Episode 1130 Scott Adams: Supreme Court Gender Discrimination, Escape a BLM Mob, Schumer Threats

Date: 2020-09-20 | Duration: 52:21

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• Senator Schumer and Blumenthal threaten…violence?

• It is NOT okay, to say you hope half the country dies

• COVID19 ethnic differences in mortality

• Monetized incentive to code deaths as COVID19

• Potential SCOTUS strategies for President Trump

• SCOTUS candidate gender discrimination

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hey everybody come on in come on in it's time you came to the right place at the right time yes we're going to have a great start to the day today is going to be incredible i mean really just incredible and all you need to get it off to the right start is a copper mug or a glass of tanker chelsea stein a canteen jugger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the dopamine head of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and it happens right now go
christina taught me a brand new beverage it's called coffee with about half of it filled with hot water so it's like a week coffee that gives you the suggestion of coffee

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you the suggestion of coffee without all the jitters i need that today all right what we got going on are there crazy things happening in the world yeah there are at the top of my list is new tropical storm and the name of the tropical storm is tropical storm beta that's right the simulation is serving up
up a beta storm at the same time beta males are are riding all over the country so what do i tell you about code reuse so i have this theory that one of the ways that you can tell if you if you are a simulation is if there's something happening somewhere in the world that would take a great deal of processing power that there might be other things that slow down or they have to reuse code to compensate

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or they have to reuse code to compensate for the fact that all the energy is going into one one part of the program does it seem to you like there's a tremendous amount of activity and complexity going on just because of politics but at the same time we have these weird coincidences going on where where it seems like the same names are getting reused for stuff and we're seeing like these familiar patterns it's like haven't we seen this before it just seems like there's a lot of repeats going on i noticed this the other day i told you the story about i went to the emergency room the other day and what was really interesting about it is that it wasn't busy and i kept saying to them is this weird i'm at the emergency room of a major emergency room and there are only two other people here how weird is that and they said yeah it's really weird we normally we could have people you know filling the hallways but today

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you know filling the hallways but today no real reason just nobody's here and i keep running into these situations where i see fewer and fewer people at the same time have you noticed that it's called social distancing so suddenly the complexity of my personal life has like shrunk and shrunk way down it's way less complicated because i don't have a social life as most of you are experiencing some version of that too so the world is way more complicated in politics but there is other areas of life that suddenly coincidentally became way less complicated is that a coincidence probably yes but it's fun to talk about the simulation all right i have a suggestion for all of you
you who think you're clever but maybe other people don't you know who you are if you have ever

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you know who you are if you have ever tweeted that actor rob reiner is a quote meathead may not be a creative person because you're the same people who tweeted me or actually it's people on the other side tweeted me saying that they've just discovered that i'm not actually the cartoonist but i'm really the pointy-haired boss in my comic strip please if i can beg of you one thing you can insult me all you want that's cool i'm used to that you can insult rob ryder all you want i've done it myself i enjoy it honestly insulting rob reiner is one of the things i enjoy and if other people enjoy insulting me well okay good for you but can you be a little more creative a little more creative than accusing them of being a character they played on tv you just need to

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on tv you just need to raise your game a little bit i i'm begging you only because there's a certain level of lack of creativity that hurts my eyes sort of in the back you know when i read this if i read one more tweet calling rob reiner and meathead there's like this shooting pain behind my eyes and i go ah wow it's so uncreative so that's just a personal favor i'm just i'm begging you just stop being uncreative call them something else anything else all right
many of you saw the video it's a little viral video of a couple of guys who got stopped in their car by protesters i think it was portland and they were surrounded by the protesters and the protesters at least the ones in the video looked uh mostly like white men and they were insisting that the the men in the car who may have been hispanic i don't know

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who may have been hispanic i don't know if it matters to the story you can decide but they were being forced to uh declare black lives matter now one of the guys in the car was like a little iffy on it he's like okay i'll put the fist up a little bit and then they insisted that he wasn't enthusiastic enough like he wasn't really putting his fist up he was just sort of raising it a little bit so they were on him and it was pretty threatening it looked pretty dangerous actually if if they had resisted more than they did it looked like their vehicle would be destroyed they might be hurt could get dragged out who knows just about anything could happen so here's my suggestion of how to handle that situation if you find yourself in it now you're going to say to yourself scott that won't work because they will immediately know you're joking no they won't no they won't they will not know you're joking if you say the following if they say

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if you say the following if they say say it say black lives matter here's what i would say and i would say it really loudly and i would repeat it as many times as i needed to to make sure everybody heard it and it would go like this black lives matter more than white lives high albila blm heil antifa death to whitey
so that's how you do it you want to you want to agree with them but amplify it don't just say black lives matter because you know you don't want to be a tropical storm beta if you know what i mean just go for it and just say black lives matter more than white people heil blm heil antifa death to whitey now again you think to yourself um scott they're going to know you're joking no they won't
this is the only thing i promise you no they won't

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they won't they will not think you're joking in fact they might nominate you to be the leader of their group you could end up you know they might give you snacks from the snack fan if you wanted free snacks from the antifa snack van i think all you have to do is say that and they say hey would you like a snack we've got some bottled water here it's nice and frozen would you like it so that's my recommendation by the way if anybody gets killed using any of my recommendations what the hell were you thinking i'm a cartoonist don't take my advice on self-defense if you're getting self-defense tips from a cartoonist well you kind of deserve what you get
so that's my warning there um one of my methods for predicting the future i've talked about this before but there's an actual theory behind it and the and the uh the technique is this if there's a situation in the world

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if there's a situation in the world in which you can anticipate well things could go this way or they could go that way or they could go that way but it's fairly well defined the things are either going to go one of these defined ways you can usually you can usually bet that the way it will go is whichever way makes the most interesting story now you say to me uh there is no reason that would be true right why would it be that if there are three possibilities and you don't have any way to know which one is more likely why would it be that the one that's the best story ends up being more likely not every time right just a just a bias toward the good story here's why i don't think it applies to natural disasters in other words if there are no human beings making decisions well that is just news and it was going to happen you know the the the cliff collapsed the earthquake

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the the cliff collapsed the earthquake happened whatever happened but when there's a situation in which human beings are involved humans are very affected by the fact that we live in a world of stories we learn by stories we're entertained by stories we tell stories we listen to stories and stories have sort of a form that you recognize and movies in particular have a three-act forum books are a little different but we all recognize what a story is we would know if somebody told a bad story we would all recognize it was like oh that was a bad story there was no conclusion there was no there was no third act it just was flat so here's my hypothesis that people are drawn to the thing that they can conceive the most easily and you can conceive a story one that looks like a story more readily than you can conceive of something that's random and that we're

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something that's random and that we're drawn toward the story to the to the point of making it happen this is the this is the part of the hypothesis that has the most question to it i would say
say people are drawn to what they think about if you think about an accident all the time you're more likely to have one if you if you think about a particular bad thing happening have you noticed it's more likely to happen it's almost like you you bring it on yourself you could almost wish yourself to get sick have you noticed that if a if one spouse dies let's say the the two people have been married for 60 years if one of them dies the other one's usually going to be gone in a year and it's because that person is following the story right not intentionally but you know if your partner dies you kind of want to follow them and you don't want to wait too long so the odds of you dying pretty quickly

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so the odds of you dying pretty quickly go way up and that's shown to be true so with this situation of let's say uh trump running for president one of the filters i saw was that the most amazing story would be if he came from behind in one right that was the best story if you're going to make a movie of 2016 it had to end that way didn't it it had to win it had to end with trump winning because that was just the best story you might not enjoy it if you're a democrat but you can't you can't ignore the fact it's the best story likewise one year ago when people were talking about uh ruth bader ginsburg's health i said to myself all right what would be the best story the best story is not that she died a year before before an election no the best story would not be that she died

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would not be that she died a month after the election the best story to make it like a regular plot of a movie is if she dies 45 days before the election why 45 president is number 45. now that's just a coincidence but the exact timing of her death feels entirely like a movie plot and i did in fact privately i don't think i said this publicly i don't i don't like to publicly predict somebody's death but privately i was saying you know it's going to happen a month before the election because that's the story so watch for that pattern see how many times the best story wins and if you were to take that concept to let's say durham so the durham investigation is happening now what would be the best story the best

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what would be the best story the best story would be durham comes out before the election again it's like ruth bader ginsburg right before the election is the better story after the election i don't know would it be as interesting no matter what it is but before the election i've got a feeling you're going to see something about brennan and clapper at least brennan so there's going to be something i think interesting because that would be the best story the best story would be that durham not only found something but found something that just makes your whole head come off and i feel like we might be heading that way only because it's the best story we'll see
let's see what else we got here i was talking yesterday about the strategy that trump might want to look at one strategy would be what apparently he's going to do which is try to get his

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he's going to do which is try to get his nominee for the supreme court pushed through before election day i did say that it would be interesting and
and maybe clever as a strategy to not do that imagine if he decided not to and just say how about i'll wait we'll wait and then just use it as a as a means of getting your uh getting your voters to show up now that would be risky but also it wouldn't be trump wouldn't it do you think that you know if if you had heard that trump said you know maybe you're right you're right maybe we'll just wait wait till after the election that sounds fair to me if if he ever said that you'd say to yourself what happened to trump you think uh we elected the guy who doesn't know how to do anything but fight we we intentionally elected the guy who doesn't quit we very specifically elected the guy

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we very specifically elected the guy who would be the pirate who if he needs to kill somebody to get something done he's going to kill somebody to get something done legally we hope right so if trump did not do exactly what trump did which is say oh yeah we're going to try to try to get this through before the election if he hadn't done that who is he really i mean who would he be he wouldn't be the guy you elected you'd be a different guy so i think that um you know politicians do have some responsibility for being the person they got elected and not not baiting and switching so independent of whether it was a good strategy or a bad strategy to push it through versus waiting you still want trump to be trump don't you don't you still want him to be the the fighter who never even probably never even considered holding off you know it's hard to know but if i had to guess i'll bet there was never a time when

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i'll bet there was never a time when trump said yeah let's hold back i just don't think he
he i don't i don't think his brain works that way and that's exactly why he got elected he got elected because he won't hold back that he'll you know he sees some potential money on the table we don't know if this is money on the table because there's going to be a fight but if there might be money on the table you want your president to pick it up that's what he got elected to do he didn't get elected to leave money on the table all right nobody wanted that guy so i i would say that i respect and i appreciate this this method i don't know if it'll succeed and also because i don't know if it'll succeed i don't know if it's the best strategy but it could be it could be um here's here's what's good about it number one

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here's what's good about it number one thing that's good about it is that by actually having the nomination it forces kamala harris to come back to washington so he can take kamala harris off the uh off the board that's pretty good right taking harris off the board might help just because she'll be bogged down but at the same time she'll also get a a stage in front of the world to say her thing and you know that could be
be to her credit so it could work either way a little dangerous there the other thing it does is did you look at the headlines today everything else disappeared there's nothing else that anybody wants to talk about if trump can keep this going i would say that that's an advantage because he just took everything else off the table and if the only question is supreme court and let's say let's say let's say that trump actually got the nomination through and

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actually got the nomination through and actually got it completed right before election day hypothetically um what would that do well if you're a democrat maybe you would be demoralized as in uh you know we're so far behind or do you decide that you have to have a revolution and do an armed revolution of the country i don't know could be dangerous but i do like the fact that trump took everything else out of the headlines and and is going to concentrate in an area that i think is stronger for him i do believe that trump has an advantage if this is the option if this is the topic everybody's talking about i think he has an advantage now about some more about this uh if you're watching the news you know that senator lindsey graham was in a ticklish situation because he's on record in two different times on camera saying that in this exact situation

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that in this exact situation that he would delay the delay the nomination that would be his choice and then he came out and said oh i'm totally not going to delay the nomination
now if any of you thought that he was going to rely on principle or that he would you know keep his word and you know i said i'd do it so i guess i'm bound by my word i i i gotta throw you an lol because we're not in a world where people keep their promises on stuff like that that that was just so obvious that he was going to he was going to find a workaround you know a lawyer work around which he did and he gave his reasons that were so ridiculous that i forgot them already so i read his reasons about why he's changing his mind but doesn't matter no it doesn't matter what his reason is if he didn't have those reasons he would have made up another reason because one thing he's not going to do

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because one thing he's not going to do is go against the president while he's running for his own re-election and it's a razor thin lindsey graham wants to get elected our system allows him to do that right it is not uh this is just my personal opinion but to me it is not unethical to do legal things that get you elected even if it means changing your mind he's allowed to do that if that's what it takes to get him elected and he's doing it transparently there's not really any secrets to it you know you know what he said before you know what he says now you know it's the opposite he puts it right out there you know you can do what you want with that and at least it's transparent so the democrats the leadership has decided to threaten the public that's the way i take it so schumer said that quote everything's nothing is off the table if if the president pushes through this

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if the president pushes through this nomination nothing is off the table what's that mean nothing's off the table and richard blumenthal democrat senator said similarly he tweeted if republicans recklessly and reprehensibly force a a scotus vote before the election nothing is off the table now if this were normal times and a politician said nothing is off the table what would you think that meant you would think it meant oh parliamentary procedures it might meant might mean that they're trying hard to raise money they're gonna they're gonna push all the envelopes you'd probably think it was something peaceful and clever and strategic but it doesn't feel like that today does it
it as you're watching the riots and you're watching people say in public you see the number of uh you know blue check people say in

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uh you know blue check people say in public that if they don't get their way it's going to be revolution and violence they say it directly now given that violence and revolution are literally on the table these democrat senators saying that nothing is off the table basically have threatened violence against here's the key part against you and me our politicians have actually threatened the public they haven't threatened just trump and i'm not saying it's because you're a trump supporter necessarily i'm saying that they've threatened the public the public because this is not exactly a limited threat it's not a uh we'll do anything to stop president trump they literally said nothing is off the table in the context of violence and and people making death threats right and left this is really dangerous

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right and left this is really dangerous stuff so i think that this is a tremendous advantage for republicans because they're creating a situation where democrats feel like they want to win and they they have their concerns and they're quite worked up but they've they've they framed it as republicans are really in trouble like like physically in trouble if that doesn't get you to the voting booth or to mail in your vote i don't know what will but it feels like a gigantic error on the
the part of the democrats um here listen to the sort of things that people are saying um this is uh ray sunny it's a i think she's uh i don't want to judge people's ethnicity from their profile picture but not a white woman let's say

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but not a white woman let's say i i won't say what she is but probably does not identify as a white one would be
be fair to say and she tweeted this respectfully white men got us into this i don't know what this is and it frustrates me endlessly that white men voted trump in and somehow get away scot-free as if because their racism and selfishness is a given we don't we don't have to drag them drag the 53 percent and the 62 percent what does drag them mean i mean actually like tie them to the back of the car and drag them does it mean hurt them what does drag them mean if you could tweet in public specifically against an entire ethnicity and gender white men and your your tweet doesn't get taken down you don't lose your job i don't know i think she's a comedian or something that's that's the pretty dangerous situation there was a

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pretty dangerous situation there was a marshall university professor who said on video the other day yesterday or something that she wishes every trump supporter would die before the election what how do you how do you go on video you have you're a semi public person because you teach at a college and you say in public with no with no reservations at all because apparently you've been only dealing with people who agree with you for a long time and didn't realize that it wasn't okay to say in public that you hope half of the country dies and actually mean it because she wasn't joking she sorta i mean she wasn't being literal but she was certainly being
it looked like she was being accurate to her own her own feeling about trump supporters like she wouldn't mind if some of them died certainly not all of them um

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certainly not all of them um so it's just crazy that these things can be said out loud this is the sort of stuff that should predict a trump landslide because i think republicans are staying quiet and doing two things uh they're ordering their ballots if they don't have them and they're stocking up on ammo just in case just in case so um this is this is a pretty dangerous situation um i continue to believe that the republic can handle this quite easily so uh every now and then i feel it's it's my role to uh to put things in context to make you feel better all right if it's so easy to get caught up in these you know each topic is the end of the world oh the replacement of the supreme court seat it's the end of the world we'll all kill each other if we don't get our way

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kill each other if we don't get our way the coronavirus is the end of the world the economy is crashing it feels like every story is going to be the end of the world but how many of them have been the end of the world
so far none this won't be the end of the world either as problems go if you were to look at the history of the united states it's easy to forget how many things this country has survived we've survived some really big stuff way bigger than this so if you were to rank where the supreme court thing is in terms of ripping the country apart it's a two two out of ten if you're trying to say how worried should i be about the future because of the supreme court stuff two out of ten that's that's about it but it will be treated like it's a 10 out of 10 because that's what we do now we're all going to treat it like it's 10 out of 10 but no matter how it goes

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out of 10 but no matter how it goes we'll still be the united states our economy will still be improving we'll still be inventing things we'll still be fixing things and solving things and we will be fine and we're a lot closer to solving our more recent big problems than we are to not solving them speaking of which i forgot to mention this i thought it was politically brilliant for
for trump to um what did he he approved 90 billion dollars for uh for puerto rico now the people who are critics of the president will say and i think it's a completely fair statement they'll say why did it take so long i remember i always kid i always mock people for saying that if somebody did something good that you mock them for taking so long because that's just the easy cheap thing to say well why'd you take so long i will criticize you for doing the wrong thing but i'll also criticize you for

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thing but i'll also criticize you for doing the right thing because you could have done it sooner now of course you can do anything sooner so it's the universal you know non-non-thing but with the puerto rico thing i think there's a better argument for why not sooner if you ask me the reason why not sooner is you know number one it was probably helpful for the the election but there are a couple of reasons why maybe not sooner made sense one is there's a tremendous corruption problem there it might have taken them a while to figure out how to pump money into puerto rico and not have it all stolen or wasted because stolen or wasted is exactly what would have happened if you would put 90 billion into there you know a month after the hurricane do we all agree that if you just said let's throw money at this place a month after the hurricane it would just all be wasted because they're just they don't have the systems the controls they just didn't have a way to watch

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they just didn't have a way to watch that money and keep track of it and get it to the right places it could be it could be i don't know this that it probably takes a while to get some confidence that you've got a structure in place that you can now put money into it and it'll go someplace useful probably takes a while probably a whole lot of planning a whole lot of figuring out what really needs to be done so maybe it just took took two years but i don't think that's the full answer obviously the you know it's not a coincidence that there's an election coming up and it's not a coincidence that the president would like to shore up you know his his hispanic support and do everything he could that's counterfactual to whatever the claims are about him so the claims about trump are hey he's a big old racist so what's one thing you can do if people are accusing you of being racist how about putting a world record amount of money into puerto rico it's a pretty good idea because it's

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it's a pretty good idea because it's hard to it's hard to argue that that's some big racist thing even though it's obviously a
a politically motivated
so that was good and then of course the tick tock looks like the sale is going to go through to oracle and walmart if you if you ever if you told me two companies that i thought should never be in a business deal it would probably be oracle and walmart what do they have in common other than i guess they had the cash and the willingness to do it but there's some there's some word that what uh what china might do is is keep the algorithm but sell the company to which i say how hard would it be for the united states to build its own algorithm what if we took everything from tick doc you know the assets the customer base but the only thing we got rid of was the algorithm we just delete it and replace one that just says something

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and replace one that just says something simple such as you'll see more things from your friends the people you follow and maybe you'll see more things from you know just some easy algorithm but couldn't you put given that it's mostly for children it's young people who use it mostly don't you think we should have an open algorithm that we can all see i i feel as if i feel as if the uh the oracles of the world and walmarts do they should guarantee the government that the algorithm will be public so everybody can see what it does is that is that wrong no i don't know maybe they can't make money that way but given that it's directed at children well how about this for a law how about a law that says if children use your platform you have to reveal your algorithm oh that's pretty good i'm so happy i just thought of that has anybody ever come up with that idea you know the big the big platforms from

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you know the big the big platforms from your facebooks to your snapchats to your instagrams etc twitter is a little different because kids don't follow politics and stuff um so i'm not sure how many kids use twitter compared to other platforms but less i guess wouldn't it be reasonable that given that we want to protect children more than we might want to protect adults who know what they're getting into shouldn't we
we require that any platform that has children on it has to reveal their algorithm has to be public anybody anybody can see it so parents can see it now it would be hard to understand it but at least be public for people who do know how to read read the code and look at the algorithm that would be my idea all right
here's a little mind effort for you you ready for this one so there's increasingly news and of europe that

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increasingly news and of europe that they're having another wave and that infections are spiking coronavirus and here was a statistic i saw that was useful because because it's simplified things all right so so hold on to just a few numbers here i'll keep it really simple just hold these in your head that the europe has 750 million people let's say the us has 330 million so we've got a little less than half as many people in the united states as there is in all of europe but although europe has more than twice as many people they have almost the same amount of deaths 217 000 ours is about 200 000 so about the same amount of deaths but europe has a little bit more than twice as many people so that that's pretty clean right that's one of those things where you can say oh okay now i see how the united states is really doing poorly

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really doing poorly because we've got twice as many deaths you know that they do are relative to population but i ask myself this are they the same is there something about the united states that's different from europe on average and here's one thing that's different um how many what's the black population of the united states because as we know the black population has something like four to five times the problem with coronavirus it's a gigantic difference right it's a is something like four or five times worse if you're african-american let's say black because we're talking about europe it's about four or five times worse so wouldn't you expect that the country that has the biggest population of black residents should all things being equal would have way more deaths because unfortunately

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unfortunately it does not the coronavirus is not an equal opportunity virus it's just slamming the black populations just slamming them right so i said to myself well if it were true that the black the percentage of black population is skewing our coronavirus death count you would be able to see that easily for example you'd go to europe and you'd say well if there's anything to this hypothesis if you looked at europe shouldn't you see that whatever country in europe has the most black population would have the highest you know death rate and sure enough that would be france so france not only has a close to nine percent i think uh black population but it is not too far behind the united states at 13
13 so this is just one data point so don't don't make too much out of one data point right

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point right so the united states is doing poorly and also has 13 black population who are doing far worse france within europe france is one of the bad ones right it's one of the worst countries in in europe and also has the highest percentage of black population about nine percent now is there any other country that you could look at that would be maybe confirming or disconfirming this hypothesis so i took a look at brazil now brazil's a tough one because brazil is like super racially mixed so they've got a whole bunch of you know wonderful stuff all mixed up the people are just like almost every person in brazil seems to be some mixture of interesting stuff but we can glean a few things i think they have nine percent uh black population but somewhere between

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black population but somewhere between nine and thirty percent at least partly black so brazil has an enormous percentage of black population and is one of the worst in terms of coronavirus deaths now what about those countries in europe that have almost no black population below two percent how are they doing pretty well pretty well it turns out turns out that having almost no black population really gets your death count down surprise shouldn't be because this is it's well-known thing so let's say that's one one uh you know normal one calculation that needs to be done which is you have to uh normalize it for ethnic differences in terms of mortality and what about what about differences in incentive for coding something at coronavirus death can you compare the united states

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death can you compare the united states where people get the hospitals anyway we get a large large dollar amount profit if they code something chronovirus whereas in europe they don't do you think that you get the same count no in no world do you get the same count if somebody is is monetized in one case and not monetized in the other case you don't get the same result never we don't live in a world where people are immune to monetary incentive it just isn't a thing now it might be a five percent difference not a hundred percent difference but still that's something pretty important you need to to calculate and then of course you've got the the number of uh obese americans which is greater than others we're a bigger country and then how about this is it fair to treat the united states as one big ball given that we have lots of states with power you know we have an unusual situation

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you know we have an unusual situation our states have a lot of power shouldn't we be comparing each state to europe wouldn't that be better how many of the individual states in the united states are doing as as well or comparable to europe and i think the answer is a lot of them right out of our 50 states 30 or 40 of them maybe what would you say 30 40 are doing as well as europe so that's another way to look at it anyway there's a million ways to look at it and i don't believe we've looked at all the best ways we can you are noticing that the the ruth bader ginsburg stuff has just kicked everything off the news it makes everything a little bit boring for a while because there's just really one story that's all we're going to talk about for a while all right um i'm watching your comments a lot of people are agreeing

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a lot of people are agreeing um there's a 15 plus payment differential for coding covet on medical bills yeah 15 is certainly enough too many variables to compare that is correct um oh somebody's talking about putting oh
oh let me let me bring up this idea so president trump has said publicly that he's probably going to pick a woman and i think that's true he probably is now here's what's wrong with that and let me say before i start i am completely in favor of a diverse you know a very diverse supreme court i think we're all better off if we've got all the voices you know accounted for so long as everybody's capable to do the job that's all great and uh obviously there are plenty of capable people i'm just saying as long as you have capable people it would also be good to have them

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it would also be good to have them diverse but we have this thing called the constitution and we have this thing called the supreme court whose job it is to uphold it
it how is it constitutional for the president of the united states to say that he can't pick me for the supreme court because of my seriously i personally this is there's no exaggeration here i personally have been told by the president of the united states that i would not be eligible not not that there was much risk i was going to get picked let's say ted cruz you know somebody who actually would be in the top 20 or whatever he can't get the job do you know why ted cruz can't get the job his do you think that if somebody sued the president of the united states for job discrimination and said hey you're saying right out loud that you're not going to even consider a man what's up with that and and what about

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what's up with that and and what about um
um what about your genders that are not either male or female entirely what about all of your in between genders you know your your shades and your your you know various uh what would be the best way to say it the the rainbow of different you know genders what about all that you know don't we care about that anymore what about um uh transsexual if you're transsexual can you be on the supreme court i don't know maybe that's okay as long as
as as long as you've transitioned in the right direction maybe so so here's what i'd ask you if somebody sued the president of the united states which i actually think would be a good idea if somebody sued the president of the united states and said that is job discrimination you're saying that men can't have this job where is that in the constitution i

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where is that in the constitution i would like a constitutional ruling from the supreme court about whether the president can limit his choices to one gender i don't think that's going to pass constitutional muster am i wrong about this can somebody who's smarter than i am about the law tell me am i am i just often out of space here or is it completely obvious that what the president is doing by limiting his choice to a woman or even just saying it you know we don't have the actual choice yet but even just saying it in public and saying this is what i'm i'm looking for is there anybody who could argue that that is constitutional because it looks to me like grossly illegal it looks to me as illegal as anything could ever be now i do not have this feeling about somebody running for office different situation if somebody says hey i'm

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i'm running to be a senator or a president and i think you know i think we need more women in this job you know give us more representation or whatever that doesn't seem illegal to me because that's a case of the public gets to vote and that's just one of the variables it's like oh i care about that variable or i don't but i get to vote it's not like a job but the supreme court is picked is picked like a job interview it's you know i don't get to vote on the supreme court if i did i'd be fine with that if if i got to vote on the supreme court along with all of you you know if all the voters got the vote on the supreme court and somebody was saying yeah we should have a woman replace rgb no problem at all i would have no i would have no problem with that at all

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uh but what would be the reason uh somebody is laughing white privileged i don't even know see you can't tell a parody from reality anymore so people are making comments with little laughy faces and i don't even know if you're agreeing with me or disagree with me that's that's how weird things are
somebody says this is playing the lefties game well well saying in advance that you're going to pick a woman is definitely playing the lefties game
maybe he was speaking of someone specific i don't think that helps i mean maybe that would be a defense but i don't think that's what's happening necessarily because there are i apparently there are two women who have risen to the top of the likely list so it's not just one woman
it's his choice man or woman well it is his choice but if you say to the public that you're limiting it by gender is it still legal

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by gender is it still legal i don't know it could be you know i would be willing to believe that it's not it wouldn't be treated like regular employment and if the president has complete power to do what the president wants well maybe it doesn't matter maybe he can be maybe he could be completely discriminatory and and sexist
um president picks and he disclosed and you vote for the president
um read my comments and you will see the reason somebody says although i don't see where your comment is as long as he gives the opportunity to all he can say anything he's not giving the opportunity to all that's the opposite of what he's doing
all right he's not discriminating how is he not discriminating

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he not discriminating who breaks a tie that's a good question what happens if the supreme court has a tie you know one of the reasons you don't want to elect me for president is that i would i would lock up the supreme court if i could i would try to make it a tie so if there were more conservatives than liberals i would add a liberal if it was the other way i'd add a conservative and if i were president i would make the supreme court eight people four and four i wouldn't even replace i wouldn't even replace a ninth ninth person do you know why the reason is this if the supreme court can't make a decision that breaks out of the
the liberal and or conservative silos hell with it i don't want them to do anything if the only reason that that a decision goes one way is you have more liberal or you have more conservative judges

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more conservative judges if that's the reason the decision went the way it went that's not legitimate i mean it's it's the law and it's legitimate in terms of that is the system that we've all bought into but it doesn't seem to me like a good idea i only want things that somebody is willing to here we'll take care of this for you whoever said boring and stayed on here there you're blocked it's okay to be bored and then leave but don't be bored and then tell me you're bored just leave you got a choice all right um somebody says ty goes to the lower court decision oh that makes sense right so it doesn't get to the supreme court until the lower court has ruled if the supreme court is tied somebody is saying this sounds right that that means there's no decision at the supreme court so the lower court ruling would stand seems reasonable all right uh that's all for now

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all right uh that's all for now and i will talk to you later