Episode 2032 Scott Adams - Dilbert Is Fully Canceled, Wuhan Virus Leak, Katie Hobbs, Lab Leak & More

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number of newspapers individually canceled Dilbert but there was a lot of pressure on the syndication company so the syndication company decided to part ways with me completely immediately and that means that there is no syndication vehicle to get Dilbert to any any customers so I don't I don't personally have any contracts with newspapers that goes through the syndication company now just to be clear the syndication company didn't really have any choice because their their clients were hopping mad and I think the artists the other cartoonists were mad and their staff was mad and basically everybody was bad uh so they made a business decision which I don't consider anything like censorship or anything like that so I like I like my syndication company they now no no no they are not cowards the you could blame the newspapers for being a little you know a little skittish but the syndication company didn't have any choice they were just forced into it so don't give them a hard time okay it's a it's actually a great company I've been very happy with them for a very long time Mark Dice just did something well that's nice all right we'll get to uh more of that in the Whiteboard and all but let's talk about the headlines so apparently um there's now General government agreement that the covid came from a lab leak in Wuhan do I have that story right there that the government is now saying as it's like the department of was a defense or something or energy I don't know why so but anyway the government's saying yeah probably are they saying probably or definitely it was a little ambiguous said probably or definitely from the Wuhan lab probably right yeah we're only a probably um here's the strangest thing about that story I thought we already knew that we we keep getting news about things that I thought had already happened am I the only one who thinks the news keeps telling me things that's already happened like sooner or later there'll be a celebrity who dies and you're going to say I thought that celebrity died a long time ago it's like news of things you're pretty sure already happened but it really didn't all right does it make any difference that it escaped from the Wuhan lab well it does say that Anthony fauci has some explaining doesn't it now as Elon Musk pointed out in the tweet when fauci said that he did not fund or was not involved in funding uh gain of what does it gain a function in Wuhan apparently it went through Eco health and then went there so basically it was like no I didn't fund the lab I funded this third party who funded the lab so I don't know if that's going to be his Escape Plan for not lying to Congress because it certainly looked like you lied to Congress didn't it but maybe he's got some technical out where he can say well technically I only funded this other thing yeah I don't know that he lied he he may have been technically correct because he chose his words carefully which is not you know nothing to celebrate but Maybe I hear choosing your words poorly can get you in trouble I hear that's a thing all right so I don't know what to say about that because it doesn't change anything because what is not in evidence is that anybody was doing something intentional meaning they were doing gain a function which is dangerous enough but it doesn't mean they were necessarily trying to create a weapon don't know about that maybe they're trying to defend against a weapon I don't know maybe but as Michael schellenberger points out um that the theory that is now essentially backed by the government uh the mass media condemned the lab League Theory as a quote debunked conspiracy theory and Facebook censored people who dared suggest it you know it's so easy to forget what happened you know just two years ago but oh my god did the government abuse Us in every possible way they could abuse us they abused us you know in in hindsight um also Michael schellenberger in a tweet points out uh it's clear that the scientists who claims who claimed in landsat you know that's a respected publication on February 19th 2020 quote We Stand Together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that covid-19 does not have a natural origin um so as Michael shellburger says they were misrepresenting their unfounded opinion as a scientific fact does that sound familiar doesn't it sound just like the 50 Intel officials who signed a document about hunter's laptop and they're all lying but not tactically they weren't lying because they said Well it has all the Hallmarks of all right so do you think these uh scientists were lying and they knew it when they said uh oh it's a conspiracy theory yeah I don't know um I think it depends on the wording so they said it was conspiracy theory suggesting that it came from oh suggesting it didn't have natural Origins but that was just because there wasn't enough evidence yet so I'm not sure it's you know evidence of a lie all right uh well it looks like the locals audience is pretty big today all right uh is China collapsing I just I read a long thread and who knows I think it's impossible to know what's happening in China but there was a long thread talking about the demographic collapse and um some are say that the you know the population of China is going to start decreasing really really fast like by 2050 there could be you know half as many people living there like I don't think that's that doesn't sound right but they're in real trouble they don't have enough young people and I didn't realize how many maybe you could do a fact check on this you know those ghost cities that are that are in China and a whole bunch of like skyscrapers are just empty and one of the things I learned and I don't know if it's true but it might be true did you know that they were all purchased and why so I am private oh okay now I'm private um so the reason that uh real estate is all purchased even if people don't want to live in it is it's one of the few stores of value that the Chinese Citizens Trust so they're not trusting their regular Investments maybe not even trusting their Banks but if you buy real estate and apparently you don't even furnish it or even to finish the construction because it's worth more if you can sell it and somebody can customize it themselves so apparently the Chinese built all these cities sold all the apartments but nobody wanted to move in because they were just Investments and they didn't want people living in their apartment because it would make their investment worth less talk about a problem so I I've seen the uh the videos of the skyscrapers being destroyed but then I saw a reference to hundreds of these cities across China can anybody fact check that I always I always assumed it was you know one or two I just thought it was oh there's this one or two cities that are ghost cities but there are hundreds of them people are saying that's true hundreds of them hundreds of like instant cities that are empty and they're just owned I guess wow um oh you're in China all right buildings are made of chalk and so the building oh are they also building them so they're unsafe because they know they can sell them anyway oh interesting yeah they over built but did they over build because people bought them the you know over built in some sense yes all right well I'm I'm suspicious about whether China's population will collapse but all the signs are pointing to it wouldn't that become one of the biggest problems in the world I don't know or maybe it would solve a problem for China I don't know um it was a Rasmussen poll uh this one probably won't get me in trouble uh in which the EPA is saying that the tests in that Ohio East Palestine town where the Train derailed they're saying that the drinking water quality there's no no quality concerns but Rasmussen asked people if they'd be willing to drink the water only 23 percent of Voters say say that they would feel safe drinking the water if they lived near the site where the Train derailed 23 percent that's roughly uh that's roughly a quarter roughly a quarter yeah so a quarter of the people would feel comfortable drinking the water around a toxic cesspool well good for them right you know I applaud their confidence I don't know how about you how many of you would feel comfortable because the science says the water is good science says is good trust it would you feel comfortable I might drink it but I would never feel comfortable the water doesn't come from there oh that is that true is it true that the water doesn't come from anywhere near there it's like pumped in from somewhere else I'm seeing some nose but I think that's nose to the other question still better than Flint yeah maybe all right well um let's talk about Katie Hobbs so apparently there's some kind of uh hearing or investigation by some private lawyer I assume they're working for somebody I don't know but there are all these allegations of the Sinaloa cartel uh funneling money to politicians in Arizona including Governor Katie Hobbs now I Googled again to see this story correct me if I'm wrong there's no major medius covering it am I right no major media is covering this but the hearing is happening right there's an actual hearing yeah so it's not it's not a rumor There's an actual hearing with these specific allegations and correct me if I'm wrong some of the allegations were about the a company that handles their elections is that true now does that sound like it's likely to be true do you think these allegations are likely to play out as um true here's my problem with it it's a little too on the nose he has two on the nose it's a little too much like what you expected it would be and that I'd never trust that it's like yeah that's exactly what you would make up if you were going to make it up it would sound just like that so the real world is Messier so whenever you see something that uh yeah okay Have you listened to the information presented I have not but I also don't trust it so if I listen to it I don't know if that would be helping me so here's what I'm going to do I'm going to kind of wait to see if the major media picks it up because even Fox News is not reporting on it as far as I know is that right so if you can't get the even the right leading media to bite on it I would I would hold off on my confidence so I'm going to do um for Katie Hobbs the innocent until proven guilty I mean it's a disturbing allegation uh how does it sort of somebody ask me how does it feel to lose all of my money do you think I lost all of my money there's almost nothing about this story about me that's true it's like it's almost entirely it is now devolved into like the fantasy story all right um Mississippi is the state is looking to appoint uh justices in an area where normally they would be elected and the reason they're doing that is that they think the elected ones must be corrupt so there's nothing good happening and where is it it's a one it's one area of one community where is it why in the world is that not the first thing that I say oh it's a district within Jackson which CNN reports is a majority black City so here's my question if the state has decided that Jackson Mississippi is so lost that they need to appoint judges and by the way it's being resisted by the locals who think it's white supremacy um but would you recommend a young black man move to Jackson would you recommend that if you were giving advice hey young black man would you move to Jackson now right one says yes one says yes now is this a a racial comment or an income or a class comment how do you interpret it Well here here's how it would be racist it'd be racist if you said don't go there because there are black people that would be clearly racist I don't know how you how it could be anything else um but if you said don't go there because there are poor people um and that breeds crime and you don't want to be around that would that be fair could you say don't go to a place with a lot of poor people in high crime you wouldn't you wouldn't be canceled for that would you right so what if you said what I said that because of systemic racism things are so bad in the black community that they're disproportionately likely to be in poor neighborhoods and it's such it's so correlated unfortunately nobody wants us to be true that you could use it as a proxy of where there's problems in the inner cities we're not talking about you know some rural suburban place now using it as a proxy is that racist I need an opinion here if you use it as a proxy it's just one way to know where there's there's going to be a lot of crime four systemic racism reasons so if you make that correlation but you're very but you're very carefully saying I'm not saying anything about black people I'm just saying that there's a proxy situation where so in terms of information it would be one rule of thumb now could that prevent you from going and living in a place that's majority black and also high in common no crime well it would does it sound like I'm apologizing there's so many hallucinations that people are having about me you should look into well never mind um so let's talk about uh Dilbert Dilbert's now fully canceled um you've probably heard the news that hundreds of newspapers or some big ones were canceling but as of yesterday 100 wow thanks Greg it's nice of you um just a compliment there and uh overly large dip I appreciate it um so Dilbert is now fully canceled in all newspapers calendars books because my syndication company who does the newspaper syndication they sell it to the newspapers and they also provide it to um they also provided to all the uh they they also do the calendars and the books so they decided they they couldn't take the Heat um by the way I don't blame them it's not a terrible decision by the way I don't blame it but all and I expect them to be professional about it and I will be professional too so it's a very long relationship that's uh ending and uh but don't give them a hard time it's the newspapers who pressure them and they have a business model they have a responsibility to their yeah to the people who work there so there were a lot of a lot of complaints from other artists have you ever heard that artists say bad things about me have you ever heard that is the most consistent like artists say bad things about me anyway so uh Dilbert whenever that winds down I don't know how instant it is it will not be available at dilbert.com I don't think because I'm not going to manage it and it won't be available in any form except whatever's already in stores I guess or already in the pipeline so um the the media has untethered me I'm untethered I'm not sure if they want that but that's what happened anyway Dilbert will be available still every day on the locals platform for subscribers along with lots of other content including these live streams so if you'd like to support uh let's say I don't know if it's supporting me or it's a putting a thumb in the eye of the newspapers who canceled me one or the other if you'd like to be part of that the locals community five bucks a month if you buy a annual membership all right well let's talk about this issue um so the canceling if you look at all the newspapers and also my Syndicate I would characterize them this way it was a bunch of rich white people you know the the leaders of newspapers and how did this indicate so it's a bunch of well-off white people who do not live around black people and they decided to uh cancel me because I thought that what they're doing is a good strategy so I agreed I agreed with their strategy and then they canceled me because nobody wants nobody wants to ask them where they live or why now again I'm not saying that any of these people are racist I'm saying that they probably used a proxy and said well you know that's one of the one of the ways you know where to live and you want to avoid crime not avoiding black people that would be racist but just avoiding uh you know low-income Prime areas so they've all done that as I've recommended but they canceled me for recommending it um and now there are a bunch of made-up reasons Because the actual thing that people are mad at me about they all agree with so nobody disagrees with my two main claims that you should treat all individuals as individuals no discrimination everybody agrees with that except racists I guess which I disavow and then the second point that you should avoid anything that statistically looks like a bad idea for you personally nobody's disagreed with that have you noticed the actual claim nobody's disagreed with not black people in fact the the main supporters I've seen lately were black and they were saying yeah if you listen to it in context it makes perfect sense and and a number of black people are telling me they did the same thing you know they they looked at their neighborhood and said you know I think they'll live over here look safer so I'm getting agreement from Black uh pundits from White pundits and then when I asked the people who were mad at me and mostly is name calling I asked them what is it you're actually mad at I'll give you an example when the my Syndicate canceled me they did a um press release I guess on social media and they said that they oppose hate and discrimination do they know that was my point my point was to try to avoid hate and discrimination that was my entire point is if if somebody if you believe that there's a group of people who have a statistical likelihood to discriminate against you not any individual but just collectively there's a there's an Impulse there then you should get away from that and I would call that I specifically called the people I wanted to get away from but this was Hyperbole and this is overstating it everybody who understands hyperbole knows this was hyperbole meaning and exaggeration when I said uh that black people were like a hate group and that was based on I'll talk about that in a moment but it wasn't because I hated anybody in fact hate wasn't even part of the conversation was it but it has has hate been any part of the conversation I don't think so because I don't hate anybody but I was concerned that somebody hated me nobody's specific so I'm not even sure that hate was right or I think how about uh yeah and discrimination is the other thing I was trying to avoid so if you avoid discrimination you are discriminating is that true if you avoid discrimination you're discriminating it is true it's definitely true all right I hear some other people things people said uh they know what's in my racist heart because of all of my years of racist tweeting which is zero there is zero any other thing that you will find anywhere in my Twitter that would suggest any races or anything right there's nothing there and believe me believe me if there were anything there you don't think you'd be seeing it on social media by now it's the first thing they do they go through your old tweets and then they show that your new tweet is part of the pattern have you noticed that that doesn't exist have you noticed that the where they go and they find part of my pattern is not there so there are people who think that I want my entire career and just like Snapped or something so no there are not years of racist tweets there are zero of them other people say my big problem is that I conflated class and race they said that after I tweeted everybody knows that class and race are not the same thing and I treat them differently who doesn't know that exactly that's one of my biggest yeah one of my biggest public statements is agree with Dave Chappelle basically that we're treating uh race as the primary variable but it's always been economics every time we treat race as the way to understand anything doesn't work I've said that forever but class does if you if you look at class it explains everything right so uh there's a PhD fellow who I'm going to talk to a black gentleman who wants to talk to me and his his complaint was what that's not true somebody's sending me that my Twitter account was suspended that can't be true let's see you're joking right no it's still there all right that was a good prank though but it's still there still there all right now um so I have never conflated race in class and and people imagining that I did nobody does that do they or if they do it's pretty dumb um I'm also accused of uh they know that I'm a racist they say because of my right-wing politics would any of you who have watched me consider me right-wing what's your opinion do I do I present as right wing to you yeah everybody everybody who knows me knows the answer is no I'm not right-wing left to birdie all right the other thing they say is uh uh I called Black Americans a group as I said but that was Hyperbole and within within context everybody knows what that means but it's hyperbole um and that I espoused racism did I espouse racism or did I say you should try to get away from it I said you should try to get away from it which apparently is racism itself but what do you do if you if you can't discriminate how do you get away from it or do you just accept it is that a requirement all right here's my big question to you um are there look let me see if there are any black Americans watching right now I have a question for you I did could you identify yourself any black Americans who are watching the live stream right now just if you're willing identify yourself because I have a question for you all right we got a few here's the question if you were looking for a home let's say you were shopping for a new home or an apartment and the place that you were looking at had a Republican political signs around it and let's say you saw the neighbors wearing you know Maggie hats or something would you feel comfortable living there go would you feel comfortable in the neighborhood of red hat wearing Republicans I'm saying no Okay so yeah there's some yeses and there's some no's some yeses now suppose and you know I know I know why there's a difference let me tell you why there's a difference the difference is that conservative blacks already understand um conservatives so if you're actually a conservative yourself you understand that they're not judging you by your color if you're not a conservative you think they are am I right but but black conservatives know that's not happening in fact it's the opposite they they know that in the Republican side Republicans are really really strict about it's not about anything but your you know your contribution you know what are you doing it's about your activities now that's not to say that there aren't a bunch of racist uh Republicans you know they're racists in all groups but you saw that in the comments there were a number of people who said I wouldn't feel comfortable I'm going to make uh Teddy the the uh let me talk about the victim narrative in a minute because that's that's the NPC comment there are two NPC comments I'll just say this now uh one trying to explain the difference between the between the First Amendment and private companies deciding to cancel me and a lot of people tried to explain that to me this week because they think I don't understand that now only in NPC like a non-person uh you know non-player character would believe that I don't understand that and that when I say that free speech is expensive that somehow I've lost the distinction between private companies acting and a government rule this is what you can say and what you can't say I do understand that I do secondly the other NPC comment like the the lowest level of analysis is uh that I'm playing the victim playing the victim how could I describe this situation without you saying that how in the world could I simply objectively describe what happened without it sounding like you think I'm you know I'm a victim have you heard me say oh now I won't be able to eat no no I'm kind of the opposite of playing the victim but I am describing what happened for example I incorrectly tweeted today that I lost three careers by being white and somebody corrected me I was like shoot I was pretty sure I had that right the first one was Crocker National Bank where my boss told me uh that white men could not be promoted directly now some people questioned whether that ever happened and you just have to ask anybody who lived in San Francisco in the 80s or 90s it happened to everybody like it was more like a universal thing than some weird thing that happened to one guy so Crocker Bank said I couldn't be promoted and then I went to Pacific Bell and after a few years they called me in and my boss told me directly you can't be promoted because you're white and your mail so I left to become a cartoonist where it wouldn't matter what color I was how'd that work out do you think I would be canceled if I were not white I know the answer but just answer do you think if I were not white that I would be canceled for saying exactly what I said saying exactly the same words now there's not even there's not even a small chance there isn't the slightest chance now this is purely racial this is purely racial you all know it there's not a single yes going by there's not a single person who believes I would have been canceled for If I had not been white nobody yeah somebody says yes if Asian I suppose to run MSNBC are they talking about me all right um so I think we got agreement that it makes sense to not live with near London don't live near a population of people who have been primed to have a bad opinion of you does anybody disagree with the statement that it's good personal uh let's say strategy to go where you don't think people are going to have a bad attitude about you her says no agreement let me explain one dissenter I had one dissenter who said yes I would go to an area where uh where I was skeptical of the people there did anything I said sounded like skepticism or a little bit of you know questioning about him is that really what we were talking about because it's a matter of degree and the people who can't understand it's a matter of degree are really missing the whole story right now there are plenty of neighborhoods where I might be skeptical or suspicious but they don't rise to the level where it would matter but then there are other neighborhoods where you're not just skeptical you're scared to death so if you replace skeptical was scared for your life well then you might get a closer answer but um laughs the the trolls on You.

Tube are pretty pretty active and pretty funny today yeah you all go to Chicago and tell them you're colorblind somebody says yeah anyway so I'll go to the uh whiteboard in a second um I asked on social media if people are considering canceling their newspaper subscription uh because Dilbert got canceled you want to know a fun economic fact it would only take about three people to cancel their newspaper subscriptions for for the newspaper to lose money because the the amount that they paid for Dilbert is so small per newspaper that it would only take a handful of people canceling that that they would you know lose more money than they gained by canceling it um I also wonder if newspapers are so close to being completely done that it wouldn't take much to push him over the edge if for example by the way this is a possibility this is an actual possibility if for example newspaper income went down 10 percent because let's say there was a big cancellation I don't recommend that by the way I'm not in favor of boycotts I don't like boycotts I don't like it when it happens to me so I don't like it when it happens to anybody um but if hypothetically newspapers lost 10 percent of Their audience because of this that would push most of them into the negative because they're margins have shrunk and shrunk and trunk the only reason they're still in business I don't know if you know this the reason that newspapers are still in business is they used to have gigantic margins and they've they've shrunk to almost nothing but there's still a little bit there for some newspapers other newspapers especially in the chains are running at a loss and it's because I'm a hedge fund owns and they don't mind the loss or whatever it is but a 10 drop in newspaper subscriptions might put half of the industry out of business it's a possibility so it's possibility it's possible that Dilbert canceled the entire newspaper industry but not a high chance not a high chance maybe a 20 risk um all right so I gave an NPC assignment as I mentioned on Twitter I said write a write a tweet explaining how the First Amendment doesn't apply to private companies and I actually labeled it NPC assignment and then in the comments you have to see how many people sincerely tried to explain to me that the First Amendment doesn't apply to private companies after I'd give them an NPS NPC assignment to do it they did it and not ironically they thought I needed to know all right um and then this is my favorite critic some individual who thinks he's gonna Kyle Parrish who's running for congress I guess North Carolina Fifth District and I I don't like his chances based on his tweet I don't like his chances of getting elected so he said how long before Scott Adams uh Let's uh post a rant about men needing to separate from women because they all hate him and I thought to myself well I've sort of already done that you know not the hate part but I've already endorsed the Mike Pence don't have you know a meal with somebody who's not your wife unless your wife is there and it's for the same reason it's exactly the same thinking the thinking is while any individual woman is fine but the class of the the category of people called women have been uh very much let's say programmed by the metoo uh narrative which is you know a healthy a healthy thing for society to have that but if you're trying to avoid a class of people who have been programmed by Society women would be one of the groups so I do recommend that you stay away from women in a certainly in a work environment where you're alone so I wouldn't I wouldn't spend a time alone with women because women have been radicalized by The Narrative to look for me tooing and they're going to find it where a man won't if you spent the same amount of time with men your odds of being metooed would be practically zero if you spend a lot of time with women in the workplace what are your actually I'll ask you this if you if you have a job where you personally spend a lot of time with women what are the odds you'd be accused of misogyny or sexism I think it's close to 100 isn't it yeah if you're surrounded by women in a work environment for an extended period of time I would say the odds go to 100 percent so would it be good advice to ignore that or would it be a good advice to do what Mike Pence does and make sure everybody has equal opportunity don't don't treat any woman as there's something wrong with her that's not fair but just treat it like a statistical fact how about that so that's bad uh critiquing if I agree with you all right let's go to the Whiteboard I was reading CNN's uh take down of me today and I think so far the Press has done the same trick and the trick is to use just my quote and to ignore the context which I healthily added afterwards so if you only concentrate on the quote you can make it mean anything you want but if you look at the context it's harder so I don't believe let me tell you what the Washington Post did oh my God thank you uh uh right I I don't encourage you to do gigantic um super chats but Ryan I appreciate it all right uh here's what the Washington Post did if you heard my comments in context they're they're much easier to go down right that's why a number of black pundits have looked at my comments in context and then concluded oh that's fine I don't know if you know that but black black people who are looking at it in context are fine with it and they're telling me every day privately and also on Twitter right now the ones who haven't looked into the context they're they're pretty worked up they're pretty worked up so here's what the Washington Post does they start with the story of what I said which is the thing that gets everybody riled up they do add a little context but it's at the end if you have it at the end that's a hit piece right because they could have added it at the front all you'd have to do is cut and paste just cut the end put it up at the top here's how the story could have read Adams made the following comments then just show the comments people interpreted it to be racist Adam's uh addressed those comments the following way and then people who saw the comments addressed decided it was actually helpful did I did I lie is any of that a lie it's not if you just said here's here's the context here's his additional explanations people have looked at it are happy that it wasn't racist or not what they thought it was anyway and and that's the end of it but but there's still uh an outrage would any of that be untrue it wouldn't be now the way they wrote it was also completely true but it was written to mislead intentionally so look at the stories today Story number one the media and social media especially lied to you about the source of the Wuhan virus right that's the media and now they're lying to you about me but they're doing it in this clever way where they just arrange the information so it it's presented as a lie but there are no lies in it there are no lies in it anywhere but it's organized to present a lie um all right so here's here's the thing and you can check this yourself check any of the major media coverage of me and see if you can find them describing my explanation of why the Rasmussen pole wasn't the important part of the the thing so by the way a number of people have said hey that's just one poll yeah we can't rely on one pole and they're right and I should have been more clear that I was using the poll as a let's say an introduction to the topic but the bigger reason is not the poll you could take the poll out of the story and my point would be the same but my uh but my messaging would probably be better so here's the real messaging which I didn't do a good job of you know in my off the cuff stuff we know we have a situation in this country in which um there are indications of racial discontent so there's Erasmus and pole which we all agree cannot be relied on just by itself but I suppose the Rasmussen poll was off by a hundred percent that'd be pretty big wouldn't it a poll that's off by 100 so let's say that instead of you know nearly half of black respondents not being willing to say that uh being white is okay that was the poll I suppose it was only half of that or or the part or let's say I take out the part of people who are just unwilling to answer it and just say well that's something different so suppose it's half that size suppose it's a quarter of black Americans thought about it and said yeah I'm not willing to say being White's okay would that change my point you know would the larger point be different if the Rasmussen poll was off a lot like just way off it wouldn't be any different at all but it also is very much in agreement with a Gallup poll from a few years ago this shows that race relations took a dive I think around the time of Trayvon Martin and when the media found that they could get a lot of money by gining up racial hatred so if you look at the the the Gallup poll of race relations it sort of is flat for years just years flat flat flat Trayvon Martin and then it stays low after that why did it stay low was it just because of one story no it's because the media decided that that kind of story was the kind that really gets people going so the media decides that to feed us you know non-stop white people are racist stories because it's really good content then you add to that the Eis and the Dei and the uh the training that is now the major narrative the thing that schools are teaching the kids and the things that corporations or corporations are talking about and they're creating a narrative uh collectively and then social media is a big part of this of course so if you had the media I should have said media not social media but if you add all these forces they created narrative and I won't say what the percentage is but there is some amount of the black population that's poisoned they're just poisoned by the narrative they are victims they are literally victims now the white population is just as much victims you know in a different way because the media is not telling us anything like the truth they didn't tell us about the Wuhan virus right pretty much was it or another story oh the Katie Hobbs story I'm not sure that that's even true we'll find out don't know if the collapsing China is true we don't know if the Ukraine war stuff is true basically the media is unreliable I guess you know that so no matter what this populate what percentage of the black population has been poisoned by this narrative would you agree with the following statement that all of these forces are pushing it into more like whatever it is now it's there's going to be more of it because the forces that caused it are all in play agreed all right so if you imagine that the black population is victim which I believe they are victims of uh programming that is not in their best interest it looks like it's in their best interest because you know the equity and the fairness and stuff and there's a lot of good there's probably a lot good in there I'm not going to say it's all bad right I'm just saying if you haven't accounted for the cost of it then you're not done with the analysis the benefits are obvious hey we'll treat everybody better I like that the cost is that there's a cost on the white population because they're demonized by the you know the collective forces here and that there is a predictable response the predictable response at least one of them should be to put some distance between people who have been victimized and are therefore weaponized here's another word for it I would say that the media and our education system are weaponizing part of the black population to and not necessarily physical weapons I'm talking about intellectually weaponized to have a have an immediate uh racial frame on things that maybe you don't need a racial frame on okay so that's the story so everybody who says uh Scott you relied on Rasmussen they're correct in their criticism that the way I presented it looked like I was relying on that that's a good criticism but it's not I wouldn't have brought it up except for this right this is the reason I'm talking about it the Rasmussen was you know just a sideshow it was just an introduction to the topic so here's what happened see if this sounds familiar to anything else you've ever seen happen in public here was the initial crime I advised I gave some advice that everybody agrees with I gave some advice that everyone agrees with black people white people poor people rich people everyone literally everyone and was it useful was it useful is it useful to know the costs and the benefits of your policies or do you only want to know the benefits is useful right well actually let me say maybe it didn't turn useful but the intention the intention of everything I do on Livestream is to allow people to think more productively so that their lives are better does anybody doubt that is right by here who thinks that I'm doing any of this for money like this stuff it would be the worst way to make money do you know how I make money or I used to keep my mouth shut and make Dilbert comics that's how you make money that was a really good way to make money I mean it ended it ended yesterday but uh so I'm unemployed at the moment I guess this is monetized so sort of a little bit uh ego so he says ego am I doing it for ego it's a trick question do I do this for ego no you're too kind the answer is yes but as I've told you many times I never do anything for one reason I never do anything for one reason I mean there might be some exceptions but I wouldn't do this for one reason so people are saying hey ego to which I say yes if I do good work that people appreciate my ego will be satisfied see that's that's looking at all the variables so I'm trying to be consistent and look at all the variables all right so I gave some advice that everyone agrees with that if there's a population of people that has a has been programmed this is the important part has been programmed to have a a feeling about you this would include women in the B2 era so in the Mike pen sense you should avoid them it would include people who have Trump signs and mega hats if you're black I would say maybe avoid that neighborhood is that bad advice now I know most of you who are if you're Trump supporters you say but wait we're not racist don't do that and I agree virtually I I don't know you don't mean many racist conservatives you just don't at least not in the sort of public sphere um but is there anybody who would say that there are no races in the Republican world would anybody say that there are no racist Republicans now remember one now they're racists in every group they're clearly racists in every group so if you were black should you take into consideration that your neighbors have a republican signs in the in the yard should you take that into consideration well if you're a black conservative it's a plus is you actually probably would be treated better than most people if you're black and left-leaning you might have some some hesitance wouldn't you now in all of these questions it's got to be a matter of degree doesn't it if your problem with another group was just was somebody said skepticism I wouldn't I wouldn't change where I live because of some vague skepticism uh and like likewise I would say that Republicans are actually a pretty good group to live around so if you used your you know if for most people it'd be a good place to live but you might have uh feelings that that group had been let's say weaponized by the media because a little bit of that is happening there there's so many uh videos going around of black people beating up non-black people if you were black does that worry you oh let me ask that question that's a good question the the videos that get viral they seem to be and there's one going around to the black student beating a teacher nearly to death it's all over the place wouldn't you agree those of you who are black who are watching this wouldn't you agree that's bad for you that's like programming white people to have a view that's not represented right so what do you say that the problem is people being programmed with uh bad thoughts now if you saw more and more just hypothetically let's say you're black and you saw more and more of these videos and every one of them it seems like oh my God it's like they're really going after us now wouldn't you think twice before you moved into a neighborhood that you thought had been programmed with that frame of mind I mean it seems like a reasonable thing to do and yet they would say nothing about all Republicans would it would say nothing about all Republicans it would just say that this is a group of people who have been programmed and especially lately they've been programmed to have a let's say a reflexive bad feeling about me so wherever there are groups of people who have been programmed programmed by the media to have a reflexive bad feeling about you I would avoid them does anybody think that's a bad idea anybody no matter no matter what color you are and no matter what is the you know characteristic of the group you're talking about if if they've been programmed to not like you by the media is that a factor you should consider right so here's what happens so now now you can see how the media works so I said something that literally everyone agrees with once they see it in context I I will accept the criticism that I was not as clear as I could have been does everybody agree with that I'm accepting that criticism that I gave too much attention to one poll didn't change the message but I gave too much attention to it and uh and I wasn't clear yeah those things I can just be guilty of that's fine but once you saw the context and especially people who know me personally they were they were pretty sure that it was just good advice all right so I got canceled everywhere uh there will be no more Dilbert except on the locals uh subscription platform and then what happened then the cover-up starts because little by little more voices are saying wait a minute what did you cancel him for okay I feel like I'm not getting the whole contacts here so I'll just tell you that a prominent member of the media somebody whose name you would know who is black uh contacted me today and said okay there's something going on here because my interactions with you suggest that what you said in public doesn't make sense like I like it was somebody who thought that the person that they had interacted with me was inconsistent with a story that's in the media that's a media expert somebody who literally lives and breathes the media every day and looked at it and said this doesn't look right right now as I told him his Instinct was good there's something wrong here 's what's happening so the the papers and everybody was canceled me they canceled me from their first impression which I admit was awkward and it could have been done better once they realized that within context I was simply giving advice that anybody would agree with black or white the cover-up begins because they're not going to change the mind so you know they're not going to change the minds that would be too dangerous so now they're saying that he said all black people are haters did anybody hear me say that because that's what the news is saying now or the people who believe they've seen the news and so now they've turned it into all is there any scenario where I've ever said that all members of a group have some one thing in common ever who would say that besides stupid people like this isn't this isn't even racist that would be just stupid wouldn't it like wouldn't that be literally just dumb if you believed all of the members of a group are thinking the same in fact how many times have I said out loud or tweeted that all black people are not the same all we've talked about all Hispanic voters completely varied white voters all over the place but do you believe that I would imagine the Hispanic voters are diverse and white voters are diverse but black people are not I mean who would have that opinion nobody right so if you believe that I had said this something about all black people you really need to check your reading comprehension and your news source right uh because nobody would say this you know the the imagine if you can imagine there's somebody in 2023 would have this point of view that there's something about all black people that's negative like all of them no but literally nobody has that point of view nobody right but yet people have imagined that I could have and said it out loud um the one poll is unreliable but it doesn't really relate to my point so they have to make this poll uh they have to artificially make it seem as if the poll is the only thing I was keying off of which it wasn't but I didn't clarify so that's that's a good point uh and then here's their best trick they introduced the topic by calling it a racist rant or a racist tirade if the title of the article says racist rant or racist tirade is the media telling you the news nope that's not the news that's a narrative that's that's that's an interpretation is what that is and so the Washington Post went you know full not fake news but intentionally misleading news I don't know what you would call that is it fake if the facts are true but they leave out context to reverse the meaning it's kind of a fake news situation but not exactly right so this is uh this is what's by week will look like so all week nobody will disagree with me I predict because nobody's going to disagree with this in private nobody disagrees black or white nobody it's completely agreed but they're going to turn it into something I didn't say or something I didn't rely on entirely or they're going to label it so nobody knows what you're thinking that's how it works so if you're wondering how the media cancellation machine works that's how um Anthony you're not wrong explain how that's a hate group isn't referring at all do you know what hyperbole is sir so I was asked the question explain how it's a hate group does not refer to all of them it would be the same way that I believe that whites have been called the hate group Am I Wrong have have whites been called a hate group because they're allegedly so many white supremacists can anybody find uh do you think if you looked on social media do you see anybody referring to white people as a hate group now if they did how would I interpret that let's say theoretically somebody said white people are a hate group what is the reasonable way to interpret that is the reasonable way that it means everybody is that reasonable is that good reading comprehension I think he means every person or would you recognize hyperbole and say oh he's making a point that there are too many people in that group who have negative views I don't know what the percentage is but it's too many right so does anybody else have a question on that is that unclear that hyperbole is an exaggeration that people are supposed to recognize in other words when you use hyperbole you're you're saying something that's technically not true but you assume that everybody's a good enough reader that they know what you mean right so let's say I say uh Republicans like God does that sound like all Republicans to you the the Republicans let's say Republicans are religious if I said that in public would you take that as all of them that's an actual question would you take that as all of them it's the way people talk it's just a shorthand hyperbolic way to talk about a group to make a point now um sounds like you do yeah exaggeration is nearly 100 of political discourse that's true yep it's the way people think I don't think anybody thinks in 100 anything so generally it's the thing I get in trouble for is 47 context yeah Jet Magazine I would ask do you mean most Republicans yeah but what do you even need to ask would you need to ask me if I met most Republicans so that's my point it's completely clear hyperbole or exaggeration in this case it's very clear what it is so you shouldn't have to explain something that is ordinary conversation hyperbole but I do I do understand that people um can be fooled by it no my uh my art director is still employed uh so Dilbert will still be created I'll just be putting it on the um locals platform so you can find that at scottadams Dot Scott Adams one word.locals.com it's a subscription platform uh boss says admit you felt like that your whole life uh felt like what my whole life I never felt like the narrative was poisoning black Americans and that's that's really the Catalyst for the entire opinion so it's more like what things have become and where they're heading all right 47 is too high do you know that there is no apparently there's no research on that did you know that apparently there's no research on the actual black attitudes of white people except the Rasmussen Bowl which I agree you know one bullet doesn't tell you everything you need to know uh uh five minutes to post it on Twitter yeah so here's why there's going to be a little uh time lag and what's happening has anybody noticed that the the punditry is starting to turn my way does anybody noticed that day one it's all negative but if you notice that people are starting to deal with it the actual question yeah yeah the punditry at least on the right is turning my way uh but also both black and white so and honestly uh if this is going to sound super racist but I'm gonna say it anyway because yeah why not uh the the black men who have looked at this situation have been the closest to understanding it the black men for some reason the black women who are weighing in have very different opinions from the black men you know maybe sort of generally in the same direction but the way they express is totally different and the black manner mostly saying I want to hear more that they're actually interested in the content they'd actually like to know and then when they hear it they're like oh that's a good point that's the way it's going so I guess that's racist because the the black men have been generally the the quickest to figure out what's going on here and I have a theory for that which is that black women fear fear have more risk than black men in terms of just physical social risk and so if it sounds like you know you're in a group that's getting some bad press if you're a woman I think you'd be more concerned just because you you have physical safety as well as everything else and I think if you're a man you just worry a little less about physical safety so you can engage with the content a little bit better just a theory yeah it might be a misogynistic Theory remember it's just a hypothesis so if it were if it were a statement effect I would have no grounding for it all right uh putting his own interest first and that what I said out loud that I'd be putting my own interest first oh no I said everybody should I said everybody should put is that wrong that everybody should take care of their own business and their family uh Disney just removed the TV series Disney didn't have the TV series did they are you saying that Disney had the TV series Hulu might have been on Hulu you mean on Hulu right not at Disney but here's a little fun fact the Dilbert TV show didn't make me money I mean after the initial some initial money but all of the uh the reruns uh that that money gets Hollywood stolen and what I mean Hollywood stolen they calculate that their expenses were greater than their revenue and they give you nothing but everybody knows that's going to happen yeah it's not on Disney Plus maybe you meant Hulu might have been there and he packed on the dill burrito yeah Disney was Hulu uh what was it all right um on You.

Tube did you see some commenters slam you for quoting Don Lemon uh what what way were they slamming me because they don't like Don Lemon uh yeah we'll get past all this business pretty soon let's see Jackson says you're basing this off of liberal polls and viral videos uh we mostly get along someone who's believing woke stuff and get to know them and challenge them instead of running them you're based so so you're missing everything I just said Jackson you spend twenty dollars but you missed everything I just said you're saying this you're basing it off a liberal poll no that was like the last 10 minutes saying I wasn't doing that uh and viral videos and I'm saying that the viral videos are misleading which is what you're saying so so here's here's the pattern the pattern of the people who think they're disagreeing are imagining something to disagree with and they're generally just agreeing with me did I watch Greg and Bill no uh oh my God oh yeah we got a lot of viewers today good for that all right is there anything else going on that I haven't talked about oh you're tired of talking about me uh you are free now bring down the entire establishment how many hours of sleep do I get usually four-ish four hours or so uh yeah well you know the media picked up Elon musk's comment and you know Associated that with my story but I saw his comment as more opportunity to comment about the media and you know less about my specific comments or my situation but I you know I appreciate that he made a comment that you know enhances the conversation so to speak yeah so my Twitter users are uh going crazy so I might reach a million users maybe in a few months we'll see all right um I think that's All For You on You.

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all right well I know some of you here

are here to hear about the fireworks of

dilbra being canceled I'll give you the

headline but then I'll talk about it in

in detail after I do some other stories

so the headline is that the way Comics

are distributed there's a syndication

company and then they distribute to the

newspapers that buy it

so a number of newspapers individually

canceled Dilbert but there was a lot of

pressure on the syndication company

so the syndication company decided to

part ways with me completely immediately

and that means that there is no

syndication vehicle

to get Dilbert to any any customers so I

don't I don't personally have any

contracts with newspapers that goes

through the syndication company

now just to be clear

the syndication company didn't really

have any choice because their their

clients were hopping mad and I think the

artists the other cartoonists were mad

and their staff was mad and basically

everybody was bad

uh so they made a business decision

which I don't consider anything like

censorship or anything like that

so I like I like my syndication company

they now no no no they are not cowards

the you could blame the newspapers for

being a little

you know a little skittish but the

syndication company didn't have any

choice they were just forced into it so

don't give them a hard time okay

it's a it's actually a great company

I've been very happy with them for a

very long time

Mark Dice just did something well that's

nice

all right we'll get to uh more of that

in the Whiteboard and all but let's talk

about the headlines so apparently

um there's now General government

agreement

that the covid came from a lab leak in

Wuhan

do I have that story right

there that the government is now saying

as it's like the department of

was a defense or something or energy

I don't know why so but anyway the

government's saying yeah probably are

they saying probably or definitely

it was a little ambiguous

said probably or definitely from the

Wuhan lab

probably right yeah we're only a

probably

um

here's the strangest thing about that

story

I thought we already knew that

we we keep getting news about things

that I thought had already happened

am I the only one who thinks the news

keeps telling me things that's already

happened

like sooner or later there'll be a

celebrity who dies

and you're going to say I thought that

celebrity died a long time ago it's like

news of things you're pretty sure

already happened but it really didn't

all right does it make any difference

that it escaped from the Wuhan lab

well

it does say that Anthony fauci has some

explaining doesn't it

now as Elon Musk pointed out in the

tweet when fauci said that he did not

fund or was not involved in funding

uh gain of

what does it gain a function in Wuhan

apparently it went through Eco health

and then went there so basically it was

like no I didn't fund the lab I funded

this third party who funded the lab

so I don't know if that's going to be

his

Escape Plan

for not lying to Congress because it

certainly looked like you lied to

Congress didn't it

but maybe he's got some technical out

where he can say well technically

I only funded this other thing

yeah I don't know that he lied

he he may have been technically correct

because he chose his words carefully

which is not you know nothing to

celebrate but Maybe

I hear choosing your words poorly can

get you in trouble

I hear that's a thing

all right so I don't know what to say

about that because it doesn't change

anything because what is not in evidence

is that anybody was doing something

intentional

meaning they were doing gain a function

which is dangerous enough but it doesn't

mean they were necessarily trying to

create a weapon

don't know about that maybe they're

trying to defend against a weapon I

don't know maybe

but as Michael schellenberger points out

um that the theory that is now

essentially backed by the government

uh the mass media condemned the lab

League Theory as a quote debunked

conspiracy theory and Facebook censored

people who dared suggest it

you know it's so easy to forget what

happened you know just two years ago

but oh my god did the government abuse

Us in every possible way they could

abuse us they abused us

you know in in hindsight

um also Michael schellenberger in a

tweet points out uh it's clear that the

scientists who claims who claimed in

landsat you know that's a respected

publication on February 19th 2020

quote We Stand Together to strongly

condemn conspiracy theories suggesting

that covid-19 does not have a natural

origin

um

so as Michael shellburger says they were

misrepresenting their unfounded opinion

as a scientific fact

does that sound familiar

doesn't it sound just like the 50 Intel

officials who signed a document about

hunter's laptop and they're all lying

but not tactically

they weren't lying because they said

Well it has all the Hallmarks of all

right

so do you think these uh scientists were

lying

and they knew it when they said uh oh

it's a conspiracy theory

yeah I don't know

um I think it depends on the wording

so they said it was conspiracy theory

suggesting that it came from oh

suggesting it didn't have natural

Origins

but that was just because there wasn't

enough evidence yet

so I'm not sure it's you know evidence

of a lie

all right uh well it looks like the

locals audience is pretty big today

all right uh is China collapsing

I just I read a long thread and who

knows I think it's impossible to know

what's happening in China

but there was a long thread talking

about the demographic collapse and

um some are say that the you know the

population of China is going to start

decreasing really really fast

like by 2050 there could be you know

half as many people living there

like I don't think that's that doesn't

sound right but they're in real trouble

they don't have enough young people and

I didn't realize how many maybe you

could do a fact check on this

you know those ghost cities that are

that are in China and a whole bunch of

like skyscrapers are just empty

and

one of the things I learned and I don't

know if it's true but it might be true

did you know that they were all

purchased

and why

so I am private

oh okay now I'm private

um

so the reason that uh real estate

is all purchased even if people don't

want to live in it is it's one of the

few stores of value

that the Chinese Citizens Trust so

they're not trusting their regular

Investments

maybe not even trusting their Banks but

if you buy real estate

and apparently you don't even furnish it

or even to finish the construction

because it's worth more

if you can sell it and somebody can

customize it themselves so apparently

the Chinese built all these cities sold

all the apartments

but nobody wanted to move in because

they were just Investments and they

didn't want people living in their

apartment because it would make their

investment worth less

talk about a problem

so I I've seen the uh the videos of the

skyscrapers being destroyed

but then I saw a reference to hundreds

of these cities across China

can anybody fact check that

I always I always assumed it was you

know one or two

I just thought it was oh there's this

one or two cities that are ghost cities

but there are hundreds of them people

are saying that's true

hundreds of them hundreds of like

instant cities that are empty and

they're just owned I guess

wow

um oh you're in China

all right buildings are made of chalk

and so the building oh are they also

building them so they're unsafe because

they know they can sell them anyway

oh interesting

yeah they over built but did they over

build because people bought them

the you know over built in some sense

yes

all right well I'm I'm suspicious about

whether China's population will collapse

but all the signs are pointing to it

wouldn't that become one of the biggest

problems in the world

I don't know or maybe it would solve a

problem for China I don't know

um

it was a Rasmussen poll

uh this one probably won't get me in

trouble

uh in which the EPA is saying that the

tests in that Ohio East Palestine town

where the Train derailed they're saying

that the drinking water quality there's

no no quality concerns

but Rasmussen asked people if they'd be

willing to drink the water

only 23 percent of Voters say say that

they would feel safe drinking the water

if they lived near the site where the

Train derailed

23 percent

that's roughly uh

that's roughly a quarter roughly a

quarter yeah so a quarter of the people

would feel comfortable drinking the

water around a toxic cesspool

well good for them right you know I

applaud their confidence

I don't know how about you how many of

you would feel comfortable because the

science says the water is good

science says is good

trust it

would you feel comfortable

I might drink it but I would never feel

comfortable

the water doesn't come from there oh

that is that true is it true that the

water doesn't come from anywhere near

there it's like pumped in from somewhere

else

I'm seeing some nose but I think that's

nose to the other question

still better than Flint yeah maybe

all right well

um let's talk about Katie Hobbs

so apparently there's some kind of uh

hearing or investigation by some private

lawyer

I assume they're working for somebody I

don't know

but there are all these allegations of

the Sinaloa cartel uh

funneling money to politicians in

Arizona including Governor Katie Hobbs

now

I Googled again to see this story

correct me if I'm wrong there's no major

medius covering it

am I right no major media is covering

this

but the hearing is happening right

there's an actual hearing

yeah so it's not it's not a rumor

There's an actual hearing with these

specific allegations and correct me if

I'm wrong

some of the allegations were about the a

company that handles their elections

is that true

now

does that sound like it's likely to be

true

do you think these allegations are

likely to play out as

um true

here's my problem with it

it's a little too on the nose

he has two on the nose it's a little too

much like what you expected it would be

and that I'd never trust that

it's like yeah that's exactly what you

would make up if you were going to make

it up it would sound just like that

so the real world is Messier

so whenever you see something that

uh

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yeah okay

Have you listened to the information

presented I have not but I also don't

trust it so if I listen to it I don't

know if that would be helping me so

here's what I'm going to do I'm going to

kind of wait to see if the major media

picks it up because even Fox News is not

reporting on it as far as I know

is that right

so if you can't get the even the right

leading media to bite on it I would I

would hold off on my confidence

so I'm going to do

um for Katie Hobbs the innocent until

proven guilty

I mean it's a disturbing allegation

uh how does it sort of somebody ask me

how does it feel to lose all of my money

do you think I lost all of my money

there's almost nothing about this story

about me that's true it's like it's

almost entirely it is now devolved into

like the fantasy story

all right

um Mississippi is the state is looking

to appoint

uh justices

in an area where normally they would be

elected

and the reason they're doing that is

that they think the elected ones must be

corrupt

so there's nothing good happening

and where is it it's a

one it's one area of one community

where is it

why in the world is that not the first

thing that I say oh it's a district

within Jackson

which CNN reports is a majority black

City

so here's my question

if the state has decided that Jackson

Mississippi

is so lost

that they need to appoint judges and by

the way it's being resisted by the

locals who think it's white supremacy

um but would you recommend a young black

man move to Jackson

would you recommend that if you were

giving advice hey young black man

would you move to Jackson

now

right

one says yes one says yes

now is this a a racial comment or an

income

or a class comment

how do you interpret it

Well here here's how it would be racist

it'd be racist if you said don't go

there because there are black people

that would be clearly racist

I don't know how you how it could be

anything else

um but if you said don't go there

because there are poor people

um and that breeds crime and you don't

want to be around that would that be

fair

could you say don't go to a place with a

lot of poor people in high crime

you wouldn't you wouldn't be canceled

for that would you

right so what if you said what I said

that because of systemic racism

things are so bad in the black community

that they're disproportionately likely

to be in poor neighborhoods and it's

such it's so correlated unfortunately

nobody wants us to be true that you

could use it as a proxy of where there's

problems

in the inner cities we're not talking

about you know some rural suburban place

now

using it as a proxy

is that racist

I need an opinion here

if you use it as a proxy it's just one

way to know where there's there's going

to be a lot of crime four systemic

racism reasons

so if you make that correlation but

you're very but you're very carefully

saying I'm not saying anything about

black people

I'm just saying that there's a proxy

situation where so in terms of

information

it would be one rule of thumb now

could that prevent you from going and

living in a place that's majority black

and also high in common no crime well it

would

does it sound like I'm apologizing

there's so many hallucinations that

people are having about me

you should look into well never mind

um so let's talk about uh Dilbert

Dilbert's now fully canceled

um you've probably heard the news that

hundreds of newspapers or some big ones

were canceling but as of yesterday

100 wow

thanks Greg

it's nice of you

um just a compliment there and uh overly

large dip I appreciate it

um

so Dilbert is now fully canceled in all

newspapers calendars books because my

syndication company who does the

newspaper syndication they sell it to

the newspapers and they also provide it

to

um

they also provided to all the uh they

they also do the calendars and the books

so they decided they they couldn't take

the Heat

um by the way I don't blame them it's

not a terrible decision by the way I

don't blame it but all and I expect them

to be professional about it and I will

be professional too

so it's a very long relationship that's

uh ending

and uh but don't give them a hard time

it's the newspapers who pressure them

and they have a business model they have

a responsibility to their

yeah

to the people who work there so there

were a lot of a lot of complaints from

other artists have you ever heard that

artists say bad things about me

have you ever heard that

is the most consistent like artists say

bad things about me anyway so uh Dilbert

whenever that winds down I don't know

how instant it is it will not be

available at dilbert.com I don't think

because I'm not going to manage it and

it won't be available in any form except

whatever's already in stores I guess or

already in the pipeline

so

um

the the media has untethered me

I'm untethered

I'm not sure if they want that but

that's what happened anyway Dilbert will

be available still every day on the

locals platform for subscribers along

with lots of other content

including these live streams

so if you'd like to support

uh let's say I don't know if it's

supporting me or it's a

putting a thumb in the eye of the

newspapers who canceled me one or the

other if you'd like to be part of that

the locals community

five bucks a month if you buy a annual

membership

all right well let's talk about this

issue

um so the canceling if you look at all

the newspapers and also my Syndicate I

would characterize them this way

it was a bunch of rich white people you

know the the leaders of newspapers and

how did this indicate so it's a bunch of

well-off white people

who do not live around black people

and they decided to uh

cancel me

because I thought that what they're

doing is a good strategy

so I agreed I agreed with their strategy

and then they canceled me because nobody

wants nobody wants to ask them where

they live

or why

now again I'm not saying that any of

these people are racist

I'm saying that they probably used a

proxy and said well you know that's one

of the one of the ways you know where to

live and you want to avoid crime not

avoiding black people

that would be racist but just avoiding

uh you know low-income Prime areas

so they've all done that as I've

recommended but they canceled me for

recommending it

um

and now there are a bunch of made-up

reasons

Because the actual thing that people are

mad at me about they all agree with

so nobody disagrees with my two main

claims that you should treat all

individuals as individuals no

discrimination

everybody agrees with that

except racists I guess which I disavow

and then the second point that you

should avoid anything that statistically

looks like a bad idea for you personally

nobody's disagreed with that

have you noticed

the actual claim nobody's disagreed with

not black people in fact the the main

supporters I've seen lately were black

and they were saying yeah if you listen

to it in context it makes perfect sense

and and a number of black people are

telling me they did the same thing

you know they they looked at their

neighborhood and said you know I think

they'll live over here look safer

so I'm getting agreement from Black

uh pundits from White pundits and then

when I asked the people who were mad at

me and mostly is name calling

I asked them what is it you're actually

mad at I'll give you an example when the

my Syndicate canceled me they did a

um press release I guess on social media

and they said that they oppose hate and

discrimination

do they know that was my point

my point was to try to avoid hate and

discrimination that was my entire point

is if if somebody if you believe that

there's a group of people who have a

statistical likelihood to discriminate

against you not any individual

but just collectively there's a there's

an Impulse there then you should get

away from that

and I would call that I specifically

called the people I wanted to get away

from but this was Hyperbole and this is

overstating it everybody who understands

hyperbole knows this was hyperbole

meaning and exaggeration

when I said uh that black people were

like a hate group

and that was based on I'll talk about

that in a moment but it wasn't because I

hated anybody in fact hate wasn't even

part of the conversation was it

but it has has hate been any part of the

conversation

I don't think so because I don't hate

anybody

but I was concerned that somebody hated

me

nobody's specific

so I'm not even sure that hate was right

or I think how about uh

yeah and discrimination is the other

thing I was trying to avoid

so if you avoid discrimination you are

discriminating

is that true

if you avoid discrimination

you're discriminating

it is true

it's definitely true

all right I hear some other people

things people said uh they know what's

in my racist heart because of all of my

years of racist tweeting

which is zero

there is zero any other thing that you

will find anywhere in my Twitter that

would suggest any races or anything

right there's nothing there

and believe me

believe me if there were anything there

you don't think you'd be seeing it on

social media by now it's the first thing

they do they go through your old tweets

and then they show that your new tweet

is part of the pattern have you noticed

that that doesn't exist

have you noticed that the where they go

and they find part of my pattern

is not there

so there are people who think that I

want my entire career and just like

Snapped

or something

so no there are not years of racist

tweets there are zero of them

other people say my big problem is that

I conflated class and race

they said that after I tweeted everybody

knows that class and race are not the

same thing and I treat them differently

who doesn't know that

exactly that's one of my biggest

yeah one of my biggest

public statements is agree with Dave

Chappelle basically that we're treating

uh race as the primary variable but it's

always been economics

every time we treat race as the way to

understand anything

doesn't work

I've said that forever

but class does if you if you look at

class it explains everything

right so uh there's a PhD

fellow who I'm going to talk to a black

gentleman

who wants to talk to me and his his

complaint was

what that's not true

somebody's sending me that my Twitter

account was suspended

that can't be true

let's see you're joking right

no it's still there all right that was a

good prank though but it's still there

still there

all right now

um so I have never conflated race in

class

and and people imagining that I did

nobody does that do they

or if they do it's pretty dumb

um

I'm also accused of uh they know that

I'm a racist they say because of my

right-wing politics

would any of you who have watched me

consider me right-wing

what's your opinion

do I do I present as right wing to you

yeah everybody everybody who knows me

knows the answer is no I'm not

right-wing

left to birdie

all right the other thing they say is uh

uh I called Black Americans a group as I

said but that was Hyperbole and within

within context everybody knows what that

means but it's hyperbole

um

and that I espoused racism

did I espouse racism or did I say you

should try to get away from it

I said you should try to get away from

it

which apparently is racism itself

but what do you do if you

if you can't discriminate

how do you get away from it

or do you just accept it is that a

requirement

all right here's my big question to you

um are there

look let me see if there are any black

Americans watching right now I have a

question for you

I did could you identify yourself any

black Americans

who are watching the live stream right

now just if you're willing identify

yourself because I have a question for

you

all right we got a few

here's the question

if you were looking for a home let's say

you were shopping for a new home or an

apartment

and the place that you were looking at

had a

Republican political signs around it

and let's say you saw the neighbors

wearing you know Maggie hats or

something

would you feel comfortable living there

go

would you feel comfortable in the

neighborhood of red hat wearing

Republicans

I'm saying no Okay so

yeah there's some yeses and there's some

no's some yeses

now suppose

and you know I know I know why there's a

difference let me tell you why there's a

difference

the difference is that conservative

blacks

already understand

um conservatives

so if you're actually a conservative

yourself you understand that they're not

judging you by your color

if you're not a conservative you think

they are

am I right

but but black conservatives know that's

not happening in fact it's the opposite

they they know that in the Republican

side

Republicans are really really strict

about it's not about anything but your

you know your contribution

you know what are you doing it's about

your activities now that's not to say

that there aren't a bunch of racist

uh Republicans

you know they're racists in all groups

but

you saw that in the comments there were

a number of people who said I wouldn't

feel comfortable I'm going to make uh

Teddy the the uh let me talk about the

victim narrative in a minute because

that's that's the NPC comment there are

two NPC comments I'll just say this now

uh one trying to explain the difference

between the between the First Amendment

and private companies deciding to cancel

me

and a lot of people tried to explain

that to me this week

because they think I don't understand

that

now only in NPC like a non-person uh you

know non-player character would believe

that I don't understand that

and that when I say that free speech is

expensive that somehow I've lost the

distinction between private companies

acting and a government rule this is

what you can say and what you can't say

I do understand that

I do

secondly the other NPC comment like the

the lowest level of analysis

is uh that I'm playing the victim

playing the victim

how could I describe this situation

without you saying that

how in the world could I simply

objectively describe what happened

without it sounding like you think I'm

you know I'm a victim

have you heard me say

oh now I won't be able to eat

no no

I'm kind of the opposite of playing the

victim but I am describing what happened

for example I incorrectly tweeted today

that I lost three careers

by being white

and somebody corrected me I was like

shoot I was pretty sure I had that right

the first one was Crocker National Bank

where my boss told me uh that white men

could not be promoted

directly now some people questioned

whether that ever happened and you just

have to ask anybody who lived in San

Francisco in the 80s or 90s it happened

to everybody like it was more like a

universal thing than some weird thing

that happened to one guy

so Crocker Bank said I couldn't be

promoted

and then I went to Pacific Bell

and after a few years they called me in

and my boss

told me directly you can't be promoted

because you're white

and your mail

so I left to become a cartoonist where

it wouldn't matter what color I was

how'd that work out

do you think I would be canceled if I

were not white

I know the answer but just answer do you

think if I were not white

that I would be canceled for saying

exactly what I said saying exactly the

same words

now there's not even there's not even a

small chance

there isn't the slightest chance now

this is purely racial

this is purely racial

you all know it there's not a single yes

going by there's not a single person who

believes I would have been canceled for

If I had not been white nobody

yeah somebody says yes if Asian I

suppose

to run MSNBC are they talking about me

all right

um

so I think we got agreement that it

makes sense to not live with near London

don't live near a population of people

who have been primed to have a bad

opinion of you

does anybody disagree with the statement

that it's good personal uh let's say

strategy

to go where you don't think people are

going to have a bad attitude about you

her says no agreement

let me explain one dissenter I had one

dissenter who said yes I would go to an

area

where uh where I was skeptical of the

people there

did anything I said

sounded like skepticism or a little bit

of you know questioning about him is

that really what we were talking about

because it's a matter of degree

and the people who can't understand it's

a matter of degree

are really missing the whole story

right

now

there are plenty of neighborhoods where

I might be skeptical or suspicious but

they don't rise to the level where it

would matter

but then there are other neighborhoods

where you're not just skeptical you're

scared to death

so if you replace skeptical was scared

for your life

well then you might get a closer answer

but

um

laughs

the the trolls on YouTube are pretty

pretty active and pretty funny today

yeah you all go to Chicago and tell them

you're colorblind somebody says

yeah anyway so I'll go to the uh

whiteboard in a second

um I asked on social media

if people are considering canceling

their newspaper subscription uh because

Dilbert got canceled you want to know a

fun economic fact

it would only take about three people to

cancel their newspaper subscriptions

for for the newspaper to lose money

because the the amount that they paid

for Dilbert

is so small per newspaper

that it would only take a handful of

people canceling that that they would

you know lose more money than they

gained by canceling it

um I also wonder if newspapers are so

close to being completely done that it

wouldn't take much to push him over the

edge

if for example by the way this is a

possibility this is an actual

possibility if for example newspaper

income went down 10 percent

because let's say there was a big

cancellation I don't recommend that by

the way I'm not in favor of boycotts I

don't like boycotts I don't like it when

it happens to me so I don't like it when

it happens to anybody

um

but if hypothetically newspapers lost 10

percent of Their audience because of

this that would push most of them into

the negative

because they're margins have shrunk and

shrunk and trunk the only reason they're

still in business I don't know if you

know this the reason that newspapers are

still in business is they used to have

gigantic margins

and they've they've shrunk to almost

nothing but there's still a little bit

there for some newspapers other

newspapers especially in the chains are

running at a loss

and it's because I'm a hedge fund owns

and they don't mind the loss or whatever

it is but a 10 drop in newspaper

subscriptions

might put half of the industry out of

business

it's a possibility so it's possibility

it's possible that Dilbert canceled the

entire newspaper industry but not a high

chance

not a high chance maybe a 20 risk

um

all right

so I gave an NPC assignment as I

mentioned on Twitter I said write a

write a tweet explaining how the First

Amendment doesn't apply to private

companies and I actually labeled it NPC

assignment

and then in the comments

you have to see how many people

sincerely tried to explain to me that

the First Amendment doesn't apply to

private companies

after I'd give them an NPS NPC

assignment to do it they did it

and not ironically

they thought I needed to know

all right

um and then this is my favorite critic

some individual who thinks he's gonna

Kyle Parrish who's running for congress

I guess North Carolina Fifth District

and I I don't like his chances

based on his tweet I don't like his

chances of getting elected so he said

how long before Scott Adams uh

Let's uh post a rant about men needing

to separate from women because they all

hate him

and I thought to myself

well

I've sort of already done that

you know not the hate part but I've

already endorsed the Mike Pence don't

have you know a meal with somebody who's

not your wife unless your wife is there

and it's for the same reason it's

exactly the same thinking

the thinking is while any individual

woman is fine

but the class of the the category of

people called women

have been uh very much let's say

programmed by the metoo uh narrative

which is you know a healthy a healthy

thing for society to have that but if

you're trying to avoid a class of people

who have been programmed by Society

women would be one of the groups so I do

recommend that you stay away from women

in a certainly in a work environment

where you're alone

so I wouldn't I wouldn't spend a time

alone with women

because women have been radicalized by

The Narrative to look for me tooing and

they're going to find it where a man

won't

if you spent the same amount of time

with men

your odds of being metooed would be

practically zero

if you spend a lot of time with women in

the workplace what are your actually

I'll ask you this if you if you have a

job where you personally spend a lot of

time with women

what are the odds you'd be accused of

misogyny or sexism

I think it's close to 100 isn't it

yeah if you're surrounded by women in a

work environment

for an extended period of time I would

say the odds go to 100 percent

so would it be good advice to ignore

that

or would it be a good advice to do what

Mike Pence does

and make sure everybody has equal

opportunity don't don't treat any woman

as there's something wrong with her

that's not fair

but just

treat it like a statistical fact

how about that

so that's bad uh critiquing if I agree

with you all right let's go to the

Whiteboard

I was reading CNN's uh

take down of me today

and I think so far the Press has done

the same trick and the trick is to use

just my quote

and to ignore the context which I

healthily added afterwards

so if you only concentrate on the quote

you can make it mean anything you want

but if you look at the context

it's harder

so I don't believe let me tell you what

the Washington Post did

oh my God thank you

uh uh right I I don't encourage you to

do gigantic

um

super chats but Ryan I appreciate it

all right uh here's what the Washington

Post did

if you heard my comments in context

they're they're much easier to go down

right that's why a number of black

pundits have looked at my comments in

context and then concluded oh that's

fine

I don't know if you know that but black

black people who are looking at it in

context are fine with it and they're

telling me every day privately and also

on Twitter

right now the ones who haven't looked

into the context

they're they're pretty worked up

they're pretty worked up

so here's what the Washington Post does

they start with the story of what I said

which is the thing that gets everybody

riled up they do add a little context

but it's at the end

if you have it at the end that's a hit

piece

right because they could have added it

at the front all you'd have to do is cut

and paste just cut the end put it up at

the top

here's how the story could have read

Adams made the following comments then

just show the comments

people interpreted it to be racist

Adam's uh addressed those comments the

following way

and then people who saw the comments

addressed decided it was actually

helpful

did I did I lie

is any of that a lie

it's not if you just said here's here's

the context

here's his additional explanations

people have looked at it are happy that

it wasn't racist or not what they

thought it was anyway and and that's the

end of it but but there's still uh an

outrage

would any of that be untrue it wouldn't

be now the way they wrote it was also

completely true

but it was written to mislead

intentionally

so look at the stories today Story

number one

the media and social media especially

lied to you about the source of the

Wuhan virus

right that's the media and now they're

lying to you about me but they're doing

it in this clever way where they just

arrange the information so it it's

presented as a lie but there are no lies

in it

there are no lies in it anywhere but

it's organized to present a lie

um

all right so here's here's the thing and

you can check this yourself

check any of the major media coverage of

me and see if you can find them

describing my explanation

of why the Rasmussen pole wasn't the

important part of the the thing

so by the way a number of people have

said hey that's just one poll

yeah we can't rely on one pole and

they're right

and I should have been more clear that I

was using the poll as a let's say an

introduction to the topic

but the bigger reason is not the poll

you could take the poll out of the story

and my point would be the same

but my uh

but my messaging would probably be

better so here's the real messaging

which I didn't do a good job of you know

in my off the cuff stuff we know we have

a situation in this country

in which

um there are indications of racial

discontent so there's Erasmus and pole

which we all agree cannot be relied on

just by itself

but I suppose the Rasmussen poll was off

by

a hundred percent

that'd be pretty big wouldn't it a poll

that's off by 100 so let's say that

instead of you know nearly half of black

respondents not being willing to say

that uh being white is okay that was the

poll

I suppose it was only half of that

or or the part or let's say I take out

the part of people who are just

unwilling to answer it

and just say well that's something

different

so suppose it's half that size

suppose it's a quarter of black

Americans thought about it and said yeah

I'm not willing to say being White's

okay would that change my point

you know would the larger point be

different

if the Rasmussen poll was off a lot like

just way off it wouldn't be any

different at all

but it also is very much in agreement

with a Gallup poll from a few years ago

this shows that race relations took a

dive I think around the time of Trayvon

Martin

and when the media found that they could

get a lot of money by gining up racial

hatred

so if you look at the the the Gallup

poll of race relations it sort of is

flat for years just years flat flat flat

Trayvon Martin and then it stays low

after that

why did it stay low was it just because

of one story

no it's because the media decided that

that kind of story

was the kind that really gets people

going

so the media decides that to feed us you

know non-stop white people are racist

stories because it's really good content

then you add to that the Eis and the Dei

and the uh the training that is now the

major narrative the thing that schools

are teaching the kids and the things

that corporations or corporations are

talking about and they're creating a

narrative

uh collectively and then social media is

a big part of this of course so if you

had the media I should have said media

not social media but if you add all

these forces they created narrative and

I won't say what the percentage is

but there is some amount of the black

population that's poisoned

they're just poisoned by the narrative

they are victims

they are literally victims now the white

population is just as much victims

you know in a different way because the

media is not telling us anything like

the truth

they didn't tell us about the Wuhan

virus right pretty much was it or

another story oh the Katie Hobbs story

I'm not sure that that's even true

we'll find out

don't know if the collapsing China is

true we don't know if the Ukraine war

stuff is true basically the media is

unreliable I guess you know that so no

matter what this populate what

percentage of the black population has

been poisoned by this narrative would

you agree with the following statement

that all of these forces are pushing it

into more

like whatever it is now it's there's

going to be more of it because the

forces that caused it are all in play

agreed all right so if you imagine that

the black population is victim which I

believe they are

victims

of

uh programming that is not in their best

interest

it looks like it's in their best

interest because you know the equity and

the fairness and stuff and there's a lot

of good there's probably a lot good in

there I'm not going to say it's all bad

right I'm just saying if you haven't

accounted

for the cost of it then you're not done

with the analysis

the benefits are obvious hey we'll treat

everybody better I like that

the cost is that there's a cost on the

white population

because they're demonized by the you

know the collective forces here

and that there is a predictable response

the predictable response at least one of

them should be to put some distance

between people who have been victimized

and are therefore weaponized

here's another word for it I would say

that the media and our education system

are weaponizing

part of the black population

to and not necessarily physical weapons

I'm talking about intellectually

weaponized

to have a

have an immediate uh

racial frame on things that maybe you

don't need a racial frame on okay

so that's the story so everybody who

says uh Scott you relied on Rasmussen

they're correct in their criticism that

the way I presented it looked like I was

relying on that that's a good criticism

but it's not I wouldn't have brought it

up except for this right this is the

reason I'm talking about it the

Rasmussen was you know just a sideshow

it was just an introduction to the topic

so here's what happened

see if this sounds familiar

to anything else you've ever seen happen

in public

here was the initial crime I advised I

gave some advice that everybody agrees

with

I gave some advice

that everyone agrees with black people

white people poor people rich people

everyone

literally everyone

and was it useful

was it useful

is it useful to know the costs and the

benefits of your policies or do you only

want to know the benefits

is useful

right well actually let me say maybe it

didn't turn useful

but the intention

the intention of everything I do on

Livestream is to allow people to think

more productively so that their lives

are better

does anybody doubt that

is right by here who thinks

that I'm doing any of this for money

like this stuff

it would be the worst way to make money

do you know how I make money or I used

to

keep my mouth shut and make Dilbert

comics

that's how you make money

that was a really good way to make money

I mean it ended it ended yesterday

but

uh so I'm unemployed at the moment I

guess this is monetized so

sort of a little bit

uh ego so he says ego

am I doing it for ego

it's a trick question

do I do this for ego

no you're too kind the answer is yes

but as I've told you many times I never

do anything for one reason

I never do anything for one reason I

mean there might be some exceptions but

I wouldn't do this for one reason

so people are saying hey ego

to which I say yes if I do good work

that people appreciate my ego will be

satisfied

see that's that's looking at all the

variables so I'm trying to be consistent

and look at all the variables

all right

so I gave some advice that everyone

agrees with that if there's a population

of people that has a has been programmed

this is the important part has been

programmed

to have a a feeling about you

this would include women in the B2 era

so in the Mike pen sense you should

avoid them it would include people who

have Trump signs and mega hats if you're

black

I would say maybe avoid that

neighborhood

is that bad advice

now I know most of you who are if you're

Trump supporters you say but wait we're

not racist don't do that and I agree

virtually I I don't know you don't mean

many racist conservatives you just don't

at least not in the sort of public

sphere

um but

is there anybody who would say

that there are no races in the

Republican world would anybody say that

there are no racist Republicans

now remember

one now they're racists in every group

they're clearly racists in every group

so if you were black should you take

into consideration that your neighbors

have a republican signs in the in the

yard

should you take that into consideration

well if you're a black conservative it's

a plus is you actually probably would be

treated better than most people if

you're black and left-leaning

you might have some

some hesitance

wouldn't you

now in all of these questions it's got

to be a matter of degree doesn't it if

your problem with another group was just

was somebody said skepticism

I wouldn't I wouldn't change where I

live because of some vague skepticism

uh and like likewise I would say that

Republicans are actually a pretty good

group to live around

so if you used your you know if for most

people it'd be a good place to live

but you might have uh feelings

that that group had been let's say

weaponized by the media

because a little bit of that is

happening there there's so many uh

videos going around of black people

beating up non-black people if you were

black does that worry you

oh let me ask that question

that's a good question

the the videos that get viral they seem

to be and there's one going around to

the black student beating a teacher

nearly to death

it's all over the place wouldn't you

agree those of you who are black who are

watching this wouldn't you agree that's

bad for you

that's like programming white people to

have a view that's not represented

right so what do you say that the

problem

is people being programmed

with uh bad thoughts now if you saw more

and more just hypothetically let's say

you're black and you saw more and more

of these videos and every one of them it

seems like oh my God it's like they're

really going after us now

wouldn't you think twice before you

moved into a neighborhood that you

thought had been programmed with that

frame of mind

I mean it seems like a reasonable thing

to do and yet they would say nothing

about all Republicans would it

would say nothing about all Republicans

it would just say that this is a group

of people who have been programmed

and especially lately

they've been programmed to have a let's

say a reflexive bad feeling about me so

wherever there are groups of people who

have been programmed programmed by the

media to have a reflexive bad feeling

about you I would avoid them

does anybody think that's a bad idea

anybody

no matter no matter what color you are

and no matter what is the you know

characteristic of the group you're

talking about

if if they've been programmed to not

like you by the media is that a factor

you should consider

right

so here's what happens so now now you

can see how the media works so I said

something that literally everyone agrees

with once they see it in context I I

will accept the criticism that I was not

as clear as I could have been

does everybody agree with that

I'm accepting that criticism that I gave

too much attention to one poll didn't

change the message but I gave too much

attention to it and

uh and I wasn't clear

yeah those things I can just be guilty

of that's fine but once you saw the

context

and especially people who know me

personally

they were they were pretty sure that it

was just good advice all right so I got

canceled everywhere uh there will be no

more Dilbert except on the locals uh

subscription platform

and then what happened then the cover-up

starts

because little by little more voices are

saying wait a minute what did you cancel

him for

okay I feel like I'm not getting the

whole contacts here

so I'll just tell you that a prominent

member of the media somebody whose name

you would know

who is black

uh contacted me today and said okay

there's something going on here because

my interactions with you suggest that

what you said in public doesn't make

sense like I like it was somebody who

thought that the person that they had

interacted with me

was inconsistent with a story that's in

the media

that's a media expert somebody who

literally lives and breathes the media

every day and looked at it and said this

doesn't look right

right

now as I told him his Instinct was good

there's something wrong here

's what's happening

so the the papers and everybody was

canceled me they canceled me from their

first impression

which I admit was awkward and it could

have been done better

once they realized that within context I

was simply giving advice that anybody

would agree with black or white

the cover-up begins because they're not

going to change the mind so you know

they're not going to change the minds

that would be too dangerous

so now they're saying that he said all

black people

are haters

did anybody hear me say that

because that's what the news is saying

now

or the people who believe they've seen

the news and so now they've turned it

into all

is there any scenario where I've ever

said that all members of a group have

some one thing in common ever

who would say that besides stupid people

like this isn't this isn't even racist

that would be just stupid

wouldn't it like wouldn't that be

literally just dumb

if you believed all of the members of a

group are thinking the same in fact

how many times have I said out loud or

tweeted

that all black people are not the same

all we've talked about all Hispanic

voters completely varied white voters

all over the place but do you believe

that I would imagine the Hispanic voters

are diverse and white voters are diverse

but black people are not

I mean who would have that opinion

nobody right so if you believe that I

had said this something about all black

people

you really need to check your reading

comprehension

and your news source

right uh

because nobody would say this

you know the the imagine if you can

imagine there's somebody in 2023

would have this point of view that

there's something about all black people

that's negative like all of them

no but literally nobody has that point

of view nobody

right but yet people have imagined that

I could have and said it out loud

um the one poll is unreliable but it

doesn't really relate to my point so

they have to make this poll uh they have

to artificially make it seem as if the

poll is the only thing I was keying off

of which it wasn't but I didn't clarify

so that's that's a good point

uh and then here's their best trick

they introduced the topic by calling it

a racist rant or a racist tirade

if the title of the article says racist

rant or racist tirade

is the media telling you the news

nope that's not the news that's a

narrative

that's that's that's an interpretation

is what that is and so the Washington

Post went you know full not fake news

but intentionally misleading news I

don't know what you would call that is

it fake if the facts are true but they

leave out context to reverse the meaning

it's kind of a fake news situation but

not exactly

right so this is uh this is what's by

week will look like

so all week nobody will disagree with me

I predict because nobody's going to

disagree with this

in private nobody disagrees black or

white nobody it's completely agreed

but they're going to turn it into

something I didn't say or something I

didn't rely on entirely or they're going

to label it so nobody knows what you're

thinking

that's how it works so if you're

wondering how the media cancellation

machine works

that's how

um

Anthony you're not wrong

explain how that's a hate group isn't

referring at all do you know what

hyperbole is

sir

so I was asked the question explain how

it's a hate group does not refer to all

of them

it would be the same way that I believe

that whites have been called the hate

group

Am I Wrong have have whites been called

a hate group because they're allegedly

so many white supremacists

can anybody find uh do you think if you

looked on social media do you see

anybody referring to white people as a

hate group

now if they did how would I interpret

that let's say theoretically somebody

said white people are a hate group what

is the reasonable way to interpret that

is the reasonable way that it means

everybody

is that reasonable is that good reading

comprehension I think he means every

person

or would you recognize hyperbole

and say oh he's making a point that

there are too many people in that group

who have negative views I don't know

what the percentage is but it's too many

right

so does anybody else have a question on

that

is that unclear

that hyperbole is an exaggeration that

people are supposed to recognize

in other words when you use hyperbole

you're you're saying something that's

technically not true

but you assume that everybody's a good

enough reader that they know what you

mean right

so let's say I say uh Republicans like

God

does that sound like all Republicans to

you

the the Republicans let's say

Republicans are religious

if I said that in public would you take

that as all of them

that's an actual question would you take

that as all of them

it's the way people talk

it's just a shorthand hyperbolic way to

talk about a group to make a point now

um

sounds like you do

yeah exaggeration is nearly 100 of

political discourse that's true

yep it's the way people think I don't

think anybody thinks in 100 anything

so generally it's the thing I get in

trouble for is

47 context yeah

Jet Magazine

I would ask do you mean most Republicans

yeah but what do you even need to ask

would you need to ask me if I met most

Republicans so that's my point

it's completely clear

hyperbole or exaggeration in this case

it's very clear what it is so you

shouldn't have to explain something

that is ordinary conversation hyperbole

but I do I do understand that people

um

can be fooled by it

no my uh my art director is still

employed

uh so Dilbert will still be created I'll

just be putting it on the

um locals platform

so you can find that at scottadams Dot

Scott Adams one

word.locals.com it's a subscription

platform

uh

boss says admit you felt like that your

whole life

uh felt like what my whole life I never

felt like the narrative was poisoning

black Americans

and that's that's really the Catalyst

for

the entire opinion so it's more like

what things have become and where

they're heading

all right

47 is too high

do you know that there is no apparently

there's no research on that

did you know that apparently there's no

research on the actual black attitudes

of white people except the Rasmussen

Bowl which I agree you know one bullet

doesn't tell you everything you need to

know

uh

uh five minutes to post it on Twitter

yeah

so here's why there's going to be a

little uh time lag and what's happening

has anybody noticed that the the

punditry is starting to turn my way

does anybody noticed that

day one it's all negative

but if you notice that people are

starting to deal with it the actual

question

yeah yeah the punditry at least on the

right is turning my way

uh but also both black and white

so and honestly

uh if this is going to sound super

racist but I'm gonna say it anyway

because yeah why not

uh the the black men who have looked at

this situation have been the closest

to understanding it

the black men for some reason the black

women who are weighing in have very

different opinions from the black men

you know maybe sort of generally in the

same direction but the way they express

is totally different and the black

manner mostly saying

I want to hear more that they're

actually interested in the content

they'd actually like to know and then

when they hear it they're like oh that's

a good point

that's the way it's going

so I guess that's racist because the the

black men have been generally the the

quickest to figure out what's going on

here

and I have a theory for that which is

that black women fear fear have more

risk

than black men in terms of just physical

social risk

and so if it sounds like you know you're

in a group that's getting some bad press

if you're a woman I think you'd be more

concerned

just because you you have physical

safety as well as everything else and I

think if you're a man you just worry a

little less about physical safety so you

can engage with the content a little bit

better

just a theory

yeah it might be a misogynistic Theory

remember it's just a hypothesis so if it

were

if it were a statement effect I would

have no grounding for it

all right uh

putting his own interest first and that

what

I said out loud that I'd be putting my

own interest first oh no I said

everybody should

I said everybody should put

is that wrong

that everybody should take care of their

own business and their family

uh

Disney just removed the TV series Disney

didn't have the TV series did they

are you saying that Disney had the TV

series

Hulu might have been on Hulu

you mean on Hulu right

not at Disney

but here's a little fun fact the Dilbert

TV show didn't make me money I mean

after the initial some initial money but

all of the uh the reruns uh that that

money gets Hollywood stolen

and what I mean Hollywood stolen they

calculate that their expenses were

greater than their revenue and they give

you nothing

but everybody knows that's going to

happen

yeah it's not on Disney Plus

maybe you meant Hulu

might have been there

and he packed on the dill burrito

yeah Disney was Hulu

uh

what was it all right

um on YouTube

did you see some commenters slam you for

quoting Don Lemon

uh what what way were they slamming me

because they don't like Don Lemon

uh yeah we'll get past all this business

pretty soon let's see Jackson says

you're basing this off of liberal polls

and viral videos

uh we mostly get along someone who's

believing woke stuff and get to know

them and challenge them instead of

running them you're based so so you're

missing everything I just said

Jackson you spend twenty dollars but you

missed everything I just said you're

saying this you're basing it off a

liberal poll no that was like the last

10 minutes saying I wasn't doing that

uh

and viral videos and I'm saying that the

viral videos

are misleading

which is what you're saying

so so here's here's the pattern the

pattern of the people who think they're

disagreeing are imagining something to

disagree with

and they're generally just agreeing with

me

did I watch Greg and Bill no

uh

oh my God

oh yeah we got a lot of viewers today

good for that all right is there

anything else going on that I haven't

talked about oh you're tired of talking

about me

uh

you are free now bring down the entire

establishment

how many hours of sleep do I get usually

four-ish

four hours or so

uh

yeah well you know the media picked up

Elon musk's comment and you know

Associated that with my story but I saw

his comment as more opportunity to

comment about the media and you know

less about my specific comments or my

situation

but I you know I appreciate that he made

a comment that you know enhances the

conversation so to speak

yeah so my Twitter users are uh going

crazy

so I might reach a million users

maybe in a few months we'll see

all right

um I think that's All For You on YouTube

I'm going to go talk to the locals

people for a little bit and

that's all for now

bye for now