Episode 1032 Scott Adams - Why Your Vote is Irrelevant This Time, Baby Memes, Supreme Court

hey everybody come on in it's time Diane for a coffee with Scott Adams I hope you'll ignore this probably racist symbol on my shirt I haven't checked the news today but if triangles can be racist I'm pretty sure checkmarks they're next we're coming for you checkmarks well if you'd like to enjoy today's coffee with Scott Adams what do you think you need to do it yeah that's right coffee or a beverage of your choice and all you need is a cup of ugh door glass attacker chelators Divac ante joker flasks a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that don't put me in the end of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous if it happens now go hmm so some days the news is funnier than other days and I love it when I wake up to a day of nothing but funny news it's all funny today I'm pretty sure this somewhere in the world there are tragedies and deaths but the news no longer cares about that stuff we're into the racist baby stuff and and more fun all right so here are some things that are not covered in the news today is anybody protesting what exactly is going on with the coverage of the protests did they stop and if they stopped is that news or they just plan them for the weekends because it's easier to do them on weekends so I guess there there are plans for violent and tight people to show up at the Trump in Tulsa how do you think that's gonna go I've got a feeling Tulsa is going to be pretty lit now one of the things that's really tough for the anti-trump errs is that every time you see footage on television of democrats destroying the world and then you're going to juxtapose that to the president in front of a packed stadium full of law-abiding citizens I'm starting to wonder if Biden even needs to rather anymore I really will talk about the polls in a little bit but how does how does anybody get their sign elected if their team wants to show nonstop violence as the alternative to trump basically I mean you could say they're happening at the same time so it's not the alternative but it's gonna feel like it it's gonna feel like two teams one is setting your one is setting your business on fire and the other team is trying to make America great again or whatever it's gonna be a tough one and it makes me wonder if the networks are going to have to not cover it how are you done gonna cover this because if they show it it's just gonna be all bad you know visually it'll be just devastating and I think that the public's let's say the public's of flexibility or understanding in terms of protests and violence started out very flexible because everybody was you know shocked about George Floyd and if you saw somebody acting out because of that you would say to yourself well I wish they wouldn't but I kind of get it you know you sort of understood at least you know even if you wouldn't have done it you could say yeah you know thank you I can see how that could happen but the longer it goes the less credible the you know the protesters are especially since there were lots of suggestions that have been floated and everybody seems to be taking them seriously so that should be good news but it won't stop the protests in Tulsa I would expect a good deal of violence when they happens unfortunately so I put up a little poll on Twitter just before I got on but there was still hundreds of responses and I asked this question knowing that all digital trails are discoverable and that you can lose your job and your family for supporting Trump would you tell a pollster if you plan to vote for Trump now of course these are highly unscientific polls but the only the only thing you can really tell with a Twitter poll is does there exist a lot of people who have a certain opinion you can't even really know if it's more or less because it's that unscientific but you could tell if there are a lot of them I mean that would come across pretty clearly by a by ratio of about two to one last I checked two people said they would not talk to the pollster for everyone that would two people said they would either lie to the pollster or not give them an answer for everyone that would now you might say to yourself Scott Scott Scott there's been polling forever blah blah blah we have the same problem you know in 2016 Trump was unpopular then oh no it's not the same it's not even close to the same as 2016 in 2016 did you think you would lose your job for being a trump supporter I mean I'm sure people did but it probably wasn't the top thing you were worrying about right at the moment in 2020 it might be the top thing you're worrying about there may be people all over the country who were saying oh god I hope somebody didn't see that tweet I did two years ago I could get fired so at the moment the fear is real what what have I told you is the most motivating persuasion bar none nothing is more persuasive than this one thing fear yeah fear fear is always the most persuasive because it you have to protect yourself first before you can do anything you can't eat if you think you're gonna get killed right away so so given that a real fear this is not hypothetical there is an actual real fear that you can lose everything your friends your job etc so I don't think we've ever had a polling situation that was this you know rife with possible mischief I don't know if it's mischief so much as an assault self-preservation but here's the other thing that changed four years ago were you as aware as you are now of course you were aware but there's a difference between knowing something is true sort of intellectually and having it just forced to the front of your brain where your brain can't see anything else that's really different in both cases you knew it was the case there's there's no new information and I'll tell you what I'm talking about in the moment but there's a difference between just knowing it's true and just having it you know overwhelm your brain you'll act differently in those two cases and what we've watched for the last four years especially with the Russia collusion stuff is that absolutely no digital trail is safe no database can't be hacked no server can't be hacked and we've seen a complete willingness of people to share and Docs people so the things that are really different you always knew the government could find out anything right you knew they could track your phone you knew that on some level they might be collecting all of your digital data etc but it wasn't front of mind but if you turn on the TV and every single day there's a new story of somebody's email text message you know data guy hacked every freaking day that knowledge that used to be just something you knew is now lighting up your whole brain like your brain is on fire with the idea that there's no privacy for digital communication and it's true there is no privacy the only product I've said this before the only privacy that we'll have in the future is being boring if you're boring nobody wants to look at your stuff anyway so being boring is literally the only protection you'll have that you can you know feel confident about that as long as nobody cares about you they will look at your stuff but even then of course they would I've got a question for you has the Supreme Court just turned into a popularity poll and I'll ask you this question because I'm not I don't really follow the Supreme Court you know I just follow the headlines when they're in it but can somebody who can know something answer this question when was the last time the Supreme Court had a ruling that went against popular opinion and let's say let's say popular opinion had to be at least sorry I'm having terrible allergy problems one of and let's say for the purposes of this that that popular opinion had to be at least 55% in favor of whatever position whatever the topic is doesn't matter but when was the last time the supreme court voted against the public majority say buddy no because I feel like I feel like you stopped happening I'm not I'm not entirely sure it matters honestly I actually don't but I don't actually don't think it matters so he says Roe versus Wade I doubt that's true could be Brown versus Board of Education yeah you have to go back pretty far somebody say is the travel ban I don't know about that all right well there are some questions there might be some that were lesser issues that people were too worked up about and then maybe in those cases the court feels safe to go against it but I feel like there's some kind of weird self-preservation happening with a Supreme Court well all of our institutions have lost their credibility I feel like the Supreme Court might be trying to and again this is mind reading so remember I always warn you you can't know what people are thinking you just can't you know they can tell you and they may or may not be tell you the truth but you can't know what strangers are thinking it's just not a thing and but we we can speculate you know there's something that's that makes you scratch your head and say you know what I got some questions somebody says Obamacare I've seen lots of examples go by but but let me just put this proposition out there the Supreme Court might need to maintain is credibility even more importantly than getting a decision right what do you agree that's true yeah you know if you're a Chief Justice or any of the members of the Supreme Court would your priorities be that the most important thing is to maintain the credibility of the court itself independent of what the actual decision is because I feel like that is the priority meaning that if I heard that was their priority I would say oh yeah you know when you think about it it probably does need to be the priority because the way that the court can maintain its credibility is of course going with the majority that's probably better than going with the minority right if if the core is sided with the minority of the public I don't know it can last right it's got it it's got to be with the public at least often enough on the big stuff that the public says oh I don't like all of your decisions but usually you're with the public so now that's not how the public should think right the public should not judge the credibility of the court by whether it agrees with what they would have done that's the worst way to judge them what do we do because we're not very sophisticated overall and so we look at the court and we say well it disagreed with me three and four times I guess they're not credible that's exactly what you think you would think that they had no value at all if they did their job perfectly followed the Constitution followed the law and just just interpreted that law if it didn't agree with your opinion you'd say they weren't credible so I've got a feeling that the court is always balancing these two competing and very very important issues because if the Supreme Court lost its credibility below let's say some there's probably some hypothetical support level beyond which the institutions in trouble I think they've kind of stay above the line and every now and then they might have to you know nudge a decision toward keeping their own credibility if it's at all close now I'm not suggesting that they do that consciously but I would if I were on the Supreme Court I would say quite reasonably I don't think there's anything unreasonable about this I would say you know the worst thing that could happen is to lose the trust of the public in the Supreme Court because the Supreme Court they end up being the tiebreaker for a lot of stuff if you lose your if you lose all your credibility you know there's always criticism but if you lose all of your credibility and you're the tiebreaker that's pretty dangerous it's dangerous because what do you do I mean if you don't have that ultimate credible tiebreaker so if I were on the Supreme Court I would sometimes do things just to remain credible even if it wasn't exactly where I think law is pointing because it is a greater good I think there's a case to be made for that alright I provocatively tweeted the other day that in this election the upcoming election your votes won't matter now here's what I mean by that these are some things we can predict with complete certainty we can we know with complete certainty that there will be allegations of a vote Reagan both the left of the right do you agree so far so far we all on the same page there's a hundred percent chance that both the left and the right no matter what the hell-- companists of the election independent of the outcome both the left or the right will have examples or at least allegations of election tampering election you know suppressing the votes of black voters for example now whether or not these are good examples whether or not they really happen whether or not they're true or not doesn't matter they will be believed do you are you with me so far that when the Republicans have whatever allegations you know they're gonna have that Republicans will think well that's probably true and it might be true because it'll be based on two anecdotes and specific stories could well be true you know the left will have their anecdotes and stories and they'll be able to point to things and you know the left will completely believe it just like the right completely believes their site and pretty much everything so we're gonna have this situation where there's a guaranteed question about the result probably we've had this sort of complain to every election from the beginning of time probably there's never an election or national election in which there isn't at least somebody saying it was rigged or at least somebody is pointing in a problem pretty much universal and we always get by it right it seems like it doesn't stop the system it's a little bit of complaining but we'll live with the result anyway because there because overall the system is credible you know Americans do pretty much trust the voting system even though it's got all these irregularities that's what it used to be I don't think that's the case anymore here's what changed the ability of the the press the media the manipulators behind the currents the ability to ramp up people's emotions is at a super weaponized level even way beyond where it was in 2016 I would say that we've we've advanced a lot really a lot in our ability to set people's brains on fire and make them mad or excited or afraid or anxious or greedy or something and so what we're gonna go into is a situation where there's a hundred percent chance that the left will feel let's say that they lose they lose let's say Trump gets elected hypothetically what will the left to say they'll say the vote was rigged of course because the polls will say it couldn't have happened you see where this is going the polls will say it's not possible so if Trump wins and there's widespread allegations there always will be of election tampering what will the left do they'll stage a coup now this is again a safe prediction why because they are a stage to kill several in fact it's nonstop to stuff you know the impeachment was a coup the you know the Russia collusion stuff was a coup attempt the 25th amendment stuff is a coup all of these anonymous alleged books about what really happened in the room with Trump they're all coup attempts they're all coup attempts they're just in many cases completely legal just because I call it a coup don't assume it's illegal they're just using every lever every button every mechanism just they're throwing the kitchen sink at it to take event of office without the benefit of a vote now I'm going to use the word coup to mean removing a president in any mechanism other than just a normal vote so will there be a coup if or at least a coup attempt if Trump wins the election and I would say the answer is a hundred percent there's really no chance it wouldn't happen what does anybody even disagree with that I don't see any I can't imagine anybody would disagree with that statement now we don't know what it would look like it could be another massive fake news story I could be like Russia collusion where the British government runs an operation against the United States and we blame it on Russia I didn't say that just ignore that last sentence didn't happen go on with your business nothing to see here so it could be something like that could be completely different but one thing that it might be is violent in other words the the protesters are doing this giant test run to see if you can flood the streets with people and make a difference and apparently it does it works the you know they're willing to burn down the whole country so Trump will be in an interesting situation which is if he has to use force to to stop a coup which won't look like a coup and just look like demonstrators calling him a racist that will be interesting so I but I think that's where we're heading so in all likelihood so my my current estimates are a hundred percent chance that Trump will be re-elected unless something big changes between now and Election Day will something big change between now and Election Day of course I will are you kidding me something big will change next week and the week after or the week after so these kinds of predictions are kind of useless because they're straight line predictions in a world that we can't know a straight line the world doesn't even know how to go in a straight line and then I predicted that if Trump is elected there's a 50% chance that the coup will succeed I think there was a 50% chance that the rush occlusion thing or the Ukrainian thing or some other thing could have succeeded I think there was a good 50% chance it just didn't go their way all right one of the funniest stories is so carpe Noctem did a meme video showing some footage of a toddler I think they might have been three years old I can't tell the ages of little kids and but they're sort of barely can walk kind of toddlers yeah one was white one was black and they were they're our best friends and they were hugging on the sidewalk and then they happily go running down the street now what carpe Noctem did which was brilliant yes he showed that showed that in reverse order with the clips without the part where the kids are obviously best friends hugging each other and loving each other instead shows them running down the street but because the little black toddler had started first it could be interpreted as if the little white toddler is chasing the black look see if he didn't see them hugging just before that now the funny part is that so carpe diem adds a fake Tyrod you know the words at the bottom of the screen to make it look like it's a CNN report and that the chyron says you know white white baby white racist baby he chases black baby or something like that and here's the funny part I've told you this before the perfect prank is one that only the the victim of the prank can tell it's a prank that's what makes a joke really good all right it's one thing just to mock people and here's a funny picture or you know that's sort of one dimension but if you can come up with the perfect prank only the subject of the prank can't tell it's a prank and the reason is they can't tell parody from reality and if you could find somebody who literally can't tell the difference between reality and parody then you do a prank that's a parody and they just can't tell but everybody else can tell because they're not they're not hypnotized in the same way so when I watched it I honestly I couldn't even imagine how anybody would think this was true it's so obviously not true that I just registers that joke and I laughed at it I would guarantee that close to a hundred percent of Trump supporters and Fox News Watchers would look at that video and immediately immediately go haha it's a joke probably a hundred percent but the New York Times and CNN and all the fact checkers had to fact-check it for their audience I'll betcha there was not one conservative publication that fact checked it because they didn't have to correct a fact check this this statement so here's my statement there probably was no conservative publication that even they didn't even occur to them to fact check it why would they because they don't think anybody wouldn't be confused by it of course they cover the story of the others fact check yet but I think the Washington Post C and then the New York Times I don't know how many people on the left fact check this thing but just stop and pause for a moment that there were enough people on the Left who thought it would be believable wait wait for this who thought it would be perfectly believable the CNN would run a story a video of two toddlers chasing each other one chasing the other and called the one toddler or racist baby now their audience apparently thinks that's possible which is frickin hilarious so of course it got cold because you know I got labeled by Twitter for being misleading perfect it got the fact checked everywhere perfect it got tweeted by the president perfect it became a national story perfect and it was short and you know sometimes memes can go out a little bit too long that's my only complaint about the political memes I like of a short this was just the right length perfect visual and part of the reason I think they were complaining so much about it is that it was really powerful visually when you when you watch the the two kids hugging you can just feel their joy these are two little kids who are really genuinely happy to see each other I mean they really like each other and it immediately reminds you that that's how you started right like you immediately go to your baby self and say oh yeah there probably was a time not that you remember it right but there probably was a time that I couldn't even tell the difference between black people and white people like I didn't even know it was important it just it wasn't a variable everybody looks different somehow why was I going to pick out that one difference it didn't occur to me that was my friend Bob so so it's really powerful in the way it works on your mind so this isn't just a funny meme it's hilarious as well crafted it's race size got the president's attention got national news got a controversy about it got removed from a lot of places man you can't you can't hit a longer long ball than that so this one I will elevate to masterpiece status if if they were giving awards for memes this would be your Academy Award for 20:20 so congratulations to carpet Duncan by the way if you're not watching karpay Duncan's career how it sort of evolved from the first election it's really fun to watch because he as well as many others are just putting together their talents tax and just watching it come together it's just it's just fun to watch it's a great show speaking of art and speaking of masterpieces this next this next thing I'm going to tell you is maybe the hardest thing I've ever tried to communicate I spent I spent probably 30 minutes last night trying to compose a tweet on this topic and in the end I sort of gave up because there are some things that buy their weird nature can't be explained by some people in other words it's something you could explain easily but I can't here's the situation you've probably seen on Twitter Acura the Don his username is a at Aki RA th e do it and he makes music one of the things he's made and there was a little clip that he's released is he's taken my the audio from my periscopes and he's taken selected clips from audios especially of the periscopes that are not political so that there's nothing political in the music but when I talk about the user interface for reality for example and he put it to music now here's why I couldn't compose the tweet because I need more time to talk about it like I'm going to do now if I just told you that somebody whose music you were not familiar with necessarily had put my audio from my periscope to music what would be your first impression of how good that would be not very good right wouldn't that be yours at your assumption your first assumption would be I don't know if I want to listen to that I mean maybe for curiosity but it's not gonna be like you know art or music right I mean it doesn't make any sense you're gonna be surprised all right now here's the part that I couldn't tell when I listened to it it actually just blew me away but I couldn't tell if it's because I was listening to my own voice because think how powerful that would be to hear yourself talking to yourself in a way you weren't expecting so you don't know what's gonna come you know it's because the order of it and the presentation was new to me as well even though it was my words it was somewhat new to me because the way it was composed so I wasn't sure if if what was happening is I was just having a personal experience that would not be in any way generalized to other people so I tweeted it out saying as little about it as possible because I couldn't describe it and I wanted to see what the comments were it turns out people really like it people really liked it and I was trying to figure out why and I'll take my best crack in it you know you've seen you've seen the popularity of mashups where you'll have let's say a rapper be doing you know some kind of rap a part of the song and then maybe Rihanna or somebody would come in and do more musically I don't know I don't have the musical terms but you know I'm talking about so you'd have somebody you have a completely different style a rapper style mix it was somebody who was more classically you know a singer and so how it's better I don't know why like I've thought about it for a long time it's like why is this better when you put two completely thing different things together it doesn't quite make sense but it is I mean I listen to like okay that's better I don't know why I think it has something to do with in that case you're waiting for the part you're waiting for or there might be some anticipation about it I don't know maybe there's some context or contrast that makes them makes it a thing but what I listen to this here's best guess about why I had an effect on me as you don't I'm a trained hypnotist and a very experienced communicator so when you hear my words they tend to carry more weight than an untrained communicator so if you said to yourself it's just somebody talking and they put it to music it wouldn't be this because even when I hear myself sometimes I play back my periscopes just see if I can learn anything you know to improve them and when I'm playing back my own periscopes you know I I I see the density in them that I didn't know I had when I started so what I was doing it I wasn't aware of it but I wanted to watch it I can watch it like a spectator and I'll think wow that's pretty dense but also I realized that I'm using massively and I don't even do it consciously the techniques of hypnosis so while that well I don't think that was his intention to make a hypnosis slash musical product because everything I do is sort of infused with persuasion that the little clips of my voice you know forget about them musically they just activate a different part of your brain and so what you're feeling is that the text is activating one part of your brain well the music is activating another and there's two parts of your brain that you just don't activate at the same time and that's why it has a weird effect on you because you haven't had those two parts of your brain simultaneously activated it's not the same it's just hearing somebody talk because again I've infused it with without trying I infuse it with a lot more weight than normal words and it's just because of training and technique anybody you know Tony Robbins would do the same thing without trying so I recommend it at the same time I just don't know how to describe it because it's it's just now like anything else scout speaks perfectly that's a callback to I told you the story when I'd lost my voice for three and a half years and I literally couldn't communicate at least you know I could make noise but I couldn't make full sentences and stuff and my affirmation at the time was that I would speak perfectly now I don't speak perfectly because perfect is a standard you can't really achieve but nonetheless it is true that my voice is on a a work of art that's music now I can't tell if he enhanced my voice or he just added it down anything that was weak sounding but it does sound better than my normal voice I don't know how he did that so there might be some digital magic about that now you might have Auto tuned it possibly if you listened to it is there somebody smart enough to know that my voice was auto-tune or even a little bit I can't tell but there does seem to be a little more character in my voice than what I would normally hear if I just played it back it could be in my imagination so I don't know yes so it's on Spotify so you can look for it the single is the single is called it feels like it works so look for a cure of the dawn Aki RA the d om and this should pop up with your google searches and there's a whole album coming then I haven't heard yet but impressive right Amy Klobuchar said she was dropping out in the running to be the vice presidential pick because she thinks that Biden should pick a woman of color so throwing Elizabeth Warren under the bus at the same time now because you are a seasoned political observer what do you make of the story that Amy Klobuchar withdrew withdrew from consideration to be the vice presidential pick what does it mean that she withdrew and in withdrawing said that she sports a woman of color let me read between the lines the choice is already made do you think amy klobuchar gives up I don't think so no maybe maybe but there's nothing about her vibe or anything that I've seen about her I have actually a very positive a very positive overall opinion of Amy Klobuchar and they have since the beginning although on day one I didn't think she had the charisma so I thought she's she's wanting in Purisima but that's a you know I'm not sure you can fix charisma but in terms of being a serious capable you know highest level politician I always thought she was very good and she was certainly smart enough to know that if the selection had already been made the smartest thing she could do is act as though the selection had not already been made and then drop out by recommending a person of color Biden presumably has already picked comel Harris and everybody knows it then when he does pick her people who could say oh that's exactly what Amy Klobuchar advised him to do she wins so in other words she already knows she lost the race to be vice president it's obvious to me she already knows that's over the best thing she could salvage from this is to predict or advise or suggest the thing that's already happened because you're not going to be wrong if you suggest something that's already happened and I'm sure that cuddly Harris has been selected at this point now anything could change she could be deselected I don't think that would be the first time a vice presidential pick you know got altered at the last minute but at the moment it looks like looks like she's the pick and here's something the Harris did today which reminded me of Trump I've told you before that I think her advisers are now the world class type when she was running just as a candidate in the primaries she was a hot mess in terms of her messaging or body language or her unconfident laughs it was just a mess and all of that just suddenly changed and even her strategy I thought was weak but even her strategy is better so I always tell you that Trump picks up free money I use that as an analogy free money meaning that Trump will do the thing that is all upside no downside and for some reason nobody else thought to do it it was just right there it was just obvious it's just right here pick up the free money anybody anybody so that's why Harris did she's planning to introduce a bill that declares Juneteenth a national holiday now your first question should be why her well did nobody else think of that if if President Trump had suggested this first to make June teeth the national holiday I don't know if there's any resistance from Republicans I haven't heard of any I don't know if there would be but I would consider this under the condition the Republicans would generally support this and I don't know if that's the case yet I haven't seen any opinions but I would say that in this case if that's true and if let's say Harris introduces it let's say it gets passed especially because the you know the the mood of the country maybe it just sails through I would say that would be an error on the president's part it would be an error because he didn't do it I mean if this thing is gonna get past the president should have done that was just free money but if it doesn't get past that I would know why he didn't do it right so so we'll wait to see if it gets passed but the fact that she saw the free money and picked it up tells me that maybe Democrats sort of got out of the way and said all right we're gonna you know we want to help the future ticket so the rest of us will just back up let Harris go forward get the attention free Bunny so whoever is advising the Harris you are nail Ian's my friends you are nailing it you know how much I've mocked her for her laugh her subconscious laugh or self-conscious laugh there's a video in which forget who was interviewing her and the question they asked is how could she be potentially Wow how could she support Biden or even be in consideration as a VP choice when she was so savaged to him at the debates now that that's gonna be the big question right you know everybody's gonna ask , lares about her prosecution background and they're gonna ask her about throwing Biden under the bus as being a you know racist obviously he's not and that'll be the question so you know she prepared for the question and you know I believe she has now the highest level advisors who would have given her the right answer and so the question is asked and she just starts laughing because it's so ridiculous and but she's laughing at her own answer and she goes it was a debate and then she laughs and then she says a debate and laughs the more she goes it was scheduled debate we were debating because that's what you do when you debate and then she laughed again but here's what's different the laughs didn't look like the old laughs if she fixed her laugh which I wasn't even sure could be done I thought it maybe could be done but I think she fixed it because this was not a self-conscious laugh it was a confident laugh she was so confident rightly so because her answer was a homerun the correct answer is it was a debate follow-up and it was a debate wouldn't want me to add some detail to the answer it was a debate can you go deeper yes it was a debate and laugh every time you can't beat that you could not beat that for a perfect way to handle that situation laugh and call it a debate never go deeper period end of story I should not say period end of story I mock that it's too easy it's in your brain and then it just comes out and then when it comes out you go a half I wish I had done that so watching her go from a self-conscious nervous-looking laugh to a laugh that is so confident she won't even stop doing it in public like she just laughed and called it's a debate you're silly it's a debate look let me remind you because I know this is gonna happen when I say good things about any female politician somebody in the comments will always say it doesn't matter who it is oh you have a crush on her you'll love her all you have such a you know you want to you want to be with her so I'm gonna block anybody who does that it's just it doesn't add anything all right brian Stelter you all know him CNN and one of the funniest tweets accidently he said doctor foul a diagnosing an American problem quote this is from foul chief there's a combination of an anti science bias that people are for reasons that sometimes are you know inconceivable and not understandable they just don't believe science and they they don't believe Authority well is there anything that could have happened in the last I don't know last twelve months or so anything that would make the public less trusting of experts and authority and science I'm racking my brain now anybody can anybody think of anything an example of some time that the the experts were not exactly right I'm coming up blank I got nothing now recall my earlier story about car P dumped UM's meme the reason it worked is as CNN literally can't tell the difference between parody and reality because they deal with so much fake news that fake news is sort of the the hybrid of of parody and reality like it looks so similar so brian Stelter tweeted this maybe like it wasn't a joke you know like the rest of the country wouldn't laugh at this out loud you can't read this you can't read this and not laugh at it but I don't think brian Stelter knew the half of the country would laugh out loud because his network has been feeding us a non-stop diet of fake news from experts everyone of the experts who lied to us or got things wrong was featured on CNN every one of them every one of them often so I mean this is parody in reality merging again alright here's the funniest comment in a tweet that I've seen in a while and I have to warn you that I have a very low brow sense of humor so this was some lowbrow humor that's actually kind of clever that made me laugh so I I'm doing this cartoon most of you seen it called robots read news and I thought most of them behind a subscription wall on the locals platform so if you want to see all of them especially the edgier ones that I don't put on Twitter you can see them by being a subscriber locals LOC ALS and you can see the link in my profile on Twitter anyway the the comic I did a comic mocking the claims in the John Bolton book and the the essence of the comic was that the robot was reading the news and he reported that the book says that President Trump was taking a on the resolute desk while asking questions about nuking the moon now it's funny because the Bolden book is so ridiculous and is so filled with obvious lies at least obvious to me that there's nothing that you couldn't expect would be in it I mean so so yeah so I said that it was on the resolute desk we'll ask you about nuking the moon and here's the comment I got from unstoppable Chuck testa was a trump supporter he says that's it I baked desk into the cake what I voted for the guy I've been laughing for two days of that I baked cake no I baked desk into the cake when I voted for the guy that's so perfect because again the reason it's funny is because if you are CNN if you were CNN and you read this comment you wouldn't know he was joking you actually wouldn't know he was joking if you were brian Stelter you'd look at this and say like I think they would vote for him if he on the resolute desk well so we also in the news here's a tweet by President Trump let's see if you can see the foreshadowing of this tweet now I think the president does this a lot he sort of he broadcasts or he he suggests where things are going before the decisions are made you know sort of testing them in advance and here's I think this is a test balloon so Trump tweeted it was not ambassador light houser's light eyes errs it was not ambassador light Heiser's fault yesterday in committee in that perhaps I didn't make myself clear that the u.s.

certainly does maintain a policy option under various conditions of a complete decoupling from China thank you the president just tweeted that we're keeping open the option under various conditions of a complete decoupling from China do you see that news on any of the any of the front pages it's the biggest news of the last 50 years here's what I think I think the president is has been so rightly embarrassed by China's you know unwillingness to be a good negotiating partner and I think the president gave them every opportunity to be friends which is exactly the right way to do it all right I don't think the president should have gone hard at China should never have used the word decoupling never the president never should have used the word decoupling in a in the sense of maybe it's an option two years ago if he had sent it two years ago I would have been whoa that's crazy you're negotiating with him we don't know if it's gonna work out yet maybe it'll work out you know maybe you can get something done it'll be hard but maybe it can be done so you certainly wouldn't say decoupling two years ago you go in with friend friend friend you're my friend President Xi I respect you and then you see what you can do now what was what was the net effect of the president's completely smart strategic original approach which is if you can get it to if you can get something done as friends well that's always gonna be the first choice right first choice always didn't work not only did it not work but China doesn't even look like it was serious about any of it it looks like he was they were just playing now he has more options because now that he's he's completely drained any any options of them being good players and responsible and you know good world citizens no that's all gone now so now he can just put it on the table give us what we want or go die which is what this tweet sent you have to read between the lines but let me read it to you and then I'll read between the lines so he's saying that the u.s.

certainly does maintain a policy option under various conditions of a complete decoupling for China under various conditions do you know what the various condition is give us what we need or go die we're decoupling that's it it's no longer a negotiation people now it's an ultimatum he's putting it in the form of you know diplomatic talk well if you do this we'll do this but it's now an ultimatum he just put decoupling on the table and China if you're listening China I think you are listening now one of the questions you might be having China because I'm pretty sure they have people who monitor you know most of the political talk in the United States I don't know if they watch maybe in particular but let's say they do China you're probably wondering is that a bluff would the president actually D Koppel from China I mean I know it's something that people say on Twitter but the president just used that word is he bluffing well let me say it to you as clearly as I possibly can in China nope nope 0% chance he's bluffing zero there's no chance if you think he's bluffing about decoupling you're wrong you're wrong this is real now of course it depends like you says on various conditions because so China can always you know offer concession and and and take decoupling off the table they have an option but it's pretty clear that they don't have any intention of doing that would you say it's pretty clear that they're just gonna push and take advantage anywhere they can and you can't really do business with somebody who has that strategic you know attitude you can't do business with somebody who only wants to screw you and it's looking for every opening to do it that's just not somebody you can do business with so you have to decouple if you're if you're dealing with something like that so yeah the president doesn't tweet this unless he means it that is absolutely serious China that when you don't give us what we want and you won't you won't you know you won't he's gonna decouple and it will be the greatest thing that ever happened to this country because China has been dragging us down for a long time took 40% of our manufacturing while we're getting it back we're gonna take it back China you've got problems there your problems now let's see the john bolton bombshell is that according to john bolton who is a mind reader i don't know if he knew this but the but john bolton among his many qualities can read the inner thoughts of the president i can't do it maybe you can't but john bolton can and he wrote a whole book about his mind reading of the president's inner intentions and here's what he found the there's a he made a bombshell claim his book that president Trump he wanted to do good things for the country but only for his own selfish purposes yeah yeah the president was trying to get a good trade deal with China just to get elected I don't know you know this is almost as bad as that like a store selling you a product and they say it's good for you they say you'll like the product and it will have advantages and solve your problems that's what they say when they sell you things but I have a suspicion the stores sell things for selfish purposes it's really not about the customer I hate to tell you that because you're people you buy things from probably they say hey this will be good for you I think you'll be happy if you buy this if you have this car you're gonna enjoy it I'm starting to think that's not why they do it I feel like people don't sell things for your benefit it's almost like there's some kind of selfish thing they're trying to do do they make money somehow by selling you stuff instead of just doing it for your benefit I confused by capitalism and in politics too because according to John Bolton there are people that we've elected completely unknowingly you know we thought we were electing good people but I am shocked there are people in the government who do things in public that are good for the public but not for us it's not for us it's for themselves bastards well the MBA has a new plan for getting back to games to interesting features of this one of course is that they won't have an a crowd and it looks like they're they're looking to pipe in artificial crowd noise maybe from a video game or something so this is a real plan they've got artificial crowd noise and it looks like they're just gonna you know sample it over top of the game now I am not in favor of that I would recommend and I think think you probably do it quickly a an app or some kind of a bottle where the people working at home can actually cheer at home and then if you're watching the game on TV and you go yay that you're yay goes into your phone or whatever device you're using it gets summed up with all the other people who are you know chanting and then nobody hears your specific voice it just gets summed up as crowd noise and presented in real-time would there be a delay there might be a lag that could be a problem because you do need instance instead of noise I think you could do without the delay probably yeah or at least without much so I would like to see real crowd noise as from your living rooms summed up tin - crowd noise and that would actually be cool but if you were to game and you knew that there was a guy with a button and he was just pushing the the cheering button every time there was a basket how quickly will that bother you now it might not bother you because you watch if you've watched sitcoms forever they have the laugh track and you this seems to work now a Seinfeld famously did not have a laugh track did you know that the Seinfeld famously did not have a laugh track nor do movie is back when funny movies were being made I don't know when the last funny movie was made but back when movies were funny of course a movie doesn't have a laugh track so you don't need one but it's definitely true that it's been tested and for some segments of the population for some kinds of content it does seem to help you know the scripted half-hour comedies on TV but those are died again so and I think the laugh track might be part of why they were less popular talk about free money here's one - that Trump did he was asked about Colin Kaepernick injury and if he should get his job back now you all remember the story he called the the people who were kneeling and disrespecting the flag in Trump's opinion he thought they were all bastards was that no sons of they're all sons of which of course was interpreted as racist which it wasn't because I'm pretty sure sons of come in every flavor but Trump said the things Kaepernick should get a job if you know if he's still good enough so you know he didn't have an opinion on his skills but he said yeah I think a team should hire him that was exactly the right answer because President Trump is what kind of president what kind of president is president Trump jobs is the jobs president if you ask the jobs president hey should this black guy I'm just to say black guy because that's the context of the story should this black guy get a job what should the jobs of president say there's only one right answer yep if he's qualified yep Anand bigger asleep now that has nothing to do with his disagreement with kneeling but to separate the question of should Kaepernick get a job you're the jobs president if he had said that Kaepernick should not get a job because he disagrees with the the kneeling I don't know if I could have supported this president because you know what I want I want people to have jobs Kapernick or not I've been Pro Kaepernick since the beginning much to your displeasure I will reiterate that just because I'm talking about it being Pro Kaepernick means not necessarily agreeing with all of his political points or even the way he did it I'm just saying that he was effective he seems to be the real deal cuz you don't see him I know he's he's still on point on message he seems genuinely seems passionate it's a cause that has you know real concern I like him as a patriot honestly I like him as a rebel I like him as a patriot I don't really follow football don't care about his his athletic abilities but I agree with the president absolutely if he's qualified for the job he should absolutely get a job very much so and in fact I think it would be good for the game I would watch I think I'd watch a Kaepernick game even if I don't watch football because I'd kind of be curious how it would go so you don't have to like him personally I don't know him personally I'm just saying that as a protester as a patriot I like it even if you disagree with some of the details let's see what else we got going on here make sure I didn't miss anything because it's all so terribly important no I think it had it all all right no Caesar triangles are not see that's all you need to know that's all I got for now people are saying he's not a good quarterback I don't know who knows I'll talk to you tomorrow

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it happens now go hmm so some days the

news is funnier than other days and I

love it when I wake up to a day of

nothing but funny news it's all funny

today I'm pretty sure this somewhere in

the world there are tragedies and deaths

but the news no longer cares about that

stuff we're into the racist baby stuff

and and more fun all right so here are

some things that are not covered in the

news today

is anybody protesting what exactly is

going on with the coverage of the

protests did they stop and if they

stopped is that news or they just plan

them for the weekends because it's

easier to do them on weekends so I guess

there there are plans for violent and

tight people to show up at the Trump

in Tulsa how do you think that's gonna

go I've got a feeling Tulsa is going to

be pretty lit now one of the things

that's really tough for the anti-trump

errs is that every time you see footage

on television of democrats destroying

the world and then you're going to

juxtapose that to the president in front

of a packed stadium full of law-abiding

citizens I'm starting to wonder if Biden

even needs to rather anymore I really

will talk about the polls in a little

bit but how does how does anybody get

their sign elected if their team wants

to show nonstop violence as the

alternative to trump basically I mean

you could say they're happening at the

same time so it's not the alternative

but it's gonna feel like it it's gonna

feel like two teams one is setting your

one is setting your business on fire and

the other team is trying to make America

great again or whatever it's gonna be a

tough one and it makes me wonder if the

networks are going to have to not cover

it how are you done gonna cover this

because if they show it it's just gonna

be all bad you know visually it'll be

just devastating and I think that the

public's let's say the public's of

flexibility or understanding in terms of

protests and violence started out very

flexible because everybody was you know

shocked about George Floyd and if you

saw somebody acting out because of that

you would say to yourself well I wish

they wouldn't but I kind of get it you

know you sort of understood at least you

know even if you wouldn't have done it

you could say yeah you know thank you I

can see how that could happen but the

longer it goes the less credible the you

know the protesters are especially since

there were lots of suggestions that have

been floated

and everybody seems to be taking them

seriously so that should be good news

but it won't stop the protests in Tulsa

I would expect a good deal of violence

when they happens unfortunately so I put

up a little poll on Twitter just before

I got on but there was still hundreds of

responses and I asked this question

knowing that all digital trails are

discoverable and that you can lose your

job and your family for supporting Trump

would you tell a pollster if you plan to

vote for Trump now of course these are

highly unscientific polls but the only

the only thing you can really tell with

a Twitter poll is does there exist a lot

of people who have a certain opinion you

can't even really know if it's more or

less because it's that unscientific but

you could tell if there are a lot of

them I mean that would come across

pretty clearly by a by ratio of about

two to one

last I checked two people said they

would not talk to the pollster for

everyone that would two people said they

would either lie to the pollster or not

give them an answer for everyone that

would now you might say to yourself

Scott Scott Scott there's been polling

forever blah blah blah we have the same

problem you know in 2016

Trump was unpopular then oh no it's not

the same it's not even close to the same

as 2016 in 2016 did you think you would

lose your job for being a trump

supporter I mean I'm sure people did but

it probably wasn't the top thing you

were worrying about right at the moment

in 2020 it might be the top thing you're

worrying about there may be people all

over the country who were saying oh god

I hope somebody didn't see that tweet I

did two years ago I could get fired so

at the moment the fear is real what what

have I told you is the most motivating

persuasion bar none

nothing is more persuasive than this one

thing fear yeah fear fear is always the

most persuasive because it you have to

protect yourself first before you can do

anything you can't eat if you think

you're gonna get killed

right away so so given that a real fear

this is not hypothetical there is an

actual real fear that you can lose

everything your friends your job etc so

I don't think we've ever had a polling

situation that was this you know rife

with possible mischief I don't know if

it's mischief so much as an assault

self-preservation but here's the other

thing that changed four years ago were

you as aware as you are now of course

you were aware but there's a difference

between knowing something is true sort

of intellectually and having it just

forced to the front of your brain where

your brain can't see anything else

that's really different in both cases

you knew it was the case there's there's

no new information and I'll tell you

what I'm talking about in the moment but

there's a difference between just

knowing it's true and just having it you

know overwhelm your brain you'll act

differently in those two cases and what

we've watched for the last four years

especially with the Russia collusion

stuff is that absolutely no digital

trail is safe no database can't be

hacked no server can't be hacked and

we've seen a complete willingness of

people to share and Docs people so the

things that are really different you

always knew the government could find

out anything right you knew they could

track your phone you knew that on some

level they might be collecting all of

your digital data etc but it wasn't

front of mind but if you turn on the TV

and every single day there's a new story

of somebody's email text message you

know data guy

hacked every freaking day that knowledge

that used to be just something you knew

is now lighting up your whole brain like

your brain is on fire with the idea that

there's no privacy for digital

communication and it's true there is no

privacy the only product I've said this

before the only privacy that we'll have

in the future is being boring if you're

boring nobody wants to look at your

stuff anyway so being boring is

literally the only protection you'll

have that you can you know feel

confident about that as long as nobody

cares about you they will look at your

stuff

but even then of course they would I've

got a question for you has the Supreme

Court just turned into a popularity poll

and I'll ask you this question because

I'm not I don't really follow the

Supreme Court you know I just follow the

headlines when they're in it but can

somebody who can know something answer

this question when was the last time the

Supreme Court had a ruling that went

against popular opinion and let's say

let's say popular opinion had to be at

least sorry I'm having terrible allergy

problems one of and let's say for the

purposes of this that that popular

opinion had to be at least 55% in favor

of whatever position whatever the topic

is doesn't matter but when was the last

time the supreme court voted against the

public majority say buddy no because I

feel like I feel like you stopped

happening I'm not I'm not entirely sure

it matters honestly I actually don't but

I don't actually don't think it matters

so he says Roe versus Wade I doubt

that's true could be

Brown versus Board of Education yeah you

have to go back pretty far somebody say

is the travel ban I don't know about

that all right well there are some

questions there might be some that were

lesser issues that people were too

worked up about and then maybe in those

cases the court feels safe to go against

it but I feel like there's some kind of

weird self-preservation happening with a

Supreme Court well all of our

institutions have lost their credibility

I feel like the Supreme Court might be

trying to and again this is mind reading

so remember I always warn you you can't

know what people are thinking you just

can't you know they can tell you and

they may or may not be tell you the

truth but you can't know what strangers

are thinking it's just not a thing and

but we we can speculate you know there's

something that's that makes you scratch

your head and say you know what I got

some questions somebody says Obamacare

I've seen lots of examples go by but but

let me just put this proposition out

there the Supreme Court might need to

maintain is credibility even more

importantly than getting a decision

right what do you agree that's true yeah

you know if you're a Chief Justice or

any of the members of the Supreme Court

would your priorities be that the most

important thing is to maintain the

credibility of the court itself

independent of what the actual decision

is because I feel like that is the

priority meaning that if I heard that

was their priority I would say oh yeah

you know when you think about it it

probably does need to be the priority

because the way that the court can

maintain its credibility is of course

going with the majority that's probably

better than going with the minority

right if if the core is sided with the

minority of the public I don't know it

can last right it's got it it's got to

be with the public at least often enough

on the big

stuff that the public says oh I don't

like all of your decisions but usually

you're with the public so now that's not

how the public should think right the

public should not judge the credibility

of the court by whether it agrees with

what they would have done that's the

worst way to judge them what do we do

because we're not very sophisticated

overall and so we look at the court and

we say well it disagreed with me three

and four times I guess they're not

credible that's exactly what you think

you would think that they had no value

at all if they did their job perfectly

followed the Constitution followed the

law and just just interpreted that law

if it didn't agree with your opinion

you'd say they weren't credible so I've

got a feeling that the court is always

balancing these two competing and very

very important issues because if the

Supreme Court lost its credibility below

let's say some there's probably some

hypothetical support level beyond which

the institutions in trouble

I think they've kind of stay above the

line and every now and then they might

have to you know nudge a decision toward

keeping their own credibility if it's at

all close now I'm not suggesting that

they do that consciously but I would if

I were on the Supreme Court I would say

quite reasonably I don't think there's

anything unreasonable about this I would

say you know the worst thing that could

happen is to lose the trust of the

public in the Supreme Court because the

Supreme Court they end up being the

tiebreaker for a lot of stuff if you

lose your if you lose all your

credibility you know there's always

criticism but if you lose all of your

credibility and you're the tiebreaker

that's pretty dangerous it's dangerous

because what do you do I mean if you

don't have that ultimate credible

tiebreaker so if I were on the Supreme

Court I would sometimes do things just

to remain credible even if it wasn't

exactly where I think

law is pointing because it is a greater

good I think there's a case to be made

for that alright I provocatively tweeted

the other day that in this election the

upcoming election your votes won't

matter

now here's what I mean by that these are

some things we can predict with complete

certainty we can we know with complete

certainty that there will be allegations

of a vote Reagan both the left of the

right do you agree so far so far we all

on the same page there's a hundred

percent chance that both the left and

the right no matter what the hell--

companists of the election independent

of the outcome both the left or the

right will have examples or at least

allegations of election tampering

election you know suppressing the votes

of black voters for example now whether

or not these are good examples whether

or not they really happen whether or not

they're true or not doesn't matter they

will be believed do you are you with me

so far that when the Republicans have

whatever allegations you know they're

gonna have that Republicans will think

well that's probably true and it might

be true because it'll be based on two

anecdotes and specific stories could

well be true you know the left will have

their anecdotes and stories and they'll

be able to point to things and you know

the left will completely believe it just

like the right completely believes their

site and pretty much everything so we're

gonna have this situation where there's

a guaranteed question about the result

probably we've had this sort of complain

to every election from the beginning of

time probably there's never an election

or national election in which there

isn't at least somebody saying it was

rigged or at least somebody is pointing

in a problem pretty much universal and

we always get by it right it seems like

it doesn't stop the system it's a little

bit of complaining but

we'll live with the result anyway

because there because overall the system

is credible you know Americans do pretty

much trust the voting system even though

it's got all these irregularities that's

what it used to be I don't think that's

the case anymore here's what changed the

ability of the the press the media the

manipulators behind the currents the

ability to ramp up people's emotions is

at a super weaponized level even way

beyond where it was in 2016 I would say

that we've we've advanced a lot really a

lot in our ability to set people's

brains on fire and make them mad or

excited or afraid or anxious or greedy

or something and so what we're gonna go

into is a situation where there's a

hundred percent chance that the left

will feel let's say that they lose they

lose let's say Trump gets elected

hypothetically what will the left to say

they'll say the vote was rigged

of course because the polls will say it

couldn't have happened you see where

this is going

the polls will say it's not possible so

if Trump wins and there's widespread

allegations there always will be of

election tampering what will the left do

they'll stage a coup now this is again a

safe prediction why because they are a

stage to kill several in fact it's

nonstop to stuff you know the

impeachment was a coup the you know the

Russia collusion stuff was a coup

attempt the 25th amendment stuff is a

coup all of these anonymous alleged

books about what really

happened in the room with Trump they're

all coup attempts they're all coup

attempts they're just in many cases

completely legal just because I call it

a coup don't assume it's illegal they're

just using

every lever every button every mechanism

just they're throwing the kitchen sink

at it to take event of office without

the benefit of a vote now

I'm going to use the word coup to mean

removing a president in any mechanism

other than just a normal vote so will

there be a coup if or at least a coup

attempt if Trump wins the election and I

would say the answer is a hundred

percent there's really no chance it

wouldn't happen

what does anybody even disagree with

that I don't see any I can't imagine

anybody would disagree with that

statement now we don't know what it

would look like it could be another

massive fake news story I could be like

Russia collusion where the British

government runs an operation against the

United States and we blame it on Russia

I didn't say that just ignore that last

sentence didn't happen go on with your

business

nothing to see here so it could be

something like that could be completely

different but one thing that it might be

is violent in other words the the

protesters are doing this giant test run

to see if you can flood the streets with

people and make a difference and

apparently it does it works the you know

they're willing to burn down the whole

country so Trump will be in an

interesting situation which is if he has

to use force to to stop a coup which

won't look like a coup and just look

like demonstrators calling him a racist

that will be interesting so I but I

think that's where we're heading so in

all likelihood so my my current

estimates are a hundred percent chance

that Trump will be re-elected

unless something big changes between now

and Election Day will something big

change between now and Election Day of

course I will

are you kidding me something big will

change next week

and the week after or the week after so

these kinds of predictions are kind of

useless because they're straight line

predictions in a world that we can't

know a straight line

the world doesn't even know how to go in

a straight line and then I predicted

that if Trump is elected there's a 50%

chance that the coup will succeed I

think there was a 50% chance that the

rush occlusion thing or the Ukrainian

thing or some other thing could have

succeeded I think there was a good 50%

chance it just didn't go their way all

right one of the funniest stories is so

carpe Noctem did a meme video showing

some footage of a toddler I think they

might have been three years old I can't

tell the ages of little kids and but

they're sort of barely can walk kind of

toddlers yeah one was white one was

black and they were they're our best

friends and they were hugging on the

sidewalk and then they happily go

running down the street now what carpe

Noctem did which was brilliant yes he

showed that showed that in reverse order

with the clips without the part where

the kids are obviously best friends

hugging each other and loving each other

instead shows them running down the

street but because the little black

toddler had started first it could be

interpreted as if the little white

toddler is chasing the black look see if

he didn't see them hugging just before

that now the funny part is that so carpe

diem adds a fake Tyrod you know the

words at the bottom of the screen to

make it look like it's a CNN report and

that the chyron says you know white

white baby white racist baby he chases

black baby or something like that and

here's the funny part I've told you this

before the perfect prank is one that

only the the victim of the prank can

tell it's a prank that's what makes a

joke really good all right it's one

thing just to mock people and here's a

funny picture or you know that's sort of

one dimension

but if you can come up with the perfect

prank only the subject of the prank

can't tell it's a prank and the reason

is they can't tell parody from reality

and if you could find somebody who

literally can't tell the difference

between reality and parody then you do a

prank that's a parody and they just

can't tell but everybody else can tell

because they're not they're not

hypnotized in the same way so when I

watched it I honestly I couldn't even

imagine how anybody would think this was

true it's so obviously not true that I

just registers that joke and I laughed

at it I would guarantee that close to a

hundred percent of Trump supporters and

Fox News Watchers would look at that

video and immediately immediately go

haha it's a joke probably a hundred

percent but the New York Times and CNN

and all the fact checkers had to

fact-check it for their audience I'll

betcha there was not one conservative

publication that fact checked it because

they didn't have to correct a fact check

this this statement so here's my

statement there probably was no

conservative publication that even they

didn't even occur to them to fact check

it why would they because they don't

think anybody wouldn't be confused by it

of course they cover the story of the

others fact check yet but I think the

Washington Post C and then the New York

Times I don't know how many people on

the left fact check this thing but just

stop and pause for a moment that there

were enough people on the Left who

thought it would be believable wait wait

for this who thought it would be

perfectly believable the CNN would run a

story a video of two toddlers chasing

each other one chasing the other and

called the one toddler or racist baby

now

their audience apparently thinks that's

possible which is frickin hilarious so

of course it got cold because you know I

got labeled by Twitter for being

misleading perfect it got the fact

checked everywhere

perfect

it got tweeted by the president perfect

it became a national story perfect and

it was short and you know sometimes

memes can go out a little bit too long

that's my only complaint about the

political memes I like of a short this

was just the right length perfect visual

and part of the reason I think they were

complaining so much about it is that it

was really powerful visually when you

when you watch the the two kids hugging

you can just feel their joy these are

two little kids who are really genuinely

happy to see each other I mean they

really like each other and it

immediately reminds you that that's how

you started right like you immediately

go to your baby self and say oh yeah

there probably was a time not that you

remember it right but there probably was

a time that I couldn't even tell the

difference between black people and

white people like I didn't even know it

was important it just it wasn't a

variable everybody looks different

somehow

why was I going to pick out that one

difference it didn't occur to me that

was my friend Bob so so it's really

powerful in the way it works on your

mind so this isn't just a funny meme

it's hilarious as well crafted it's race

size got the president's attention got

national news got a controversy about it

got removed from a lot of places man you

can't you can't hit a longer long ball

than that so this one I will elevate to

masterpiece status if if they were

giving awards for memes this would be

your Academy Award for

20:20 so congratulations to carpet

Duncan by the way if you're not watching

karpay Duncan's career how it sort of

evolved from the first election it's

really fun to watch because he as well

as many others are just putting together

their talents tax and just watching it

come together it's just it's just fun to

watch it's a great show

speaking of art and speaking of

masterpieces this next this next thing

I'm going to tell you is maybe the

hardest thing I've ever tried to

communicate I spent I spent probably 30

minutes last night trying to compose a

tweet on this topic and in the end I

sort of gave up because there are some

things that buy their weird nature can't

be explained by some people in other

words it's something you could explain

easily but I can't here's the situation

you've probably seen on Twitter Acura

the Don his username is a at Aki RA th e

do it and he makes music one of the

things he's made and there was a little

clip that he's released is he's taken my

the audio from my periscopes and he's

taken selected clips from audios

especially of the periscopes that are

not political so that there's nothing

political in the music but when I talk

about the user interface for reality for

example and he put it to music now

here's why I couldn't compose the tweet

because I need more time to talk about

it like I'm going to do now if I just

told you that somebody whose music you

were not familiar with necessarily had

put my audio from my periscope to music

what would be your first impression of

how good that would be not very good

right wouldn't that be yours at your

assumption your first assumption would

be

I don't know if I want to listen to that

I mean maybe for curiosity but it's not

gonna be like you know art or music

right I mean it doesn't make any sense

you're gonna be surprised all right now

here's the part that I couldn't tell

when I listened to it it actually just

blew me away but I couldn't tell if it's

because I was listening to my own voice

because think how powerful that would be

to hear yourself talking to yourself in

a way you weren't expecting so you don't

know what's gonna come you know it's

because the order of it and the

presentation was new to me as well even

though it was my words it was somewhat

new to me because the way it was

composed so I wasn't sure if if what was

happening is I was just having a

personal experience that would not be in

any way generalized to other people so I

tweeted it out saying as little about it

as possible because I couldn't describe

it and I wanted to see what the comments

were it turns out people really like it

people really liked it and I was trying

to figure out why and I'll take my best

crack in it

you know you've seen you've seen the

popularity of mashups where you'll have

let's say a rapper be doing you know

some kind of rap a part of the song and

then maybe Rihanna or somebody would

come in and do more musically I don't

know I don't have the musical terms but

you know I'm talking about so you'd have

somebody you have a completely different

style a rapper style mix it was somebody

who was more classically you know a

singer and so how it's better I don't

know why like I've thought about it for

a long time it's like why is this better

when you put two completely thing

different things together it doesn't

quite make sense but it is I mean I

listen to like okay that's better I

don't know why I think it has something

to do with in that case you're waiting

for the part you're waiting for or there

might be some anticipation about it I

don't know maybe there's some context or

contrast that makes them makes it a

thing but what I listen to this here's

best guess about why I had an effect on

me as you don't I'm a trained hypnotist

and a very experienced communicator so

when you hear my words they tend to

carry more weight than an untrained

communicator so if you said to yourself

it's just somebody talking and they put

it to music

it wouldn't be this because even when I

hear myself sometimes I play back my

periscopes just see if I can learn

anything you know to improve them and

when I'm playing back my own periscopes

you know I I I see the density in them

that I didn't know I had when I started

so what I was doing it I wasn't aware of

it but I wanted to watch it I can watch

it like a spectator and I'll think wow

that's pretty dense but also I realized

that I'm using massively and I don't

even do it consciously the techniques of

hypnosis so while that well I don't

think that was his intention to make a

hypnosis slash musical product because

everything I do is sort of infused with

persuasion that the little clips of my

voice you know forget about them

musically they just activate a different

part of your brain and so what you're

feeling is that the text is activating

one part of your brain well the music is

activating another and there's two parts

of your brain that you just don't

activate at the same time and that's why

it has a weird effect on you because you

haven't had those two parts of your

brain simultaneously activated it's not

the same it's just hearing somebody talk

because again I've infused it with

without trying I infuse it with a lot

more weight than normal words and it's

just because of training and technique

anybody you know Tony Robbins would do

the same thing without trying so I

recommend it at the same time I just

don't know how to describe it because

it's it's just now like anything else

scout speaks perfectly

that's a callback to I told you the

story when I'd lost my voice for three

and a half years and I literally

couldn't communicate at least you know I

could make noise but I couldn't make

full sentences and stuff and my

affirmation at the time was that I would

speak perfectly now I don't speak

perfectly because perfect is a standard

you can't really achieve but nonetheless

it is true that my voice is on a a work

of art that's music now I can't tell if

he enhanced my voice or he just added it

down anything that was weak sounding but

it does sound better than my normal

voice I don't know how he did that so

there might be some digital magic about

that now you might have Auto tuned it

possibly if you listened to it is there

somebody smart enough to know that my

voice was auto-tune or even a little bit

I can't tell but there does seem to be a

little more character in my voice than

what I would normally hear if I just

played it back it could be in my

imagination so I don't know yes so it's

on Spotify so you can look for it the

single is the single is called it feels

like it works so look for a cure of the

dawn Aki RA the d om and this should pop

up with your google searches and there's

a whole album coming then I haven't

heard yet but impressive right Amy

Klobuchar said she was dropping out in

the running to be the vice presidential

pick because she thinks that Biden

should pick a woman of color so throwing

Elizabeth Warren under the bus at the

same time now because you are a seasoned

political observer what do you make of

the story that Amy Klobuchar withdrew

withdrew from consideration to be the

vice presidential pick what does it mean

that she withdrew

and in withdrawing said that she sports

a woman of color

let me read between the lines the choice

is already made do you think amy

klobuchar gives up I don't think so no

maybe maybe but there's nothing about

her vibe or anything that I've seen

about her I have actually a very

positive a very positive overall opinion

of Amy Klobuchar and they have since the

beginning although on day one I didn't

think she had the charisma so I thought

she's she's wanting in Purisima but

that's a you know I'm not sure you can

fix charisma but in terms of being a

serious capable you know highest level

politician I always thought she was very

good and she was certainly smart enough

to know that if the selection had

already been made the smartest thing she

could do is act as though the selection

had not already been made and then drop

out by recommending a person of color

Biden presumably has already picked

comel Harris and everybody knows it then

when he does pick her people who could

say oh that's exactly what Amy Klobuchar

advised him to do

she wins so in other words she already

knows she lost the race to be vice

president it's obvious to me she already

knows that's over the best thing she

could salvage from this is to predict or

advise or suggest the thing that's

already happened because you're not

going to be wrong if you suggest

something that's already happened and

I'm sure that cuddly Harris has been

selected at this point now anything

could change

she could be deselected I don't think

that would be the first time a vice

presidential pick you know got altered

at the last minute but at the moment it

looks like looks like she's the pick and

here's something the Harris did today

which reminded me of Trump I've told you

before that I think her advisers are now

the world class type

when she was running just as a candidate

in the primaries she was a hot mess in

terms of her messaging or body language

or her unconfident laughs it was just a

mess

and all of that just suddenly changed

and even her strategy I thought was weak

but even her strategy is better so I

always tell you that Trump picks up free

money I use that as an analogy free

money meaning that Trump will do the

thing that is all upside no downside and

for some reason nobody else thought to

do it it was just right there it was

just obvious it's just right here

pick up the free money anybody anybody

so that's why Harris did she's planning

to introduce a bill that declares

Juneteenth a national holiday now your

first question should be why her well

did nobody else think of that if if

President Trump had suggested this first

to make June teeth the national holiday

I don't know if there's any resistance

from Republicans I haven't heard of any

I don't know if there would be but I

would consider this under the condition

the Republicans would generally support

this and I don't know if that's the case

yet I haven't seen any opinions but I

would say that in this case if that's

true and if let's say Harris introduces

it let's say it gets passed especially

because the you know the the mood of the

country maybe it just sails through I

would say that would be an error on the

president's part it would be an error

because he didn't do it I mean if this

thing is gonna get past the president

should have done that was just free

money but if it doesn't get past that I

would know why he didn't do it right so

so we'll wait to see if it gets passed

but the fact that she saw the free money

and picked it up tells me that maybe

Democrats sort of got out of the way and

said all right we're gonna you know we

want to help the future ticket so the

rest of us will just back up let Harris

go forward get the attention free Bunny

so whoever is advising the Harris you

are nail Ian's my friends you are

nailing it you know how much I've mocked

her for her laugh her subconscious laugh

or self-conscious laugh there's a video

in which forget who was interviewing her

and the question they asked is how could

she be potentially Wow how could she

support Biden or even be in

consideration as a VP choice when she

was so savaged to him at the debates now

that that's gonna be the big question

right you know everybody's gonna ask ,

lares about her prosecution background

and they're gonna ask her about throwing

Biden under the bus as being a you know

racist obviously he's not and that'll be

the question so you know she prepared

for the question and you know I believe

she has now the highest level advisors

who would have given her the right

answer and so the question is asked and

she just starts laughing because it's so

ridiculous and but she's laughing at her

own answer and she goes it was a debate

and then she laughs and then she says a

debate and laughs the more she goes it

was scheduled debate we were debating

because that's what you do when you

debate and then she laughed again but

here's what's different the laughs

didn't look like the old laughs if she

fixed her laugh which I wasn't even sure

could be done I thought it maybe could

be done but I think she fixed it because

this was not a self-conscious laugh it

was a confident laugh she was so

confident rightly so because her answer

was a homerun the correct answer is it

was a debate follow-up and it was a

debate wouldn't want me to add some

detail to the answer it was a debate can

you go deeper yes it was a

debate and laugh every time you can't

beat that you could not beat that for a

perfect way to handle that situation

laugh and call it a debate never go

deeper period end of story

I should not say period end of story I

mock that it's too easy it's in your

brain and then it just comes out and

then when it comes out you go a half I

wish I had done that so watching her go

from a self-conscious nervous-looking

laugh to a laugh that is so confident

she won't even stop doing it in public

like she just laughed and called it's a

debate you're silly

it's a debate look let me remind you

because I know this is gonna happen when

I say good things about any female

politician somebody in the comments will

always say it doesn't matter who it is

oh you have a crush on her you'll love

her all you have such a you know you

want to you want to be with her so I'm

gonna block anybody who does that it's

just it doesn't add anything all right

brian Stelter you all know him CNN and

one of the funniest tweets accidently he

said doctor foul a diagnosing an

American problem quote this is from foul

chief there's a combination of an anti

science bias that people are for reasons

that sometimes are you know

inconceivable and not understandable

they just don't believe science and they

they don't believe Authority well is

there anything that could have happened

in the last I don't know last twelve

months or so anything that would make

the public less trusting of experts and

authority and science I'm racking my

brain now anybody can anybody think of

anything an example of some time that

the

the experts were not exactly right I'm

coming up blank I got nothing now recall

my earlier story about car P dumped UM's

meme the reason it worked is as CNN

literally can't tell the difference

between parody and reality because they

deal with so much fake news that fake

news is sort of the the hybrid of of

parody and reality like it looks so

similar so brian Stelter tweeted this

maybe like it wasn't a joke you know

like the rest of the country wouldn't

laugh at this out loud you can't read

this you can't read this and not laugh

at it

but I don't think brian Stelter knew the

half of the country would laugh out loud

because his network has been feeding us

a non-stop diet of fake news from

experts everyone of the experts who lied

to us or got things wrong was featured

on CNN every one of them every one of

them often so I mean this is parody in

reality merging again alright here's the

funniest comment in a tweet that I've

seen in a while and I have to warn you

that I have a very low brow sense of

humor so this was some lowbrow humor

that's actually kind of clever that made

me laugh so I I'm doing this cartoon

most of you seen it called robots read

news and I thought most of them behind a

subscription wall on the locals platform

so if you want to see all of them

especially the edgier ones that I don't

put on Twitter you can see them by being

a subscriber locals LOC ALS and you can

see the link in my profile on Twitter

anyway the the comic I did a comic

mocking the claims in the John Bolton

book and the

the essence of the comic was that the

robot was reading the news and he

reported that the book says that

President Trump was taking a on the

resolute desk while asking questions

about nuking the moon now it's funny

because the Bolden book is so ridiculous

and is so filled with obvious lies at

least obvious to me that there's nothing

that you couldn't expect would be in it

I mean so so yeah so I said that it was

on the resolute desk we'll ask

you about nuking the moon and here's the

comment I got from unstoppable Chuck

testa was a trump supporter he says

that's it I baked desk into the

cake what I voted for the guy I've been

laughing for two days of that I baked

cake no I baked desk into the

cake when I voted for the guy that's so

perfect because again the reason it's

funny is because if you are CNN if you

were CNN and you read this comment

you wouldn't know he was joking you

actually wouldn't know he was joking if

you were brian Stelter you'd look at

this and say like I think they would

vote for him if he on the resolute

desk well so we also in the news here's

a tweet by President Trump let's see if

you can see the foreshadowing of this

tweet now I think the president does

this a lot

he sort of he broadcasts or he he

suggests where things are going

before the decisions are made you know

sort of testing them in advance and

here's I think this is a test balloon so

Trump tweeted it was not ambassador

light houser's light eyes errs it was

not ambassador light Heiser's

fault yesterday in committee in that

perhaps I didn't make myself clear that

the u.s. certainly does maintain a

policy option under various conditions

of a complete decoupling from China

thank you the president just tweeted

that we're keeping open the option under

various conditions of a complete

decoupling from China do you see that

news on any of the any of the front

pages

it's the biggest news of the last 50

years here's what I think I think the

president is has been so rightly

embarrassed by China's you know

unwillingness to be a good negotiating

partner and I think the president gave

them every opportunity to be friends

which is exactly the right way to do it

all right I don't think the president

should have gone hard at China should

never have used the word decoupling

never the president never should have

used the word decoupling in a in the

sense of maybe it's an option two years

ago if he had sent it two years ago I

would have been whoa that's crazy you're

negotiating with him we don't know if

it's gonna work out yet maybe it'll work

out

you know maybe you can get something

done it'll be hard but maybe it can be

done so you certainly wouldn't say

decoupling two years ago you go in with

friend friend friend you're my friend

President Xi I respect you and then you

see what you can do now what was what

was the net effect of the president's

completely smart strategic original

approach which is if you can get it to

if you can get something done as friends

well that's always gonna be the first

choice right first choice always didn't

work not only did it not work but China

doesn't even look like it was serious

about any of it it looks like he was

they were just playing

now he has more options because now that

he's he's completely drained any any

options of them being good players and

responsible and you know good world

citizens no that's all gone now so now

he can just put it on the table give us

what we want or go die which is

what this tweet sent you have to read

between the lines but let me read it to

you and then I'll read between the lines

so he's saying that the u.s. certainly

does maintain a policy option under

various conditions of a complete

decoupling for China under various

conditions do you know what the various

condition is give us what we need or go

die we're decoupling that's it

it's no longer a negotiation people now

it's an ultimatum he's putting it in the

form of you know diplomatic talk well if

you do this we'll do this but it's now

an ultimatum he just put decoupling on

the table and China if you're listening

China I think you are listening now one

of the questions you might be having

China because I'm pretty sure they have

people who monitor you know most of the

political talk in the United States I

don't know if they watch maybe in

particular but let's say they do China

you're probably wondering is that a

bluff would the president actually D

Koppel from China I mean I know it's

something that people say on Twitter but

the president just used that word is he

bluffing well let me say it to you as

clearly as I possibly can in China nope

nope 0% chance he's bluffing zero

there's no chance if you think he's

bluffing about decoupling you're wrong

you're wrong this is real now of

course it depends like you says on

various conditions because so China can

always you know offer concession

and and and take decoupling off the

table they have an option but it's

pretty clear that they don't have any

intention of doing that would you say

it's pretty clear that they're just

gonna push and take advantage anywhere

they can and you can't really do

business with somebody who has that

strategic you know attitude you can't do

business with somebody who only wants to

screw you and it's looking for every

opening to do it that's just not

somebody you can do business with so you

have to decouple if you're if you're

dealing with something like that so yeah

the president doesn't tweet this unless

he means it that is absolutely serious

China that when you don't give us what

we want and you won't you won't you know

you won't he's gonna decouple and it

will be the greatest thing that ever

happened to this country because China

has been dragging us down for a long

time

took 40% of our manufacturing while

we're getting it back we're gonna take

it back

China you've got problems there your

problems now let's see the john bolton

bombshell is that according to john

bolton who is a mind reader i don't know

if he knew this but the but john bolton

among his many qualities can read the

inner thoughts of the president i can't

do it maybe you can't but john bolton

can and he wrote a whole book about his

mind reading of the president's inner

intentions and here's what he found the

there's a he made a bombshell claim his

book that president Trump he wanted to

do good things for the country but only

for his own selfish purposes yeah yeah

the president was trying to get a good

trade deal with China just to get

elected I don't know you know this is

almost as bad as that like a store

selling you a product and they say it's

good for you they say you'll like the

product and it will have advantages and

solve your problems that's what they say

when they sell you things

but I have a suspicion the stores sell

things for selfish purposes it's really

not about the customer I hate to tell

you that because you're people you buy

things from probably they say hey this

will be good for you I think you'll be

happy if you buy this if you have this

car you're gonna enjoy it I'm starting

to think that's not why they do it I

feel like people don't sell things for

your benefit it's almost like there's

some kind of selfish thing they're

trying to do do they make money somehow

by selling you stuff instead of just

doing it for your benefit I confused by

capitalism and in politics too because

according to John Bolton there are

people that we've elected completely

unknowingly you know we thought we were

electing good people but I am shocked

there are people in the government who

do things in public that are good for

the public but not for us it's not for

us it's for themselves bastards

well the MBA has a new plan for getting

back to games to interesting features of

this one of course is that they won't

have an a crowd and it looks like

they're they're looking to pipe in

artificial crowd noise maybe from a

video game or something so this is a

real plan they've got artificial crowd

noise and it looks like they're just

gonna you know sample it over top of the

game now I am not in favor of that I

would recommend and I think think you

probably do it quickly

a an app or some kind of a bottle where

the people working at home can actually

cheer at home and then if you're

watching the game on TV and you go yay

that you're yay goes into your phone or

whatever device you're using it gets

summed up with all the other people who

are you know chanting

and then nobody hears your specific

voice it just gets summed up as crowd

noise and presented in real-time would

there be a delay there might be a lag

that could be a problem

because you do need instance instead of

noise I think you could do without the

delay probably yeah or at least without

much so I would like to see real crowd

noise as from your living rooms summed

up tin - crowd noise and that would

actually be cool but if you were to game

and you knew that there was a guy with a

button and he was just pushing the the

cheering button every time there was a

basket how quickly will that bother you

now it might not bother you because you

watch if you've watched sitcoms forever

they have the laugh track and you this

seems to work now a Seinfeld famously

did not have a laugh track did you know

that the Seinfeld famously did not have

a laugh track nor do movie is back when

funny movies were being made I don't

know when the last funny movie was made

but back when movies were funny of

course a movie doesn't have a laugh

track so you don't need one but it's

definitely true that it's been tested

and for some segments of the population

for some kinds of content it does seem

to help you know the scripted half-hour

comedies on TV but those are died again

so and I think the laugh track might be

part of why they were less popular talk

about free money here's one - that Trump

did he was asked about Colin Kaepernick

injury and if he should get his job back

now you all remember the story he called

the the people who were kneeling and

disrespecting the flag in Trump's

opinion he thought they were all

bastards was that no sons of

they're all sons of which of

course was interpreted as racist which

it wasn't because I'm pretty sure sons

of come in every flavor but

Trump said the things Kaepernick should

get a job if you know if he's still good

enough so you know he didn't have an

opinion on his skills but he said yeah I

think a team should hire him

that was exactly the right answer

because President Trump is what kind of

president what kind of president is

president Trump jobs is the jobs

president if you ask the jobs president

hey should this black guy I'm just to

say black guy because that's the context

of the story

should this black guy get a job what

should the jobs of president say there's

only one right answer yep if he's

qualified yep

Anand bigger asleep now that has nothing

to do with his disagreement with

kneeling but to separate the question of

should Kaepernick get a job you're the

jobs president if he had said

that Kaepernick should not get a job

because he disagrees with the the

kneeling I don't know if I could have

supported this president because you

know what I want I want people to have

jobs Kapernick or not I've been Pro

Kaepernick since the beginning much to

your displeasure I will reiterate that

just because I'm talking about it being

Pro Kaepernick means not necessarily

agreeing with all of his political

points or even the way he did it I'm

just saying that he was effective he

seems to be the real deal cuz you don't

see him I know he's he's still on point

on message he seems genuinely seems

passionate it's a cause that has you

know real concern I like him as a

patriot honestly I like him as a rebel I

like him as a patriot I don't really

follow football don't care about his his

athletic abilities but I agree with the

president absolutely if he's qualified

for the job he should absolutely get a

job very much so and in fact I think it

would be good for the game

I would watch I think I'd watch a

Kaepernick game even if I don't watch

football because I'd kind of be curious

how it would go so you don't have to

like him personally I don't know him

personally I'm just saying that as a

protester as

a patriot I like it even if you disagree

with some of the details let's see what

else we got going on here make sure I

didn't miss anything because it's all so

terribly important no I think it had it

all all right no Caesar triangles are

not see that's all you need to know

that's all I got for now people are

saying he's not a good quarterback I

don't know who knows I'll talk to you

tomorrow