that nobody thought was even possible it's one of the things that trump says all the time my favorite little throw away phrase that he throws at the end of almost every sentence nobody thought it was possible nobody thought it could be done now i've told you this before each time he says that and you know how often he says it right nobody thought it could be done everybody said it was impossible each time he says it it doesn't mean much of anything right it's just sort of a throwaway line but trust me

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trust me if he says it five times a day for a year you've heard it 1500 times and it starts to just carve a little home in your head oh trump things that weren't possible before trump things that nobody said could be done huh trump a new record nobody saw coming huh trump nominated for two nobel prizes you know two nominations for the same prize but two two separate nominations huh and here's what happens to the zeitgeist once you've changed the thinking from here's a hundred impossible things and it will always be that way and trump starts picking him off the first one okay that was just luck that was just luck yeah you got one all right maybe we were wrong maybe it wasn't so impossible okay we'll give you that you got one

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give you that you got one then he gets another one you're like okay okay it's just two things you know i get it two things could technically form a line but it's just two coincidence confirmation bias probably is a little bit overstated aren't you exaggerating the benefit a little bit uh let's not make too much of this and by the way that first thing you did that was so special kim jong-un still has his nukes so was that really a special and then the third impossible thing happens let's say a peace deal between the you know israel and the uae and then you say all right that's three that's three i still think this is luck but you have my attention you see where it's going the the mental structure that president trump has designed into all of our brains did not exist

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exist before president trump has rewired rewired programmed several billion human brains right in front of you that really happened there's there's no hyperbole in this statement this is a legitimate fact president trump intentionally and right in front of you while you watched every part of it rewired billions of brains right in front of you and how did he rewire them well there's a whole bunch of things that people think about him much of it bad much of it good so certainly you know there's all kinds of noise in the data right there's all kinds of ways that people feel it's this infinite variety of strong feelings in every direction but one of the things and the one that mattered the one that sits above all of that noise the one that makes all the others

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the one that makes all the others unimportant is this he can do what can't be done he can consistently apparently consistently do something that just can't be done you remember when he was uh at one point he was the uh poorest man in the world because he was so far in debt years ago in his business this that he had some i think he had a record for being like you have the greatest negative net worth of all time and came back not only did he come back to make his money back but he's now president of the united states and probably going to get elected to a second term so how many people thought that was possible how many people thought that after the uh
uh the the access hollywood tape dropped that he could still get elected many people thought he would get elected at all

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at all so trump has created this non-stop pattern of yeah he does things you don't like i'm not discounting the fact that he does some things you don't like that's true but he also does things if you're going to be a little bit objective at all you have to give me this you have to give me this he does things you thought were impossible and it's starting to look routine he i think he's going to get maybe 20 or more of the black vote in 2016 when i told people as i did publicly i said you know i think he's going to like set records for the black vote not obviously not the election that was over but you know maybe the next one and sure enough how many of you thought that was possible that he would set records for black votes you didn't think that was possible and so by creating a a

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and so by creating a a a programming change in our minds which we've changed that hundred impossible things into why do these keep happening
it looks like all these impossibles are happening when trump signed the most favored nations thing for pharmaceuticals what was the first thing you thought when you said wait a minute he just signed an executive order that's all it was didn't require a congress didn't require anything except the president and a piece of paper and a pen signing a document that lowered our drug costs by you know making it illegal for them to charge us more than they charge somebody else and i thought i thought that was impossible because if it wasn't impossible why didn't it happen before now the obvious reason is that the pharmaceutical companies were too powerful compared to past presidents apparently

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compared to past presidents apparently the pharmaceutical companies are not more powerful than trump because he just he just waved his hand and swept them off the table i guess they're complaining i haven't seen any complaints i haven't seen any blowback i haven't seen any negative
he'll never move the embassy the american embassy to jerusalem because that would cause all kinds of oh he did it okay i guess it wasn't impossible well it wouldn't make sense to recognize the golan heights because that oh he did it he just did it that's done okay i guess that worked out well it certainly would be reckless and crazy to send a drone to kill uh general solomony i mean you do that and you're going to create a giant war in the middle what he already did that lindsey graham told them not to do that he said it was reckless that's over the line you did it anyway and did it work out yeah kinda did

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did it work out yeah kinda did well but there's one thing we know if you remove american forces from syria that certain part of syria it was clear that near the turkish border we would be exposing all our kurdish allies and the kurds would just be slaughtered right so it was kind of impossible it was impos it was literally just impossible to remove our troops because we cannot be the kind of country that would leave our allies to be slaughtered so you've been seeing all the news about those kurds being slaughtered nope didn't happen it was impossible and then trump just did it right in front of you you can't it can't be done there's no way to do this without these people all getting killed watch me do it and then he just did it and i think we've waited long enough to determine that it worked out right now how many times does the president need to do this

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need to do this and now there's some talk that maybe maybe saudi arabia might be the next deal with israel which would be sort of the big one and that does make sense doesn't it because you're seeing you see that the smaller deals being made because that tests the system i don't think it's an accident that some smaller countries are going first you know to to just see okay bahrain all right brain how'd that go
go everybody everybody okay with this objections just just the palestinians okay um now if you think back to 2018 when the president president trump was being clearly soft on saudi arabia after the murder of khashoggi and pretty much the entire world on the left and the right said that's a mistake there is a big old mistake trump you can't just let that go you have to

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you can't just let that go you have to come down hard on saudi arabia you just got to do it there's no option to this and then he didn't do it and i said wait a minute i think you're missing something big i said to the public i said saudi arabia now owes the united states something big so what president trump did was he created an asset out of nothing which is his one of his greatest tricks he created an asset out of nothing the asset he created was saudi arabia owes us a big big freaking favor because trump did cover for them he did it publicly he did it at the risk and the cost of his own reputation tremendous expense tremendous expense for him personally look at the amount of of just flack that trump took for that public stand which he was quite

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which he was quite he was quite consistent on not going hard on saudi now time passes what do we need from saudi arabia lots of things you know there are lots of cooperation in a variety of different ways but the one thing that really really could just i don't just change everything is if saudi arabia says you know it's time it's time to work things out it's time to be the adults in the room it's time to do something with with israel that's permanent and lasting and just sets up the region for prosperity in the future i feel like saudi arabia is going to come online really soon before the election it would make sense because if you're saudi arabia here's what you're not going to do remember saudi arabia owes trump a favor here's what they're not going to do if they have any intention of jumping on the the peace deal train and it looks like they do

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and it looks like they do they're gonna do it before election you're you're gonna see one of the biggest like you know dynamite explosions in brains that you'll ever see if they if they pull this in before election and i would guess that's what they're aiming for we'll see if they pull it off
so uh that's my my big takeaway is that trump has changed our brains and changed what we think about what is possible from what is not possible he has absolutely rewired your brain to good effect i would say making us all more entrepreneurial maybe maybe a little bit more adept at risk management i mean you you get that for free just by observing because how many times have you now have you now seen something that seemed impossible get done now that's a that's a lesson that transfers into your life how many hundred things do you have in your personal life

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your personal life that you said to yourself well that's impossible i mean you know i'll work on the stuff that's doable i'm not going to work on this big pile of impossibles maybe take a shot at a few i can tell you that in my life there have been quite a few impossibles one of them you all know the story i lost my voice permanently i had an incurable voice problem there was no solution the rest of my life i would not be able to communicate in a way that people could understand but
but here i am a hundred thousand people will listen to this periscope eventually unrecorded as well as live and how do i sound right so this is one of the great great lessons and this is the sort of thing that trump will never get full credit for and it's the i would argue the most important thing he does

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important thing he does and yet it will be the thing he doesn't get credit for is that he's changing what you think is possible he's changing that do you know who else does that elon musk elon musk is rewiring your brain now he's not doing it as intentionally i don't think it could be but i don't think he's doing it as intentionally as trump is doing it trump trump is doing it you know for effect but elon musk is he's literally rewired your brain from thinking that there were a set of things that are just too hard to do to when are we going to the moon when can i have my electric car he just made the impossible sound possible so you should keep an eye on people like that let's talk about winning strategies versus losing strategies and we'll we'll get into the news but let me let me work up to it this way i may have told you the story or not i don't know but years ago many years ago i was in a

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but years ago many years ago i was in a relationship in which uh i would sometimes buy flowers for the woman and i was with i wasn't married at the time but it was long-term relationship and i would give her just flowers for no reason now i knew from prior conversations that it was more meaningful to her to give flowers when it wasn't you know valentine's day or something and so i would give her flowers and she would say this oh what are you guilty for and we would laugh because you know it's sort of a standard joke hahaha you must be guilty if you're giving flowers now the first time i heard that i thought to myself huh yeah i guess it's just a joke and i have a sense of humor but i feel like i didn't get anything in return i feel like i got in a very small way i'd be really trivial but in a small way i feel like i got punished for doing the right thing it suddenly i have to explain what i'm guilty for

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have to explain what i'm guilty for like that had nothing to do with anything i was just literally trying to do something good so the next time i brought her flowers she said the same joke and and some somewhere around the second or third time it happened i said look i gotta talk to you please please don't say that please let me have some benefit for doing the thing you want me to do don't punish me for what you want more of because you'll end up with less of it i'm just like a dog humans and dogs are not that different if you give somebody a treat for doing the right thing and you do it enough you'll train them to do the right thing if you penalize them for doing the right thing even if it's just a joke over time it becomes a penalty that they don't want to do what happened did she stop doing that joke nope nope didn't stop doing the joke and eventually it just killed my

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and eventually it just killed my feelings honestly it just killed my feelings so i'm not saying that's the one reason that you know things did last but watch this technique in a lot of other bigger issues all right let me give you some examples bill maher was talking last night about how it's such a bad idea for the democrats to be let's say running cover for looting so a lot of people on the left are trying to make the case that the looting is just a property crime and and it's it's appropriate within the larger context of how important the the issue is and you can't really get action until you've caused some cause a little distress on the people who need to act and so nobody loves looting but it has its place his fits within this world it's okay don't worry too much about the looting is what you're hearing from the

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is what you're hearing from the democrats now given that people only hear from their own side like democrats listen to democrats republicans hear from republicans for the most part what happens to looting you get more of it right wouldn't you always get more of the thing you're getting complimented for so the protesters are getting on tv they're they're getting the fun of the protest it looks like they have some community feeling so they get good feelings from it and then their team the people who are not protesting but rather the support structure for them compliments them and basically rewards them for bad behavior now if you reward people for bad behavior what happens you will of course get more bad behavior not sometimes not well there's a risk of getting more bad behavior no i'm not saying there's a risk of it i'm saying that a hundred percent of the

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i'm saying that a hundred percent of the time the thing you reward you'll get more of it doesn't matter if it's an animal doesn't matter if it's a human doesn't matter if it's a democrat doesn't matter if it's a republican if you're alive like you can breathe and see the world you respond to rewards and penalties so let's take this to uh to another level uh the palestinians uh reacted uh with uh unhappiness about the peace that's breaking out in the middle east all right so take the concept that you'll get more of what you reward and less of what you penalize so now israel is working out deals for mutual benefit with neighboring arab countries what should be the what should be everybody's approach to that reward right should president trump not get a nobel peace prize nomination he should he should would

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nomination he should he should would that make president trump more likely to try even harder to get more peace and more places yes yes of course if he had been penalized president trump for working hard to get peace in the middle east would he keep going would he put as much resource and time into it if he just kept getting penalized for it no because he's a human animal it has nothing to do with his personality or character you do more of what you're you're rewarded for period as soon as you think that doesn't apply you're not part of the the productive world anymore you're off an imaginary land rewards and penalties work so what did the palestinian let's say the palestinian envoy to the arab league so what did he say about this deal with israel in the uae he said uh with all pride palestinians palestine

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with all pride palestinians palestine palestine wants a decision from the arab foreign ministers blah blah and then he goes to this quote but palestine was unable to impose that in other words the agreement they wanted people to agree to so the draft resolution collapsed and here's here's the key part this is everything you need to know he says and remember he's a he's an envoy so he can speak for the the government so he's not just a guy he's speaking for the government and he says we have dignity murders prisoners and refugee camps of glory and this is enough for us oh my god this is an official government person from the palestinian uh people saying that their goal what they want in other words that it's better to have these things better than peace better than prosperity better than health better than life is these things dignity martyrs

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is these things dignity martyrs prisoners prisoners and refugee camps of glory and this is enough for us all right if this is your approach can you predict how it will go yes you can
can there's a hundred percent chance that this approach leads to misery misery there's no other opportunity for you to talk about impossible it's one thing to say something is you know so unlikely it seems impossible it's another thing to say you're doing everything you can to to fail i mean if you made a list i say all right let's make a list of all the things you shouldn't do if you want a better world for yourself and your people what would be on the list well how about punishing people when good things happen and rewarding bad behavior let's say somebody does a suicide attack yeah we'll reward them for that

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yeah we'll reward them for that yet their names will be famous their family will be paid off the palestinians have literally reversed the lists they're penalizing the good things and they're rewarding the bad things and they're getting exactly the outcome that that predicts exactly the outcome it predicts what what would they do if they wanted to reverse that what would it look like here's what it would look like imagine the palestinians said you know we like the fact that peace is breaking out in some places it's we're not getting what we want and you know we're not releasing on it we want some stuff but we're happy that things are happening congratulations just just think about that so that would be a reward to israel and to the other arab countries now palestinians just hypothetically say you know we're among the worst affected in many ways and if peace is breaking

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in many ways and if peace is breaking out in all these places why don't we just package this up and and we'll be on board but we also have a bunch of things we want but you guys are doing a great job and hey if we can help you out if we can help your part of the deal work can you let us know how we'll help your deal work and then what happens then the entire middle east says well we kind of like you guys thank you thank you for being positive we didn't expect that but thank you and then the palestinians say you know what would make things even i know we we're never going to get the right of return exactly but wouldn't it be okay if sometimes we could buy our way back in so perhaps people who lost property could be compensated with reparations they don't have to use that money to let's say buy property someday i don't even know what's legal can they do that can they buy property if you were a palestinian and you had money

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money what would it take to buy property in israel and could you buy back maybe not the same place you were displaced from but could you buy back property in israel if you wanted to if you had the money so suppose the palestinians said look we're going to be as positive and helpful as we can be but you know what would really make everything work would be a gigantic pot of money that's partly reparations and partly development that would make the palestinian areas just super good and it's a big number i mean i'm embarrassed to say how big the number is but did i mention that we're being really helpful on all this other stuff we're going to be helpful in every other way
way we we just want this big pile of money it's kind of gigantic but it would really solve this problem once and for all now would any of that work probably not because it's the middle east but my point is this you don't have any chance if you're

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you don't have any chance if you're rewarding bad behavior and punishing good behavior so
so in the long run if that doesn't ever reverse they'll always have the same outcome talk about black lives matter doing basically the same thing you know what i said with the the riots and the looting that's more but look what um let me give you a mental experiment uh sort of a thought experiment of what it would look like for black lives matter the group you know the organization we're not talking about the the philosophy of it just the organization um what would it take for them to be more effective what would it take for them to reward good behavior and punish bad behavior well what are they doing right now right now they're taking somebody who's accused of a sex crime who resisted arrest got shot nobody's in favor of that um but now that person will be a hero with their name on nfl helmets apparently

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apparently now if your black lives matter have you punished bad behavior or have you rewarded bad behavior you know the answer black lives matter right in front of you and as publicly as they possibly could are rewarding bad behavior they're actually making a hero and as somebody who certainly was at least half responsible for the outcome the tragic outcome you could argue that the police officers should have been smarter better better trained should have handled it differently maybe i don't i'm no expert i'm no expert i wouldn't say that's true for sure because if the guy was going for a knife you know what can you do but maybe i'm open to the argument now let's say if they reversed it imagine if you will and this is impossible to imagine but just just go with it for imagination imagine if when the news came out that the the guy

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when the news came out that the the guy the guy who got shot seven times had been resisting arrest and had been reaching for a weapon and they had been incredibly accused of some bad stuff supposedly black lives matter said hold on
on our first reaction was an overreaction if we're being honest we we have a problem to fix but let's be honest about it he brought it on himself to some extent 100 maybe not maybe maybe the police have a part in this right reasonable people could say maybe there's two problems here and you needed both of those problems to get the tragedy if black lives matter said some version of this you know it looks like we've got to work on
on uh training our the people that we care about the most to be the safest and act the safest in these situations what would that look like that would be

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what would that look like that would be a reward when when the george floyd thing happened uh just about every white person in the world was already sold when you saw the the george floyd video for the first time no matter what you ever thought before when you saw that thing you said to yourself ah okay i get it now that looks like bad police behavior i don't believe this necessarily would have happened to a white guy i don't know but i haven't seen it so i got questions if at that moment black america had said do you see what we mean look at the video do you see what we mean now can you help you know can we talk about some solutions white america would have said hell yes hell yes let's talk about some solutions we don't want that we don't want it to happen to you
you we don't don't want to happen to anybody how do we have less of that so that should have been the first reaction and it would have been very productive

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productive here's what the the reaction should have turned into when we learned that he died of a fentanyl overdose or probably it was an opioid overdose it could be that the police action exacerbated it but it turns out that he may have been lying to them about whether he had anything if he had told the truth in other words if he'd done his part he probably would have been treated more like a medical problem and maybe even saved but he did everything wrong and the police may have done things wrong as well and the combination was a bad thing here's what black lives matter should have done if they wanted improvement if they wanted it they should have rewarded the right thing and the moment they heard that he was drugged up and that may have been a complicated issue they should have pulled back they should have pulled back and they should have said to the police i think we owe you an apology you still might need to do something

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you still might need to do something differently and we're not happy with you but it doesn't look like you murdered somebody it doesn't look like a a race murder we don't know what this is and we better get to the bottom of this and we're not happy but it wasn't what we first thought it was
was if black lives matter had said that how would you let's say you're not you're not in the organization how do you feel about that that would completely change how i feel completely i would say oh i get it you're getting really worked up over things that look real but as soon as you find out that maybe the story was different than you thought you've now modified your opinion just as you should you you rewarded people for doing right you punish people for doing wrong yeah i could work with that i could work with that but that's not what you're what you're saying there's some kind of need for self-destruction that's built into the black lives matter movement it's built into the antifa of course maybe antifa

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course maybe antifa is half the problem there it's built into the palestinian uh technique their their way forward is they reward the things that are in the wrong direction all right uh i'm still shaking my head over the story about robert mueller's dozens dozens of people on uh the russia collusion project they claim that their phones have been wiped and that they can't turn them in to be looked at dozens now you don't have to be a genius and i don't think there's any disagreement on this that they did it intentionally to hide evidence now it could be that the evidence they were hiding is just any personal conversations because nobody wants anybody to look at their entire you know phone history that'd be pretty risky but i think that they're going to get completely away with us it looks like it looks like this most

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it looks like it looks like this most amazing obvious mass coordinated crime because first of all it's probably coordinated you know there must have been at least one person who said hey i'm going to wipe my phone you might want to think about this i doubt they all just had the same idea you know at once so first of all there's some coordination to hide evidence and they should be the people that we most you know trust to to keep us on the legal path this is it's hard to put a number on how bad this is this is a 10 and a 10 in badness but because many of them are lawyers they know how to do things without getting technically in trouble so as long as there's reasonable doubt about how their phone got wiped as long as there's a little bit of reasonable doubt i guess they get away with it but wow does this reduce your trust in the system all right here's a question i have

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all right here's a question i have you know these the antifa or the protesters i don't know if it's anti-far just the protesters they have these snack fans so literally like a big panel van usually has lots of graffiti on it that they park near the protests to feed the protesters i guess they have snacks and i thought to myself at least the one i saw it was in rochester or something i thought new yorkers are getting really soft because if you if you're uh ripping up my town i mean i i feel like if i were in upstate new york and i saw protesters destroying you know the homes and busines well mostly businesses the people i knew or people i cared about in my town and i knew that they owned exactly one asset they don't own much except what's on their bodies if i knew they had one asset these these snack vans and i'm watching all these same people destroy my town and then go back to their snack

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my town and then go back to their snack van to get a snack and i'm saying to myself well obviously the the snack snack van will be on fire in a few minutes and i'm like okay it shouldn't take more than 60 seconds for that and i'm like wait that that's the same snack van i i'm confused this neck van is not on fire what kind of are you
you what kind of town do you have that you're not going to go after their one asset if they park it right on the street i'm not saying that you know i never i never promote violence by the way so this is a just a question why are the locals rolling over so easily i mean that snack van sort of is an obvious target if you know what i mean strategically speaking i don't recommend anybody destroy any private property or violence it is just confusing to me why that hasn't happened um

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why that hasn't happened um the atlantic which is now officially a laughingstock uh just decided to write an article calling for the abolition of the nobel peace prize so it wasn't when uh arafat got it they were cool with that it wasn't when uh
uh when obama got it for doing nothing they were cool with that but boy you have two nominations for president trump and uh well it's time to cancel the prize so if you can imagine anything that the uh
uh the atlantic could have done to make themselves look more ridiculous it's it's hard to imagine all right here's a interesting development 19 black families in in just in august just recently they purchased 97 acres in which they want to build basically a black town so 19 black families decided it's it's either dangerous or

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decided it's it's either dangerous or i think they thought it was dangerous to live among white people because i guess they believe that they will be killed by cops or white people or something
now independent of whether that is an overreaction i kind of love the experiment part of it i say this all the time you know there there's nothing more useful than experiments even if they don't work at least it tells you what doesn't work and the fact that they're thinking of sort of building a town from scratch i love that and they're also trying something that hasn't been tried before which is hey it's 20 20. i mean there have been segregated places before but they haven't done it this way you know not in 2020 not with all the advantages of technology not with not doing it voluntarily and independent of whether you think this would be a great idea or a bad idea could you at least join me

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or a bad idea could you at least join me in agreeing that experiments are good you know i hope it works maybe they learn something you may see a greater trend toward segregated groups but i feel like we could see it differently now you know if you if you go back a few decades the idea of segregated towns or segregated businesses or segregated organizations is just pure racism and had to end usually because it was the you know the white organizations keeping you know other people out but now it's 2020. and we've we've sort of for the most part i would say
say i can't think of an exception for the most part anybody who wants to be in any organization can do it fine i don't think there are any clubs you can't join or teams you can't be on because you're your color right so given that we've sort of overcome you know for the most part the

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overcome you know for the most part the biggest part of the hurdle if you're doing it voluntarily if you're voluntarily saying hey you know we black people want to have our own town and see if we can make this work is that bad i don't know your first reflex might be that's a bad idea segregation is from the past but this isn't the past can people choose to associate with whatever people they want whether it's by political preference or by
by age or by gender or by ethnicity if they all want to yeah i mean somebody says it's racist is it racist if anybody can do it in other words if if white people also could create a little white town and it wasn't racist they just well i guess it would seem racist no matter what [Laughter] i i guess i will accept the categorization that is racist by definition

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that is racist by definition but do you think that they should not have the right to associate any way they want given that it's not a legal requirement and nobody is forcing them to do it there's no force so i don't know that's a good question i like experimenting so we'll see what happens
what else we got here california has gone fully anti-science now which is so embarrassing so our governor has decided to politicize the fires and says that climate change is the obvious reason and that now you don't even need to look at the science anymore you can just look out your window and there's smoke and therefore logically if there's smoke outside logically can you see all the connecting tissue logically there's smoke outside and therefore it's caused by climate change you saw all the logical connection to that right it's there's a fire more fires

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it's there's a fire more fires and therefore climate change is cause did did you miss the part where it's logically connected no you didn't miss it it's not there could it be there well i suppose i suppose i'm not ruling out
out that some climate change might have some effect in some way i don't know what i do know is there's no evidence of it so we usually don't act on things that have zero evidence what evidence do we have well if you follow michael shellin's burger as you should you will know that our forest management has been so poor that the buildup of underbrush was guaranteed to create exactly the situation we have so we have one explanation which explains everything you see as completely logical from beginning to end oh we used to do good forest management and we didn't have these problems we stopped doing good forest management

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we stopped doing good forest management which causes forest fires big ones then the big forest fires happened after we stopped forest management which guarantees big fires happen then the big fires happened exactly as you knew they would have to because you stopped forest management which is the whole point of reducing the fires and our governor freaking idiot stood in front of the world in his with his smoldering background to make it look dramatic and said it's obvious the climate change has caused this no here's what's obvious it's obvious that fools who can't do math have looked at the climate change problem and closed down our only chance in california to have electricity which is to have you know natural gas and
and nuclear until something better comes along but he's anti-science about nuclear anti-science about even just doing the

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anti-science about even just doing the math of what kinds of technologies are good for the good for the environment in the long run which were not you didn't understand anything about forest management he's the guy in charge he's the guy in charge and he seems to be the only person who doesn't know that poor forest management is a big part of the problem on top of that what about context if you were to look at the history of california and we can you know reconstruct it from from whatever tree rings however we do that we can know that the forest fires we're experiencing now as bad as they are aren't even bad historically so if we didn't have climate change in the past and yet the forest fires were far bigger back then or at least more destructive
he is so non-science based that it is disturbing all right um and i think that's uh so here

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and i think that's uh so here here's a interesting thing developing you probably all know jonah goldberg right conservative but not a big fan of the president and jonah goldberg was noting on twitter that uh i i think it was a uh mark levin tweet he was responding to and levin was tweeting somebody else's article noting that it seems that democrats are prepping the country for a violent coup an actual military coup now jonah goldberg thinks that that is a ridiculous worry it's sort of an absurdity it's overblown risk and that the democrats are not intentionally prepping the country for a military coup under the condition that trump in their in their view under the condition that trump loses but refuses to leave office and jonah pointed out

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office and jonah pointed out when i commented on it he said he said there's this is what jonah says he says easily as much evidence if not more that trump is setting the table to claim election is illegitimate you guys meaning i guess me you guys and the resistance crowd are playing the exact same game and pretending only the other side is being irresponsible or dangerous you all are and here's my take on that i do i would agree with jonah's comment that trump is also prepping the country for the outcome of the election to be illegitimate right well you would agree with that that trump is definitely warning us and prepping us and sort of getting you a little bit hypnotized into the idea that the election outcome might not be dependable or credible but here's the thing when he talks about it he never talks about the military getting involved

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about the military getting involved and so the default assumption is that if there's some ambiguous outcome that the republicans would look to the supreme court probably or they'd suggest a redo or a recount or something working within the system now is there a risk that you would get a few more months of president trump until the system worked its way out and we had a real outcome yeah i suppose so is the president getting us ready for a murky ambiguous outcome that could be messy yes has he ever mentioned the military no no there's have you ever talked to any republican who talks about using the military to keep trump in office if he lost the election have you heard have you any legitimate person say you know even if trump loses the

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say you know even if trump loses the election i think he should just use his military and stay in office no no i've never heard anybody think that would be a good idea but have you heard democrats that say out loud in public that if the president doesn't leave and they think the result is that he should that the military should step up and remove him yes they're saying it directly they're writing articles about it they're talking about it and they are prepping the country for a military coup i agree that president trump is prepping us for not trusting the outcome but is he wrong about that is it wrong to prep people for something that's true i'll tell you what's true no matter whether the outcome is accurate or not the country is going to be a little iffy on it it doesn't matter what the outcome is we're still going to say i'm not so sure and that had nothing to

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i'm not so sure and that had nothing to do with trump well he exacerbates it but it was going to be it was going to be that way anyway um here's what i think i think that trump could make the situation better by saying look here's the deal people if if if the election outcome is not good the republican approach is to go to the i don't know how this works actually but whatever the process is you go to the supreme court you redo the election i don't know you do some analysis whatever you do some kind of audit of the system but i think the president should tell us what it looks like because the democrats have told us what it looks like if they don't get their way it looks like they're going to be pushing the military to make a move i don't think the military will but it looks like they might try to get that done so while i don't believe that there will be
any kind of a major coup in this country it's definitely an option and i think that the democrats are

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and i think that the democrats are putting the option on the table that doesn't mean that they want it to happen but they're definitely opening the option and i don't think it's the same in both directions all right that's what i had to do that's what i had to tell you today
um somebody says no way it will be a landslide one of the things i heard about uh was it michigan and maybe wisconsin i forget which there were two states that somebody who knows more than i do i wish i could uh credit them but on twitter i saw somebody noted that some of those states have a lot of rural voters and by rural i mean don't have the internet so there may be a lot of people who are not being polled because they're just practically off the grid and it might be the the number of people who are trump supporters

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dems are cheaters obama spied on trump somebody says all right just looking at your comments before i sign off today how did you like today's periscope by the way um completely uncharted territory yeah we have we do have constitutional deadlines but suppose we don't meet them what do you do i'd like to hear i'd like to hear the what do you do part
um remember olinsky you know i have great questions about the linsky stuff a lot of people get accused of using the linsky rules for radicals stuff and you can see it
it i mean you can certainly see that he recommended this stuff and you see people doing that stuff but i don't know if it's because they read that i just don't know that i think maybe just some things are obvious attacking the other side whoever the other side is in every way you can attack them you

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in every way you can attack them you know mocking them etc uh that just seems common sense to me i don't know if you need a linski to do any of that maybe um how about bill maher's comments on trump more likely to win well i didn't see the show i only saw reporting about the show but if bill maher thinks that trump is on the way to win you know i would look at him and i'd look at roger michael moore and i would say they are two people who represent more the left who are a little bit clearer-eyed so if both of them if both of them think trump might win that means something um well thank you you're all you're all too kind to me and yeah

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and yeah just looking at your comments all right that's all for now uh maybe i should let this go just because you're complimenting me what remember i told you in the beginning that people will do more of whatever they're rewarded for you've watched me doing these periscopes and you saw how much you see how much energy i put into it why why do i put so much energy into doing this it's completely outside my field etc and the answer is i got rewarded for it so
so when i was doing periscopes in which you know the first periscopes i would have 25 people but those 25 people would say hey i like this do it again and i'd say huh okay 25 people saw it three of them said i liked it do it again oh do it again and then you know 35 people see it and four of them said they like it i'm like huh i'll give this another shot it's very powerful reward what you want more of and you will have a good life that's all

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and you will have a good life that's all um
um yeah not roger moore michael moore sorry so oh let me answer this was your sinus surgery worth it it was life-changing life-changing yeah just a complete transformation of life i can breathe through my nose my allergies basically don't exist um you know my voice is different my smell came back my sense of taste my hearing is no longer affected yeah i would say on a scale of 1 to 10 it was a 10. very unpleasant you know the process of going through it's kind of unpleasant but not as bad as i thought actually so that's all for now and i will talk to you later