Episode 1111 Scott Adams - Portland Mayhem, CDC Death Count, Crazy Bernie Bad Math, Middle East Peace
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View segment →break it, is this something that would cause maybe a predictable problem if I go this way versus that. It's a risk management situation. A lot of it is guessing. A lot of it's intuition. So anybody who is operating at the child level that says that a candidate is bringing chaos when in fact chaos i…
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View segment →final identification but it tells you where to look. All right. There's a report that the number of people looking for divorces was 34 percent higher from March through June. Ouch. And the data shows that 31 percent of the couples admitted lockdown has caused irreparable damage to their relationshi…
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View segment →but it's starting to feel that way isn't it? Because the way you feel isn't necessarily the exact way that things are but the way it feels as a Trump supporter is that Biden is literally threatening us. And other people have made this observation but I'm just piling on it. It does feel like the left…
View segment →puts on the wrong tally. So it's a double dipper. One away from Trump and one for Biden. Am I thinking of that right? I feel like I'm confusing myself but that's right, right? So this is a good example of why I'm never embarrassed to be stupid in public. It's a good skill. You should learn it becau…
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I would like to begin this wonderful hour by reading you this little story, which I just received from my secret source deeply embedded in rural America. And it goes like this. Somebody named Miller, 36, of Tannersville — this is the area that I grew up in, upstate New York — was driving a UPS truck on August 21st when it struck two parked cars in the city, according to Hudson police. But then apparently the truck continued on. Two police vehicles and a bicycle patrol officer responded to a 911 report and located the truck at the corner of North blah blah following the accident.
Now here's the good part. Hudson police officer Randy Stratman jumped onto the moving UPS truck, turned off the ignition to stop the vehicle, and administered two doses of Narcan to Miller, the driver, meaning that the driver of the UPS truck probably was suffering an overdose, probably fentanyl, and was asleep in the truck while the truck was careening through traffic. A police officer jumped on a moving UPS truck just like Indiana Jones, turns it off, controls the truck, and administers a life-saving Narcan to the driver.
Now here's what I'd like to suggest. I don't know if a social worker could have pulled that off, you know what I mean? This is the sort of stuff that's literally happening every single day all over America, where there are police officers running toward trouble, jumping on moving vehicles, and saving lives every day. You don't hear much about this, but I give you that as your little ray of good news.
Want some more? Okay, more good news. Okay, here it comes. Saudi Arabia has apparently given the green light for Israel to UAE flights, the civil kind, not a military one of course. Now it happened just a few times because there were a few specific flights that they exempted. One of them had Jared Kushner on it. But then apparently they talked about it and moved that into a more permanent situation.
But here's the fun part. This is from Netanyahu. So he was talking about it and called it historic, a big breakthrough. You're probably thinking to yourself, is that really a big breakthrough to be able to fly over a country? That's it? You just have permission to fly a commercial flight over somebody's country? Yeah, turns out that's a pretty big deal because in this case it shortens the route to the point where it makes tourism much less expensive. So it actually has a specific and immediate economic stimulus component.
But that's not the fun part. So Netanyahu said, and I quote, "These are the fruits of peace." He said, predicting that more good news would be coming. Now when you say more good news will be coming and you're prime minister, you don't say that unless you know more good news is coming, meaning that things are really starting to shape up in the Middle East.
Why is this not the biggest story in the world? It's political season and it's something that is not just good from Trump but one of the best things ever. I think you could make the argument already that Trump is the best president the United States has ever had for international relations. Now the counterargument to that is, but wait, what about those countries that don't respect us as much anymore? I don't know. Is that costing me money? How does that affect me? Are they not taking our phone calls? Because I think they're taking our phone calls. Are they not doing trade deals with us because they think orange man bad? No, I haven't heard any reporting on that.
I think countries do whatever is in their best interest. In this case, what's in the best interest of the Middle East was working with the United States productively to get what looks like the beginning of something that could be lasting and good.
So we're in a world where it's hard to know what is true and all of our information is bad, but I feel as though historians are going to conclude that Trump was the best president just in the first four years. It wouldn't even matter what happens after this, but just the first four years I think would be the most successful presidency for international stuff. For domestic stuff you could still make your arguments.
Here's something that only I would say in public. That's why you have me. There are some things that only I will say in public. You ready? You know those retail businesses that are being driven out of business by the riots? They were not good businesses. And by that I don't mean that they all lost money, although most of them probably were operating close to break even. But they were businesses that were going to go out of business maybe this year, maybe next year, maybe five years. But Amazon was going to polish off all of those companies, any retail store. The exceptions would be maybe an Apple store, but that's such an exception that most of these smaller retail stores, smaller restaurants, they were all going to go out of business.
And here's the thing that I don't think we've fully incorporated into our economic estimates. A lot of the small retail places, especially the small independent restaurants, are basically criminal organizations. This is why I'm the only one who'll say this. Small businesses like to do a thing I call not pay their taxes. Or they'll hire a lot of illegal workers, restaurants especially.
So what happened that just demolished all those downtown restaurants probably was just an acceleration of something that was going to happen. Probably doesn't have nearly the economic impact that you think it does, except unemployment. And I think cities probably were going to have less foot traffic anyway because of all the other things happening, the rich people moving away.
So I feel like the stock market is not crazy to be so high lately despite what looks like trouble on the ground, because I think the stock market realizes that if Amazon and Apple are making money like crazy but that little restaurant on the corner went from break even only by cheating on their taxes to nonexistent, probably those people are going to find work as something that's maybe a better thing.
Yeah, the short-term disruption is devastating, so I don't want to minimize the impact on the humans who are involved with those businesses. It's extreme and it's life-ruining in many cases. But if you're looking at the larger economy, it's a brutal economy. People go out of business all the time. It's just that when it's distributed across the country you don't notice. When it's concentrated on one main street, well then you notice. But it's not worse than sort of the baseline of companies going out of business all over the place as a normal part of capitalism.
So I don't want to act happy that anybody's going out of business. I'm just saying it's accelerating a trend that was going to happen anyway.
I'm noticing that Republicans are using a phrase I hadn't seen as much of before. They're saying that the Democrats have made a devil's bargain with the progressives. A devil's bargain. Watch how much satanic imagery comes out of the Biden-Harris campaign. Again, just sort of a fun coincidence.
By the way, I tricked another couple of publications into running a story about me believing that Satan is behind the Biden campaign. So every time they do a hit piece on me, there's another one this morning, a hit piece on me. They don't quite know what's going on because first of all I don't know if they know that they've changed the story from me saying explicitly I don't believe that Satan exists. They've changed it all the way to I'm promoting Satan being part of the Biden campaign, literally the opposite of what I said. But I did it intentionally. I allowed them to take me out of context. I created it so that they could do it easily, not because they were fooled but because they're bad people and they would take it out of context, which they did.
So now when I see a hit piece like that that is falling into my trap, I just retweet it. You can't fail harder at a hit piece than to have the target of your hit piece just retweet it. That's it. Just retweets it. That's as hard as you can fail.
All right. Eighty-one Nobel Prize winners endorsed Joe Biden for president in an open letter. Eighty-one Nobel Prize winners. Wow. Smart, capable people. The best of the best. And 81 of them, all Nobel Prize winners, and they all think that Biden is better.
But let's see what are the reasons, because if you've got 81 Nobel Prize winners and they offer their reasons, these are going to be good reasons. I mean these are not — we're not talking about a bunch of idiots. These are smart people, the best humanity has to offer. So when I read their reasons to you for supporting Biden, I think you'll find them quite brilliant. So sit down, because sometimes this level of brilliance can blind you momentarily. So if you are operating a motor vehicle, just pull over to the side of the road because I'm going to give you some brilliance that honestly I was thinking of wearing sunglasses just to read this, but I think we can get away with it just playing it straight.
All right. The reasons that the 81 Nobel Prize winners give is that Biden has a willingness to listen to experts. Okay, that part's stupid because literally every president listens to experts. There's never been one that didn't listen to experts. There never will be one that doesn't listen to experts. So the first part is kind of a throwaway. That's obviously not the brilliant part because like I said these are 81 Nobel Prize winners so they're not going to rest on unwilling to listen to experts when that's the stupidest thing you could ever say in public.
So it's the second part where the brilliance comes out. Here goes. And he has — Joe Biden has a deep appreciation for using science to find solutions. Okay, let me look a little further in the paragraph because I'm looking for the smart part because I know they wouldn't just say he has a deep appreciation for using science because again that would be literally every living human being would fall into this description. Trump, Biden, strangers, people you've never met, people with severe brain damage, people in other countries, people who have never been to school, people who have been to school, people who have PhDs, people who will never have PhDs. Pretty much a hundred percent of all humanity has a deep appreciation for using science to find solutions.
So there must be something else in this paragraph where they get to the smart part. Oh, that's the end of the paragraph, huh? I guess what they're telling us is that the Nobel Prize is no longer prestigious. I actually wanted to get a Nobel Prize until I read this and now I see that there's not really any point to it. They've actually ruined the prestige of the Nobel Prize now.
By the way, I had this same experience when I was younger. I always wished, because I'm in sort of a writing business, I wish that I could win a Pulitzer Prize because imagine how cool that would be, right? I mean just for the bragging. It's like, yeah, I don't like to brag about it but I did win a Pulitzer Prize. You know, I always wanted to be able to say that or have other people introduce me as Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Scott Adams. I thought that would be pretty cool. And I felt that until I met somebody who told me how the Pulitzer Prize committee works. It's just people who read books and pick the one they liked. That's it. It's just a small group of people who read some books that have been submitted. It's not all the books in the world, just the people who filled out an application and said I think my work is so good it should be considered. And then a small group of people read their stuff and say which one do you like? I kind of like this one. That's it.
Winning the Pulitzer Prize has no prestige. Nothing. There's just nothing to recommend about that award except somehow we got it in our heads that it's important. It isn't. It's just several people read some books and they decided which one they liked. That's it.
Likewise when I won the top award in cartooning, it's called the Reuben. It's like the Academy Award for a cartoonist. And one year — and I'd lusted after it when I was a new cartoonist. I thought if only someday I could win the top award in cartooning my life would be complete. And one day I won the top two awards: the top award for a cartoon strip but also the same year I won the top award for all cartoonists of any kind, the number one in the entire world. And after I won it I realized, oh it's just because I had a good year financially. Basically I made a lot of noise. I was in the press. The award committee said you know what would be good? If we nominate somebody who's already getting a lot of attention and then we'll have more attendance at our event. That was it. It had nothing to do with the quality of my work and everything to do with the fact that it was unusually commercially valuable that year. That was sort of a peak period for commercial success of Dilbert.
I thought, okay, well that's off the list. So now I have no respect whatsoever for the top award in cartooning because I won it. It took all the value out of it. I have no respect for the Pulitzer Prize because it's just some people saying what book they like. That's it. And now 81 Nobel Prize winners just came out with the dumbest open letter in all the world and I just looked at it and said if that's all it takes to be a Nobel Prize winner, is to be this dumb, I'm not sure I want one of those either.
So I didn't expect that to happen. Here I made a list to help you identify all the dumb people so you don't have to interact with them. So these are the complaints about Trump that if you see any of these you can just stop listening to whoever is talking or tweeting.
All right, if somebody says that Trump doesn't believe in science, just stop listening. Just walk away. Nothing that somebody says after that sentence is worth listening to. Likewise, doesn't listen to experts. Basically the same thing. Don't listen to anything that anybody says after they say that.
How about this one? Trump is unwilling to do his job. Unwilling to do his job? If you hear somebody say that, just walk away. You don't need to hear anything else they say after that. Moreover, you should actively try to forget anything they said before that just in case you inadvertently believe in any of it. Because somebody who is so dumb that they would say — and it doesn't matter if you talk about Trump or any other human — if you say they're unwilling to do their job once they're president, because a lot of people are watching, right? They're doing their job. Trump, Obama, it doesn't matter who you're talking about. By the time you become president you're willing to do the job. You didn't get there by being lazy or not caring.
How about this one? He only cares about himself. That's one that you can just say, ah, I'm out. Anybody who could say something that monumentally stupid, that he only cares about himself. There's no such thing as a president whose personal fate is disconnected from the fate of the country he is running or she is running. You can't disconnect those things. It's the most transparent job in the entire world. There's no job more transparent. We're looking at everything Trump is doing. Everything. We see it all. And how in the world would anybody be in that job and think, you know, I think I'll do some stuff that's just good for me, bad for the country, good for me. I don't think anybody will notice. That's not a thing.
The president knows with dead certainty — I don't have to be a mind reader. I just have to know that the president has an IQ over 20 because anybody with an IQ over 20, I might be exaggerating a little bit, knows that they have to do a good job for the country. The entire world is watching every minute of every day. We're all watching. He doesn't have that option of I think I'll just do something that's good for me. That's not a thing.
Even when the president goes golfing, again I don't care if it's Clinton or Obama or Trump, do you want your leader to have some time with his own head, get outdoors, to clear his mind, maybe meet a few people that he wouldn't have time to talk to otherwise? Yeah, you should want that and you should want him to do a copious amount because it's good for him. Does he still work hard enough? Yes. Yes, he works hard enough. He works really hard. It's obvious.
All right. The other ones that are crazy is he's a dictator when a hundred percent of what we observe violates that assumption. Or that he's a racist when again everything we observe shows that he cares about people who are citizens more than those who are not. But beyond that that's it. That's it. That's his whole preference. And he prefers people who obey the law of course. But if you do those two things, you're a citizen and you obey the law, he likes you. And not just a little bit. Ask Herschel Walker. Does he like Herschel Walker? Yeah. Yeah, for years and years and years now.
Am I saying that because Trump has a black friend? No. Trump has a lot of black friends, people he's worked with, people who have given him awards. You know, he has a very deep relationship with a lot of different people.
All right. And here's my favorite one. And I tweeted this. If your main criticism of your opponent is chaos, that that's what's wrong with your opponent, they're bringing chaos, you don't really have a complaint. What you have there is a perception problem. If you're saying somebody else is all about the chaos, that's not really a statement about the other person. That's sort of a public confession that you don't understand things well enough to get to know what's going on. It's more about the limits of your own ability to understand the world.
And here's why. Chaos isn't something that one person brings to the situation. Chaos is the situation. The world is chaos all the time. If you knew what was going to happen, would you need the news? Why would there be a news industry if we already knew what was going to happen? The whole reason that we're having this conversation and a lot of you are finding out things this morning in the news and maybe some of you hearing it from me for the first time, it's because you didn't know it was going to happen. That's what the news is: stuff you didn't know was going to happen for the most part. And if you don't know what's going to happen, it's chaos.
So just putting a clever word on it and labeling it doesn't change the fact that the world is unpredictable all the time. Do you think you could hire or elect a president who would make the chaos go away? I hope not, because if the chaos goes away we're all dead. The only way you could have no chaos is to literally be dead because the world serves up a lot of chaos. You hope that you have a president who knows how to deal with it.
And one way not to deal with all the chaos is to really dig into all the details. I have much less respect for the presidents who try to master all the details of the topics. I know that sounds counterintuitive. You think, well Scott, that's exactly what you need, isn't it? Don't you want the president who really gets into the nuts and bolts, really digs in a little bit deeper? No, no. You want that kind of person who has, like if somebody works in a cubicle, you want somebody who can really dig into the details because that's your job if you work in a cubicle. I'm not disparaging people working in cubicles. I spent much of my career there. I'm just saying that that's a different job.
Some people's job it is to get into the details. Other people are sitting on top of this giant ball of chaos, let's call it, and they're trying to nudge the chaos in intelligent ways whenever there's an opportunity. And understanding all the details of all the chaos would be the least productive thing you could do. It's not what a leader does. It's what the cubicle does. The cubicle can dig in but they only dig into their topic. The cubicle that's one cubicle over, they also dig in but only to their topic because the level of complexity would overwhelm anybody if you don't chunk it down to its smallest part.
So the last thing you want is a leader who's obsessing over the details. You just can't lead that way. You wish that were possible but that's wishful thinking. Instead you have leaders who are dealing with do I trust this person, does the general thrust of this fit with my philosophy, is this something I could fix if I break it, is this something that would cause maybe a predictable problem if I go this way versus that. It's a risk management situation. A lot of it is guessing. A lot of it's intuition.
So anybody who is operating at the child level that says that a candidate is bringing chaos when in fact chaos is the canvas, they're not really a good observer.
I've noticed this correlation anecdotally and I want to see if you can notice it. As I've famously called out the Democrats who come after me on Twitter, if they say completely irrational things and I check their profile they're usually artists of some kind. And you can tell they're an artist because their comments depart from rational thought so grotesquely. But there's another category because not all Democrats and not all critics of Trump are artists. Some of them have jobs where they've learned critical thinking.
What do the people who have actually learned critical thinking — let's say you're an economist, your lawyers, your business people, there are lots of other jobs but ones who actually have skill and experience and critical thinking and risk management — what do they say when they come after me? I will give you an example. Sure, Dilbert. Or well that's from the cartoonist. That's it. They just do sarcasm as if that says everything that needs to be said. Well there's the cartoonist. Nothing else needs to be said.
And I want you to see if you find that correlation. So check profiles when somebody comes at you with nothing but sarcasm and see if this pattern holds. I don't know if it will but it might. Just see if the critical thinkers use sarcasm and the artists try to use logic but it's not working for them.
All right. There's — I guess Rand Paul has called for the subpoena of Antifa's plane records and hotel records and travel and stuff to find out who's funding Antifa. And I think that's everything. It feels to me — it's too early to know but it feels to me that if we find out who's funding at least the primary agitators that you know get everybody else going, it only takes a small number of people to get the rest of the crowd going in some direction.
So just for clarification, nobody believes that all of Antifa are being paid to be there. There are no conservatives who believe that. No Republicans. Nobody on Twitter. Nobody's ever suggested that all the BLM or all of the Antifa or even most are being paid to be there. Clearly not the case. The assertion is, the allegation if you will, that there is a high likelihood based on evidence, a high likelihood that some number of them, some kernel of them, small kernel, are paid professional agitators. And it would be good to know who's paying them because they might be the ones who are driving the animal spirits of the rest.
So Rand Paul continues to be one of the most productive members of Congress, seemingly being the only person who's willing to do useful things on a regular basis. I don't know what to say about this. Like how many times have I told you there was a good thing happening and then the name attached to it was Rand Paul? It's a fairly common event. And I say to myself, aren't there a lot of other people in Congress? Like why is it all the smart stuff comes from just a handful of people? It's pretty consistent.
So Nancy Pelosi's got some political trouble. She was caught on security camera indoors getting her hair blown out, some kind of a wash and a blow for her hair. Now I guess the shop was closed to other people but she was in the shop and she had her mask off and so she got a lot of pushback from that. I guess her response was that she didn't know it was wrong.
Now here's my opinion about that. Don't care at all. I don't care even a little bit that Nancy Pelosi was indoors when other people are not allowed indoors because it's against the rules. And I don't mind that she didn't have her mask on when she was getting this particular treatment. By the way, a lot of personal services such as massages, it's not that uncommon for the provider to have a mask, as in Nancy's case, but the person receiving the service to not have a mask depending on what the service is. For example, but in most cases when you could wear a mask it's recommended.
Now the reason I'm not going to climb all over Pelosi for what is being called the massive hypocrisy is not because it isn't. It is. It's massive hypocrisy. But it's also not important. And I would like to establish the belief that the leaders of our country should not be treated like the rest of us. I don't think that's wrong. I believe that Nancy Pelosi should be able to get her hair done indoors because she's the Speaker of the House and you know there are things that you can't do on the sidewalk if you're the Speaker of the House.
Now if everybody else was on the sidewalk, they're anonymous people walk by, that's fine, it's safe, it's good enough. But if you're the president of the United States or you're the Speaker of the House or you're Rand Paul, yeah that's okay with me if they take you alone because being indoors, the problem is not just indoors. The problem is indoors with lots of people. If you take Nancy indoors with one person who's wearing a mask and let's say that Nancy has been tested, she probably has been recently, it's not the biggest risk in the world and she is safer indoors than she would be outdoors.
I get that other people say hey other people we did our own hair, we worked it out. But she's also in her 80s. I don't know, can she do her own hair? Being in her 80s is a bigger problem to me than the fact she got her hair blown out. So I would like to be consistent because there's no way in the world there won't be Republicans and other people who get caught without masks etc. You know maybe it'll happen to me. You know maybe I'll get caught on some video without a mask or something and it's just I can't get interested in it.
All right, but I understand it's a fun story in a political season.
Chicago police released surveillance video of suspects looting the store and they're asking for help identifying them. Now the people that they're showing don't have masks on. Some do but most of them don't. Now what do you tell yourself when you see that Chicago is asking the public to help them identify the pictures that they're publishing, presumably online, I don't know if it's in any newspapers too? What does that tell you? Think through what do you know is true.
If Chicago is printing photos of people and saying public can you identify them, here's what you know is true. Chicago are really, really incompetent. Do you know how hard it would be to identify every person in that photo? Here's how hard it would be. All right, I'm going to demonstrate this. This will be the entire effort to identify every single one within two seconds. So the entire time to identify every picture, my claim is sub two seconds. And it looks — let me demonstrate it. It looks like this. Let's say this is the picture. Now this is my phone and I look at the picture and I push this button and then their face comes up and I've identified them. You can do that with an app. It's an app that law enforcement uses routinely in other places.
What this tells me is that Chicago for whatever reason is the only place that's not buying an easily purchasable app that every law enforcement person knows about, knows how to get, knows how to use. Literally it's this easy. Point your phone at the picture. You don't even have to point it at the person. Point it at a photo, press one button, done. The name of the person appears on your phone almost every time, close to 100 percent.
Now what's wrong with Chicago that they can't buy this little app? Well obviously there's somebody who told them — I'm speculating a little bit so I feel like I'm speculating responsibly but it's speculation so I don't want to sell this as fact. They have to not be using these apps. Clearview is the leader in that field. They're obviously not using Clearview. Why not? Why not? What is the difference between using that app and getting their answer in two seconds versus publishing these in public and asking the public to identify them, which probably will work? It's just really, really hard. It's crazy. Yeah, facial recognition would have them in two seconds. And when I say two seconds that's not an exaggeration. The app doesn't even have to sit there and process. It's actually two seconds now. And some of the apps are better than others at recognizing African American faces. I think Clearview's might be the leader in getting that right. But of course you still have to verify. You don't want to trust the app for the final identification but it tells you where to look.
All right. There's a report that the number of people looking for divorces was 34 percent higher from March through June. Ouch. And the data shows that 31 percent of the couples admitted lockdown has caused irreparable damage to their relationships. Thirty-one percent of couples believe they have irreparable damage to their relationship. Irreparable. This is going to tear apart the nature of society now.
I always had a theory that part of a successful relationship is distance. In other words the fact that let's say one of the adults goes off and works all day or maybe both of the adults go off and work all day, it's probably a really healthy thing because if you're in each other's business all the time that can cause some tension. And it looks like we've proven that.
I've said before that the nuclear family needs to be not eliminated. That's Black Lives Matter's idea, sort of get rid of the nuclear family. I think if I have that right. I hope I have that right. I've said something compatible with that but different, which is that you shouldn't be the only model because so many people won't be able to achieve it. Not everybody can have a nuclear family. Sometimes it requires a certain amount of money. Sometimes you got to be lucky to get the right person. There's a lot that can go wrong with the nuclear family. But if it works for you I would agree that for those families where it works it's tremendous. It'd be hard to beat as an organizing principle. But we do need something for the people who can't make that work. And I think that shows it.
Joy Reid, I don't think she'll get cancelled because she's on the side that doesn't try to cancel itself as much as it cancels other people. But she's being accused of being Islamophobic I guess. Who accused her of that? Oh, Ilhan Omar. Representative Omar actually said she said of Joy Reid, honestly this kind of casual Islamophobia is hurtful and dangerous. We deserve better. Need an apology, etc.
So what is it that Joy Reid said that would cause her own side to try to cancel her? How bad was it? Well let me read it. She said leaders, let's say in the Muslim world, talk a lot of violent talk and encourage their supporters to be willing to commit violence including on their own bodies in order to win against whoever they decide as the enemy. And she said other things. So she got in trouble for comparing Muslims to Republicans I think because the next part of this was she was saying about radicalizing supporters.
So Joy Reid might get cancelled or at least she's getting in trouble for comparing Muslims to Republicans. Could that be any better? Is there anything more entertaining than watching Joy Reid get cancelled by Ilhan Omar for comparing Muslims to Republicans? That's just everything. The whole year 2020 was just put into that one little package. If you only needed to know that one thing you'd know how the rest of the year went.
All right. Here's my problem with intersectionality and critical race theory. Two categories of things which I am no expert on but I'll just ask this question. Isn't the guaranteed end result of those things that we keep carving each other into smaller and smaller categories until everybody has a reason to hate everybody? How else can it go? Because I would love to hear the thinking that says how this brings us to a better place.
It certainly brings us to — it's certainly good to talk about racism and sexism and all those things and try to deal with them as practically as we can. But if the moment you've dealt with it you said okay, okay we're doing the best we can to let's say make the world just as good for black people and white people. Of course we're not there but let's say we're doing a good job on that. The next thing that happens is well what about black people who are also Muslims? And then you say all right, all right that's a new category. It feels like every time you slice the category, well what about if you're black, a Muslim, and gay? Okay, okay we better do something about that category.
I don't see how you ever take this philosophy to a good end point. It feels like it's one direction to complete destruction and I can't even conceive of the exit path. I don't see the exit path where things get better and better and then you reach a good place. I'd love to have somebody explain to me the thinking behind that because I think like most left versus right differences it doesn't take into account human motivation. It doesn't take into account human psychology or the way an average person thinks or acts. This is the thing that the conservatives consistently get right and the left consistently gets wrong, which is forgetting that humans will always act like humans. If you design a system that can't work for humans don't be surprised if it doesn't work. I mean why would that be surprising?
All right. Bernie Sanders said one of the dumber things you'll ever hear. He said this: the mainstream media doesn't talk about it. Space, space, space. Congress doesn't talk about it. Space, space, space. Trump doesn't talk about it. Space, space, space. But three multibillionaires now own more wealth than the bottom half of our society. And he suggests that that would be very, very bad.
Now here's what's wrong with that. Now I've described myself as being left of Bernie but with this special caveat that I'm also good at math. I use good at math as a proxy for good thinking and good at logic. And I'm not like the world's best at any of those things. I'm just better than Bernie so I can see the obvious idiocy that he brings to the table.
And here's the problem. Suppose nobody knew how much money those billionaires had. It's just here's a mental experiment. All right. So Bernie has said it's a real problem that three billionaires have as much as the bottom half of the entire United States. That's an amazing statistic. It's like it's mind-numbingly, jaw-droppingly amazing. But imagine a world where you just didn't know they existed exactly like they exist now. The only difference is you didn't know how much money they had. Would you be worse off? It doesn't make any sense. If the only reason we're complaining about it is that we know about it but there's nothing underlying in terms of it won't hurt you if you didn't know about it, why is this his biggest problem?
Why is he raising this in a time of great uncertainty in this world and problems that are as big as any problems we've ever had? Why is he raising the only problem I could think of where if you literally didn't know it existed you would never find out because nothing would go wrong? In fact you'd be hearing Bill Gates is giving away hundreds of millions of dollars and curing malaria or polio or some damn thing in Africa and you'd hear that story and you say, huh, I wonder how he's paying for it. But would you be unhappy that Bill Gates was curing a disease in Africa? No, no you'd be kind of happy about it. You just wouldn't know how he paid for it.
Would you be unhappy if you found that Elon Musk had figured out not only a way to go to Mars but he had created an entire competitive space industry which makes the future of the Earth possibly far better than it would have been without our ability to someday effectively leave our gravitational force? What would you think about that if you didn't know that Elon Musk was worth billions and all you knew is that he was a guy who opened up space? He was a guy who built a network of solar shingles for your house that could work into your battery which someday might be part of a solution for green energy that would make the world a better place. Suppose you didn't know he was a billionaire but you knew he did all of those things. Would you be less happy? What exactly is Sanders talking about other than jealousy?
Does Sanders understand that the money that the billionaires own is being used? Jeff Bezos' ownership of Amazon is still mostly in the stock. That's why he's so rich. It's in the stock. If Bezos pulled his money out of the stock what would he do with it? Would he buy more food for himself? No, he probably eats all the food he needs to stay fed. There's a limit to how many things a rich guy can buy. Bezos got his yacht which he probably hardly ever uses and he'll be tired of it and then he'll get rid of it. But he got one.
Billionaires don't really have a way to consume the wealth they have. They have to put it into something that benefits the economy. They have to. They don't really have an option. So he has to put it in stock where it's bolstering the market in different ways or you put it in the bank and then the bank can use that for lending. But money doesn't just sit in the mattress. These billionaires aren't sitting on a gigantic pile of dollar bills. It's in the system working. They're the ones who are funding startups. Where do all of your important startups come from? They come from some billionaire who said well I can put a million dollars into this startup. It might work, it might not, but I got an extra million. I don't care.
So for Bernie not to understand the most basic, basic, basic stuff about economics is really embarrassing.
All right. And Bernie goes on to say that that level of inequality is immoral and unsustainable. But again if you didn't know they had the money it wouldn't make any difference at all. It would be completely sustainable if you just didn't know about it. That's it.
Now I could argue that maybe Warren Buffett is not adding as much to the world because he's more of a financial manipulator but even he is making markets and companies more efficient because when he buys a piece of a company he doesn't just buy it. Often he'll improve it in small ways and big. The people who are worthless are the hedge fund types who are just taking money out of the system but they're not adding anything.
All right. It seems to me that Biden's value proposition has devolved into some form of vote for Biden or Biden's followers will hunt you down and kill you. Now that's hyperbole but it's starting to feel that way isn't it? Because the way you feel isn't necessarily the exact way that things are but the way it feels as a Trump supporter is that Biden is literally threatening us. And other people have made this observation but I'm just piling on it. It does feel like the left is threatening us.
But here's what they don't get. The left has not yet fully internalized that the protesters are not on their side. You get that right? The left doesn't quite understand. They're just starting to understand. That's why they're coming out against them. That the protesters are not on their side. The protesters are on their own side whatever that is but they're definitely not on the Democrat side and they're not on Trump's side. They're not on America's side.
You could argue there's a big non-story, two big non-stories in the conservative world now. For those of you who say Scott why do you only say good things about Trump, why don't you never say any bad things about the other side? Well I do all the time and I'm going to do that now.
So there's this tape. You heard it on Tucker's show some of you. Chris Cuomo talking to of all people Michael Cohen, the disgraced and jailed lawyer, ex-lawyer for Trump. So apparently Chris Cuomo and Cohen knew each other pretty well. Who knew that? That's sort of a weird little backstory. But on this audio recording Chris Cuomo is heard to say things which are completely exculpatory and make Chris Cuomo look like he did not do the things he's accused of.
How did conservative pundits treat an audio tape in which it's pretty clear that Chris Cuomo legitimately believes he was not involved in the things that he was accused of doing, the MeToo-ish accusations? How does conservative world treat the fact that it really shows he doesn't think he did these things? In private he acts like he believes that they didn't happen. They treat it like it happened, like he didn't say what he said. And I watch this and I think we're seeing more and more of this where somebody will say they'll hand you an apple and they'll say what do you think of this banana? And you'll say what banana? You just handed me an apple. This is clearly an apple. It's red. It's round. I take a bite out of it. It's an apple. Stop saying this is a banana because that's an apple.
And then the person will look right at you like nothing had ever happened and they'll say is the banana good? And you'll say what's going on here? This is no banana. We're both looking at this. It's an apple. And the other person will look right at it and say now that's a banana. I've never seen this before.
So it happened with the Cuomo story. There's nothing on there that should be embarrassing to Chris Cuomo and is treated as a national story of something that's embarrassing to Chris Cuomo. It's literally the opposite. It's completely exculpatory. I don't even know what to think about that.
All right. Is that the only time that's happened? No. How about this one? So Dr. Scott Atlas, he's part of the Trump team, you know the coronavirus team I guess. And CNN was reporting that he was pushing for herd immunity. So he came on I think it was Fox and they said were you doing that? He was like no, no I've never pushed for herd immunity. Nobody has. It's not even a thing. It's never been brought up. The president's never mentioned it. It's never been in a conversation. It's never been floated as a possibility. Nobody thinks it's something we should pursue. There's zero times zero times zero to this story.
What will people say once the person who is the most closest to the story — what will CNN say now that he has said no there's nothing to it? They'll just act like he didn't say it and they'll just keep reporting that it's happening like it didn't even happen. This is just a weird world.
How about there's another one. How about the story that the CDC had modified their death count and it wasn't 180,000 or whatever it was closer to 9,000 because there were only six percent of the people were dying without comorbidities. Therefore it's all the big fraud etc. Nothing like that happened. It again it's like a big national story but it didn't happen. It literally didn't happen. None of that happened. All that happened is they just sliced it a different way. And as the experts say pretty much everybody who dies of anything has comorbidities. It's very rare for a person to die unless it's say an accident or some rare genetic disease or something. But it's actually really unusual for anybody to die without comorbidities. So the fact that 94 percent of people who die from coronavirus have comorbidities it's kind of like everything else.
Now what do conservatives say? But they say but Scott I know what you're saying but still what that proves Scott you're missing the whole point Scott. Scotty. People who disagree with me like to call me Scotty. Scotty you're missing the whole point. The point is that those people who don't have the comorbidities should not have been afraid because their odds of dying are just vanishingly small. So let's send the kids back to school because why in the world would you not send kids to school when you know it's good for the kids. You know that their risk is tiny. There's no reason, there's no logic whatsoever for not sending the kids to school.
And I look at that and I go what's wrong with you? What's wrong with you that you would say that in public? The reason that they don't want to send the kids to school is not that the kids will die. It's that they'll be part of the transmission that will get to the 94 percent of people with comorbidities and there's more spread could put the teachers at risk in some cases. We don't know how much risk but could put them at risk. Well it would put them at risk. We don't know how much.
And I think to myself if you leave out the part where the kids bring it home or help spread it you're not part of the adult conversation. The minimum requirement to be an adult in the conversation is you have to at least acknowledge the big factors in the conversation. One big factor is the kids themselves. And I think almost everybody agrees that they would be mostly fine and the risk would be so small that the benefits to the kids themselves would be tremendous. Benefit to the parents tremendous because the parents would now be freed up to do what they need to do. But if you leave out the part about this clearly would contribute to the spread, if you leave that part out you're not in the adult conversation. You really aren't.
Now you could argue that it won't spread but that would be a scientific question. I think the evidence is that it probably does but maybe we don't know. But still if you leave it out you're not part of the adult conversation.
The funniest story is that Portland's mayor has just reportedly — I would look for confirmation on this but reportedly he's considering selling his home in Portland because of the protests. So the guy who has been most supportive of the protesters and literally joined in with them is learning that these protesters are not on his side as he had hoped but rather are a malign force as they like to say on TV.
Here's another non-story reported as a big story. The State Department I guess in Kiev, something about Ukrainians. You know the State Department, our State Department was illegally monitoring conservatives on Twitter and social media. Jack Posobiec, Hannity, Laura Ingraham and others. To which I say why is that a story? Do you know who else is illegally monitoring Jack Posobiec? I am. I am. Yeah I'm illegally reading his Twitter account and when he tweets I break the law. I break the law and I read it. And if he tweets again I don't like to broadcast this but I'm probably going to break the law again and read what he tweeted.
Now you might say that you say to me Scott that's not what they're talking about. They're not talking about reading his tweets. What are they talking about? Are they talking about hacking Twitter? No that's not in the story. All they're talking about is asking some third party to keep an eye on various accounts that were of importance and tell them what they saw so that they didn't have to do it themselves. Is that a real story? Now if there's more to it, if there was some hacking, an actual illegal act, I would say yeah let's look at that. But the way it's reported, and again could be more to the story I don't know, but the way it's reported is they asked somebody to read the tweets of people who are important to their livelihoods and their jobs. And I thought to myself I don't think that's illegal. If it is it shouldn't be.
Trump is fighting back against the so-called fake news that he had some kind of stroke or mini-strokes or something. The best evidence against it is that his trip to Walter Reed was brief and he went home. If you had any of the things that he was alleged to have had, do you go in and then just go home and go back to your job the next day? Is that a thing? Well so I think this is debunked. The president has debunked it in the clearest possible words. But I know that the public isn't going to trust him on that.
If I had to guess I would guess his slurred speech in a few of his speeches could be fatigue. It could be dental work. It could be anything. But my guess is that whatever they rushed him in for was something embarrassing or something that wasn't really a problem. And if it wasn't really a problem did you need to do anything? Have any of you ever gone to the emergency room only to be told oh that's no big deal? You have, right? You know unless you're bleeding or you've got a broken arm or something. How many of you have gone in and the emergency room just says oh that's nothing, take an aspirin? It's a pretty common thing.
So I wouldn't be surprised if they did rush the president in for some greater medical treatment than they had available in the White House — and I guess there's a lot in the White House — and then they checked it out and it was no big deal or something easily treatable and he just wants it out of the news, which I can understand.
What was Biden's exact quote when he did his speech and he said do I look like some kind of wild-eyed progressive? What were his exact words? Do I look like some kind of wild-eyed progressive? And I thought to myself how does that get him the vote of the wild-eyed progressives? Because it feels like he's insulting how they look isn't it? Because he's saying do I look — do I look like — literally look. He didn't say have I acted like, do I have a record of, have I ever promised anything in that nature. He didn't say that. He said look at me. Like literally with your eyes look at me. Do I look like some wild-eyed progressive? It feels like he was mocking the protesters, their actual physical look. Not that we haven't done that but it would be news if he did. And I wondered how this completely escaped the pouncing. I thought there'd be more pouncing on that.
All right. Apparently Trump is down depending on what polls you want to believe. They're all over the place. But I think it was Nate Silver who said Trump is down four to five percent. Or he said if it was more of an if it's based on where things are heading, Nate Silver said that if Trump ends up being down four to five percent in the battleground states it's actually a close race.
Here's what I say. What does it mean to be down four or five percent in a world where 12 percent of the GOP says that they won't tell pollsters their honest opinion? So 12 percent of Republicans would lie and Trump's only down four to five. What does that tell you?
Now I want you to correct me on the math of this but sometimes there are things that seem really obvious that your brain isn't quite processing in the right way so this might be one of those. But here's what people are missing. If a Republican voter simply refuses to talk to a pollster they'll just call until they get another Republican. So refusing to answer probably doesn't change the result that much because they'll just find somebody who's willing to answer until they have enough answers.
But if the GOP people who are being surveyed are lying it's a double impact because not only are they taking a vote away from Trump that they intend to cast but they're giving it to Biden. Doesn't that double the impact? Because it's not just a vote that's missing. It's a vote that the lie puts on the wrong tally. So it's a double dipper. One away from Trump and one for Biden. Am I thinking of that right? I feel like I'm confusing myself but that's right, right?
So this is a good example of why I'm never embarrassed to be stupid in public. It's a good skill. You should learn it because sometimes I'll hit on something that's useful and other times I'll say something that's like uh okay. So people in the comments are agreeing with me. But so therefore that four or five percent is really nothing because if 12 are lying that's a gigantic swing if their lie is that they're voting for Biden and they're not.
All right. Yeah I guess that's all I got for today and it's like losing a stroke in golf. Is it? No it's not like losing a stroke in golf because that doesn't add a stroke to the person you're golfing against. All right yes it's a double dipper. Okay.
That's all I've got for now and I will talk to you tomorrow.
hey everybody come on in come on in you know it's going to be a tremendous coffee with scott adams possibly the kick off to an amazing day we'll see about that a lot of that's on you but i'll do what i can and that's a lot which is to give you the entertainment which is this following hour started by the simultaneous sip and all you need is a copper mug or a glass of tanker shells just diamond candy jugger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and it's happening right now go i would like to begin this wonderful hour by reading you this little story which i just received from my secret source deeply embedded in rural america and it goes like this somebody named miller 36 of tannersville this is the area that i grew up in upstate new york was driving a ups truck on august 21st when it struck two parked cars in the city according to hudson police but then apparently the truck continued on two police vehicles and a bicycle patrol officer responded to a 911 report and located the truck at the corner of north blah blah following the accident now here's the good part hudson police officer randy stratman jumped onto the moving ups truck turned off the ignition to stop the vehicle and administered two doses of narcan to miller the driver meaning that the driver of the the ups truck probably was suffering an overdose probably fentanyl and was asleep in the truck while the truck was careening through traffic a police officer jumped on a moving ups truck just like indiana and frickin jones turns it off controls the truck and administers a life-saving narcan to the driver now here's what i'd like to suggest i don't know if a social worker could have pulled that off you know what i mean you know this is a this is the sort of stuff that's literally happening every single day all over america where there are police officers running toward trouble jumping on moving vehicles and saving lives every day don't hear about much about this but i give you that as your little array of good news want some more okay more good news okay here it comes saudi saudi arabia has apparently given the green light for israel to uae flights the civil kind not not a military one of course now it happened just a few times because there were a few specific flights that they exempted one of them had jared kushner on it but then apparently they talked about it and moved that into a more of a permanent situation but here's the fun part this is from uh ned yahoo so he was talking about it and called it historic uh big breakthrough you know you're probably thinking to yourself is that really a big breakthrough to be able to fly over a country that's it you just have permission to fly a commercial flight over somebody's country yeah turns out that's a pretty big deal because in this case it shortens the route to the point where it makes tourism much less expensive so it is so it actually has a specific and immediate economic stimulus component but that's not the fun part uh so netanyahu yahoo said and i quote these are the fruits of peace he said predicting that quote more good news would be coming now when you say more good news will be coming and your prime minister you don't say that unless you know more good news is coming meaning that things are really starting to shape up in the middle east why is this not the biggest story in the world it's political season and it's something that is not just good from trump but one of the best things ever i think you could make the argument already that trump is the best president the united states has ever had for international relations now the counter argument to that is but wait what about those countries that don't respect us as much anymore um i don't know is that costing me money how do that affect me are they not taking our phone calls because i think they're taking our phone calls are they not doing trade deals with us because they think origin man bad no i haven't heard any reporting on that i think countries do whatever is in their best interest in this case what's in the best interest of the middle east was working with the united states productively to get what looks like the beginning of something that could be lasting and good so uh you know we're in a world where it's hard to know what is true and all of our information is bad but i feel as though historians are going to conclude that trump was the best president just in the first four years it wouldn't even matter what happens after this but just the first four years i think would be the most successful presidency for international stuff for domestic stuff you could still make your arguments here's something that only i would say in public that's why you have me there are some things that only i will say in public you ready you know those are retail businesses that are being driven out of business by the the riots they were not good businesses and by that i don't mean that they all lost money although most of them probably were operating close to break even but they were businesses that were going to go on a business maybe this year maybe next year maybe five years but amazon was going to polish off all of those companies any retail store yet the exceptions would be maybe an apple store but that's that's such an exception that most of these smaller retail smaller restaurants they were all going to go out of business and here's the thing that i don't think we've fully incorporated into our economic estimates a lot of the small retail places especially the small independent restaurants are basically criminal organizations this is why i'm the only one who'll say this small businesses like to do a thing i call not pay their taxes now uh or they you know they'll hire a lot of illegal workers restaurants especially so what what happened that just demolished all those downtown restaurants probably was just an acceleration of something that was going to happen probably doesn't have nearly the economic impact that you think it does except unemployment and uh and i think that cities probably we're going to have less foot traffic anyway because all the other things happening the rich people moving away so i feel like the stock market is not crazy to be so high lately despite what looks like you know trouble on the ground because i think the stock market realizes that you know if amazon and apple are making money like crazy but that little restaurant on the corner went from break even only by cheating on their taxes to non-existent probably those people are going to find work as something that's maybe a better thing yeah the the short-term disruption is devastating so i don't want to minimize the impact on the on the humans who are involved with those businesses it's extreme and it's you know life ruining in many cases but if you're looking at the the larger economy it's a brutal economy people go out of business all the time it's just that it when it's distributed across the country you don't notice when it's concentrated on one main street well then you notice but it's not worse than sort of the the baseline of companies going out of business all over the place as a normal part of capitalism um so i don't want to act happy that anybody's going out of business i'm just saying it's it's accelerating a trend that was going to happen another i think well never mind um i'm noticing that republicans are using a phrase i hadn't seen as much of before they're saying that the democrats have made a devil's bargain with the progressives a devil's bargain watch how much satanic imagery comes out of the biden kamala harris campaign again just sort of a fun coincidence by the way i i tricked another a couple of publications into running a story about me believing that satan is behind the biden campaign so every time they do a head piece on me so there's another one this morning a hip piece on me they don't quite know what's going on because first of all i don't know if they know that they've changed the story from me saying explicitly i don't believe that satan exists they've changed it all the way to i'm promoting satan being part of the biden campaign literally the opposite of what i said but i did it intentionally i allowed them to take me out of context i created it so that they could do it easily not because they were fooled but because they're bad people and they would take it out of context which they did so so now when i see a hip piece like that that is falling into my trap i just retweet it you can't fault you can't fail harder at a hit piece than to have the target of your hit piece just retweet it that's it just retweets it that's as hard as you can fail all right um 81 nobel prize winners endorsed joe biden for president in an open letter 81 nobel prize winners wow smart capable people the best of the best and 81 of them all nobel prize winners and they all think that biden is is better but let's see what are the reasons because if you've got 81 nobel prize winners and they offer their reasons these are going to be good reasons i mean these are not we're not talking about a bunch of idiots these are smart people the the best best humanity has to offer so when i read their reasons to you for supporting by biden i think you'll find them quite quite brilliant so sit down uh because sometimes this level of brilliance can blind you momentarily so if you are operating a motor vehicle just pull over to the side of the road because i'm gonna give you some brilliance that honestly i was thinking of wearing sunglasses just to read this but i think we can get away with it just you know playing it straight all right the reasons that the 81 nobel prize winners give is that biden has a willingness to listen to experts okay that part's stupid because literally every president listens to experts there's never been one that didn't listen to experts there never will be one that doesn't listen to experts so the first part is kind of a throwaway um that's obviously not the brilliant part because like i said these are 81 nobel prize winners so they're not going to rest on you know unwilling to listen to experts when that's the stupidest thing you could ever say in public so it's the second part where the brilliance comes out here goes um and he has joe biden has a deep appreciation for using science to find solutions okay let me look a little further in the paragraph because i'm looking for the smart part because i know they wouldn't just say he has a deeper appreciation for using science because again that would be literally every living human being would fall into this description trump biden strangers people you've never met people with severe brain damage people in other countries people have never been to school people have been to school people who have phds people who will never have phds pretty much a hundred percent of all humanity has a deep appreciation for using science to find these solutions so there must be something else in this paragraph where they get to the smart part uh oh that's the end of the paragraph huh huh i i i guess what they're telling us is that the nobel prize is no longer prestigious uh i i actually wanted to get a nobel prize until i read this and now i see that there's not really any point to it they've actually ruined the prestige of the nobel prize now by the way i had this same experience when i was younger i always wished because i'm in sort of a writing business i wish that i could win at a pulitzer prize because imagine how cool that would be right i mean just for the bragging it's like yeah i don't like to brag about it but i did win a pulitzer prize you know i always wanted to be able to say that or have other people introduce me as pool and surprise winning cartoonist scott adams i thought that would be pretty pretty cool and i felt that until i met somebody who told me how the pulitzer prize committee works it's just people who read books and pick the one they liked that's it it's just a small group of people who read some books that have been submitted it's not all the books in the world just the people who filled out an application and said i think my work is so good it should be considered and then a small group of people read their stuff and say which one do you like i kind of like this one that's it winning the pulitzer prize has no prestige nothing there's just there's just nothing to recommend about that award except somehow we got it in our heads that it's important it isn't it's just several people read some books and they decided which one they liked that's it likewise when i won the top award in cartooning it's called the reuben it's like the academy award for a cartoonist and one year and i'd you know lusted after it when i was a new cartoonist i thought if only someday i could win the top award in cartooning my life would be complete and one day i won the top two awards the top award for a cartoon strip but also the same year i won the top award for all cartoonists of any kind the number one in the entire world and after i won it i realized oh it's just because i had a good year financially basically i made a lot of noise i was in the press the award committee said you know what would be good if we nominate somebody who's already getting a lot of attention and then we'll have more attendance at our event that was it it had nothing to do with the quality of my work and everything to do with the fact that it was unusually commercially valuable that year that was sort of a peak period for commercial success of dilbert i thought okay well that's off the list so now i have no respect whatsoever for the top award in cartooning because i want it i took took all the value out of it i have no respect for the pool of surprise because it's just some people saying what book they like that's it and now 81 nobel prize winners just came out with the dumbest open letter in all the world and i just looked at it and said if that's all it takes to be a nobel prize winner is to be this dumb i'm not sure i want one of those either so didn't expect that to happen here i made a list um to help you identify all the dumb people so you don't have to interact with them so these these are the complaints about trump that if you see any of these you can just stop listening to whoever is talking or tweeting all right if somebody says that trump doesn't believe in science just stop listening just walk away nothing that somebody says after that sentence is worth listening to likewise doesn't listen to experts basically the same thing don't listen to anything that anybody says after they say that how about this one trump is unwilling to do his job what unwilling to do his job if you hear somebody say that just walk away you don't need to hear anything else they say after that moreover you should actively try to forget anything they said before that just in case you inadvertently believe in any of it because somebody who is so dumb that they would say and it doesn't matter if you talk about trump or any other human if you say they're unwilling to do their job once they're president because a lot of people are watching right they're doing their job trump obama it doesn't matter who you're talking about by the time you become president you're willing to do the job you didn't get there by being lazy or not caring how about this one he only cares about himself that's one that you can just say ah uh i'm out anybody who could say something that monumentally is stupid that he only cares about himself there's no such thing as a president whose personal fate is disconnected from the fate of the country he is running or she is running you can't disconnect those things it's the most transparent job in the entire world there's no job more transparent we're looking at everything trump is doing everything we see it all and how in the world would anybody be in that job and think you know i think i'll do some stuff that's just good for me bad for the country good for me i don't think anybody will notice that's not a thing the president knows with dead certainty i don't have to be a mind reader i just have to know that the president has an iq over 20 because anybody with an iq over 20 i might be exaggerating a little bit knows that they have to do a good job for the country the entire world is watching every minute of every day we're all watching he doesn't have that option of i think i'll just do something that's good for me that's not a thing even when the president goes golfing again i don't care if it's clinton or obama or trump do you want your leader to have some time you know with his own head get outdoors to clear his mind maybe meet a few people that he wouldn't have time to talk to otherwise yeah you should want that and you should want him to do a copious amount because it's good for him does he still work hard enough yes yes he works hard enough he works really hard it's obvious all right the other ones that are crazy is he's a dictator when a hundred percent of what we observe violates that assumption or that he's a racist when again everything we observe shows that he cares about people who are citizens more than those who are not but beyond that that's it that's it that's his whole preference and he prefers people who obey the law of course but if you do those two things you're a citizen and you obey the law he likes you and not just a little bit ask hershel walker does he like hershel walker yeah yeah for years and years and years now am i saying that because trump has a black friend no trump has a lot of black friends people he's worked with people who have given him awards you know he has a very deep relationship with a lot of different people uh all right and here's here's my favorite one and i tweeted this if your main criticism of your opponent is chaos that that's what's wrong with your opponent they're bringing chaos you don't really have a complaint what you have there is a perception problem if you're saying somebody else is all about the chaos that's not really a statement about the other person that's sort of a public confession that you don't understand things well enough to get to know what's going on it's more about the limits of your own ability to understand the world and here's why chaos isn't something that one person brings to the situation chaos is the situation the world is chaos all the time if you knew what was going to happen would you need the news why would there be a news industry if we already knew what was going to happen the whole reason that we're having this conversation and a lot of you are finding out things you know this morning in the news and maybe some of you hearing it from me for the first time it's because you didn't know it was going to happen that's what the news is stuff you didn't know was going to happen for the most part and if you don't know what's going to happen it's chaos so just putting a clever word on it and labeling it doesn't change the fact that the world is unpredicted unpredictable all the time do you think you could hire or elect a president who would make the chaos go away i hope not because if the chaos goes away we're all dead the only way you could have no chaos is to literally be dead because the world serves up a lot of chaos you hope that you have a president who knows how to deal with it and one way not to deal with all the chaos is to really dig into all the details i i have much less respect for the presidents who try to master all the details of the topics i know that sounds counterintuitive you think well scott that's exactly what you need isn't it don't you want the president who really gets into the the nuts and bolts really digs in a little bit deeper no no you want that kind of person who has like if somebody works in a cubicle you want somebody who can really dig into the details because that's your job if you work in a cubicle i'm not disparaging people working in cubicles i spent much of my career there i'm just saying that that's a different job some people's job it is to get into the details other people are sitting on top of this giant ball of you know chaos let's call it and they're trying to nudge the chaos in intelligent ways whenever there's an opportunity and understanding all the details of all the chaos would be the least predictive productive thing you could do it's not what a leader does it's what the cubicle does the cubicle can dig in but they only dig into their topic the cubicle that's one cubicle over they also dig in but only to their topic because the level of complexity sue would overwhelm anybody if you don't chunk it down to its smallest part so the last thing you want is a leader who's obsessing over the details you just can't lead that way you you know you wish that were possible but that's wishful thinking instead you have leaders who are dealing with do i trust this person does the general thrust of this fit with my philosophy is this something i could fix if i break it is this something that would cause maybe a predictable problem uh if i go this way versus that it's a risk management situation a lot of it is guessing a lot of its intuition so anybody who is operating at the child level that says that a candidate is bringing chaos when in fact chaos is the canvas they're not really a good observer i've noticed this this correlation anecdotally and i want to see if you can notice it as i've famously called out the democrats who come out come after me on twitter uh if they say completely irrational things and i check their profile they're usually artists of some kind and you can tell they're an artist because their comments depart from rational thought so so grotesquely but there's another category because not all democrats and not all critics of the trump are are artists some of them have jobs where they've learned critical thinking what do the people who have actually learned critical thinking let's say your economist your lawyers your your business people there are lots of other jobs but ones who actually have skill and experience and critical thinking and risk management what did they say when they come after me i will give you an example sure dilbert or well that's from the cartoonist that's it they give the they just do sarcasm as if that says everything that needs to be said well there's the cartoonist nothing else needs to be said and i want you to see if you find that correlation so check profiles when somebody comes at you with nothing but sarcasm and see if this pattern holds i don't know if it will but it might just see if the critical thinkers use sarcasm and the artist try to use logic but it's not working for them all right there's a i guess rand paul has called for uh the subpoena of antifa's plane records and hotel records and travel and stuff to find out who's funding antifa and i think that's everything you know it feels to me it's too early to know but it feels to me that if we find out who's funding at least the primary agitators that you know get everybody else going it only takes a small number of people to get the rest of the crowd you know going in some direction so just for clarification nobody believes that all of antifa are being paid to be there there are no there are no conservatives who believe that no republicans nobody on twitter nobody's ever suggested that all the blm or all of the antifa or even most are being paid to be there clearly not the case the the assertion is the allegation if you will that there is a high likelihood based on evidence a high likelihood that some number of them some kernel of them small colonel are paid professional agitators and it would be good to know who's paying them because they might be the ones who are driving the animal spirits of the rest so rand paul continues to be one of the most productive members of congress seemingly being the only person who's willing to do useful things on a regular basis i don't know what to say about this like how many times have i told you there was a good thing happening and then the name attached to it was rand paul it's a fairly common event and and i say to myself aren't there a lot of other people in congress like why is it all the smart stuff comes from just a handful of people it's pretty consistent so nancy pelosi's got some political trouble she was caught on security camera indoors getting her hair blown out some kind of a wash and a blow for her hair now i guess the shop was closed to other people but she was in the shop and she had her mask off and so she got a lot of pushback from that i guess her response was that she didn't know it was wrong now here's my opinion about that don't care at all i don't care even a little bit that nancy pelosi was indoors when other people are not allowed indoors you know because it's against the rules and i don't mind that she didn't have her mask off when she was getting this particular treatment um by the way a lot of personal services such as massages it's not that uncommon for the the provider to have a mask as in nancy's case but the person receiving the service to not have a mask depending on what the services for example but in most cases when you could wear a mask it's recommended now i i and the reason the reason i'm not going to climb all over pelosi for what is being called the massive hypocrisy is not because it isn't it is it's massive hypocrisy but it's also not important and i would like to establish the belief that the leaders of our country should not be treated like the rest of us i don't think that's wrong i believe that nancy pelosi should be able to get her hair done indoors because she's the speaker of the house and you know there are things that you can't do on the sidewalk if you're the speaker of the house now if everybody else was on the sidewalk they're anonymous people walk by that's fine it's safe it's good enough but if you're the president of the united states or you're the you know you're the speaker of the house or your rand paul yeah that's okay with me if they take you alone because being indoors the problem is not just indoors the problem is indoors with lots of people if you take nancy indoors with one person who's wearing a mask and let's say that nancy has been tested she probably has been recently it's not the biggest risk in the world and she is safer indoors than she would be outdoors you know i i get that other people say hey other people we did our own hair we worked it out but she's also in her 80s i don't know can she do her own hair being in her 80s is a bigger problem to me than the fact she got her hair blown out so i would like to be consistent because there's no way in the world there won't be you know republicans and other people who get caught without masks etc you know maybe it'll happen to me you know maybe i'll get caught on some video without a mask or something and it's just i can't get i can't get interested in it all right but i understand it's a fun story in a political season um chicago police released surveillance video of suspects looting the store and they're asking for help identifying them now the people that they're showing are don't have masks on some do but most of them don't now what do you tell yourself when you see that chicago is asking the public to help them identify the pictures that they're publishing presumably online i don't know if it's in any newspapers too what does that tell you think think through what do you know is true if chicago is printing photos of people and saying public can you identify them here's what you know is true chicago are really really incompetent do you know how hard it would be to identify every person in that photo here's how hard it would be all right i'm going to demonstrate this this will be the entire effort to identify every single one within two seconds so the entire time to identify every picture my claim is sub two seconds and it looks let me demonstrate it looks like this let's say this is the picture now this is my phone and i look at the picture and i push this button and then their face comes up and i've identified them you can do that with an app it's an app that law enforcement uses routinely in other places what this tells me is that chicago for whatever reason is the only place that's not buying an easily purchasable app that every law enforcement person knows about knows how to get knows how to use literally it's this easy point your phone at the picture you don't even have to paint point it at the person point it at a photo press one button done the name of the person appears on your phone almost every time close to 100 now what's wrong with chicago that they can't buy this little app well obviously there's somebody who told them that you're here i'm speculating a little bit so i feel like i'm speculating responsibly but it's speculation so i don't wanna i don't wanna sell this as fact they have to not be using these apps clearview is the the leader in that field they're obviously not using clear view why not why not what is the difference between using that app and getting their answer in two seconds versus publishing these in public and asking the public to identify them which probably will work it's just really really hard it's crazy yeah facial recognition would have them in two seconds and when i say two seconds that's not an exaggeration the app doesn't even have to sit there and process it's actually two seconds now and some of the apps are better than others at recognizing african american faces i think clear views might be the leader in getting that right but of course you still have to verify you don't want to you don't want to trust the app for the final final uh identification but it tells you where to look all right uh there's a report that the number of people looking for divorces was 34 higher from march through june ouch and the data shows that 31 of the couple's admitted lockdown has caused irreparable damage to their relationships 31 of couples believe they have irreparable damage to their relationship irreparable this is gonna tear apart the you know the nature of uh society now i always had a theory that part of a successful relationship is distance in other words the fact that uh let's say one of the adults goes off and works all day uh or maybe both of the adults go off and work all day it's probably a really healthy thing because if you're in each other's business all the time that can cause some tension and it looks like we've proven that i've said before that the the nuclear family needs to be not eliminated that's black lives matters ideas sort of get rid of the nuclear family i think if i have that right i hope i have that right i've said something compatible with that but different which is that you shouldn't be the only model because so many people won't be able to achieve it not everybody can have a nuclear family sometimes it requires a certain amount of money sometimes you got to be lucky you know to get the right person there's a lot that can go wrong with the nuclear family but if it works for you i would agree that for those families where it works it's tremendous it'd be hard to beat as a organizing principle but we do need something for the people who can't make that work um and i think that shows it joy reid uh i don't think she'll get cancelled because she's on the side that doesn't try to cancel itself as much as he cancels other people but she's being accused of being islamophobic i guess uh who who accused her of that oh uh elon omar representative omar actually said she said of joy reid honestly this kind of casual islamophobia is hurtful and dangerous we deserve better need an apology etc so what is it that joy reid said that would cause her own side to try to cancel her how bad was it well let me read it she said leaders let's say in the muslim world talk talk a lot of violent talk and encourage their supporters to be willing to commit violence including on their own bodies in order to win against whoever they decide as the enemy and she said other things so she got in trouble for comparing muslims to republicans i think because the next part of this was she was saying about uh radicalizing supporters so so joy reid might get cancelled or at least she's getting in trouble for comparing muslims to republicans is could that be any better is there anything more entertaining than watching joy read get cancelled by elon omar for comparing muslims to republicans that's just everything the the whole the whole year 2020 was just put into that one little package if you only needed to know that one thing you'd know how the rest of the year went all right here's my problem with intersectionality and critical race theory two categories of things which i am no expert on but i'll just ask this question isn't the guaranteed end result of those things that we keep carving each other into smaller and smaller categories until everybody has a reason to hate everybody how else can it go because i would love to hear the thinking that says how this brings us to a better place it certainly brings us to um it's certainly good to talk about you know racism and sexism and all those things and try to deal with them as practically as we can but if the moment you've dealt with it you said okay okay we're doing the best we can to let's say make the world just as good for black people and white people of course we're not there but let's say we're doing a good job on that the next thing that happens is well what about black people who are also muslims and then you say all right all right that's a new category it feels like every time you slice the category well what about if you're black a muslim and gay okay okay we better do something about that category i don't see how you ever take this philosophy to a good end point it feels like it's a it's one direction to complete destruction and i don't i can't even conceive of the exit path i don't see the exit path where where things get better and better and then you reach a good place i i'd love to have somebody explain to me the thinking behind that because i think like most left versus right differences it doesn't take into account human motivation it doesn't take into account human psychology or the way an average person thinks or acts this is the thing that the conservatives consistently get right and the left consistently gets wrong which is forgetting that humans will always act like humans if you design a system that can't work for humans don't be surprised if it doesn't work i mean why would that be surprising all right bernie sanders said one of the dumber things you'll ever hear he said this the mainstream media doesn't talk about it space space space congress doesn't talk about it space space space trump doesn't talk about it space space space but three multi-billionaires now own more wealth than the bottom half of our society and he goes he suggests that that would be very very bad now here's what's wrong with that now i've i've described myself as being left to bernie but with this special uh caveat that i'm also good at math i use good at math as a proxy for a good thinking and good at logic and i'm not like the world's best at any of those things i'm just better than bernie so i can see the obvious idiocy that he brings to the table and here's the problem suppose nobody knew how much money those billionaires had it's just here's a mental experiment all right so bernie has said it's a real problem that three billionaires have as much as the bottom half of the entire united states that's an amazing statistic it's like it's you know mind-numbingly jaw-droppingly amazing but imagine a world where you just didn't know they existed exactly like they exist now the only difference is you didn't know how much money they had would you be worse off it doesn't make any sense if the only reason we're complaining about it is that we know about it but there's nothing underlying in terms of it won't hurt you if you didn't know about it why is this his biggest problem why is he raising this in a time of you know great uncertainty in this world and you know problems that are as big as any problems we've ever had why is he raising the only problem i could think of where if you literally didn't know it existed you would never find out because nothing would go wrong in fact you'd be hearing bill gates is you know giving away hundreds of millions of dollars and curing malaria or polio or some damn thing in africa and you'd hear that story and you say huh i wonder how he's paying for it but would you be unhappy that bill gates was you know curing a disease in africa no no you'd be kind of happy about it you just wouldn't know how he paid for it would you be unhappy if you found that elon musk had figured out not only a way to go to mars but he had created an entire competitive space industry which makes the future of the earth possibly far better than it would have been without our ability to someday you know effectively leave our gravity force gravitational force what would you think about that if you didn't know that that elon musk was worth billions and all you knew is that he was a guy who opened up space he was a guy who built a network of solar shingles for your house that could work into your your battery which someday might be part of a solution for green energy that would make the world a better place suppose you didn't know he was a billionaire but you knew he did all of those things would you be less happy what exactly is sanders talking about other than jealousy does sanders understand that the money that the billionaires own is being used you know jeff bezos ownership of amazon is still mostly in the stock that's why he's so rich it's in the stock if if bezos pulled his money out of the stock what would he do with it would he buy more food for himself no he probably eats all the food he needs to stay fed there's a limit to how many things a rich guy can buy you know bezos got his got his yacht which he probably hardly ever uses and he'll be tired of it and then he'll get rid of it but he got one billionaires don't really have a way to consume the wealth they have they have to put it into something that benefits the economy they have to they don't really have an option so he has to put it in stock where it's bolstering you know the market in different ways or you put it in the bank and then the bank can you know use that for lending but money doesn't just sit in the mattress these billionaires aren't sitting on a gigantic pile of dollar bills it's in their money is in the system working they're the ones who are funding startups you know where where do all of your uh you know important startups come from they come from some billionaire who who said well i can put a million dollars into this startup it might work it might not but i got an extra million i don't care so for bernie not to understand the most basic basic basic stuff about economics is really embarrassing all right uh and uh bernie goes on to say that that level of inequality is immoral and unsustainable but again if you didn't know they had the money it wouldn't make any difference at all it would be completely sustainable if you just didn't know about it that's it now i could argue that maybe warren buffett is not adding as much to the world because he's more of a financial manipulator but even he is making markets and companies more efficient because when he buys a piece of a company he doesn't just buy it often he'll you know improve it in small ways and big the the people who are worthless are the hedge fund types who are just making just you know taking money out of the system but they're not adding anything all right it seems to me that biden's value proposition has devolved into some form of vote for biden or biden's followers will hunt you down and kill you now that's hyperbole but it's starting to feel that way isn't it because the way you feel isn't necessarily the exact way that things are but the way it feels as a trump supporter is that biden is literally threatening us that if you know and other people have made this observation but i'm just piling on it does feel like the left is threatening us but here's what they don't get the left has not yet fully internalized that the protesters are not on their side you get that right the left doesn't quite understand they're just starting to understand that's why they're coming out against them that the the protesters are not on their side the protesters are on their own side whatever that is but they're definitely not on the democrat side and they're not on trump's side they're not on america's side you could argue there's a big non-story two big non-stories in the um conservative world now for those of you who say scott why do you only say good things about trump why don't you never say any bad things about the other side well i do all the time and i'm gonna do that now so there's this tape you heard it on uh tucker's show some of you chris cuomo talking to of all people michael cohen the disgraced and jailed lawyer ex-lawyer for trump so apparently chris cuomo and cohen knew each other pretty well who knew that that's sort of a weird little backstory but on this uh on this audio recording chris cuomo is heard to say things which are completely exculpatory and make chris cuomo look like he did not do the things he's accused of how did conservative pundits treat an audio tape in which it's pretty clear that chris cuomo legitimately believes he was not involved in the things that he was accused of doing the the metoo-ish accusations how does conservative world treat the fact that it really shows he doesn't think he did these things in private he acts like he he believes that they didn't happen they treat it like it happened like like he didn't say what he said and i watch this and i think we're seeing more and more of this where somebody will say they'll hand you an apple and they'll say what do you think of this banana and you'll say what banana you just handed me an apple this is clearly an apple it's red it's round i take a bite out of it it's an apple stop saying this is a banana because that's an apple and then the person will look right at you like nothing had ever happened and they'll say is the banana good and you'll say what's going on here this is no banana we're both looking at this it's an apple and the other person will look right at it and say now that's a banana i don't i've never seen this before so it happened with the cuomo story there's there's nothing on there that should be embarrassing to chris cuomo and is treated as a national story of something that's embarrassing to chris cuomo it's literally the opposite it's completely exculpatory i don't even know what to think about that all right is that the only time that's happened no how about this one so dr scott alice he's part of the trump uh team you know the coronavirus team i guess and cnn was reporting that he was pushing for herd immunity so he came on i think it was fox and they said uh were you doing that he was like no no i've never pushed for herd immunity nobody has it's not even a thing it's never been brought up the president's never mentioned it it's never been in a conversation it's never been floated as a possibility nobody thinks it's something we should pursue there's zero times zero times zero to this story what will people say once the the person who is the most closest to the story what will cnn say now that he has said no there's nothing to it they'll just act like he didn't say it and they'll just keep reporting that it's happening like it didn't even happen this is just a weird world how about uh there's another one how about the the story that the cdc had uh modified their death count and it wasn't 180 000 or whatever it was closer to 9 000 because there were only six percent of the people were dying without comorbidities therefore it's all it's all the big fraud etc nothing like that happened it again it's like a big national story but it didn't happen it literally didn't happen none of that happened all that happened is they just sliced it a different way and as the experts say um pretty much everybody who dies of anything has comorbidities it's very rare for a person to die unless it's you know say an accident or some rare genetic disease or something but it's actually really unusual for anybody to die without comorbidities so the fact that 94 of people who die from coronavirus have comorbidities it's kind of like everything else now what do conservatives say but they say but but scott i know what you're saying but still what that proves scott you're missing the whole point scott scotty people who disagree with me like to call me scotty scotty you're missing the whole point the point is that those people who don't have the comorbidities should not have been afraid because their their odds of dying are just vanishingly small so let's send the kids back to school because why in the world would you not send kids to school when a you know it's good for the kids you know that their risk is tiny there's no reason there's no logic whatsoever for not sending the kids to school and i look at that and i go what's wrong with you what's wrong with you that you would say that in public the reason that they don't want to send the kids to school is not that the kids will die it's that they'll be part of the transmission that will get to the 94 percent of people with comorbidities and there's more spread could could put the teachers at risk in some cases we don't know how much risk but could put him at risk well it would put him at risk we don't know how much and i think to myself if you leave out the part where the kids bring it home or or help spread it you're not part of the you you can't consider your part self part of the adult conversation right the the minimum minimum requirement to be an adult in the conversation is you have to at least acknowledge the big factors in the in the conversation one big factor is the kids themselves and i think almost everybody agrees that they would be mostly fine and the risk would be so small that the benefits to the kids themselves would be tremendous benefit to the parents tremendous because the parents would now be freed up to you know do what they need to do but if you leave out the part about this clearly would contribute to the spread if you leave that part out you're not in the adult conversation you really aren't now you could argue that it won't spread it but that would be a scientific question i think the evidence is that it probably does but maybe we don't know but still if you leave it out you're not part of the adult conversation uh the funniest story is the uh portland's mayor has just reportedly i would look for confirmation on this but reportedly he's considered considering selling his home in portland because the protests so the guy who has been most supportive of the protesters and literally joined in with him is learning that these protesters are not on his side as he had hoped but rather are a maligned force as they like to say on tv here's another non-story reported as a big story the state department i guess in kiev something about ukrainians you know the state department our our state department was illegally monitoring conservatives on twitter and social media jack possabic hannity laura ingram and others to which i say why is that a story do you know who else is illegally monitoring jack posabic i am i am yeah i'm illegally uh reading his twitter account and when he tweets i i break the law i break the law and i read it and if he tweets again i don't like to broadcast this but i'm probably going to break the law again and read what he tweeted now you might say that you say to me scott that's not what they're talking about they're not talking about reading his tweets what are they talking about do are they talking about hacking twitter no that's not in the story that all they're talking about is asking some third party to keep an eye on various accounts that were of importance and tell them what they saw so that they didn't have to do it themselves is that is that a real story now if there's more to it if there was some hacking an actual illegal act i would say yeah let's look at that but the way it's reported and again could be more to the story i don't know but the way it's reported is they asked somebody to read the tweets of people who are important to their livelihoods and their jobs and i thought to myself i don't think that's illegal if it is it shouldn't be trump is fighting against fighting back against the so-called fake news that he had some kind of stroke or mini strokes or something the the best evidence against it is that he uh his trip to walter reed was brief and he went home if you had if you had any of the things that he was alleged to have had do you go in and then just go home and go back to your job the next day is that a thing well so i think this is debunked the president has debunked it in the the clearest possible words but i know that you know the public isn't going to trust him on that if i had to guess i would guess his slurred speech and a few of his speeches could be fatigue it could be dental work could be anything but my guess is that whatever they rushed him in for was something embarrassing or something that wasn't really a problem and if it wasn't really a problem did you need to do anything have any of you ever gone to the emergency room only to be told oh that's no big deal you have right you know unless you're bleeding or you've got a broken arm or something how many of you have gone in and the emergency room just says oh that's that's nothing take an aspirin it's a pretty common thing so i wouldn't be surprised if they did rush the president in for you know some greater medical treatment than uh than they had available in the white house and i guess there's a lot in the white house and then they checked it out and it was no big deal or something easily treatable and he just wants it out of the news which i can understand what was biden's exact quote when he did his speech and he said do i look like some kind of wild-eyed progressive what were his exact words do i look like some kind of wild-eyed progressive and i thought to myself how does that get him the vote of the wild eyed progressives because it feels like he's insulting how they look isn't it because he's saying do i look do i look like like literally look he didn't say have i acted like do i have a record of you know have i have i ever promised anything in that nature he didn't say that he said look at me like literally with your eyes look at me do i look like some wild-eyed progressive it feels like he was mocking the protesters their actual physical look not that we haven't done that but it would be news if he did and i wondered how this completely escaped the uh the pouncing i thought there'd be more pouncing on that all right um apparently trump is down depending on what polls you want to believe they're all over the place but uh i think it was an a silver who said trump is down four to five percent or he said if it was more of an if it's based on where things are heading nay silver said that if trump ends up being down four to five percent of the battleground states it's actually a close race here's what i say what does it mean to be down four or five percent in a world where 12 percent of the gop says that they won't tell pollsters their honest opinion so 12 percent of republicans would lie and trump's only down 4 to 5 what does that tell you now i want you to correct me on the math of this but sometimes there are things that seem really obvious that are your brain isn't quite processed in the right so this might be one of those but here's what people are missing if a republican voter simply refuses to talk to a pollster they'll just call until they get another republican so refusing to answer probably doesn't change the result that much because they'll just find somebody who's willing to answer until they have enough answers but if the gop people who are being surveyed are lying it's a double impact because not only are they are they taking a vote away from trump that they intend to cast but they're giving it to biden doesn't that double the impact because it's not just a vote that's missing it's a vote that the lie puts on the wrong tally so it's a so so that one person makes a difference of two one away from trump and one for biden am i thinking of that right i feel like i'm confusing myself but that's right right so this is a good example of why i'm never embarrassed to be stupid in public it's a good skill you should learn it because sometimes i'll hit on something that's useful and other times i'll say something that's like uh okay so people in the comments are agreeing with me but so therefore that four or five percent is really nothing because if 12 are lying that's a gigantic swing if their lie is that they're voting for biden and they're not all right um uh yeah i guess that's all i got for today and um it's like losing a stroke in golf is it no it's not like losing a stroke in golf because that doesn't add a stroke to the person you're golfing against uh all right yes it's a double dipper okay um that's all i've got for now and i will talk to you tomorrow
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i would like to begin this wonderful
hour by reading you this little story
which i
just received from my
secret source deeply embedded
in rural america and it goes like this
somebody named miller 36 of tannersville
this is the area that i grew up in
upstate new york
was driving a ups truck on august 21st
when it struck two parked cars in the
city according to hudson police
but then apparently the truck continued
on
two police vehicles and a bicycle patrol
officer
responded to a 911 report and located
the truck at the corner of north blah
blah
following the accident now here's the
good part
hudson police officer randy stratman
jumped
onto the moving ups truck turned off the
ignition to stop the vehicle
and administered two doses of narcan
to miller the driver meaning that
the driver of the the ups truck
probably was suffering an overdose
probably
fentanyl and was asleep in the truck
while the truck was careening through
traffic
a police officer jumped on a moving
ups truck just like indiana and
frickin jones turns it off controls the
truck
and administers a life-saving narcan to
the driver
now here's what i'd like to suggest
i don't know if a social worker could
have pulled that off
you know what i mean you know this is a
this is the sort of stuff that's
literally happening
every single day all over america where
there are police officers running toward
trouble jumping on moving vehicles and
saving lives
every day don't hear about much about
this
but i give you that as your little array
of good news
want some more okay more good news
okay here it comes
saudi saudi arabia has apparently
given the green light for israel to uae
flights the civil kind not not a
military one of course
now it happened just a few times because
there were a few specific flights that
they exempted
one of them had jared kushner on it but
then apparently they talked about it and
moved that into a
more of a permanent situation but here's
the fun part
this is from uh ned yahoo so he was
talking about it and called it historic
uh big breakthrough you know you're
probably thinking to yourself
is that really a big breakthrough to be
able to fly over a country
that's it you just have permission to
fly
a commercial flight over somebody's
country
yeah turns out that's a pretty big deal
because in this case it shortens the
route to the point where
it makes tourism much less expensive
so it is so it actually has a specific
and immediate
economic stimulus component but that's
not the fun part
uh so netanyahu yahoo said and i quote
these are the fruits of peace he said
predicting that quote
more good news would be coming now
when you say more good news will be
coming and your
prime minister you don't say that unless
you know
more good news is coming meaning that
things are really starting to shape up
in the middle east
why is this not the biggest story in the
world
it's political season and it's something
that is
not just good from trump but one of the
best things ever
i think you could make the argument
already that trump is the best
president the united states has ever had
for
international relations now the counter
argument to that is
but wait what about those countries that
don't respect us as much anymore um
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i don't know is that costing me money
how do that affect me are they not
taking our phone calls
because i think they're taking our phone
calls are they not doing trade deals
with us
because they think origin man bad no
i haven't heard any reporting on that i
think
countries do whatever is in their best
interest in this case what's in the best
interest of the middle east
was working with the united states
productively
to get what looks like the beginning of
something that could be
lasting and good so uh
you know we're in a world where it's
hard to know what is true and
all of our information is bad but i feel
as though
historians are going to conclude that
trump was the best
president just in the first four years
it wouldn't even matter what happens
after this but just the first four years
i think
would be the most successful presidency
for international stuff for domestic
stuff
you could still make your arguments
here's something that only i would say
in public
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that's why you have me there are some
things that only i will say in public
you ready you know those are retail
businesses
that are being driven out of business by
the the riots
they were not good businesses and by
that i don't mean that they
all lost money although most of them
probably were
operating close to break even but they
were businesses that were going to go on
a business
maybe this year maybe next year maybe
five years
but amazon was going to polish off all
of those companies
any retail store yet the exceptions
would be maybe an
apple store but that's that's such an
exception
that most of these smaller retail
smaller restaurants
they were all going to go out of
business and here's the thing that
i don't think we've fully incorporated
into
our economic estimates a lot of the
small retail places especially the small
independent restaurants
are basically criminal organizations
this is why i'm the only one who'll say
this small businesses
like to do a thing i call not pay their
taxes
now uh or they you know they'll hire a
lot of illegal workers
restaurants especially so what
what happened that just demolished all
those downtown restaurants
probably was just an acceleration of
something that was going to happen
probably doesn't have nearly the
economic impact that you think it does
except unemployment and uh
and i think that cities probably we're
going to have less foot traffic anyway
because
all the other things happening the rich
people moving away
so i feel like the stock market is not
crazy to be so high lately
despite what looks like you know trouble
on the ground
because i think the stock market
realizes that you know if amazon and
apple are making money like crazy
but that little restaurant on the corner
went from
break even only by cheating on their
taxes
to non-existent
probably those people are going to find
work as something that's
maybe a better thing yeah the the
short-term disruption is
devastating so i don't want to minimize
the impact on the on the humans
who are involved with those businesses
it's extreme
and it's you know life ruining in many
cases but if you're looking at the
the larger economy it's a brutal economy
people go out of business all the time
it's just that it when it's distributed
across the country you don't notice
when it's concentrated on one main
street well then you notice
but it's not worse than sort of the
the baseline of companies going out of
business all over the place
as a normal part of capitalism um
so i don't want to act happy that
anybody's going out of business i'm just
saying it's
it's accelerating a trend that was going
to happen
another i think well
never mind um i'm noticing that
republicans are using a phrase i hadn't
seen as much of before
they're saying that the democrats have
made a devil's bargain
with the progressives a devil's bargain
watch how much satanic imagery
comes out of the biden kamala harris
campaign
again just sort of a fun coincidence
by the way i i tricked another a couple
of publications
into running a story about me believing
that satan
is behind the biden campaign
so every time they do a head piece on me
so there's another one this morning
a hip piece on me they don't quite know
what's going on
because first of all i don't know if
they know that they've changed the story
from me saying explicitly i don't
believe
that satan exists they've changed it all
the way to
i'm promoting satan being part of the
biden campaign
literally the opposite of what i said
but i did it intentionally i allowed
them to
take me out of context i created it so
that they could do it easily
not because they were fooled but because
they're bad people
and they would take it out of context
which they did
so so now when i see a hip piece like
that
that is falling into my trap i just
retweet it
you can't fault you can't fail harder
at a hit piece than to have the target
of your hit piece just retweet it
that's it just retweets it that's as
hard as you can fail
all right um 81
nobel prize winners endorsed joe biden
for president
in an open letter 81 nobel prize winners
wow smart capable people
the best of the best and 81 of them
all nobel prize winners and they all
think that
biden is is better but let's see what
are the reasons because
if you've got 81 nobel prize winners
and they offer their reasons these are
going to be good reasons
i mean these are not we're not talking
about a bunch of idiots
these are smart people the the best best
humanity has to offer
so when i read their reasons to you for
supporting by
biden i think you'll find them quite
quite
brilliant so sit down
uh because sometimes this level of
brilliance
can blind you momentarily so if you are
operating a motor vehicle just pull over
to the side of the road
because i'm gonna give you some
brilliance that honestly i was thinking
of wearing sunglasses just to read this
but i think we can get away with it just
you know playing it straight
all right the reasons that the 81 nobel
prize winners give is that
biden has a willingness to listen to
experts
okay that part's stupid because
literally every president listens to
experts
there's never been one that didn't
listen to experts there never will be
one that doesn't listen to experts
so the first part is kind of a throwaway
um that's obviously not the brilliant
part
because like i said these are 81
nobel prize winners so they're not going
to rest on
you know unwilling to listen to experts
when that's the stupidest thing you
could ever say in public
so it's the second part where the
brilliance comes out here goes
um and he has joe biden has a deep
appreciation for using science to find
solutions
okay let me look a little further in the
paragraph
because i'm looking for the smart part
because i know they wouldn't just say
he has a deeper appreciation for using
science
because again that would be literally
every living human being
would fall into this description trump
biden strangers people you've never met
people with severe brain damage people
in other countries
people have never been to school people
have been to school
people who have phds people who will
never have phds
pretty much a hundred percent of all
humanity
has a deep appreciation for using
science to find these solutions
so there must be something else in this
paragraph where they get to the smart
part
uh oh that's the end of the paragraph
huh huh
i i i guess what they're telling us is
that the
nobel prize is no longer prestigious
uh i i actually wanted to get a nobel
prize
until i read this and now i see that
there's not really any point to it
they've actually ruined the prestige
of the nobel prize now by the way i had
this same experience
when i was younger i always wished
because i'm
in sort of a writing business i wish
that i could win at a pulitzer prize
because imagine how cool that would be
right i mean just for the bragging
it's like yeah i don't like to brag
about it but
i did win a pulitzer prize you know i
always wanted to be able to
say that or have other people introduce
me
as pool and surprise winning cartoonist
scott adams
i thought that would be pretty pretty
cool
and i felt that until i met somebody who
told me how the pulitzer prize committee
works
it's just people who read books and pick
the one they liked
that's it it's just a small group of
people
who read some books that have been
submitted it's not all the books in the
world
just the people who filled out an
application and said i think my work is
so good it should be considered
and then a small group of people read
their stuff and say which one do you
like
i kind of like this one that's it
winning the pulitzer prize has no
prestige
nothing there's just there's just
nothing to recommend about that award
except somehow we got it in our heads
that it's important it isn't
it's just several people read some books
and they decided which one they liked
that's
it likewise when i won
the top award in cartooning it's called
the reuben it's like the
academy award for a cartoonist and one
year
and i'd you know lusted after it when i
was a new cartoonist i thought
if only someday i could win the top
award in cartooning
my life would be complete and one day i
won the top
two awards the top award for a cartoon
strip
but also the same year i won the top
award for all cartoonists of any kind
the number one in the entire world
and after i won it i realized oh
it's just because i had a good year
financially basically i made a lot of
noise
i was in the press the award committee
said you know what would be good
if we nominate somebody who's already
getting a lot of attention
and then we'll have more attendance at
our event
that was it it had nothing to do with
the quality of my work
and everything to do with the fact that
it was unusually commercially valuable
that year that was sort of a peak period
for
commercial success of dilbert i thought
okay well
that's off the list so now i have no
respect whatsoever for the top award in
cartooning
because i want it i took took all the
value out of it
i have no respect for the pool of
surprise because it's just some people
saying what book they like
that's it and now 81 nobel prize winners
just came out with the dumbest open
letter in all the world
and i just looked at it and said if
that's all it takes to be a nobel prize
winner is to be this dumb
i'm not sure i want one of those either
so
didn't expect that to happen here i made
a list
um to help you identify all the dumb
people
so you don't have to interact with them
so these
these are the complaints about trump
that if you see
any of these you can just stop listening
to whoever is talking or tweeting
all right if somebody says that trump
doesn't believe in science
just stop listening just walk away
nothing that somebody says after that
sentence
is worth listening to likewise doesn't
listen to experts basically the same
thing
don't listen to anything that anybody
says after they say that how about this
one
trump is unwilling to do his job
what unwilling to do his job
if you hear somebody say that just walk
away
you don't need to hear anything else
they say
after that moreover you should actively
try to forget
anything they said before that just in
case you inadvertently believe in any of
it
because somebody who is so dumb that
they would say and it doesn't matter if
you talk about trump or
any other human if you say they're
unwilling to do their job
once they're president because a lot of
people are watching
right they're doing their job trump
obama it doesn't matter who you're
talking about by the time you become
president
you're willing to do the job you didn't
get there by being lazy
or not caring how about this one he only
cares about himself
that's one that you can just say ah uh
i'm out
anybody who could say something that
monumentally is stupid
that he only cares about himself there's
no such thing
as a president whose personal fate
is disconnected from the fate of the
country
he is running or she is running you
can't disconnect those things
it's the most transparent job in the
entire world
there's no job more transparent we're
looking at
everything trump is doing everything we
see it all
and how in the world would anybody be in
that job and think you know
i think i'll do some stuff that's just
good for me
bad for the country good for me i don't
think anybody will notice
that's not a thing the president knows
with dead certainty i don't have to be a
mind reader
i just have to know that the president
has an iq over 20
because anybody with an iq over 20 i
might be exaggerating a little bit
knows that they have to do a good job
for the country
the entire world is watching every
minute of every day
we're all watching he doesn't have that
option of i think i'll just do something
that's good for me
that's not a thing even when the
president goes golfing
again i don't care if it's clinton or
obama or trump
do you want your leader to have some
time you know with his own head get
outdoors
to clear his mind maybe meet a few
people that he wouldn't have time to
talk to otherwise
yeah you should want that and you should
want him to do a copious amount
because it's good for him does he still
work hard enough
yes yes he works hard enough he works
really hard
it's obvious all right the other ones
that are crazy is he's a dictator
when a hundred percent of what we
observe violates that assumption
or that he's a racist when again
everything we observe shows that he
cares about
people who are citizens more than those
who are not
but beyond that that's it
that's it that's his whole preference
and he prefers people who obey the law
of course
but if you do those two things you're a
citizen
and you obey the law he likes you
and not just a little bit ask hershel
walker
does he like hershel walker yeah yeah
for years and years and years
now am i saying that because trump has a
black friend
no trump has a lot of black friends
people he's worked with people who have
given him awards
you know he has a very deep relationship
with a lot of different people
uh all right and here's here's my
favorite one
and i tweeted this if your main
criticism of your opponent
is chaos that that's what's wrong with
your opponent they're bringing chaos
you don't really have a complaint what
you have there is a perception problem
if you're saying somebody else is all
about the chaos
that's not really a statement about the
other person
that's sort of a public confession that
you don't
understand things well enough to get to
know what's going on
it's more about the limits of your own
ability to understand the world
and here's why chaos isn't something
that one person brings to the situation
chaos is the situation
the world is chaos all the time
if you knew what was going to happen
would you need the news why would there
be a news industry
if we already knew what was going to
happen the whole reason that we're
having this conversation
and a lot of you are finding out things
you know this morning in the news and
maybe
some of you hearing it from me for the
first time it's because you didn't know
it was going to happen
that's what the news is stuff you didn't
know was going to happen
for the most part and if you don't know
what's going to happen
it's chaos so just putting a
clever word on it and labeling it
doesn't change the fact that the world
is unpredicted
unpredictable all the time do you think
you could hire
or elect a president who would make the
chaos go away
i hope not because if the chaos goes
away we're all dead
the only way you could have no chaos is
to literally be dead
because the world serves up a lot of
chaos
you hope that you have a president who
knows how to deal with it
and one way not to deal with all the
chaos
is to really dig into all the details
i i have much less respect for the
presidents
who try to master all the details of the
topics i know that sounds
counterintuitive
you think well scott that's exactly what
you need isn't it don't you want the
president who really gets into the
the nuts and bolts really digs in a
little bit deeper
no no you want that kind of person who
has
like if somebody works in a cubicle you
want somebody who can
really dig into the details because
that's your job
if you work in a cubicle i'm not
disparaging people working in cubicles i
spent much of my career there i'm just
saying
that that's a different job some
people's job it is to get into the
details
other people are sitting on top of this
giant ball
of you know chaos let's call it
and they're trying to nudge the chaos
in intelligent ways whenever there's an
opportunity
and understanding all the details of all
the chaos
would be the least predictive productive
thing you could do
it's not what a leader does it's what
the cubicle does
the cubicle can dig in but they only dig
into their topic
the cubicle that's one cubicle over they
also dig in but only to their topic
because the level of complexity sue
would overwhelm anybody if you don't
chunk it down to its smallest part so
the last thing you want
is a leader who's obsessing over the
details
you just can't lead that way you you
know you wish that were possible
but that's wishful thinking instead
you have leaders who are dealing with do
i trust this person
does the general thrust of this fit with
my philosophy
is this something i could fix if i break
it
is this something that would cause maybe
a predictable
problem uh if i go this way versus that
it's a risk management situation a lot
of it is guessing a lot of its intuition
so anybody who is operating at the
child level that says that a candidate
is
bringing chaos when in fact chaos is
the canvas they're not really a
good observer
i've noticed this this correlation
anecdotally and i want to see if you can
notice it as i've
famously called out the democrats who
come out come after me on twitter
uh if they say completely irrational
things
and i check their profile they're
usually artists of some kind
and you can tell they're an artist
because their comments
depart from rational thought so so
grotesquely but there's another category
because not all democrats and not all
critics of the trump are are artists
some of them have jobs where they've
learned critical thinking
what do the people who have actually
learned critical thinking
let's say your economist your lawyers
your your business people
there are lots of other jobs but ones
who actually have
skill and experience and critical
thinking and risk management
what did they say when they come after
me
i will give you an example sure dilbert
or well that's from the cartoonist
that's it they give the they just do
sarcasm
as if that says everything that needs to
be said well there's the cartoonist
nothing else needs to be said and
i want you to see if you find that
correlation so check
profiles when somebody comes at you with
nothing but sarcasm
and see if this pattern holds i don't
know if it will but it might
just see if the critical thinkers use
sarcasm
and the artist try to use logic
but it's not working for them all right
there's a i guess rand paul has called
for uh
the subpoena of antifa's plane records
and hotel records and travel and stuff
to find out who's funding antifa
and i think that's everything
you know it feels to me it's too early
to know
but it feels to me that if we find out
who's
funding at least the primary agitators
that you know get everybody else going
it only takes a small number of people
to get the rest of the crowd you know
going in some direction
so just for clarification nobody
believes
that all of antifa are being paid to be
there
there are no there are no conservatives
who believe that
no republicans nobody on twitter
nobody's ever suggested
that all the blm or all of the antifa
or even most are being paid to be there
clearly not the case the the assertion
is
the allegation if you will that there is
a high likelihood based on
evidence a high likelihood that some
number of them some kernel of them
small colonel are paid professional
agitators
and it would be good to know who's
paying them because they might be the
ones who are driving the animal spirits
of the rest
so rand paul continues to be one of the
most productive members of congress
seemingly being the only person who's
willing to do useful things on a regular
basis
i don't know what to say about this like
how many times
have i told you there was a good thing
happening
and then the name attached to it was
rand paul
it's a fairly common event and and i say
to myself
aren't there a lot of other people in
congress like why is it all the smart
stuff comes from just a handful of
people
it's pretty consistent so
nancy pelosi's got some political
trouble
she was caught on security camera
indoors getting her hair blown out some
kind of
a wash and a blow for her hair now i
guess the shop was closed
to other people but she was in the shop
and she had her
mask off and so she got a lot of
pushback from that i guess her
response was that she didn't know it was
wrong
now here's my opinion about that
don't care at all i don't care even a
little bit
that nancy pelosi was indoors
when other people are not allowed
indoors you know because it's against
the rules
and i don't mind that she didn't have
her mask off when she was getting this
particular treatment
um by the way a lot of personal services
such as massages
it's not that uncommon for the the
provider to have a mask
as in nancy's case but the person
receiving the service
to not have a mask depending on what the
services
for example but in most cases when you
could wear a mask
it's recommended now
i i and the reason the reason i'm not
going to climb all over
pelosi for what is being called the
massive hypocrisy
is not because it isn't it is it's
massive hypocrisy
but it's also not important and
i would like to establish the belief
that the leaders of our country should
not be
treated like the rest of us
i don't think that's wrong i believe
that nancy pelosi
should be able to get her hair done
indoors
because she's the speaker of the house
and
you know there are things that you can't
do
on the sidewalk if you're the speaker of
the house
now if everybody else was on the
sidewalk they're anonymous
people walk by that's fine it's safe
it's good enough but if you're the
president of the united states
or you're the you know you're the
speaker of the house or your rand paul
yeah that's okay with me if they take
you alone because being indoors the
problem is not just indoors
the problem is indoors with lots of
people if you take nancy
indoors with one person who's wearing a
mask
and let's say that nancy has been tested
she probably has been recently
it's not the biggest risk in the world
and she is safer
indoors than she would be outdoors
you know i i get that other people say
hey
other people we did our own hair we
worked it out but she's also in her 80s
i don't know can she do her own hair
being in her 80s is a bigger problem to
me than the fact she got her hair blown
out
so i would like to be consistent because
there's no way in the world there
won't be you know republicans and other
people
who get caught without masks etc you
know maybe it'll happen to me
you know maybe i'll get caught on some
video without a mask or something
and it's just i can't get i can't get
interested in it
all right but i understand it's a fun
story in a political season
um chicago police released
surveillance video of suspects looting
the store and they're asking for help
identifying them now the people that
they're
showing are don't have masks on
some do but most of them don't now
what do you tell yourself when you see
that
chicago is asking the public to help
them identify the pictures that they're
publishing
presumably online i don't know if it's
in any newspapers too
what does that tell you think
think through what do you know is true
if chicago is printing photos of people
and saying public
can you identify them
here's what you know is true chicago
are really really incompetent do you
know
how hard it would be to identify every
person in that photo
here's how hard it would be all right
i'm going to demonstrate this
this will be the entire effort to
identify
every single one within
two seconds so the entire time to
identify every picture
my claim is sub two seconds and it looks
let me demonstrate it looks like this
let's say this is the picture
now this is my phone and i look at the
picture
and i push this button and then their
face comes up and i've identified them
you can do that with an app it's an app
that law enforcement uses
routinely in other places what this
tells me
is that chicago for whatever reason
is the only place that's not buying an
easily
purchasable app that every law
enforcement person knows about
knows how to get knows how to use
literally it's this easy
point your phone at the picture you
don't even have to paint point it at the
person
point it at a photo press one button
done the name of the person appears on
your phone
almost every time close to 100
now what's wrong with chicago
that they can't buy this little app well
obviously
there's somebody who told them that
you're here i'm speculating a little bit
so i feel like i'm speculating
responsibly but it's speculation so i
don't wanna
i don't wanna sell this as fact they
have to not be using these apps
clearview is the the leader in that
field they're obviously not using clear
view
why not why not
what is the difference between using
that app and getting their answer in two
seconds
versus publishing these in public and
asking the public to identify them which
probably will work
it's just really really hard
it's crazy yeah facial recognition would
have them in two seconds
and when i say two seconds that's not an
exaggeration
the app doesn't even have to sit there
and process it's
actually two seconds now
and some of the apps are better than
others at recognizing african american
faces
i think clear views might be the leader
in getting that right
but of course you still have to verify
you don't want to you don't want to
trust the
app for the final final uh
identification but it tells you where to
look
all right uh
there's a report that the number of
people looking for divorces was
34 higher from march through june
ouch and the data shows that 31
of the couple's admitted lockdown has
caused irreparable
damage to their relationships 31
of couples believe they have irreparable
damage to their relationship
irreparable this is gonna
tear apart the you know the nature of uh
society now i always had a theory
that part of a successful relationship
is distance
in other words the fact that uh let's
say one of the
adults goes off and works all day uh
or maybe both of the adults go off and
work all day
it's probably a really healthy thing
because if you're in each other's
business all the time
that can cause some tension and
it looks like we've proven that i've
said before that
the the nuclear family needs to be
not eliminated that's black lives
matters ideas
sort of get rid of the nuclear family i
think if i have that right i hope i have
that right
i've said something compatible with that
but different which is
that you shouldn't be the only model
because so many people won't be able to
achieve it
not everybody can have a nuclear family
sometimes it requires a certain amount
of money
sometimes you got to be lucky you know
to get the right person
there's a lot that can go wrong with the
nuclear family but if it works for you
i would agree that for those families
where it works
it's tremendous it'd be hard to beat as
a organizing
principle but we do need something for
the people who can't make that work
um and i think that shows it joy reid
uh i don't think she'll get cancelled
because she's on the side that doesn't
try to cancel itself as much as he
cancels other people
but she's being accused of being
islamophobic i guess
uh who who accused her of that oh uh
elon omar
representative omar actually said she
said
of joy reid honestly this kind of
casual islamophobia is hurtful and
dangerous
we deserve better need an apology etc so
what is it that joy reid said that would
cause her own side
to try to cancel her how bad was it
well let me read it she said leaders
let's say in the muslim world
talk talk a lot of violent talk and
encourage their
supporters to be willing to commit
violence including on their own bodies
in order to win against whoever they
decide as the enemy
and she said other things
so she got in trouble for comparing
muslims
to republicans i think because the next
part of this was
she was saying about uh radicalizing
supporters
so so joy reid might get cancelled
or at least she's getting in trouble for
comparing
muslims to republicans
is could that be any better is there
anything more entertaining
than watching joy read get cancelled by
elon omar
for comparing muslims to republicans
that's just
everything the the whole
the whole year 2020 was just put into
that one little package
if you only needed to know that one
thing you'd know how the rest of the
year went
all right here's my problem with
intersectionality and critical race
theory
two categories of things which i am no
expert on
but i'll just ask this question
isn't the guaranteed end result of those
things
that we keep carving each other into
smaller and smaller categories
until everybody has a reason to hate
everybody
how else can it go because i would love
to hear the thinking
that says how this brings us to a better
place
it certainly brings us to um it's
certainly good
to talk about you know racism and sexism
and all those things
and try to deal with them as practically
as we can
but if the moment you've dealt with it
you said okay okay we're doing
the best we can to let's say make
the world just as good for black people
and white people
of course we're not there but let's say
we're doing a good job on that the next
thing that happens is
well what about black people who are
also muslims and then you say all right
all right that's a new category
it feels like every time you slice the
category
well what about if you're black
a muslim and gay
okay okay we better do something about
that category i don't see how
you ever take this philosophy to a good
end point it feels like it's a it's one
direction to complete destruction
and i don't i can't even conceive
of the exit path i don't see the exit
path where
where things get better and better and
then you reach a good place i
i'd love to have somebody explain to me
the thinking behind that because i think
like most left versus right differences
it doesn't take into account human
motivation
it doesn't take into account human
psychology
or the way an average person thinks or
acts
this is the thing that the conservatives
consistently get right
and the left consistently gets wrong
which is forgetting that humans
will always act like humans if you
design a system that can't work
for humans don't be surprised if it
doesn't work
i mean why would that be surprising
all right bernie sanders said one of the
dumber things you'll ever hear
he said this the mainstream media
doesn't talk about it
space space space congress doesn't talk
about it
space space space trump doesn't talk
about it
space space space but three
multi-billionaires now own more wealth
than the bottom half of our society
and he goes he suggests that that would
be
very very bad now
here's what's wrong with that now i've
i've described myself as being left to
bernie
but with this special uh caveat
that i'm also good at math i use good at
math
as a proxy for a good thinking
and good at logic and i'm not like the
world's best at any of those things
i'm just better than bernie so i can see
the obvious
idiocy that he brings to the table and
here's the problem
suppose nobody knew how much money those
billionaires had
it's just here's a mental experiment all
right
so bernie has said it's a real problem
that three billionaires have as much as
the bottom half of the entire
united states that's an amazing
statistic
it's like it's you know mind-numbingly
jaw-droppingly
amazing but imagine a world
where you just didn't know they existed
exactly like they exist now the only
difference is
you didn't know how much money they had
would you be worse off it doesn't make
any sense
if the only reason we're complaining
about it is that we know about it
but there's nothing underlying in terms
of it won't hurt you if you didn't know
about it
why is this his biggest problem why is
he raising this
in a time of you know great uncertainty
in this world and
you know problems that are as big as any
problems we've ever had
why is he raising the only problem i
could think of where if you literally
didn't know it existed
you would never find out because nothing
would go wrong
in fact you'd be hearing bill gates
is you know giving away hundreds of
millions of dollars and
curing malaria or polio or some damn
thing in africa
and you'd hear that story and you say
huh i wonder how he's paying for it
but would you be unhappy that bill gates
was
you know curing a disease in africa no
no you'd be kind of happy about it you
just wouldn't know how he paid for it
would you be unhappy if you found that
elon musk had figured out not only a way
to go to mars
but he had created an entire competitive
space industry
which makes the future of the earth
possibly far better
than it would have been without our
ability to someday you know
effectively leave our gravity force
gravitational force
what would you think about that if you
didn't know that
that elon musk was worth billions and
all you knew
is that he was a guy who opened up space
he was a guy who built a network of
solar
shingles for your house that could work
into your
your battery which someday might be part
of a solution
for green energy that would make the
world a better place
suppose you didn't know he was a
billionaire but you knew he did all of
those things
would you be less happy what exactly
is sanders talking about other than
jealousy
does sanders understand that the money
that the billionaires own
is being used you know jeff
bezos ownership of amazon is still
mostly in the stock
that's why he's so rich it's in the
stock if if bezos
pulled his money out of the stock
what would he do with it would he buy
more food for himself
no he probably eats all the food he
needs
to stay fed there's a limit to how many
things a rich guy can buy
you know bezos got his got his yacht
which he probably hardly ever uses and
he'll be tired of it and then he'll get
rid of it but he got one
billionaires don't really have a way to
consume the wealth they have they have
to put it into
something that benefits the economy they
have to
they don't really have an option so he
has to put it in stock where it's
bolstering you know the market in
different ways or you put it in the bank
and then the bank can
you know use that for lending but money
doesn't just sit in the mattress
these billionaires aren't sitting on a
gigantic pile of
dollar bills it's in their money is in
the system working
they're the ones who are funding
startups
you know where where do all of your uh
you know important startups come from
they come from some billionaire who who
said well
i can put a million dollars into this
startup it might work it might not but i
got an extra million i don't care
so for bernie not to understand the most
basic basic basic stuff
about economics is really embarrassing
all right uh and
uh bernie goes on to say that that level
of inequality is immoral and
unsustainable but again
if you didn't know they had the money it
wouldn't make any difference at all
it would be completely sustainable if
you just didn't know about it
that's it now i could argue that maybe
warren buffett
is not adding as much to the world
because he's more of a financial
manipulator
but even he is making markets and
companies more efficient
because when he buys a piece of a
company he doesn't just buy it
often he'll you know improve it
in small ways and big the the people who
are worthless are the hedge fund
types who are just making just you know
taking money out of the system but
they're not adding anything
all right it seems to me that biden's
value proposition
has devolved into some form of
vote for biden or biden's followers will
hunt you down
and kill you now that's hyperbole
but it's starting to feel that way isn't
it because the way you feel isn't
necessarily the
exact way that things are but the way it
feels
as a trump supporter is that biden is
literally threatening us
that if you know and other people have
made this observation but i'm just
piling on it does feel like the left is
threatening us but here's what they
don't get
the left has not yet fully internalized
that the protesters are not on their
side
you get that right the left doesn't
quite understand they're just starting
to understand that's why they're coming
out against them
that the the protesters are not on their
side
the protesters are on their own side
whatever that is
but they're definitely not on the
democrat side and they're not on trump's
side
they're not on america's side you could
argue
there's a big non-story two big
non-stories in the
um conservative world now for those of
you who say
scott why do you only say good things
about trump
why don't you never say any bad things
about
the other side well i do all the time
and i'm gonna do that now so there's
this
tape you heard it on uh tucker's show
some of you
chris cuomo talking to of all people
michael cohen
the disgraced and jailed lawyer
ex-lawyer for
trump so apparently chris cuomo and
cohen knew each other pretty well who
knew that that's
sort of a weird little backstory but
on this uh on this audio recording
chris cuomo is heard to say things which
are
completely exculpatory and
make chris cuomo look like he did not do
the things he's accused of how did
conservative pundits treat
an audio tape in which it's pretty clear
that chris cuomo legitimately believes
he was not involved
in the things that he was accused of
doing the the metoo-ish
accusations how does conservative world
treat the fact
that it really shows he doesn't think he
did these things in private
he acts like he he believes that they
didn't happen
they treat it like it happened like like
he didn't say
what he said and i watch this and i
think
we're seeing more and more of this where
somebody will say they'll hand you
an apple and they'll say what do you
think of this banana
and you'll say what banana you just
handed me an apple this is clearly an
apple
it's red it's round i take a bite out of
it it's an apple
stop saying this is a banana because
that's an apple
and then the person will look right at
you like nothing had ever happened and
they'll say
is the banana good and you'll say
what's going on here this is no banana
we're both looking at this it's an apple
and the other person will look right at
it and say now that's a banana
i don't i've never seen this before so
it happened with the cuomo story there's
there's nothing on there that should be
embarrassing to chris cuomo
and is treated as a national story of
something that's embarrassing to chris
cuomo
it's literally the opposite it's
completely exculpatory
i don't even know what to think about
that all right is that the only time
that's happened
no how about this one
so dr scott alice he's part of the
trump uh team you know the coronavirus
team i guess and cnn was reporting that
he was pushing
for herd immunity so he came on
i think it was fox and they said uh were
you doing that
he was like no no i've never pushed for
herd immunity
nobody has it's not even a thing it's
never been brought up the president's
never mentioned it
it's never been in a conversation it's
never been floated as a possibility
nobody thinks it's something we should
pursue there's
zero times zero times zero to this story
what will people say once the the person
who
is the most closest to the story
what will cnn say now that he has said
no there's nothing to it they'll just
act like he didn't say it
and they'll just keep reporting that
it's happening
like it didn't even happen this is
just a weird world how about uh there's
another one how about
the the story that the cdc had
uh modified their death count and it
wasn't 180 000
or whatever it was closer to 9 000
because
there were only six percent of the
people were dying without comorbidities
therefore
it's all it's all the big fraud etc
nothing like that happened it again
it's like a big national story but it
didn't happen
it literally didn't happen none of that
happened
all that happened is they just sliced it
a different way
and as the experts say um pretty much
everybody who dies of anything has
comorbidities
it's very rare for a person to die
unless it's you know say an accident or
some rare genetic disease or something
but it's actually really unusual for
anybody to die without comorbidities
so the fact that 94 of people
who die from coronavirus have
comorbidities
it's kind of like everything else now
what do
conservatives say but they say but but
scott
i know what you're saying but still what
that proves
scott you're missing the whole point
scott scotty
people who disagree with me like to call
me scotty scotty you're missing the
whole
point the point is that those people who
don't have the comorbidities
should not have been afraid because
their their odds of dying are just
vanishingly small so let's send the kids
back to school
because why in the world would you not
send kids to school when a
you know it's good for the kids you know
that their risk
is tiny there's no reason there's no
logic
whatsoever for not sending the kids to
school
and i look at that and i go what's wrong
with you
what's wrong with you that you would say
that in public
the reason that they don't want to send
the kids to school is not that the kids
will die
it's that they'll be part of the
transmission that will get to the
94 percent of people with comorbidities
and there's more spread could could put
the teachers at risk in some cases we
don't know how much risk but could put
him at risk
well it would put him at risk we don't
know how much
and i think to myself if you leave out
the part
where the kids bring it home or or help
spread it
you're not part of the you you can't
consider your part
self part of the adult conversation
right the the
minimum minimum requirement to be an
adult in the conversation
is you have to at least acknowledge the
big factors in the
in the conversation one big factor is
the kids themselves
and i think almost everybody agrees that
they would be mostly fine
and the risk would be so small that the
benefits to the kids themselves
would be tremendous benefit to the
parents
tremendous because the parents would now
be freed up
to you know do what they need to do but
if you leave
out the part about this clearly would
contribute to the spread
if you leave that part out you're not in
the adult conversation
you really aren't
now you could argue that it won't spread
it but that would be a scientific
question
i think the evidence is that it probably
does but maybe we don't know
but still if you leave it out you're not
part of the adult conversation
uh the funniest story is the uh
portland's mayor
has just reportedly i would look for
confirmation on this
but reportedly he's considered
considering selling his home in portland
because the protests so the guy who has
been most supportive of the protesters
and literally joined in with him is
learning that these protesters are not
on his side
as he had hoped but rather are a
maligned
force as they like to say on tv
here's another non-story reported as a
big story
the state department i guess in kiev
something about
ukrainians you know the state department
our our state department
was illegally monitoring conservatives
on twitter
and social media jack possabic hannity
laura ingram and others to which i say
why is that a story do you know who else
is illegally monitoring
jack posabic i am
i am yeah i'm illegally uh reading his
twitter account and when he tweets
i i break the law i break the law and i
read it
and if he tweets again i don't like to
broadcast this but
i'm probably going to break the law
again and read what he tweeted
now you might say that you say to me
scott that's not what they're talking
about they're not talking about
reading his tweets what are they talking
about
do are they talking about hacking
no that's not in the story that all
they're talking about
is asking some third party to keep an
eye on various accounts that were of
importance
and tell them what they saw so that they
didn't have to do it themselves
is that is that a real story
now if there's more to it if there was
some hacking an actual
illegal act i would say yeah let's look
at that
but the way it's reported and again
could be more to the story i don't know
but the way it's reported is they asked
somebody to read
the tweets of people who are important
to their
livelihoods and their jobs and i thought
to myself
i don't think that's illegal
if it is it shouldn't be trump is
fighting against
fighting back against the so-called fake
news that he had some kind of stroke or
mini strokes or something
the the best evidence against it is that
he uh
his trip to walter reed was brief and he
went home
if you had if you had any of the things
that he was alleged to have had
do you go in and then just go home and
go back to your job the next day
is that a thing well so i think this is
debunked the president has debunked it
in the
the clearest possible words but i know
that
you know the public isn't going to trust
him on that
if i had to guess
i would guess his slurred speech and a
few of his
speeches could be fatigue it could be
dental work
could be anything but
my guess is that whatever they rushed
him in for was
something embarrassing or something that
wasn't really a problem
and if it wasn't really a problem did
you need to do anything
have any of you ever gone to the
emergency room
only to be told oh that's no big deal
you have right you know unless you're
bleeding or you've got a broken arm or
something
how many of you have gone in and the
emergency room just says
oh that's that's nothing take an aspirin
it's a pretty common thing so i wouldn't
be surprised if
they did rush the president in for you
know
some greater medical treatment than uh
than they had available in the white
house and i guess there's a lot in the
white house
and then they checked it out and it was
no big deal or something
easily treatable and he just wants it
out of the news
which i can understand
what was biden's exact quote when he did
his speech and he said
do i look like some kind of wild-eyed
progressive what were his exact words
do i look like some kind of wild-eyed
progressive
and i thought to myself how does that
get him the vote of the wild eyed
progressives
because it feels like he's insulting how
they look
isn't it because he's saying do i look
do i look like like literally look he
didn't say
have i acted like do i have a record of
you know have i have i ever promised
anything in that nature
he didn't say that he said look at me
like literally with your eyes look at me
do i look like some wild-eyed
progressive
it feels like he was mocking the
protesters
their actual physical look not that we
haven't done that
but it would be news if he did and i
wondered how this
completely escaped the uh
the pouncing i thought there'd be more
pouncing on that
all right um apparently trump is down
depending on what
polls you want to believe they're all
over the place but
uh i think it was an a silver who said
trump is down four to five percent or
he said if it was more of an if
it's based on where things are heading
nay silver
said that if trump ends up being down
four to five percent of the battleground
states
it's actually a close race
here's what i say what does it mean to
be down four or five percent
in a world where 12 percent of the gop
says that they won't tell pollsters
their honest opinion
so 12 percent of republicans would lie
and trump's only down 4 to 5
what does that tell you now i want you
to correct
me on the math of this but sometimes
there are things that seem
really obvious that are
your brain isn't quite processed in the
right so this might be one of those
but here's what people are missing if a
republican voter simply
refuses to talk to a pollster they'll
just call until they get another
republican
so refusing to answer probably doesn't
change the result that much
because they'll just find somebody who's
willing to answer until they have enough
answers but if the gop
people who are being surveyed are lying
it's a double impact because not only
are they
are they taking a vote away from trump
that they intend to cast
but they're giving it to biden doesn't
that double the impact
because it's not just a vote that's
missing it's a vote that the lie
puts on the wrong tally so it's a so
so that one person makes a difference of
two
one away from trump and one for biden
am i thinking of that right i feel like
i'm confusing myself but that's right
right
so this is a good example of why
i'm never embarrassed to be stupid in
public it's a good skill you should
learn it
because sometimes i'll hit on something
that's useful and other times i'll say
something that's like
uh okay so people in the comments are
agreeing with me
but so therefore that four or five
percent
is really nothing because if 12
are lying that's a gigantic swing
if their lie is that they're voting for
biden and they're not
all right um
uh yeah i guess that's all i got for
today
and um
it's like losing a stroke in golf
is it no it's not like losing a stroke
in golf
because that doesn't add a stroke to the
person you're golfing against
uh
all right yes it's a double dipper
okay um that's all i've got for now
and i will talk to you tomorrow
