Episode 1132 Scott Adams: Scalia’s Last Words Discovered, Iran Gets Flexible Maybe, Biden HOAXES

Date: 2020-09-22 | Duration: 1:16:49

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• Political pundits targeted, Carpe Donktum sued

• If Eisenhower was right…so is President Trump

• Not trusting our press or our generals

• 3 HOAXES by conservatives

• DOJ human trafficking arrests

• California ethnic studies college requirement

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one of the best dare i say the best well the simulation is not disappointing us today it's

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is not disappointing us today it's giving us news that's fun that's right it's not just news when i was a kid when i would watch the news it would be all about death and war and people dying and somewhere along the lines that changed remember they used to say if it if it bleeds it leads and now that's sort of changed to if it misleads it leads because the news stopped being about violence for the most part i mean if there's a big you know mass event they're going to cover it of course but for the most part the news has turned from a whole bunch of violence to a little bit of violence but mostly just crazy political stuff and hoaxes and yeah and stuff like that so here's my favorite news story of the day that shouldn't even be news that this is in the category of things that you shouldn't even care about but

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about but we do the new york post ran this headline and this is the exact wording of the headline robert kraft likely to get off in florida massage parlor case yeah he's likely to get off
i'm not even going to add anything to that that's it
do you know author naomi wolf naomi wolf was tweeting this morning that she was she was not happy with the fact that the uk was going to have they were considering a 50 fine for not wearing a mask and she thought that was unreasonable because you should never have a situation where you're you're penalized for what you wear or don't wear in this case right completely it's completely over the line to have your government

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your government penalizing you financially penalizing you for what you wear that's ridiculous or in this case for what you don't wear i commented back i feel the same way about pants because i don't know if you've ever tried to go out in public without wearing pants but um you'll get fined you were arrested i'm not sure exactly what the penalty is but i'm pretty sure the current situation is you can't wear anything you want
so she removed that tweet within a few minutes of my comment i don't know if it was my comment but if you said something as dumb as that in public that the government can't determine what you wear and then somebody says yeah i feel the same way about pants you're probably going to delete your tweet pretty quickly i don't know if it was because of my comment probably other people said the same thing now um i know this will seem weird to

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now um i know this will seem weird to you but we've been hearing a lot about justice ginsburg's uh final her final request your final words before she passed and people said you know usually you don't put a lot of credence in somebody's final words but because she was a supreme court justice maybe in this case we should ignore the the constitution of the united states and focus on the the importance of her last words and i thought to myself well maybe that's something we could extend a little bit i mean that's such a good idea to ignore the constitution and just look at some of these uh death bed words then i thought we should maybe do more of that uh now as luck would have it i went to my researchers and i have here and the actual uh the last words of justice scalia and didn't get much attention because i

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didn't get much attention because i don't know why it's just the way the news covers stuff but um i do have justice scalia's final words i'll read them to you um
oh well okay it's not maybe not as newsworthy as i thought it would be it turns out it's a an off-color joke those were his final words do you want to hear it it's a very off-color joke so put the kids put the kids wherever they are back to sleep or send them off to school or something don't let any children hear this you ready you've been warned this is justice scalia's final words i said uh let's say what did the leper say to the prostitute
keep the tip okay well i'm glad he left that with us but let's take that into consideration when we're making public policy

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we're making public policy the cia came up with an assessment and listen to this this is from the cia and it's a good thing we've got the cia to protect us because this is exactly the kind of assessment that keeps us safe if we didn't have a cia
cia um how do we know this stuff okay so here's a new report from the cia quote we assess the president of vladimir putin and the senior most russian officials are aware of and probably probably they don't know for sure but probably directing russia's influence operation aimed at denigrating the former u.s vice president i guess that would be biden supporting the u.s president trump and fueling public discord you know i came to that same conclusion as the cia

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as the cia except the the method that i used to come to that conclusion was i i sat in my house and i thought about it
it huh i wonder i wonder what vladimir putin is doing and thinking right now came to the same conclusion so you don't really need a cia if you could just sit in your house and think of stuff because the cia didn't say it's definitely happening that would have been different because i couldn't have done that something i couldn't do is tell you what vladimir putin is definitely doing i don't have that kind of skill but as they worded it they say he's probably he's probably aware of directing things that's something i could have done and in fact i did in my house with no help whatsoever i sat there and i thought i think he's probably aware of it and i don't know

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probably aware of it and i don't know probably directing it a little bit maybe or
or if not him is senior people something like that so there you have it that's my valuable intelligence offering i've been asking as you know somebody for somebody to explain to me how it is that president trump killed 200 000 people with his his bad performance on the coronavirus and i was looking for a little bit of specificity you know can you tell me tell me exactly what he did that killed people how how did that happen and some people helpfully chimed in uh in this case pat east said and here here's his list of how the president killed 200 000 people number one he still doesn't wear a mask that's right president trump doesn't wear a mask and therefore logically two hundred thousand people died

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two hundred thousand people died now you might say to yourself i'm not seeing the connecting tissue here are you telling me that as a role model he encouraged people to wear fewer masks and i guess that's what the point is right but i ask you this at what point did you tell tell yourself that president trump was your role model was there any point that you said to yourself you know i've been watching this guy for a while and i feel like i need to model my life more more similar to president trump because i like him as a president and therefore logically i should sort of copy him in all things he does personally and professionally you all thought that right come on your your trump supporters be honest you know don't you don't need to lie to me you know that you looked at president trump and you said to yourself there's a bunch of stuff i'm going to

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there's a bunch of stuff i'm going to copy i i i like i like everything he does now i know some of you are gonna lie and you're gonna say no i like him because of his lowering taxes or something about supreme court picks and stuff like that crazy stuff but i know i know the real thing you like about him is that you'd like to model your life after all of his personal choices because they're so strong and they're and they and they fit your life so well so when you saw the president who had the benefit of testing each and every person who came within his contact testing them for coronavirus you said to yourself you know that's just like my situation i also test everybody who comes within a hundred yards of me because i have a full medical department in my house just like the white house

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in my house just like the white house and
and if anybody gets close i don't wear my mask because i make sure they all get tested and i've got a result before i get near them so that's just like you right didn't you decide to not wear a mask because the president does and your life is a lot like his very similar or he should be i mean really you should model your life after the president so that's what democrats think they think that republicans looked at the president and said you know that situation applies to me in fact i don't i don't need to carry firearms or have them in my house do you know why because my secret service has that covered so one of the reasons i decide to have a gun or not have a gun in my house for personal defense is i i look around and say why would i need a gun i have my my entire fleet of

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i have my my entire fleet of secret service people they have guns they'll protect me so i don't need one right didn't you make the same decision come on admit it a lot of you had guns and then you saw that president trump doesn't care i think i think this is true he doesn't carry a gun with him in the oval office and you said well why like i have a gun i thought it was a good idea for self-defense but i noticed that the president doesn't he doesn't carry a gun i don't think he keeps one in the oval office why well obviously his situation is the same as yours he's got the secret service to protect him just like you do just like you do yeah it's a fleet it's called a fleet of secret service it's like a gaggle or a murder of crows come on keep up with me um so that's what democrats think the republicans do to make decisions um then also that the early testing was horrible and obviously the president uh is

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and obviously the president uh is personally responsible for the tests being inadequate so the first tests that we had weren't they just didn't work they were technically imperfect and you have to you have to think that's the president's fault because all of the hours that he spends in the lab testing kits and you know running running this test against this other he does a lot of science on the job and i think that's sort of his fault right i mean if president trump spent all that time doing direct building of test kits and then making sure that they worked and he didn't build them right i know a lot of you are thinking oh wait a minute scott i i don't think the president does that personally it feels to me as if it wouldn't have mattered who was president because was obama actually in the lab and working on those test

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in the lab and working on those test kits so if he had been president for a third term we'd be okay right because he would have worked out the science unlike dumb old president trump is it's like he doesn't even know how to mix chemicals or something right it's like so that was the other good reason and then there was this one the ppe was confiscated by the feds
what what okay you know if there wasn't enough ppe i think it did make sense to give it to the front line workers i'm not sure anybody else is holding that against the president and then the fourth thing that the president did that killed 200 000 people is that he said the virus is going away which is very similar to or exactly what everybody in the world thinks it is going to go away i don't know when and of course everybody knows the president is a little hyperbolic but if you

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is a little hyperbolic but if you thought the if you thought the virus was going to go away how did you act differently did you say to yourself someday in the future the virus will go away therefore logically it cannot infect me today you thought that right you're sitting at home and you said oh the president just said that someday in the future we don't know when but in the future the virus will go away and therefore since the virus will go away in the future it it poses no risk to me today so i don't need to wear a mask because it won't exist in the future so that's the fourth good reason that pat east gives me on twitter for why the president killed 200 000 people he didn't wear a mask which made everybody who follows him not wear a mask obviously uh he he botched those test kits that he made personally he allowed the ppe to go to the front

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he allowed the ppe to go to the front line workers okay and he thought it would go away in the future which caused people in the present to think that they couldn't be infected by an active virus because that makes sense so those are the good reasons that are given for why the president killed 200 000 people um you may not know this but now you will there's a lawsuit against our favorite meme maker carpe duncan who got kicked off at twitter and uh you can see it in my twitter feed or you could just search for it carpedunctum and you should you should donate to that because if you haven't noticed the the war within the war a lot of the people who are effective at promoting their side are being picked off
off in a way we didn't used to do before it used to be that people would go after the professionals

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the professionals after the politicians but now people are going after pundits people are going after any any strong advocate if they can get them anyway so here's here's carpe dumped him you know not not some rich guy right he doesn't have you know resources unlimited resources and he gets sued for a meme in which two little toddlers were shown and that the parents of the toddlers are suing him why i mean what possible harm could have happened because two toddlers that nobody recognized and by the way the video he used was something that was already public he just used it in a different context to make it look different but it was obviously a joke anybody who saw it knew it was a joke and had nothing to do with the two little kids in it it wasn't accusing them or anything or blaming them because they were toddlers right so so nobody could possibly make any kind

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so nobody could possibly make any kind of judgment about the kids and again it was already public video so it's not like they were being seen for the first time so this is just more of the badness of people trying to take chess pieces off the board simply because he's he's a supporter of president trump he gets sued now do you think that the lawsuit the purpose of it is to win do you think those parents have anything to win right what are they going to win are they going to get all of his money that doesn't exist right all of his wealth or something that doesn't exist all it does is punish him it is nothing but a way to to take a piece off the board and and punish him away from politics so if you can donate to his legal defense fund you would be doing a good thing for the world i think so there's something really interesting happening in the world of batteries uh now that doesn't seem like

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batteries uh now that doesn't seem like a sexy topic except it's gonna change the whole freaking world there's something about ready to happen and when i say about it could be within the next two years but you could see some things really soon the first one is that tesla is talking about something they call battery day battery day
day apparently if i understand it right is the
the the theoretical day at which buying a car with a battery will just be less expensive than a car with gasoline and once it becomes more economical to have a battery instead of gasoline then everything changes quickly yeah things are changing but that's when it changes really quickly because nobody's nobody's going to want a gas powered car not nobody but you know what i mean a lot of people are just going to say oh well i'll take the one that costs less if that's electric why wouldn't i lots of advantages so i guess musk said that that might be two

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i guess musk said that that might be two years away and that might have to do with how long it takes to build production and create enough batteries and apparently tesla is at least teasing that they might start making their own batteries instead of buying all of them or buying i don't know most or all of them from other places so that's big now if you didn't know this the the improvement in batteries is very similar to the improvement in microchips you know how microchips just get better and better and better and you say to yourself well when is this going to stop you know when do microchips stop getting faster and the answer is i don't know but they just keep going they just keep getting faster batteries are doing the same thing but i think it's a slower rate so you don't see it as much you know it's not as
as flashy it's not like it's doubling every year but it's very consistently getting better every year and quite substantially to the point where everything will change

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change the the feasibility of all kinds of things changes if you can store energy economically there's apparently another startup uh called quantums quantum scape and they're they're talking about an ipo but they won't reveal the details of their technology but they claim to have a some kind of battery breakthrough that would even leapfrog where tesla is now
now and where tesla is now is pretty darn impressive but if this is true and we have reason to believe maybe it's not as true as as it could be because they're they're not being forth coming with their details but if it's true i mean they are it's it's a billion dollar plus enterprise and they say they're going ipo so if it's a fraud it's a big one so it's either pretty important or it would be it would be a pretty bold fraud if it were a fraud so i'm guessing it's real the other

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so i'm guessing it's real the other thing that's changing is that the batteries are becoming so good and we anticipate that they will get better at such a rate that it will be practical to have airplanes that are electric and there are companies actively working on electric jets so if you've got electric jets you've got electric cars that are cheaper you've got you've got a big part of the solution for you know maybe something that deals with climate change for example now of course you still need something to generate all that electricity and i'm guessing it's going to be nuclear but if you add nuclear plus solar plus batteries plus some people are going to want to do some windmills maybe you should do more more nuclear and fewer windmills but there's also a transition thing you know you could do a windmill faster than you can do a nuclear so i think you're going to see

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a nuclear so i think you're going to see the point where uh where climate change is at least we feel it's being addressed if you don't think climate change is a problem that's separate but a lot of people do and you know i and i do think that the climate's getting warmer so it might make a difference might make a difference that's right so nuclear plus better batteries is just a complete game changer complete game changer but here's the other way it's a game changer i don't believe we would see as much progress in the middle east in terms of peace deals with uh with israel unless all of the oil producing regions could see that in the long run oil is going to be less important if you own a country that produces oil and everybody needs it and they they just have to deal with you they just have to deal with you because they need oil

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need oil you can be a bad actor you can be a very bad
bad country as long as you have oil because people are still going to buy your oil but what if people don't need your oil well if you're looking at you know 20 years from now you're going to say to yourself uh we'd better make friends and quick because we're going to need to have a different kind of economy it's going to require more cooperative you know you know win-win deals we're not going to be able to just strong-arm people and say hey you want oil if you want oil i guess you got to deal with us that will be the old way so when you look at the tesla you know battery deal you're looking at elon musk creating peace in the middle east is that too much of a statement i'm not sure it is i don't think it is i think elon musk through the power of his
his entrepreneurial will and you know unnatural ability to get things done

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unnatural ability to get things done i think elon musk is making peace in the middle east possible because i've told you lots of times that people are more influenced by the direction of things and where things are heading than they are by where things are because you really care about where you're heading but you don't think so much about where you are you just get used to that
and where things are heading thanks to elon musk probably the the biggest influence on where things are heading in terms of batteries the middle east has got to get flexible recently we saw that iran said that it would exchange all prisoners with the united states now does that is that foreshadowing a little bit of flexibility from iran i don't know maybe not i mean historically you know they've done prisoner things before and it didn't change their overall behavior but it could be it could be and um

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and um [Music] and i was i was looking at uh pompeo was tweeting and announcing that europe is still selling arms to iran and i thought to myself what that's one of those things you don't really pay attention to until you know you get slapped in the face with it and i thought to myself who exactly is selling arms to iran in in this day and age and pompeo was a little bit vague about who who was doing it but don't you kind of want to know who exactly is selling military grade stuff to iran how in the world does that make sense why are we doing why are we doing business with any country that's selling iran selling weapons to iran are we talking about a big country like france who the hell is selling weapons to iran now is it is it uh and and popeyou said it

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is it is it uh and and popeyou said it was europe you didn't you know you didn't say it was china or or russia so i got questions about that but uh i do suspect that it is possible because of the direction of where oil is going that iran might actually get flexible you know and the administration is sort of surrounding them with you know allied forces at this point if israel and the other the other countries that are not iran start being friendly it's going to be tough to be iran tough to be iran
just i won't even tell you what that's about but um so yeah selling weapons to iran let's get some more information about that because this is one of those things that just needs a little sunlight doesn't it uh

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sunlight doesn't it uh somebody's asking about turkey
i don't know let's find out because we should be putting a lot of pressure on any european country like why would we defend a european country that's selling arms to iran you know are are we part of nato with some country that's selling arms to iran let's let's find out what that's all about all right um it's been 84 days since joe biden promised to release his potential supreme court nominees why do you think it is that joe biden does not want to release his list of potential supreme court nominees well uh i have a suggestion but the suggestion might be that in the in the conservative world people largely agree what a good judge looks like a good supreme court justice they know what that looks like

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what that looks like so i think conservatives could be you you could rely on them to like the same group of people but i don't know if that's true for the democrats anymore it could be that the democrats have now split into the you know the reasonable moderates and the more extreme ones and it could be that there's no such thing as a list that joe biden could put out
out that wouldn't drive his own base apart it's possible he can't put that list out because it would reveal that the democrats are not unified you know give them a reason to
i guess the u.s military is going to cut in half once again his troops in iraq how many times does president trump have to do something that the military says shouldn't be done or couldn't be done and it works out fine how many examples have we seen now where trump and the military have disagreed

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trump and the military have disagreed and trump turns out to be right a lot all of them doesn't it look to you like trump is right on military stuff a lot and could it be because trump is right that the generals are dopes and we just didn't know it or could it be that the military-industrial complex makes the generals act dumb they're not dumb but they act dumb because they're beholden to other interests is that possible well eisenhower said it was a fact nobody said it wasn't the fact from the day that eisenhower did his you know military industrial speech where he said hey watch out for the military and industry you know trying to influence the government they have too much power nobody from that day to today has said that's not real nobody has ever said nope there's no

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nobody has ever said nope there's no such thing as a military industrial complex and here we are
are and we you have trump basically saying that the generals are effectively not on your side is he wrong well if eisenhower was right so is trump he just says it differently eisenhower says watch out for the military industrial complex it's real trump says the generals are dopes it's kind of the same thing because i don't think they're dopes in the sense that they're actually not smart nobody would make that claim these are very very smart people but if they don't make the right decisions and they consistently don't make the right decisions you gotta kind of look at eisenhower don't you and say well why is that is it because they all get lucrative jobs later is it because of who they hang out with and how they're influenced i don't know all i know is that the guy who's not supposed to know anything about the

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supposed to know anything about the military trump keeps making the right decisions and the generals don't that's just a fact now you know what before i think you could say hey trump is crazy if he's overruling generals but not now now i think you can say trump overruling the generals is pretty much exactly what i want to see more of a lot more of it actually
all right two of the best things that trump has bought brought the country are a complete lack of trust in the press and a complete lack of trust in our own generals now i know people are going to say scott those sound like bad things it's bad that we don't trust our press and it's bad that we don't trust our generals is it it's only bad if it's wrong if the press were legitimate and the

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if the press were legitimate and the president said don't trust them well that would be a problem but the press is not legitimate they're not even close to legitimate they're not even slightly legitimate so when the president trains the public to understand that the press is no longer legitimate has he done a horrible thing to the country or one of the most valuable things that's ever happened i would say it's one of the most valuable thing things that's ever happened are understanding that the press is no longer what it used to be and can't be trusted what about trusting our generals or not trusting them that too looks like more of an eisenhower super useful thing to understand because how often have you heard you know hey the jet the generals say there's only one way to handle this and it just happens to be a military answer i don't know i think these are the two best things the pres the president has brought us lack of trust in the press

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trust in the press lack of trust in our own generals there's a reason we have a civilian uh leadership over the military and we can see it now um steve cortez tweeted that deranged don lemon threatens to quote blow up the entire system including the electoral college and stacking the court i love deranged deranged don lemon there are very few words that fit so perfectly because you know if you say don lemon any other insults like oh he's dumb or he's whatever biased or whatever there's no other word that would fit quite as well as deranged when you watch down lemon that is the word that jumps into your your mind when you're watching him you're thinking well he's clearly smart he's clearly talented but what's going on here there's something deranged happening here
um so when we're talking about everything being on the table

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everything being on the table it's it's really getting interesting the world of politics because i think the idea of stacking the court went from a ridiculous idea to yeah that could happen stacking the court looks like a real thing that would definitely happen if biden got elected i would say if biden got elected the odds of the court being stacked are close to a hundred percent it went from like a wild idea to yeah probably how about getting rid of the electoral college i don't know what's involved with that does that require a constitutional change but i think they're quite serious about that too and i don't think that was serious as serious in prior years and then here's the most fun part of the bare-knuckled politics that's going on um so so nadler uh wanted to require these department of justice people to come in and testify and the department of of justice rejected it so the department

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of justice rejected it so the department of justice publicly rejected nadler's request for testimony because of the way they treated bill barr and they didn't answer they didn't wait for his answers so because they didn't let bill barr speak they can completely legitimately say yeah if if congress wanted us to testify like actually give you answers sure that that would be perfectly appropriate but now we know we know with certainty that that's not the plan because of what you did with barr so i think the department of justice is on completely firm ground just saying yes i would of course comply with a request from congress to testify if it were a real request but it's not they can actually argue that it's just not a real request and and it's a perfectly strong argument because of how they were treated last time so

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how they were treated last time so watching how things that used to be completely unimaginable you couldn't imagine the department of justice saying no no we don't think you'll play fair so we're just not coming just unimaginable and now it's all imaginable you can imagine every bit of this happening
my uh smartest democrat friend that i talk about all the time because i debate with him on trump's stuff um his latest outrage and and he thought this was just beyond the pale this this was one of the big things that we should be worrying about if you're looking at the coronavirus or global warming or the economy those oh sure those are important too but this is the thing oh this is the thing that really we need to focus on this and it was that trump doubted that ginsburg's dying wish was exactly

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that ginsburg's dying wish was exactly as
as stated that's it that was an outrage it was an outrage that president trump would doubt the veracity of ginsburg's final wish that you know she'd be replaced by the next president now first of all every one of you doubted that every one of you the moment you heard the the the words of her you know her final deathbed request the moment you heard it be honest you said to yourself i'm not so sure maybe it could be you know i'm not saying it didn't happen but i'm a little bit skeptical that it's a little bit too much on the nose if you know what i mean and and anyway the reason i point this out is that if you if you start with what are the most important things that you hate trump for if you're a trump hater and and you debunk them you end up down

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and and you debunk them you end up down down with little stuff like this wow but what about that tweet how about that what about that tweet that's it i mean that really reveals that what's going on is like an emotional response to the president has nothing to do with his policies has nothing to do what he does or doesn't do has nothing to do with his priorities they just don't like this guy and it comes out in a lot of different ways all right
well what else is going on um [Music]
did you see that uh joel pollock pointed out in a tweet that biden was wearing his mask for a zoom interview that's right he was all alone on a zoom call and he wore his mask the entire time now what's that mean does it mean he's trying to be a good role model so thanks to joe biden

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role model so thanks to joe biden would you be more likely to wear your mask during a zoom call because he did because that's how it works right you see somebody like biden or trump depending on who you imagine is your role model and then you sort of copy them that's what i've been told so would we not expect to see lots of democrats wearing a face mask all alone on a zoom call right so um but let me suggest there might be at least one other reason he might wear a mask all by himself on a zoom call did you see his uh his little speech yesterday he looked so sick and weak when he went up to give his speech yesterday live not not the zoom call but when he gave a i guess there must have been a few people there he seemed very sickly and weak but he also coughed and he also wore his

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but he also coughed and he also wore his mask although he was quite a ways away from the people he was talking to now you know this simulation has the obvious trick waiting if you were a bad script writer and you were going to write all right what happens next in this movie that we're watching called life of course you would give biden coronavirus is there any doubt that if you were the writer of this simulation you would give biden coronavirus now as a human being i hope he does not get it
it all right i don't want anybody to get the coronavirus i would not be happy if joe biden gets coronavirus because he would be seriously at risk he would be more at risk than the average person because of age so let me be clear there would be nothing funny about this if somebody his age gets the coronavirus that is deadly serious doesn't matter who it is all right so

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doesn't matter who it is all right so we're going to take that seriously but you know the simulation wants to give him coronavirus because it's just the way the story works best you know tragic as it would be it would be the way to get kamala in there gracefully etc but uh let's hope that doesn't happen but man the hints that the hints are incredible oh true story uh i was talking to my doctor about some blood pressure meds so i'm testing some some meds for my blood pressure i'm at that age it's genetic in my case my lifestyle is sort of perfectly suited for not getting high blood pressure but it's genetic so you know caught up to me and one of the choices for blood pressure meds is that there's one of them that works really well but has a weird side effect which is it can give you a dry

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can give you a dry cough and my doctor's explaining so well there's this one that does this and there's this one but the downside is it'll give you a dry cough and i'm like stop we let's never talk about that one again because if there ever was a time to not take a medicine that gives you a dry cough it would be right now because i would rather die of a heart attack than walk around in public with a dry cough during the coronavirus pandemic i don't need that so give me anything else that doesn't cause a dry cough so it could be that you know biden is on some meds to give him a dry cough or it just it was just an ordinary cough but certainly certainly makes us look there are let's talk about all of the hoaxes did you see the hoax i'll call it a hoax let's just it's fake news let's call it there was a report that

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let's call it there was a report that the nashville mayor's office was trying to uh was trying to keep a secret that the opening of the bars did not did not cause much extra infection it turns out that that was never true that this was public knowledge and you know and and the story as reported i think fox news reported it a few times just wasn't true now a lot of people sent me that story and said scott look at this nashville nashville is hiding the fact that opening the bars didn't make any difference to infection or very little difference and i saw that and i said to myself i'm gonna wait i'm gonna wait on this do you know why because it didn't look real to me do you know why it didn't look real it was lacking context and it was a little bit too on the nose if you see those two things

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things hey i don't i don't see the full context and it's a little too perfect a little too perfect you should wait so i'm gonna pat myself on the back because the moment i saw that story i said i don't know if i trust that one that's got those two tells not enough context and it's a little too perfect so i waited and sure enough it turned out not to be true because that information hadn't already been public i guess so i bet it was withdrawn by the local news group that put it out all right here's two more uh biden hoaxes did you see the video in which biden appeared to forget the words of the
the pledge of allegiance did you see that on twitter a lot of people were tweeting around it looked like biden started the pledge of allegiance and then forgot the words and then changed the subject

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and then changed the subject that was just fake news just a hoax what what you thought happened didn't happen he was talking about you know the first few words of the pledge of allegiance but that's all he was doing he was just talking about the first words of the pledge of allegiance and then he made a point about that that's it he never forgot the words to the pledge of allegiance it just didn't happen it's the same way they make fake news about president trump you just truncate the news so that you can't tell what the context was and then there was the uh oh then the other fake news you this one is still going around by the way most of you think this is real this is obvious fake news um there's he was doing a interview with a telemundo guy so he's in the room telemundo guy is here but biden apparently was reading what people thought was his answers to the questions off a teleprompter and in fact he he gave it away by saying um he said i

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he gave it away by saying um he said i lost that last line so biden instead of looking at the interviewer he's looking to the side and he's answering the question he goes i and i lost that last line so the the fake news the hoax is that his
his answers were on a teleprompter the teleprompter got out of and whack and he was telling the teleprompter person to put his answer back there because he was so incompetent that he needed to read his answers and then the and then the interviewer said jose said
we can talk you and i on that so he told biden to talk to him he says you we can talk you and i on that here's what actually happened if you see the larger context the screen was not a teleprompter the screen was a citizen asking a question and so he was looking at the citizen asking a question on the other screen instead of looking at the interviewer

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instead of looking at the interviewer because that's what he's supposed to do there's somebody on the screen asking him a question so he looked at it okay that's the first part secondly it looks to me that the context was and i might have this wrong but certainly the major part of it i have right it looked to me like maybe he missed the question when he said you know what was the last line or i missed the last line it was the last line of the question it wasn't the last line of his alleged answer that's written on a teleprompter complete fake news right now the reason that i point out all of these fake news is that these were fakes on the conservative side these are these are conservatives hoaxing themselves basically because all of these came from conservatives they hoaxed themselves and tried to hoax other people at the same time those are three pretty big hoaxes all right three pretty big hoaxes you can and if you don't if you didn't notice them immediately

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if you didn't notice them immediately you need to tune your filter i would say that um that all of these were obvious to me from from the first moment any of those three fake news has happened as soon as i saw them i said well that's not yeah i'm not buying that so uh some somebody's saying in the comments you said this was fair game it's totally fair yeah it's fake news but somebody said hey you said it was fair because the other side is lying yeah it is it is completely fair but i don't want you to be fooled right i don't want you to be fooled i want you to have actual useful information that informs your world but yeah it's totally fair we are in a contest where lying is the rules lying does not break the rules lying is the game that's what a political ad is it's a

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that's what a political ad is it's a bunch of lies if you imagine that it's even trying to be the truth you don't understand it um george papadopoulos tweeted this he said the this drive to combat human trafficking out of the doj should be nationally and globally applauded this is a serious issue and uh one of my um subscribers on locals locals is the platform that i do some of the stuff that i don't do in public you know the edgier stuff and other content that i do a lot of micro lessons on success and persuasion etc over there and somebody on locals and that's a subscription site locals.com if you're looking for it uh said that i'm not doing enough talking about what the government is doing battling trafficking and child i guess child trafficking and sex trafficking etc and i agree with that and if for some

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and i agree with that and if for some reason it's not making as much news as you think you should as george papadopoulos points out and uh so ivanka trump tweeted that uh a.g barr and and ivanka announced the largest investment for trafficking support services in u.s history over 100 million in grants so this is one of those things that the president is not getting nearly enough credit for this is one of the best things a president ever did he's just going totally viking on these i'm sorry uh didn't mean to swear the president is going barbaric on the traffickers and it looks like they're just pulling down all the stops it looks like they've decided like isis to me it to me it looks like what the president is doing for the sex trafficking is very similar to what he did to isis

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is very similar to what he did to isis which is this what do we need to do to defeat isis okay now we'll do it right that's how that's how president trump defeated isis tell me what we need to do okay that's what we need to do okay this is these are your orders do that i'm simplifying but that's basically what it is with this trafficking it looks like the same thing okay what do we need to do to stop all this trafficking or at least you know put a big dent in it what do we need to do okay that's what we need to do i order you to do that i don't know if it's harder than that because it seems to me that the department of justice probably knew what to do they just needed the order and the money and the support same as the military fighting isis it's a gigantic accomplishment very underappreciated um the department

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um the department every time i read news about my own state california it makes me laugh because it's so stupid i i
i i the things that we do in this state are just beyond parity at this point so you know that the
the president said he he would maybe reduce federal funding for states that were trying to push the 1619 curriculum the the anti-racist curriculum that in fact is racist uh so the california department of education they they decided to develop the nation's first statewide ethnic studies curriculum so so they're going to make ethnic studies and anti-racism a curriculum and governor newsom is heading it up and blah blah and another bill signed by newsome last month it would require that all undergraduate students in the california state university system

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university system complete an ethnic studies course before graduation so it will actually be it will actually be a ethnic studies requirement before graduation now let me suggest a better way to go about this there's a general principle or rule about the human mind that whatever it is you focus on becomes the most important thing to you so if the only thing you think if you talk about and think about is the color red
red then everywhere you go you're going to be noticing the color red right if you've noticed that if you're in a crowded room and there's background noise and you can't make out any words but somebody says your name well scott well you can make out your name out of this cacophony of you know interesting sound your name is really clear and it's because the human brain tunes itself

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itself for whatever you tune it to that didn't make sense but you can tune your brain to focus on whatever you want by creating a curriculum and having black lives matter being a focus of attention and all this focus on you know the kneeling etc we have created a situation where race is the dominant filter in our environment is that good is it good that we're that we've put a front of mind race now you might think and i would say that most democrats would say yeah that's good totally good because race is such a big thing it affects everything all the time it's everything from employment to fairness to you know health care i mean there's no there's nothing in our environment that doesn't have a racial component and it matters it matters right so yes yes we should be

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it matters right so yes yes we should be focusing on race and ethnicity but what if we didn't i'll just put this out here as a as a what if what if we didn't what if we took the following approach instead what if we said the filter that matters is responsibility that people who take responsibility for their own life as well as you know their community the people who take responsibility and do it right you know they have a strategy that makes sense for taking responsibility are all on the same team and anybody who doesn't take responsibility is on the other team suppose you and you could even forget about democrat or republican there's nothing about democrat or republican in any of this that has that that is relevant there are responsible democrats there are responsible republicans and you know who you are right you know who you are and if and if you as a responsible uh

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and if and if you as a responsible uh republican have a friend who is a responsible democrat do you get along yeah you do you do get along because you're both responsible that is the dominant thing that keeps people together do do i think that black people should organize for political power as a group that black people should be you know we're all together if you're black you have a common set of problems so we black people need to stick together have some political power or get some stuff done well there was a time in our history that made perfect sense you know if you looked at the the 60s for example civil rights yeah yeah because if you were black you were discriminated against just for being black period you know so of course organizing according to that political group perfect sense and it worked organizing as you know a group of black people and

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as you know a group of black people and getting a lot of support from other people very successful now fast forward to 2020. when you look at the people who are getting stopped by police and they resist arrest and they get they get murdered or killed let's say not murdered let's say killed keep it less political they get killed by police if you are a successful professional black person in the united states do you want to say i'm going to throw in with that guy because i've got a lot in common with that criminal who just resisted arrest has a lengthy uh
uh record of crime and got killed by the police that's that's the team i want to be on because we gotta we gotta stick together me who has this you know a responsible life where i did all the right things i stayed out of trouble i worked hard i made money i took care of my family yeah i've got a lot in

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of my family yeah i've got a lot in common with that crook who just you know got killed by the police no you don't you don't um do i do you give me permission to swear because there are just some statements that require cursing just requires it do you mind if you'll i give you a little warning to you know those of you want to mute it or get somebody out of the room this makes me crazy because i think black people in this country are getting screwed just screwed if you're a black person in this country and you're and you've led what i'll call a responsible life you said to yourself all right what would it take for me to you know have a good life and then you did those things and you built yourself a good life do you know who's enough for you

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you know who's enough for you black people let's be honest all right if you lived a responsible life and you're a black citizen and you just did everything right you're just taking care of your family you're paying your taxes you're just being a good person you maybe you're going to church you're just contributing you're just contributing why are you being dragged down by the who are breaking the law
law who happen to have the same color as you don't be a sucker don't be a sucker you're not on their team neither am i because you know whose team i'm on i'm on your team you're responsible i don't care what color you are i don't care how gay you are i don't care how lgbtq you are don't care are you responsible are you taking care of yourself or working toward it that's fine you don't have to take care of yourself if you're working toward it you know you could be a student or whatever

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whatever but i'm on the team of responsible people people who take care of themselves their family you know the people closest to them and then maybe if they've got a little left over something for the the town something for the country something from the world if you've got a lot left over but the fact that both white and black people have screwed the black public in this this country i don't know about other countries but absolutely screwed black people by allowing them not allowing but by encouraging let's say by encouraging this filter that black people are on the same team you're not on the same team and you know listen if you don't want to listen to me on this listen to dave chappelle he says that the same same thing he just says it in his own words he says he's rich he's not on your team he's not he will be treated like a rich

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he's not he will be treated like a rich person o.j simpson he's not on your team that's a special case not exactly a role model but how about how about we just just stop treating black people like they're all in the same team because they're just not and the worst thing you could do to a responsible black person which is most people right most people are responsible just in general most people are responsible the worst thing you can do is say oh yeah you're black because that just lumped you in with a whole bunch of irresponsible people that are not your fault it's not your fault if other people are criminals it's just not your fault and you should cut yourself off from them and say like let me live with the responsible people let the people who don't care about color don't care about ethnicity they only care about the constitution they care about making the country work let me deal with these people because these people are not going to

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because these people are not going to screw me all right
so the the greatest i would say persuasion crime in this country is that we have been we've packaged the citizens by color and to some extent by gender you know there's a similar similar argument there all right so that's enough about that um
so what you focus on becomes most real so as long as we're focusing on black versus white instead of responsible versus irresponsible we will always get the wrong answer we'll always have the wrong filter if that's where we spend our time
you know there's something there's a technology that's coming that might help this happen let's say you're uh oh this will really get me canceled you ready here's some serious cancellation material

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cancellation material this will be easy to take out of context so they can cancel me let's say you were i'll just keep this how can i protect myself best all right here's here's what we'll do you're a young black woman you're walking down the street it's at night it's maybe a neighborhood that's not as safe as it could be and you see coming toward you three 19-year-old black youths coming the other way and they're in the distance so you can't quite make out what's going on but you can tell that they're black they're about that age you're a black woman i'm just making everybody black in this this situation so i don't get cancelled do you do you say to yourself this is just as safe as if i saw three asian men walking the same direction well if you say if i will judge this based on the number of people in this category who have been jailed suddenly you end up acting like a racist then

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you end up acting like a racist then it's your own race because you're saying 19 year old males who are black what are what percentage of them have a criminal record unfortunately is way higher than anybody would want it to be right so so if you're the black woman do you say maybe i'll cross the street
right would that be unreasonable to make a
a um to make a judgment based on statistics well it's unfair it's racist because those three people that are coming the other way they could be like honor rule students they could be harvard uh harvard students you don't know anything about them you don't know anything about them but here's the technology that could change that facial recognition imagine if facial recognition was so good that somebody approaches and you could judge them individually boo boo poop oh three college students are probably probably no risk here at

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are probably probably no risk here at all
all and you just know that even though they're strangers or three people who have jobs three people who have jobs are far less likely to attack you no matter what ethnicity you are or they are far less likely than three people who don't have jobs it's not a universal rule but likelihood so the question is if we get to the point where we can judge people individually and instantly somebody comes in for a job boom you already know who they are then maybe you could be less racist right because racism is based on some assumption that somebody is similar to other people by the coincidence of their look and their you know their their melatonin melanin no melanin and individual individual identification would help get rid of that um here's a little trick from jonathan tulan on

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tulan on twitter he says this if someone asks you how you are say quote i'm amazing thanks how are you now i tweeted this because that's exactly what i say i use those those precise words now not every time but if i am actually having a good day i usually say i'm amazing thanks how are you here's why i do it repetition is persuasion and you can repeat to yourself something that you want to tune yourself to so if you want to be a nice person you tell yourself you're a nice person every day if you want to be you know stronger or healthier it probably does help to tell yourself you're stronger or healthier even if the only thing that changes is it makes you exercise more or whatever so i would say as a good personal trick that if somebody says how are you don't say this

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don't say not bad that's the worst thing you could say not bad
bad because your brain doesn't recognize not but it recognizes bad so it's like telling yourself you're bad every time somebody asks you how you are and eventually you start convincing yourself you're bad but suppose you said every time somebody asks you it's an excuse to do an affirmation out loud i'm amazing because i'm amazing isn't just are you well or are you having a good day that's that's the beauty of it it's i'm amazing somebody says charles duhigg did he say that in his book because he wrote a book on habits uh charles dewig actually spent spent a day with me when he was writing that book and ended up not putting me in his book but if it came from his book it was great but use that trick facebook according to josh kaplan he was tweeting that facebook is considering restricting the circulation of content

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circulation of content whatever that means if the election descends into chaos or violent unrest are you comfortable with that that facebook um is at least teasing i don't know if they'll actually do it but they would restrict circulation of content and they don't say what content if there's chaos or violence after the election now you can think of a good way that would work the good way would be if somebody is trying to organize a riot wouldn't you be happy if facebook did not help anybody organize a riot on the other hand free speech on the other hand what if they say we're organizing a protest but facebook thinks it will be a riot then do they restrict it i don't know would how long would it take the the people organizing their riots or protests

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organizing their riots or protests to just move to another platform just move to whatsapp or something else probably wouldn't take long well i guess whatsapp wouldn't work but
but some other thing like signal or something so i'm a little uneasy a little uneasy with the platforms uh manipulating public opinion directly because they're saying that they're actually i don't know how to read this any other way i believe facebook is number one acknowledging that facebook manipulates public opinion right because if they say they're going to stop allowing certain kinds of speech under this circumstance they are admitting the things that happen on their platform change the real world meaning that they influence the world so that's pretty important uh but also the fact that they would use their judgment about what it is that's too important or

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about what it is that's too important or too dangerous to put on there this is a tough one and i'm not even sure which way i go on this because on one hand on one hand um yeah i have mixed zuckerberg feelings so on one hand he probably is legitimately one of the best ceos in history all right even at a young age he was one of the best ceos in history so i have great respect for his talents i do think he only wants what's best i don't think he has any bad intentions for anybody but even so trusting anybody to decide what we can and cannot see is pretty dangerous stuff
the cdc changed their guidelines they said it was a draft report and they pulled it back where they said that the coronavirus had a bigger risk of airborne transmission and then they backed that off and said no no it's not so much the

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off and said no no it's not so much the airborne transmission as close contact with people and maybe something about surfaces now when you see stuff like this how what are we supposed to think about trusting experts you've got joe biden out there brain dead joe bride joe biden saying trust the experts we must listen to the experts and then we get the very next news story is about the experts being wrong so how does joe biden how does he justify his fairly not fairly but his very strict preference for following the experts how does he justify that in a context where the news the news that's swirling around him even at the same time is that the experts were wrong about this the experts were wrong about that the experts were wrong about that if you look at president trump's greatest accomplishments what do they all have in common what do

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what do they all have in common what do they all have in common the experts said that they wouldn't work right did the experts say that a trade war with china would always be a bad idea they did what do they say now oh it looks like it worked right now it didn't work in terms of we got everything we wanted and we got a good deal but it certainly moved the ball forward to the point where decoupling makes sense we know what we can and can't get done we got as much as we could but certainly the president was right that pushing china was right and the experts all disagreed it was almost universal disagreement by the experts how about getting the peace deals that the president's gotten so far in the middle east by pursuing individual peace deals before doing the palestinian thing what did the experts say you had to do to get peace in the middle east well john kerry was an expert right and all the other experts

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all the other experts who agree with the kerry said no you got to get the palestinian thing first or otherwise nothing else works all the experts were wrong what about the experts who said if we pull our forces out from that zone between turkey and syria the kurds will be slaughtered didn't all the experts say they would be slaughtered and the president said no they won't and they weren't how many times do you have to see president trump do something that the experts did not say you should do and it worked out he's done it a lot of times so joe biden and his expert reliance it does seem like uh that's a little sketchy all right
some somebody says john kerry is not an expert he's an aerys wife well i think if you've been secretary of state and you've been a senator for that many years you could be an expert

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all right i think i've gone too long and i'm going to end here and i will talk to you tomorrow