Episode 1135 Scott Adams: Coup Plotter Details Emerge, BLM Focuses on Revenge Over Solutions

Date: 2020-09-25 | Duration: 1:02:30

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• CNN dark…on the biggest story in the history of America?

• Is Biden the candidate…to protect those guilty of a coup?

• Is BLM a REVENGE oriented movement?

• 8 AM…How’s Joe doing today, another “lid” this morning?

• When the election is not deemed credible…then what?

• Kim Jong-Un issues apology

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be yeah better than even a normal coffee with scott adams we're talking one of the best of all time i don't even know what i'm going to say yet but i feel that confident hello out of you too and before we get going would anybody like to do a thing called the simultaneous sip you know you do all you need is a copper margaret glass of tanker tails or steiner canteen joker flask vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better it's the unparalleled pleasure of the simultaneous hip and it happens now go
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this this podcast is better when you play it at 1.5 times speed which is both insulting and totally true i do the same thing if you haven't if you haven't at least experimented with listening to podcasts at
at higher speeds you really want to check it out so i don't know if periscope has that option but i put it on on youtube later and it's also on podcasts later so you can listen to it that way or you can listen to it on the locals.com subscription site all right so let's talk about some stuff i like looking at the interesting ideas that entrepreneurs come up with for dealing with the coronavirus situation and the alamo draft house which is a series of i guess movie theaters they might be in texas and they haven't came up with an idea of letting people rent out the whole

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of letting people rent out the whole theater and just take people in there that are your own friends so you basically for 150 dollars for the theater and other 150 dollars for popcorn and food or whatever you you and your friends can just have the whole theater for uh for a movie not bad i don't know if it's the best idea in the world you know my town has outdoor uh movie theaters now they're they're doing drive-ins and such but i like the creativity of it it was a good idea um so so president trump signed an executive order essentially saying that pre-existing conditions would be covered but of course it's a non-binding executive order now let me ask you this how much is a nine non-binding promise if you will to uh to maintain um so to make sure the

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to maintain um so to make sure the pre-existing conditions are covered would you trust a president who made a promise like that and said i'm going to cover the pre-existing conditions don't worry about it do you trust that president well here's the thing one of the things that president trump has done right is he's done such a good job at doggedly pursuing the promises that he's made that it is completely credible now nothing in this world is guaranteed but in terms of whether president trump would stick to his promise of fighting to keep the uh the pre-existing conditions covered i feel as though he created that asset meaning that if you ask me four years ago i'd say well i don't know you know politicians make promises sometimes they keep them sometimes they have a reason not to read my lips no new taxes well changed

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read my lips no new taxes well changed my mind so four years ago i would have said i don't think you could be positive that this president or any other president would keep a campaign promise but now we've watched him operate for four years it seems really clear to me that the president puts a very high value on doing what he says he'll do wouldn't you agree now he puts a very low value on being specifically accurate on details and you know he uses hyperbole and he fails the fact checking and it's abundantly clear that he's not concerned whatsoever about getting those details right now you can hate that or you can love it but anybody can observe that you know you no matter which side you're on we're observing the same thing he puts a very low value on those little niceties and the details and and being technically accurate he does try to be

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try to be directionally accurate in other words he's he's trying to persuade the country in a productive direction there's nothing evil about it but but when it comes to keeping a promise even if he can't get it done as quickly as he wants or can't get it done at all you know such as you know building building the wall it's slow but it's happening so you can tell he's at least putting the full measure of effort into it and i feel as though the president created this asset out of nothing he created an asset of believability when it comes to keeping his campaign promises which is unique i'm not sure every every president had that exactly you know you always had the you can keep your doctor if you want it situations but i don't know that trump has any of those if you look for something like that in trump and fact-check me on this i might be just missing something that i'm not

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just missing something that i'm not thinking that would be obvious to you but i know that a critic would say well what about the part about making mexico pay for the wall and i would say i don't think anybody took that too seriously i mean sure that was a campaign theme etc
etc you could say it was a promise but was it
it was it really did the people who voted for him say yeah i think he means that he's totally going to get mexico to pay for that wall now you could argue that he did get them to pay for the wall you know indirectly in terms of uh keeping the keeping the migrant groups from coming across so he did get a lot done in terms of transferring some of the cost to mexico that really happened but nobody took that too seriously it wasn't a requirement i don't think all right moving on um so i think i understand finally because

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so i think i understand finally because of the new revelations coming out about the uh the coup attempt the russia collusion coup where uh brennan and comey and all those characters apparently if we are to believe the documents we're seeing i don't know how to interpret them other than a confirmation that there was literally a coup attempt i don't know how else to interpret it and and i really really tried hard in the beginning of this russia collusion stuff when when people who were you know even more skeptical than i am if that's possible we're saying hey from the very beginning people were saying hey this looks like just a coup attempt it looks like some kind of organized coup and i said if you remember i said no let's you know let's cool down that talk i don't quite see any evidence of a coup sure lots of people didn't like the president

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president there there are people in jobs and they can do little things that make his life hard but it's not some kind of organized understood you know explicit coup attempt i mean that's just crazy except that apparently it was apparently it was exactly that it wasn't even sort of like that it wasn't suggestive of that it wasn't reminding you of that it was actually that from based on the documents so we've seen especially the ones that just came out now if you understand that and you understand that the latest documents are a little bit more damning to both obama and biden meaning that apparently if we're to believe what we see in the documents it looks like president obama was pretty deeply involved in something that looks exactly like a coup

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something that looks exactly like a coup attempt and that means that biden was involved because he you know he was in the room he would have had to know about it now here's the thing how do you explain that i i feel as if you would agree with us the following uh supposition that the the leaders and the important people in the democratic party they could kind of get anybody nominated they wanted don't you think don't you think that the you know the the old clinton crowd and the obama crowd and the deep state you know the democrats don't you think that the leadership of the party could kind of push things in whatever direction they wanted in terms of the nominee and you might have asked yourself well if that's the case and they could make sort of anybody they wanted the nominee by you know controlling the media for one thing they can control the media coverage they can control the funding probably they can control which

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they can control which advisors work for whom etc so if you take uh my assumption that the people in charge do have the ability to create the nominee they want essentially manipulating the voters into voting for who they want why would they choose biden because by any measure he's the least capable candidate who has ever run for president i don't think you could find somebody who is less capable than biden it's it's certainly not missing their their gaze that they they're running an incompetent that's pretty obvious at this point so why would they do it and the answer is
is to protect themselves biden is the only person who is in the in the race for the nomination he's the only one who had the following quality he was just as guilty as the as the

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he was just as guilty as the as the other people in the party he's part of presumably this is the speculation right my speculation uh i think they needed him
him because he's both controllable and he has the same risk profile as they do so you could count on him to to make all the investigations go away because he had the same risk i don't think there was anybody else in that category was there anybody else who would be as good as stooge as as biden to keep them out of jail so now when i say stuff like this you you should be saying to yourself well that's just about the biggest story i there's never been a bigger story than this watergate was a peanut compared to this um what was as big as this that monica lewinsky no tiny tiny little problem there's nothing that i can think of in

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there's nothing that i can think of in modern you know at least my lifetime i can't think of anything except maybe the you know getting into the iraq war the wrong way with bad information but this has got to be gigantic enormous biggest story of all time so let's look at the cnn home page and see how they're carrying you see how they're covering the biggest story in the history of the united states um let's see nothing nothing now have you ever seen them just not cover a story usually they'll at least put a line in there or say well something happened but we're not going to talk about it or well these these uh crazy conservatives they're making some claims but they're all wrong so don't pay attention to them but have you ever seen them just go dark on the biggest story in the history of

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on the biggest story in the history of the united states just not covering it what's that tell you
you it tells you they're complicit what else would it mean why else would they not cover the biggest story in again the history of the united states there's no bigger story than this you know wars may be your bigger stories but
but this is pretty big and if you wondered hey is cnn and the mainstream media are they are they sort of complicit with whatever this coup thing was and i would say at this point it's obvious you know there are some claims that you know you have to be careful about making because you you get into uh you know legal problems if you make a claim that can't be backed up so i'll just put it in the form of an opinion based on what i've seen a reasonable person would conclude

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person would conclude there was an actual coup attempt brennan was probably the leader if not one of them one of them or the leader and that cnn at least probably other media were a hundred percent complicit what else could you interpret this as now um i don't know what other entities are
are covering or not covering it but keep an eye on that um so here are some of the things that are coming out in these this new drops and if i understand this right this stuff's all too complicated for me so i yeah i may be missing some details but i believe it's true that the only reason we're learning about these new things is because the flynn case wasn't dismissed is that true that we wouldn't have known this stuff except that they made the mistake of keeping the flynn thing alive

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keeping the flynn thing alive even after the prosecutor wanted to drop it i mean what they're doing to flint is just should just be another crime i mean it's just a crime the way they're treating that guy and i don't know so it uh it looks to me like that's the only reason we would know this stuff which is shocking in itself so here are some of the things we found out that one of the primary sources for the steele dossier was uh suspected to be a russian agent at the time at the time they put the dossier together and they were deciding what to do with it even then they knew they knew that the person who was a source was a suspected russian spy now you'd think that they would mention that to let's say the the courts or to anybody who needed to know hey just a heads up we've got this information but an important part of it comes from somebody we suspect is a russian spy you leave that out

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is a russian spy you leave that out and you're not playing on the on team america wouldn't you agree if you intentionally leave out that little fact you're not really on team america i don't know what team you're on but it's not this country um
apparently there's an agent who worked on the case william barnett who believed at the time and i guess presumably still does that the whole thing was driven by a get to trump attitude which he actually said at the time he didn't see the he didn't see the basis for the case it just looked like it was political to him now don't make too much out of that because unfortunately any work group if you could actually talk to them you know privately and individually any work group for any company any organization anywhere you're going to find some people in the group who say i don't know why we're even doing this it's all a big mistake are we doing this for all

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a big mistake are we doing this for all the wrong reasons so there's always that guy so if you're if you're ranking what importance to put on these revelations the fact that there was somebody on the team who thinks the whole thing was bs and shouldn't have been done you want to believe that that's really meaningful and maybe it is you know i'm not ruling it out
out i'm just saying that's one you got to watch because you'll always get that guy there's always a disgruntled employee look at look at all the whistleblowers who have stories about trump you always have that guy so just keep in mind that that's on the lower end of credibility but might be true if it's at least it fits all the rest of the story all right what else did we learn there um we learned that brennan falsified the intelligence about russia what now if if brennan had he was out of cia at

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if if brennan had he was out of cia at that time right so he put together this small team of five people and the head of the team was somebody who was his personal friend somebody had control over they come up with a you know a set of conclusions about russia and then brennan tried to sell it to the country as 17 intel agencies agreed when in fact it was a group of five just five people all in the cia and really one of them wrote it so really one person and that one person was hand picked by brennan so really just brennan so brennan sold that his own analysis which was not in agreement with other people in his own group people in his group said hey you should you should include this part where we think there's a good chance that putin actually prefers hillary clinton and the reason we think he might prefer hillary clinton is that she's predictable

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predictable and she had already offered a reset so he knows what he's getting but he doesn't know what he's getting with trump at the time so brennan chose to leave out the part where his own people said you know we think putin might actually prefer hillary clinton is that a big deal yeah yeah it's the biggest story in the history of the united states that's not a war um it's the biggest story in the united states in my opinion the head of the cia literally falsifying russia and intel according to what we've been told for the purpose of overthrowing the united states government the illegally elected government now weirdly there might be no penalty for this because how do you prosecute somebody for having a different opinion because that would that's just what he

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because that would that's just what he could claim he could say yeah yeah i saw the intel about putin preferring hillary clinton but in my opinion it was not worthy of including that's sort of the whole defense you really don't need much of a defense beyond um yeah maybe i was wrong but that was my opinion and it was my job to have an opinion i think i think it's not exactly illegal to overthrow the the try to overthrow the government and fail so people operating at that level know how to stay you know outside the the bounds of illegality while at the same time overthrowing the government or attempting to now since the penalty for that is probably zero because it you know there'll always be reasonable doubt what would you think the penalty should be if it were true and if it could be proven hypothetically what would be the

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hypothetically what would be the appropriate penalty for a john brennan if hypothetically it was found that he had actually tried to overthrow the government and he did it by falsifying intelligence essentially leaving out intelligence which falsified it um i think the death penalty right should you not be subject to the death penalty for that crime because i can't think of a bigger crime you know how could you do something worse seems like a death penalty crime to me but i'll bet there will be no penalty whatsoever
so here's i i guess i just don't know what to do about the fact that it looks like what's going to happen is that conservative media will make a big deal about it but have you noticed that if conservative media is the only one that talks about something

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talks about something it never becomes real to the rest of the world right so i believe that our siloed news has created this weird situation where um you know somebody associated with the left could murder somebody on fifth avenue i'll just pick an example they could murder somebody in fifth avenue it could be recorded on ten thousand cameras confirmed in every possible way that that's exactly what happened this person murdered this person in front of people in front of a million cameras and if the entire left mainstream media decided just not to cover it it wouldn't exist even if the conservative media went crazy on it every day and it was headlines and couldn't stop talking about it as long as the other side simply treats it like it doesn't exist it actually doesn't exist

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we've reached the point where they can disappear reality not just make facts disappear not just leave out a you know leave out a detail not guess something wrong not even fake news actually disappear an entire chunk of reality while you're watching them do it
that's where we're at now if you had told me that that was even possible i might have said well in some weird theoretical way but watching it happening is just blowing my freaking mind i mean my head is just coming right off when i'm watching cnn literally just ignore it no there was no coup attempt i don't know what you're talking about what else could they ignore what else could they ignore it's like they could ignore anything and just ignore it and that it doesn't exist

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here's a weird little story kim jong-un has
has issued an apology for killing some south korean guy who tried to defect to the north what the first thing you have to ask yourself is why did somebody in south korea try to defect to north korea what the hell is is there somebody in south korea who hadn't done any reading about north korea what did he think was going to happen when he went to north korea well i'm going to have a good life up there in north korea so apparently he was he was just drilled full of bullets and and killed by the north koreans because they didn't they didn't know what they had there it was just somebody it looked like was breaching their territory so they killed them um kim jong-un and here's the weird part issued an apology he issued an apology that's a pretty big deal because you know you want north korea to

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because you know you want north korea to say
say enter the let's say enter the the field of adult you know adult countries if you will to just act like more of a citizen of the world and this is a small thing because you know obviously the apology was warranted but you still didn't expect it right you you would have more expected yeah it was an accident but don't send your people across the border what did it what the hell did you think was going to happen or just not mention it or something like that but apparently kim jong-un assuming he's still alive if he's still alive thought that uh playing it more diplomatically was was good so that's a good sign but i have to ask you this question when was the last time we'd know we saw kim jong-un when was the last time we saw him alive now i realized that there was a video of him

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him visiting someplace after people had been rumoring that maybe he had died so you remember a few months back there was a rumor he died but then there was a video of him in public he looked healthy so then the rumor just went away sort of not to me not to me i'm not convinced he's still alive and or functioning you know he might be on machines or something but i'm not i'm not convinced he's alive because we haven't seen live video have we we've only seen recorded video and they probably have you know a vault full of recorded video of places he visited that they just didn't publish the uh the video so they probably just pulled out something from the archive and said here he is he's he's visiting this factory over here so i'm totally alive there is some evidence that his sister is gaining power which might be a tell

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power which might be a tell but this apology feels a little out of character but maybe not because he is you know moving toward you know friendlier relations i would just keep an eye on it and i'm going to put it out there again that well here here's your best clue do you remember i forget when it was maybe a month or two ago when president trump tweeted with no no prompting there was nothing that triggered the tweet he tweeted that kim jong-un is alive and well do you remember that tweet just came out of nowhere nobody was accusing kim jong-un of being anything but alive and the president just out of nowhere tweets he's alive and well that felt very much like a favor for north korea didn't it a favor that would only have one purpose which is to have friendly relationship with perhaps

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have friendly relationship with perhaps kim jong-un if he were to survive whatever hypothetical problem he had or whoever takes over it may have been just a favor for the current or maybe the incoming administration because it looked like it it was just a tweet out of nowhere it looked like there was some kind of a favor going on there so just keep an eye on north korea all right i did a little twitter survey and i asked people if their opinion of black lives matter was improved or or lessened let's say their empathy was there empathy for blm more or less because of the events of 2020 92 people who answered my unscientific poll mostly conservatives because if you're following me on twitter you probably are 92 percent said that they have less empathy for black lives matter

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for black lives matter less empathy um and here's my question what's the point of black lives matter is the point of black lives matter to convince themselves that black lives matter i don't think so i don't think they're talking to themselves is the point of black lives matter to convince progressives to change their mind about something well i don't think so because the progressives are actually marching with them they're they're on the same side so who are they trying to convince if anybody well i would think they would be trying to convince conservatives under the assumption that that's the group who needs to be convinced then everybody would be on the same side that some changes need to be made and then they would work toward those changes but if 92 of the mostly conservatives who answered my unscientific poll said that they feel worse you know they

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said that they feel worse you know they have less empathy for black lives matter isn't that exactly the opposite direction that's not just missing the target that's running as hard as you can in the wrong direction while knowing it so here's the key part do you think black lives matter doesn't know it do you think that they are that they would be surprised to find out that rioting and looting is making them less popular now for for the anybody who's new here you know make an assumption that i'm not a freaking idiot okay so when you hear me say something like black lives matter rioting and looting your brain should translate that into yes yes yes most people are just protesting peacefully i get it most people by the numbers in terms of percentage of people by far are protesting peacefully but they also are creating a container which they know will contain the bad people so if you're part

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contain the bad people so if you're part of an intentional process to create a safety container for looters and rioters i throw you in the same same you're in the same bag the first few times you do it maybe you just need to get something out of your system but if you do it every day and the rioters and the looters are in your container every day well it's a bad container and you're part of it so who is black lives matter trying to persuade if it's so obvious that they're doing the opposite of persuading well what if it's just the obvious what what would be the most obvious interpretation of what you see if you saw black lives matter say we need these following changes these are the changes we need and then we were talking about them and we were meeting about them maybe there was some legislation about them then i would say okay this is a solution oriented movement

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oriented movement this is a group of people who know what the problem is they they've got a pretty good idea where the solutions lie or where they could lie or at least where it's worth trying you know it's worth trying something and and they're going to work on it they're going to put up a trial they're going to try to get some funding try to get everybody on the same page really make this world a better place where is that is defund the police anything like a plan no it's not even that's not even really trying to be a plan because you would need you know way more than that so what would be the most reasonable interpretation of a group that it has apparently no interest in solutions they sometimes talk about things got to be better but without some detail about a solution any kind of a leader who's putting together a task force any kind of a document that you know everybody's rallying around without any of that what is this

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without any of that what is this i only i can only give it one interpretation it's revenge it's just pure revenge and when i see revenge i include um envy you know i i had been a skeptic of the idea that the income inequality would drive society apart because i would say to myself if everybody is doing better why would they want to change that situation by killing the people who are doing extra good knowing that it would make the whole system fall apart and i think the the only conclusion that i can come to from all of this is that it's hard to have a difficult life while you're watching other people have a good life and you kind of hate them i you know i think back to my early days when i grew up and i i guess my family would have been

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and i i guess my family would have been considered maybe lower middle class something like that i think we would have called ourselves lower middle class and every day i would wake up and there was a big window in the front of the living room and acro and looking out my window was a ski slope and the ski slope is where all the the wealthy people came to ski so every day i would look at that ski slope and i would say every one of those people coming down there this is an exaggeration but it felt like this those people skiing over there they all have a better life than i do how did we talk about those rich people did we talk about them in glowing terms but because you know man we sure we sure do love those rich people who were over there having a great time while we're trying to get by no we did not no we did not we spoke of them in somewhat dismissive terms like there was

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somewhat dismissive terms like there was something a little bit wrong with them for being rich and happy and successful now it wasn't we weren't terrible about it i mean we weren't you know we didn't think they should be hung or anything but we had a little bit of an attitude that just sort of comes with the fact that somebody is doing much better than you
you to me it looks like black lives matter the movement including the the white folks who are you know the allies if you will the antifa it feels to me like these people are people who are hating people who are doing better and that is not a movement of equality per se is far more a movement of revenge against people who are living good lives it looks revengey now i'm seeing in the comments somebody saying that they're bullies well i'm not sure bullying is quite exactly the right vibe although that's the the the output of it so they you know the result of it

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so they you know the result of it certainly looks like bullying but in terms of the internal intentions which are always difficult to you know discern because you can't read minds but without solutions it is obvious that it's not a solution-based movement i think that part we can conclude and remember it was blowing my mind when i was watching van jones talking about the brianna taylor situation and when you watch somebody who's clearly smart you know he's got all the knowledge in the world about the situation there's no no gaps in his understanding whatsoever and then i watch him realize that the story wasn't what it had been reported earlier in other words it wasn't police killing somebody because they were black rather it was just an accident tragic stupid terrible accident shouldn't have happened you know you can say lots of bad stuff

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you know you can say lots of bad stuff about it it's all true but it was an accident now what should have been the reasonable response to someone who had let's say legitimate feelings about you know police brutality but they had been triggered by at least lately triggered by this event and then find out that event was not what they thought it was what what would they do if they were a legitimate movement who wanted solutions well i think they would have said okay we were wrong about that one but there's still plenty to talk about and sorry we missed that one you know you could see why we missed it it's you know they made errors when when they killed her maybe we made some errors when we interpreted it but let's not get hung up on that we got lots of other stuff to talk about that's bad let's talk about that let's just let that one go but that didn't happen instead they doubled down they doubled down on the thing that we

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they doubled down on the thing that we can all see the same information and it just wasn't relevant to the complaint the only thing that makes sense since they don't care about the facts of the case and they don't care about solutions it only makes sense and even van jones sort of talked about it as a an emotional pain which seems to be you know fairly a widespread feeling that there's actual pain that they're experiencing by you know the i guess the fullness of the entire situation including their entire lives in fact van jones was saying that he was getting sick and tired if i can paraphrase it right that in his own own life experience and you would expect him to have more of a more of a favored experience because he's he's you know talented smart good-looking successful you'd expect that his life would look pretty good compared to most people but even he said that pretty much it's a

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but even he said that pretty much it's a daily weight you know racism is like a daily pain that never goes away it's just always there it's just following you all day long and while i wouldn't deny that that that feeling is true i have no reason to question that even a little
what does that make you do have you ever been anger angry uh and lashed down as somebody has anger ever caused you to be mean to somebody who just didn't deserve it yeah yeah that's what it does that's what anger does it causes you to be angry and it causes you to be mean to other people so i feel like we need to stop pretending that this is about solutions and we need to stop pretending it's about making the world a better place because it so clearly is not and if any of these people ever wanted to do any of those things talk about solutions talk about how to

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talk about solutions talk about how to make it a better place i feel like there would be plenty of people to help them remember when the george floyd thing first happened and i and lots of other people made this observation this was the one time when the whole country was on the same side what should have happened if people wanted solutions then the the black community should have said some version of this do you see what we mean now the white community having seen the georgia floyd video would have said as i did and many people said oh i get it now i wasn't quite seeing what you were saying but now we've watched this video and i totally get it now now it turns out fentanyl was part of the story so even that was fake news but at the time all white people were on their side all white people i mean it was just universal you saw that video and you said oh whoa whatever we thought before this is different

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different like this this uh this just puts you on the same page like okay i get it now we gotta we gotta figure out how to make this never happen again but that didn't happen instead of being on the same side we were treated like the enemy when when white people were saying i really want help like this is real i seriously legitimately want to help no you're the enemy how am i the enemy if i want to help legitimately and seriously so i'm going to completely disregard blm and antifa as any kind of a positive movement in society we have to treat them like they're a revenge movement and then what do you do what do you do if you if you finally correctly diagnose the problem and the and the problem is that revenge

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and the and the problem is that revenge is what they're trying to accomplish well they're going to have to get revenge you know the the one way that this could be
be i won't say solved but you could take the some of the energy out of it black people are going to have to get revenge and if it's not presented you know as some kind of a package hey this will hurt us so how about we do this because it'll hurt us you know we'll we'll take some pain if you'll stop protesting um i don't know how you could package that up i don't know any practical way to do that so my guess is that the way this goes is that there will be a bunch of white people probably police who just get killed it just gets slaughtered and that the number of white people who were killed and you saw this happen in louisville right the two police officers were shot and what looked like just a targeted sniper attack

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sniper attack i don't see any other way this goes i think it goes to some amount of slaughter of police officers probably of you know various colors and white people i think death is probably the only way to get to get the emotion out of it so that even you know even the black public who support blm uh by and large you have to get to the point where even they say whoa that's not exactly what i signed up for i wanted less systemic racism i wanted less you know danger from the police i wasn't signing up for killing white people that's that's you know that's too far on out probably has to get there otherwise it can't ever be resolved but if we think it has anything to do with solutions or legislation i think we can rule that out now it feels like that could be completely ruled out all right i said in a tweet yesterday

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all right i said in a tweet yesterday that i'm no political campaign expert but isn't it suspicious that biden doesn't know his campaign schedule a day in advance because it seems to me that if you're going to put a lid on your entire day you would know that yesterday when you are are they so unorganized they don't know what biden would should be doing today they have to wake up and it's like nine in the morning and they're like all right well i guess there wasn't anything public on the schedule so we'll put a lid on it
it feels way more like they have to see how he's doing doesn't it it feels more like they wake up in the morning and they say all right is anybody has anybody checked on joe yet and they and they talked to you know here you're just imagining this but they talk to jill and they say how's he doing is he okay this morning and then jill says one of two things i think he's doing okay

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think he's doing okay let's let's go ahead with the schedule or she says i don't know he's a little slow this morning we better put a lid on it i feel like that's what's happening if there's another explanation for why the lid would be put on at the last minute instead of knowingly in advance i'd like to hear it um are you also wondering why there are no insider leaks in the biden campaign isn't that a little suspicious don't you think that there are conversations in the biden campaign about things that would be embarrassing if they came out they're probably conversations about how they deal with the progressive wing that if anybody heard those about those conversations that would be news there certainly are conversations about biden's um let's say his uh mental acuity and even his his general

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mental acuity and even his his general health you know those conversations are happening because you can see with your own eyes that he has days that he's better than other days so obviously they're talking about it behind the closed doors but nobody except for this one except for 4chan so acknowledging that there are insider leaks allegedly on 4chan what i'm talking about is why they're completely missing in the new york times where is the washington post story about the insider and the biden campaign who says you know this is what they're talking about in the campaign it's kind of missing right am i being crazy here or is it obviously missing because there are tons of insiders who are willing to you know knock on trump for any any number of real or imagined things but there's nobody nobody on the biden campaigns willing to do a little whisper whisper

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whisper whisper to a to a journalist i'm not buying it what i believe is that insiders probably have talked to the press and i believe that the press is just not running the stories that's my belief i don't know if it's true but i don't know why else there would be no insider stories on in the in the major press that is
um what would happen under the condition that the election is not deemed credible now i know that there's a a constitutional series of steps um let's let's say it goes to the supreme court but they're you know the country is still not happy with whatever they come up with um i know there's the part where nancy pelosi could become president if things aren't sorted down by certain dates so i know the constitution has some steps but suppose because it's 2020. you know in 2020 nothing's clean but

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you know in 2020 nothing's clean but suppose that despite all the well-described steps for solving the stuff the country is just not convinced we had a real election what if forty percent of the country thirty percent pick a number uh at the end of it say you know i don't trust the result i just don't trust the results what would happen well let me put this thought into the public mind if it's a tie the tie goes to the incumbent because it has to now not if it's a second term you know not if it's the end of a second term right if you know if if a president served two terms that's a different situation but in this situation where you've got a president who has served one term is running for re-election if we don't have a clean result you have to default to the incumbent now yes i would say the same thing if the incumbent were a democrat all right same situation

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were a democrat all right same situation just reverse the party and i will still be consistent you have to go with the incumbent if you don't get a clean result now if at the end of the eight years then you you're gonna have to bring in somebody new one way or the other but you just got to go ty has to go to the runner because that would be the most stable situation and anything less than that would be so just destabilizing i don't think it would be worth it and that's and and i say that again regardless of which party is involved you just can't inject that much uncertainty into the system and hope that it is free pbs did a fascinating experiment that should scare the hell out of you and it showed how easily brains can be hacked and i think it was hacking your mind was the name of the the special and so what pbs did was they primed people before asking them for their voting preferences

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their voting preferences and the way they primed them was a half of the people got just generic information they had no no emotional content and then they said all right uh who do you vote for then they give them some you know dry unemotional information and then they check later and they say okay now who do you vote for and what what topics do you favor now the people who just got dry boring information had the same opinion afterwards as they had before so you might ask yourself what kind of information could you give somebody that would fairly instantly change their voting preferences is that such a thing and if there was such a thing would it be true in other words could you give somebody information that's unambiguously just true and it instantly changes their voting preferences yup because they did it

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yup because they did it they did it they instantly changed people's voting preferences instantly meaning you know in a few hours they changed people's voting preferences here's the information they gave them they had only white voters so they started with just a white group of voters and they gave them the information that white people were becoming a minority in the united states which is you know factually true in the sense that the population of white people is dipping below 50 percent of the total population having primed a bunch of people who were voting sort of left-leaning ways people who were let's say
say against the wall once they were told that their group was the implication is threatened because well your power is going to be decreased because now you're you're going to be under 50 and shrinking as soon as white people

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and shrinking as soon as white people were told that their power was decreasing their numbers were no longer a majority they voted conservative suddenly they wanted a wall suddenly they voted for a whole range of conservative things that two hours earlier they wouldn't have voted for instant change now remember i've told you that persuasion you know is not all equal there are some things far more persuasive than other things facts are usually not persuasive but fear is fear is persuasive in fact nothing is more persuasive than fear so the way the information was presented to this these groups of white people in the experiment was that they were there there was some kind something to be afraid of and i believe they tried to see if they could soften it
it by just changing the way they described the same set of facts so if they describe the set of facts of

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so if they describe the set of facts of hey you know white people are becoming a minority what if they softened it and said but it won't make any difference to your life because what matters is education level and the the non-white population is you know far more educated than it's ever been before and improving every day they've got good jobs everything's going to be great melting pot we're good so they can actually keep the votes the way they were originally left leaning simply by the way they described a fact if they described it just objectively people were scared to death and they voted accordingly and if they fixed the data by couching it and ah don't worry about this you know there's nothing to worry about their votes didn't change somebody says as a master persuader you are not surprised no i was not surprised that a fear that is this direct would have an impact

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that is this direct would have an impact i
i i was a little surprised although i shouldn't have been because the book pre-suasion um says this pretty much exactly that that the entire range of conservative opinions changed things that had nothing to do with being you know white or not white even those things ended up being influenced so that was a even more dramatic than i would have expected i think even though the science suggests that that would be the case
somebody says the left doesn't want a melting pot in unity they want destruction and division well i would not align with that i don't i don't think that anybody wants destruction what they want is what comes after the you know the rebuilding um or they're just angry and they're just jealous they're just they just are full of hate

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they're just they just are full of hate and i think that explains it better
there's videos of black antifa beating up white antifa members all right well i'm sure there will be more infighting among the protesters
yes did you all see the the crenshaw ad so representative uh crenshaw of texas um did uh did a campaign ad that is such high production values it looks like a a trailer for a bad action movie now they did it kind of campy so they weren't trying to make it look too serious it was all tongue-in-cheek but man was a high production value it's probably one of the best campaign ads you'll ever see just in terms of quality of production and stuff and it did make you feel good you actually felt something when you watched it
it and you liked all the people in it it

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and you liked all the people in it it made you like them and it was good it was a little awkward uh with the male female part of how they handled it the the problem that they had when they made the video apparently is that it started out with several ex-military people who were running as republicans and and they were men so the men who were first introduced were ex-military and so you know they were they were presented as awesome fighters and stuff but there were two women that they wanted to include part of the republican family of candidates who did not have military experience so they they tried to make them seem awesome too it was a little cringe-worthy but they did the best they could still i would say that uh i i would say that they did a great job on it it was very fun and it was very viral so they i think they had all the right

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they had all the right he had all the right notes um yes my i'm hearing from a number of people who really liked my uh hold my beer video that jack murphy was tweeting the other day i'm surprised that that didn't get wider play because the people who saw it seem to like a lot by the way i'm getting lots of ideas from people who are suggesting things about my idea for a small but awesome house i will remind you that my idea for building a small cheap inexpensive dwelling for people is only i'm only interested if it's cheaper and better than regular houses if it's just cheaper but way worse i have no interest in it so
so don't send me anything like that i don't care about these little small homes i don't care about factory-built homes none of that is interesting to me because they're not better they're just cheaper it's got to be cheaper and better i

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it's got to be cheaper and better i think we can get there all right um how to break the news silo somebody says pop music says well i don't know that you can if i could come up with a way i would i would certainly do it i've been asked often as you might imagine how can you how can you beat um trump derangement syndrome you know how how do you unprogram somebody and i think the answer is you really can't do it unless you're one on one if you give me somebody one-on-one i i could work on them and maybe i could convert one person if i spend all afternoon but i don't know if there's a mass way to do it except that that pbs experiment i told you
you the pbs experiment would change your vote well i don't know if it would cure your tds

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somebody says dwell magazine has some great designs for small structures no they don't so that's what i was warning you about if you look in dwell magazine or pretty much any place that talks about smaller structures they're just worse they're just worse it's got to be better than a regular house it's got to be better that's the only thing i'm interested in and there's no reason it can't be all right uh yes the amy comey barrett announcement if she's the one starting to sound like she will be one
oh somebody says that the tiny home pickup truck idea rests on sips sips that are structurally integrated panels so they're like big chunks of things that you can easily build things with i just saw an australian company somebody sent me on linkedin a link to a company that builds walls and solar panels so they frame it with a metal structure

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so they frame it with a metal structure and i guess the metal structure parts two people can assemble themselves but the outside of the home is mostly solar panels and they actually figured out how to make solar panels wait for this this is cool plywood now costs more than a solar panel so if you had a choice of making making your home with a wall of plywood or just using a solar panel that wasn't even hooked up to the grid the solar panel would be cheaper the for the same physical square footage a solar panel is cheaper than plywood now that was the claim i just read from a company that's making these things and they figured out how to get the solar panels uh structurally hard enough using the metal backing the metal frame that they just build the outside of the wall with with the solar panels so i'm not sure if that idea is less expensive but it's interesting

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expensive but it's interesting all right that's all i got for now i'll talk to you tomorrow