Episode 1125 Scott Adams: The Third Act is Starting to Wrap Up, Zeitgeist Has Shifted, GoldenAge

Date: 2020-09-16 | Duration: 1:01:34

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• MAJOR Middle East peace accomplishment dissed by Democrats

• President Trump, like America, achieves the impossible

• Teaching “critical race theory” without teaching “critical thinking”

• Non-Fiction books about people…are fiction

• President Trump playing within bounds defined by Democrats

• Dr. Li-Meng Yan and COVID19 creation, release

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okay everybody will you look at all that smoke out there in california look at that sky it's full of smoke no it isn't it's a trick that's actually fog because
ordinary day no today is not like any other day while you thought that was fog nope the air quality went from 160 to 26 in the last day that my friends is not smoke it was actually blue sky yesterday and today for the first time in approximately a month i'm going to do something called wait for it going outside yeah i had a little medical surgery stuff so i couldn't do any exercise for several weeks and as soon as i was ready to go back outside the forest fires hit and then the air quality was too low to exercise outside but last night i don't know if the wind

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but last night i don't know if the wind changed or what but we went from pretty darn bad to not looking so bad i think this is just fog should clear up a little bit anyway this is not the only thing that's starting to go right what you're seeing is the third act of all third acts there's something happening can you feel it
it this is not like other days there's something happening it's everywhere it's in it's in a million different ways and a million different things things are almost waking up it's almost like the people and
and the stuff and the systems are becoming almost sentient and you're going to see a lot of things that were going wrong start to go right let me give you some examples
we'll talk about those uh over the course of the next few minutes but i wanted to do first some fact checking and corrections

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some fact checking and corrections so uh yesterday i had two uh two really astounding mistakes so let me collect correct them both number one mistake is that i incorrectly said that uh gavin newsom governor of new york and kimberly gilfoyle shared a child i've been corrected that it's kimberly's child from a subsequent marriage so that's number one correction number two
two have i ever told you that i don't have uh the capacity for embarrassment anymore i used to i used to be embarrassed at everything but i've somehow learned to do incredibly embarrassing and stupid things in public doesn't bother me a bit and it's a really good superpower you should try to develop it this is a perfect case in point i don't know if this is the stupidest thing i've ever done in public but it might be it could totally might be
be let me tell you this so we'll get to the

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let me tell you this so we'll get to the simultaneous step so yesterday i think i said it on uh on another podcast as well so i have to correct that later i said that there was a map of california that showed all the fires and i
i cheekily said why did the fire stop at the border of canada it must be that they do better forest management because otherwise obviously there would be slop over into canada and i felt pretty smart about that pretty darn smart if i if i do say so myself it was insightful it was insightful uh but there was one little problem with that insight which was pointed out to me by literally everybody with a brain
you know what the problem was right it was a problem it was a map of california fires so it only showed the the fires in california

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the the fires in california because it was a map of california fires it showed canada on the map but it didn't care about them somebody followed up and showed me a map of canadian fires that show no fires in california to which i said oh not my finest moment but before we get into more of that what do we need more than just about anything in the world i think it's a simultaneous sip
sip and all you need is a copper bug or a glass attack or chelsea stein a canteen drink or flask of vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that dopamine the other day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and we are in the middle of the third act folks coming to the other side sit with me go oh so good all right uh rasmussen has a poll coming out
out in about i think uh two hours

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in about i think uh two hours um i won't tell you what the rasmussen poll says but if you like your president trumps i think you're gonna like it so look for the rasmussen poll good news that's all i'm gonna tell you i made a a cheeky comment on twitter that i would like to repeat rarely rarely in the course of anybody's life do they get to say something like i'm gonna say and here it goes i wrote a book called win bigly you can see it on the shelf behind me if you're watching and it's a book about how to persuade and it was specifically about president trump's skill for persuasion and um woodward in his book and i think in part of his audio tapes or something noted that um that jared kushner had told woodward to read win bigly to

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had told woodward to read win bigly to understand the present better and um so now we know that you know jared read went bigly i happen to know a few other people in the white house who have read wynn bigly now win bigly is a book that would teach you how to persuade somebody to do something that they had not done before and maybe didn't want to do before and it looks like maybe as many nine countries in the middle east will be signing peace agreements or at least agreements which effectively are peace agreements now i am not going to say that if i had not written that book that we wouldn't get a good result because the way it works and i think we all agree on the rules the rules are the rules the boss gets the credit because the boss also gets the blame right it's just sort of how it works

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so obviously president trump gets the credit he's the one who brought in jared he's the one jared brought in his staff so the president gets any credit for the middle east but it is kind of hilarious kind of hilarious that my book was out there at the same time did it make a difference no way to know i won't make that claim because there's no way to know but it is funny and
and i couldn't help i couldn't help [Laughter] but mentioning it all right so i can't guarantee that everybody who wins win bigly my book will uh create peace in the middle east all i can tell you for sure is that 100 of the people who did read it did make peace in the middle east but that doesn't mean it's causation all right um here's the funniest thing that's happening right now the president did a lot of things or was accused of a lot of things that later

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accused of a lot of things that later became you know falsified but for whatever reason and i guess the reason is the way people are wired they don't really learn from their mistakes meaning that you would have thought if you lived in some kind of a rational world you would have thought that when democrats found out that russian collusion was completely made up just completely made up and it was almost a an overthrow of the government if it worked you would think that people who learned that about their own side would say whoa whoa from now on i'm not going to trust my side because they just did the biggest prank in the world with this russia collusion hoax but you observed that that did not happen right instead uh and i'll bet you've experienced this they would say no it's been proven and you'd say no that's the opposite of what happened it was proven not to exist or at least you can't prove something's a negative but

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something's a negative but no evidence was found and then you've been down this hoax funnel before people will retreat from okay okay they didn't find collusion per se
se but a lot of people went to jail and then you say for different reasons for different reasons and then they say well but what about that russian troll farm they were certainly interfering and then you say no that's a different conversation we were talking about collusion not a russian troll farm made a few memes that looked like a sixth grader made them that did happen the collusion did not now what do people say when you've taken them the hoax you've debunked everything they've said you've agreed that russia did some bad stuff during the obama administration what do you
you what happens next you know what happens next they'll change the subject and then if

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they'll change the subject and then if you
you circle back to them in a week and you say well you know as we discussed last week there's no russian collusion well they say yeah that's what we decided last week nope never not once will you see this happen what will they do instead they'll say there was russian collusion there were those russian troll farms and what about those people who got arrested it will be as if the conversation never happened right you've all been there i'll bet every one of you has had that conversation where you go down the hoax funnel and then they just change the subject and circle back to the top of it in a week like it never happened but there are some topics that are so big and so stark that maybe you can't do that and this middle east business looks like it would be that but this morning i was looking to see how the the tortured souls would try to explain why this is happening and i'm

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explain why this is happening and i'm seeing people saying how could it be a peace deal if israel wasn't at war with bahrain
how could it be a peace deal if israel isn't at war with saudi arabia what kind of peace deal is it
it if it's the uae we're not nobody was at war with the uae well that is you know the the child's view of what's going on of course but they found something they found something however i would argue that the overall the middle east stuff is so obviously good and so obviously only because of trump and his team you know jared's team it's only happening because of them that is hard to escape it's really hard to escape and it is also hard to escape that all the quote smart people the john brennans of the world the all the critics have criticized this president

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president on every single move from killing solomony to canceling the iran deal to moving the embassy to recognizing the golan heights just one thing after another it's a mistake it's going to cause us trouble and i've been telling you since the start that those were all the right things to do to get the result that they get i will remind you what i was saying when these were happening by creating a situation in which israel wasn't negotiating for peace but rather just taking what they wanted i think we'll move our embassy i think we'll take the golan heights i think we'll just declare some territory over here and that's your territory and this is ours what i said was as long as israel was getting stronger and nobody else was i mean at least the palestinians weren't but as long as israel was doing great it would create this situation where it looked like they better do a

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where it looked like they better do a deal quickly because the quickly the faster they do the deal the faster they can you know lock in some benefits for themselves because israel was just going to keep marching they were just going to keep doing whatever they wanted to do and they were thinking well maybe this is the time so i would argue that the president set up exactly the right situation and set the table perfectly by by not being the way we used to be for one thing shaking the box working the people uh and i think that they also probably made a good story about what's in it for everybody so i think the story that jared started out with was look how good you could be doing you know you won't always have oil right that's the thing that the middle east is worrying about now wait a minute maybe oil isn't going to be the future because it isn't so now they have to figure out how to cooperate because they can't just say we don't have to cooperate

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don't have to cooperate look at all our oil if you want oil well you're going to have to do what we want and now when it's obvious so we'll get to a point not too long where we don't need oil as much and and also the president's uh making the united states independent energy independent was a big part of that so i would say every part of this this the president set up and set the table and congratulations to everybody who made that work
so what would have happened if everybody who gave president trump advice about the crown prince of saudi arabia and that ugliness with khashoggi what would happen if the president had taken all of their advice all the smart people every smart people the people on the left there were some people on the right pretty much it was just everybody against trump as i remember it and they said no no

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as i remember it and they said no no you've got to come much harder on saudi arabia what did i say
say what i said was you can't make that guy come back alive right khashoggi's dead you can't make him come back alive but here's what you can do you can make saudi arabia owe you a favor you can do that and that's what the president did he created an asset out of nothing because it wasn't you know he wasn't his actions that killed khashoggi it just happened because of saudi arabia presumably and the president took that opportunity to say what if i go the opposite direction stay good to him how much does he owe me for getting it for having his back no i don't know if they ever had a direct conversation about that but do you need to do you need to have a direct conversation when somebody has your back in a major way
way i mean in the world of having somebody's back

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back that you've never seen anything like this this is the gutsiest thing you'll ever see probably in public so the president had had the crown prince's back on that for good or bad you might think that if you're looking that in isolation to be the worst thing in the world i'd probably agree in isolation it's just about the worst thing in the world i mean really it's just about the worst thing in the world you know dismembering a guy but the president figured out how to turn it into an asset and the larger benefits could be quite impressive it will never pay for the life of a person exactly but he did capitalize on what was there all right um
so it feels to me there's also a change coming so you're seeing the you know the the change with the middle east uh you're seeing that the rasmussen poll

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uh you're seeing that the rasmussen poll is showing that people are having a different opinion about the president i believe that the longer the protests go the more people's minds about them will shift toward increasingly negative they're already negative but even increasingly so so that's another shift and i think that um critical race theory has probably been surfaced to the point where more people know what it is and then also debunked by at least some portion of the public even though some still like it so i think there's just a lot happening big big big changes in the way we're thinking about stuff there are big changes in the world but also in the way we're thinking of things um and here's one of the changes there was a story in of oregon got caught on film where a woman caught a guy trying to set fire it looked like allegedly he had some matches and he was trying to set fire to some forest on her property it looked

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some forest on her property it looked like and she caught him she had a gun in the car
car she pulls him over and she she held him until he was arrested he said he was going to go for a smoke but he didn't have cigarettes right he just had matches and he was trying to light her forest now how do you feel about climate change when you know that they keep arresting arsonists every time they arrest another arsonist climate change doesn't look quite the thing that you thought it was before every time you hear people like michael schellenberger and you know others now saying quite loudly that forest management is the big thing and if you took care of that it might still get warmer it may still get warmer but it won't be the forest fire problem if you take care of the uh the brush but watching a citizen arrest an arsonist and it feels like the beginning of a trend

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it feels like the beginning of a trend you saw there was a uh there was a man who got arrested i don't know the details but he had gone inside his house he was surrounded by black lives matter and they arrested him i don't know the details of that yet but what you're going to see is that the suburban americans are armed to the teeth they are really armed was it lancaster pennsylvania where the last bunch of riots were and i read that the judge just totally threw the book at the riders who got arrested so there's a judge in pennsylvania who's just putting the hammer down on the rioters have you seen that before i think it's the first time i've seen the judge just come down with full force and say we're gonna we're gonna put the hammer down on these people at the same time another judge elsewhere has decided um i guess there's to be arrests not a judge but apparently there have been arrests of the black lives matter protesters who

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of the black lives matter protesters who disturbed and and threw over tables or whatever they were doing in restaurants so these are the ones who didn't hurt anybody but they came in and they messed up the restaurants and you know drank their beverages and stuff like that and they're actually gonna they're arrested did you think that they would be arrested i didn't i didn't think there was any chance that any of those people even though they were on film doing something that looked vaguely illegal to me i didn't know exactly what laws were getting broken but it looked illegal and they're actually getting arrested now
now i always talk about the slippery slope not being real it is real in the sense that things do go too far right but there is always a counter force that pops up before it goes to the point where we all die right and we've definitely gone too far that's where we're at now and you're seeing you know millions of residents just making independent decisions some are judged judges some are private

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some are judged judges some are private citizens some are just buying guns some people are just fed up some people are the police themselves and i think you're just going to see this collective okay that's far enough that's far enough what do you think about black lives matter and their uh and their legitimate desire for a fairer world well i'll give you my opinion if you had asked me six months ago i would say well in fact i i tried to work with black lives matter because i took it so seriously that i thought well maybe i can help i'd like to be a productive citizen if if black lives need a little extra help everybody's agreeing that would be a good place to put some work i'll put some work there i'll put some my money there i'll put some work there see what i can do what do i think now after the protest riot slash looting now i think black lives matter is a bad organization no better in my mind the organizers not

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no better in my mind the organizers not not the individual people but in my mind the organizers are effectively the same as ku klux klan at this point in terms of how i think of them now i'm not talking about historic ku klux klan which was worse but i talked about ku klux klan today just the way it's currently organized very similar to black lives matter to me there's no difference and keep in mind that was it only one year ago two years ago that i had actually volunteered to help them i had volunteered to help and a year from now i equate them with the kkk i don't see a significant difference in terms of how bad it is which is different from the
the members who are legitimately protesting about racial equality lots of people have good intentions but in terms of the organization effectively the kkk for all practical purposes now i don't mean that they're the same i mean they're they're equally uh a bad influence in

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they're equally uh a bad influence in the public all right um and it could have been good it's too bad um here's something i borrowed from the panda tribune that that being a twitter account that i follow the panda tribune and i stole this idea and reworded it but i asked this question if you teach people critical race theory before you teach them critical reasoning what is the predictable outcome think about it critical race theory is kind of complicated in a way you know you can't really explain it in a sentence takes a little work to get what the whole idea is so what happens if you teach people that but you have not given them the let's say prerequisite course of how to compare things and how to think well what is the obvious thing that that would lead to what you see that you had to get here

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what you see that you had to get here you could have predicted easily we're going to teach you this but we're not going to teach you how to think about things productively and compare things right for example if black lives matter knew how to compare things right they would say okay let's see people stop by police and we're only going to look at people who have been stopped by police how does that go and then you look at the statistics and then you say okay we'll take it a little bit deeper how about people who were stopped by police and actively resisted arrest how many of them were white how many were black and then you go a little deeper and you say how many of the police officers themselves were black because that matters too right that matters so if the people learning critical race theory had first learned how to analyze things just the basics of how to compare things they would have been prepared to listen to critical race theory and i think their conclusion would have

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and i think their conclusion would have been something like this yes there's some ripple effect from slavery there's there are other issues or yes there is systemic racism it's real but what do you do about it if you don't have critical thinking you say to yourself it looks like white people cross caused this problem historically and therefore white people must fix it that's because you skipped critical thinking critical thinking doesn't say that critical thinking does not say somebody who looked like you and had your dna and had your family connection caused the problem therefore you have to fix it there's no logical connection to that the logical way would be
be we have this set of problems we can identify where the source is but what's the best solution and the best solution would be something like strategy something like learning not to resist beliefs something like better education something like getting rid of the police

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something like getting rid of the police i'm sorry that getting rid of the teachers unions maybe there's something about you know better better police practices as well that's what it would look like it wouldn't look like what we see now what you see now is people who skipped the prerequisite course for critical race theory and um i remember i taught you that i taught you that you can't often persuade against the bad idea when somebody gets a bad idea in their head it's it's just stuck it's hard to change anybody's idea on anything so if people have the critical race theory stuck in their head erasing it or changing your mind almost impossible but what if you agreed and amplified i teach you this trick before so what if you agreed as i just did the the that the the conceptual stuff is actually pretty good to know i think it would be useful for anybody to have that as a background in an

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to have that as a background in an education to inform their current choices uh to the extent that it makes any difference but suppose you said critical race theory is great and here's how to make it even better all right we don't want to waste it because it's so valuable so instead of saying it's the worst thing in the world you go the other direction and say let's let's really beef this up but obviously you need a prerequisite course prerequisite course is how to compare things once you're ready with that and you've learned a little bit about strategy and life strategy maybe then you have a good base to take this incredibly important concept of critical race theory but you're ready you know how to handle it in its proper context so you could agree and amplify to the point where you would make it a positive in theory obviously all this stuff is deeply difficult all right um i think the the psychology that's

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um i think the the psychology that's happening to the country because of the middle east is bigger than you think because i've said this before that um and i i think this will be my favorite thing to say that president trump is bad at easy stuff and by easy stuff i mean anything that joe biden says in public is easy stuff right joe biden just says what is the thing i'm supposed to say okay can you write that on the teleprompter for me so i can read it all right uh and i'll read it that's easy stuff everybody can read the thing you're supposed to say president trump either he chooses not to or he's not good at it but it ends up looking the same he just doesn't do easy stuff he's just not not good at it or he doesn't care or something but the net result is that he's not good at easy stuff but man is he good at impossible stuff the impossible stuff i mean literally things that people said

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i mean literally things that people said well that can't be done you can't do all that stuff in the middle east and expect to get a good out come what's happening i don't understand what's happening you did everything wrong according to me me being somebody else how can you get such a good result and if you do the impossible often enough what does it do to people's minds i got i got one word for you america america what the most defining characteristic of the founding of this country give me one word give me one word that describes the american revolution better than any other word
you ready that one word that explains the american birth the most critical thing that happened to our future in america the revolution

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our future in america the revolution george washington one word impossible impossible we the the founders of this country set out to defeat the biggest military power of its day and then did then they did and not only did they beat the most impressive military power of its day but then they built this document that would last hundreds of years and you know keep us on the right path and also make the united states not just pretty good but the most dominant country in civilization china's doing pretty well too but you know what i mean and that's i've always thought that that bit of starting from the impossible permeates everything about the way you think when steve jobs do you know the story of steve jobs he was a teenager

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steve jobs he was a teenager and he wanted to build a computer and he called was it hewlett or packard i can't remember one of the hewlett-packard guys just called a billionaire at home he's a teenager steve jobs is a teenager he calls a billionaire a home says i want to build a computer but i need some parts that you might have can you give me some parts and he did he gave him some parts and then wozniak and jobs built a computer now if if anybody had asked you was that possible well in the sense that anything's possible but kind of looked impossible how about the wright brothers how about going to the moon how about elon musk building first the tesla car and then you know getting ready to to go to mars it's all impossible one of the things that america has as it's just core dna is that is that impossible okay watch this

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is that impossible okay watch this hold my beer hold my beer should be the national it should be the national slogan right because america does impossible things three times before lunch it's kind of really built into who we are that you tell me i can't do that i'm really interested now all right so when you watch the president of the united states the person who is according to all the smart people couldn't possibly do this thing whatever the thing is and that you're talking about at the moment and then you watch him do it first getting elected that was kind of impossible wasn't it just getting elected for trump seemed pretty impossible did that how about shaking hands with kim jong-un and basically defusing that whole situation did that seem possible hold my beer and when you watch the middle east coming together in a in a big way

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coming together in a in a big way and you watch even let's say the decoupling from china which is on the way by the way we are literally decoupling from china one of the best economic things that could ever happen to this country it's a whole bunch of impossibles it's just one impossible thing after another and the more you watch trump and and yeah i hate to um it's hard to not say jared kushner in the same sentence because you know this is a team effort and so kushner needs to get you know a plus plus plus on this as well as his staff and you watch him do the impossible and what does it do to your mind you're an entrepreneur and you're thinking i couldn't do that before that's impossible and then you watch people do impossible stuff all day long on tv the president in particular it changes you so that's the big question the the big the big change is how we're thinking about everything

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um why is antifa never been reframed uh there's something missing here you know if you're talking about uh abortion you've got the people who say it's uh it's a question of choice and then the other side says it's a question of life so both sides have framed it in the best possible way for their argument but with antifa they've gotten away with where anti-fascist therefore if you're against us you're a fascist and they get away with that why has nobody been able to reframe antifa is it the fact that the formulation of anti-fascist is just really good in terms of powerful you know word combinations and that there's just no way to get in there and reframe that thing i don't know um so my my suggestion had been to reframe it as anti-capitalist because there are very few people in

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because there are very few people in this country who are legitimately anti-capitalism and the fascism the way it's used is capitalism because they would not be happy with bernie either
an interesting little side note kanye is getting really active on twitter today and he's complaining about all the big music industry and entertainment industry contracts but i think he's extended it to contracts in general and the point about how they're written in legalese so you don't know exactly what you're getting and it's very unfair for the artists because they're the least capable of knowing what they signed an artist is not a lawyer so if they work with lawyers against lawyers they don't really know what they've signed and you know i've got lots of experience with contracts both in my corporate world that's what i did for a living for a while and in my dilbert life which is just nothing but contracts all day long contracts and contracts so i'm you fairly

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fairly fairly experienced at doing that stuff but kanye's point i am so in favor of to the point where i thought that one of the things we should do in this country is create i say this a million times create brand new
new towns and cities from scratch where we just say all right throw out all the rules if you're going to build a city from scratch knowing what we do what we know today what would you do right and what would you do wrong for example i would say that you can't have legalese in this town you can have contracts but they have to be written in english by the way in my early corporate days i'd often get contracts from my lawyer who would you know some response to something else that we had to do and i would take my lawyers legalese and i would just rewrite it into uh three paragraphs in english and then i would give it back to my lawyer and say okay this is what it would look like if you wrote it in real people language is there anything wrong with us and my

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is there anything wrong with us and my lawyer would look at it and go nope nope there's nothing wrong with it you can actually rewrite what i wrote in english language so that other people would know exactly what you mean and nobody will be confused and there was no problem at all it's just that if you're a lawyer you don't do it because you need to keep up appearances you want to make sure you've covered a hundred percent of your risk whereas you know maybe i got 99. so i would see it i would see a town that has no legalese i would want the insurance to be the government there would be no insurance of any kind for your car your health insurance your house or anything except the government and the profit from that would be your taxes so you wouldn't pay taxes you would just buy insurance buy insurance for your car buy insurance for health care you just buy insurance and the profit from that would replace taxes

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taxes i would also get rid of money so that you only have crypto and nobody has to touch anything and you don't need a bank so i'd get rid of banks money lawyers with legalese maybe you need the lawyers still but i get rid of the legalese i get rid of insurance except by the government and do a lot of other things that's just a start so when you see kanye talking about this you might think this is a small deal that's a small deal talking about lawyers having complicated language isn't that like the smallest deal you could work on nope because that language is a confusopoly it's designed to make you not know what you're signing it's a big problem i am so with kanye on this and he has definitely identified a genuine problem of major magnitude to a lot of people so good luck on good luck kanye on that
i've noticed that there's a type of person i debate with

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person i debate with online recently there was this guy with hashtag blm and hashtag acab meaning all cops are bastards in his profile so i knew what i was getting but he started out with his list of hoaxes criticizing the president oh you did this he did this and one by one i gave him sources and and debunked all of his hoaxes once he had learned that his world view was complete garbage that the most important things he thought about politics in the world and trump were just hoaxes you know and you can look at the sources to see did he then change his mind of course not he went after me personally now it's one thing that somebody comes and they insult the messenger i'm used to that but he decided it was going to be his full-time job and he would just keep coming back and pestering me personally having nothing to do with politics until ultimately i blocked them but i'm thinking how sick do you have to be to start with

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how sick do you have to be to start with a world view somebody debunks your world view and then instead of saying man i guess i got to work on my world view a little bit i think i'm gonna have to you know look into understanding things better but instead you go on a personal attack against the person who clarified your worldview that is sick that's some sick stuff there's a there's a video of bob de niro just going through his rants about president trump and you can't watch that without thinking i think the line between political disagreement and mental health has been crossed that just looks like mental health it doesn't and and i don't want to treat it like it's something else because the moment you try to treat it with respect and say oh no you know maybe if i give you some more information you'll change your mind that's not what's happening with robert de niro now again i'm not a doctor and you're not supposed to diagnose people from a distance but uh

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people from a distance but uh hold my beer because i'm gonna i'm gonna do that he's clearly not well all right um i think that one of the reasons that the woodward book is not having much of an impact i think we've reached the turning point in people's understanding of the world you know the majority of them anyway where they understand that there's no such thing as a non-fiction book about a person if you write a non-fiction book of lsa math that's probably just fine but if you write a quote non-fiction book about a real person living or dead that's not nonfiction that is fiction because of the way the data is organized because the author can reorganize the data leave things down put things in you know put things next to each other until he's he or she has designed a whole narrative and story that narrative and story is fiction

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story is fiction because it had to be created by arranging things if you didn't create it by arranging the order of so-called facts it wouldn't be fiction but it is always arranged so i think the public now looks at the woodwork book and says okay that's some creative fiction there and they just move on it feels like we're getting to that point all right netflix has a new content down there called the devil all the time i don't know what it's about but i do know that three things that they have promoted the most recently are something called the devil all the time a tv show that's very popular on netflix called lucifer and um something that reasonable people are calling pedophilia you know that cuties movie so that's the three things that are highlighted in the era of obama obama

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era of obama obama having a big connection with netflix are these all coincidences probably probably they're probably just coincidences because that's how it works but there's a lot of them just saying all right um what do you think of the idea of coddling dictators today you know i feel like the whole uh president trump coddles dictators that idea is going to take a big hit because obviously as i just mentioned coddling dictators is probably what's going to get us a major outcome good outcome in the middle east coddling president xi and china probably allows us to be much tougher on china and ultimately decouple without making it personal and you don't want to make it personal because that's a problem

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coddling dictators probably is why north korea hasn't been much of a risk since you know about the time that they shook hands coddling dictators may have helped with putin and isis it may have i don't know but it seems to be that this idea of coddling dictators is so childlike simplistic that maybe people are understanding the adult version of that the adult version of coddling dictators is
is that you treat everybody with respect but you still go hard and by the way the president says that directly you know in his own words but he's not mincing any words he's saying i'm absolutely going to teach treat all of them with respect and i'm going to push hard he says it often and then we watch him do it yep he treated him with respect yup he pushed hard and something good came out of it so i think the whole idea of coddling dictators

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dictators has to be brought up to the the adult table there's a story about this wuhan uh oh no not a wuhan but there's a story about a dr lee mingan who whose claim is that the the chinese communist party created the wuhan china virus coronavirus and that they released it on purpose so she's been on talker i guess she was on talker's show last night and what do you think of that do you think that's true i believe she got uh knocked off a twitter for these claims i need a fact check on that but it looks like she got kicked off at least some social media maybe more social medias do you believe it
i'm going to say no i'm going to say no on this not because it's not true i'm going to say that i don't believe it which doesn't mean it's not true it just

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which doesn't mean it's not true it just means that the credibility there's something about this story that just doesn't smell right just doesn't smell right now if it turns out that it's true i don't know if we'll ever know for sure but if we do find out then i'll say okay well i guess i was surprised but and and if i tried to tell you what it is about this that's bothering me i don't exactly know you know sometimes you can smell something before you see it there's just something about this that's not quite smelling right that's all i'll say could be true all right um president trump i didn't see it but i saw the story about it apparently trump retweeted some kind of a meme or other tweet that accused directly or indirectly joe biden of being a pedophile and the the oh my god pearl clutching

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the the oh my god pearl clutching part of the public said oh no that is over the line that's way over the line calling your your opponent a pedophile or even just tweeting something that did way over the line that is so far of the line to which i say nope no no the president trump didn't he didn't make the rules he didn't make the rules the lines that he's playing in were made by somebody else and he's well within the lines the fine people hoax is worse than any lie that we've ever seen especially one that's so easily debunked you just have to read the transcript to know it's taken out of context there's nothing worse than the fine people hoax and i've said that i think it's a big part of the the violence and protests certainly has killed people i would say that the fine people hoax you can't you can't identify specific people were killed but i think it's fair to say people died because of that because of the the feelings that it made

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feelings that it made so i don't think that it is out of those bounds which are ridiculous boundaries we should not have those boundaries in fact the fine people oaks should definitely go away and the boundaries of what is fair game for politics should be a lot smaller that's my first choice but if we're not going to shrink the field and that's in bounds if the fine people hoaxes and bounds an accusation of pedophilia against a person running for president completely in bounds completely do i think it's true no do i think it's nice no do i think it informs the public well no do i think maybe it would be better if it hadn't happened maybe do i think you know you should be proud of it no no but calling it out of bounds that is

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calling it out of bounds that is objectively just not true and i would say that the president doesn't need to he doesn't hold back any weapons he doesn't need to hold back any weapons once the other side has determined what the playing area is once they've decided this is the playing area he's allowed to play there and he did so maybe they don't like it so much now and i gotta admit i'm kind of enjoying the president literally just making up stuff and accusing biden of it because that's what's happening the other way so if he hadn't been doing this literally just making stuff up that he wouldn't be fighting his heart uh
so there's that uh and then also the president uh retweeted uh a doctored video that he doesn't mention his doctorate in which biden was giving a speech and he wanted to play the song despacito from his phone so he turns it on and he places into the

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turns it on and he places into the microphone despacito well somebody cleverly switched the song into some anti-cop song so you see biden's singing along and looking all happy while apparently an anti-cop song with some bad words in it is coming out and the president tweeted it
it twice he tweeted it once last night and then he got up in the morning and tweeted it again
now i don't know maybe the president knows it's real maybe he doesn't know it's real that video but uh it's fair it's fair again as long as the fine people hoax is out there as long as the you know the drinking bleach hoax is out there he can do anything he wants it's all fair he can literally just make stuff up as he is totally fair here's a uh innovation that might be cool um some scientists engineers whatever researchers

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researchers found out that you can cool your house more effectively by cooling the walls instead of the people in other words they have walls they have some water running through them in pipes or something and if you can cool the wall then the thermal radiation coming off your body will you know basically get sucked toward the place where there's less energy and it actually gives you the feeling of being cooled off and it's 50 percent cheaper than regular ac when i've told you that we shouldn't worry so much about the ultimate outcome of
of climate change because we'll we'll develop lots of new tools that we don't know about here's one now i don't know if this is practical because how practical is it to make a wall that's got water in it i've got a feeling this isn't quite as practical as they want it to be but there might be a way to get there there might be a way to get there
some of you are taking off i see all right

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right so think about that um here are some things that democrats have learned recently they learned that russia collusion was fake and that their side could put that on they realized that north korea probably wasn't a fluke that something good happened there because the middle east looks good if if north korea had been the only thing that happened you might say well that was a fluke he just got lucky with that but now you've got serbia kosovo bahrain you know uae it's not going to look like a coincidence pretty soon um was it only two weeks ago that everybody on the left who was smart was saying mail and votes are totally safe yeah there's nothing wrong with mailing in votes that can never go wrong it's been tested in these other states and then as i told you yesterday that even the cnn ran a major story saying that mail-in voting is a nightmare and undependable that's cnn

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undependable that's cnn so what happened to all those people who had believed their news sources the mail-in voting is totally dependable and now their own news sources have completely reversed and said no actually it's really really risky do people say oh i guess i was fooled how about the idea of uh you know these riots i think the riots are wearing people down and the riots have went from hey this is maybe good for society too this is just nothing but bad and black lives matter or marxists it feels to me that a lot of the biggest things that democrats believed are just evaporating now i've done a ton of work as you know trying to get rid of the fine people hoax and the bleach drinking hoax and i feel like it's starting to make a little difference how long has it been since biden mentioned the find people hoax or the drinking bleach hoax

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or the drinking bleach hoax i'd love to get a uh i'd love to get a read on that to see if he stopped doing that i don't know if he did
uh yeah and then people are also learning that the forest fires are because of bad management they're also learning that green new deal doesn't work because in california we couldn't even keep the lights on because we got rid of nuclear and also gas and it feels to me like it's just one big thing after another there was something they believed on the left that has unambiguously been proven not true even to their satisfaction it'd be one thing to prove to the right that people on the left were wrong about something that's just ordinary but i think the people on the left are seeing it one after another just one thing after another that they believed to be true they're completely untrue

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um all right yeah somebody says in the comments that we have uh blm fatigue i think that's true somebody says they just found 1600 votes bail in votes in new jersey yeah i think you're going to see more and more stories especially as we get closer to the election of mail-in voting irregularities it's just going to be one thing after another but the thing that's really the kicker is cnn reported this this is right off of cnn that black and minority voters will have the most ballots rejected now i'm assuming that has something to do with income level which has something to do with education level which probably is related to how well you can fill in a form correctly so it has nothing to do with black per se it's probably just a low income thing but it's going to hit some groups harder how does cnn deal with the fact that they've reported that their preferred method is racist

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that their preferred method is racist that's their own reporting what do they do with that
all right and i think watching all the cops resign and watching the murder rate zoom and watching basically everything that the protesters said follow the garbage turn out to be wrong oh here's the other thing think about how big a deal it is that the schools went from you know it's going to be really hard to have any kind of school choice to because of coronavirus i think it's just going to happen there are a whole bunch of good things that came out of this coronavirus at the cost the tremendous cost of life but you know every war does this you know world war ii produced a whole bunch of
of domestic benefits nobody would have wanted world war ii just to get those benefits but it happens it's a it's a fairly predictable outcome one of the other outcomes i think is that future pandemics will be much

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is that future pandemics will be much less risk do you think that's true don't you think that this experience will teach us how to be ready for the next one and maybe even be able to have a vaccine and it wouldn't surprise me if the next time we have a vaccine in two months right maybe good or a therapeutic in a few months so now we're seeing the news trickling out of therapeutics that seem to have a big impact i think by the end of the year well let me put it this way on january 1st
1st 2021 i plan to party like it's 2021.
2021 is going to be lit because our forest fires are going to be over at least for the winter our coronavirus will be much diminished if not solved by then our economy will be roaring back and we will have learned

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roaring back and we will have learned a lot we're going to have telehealth we're going to have school choice we're going to have delivery of everything we we did hasten the end of retail in a lot of places but maybe that needed to happen anyway because amazon was going to get there eventually to put them out of business there's a lot
lot happening we just went through the worst third act you've well of my life i would say this is the worst third act of my life
but i think i think we made it do you remember take yourself back to the spring in the spring when i was doing two periscopes a day to try to keep people from jumping off a ledge how many of you were sure that we would make it meaning that the country would just survive and that we would all survive it was dicey wasn't it looked a little dicey and i told you no we're going to be fine

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and i told you no we're going to be fine you know people will die that's couldn't avoid it unfortunately but we are going to pull out of this and when we do we're going to be stronger and that's what's happening so you're seeing it now this is the turn there is something in the air right now and i think the middle east peace stuff was the was the big maybe trigger that just starts bringing all the other stuff together things are going our way these these days things are going our way so we'll try to take care of the people who need extra help because they're going to be a lot of them do not forget the people who are in the most the biggest whole and then the biggest situation but man as of today things are going the right direction finally finally so let's end on that good note and i will talk to you later