Episode 1122 Scott Adams: Biden’s Biggest Lies, Google’s Election Interference, Fact-Checking Tapper

Date: 2020-09-13 | Duration: 1:06:13

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• Gavin Newsom: forest management vs. climate change

• At what point can you call well-meaning protesters…assholes?

• 2 Sheriffs Deputies shot, outcome of “fine people” HOAX?

• Search engine results: “Does Joe Biden have dementia”

• Dangerous, destructive lies from Biden, Harris

• 4chan: Joe Biden’s dementia medication and incontinence

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well that's the view once again outside my window of my office that is all smoke looks like we've got a few weeks more of this i'm literally in not literally but figuratively i'm in house arrest because it is unhealthy to go out there the
the air quality is literally unhealthy
and what does my governor say about that my governor governor newsom has decided to go completely anti-science on this and has decided that he's going to blame the forest fires on climate change now if you know anything about climate change there are two claims number one climate change will make everything wetter and number two climate change will make everything drier i'm not even making that up those are two claims that i've just read even this week climate change will

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read even this week climate change will make it wetter and climate change will make it drier in the same places apparently and everybody ignores the the obvious which is
is that the the forests have not been managed the underbrush has not been cleared out and anybody could have predicted these fires so anybody who was in the fire management business could have told you this was going to happen without any climate change completely irrelevant it was still going to happen well but that's not why we're here first we need to do the simultaneous sip and we need a cover mug or glass a tank or tell us just dine a canteen joker flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better when you're in jail as i am right now can't go outside can't go anywhere and it's called the simultaneous davies

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and it's called the simultaneous davies if it happens now go
i do not see the air clearing up well let's talk about all the things in the news i've decided that there are two kinds of people in this country people who are trying to work toward making things better for all people and people who are trying to stop those people now the trouble is people don't know which group they're in lots of times people don't know i caused as i told you i caused some trouble on twitter by saying something true which caused people to go nuts and what i said was that you heard this a little bit the other day i said that antifa the original antifa there were several of them i guess but one in germany in the 30s was allied with hitler now of course all of the anti-fa loving people said

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all of the anti-fa loving people said that you crazy dope you know nothing about history in fact it was the opposite of that don't you know that hitler you know imprisoned and killed antifa in germany and that antifa was against hitler how do you not know that scott how do you not know that to which i say well those things are all true it's true the antifa and hitler hated each other it is simultaneously true and here's the fun part that antifa and hitler were on the same side at the same time meaning that they were both opposed to the german government for different reasons but they were both opposed antifa was essentially supported by stalin and hitler and stalin both wanted a change in the german government for different reasons but they were allies in the sense that they both fought against a common enemy now could you

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against a common enemy now could you think of another example like that am i overusing the word ally am i well let me ask you this if you were to do a google search on stalin and russia and the united states and their their fighting in world war ii would would the internet say that stalin was an ally of the united states well yes it would it would say exactly that if you look it up the word ally will show up as a just a common description of stalin and the united states because for a while we fought against a common enemy now if we didn't have a common enemy which was nazi germany would we have been fighting against each other yes because as soon as the common enemy was defeated we immediately lined up against each other so it is not a conflict to say somebody is

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it is not a conflict to say somebody is both an enemy and an ally even at the same time so what i really wanted to get people to understand though is that antifa the original anti-fascist organization defined fascism as any form of capitalism that usually they said lay form but it ends up being the same so in other words bernie sanders version of a socialist capitalist system would be something that antifa in germany would have wanted to destroy so bernie sanders is nowhere near what antifa wants because bernie is still a capitalist he's a you know he's on the edge of capitalism because he's he wants a big socialist component but bernie says directly yes capitalism yes yes yes totally i want capitalism bernie's very clear about that but you

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bernie's very clear about that but you know a modified kinder version in his in his model so when every idiot says to you scott don't you understand anti-fa means anti-fascist anti-fascist
if you're against them you're obviously because of the logic you must be for fascists no can you explain that scott and part of the fun is making the pro anti-fa people understand the fascist and capitalist even the bernie sanders version of capitalist are the same thing because you can't really have capitalism without without at least the accusation of fascism anyway that was fun um what about that bob woodward book that's kind of gone isn't it the biggest

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that's kind of gone isn't it the biggest bombshell we had going was this this bob woodward thing it's sort of already gone i think you know there's there's like one little note on it on the cnn home page the fox news was done with it on day one how do you explain that how do you explain that there was a gigantic bombshell this should be like the biggest piece of news you've ever heard and it just sort of disappeared well here's my explanation it was never news the bombshell was that the thing that trump had been telling us directly was true that's it but they the way they told it they tried to make it into something but it never was something because there's such a good record of trump saying directly yeah it was very serious that's why i closed travel it's five times worse than the flu as he told woodward

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worse than the flu as he told woodward serious business and i'm gonna downplay it because i think this is the way to play it and he told the public he was doing it while he was doing it that that is the closest to nothing that anything could ever be now you could certainly say i disagree with how the president handled it that would be a normal thing people always disagree with every leader right on some issues but it is not a thing to say that the woodward brook told you something you didn't already know there was literally no news there it was just a retelling of what we all all every one of us already knew now how is it that the news can turn nothing into what they sell as a bombshell which actually you know may change voters minds how can they do that they can do that because they are brainwashers not a news organization if you still

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not a news organization if you still think that the news is just the telling of facts you're many years behind the news and and certainly the social media platforms uh have for some time time now been just pure brainwashing the vehicles and so they actually brainwashed the country into thinking something they already knew was news and not just news but so important that you should change the the government of the united states based on something that you could just look at and say um there's actually nothing here there's literally nothing here but they're they're that good all right brian stelter uh did a piece on talking about how fox was downplaying the bombshell and it showed some clips of uh fox people saying it was a big nothing and i'm thinking to myself that is so

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and i'm thinking to myself that is so bold to act as though there's something wrong with fox for saying something that is clearly nothing and you can just look at it and say it's nothing they're saying it's nothing and cnn is reporting it as something wrong with fox no that's not what's happening here what's happening is you tried to make something out of nothing and fox didn't buy it that's it um katherine watson who's uh i guess works for cbs she tweeted uh because biden put a lid on his his schedule yesterday that sort of insider language if you put a lid on it i just recently learned it means that the candidate will not be available for any public stuff now this close to the election can you come up with any possible reason that joe biden would not be available

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that joe biden would not be available for the public now i certainly understand if he had a busy schedule say meeting with advisors or practicing maybe a speech or something like that but the entire day while you're running for president the whole day you can't sit in front of a zoom and take a question make some news the whole day nothing because i'm pretty sure that during a whole day president trump does a lot of stuff and i think he does a lot of stuff when he's tired i think he doesn't this is trump i think he does a lot of stuff when he doesn't want to because it's a busy job he probably does a lot of stuff every single day on weekends do you think on a day when you know he's golfing do you think he's also not working that day
day no there are no days that the president doesn't work

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so seeing a cbs person saying not sure why biden isn't doing more to show he can outwork trump i have a theory there might be something wrong with joe biden um we'll we'll talk more about joe biden's issues here in a moment but um i want to i want to put out this thought and i don't know why i'm the person who has to say this there's some things that you see in the world and you say well surely somebody who will explain this correctly if i wait wrong wait long enough okay they haven't done it yet but surely by tomorrow somebody will do a good job of explaining this thing we're all looking at so i guess it's up to me because nobody did it but here it is it goes like this and i tweeted this earlier if a hundred well-meaning protesters do their protest but in this in the course of their protest they are quite aware that they've created an environment where just two of the hundred people just for example

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just for example just say two of them caused some looting and some rioting and some trouble now the first time that happens you say to yourself freedom of speech i'm sure i'm certainly feeling bad that some bad stuff happened nobody's in favor of that but at least we got our free speech and it was an important issue the second time they do it if there's also rioting and some bad stuff they have to say to themselves huh i wonder if what we're doing is making it easy for this other stuff to happen we don't mean this to happen but we're kind of making it easy for it to happen guaranteeing that it happens now what happens if you do that process a hundred times in a row like portland literally a hundred times in a row at what point do you say okay protesters we all got the message so there's no new freedom of speech thing happening we all

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freedom of speech thing happening we all got the message but you keep showing up every day knowing that two of your hundred might be a different two are gonna burn down a big part of the city or cause trouble or
or get somebody killed at what point do the 98 people who are the good people they only mean well at what point do you say that all hundred of them are
well i'm already there i think the protesters whether you say 98 of them are peaceful and i think that's probably about right what do you say if you look at all the protests many of them don't get coverage because they're nothing but but peaceful so if you looked at everything maybe 98 you know if you say it's 99 that's fine but something like 98 are peaceful but they're also not originally not originally originally

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not originally not originally originally they were just free speech they had a cause they had a concern most of them i believe genuinely wanted to make the world a better place put that energy out there very american it's very american to put your energy out there complain i'm all good with that but a hundred times in a row when people are dying and stuff's going up in flames that's not really the same thing anymore and if you're defending it at this point you're kind of an all right there isn't really a way around that if you know that you're bringing this danger with you even if you don't mean it but you know it's going to happen because of what you're doing you're just an you're not technically guilty of the crimes true but you're still bringing them and you're still an so let's get that clear um oh and here's a funny thing that happened when i tweeted that

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happened when i tweeted that on twitter nobody expects anybody to have a consistent political opinion you've seen this right that people will make a claim for their team and then the other team will say well aren't you being a hypocrite because what about this if you're going to say that then though you also have to agree that it's true on the other side you know in some other different way and so people came after me when i said that the 100 all hundred protesters are are um they said okay scott now do police all right let's say there are only two bad cops but 98 of the cops are somehow supporting them you know they're they're backing them how about that scott what do you say to that gotcha gotcha to which i say no that's an example of a hundred cops that are that's exactly the same if a hundred cops are consistently protecting two bad cops

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are consistently protecting two bad cops that are killing citizens who shouldn't be killed yeah yeah they're all you might not say they're as bad but they're all in exactly the same way so i hope that wasn't a surprise to my critics that i am completely consistent that if you're an democrat or you're an republican it's still the same to me i'm i'm completely consistent on that so there's that um
the the i i love watching daniel dale the fact checker for cnn partly because he he has so many things to fact check from trump that he gets he's like the most overworked uh he's the most overworked guy on tv
and so he is arguing that the trump campaign ads that say kamala

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the trump campaign ads that say kamala harris is in favor of the riots is not true and his description of why it's not true that kamala harris is in favor of the riots is that when she says stuff like it's going to keep going and she says she's in favor of it she's talking about the legitimate protests so it is not true that kamala harris is in favor of the riots it's only true that she's in favor of the things which guarantee there are riots you see the difference right totally different she's not in favor of the riots she is in favor of doing all the
the things that guarantee there are riots so obviously the trump campaign must be totally lying about that because those aren't the same those are completely different come on obviously supporting the riots there's nothing in faith nothing in common with

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nothing in faith nothing in common with supporting the things that guarantee you'll get riots different so that's funny um also that uh daniel dale claims that the types of lies that the trump campaign says are so outrageous that they and he acknowledges so daniel dale acknowledges as
as context that all campaign ads you know have a problem with the truth we're all on the same side on that right all campaign ads biden trump doesn't matter who it is they'll they'll push the truth as much as they can so he does acknowledge that but he says that the trump campaign ads are a whole different level of bad behavior to which i say doesn't it depend what you fact check because it's the biden campaign that's based on the most destructive and divisive lie in american history there's nothing trump has ever said

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there's nothing trump has ever said that's even close to the fine people hoax or even close to saying that the the president suggested uh drinking bleach to get rid of coronavirus nothing the bi nothing the trump campaign is is even in the same zip code with how evil just those two things are and those aren't the only by the lies they're just the alpha lies that that are the most impressive lies in american history in my opinion i doubt anything has hurt the country as directly as that lie so i don't know how you compare lies and the trump campaign when they were challenged about the the veracity of their campaign ads they responded by saying it's comedy and you should lighten up now when you see the trump campaign ads and they've let's say they've stretched a point a little bit to the point where the fact checkers

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checkers you know don't agree anymore when you're watching it do you watch a campaign ad like it's true because if you do you're gonna have to you know you've got some questions to answer here if you watch anybody's campaign ad and say to yourself yeah i think that's true you should check yourself right campaign ads are not
not designed to be true they're just not built that way it's not their purpose they have no intention of transmitting the truth it's a campaign ad it's a lie by design every time it's a it's a at the very least it's a lie by omission at the least right it's never going to say well the other side has some good points too
but uh there's no no comparison all right um two police officers in compton were it looks like they were just hunted and
and uh they're so far surviving i don't know

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uh they're so far surviving i don't know how bad the shape they are but they're both shot in the head they're both shot and they had they were just sitting in their their car in compton and uh somebody ran up and just fired bullets into it and just executed them now with that execution that happened without the find people hoax would it did these two cops get killed because of joe biden and the mainstream news creating this division with the fine people hoax because in my in my view of things the fine people hoax caused all the other hoaxes to be believable and caused people to believe that black people were being hunted by by police officers uh and and a lot of the protest energy comes from that core hoax i would argue that these two police officers maybe you don't know if this was just a crazy person or he had a you know

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crazy person or he had a you know maybe it was personal you don't know but there's a good chance that this sort of thing is directly coming from the biden type of lie there's nothing trump does that does this all right doesn't cause anybody to shoot a police officer uh and while we don't know that that was the direct cause you could see how it could be i mean there's there's a pretty direct line of cause and effect even if that wasn't exactly what was happening
my smartest democrat friend and i mean that literally as if you know if he took an iq test he'd do great if you looked at his academic credentials top shelf right so literally no joke a smart smart person told me he doesn't think that biden's campaign ads are lies

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what what do you do with that what do you do with that he thinks only trump lies in campaign ads
ads so here's a uh here's a model or a filter on the world that i think you should use i believe that people are walking around the earth uh experiencing three different realities or three different dimensions if you will the lowest dimension of of understanding your reality is to believe that both of the campaign ads are telling you the truth so the lowest understanding of your of your reality is to look at a biden ad and look at a trump ad and say yeah they're both probably true so i'll you know given that these are both true i'll pick my preferred candidate based on these facts the truth and these campaign ads now that would be a first dimension thinker higher up a second dimension thinker would be one who says hey one of these two ads is wrong

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hey one of these two ads is wrong i think it's this one and that's where my
my smart democrat friend is he believes that one's wrong and one's right a third dimension thinker which i hope all of you are becoming you you're either there or you're becoming is somebody who understands that none of it's true it's not meant to be true it's not designed to be true nobody has the intention of making it true it's never been true it'll never be true in the future not either of them and again when i say not true that doesn't mean that there are no claims in them that are technically true but they're all lies of omission lies of persuasion etc so when you are if you're a third dimension thinker and you know it's all lies and why and you're talking to somebody from a first or second dimension it's like being a ghost where you can't actually talk to them have you noticed that you know imagine your mind you're an

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you know imagine your mind you're an actual ghost and you're in the room and people are saying things that are just ridiculous and dumb and you're trying to correct them and you're like no no no yeah but what about the facts here's my source and they act like you're not actually there they don't argue it exactly they act it's more like that movie the sixth sense where they're doing something independently and you as the ghost are trying to interact with them but they don't have any idea that you even exist that's the kind of feeling you get it doesn't feel like a conversation does it have you notice that it doesn't feel like a give and take at all i just had one of those on twitter as i do every day in which i i asked people to give me some examples of biden lies because i wanted to see how big the list was so people gave me some lies but uh of course a troll came in a bite and supporting troll to say well what about the president

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to say well what about the president saying you should drink bleach and was some other claim that he had wrong now so here's somebody who believed that he understands the world and has been watching the news and that the president of the united states once asked about in all seriousness drinking bleach or a disinfectant to cure coronavirus now those of you who have followed me know that that never happened that there was a technology with light uvc light as a disinfectant that would be injected by a ventilator type device into your trachea maybe they could get it further into the lungs it was being it was being actively tested people talked about it on the internet it was in the news and the president asked about it now all the people who didn't know that it was a real thing and it involved uvc light as a disinfectant the very word that they use and injecting the very word that they use
use the the people doing it if you didn't know that

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know that you'd say oh the president is crazy he you you he wants to drink bleach so i send him a source a new source that describes the company that's doing this exact thing contemporaneously with the president's claim so that you can see he was talking about a real thing what did the second generation or the the what did the two-dimensional thinker do
do did the two-dimensional thinkers say oh that's new information to me interestingly i'd never heard of this and so i guess i was confused when the news told me about drinking disinfectant i believed it but now that you show me the the clear fact i changed my mind did that happen nope question the quality of the source now keep in mind that all you have to do is take the the name of the company out of that source and just google it and you would get you know other sources

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and you would get you know other sources saying the same thing uh so so you didn't have to depend on the source you just use another source and i find that the second the two-dimensional thinkers will generally either attack the messenger well i guess it's the same or the new source is the same attacking the messenger and they don't ever really even address huh
huh i guess i had all my facts wrong so that's why you don't get into any debate with somebody who's on a different dimension so you have to first understand can they say something bad about their own team here's a little test for you if you want to test what dimension somebody's on
on so you say to somebody let's say they're a biden supporter let's say you're a trump supporter hypothetically and you're trying to determine are they in the same dimension i am and here's how you do it you say hey just uh just to see if we're in the same dimension here um why don't you say several good things

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um why don't you say several good things about trump and i'll say several good things about biden no no criticism at all then when you criticize trump i'll know that you can see it in context and likewise when i criticize biden you'll know that i can still see the good qualities and so maybe we'll have a little credibility that way so then i'll go first joe biden very experienced joe biden a lot of people say he's a good guy a lot of people say he has good intentions there you go there was those were some good things about joe biden i'll even throw in some kamala harris come there was very smart uh very ambitious which i happen to like you know she gets of course she gets you know knocked for being a woman if she's ambitious but i don't knock her i say that's great how about more of that um kamala harris good politician she has most of the game she needs a little practice but she has all the raw materials so there you see

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all the raw materials so there you see that that was me operating in the third dimension saying there are some good things about this candidate which i can clearly see now let me tell you the bad things
and i could do the same thing with trump if you ask me hey why do you always say there are good things about trump i say uh that's the opposite of what i do
do i say bad things about what he what he does or has done all the time i also say that the good things he does are far bigger than the the other things not even close so but i do i do always acknowledge the mistakes and the the thing that always amazes me is so people will come at me and say but don't you understand the president's failed the fact-checking 20 000 times what about that scott acknowledge it acknowledge it and then you'll be on my side and then i say i've never denied that

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and then i say i've never denied that have i ever denied that not once now of course i would argue with lots of individual fact checking but am i unaware that the president uses hyperbole and salesmanship and persuasion when there are facts that maybe don't quite fit the persuasion hyperbole etc
etc am i does anybody think i'm not aware of that seriously that's that second third dimension thing to imagine that i'm not aware of that and i haven't incorporated that into my larger thinking is not even on the same dimension that's that's a second dimension thinker and it's like being a ghost you can't can't have a conversation with a ghost all right um here's here's something that just blows me away and if this doesn't make your head spin i haven't done enough work with you yet

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i haven't done enough work with you yet that this should be the following topic should make you feel unmoored from reality it's that big but it probably won't let me test it it goes like this take your google page open google and type into the search box does joe biden have dementia what you'll notice is that the autofill will never fill it you have to type out the entire sentence does joe biden have dementia if you do that you can get some results now go to bing or duckduckgo start typing in does joe biden have dementia how far do you get before it autofills does joe biden have dementia you get to does j that's right does and then the first letter of joe biden autofills have dementia now if you're google do you want people to

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if you're google do you want people to know that the entire that the most popular search is does joe biden have dementia now is there any scenario you can imagine in which this happened naturally no no you can't um and so given that it's public you know you you can just test it i i tested it myself i saw somebody tweet it and i thought i better test this because you know it's the sort of thing you read and then you think i don't know if this is true because if it were true it would be a huge gigantic example that would be impossible to question that's in election interference is there any way to not define that as election interference is there any lawyerly argument and again i'm being i'm trying to be open-minded here

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here if there was if if there were an argument for how this is not election interference i would mention it even in the context of saying why i agreed with it or disagreed with it as far as i know there is no argument offered for why that would be legitimate can somebody fact check that i'm not aware of any argument that says that's natural and if it's not natural it's generated by people and it clearly has
has a tremendous effect on the national consciousness now if what i say is true and there's an obvious public public being the key mind-blowing part of this you don't have to do research it's public it's right in front of you why is this not the biggest story in the news because it's not the biggest story anywhere

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anywhere it's the biggest thing but it's not in the news why here's why and you're not going to like it are you ready we don't form our own opinions on politics we don't form our own opinions we believe we do it's one of the great illusions of life we believe that we're looking at sources forming our own opinions a little bit of that happens but in general you know the big picture is that your opinions on politics are assigned to you literally assigned it to you so if you're watching more of the news on the right they'll assign you a certain opinion and you will adopt it if you're watching more of the news on the left they will assign you your opinion and you will adopt it yeah there are a few people who can think through that but it's rare in general you are assigned your opinion and here's here's the part that'll make your head blow off the reason that the biggest story in the

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the reason that the biggest story in the country if not the world is this google manipulation and brainwashing the reason it's not the biggest story is because it hasn't been assigned
let that sink in the only reason it's not the headline story is that they haven't assigned it to anybody we don't come up with independent opinions it's not a thing opinions are assigned and this isn't assigned and until somebody assigns it and says here's your opinion we won't act on it and we can't really deal with it it's like if it hasn't been validated by the assigners of opinions and i'm not one
one so you know i'm not an official assigner of opinions i can tell you about it you can hear it you can hear all the details you can logically understand it you can logically know this is a

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you can logically know this is a gigantic problem i mean gigantic maybe one of the biggest problems of civilization that's how big it is bigger than climate change by far it's not even close if if the citizens of the united states are being brainwashed to this extent without their agreement or understanding what do you agree that's bigger than climate change because that would affect everything it would affect climate change it would affect whether we go to war it would affect the economy it's by far the biggest story but it's never been assigned to you so you so you don't hold it in your head as a big story and even having heard it from me it still won't be a big story you will leave this periscope and it will leave your consciousness but if it had been constantly on the news and social media it would be the biggest topic in your mind and you would think nothing was more important than that

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nothing was more important than that you do not have opinions they are assigned to you all right so if that didn't blow your head off a little bit i don't know i would um here are some of the destructive lies from the kamala harris group so she's talking about as is the governor of california that the climate change is what's fueling and intensifying the wildfires as i mentioned now what is the evidence for that and i've asked people can you give me some evidence that it's climate change causing this and sure enough they'll send me to a source it'll be a source that says climate change is making this worse and then i'll say all right now now connect the dots i hear the claim but why and where's your data who was study shows that it's just not there so there are people who keep reading the

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so there are people who keep reading the claim and the claim is in fairly reputable places so they'll read the claim and they won't notice that there's no connecting tissue to any kind of data or anything just some hand waving that you know might make things drier at the same time it's making things wetter and that's basically the argument which is a non-argument and then you say well maybe we should ask the experts at forestry how many experts in the country who are experts at
at forest fires and forest management how many of those people think the problem is climate change it's kind of zero it's basically zero the people who know forest management say
say well just look at it we didn't do forest management we got exactly the outcome that that would predict which is why there's a thing called forest management removing the underbrush etc there's a there's a reason it's a thing

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there's a reason it's a thing because it predicts this you know there's a direct connection now is it true that the climate change also has some impact i don't know do you know because if we know that the forest management piece predicts all of it could it be that there is an extra five percent kicker on there from climate change could be i would be completely open to the argument that it's a little ten percent worse because the climate change maybe twenty percent but there's no science for that there's no science for that it's just maybe maybe who knows so when you when you see somebody like harris um promote a lie that big she's either completely anti-science which is a problem especially since she accuses the other side of that or she's telling one of the biggest lies

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she's telling one of the biggest lies you could ever tell which would tell you not to do forest management why would you do forest management if kamala harris who might be president someday if if a person this important is telling you it's it's climate man it's climate change why would you do forest management it doesn't seem to be a variable according to her this is the kind of lie that you can't compare this to anything trump has ever done maybe there's an exception that i can't think of but the worst things trump has ever said if you believe them you would still end up doing the right thing right so let's say the the worst thing he said was there are a lot of rapists coming in over the border and you say to yourself that's just a terrible thing to say maybe i'm not even going to argue the point but what would be the downside the downside is we would get a better border security and then there would be in fact fewer

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and then there would be in fact fewer rapists coming in because there would be fewer people so you don't even need to know what the ratio of rapist to regular immigrants is you would end up ahead right if you liked immigration of course so the trump quote lies all have that quality i think where if you believe them you'd end up in a good place the kamala harris ones if you believe them you end up with a divided country you end up with california on fire i don't know maybe you end up being friends with china while they're trying to destroy you all of their lies are the kind that can kill you whereas trump's lies are the kind that oh yeah well it wasn't exactly true but we came out ahead and obviously he knew that which is why he framed it that way all right i know you want me to talk about this there's a post on 4chan you ready for this okay so the first part you need to know it's on 4chan and it's anonymous

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it's on 4chan and it's anonymous so what kind of credibility should you place on something that's on 4chan and it's anonymous the answer is none right so if we can be honest let's try to keep some kind of rational thought here the credibility should be none what credibility should you put on the bob woodward anonymous or anybody else's anonymous stories about president trump zero the same now you could argue that if you've checked on the anonymous source and you found out at least it's a real person that could have been in the room that that's a little more confirming than just a stranger anonymous stranger on 4chan i can see that but it's such a small difference that you would it's more rational just say these are two things in the category of non-credible things that said since it is now the election season and apparently it's okay

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apparently it's okay apparently it's okay to say things that are anonymous reports uh i will report this to you with the caveat i wouldn't think it's credible but there's something i want to call out in it there's a detail in this report it's about biden having dementia so that it's reportedly some campaign insider who is now no longer with the campaign who reports that it was just common knowledge that that biden was on dementia medication and that the dementia medication would cause incontinence and that the real reason they don't want them answering questions or staying too long in public is the incontinence now again this is something an anonymous person on 4chan is saying the odds of anything in that category being true not so good right but i'm reading this thing and trying to to to answer the question

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and trying to to to answer the question just my to my own satisfaction of is it obviously untrue i mean can you pick it up by the way it's told or is there something in there a tell a little signal that there might be something true and here's what's interesting there's a detail in this post that it's hard for me to imagine somebody would have thought of this detail to put it in a fake story and here's the detail the detail again is an allegation don't take any of this as credible but the allegation is that the biden team has had actual literal meetings on the topic of what kind of depends undergarment would cause the less the least amount of obvious you know visual uh something but also would crinkle the least that wouldn't have a crinkling sound now that

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that that detail either means it's true or that this post was created by a really good liar a really good liar and you can't rule out either of those possibilities because if you were a really good liar and you wanted to put a rumor someplace well 4chan would be a good place to do it right so i only call out this technique if you're trying to determine if somebody is lying about a story look for the weird detail because a liar doesn't come up with weird details they're trying to just give you the most basic version yes there was a gun on the sidewalk i picked it up blah blah but they wouldn't throw in something like i picked up the gun and it was like i don't know there was something on it like i don't know if it fell in some tar or it was gum or whatever so i'm scraping off the gum off of the gun and it goes off if somebody tells you a story like that you say to yourself okay nobody makes up

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you say to yourself okay nobody makes up that story nobody makes up a story they found a gun on the ground and there was some kind of stuff on it i mean it could be made up but you wouldn't make up that story you would make up something that just sounded more real so anyway the cringe the crinkle part of the story stands out as either a very experienced liar or true but it's definitely not a bad lie
lie you can rule that part out all right here are some of the uh biden lies that people suggested um that uh if biden had been president he could have prevented all the covet deaths that's crazy that biden was for the travel ban there's some doubt on that one that he that he was against nafta at one point and he's four fracking the fracking one by the way seems to be a lie on the uh on the conservative side

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a lie on the uh on the conservative side so here's me just just take note here when i said that the campaign ads from both sides are lies well here's an example this is just a lie from the the the trump side so the truth on this one
one is that i think is that joe biden was against fracking on public uh government land and so there's a quote saying that and then there are other courts saying he's not against fracking so i believe that he is he said he is against it on government land but he's not going to ban it on in private where most of it i imagine happens whereas kamala harris has said directly that she's against fracking but she's the vice president it doesn't really matter what her opinion was because she would have to adopt bidens now is it a giant lie not really because the i think the trump campaign is let's say in the neighborhood of

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is let's say in the neighborhood of truth without being technically true they're in the neighborhood of truth because it is fair to say that the you know the entire pressures of the base would cause biden to probably fold and he would probably become anti-fracking especially if kamala harris is anti-fracking once he got in the job you can easily imagine that he's so close to being anti-fracking you can imagine his base pushing him over the line so i would say that's another example of the biden kin or the trump campaign or trump saying something that might be not exactly true in terms of the fact checking but it's it's basically directionally true like it's even if even if uh it's not true it leads you to the right place because the trump campaign wants you to know that these are two people who are not too firm on fracking in in a party that's very much against

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in in a party that's very much against it
it and if they get power what are the odds that biden's you know weak little complaint that no no
no i only meant government land is that believable could you depend on it probably not probably couldn't depend on that and so i would say that even though it fails the fact-checking it certainly gets you in the right direction um there's a whole bunch of other lies here i won't mention them i asked if anybody could come up with the first documented as in the internet documented case of somebody who had seriously accused biden of dementia and i wondered how far back that went and i don't know for sure but a lot of people did some research for me thank you and there's a mark levin quote in which he says seriously i think joe biden may have dementia and then he goes on to to talk about it this was

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this was april 28th 2012 eight years ago so if this stands as the earliest serious serious question about dementia i think mark levin gets the award for the first one to spot it i would say that biden wasn't really on my radar back then so i wasn't looking for it one way or the other i think my first mention of it was somebody says that i mentioned it in august 27th of 2019
so that might have been my earliest mention but there are mentions in 28 2008 that that were sort of semi-serious so there are a number of people who who talked about biden being slow in 2008 and 2009 but they didn't they stopped short of asserting an actual medical diagnosis it was more like it was a little bit

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it was more like it was a little bit more like just insulting a politician on the other side uh he's stupid he's slow he's losing that that sort of thing but the actual uh i'm completely serious i think there's dementia i think mark levin might have the the winner on 2012. so think about that eight years ago eight years ago a smart observer and levin is definitely smart a smart observer picked this up eight years ago robin williams in 2008 but you know i i think a lot of them were just joking or but i think levin was actually dead serious on that um then oh in october 2012 uh dr keith abloh uh mentioned that that he thought biden might have dementia or at least it had to be considered he thought because if you're a doctor you don't you don't diagnose people you haven't met so dr ablo was more saying it has to be

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dr ablo was more saying it has to be considered
all right here's a interesting factoid uh there's data shows that half of the donations in 2019 for a democratic action group act blue came from untraceable quote unemployed donors and it was uh 400 million in donations and so the thinking is that maybe these were untraceable foreign donations because in the united states it would be weird if half of all your donations were from people who didn't have jobs i am not sold on this story call me a skeptic on this it sounds a little bit too perfect like a story that you'd see in a campaign season here's my problem with it i don't know if everybody who donates to every organization gets the same form to fill out it would be easy to imagine that the

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it would be easy to imagine that the people who got donations from this group had a forum in which the employment box looked optional i'm just making something up here to show you that there are other ways this could be explained maybe the box was optional or maybe it was explained differently you know how important it was or something like that but here's a thing you should understand most people in america don't work so don't be fooled by the fact that there was a four percent unemployment rate at the time these donations were coming in in 2019 a four percent unemployment rate means half of the people in the country don't have a job did you know that go out in the street during the work day any week and the street is filled with people the stores are filled with people who are not working you know all that the seniors all the the spouses who are in between jobs or the other spouse works maybe one stays at home

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spouse works maybe one stays at home which is working in itself there are students there are children i think there are 100 some million workers in a country of 300 some million people so i wonder if the republican numbers are right meaning that the republicans show only a like a tiny percentage don't have jobs but the democrat donations show that half of them or so don't have jobs half of them is closer to real because if you took all the you know the retired people etc who give 10 i think half of the people would be unemployed in a normal anything if you had a if a big group of people just met across the street from your house it was just a big public reality how many people who went to a public rally have jobs half about half right if you have a job you can easily be misled into thinking lots of other people have jobs it turns out that having a job it's not

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it turns out that having a job it's not even the majority most people have had a job or will have a job but at any moment most people don't have jobs all right um here's another fact check from so jake tapper tried to fact check peter navarro today i think it was in which peter navarro claimed that the biden said it was xenophobic to stop travel from china and jake tapper quite rigorously fact-checked them and said nope never happened joe biden never said that the china ban was xenophobic is that true or false what do you think do you think it's a true fact that joe biden once said that the travel ban from china was xenophobic well i went to politifact to find out here's what politifact says as they rate it
it mostly it's mostly false so politifact says it's mostly false

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says it's mostly false that biden called it xenophobic to ban travel from china but here's how they word it carefully listen to this wording from politifact so it talked about the situation and then it says quote but biden has not directly said that the travel restriction was xenophobic so therefore it's false so politifact says he has not directly said that china ban was xenophobic okay but they continue he has used that phrase in reference to trump and his handling of the coronavirus outbreak
what uh what does it mean if joe biden did use the phrase against trump that it was xenophobic the way he was handling the coronavirus outbreak but he wasn't talking about the travel ban it happened about the same time as the travel ban you know just after it and yet there was

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you know just after it and yet there was something else that the president did with that was xenophobic that didn't have to do with the travel ban
okay okay could it be that he was calling it the china virus or the chinese virus i think you could say that was maybe offensive but is it xenophobic the only xenophobic thing he did according to the democrats was the travel ban so yeah technically maybe he didn't directly say it
it but is is the trump campaign lying when they say he did say it again it's one of those directional kind of things if you were to believe the trump campaign you know that they were technically true and biden said that he was being xenophobic would you be misled would it cause you to make a decision that's wrong no no you might be not

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no no you might be not technically exactly accurate but you would be the opposite of misled you would be led to joe biden saying that trump is xenophobic all the time which is true so that's a weird fact jack there are no real facts anymore everything is subjective
i think i have to i have to fact check this myself but i think that biden said it was xenophobic the europe band so that technically you could say the chinese band he did not call xenophobic that he he called it the in reference to the the european travel ban but check that on that i saw it on the internet but i don't know if it's true um all right did politifact give biden's actual quotes uh i think he gave one of them i forget calling it the china virus is accurate it is

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it is calling it the chinese virus i think is a problem because chinese is a word that refers to the people as well as the government that's a little unfair no that's totally unfair it's totally unfair to blame the chinese people for what the the government decides to do but calling it the china virus is just a description of where it happened totally fair because we call the other viruses by their their place and the president made that adjustment you know i don't i say this a million times but judging people from what they used to do as opposed to how they corrected it just feels like a loser way to go through life you know it seems like the smarter way to go through life is if somebody used to have an opinion you don't like and then they changed it to an opinion you like you should say well there's an awesome person that's an awesome person they they agree with me that that would be the better way to go through life

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way to go through life all right somebody says stop it i don't know what you're talking about have you ever been fact checked yeah all the time incorrectly probably 100 of the time i think i've been fact checked not by politifact exactly i've been fact checked by the news you know a million times but not a million times but i have been fact checked by the news i don't think they've ever fact-checked me correctly not once um well chinese food is not racist because chinese people eat chinese food that's was that an insult or something
can't even drive two hours away from the bay area to go to a gym or go for a run yeah the entire state of california is in smoke right now there's no place you can drive to that doesn't look like outside my window as far as i know

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as far as i know all right just looking at your comments now
now what about the spanish flu um oh so somebody's saying why was it called the spanish flu as opposed to the spain float does it matter does it matter it doesn't matter because in the old days if they were racist in the old days that was the old days so i don't think we should use the standard of the early 1900s for how we name things if if people are more sensitive today that's fine by the way i'm i'm never the one
one who complains about all forms of social correctness i think a lot of that's useful i think that they call it political correctness but i would call it social correctness i think that social correctness is something we should be tuning all the time you just don't want to go wild with it you don't want to go too far but it's good stuff all right what will be the october surprise

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what will be the october surprise well the obvious one would be biden being replaced the obvious one would be biden being replaced um you want a bigger one a bigger saudi peace deal how about some kind of a saudi israel deal that'd be pretty big it'd be pretty big so somebody says they like my shirt and my lighting oh the reason you like my lighting is because i did it wrong um my lighting is supposed to have the curtains down but i forgot to put them down the only reason the lighting works today is because there's so much smoke outside that i'm getting a good lighting effect all right uh that's all for now and i will talk to you tomorrow