Episode 1141 Scott Adams: Debate Memories, How the Republic Could Collapse, Rittenhouse Slander

Date: 2020-10-01 | Duration: 54:58

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• Do Democrats realize Joe Biden is a gigantic, perpetual liar?

• President Trump…doesn’t like to get pushed around

• “Court Packing”, the end of our Republic?

• Identify “super-spreaders” by their genes?

• California’s corporate board diversity law

• Kyle Rittenhouse slandered by Joe Biden

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hey everybody come on in come on in gather round it's time time for her coffee with scott adams best part of the day is it good oh it's good you want to see what it looks like out my window
total whiteout conditions that is unhealthy air quality right there forest fires still uh putting a lot of smoke into my neighborhood they're not very close to me but there are so many fires that i can't go outside but we don't need to go outside yet what we need is a simultaneous sip and it doesn't take much to enjoy it not really all you need is a copper mug margaret glass of tank or chelsea stein the canteen drinker flask vessel of any kind
interestingly my traffic is very small today something's going on um and you should fill that vessel

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and you should fill that vessel with coffee or your favorite beverage and join me for the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better simultaneously happening right now go
ah well i think that cleared the air quality a little bit i'll probably have to drink some more to fix it entirely
all right let's talk about all the things um the big mystery of the day is now this is interesting um my traffic is roughly half of what it was
was yesterday i wonder why that is is there something going on today
uh your twitter is down twitter isn't working somebody's saying oh it could be that the automatic notification didn't go up on twitter that's what it was no notification all

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that's what it was no notification all right well let us enjoy those of us who are here all right one of the big questions is what's up with president trump not forcefully disavowing the racist groups with the emphasis on the word forcefully because he actually did say he would disavow them he's disavowed them in the past multiple times but when asked in the debate as you all know he did not so periscope didn't post to twitter okay so it looks like there's a some kind of issue going on
but here's a uh here's a hypothesis i want to put out there president trump and i think i wrote about this in wynn bigley president trump is very savvy about media stuff would you agree that he is one of the most experienced

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that he is one of the most experienced maybe the most experienced media personality you know just about of all time you know who has been interviewed more times than president trump not many people and there's a trick that he would see coming that i would also see coming because like him i get interviewed a lot and here's the trick if somebody says to you will you disavow x and you think to yourself well that group that you mentioned this group x they're they're they're a bad group i can easily disavow them so let's say it was the kkk how hard would it be to disavow the kkk not hard not hard at all socially socially acceptable easy to do i disavowed them what would happen what would be the next thing that would happen if the president disavowed the kkk not in a speech that he's giving this is

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in a speech that he's giving this is important but rather in a give-and-take scenario now if he's giving a speech he can just disavow all he wants and he doesn't have to take questions if he doesn't want to and he can get his message out there and say yep i disavow the kkk and then walk away that's all good no problem right but what if somebody asks him to disavow somebody well there are two problems here number one
one it looks weak when people force you to say stuff think about it how do you look when somebody randomly can make you say stuff literally make you say words okay you i'm gonna make you say these words i disavow the whoever and then you say the words who's in charge is it the person who repeated what what they were told to repeat or is it the person who forced them to say it in public it's a power thing so that's the first thing you need to know

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thing you need to know the president um seemingly never i can't think of an exception he never gives up the the power position and the power position is who's making somebody say something it's not the person who's who's just conforming so that's the first problem it does look weak now but you say to me but scott yeah i get what you're saying you can't just say what other people tell you to say that would look weak but come on any fool can disavow a racist group white supremacist how hard is that that's an exception clearly you can do that no problem at all right no problem what would happen if he had game and out now this is what this is the sort of thing you learn if you have uh media training as i do i i literally have training with a real expert who sat with me and taught me how

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expert who sat with me and taught me how to deal with media interviews the next thing that would happen is you'd get another question okay so okay so you've you've disavowed white supremacists very good very good do you also disavow the proud boys okay now it's getting a little harder right because if you don't know exactly who the proud boys are and i confess i didn't really know until this morning you know i've even i've even been interviewed by gavin mcginnis back in 2016. so i knew that there was something called the proud boys i knew they existed i've even communicated with some of them people have messaged me on social media et cetera but i didn't know who they were what they were i vaguely knew that they you know were were sort of uh you know like to like to fight or something and say politically incorrect things um but are they are they a white

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but are they are they a white supremacist group well they would say no and you know what argument they would give for not being a white supremacist group well the the black members of proud boys would be a pretty good argument that they're not a white supremacist group because it's hard to explain why the white supremacist group would have black members but they do and other ethnicities as well but have they ever said something let's say
say about islam or about women have they ever said anything that the president would need to put some distance from probably yes probably yes but he doesn't know exactly what they've said so does he disavow them well suppose he does let's say he does so he disavows the proud boys what's the next thing that'll happen do you disavow breitbart

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breitbart a publication that has been blamed by some people for saying things that you know other people have considered islamophobic or racist or whatever what does he do he's already disavowed the easy one white supremacy and he you know hypothetically let's say he is sort of tentatively disavowed the proud boys just in case don't know what's in there nobody nobody's quite sure what they're about i'm not entirely sure but let's say you disavowed them now what about breitbart because lots of people on the left say bad things about breitbart does he have to disavow them let's say he did no it's not going to happen right in a in a million years trump would never disavow a publication that tends to be friendlier to him but suppose he did what happens next does he have to disavow uh joe rogan

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does he have to disavow uh joe rogan because remember when spotify took on joe rogan's program they said ah there's several of these episodes we're going to have to delete because they seem you know too friendly to
to white supremacists or whatever they said spotify's employees apparently are rebelling so then what does he do does president trump disavow joe rogan because they would be able to make an argument i think it's a it's a argument but somebody could make an argument well he he associated with by interviewing mcginnis there you go he he actually interviewed gavin mcginnis he joe rogan interviewed me what about me
me would president trump have to disavow me because i've been on joe rogan's show joe rogan talked to gavin mcginnis gavin mcginnis was the founder of proud boys

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boys where does it stop so you see you now even if you disagree with my examples they're imperfect the point is the moment you accept the frame that i'm going to make you say stuff and you're going to have to keep saying stuff because i'm going to keep giving you stuff to say and the moment you say uh i don't know if i want to keep saying the things that you're telling me to say you're racist it's over now the president has taken the position you've seen it for a long time he just doesn't like to get pushed around it's not a good look um and he just prefers not to so i think that when you saw the hesitation first the first time was when jake tapper asked the president to disavow david duke and the kkk and you saw the president hesitate and he's and he tried to get a sense of who else he would have to

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he would have to disavow i think that was the source of the hesitation now of course i'm speculating because i'm not inside his head i can't know what he was thinking but based on my own experience with media interviews i would have seen that trap so if i'd been asked that question as i was answering it and this is hard to do it's hard to have a separate thought that's complicated while you're talking on camera to millions of people right it's very hard to do so you're trying to process okay if i answer this question what does that lead to what's the question that naturally follows that am i setting a precedent am i am i walking into a trap is this one of those do you still beat your your spouse kind of questions so i feel as if the president has found himself you know planning a couple of moves ahead and not knowing where it would go and i think that that cost him because he would have been better off

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because he would have been better off just going with it and then changing the subject and like i said it's there's a big difference between something he could say in the speech because he can say everything he wants to say and nothing extra and then just walk away but when somebody is doing it back and forth you know what the next question is going to be they're going to extend this until they they trap you um how about how about this as an answer i i often think about how to answer this you know if i'm the president how would i answer it and i think i might go go something like this to avoid the trap you know do you do you disavow the kkk let's say that's the question here was here's an answer i'm playing with as a better way to go instead of disavowing people disavow [Music] let's say opinions so you could easily say
say i disavow every racist viewpoint

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i disavow every racist viewpoint no matter where it comes from then what does the interviewer say so are you explicitly disavowing the kkk and then the president could say does the kkk have any racists in it i'm i'm disavowing all racism no matter where it is so you know if you want to make a list ask yourself if there are any racists in there because if there's any racist in your list i'm disavowing them well are you specifically can you say you're disavowing the kkk well i've already put them on a terrorist domestic terrorist list so that's pretty disavowed wouldn't you say so uh twitter's down people are telling me
me it's interesting periscope's up but twitter is down it looks like people figured out that i'm broadcasting because the the traffic is back up
anyway i think i'd go after the thought of racism and disavow that wherever it

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of racism and disavow that wherever it is
i saw that the one of the trump campaign websites had 33 false or misleading claims that joe biden allegedly made at the at the debates 33 false or misleading claims that's a lot of misleading claims isn't it 33 in an hour and a half now here's my only point how do you know did president trump say 33 false or misleading things i don't know what the exact count is but probably right but here's the thing the people who
who most dislike president trump if you ask them one year ago name what's the worst thing about trump they would probably say he lies wouldn't you agree that that would be

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wouldn't you agree that that would be the number one thing that would come out of people's mouth at least that's my experience now sometimes they'll go with the racism thing first but i would say at least number two is going to be that he lies he's lied 20 000 lies he lies lies lies lies but why don't they say that about joe biden does joe biden lie less than president trump i don't see any evidence of that it looks like joe biden lies continuously like just full-on almost nothing but a wall of lies probably 70 percent lies to 30 percent truth something like that now why is it that we don't think of biden as a liar now some of you do if you're trump supporters but why don't democrats see biden as a liar when he's wall-to-wall lies all the time and i think it has to do with whatever your brand is you know once you've you've decided that somebody is a brand

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you've decided that somebody is a brand you just sort of stick with it i'll give you an example when i was a kid it was it was considered a truism the volkswagen beetles were unusually reliable there was something about them being built with simply or whatever but the the thought was that uh they're very reliable these vw bugs more reliable than any other vehicle but yet when i would you know drive around town if they were if i saw a broken down car by the side of the road the percentage of times it was a volkswagen beetle was really really high to the point where you couldn't not notice it there'd be like broken down volkswagen beetles all over the place far more than any other car i ever saw and yet and yet the reputation was it was the most dependable car there was no correlation between what you observed with your own eyes and what everybody believed to be true i think that was one of the first times

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i think that was one of the first times i thought that the world is a crazy place uh because it was just so obviously not true that they were dependable and it's so obviously true that biden is a gigantic liar but one of the things you're seeing a little bit less is that that's a reason for disliking trump correct me if i'm wrong and watch for this as we get closer to election i'll bet you that between now and election day the complaint that that trump is a liar will will shrink you'll still hear it but the number of times they'll say it will be way less and the reason is now they have something to compare him to when it was just trump versus whatever your ideal idea your ideal of a of a better candidate is well then it looks like trump's a big liar because he's being compared to your ideal honest candidate that doesn't really exist but as soon as you get a real one you get a real candidate it's joe biden and you start counting up

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it's joe biden and you start counting up the lies and it's 33 in 90 minutes 33 lies in 90 minutes how can you possibly say to yourself with any kind of you know intellectual integrity how can you say ah i'm gonna vote for joe biden because i don't want a liar for a president i i feel like that reason for voting for biden just went away because he lies continuously all right
here's my take uh two days after the the debate when when the debate is fresh you have you have a certain set of feelings because you can remember a lot of the details so there will be things that feel like they're having an effect on you because you remember them they just happened you're thinking about it it must be important because you're thinking about it but you get just a few days away from it and

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and memories being what they are you start forgetting slices of it and you're forgetting this and you're forgetting that you're forgetting that pretty soon there's not much left of your memory this is just normal way memories work so what's left after a few days have gone by and there's lots more political noise and distractions and suddenly here's the memory that you'll be left with from that debate there was a contest to see who could the most and trump dominated it that's it that's sort of what you'll remember because that was the visual and it was sort of the the overall theme and feeling you got you'll you can't forget how much uh trump was trying to dominate and talk over biden and how biden was he was he was doing a pretty good job of trying to fight back but it looked like a battle of bullies because if you've ever watched

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because if you've ever watched biden debate not trump if you've seen you know past biden debates he's pretty bullying but when you put him on the stage with trump he's the lesser bully and that's what you remember so let me ask you this let's say you were totally put off by trump's aggressive you know not following the rules performance totally put off by it but separately you have to make a decision about the following one of those two people biden or trump is going to fight for something on your side so you have to pick one of them to be on your team to be a team leader and once you pick them they're going to go do some fighting for you so whatever they can get whatever deals they can make whatever advantages they can get that's going to accrue to you because you picked them they're on your team if the only thing you knew about them was that debate who do you pick to get you some

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right you see it right you could hate everything about what trump did on that stage but if you said to yourself you can only pick one of them and they have to go forth and get you some stuff it's a no-brainer you're gonna pick trump every time because he controlled the situation even if he hated it that's the guy you want on your team if you're hiring a lawyer do you want the lawyer who's the most polite no you don't you don't want the lawyer who's most polite you might want the lawyer who's polite to you but when your lawyer is fighting the other team you don't want them to be nice necessarily i mean unless there's some advantage to it you want them to be a killer you want them to be a shark so i got a feeling that people were not as put off by the the strongman performance which is what it was it was a it was showing who who had the most you

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it was showing who who had the most you know alpha energy
and on that point uh i saw i saw just a great comment so this is from francis martell who is a breitbart international news editor and i'm assuming because she has some spanish words in her profile that she's hispanic which is important to the point and she tweeted this my hottest take is that hispanics like this debate because this is how we engage each other politically all the time it isn't uncivil it's just passionate the pearl clutching about how presidents aren't supposed to act like those people doesn't sit well with me and apparently a number of other people uh not apparently i saw the comments and there were a lot of people from uh various uh let's say interesting cultures uh who said oh yeah same here same here that's that's like

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same here same here that's that's like my family and they and they looked at it and thought to themselves oh yeah that's that looks just like i would expect it to look why wouldn't it look like that of course the president is aggressive of course he's talking over him of course he's interrupting how else do you do it that's exactly how a political conversation is supposed to look now i don't have my own insight into this but there were a whole lot of people who agreed with it so that that's all i'm going to say you know a lot of people agreed with it
um i saw dan bongino's take on the uh on the debate and i thought it was a really strong one so i'll repeat it here which is that it's a base election in other words nobody is trying to persuade somebody else to vote from the other team so so everybody's just trying to get their own people to show up and it's all about getting your own base

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and it's all about getting your own base to get off the couch or fill out the form and actually vote so that's the first thing and uh as dan points out strategically did trump make a dent in biden support by separating him from his far left well i don't know because a lot of those people are going to say well you know i'm still closer to biden than i am to trump i don't like trump so maybe but what about the people who were sort of just not that excited about voting maybe they would have maybe they wanted to run on the fence it's not a case that they would have switched their vote to trump but rather they're just not going to show up and vote for biden because they're just not as excited maybe they were bernie supporters and they feel like they were thrown under the bus so did the president uh make his point that the biden supporters are are not

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that the biden supporters are are not all on the same page i feel like he did as as dan bongino pointed out i think he made that case and he made it well but what about the um
um the problems that trump gave himself by his
his let's say bad performance on the question of disavowing uh white supremacy do you think that cost him any votes from his base and the answer is probably not because there's nothing that happened in the debate that trump's supporters are not accustomed to in other words is sort of more of the same oh okay we we already know he doesn't like to be pushed into saying stuff we already know he doesn't like to be into apologizing clarifying defense he just likes to play offense and so that's what you get now to his supporters we've all seen the compilation clips of

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we've all seen the compilation clips of him
him clearly and and and strongly disavowing white supremacy and racist and the kkk so if you're a supporter you know that the claims against him are even if you understand that the way he handled the question was completely botched which would be my take on it now my own take he did lose my vote i told you this you know yesterday personally he lost my vote but i also have never haven't voted lately so it's not like yes any big difference um and and as i explained losing my vote is just personal it's just personal it's not anything i would try to talk you into i would not try to talk you into it i just spent way too much of my own personal currency debunking that will find people hoax i just wanted a little hand and i didn't get it i took it personally all right so that's just me you don't need to

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so that's just me you don't need to follow that model i wouldn't encourage you to do it so yeah the bongino analysis i feel is solid pretty solid i think the president might have done nothing you know to hurt his base and probably hurt biden's base a little bit that could matter we'll see
the court packing question i thought was interesting and by the way if you recorded um tucker carlson's show from last night you got to watch that thing you know tucker carlson is probably one of the strongest opinion shows on on tv not probably it's one of the strongest opinion shows best quality most interesting you know most creative takes on stuff i would say but last night's show was kind of a masterpiece it was one of the best shows i think he's ever had and one of the points he talked about

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points he talked about was the importance of this court-packing question that joe biden avoided and i had not really thought it through as much as you know tucker you know fleshed it out a little bit and here's the thing that i was missing the court packing question isn't just a little throwaway preference kind of a thing it is the end of the republic and that was not obvious to me at first and here's how it's the end of the republic if right now the republic depends on you know the uh the equal branches having their own power so that the judiciary is somewhat independent from congress from the president so that they all have their individual powers but what would happen if court packing became acceptable because the first time it happens won't be the last time it means that whoever is in charge will just pack the court until there are 150

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just pack the court until there are 150 people on the court but more likely and this is the this is the the scary part there's a very there's a very uh possible scenario that goes like this democrats win the presidency democrats win maybe even the senate and then democrats pack the courts what happens if democrats have the court congress and the presidency at the same time well under our current you know highly polarized situation it would almost guarantee that they would modify the system until they couldn't lose ever again in other words it would be everything from jerry-rigging to changes in you know how how many uh how many states are there are there are in the union they might accept let's say except puerto rico and guam

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puerto rico and guam turn them into democrat strongholds no no
no i think it was not guam maybe it was dc so i think puerto rico and d.c become states they would both be democratic states democrats would control everything that's it you could very easily reach the point where we're a one-party system and we're this close to it were this close all it would take was a good election cycle this time that's it and once you have only one party they can use the court to lock themselves in because you know republicans might try to challenge it say hey you can't do this or that because it's illegal and then the court says well we're a bunch of democrats and we always go democrat there it is so we actually are this close to losing the republic and the biggest part of that is probably the court packing if the court packing is allowed and joe biden

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biden is not saying no to it he's actually open to it apparently because he's not saying no so if that doesn't scare you you should and here's a frame that i think would be useful for the president people like certainty more than they like improvement this is a very important element of human psychology if you say would you like something to be better everybody says yes of course i like improvement but if you said would you like improvement at the risk that there could be you know might go wrong well then it's different then i'll say depends where i am in life and what's going on maybe maybe i'll just be happy with where things are because the risk of trying to improve it could blow the whole thing biden is the risky play here's why you don't know what you'll get if you

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you don't know what you'll get if you elect if you re-elect president trump do you know what you'll get yes you do you totally know what you'll get with president trump because first of all he has a very strong record of doing what he told you he would do or at least trying to do what he said he would do that's that's kind of unique about trump is that you can really bank on on what you expect him to at least try to do right he's going to go hard at china he's going to try to build a border border wall he's going to you know keep taxes low pretty much everything about trump you kind of can predict will he continue to do things which his critics will call racist of course will they actually be racist probably not
not probably not but you will be accused of it of course so a second trump term would look a whole lot like you expect

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would look a whole lot like you expect it would look what would a second bi or what would be a biden term look like number one who's the president you don't even know who the president is number two who's running biden who is the power behind biden not so sure if you get biden how much of the green new deal do you end up with even if his intention is to stick with the biden green deal you don't know because you don't know how powerful that wing of the party will be a biden presidency is a complete unknown you don't even know if you'll still have a republic literally you don't know if the republic would survive it because packing the court is sort of the end of the republic that turns it into a or could turn it into a one-party system [Music] so uncertainty is a big deal there's a continuing information

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there's a continuing information about new testing stuff for chronovirus so i don't know too much about this it was just a tweet today sheba medical center and israel i guess is testing a new antigen chronovirus test that could give you a result in two to fifteen minutes so and they're working on a i guess they're working on a saliva based test so we're very close to the super cheap saliva test meaning that you can do it yourself you don't need anybody to stick anything up your nose and i don't know how many different test companies are working on it but i'm guessing that the technology involved to make a saliva based cheap no equipment needed coronavirus test is understood because there are enough enough different entities working on it it must be something that people who deal in this field must know how to do so we might be like a month away

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so we might be like a month away from having massive amount of inexpensive testing and then it's going to look good so that's some good news
there's a study out of india that could be really important it says that eight percent of infected people accounted for 60 of new infections so these would be the so-called super spreaders so the super spreaders uh if you if you could somehow identify who was a super spreader and you only could take care of them and nothing else that might take care of it
it because it's such an you know an outsized difference and here's a question i have could you identify the super spreaders by their genes is there a genetic dna kind of correlation because suppose it turns out that in order to be a super spreader you would have to have i don't know some

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you would have to have i don't know some kind of lung lung situation or maybe a blood type i'm just you know spit ball in here there might be something about you that makes you more likely to be a super spreader now it's possible that all that is is you have a big lung capacity or you speak loud maybe that's all it is so maybe you couldn't find that um in in genetics but what if you could what if you could actually find out that some people even if they don't have the infection if they did get the infection they're the type of person who would become a super spreader that would be useful wouldn't it because you could say to yourself we don't have a ton of tests but let's make sure that the
the the people who have a dna propensity to be a super spreader let's make sure we test the crap out of those guys just test them every day you know until we have enough tests to do everybody all the time so that's just a question um

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so that's just a question um here's here's a take that you won't see from people who have uh better instincts for survival than i do
one of the benefits of these periscopes is that i can say things that people don't say out loud you ready here's something that somebody doesn't say out loud too much for all the obvious reasons how many children let's say how many 10 year old children would you trade for how many 80 year olds let's say let's say you knew that the coronavirus was going to take let's say five years off the age of a senior citizen if they get it but if the ten-year-old um can't go to school can't live their regular life you know the everything's shut down what if they kill themselves worst case scenario right kid kid does themselves harm well if a

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kid kid does themselves harm well if a 10 year old their life is ruined by the coronavirus in any way that causes the death the number of years of life that that 10 year old had might be 80. so if a 10 year old were to perish they would lose 80 years of life if an 80 year old dies maybe they lose 5 years of life so if you lost 16 80 year olds it would be the same number of years of life as one kid one kid would be the same number of years of life as 16 80 year olds these yeah i'm just making up these numbers but some somewhere in that range now in public you're supposed to say this every life is precious we don't value one life over another we don't treat anybody as expendable and i agree with all of that that's why you say in public

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you say in public what do you say in private in private you don't say that there are things that you say in public and you should every every life is equal everyone is respected you're gonna fight like hell for every single life that's what you say in public and you should but it's not what you think you don't think that privately privately you know that the life of a child is just worth more than the life of somebody who's 80. it's just a fact and if you ask if you ask the 80 year old well what do you think what do you think 80 year old do you think we should put you at a little more risk to save the life of a kid or at least give them a life that's worth living the 80 year old most of them would say you know maybe so maybe so you know i had a good run
run so here's here's where i'm going with this i think trump's instincts about opening the economy which benefits the young at the expense

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which benefits the young at the expense of the old right opening the economy benefits the young and gives them something like a life something like a better education which affects their whole life and maybe they don't you know die from depression and suicide and drug addiction and all that other stuff i think the president is doing in public what every one of us thinks in private and that's that's one of the reasons he got elected because he can say in public the things that you can only say in private and he's willing to do it and i think that the president is very close to the public in terms of the trade-off of the economy versus lives have you had any conversation in your private life
somebody says my mom is 86 her life is not expendable did i disagree with that did i disagree with that in public every life is precious

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in public every life is precious but the reality is sometimes you have to choose and these choices are adult choices it's not like you get to choose why don't we let them both live and have wonderful lives sometimes you don't have that choice sometimes you just got to make a choice and i think that the president's his bias toward the young is exactly where the public is and i think that um when i hear 200 x 000 americans died of coronavirus i still don't know one let me ask you um here how many of you have a uh somebody close who died from coronavirus because i wonder how how deeply it's getting into the you know the everyday public the fact that i've never met one i i don't know anybody actually zero people that i know personally i i know people who know people but i don't actually still know anybody personally

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actually still know anybody personally so in the comments tell me if you know anybody who's died of coronavirus and let's say that you did let's say you didn't know somebody who wasn't a family member because you're you're way too biased about family members but if let's say you knew an acquaintance who was 80 years old and died of the coronavirus but the trade-off was that the economy got opened children could go to school people could live a you know something closer to a real life what do you think about that if you had to make that choice which way would you go
somebody says in the comments i choose my kids over my mom yup because you would choose your kids over yourself yeah you would choose your kids over your mom that's absolutely true and i i have a feeling that the public is way closer to trump

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that the public is way closer to trump in terms of taking the risk of opening the economy and also the risks about wearing masks and all that so here's the thing that the the illegitimate media doesn't ever do they don't really look at the cost and the benefits they just like to look at the costs or they just like to look at the benefits they don't weigh them and they certainly don't say is there any difference between what you say in public and what you say in private somebody so i'm seeing lots of no's in the comments one says my 80 year old aunt
governor dan patrick said he would risk dying to keep a strong economy for his grandkids you know the a lot of the people in their 80s isn't that the greatest generation the people who fought in world war ii etc uh oh somebody's 92 year old mom had coveted and recovered good for her a friend's uncle

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all right just looking at your comments uh california passed a new racist law uh what did what the hell is wrong with my state what a mess so a california base passed a law that has a ethnic and gender requirement for boards now so if you have a corporation with a board you'll be fined up to a hundred thousand dollars for not having diversity on your board now do i like diversity yes i do yeah i do like diversity is there an advantage to having a diverse corporate board yup yes there is an advantage there's an advantage socially because you can say you did it but there's also an advantage in terms of just being able to look through more windows more points of view how is that how's that bad of course it's of course it's good but should it be a law

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law given that a diverse board is unambiguously good for the company itself and the company would agree with that if you asked any of these corporations hey do you think you know just privately just privately just you know just you and me do you think privately it would be better if you had a more diverse board what would the company what would the company say well if it's a big company i think every one of them would say yeah you know it is better because first of all it will take the heat office that's good second of all the employees are going to like it because they want the board to look like them that's good thirdly our customers are going to like it because they want the company to look you know like the the public and fourthly you're going to get a perspective that you just wouldn't get without it so of course they want it but should it be should it be uh you know a requirement

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a racial requirement that is racist there's no there's no other spin on it if you have a law that requires that some races are okay to put on a board from now on and some are not meaning that the next person you add can't be a you know white male is just racist um but apparently that'll happen uh john thompson on twitter i just uh twitter user john thompson had this tweet he said the violence you see in the streets today is he calls it woke supremacist woke supremacist violence and i thought yeah that is what it is the the the woke uh protesters have become sort of a woke supremacist group because the woke people don't say i wish you would change the way you're acting they say you you suck right the woke people do believe literally believe that they're superior

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believe that they're superior to people that they would consider less woke so isn't that a supremacist thing if you think you're better than the other people that's what that is right um
well there we go so i don't know where we're heading with all this stuff but it does seem that the uh all of the racial and ethnic and gender stuff there's sort of a logical place it all ends up which is failure because if you're focusing on that you can't really solve it because you can never really get to the point where you know you've got the right balance and everybody's happy since it's not possible to make everybody happy you have to find some balance of trying hard enough that you're trying to make things better but you haven't destroyed the whole system and i don't know how how that happens

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all right so that's where we're at today i would expect that the next two debates you would see trump do better uh one of the reasons that trump will do better is because for whatever reason the the incumbent doesn't do well in the first debate it's a weird a weird kind of pattern and i can't convince myself that there's a reason for it except maybe being president is too different from debating and presidents maybe have overconfidence i don't know
but i would expect him to do much better and what is more important the debate that's closer to the election or the one that goes first well experts say the first debate seems to be important but i would argue that the one that is closest to election day would be the most important um yeah my air quality today is unbreathable so i'm locked in the house again once again i'm in house arrest in

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again once again i'm in house arrest in my house
oh let me say one more thing about the uh california law about the boards so the the board will be required to add uh ethnic and gender diversity but here's the funny part uh you can self-describe so apparently you're allowed to self-identify anything you want so how many corporate boards are just going to say hey does anybody want to self-identify as a hawaiian hawaiian native or something anybody want to be native american and somebody will say well i hadn't thought about it before but i'll self-identify and you're all set
um yeah the next the next debate apparently they're talking about cutting off the microphones uh the one thing that i think is hilarious about the first debate is given the way that they organized it

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is given the way that they organized it with these two minutes you get to talk and the other person doesn't get to rebut if the other person doesn't get to rebux they're going to talk over you so whoever designed that first debate they got exactly what they designed it was designed to give you just what you saw especially because president trump was part of it if you design a system where somebody can talk over you and then you say okay i got this system where you could you know there's nothing that would stop them really except the moderator and you can't really stop them and then we're going to add president trump into it what the hell do you expect right so i'm not sure that this whole debate thing even works doesn't seem to have any any real point to it i will say that i am uh surprised and a little bit impressed that joe biden got up the day after the debate and still had a looks like a fully functional day so whatever it is that's that biden is

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so whatever it is that's that biden is experiencing and i feel like it's unambiguously true that he's declining and it's very noticeable that just feels completely true but he does have good periods will that be enough we'll find out oh yes i was going to talk about the kyle rittenhouse thing so apparently biden has referred to kyle rittenhouse in a tweet he's he tweeted a picture of him and referred to him as a white supremacist and in so doing made kyle rittenhouse a rich man because uh kyle written house has a good lawyer linwood who has already said he's going to sue i think he's going to sue the media some part of some part of the media and also joe biden for slandering his client now do you think he'll win yes [Laughter] i would think this would be the the world's easiest

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world's easiest lawsuit is you know because there the evidence of the slanders in a tweet the the evidence that biden should have known that kyle rittenhouse had no connection with white supremacy whatsoever there's no evidence when i say no evidence i mean none there is there's nothing suggesting it there's nothing hinting at it there's nothing there he is nothing but a good guy who found himself in a bad situation you could argue that he made a mistake being there with a gun and i would not debate that but he's a good person apparently and i think linwood is just going to soothe the living crap out of joe biden and i'm going to be pretty happy about that if he gets away with it maybe i can get linwood to sue some of the people on twitter who who call me bad things

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so how much do you like the fact that kyle rittenhouse probably is going to be a millionaire looks like it to me all right that's all for now and i will talk to you tomorrow