Episode 1134 Scott Adams: Peaceful Transfers of Power, Fake News Riots, Biden’s Lid, TDS Cures

Date: 2020-09-24 | Duration: 1:08:27

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• A voting system designed to fail and spark chaos

• Whiteboard: Breonna Taylor, Two Realities

• Did CNN reporting, increase the violent rioting?

• Van Jones question…if Breonna had been white

• Hunter Biden new info, lots of swampy info

• Joy Reid’s corrosive comment on “bygones”

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uh who says that that was uh johnny carson yeah that's good stuff that's good stuff

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well um it's hard to evaluate the news if you're not an expert yourself on some things and there are a lot of things i'm not an expert on one of the things is political campaigns i'm not an expert on political campaigns so when i look at joe biden calling a lid on his schedule meaning that he will not appear in public today whatsoever in any in any way and when that lid is cold first thing in the morning i ask myself this because again i'm not an expert on political campaigns but if you're running for president and it's 40 days or so before the election do you not know what your schedule will be tomorrow
do you not because it seems to me they could have called the lid for today yesterday because i'm pretty sure they knew yesterday that there would or would not

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yesterday that there would or would not be any pull any public appearances today am i wrong wouldn't they know that yesterday but they called it this morning it sort of makes you think that maybe sorted just possibly they make their decision about whether there's going to be a lid based on how he's doing that morning now you could tell me no no scott you don't understand he's fundraising needs a whole day to fundraise or or he's fundraising and he's preparing for the debate you know you need to clear your schedule and get ready for that debate to which i say have you heard a zoom because you can do a national interview in 10 minutes you could do it during break of your preparations for other stuff so it seems to me that there's no

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so it seems to me that there's no legitimate reason that a candidate for president would just disappear for a day this close to the election unless they're trying to hint to us that the cat's on the roof if you know what i mean the old joke that that is suggesting that there's more trouble ahead but we're going to break it to you slowly
all right the big big news of the day well a couple of big news but one is that a reporter asked the president yesterday the reporter says win lose or draw in this election will you talking to president trump will you commit here today for a peaceful transferal of power after the election and trump in his inimitable way instead of saying the obvious thing which is of course we don't want any you know any violence and we're all going to follow the constitution and it'll all work out that's what you expected it to say but president trump does not say what

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but president trump does not say what you expect him to say sort of ever and so when asked if he would commit to a peaceful transferal of power after the election trump says and i quote we're going to have to see what happens
the reason i like that is that it's transparent and it's and it's honest that that was the only honest answer did you want him to lie did you want him to lie because that would change something what would have changed if he lied what if he said oh yeah i can commit to that because you know he can't commit to that he doesn't have the ability to commit to that because he's only one person and while he has a vast powers as the president he doesn't control all of our actions he doesn't control 330 million people

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he doesn't control 330 million people if 330 million people feel like they want to get a little violent after election day what the hell is trump going to do about it how in the world can he commit that that's not going to happen when in fact we've designed a system that's guaranteed to make it happen you know how you could uh and the president you know referred to the same thing if you created an election process that the entire country thought was a valid process well maybe maybe in that case you could come close to guaranteeing it because you'd be you know at least getting rid of the the primary reason for any violence if you got rid of the reason you'd have a pretty good shot at having no violence but if you design the reason for violence into the system you actually create a system that guarantees violence how is the president supposed to commit to it not happening when you've designed it for violence

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when you've designed it for violence what i mean by that is if you design a system that forty percent i'll just use a number pulling it out of my you know what but probably forty percent of the country i'm guessing you know could be 30 or 50 whatever but in that range let's say 40 percent of the country is not going to trust the the result if there is a mass mail-in kind of a vote which looks like the way it's heading now for those who are new to this there are three separate kinds of mail-ins if you don't know that there are three different kinds and you just say to yourself they're all reliable or you say to yourself they're all not reliable you don't understand the question there are three different kinds two of them pretty reliable i would be comfortable with two of the three the third one completely unreliable and it's the big one the reliable ones are

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absentee ballots and they're reliable because you request the ballot so it's a little harder to cheat if you've requested it you get it it's got your name on it you send it in we've done that for years people are pretty comfortable with that that's one of the three pretty good second one is five states have gone through the the history of doing uh you know generic mail-in uh ballots to everybody but they've also had time to scrub their databases and figure out what their base is so if anything is out of whack they'd say oh this one's out of whack because you know prior years it didn't look like that so for five of the states pretty good i'd like it to be better but pretty good so that's two of the two of the three types the absentee balance very well tested the five states that have been doing it and had time to refine it very well tested and then the third category which is the big one which is all the other states

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other states who haven't tested it they've never they've never tested their databases to know if they're going to send them to the wrong homes people are going to get you know massive wrong mailings we don't know now it could be good and it could be not good but would you trust it if it's never been tested and let's say it gives you a result you don't like no no it's a system that's designed to fail it's designed from the start to fail if you don't get that it's designed to fail you're not paying attention if you fall for the the trick that there's one kind of mail-in vote and it's all like absentee absentee vote ballots therefore it's all good you have fallen for the fake news there are three different situations two of them pretty good pretty good the third one the big one don't know so even if it were accurate which is sketchy who knows but even if

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which is sketchy who knows but even if it were accurate who would trust it because it hasn't been tested and in our current situation that is called planning to fail you can't draw any picture where if we do what we plan to do it works out well can you try to try to tell a story that includes doing exactly what we plan and then everybody's happy at the end you can't do it there is no story that ends that way you can't even imagine one like in your weird imagination so when the president says he can't commit to a non-violent transfer of power that's just honest how in the world he can't even stop the apparently he can't stop the riots in the cities why would they stop if trump gets elected do you think riots are going to stop let's say trump gets elected in a landslide and it's such a landslide that you don't even have any questions

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that you don't even have any questions about the vote you might say to yourself yes there was some voter suppression and there was some voter cheating but it couldn't possibly be big enough to account for the landslide even with a landslide of that size do you think there would be no violence of course not of course there would be of course there would be violence because there's violence now and there's nothing that will stop it there's nothing that's lining up there's nothing about the election that would stop it of course it would be all right so that's getting everybody all worked out and of course that plays into the uh you're you're a big old ol
you know dictator if you're talking about that but here of course is the part that the fake news doesn't tell their audience and it goes like this there i don't think there are any trump supporters who want to violate the constitution have you ever met one have you ever met

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have you ever met one have you ever met a trump supporter who would say if we have an election that we can trust and trump does not get elected we're going to take up arms to keep them in office said zero people have you ever met anybody who would say if trump loses we want to keep him in office i've never met anybody who has that opinion in fact i would argue anybody who has that opinion is not a republican anybody who has that opinion that the election doesn't count and we're just going to keep him anybody would have that opinion is not a conservative they would not be somebody who believes in the constitution and therefore they would not be on trump's team to begin with right that's pretty fundamental and the whole trump support thing is that if he doesn't win he's not president right can we agree if you know if there's any

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can we agree if you know if there's any if any uh left-leaning people wander in here to see your comments can you back me up in the comments is there anybody who supports trump who would support keeping him in office if he lost the election no no that doesn't exist that's completely imaginary
anybody who thinks that that's the case uh has got a real bad case of tds now um we'll talk about that in a minute too
and then i guess president trump predicted that the supreme court may decide the outcome of the election i would say that's close to guaranteed wouldn't you among president trump's among president trump's uh predictions this one's a pretty safe one i feel as if no matter what the outcome is the the supreme court is going to get involved it just feels like a guarantee now here's the thing are are republicans

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now here's the thing are are republicans and conservatives going to trust whatever the supreme court says if they have a 6-3 majority which they might have right if conservatives have a six three majority and the decision doesn't go their way they are going to accept it oh they'll complain blah blah blah blah they might say hey my justices are not as conservative as i hope they'll have something to complain about but if a 6-3 conservative majority you know says trump didn't win
you're not going to see a lot of trump supporters marching in the streets nobody's going to pick up guns over that because that's their court you know that's their court that's the way it goes they're going to take that so i don't think you have to worry about anything from the conservative side now what if what if the election is actually stolen what about that what if the election was like just

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like just obviously stolen and it was just you could tell that it was stolen and let's say it was stolen by the democrats and trump's still in office what then what that what would you support if the election is stolen well i would support it going to the supreme court and if the supreme court said we're going to have to do a do-over i would live with that whatever the supreme court says as long as we're on the same page that we can trust the supreme court you don't have to worry about the conservatives you do have to worry about the liberals because they might not they might not accept what the supreme court says they might say this court is rigged with all conservatives we do not trust it all right it looks like uh gun sales in the in the swing states are up 80 percent this year and uh is that bad or good

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and uh is that bad or good is it bad or good that gun sales are up 80 percent i don't know i mean it's good in terms of freedom i suppose but will more people get killed because there are more guns probably we don't know could go the other way maybe more people will be protected hard to know kevin mccarthy finally said something i wish somebody had said a long time ago he said that if nancy pelosi tries to impeach president trump just for trying to trying to get the supreme court nominee that he wants when he wants it that if she tries to impeach him for just that in other words doing his job uh that uh that they'll try to impeach her [Laughter] now i feel like that's completely fair don't you if if pelosi tries to impeach the president for simply doing what the constitution says this is job even if you don't like it

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is job even if you don't like it i think she should be impeached that feels perfectly fair to me all right what should trump do or not do about all the riots about the the police violence against black people and the black lives matter riots etc why should he do at the moment he's just milking it for political gain and i have mixed feelings about that right if the pres the president was getting some uh some flack for not coming out and saying hey calm down let's not have any violence over the brianna taylor thing and so the critics are saying that the president should be more of a calming force on society to which i say how would that work how exactly is president trump of all people going to make the riots

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of all people going to make the riots less rioty because he said something is there anything that could come out of his mouth that would make the riots less likely to be riots i don't think so there's literally nothing he can do that wouldn't make it worse if all he did was say you know i call for peace you know we should all come together what difference would it make would it make a difference if anybody said it where where is obama calling for peace and did it make a difference if obama let's say retired obama if him calling for peace doesn't make any difference to the rioting why would trump calling for peace make any difference it would make no difference it could make it worse but here's what he could do he could call for all parties to look to science [Laughter] which would be a very tricky play

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which would be a very tricky play he could say look there seems to be some disagreement on the basic situation meaning that the the people have disagreements about what's happening with these protests and black lives matter etc just seem to have legitimate disagreements about what the reality is what causes what who is responsible for what what's the best solution for this so why don't we just call on science let's see if we can get the best data we can get everybody to agree are black people being killed by police in some way that is statistically meaningful versus any other group and find out let's let's all get together and really use our science what would happen well first of all they would say no they would say get away from me with your with your dictator ways or something i mean they would have to say something because it's trump but it would be

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because it's trump but it would be unassailable it would be completely unassailable to say look i think our problem is we're not agreeing on the facts so let's bring in the science let's bring in the experts let's really have a national national debate on just the facts how much of it is institutional racism how much is it a training problem how much is the behavior of the people who are being stopped let's just put it all out there let's see what the truth is if the president did that it would be unambiguously let's say productive meaning that who would argue against having better information you really can't but where would that lead you well it would lead you to not protest but they would know that and so they would resist so it would put the democrats in the position of resisting calls for better data and science and that would be a good place to be for the president

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the president all right here's my filter on the the riots and the brianna brianna taylor stuff you all know the story by now the police officers were found not guilty of any kind of murder in terms of her death and therefore their riots because of that now here's the central magic trick at play and or you could call it a an illusion or a magic trick i call it a magic trick because there's somebody actually doing it in other words there's somebody perpetrating the trick intentionally so that's more of a magic trick than a natural illusion that just happened on its own so here's how i see it
it yes we're going to the white board there are two views of reality here the protesters are saying there's racism everywhere and there's racists and the cops and because some of the cops are racist

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because some of the cops are racist they're more likely to murder black people in in routine stops than they would other groups so so this is the protester view of the world there's racism there's racist cops there are shooting people and there aren't enough people doing something about it so therefore society needs to be really stressed and pushed because it's just not doing anything about this problem here's my view which is that we are past the point where people make their own decisions for politics people largely are assigned opinions so there are almost nobody in the world who just thinks up their own opinion they look at their new sources and they adopt those opinions that are assigned to them so if you're a democrat you're getting some cnn opinions and some nms nbc opinions but what you're not doing not even close to doing

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to doing is making up your own mind if you believe that you make it that people make up their own mind about politics you don't understand how minds work how the news works or how social media and ai works so here's my here's my model of the world you've got artificial intelligence in the form of let's say the algorithms the algorithms are telling us what we're seeing and what's important right so that's the first thing the algorithm decides what you think is important you don't decide what you think is important you think you do but you don't the algorithm decides that based on what gets you the most excited activists of course are goosing this so they're they're they're pushing wherever they can push their you know they're being opportunistic and saying oh if people are already mad about this let's let's pile on this a little bit we we can we can move this a little bit it's already moving on its own

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it's already moving on its own so between the social media and the fake news and by fake news i mean if you had originally heard the brianna taylor story uh accurately let's say the first day that anybody heard the story it was completely accurate now in this case i don't think there were people lying about the story i think just we didn't know the story until recently but suppose on day one you'd heard it was not a no-knock raid so the the the core of the thing was that it was a no-knock raid but now we're told by the you know the police and by the i guess was the prosecutor uh now we're told that there's a witness and it is confirmed that it was a knock raid so suppose you'd heard that first oh they knocked and then you heard that the boyfriend is shot at the police first and then you heard that the police shot back and that there was an innocent person on

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and that there was an innocent person on the i think on the other side of a wall who got killed and nothing about this story involves race in other words you could tell the entire story without mentioning the ethnicity of anyone involved and nobody would know that you had left it out because it wasn't any racial element to the story whatsoever so imagine that that had been the news tragic uh tragic accident the police are investigating the officers to find out you know was this purely an accident or was there something you know bad behavior here if you had heard that version first would there be riots no if you if you knew that george floyd had a fatal amount of fentanyl in him when when all that went down would you feel the same about how he died now there's still there's still something that legitimate uh questions

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something that legitimate uh questions can be asked about the police performance so did the police handle themselves perfectly right i don't know but did they kill george floyd well certainly not in not intentionally and you know if you heard the story just accurately from moment one you'd have a very different feeling about it it would be tragic you would certainly think there are questions to be asked but it wouldn't look exactly like murder and it wouldn't even look racial you know what was the racial element to that if you looked at you can think of a few other examples where uh there have been riots over something that turned out to be not quite the way it was originally portrayed so in my view of the world you've got the ai the activist pushing social media the fake news is literally reporting things that are not true and these things collectively leave you the impression

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the impression which would be a false impression under this worldview the false impression that black people are being murdered by the police now here's the problem how do these two people have a debate what's that look like it's impossible these people can't have a conversation with these people they don't even live in the same reality if you believe that this was true you're not really even going to be able to hear this and if you think this is true you think these people are just under-informed and if you try to inform them how would that go you know some somebody's like protesting out there and they've they've committed like a significant part of their life to fixing this problem of the cops murdering black people and then you come in and you say you know you were just wrong about the whole thing you were sort of looking at the situation wrong really your opinion was assigned to you by algorithms and and the news so you don't have an

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and the news so you don't have an independent opinion it was actually assigned to you and all the news was wrong so you started with completely wrong facts that pointed in exactly the opposite direction of truth and that on top of those facts that were completely wrong you were assigned an opinion but in your mind you think you had you came up with it yourself but you but you didn't you actually were assigned this opinion how's that go how's that conversation go does this person say whoa you're blowing my mind now i wish i'd known this before before i wasted all this time protesting the wrong stuff no no it's not going to go that way you can't convince anybody in either of those realities that they're in the wrong reality it just doesn't work
so so we'll see more of that so i was really curious and if you didn't do this yesterday boy do you miss a show

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a show uh when i found out the verdict of the brianna taylor thing i immediately turned on cnn because if cnn was a legitimate news organization what would they have reported about the brianna taylor situation well if they were legitimate news they would have said uh gosh we were the reporting was wrong about it being no knock and that's really important did they say that nope chris cuomo actually said that's not that's a question so even though the official report is that there was a witness and there was an announcement and knocking chris cuomo says but there was somebody who reports they didn't hear it there was some other witness who said they didn't hear any announcement to which i say if there's somebody who heard it and then somebody who didn't hear it which one do you think is more reliable because it seems to me that the person

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because it seems to me that the person who clearly heard it unless they're lying i mean why would they i suppose they could um yeah i guess anybody has a reason to lie
lie but it's a little more believable that there's a witness who has an affirmative sighting of something happening than it is somebody who didn't hear it because not hearing something is a little bit ordinary there are people who don't hear things that happen but it's a little weirder to specifically hear something in detail and then have imagined it that would be weird yeah in this case uh this isn't quite the
the seeing the elephant situation i know where you're going on this one but it's a little different than that all right um so they would have reported that the central claim is at least at the very least it's been uh credibly questioned at the very least then they would have said it was a tragic accident

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tragic accident and it had nothing to do with race there's no evidence that race was a factor in any way and there's no evidence that the police even knew they were shooting in the direction of riona taylor i think she was on the other side of a wall or something they thought they were returning fire to the boyfriend so it was sort of a perfect storm of bad luck that the boyfriend who had the legal handgun thought that the ex-boyfriend who was a drug dealer might have been the one crashing in the door so that's the first bad piece of luck and the fact that he was there at all so you know you had a lot of bad luck that created a tragedy if cnn had reported that that it was just turns out it was just a bad luck tragedy situation would there be more or less rioting i think less imagine you were you were a writer and you turn on the news and you think it's your friendly

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news and you think it's your friendly news source it's cnn and they say oh it turns out this was just a big mistake you you should you know think about the the families you know the taylor family it's a tragedy you know we can't you know overstate how much of a tragedy was
was but it was just a tragedy it was an accident maybe we could do better in the future but it was an accident that would make a difference wouldn't it but instead um cnn played it like maybe like maybe it was racial there's no evidence of that there's there's no nobody's even offered evidence that there was a racial component to it and they still treat it like it is that is so anti-social that i can't even wrap my head around it i mean that that is guaranteeing that you have riots so uh i would i would say that the the riots i'm going to start calling

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the the riots i'm going to start calling them the fake news riots that might be misleading though the fake news is is whatever sparks the riot because the riots are almost all fake sparked by fake news cnn msnbc etc and i don't think they can escape responsibility for it and the citizens believe it's because of police actions but that opinion was assigned to them it's not their opinion all right
i saw i i watched van jones come on to talk about it on cnn and i like to use him as my example in a lot of cases because there are a lot of people you you can't quite tell okay are you just being a liar because you're you're a partisan so you're just lying or do you really believe what you're saying sometimes you can't tell and that that determines how you think about them but in the case of van jones my personal opinion is that he's a genuine

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opinion is that he's a genuine and fairly transparent so even when he's doing something that is you know nakedly political he actually will sometimes tell you that i mean recently he made news by saying that he would have complained you know no matter which way something went because it's political so he's fairly transparent about the fact that some of it's political but i feel like i feel like his actual emotion about things is completely genuine and he came on after the brionna taylor thing and you know you can't read people's minds but his face displayed genuine pain genuine pain you can't act that well like there you there's nobody who can do that to their face to show that much pain unless it's real all right nobody is that good of an actor so van jones i'm trying to figure him out right

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out right because you want to understand people who have different opinions if they're reasonable people and i i hold him up as my reasonable person so he's the one i want to understand trying to understand you know don lemon is a waste of time because he's not really trying to present an accurate view of the world but i think van jones for the most part is
is actually wants to live in the real world with real solutions and stuff so i want to understand him and i was i was i was looking at the pain and i was trying to understand that because i said to myself
wouldn't he be happy that this was not a case of a racial murder by police shouldn't that be cause for at least a little bit of relief that it wasn't what you thought it was but instead he was actually in just as much pain as if it had been a racial murder and and he said this directly he said would

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and he said this directly he said would this have happened if brianna taylor was white to which i say why wouldn't it what what part of it would not have happened if she had been white would would they not have gotten the warrant in the first place now if that's if that's the um if that's the uh if that's the assertion that maybe that it wouldn't even happen there would have been no no event maybe but i don't see any evidence of that don't the police pursue crimes no matter what your races i thought i thought they were pretty good at that it's a crime or it's not a crime it's not a crime and what's your race i don't think anybody says that do they so i think the event would happened and once the police encountered gunfire you know once people were firing at the police once they they broke down the door

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once they they broke down the door what exactly would the police have done if a white person was hidden behind a wall would they have said hold hold your fire hold your fire just let this guy shoot at us because there might be a white person on the other side of the wall or would they have said oh hold on hold on the person who's shooting at us at close range that we think might be a drug dealer but we don't know he's white it's okay it's okay guys yeah he's shooting at us ow ow i got shot in the leg but don't return the fire do you see he's a white guy everybody don't shoot he's a white guy is it would that happen what what do you have to do to your brain to imagine that police don't return fire to white people or or is the argument they wouldn't have shot as many rounds now let me ask you this given that the guy who had the gun

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given that the guy who had the gun apparently never got i don't think he even got a shot right correct me if i'm wrong but i don't think he was even wounded if the guy who has the gun is still with a gun and he's still not subdued because he was alive and he still had his gun how many bullets is the right number to shoot in that direction now one of the cops apparently did something reckless that is its own its own situation but his his reckless endangerment had to do with neighbors apartments not not even what was happening in that room so should you stop at say four bullets if you're the police when there's an armed man who just shot at you who's still alive still has his gun and he's still in the room he's in the room are you going to stop shooting until you know that guy is the subdued
is 10 enough i mean i would have shot about 25

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about 25 i mean i can't i don't see any way to understand this situation as a racial situation i just don't see anything but is it true that the van jones let's say he i want to use the right word here is it true that he's processing it as a genuine racial event i think so because he looked completely sincere so what do you do about that what do you do about the fact that it's not just liars and advocates and political people who are claiming this is a a racial tragedy what do you do when people who are actually sincere completely well informed smart all right smart well informed well-intentioned has all the information still thinks is racial what do you do with that what do you do

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what do you do with that what do you do with that i don't know so but um i think we ought to we got to think about that and i think that this it feels to me like the unstated there there's sort of an unstated thing here that there's sort of a revenge element in other words i feel as if that you know some segment of the black population not all of course but some segment of the black population just wants something like revenge against white people and i i don't think it's based on a specific thing rather it's a collection of grievances that you know if you add them all up it gets us to this place so um i think we we need to call it what it is
is which is some kind of revengey kind of

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which is some kind of revengey kind of uh
uh emotion all right um here's what biden said now remember biden is uh he's the adult in the room right so if there's a right thing to say something that will calm down you know people's emotions you'd expect biden to say it because that's that's his whole brand so let's see what he said about it he said quote in the wake of her tragic death we mourn with her mother and family okay so far so good and um i would say that trump should have done that too so i would say if you were to compare biden statement to anything trump did or did not do biden so far is winning because you know um giving giving um giving thought and attention and respect to the family is just always a good thing to do right so
so so good good on biden for starting that

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so good good on biden for starting that way everybody should do that uh if i didn't do that that was my mistake as well because we always think about the families you know they didn't do anything and brianna taylor didn't do anything to to deserve getting shot but then he goes on
on and goes and we ask ourselves whether justice could be equally applied in america what we ask ourselves whether justice could be equally applied in america in other words even joe biden is not willing to say in public that this was a racial event because if he was willing to say it well you know he'd say it why would he not say it if you know if the entire democratic field thinks this was a racial thing of course he would say it if he thought it was true but i'm going to give biden some credit here and i always think this is useful to do it it's useful to give credit

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it it's useful to give credit to you know an opposition character for anything they do good because it makes you seem more credible that way i think uh it's good that he you know cared about the empathy for the family first and i think uh it's good that he did not say it was a racial murder he could have he could have just gone full al sharpton right he could have done that and i think that would have been really bad for the country and he didn't and it might have even helped him politically you know it might have actually been a little bit of an advantage so i'm going to give biden credit because he he wasn't willing to tell a direct lie even even one that might have helped him a little bit but he did say we have to ask ourselves whether justice could be equally applied in america which implies which implies

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that maybe it didn't happen here so biden is making it racial while essentially admitting by not calling it racial then it wasn't he found a way to make it racial at the same time he called it basically not racial so that was kind of a weasel thing to do i would say on net this was disastrously bad for the country so biden i think this is net negative because just what he should have said if he had only cared about what's good for america he would have said tragic death we're thinking about the family but let's not uh let's not turn this into something we have enough real problems let's just deal with this as a tragedy see if we can come together that would have been useful but no you didn't decide not to do that there's confirmation now as i told you remember i told you that one of the hoaxes about biden was the hoax that he

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hoaxes about biden was the hoax that he was reading his answers from a teleprompter the answers to interview questions and i told you no that teleprompter was where there was somebody who was asking a question you know a citizen asked a question and something got cut off on the tel on that on that it wasn't it wasn't his answer that got cut off it was the question that got cut off and sure enough the fact checkers have confirmed that today that's exactly what it was so if you did not
not know that was a hoax from the first moment adjust your filter because i i knew that was a hoax from moment one it was just obvious so
so adjust your filters
here's one um so i said yesterday that the hunter biden stuff looked like a whole bunch of smoke but maybe there wouldn't be any fire in in the specific sense of something illegal now there's a whole bunch of stuff that looks swampy there's

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bunch of stuff that looks swampy there's a whole bunch of stuff that looks really really bad really really bad like as bad as something can look that's how bad it looks so i think i may have misled you yesterday when when i was saying that you know there was a lot of nothing to this recent hunter biden story there were details but they didn't really change what you thought of anything and it didn't look like any of it was necessarily illegal and was not even alleged to be illegal as far as i know but swampy here let me give you a specific example so one of the several allegations is that hunter's investment company got 3.5 million dollars from the ex-wife of moscow's mayor now any mayor of moscow duh is going to be an ally of putin that's that's a given right any ex-wife of an ally of putin probably an ally of putin she is also i believe the richest woman in russia probably an ally of

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woman in russia probably an ally of putin all right so someone who i think we could agree it seems beyond doubt that she would be an ally of putin and it's reported that she gave hunter biden 3.5 million dollars but is that exactly what happened or did she move 3.5 million dollars into his investment company in other words it's not hunter biden's money it would be money that he would be investing because he's an investor now again totally swampy i'm not saying anything that's good but would it be illegal for an investment company to take an investment from somebody who has legal money because i think all her money is legal right if if she well hold on if it's an investment it's money she's putting in which she would later withdraw i believe it's being reported and i'll need some fact checking on this

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and i'll need some fact checking on this because i might be a little i might miss a fact but i believe that it is reported like he got 3.5 million dollars like she wrote a check to hunter biden i don't think that's what happened i think she invested 3.5 million dollars of which if that's what happened his investment company would get you know the the one or two percent whatever from that which would be kind of a small deal yeah if it had been a payment that's as swampy as you can get that would obviously be a red flag but an investment now let me ask you this if any billionaire russian invests in your investment company are you guilty of something let's say you just you just you're an investment company you just take investments you don't care where they come from they could come from you know south america they could come

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you know south america they could come from russia and some russian billionaire who of course is allied with putin because i don't think you can be a billionaire and not get poisoned unless you support him so some billionaire puts money into your investment fund are you guilty are you guilty for a legal free citizen who wants to invest in your business and they put money there somebody says it was wired to his account what does his account mean right if it turned out that she just gave him 3.5 million dollars and it's unexplained well that would be as bad as it could be right and do you think that they would allow a digital record a wire transfer of that big of a bribe it seems like bad bad bribery uh method if you if you were gonna do something

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if you if you were gonna do something illegal wouldn't you send some bitcoin let me ask you this uh if it had been a pure bribe wouldn't they just send bitcoin
anybody who bribes with a wire transfer is not good at bribing in my opinion because you got a digital record there all right yeah like donating to the clinton foundation so while while nobody is happy with the situation that uh you know russians might be influencing hunter biden etc uh so let me summarize this by saying probably the way it's being reported is completely misleading that doesn't mean he didn't do terrible things okay so can we separate those after this is done since i know i know how this works people are going to come to me immediately after this periscope and say scott how can you say hunter did nothing wrong

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wrong and i'll go ah i didn't say that i didn't say he did nothing wrong i said i don't know
at least in terms of legally wrong i don't know swampy of course yeah what was it inappropriate in my opinion of course is it sketchy of course so don't don't act like i don't know it's sketchy okay all right here's something that somebody said this sounded smart to me the president is being criticized again for saying that the covid the coronavirus will just die out so he said it in the past i think he's renewed saying it that at some point it will just die out now the experts say you fool it's not just gonna die out and then somebody said this the spanish flu died out

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right why did the spanish flu die out it wasn't because of herd hurt immunity do you know why the spanish flu died out and the answer is nope nobody knows so would you bet against this flu the coronavirus would you bet against this just dying out given that the spanish flu
flu just sort of died out now i don't know maybe maybe we know something about the spanish flu that makes it different i don't know but i wouldn't bet against trump on saying that it might die out and we might we might not know why it might just die out it just won't do it as fast as we want it to um there is a jerry nadler video uh that you'll see on on twitter and i'm not gonna describe the video i'm just gonna say that uh there's something deeply wrong with

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uh there's something deeply wrong with his health and uh as much as i don't like jerry nadler or what he's done to the country uh whatever whatever is happening on that video with his health is not funny all right it's not it's just not funny so um so i'm i'm not going to retweet that and i'm not going to describe it further it's it's really disturbing it's very disturbing actually and i hope he's hope he's getting the help he needs um joy reid asks this question and it's just a head shaker so this is on twitter she says genuine question what will be the relationship between the majority of americans and trumpets after this long national nightmare ends and it will eventually end do people anticipate simply letting bygones be bygones with people who joined the trump personality cult now that is

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the trump personality cult now that is chilling isn't it because what it sounds like is that whenever trump is out of office that they plan to retaliate in some way for people who just wanted better judges and lower taxes they're actually going to retaliate for political preference that is so far over the line does joy read not know how dangerous it is to say stuff like this here's what she should have said if she wanted to be a positive force positive force would be you know in the end we'll always come together because we're america first how about that how about let's come together over our common humanity how about that that'd be good but when you put this idea into the public that maybe we shouldn't let bygones be bygones because that's really the suggestion the suggestion is that anybody who

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the suggestion is that anybody who supported this republican president has to explain it forever and that it's a permanent stain on your life that is the most un-american thing i i've heard in a long time so i i think that whoever employs joy reid has some explaining to do because this is just clearly a bad a bad influence on america and when you put
put something this corrosive into the public and you do it intentionally you're just not a good person
here's something that surprised me rasmussen did a poll on whether people believe that the forest fires let's say the california forest fires in the ones in the west in particular um they asked ask the public whether they think they're caused by climate change or caused by other factors which would include human as well as other natural factors

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as well as other natural factors what do you think the public thinks about the forest fires do you think that they mostly think it's climate change or mostly bad forest management maybe bad luck with lightning that sort of thing and the answer is this
that 38 of women think climate change is what's the primary driver of the fires and 44 of men think so so 44 of men but only 38 of women i would say that's a significant difference right which means that women uh are better at science because in this case women have by a fairly healthy majority over men women are less likely to be duped by the climate change claim interesting isn't it i and i wonder if this kind of trend will will continue to hold over time and i wouldn't be surprised

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wouldn't be surprised because uh isn't it true that there are more women in college than men now right i think there are more women who are lawyers than men or at least in law school now not not practicing so should we see eventually you know further differences between women's opinions about factual scientific stuff and men's opinions because women will just be better educated it looks like that's where it's heading because the women are are closer to the truth on this anyway those details will come out from rasmussen a little bit later this morning
all right that is just about what i wanted to talk about all right um

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giant bicycle freeway through the forest exactly yeah i've been calling for this so i'll re
re reiterate in a perfect world good forest management would put sort of a thick crisscross through the forest so if part of it burns it'll only burn up to the you know the the fire break and then you use those paths for bike paths you could have these amazing california bike baths where you're going through you know forests and mountains and stuff on your electric and other bikes could be the coolest thing california ever did would be an entire new tourism thing would create a lot of jobs because you got to clear the forest and then you would have you know you just have this incredible super highway of bicycle paths through natural surroundings it would be amazing so all right on a different topic i've been working on uh sort of mentally and otherwise

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and otherwise on how to design a perfect small home that's inexpensive and you think people have done it but they haven't because what people have done is they've created they've taken an expensive house that's really awesome and then they made it tiny and said oh how about a tiny house it'll be inexpensive and it is inexpensive but it's also no fun to live in so what i've been trying to design for years you know on paper and mentally in every other way is something that's small and inexpensive more inexpensive than small but that would be better than an expensive home and there's no reason you can't have that if you design it right so here's my idea so far the the foundation would be pylons that would be adjustable so that i think the cheapest kind of uh foundation that you could do would be four pylons that maybe have a lever that you can

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that maybe have a lever that you can adjust them so that you get them the right height um and then i'm imagining that you have uh uh ways to connect little units so let's say every room is pre-designed so that there is no nailing and no sawing and every part of the house can fit into the back of a pickup truck not at the same time but if you were building if you were building your own house you go get a pickup truck full unload it with maybe two people and just clip it together until you have a home so if it doesn't clip together with no sewing cutting or nailing and you can't do with two people and you can't fit it in the back of a pack a pickup truck it's not quite there yet but the other thing you would do is have each room sort of sort of designed as a perfect room so you don't have to guess what is a good room you just get the the package but each room would have uh two doors so

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uh two doors so uh so if you only could afford one of them you'd have a front door and a back door but if you were gonna buy more than one unit either at the same time or later the back door would just be the entrance to the next room which would then have another back door so you want modules that you can buy as many of them as you want they they fit together people can assemble them on their own they're one story so that you don't have as much risk of multiple stories and there you go
all right and lots of natural light right if you get the natural light right and you get the the acoustics right you have a very livable place so it seems to me and by the way somebody can help me with this the the primary thing that you would need to develop to make these awesome homes that are also small is glass walls the the kind that open and close

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and close inexpensively if you could get custom not custom but standardized glass walls that are also the kind that can open up like like a hawaii lanai and and make them in quantity so that they're all the same and they're really cheap you could have the most awesome little homes with like say one total glass wall looking out onto something attractive all right yeah the trouble with having something like an airstream or uh or a trailer is that you don't have a light so you need more of a at least one wall of light with a with a curtain over it all right so there you go now the the people who say no thanks you're not really understanding what i'm talking about so anyone of you who says i wouldn't live in that house you're really missing the point it's not for you it's not for you

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it's not for you it's not for you we're not trying to build the super inexpensive home for all of you it's for the people who who couldn't find a better option you know
i could have a double wall in the middle of the house well there are a million design considerations that would be one of them i guess
aerated concrete here's what i wouldn't want to do i wouldn't want to do anything you couldn't pull apart with your bare hands in other words i'd want a house that you don't have to chip anything away or scrape anything away or even paint so if you're painting scraping you know chiseling to redo anything later then you did it wrong it should be just unassemble and reassemble
all right um calling elon musk yeah it does seem like it would be a a

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it does seem like it would be a a high-tech thing not a not a build i i believe the building industry will never be able to do this i think it's going to have to come from a tech company um somebody's talking about the boxable houses uh i think that's the name of them so you've seen some that fold up they somehow make the house fold up it's a very small house they can put it on the back of a tractor trailer and they can deliver it this is exactly not what i'm talking about so when you talk about those little you know factory made full unfolding houses could not be further from what i'm talking about so and unfortunately everybody's mind goes to those little homes they are so poorly designed it's not even in the universe of what i'm talking about if it isn't a cool great design it's no good let me give you an example uh i was in a two-bedroom condo in hawaii so space-wise it was very small

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hawaii so space-wise it was very small it was just like a little vacation thing and but because the entire front wall was a nice view and that and it opened up to to ill and i it didn't seem like a small space and in fact you we paid a great deal of money for this small space because the simple the simple addition of a wall with a good view changes entirely the experience from a thing you would never want to be in to a vacation home it was literally a vacation destination just because of the glass wall that's the only thing about it that was special everything else was completely ordinary and you know fairly pedestrian
uh pickup tries pickup truck sized would suck you are not understanding the pickup truck concept the the pickup truck doesn't mean you put the whole house in the pickup truck it means that you go to the you go to

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it means that you go to the you go to the let's say lumber yard or whatever and you get the components the pieces then you drive there and you take each piece and you put it together so each piece might be something one person could hold in their hands yeah anything foldable is a problem i wouldn't do anything foldable
uh interchangeable parts yeah and the other thing the other thing you'd want is that all of your interior and exterior walls it could be changed easily with facades so imagine if you will you had brick facades so they're thin but from the outside it looks like a brick and they just clip to the front of your home or to the inside walls and then if you say i'm tired of a brick wall you just take them off and replace them with some other kind of design
yeah every everyone wants to pretend your ideas have already been done you know i've i've

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that's one of the things i always deal with people will always say that's being done and then they'll describe something that's not even close in fact they'll describe the thing i said i want to not do this i want to not do x so whatever i'm doing don't do x that's the thing i don't want to do and then somebody will say people are already doing x and they'll say no now i know people are already doing x that's not what i want i want to do something that's not x but scott um there's already x no no you know what i mean all right that's all for now if anybody if anybody has a source for a cheap window maker and i think maybe a 3d printer might be the solution let me know that's all for now