Episode 1325 Scott Adams - Biden's Press Conference Scorecard, I Announce Identifying as Black
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I can feel that cargo ship starting to be dislodged. One sip. That's all it took. Amazing.
Well, let's talk about all the news. So first of all, let's talk about that giant cargo ship because it's the only fun thing that happened this week. Now that you don't have Trump in the news so much, you have to wait for a cargo ship to draw a giant penis in the ocean. But we got it. We got that.
If you haven't watched the story, apparently that cargo ship that is lodged in the Suez Canal, prior to that the GPS tracking showed a path that looked suspiciously exactly like somebody drawing a dick and balls. Now some say it's a coincidence. I say that if you get stuck in the Suez Canal right after you coincidentally drew a giant dick and balls, the simulation is trying to tell us something. I think it's telling us we're screwed, because in a way, and not in a good way, because I think the Suez Canal is sort of the planet's colon, if you know what I mean. Sort of a tight passage, see what I'm saying? And this giant object is trying to penetrate that but unsuccessfully so far. So we'll see if that gets unloaded before all your toilet paper disappears.
Now here's a real simulation moment. I'm not making this up. I had planned this week to say, can you believe that a year ago, you know, a little less than a year ago, we were worried about running out of toilet paper? And I thought, well, that's crazy. Yeah, we'll figure it out. We're not going to run out of toilet paper. Well, here we are.
So Greta Thunberg, you all know her. How dare you. She tweeted an article and said China continues to build coal-fired plants at a rate that outpaces the rest of the world combined. Combined. They're building more coal-powered plants than all the rest of the world combined, more than three times what was brought online everywhere else. So China looks to be wrecking the whole planet with their coal plants. But there doesn't seem to be anything we can do about it, so I guess we're just going to watch that happen.
Yeah, but I feel as though they've got a real problem there. It seems like the air pollution is going to make them do something differently pretty quickly, because what would be the point of building a city you couldn't live in because of the air? But that's what they got. More about China later.
So Ted Lieu, he tweeted this about the Biden press conference. He said, "President Biden did a terrific job. Totally objective. He did a terrific job at the press conference. He explained the actions his administration took to help the American people, and he set bold new goals to move our nation forward." Well, that's pretty good. Sounds pretty good.
But then he added to his tweet, "Also, he didn't tell people to inject bleach to get rid of the coronavirus." Okay, that's not so good. And I asked myself, does Ted Lieu actually believe the bleach-drinking hoax still? Still? I mean, I kind of understand how you could get Rupar'd by it temporarily. You all know what being Rupar'd means. It's named after Aaron Rupar at Vox. If you get Rupar'd, it means you take a video out of context to make it look different than what it really was there.
So the drinking-bleach hoax was caused by a Rupar. They just took the middle of what Trump said, and they lopped off where he said he was talking about light, and then they lopped off the end where he clarified he wasn't talking about injections. He was talking about light. So you just get rid of that, and then people like Ted Lieu still believe that there was something about drinking bleach in there. And even bleach wasn't even mentioned in that context.
So here's what we can do about this. Here's how you handle the bleach-drinking hoax. Are you ready? Number one, the existence of the verb "to Rupar" turns it from a concept that's hard to explain. Well, you know they can make it look different if you remove this editing. But if you put a word on it, just the way our brains are organized, as soon as it has its word "to Rupar," R-U-P-A-R, Rupar, once you have a word for it, people's brains interpret it as more of a thing because it's got a word. Now this is a persuasion trick that I like to use a lot. Anything that doesn't have a word, you can't persuade on it. It's just got to be boiled down to a word, because words have their own persuasive power. They carry it with them. So until it's a word, yeah, like "borked." Exactly. Somebody's using "to bork." So having the word helps.
Now when people say, "Hey, he said drink bleach," you say to them, "Oh, dude, you got Rupar'd. Dude, you got Rupar'd." And bad. Do you see how much more persuasive that is? Because if you say your facts are not technically correct, has that ever changed anybody's mind? No. Because the facts, they'll just say the facts are wrong. You'll say, look, I'm making a claim about what he said. Here's the video. Here's the transcript. I'm not making this up. It says right here he's talking about light in his own words. You can see it on video. Would that change anybody's mind about what they saw? You'd think so, right? You think that if somebody thought something was X and you showed it right to their face, you let them hear it and see it, that they would then think, oh, okay, not X. I guess I got Rupar'd. I didn't know it. That will never happen in as long as you're alive. And once somebody gets committed to the argument, cognitive dissonance will be their path.
And I was watching some well-informed Twitter user who may or may not be watching this at the moment dismantle somebody in the Twitter feed who believed the hoax. And he was just quoting the actual transcript to just dismantle it. Now, did the person then say, oh, well, thank you for clarifying? Nope. Nope. Did not. He just went into a cognitive dissonance spiral and just became temporarily insane. And that's what you'd expect. That's exactly what cognitive dissonance is. It's like a weird insanity hallucination that pops up when your self-image doesn't match events.
So what this person who was learning that they had been Rupar'd, which doesn't feel good, right? If you've been bamboozled or Rupar'd, you think that's a little embarrassing on me because I was a little gullible. I got Rupar'd a little too easily. So go for the embarrassment of somebody being Rupar'd, not the facts. The facts won't work.
But here is my second suggestion for getting rid of this. If I could be a reporter to ask Ted Lieu some questions, I would ask him this. Number one, do you believe that President Trump recommended drinking bleach to get rid of the coronavirus? Presumably he would say yes. Yes, I do believe that. Now, rather than telling him he got it wrong, I would ask the following question. All right, good. So you believe the drinking-bleach story. I'd like to get your position on a few more things. What is your position on Bigfoot? Now he would say, oh, you're not being serious. And I would look at him and say, what do you mean? You were talking about the drinking-bleach thing. This is just, I'm trying to get some context. I'm trying to understand how many things you believe are true, because then that would tell us if you just believe every hoax or this is just the one thing you believe that's not true. Because that's important, wouldn't you like to know if somebody is fooled by every hoax or are they only fooled by maybe this one, which wouldn't be so bad, right? Just one hoax. We can all be taken in by one hoax. That's just normal.
And then he would resist a little bit, and I'd say, all right, all right, let's let that go. My third question is, what are you feeling about the Loch Ness monster? And then he'd be like, come on, come on, you need to take this seriously. And I would say, what do you mean? What do you mean take it seriously? I am taking it seriously. We're talking about all the hoaxes you believe. I'm just trying to get your opinion on it. How about the fine people hoax, Ted? Do you believe that one? You do? You do? Okay, all right. And then you just go down the list of hoaxes and you see how many he agrees with. Trust me, it's better than telling him he's got his facts wrong.
All right. So Georgia, the governor has signed this Georgia election bill. It's a 100-page election bill, so there's lots of stuff in it. But it includes stuff such as including a requirement for photo ID for even mail-in ballots, reducing early voting for runoff elections, and banning the distribution of food and drinks to people waiting in line. I guess the theory there is that that can influence their vote somehow. I don't see how. By the time you're standing in line, are you still undecided? Or is this just to keep people standing in line? You give them food and drink, they'll stay there longer. I don't know. What's the thinking on this?
So you and I probably don't know all the details of why these are even in the law. The Democrats say it's voter suppression. Is it? Are the Georgia laws voter suppression? Of course they are. Of course they are. Now they don't sell it that way, but of course it is. Just as the rules changes for 2020 were, let's just say they were politically motivated as opposed to fairness motivated. They weren't so much for the republic. They were for the Democrats.
So we have a situation where in all likelihood, I think most smart people would say this is true, that the 2020 election was decided largely by the rule changes that happened before the election. Wouldn't you say? Because the rule changes allowed far more people to vote in ways that people question. But there were more of them. Lots more people voted. There's no doubt about that. And so some people say that the rule changes is what determined who the president is as opposed to the public, because the public was the same public before the rules as after. The public didn't change. It's just how they count stuff and who they can get to the polls and how easily you vote. The rule changes decided who won.
So Georgia, having apparently a Republican legislature, they just decided to win next time by changing the rules. So they just changed the rules in a different way. Okay, so they just changed the rules in a different way. Would this be enough to guarantee that Republicans do better in the next presidential election? Well, if it's just Georgia, maybe that's not enough. But will other states follow? Right? Don't you think other states will follow? And we may see the Republicans smartening up and just making rule changes that are designed for nothing but winning elections.
Let's face it. This is designed to win elections. It's not about what's fair or good. Nobody cares about that. Nobody in the government cares about that. They want to get reelected. So I feel as though, given that the 2020 election was based entirely on shenanigans with rules, that if Georgia does some shenanigans with rules, they're playing the same game. I feel that's fair. I don't think the rules are fair because fairness isn't a real thing. It's just subjective. But it's a good strategy, and I think it's perfectly acceptable in the context of the rule changes being the only thing that determines an election.
All right, this is fun. So Dominion, the election software, do they have hardware and software? Is it just software? But the Dominion, I guess, is both hardware and software, is suing Fox News for 1.6 billion because they say that Fox was claiming they were, that the Dominion stuff was intentionally rigged. That was the claim. There's no court evidence of that whatsoever. No court proof. No court has ruled that Dominion did anything wrong.
But here's the interesting thing. Have you ever heard the phrase a Pyrrhic victory? I don't even know if I'm pronouncing it right. Might be Pyric. It's spelled P-Y-R-R-H-I-C. Have you ever heard that? I'm teaching you that because you hear that by people talking on TV. If somebody uses this phrase, they're bad at talking on TV because if you're talking on TV, you shouldn't use phrases that 75 percent of the public or more have never heard of, right? But I'm going to teach you so when you hear it on TV next, you'll know what it means.
A Pyrrhic victory. It's a historical reference to an army that won the battle but so many of their soldiers were injured or killed in the battle that they ended up losing the war because they used up too much of their resources winning a battle. So the idea here is you can win the battle but be careful that that didn't cost you the war.
It feels like Dominion might win the battle because they might prevail in the court case. That's possible. But what is Fox's defense? What do you think? Will Fox use the Sidney Powell defense, which is, well, you can't take anything we say seriously? It worked for, didn't it work for MSNBC with what's her name when she got sued? Didn't she actually win her case by saying you shouldn't take anything I say seriously on a news channel because she's an opinion person? Rachel Maddow, right? I believe she used that defense. Sidney Powell is going to use the defense. I think it'll work. I think it's a solid defense.
But there's another thing that's about to happen that I don't know if Dominion has calculated in, unless this is actually part of their exit plan to leave the business because it looks like it could be. I'm not saying that's the case because they'll sue me. I'm just saying if you look at it from the outside, it looks like a company that plans to go out of business. But maybe they can win some money on the way out. Because here's what's going to happen, I think at least. It's what would happen if I were the lawyers and I had at least the freedom to introduce this. I would put electronic voting machines on trial if you can get away with it. I'm not sure what will be allowed as evidence here. But Fox News, if I were them and I were trying to come up with a strategy, I would try to destroy the idea of electronic voting no matter who it is. I wouldn't even make it about Dominion. I wouldn't even say this isn't even really about them. You could change the name of the company and the argument would be exactly the same, which is that it's a system that isn't transparent and therefore reasonable people can have an opinion that it wasn't fair or there were issues with it.
Now if they do that, they could probably salt the earth so effectively that our government can no longer support electronic voting. So one of the things that might come out of this is the death of electronic voting everywhere. Now I don't know if Dominion knows that that's one of the outcomes, that the entire market for their product could disappear because of this.
Now as high-powered as Sidney Powell is, when they take on Sidney Powell, they are taking on one person, very high-skilled, experienced attorney. You know, that's pretty dangerous by itself, right? You take on an attorney at that level, you'd better have the kill shot, right? You go after the king, you know the saying, right? You try to take out the king, you better finish the job because if the king survives, you're in a lot of trouble for trying to take out the king. Well, I think that Dominion is sort of bigger than or more powerful than Sidney Powell despite her firepower, which is considerable. So that was probably a good play to take her on. But Fox News is another animal. Fox News, I don't think they understand how much firepower can come from that side of the world. I just don't think they understand what they're getting into. I don't know. But I would think that the Rupert Murdoch group, especially supported by Fox News, who are professional communicators, right? They're sort of the best communicators in the world, you know, not just because they're right-leaning but that's their job. They do it professionally.
And between what Fox News will report about this, because they can report it, it's news even though it's about them, it's still news, so they can report it. What do you think Fox News is going to start running as specials? Just guessing. They're going to run a lot of specials about how voting machines in general are a really big problem. I've got a feeling that Rupert Murdoch is going to end electronic voting as a legal defense basically. Now he might lose the case. Fox News might lose this case. But I think he's going to kneecap the entire industry. That's just part of the natural process of the defense. So we'll see.
Let's talk about Biden's press conference. You know, before the press conference I had tweeted that I was asking people to write humorous reviews of his press conference before it even happened, knowing in advance that the friendly press would say he did incredibly well. So let's see how close we got. Here are some of the actual comments after the press conference. This from the Drudge Report, who used to be right-leaning but I guess not so much anymore. It said, "Joe's no-drama press conference. Chill style. Grand vision for FDR presidency. Art of the impossible." Not bad. The Washington Post says in an opinion piece, "Biden excels at his first news conference. The media embarrasses themselves." And there were other glowing reports. Ted Lieu, for example.
So let me give you my opinion here. It wasn't bad. It wasn't bad. Now I'm only going to talk about performance here. If you're new to my live streams, this is the thing you need to know. I'm not talking about how accurate he was with facts because he didn't pass the fact checks. Neither did Trump, right? Presidents typically fail the fact-checking at press conferences. Biden did too. So do you know how do I hold that against him? I don't. I don't. The news did what it does. Even CNN fact-checked him. So how much do I care that he got some facts wrong? Not any more than I cared when Trump got some facts wrong, right? They all do that. That's what the news is for. They're supposed to fact-check them and they did. Even CNN fact-checked them. So don't care about that.
How about his verbal miscues where he would start a sentence and it would just trail off to nothing? Pretty scary, right? This guy's got the nuclear codes and he's the president of the United States and he can't finish a sentence without running off into bumbling confusion and just saying, ah, well, that's enough. Scary? Nope. It's not. Because we're used to it. It was already baked in. In the same way that much of Trump's personality very quickly just got baked in and it no longer became important to your mind anyway. It was always the same amount of importance. But the way your mind processes it is if you're used to it, and we're just sort of used to it, and we are told that Biden's little verbal miscues are nothing but Joe being Biden. Yeah, he's older. He's a little less fast. But it's not that different than he's always been or at least how he's been for years. So how much do I hold that against him that a lot of his sentences were bumblingly and incompetently ended without an ending? Not much. It's sort of everything we knew he was. So I would say that didn't move the needle. It may have confirmed what you thought but it didn't move anything.
Yeah, I doubt there was any Democrat who watched that and said for the first time ever, oh, the way he talks, now I'm worried. Do you think any Democrat did that? Probably not, right? But every Republican said, oh, that's just what I thought. Look at him. He can't finish the sentence. So nobody's mind was changed by that.
All right. How do you feel about the fact that the news is reporting that the questions were known in advance and that he had answers literally written out in notes and he came very close to reading verbatim his notes as his answers to the questions? What do you think of that? Well, I have a contrarian view on that. I'm one of the people, and you probably did too, who praised Kayleigh McEnany for being well prepared and having a whole binder that she could refer to so she could be really quick and sharp on all the answers. Now if we complimented Kayleigh McEnany for being very prepared and organized and having it written down so she didn't miss any good points, why isn't that the same for Biden?
You know, it's being reported by mostly people on the right that this is a sign of his declining capabilities, etc. And it might be. That's a perfectly reasonable opinion. It looks exactly like that actually. But at the same time he was really well prepared, right? Now you can say that there were some questions he didn't answer, like I think there was a gun control answer they went into immigration or vice versa. And there are things he avoided. But how much do you count against the president for avoiding a direct question? Well, they all do it, right? So you can't give them a pass for it, but you would say in context it's pretty common that they avoid questions. I would say Trump probably didn't do that. I think Trump is maybe the only one who would answer a question without trying to just change the topic. Has anybody else ever done that? Is Trump the only president we've had who would answer a direct question? Maybe Obama did, you know, in his own way. There might have been more.
But so performance-wise he stayed awake. He didn't say anything that was clearly dementia. It was just more of what we expected from him. And he looked like he had some command of the facts. Yeah, I am being generous. So somebody in the comments says I'm being too generous to Biden. I'm being generous. I don't think I'm being too generous. I'm trying to use the same amount of generosity I would have used had it been Trump, right? Just trying to make some kind of a comparison.
Now I'll tell you that I would say it's very clear that Biden is not making the decisions. It looks pretty clear that there's a power behind Biden. But given that they prepared him very well, whoever they are, I feel at least a little bit of confidence that there are actually smart people who are in control. We just don't know who they are, which is a problem. Wouldn't you like to know who's in control? I kind of would.
Now I was trying to think the difference between what a Biden meeting looks like and what a Trump meeting looks like. We have lots of examples where the advisors said, Trump, you've got to do X. And then Trump said, yeah, but I'm not going to. I'm going to call you an idiot in public and then I'm going to do the opposite of what you just recommended. Hey, we need to stay in Afghanistan with major forces. Yeah, I hear what you're saying. We're not going to do that. I'm going to pull people out of Afghanistan. Hey, we can't possibly have vaccinations quickly. Yeah, I hear what you're saying but you're going to do it anyway, right?
So how many times did Trump tell his experts that he wasn't going to take their advice? I feel like we've got enough examples of that. That was fairly common, right? Now is that the president you want? Do you want the president who goes against the advice of experts or do you want a Biden-like president who tells you directly he will take the advice of experts and you can see the work of the experts in his presentation? The experts sort of packaged up his answers for each topic and then he presented it. So he basically was a mouthpiece for the experts in some way.
Did you see any evidence that Joe Biden would be capable of telling an expert to go pound salt? Trump did it every day. It was like there probably wasn't a day that went by when Trump didn't call on an expert and say, yeah, I'm not going to do that. I hear what you're saying. That's not going to happen. Does Biden ever do that? And what do you think about that? Which one is the better president? Is the better president the one who calls on the experts? Because if you look at Trump's record of calling on experts, it's really good. Now it's not a hundred percent. It's not 100. I don't make that claim. But if you were to look at all the things, you know, don't cherry-pick, just look at all the things that Trump called on, pretty good record. His hunches, you know, his lived experience, etc. Do you give him some kind of an advantage in identifying? I think he was very good at it. I don't know if Biden has that. He might, but I don't know.
So here's the thing that's just mind-blowing, that Biden is getting basically a pass on this from the friendly side of the media. That when he was asked if photographers and the press would have access to the border holding facilities where we know there's a bad situation, you know, with people overcrowded, etc., and he basically said no. He said we'll give you access after we fixed it so there's nothing to see. And he said that right in front of the public like that was okay. How's that okay? Even the left was saying, are you serious? That's not okay. That's not okay for anybody. That's not okay on the right. It's not okay on the left. That's not okay with anybody, right? But he just got away with that. He's still president. No blowback whatsoever. You know, the people on the right are blah blah blah but it doesn't matter. And it's just words. He actually got away with telling you he wasn't going to give you transparency on a human crisis. Now he's the guy who cares the most about, you know, that's his brand, right? He cares the most about the humanity of the actual migrants who are in a bad situation there. And yeah, he won't let the press see the bad situation. It's amazing that he's getting a pass on this. There's no way that Trump would have.
So I think that was his worst point, was the immigration stuff. He was boring. Trump is more interesting, definitely. And here's another thing I think he got wrong on North Korea. He says that, you know, they're basically talking about what to do about it because North Korea fired some missiles, test missiles. And Biden is doing the old thing where you say they won't negotiate with North Korea unless North Korea commits to negotiating toward denuclearization. Is that going to work? Is that going to work? Do you think North Korea is going to say, oh, oh, oh, well I didn't know about this whole denuclearizing thing. Yeah, well now that you mention it we'll just get rid of our nukes and then everything's good, right? How about that?
I feel as if Biden and really the way we've always treated North Korea in the past is all wrong. And Trump was the only one who got that right. And it goes like this. North Korea isn't going to get rid of the nukes. It's not going to happen. I mean even if they tone down their testing or whatever, they're still going to have some capacity that they could ramp up if they had to. The smarter option is to talk to North Korea, to talk them out of being our enemy and just remove the threat because we don't have a reason to threaten them. We have no reason to do anything bad to North Korea now or ever as long as they don't do bad things to us. And I think that was the Trump magic, that he convinced North Korea, like we're not even in your game. We don't even care about you. If you'd like to make some money, we can help. But that's the only thing we care about you is if you'd like to make some money with us. We can help. Some investments and stuff. Now it's going to be hard to do if you're on war footing with South Korea but that's your business. Our business is we'd like to do some business with you. We don't want to attack you.
And what happened? North Korea seems way less aggressive, or did under Trump. Now that's probably the best you can get but I would take it to another level. I would tell North Korea, you know, we don't think you should build nukes and aim them in our direction but we can't make any promises about China if I were you. And I were that close to China, you might want to keep those nukes because you're going to need to aim them at Beijing because China is a real threat to North Korea, don't you think? Because China has absorbed Hong Kong as was their legal right, more or less. I mean they may have taken it too far. They probably will absorb Taiwan within the next 10 years just because it's close and because they can. Does North Korea think that America is a bigger risk than China right on the border of China? I don't think so. I think China is a way bigger risk to North Korea. And the way China would take over would be infiltrating and buying and bribing and doing their soft long-term influence thing to control North Korea. There's no way that Kim Jong-un should be on their team. He should be on our team and then you're fine because people don't nuke their own team. He should be on our team against China. China is the threat to the world. It's got to be a threat to North Korea. Now they can't treat China like a threat because they're still dealing with them. But realistically from a long-term military perspective, North Korea and China are the problem with each other. We're not. So I would make that case. I think Biden's got that wrong.
All right. So overall if you said Biden had a very low bar for expectations, I would say he exceeded that. Is that fair? The bar was so low that he exceeded it fairly easily. I would give him a good mark on his performance. Performance, he gets the usual failing grade on accuracy. They all do. He gets a bad grade on handling the border, bad grade on handling North Korea, didn't really answer a lot of questions. But he didn't need to accomplish any of those things I'm criticizing. So if you were to make a list of all the things that don't matter, he didn't do them very well. All right, being accurate, it doesn't really matter and he didn't do it very well but it doesn't matter. What did matter that he did? He didn't decompose in front of the public. What did matter is that he had details on all of the questions. What did matter is he spoke with some authority, acted presidential. I think he pulled it off. I think he pulled it off. All right, but certainly not giving him a total pass.
Now interestingly two left-leaning journalists did not agree with each other. So when Yamiche Alcindor, I think she's NPR, when she asked a question, embedded in the question was the assumption that or maybe accusation, depending what you want to call it, that because Biden was a nice guy and he was talking nice about immigration, that that caused more immigration. Whereas Rubin tweeted, "Yamiche makes the statement, unproven, that his words set off the surge. This is factually wrong." Now Rubin of course is not like other journalists. She is a little more of a team player than even people who are team players. But I would say that Biden and his media who are trying to say that the surge is not because of Biden, they did a good job.
Now here was the argument, if you haven't heard it. I think you've heard it. That the surge is actually no different than prior years. And then if you add the fact that the coronavirus caused what would have been a surge to not happen last year, though all you're seeing is this year's normal surge plus a little excess surge because people would have come the year before but they couldn't. So now they're just coming this year. So it's just a big year for surges but not because of anything. It just would have happened anyway for economic reasons and seasonal reasons and everything.
Now is that true? Is it true? Yeah, I'm seeing in the comments I see you saying that it's just not true, that the way they're counting it is wrong. If you talk to the migrants, they'll tell you they're coming because of Biden. The interviews I've seen, they say it directly. Would you have come if Trump had still been president? Maybe not. Did you come because Biden said things would be better? Yes, they say it directly. Now I'm not saying that Biden is accurate when he defends himself by saying that the surge is no worse and that he also says that there were facilities in place to handle the surge that Trump dismantled. That's probably a little bit true. So if you were simply to judge whether Biden defended his practice as well just rhetorically, he actually did with the help of the media. And I'm totally surprised, right? I'm totally surprised and I'm not buying their statistics. I do think it's a real surge that really comes because of Biden. Now that's a belief. But they did a good job, a good job of defending their situation. You don't have to believe they were being honest but it was a good defense. I was surprised. It was better than I thought it would be. And even Rubin and Alcindor are on different sides about whether there was anything to that.
All right. There's a weird thing happening in the world with cotton. You know I've told you that one of the things about the simulation is that there's some themes that once you see them they just keep repeating. And it could be just a coincidence. Probably is. But it's always interesting. So cotton is in the news for all different reasons. So I guess H&M and Nike are being boycotted in China because they've made noise opposing the slave labor that picks the cotton that goes into the products. So American companies are being boycotted. Are they both American? H&M I don't know. Are being boycotted for opposing slavery, you know the Uyghurs, forced labor, cancer, etc. And China's pushing back. They're pro-slavery. And so you got that happening.
Then at the same time you've got Tom Cotton who's making some news I'll talk about in a moment. And he also talks about China all the time. And we're also talking about slavery reparations. That's in the news a lot lately, which of course is the legacy of the cotton plantations and everything. Why is it that cotton suddenly became like one of the most common words in the news? What's up with that?
Speaking of Tom Cotton, he's introducing legislation to ban critical race theory training in the U.S. military. Once again I say, are there other senators? The only senators you see doing anything, it's like Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Tom Cotton, and we're done here, right? Is it just the same people doing all the work? I'm not sure. I would even consider voting or even supporting, let's say for president, anybody who isn't one of these people. Oh, Josh Hawley, he's making some noise. Yeah, Josh Hawley. But it's just a handful of people. They're doing all the things that matter, it seems like. And everybody else is doing, what the hell are they doing? What's Rubio done? I'm seeing Rubio's name. What's he done lately? I know. But I would say at the moment if you were to judge just on who's taking on things and who's introducing legislation and who's moving the needle and who has their priorities right, it's kind of Tom Cotton's looking pretty good.
And he's also not making what I'd call the Rand Paul mistake. The Rand Paul mistake is that he's dying on the hill of these face masks and you just can't win that fight. I mean he can be right. I'm not arguing he's wrong. I'm just saying it's the kind of fight that's really a bad one if you want to run for president later because people are going to remember it. They're going to say you were wrong. You're anti-science or whatever. But I don't see Tom Cotton even making an issue of it. He's going after the racism in this country. Good. He's going after China really hard. Good. Good stuff.
All right. There is in Oakland they're doing a program where they're going to give $500 checks to low-income families. So I guess this is like a UBI kind of a thing. I'm not sure how long it's going to go. But there's a restriction to it. So if you're poor, if you're low income in Oakland, you'll get a $500 check unless you're white. So you can't get the check if you're white. Other ethnic groups I guess are okay but not if you're white.
And so I'd like to give this financial advice to young people. And I follow my own advice. If you're young you should definitely hold Bitcoin. Just even if Bitcoin goes out of business, it looks like it could grow fast in the future. So when you're young you should get things that are a little riskier but they could go big because even if you lose all your money when you're young, you have plenty of time to make it up. So if you're young you should hold Bitcoin.
And then secondly you should identify as Black. And I'm only saying to do it for the money, not for any other reason. And I'm going to announce today that I, going forward, I do identify as Black. And I had my DNA analyzed by 23andMe and I do have origins in Africa. Now I don't know how much your origins have to be but I think you just have to identify that way, right? Those are the rules.
Now I told you that the best way to break a system you don't like is to embrace it. So I embrace it. I do believe that people who don't look exactly Black can identify as Black, right? Because there are lots of examples that there are plenty of people who if you looked at them you'd say I don't know if they're Black. You know, just looking at them I can't tell. But if they identify as Black, those are the rules. That you can identify as Black and then you are. So I'm going to identify as Black. I've got a little bit of African-American in me according to 23andMe. And I also have a lived experience which I think fits the model.
Most of you know the story that when I was working for a big bank early in my career, my boss called me in the office and told me that I couldn't be promoted because I'm White and male. Now when I tell this story people say that didn't happen or they say I think you're making that up or they say maybe you thought that's what was happening but they certainly wouldn't say it directly. Let me say this as clearly as possible. My boss said it directly. You can't get promoted here because you're White and you're male. Directly. So I quit, of course. What would you do if your company tells you you can't be promoted because of your gender and your race? You quit.
So when that happened I of course had plenty of other opportunities to go to. Things worked out for me. But I did feel for a moment what it would be like to have racial discrimination determine your career options because it literally happened. So I left the bank and I took a job at the local phone company, Pacific Bell at the time. And I got on the management track. So they had an actual program that if you were identified as somebody who might be able to rise to the ranks they would put you on the program so that you would get extra mentoring and stuff and people would know who you were. And so I got in the program and it looked like I was going places. Finally, finally I could rise based on my skill and not the color of my skin.
But one day my boss called me into his office and again I'm not making this up. There's no hyperbole here. Told me directly in clean direct language, I'm afraid we've been told we can't promote White males because we don't have enough diversity in senior management and we'll never get it if we just keep promoting White males. And I said, well how long is this going to last? And my boss, to his credit, said I don't know. I don't know. I mean it's not going to go away soon. I don't know if it ever went away.
So two major careers I lost because of my race and my gender. Now again before you bring out your tiny violins, White man complaining who went on to get rich easily because he's a White man in America. Tiny little violin. I hear you. I hear you. I'm not saying that I didn't have options. Things worked out pretty well for me. I'm not even saying that companies should not work hard for affirmative action. I think they should. And I just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. So but I had options. So again I'm not complaining in the sense that oh my life is over. I don't work that way. I just go where I have opportunity and leave where I don't. I think everybody should do that.
And so when I, I know people think that I'm joking about this or that I say it for effect or I say it just for persuasion, but when I say I know what it feels like to lose a job because of your race or your gender, I literally know what that feels like twice. And these are major careers. This wasn't I took a job as a bagger at the grocery store for a year and it didn't work out. Both of these were supposed to be my career and I was bummed out. So that's it. So I identify as Black going forward. I would encourage all of you to do the same. I'm not kidding by the way. I'm not kidding. Just in case you thought I was, I'm not.
Pelosi was making some news today, you know, I guess the last few days. And she says that is her right as a speaker, she says, to seat or unseat any member of Congress she wants even if the election is certified. Now a lot of people are saying doesn't that make you sort of the empress of the country? But I guess she is. But the interesting part is you have to see her video talking about that because I don't know what she's done recently cosmetically but her eyebrows are trying to escape her mouth area and they just keep getting higher on her head until I think the eyebrows and the hairline have just become one. And I think we may see other portions of her face likewise trying to escape the mouth area because the things that come out of her mouth are pretty scary. And if I were her eyebrows I would make a run. I'd make a run for it. If I were the ears I'd try to get around to the back a little bit. For the nose, I don't know, the nose is going to be hard. From the eyes I might want to try to keep them closed or something. But you want to get as far away as you can from this mouthful area and the eyebrows are leading the pack.
All right. So and that is my show for the day unless I can think of something right now. Princeton? You are you kidding me? Princeton University president Christopher Eisgruber, somebody in the comments is saying, is promoting the fine people hoax. Princeton. I have a friend from Princeton who believes all the hoaxes. They graduated from Princeton, believes every hoax there is. Not a hoax he doesn't believe. And believe me you can't talk him out of it. So Princeton's got a problem. Princeton's got a problem.
What's happening this weekend? Somebody asked. All right, I'm going to turn off Periscope and I will talk to you later. All right, YouTubers, because you're special at the moment. You're asking why. Somebody asked what years my career was scuttled. Yeah, that was '80s, correct. '80s and early '90s. Late '80s, early '90s actually.
Bigfoots are real. Somebody says start hanging out with Bill Maher. I don't think Bill Maher wants to hang out with me. You know I was on his show and let's just say we didn't have chemistry. I'll just say that. But he was in a hurry. He had to get somewhere after the show so he just came into the show and ran. We didn't really chat.
Oh yeah, you know I somewhat missed the details. There's some kind of story about Hunter Biden. What was it? His girlfriend threw away his handgun in a trash can by a school and then there was maybe a form that he filled out when he got it that he lied on. And maybe he should go to jail. You know I don't know what to say about that story. It isn't big enough to matter. It's just one guy with a problem.
Would like to see another conversation with you and Sam Harris. Wouldn't that be interesting? Wouldn't that be interesting? Yeah. I'm not doing any media right now so I wouldn't do it right away. But at some point when I started doing media again that would be an interesting conversation. I'd love to catch up with him because the fun thing about Sam Harris is that he's super smart and well informed. So if you disagree with somebody who's super smart and well informed that's just always fun. You know maybe you'll learn something watching that.
All right. Oh there's a bigger story about the Secret Service etc. with the Hunter story. Okay, got it. And yes as people said if that had been Don Jr. instead of Hunter it would be a whole different story. Yeah we all agree with that. But there's also the difference is if you're pro-gun or not. So it wouldn't be exactly a good analogy. Yeah, lying on a gun purchase is a felony. It probably should be a pretty big one, don't you think, as felonies go.
But wouldn't it be interesting if his defense was that the Constitution allows. Imagine if he said yes I admit I did lie on this form because that's probably going to be easy to prove. But I lied on this form because I have a Second Amendment right to own a gun and your form can't stop me from my Second Amendment right. Wow. Would that work? That would be interesting.
Somebody says it's automatic jail. I don't know. I'd like to know how they go. Oh I didn't do the Clubhouse event. I postponed that again. I'm just having a little bit of a scheduling problem with me and my guests being available at the same time. The one thing I like about Clubhouse is you just jump on and do it. You don't have to schedule.
So here's a little thing that just happened in my neighborhood and this tells you how weird the world is right now because there's a bunch of people who got rich during the pandemic at the same time a whole bunch of people lost everything. So it was this weird situation where some people were doing great while other people were just getting hit hard. But one of the things that happened is where I live, I'm outside of San Francisco and I'm outside of all the bad parts of San Francisco. Like everything that's bad about San Francisco the city, I'm just outside that because I'm in the suburbs outside. And so as people left the city they came here. There is a 2,300-square-foot home around the corner that just sold for half a million dollars over the asking price. One before that just sold for $400,000 over the asking price. And it's because there are almost no homes that are even available to buy here. And the reason is that all the city and the valley people, once they could work remotely, as soon as you could work remotely they came to my town because this is the perfect place to work remotely. And there are people who sold homes that were worth whatever millions in the city or in the valley and they had tons of money because they sold their homes and then they came here and raised all of our prices.
But have you ever heard of that? Have you heard of multiple homes selling for half a million dollars over the asking price? Now we're only talking about a home that was selling, I think it was listed for 2.2 million. We're not talking about a 50-million-dollar home that sold for half a million over the asking price. It was listed for 2.2 and sold for 2.7. And 2.2 was a market comp. It sold for half a million dollars over the comps for the neighborhood. I mean that's just crazy.
All right. So that's what's going on in my neighborhood. Unfortunately I'm not selling my house. It would have been a good time to do it. I will talk to you later.
hey everybody come on in come on in yeah it's time it's time for coffee with scott adams and are you glad it is i know i know it's the best time of the day and let's make it special because you know what's special about today well there's a gigantic penis-shaped ship that is screwing the planet earth at this moment yeah you're not going to get your toilet paper but we can make that all better with the simultaneous sip and all you need is a copper mug or glass of tango chalice stein a canteen jug of flask vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine of the day the thing that makes what yeah everything everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and you'll hear it around the world it happens now go i can feel that cargo ship starting to be dislodged one sip that's all it took amazing well let's talk about all the news so first of all let's talk about that giant cargo ship because it's the only fun thing that happened this week now that you don't have trump in the news so much you have to wait for a cargo ship to draw a giant penis in the ocean but we got it we got that if you haven't watched the story apparently that cargo ship that is lodged in the suez canal prior to that uh the gps tracking showed a path that looked suspiciously exactly like somebody drawing a and balls now some say it's a coincidence i say that if you get stuck in the suez canal right after you coincidentally drew a giant and balls the simulation is trying to tell us something i think it's telling us we're screwed because in a way and not in a good way because i think the suez canal is sort of the planet's colon if you know what i mean sort of a tight passage see what i'm saying and uh this giant object is trying to penetrate that uh but unsuccessfully so far so we'll see if that gets unloaded before all your toilet paper disappears now here's a real uh a simulation moment i'm not making this up i had planned this week to say can you believe that a year ago you know a little little less than a year ago we were worried about running out of toilet paper and i thought well that's crazy yeah we'll figure it out we're not going to run out of toilet paper well here we are so um greta tunberg you all know her how dare you she she tweeted uh an article and said uh china continues to build coal-fired plants at a rate that outpaces the rest of the world combined combined they're building more coal powered plants than the all the rest of the world combined more than three times what was brought online everywhere else so china looks to be uh wrecking the whole planet with their with their uh their coal their coal plants uh but there doesn't seem to be anything we can do about it so i guess we're just going to watch that happen um yeah but i feel as though they've got a real problem there that right it seems like the air pollution is going to make them do something differently pretty quickly because what would be the point of building a city you couldn't live in because of the air but that's what they got more about china later so ted liu he tweeted this about the biden press conference he said president biden did a terrific job totally objective he did a terrific job at the press conference he explained the actions of his administration took to help the american people and he set bold new goals to move our nation forward well that's pretty good sounds pretty good but then he added to his tweet also he didn't tell people to inject bleach to get rid of the coronavirus okay that's not so good and i asked myself does ted liu actually believe the bleach drinking hoax still still i mean i i kind of understand how see how you could get rhubarb by it temporarily you all know what being rupard means it's named after aaron rupar at vox if you get roopard it means you take a video out of context to make it look different than what really was there so the the drinking bleach hoax was caused by a rhubarb they just took the middle of what trump said and they lopped off where he said he was talking about light and then they lopped off the end where he clarified he wasn't talking about injections he was talking about you know light so you just get rid of that and then people like ted lou still believe that there was something about drinking bleach in there and even bleach wasn't even mentioned in that context so here's what we can do about this here's how you handle the bleach drinking hoax are you ready number one the the existence of the verb to rupar turns it from a concept that's hard to explain well you know they can make it look different if you if you remove this editing and but if you put a word on it just the way our brains are organized as soon as it has its word to rupaur r-u-p-a-r rupar once you have a word for it people's brains interpret it as more of a thing because it's got a word now this is a this is a persuasion trick that i like to use a lot anything that doesn't have a word you can't persuade it's just got to be boiled down to a word because words have their own persuasive power they carry it with them so until it's a word yeah like borked exactly somebody's using to bork or uh yeah so having the word helps now when when people say hey he said drink drink bleach you say to them oh dude you got rupard dude you got rhubard you got rhubarb and bad do you see how much more persuasive that is because if you say your facts are not technically correct has that ever changed anybody's mind no note because the facts they'll just say the facts are wrong you'll say look i'm making a claim about what he said here's the video here's the transcript i'm not making this up it says right here he's talking about light in his own words you can see it on video would that would that change anybody's mind about what they saw you'd think so right you think that if somebody thought something was x and you showed it right to their face you let them hear it and see it that they would then think oh okay not x i guess i got rupard i didn't know it that will never happen in as long as you're alive and once somebody gets committed to the argument uh cognitive dissonance will be their path and i was watching uh you know some well-informed twitter user who may or may not be watching this at the moment dismantle somebody in the twitter twitter feed who believed the hoax and he was just quoting the actual transcript to just dismantle it now did the person then say oh well thank you for clarifying nope nope did not he just went into a cognitive dissonance spiral and just became temporarily insane and that's what you'd expect that's exactly what cognitive dissonance is it's like a weird insanity hallucination that pops up when your self-image doesn't match events so what this person who was who was learning that they had been rhubarb which doesn't feel good right if you've been bamboozled or rhubarb you think that's a little embarrassing on me because i was a little gullible i got rupard a little too easily so go for the embarrassment of somebody being rupard not the facts the facts won't work but here is my second suggestion for getting rid of this if i could be a reporter to ask ted lew some questions i would ask him this number one do you believe that president trump recommended drinking bleach to get rid of the coronavirus presumably he would say yes yes i do believe that now rather than telling him he got it wrong i would ask the following question all right good so you believe the the drinking belief story i'd like to get your position on a few more things what is your position on bigfoot now he would say oh you're not being serious now and i would look at him and say what do you mean you were talking about the drinking bleach thing this is just i'm trying to get some context i'm trying to trying to understand how many things you believe are true because then that would tell us if you just believe everything or this is just the one thing you believe that's not true because that's important wouldn't you like to know if somebody is fooled by every hoax or are they only fooled by maybe this one which wouldn't be so bad right just one hoax we can all be taken in by one hoax that's just normal and then he would resist a little bit and i'd say all right all right let's let's let that go my third question is what you feeling about the loch ness monster and then he'd be like come on come on i'm the i'm you i need to take this seriously and i would say what do you mean what do you mean take it seriously i am taking it seriously we're talking about all the hoaxes you believe i'm just trying to forget your opinion on it how about the fine people oaks ted do you believe that one you do you do okay all right and then you just go down the the list of hoaxes and you see how many he he agrees with trust me it's better than telling him he's got his facts wrong all right so georgia the governor has signed this georgia election bill it has it's 100 page election bill so there's lots of stuff in it but it includes stuff such as including a requirement for photo id for even for mail-in ballots reducing early voting for runoff elections and banning the distribution of food and drinks to people waiting in line i guess the theory there is that that can influence their vote somehow i don't see how by the time you're standing in line are you still undecided or or is this just to keep people standing in line you give them food and drink they'll stay there longer i don't know what's the thinking on this so you and i probably don't know all the details of why these are even in the law the democrats say it's voter suppression is it are the georgia laws voter suppression of course they are of course they are now they don't sell it that way but of course it is just as the rules changes for 2020 were let's just say they were politically motivated as opposed to fairness motivated they weren't so much for the republic they were for the democrats so we have a situation where in all likelihood i think most smart people would say this is true that the 2020 election was decided largely by the rule changes that happened before the election wouldn't you say because the rule changes allowed you know far more people to vote and in ways that people question but there were more of them lots more people voted there's no doubt about that and so some people say that the rule changes is what determined who the president is as opposed to the the public because the public was the same public before the rules as after the public didn't change it's just how they count stuff and who they can get to the polls and how easily you vote the the rule changes decided who won so georgia you know having a apparently a republican legislature they just decided to win next time by changing the rules so they just changed the rules in a different way okay so they just change the rules in a different way would this be enough to guarantee that republicans do better in the next presidential election well if it's just georgia maybe that's not enough but will other states follow right don't you think other states will follow and we may see the republicans smartening up and just making rule changes that are designed for nothing but winning elections let's face it this is designed to win elections it's not about what's fair or good nobody cares about that nobody in the government cares about that they want to get a re-elected so i feel as though given that the 2020 election was based entirely on shenanigans with rules that if georgia does some shenanigans with rules they're playing the same game i feel that's fair i don't think the rules are fair because fairness isn't a real thing it's just subjective but it's a good strategy and i think it's perfectly acceptable in the context of the rule changes being the only thing that determines an election all right this is fun so dominion the election um software do they have hardware and software is it just software but the dominion i guess is both hardware and software is suing fox news for 1.6 billion because they say that fox was claiming they were that the dominion stuff was intentionally rigged that was the claim there's no court evidence of that whatsoever no court proof no court has ruled that dominion did anything wrong um but here's the interesting thing have you ever heard the phrase a pyrrhic victory i don't even know if i'm pronouncing it right might be pyric it's spelled p-y-r-r-h-i-c have you ever heard that i'm teaching you that because you you hear that by people talking on tv if somebody uses this phrase they're bad at talking on tv because if you're talking on tv you shouldn't use phrases that 75 percent of the public or more have never heard of right but i'm going to teach you so when you hear it on tv next you'll know what it means a pyrrhic victory it's a historical reference to a an army that won the battle but so many of their their soldiers were injured or killed in the battle that they ended up losing the war because they used up too much of their resources winning a battle so the idea here is you can win the battle but be careful that that didn't cost you the war it feels like dominion might win the battle because they might prevail in the court case that's possible but what is uh what is fox's defense what do you think will fox use the sidney powell defense which is well you can't take anything we say seriously it worked for didn't it work for uh msnbc with uh uh what's her name when she got sued didn't she actually win her case by saying you shouldn't take anything i say seriously on a news channel because she's an opinion person rachel maddow right i believe she used that defense cindy powell is going to use the defense i think it'll work i think it's a solid defense but there's another thing that's about to happen that i don't know if dominion has calculated in unless this is actually part of their exit plan to leave the business because it looks like it could be i'm not saying that's the case because they'll sue me i'm just saying if you look at it from the outside it looks like a company that plans to go out of business but maybe they can win some money on the way out because here's what's going to happen i think at least it's what would happen if i were the the lawyers and i had the at least the freedom to introduce this i would put electronic voting machines on trial if if you can get away with it i'm not sure what will be allowed as as as evidence here but fox news if i were them and i were trying to come up with a strategy i would try to destroy the idea of electronic voting no matter who it is i wouldn't even make it about dominion i wouldn't even say this isn't even really about them you could change the name of the company and the argument would be exactly the same which is that it's a system that isn't transparent and therefore reasonable people can have an opinion that it wasn't fair or there were issues with it now if they do that they could probably salt the earth so effectively that our government can no longer support electronic voting so one of the things that might come out of this is the death of electronic voting everywhere now i don't know if dominion knows that that's one of the outcomes that the entire market for their product could disappear because of this now as high-powered as sydney powell is when they take on sidney powell they are taking on one person very high you know high skilled experienced attorney you know that's pretty dangerous by itself right you take on an attorney at that level you'd better have the kill shot right you go after the king you know the saying right you go you try to take out the king you better finish the job because if the king survives you're in a lot of trouble for trying to take out the king well i think that dominion is sort of bigger than or more powerful than sydney powell despite her firepower which is considerable so that was probably a good play to take her on but fox news is another animal fox news i don't think they understand how much firepower can come from that side of the world i just don't think they understand what they're getting into i don't know but i would think that the rupert murdoch uh group um especially supported by fox news who are professional communicators right they're sort of the best communicators in the world you know not just because they're right-leaning but that's their job they do it professionally and between what fox news will report about this because they can report it it's news even though it's about them it's still news so they can report it what do you think fox news is going to start running as specials just guessing they're going to run a lot of specials about how voting machines in general are a really big problem i've got a feeling that rupert murdoch is going to end electronic voting as a legal defense basically now he might lose the case fox news might lose this case but i think he's going i think he's going to kneecap the entire industry that's just part of the natural process of the defense so we'll see um let's talk about biden's press conference you know before the press conference i had tweeted that i was asking people to write humorous reviews of his press conference before it even happened knowing in advance that the friendly press would say he did incredibly well so let's see how close we got here are some of the actual comments after the press conference this from the drudge report who used to be right-leaning but i guess not so much anymore it said joe's no drama press conference chill style grand vision for fdr presidency art of the impossible not bad the washington post says in an opinion piece biden excels at his first news conference the media embarrasses themselves and there were other glowing glowing reports ted lose for example so let me give you my opinion here it wasn't bad it wasn't bad now i i thought that he would do okay now i'm only going to talk about performance here if you're new to my live streams this is the thing you need to know i'm not talking about how accurate he was with fax because he didn't pass the fact checks neither did trump right presidents typically fail the fact-checking at press conferences biden did too so do you know how do i hold that against him i don't i don't the news did the news did what it does even cnn fact-checked them so how much do i care that he got some facts wrong not any more than i cared when trump got some facts wrong right they all do that that's what the news is for they're supposed to fact check them and they did even cnn fact checked them so don't care about that how about his uh verbal miscues where he would start a sentence and it would just trail off to nothing pretty scary right this guy's you know got the nuclear codes and he's the president of the united states and he can't finish a sentence without running off into bumbling confusion and just saying ah well that's enough scary nope it's not because we're used to it it was already baked in in the same way that much of trump's personality very quickly just got baked in and it no longer became important to your mind anyway it was always the same amount of importance but the way your mind processes it is if if you're used to it and we're just sort of used to it and we we are told that biden's you know little verbal uh miscues are nothing but joe biden yeah he's older he's a little less fast but it's not that different than he's always been or at least how he's been for years so how much do i hold that against him that a lot of his sentences were bumblingly and competently ended without an ending not much it's sort of it's sort of everything we knew he was so i would say that didn't move the needle it may have confirmed what you thought but it didn't move anything yeah i doubt there was any democrat who watched that and said for the first time ever oh the way he talks now i'm worried do you think any democrat did that probably not right but every republican said oh that's just what i thought look at him he can't finish the sentence so nobody's mind was checked was changed by that all right how do you feel about the fact that the news is reporting that the questions were known in advance and that he had answers literally written out in notes and they he came very close to reading verbatim his notes as his answers to the questions what do you think of that well i have a contrarian view on that i'm one of the people and you probably did too who praised kaylee mcinany for being well prepared and having a whole binder that she could refer to so she could you know be really quick and sharp on all the answers now if it was if we complimented kaylee mcinanny for being very prepared and organized and having it written down so she didn't miss any good points why isn't that the same for biden you know it's being reported by mostly people on the right that this is a sign of his declining capabilities etc and it might be that's a perfectly reasonable opinion it looks exactly like that actually but at the same time he was really well prepared right uh now you can say that there were some questions he didn't answer like you know i think there was a gun control answer they went into immigration or vice versa and there are things he avoided but how much do you how much you count against the president for avoiding a direct question well they all do it right so you can't give them a pass for it but you would say in context it's pretty common that they avoid questions i would say trump probably didn't do that i think trump is maybe the only one who would answer a question like without trying to just change the topic has anybody else ever done that is trump the only president we've had who would answer a direct question maybe obama did you know in his own way there might have been more but so performance wise he stayed awake he didn't he didn't say anything that was clearly dementia it was just more of what we expected him and he looked like he had some command of the facts yeah i am being generous so somebody in the comments says i'm being too generous to biden i'm being generous i don't think i'm being too generous i'm trying to i'm trying to use the same amount of generosity i would have used had it been trump right just trying to make a make some kind of a comparison now i'll tell you that uh i would say it's very clear that biden is not making the decisions it looks pretty clear that there's a power behind biden but given that they prepared him very well whoever they are i feel at least a little bit of confidence that there are actually smart people who are in control we just don't know who they are which is a problem wouldn't you like to know who's in control i kind of would now i was trying to think the difference between what a biden meeting looks like and what a trump meeting looks like we have lots of examples where the advisors said trump you've got to do x and then trump said yeah but i'm not going to i'm going to call you an idiot in public and then i'm going to do the opposite of what you just recommended hey we need to stay in afghanistan with major forces yeah i hear what you're saying we're not going to do that i'm going to pull people out of afghanistan hey we can't possibly have vaccinations you know quickly yeah i hear what you're saying but you're going to do it anyway right so how many times did trump tell his experts that he wasn't going to take their advice i feel like we've got enough examples of that that was fairly common right now is that the president you want do you want the president who goes against the advice of experts or do you want a biden-like president who tells you directly he will take the advice of experts and you can see the the work of the experts in his presentation the experts sort of packaged up his answers for each each topic and then he presented it so he basically was a mouthpiece for the experts in some way did you see any evidence that joe biden would be capable of telling an expert to go pound salt trump did it every day it was like there probably didn't wasn't a day that went by when trump didn't call on an expert and say yeah i'm not going to do that i hear what you're saying that's not going to happen does biden ever do that and what do you think about that which one is the better president is the better president the one who calls on the experts because if you look at trump's record of calling on experts it's really good now it's not a hundred percent it's not 100 i don't make that claim but if you were to look at all the things you know don't cherry pick just look at all the things that trump called on pretty good record his hunches you know his lived experience etc do you give him some kind of an advantage in identifying i think he's he was very good at it i don't know if biden has that he might but i don't know so um here's here's the thing that's just mind-blowing that biden is getting basically a pass on this from the friendly side of the media that when he was asked if photographers and the press would have access to the border holding facilities where we know there's bad situation you know with people overcrowded etc and he basically said no he said we'll give you access after we fixed it so there's nothing to see and he said that right in front of the public like that was okay how's that okay even the left was saying are you serious that's not okay that's not okay for anybody that's not okay on the right it's not okay on the left that's not okay with anybody right but he just got away with that he's still president no blowback whatsoever you know the people on the right are blah blah blah but it doesn't matter and it's just words he actually got away with telling you he wasn't going to give you transparency on hold hold on a human crisis now he's the guy who cares the most about you know that's that's his brand right he cares the most about the humanity of the actual migrants who are in a bad situation there and yeah he won't let the the press see the bad situation it's amazing that he's getting a pass on this there's no way that trump would have um so i think that was his worst point was the the immigration stuff um he was boring trump is more interesting definitely um and here's another thing i think he got wrong on north korea he says that you know they're basically they're they're talking about what to do about it because north korea fired some missiles test missiles and um biden is doing the the old thing where you say they won't negotiate with north korea unless north korea commits to negotiating toward denuclearization is that going to work is that going to work do you think north korea is going to say oh oh oh well i didn't know about this whole denuclearizing thing yeah well now that you mention it we'll just get rid of our nukes and then everything's good right how about that i feel as if biden and really the the way we've always treated north korea in the past is all wrong and and trump was the only one who got that right and it goes like this north korea isn't going to get rid of the nukes it's not going to happen i mean even if they you know tone down their testing or whatever they're still going to have some capacity that they could that they could ramp up if they had to the smarter option is to talk to north korea to talk them out of being our enemy and just remove the threat because we don't have a reason to threat them to threaten them we have no reason to do anything bad to north korea now or ever as long as they don't do bad things to us and i think that was the the trump magic that he convinced north korea is like we're not even in your game we don't even care about you if you'd like to make some money we can help but that's the only thing we care about you is if you'd like to make some money with us we we can help some investments and stuff now it's going to be hard to do if you're on war footing with south korea but that's your business our business is we'd like to do some business with you we don't want to attack you and what happened north korea seems way less aggressive or did under trump now that's probably the best you can get but i would take it to another level i would tell north korea you know we don't think you should build nukes and aim them in our direction but we can't make any promises about china if i were you and i were that close to china you might want to keep those nukes because you're going to need to aim them at beijing because china is a real threat to north korea don't you think because china is going has absorbed hong kong as was their legal right more or less i mean they may have taken it too far they probably will absorb taiwan within the next 10 years just because it's close and because they can does north korea think that america is a bigger risk than north korea right on the border of china i don't think so i think china is a way bigger risk to north korea and the way china would take over would be you know infiltrating and you know buying and bribing and you know doing their their soft long-term influence thing to control north korea uh there's no way that kim jong-un should be on their team he should be on our team and then you're fine because people don't nuke their own team he should be on our team against china china is the threat to the world it's got to be a threat to north korea now they can't treat north korea like they can't treat china like a threat because they're still dealing with them but realistically from a long-term military perspective north korea and china are the problem with each other we're not so i would make that case i think biden's got that wrong all right so overall if you said uh biden had a very low bar for expectations i would say he exceeded that is that fair the bar was so low that he exceeded it fairly easily i was i would give him a good mark on his performance performance he gets you know the usual failing grade on accuracy they all do he gets a you know bad grade on handling the border bad grade on handling north korea didn't really answer a lot of questions but he didn't need to accomplish any of those things i'm criticizing so if you were to make a list of all the things that don't matter he didn't do them very well all right being accurate it doesn't really matter and he didn't do it very well but it doesn't matter what did matter that he didn't he didn't decompose in front of the public what did matter is that he had details and on all of the questions what did matter is he spoke with some authority active presidential i think he pulled it off i think he pulled it off all right but um certainly not giving him a total pass now interestingly uh two left-leaning journalists uh did not agree with each other so when al cinder yamiche alcindor i think she's npr was when she asked a question embedded in the question was the assumption that or maybe accusation depending what you want to call it that because biden was a nice guy that that was what caused or and he was talking nice about immigration that that caused more immigration whereas reuben tweeted yamiche makes the statement unproven that his words set off the surge this is factually wrong now reuben of course uh is not like other journalists uh she is a little more of a team player than even people who are team players but i would say that biden and his his media who are trying to say that the surge is not because of biden they did a good job now here was the argument if you haven't heard it i think you've heard it that the surge is actually no different than prior years and then if you add the fact that the coronavirus caused what would have been a surge to not happen last year though all you're seeing is this year's normal surge plus a little excess surge because people would have come the year before but they couldn't so now they're just coming this year so it's just a big year for surges but not because of anything it just would have happened anyway for economic reasons and seasonal reasons and everything now is that true is it true yeah i'm seeing in the comments i see you saying that it's just not true that the way they're counting it is wrong if you talk to the migrants they'll tell you they're coming because of bite the interviews i've seen they say it directly would you have come if tr if trump had still been president maybe not did you come because biden said you know things would be better yes they say it directly now so i'm not saying that biden is accurate when he defends himself by saying that the surge is you know no worse and that he also says that there were facilities in place to handle the surge that trump dismantled that's probably a little bit true so if you were simply to um to judge whether biden defended his practice as well just rhetorically he actually did with the help of the media and i i'm totally surprised right i'm totally surprised and i'm not buying their statistics i do think it's a real surge that really comes because of biden now that's a belief but they did a good job a good job of defending their situation you don't have to believe they're they were being honest but it was a good defense i was surprised more it was better than i thought it would be and even reuben and elsington are on the different sides about whether uh there was anything to that all right uh there's a weird thing happening in the world with cotton you know i've told you that one of the things about the simulation is that there's some themes that once you see them they just keep repeating and it could be just a coincidence probably is but it's always interesting so cotton is in the in the news for all different reasons so i guess uh h m and nike are being boycotted in china because they've made noise opposing the slave labor that picks the cotton that goes into the products so american companies are being boycotted are they both american h m i don't know are being boycotted for uh opposing slavery you know the uyghurs forced labor cancer etc and china's pushing back they're pro-slavery and so you got that happening then at the same time you've got tom cotton who's making some news i'll talk about in a moment and he also talks about china all the time and we're also talking about slavery reparations that's in the news a lot lately which of course is the legacy of you know the cotton plantations and everything why is it that cotton suddenly became like one of the most common words in the news what's up with that speaking of tom cotton he's i guess he's introducing legislation to ban critical race theory training in the us military once again i say are there other senators the the only senators you see doing anything it's like ted cruz rand paul tom cotton and we're done here right is it just the same people doing all the work i'm not sure i would even consider voting you're even supporting let's say for president anybody who isn't one of these people oh josh hawley's he's making some noise yeah josh hawley but it's just a handful of people they're doing they're doing all the things that matter it seems like and everybody else is doing what what the hell are they doing what's rubio done i'm seeing rubio's name what's he done lately i know but i would say at the moment if you were to judge just on you know who's taking on things and who's introducing legislation and who's moving the needle and who has their priorities right it's kind of tom cotton's looking pretty good and he's also not making what i'd call the rand paul mistake the rand paul mistake is that he's dying on the hill of these face masks and you just can't win that fight i mean he can be right i'm not arguing he's wrong i'm just saying it's the kind of fight that's really a bad one if you want to run for president later because people are going to remember it they're going to say you were wrong you're anti-science or whatever but i don't see tom cotton even making an issue of it he's going after you know the the racism in this country good he's going after china really hard good good stuff all right um there is uh in oakland they're doing a program where they're going to give 500 checks to low-income families so i i guess this is like a ubi kind of a thing i'm not sure if how how long it's going to go but there's a there's a restriction to it so if you're poor if you're low income and then oakland you'll get a 500 check unless you're white so you can't get to check if you're white um other ethnic groups i guess are okay but not if you're white and so i'd like to give this financial advice to young people and i follow my own advice if you're young you should definitely hold bitcoin just you know even if bitcoin goes out of business it looks like it could grow fast in the future so when you're young you should get things that are a little riskier but they could go big because even if you lose all your money when you're young you have plenty of time to make it up so if you're young you should hold bitcoin and then secondly you should identify as black and i'm only saying to do it for the money not for any other reason and i'm going to announce today that i uh going forward i do identify as black and i had my uh my dna analyzed by 23andme and i do have origins in africa now i don't know how much your origins have to be but i think you just have to identify that way right those are the rules now i told you that the best way to break a system you don't like is to embrace it so i embrace it i do believe that people who don't let's say look exactly black can identify as black right because there are lots of examples that there are plenty of people who if you looked at them you'd say i don't know if they're black you know just looking at them i can't tell but if they identify as black those are the rules that you can identify as black and then you are so i'm going to identify as black i've got a little bit of african-american in me according to 23 to me and i also have a lived experience which i think fits the model uh most of you know the story that when i was working for a big bank early in my career my boss called me in the office and told me that i couldn't be promoted because i'm white and male now when i tell this story people say that didn't happen or they say um i think you're making that up or they say maybe you thought that's what was happening but they certainly wouldn't say it directly let me say this as clearly as possible my boss said it directly you can't get promoted here because you're white and you're male directly so i quit of course what would you do if if your company tells you you can't be promoted because of your gender and your race you quit so when that happened i of course had plenty of other opportunities to go to things worked out for me but i did feel for a moment what it would be like to have racial discrimination determine your career options because it literally happened so i left the bank and i took a job at the local phone company the pacific bell at the time and i got on the uh the management track so they had an actual program that if you were identified as somebody who might be able to rise to the ranks they would put you on the program so that you would get extra mentoring and stuff and people would know who you were and so i got in the program and it looked like i was going places finally finally i could rise based on my skill and not the color of my skin but one day my boss called me into his office and again i'm not making this up there's no hyperbole here told me directly in clean direct language i'm afraid we've been told we can't promote white males because we don't have enough we don't have enough diversity in senior management and we'll never get it if we just keep promoting white males and i said well how long is this going to last and my boss to his credit said i don't know i don't know i mean it's not going to go away soon i don't know if it ever went away so two major careers i lost because of my race and my gender now again before you bring out your tiny violins white man complaining who went on to get rich easily because he's a white man in america tiny little violin i hear you i hear you i'm not saying that i didn't have options things worked out pretty well for me i'm not even saying that companies should not um you know work hard for affirmative action i think they should and i just happened to be in the wrong place at the at the wrong time so but i had options so again i'm not complaining in the sense that you know oh my life is over i don't i don't work that way i just go where i have opportunity and and leave leave where i don't i think everybody should do that and and so when i i know people think that that i'm joking about this or that i say it for a fact or i say it just for persuasion but when i say i know what it feels like to lose a job because of your race or your gender i literally know what that feels like twice and these are major careers this is this wasn't i took a job you know as a bagger at the grocery store for a year and it didn't work out the both of these were supposed to be my career and and i was bummed out um so that's it so i identify as black going forward i would uh encourage all of you to do the same i'm not kidding by the way i'm not kidding just in case you thought i was i'm not pelosi was making some news today you know i guess the last few days and she says that is her right as a speaker she says to seat or unseat any member of congress she wants uh even if the election is certified now a lot of people are saying doesn't that make you sort of the empress of the country but i guess she is but the interesting part is you have to see your video talking about that because i don't know what she's done recently cosmetically but her eyebrows are trying to escape her mouth area and they just keep getting higher on her head until i think the eyebrows and the hairline have just become one and i think we may see other other portions of her face uh likewise trying to escape the mouth area because the things that come out of her mouth are pretty scary and if i were her eyebrows i would i'd make a run i'd make a run for it if i were the ears i'd try to get like around to the back a little bit for the nose i don't know the nose is going to be hard from the eyes i might want to try to keep them closed or something but you want to get as far away as you can from this like mouthful area and the eyebrows are leading the pack all right so and that is my show for the day unless i can think of something right now um wait princeton you are you kidding me princeton university uh president christopher eisgruber somebody in the comments is saying is promoting the fine people hoax princeton i have a friend from princeton who believes all the hoaxes they graduated from princeton believes every hoax there is not a hoax he doesn't believe and believe me you can't talk him out of it so princeton's got a problem princeton's got a problem um uh what's happening this weekend somebody asked all right i'm going to turn off uh periscope and uh i will talk to you later all right youtubers because you're special at the moment um the you're asking why somebody asked what years my career was scuttled yeah that was 80s correct 80s and early 90s late 80s early 90s actually big bigfoots are real somebody says start hanging out with bill maher i don't think bill maher wants to hang out with me you know i was on his show and uh let's just say we didn't have chemistry i'll just say that um but he was in a hurry he had to get somewhere after the show so he he just came into the show and ran i didn't we didn't really chat um oh yeah you know i i somewhat missed the details there's some kind of story about hunter biden hit what was it his girlfriend threw away his handgun in a trash can by a school and then there was maybe a form that he filled out when he got it that he lied to he lied on and maybe he should go to jail you know i i don't know what to say about that story it isn't big enough to matter it's just one guy with a problem would like to see another conversation with you and sam harris wouldn't that be interesting wouldn't that be interesting yeah um i'm not doing any media right now so i wouldn't do it right away but um at some point when i started doing media again that would be an interesting conversation i'd love to catch up with them because the fun thing about sam harris is that he's super smart and well informed so if you disagree with somebody who's super smart and well informed that's just always fun you know maybe you'll learn something watching that all right oh there's a bigger story about the secret service etc with the hunter story okay got it um and yes as people said if if that had been don jr instead of hunter it would be a whole different story yeah we all agree with that but there's also you know the difference is if you're pro-gun or not so it wouldn't be exactly a good analogy uh yeah lying on a gun purchase is a felony it probably should be a pretty big one don't you think as felonies go but wouldn't it be interesting if his defense was that the constitution allows antonicon imagine if he said yes i admit i did lie on this forum because that's probably going to be easy to prove but i lied in this forum because i have a second amendment right to own a gun and your form can't stop me from my second amendment right wow would that work that would be interesting um somebody says it's automatic jail i don't know i'd like to know how they go oh i didn't do the clubhouse event i i postponed that again i'm just having a little bit of a scheduling problem with me and my guests being available at the same time the one thing i like about clubhouse is you just jump on and do it you don't have to schedule so here's a little thing that just happened in my neighborhood and this tells you how weird the world is right now because there's a bunch of people who got rich during the pandemic at the same time a whole bunch of people lost everything so it was this weird situation where some people were doing great while other people were just just getting hit hard but one of the things that happened is where i live i'm outside of san francisco and i'm outside of all the bad parts of san francisco like everything that's bad about san francisco the city i'm i'm just outside that because i'm in the suburbs outside and so as people left the city they came here there is a 2300 square square foot home around the corner that just sold for half a million dollars over the asking price what one before that just sold for four hundred thousand dollars over the asking price and it's because and there's there almost no homes are even available to buy here and the reason is that all the the the city and the valley people once they could work remotely as soon as you could work remotely they came to my town because this is the perfect place to work remotely and and there are people who sold homes that were worth you know whatever millions in the in the city were in the valley and they had tons of money because they sold their their homes and then they came here and wrote and raised all of our prices but have you ever heard of that have you heard of multiple homes selling for half a million dollars over the asking price now we're only talking about a home that was selling i think it was listed for 2.2 million we're not talking about a like a 50 million dollar home that sold for half a million over the asking price it was listed for 2.2 and sold for 2.7 and 2.2 was was a market comp it sold for half a million dollars over the comps for the neighborhood i mean that's just crazy all right so that's what's going on in my neighborhood unfortunately i'm not selling my house it would have been a good time to do it i will talk to you later
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now that you don't have trump in the
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watched
the story apparently that cargo ship
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suez canal prior to that uh the gps
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before all your toilet paper disappears
now here's a real uh
a simulation moment i'm not making this
up i had planned this week
to say can you believe that a year ago
you know a little little less than a
year ago we were worried about running
out of toilet paper
and i thought well that's crazy yeah
we'll figure it out we're not going to
run out of toilet paper
well here we are so um
greta tunberg you all know her
how dare you she she tweeted uh
an article and said uh china continues
to build coal-fired plants
at a rate that outpaces the rest of the
world combined
combined they're building more coal
powered plants than the all the rest of
the world
combined
more than three times what was brought
online everywhere else
so china looks to be uh wrecking the
whole planet with their
with their uh their coal their coal
plants
uh but there doesn't seem to be anything
we can do about it
so i guess we're just going to watch
that happen
um yeah but
i feel as though they've got a real
problem there that right
it seems like the air pollution is going
to make them do something
differently pretty quickly because what
would be the point of building a city
you couldn't live in
because of the air but that's what they
got
more about china later so ted liu he
tweeted this about
the biden press conference he said
president biden did a terrific job
totally objective he did a terrific job
at the press conference
he explained the actions of his
administration took to help the american
people
and he set bold new goals to move our
nation forward
well that's pretty good sounds pretty
good but then he added to his tweet
also he didn't tell people to inject
bleach to get rid of the coronavirus
okay that's not so good
and i asked myself does ted liu actually
believe
the bleach drinking hoax
still still i mean i i kind of
understand how
see how you could get rhubarb by it
temporarily
you all know what being rupard means
it's named after aaron rupar at vox
if you get roopard it means you take a
video out of context
to make it look different than what
really was there
so the the drinking bleach hoax was
caused by a rhubarb
they just took the middle of what trump
said and they lopped off
where he said he was talking about light
and then they lopped off the end
where he clarified he wasn't talking
about injections he was talking about
you know light so you just get rid of
that
and then people like ted lou still
believe that
there was something about drinking
bleach in there and even bleach wasn't
even mentioned in that context
so here's what we can do about this
here's how you handle the bleach
drinking hoax are you ready
number one the the existence of the
verb to rupar
turns it from a concept that's hard to
explain
well you know they can make it look
different if you if you remove this
editing
and but if you put a word on it
just the way our brains are organized as
soon as it has its word
to rupaur r-u-p-a-r
rupar once you have a word for it
people's brains interpret it as more of
a thing
because it's got a word now this is a
this is a persuasion trick that i like
to use a lot
anything that doesn't have a word you
can't persuade
it's just got to be boiled down to a
word because words have their own
persuasive power they carry it with them
so until it's a word yeah like borked
exactly
somebody's using to bork or
uh yeah so having the word helps
now when when people say hey he said
drink drink bleach
you say to them oh dude you got rupard
dude you got rhubard you got rhubarb and
bad
do you see how much more persuasive that
is because if you say
your facts are not technically correct
has that ever changed anybody's mind
no note because the facts they'll just
say the facts are wrong
you'll say look i'm making a claim about
what he said
here's the video here's the transcript
i'm not making this up it says right
here he's talking about light
in his own words you can see it on video
would that would that change anybody's
mind
about what they saw you'd think so right
you think that if somebody thought
something was x
and you showed it right to their face
you let them hear it and see it
that they would then think oh okay not x
i guess i got rupard i didn't know it
that will never happen in as long as
you're alive
and once somebody gets committed to the
argument
uh cognitive dissonance will be their
path and i was watching uh
you know some well-informed twitter user
who may or may not be watching this at
the moment
dismantle somebody in the twitter
twitter feed
who believed the hoax and he was just
quoting the actual transcript to just
dismantle it
now did the person then say oh well
thank you for clarifying
nope nope did not
he just went into a cognitive dissonance
spiral
and just became temporarily insane and
that's what you'd expect
that's exactly what cognitive dissonance
is
it's like a weird insanity hallucination
that pops up
when your self-image doesn't match
events
so what this person who was who was
learning
that they had been rhubarb which doesn't
feel good right
if you've been bamboozled or rhubarb you
think
that's a little embarrassing on me
because i
was a little gullible i got rupard a
little too easily
so go for the embarrassment of somebody
being rupard
not the facts the facts won't work but
here
is my second suggestion for getting rid
of this
if i could be a reporter to ask ted lew
some questions i would ask him this
number one do you believe that president
trump recommended drinking bleach to get
rid of the coronavirus
presumably he would say yes yes i do
believe that
now rather than telling him he got it
wrong
i would ask the following question all
right good so you believe the
the drinking belief story i'd like to
get your position on a few more things
what is your position on bigfoot
now he would say oh you're not being
serious now and i would look at him and
say what do you mean
you were talking about the drinking
bleach thing this is just
i'm trying to get some context i'm
trying to trying to understand
how many things you believe are true
because then that would tell us if you
just believe
everything or this is just the one thing
you believe that's not true
because that's important wouldn't you
like to know if somebody is fooled by
every hoax or are they only fooled by
maybe this one which wouldn't be so bad
right just one hoax
we can all be taken in by one hoax
that's just normal
and then he would resist a little bit
and i'd say all right all right let's
let's let that go
my third question is what you feeling
about the loch ness monster
and then he'd be like come on come on
i'm the i'm you i need to take this
seriously and i would say
what do you mean what do you mean take
it seriously i am taking it seriously
we're talking about all the hoaxes you
believe i'm just trying to forget your
opinion on it how about the fine people
oaks
ted do you believe that one you do you
do okay
all right and then you just go down the
the list of hoaxes and you see how many
he
he agrees with trust me it's better than
telling him he's got his facts wrong
all right
so georgia the governor has signed this
georgia election
bill it has it's 100 page election bill
so there's lots of stuff in it but it
includes stuff such as including
a requirement for photo id for even for
mail-in ballots
reducing early voting for runoff
elections and banning the distribution
of food and drinks to people
waiting in line i guess the theory there
is that that can influence their vote
somehow
i don't see how by the time you're
standing in line
are you still undecided
or or is this just to keep people
standing in line you give them food and
drink they'll stay there longer i don't
know
what's the thinking on this so you and i
probably don't know all the details of
why these are even in the law
the democrats say it's voter
suppression is it
are the georgia laws voter suppression
of course they are of course they are
now
they don't sell it that way but of
course it is
just as the rules changes for
2020 were
let's just say they were politically
motivated as opposed to
fairness motivated they weren't so much
for the republic they were for the
democrats
so we have a situation where in all
likelihood i think most smart people
would say this is true
that the 2020 election was decided
largely
by the rule changes that happened before
the election
wouldn't you say because the rule
changes allowed you know
far more people to vote and in ways that
people question
but there were more of them lots more
people voted there's no doubt about that
and so some people say that the rule
changes is what determined
who the president is as opposed to the
the public
because the public was the same public
before the rules as after
the public didn't change it's just how
they count stuff and
who they can get to the polls and how
easily you vote
the the rule changes decided who won
so georgia you know having a apparently
a republican
legislature they just decided to win
next time by changing the rules
so they just changed the rules in a
different way
okay so they just change the rules in a
different way
would this be enough to guarantee that
republicans do better in the next
presidential election
well if it's just georgia maybe that's
not enough but will other states follow
right don't you think other states will
follow
and we may see the republicans
smartening up and just making
rule changes that are designed for
nothing but winning elections
let's face it this is designed to win
elections
it's not about what's fair or good
nobody cares about that
nobody in the government cares about
that they want to get a re-elected
so i feel as though given that the 2020
election was based entirely on
shenanigans with rules that if
georgia does some shenanigans with rules
they're playing the same game i feel
that's fair
i don't think the rules are fair because
fairness isn't a real thing
it's just subjective but it's a good
strategy
and i think it's perfectly acceptable in
the context of
the rule changes being the only thing
that determines an election
all right this is fun
so dominion the election um
software do they have hardware and
software is it just software
but the dominion i guess is both
hardware and software
is suing fox news for 1.6 billion
because they say that fox was claiming
they were
that the dominion stuff was
intentionally rigged
that was the claim there's no court
evidence of that whatsoever
no court proof no court has ruled
that dominion did anything wrong um
but here's the interesting thing have
you ever heard the phrase
a pyrrhic victory i don't even know if
i'm pronouncing it right might be
pyric it's spelled p-y-r-r-h-i-c
have you ever heard that i'm teaching
you that because
you you hear that by people talking on
tv
if somebody uses this phrase they're bad
at talking on tv
because if you're talking on tv you
shouldn't use phrases that
75 percent of the public or more have
never heard of
right but i'm going to teach you so when
you hear it on tv next you'll know what
it means
a pyrrhic victory it's a historical
reference
to a an army that won the battle
but so many of their their soldiers were
injured or killed in the battle
that they ended up losing the war
because they used up too much of their
resources winning a battle
so the idea here is you can win the
battle but be careful that that didn't
cost
you the war it feels like dominion
might win the battle
because they might prevail in the court
case
that's possible but what is uh what is
fox's defense what do you think
will fox use the sidney powell defense
which is
well you can't take anything we say
seriously
it worked for didn't it work for uh
msnbc
with uh uh what's her name
when she got sued didn't she actually
win her case by saying you shouldn't
take anything i say seriously
on a news channel because she's an
opinion person rachel
maddow right i believe she used that
defense cindy powell is going to use the
defense
i think it'll work i think it's a solid
defense
but there's another thing that's about
to happen that i don't know
if dominion has calculated in
unless this is actually part of their
exit plan to leave the business
because it looks like it could be i'm
not saying that's the case because
they'll sue me
i'm just saying if you look at it from
the outside it looks like a company that
plans to go out of business but maybe
they can win some money on the way out
because here's what's going to happen i
think
at least it's what would happen if i
were the
the lawyers and i had the at least the
freedom to introduce this
i would put electronic voting machines
on
trial if if you can get away with it
i'm not sure what will be allowed as as
as evidence here but fox news
if i were them and i were trying to come
up with a strategy
i would try to destroy the idea of
electronic voting no matter who it is
i wouldn't even make it about dominion
i wouldn't even say this isn't even
really about them you could change the
name of the company and
the argument would be exactly the same
which is
that it's a system that isn't
transparent
and therefore reasonable people can have
an opinion that it wasn't fair
or there were issues with it now
if they do that they could probably salt
the earth
so effectively that our government can
no longer support
electronic voting so one of the things
that might come out of this
is the death of electronic voting
everywhere
now i don't know if dominion knows that
that's one of the outcomes
that the entire market for their product
could disappear because of this
now as high-powered as sydney powell is
when they take on sidney powell they are
taking on one person
very high you know high skilled
experienced
attorney you know that's pretty
dangerous by itself right
you take on an attorney at that level
you'd better have the kill shot
right you go after the king you know the
saying right you go you try to
take out the king you better finish the
job
because if the king survives you're in a
lot of trouble
for trying to take out the king
well i think that dominion is sort of
bigger than
or more powerful than sydney powell
despite her
firepower which is considerable so that
was probably a good play to take her on
but fox news is another animal
fox news i don't think they understand
how much firepower can come from that
side of the world
i just don't think they understand what
they're getting into i don't know
but i would think that the rupert
murdoch
uh group um especially supported by
fox news who are professional
communicators
right they're sort of the best
communicators
in the world you know not just because
they're right-leaning but
that's their job they do it
professionally
and between what fox news will report
about this
because they can report it it's news
even though it's about them
it's still news so they can report it
what do you think fox news is going to
start running as
specials just guessing
they're going to run a lot of specials
about how voting machines
in general are a really big
problem i've got a feeling
that rupert murdoch is going to end
electronic voting
as a legal defense basically now he
might lose the case
fox news might lose this case but i
think he's going
i think he's going to kneecap the entire
industry that's just part of the
natural process of the defense so we'll
see
um let's talk about biden's press
conference
you know before the press conference i
had tweeted that
i was asking people to write humorous
reviews of his
press conference before it even happened
knowing in advance that the
friendly press would say he did
incredibly well
so let's see how close we got here are
some of the actual comments
after the press conference this from the
drudge report
who used to be right-leaning but i guess
not so much anymore
it said joe's no drama press conference
chill style grand vision for fdr
presidency art of the impossible
not bad the washington post says
in an opinion piece biden excels at his
first news conference
the media embarrasses themselves
and there were other glowing glowing
reports ted lose for example
so let me give you my opinion here
it wasn't bad it wasn't bad now i
i thought that he would do okay now i'm
only going to talk
about performance here if you're new to
my live streams
this is the thing you need to know i'm
not talking about how
accurate he was with fax because he
didn't pass the fact checks
neither did trump right presidents
typically
fail the fact-checking at press
conferences biden did too
so do you know how do i hold that
against him
i don't i don't the news did
the news did what it does even cnn
fact-checked them
so how much do i care that he got some
facts wrong
not any more than i cared when trump got
some facts wrong right they all do that
that's what the news is for they're
supposed to fact check them and they did
even cnn fact checked them so don't care
about that
how about his uh verbal miscues
where he would start a sentence and it
would just trail off to nothing
pretty scary right this guy's you know
got the nuclear codes and
he's the president of the united states
and he can't finish a sentence
without running off into bumbling
confusion and just saying ah well that's
enough
scary nope
it's not because we're used to it it was
already baked in
in the same way that much of trump's
personality
very quickly just got baked in and it no
longer became
important to your mind anyway it was
always the same amount of importance
but the way your mind processes it is if
if you're used to it
and we're just sort of used to it and we
we are told that biden's you know little
verbal uh miscues are nothing but joe
biden
yeah he's older he's a little less fast
but it's not
that different than he's always been or
at least how he's been for years
so how much do i hold that against him
that a lot of his sentences were
bumblingly and competently ended without
an ending
not much it's sort of it's sort of
everything we knew he was
so i would say that didn't move the
needle it may have confirmed what you
thought
but it didn't move anything yeah i doubt
there was any
democrat who watched that and said for
the first time ever
oh the way he talks now i'm worried
do you think any democrat did that
probably not right
but every republican said oh that's just
what i thought look at him he
can't finish the sentence so nobody's
mind was checked
was changed by that all right
how do you feel about the fact that the
news is reporting that the
questions were known in advance and that
he had answers
literally written out in notes and they
he came very close to reading verbatim
his notes
as his answers to the questions what do
you think of that
well i have a contrarian view on that
i'm one of the people and you probably
did too who praised
kaylee mcinany for being well prepared
and having a whole binder that she could
refer to
so she could you know be really quick
and sharp on all the answers
now if it was if we complimented kaylee
mcinanny for being very prepared and
organized and having it written down so
she didn't miss any good points
why isn't that the same for biden you
know it's being reported by
mostly people on the right that this is
a sign of his declining capabilities etc
and it might be
that's a perfectly reasonable opinion it
looks exactly like that actually
but at the same time he was really well
prepared
right uh now you can say that there were
some questions he didn't answer
like you know i think there was a gun
control answer they
went into immigration or vice versa and
there are things he avoided
but how much do you how much you count
against the president for avoiding a
direct question
well they all do it right so you can't
give them a pass for it but you would
say in context
it's pretty common that they avoid
questions i would say
trump probably didn't do that i think
trump is maybe the only one who would
answer a question like without trying to
just change the topic
has anybody else ever done that is trump
the only president we've had who would
answer a direct question
maybe obama did you know in his own way
there might have been more but so
performance wise he stayed awake
he didn't he didn't say anything that
was clearly dementia
it was just more of what we expected him
and he looked like he had some command
of the facts
yeah i am being generous so somebody in
the comments says
i'm being too generous to biden i'm
being generous
i don't think i'm being too generous i'm
trying to i'm trying to use the same
amount of generosity i would have used
had it been trump right just trying to
make a
make some kind of a comparison now i'll
tell you that uh i would say it's very
clear that
biden is not making the decisions
it looks pretty clear that there's a
power behind biden
but given that they prepared him very
well whoever they are
i feel at least a little bit of
confidence
that there are actually smart people who
are in control
we just don't know who they are which is
a problem
wouldn't you like to know who's in
control i kind of would
now i was trying to think the difference
between what a biden
meeting looks like and what a trump
meeting looks like
we have lots of examples where the
advisors said
trump you've got to do x and then trump
said yeah but i'm not going to
i'm going to call you an idiot in public
and then i'm going to do the opposite of
what you just recommended
hey we need to stay in afghanistan with
major forces
yeah i hear what you're saying we're not
going to do that i'm going to pull
people out of afghanistan
hey we can't possibly have vaccinations
you know quickly yeah i hear what you're
saying but you're going to do it anyway
right so how many times did trump tell
his experts
that he wasn't going to take their
advice i feel like we've got enough
examples of that that was fairly common
right now is that the president you want
do you want the president who goes
against the advice of experts
or do you want a biden-like president
who tells you directly he will take the
advice of experts
and you can see the the work of the
experts
in his presentation the experts sort of
packaged up his answers for each
each topic and then he presented it so
he basically was a mouthpiece for the
experts in some way
did you see any evidence that joe biden
would be capable
of telling an expert to go pound salt
trump did it every day it was like there
probably didn't wasn't a day that went
by when trump didn't
call on an expert and say yeah
i'm not going to do that i hear what
you're saying
that's not going to happen does biden
ever do that
and what do you think about that which
one is the better president
is the better president the one who
calls on the experts
because if you look at trump's record of
calling
on experts it's really good
now it's not a hundred percent it's not
100 i don't make that claim
but if you were to look at all the
things you know don't
cherry pick just look at all the things
that trump called on
pretty good record his hunches
you know his lived experience etc do you
give him some kind of an advantage
in identifying i think he's he
was very good at it
i don't know if biden has that he might
but i don't know
so um here's
here's the thing that's just
mind-blowing that biden is getting
basically a pass on this from
the friendly side of the media that when
he was asked if photographers and
the press would have access to the
border
holding facilities where we know there's
bad situation
you know with people overcrowded etc and
he basically said no
he said we'll give you access after we
fixed it so there's nothing to see
and he said that right in front of the
public like that was okay
how's that okay even the left was saying
are you serious that's not okay
that's not okay for anybody that's not
okay on the right
it's not okay on the left that's not
okay with anybody
right but he just got away with that
he's still president no blowback
whatsoever
you know the people on the right are
blah blah blah but it doesn't matter
and it's just words he actually got away
with telling you he wasn't going to give
you transparency on
hold hold on a human
crisis now he's the guy who cares the
most
about you know that's that's his brand
right he cares the most
about the humanity of the actual
migrants who are in a bad situation
there and yeah he won't let the
the press see the bad situation
it's amazing that he's getting a pass on
this there's no way that trump would
have
um so i think that was his worst
point was the the immigration stuff
um he was boring
trump is more interesting definitely
um and here's another thing i think he
got wrong
on north korea he says that you know
they're
basically they're they're talking about
what to do about it because north korea
fired some missiles
test missiles and um
biden is doing the the old thing where
you say they won't negotiate with north
korea unless north korea commits
to negotiating toward denuclearization
is that going to work is that going to
work
do you think north korea is going to say
oh oh
oh well i didn't know about this whole
denuclearizing thing yeah
well now that you mention it we'll just
get rid of our nukes and then
everything's good right
how about that i feel as if
biden and really the the way we've
always treated north korea in the past
is all wrong and and trump was the only
one who got that right
and it goes like this north korea isn't
going to get rid of the nukes
it's not going to happen i mean even if
they you know
tone down their testing or whatever
they're still going to have some
capacity that they could
that they could ramp up if they had to
the smarter option
is to talk to north korea to talk them
out of being our enemy
and just remove the threat because we
don't have a reason to threat them
to threaten them we have no reason to do
anything bad to north korea now or ever
as long as they don't do bad things to
us
and i think that was the the trump magic
that he convinced north korea is like
we're not even in your game
we don't even care about you if you'd
like to make some money we can help
but that's the only thing we care about
you is if you'd like to make some money
with us we
we can help some investments and stuff
now it's going to be hard to do
if you're on war footing with south
korea but that's your business
our business is we'd like to do some
business with you we don't want to
attack you
and what happened north korea seems way
less aggressive or did under trump
now that's probably the best you can get
but i would take it to another level
i would tell north korea you know we
don't think you should build nukes and
aim them in our direction but
we can't make any promises about china
if i were you and i were that close to
china you might want to keep those nukes
because you're going to need to aim them
at
beijing because china is a real threat
to north korea
don't you think because china is going
has absorbed
hong kong as was their legal right
more or less i mean they may have taken
it too far
they probably will absorb taiwan
within the next 10 years just because
it's close and because they can
does north korea think that america is a
bigger risk
than north korea right on the border of
china
i don't think so i think china is a way
bigger risk to north korea
and the way china would take over would
be you know infiltrating and you know
buying and bribing
and you know doing their their soft
long-term influence thing to control
north korea
uh there's no way that kim jong-un
should be on their team
he should be on our team
and then you're fine because people
don't nuke their own team
he should be on our team against
china china is the threat to the world
it's got to be a threat to north korea
now they can't treat north korea like
they can't treat china like a threat
because they're
still dealing with them but
realistically
from a long-term military perspective
north korea and china are the problem
with each other we're not
so i would make that case i think
biden's got that wrong
all right so overall if you said uh
biden
had a very low bar for expectations i
would say he exceeded that
is that fair the bar was so low that he
exceeded it fairly easily
i was i would give him a good mark on
his performance performance
he gets you know the usual failing grade
on accuracy they all do
he gets a you know bad grade on handling
the border
bad grade on handling north korea didn't
really answer a lot of questions
but he didn't need to accomplish any of
those things i'm criticizing
so if you were to make a list of all the
things that don't matter
he didn't do them very well all right
being accurate it doesn't really matter
and he didn't do it very well
but it doesn't matter what did matter
that he didn't he didn't
decompose in front of the public what
did matter is that he had details and
on all of the questions what did matter
is he spoke with some authority
active presidential i think he pulled it
off
i think he pulled it off
all right but um certainly not giving
him a total pass
now interestingly uh two left-leaning
journalists
uh did not agree with each other so when
al cinder yamiche alcindor i think she's
npr
was when she asked a question embedded
in the question was the assumption
that or maybe accusation depending what
you want to call it
that because biden was a nice guy that
that was what caused or
and he was talking nice about
immigration that that caused more
immigration
whereas reuben tweeted yamiche makes the
statement
unproven that his words set off the
surge
this is factually wrong now reuben of
course
uh is not like other journalists uh she
is a little more of a team player than
even people who are team players
but i would say that biden
and his his media who are trying to say
that the surge is not because of biden
they did a good job now here was the
argument if you haven't heard it
i think you've heard it that the surge
is actually no different than prior
years
and then if you add the fact that the
coronavirus caused what would have been
a surge to not happen last year
though all you're seeing is this year's
normal surge
plus a little excess surge because
people would have come the year before
but they couldn't
so now they're just coming this year so
it's just a big year for
surges but not because of anything
it just would have happened anyway for
economic reasons and
seasonal reasons and everything now is
that true
is it true yeah i'm seeing in the
comments i see you saying that it's just
not true
that the way they're counting it is
wrong
if you talk to the migrants they'll tell
you they're coming because of bite
the interviews i've seen they say it
directly
would you have come if tr if trump had
still been president
maybe not did you come because biden
said
you know things would be better yes
they say it directly now
so i'm not saying that biden is accurate
when he defends himself by saying that
the surge is
you know no worse and that he also says
that there were facilities in place to
handle the surge that
trump dismantled that's probably a
little bit true
so if you were simply to um to judge
whether biden defended his practice as
well
just rhetorically he actually did with
the help of the media
and i i'm totally surprised right i'm
totally surprised
and i'm not buying their statistics i do
think it's a real surge
that really comes because of biden now
that's a belief
but they did a good job a good job of
defending
their situation you don't have to
believe they're they were being honest
but it was a good defense i was
surprised more it was better than i
thought it would be
and even reuben and elsington are on the
different sides about whether uh there
was anything to that
all right uh there's a weird thing
happening in the world with cotton
you know i've told you that one of the
things about the simulation is that
there's some
themes that once you see them they just
keep repeating
and it could be just a coincidence
probably is
but it's always interesting so cotton is
in the
in the news for all different reasons so
i guess uh h
m and nike are being boycotted in china
because they've made noise opposing the
slave labor that picks the cotton
that goes into the products so
american companies are being boycotted
are they both american
h m i don't know are being boycotted for
uh
opposing slavery you know the uyghurs
forced labor cancer etc
and china's pushing back they're
pro-slavery
and so you got that happening
then at the same time you've got tom
cotton who's making some news
i'll talk about in a moment and he also
talks about china all the time
and we're also talking about slavery
reparations
that's in the news a lot lately
which of course is the legacy of you
know the cotton plantations and
everything
why is it that cotton suddenly became
like one of the most common words in the
news
what's up with that speaking of
tom cotton he's i guess he's introducing
legislation to ban
critical race theory training in the us
military
once again i say are there other
senators
the the only senators you see doing
anything it's like
ted cruz rand paul
tom cotton and
we're done here right is it just the
same people doing all the work
i'm not sure i would even consider
voting you're even supporting let's say
for president
anybody who isn't one of these people
oh josh hawley's he's making some noise
yeah
josh hawley but it's just a handful of
people they're doing
they're doing all the things that matter
it seems like and everybody else is
doing
what what the hell are they doing
what's rubio done i'm seeing rubio's
name what's he done
lately i know but i would say
at the moment if you were to judge just
on you know who's
taking on things and who's introducing
legislation and who's moving the needle
and
who has their priorities right it's kind
of tom cotton's looking pretty good
and he's also not making what i'd call
the rand paul
mistake the rand paul mistake is that
he's dying on the hill of these
face masks and you just can't win that
fight
i mean he can be right i'm not arguing
he's wrong
i'm just saying it's the kind of fight
that's really a bad one if you want to
run for president later
because people are going to remember it
they're going to say you were wrong
you're anti-science or whatever but i
don't see tom cotton even making an
issue of it he's going after
you know the the racism in this country
good
he's going after china really hard good
good stuff all right
um there is uh
in oakland they're doing a program where
they're going to give 500
checks to low-income families so i
i guess this is like a ubi kind of a
thing i'm not sure
if how how long it's going to go but
there's a
there's a restriction to it so if you're
poor
if you're low income and then oakland
you'll get a 500 check unless
you're white so you can't get to check
if you're white
um other ethnic groups i guess are okay
but not if you're white and so i'd like
to give this financial advice to young
people
and i follow my own advice if you're
young
you should definitely hold bitcoin just
you know even if bitcoin goes out of
business it looks like it could grow
fast in the future
so when you're young you should get
things that are a little riskier
but they could go big because even if
you lose all your money when you're
young you have
plenty of time to make it up so if
you're young you should hold bitcoin
and then secondly you should identify as
black
and i'm only saying to do it for the
money not for any other reason
and i'm going to announce today that i
uh going forward i do identify as black
and i had my uh my dna
analyzed by 23andme and
i do have origins in africa now i don't
know how
much your origins have to be but i think
you just have to identify that way right
those are the rules now i told you that
the best way to break a system you don't
like is to embrace it
so i embrace it i do believe
that people who don't let's say look
exactly black
can identify as black right because
there are lots of examples that
there are plenty of people who if you
looked at them you'd say
i don't know if they're black you know
just looking at them i can't tell
but if they identify as black
those are the rules that you can
identify as black
and then you are so i'm going to
identify as black i've got a little bit
of african-american in me according to
23 to me and i also have a lived
experience
which i think fits the model
uh most of you know the story that when
i was working for a big bank
early in my career my boss called me in
the office and told me that i couldn't
be promoted
because i'm white and male now when i
tell this story people say
that didn't happen or they say
um i think you're making that up
or they say maybe you thought that's
what was happening
but they certainly wouldn't say it
directly let me say this as clearly as
possible
my boss said it directly
you can't get promoted here because
you're white
and you're male directly so i quit
of course what would you do if if your
company tells you you can't be promoted
because of your gender and your race you
quit
so when that happened i of course had
plenty of other opportunities to go to
things worked out for me
but i did feel for a moment
what it would be like to have racial
discrimination determine
your career options because it literally
happened
so i left the bank and i took a job at
the
local phone company the pacific bell at
the time and i got on the uh
the management track so they had an
actual program
that if you were identified as somebody
who might be able to rise to the ranks
they would put you on the program so
that you would get extra mentoring and
stuff and people would know who you were
and so i got in the program and it
looked like i was going places
finally finally i could rise based on my
skill
and not the color of my skin but
one day my boss called me into his
office
and again i'm not making this up
there's no hyperbole here told me
directly
in clean direct language i'm afraid
we've been told
we can't promote white
males because we don't have enough
we don't have enough diversity in senior
management and we'll never get it if we
just keep promoting white males
and i said well how long is this going
to last
and my boss to his credit said i don't
know
i don't know i mean it's not going to go
away soon
i don't know if it ever went away
so two major careers i lost
because of my race
and my gender now again
before you bring out your tiny violins
white man complaining who went on to get
rich easily
because he's a white man in america
tiny little violin i hear you
i hear you i'm not saying that i didn't
have options
things worked out pretty well for me i'm
not even saying that
companies should not um
you know work hard for affirmative
action i think they should
and i just happened to be in the wrong
place at the at the wrong time
so but i had options so again i'm not
complaining
in the sense that you know oh my life is
over i don't i don't work that way i
just
go where i have opportunity and and
leave
leave where i don't i think everybody
should do that
and and so when
i i know people think that that i'm
joking about this or that i say it for a
fact
or i say it just for persuasion but when
i say
i know what it feels like to lose a job
because of your race or your gender
i literally know what that feels like
twice
and these are major careers this is this
wasn't i took a job you know as a bagger
at the grocery store for a year and it
didn't work out
the both of these were supposed to be my
career
and and i was bummed out
um so
that's it so i identify as black going
forward i would
uh encourage all of you to do the same
i'm not kidding by the way i'm not
kidding
just in case you thought i was i'm not
pelosi was making some news today
you know i guess the last few days and
she says that is her right as a speaker
she says
to seat or unseat any member of congress
she wants
uh even if the election is certified
now a lot of people are saying doesn't
that make you
sort of the empress of the country but i
guess she is
but the interesting part is you have to
see your video talking about that
because i don't know what she's done
recently
cosmetically but her eyebrows are trying
to escape her mouth area
and they just keep getting higher on her
head until i think the eyebrows and the
hairline have just become one
and i think we may see other
other portions of her face uh likewise
trying to escape
the mouth area because the things that
come out of her mouth are pretty scary
and if i were her eyebrows i would i'd
make a run i'd make a run for it
if i were the ears i'd try to get like
around to the back a little bit
for the nose i don't know the nose is
going to be hard
from the eyes i might want to try to
keep them closed or something but you
want to get as far away as you can from
this like mouthful area
and the eyebrows are leading the pack
all right
so
and that is my show for the day unless i
can think of something right now
um
wait princeton you are you kidding me
princeton university
uh president christopher eisgruber
somebody in the comments is saying
is promoting the fine people hoax
princeton
i have a friend from princeton who
believes all the hoaxes
they graduated from princeton believes
every hoax there is not a hoax he
doesn't believe and believe me you can't
talk him out of it
so princeton's got a problem
princeton's got a problem um
uh what's happening this weekend
somebody asked
all right i'm going to turn off uh
periscope
and uh i will talk to you later
all right youtubers because you're
special at the moment
um the
you're asking why somebody asked what
years my career was scuttled yeah that
was 80s correct
80s and early 90s
late 80s early 90s actually
big bigfoots are real somebody says
start hanging out with bill maher i
don't think bill maher wants to hang out
with me
you know i was on his show and uh
let's just say
we didn't have chemistry i'll just say
that
um but he was in a hurry he had to get
somewhere after the show
so he he just came into the show and ran
i didn't we didn't really chat
um oh yeah
you know i i somewhat missed the details
there's some kind of story about hunter
biden
hit what was it his girlfriend threw
away his handgun
in a trash can by a school and then
there was maybe a form that he filled
out when he got it that he lied to
he lied on and maybe he should go to
jail
you know
i i don't know what to say about that
story it isn't big enough
to matter it's just one guy with a
problem
would like to see another conversation
with you and sam harris wouldn't that be
interesting
wouldn't that be interesting yeah um i'm
not doing any media right now so i
wouldn't do it right away
but um at some point when i started
doing media again
that would be an interesting
conversation i'd love to catch up with
them
because the fun thing about sam harris
is that he's super smart and well
informed
so if you disagree with somebody who's
super smart and well informed
that's just always fun you know maybe
you'll learn something watching that
all right
oh there's a bigger story about the
secret service etc with the hunter story
okay
got it
um and yes as people said if if that had
been don jr instead of hunter it would
be a whole different story yeah we all
agree with that
but there's also you know the difference
is if you're pro-gun or not so it
wouldn't be exactly a
good analogy
uh yeah lying on a gun purchase is a
felony it
probably should be a pretty big one
don't you think as felonies go
but wouldn't it be interesting if his
defense was that
the constitution allows antonicon
imagine if he said yes i admit i did lie
on this forum
because that's probably going to be easy
to prove but i lied in this forum
because i have a second amendment right
to own a gun
and your form can't stop me from my
second amendment right
wow would that work that would be
interesting
um somebody says it's automatic jail
i don't know i'd like to know how they
go oh i didn't do the clubhouse event
i i postponed that again i'm just having
a little bit of a scheduling problem
with me and my guests being available at
the same time
the one thing i like about clubhouse is
you just jump on and do it
you don't have to schedule
so here's a little thing that just
happened in my neighborhood
and this tells you how
weird the world is right now because
there's a bunch of people who got rich
during the pandemic at the same time a
whole bunch of people lost everything
so it was this weird situation where
some people were doing great while other
people were just
just getting hit hard but one of the
things that happened is where i live
i'm outside of san francisco and i'm
outside of all the bad parts of san
francisco like everything that's bad
about
san francisco the city i'm i'm just
outside that because i'm in the suburbs
outside
and so as people left the city they came
here
there is a 2300 square square foot home
around the corner that just sold
for half a million dollars over the
asking price
what one before that just sold for four
hundred thousand dollars
over the asking price and it's because
and there's
there almost no homes are even available
to buy here and the reason is that all
the
the the city and the valley people
once they could work remotely as soon as
you could work remotely
they came to my town because this is the
perfect place to work remotely
and and there are people who sold homes
that were worth you know whatever
millions
in the in the city were in the valley
and they had tons of money because they
sold their
their homes and then they came here and
wrote and raised all of our prices
but have you ever heard of that have you
heard of multiple homes
selling for half a million dollars over
the asking price
now we're only talking about a home that
was selling i think it was listed for
2.2 million we're not talking about a
like a 50 million dollar home that sold
for half a million over the asking price
it was listed for 2.2 and sold for 2.7
and 2.2 was was a market comp
it sold for half a million dollars over
the comps
for the neighborhood i mean that's just
crazy
all right so that's what's going on in
my neighborhood
unfortunately i'm not selling my house
it would have been a good time to do it
i will talk to you
later
