Episode 1392 Scott Adams - Study Says Young Liberal Women Have Mental Problems, Translating CNN, More

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donald trump's lies about the 2020 election they've seized upon his lies and i don't know exactly what it means to seize upon some lies because it's hard to get a handful of a lie they're kind of slippery but apparently you can seize them and then once you've seized them bad things happen and apparently the bad thing is that these states are adopting new restrictions that will make it harder for some of the residents to vote well that sounds bad my god why are these states making it harder for people to vote i i feel like i've i've heard the whole story now there couldn't possibly be anything that would explain why they're making these changes well the reason they're making the changes to the voting system is because they seized on they seized on president trump's lie you can see how these are connected right so you got the seizing on the lie and that causes you to change your laws so that fewer people can vote it's true because it's right here in cnn oh do you think there's another way to interpret this well let's go to the cnn speak interpreter all right calling up my app for interpreting cnn we'll look up um seizing on a trump lie seizing on a trump lie that's translated to uh improving election integrity all right so seizing on a trump election lie same thing as improving election integrity let's see are there other things that are confusing let's see restrictions on voting let's go to the translator restrictions on voting means restrictions on vote rigging yeah restrictions on voting translates into restrictions on illegal votes and vote rigging anything else we should look up how about i see them use the phrase capital insurrection a lot let's go to the translator capital insurrection click click click click capital insurrection translates from cnn speak into a capital protest a protest how about courts find no widespread election fraud put it in the translator courts find no widespread election fraud and that translates to blind man watches no movies this year well that's just an analogy that doesn't help me let me think blind man watches no movies well of course because he's blind because when you're blind you can't watch things and if you're a court and nobody brings you a case that you're willing to hear well maybe you don't find any widespread election problems could be because there aren't any could be could be they didn't find any because there aren't any it could also be because they didn't look for any either one of those two things would get you the right place all right here's some good news have you ever noticed that when people let's say invest in companies or even managers at big companies they tend to make their decisions based on the personnel more than the details of the proposition so if you're high up in management of anything if you're a leader you're usually depending on the person who brings you the idea to know if it's a good idea like you can't independently know what all of your underlings know so you just depend on them so if you've got the right people well you got a good investment warren buffett would tell you that they they invest not only in solid businesses but they make sure that the management is solid that's one of their top things of course of course so if you're looking at any problem in the world and you're saying to yourself um if you're saying to yourself what's going to happen with that problem i think you look at the personnel involved and that will predict pretty well and so here's some good news uh michael schellenberger is taking on fentanyl addiction and homelessness in california primarily and let me tell you why that's good news first of all when if you don't know michael shellenberger you should follow him on twitter that's the first thing you should do uh if for no other reason than to boost his voice because what makes him different from almost everybody really is that you can't even detect politics in his work i swear to god i can't tell if he's left or right i mean i really don't he claims he's you know his roots are in the left but got a little bit uh you know red pilled by finding out some of the green stuff wasn't really what was what it was promoted to be so michael sheldenberger is pretty much a fax first data first data always facts always rational player but he's also like a pit bull so now that he's got his jaws on this thing uh we'll probably get a lot closer to understanding what works and what doesn't work with the whole homeless situation i'll give you just one simple example one of the restrictions on temporary housing is that you can't do drugs but so many of the people are drug addicted that that makes the solution completely unmatched to the problem these are pretty basic things and it's something that if you're political you just can't say because your politics says i gotta treat it the way other people are treating it that are on my side and if you're on the other side you say i have to treat it the way my side treats it schellenberger just goes in and says well what works what works what makes sense and then he just he just hammers it until you can't ignore it anymore so the best news you've ever heard on homelessness and drug addiction in california anyway and we would imagine that anything good that happens here could spread the best news you've ever heard is that michael schellenberger decided to take a big bite out of it and he's not letting go so keep your eye on that and give him a boost if he can um rasmussen poll ask people if biden is a stronger or weaker commander-in-chief what do you imagine the results were well surprise surprise liberals by a strong majority think biden is a better commander-in-chief stronger meaning and conservatives by a strong majority almost the same in the other direction say he's a weaker one but what do the moderates say let's talk to the moderates the moderates are the only ones who matter and i'm starting to think that you could just ignore anybody who identifies as liberal or identifies as conservative because you already know what they're going to say what would what would be the point of doing a poll on either liberals or conservatives on a question that's been in the news for a long time because the longer something is in the news the more people just retreat to the group group think of their side now if something is brand new let's say anything involving the pandemic you know that was a sort of a new thing we didn't we hadn't thought about it for years already that's actually pretty useful i do actually want to know what the liberals and and conservatives think because it's just a whole new fog of war situation but certainly with these older more let's say questions which we've thought about for a long time or they're just so automatically you're going to go to your side like who's the better commander-in-chief i mean really we kind of know how that's going to turn out right but interestingly the moderates were a little bit closer to split and the moderates are the only ones who can make an election go one way or the other aren't they it seems like the moderate opinions are the only ones that matter and i'll even go further and say that the extremes on both sides probably are closer to mental illness than political opinion the extremes on both sides left and right are certainly and i feel really confident in this opinion i don't have to be a a medical uh i don't have to be a mental health professional to have this opinion and feel pretty confident about it most of the people on the far left and the far right it's just mental problems that's all it is and we're acting like they're just like everybody else you know hey these guys are liberals and these other people are liberals so let's average them together what what sense does it make to average mentally ill people with people who are not mentally ill what does the average tell you nothing doesn't tell you anything my guess is that people who identify as political moderates are largely free of mental illness and that probably identifies them more than their political leading so it's absurd to to look at mental illness and average it in with political opinions speaking of mental illness there's a new study that came out from somebody credible that says women are 40 more likely to develop depression than men i think that's this is just a little context we'll get to the story first of all did you know that that women are 40 more likely to develop depression than men i would say sure looks like it you know if i had to base it on my own life experience i'd say that might be low it might be low i mean i certainly have known men who are depressed but i don't think it's even close so that you know it's directionally this seems about right but i would also note that when it comes to depression it's something that women get and men get it from women in other words it does have a viral element to it you can catch it from somebody and i would say that the old the old the old saying that you know happy wife happy life is literally true for a man for men if your wife is not happy you're depressed that's it if your wife is unhappy you are depressed you catch it from women if you just took you know women's depression and of a man's life i don't know if they would have any i mean if they got their basic needs met i don't know if they would be depressed now obviously some people are organically genetically predisposed i'm not talking about that group that's that's just a pure medical problem but certainly there are people who are being depressed with the you know not a capital d that um has to do with lifestyle and what you're doing so but there's more on this topic it gets worse apparently there is one demographic group that is extra extra uh suffering from mental problems now it would be easy to laugh about this wouldn't it because you know comedy is just tragedy happening to somebody else right it would be easy to laugh about this except that look at these rates white women ages 18 to 29 who identified as liberal were given a mental health diagnosis from medical professionals and they had a rate of what 56.3 percent of them had mental problems as compared to 28 in moderates and 27 percent in conservatives so for the same age group white women 18 to 29 twice as many who identify as liberals have medically certified in medical diagnosis it's not self-reporting medical diagnosis that twice as many of them twice as many have mental problems now are you surprised nope nope is there anybody who is even a little bit surprised by that now i think maybe the extent of it might be a surprise a little bit or just shocking i don't know if it's a surprise or it's just shocking but i feel like we thought that right i think most of you thought yeah yeah you're i'm looking at the comments now you're not too surprised are you and let us speculate how this happened what was it that caused uh has it always been this way first of all do you think this is a change that we need that we didn't notice and it snuck up on us or is it something that's always been true and we just figured it out well i don't know the answer that i feel as though they're presenting it as if it's a change or a trend and i would offer the following possible reasons for it are number one fake news right i'll give you a few a few other uh possibilities but would you agree that fake news probably causes depression in liberals in a way it maybe doesn't for conservatives would you accept the first statement as reasonable right you know this is not a science we're just putting our best opinion on it but i feel like the fake news does make them depressed imagine waking up and thinking that you lived on a planet that was going to be destroyed by climate change and nobody was doing anything about it that would make a difference because that's what the news is telling you the news is telling you you're going to die don't have children they're just going to burn up in a fireball but if you're a conservative you look at the news and you say yeah i see that maybe or maybe not i believe the believe that it's getting warmer but even if it is getting warmer and even if humans are causing it we'll figure it out we always do we'll figure it out and by the way even the un says the economic impact over 80 years won't be that big now cnn reports it as it's really big but if you look at the actual latest economic projections from the most certified you know credible source they say maybe a 10 difference in the gdp over 80 years which you wouldn't notice because the gdp will be so high by them because just as normal increase that if it's 10 less than it might have been in 80 years nobody will even know that's how small it is the problem is so small economically and that's really the the primary variable is economics because if your economics are good you can relocate people and you can you know move away from the coast you can remediate you can buy more air conditioning you can do what you need to do so if you get the economics right you're in good shape uh or at least as good as you can be so so part of it is fake news i believe um then another part of it is i've heard other people say this that we've created a nation of narcissists now in this case i'm not using narcissism in the way i've used it recently which is a constellation of behaviors that are way beyond just thinking you look good but in this narrow context i think they're talking about narcissism as in looking at instagram and everybody's got a better life than you do everybody is criticizing everybody for everything all the time so you worry that your self-esteem might be part of that hey people must be criticizing me too i don't look as good as this instagram model so certainly your phone is doing some of it certainly your mobile devices are part of it there's no doubt that that's something and then what about this i have a theory that you can't be happy unless your lifestyle is compatible with biological truth you see what danger i'm heading into here right so pray for me pray for me before i finish my sentences in my observation so i'm not going to say there's any science behind this i'm just going to present this as an observation over my own lifetime and observation over the life of other people plus a little bit of sprinkling in of polls i've seen in surveys of what makes people happy so there's a little bit of sense of science to it but i'm not presenting it in science it goes like this biology says you should be involved in the mating process somehow now being involved in the mating process if you're young might be going to school because those people who are improving themselves are also improving themselves for mating now you might think you're improving yourself because i know it's expected you might think it's you're doing it for economic reasons you're not everything you do has a mating motive to it and once you realize that the whole world is more clear i can speak personally that every move i've ever made economically was really mating it was all about attracting a mate when i decided on my college major i said to myself which one of these will look will make me a more attractive mate yes explicitly i said that i didn't say to myself hmm if i could be a lawyer that would be a good job it matches my capabilities nothing like that i literally said which one will give me better mating possibilities i said it explicitly it was my only motivation for anything because i'm very tuned into my biological truth which is unfortunately i was born that way i could try to deny it i could try to act like there's some other motive in me but there isn't there is no other motive it's just mating now i can treat the mating motive as the sub motive just for social reasons so i can say stuff like well i'm just naturally ambitious that's like c and then speak if i tell you i'm ambitious which is true it's just it's an observably true statement i'm really telling you i'm improving my mating brand if you will even if you're married even if you're not looking for mates even if mating is nowhere in your mind even if you're not having children even if you're never going to have children we're still mating creatures you can't turn it off and i'm i'm always completely aware that everything i do is connected to that now on top of that i believe that we're designed to take care of ourselves first and then expand our power if you will to taking care of you know your family your tribe your town your state your country the world roughly that order and if you're improving yourself say in school or you're learning things at work you're moving towards something better which is moving toward being more of a mating you know opportunity even if you're not taking the opportunity you just you're just moving in a biologically compatible way and i feel this society has moved us out of that track and then it guarantees uh mental problems because if you don't know why you're doing what you're doing and it doesn't seem to have a purpose or reason it's not connected to anything how could you be mentally healthy how could you be i've been i've been mainlining a bunch of uh jordan peterson videos lately let me tell you something i'll tell you he can spin your brain around so hard in five minutes it's just the most amazing thing i tried to resist watching a lot of jordan peterson videos for for years actually but uh i got addicted recently got sucked in and they are amazing they're they're they're just amazing but when you listen to him you can see that he's also keyed in in his own way i don't want to represent his opinion but you can see that he's quite keyed into the biological truth of reality and if you're not if your life and your personality and your thinking are not aligned with your biological truth you're just not going to be happy you just don't have a chance so i think that could be part of the problem too but when you look at the differences in politics you even look at uh trump losing the election in 2020 i feel like mental health is the biggest part of the that let me say that again because that's a big statement i believe that poor mental health determined the election outcome because it's the biggest factor now you you have to have all the things that happen happen just the way they happen for an election to go the way it goes right so it's always a little bit absurd to say here's the one reason it's the one reason because it's all the reasons otherwise it doesn't happen all the reasons have to happen or you don't get that outcome but one that's let's say underappreciated is trump derangement syndrome and trump derangement syndrome was from moment one always serious it was always serious meaning that when i use the phrase and whether when others well i can't speak for others i'll just talk about myself when i used the phrase trump derangement syndrome there was no joking about that it was a real important phenomenon which i think more largely could be called the mental health it was a mental health problem and i think that trump represented every bully and every problem that many young women have suffered what what percentage of young women have suffered a uh sexual abuse or whatever's in that category some kind of me too stuff any kind of sexual crime what percentage of young women 18 to 29 have experienced that a hundred percent it's like a hundred percent yeah i've never heard of anybody who hasn't i've literally never heard of an adult woman who has not had this experience and usually multiple times yeah so if you're in a category who is getting literally sexually abused daily almost and then the guy running for president reminds you of all that because he does right like i'm a supporter of the president but you can't you can't deny the fact that his personality the allegations against him true or false create it create an image of him that is the scariest thing a white woman between 18 and 29 could ever see in her life it's the scariest thing in the world and imagine that guy becoming president imagine somebody who had uh i'll i'll use another situation just you so you can imagine it better imagine you'd been imprisoned wrongly by some leader and then later that leader be ran for president who won and it was somebody who had imprisoned you illegally for years and tortured you or whatever how would you feel it'd be the worst feeling in the world to watch your abuser become the leader of the world now in the case of trump he would be like a proxy or a stand-in for all the all the problems that people have had that are real he just comes to represent them because he he plays into that so so strongly so i would say mental health was the primary reason the election went the way it went and we're seeing some of the outcome of that by biden having to resist everything that trump did on the border which is a disaster biden has to resist everything that trump did in the middle east disaster um biden's doing a little better and not changing things in china but at least he's talking about talking about it differently and that might not be good all right so somehow the country got conned into believing that poor mental health is the same as a political opinion and it's not it's not poor mental health is not a political opinion it just looks like it and sometimes you can't tell the difference uh and let me put it in this specific way if you're worried about imaginary risks like you wake up in the morning and you start worrying about imaginary risks while ignoring actual real ones that's a mental health problem but if you wake up in the morning and you have a reasonably good sense of what's important what is a real danger and what is not and then you proceed that way you probably don't have a mental problem at least not in that narrow context so we've somehow bought into people worrying about imaginary risks can just be in the conversation too at the very least you should separate the people who have imaginary problems from the people who have real ones but then who is the judge right who gets to be the one who says oh these ones are imaginary and these are real who gets to be the judge well we don't have too many people we can trust in this world because politics overwhelms everything i would say that i try to be that person but probably fail because i just don't know if it's doable i try to be the person who's not just giving you a political opinion i mean i try pretty hard and you've seen me take positions on all sides so you know that at least i can do that but this is why you have to look for your your matt tybees your glenn greenwald's your michael schellenbergers because these are the ones you know can take an opposing opinion to whatever side they're on you know they can because they do it they do it all the time so if you're not following the opinions of people who you know can take opposing opinions to their own team on a regular basis you're just involved in something absurd absurd following the the partisans only that's just a hobby you shouldn't really be part of the conversation um let's talk about the fentanyl war as you know china is killing something like 50 to seventy thousand americans per year in uh drug overdoses it's primarily fentanyl which china sends into mexico the cartels sent into the united states and as you know china knows exactly who their dealers are because we've told them here's the name of your dealer could you go go pick this guy up nope nothing happens so in the fentanyl war that china is winning convincingly because america is not playing um i looked at a list of american war dead and so far the fentanyl war alone is it's sort of hard to calculate it exactly because overdose deaths a little hard to know exactly why you died but if you take say 10 years times 50 to 70 000 deaths that's what it has been or will be soon um there are already more fentanyl war deaths than vietnam and more than world war one american deaths so we're just i'm just looking at american deaths here but if you took the fentanyl war casualties and you added the covid 19 casualties so you took all of china's effect the fentanyl being the chemical and the covid being the biological uh warfare be it accidental or intentional and if you add those together and i think you could i mean there's a re there's a reasonable way to do that um you're approaching world war ii numbers now world war ii is the biggest war loss of life for americans but kovit looks if you added covid and fentanyl together it looks like it might pass it eventually now it will take several years but the fentanyl war together with the covenant war will be the biggest war casualties that america has ever suffered and all of it at the hands of china who we still do business with and we still negotiate with them we treat them like oh hey how you doing china let's have a meeting amazing it's amazing that we we can walk around in that fog one of the best things that's come out of the last few years and i credit trump for this and i also predicted it in 2016.

i told you trump would change everything about how we view reality and the biggest part of that i think is discrediting the news rightfully and discrediting experts again rightfully uh trump is has been the leading voice in saying that the experts are not to be trusted and that the news is not to be trusted and here we are we don't trust them did trump succeed yeah he did he totally succeeded he taught us not to trust our experts just automatically you still have to trust experts if you don't have a better idea there's no other option maybe all the experts agree and they've agreed on it for years maybe there are lots of studies so there's some things you can do that will give you some comfort with expert advice but but believing the experts somewhat automatically is stupid it's just stupid you should try to wean yourself off of that habit there's an article in the washington post that tells you the the trend by alison young and she says quote it seems that expert consensus was somewhat illusory now she's talking about the lab leak hypothesis with covet the expert consensus was somewhat illusory and it would have been well to remember that like the rest of us scientists are prone to group think and nine non-scientific concerns can creep into their public statements now here's the amazing part it's not that you didn't know that yeah raise your hand if you didn't know that we all knew it here's the weird part everybody knew it but for some reason we had agreed to act like we didn't right wouldn't you say that let's say five years ago that everybody would know that experts can be biased everybody knew that 100 of people know that experts can be biased but we had all agreed sort of as a a silent unspoken agreement in society that we would act as if it weren't true why why was there ever a reason to act as if the thing we all knew was true to act as if it's not why did we do that it never made sense and trump i would say fixed that he fixed that it's probably his greatest accomplishment we'll never get credit for it you know the history books will not write that donald trump taught us to stop blindly trusting experts who were lying to us but he did that he did that right i mean you know it was a ripple effect that started with him so many of us were involved with it i would say i'm part of that process as well as as many people are but it was him i mean i wouldn't have been doing it if he hadn't started it it was him and it's one of the most useful things that's ever happened in wait for it the history of civilization that's right this this mental shift that trump did for us stopping our trust and experts blind trust right you still need some trust in experts you don't want to get rid of all of it because sometimes you know you can you can be a little more comfortable with them but i would say that trump has made the biggest psychological improvement improvement in the humanities thinking maybe one of the greatest shifts in all of human history and you didn't really notice it because there was so much noise going on we were just arguing about stuff and we were sort of arguing about experts and sure enough experts were wrong and sure enough the news was wrong and that's more hoaxes than real and you didn't really realize the transition as it was happening but we're here you know it now and you know it wouldn't have happened without trump right i'd like to see if people agree with that part of my opinion that trump was the cause that that really launched that all just i'm just going to read some opinions here as they go by the great disillusionment somebody's calling it i see some people agreeing yes yes yes 100 uh blah blah blah i see one now from dale and dale somebody named dale says no it's really no i see all right yeah it looks like most of you agree with that statement all right and then lastly because uh it's memorial day and because there are some stories that are important but should not be reported with vigor and here's one of them there was another mass shooting i'm not even going to tell you the state i mean if if you want to look into it you can google it but i'm not going to tell you how many people died i'm not going to tell you where it was i'm not going to tell you what state it was in i'm not going to tell you what weapons were used i'm not going to tell you a hero stopped it if they did i don't know um i just i'm not going to talk about this anymore because every time you do it just gives attention to the shooters and there's nothing good that can come from that now i'm not ignoring it if you're saying to me scott it's a giant problem and you're ignoring it no no that's not happening i'm not ignoring the problem i'm just not i'm not making it worse so by ignoring talking about it i'm helping to fix the problem so by ignoring it i'm trying to be part of the productive part of the world that's putting it back in his place and not persuading people that it's a good idea to get some fame we we saw with i think was the parkland shooter there are some videos that came out that showed that he really wanted the fame he did it for the fame now what gave him that idea well the fact that it's widely reported and talked about if you didn't widely report it and talk about it he would have had a different idea maybe less dangerous i don't know so let's uh not lose how important these shootings are but let's not fetishize them let's not make them something that somebody wants to participate in if you do you should be lost in obscurity and i'll help you all right uh yeah you know i worry about these you hear these cases where everybody was warned about the shooter you know the the police had already talked to him the fbi was warned i don't know if you can make that criticism really because it's always out of context the context is that the police and the fbi probably get so many warnings that they couldn't possibly treat them all as serious they've got to do a little they got to do a little judgment on okay this one looks like it'll blow up maybe this one isn't such a big problem but they don't know they have to guess because otherwise you can't get to the all the work so i tend to be more forgiving than most when i hear a story like the fbi talked to this person and all the signs were there but they didn't act because i've got a feeling the signs are there with a lot of people who don't act and i would imagine the fbi knows that it's like uh you know there'd be a lot of people we could arrest based on the suspicion that might happen but you need a lot more than that you know we still live in a free country uh you can't be arrested because somebody suspects you might want to commit a crime all right brian says you've lost trust with every element of our justice system well let me give you some perspective do you believe that our justice system is worse than any time in history i bet not i'll bet if you had any way to objectively rate the justice system in the united states and then if you had magically the same ratings across time all bet is better than it's ever been but we just might have more information about the bad stuff so i'm not positive but i think it's probably better and probably a lot better that would be my guess my guess would be a lot better not even close but those of you who say it's worse keep in mind that you're seeing non-stop bad news because bad news is the only news about the justice system if the justice system just does its job that's not news so the only news you're hearing is the problems just keep that in mind i wouldn't automatically think the justice system is a disaster and i would say that if you're looking at what the the purpose of the justice system is is to keep society together right if you lose our justice system the whole thing falls apart i think you'd agree with that right so the justice system is mostly about keeping the wheels on and has it done that and has it made the united states a place that people want to leave their country and live here in part because our justice system is better i'd say yes if i if i were to give our entire justice system a grade i'd have to grade it against other countries if you grade our justice system against some notion of perfect it's pretty bad right because it's not perfect it's not it's not too close to perfect so if that's your standard yeah it's a mess but if you compare it to other countries not bad it's not bad and if and if you look at it at a functional level does it make people want to come here does it allow our commerce system to work efficiently because commerce requires a judicial system you can't do commerce unless you can sue somebody who screws you right nothing works unless you've got a judiciary so i would say our commerce system is working great which suggests that the foundation for it the legal system is at least doing a sufficient job if not spectacular so he's henry says they threw the january six people into solitary confinement yeah individual mistakes yes there are plenty of individual mistakes and we should not lose sight of that the justice system is not the sort of thing that's going to work perfectly all day long it's the sort of thing that's going to be breaking continually and you just got to keep fixing it continually which we do the very fact that you know that that you're aware of the fact that those people were put in solitary which by the way i'm not entirely sure is true but if there's enough transparency to put pressure on that at least there's some counter force and maybe that makes a difference um 500 people is not an individual mistake well i don't believe that there are 500 people in solitary confinement and i'm not sure that anyone was for a long time but i'm open to it i'm not saying it didn't happen it just feels like a little bit feels like a little too on the nose like maybe maybe it wasn't that bad but i'm open to the fact that it might have been all right that's all i got 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uh morning stuff that's a reference from

uh

land before time one of the funniest

scenes

by will ferrell well on cnn i was

reading an article about

how the republican-led states of

texas florida georgia and some other

ones

uh have quote and this is the phrase

from cnn

have seized on former president donald

trump's

lies about the 2020 election they've

seized upon his lies

and i don't know exactly what it means

to

seize upon some lies

because it's hard to get a handful of a

lie they're kind of slippery

but apparently you can seize them and

then once you've

seized them bad things happen

and apparently the bad thing is that

these states are adopting new

restrictions

that will make it harder for some of the

residents to vote

well that sounds bad my god

why are these states making it harder

for people to vote

i i feel like i've i've heard the whole

story now

there couldn't possibly be anything that

would explain

why they're making these changes

well the reason they're making the

changes to the voting system

is because they seized on they seized on

president trump's lie you can see how

these are connected right

so you got the seizing on the lie

and that causes you to change your laws

so that fewer people can vote it's true

because it's right here in cnn oh do you

think there's another way to interpret

this

well let's go to the cnn speak

interpreter

all right calling up my app for

interpreting cnn we'll look up um

seizing on a trump lie seizing on a

trump lie

that's translated to uh improving

election integrity

all right so seizing on a trump election

lie

same thing as improving election

integrity

let's see are there other things that

are confusing let's see restrictions on

voting let's go to the translator

restrictions on voting means

restrictions on vote rigging

yeah restrictions on voting

translates into restrictions on illegal

votes

and vote rigging anything else we should

look up

how about i see them use the phrase

capital insurrection a lot let's go to

the translator

capital insurrection click click click

click capital insurrection

translates from cnn speak into a capital

protest

a protest

how about courts find no widespread

election fraud

put it in the translator courts find no

widespread election fraud

and that translates to blind man

watches no movies this year

well that's just an analogy that doesn't

help me

let me think blind man watches no movies

well

of course because he's blind

because when you're blind you can't

watch things

and if you're a court and nobody brings

you a case that you're willing to hear

well maybe you don't find any widespread

election problems

could be because there aren't any could

be

could be they didn't find any because

there aren't any it could also be

because they didn't look for any either

one of those two things would

get you the right place all right here's

some good news

have you ever noticed that when people

let's say invest in companies

or even managers at big companies they

tend to make their decisions based on

the personnel

more than the details of the proposition

so if you're high up

in management of anything if you're a

leader

you're usually depending on the person

who brings you the idea

to know if it's a good idea like you

can't independently know

what all of your underlings know so you

just depend on them

so if you've got the right people well

you got a good investment

warren buffett would tell you that they

they invest

not only in solid businesses but they

make sure that the management is solid

that's one of their top things of course

of course so if you're looking at any

problem in the world

and you're saying to yourself

um if you're saying to yourself

what's going to happen with that problem

i think you look at the personnel

involved

and that will predict pretty well and so

here's some good news

uh michael schellenberger is taking on

fentanyl addiction and homelessness

in california primarily and

let me tell you why that's good news

first of all

when if you don't know michael

shellenberger you should follow him on

twitter that's the first thing you

should do

uh if for no other reason than to boost

his voice

because what makes him different from

almost everybody really is that you

can't even detect

politics in his work i swear to god i

can't tell if he's left or right

i mean i really don't he claims he's you

know his roots are

in the left but got a little bit uh you

know red pilled by finding out some of

the green stuff wasn't really

what was what it was promoted to be

so michael sheldenberger is pretty much

a

fax first data first data always

facts always rational player

but he's also like a pit bull

so now that he's got his jaws on this

thing

uh we'll probably get a lot closer to

understanding

what works and what doesn't work with

the whole homeless situation

i'll give you just one simple example

one of the restrictions on temporary

housing

is that you can't do drugs but

so many of the people are drug addicted

that that makes the solution

completely unmatched to the problem

these are pretty basic things

and it's something that if you're

political you just can't say

because your politics says i gotta treat

it the way

other people are treating it that are on

my side and if you're on the other side

you say i have to treat it the way

my side treats it schellenberger just

goes in and says well what works

what works what makes sense and then he

just he just hammers it until you can't

ignore it anymore

so the best news you've ever heard on

homelessness

and drug addiction in

california anyway and we would imagine

that anything good that happens here

could spread

the best news you've ever heard is that

michael schellenberger decided to take a

big bite out of it and he's not letting

go so keep your eye on that and give him

a boost if he can

um rasmussen poll

ask people if biden is a stronger or

weaker

commander-in-chief what do you imagine

the results were

well surprise surprise liberals

by a strong majority think biden is a

better commander-in-chief

stronger meaning and conservatives by a

strong majority

almost the same in the other direction

say he's a weaker

one but what do the moderates say

let's talk to the moderates the

moderates

are the only ones who matter and

i'm starting to think that you could

just ignore

anybody who identifies as liberal or

identifies as conservative

because you already know what they're

going to say what would what would be

the point

of doing a poll on either liberals or

conservatives

on a question that's been in the news

for a long time

because the longer something is in the

news the more people just retreat to the

group

group think of their side now if

something is brand new

let's say anything involving the

pandemic you know that was a sort of a

new thing we didn't

we hadn't thought about it for years

already that's actually pretty useful

i do actually want to know what the

liberals and and conservatives think

because it's just a whole new

fog of war situation but

certainly with these older more

let's say questions which we've thought

about for a long time or they're just so

automatically you're going to go to your

side

like who's the better commander-in-chief

i mean really

we kind of know how that's going to turn

out right but interestingly

the moderates were a little bit closer

to split

and the moderates are the only ones who

can

make an election go one way or the other

aren't they

it seems like the moderate opinions are

the only ones that matter

and i'll even go further and say that

the extremes on both sides

probably are closer to mental illness

than political opinion

the extremes on both sides left and

right

are certainly and i feel really

confident in this opinion i don't have

to be a

a medical uh i don't have to be a mental

health professional

to have this opinion and feel pretty

confident about it

most of the people on the far left and

the far right

it's just mental problems that's all it

is

and we're acting like they're just like

everybody else you know hey

these guys are liberals and these other

people are liberals

so let's average them together what what

sense does it make to average mentally

ill people with people who are not

mentally ill

what does the average tell you nothing

doesn't tell you anything my guess is

that people who

identify as political moderates are

largely free of mental illness and that

probably identifies them more than their

political leading so it's absurd

to to look at mental illness and average

it in with political opinions

speaking of mental illness there's a new

study that came out from

somebody credible that says women are 40

more likely to develop depression than

men

i think that's this is just a little

context we'll get to the story

first of all did you know that that

women are 40 more likely to develop

depression than men

i would say sure looks like it

you know if i had to base it on my own

life experience

i'd say that might be low

it might be low i mean i certainly have

known men who are depressed

but i don't think it's even close so

that

you know it's directionally this seems

about right but i would also note

that when it comes to depression it's

something that women get

and men get it from women in other words

it does have a viral element to it you

can catch it from somebody

and i would say that the old the old the

old saying that

you know happy wife happy life is

literally true

for a man for men if your wife is not

happy you're depressed

that's it if your wife is unhappy you

are depressed

you catch it from women if you just

took you know women's depression and of

a man's life

i don't know if they would have any i

mean if they got their basic needs met

i don't know if they would be depressed

now obviously some people are

organically

genetically predisposed i'm not talking

about that group

that's that's just a pure medical

problem

but certainly there are people who are

being depressed with the you know not a

capital d

that um has to do with lifestyle and

what you're doing

so but there's more on this topic it

gets worse

apparently there is one demographic

group that is

extra extra uh suffering from

mental problems now it would be easy to

laugh about this

wouldn't it because you know comedy is

just

tragedy happening to somebody else right

it would be easy to laugh about this

except that look at these rates white

women

ages 18 to 29 who identified as liberal

were given a mental health diagnosis

from medical professionals

and they had a rate of

what 56.3 percent of them

had mental problems as compared to 28

in moderates and 27 percent in

conservatives

so for the same age group white women 18

to 29

twice as many who identify as liberals

have medically certified in medical

diagnosis

it's not self-reporting medical

diagnosis

that twice as many of them twice as many

have mental problems now are you

surprised

nope nope is there anybody who is even a

little bit surprised by that

now i think maybe the extent of it might

be a surprise

a little bit or just shocking i don't

know if it's a surprise or it's just

shocking but i feel like we thought that

right

i think most of you thought yeah yeah

you're

i'm looking at the comments now you're

not too surprised are you

and let us speculate

how this happened what was it that

caused

uh has it always been this way first of

all do you think this is a change

that we need that we didn't notice and

it snuck up on us

or is it something that's always been

true and we just figured it out

well i don't know the answer that i feel

as though

they're presenting it as if it's a

change or a trend

and i would offer the following

possible reasons for it are number one

fake news

right i'll give you a few a few other uh

possibilities

but would you agree that fake news

probably causes depression in liberals

in a way it maybe doesn't for

conservatives would you accept the first

statement

as reasonable right you know this is not

a science we're just

putting our best opinion on it

but i feel like the fake news does make

them depressed

imagine waking up and thinking that you

lived on a planet

that was going to be destroyed by

climate change

and nobody was doing anything about it

that would make a difference

because that's what the news is telling

you the news is telling you you're going

to die

don't have children they're just going

to burn up in a fireball

but if you're a conservative you look at

the news and you say

yeah i see that maybe or maybe not i

believe the

believe that it's getting warmer but

even if it is getting warmer

and even if humans are causing it we'll

figure it out

we always do we'll figure it out and by

the way

even the un says the economic impact

over 80 years won't be that big

now cnn reports it as it's really big

but if you look at the actual latest

economic projections

from the most certified

you know credible source they say maybe

a 10

difference in the gdp over 80 years

which you wouldn't notice

because the gdp will be so high by them

because just as normal increase

that if it's 10 less than it might have

been in 80 years

nobody will even know that's how small

it is

the problem is so small economically and

that's really the

the primary variable is economics

because if your economics are good you

can relocate people and you can

you know move away from the coast you

can remediate you can buy more air

conditioning you can do what you need to

do

so if you get the economics right you're

in good shape

uh or at least as good as you can be so

so part of it is fake news i believe

um then another part of it is i've heard

other people say this that we've created

a

nation of narcissists now in this case

i'm not using narcissism

in the way i've used it recently which

is a constellation of behaviors

that are way beyond just thinking you

look good but in this narrow context

i think they're talking about narcissism

as in looking at instagram and

everybody's got a better life than you

do

everybody is criticizing everybody for

everything all the time

so you worry that your self-esteem might

be part of that hey people must be

criticizing me too

i don't look as good as this instagram

model so

certainly your phone is doing some of it

certainly your mobile devices are part

of it

there's no doubt that that's something

and

then what about this i have a theory

that you can't be happy

unless your lifestyle is compatible

with biological truth

you see what danger i'm heading into

here right so pray for me

pray for me before i finish my sentences

in my observation so i'm not going to

say there's any

science behind this i'm just going to

present this as

an observation over my own lifetime and

observation over the life of other

people plus a little bit of

sprinkling in of polls i've seen in

surveys of what makes people happy so

there's a little bit of sense of science

to it but i'm not presenting it in

science

it goes like this biology says

you should be involved in the mating

process

somehow now being involved in the mating

process if you're young

might be going to school because those

people who are

improving themselves are also improving

themselves

for mating now you might think you're

improving yourself

because i know it's expected you might

think it's you're doing it for economic

reasons

you're not everything you do has a

mating

motive to it and once you realize that

the whole world is

more clear i can speak personally

that every move i've ever made

economically

was really mating it was all about

attracting a mate

when i decided on my college major i

said to myself which one of these will

look

will make me a more attractive mate yes

explicitly i said that i didn't say to

myself hmm

if i could be a lawyer that would be a

good job it matches my capabilities

nothing like that i literally said which

one will

give me better mating possibilities i

said it explicitly

it was my only motivation for anything

because i'm very tuned into my

biological truth

which is unfortunately i was born that

way

i could try to deny it i could try to

act like there's some other motive in me

but there isn't

there is no other motive it's just

mating now i can treat the mating motive

as the sub motive just for social

reasons

so i can say stuff like well i'm just

naturally

ambitious that's like c and then speak

if i tell you i'm ambitious which is

true it's just

it's an observably true statement

i'm really telling you i'm improving my

mating

brand if you will even if you're married

even if you're not looking for mates

even if mating is nowhere in your mind

even if you're not having children

even if you're never going to have

children we're still mating creatures

you can't turn it off and i'm i'm always

completely aware

that everything i do is connected to

that now on top of that

i believe that we're designed to take

care of ourselves

first and then expand our power if you

will

to taking care of you know your family

your tribe your town

your state your country the world

roughly that order

and if you're improving yourself say in

school or you're learning things at work

you're moving towards something better

which is moving toward being more of a

mating

you know opportunity even if you're not

taking the opportunity you just

you're just moving in a biologically

compatible way and i feel this society

has moved us out of that track

and then it guarantees uh mental

problems

because if you don't know why you're

doing what you're doing

and it doesn't seem to have a purpose or

reason it's not connected to anything

how could you be mentally healthy how

could you be

i've been i've been mainlining a bunch

of uh jordan peterson videos lately

let me tell you something i'll tell you

he can spin your brain around so hard

in five minutes it's just the most

amazing thing

i tried to resist watching a lot of

jordan peterson videos for

for years actually but uh

i got addicted recently got sucked in

and they are amazing they're they're

they're just amazing

but when you listen to him you can see

that he's also keyed in

in his own way i don't want to represent

his opinion but you can see that he's

quite keyed into the biological truth

of reality and if you're not if your

life

and your personality and your thinking

are not aligned with your biological

truth

you're just not going to be happy you

just don't have a chance

so i think that could be part of the

problem too

but when you look at the differences in

politics you even look at

uh trump losing the election in 2020

i feel like mental health is the biggest

part of the

that let me say that again because

that's a big statement

i believe that poor mental health

determined the election outcome

because it's the biggest factor now you

you have to have all the things that

happen

happen just the way they happen for an

election to go the way it goes right

so it's always a little bit absurd to

say here's the one reason

it's the one reason because it's all the

reasons otherwise it doesn't happen

all the reasons have to happen or you

don't get that outcome

but one that's let's say

underappreciated

is trump derangement syndrome and trump

derangement syndrome was from moment one

always serious it was always serious

meaning that when i use the phrase and

whether when others well i can't speak

for others

i'll just talk about myself when i used

the phrase trump derangement syndrome

there was no joking about that it was a

real

important phenomenon which i think more

largely could be called the

mental health it was a mental health

problem and i think that trump

represented every bully and every

problem

that many young women have suffered

what what percentage of young women have

suffered a

uh sexual abuse or whatever's in that

category some kind of me too stuff

any kind of sexual crime what percentage

of young women 18 to 29 have experienced

that

a hundred percent it's like a hundred

percent

yeah i've never heard of anybody who

hasn't i've literally

never heard of an adult woman

who has not had this experience and

usually multiple times

yeah so if you're in a category who is

getting

literally sexually abused daily

almost and then the guy running for

president

reminds you of all that because he does

right

like i'm a supporter of the president

but you can't you can't deny the fact

that his personality

the allegations against him true or

false

create it create an image of him that is

the scariest thing

a white woman between 18 and 29 could

ever see in her life

it's the scariest thing in the world and

imagine that guy becoming president

imagine somebody who had uh i'll

i'll use another situation just you so

you can imagine it better

imagine you'd been

imprisoned wrongly by some leader and

then

later that leader be ran for president

who won

and it was somebody who had imprisoned

you illegally for years and tortured you

or whatever

how would you feel it'd be the worst

feeling in the world

to watch your abuser become the leader

of the world

now in the case of trump he would be

like a proxy or a stand-in for all the

all the problems that people have had

that are real he just comes to represent

them because he

he plays into that so so strongly

so i would say mental health was the

primary reason the election went the way

it went

and we're seeing some of the outcome of

that

by biden having to resist everything

that trump did on the border

which is a disaster biden has to resist

everything that trump did in the middle

east

disaster um biden's doing a little

better and not

changing things in china but at least

he's

talking about talking about it

differently and that might not be good

all right so somehow the country got

conned into believing that poor mental

health

is the same as a political opinion and

it's not

it's not poor mental health is not a

political opinion

it just looks like it and sometimes you

can't tell the difference

uh and let me put it in this specific

way if you're worried about

imaginary risks like you wake up in the

morning

and you start worrying about imaginary

risks

while ignoring actual real ones that's a

mental health problem

but if you wake up in the morning and

you have a reasonably good sense of

what's important

what is a real danger and what is not

and then you proceed that way

you probably don't have a mental problem

at least not in that narrow context

so we've somehow bought into people

worrying about imaginary risks

can just be in the conversation too at

the very least

you should separate the people who have

imaginary problems

from the people who have real ones but

then who is the judge right

who gets to be the one who says oh these

ones are imaginary and these are real

who gets to be the judge well we don't

have too many people we can trust

in this world because politics

overwhelms everything

i would say that i try to be that person

but probably fail

because i just don't know if it's doable

i try to be the person who's not

just giving you a political opinion i

mean i try pretty hard

and you've seen me take positions on all

sides so you know that at least i can do

that

but this is why you have to look for

your your matt tybees

your glenn greenwald's your michael

schellenbergers

because these are the ones you know can

take an opposing opinion to whatever

side they're on you know they can

because they do it they do it all the

time so if you're not following

the opinions of people who you know can

take opposing opinions to their own team

on a regular basis you're just involved

in

something absurd absurd following

the the partisans only

that's just a hobby you shouldn't really

be part of the conversation

um let's talk about the fentanyl war as

you know

china is killing something like 50 to

seventy thousand americans per year

in uh drug overdoses it's

primarily fentanyl which china sends

into

mexico the cartels sent into the united

states and as you know

china knows exactly who their dealers

are because we've told them

here's the name of your dealer could you

go go pick this guy up

nope nothing happens so

in the fentanyl war that china is

winning convincingly because america is

not playing

um i looked at a list of american war

dead and so far the fentanyl war alone

is it's sort of hard to calculate it

exactly because

overdose deaths a little hard to know

exactly

why you died but if you take say 10

years times

50 to 70 000 deaths that's what it has

been or will be soon

um there are already more fentanyl war

deaths

than vietnam and more than world war one

american deaths so we're just i'm just

looking at american deaths here

but if you took the fentanyl war

casualties

and you added the covid 19 casualties so

you took all of china's effect

the fentanyl being the chemical and the

covid being the biological uh warfare

be it accidental or intentional

and if you add those together and i

think you could i mean there's a re

there's a reasonable way to do that um

you're approaching world war ii numbers

now world war ii is the biggest

war loss of life for americans

but kovit looks if you added covid and

fentanyl together

it looks like it might pass it

eventually now it will take

several years but the fentanyl war

together with the covenant war will be

the biggest

war casualties that america has ever

suffered and all of it at the hands of

china

who we still do business with

and we still negotiate with them we

treat them like oh hey how you doing

china

let's have a meeting

amazing it's amazing that we we can

walk around in that fog

one of the best things that's come out

of the last few years

and i credit trump for this and i also

predicted it in 2016. i told you trump

would

change everything about how we view

reality

and the biggest part of that i think is

discrediting the news

rightfully and discrediting experts

again rightfully uh trump is

has been the leading voice in saying

that the experts

are not to be trusted and that the news

is not to be trusted

and here we are we don't trust them

did trump succeed yeah he did he totally

succeeded

he taught us not to trust our experts

just automatically you still have to

trust experts if you don't have a better

idea

there's no other option maybe all the

experts agree

and they've agreed on it for years maybe

there are lots of studies

so there's some things you can do that

will give you some comfort

with expert advice but but believing the

experts somewhat automatically

is stupid it's just stupid you should

try to wean yourself off of that habit

there's an article in the washington

post that

tells you the the trend by alison young

and she says

quote it seems that expert consensus was

somewhat illusory now she's talking

about

the lab leak hypothesis with covet

the expert consensus was somewhat

illusory

and it would have been well to remember

that like the rest of us

scientists are prone to group think and

nine non-scientific concerns

can creep into their public statements

now here's the amazing part it's not

that you didn't know that

yeah raise your hand if you didn't know

that we all knew it

here's the weird part everybody knew it

but for some reason we had agreed to act

like we didn't

right wouldn't you say that let's say

five years ago

that everybody would know that experts

can be biased

everybody knew that 100 of people know

that experts can be biased

but we had all agreed sort of as a a

silent

unspoken agreement in society that we

would act as if it weren't true

why why was there ever a reason

to act as if the thing we all knew was

true

to act as if it's not why did we do that

it never made sense and trump i would

say

fixed that he fixed that it's probably

his greatest accomplishment

we'll never get credit for it you know

the history books will not write

that donald trump taught us to stop

blindly trusting

experts who were lying to us but he did

that

he did that right i mean you know it was

a ripple effect that started with him so

many of us were involved with it i would

say i'm part of that process as well

as as many people are but it was him

i mean i wouldn't have been doing it if

he hadn't started it it was him

and it's one of the most useful things

that's ever happened in

wait for it the history

of civilization that's right

this this mental shift that trump did

for us

stopping our trust and experts blind

trust right

you still need some trust in experts you

don't want to get rid of all of it

because sometimes you know you can you

can be a little more comfortable with

them

but i would say that trump has made the

biggest

psychological improvement improvement

in the humanities thinking

maybe one of the greatest shifts in all

of human history

and you didn't really notice it because

there was so much noise going on

we were just arguing about stuff and we

were sort of arguing about experts and

sure enough experts were wrong and sure

enough the news was wrong and

that's more hoaxes than real and you

didn't really realize the transition as

it was happening

but we're here you know it now

and you know it wouldn't have happened

without trump right

i'd like to see if people agree with

that part of my opinion

that trump was the cause that

that really launched that all

just i'm just going to read some

opinions here as they go by

the great disillusionment somebody's

calling it

i see some people agreeing yes yes yes

100

uh blah blah blah i see one now from

dale

and dale somebody named dale says no

it's really no i see

all right yeah it looks like most of you

agree with that statement

all right and then lastly

because uh it's memorial day

and because there are some stories that

are important

but should not be reported with vigor

and here's one of them there was another

mass shooting

i'm not even going to tell you the state

i mean if if you want to look into it

you can google it but i'm not going to

tell you how many people died i'm not

going to tell you where it was

i'm not going to tell you what state it

was in i'm not going to tell you what

weapons were used

i'm not going to tell you a hero stopped

it if they did i don't know

um i just i'm not going to talk about

this anymore

because every time you do it just gives

attention to the shooters and

there's nothing good that can come from

that now

i'm not ignoring it if you're saying to

me scott

it's a giant problem and you're ignoring

it no no

that's not happening i'm not ignoring

the problem

i'm just not i'm not making it worse

so by ignoring talking about it i'm

helping to

fix the problem so by ignoring it i'm

trying to be part of the productive

part of the world that's putting it back

in his place

and not persuading people that it's a

good idea to get some fame

we we saw with i think was the parkland

shooter

there are some videos that came out that

showed that he really wanted the fame

he did it for the fame now what gave him

that idea

well the fact that it's widely reported

and talked about

if you didn't widely report it and talk

about it he would have had a different

idea

maybe less dangerous i don't know

so let's uh not lose how important

these shootings are but let's not

fetishize them

let's not make them something that

somebody wants to participate in

if you do you should be lost in

obscurity and i'll help you

all right uh

yeah you know i worry about these you

hear these cases where

everybody was warned about the shooter

you know the

the police had already talked to him the

fbi was warned

i don't know if you can make that

criticism really

because it's always out of context the

context is

that the police and the fbi probably get

so many warnings

that they couldn't possibly treat them

all as serious they've got to do a

little

they got to do a little judgment on okay

this one looks like it'll blow up

maybe this one isn't such a big problem

but they don't know

they have to guess because otherwise you

can't get to the

all the work so i tend to be

more forgiving than most when i hear a

story like

the fbi talked to this person and all

the signs were there but they didn't act

because i've got a feeling the signs are

there with a lot of people

who don't act and i would imagine the

fbi knows

that it's like uh you know there'd be a

lot of people we could arrest

based on the suspicion that might happen

but you need a lot more than that

you know we still live in a free country

uh you can't be arrested because

somebody suspects you might want to

commit a crime

all right brian says you've lost trust

with every element of our justice system

well let me give you some perspective do

you believe that our justice system

is worse than any time in history

i bet not i'll bet if you had any way to

objectively rate the justice system in

the united states

and then if you had magically the same

ratings across

time all bet is better than it's ever

been

but we just might have more information

about the bad stuff

so i'm not positive but i think it's

probably better

and probably a lot better that would be

my guess my guess would be

a lot better not even close but those of

you who say it's worse

keep in mind that you're seeing non-stop

bad news

because bad news is the only news about

the justice system

if the justice system just does its job

that's not news

so the only news you're hearing is the

problems just keep that in mind i

wouldn't automatically think the justice

system is a disaster

and i would say that if you're looking

at what the the purpose of the justice

system is

is to keep society together right

if you lose our justice system the whole

thing falls apart

i think you'd agree with that right so

the justice system

is mostly about keeping the wheels on

and has it done that and has it made the

united states a place that people want

to leave their country

and live here in part because our

justice system is better

i'd say yes if i if i were to give our

entire justice system a grade i'd have

to grade it against other countries

if you grade our justice system against

some notion of perfect

it's pretty bad right because it's not

perfect

it's not it's not too close to perfect

so if that's your standard yeah it's a

mess

but if you compare it to other countries

not bad

it's not bad and if and if you look at

it at a functional level

does it make people want to come here

does it allow our commerce system to

work

efficiently because commerce requires a

judicial system

you can't do commerce unless you can sue

somebody who screws you

right nothing works unless you've got a

judiciary

so i would say our commerce system is

working great

which suggests that the foundation for

it the legal system is at least doing

a sufficient job if not spectacular

so he's henry says they threw the

january six people into solitary

confinement

yeah individual mistakes yes

there are plenty of individual mistakes

and we should not lose sight of that

the justice system is not the sort of

thing that's going to work perfectly

all day long it's the sort of thing

that's going to be breaking continually

and you just got to keep fixing it

continually which we do

the very fact that you know that that

you're aware of the fact that those

people were put in solitary which by the

way i'm not

entirely sure is true but

if there's enough transparency to put

pressure on that

at least there's some counter force and

maybe that makes a difference

um 500 people is not an individual

mistake

well i don't believe that there are 500

people in solitary confinement

and i'm not sure that anyone was for a

long time

but i'm open to it i'm not saying it

didn't happen it just feels like a

little bit

feels like a little too on the nose like

maybe

maybe it wasn't that bad but i'm open to

the fact that it might have been

all right that's all i got for now and

i'm gonna go do something else and i'll

talk to you

tomorrow