Episode 1137 Scott Adams: Black Strategy Matters, Antifa Wants Trump to Win, Seattle Solves Racism

Date: 2020-09-27 | Duration: 1:08:04

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• 3 key things, Seattle has done to overcome systemic racism

• Ibram X. Kendi…wonderfully provocative

• BLM/Antifa protesters do NOT want Joe Biden to win

• FBI used Russian agent to spy on Trump campaign

• 1,000 Proud Boys and NO major conflicts

• The domestic terrorist group, ironically named Antifa

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turn your phones off ringer's off okay you don't really have to do that because it turns out i wouldn't even be able to hear it if it rang but you might hear mine so i'll turn mine off you know what you need today yeah let me tell you what you need today first of all this is going to be one of the best days ever not for any particular reason it just is you don't need a reason all you need is
is a copper mug or glass a tanker challenger steiner canteen jugger flask of vessel of any kind and fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee enjoy me now for the dopamine hit of the day the unparalleled pleasure the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and i know you came here for it join me now for that delight go

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wow i guess the day going doesn't it everything's starting to turn up look a little better you you started out a little bit slow today but look how much better things are already it happens quickly i saw today that the the company ring that makes the home security they have a new prototype of an indoor drone for security and apparently they'll be they've already made it but they're not selling it yet a little drone that will pop up from its little charging station and do a predetermined route through the air through your uh your home and send you back pictures so you can look at look at what's going on now if that's not cool i guess i don't know what cool is because that got me all excited here's another another little positive trend that is unexpected positivity from the coronavirus tragedy hydroponic farms are doing great

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tragedy hydroponic farms are doing great i have a tiny tiny little investment in a desktop hydroponic company and their their revenue just went crazy because of coronavirus and and what they make is uh it's called click and grow if you're looking for it and they make these little uh desktop garden things that have their own light source and pods and seeds and stuff they're pretty cool but apparently the the full-size farms hydroponic farms just went from well that's a good idea i suppose you could make an indoor farm if you really needed to it it apparently has completely shifted off to we need some hydroponic farms because if our food source gets cut off like it sort of almost did with coronavirus we need a backup plan and having local hydroponic farms is a pretty good way to go so that's

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is a pretty good way to go so that's good news there's some fake news about joe biden today of course he's the gaff maker so when joe biden makes a joke intentionally in the context of so many gaffes sometimes you can't tell but this one is being reported as a gaffe this was clearly him making a joke in which he said in one of his zoom appearances he said uh i got to the senate 180 years ago and uh the the trump campaign tweeted that as a gaffe i don't think it was a gaffe i i'm willing to place a sizable bet that even joe biden knows that he's less than 180 years old so i think he was he was just joking about how long ago it was but things are so crazy that it's reported as well maybe you know he's doing so poorly that

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you know he's doing so poorly that maybe maybe he doesn't know he's less than 180 years old maybe but i think that was a joke here's the funniest tweet i saw yesterday and i'm gonna read you the punchline before i read you the setup that wouldn't make sense until you hear it okay and it's because it's the way i consumed it because twitter shows the shows the tweet the retweet message before the thing that got retweeted so i'm looking through the through the twitter feed yesterday and i see a ted cruz tweet and i did and like you i don't know what he's referring to yet so just consume it the same the same way i did he said you know there are decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty and i read that and i was like what what what kind of message is that a reply to you know there are decaffeinated brands

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you know there are decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty and then i read what he was retweeting and it was elizabeth warren and listen to this word salad that she tweeted this sleazy supreme court double dealing is the last gasp of a corrupt republican leadership numb to its own hypocrisy the last gasp of the billionaire-fueled party that's undemocratically over-represented and desperately clinging to power in order to impose its extremist agenda ted cruz you know there are decaffeinated brands on the market that
you have to admit that's one of the all-time great tweets
here's some good news you know you're all these protests are happening and you're you're thinking to yourself well what good is coming out of all these protests you know you'd like you'd like to think that with all that disruption there's something good coming out of it and i'm here to report finally serious progress against

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finally serious progress against systemic racism and this comes courtesy of the uh of seattle so seattle has uh voted in and approved the following changes thank god because our the long nightmare of systemic racism is finally coming to a close at least in seattle i would imagine a lot of places are going to copy this model because once you hear it what they've done to eliminate systemic racism you're going to say to yourself it's obvious once you hear it until you hear it you say to yourself i don't know it feels like such a big problem i don't even know where to begin but once you see what seattle's done you're going to be slapping yourself in the head and saying why did we not do this before why so here's the three things they've done they've eliminated the police unit that clears homeless camps now i think you know that if you eliminate friction for something it just stops

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friction for something it just stops happening right that's that's the seattle theory is if they stop clearing out these homeless camps things should be good now some people are going to say i know critics are going to say scott if you stop clearing out the homeless camps isn't the guaranteed effect of that to attract more homeless camps to which i say i don't think you understand how systemic racism works you're you're in crazy land no if you stop clearing the homeless camps systemic racism goes away you're thinking about how removing obstacles will make more of something happen such as more homeless people will stream into seattle because it's a good place to be homeless that's just crazy because this will get rid of systemic racism but it's not all you know if that was all that would be pretty amazing but there's more to it

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pretty amazing but there's more to it second thing they've done is they've agreed to cut the command to staff of the police pay they'll still be as many people on the staff apparently or it's a little bit little unclear but it looks like that what they're doing is mostly just cutting the pay of the people who are in charge of making things better for police now i don't have to tell you if you're a student of human nature that one way to get a better result from people and if you really want them to work hard and and give you a good performance cutting their pay that's the way to go so these command staff police officers were being asked to do more with less
they've also been asked to cut their pay and i think that should motivate them in the right direction obviously how else are you going to motivate people other than cutting their pay
pay that just feels obvious after they do it you know until they did this

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you know until they did this honestly i feel dumb but i wouldn't have even thought of this you know i might have thought of the this is how dumb i am i i would have thought you know if you want more out of these people to do a better job better cha better training of their staff etc i would be i would have been thinking in terms of getting better people and paying them more to get more performance but i think seattle's on the right track here just cut their pay that should make them work harder and have better morale and so you should get better results then they're also going to reduce 100 officers now if you want to make your city better take the thing that holds it together law and order and get rid of that because the law and order was becoming sort of a trojan horse if you will for racism a lot of people wouldn't realize that you probably think to yourself

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probably think to yourself law and order wait a minute isn't that good for black people and white people and brown people and people of all types is there somebody for whom a an active police force that is pursuing law and order is there is there some demographic group for whom that's bad well seattle has spoken and again these are
are these weren't obvious solutions if any of this was obvious it would have been done before right you need you need sort of a out of the box thinking you need some genius and seattle has stepped up so the reducing the number of police officers cut the command staff bay and they got rid of the unit that is clearing the homeless camps so those three steps i think are bold i think they should be uh observed for how effective they are and probably in a few weeks the rest of the country should go this way because i can't imagine this not working

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because i can't imagine this not working imagine your black lives matter and you you hear this announcement and you think i'm out here every day i'm protesting i'm trying to get rid of systemic racism but nothing's happening nothing's happening why is nothing happening and then you see this and you say whoa i think i've over performed i was trying to get rid of systemic racism in seattle but i may have done it in the whole world because once once these three ideas get out there's nothing that's going to stop them from spreading to all of the other smart cities that also want to get rid of systemic racism so that's all good news you should be pretty pretty happy about that here's some more news
it's going to be harder and harder to run against trump and call him a racist number one i love the fact that the organizer of the
the charlottesville finding people race is

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charlottesville finding people race is endorsing joe biden so joe biden's primary campaign claim is that the the president's called the racist and charlottesville fine people now of course that didn't happen that was fake news uh he he said exactly the opposite he condemned them but the organizer of the charlottesville he uh he endorses uh joe biden for president so that's interesting at the same time trump i forgot to mention this yesterday but trump in his speech explicitly said and i don't know if he said this before he said that school choice is the civil rights issue of our time in other words if you get school choice right then everybody's going to do better and essentially that's effectively a civil rights issue it's so big and so important to the black community
so that's a big deal have you ever had a president who said there's a gigantic civil rights issue

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there's a gigantic civil rights issue and i'm going to make it a top priority to get rid of it what is what is joe biden's big civil rights issue he has none because seattle already solved it this whole race systemic racism thing used to be a topic that biden could talk about but now seattle's kind of taking it off the table with their with their so effective solution but the president still is working on a civil rights issue which is education is terribly unfair and poorly done so the president's done prison reform he's massively funded the historically black colleges we'll talk more about them there's a biden story there he's funded the opportunity zones he's putting 500 billion dollars into uh capital for black american businesses he's he's got black unemployment to the best level it's ever been before coronavirus it's coming back already he's designated the kkk a

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already he's designated the kkk a domestic terror group even obama didn't do that i mean seriously obama didn't do that okay he's the law and order president and by a majority the black population does like law and order surprise surprise
you're surprised that people like law and order no matter who they are it's amazing that that's a surprise all right but here's the other the other thing that sort of snuck up on us trump is the first u.s president to nominate a mother of black children to the supreme court he's the first one to nominate a mother of black children to the supreme court now i know what you're thinking you're thinking in terms of diversity on the supreme court wouldn't it be better for an actual black woman with black

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for an actual black woman with black children to be nominated yeah yeah okay i see that point you know it would be a little bit more on the nose you know you'd say to yourself all right that's exactly you know that's the segment we we want to fill in there but i'd have to say you know if you don't have that you know the the more ideal solution that everybody would recognize is like oh okay that would be good to get that kind of diversity i would think that a strong second place is a woman who has black children because i don't think the mom reflex gets turned off i mean i i've got a feeling that quite legitimately uh amy cody barrett feels that all of her children are awesome so having somebody on here who has that sensibility let me let me put this into a visual persuasion when amy coney barrett watched the george floyd you know a

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watched the george floyd you know a shocking video of of the moment of his death do you think that she looked at it the same as people who do not have black children i'll bet not i'll bet the fact that she has
has black children you know changes her filter on seeing the george floyd situation to make it not exactly what a black citizen to this country felt i mean that's you know you can't really feel what other people feel but if you wanted to get close to it you know if you wanted to get into the the general zip code of that she's a strong choice it's a it's interesting to have somebody who can who has one leg in each world i mean she has one leg sort of you know in the in the parent of black uh kids and one one leg in sort of a generic white person world it's kind of a good perspective um you you've probably heard of dr ibrahim kendi who's a

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dr ibrahim kendi who's a boston university mellon professor professor national book award winner best-selling author and he wrote had to be an anti-racist and recently so he's a sort of a public anti-racist advocate uh he he recently made some news because i guess jack dorsey gave him uh gave his group i guess 10 million dollars unrestricted money to help them work on let's see how is it described unqualified support of his vision of putting academic researchers at the forefront of the movement to dismantle policies uh supporting racial inequality and injustice now what do you think of the general idea of having academic researchers at the forefront of how to dismantle racism that's not bad i i would say you sort of have to see how it works out right everything's

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see how it works out right everything's an implementation there's no such thing as just a good idea you need a good idea that is implemented well but on the surface on the surface don't you think that an academic approach to really understand as best we can things such as are black people really being targeted by the police i i think we need the researchers and the scientists and stuff to sort of take the the lead and tell us what's true what is true you know where can we identify this stuff and where we can't now of course you have the risk that because they're academics it'll just all be
be and then you make policies that are based on complete so the execution matters right it could be executed completely wrong but in general if you have a real academic who's got real credentials and working with other academics and they want to dig in to really understand

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they want to dig in to really understand what's going on here with the the systemic racism not a bad way to go so he said something that was so delightfully provocative uh in a tweet that it made me like him so i didn't know anything about him until this tweet and then then i started looking into it and connecting the dots and i'm going to say i have a positive opinion of him this may be different than some of your opinions all right but i'll tell you why the same thing that makes me like trump is his provocative way of just going in and shaking the box because there are a lot of cases where just going in and shaking things up is exactly what you need it's you know you don't write it out that way on paper right you know you don't make a plan i'm gonna just shake everything up but sometimes you need that here so somebody made a tweet that's been deleted now about

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deleted now about um it would be hard to make fun of amy coney barrett because she has two black adopted children from haiti and you think to yourself okay that's unassailable who could possibly who could possibly complain about her in terms of racism when she's gone so far as to adopt two kids from haiti so she's beyond criticism right well not according to dr abram and here's the part that made me like him all right and i know you're not going to have the same impression but just just understand where i'm coming from that i like provocative people who shake the box they don't have to agree with me all right so that's the part that you're missing i'm not agreeing with his positions necessarily i might agree with some of them i don't know i'm just saying that i like i like how provocative he is here's what he tweeted about amy coney

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here's what he tweeted about amy coney barrett he goes some white colonizers quote adopted black children they quote civilized these quote savage children in the quote superior ways of white people while using them as props in their lifelong pictures of denial while cutting the biological parents of these children out of the picture is a feminine of humanity now come on you have to you have to appreciate how wonderfully provocative that is you can agree you disagree with it you find it you find it offensive i get that but just but just agree with me on this point the way you feel when you hear this has got to be very similar to the way democrats feel when they they look at a trump tweet right it's going to look kind of similar you're going to hate it but you can't look away what if i told you about persuasion 50

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what if i told you about persuasion 50 percent of persuasion is getting your attention one way to do it and nobody's come up with a better way to do it is to be just so crazy provocative that people can't look away he has that he has that so if you if you're tempted to dismiss him
him because you say i don't believe i don't want you know i don't agree with any of the things he's saying i would give it another look because there's there's a whole lot of x factor that comes out of this it just sprays out of this the same kind of x factor that an aoc has same kind of x factor that a president trump has it just it's just coming out of his pores now once he gets all this attention what's he do with it so here's the second part right now that he's got all this attention being provocative what's he do with it here's what he does with it he follows it up with this uh he says and whether this is

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with this uh he says and whether this is barrett or not is not the point it is belief too many white people have if they have uh if they have or adopt a child of color then they can't be a racist so basically he's making the point by analogy that if you say you have a black friend that doesn't mean you're not a racist it just means you have a black friend and he's extending that to say just because you adopted a black child that alone doesn't make you not a racist it just means you did this one good thing
so he's challenging that idea now is that fair is it fair for him to say that uh that's not far enough like you know you you need to go to the extra level just having a black friend or a black adoptee not enough i think that's completely fair yeah that's a completely fair statement it is also a complete loser statement

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a complete loser statement here's why the difference between winning and losing strategies is that winning strategies encourage good things to happen more and losing strategies discourage good things from happening more that's it that's that's the whole tweet if i can use that statement and when when you see somebody adopting a baby or babies from haiti you know a white person adopting black babies what is the winner way to look at that the winner way to look at that is she's awesome that's it as soon as you add something to okay that's awesome i i respect that 100 respect it and now we're done talking about it as soon as you depart it's just good and you put that well it's not good you're still sort of a jerk you have you have put a penalty on good behavior good behavior

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on good behavior good behavior adopting um black orphans it's good behavior i think we'd all be happy about that but he penalized it a little bit right every time you penalize good behavior or support bad behavior let's say violence and looting you are in a loser strategy and there's no there there's no real debate about this there's no domain in the world there's no there's no professional coach there's no mentor there's nobody who knows how the world works who would say you should ever ever ever put a penalty on good behavior nor should you ever ever ever say good things about the behavior you don't want to see more of it's very simple human nature that people will do more of the things that they get praised for and less of the things they don't get praised for

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so and i'm going to talk about this a little bit more in a minute paul graham famous famous investor paul graham uh asked this of a tweet he said uh i wonder if the protesters in portland et cetera realize that roughly a hundred percent of the effect they're having the protest that is
is on the upcoming presidential election is to help trump that's weird isn't it don't don't you wonder why the protesters are so
so obviously helping trump because they're playing right into his message at the same time he would be their biggest problem the person they would most want to leave how does that make sense how does it make sense that every day that they're putting lots of personal risk and energy and money into getting trump reelected how can you explain that here's how i explain it they need trump to get re-elected not all of them you know a lot of the protesters are legitimately just protesting

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protesting racism and and that's great but in terms of the organizer class which are really the ones that make it happen right there most people are just attendees most people are followers there's a small group of people let's call them the organizing class that make it all happen among the organizing class do they want to overthrow the government or do they want joe biden to be president they want to overthrow the government they don't want joe biden to be president you don't see the protesters calling carrying joe biden signs do you do you see any of the protesters with biden signs you don't because they don't want joe biden to win do you know why because if joe biden wins it takes the steam end of their protests takes the energy and of the revolution the worst thing that could happen from this perspective of black lives matter is for joe biden to get elected

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matter is for joe biden to get elected because the moment he gets elected the the people who are protesting are going to say we got something you know we didn't get everything we want but at least now joe biden will head us in the right direction and kamala harris they'll be moving us toward a better world thank god this trump is gone they don't want that world i'm pretty sure the organizers would prefer the perfect situation would be a non-credible election where trump wins and stays in office and then they can complain that it was a rigged election it was not credible trump is still the problem nothing's been fixed we have to overthrow the system so watch for the protesters to be very unenthusiastic about biden for that reason dan bongino points out that the that is uh it's incredible that it's been confirmed that the fbi used the

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confirmed that the fbi used the suspected russian agent to spy on a trump campaign and it's not a front page story think about that just try to imagine this as not a front page story that the fbi actually used a russian agent to spy on the
the suspected russian agent to spy on the trump campaign and it's just sort of ignored now if you think you live in a world where you form your own opinions you know you look at the news you form your own opinions you don't that i don't know if that world ever existed but it definitely doesn't exist now
now what happens is you are shown a a little sliver of the news that is designed to give you the opinion that is being assigned to you if they showed you more than the sliver of news you might get too much context and you would not accept the assigned opinion because you might say well i see your point but what about all this

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i see your point but what about all this other stuff as long as they just leave out all the other stuff they can give you a sliver of reality you'll say looks good to me if i don't know anything else i just know that sliver my my opinion has been assigned to me i accept it um by the way on a uh a more concerning note dan bongino noted publicly that he's got some kind of a lump on his neck that seems to be a concern and maybe a big concern we don't know yet so wishing him the best on that i i will add this story uh just if it makes dan feel any better in my 20s i had a lump on my neck went to my doctor at kaiser and they said i don't know that looks we better look into that we better get a closer look took an x-ray i go in and they and they looked at the x-ray and they said ah this doesn't look good and i said well what does it mean if it's not

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well what does it mean if it's not nothing which is the other alternative they said it could be nothing it could be just a they said one of those things that was the actual phrase it could be just one of those things and and we just drain this little bump and there's nothing that's it it could be it or or you have a horrible cancerous problem and your life will never be the same those are your two possibilities why don't you come back next week and we'll figure out which one it is so i had to wait with a basically you know almost a death sentence preliminary diagnosis of a lump on my neck i had to wait days to figure out what it was
was now it turns out that the the way to confirm whether it was going to kill me or not and of course spoiler i i lived they would stick a needle into it and draw out the fluid and if the fluid was blood i'm in big trouble

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trouble because it means there's some cancer going on there but if it was a clear fluid it was just some kind of minor infection no big deal so i'm sitting there and i can't see the needle because it's back here and i feel it go in and i feel the liquid come out and i'm sitting there thinking you freaking you see the liquid now you know if i'm dead or i'm fine tell me i had to actually ask all right it still bothers me to this day the moment it came out he should have been saying ah no problem you're all good and it turns out it was no problem it was all good so dan i hope your situation goes like mine did i i have more empathy than you can imagine but i'm going to hope that it's just one of those things and your everything's fine
so i tweeted this yesterday i said i know lots of people who wrote to success

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know lots of people who wrote to success on the strategy of skill acquisition and positivity which is a pretty good package package if your life strategy is to continually acquire skills pretty good strategy and to to approach life with positivity which affects other people and affects yourself that's a pretty good strategy and i know people have done that but i don't know anybody who complained their way to success they might exist but if you have a choice of those two things either building skills and having a positive attitude or complaining and not doing anything useful um you know pick the one that works now weirdly elon musk tweeted a reply so and a lot of people took note because when elon musk tweets at me people people think you guys need to talk or something i don't know but for some reason people get excited when when that happens so elon musk tweeted

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when that happens so elon musk tweeted this and i'm not sure exactly how it relates to my tweet but he said there are times when i feel like i'm living in a dilbert cartoon so i tweeted back the simulation doesn't write itself wait until you see what i have planned for you and then you know he laughed with some some emoticons
so anyway that that was fun uh and uh ted cruz also retweeted me yesterday i had a good day for getting retweeted um did you think it was weird when uh acb amy coney barrett when she was giving her a sort of nomination acceptance speech i guess you'd call it she
she went to great lengths to describe her husband as subservient to her was that weird and i didn't understand why until the analyst explained it to me which was so people were criticizing

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which was so people were criticizing acb for being part of a a church group that allegedly and i think this is incorrect but the the allegation was that the people in that church the women were taught by their religion to be subservient to their husbands or something i think that's inaccurate i think that it never taught that i think it had to do with their use of the word hand maidens but it was really a biblical reference it wasn't it wasn't a reference to subservience so she goes in and i didn't like this at all honestly like it's the thing that felt the creepiest she she needed to describe her her husband as basically the house husband in the group the the one who is serving her needs and although he's an attorney and has a practice of his own he seemed to be the primary caregiver for the seven children because her job was even more high

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because her job was even more high profile and it seemed to me that she was sort of suggesting that the way she could handle an immense workload of being on the supreme court while having seven children is that her husband was unusually supportive in terms of raising the kids and supportive of her now i have of course i don't criticize any couple if they have a situation that works it's not my it's not my issue so if anybody has any kind of arrangement that makes them happy in their family it's great great to me but it felt just uncomfortable that she threw her husband under the bus to help her nomination i didn't like it i just didn't like it now i'm not i'm not saying it wasn't an accurate description and i'm not entirely sure that the husband has any problem with it he was probably perfectly happy with it but i don't know didn't feel right

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but i don't know didn't feel right didn't didn't love it but it probably worked um so what else is going on so uh up in portland the proud boy rally ended with no major clashes so there were a number of rests and there were a number of you know people throwing stuff and the usual amount of relatively low level violence uh enough so you could characterize it as no major clashes but here's the part i found interesting so you knew that the proud boys were going to show up and you knew that there would be counter protesters here's the interesting part there were a thousand people that showed up with the proud boys the thousand and there were 500 who showed up as the counter protesters now if you recall i've been asking for some time why is it that the news does not report how many protesters there are at each of

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how many protesters there are at each of these events it's conspicuously missing the most obvious thing that you would say about any protest is how many people showed up it is the number one determinant of how much i should care if six people show up to a protest i probably don't care if a thousand people show up to a protest you have my attention all right and it's not reported and it's it's characteristically not reported and the reason i thought that was important not just in terms of news value is that you might recall that i said the following if the rest of the country knew how many protesters there were it would allow them to send more non-protesters into the area and take care of it if you had enough locals who were anti-protester whatever that number of locals is you could get enough of them so they would so overwhelm the number of

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so they would so overwhelm the number of protesters they would effectively become the police force in other words the that the locals if they had enough could just cause the protesters to behave because it would be too much muscle in the general area because force is really the only thing that changes anything in this world and and here it is a thousand proud boys showed up and and supporters and
and only 500 anti-fascists and the result was
was no major clashes why was there no major clashes well i would say it's because the proud boys outnumbered the anti-protesters right and it shows you a model that you know it's dangerous of course because if you send lots of you know people willing to fight into an area you know you've got some trouble but so so let me say that this is not a recommendation or a suggestion from me about how to handle it rather i would say it's one of several ways this could

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say it's one of several ways this could end
end you know there are several paths you could predict you might go down but one of the paths is that if the police force decides not to be the primary power in the area and that's what they've decided the police force has decided that they will they will play for a tie the police have decided that they're not going to defeat the protesters the protesters know they can't defeat the police they're both playing for a tie but the proud boys were not playing for a tie and in theory you could bring in enough people who just want the protest to stop that the the sheer number of bodies of the non-protesters would make it stop there would just be too much power put into the area so that's one way it could happen it could be that the citizens mobilize in enough numbers that they just overwhelm the protesters and or there are enough people to make sure looting doesn't happen because really if you just had enough kyle ridden house

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kyle ridden house the the problem with kyle rittenhouse was now a kyle rittenhouse the problem with kyle rittenhouse is there were not enough kyle ridden houses there if the kyle written houses had outnumbered the people who attacked him and some of them ultimately got shot two of them were killed if the kyle riddenhausers had been the majority instead of the lone ranger trying to help things it would have been different and it probably would have been a lot less violence here's something interesting in election land pro-publica that's a publication election land propublica they're reporting that in north carolina so far this year i guess we're already counting the absentee ballots and already there are three times as many ballots from black citizens that are rejected compared to white now what's the first thing you say about that oh my god there there are discriminating

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oh my god there there are discriminating people rejecting ballots because they're doing three times as many black ones as white but the story goes on to say that there's no demographic information on the ballots that are being rejected and i'm thinking but isn't there at least a name there's a name on the ballot right a printed name don't you know where the ballot came from am i wrong about that because that is demographic information it isn't too hard if you are a racist to try to guess which names belong to black people you wouldn't get everyone but you could get pretty close couldn't you you know if you if you just picked out the obvious ones so i'm not sure i believe that you can't tell uh completely who voted
but the problems that they call out for why they were being rejected were missing a signature or missing a witness signature

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a witness signature now that's pretty black and white right there's either a signature or not there's a witness your signature or not
what would be the reason that both in 2018 and now in 2020 three times as many black voters did not fill in one of those two things what causes that do you have any idea what causes that if i had to take a guess i would say it's correlated with educational levels and that the the more educated you are the more adept you are at reading a forum correctly filling it out correctly and not making any mistakes so it probably is just correlated with economic situation and and education situation but it does it does certainly raise the question that trump has been raising that these ballots are a problem all right um but i didn't know this that apparently

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but i didn't know this that apparently the system this year allows the voters to they have apparently they have time i don't know if in every case but they would have time to fix their errors because i guess they get notified now if they're notified of the errors there must be some information on the the ballot that tells you something about people so they can either fix it or they can go vote in person but as you might imagine not everybody fixes it so the original problem persists even though they could have fixed it all right so maybe that'll make a difference we'll see remember i asked you i said i couldn't understand why people were criticizing trump for saying that doing extra testing is surfacing extra infections and i thought to myself how could that not be true how could you do extra testing without finding extra people feel feel like i feel like that's just obvious and nay silver basically said

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obvious and nay silver basically said the same thing in the tweet he said it's not clear whether covet cases are actually on the rise in the us or if it's because there's more testing and i thought to myself that's the first time i've seen anybody who
who i would imagine is more associated with the left i don't know if he he says that about himself he may not identify with the left i don't know but it's the first time i've heard somebody who wasn't obviously a trump supporter say yeah if you test more you're going to find more infection it seems sort of obvious and now nay silver is saying it and i'm wondering what am i missing [Laughter] what am i not understanding about this situation that it could ever not be true that more testing wouldn't find more things isn't the reason you test to find more stuff i'm really confused on that um so i i asked by tweet today can someone ask democratic leaders

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ask democratic leaders including blm if they'll commit to a peaceful continuation of the trump administration if he wins why is nobody asking democrats if they will commit to a peaceful transfer if trump wins isn't that a pretty obvious question for democratic leadership of all type here's another one and why are democratic leaders not being asked by the press to disavow the domestic terrorist organization that is ironically called antifa now the antifa has been designated a domestic terror organization isn't the obvious thing to ask democrat leaders do you disavow them now that they're domestic terrorists it's a good question it's the most obvious question you should ask and it's not being asked all right so um a lot of people have asked me you know what kind of

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know what kind of persuasion or linguistic kill shot should you use against the protesters uh that you think are going too far and sometimes you have to wait a little bit and see how the public is naturally responding to things and then you find out how people are naturally responding you can design a linguistic kill shot that that plays to the thing they're already thinking that's much easier than just trying to make up some kind of persuasion out of nothing it really helps to know how people already think about something and now that a little time has gone by i have this suggestion for a linguistic kill shot on antifa and you just heard me use it and it is that the press should always refer to them when describing antifa they should be described as the domestic terrorist organization ironically named antifa it's the ironically named that takes their power away

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their power away because what antifa did that was super clever and has served them really well they called themselves anti-fascists even though they weren't you know in a way that you would you would consider it um and therefore anybody who criticized them was calling themselves a fascist one of the best things anybody ever did in terms of persuasion so in order to take the power out of that you could simply refer to them as the ironically named antifa now you could feel it right if you said that often enough and say the domestic terrorist organization ironically named antifa it would completely take the power out of antifa so that's my suggestion um somebody found a video from 1991 in which joe biden said he was talking about a justice that shooter i think that was being considered at the time and talking about

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considered at the time and talking about how old people would be in 2020 and biden said in the year 2020 i'll be dead and gone in all probability now what are the odds that there would be an actual video of of joe biden predicting his own death by 2020 at the exact same time that we're all wondering if he'll live to election day in 2020. did he say that about lots of other years you know is there also a video of joe biden saying he might not live to 2025 or maybe it's something he says a lot and you know they just found the one that had the the 20 20 year in it but that is very simulation a very very simulationy
all right um and there's another video of biden doing a gaff that that doesn't make any sense at all and the gap is he he suddenly injects

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and the gap is he he suddenly injects somebody named john into his answer and there is nobody named john involved in any way with the question or the answer you have to hear that to know what's going on but i've now learned i've learned what biden does when he loses his train of thought and it might be a trick i'll use myself because i often lose my train of thought when i'm doing these periscopes probably i'm losing my mind what he does is if he if he starts into a point and he loses his train of thought he doesn't even know what the topic is anymore he reverts to this generic statement which is we can't let we can't let uh trump keep doing what he's doing because that fits everything so he'll be like we've got to change the economy and check the change the taxes and then he forgets completely what he's talking about he's like well here's the thing we just can't let trump keep getting away with what he's getting away with

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away with what he's getting away with so whenever he does that that means he completely forgot what he was talking about so look for that all right um
some of you are thinking that it's trump's middle name donald john trump or that he was thinking his name was donald trump i don't know who he was talking about uh there's another tape that surfaced of biden this is the trouble with being in politics for so long there are infinite number of old biden tapes of him saying bizarre things but jonathan turley was writing about this today he said that a tape has surfaced of biden claiming back at some point wasn't too long ago that he quote started at a historically black college
he actually claimed biden did in front of a it looked like a crowd of mostly black voters he claimed that he had started out at a

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he claimed that he had started out at a historically black college which it turns out never happened as far as anybody can tell and they don't even know what he meant you know they can't even figure out well when he says he started out does he mean he went to school there or did or did he have some involvement with them it's just sort of bizarre and unstated but the fact that you could have a presidential candidate claim that he or at least apparently claim this could be misinterpreted but apparently claimed that he went to a historically black college and nobody and people just let that go nothing to see here yeah he went to his historically black college why not why not
i tell you all the time and it's always good to remember this that the human brain is tuned toward change we get used to whatever our situation is so even if something is really really bad
bad if we do it long enough we stop

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if we do it long enough we stop complaining about it so much because we just get used to it but if something is moving in the wrong direction even a little bit you our hair will be on fire and we wow it's moving in the wrong direction so we're far more affected by the direction of things than where things are that's just a good thing to understand about human beings because that that dynamic you'll see it all the time and one of the ways that it's really really important at the moment is that apparently the covid deaths in the united states are kind of flat and as long as they stay about the same even though it's way too high a thousand people a day or something in that neighborhood are dying even at a thousand deaths a day as long as
as it just sort of stays there and even if the 200 000 deaths are now i don't know 200 4 or 5 000 deaths as long as that stays around a few hundred thousand you know it might creep up to i don't

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you know it might creep up to i don't know 230 000 by election day or something whatever it is as long as it's in that 200 000-ish range it's going to feel like it didn't change much and the fact that it seems stable-ish is really really going to work for the president because we can't stay interested in things that are the same even when they're bad we get way more interested in what's on fire today and what somebody said today so i think the president's biggest you know problem is that what people think of coronavirus is becoming smaller and smaller in people's minds even though the problem isn't going away i would say this about how to interpret that the united states has such a bad about outcome with coronavirus according to the experts i'm not convinced that if you looked at all the variables it would look so bad in other words if you considered our

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in other words if you considered our obesity you considered a higher percentage of african-american citizens if you considered everything probably wouldn't look so bad but we don't and i would say that one factor that we don't count enough is that americans just like freedom and americans like freedom more than they like life itself that's built into us we're actually designed that way to like freedom more than life itself we're literally trained from childhood at least my generation was i don't think it happens anymore but my generation was trained from childhood that if you had a choice of you know you can't get freedom unless you die trying to get it we'll die so this coronavirus is no different than every other challenge the united states has faced since its inception what's my trade-off yes you could be much much safer if you do the following things

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do the following things or maybe you know i don't you could be skeptical but the experts are telling you you could be much safer if you do these things but to do these things you're gonna have to give up this other thing called freedom do americans say sure sure let's give up some freedom i'm in i'll save some lives no we don't do that and we don't want to be those people that's the bigger part in order for us to have had the same success as other countries we would have to be like them in other words the thing that killed two hundred thousand people in this country this is going to sound really ugly but i think you'll understand what i'm saying the thing that killed over two hundred thousand americans to it to an extent is a feature not a bug that's cruel it's horrible it's a terror is an ugly thought but there is something that makes america a

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there is something that makes america a little bit special and it's this it's it's the fact that we don't believe authority it's the fact that we don't trust the experts all the time it's the fact that if you give us a choice between living like a slave uh and and being healthy or living like a free person and maybe killing your own grandmother you'll kill your own grandmother you will kill your grandmother for freedom you kill yourself too you kill anybody for freedom it's a feature it's a feature not a bug so did president trump preside over a country that got a worse outcome than other countries maybe again i think you really have to dig into the difference in the variables to know that for sure but let's say it's true
was it a mistake it's being couched as a mistake i would say it's a choice i would say that the country made a conscious choice now did

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made a conscious choice now did president trump influence by his own behavior let's say not wear a mask let's say downplaying the virus did he influence anybody's opinion by his own actions perhaps so perhaps so is that wrong well if the way he's the way he's persuading americans is to be more american it's a hard argument to make that it was wrong unless you think being more american in other words preferring freedom over life itself unless you think that's a bug he was he was persuading toward a feature not a bug so that's just one way i'd frame it
all right um there was a sign i saw at a protest at yorba linda so it looked like there were some protesters and some counter-protesters and one of the signs held up by it

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and one of the signs held up by it looked like a white counter protester to blm said black behavior matters so the response to black lives matter from this counter-protester was black behavior matters pretty offensive isn't it it is it's offensive now of course he made it to be provocative so you can't again that was a feature not a bug this is somebody who's trying to get your blood boiling and it worked i would say that strikes me as offensive even though i agree with the thought the thought i agree with completely that people have to take responsibility for themselves even if somebody else caused the problem so i agree with the thought but here's how i would have said it better instead of saying black behavior matters i would have said black strategy matters in fact if somebody asked me if black lives matter here's one way i might answer if somebody said scott say it say it

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if somebody said scott say it say it do black lives matter i'm not going to be the jerk that says no i'm not going to say the first thing out of my mouth is not going to be all lives matter because i'm not an idiot why would i cause trouble that doesn't need to be caused here's how i might handle it absolutely black lives matter super super true black lives matter black lives matter i might even put up my fist and scream it
it and then i would say would you agree that black strategy matters in other words that if you have a good strategy you'll probably get a good outcome if you have a bad strategy you might have a bad outcome would you agree with that because that's my problem my problem is not
not black lives matter because of course they do duh my problem is your strategy sucks if you use a strategy that is guaranteed to get you the wrong answer don't blame me when you get the wrong answer don't put it on me

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answer don't put it on me when you're doing an objectively obviously clearly bad strategy that's not on me you got to take that on yourself here's here's a general rule that i think is a good one if you have somebody who's protesting or wants some kind of change and you've got other people who seem to be the ones who are in the way if one of those sides says let's work together i'll do some things differently maybe you'll do some things differently i acknowledge that the problem might not be me i mean i might not have caused the problem we're trying to fix and maybe you didn't cause the problem we're trying to fix but if you're not approaching this from the perspective of both of us need to do something differently you are not really a credible player if somebody comes to you and says only you need to change you'll never get there you can never get there if if you're starting assumption is that

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if if you're starting assumption is that one side needs to change even if all the problems are on the other side the problem the the group that maybe doesn't think it's their fault still needs to say you know i don't think we did anything wrong but if you're willing to change i want to do whatever i can to make it easy for you to change in other words i'll do something different even though it's not my fault it might not even be my responsibility but
but if you want to be productive both sides every time have to say i'm going to do something different you need to do something different too but we have to start with that assumption as soon as you say you need to do something different and i don't that's the end of the story you can just walk away stop
i i want to tell you a story about that but
but i can't for privacy reasons but i have been in that situation shall i say

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been in that situation shall i say in the past where it was expected that i would only change and the other person would not and that can never work can't work never negotiate with yourself all right [Music] millions of acres have burned in california but my air quality is good at the moment so still keeping an eye on that all right that's all i got for today um all divorced men have been there buddy all right i guess you knew what i was talking about didn't you i didn't i didn't disguise that well at all did i i'm gonna tell you the story all right i'm gonna hope that my uh my ex-wife will be okay with this because i i don't want to i don't want to do anything that's uh too personal here but uh toward the end of my my marriage we did what marriage married people do

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we did what marriage married people do if they're having trouble we went to a a counselor and i wanted to make sure that i got the best outcome from a marriage counselor so i said you pick the marriage counselor so this will be this will be my deal in order for me to feel like like you got the best shot i want you alone to decide who the marriage counselor is because i was so confident that my point of view would um would be well represented no matter who the marriage counselor was it really didn't matter who it was so my ex-wife picked a woman as the marriage counselor in which i said all right this is perfect because if a woman agrees with anything i say it's going to carry a little more weight i think with my ex-wife so i thought this is perfect you picked a marriage counselor and it's a woman this is ideal because i'm pretty persuasive right have you ever met me i'm kind of

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have you ever met me i'm kind of persuasive so i thought this is a perfect setup i could i could not have asked for a better situation i think it was on probably day one when the marriage counselor told me this was the rule that i had to change but my ex-wife did not need to change in any way whatsoever
how do you think it turned out i i argued like like a wounded dog i argued okay we got to change that right we can't even talk about any details about you know what any issues are we have to change that assumption because if we go into it with the assumption that i'm the only one who needs to change in any way they can't possibly have a good outcome and she could not be persuaded away from that she never changed her opinion that independent of what the actual issues

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independent of what the actual issues were i was the only one who needed to change now i never really even understood it and never understood it i didn't understand why that wasn't obviously the worst advice anybody ever got anywhere in the history of
of advice but it happened now how many how many of you had the same situation i won't wait for your answers but i know there's a few of it alright so that's the story and i will talk to you later