Episode 1136 Scott Adams: Debate Strategy, Divide up the Country, ACB, Vitamin D, Black America Plan

Date: 2020-09-26 | Duration: 1:09:54

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• Biden debate options, possibilities

• A “color revolution” in process…in America?

• Amy Coney Barrett expectations

• Bill Maher ponders “rounding up” Republicans

• Whiteboard: Luck

• Joe Biden’s offensive “stupid bastards” remark

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hey how's it going come on in does it seem like i'm a little bit late that's because i'm preparing i have to get my whiteboard ready because i know how much you like your white your whiteboard lessons so that's kevin up
up yeah this is the best part of the day it's going to be pretty good it's going to be off the hook and all you need to enjoy it to its maximum potential is is what i think you know all you need is a
a copper mug or a glass of tank or chalice or stein i can't juggle flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and you can see the world improving with every delicious taste go

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mmm let me tell you about a discovery i made recently i was trying to cut down on my coffee uh well my caffeine content and i found that if you add hot water to coffee so that it's half just hot water and half coffee instead of tasting like bad watered down coffee it turns into a different kind of beverage it just tastes like coffee flavored warm beverage you'd think it would be terrible but it's delicious and i can drink more coffee that way so it works has joe biden declared a lid yet has anybody heard from him because i think this is just about the time he wakes up and jill biden goes in and shakes them a little bit and says joe do you know where you are what's your name and if he says uh i think i'm i'm joe

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and if he says uh i think i'm i'm joe biden and i'm in my basement and if he gets the right answer then she talks to the campaign and she says he's good to go put him on zoom quick quick before he loses it so that's what's going on um we're watching uh as spotify employees are apparently threatening to strike over uh wanting to have control over joe rogan's content so so joe rogan gets this you know enormous uh payday going over to spotify and you you would assume that part of the negotiations for that deal is some kind of agreement about who has editorial control
well the employees of spotify who are probably not personally negotiating that deal have decided that they can't possibly abide by all that free speech that doesn't agree with them

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agree with them and so they might go on strike oh my god
my smartest democratic friend who i mention often because i like to give you an update on me trying to convince him out of his tds so here's the funniest thing that happened so this week as you know the additional uh emails came out about the the the whole investigation into the russia collusion thing and there were uh we got some new information about uh also hunter biden and we got information about uh ukraine and how hunter biden had taken money from our you know a billionaire russian the ex-wife of the moscow mayor so obviously pretty close to putin so i was thinking to myself i can't wait

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so i was thinking to myself i can't wait i can't wait to hear what my smartest democratic friend says because once this information about hunter biden comes out you're just gonna have to admit that there's a problem with joe biden because now that it's clear he knew what was going on that part we know from the new documentation so joe biden was aware of these concerns about his son as far as we know there's no there's no specific crime that is alleged and i'm not alleging that either it's just that it's really really swampy and so i thought to myself this is going to be good what in the world is my smartest democratic friend going to say that could possibly explain away joe biden's connection to this swampy stuff and so he emailed me and said well looks like the new york times has looked into this and there's nothing to worry about

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what what and so i looked at the article and sure enough the new york times had decided that all the new information about hunter biden is not illegal so we're good here right
how in the world how in the world do we go from from a trump has these russian connections and it's the end of the world all the way to the other side where well it turns out that hunter biden and by extension you know through the family blackmail connection it looks like uh joe biden's got a russia problem which doesn't matter now suddenly no that's it's not technically illegal so why are you even bringing it up so to watch the uh mental machinations of people trying to trying to understand their world is pretty funny all right i saw some experts giving some

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all right i saw some experts giving some debate strategy advice and i would agree with the following advice that the more president trump can tie every topic to the economy the better he looks because the economy is his strong is the strongest topic so i would agree that any time the president can say well let's bring it over to the economy he's going to he's going to be winning and you can do that with almost everything let's say the topic is health care the president will say yes i've done this to lower drug prices i've done this to allow you know telemedicine across state lines which should have you know a good effect on things we're doing this and that to increase you know the market and these are things that are going to be good for the economy and that works so you could talk about climate change well we got to get the economy right to to be able to deal with the climate change

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change you could do it with coronavirus you know it's not just about the you know the direct deaths it's also about the economy i think he can tie just about everything to the economy and the things that he can't are things that people have already made their mind up about you know the supreme court picks for example there's not much you can do about that republicans are going to like it democrats are not going to like it but there's not much to debate it's just it's going to be what it is so i think the president's got a real strong play there just tie everything to the economy any way you can and he's going to look pretty good now do you think we're going to make it all the way to tuesday and have that debate what do you think if you had to put the odds on it today is joe biden going to make it to tuesday and have a debate here's what i would be looking for if joe biden is not going to debate on tuesday this

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is not going to debate on tuesday this would be the tell there would be a lid on joe biden all the way through tuesday if you see a if you see a lid on biden that just clamps it down from today all the way through tuesday he's probably not going to debate because that would be sort of the tell that there that something else is going to happen that you know they have to replace him or they're going to say well we need some time out or you know maybe we don't debate as of yesterday nancy pelosi was still saying he was still she was still saying that biden shouldn't debate so you know that at the highest level of the democrat party they are not too happy about the idea of him debating so we'll see i would say uh if you were to put the odds on it as of today the odds of him making it to tuesday being on stage and debating are greater than 50 percent probably

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are greater than 50 percent probably certainly greater than 50 percent wouldn't you say yeah he can always say he's prepping so he'll always have a cover story but if he if he puts the lid on for three days i i just think that would be a tell that they they have something else planned i would say there's a maybe a 70 to 80 percent chance at this point he'll make it to the debate stage it could be that the democrats uh have decided that he might get through a debate now a perfect situation would be he gets through one debate doesn't do too badly you know you know takes a few punches but basically survives the debate what would be the smartest thing for the biden campaign to do if he survives one debate you already know the answer if he survives one debate he's definitely going to cancel the rest of them

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them because if he survives one then it can be said that he can debate they can make the case but it would be crazy it would just be crazy for them to let him have more than one if the first one goes okay if it even just goes a little bit okay you've got to cancel the rest of them and it would be easy to do they would just say well look at what president trump did in the first debate all he did was lie so what would be the point of having another debate when all he's going to do is lie so it would be easy they just say we did one debate we're good now let's say they do one debate and he just falls apart what happens then well then the democrats just go ahead and replace him and they say you know okay we see it now so we're going to make a quick change it's going to be kamala probably top of the ticket everything's the same

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top of the ticket everything's the same kamala biden you get the same package there's no real difference biden picked kamala as the vice president because they have so much in common if you think about it nothing's really changed all you did is change the name and we've been calling it harris biden take it anyway it's not that big a change don't worry about it after the election biden will you know be replaced or something maybe before or maybe after so i think what will happen here would be my best guess i think the democrats are going to roll the dice roll the yeah does it die roll the dice on one debate i think it's a one debate bet if it doesn't go well boom they switch the ticket if it does go well they cancel the rest of the debates and try to ride it that's what i would do all right um it's starting to look as if everyone except the trump campaign

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as if everyone except the trump campaign colluded with russia in 2016. because the more we find out about what the steele dossier was up to and the more we find out about what hunter biden was up to everything looks like they were all colluding with russia because the hunter biden connection with the money coming in from a russian oligarch and and of course the steele dossier apparently was put together by a an alleged uh russian asset was a was a major sub source for the uh for the steele dossier now given that brennan knew that how is that not colluding with russia if if you're literally working with russia on a common goal to overthrow the united states which is the allegation against brennan how is that not colluding now you could say well the

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colluding now you could say well the person we talked to wasn't necessarily having a conversation with putin that week it might be just a russian but i don't know if that's a thing because the person that he was dealing with for information anyway was a suspected russian asset which means he would have connection to the top
top indirectly so given that we we have this new model of the world that if if you accuse somebody of something first and it turns out you're the one who was the doing it people get exhausted by the original accusation and then when the truth comes out oh no the person you you accused was innocent all the time completely innocent but you the accuser were actually doing that crime like crazy somehow it doesn't hurt them because we are so easily uh rewired or we're we're so easily

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rewired or we're we're so easily you know we buy into the first story we hear that if the first story is that you're accusing somebody of something they can't even see you as the as a perpetrator for example let's say you wanted to murder somebody this is what we've learned instead of just going out and murdering them you want to set the stage first so prior to murdering somebody you should publicly accuse the person you plan to kill of being a murderer and and you sell that and the person will be like what are you talking about i'm not murdering anybody i'm just a innocent citizen no no no you're a murderer and you get everybody to believe that they're a murderer and then you murder them and people will have a hard time understanding because it will be too much of a leap to go all the way from wait a minute are you saying that the the murderer was

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the murderer was was actually the one you murdered i i can't hold that in my head it's too much of a leap i can't be that wrong about something cognitive this and dissonance has just put up a wall i cannot see this new truth that you just murdered this innocent person i just can't even see it my brain doesn't register it because i'm still invested in the fact that the person you murdered i believed was a murderer
so if you don't think that's real then you need to look into brains a little bit more because that is real whoever accuses first has that permanent advantage and it's it's hard to you know erase a first impression
on tucker carlson the other the other night he had an expert talking about how the united states is experiencing a quote color revolution i don't know all the details about what this quote color revolution is but the idea

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quote color revolution is but the idea is that we have people in the united states who working for intelligence agencies in the past have fomented revolution in other countries intentionally and they did it by simply sowing chaos about the election process so if you can get the citizenry to not trust the election process then you can have an actual revolution because you know the system will break down the allegation is that the same people literally the same people the actual same people who did this professionally overseas to other countries are literally specifically and even publicly doing it right here right now and that and that there's a an active color revolution being perpetrated in this country by the book publicly obviously while we watch it right in front of us

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while we watch it right in front of us by the same people who are experts at doing this thing now do you believe that does that sound like something you believe here's my problem with it i don't know what they would think is their end game if you're if you're fermenting revolution in another country your end game is the revolution you just want to weaken that other country and if you can get a new regime and that's friendly to your country well that would be an advantage but you don't really care that much if that other country just falls apart because it's not your country right so if you do a color revolution in another country and it just goes to hell well it wasn't your country so that's the kind of risk you could take with somebody else's country but would you take this risk with your own country would you would you literally cause a a violent probably to be violence a

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a violent probably to be violence a violent revolution in your own country thinking that would work out who exactly would be smart enough to work in an intel intel organization and also think that you could have a violent revolution in the united states and that that would work out pretty well i i have trouble understanding how this plan makes sense so which doesn't mean it's not happening i just don't understand it
um lanny davis noted republic i'm sorry a noted democrat lenny davis he tweeted this dear red states we're leaving we've decided we're leaving we intend to form our own country we're taking the other blue states with us that includes hawaii oregon california new mexico washington minnesota wisconsin blah blah

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and i saw that and i don't think he's you i don't think that is a literal statement i think is more of a hyperbolic sort of thing you say during the election period but i have to say it's not a bad idea it's not a bad idea to at least test it here's what i would love to see president trump do he won't do this so that this would not be something you'd expect president trump to do but if i were president this is what i would do i would say the black lives matter and all the people who were unhappy with systemic racism i would say how about this we don't know exactly what you want we don't know exactly how to fix it but we we would love to give you a plot of land we'll find a place in some state that's friendly to this idea and create effectively like a native american reservation where you'll just have your own rules and we'll let you run things the way you

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and we'll let you run things the way you think things should be run and you can just build your own society you can take donations from soros or whoever you want to take donations from there would be plenty of people who would donate and just try to build a functioning non-systemic racist society that is along the model that you would like to see for the rest of the country if it works maybe we'll take the good parts and try to expand it to the country if you find some parts of it don't work well then we won't expand those parts to the rest of the country but why don't you take take some land and just go do what you want now what would happen would that actually happen would anybody say whoa that is a pretty progressive idea you know no matter what your plan is it does make sense to test it first and what an opportunity the the united states is so open-minded they're going to let us have our own land and just test our

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have our own land and just test our ideas and make this work we're all in do you think that'll happen no
no no because everything we've learned so far
far is there doesn't seem to be anybody involved with at least the leadership of the movement who is interested in solutions they're not
not interested in solutions if they were everything would look different people who are interested in solutions do do things like the following hey can we have a meeting our people have some ideas we want to bounce them off of you we'll really float these up see what people think maybe get a budget for this see what we can do are you seeing that no no you're not you see crazy stuff like defund the police but we don't know exactly what that means you see we've got to get rid of institutional racism whatever that is whatever it means to the person talking we we have to tear down the system we've

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we we have to tear down the system we've got to burn it all down what does any of that mean anybody who is working on solutions it would look really really obvious what that looked like you couldn't miss it it would be people with actual plans actual suggestions that were pretty specific hey how about this law how about this budget how about this area does this differently how about we train police in a different way that's what it would look like there's nothing like that happening so i think you would you would expose their movement for what it is by just giving them what they want and and go to the high ground and say we're going to give you everything you want but obviously obviously you're going to test it first because that's the way you would do anything there's nothing you wouldn't test first if you could right just common sense so give them what they want and the whole thing would fall apart that's a persuasion trick by the way the persuasion trick is instead of

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the persuasion trick is instead of arguing with people who appear to be irrational or maybe they're lying about what they want either way it looks the same instead of arguing with them that doesn't work if they're irrational you can't argue with them and if they're lying about their true motives you can't argue with that either because they'll just keep lying so the thing you can do is agree with them and offer to give them what they're asking for and in the process of trying to accept everything they're asking for it will become obvious it wasn't real so it's one way to solve it the big news of course is amy coney barrett who i love the fact that the public is deciding to call her acb now you think of aoc when you think of acb
acb and i think these three named people need to be initials but there's something that happens when somebody gets a three-letter initial

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a three-letter initial be it to aoc be it jfk be it lbj or be it be it anybody else mlk i guess anybody who gets a three letter initial or
or and uh rbg as well anybody who gets an initial three initial name is more important you you don't think that should be the case right and you say to yourself well just having a cool nickname doesn't really make you more than you were but it does this is one of the things that i learned years ago in college so in college some of us got nicknames i was one of them my college roommate was big on giving people their name names so here's one guy who'd assigned everybody their nickname it was it was your nickname all the way through college it was like a superpower he had to give you a nickname to stuck sort of trump-like and he gave me the

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sort of trump-like and he gave me the nickname w just the letter w because i once wore a shirt that a big w on it for my school that i grew up on wyndham was the name of the town and and so for four years of college my nickname was w and there were people i knew pretty well who had no idea what my name was because i was just w and there were other people who had names there was a there was a guy called the kewl sure for a molecule because he would get so high that he called it getting small so he was just the molecule and then the cule and what happened was that the people who had cool nicknames actually came to be seen as a little bit cooler now this might have been my imagination you know it's subjective of course but it seemed to me that when people got a nickname they they elevated to a level of just sort of an icon that's the wrong word i don't

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an icon that's the wrong word i don't know that you became something like a symbol or something so there is something powerful about these initial nicknames they tend to go to people who have some higher level of importance all right so the big story is that she's a member of this people at brain is a charismatic covenant community so it's they're they're catholic or catholic catholic friendly or catholic leaning or mostly catholic or something but they have some interesting views that includes allegedly and i'm going to put a a really big legend on this because i'm very skeptical that this is happening currently it could be that they're being blamed or painted with something that used to happen but doesn't anymore because i'm not entirely entirely believing that they speak in tongues do you think that whatever place of worship that

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whatever place of worship that acb goes to with her family do you think they actually speak in tongues you know while she's there at the service i'm guessing not which doesn't mean that some part of the organization has never done that or doesn't do it but i'm kind of guessing probably not if i had to put money on it i'd say something like i feel like that's 70 chance she's never been in a room where that happened i could be wrong somebody says lid did the lid get is there a lid now it does make sense if you get at least one one more lid before tuesday or two but if
if if it's all lit if it's lit all the way to tuesday that means something all right so i don't know how real this stuff is but uh it's gonna be the big topic now here's the beauty of it as uh i think it was uh uh tim young pointed this out on

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uh uh tim young pointed this out on twitter he said uh every time a democrat calls uh
uh amy coney barrett a cult member which is what they're calling her thousands of undefense catholics turn into trump voters and i think that's got to be true i if you're if you're a practicing catholic and you hear the democrats call somebody who also was associated with catholicism if you hear them call her a cult member are you going to say to yourself oh no no that's the different kind you know she's she's over there doing speaking in tongues so that's that's a different kind so yeah maybe that's a cult not me i'm just a regular catholic so that doesn't affect me i don't think people are wired that way i think if she's called the catholic and you happen to be called a catholic and somebody is making fun of that other kind of catholic you don't shade it and say oh that's not me that's a different kind of catholic i feel as if you're going to take that

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i feel as if you're going to take that personally if you're a normal human being you're going to take it personally so the the beauty of trump's trap is that the more they complain about her the more votes he gets i think i think is pretty direct
here's the most fun part of uh of the allegations against acb's religion is that uh quote one of its most notable features is the submissive role played by women some of whom were called to quote handmaids at least until the handmaid's tale aired in 2017 at that point they started referring to them as women leaders [Laughter] they're women leaders now do you think that the phrase women leaders suggest submissive handmaids

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handmaids i got a feeling that we don't quite have the full story of what was going on there because i don't know how you would take somebody that your own religion considers to use their words submissive and that you just rename them leaders and it's like oh it's okay we just rename them leaders still submissive but we're just going to call them leaders i don't know if that's what's going on it feels more like if i had to guess and this is just a guess pure speculation that if you dug into this a little bit you would find that whoever whoever labeled their belief as a belief that women are submissive i think you'd find maybe that's just not the case i think you would find that that if submissive is even part of the belief it may be in some specific way i don't think it means in life in

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i don't think it means in life in general so i got a feeling that we don't know what's going on there but here's my take on this suppose the left goes after her for this allegation however true it is we don't know and suppose they say hey we object to her
her in part because she's she she has a belief that women should be submissive what to their husbands maybe maybe that's the context whatever it is and again you should be really skeptical about any of this i don't know what the odds are that any of this is true but let's just talk it through let's say what if it is isn't that a sort of an lgbtq problem because wouldn't it simply be a lifestyle preference if true don't know if it is but if true that it was her preference or other people in the in the religious group that they would

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in the religious group that they would be
be and i hate to use the word because i think it's inaccurate but submissive to their husbands isn't that just a lifestyle choice why is that anybody's business because i don't believe they're saying that you and i should change what we're doing i don't believe they've ever gotten in my face and said scott you need to change what you're doing doesn't bother me so if there's somebody who in their private life has a personal way of relating to somebody that's different than yours how is that a problem and shouldn't you be the open-minded people who say hey sexuality is a is a you know big continuum or rainbow which is my belief i believe my belief is is that every everybody is so different that you know grouping people into these arbitrary categories is is is suboptimal so i'm i'm as pro lgbtq as anybody could ever be i'm super

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lgbtq as anybody could ever be i'm super pro
pro lgbtq i'm extra i'm extra pro lgbtq the more the better but it feels to me like although this is not a sexual preference that it's in that that area where it should just be a personal choice why is that anybody's business uh bill maher is making news again by uh i don't know why this is news he's the most famous uh celebrity atheist in the world so he said some biting things about her religious beliefs is that a surprise that he said that here's what i would like since everybody has worked up about president trump saying that he would not guarantee a peaceful transfer of power has anybody asked the democratic leaders if they would commit to a peaceful continuance of the trump administration should he win election how has that never been asked as soon as you hear it

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never been asked as soon as you hear it you know i tweeted this this morning the moment you hear this doesn't your brain say uh yeah that's missing nobody's asked pelosi can you commit to a peaceful continuance of the trump administration should he win the election that's a fair question should should they be asking biden should they be asking kamala harris should they be asking chuck schumer yeah you should ask every one of those people to get on record would you support and commit to a peaceful continuance of the administration should they win nobody's asking if you have if you don't see that asked by today by the end of today because you know there's always a democrat floating around you can ask this question it's sunday the notes what is today saturday so you can certainly ask the question if you don't see that you should just assume there's no such thing as news

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assume there's no such thing as news anymore that it's just so broken that you should forget about it um let me do my uh impression of chuck schumer uh is it my imagination or is chuck schumer the worst public speaker you've ever seen for a politician i don't know if i've ever seen a worse public speaker how in the world does he get his you know leadership job by being the worst public speaker let me give you an impression of chuck schumer giving a public statement glasses down like this and president trump he is continuing to do
do bad things and bad things are done by the president because of his badness and his meanness and
and he doesn't believe in freedom he hates people he would like to destroy the economy

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the economy for selfish narcissistic reasons and my my god how does somebody like that become a leader literally all he does is read and he doesn't even read sincerely he doesn't even read sincerely if you look at prominent politicians in either party would you say that aoc whether you disagree with her or agree with her doesn't she look and come off as being sincere i would say so she looks sincere to me that doesn't mean she is but in terms of how she presents herself looks sincere does president trump look sincere yeah he does does vice president pence seem sincere when he speaks in public totally he seems 100 sincere again you don't know what people are thinking internally but they certainly present themselves as sincere how about most of the

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as sincere how about most of the politicians you see talking on television do most of them look sincere a lot of them do some don't but i've never seen anybody who looked intentionally insincere before schumer actually looks like he's not pretending to be serious he looks with that with that smirk that he always has he looks like i'm not even pretending that this is real and i feel like it's disrespectful to me as a citizen that you wouldn't pretend you mean what you're saying at least pretend you believe it don't ask me to listen to it if you're not even going to pretend you believe in yourself and i don't think he pretends he believes it it is a weird look
pelosi is kind of a hybrid she she does a little bit better job of acting sincere but the things she says are so ridiculous lately that you know they're

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ridiculous lately that you know they're not
not um so that's different all right um
here's uh here's a question was it uh bill maher who asked this of bernie sanders listen to this question in the best possible world biden wins and eat and takes office and then bill maher asks what do we do with these republicans ones who showed that when it mattered that they were willing to cast aside democracy that's pretty chilling isn't it what are we
we what are we going to do with them what do you mean what are you going to do with them how about you don't do anything with them how about you go about your business how about you be happy if your team won you form a government and you try to run the country how about you don't round up the republicans and punish them how about if you were to do that that would be the end of the republic

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would be the end of the republic because let me tell you if conservatives or republicans start getting rounded up and punished because this question is what do we do with them how do you interpret what do we do with them other than there would be some active measures to do something what send us to uyghur re-education camps what exactly does that look like so i think that is a little bit chilling i would remind you that i think there's no chance that the country will be ripped apart and that we won't exist in 2021. by 2021 may or may not be by you know the end of january but certainly in 2021 we'll have an actual president we'll still have a country and we're going to be kicking ass with the economy so it's going to be fine you know the you're feeling about whether there's going to be a revolution or you know violence in the streets and all that there will be violence in the streets

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streets but there is now it probably won't be that different than every single tuesday there's just violence in the streets every day now it doesn't but that's that's sort of the new normal but we will be fine but uh and the reason it seems more dangerous it's just that the the emotions are elevated for election period um what would be the point of holding hearings for acb and the the supreme court confirmation in normal times it's a good process because you want to make sure you've vetted the candidates you want to you want to give the public some credibility to say that okay all the people who really know what they're talking about both left and right have looked at this candidate they've wrestled with it they've you know they've pushed all the the buttons and kicked all the tires under in a normal situation it's a good process i have my favorite of it but this is not

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i have my favorite of it but this is not a normal situation the democrats have uh they have broadcast that they don't plan to treat it seriously haven't they just fact check me on this has the democrats not broadcast in the clearest possible terms that they don't have any intention of treating this in a legitimate manner they just want to stop it and make a political point now under those conditions i would apply the
the the bill bar rule you know bill barr agreed to testify to congress and then they didn't let him talk they kept reclaiming their time so when when the additional people were requested by nadler to go to the uh go to congress and testify the department of justice said no because you've now signaled so clearly that you don't take the process seriously it would be absurd for us to be involved in something that

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for us to be involved in something that you've already told us won't be a serious process if there was some hope it would be serious if there was some remote chance something good could come out of it for the country even for us oh we might do it but now that you've told us in no uncertain terms that you're not going to be serious about this it's just going to be a stunt why would we why would we show up likewise with the supreme court stuff given that the votes are there to confirm her given that she was recently vetted for her you know the job that she has um it would be just foolish to hold hearings so lindsey graham uh i think he's still planning to hold hearings um if you do you should at least keep the option open of closing down the hearings right away if it doesn't work because i don't want to waste time there's nothing to be gained as as a citizen there's just nothing to be gained by that process just vote on it get it over with all right it could be an advantage to the

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right it could be an advantage to the president though to drag it down a little bit he might like the fight the daily mail and of britain is reporting that boston university researchers found that coveted patients who had sufficient levels of vitamin d were about 52 percent less likely to die after hospitalization so we have yet another study now this is not one of those randomized controlled studies this is another one of those they just look at the data of things that have already happened so it's not it's not that gold standard kind that you would like to really really know that you know what you're talking about so we haven't reached that level of certainty and i and i worry a little bit about cause and effect because it could be that people who are in a weakened state also have less vitamin d and it's just a coincidence so there just could be a coincidence well we don't have what would be better

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well we don't have what would be better would be we treated this group with vitamin d and this group we didn't and we got a different result that would be better if it were randomized and controlled it would be better anyway at about 42 percent of americans are vitamin d deficient now given that we do know that vitamin d is unambiguously good for you and even if it didn't help you with coronavirus we could all agree you know science agrees there's no debate about it really vitamin d is good so the question was asked why is fauci not pushing vitamin d like crazy shouldn't we be pushing vitamin d like crazy is there anybody who is not taking vitamin d i think vitamin d supplements every day and
and and when it's not so smoky in california that i can't go outside i also go outside every day to make sure i get a little bit of sun with my sunscreen on etc
etc but i feel as if the government should

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but i feel as if the government should be pushing vitamin d and i feel like that's a mistake that it's not happening because it's all upside no downsides except i guess you could overdose on it if you went too far in helsinki they're testing cove into sniffing dogs you've heard about this before but apparently it seems to be working at least the early indications so the dog will just go up and sniff you and it can tell even before you have symptoms apparently it can tell if you have covent dogs are unlikely to get covered so they can it's a little safer for them to be sniffing i guess cats have a bigger problem with it than dogs they can get it but not as often so here's the question i asked to you could science make something that smells like coven but isn't dangerous and if they could make something that smells like covent but isn't dangerous could they

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but isn't dangerous could they distribute it to everybody who has a dog to train their dog because i can train my dog i think i mean i i don't know how sensitive the dog's nose has to be but i'm guessing probably most dogs could do it you know i know some dogs like bloodhounds are extra extra good at smelling but all dogs are pretty good at smelling if you could give me a little a little smell tab that smelled like covet to a dog it wouldn't smell like anything to me if i could train my dog with that i think we'd be three weeks away from uh getting rid of coronavirus because there are enough people with dogs who can trade a dog right how hard would it be to train a dog that gets a treat when they smell one thing and not another it would be the easiest thing in the world i could train my dog to sniff it i'm pretty sure and she's not like the the genius dog of dogs

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somebody says didn't i predict this i remember talking about it but i believe i read about it as a possibility before i predicted it i i would take credit for it if i thought i deserved it
boston dynamics a robot making company they make that robot dog that looks so creepy have you seen it it's like this four-legged walking robot dog that is just so scary it's crazy but apparently now they're they're going into production and for 75 000 you can have your own robot dog called a spot and if you don't think this stuff's gonna change everything you gotta you got a new thing coming because these this robot is gonna change everything i mean you could just drop these into dangerous neighborhoods and well i suppose they'd get
get torn apart they'd probably get broken pretty quickly here's a fact you probably didn't know i'll just throw this in here as a fun fact did you know that the organizer of the

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did you know that the organizer of the charlottesville tiki torch racist march named richard spencer did you know that he endorses joe biden that's right joe biden's primary claim is that president trump was sort of favorable to these racists in charlottesville but the guy who organized it richard spencer has publicly endorsed joe biden now does it mean anything does it mean that joe biden is a racist because a racist endorsed him no it doesn't work that way nor does it work that way if some racist endorses president trump it doesn't make the rest of his followers racist and it doesn't make trump racist it doesn't work that way people endorsing you don't turn you into them that's not a thing but it's fun to note that the the biggest racist in the country at

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the biggest racist in the country at least the one who's made the most trouble recently endorses biden so take that for what it's worth here's a question for you is the phrase african-american done it's over isn't it i had been using the phrase just out of respect because i like to use any name that any group wants to be called so whether you are an individual or a member of a group if you have a preferred name that you want to be called i'm all in right no reason to make people mad if somebody has a preferred name and there's another name that makes them unhappy don't use the unhappy one use the one that makes them happy right we're all trying to be in this country together so i'm a big fan of using words that make people comfortable um but it seems to me that because of black lives matter and and that phrase becoming the dominant phrase black lives matter that it's not african american lives matter

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american lives matter they don't do it that way it seems to me that plus the fact that recently there was a decision to capitalize the b in black by a number of publications which i also agree with by the way i agree with that as a as an author i think capitalizing the b in black adds a little clarity to sentences calls it out a little bit you know as long as you do the same thing with the w and white i think it's just more clear it's better writing so i'm in favor of that as well but it seems to me that that black is now just the acceptable common word everybody agree can we agree from today on that the um the african-american is just unnecessary and it is no longer a
a term of respect because the word black and if you write it capital b is equal maybe better i don't know is it better or equal

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or equal [Music] but in any case i'm i think going forward i'm going to discontinue the phrase african america in american in favor of black if if there's anybody black who has an objection to that let me know let me know because i would listen to that [Music] here's a question for you that nobody asks you know i talk about thinking past the sale there's there's a gigantic thinking past the sale that's happening now and it goes like this
in this world there are people who have bad luck they're just born that way and it never gets better you're just born into a bad situation and you're you're just having bad luck your whole life there are other people who are just born with everything they're they're born rich they're born healthy they're born handsome good looking beautiful just all good but suppose you're here

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just all good but suppose you're here you're you don't have great luck you don't have the worst luck but let's say you have a health problem your parents are over alcoholics you're you know you've got ptsd you've got some serious problems and they're not your fault things you were born with let's say you're you've got a physical disability there was an accident you went to war you got injured it could be just you know hundreds of different things that would all fit into the category of bad luck the proposition that we're being given is that this person with the bad luck if they were white would owe this person who has slightly worse luck some some money or reparations or some kind of consideration or that the person who is not you has a preferred problem that there's there's such a thing

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there's such a thing as a a kind of bad luck that's the worst kind now let's say you had the legacy of slavery that ripples through time you find yourself in a bad neighborhood there's crime and bad education all kinds of problems there do you have a thing called bad luck yeah you do yeah you do that sounds pretty bad luck to me if if if racism and slavery is still affecting you you know hundreds of years later and and you still haven't climbed out of it and you've always been behind the behind the uh the eight ball or whatever yeah that's bad luck but why is your bad luck a preferred bad luck now not talking about myself right so don't put me in the conversation because i'm kind of over here at the moment things are pretty good so you know i'm i'm in a good place i'm not
not not complaining but there are a lot of

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not complaining but there are a lot of you who are watching this who are not not black who just didn't have a good life things went wrong why is it that you're just an right but if you're over here and you've got bad luck and it has a specific flavor of bad luck it came from slavery there's still systemic racism etc and that's the the nature of your bad luck why is yours favored what why if i'm over here as a good luck person why why should i transfer some wealth and attention to somebody who's in the same neighborhood of bad luck but i but not you wha what's wrong with you
you why are you the why can't why can't you get helped so the the thinking past the sale is that there's a favored kind of bad luck that some kind of bad luck is the good kind of bad luck

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kind of bad luck and there's another kind of bad luck that's the bad kind of bad luck but that's not a thing if you have bad luck that's it that's the whole story you got bad luck so i think we've been duped into thinking there's a favored kind of bad luck and that's it's quite distorting all right um i i asked uh i asked on twitter yesterday i think i mentioned this i asked people on in my non-scientific twitter poll is there something going on now i just saw my audience drop off there might be something happening in the news
that 92 percent of people who answered my very unscientific poll most of these would probably be trump supporters if they follow me on twitter and 92 of them said they have less empathy for black lives matter in 2020 because of the the protest

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in 2020 because of the the protest 92 percent of them think worse of them how in the world is this working what is it that black lives matter wants if what they wanted was respect they're getting the opposite aren't they they're getting the opposite of their stated intention and it's obvious isn't it it if you were just an obs tried to be an objective observer you know you came from another planet and you didn't have any bias and you're just going to look look at the planet from a distance to say okay how's this strategy going the black lives matter people say they want to they want to be considered you know full full humans i guess would be the the best way to say it you know not considered in any way some kind of a second class citizen a completely legitimate thing to want and i would uh certainly want them to have every bit of that but here's the thing if you looked at what they're doing

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what they're doing isn't what they're doing exactly the opposite of what you would do if your stated goal was to be treated with respect i don't know how you do things that guarantee you will be treated with disrespect while fighting for respect
i just don't understand how that works so all right so i think that's not working now the other thing that is unstated watch me state something that's unstated that makes you uncomfortable are you ready you hear about all these uh these people have decided to move out of the urban areas so people moving away from san francisco people moving out of new york city and whenever we tell this story we always say well it's it's people getting away from crime yeah yeah that's what it is that that is

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yeah that's what it is that that is accurate it is people who want to get away from crime but here's the thing that people aren't saying it is really white people getting away from black people right now i how bad does that sound this sound that sounds as bad as it could possibly be but what other outcome could you imagine would happen if you were a well-off white person living in a city that was on fire every night because black lives matter was protesting would you say to yourself uh i'll stay here probably not you would probably get as far as you could from black lives matter supporters as you could because it doesn't look like they have a solution in mind it doesn't look like there's an end state where you say okay everything will be fine once their demands are addressed we'll be back to normal it doesn't look like that's a possibility it doesn't even look like it's on the table

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even look like it's on the table not even an option so if you're a typical white person living in a city what is your internal mental process you're probably thinking i gotta get as far away from black lives matter supporters as i can and in your mind are you thinking that that also includes you know the antifa and other white allies and protesters maybe but you're probably also thinking that you're getting away from black people so how do we get to this point is that an advantage is it a better world that something like i don't know 40 of white people in the united states are actively thinking how can i get further away from black people because you know that's exactly what's happening that's not good that's just about as bad as things could be so we need to fix that but that's what's happening nobody wants to say that out loud but that's exactly what's happening

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loud but that's exactly what's happening president trump trying to make things better has proposed the 500 billion black america plan which very cleverly uh designated both kkk and antifa as terrorist organizations now in terms of political cleverness this is really good all right the fact that he paired kkk which so many people wanted designated as a terrorist organization i i guess i agree with it in the sense that i wasn't too aware what the kkk was doing in recent years i will assume it's true that they were involved in terrorist things um that i mean it feels like there must be somebody involved in that so i would say that that seems reasonable and most of the country would think that's pretty reasonable to designate the kkk as
as a terrorist organization but the fact that he could throw antifa in there at the same time because

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antifa in there at the same time because now
now these protesters are going to be part black lives matter who have not been designated as domestic terrorists you could argue that some of them should be but they haven't been but they are now marching with domestic terrorists let me ask you this if you're marching with terrorists are you not a terrorist because i'm pretty sure i've been hearing since 2018 that if you quote marched with racists you can't say you're not you're you're not a racist and i completely agree in charlottesville the fine people were not marching with them they were in the same zip code but they had nothing to do with the marchers they were they were a separate group but it is true had those fine people so-called fine people if they had been physically marching with the tiki torch people then i would certainly say oh those are not fine people look at them they're actually literally

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look at them they're actually literally marching with racist chanting racist stuff of course i would condemn them exactly the same as the people who you know maybe have a membership in a racist organization there would be no difference they'd be marching together but now antifa and black lives matter are going to be marching together literally marching actually physically marching every night so the president has just fined people uh he's just fine people antifa and black lives matter he just got away with calling antifa a terrorist organization because he called the kkk a terrorist organization at the same time which kind of makes it all okay right you can't really argue with that as long as it's both who who argues

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so i don't think people quite see the brilliance of this move this is really really smart one of the smartest plays i've ever seen in politics you know because it kind of came out of left field and just suddenly this boom was right there and i was like oh okay that's really good now the another part of this is uh they're making lynching a national hate crime who disagrees who disagrees with lynching being a national hate crime i don't know i don't think anybody disagrees with that well there's always somebody who disagrees but that seems pretty popular if if president trump is this big old racist why is he the one suggesting that lynching be a national hate crime if he's a big old racist why is he the one who just made the kkk a terrorist organization if he is the racist why is he the one who did prison reform why is he the one who supported the historically black colleges with their

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historically black colleges with their funding why is he the one who brags every day about low black unemployment i've got a feeling that trump's black voter numbers are going to be just crazy this might be the biggest shock in the system is the number of black people who are not crazy you know the ones who look at this and say uh you know i like the idea of black lives matter i mean i'm totally down with the philosophy i like everything about that i like that they're fighting for you know people like me i like that a lot
lot but they don't seem to be having an exactly a productive direction with their marxism etc i think you're going to see just a lot of black people say how about we just don't go down that path
all right so part of this is a 500 billion dollar uh capital kind of thing we don't know the details but apparently something to

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the details but apparently something to make capital more available it's all good stuff good political play separately in one poll support for black lives matter demonstrations have fallen from 54 percent three months ago to 39 today that's a big drop so black lives matter is now way underwater at 39 support so now the president has just tagged them with being domestic terrorists because they're marching with domestic terrorists antifa uh i don't think that's going to help him all right um
uh you know i could talk more but i think uh oh let's talk about joe biden and his quote uh so there's a video from 20s i don't know a few years ago 2016 or something where joe biden was talking to the troops and he said quote clap for that you stupid

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he said quote clap for that you stupid bastards so he called the troops stupid bastards to their faces but he was obviously making a joke but it was sort of awkward the way he said it and but is that the kind of joke you make to the troops
i accept that it's a joke and i'm certainly not the guy who's going to argue that a joke's not a joke right because i you know i spend so much time saying did you not realize the president was joking so i'm not going to like you know reverse that just because i'm talking about biden biden was obviously joking but is that the kind of joke that feels right to you right if you uh you can imagine a million kinds of jokes that are definitely jokes and they're just intended as jokes but they're still offensive right is a uh what about a uh an ethnic joke

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is a uh what about a uh an ethnic joke an ethnic joke is a joke but it's really offensive is it okay is it okay because it's a joke no it's not okay because in addition to being a joke it's kind of offensive and i would say that even joking to the troops calling them stupid bastards that's not really as funny as it should be so i would criticize him for um for being awkward and offensive uh accidentally but it was a joke all right gayle king got into uh pelosi a little bit and said that when pelosi calls uh refers to trump and her henchmen that she's just being as as bad as trump is
is and so even gayle king is calling out pelosi's language all right i don't want to go too long today there's so much news so much so much is happening that's all

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so much so much is happening that's all i got for today and um was that the line yeah you could you could google that that's all i got for today and i will talk to you tomorrow