Episode 2158 Scott Adams - Let's Chat About Headlines While You Sip Your Coffee & Pet Your Dog Or Cat

dude good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization possibly robot simple as a civilization but it's too early to know today will be a barn burner there there will be a whiteboard a whiteboard yes and uh single-sided but still thrilling I think you would agree now would you like to take your experience up to levels that nobody's ever seen ever um yes you would and all you need for that is a cup of Margaret a glass of tank your chalices tie in a canteen Jugger flask a vessel of any kind fill in with your favorite liquid I like coffee join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine you know the day thing makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip it happens now go ah all right well I think you all all you Americans know what tomorrow is that's right tomorrow will be the anniversary of the death of John Adams President John Adams and Thomas Jefferson little known fact Thomas Jefferson and John Adams who had been great uh they had done nemesis but then they became friends in later life and allegedly when was it when Jefferson was dying he said Adams is still alive or was it the other way around which way did it go when Adams died he said Jefferson's still alive it was Jefferson said Adams oh Jefferson still lives and they died same day yeah amazing well anyway let's talk about stuff um do you want to make me uh see if I can make a billion dollars sound like a small amount of money watch this here here's the power of contrast normally if I said to you hey I'd like to give you a billion dollars wouldn't you think that was a lot of money you would right because you'd be con contrasting that to what you already have I'm going to make a billion dollars sound like not a lot of money now you ready for this it has nothing to do with Ukraine um there's some estimates that the cage match between Zuckerberg and Elon Musk if it happened could charge a hundred dollars per person for pay-per-view and it would bring in over a billion dollars just one billion all right between the two of them they're like worth 300 billion dollars is there ever is there ever been a situation where somebody was worth combined 300 billion dollars fought for one billion dollars that goes to charity that it makes a billion dollars sound like a small amount wait wait are you telling me that Elon Musk is going to do a cage fight for only a billion dollars and it doesn't even go to him all right well I just thought it was interesting so uh you know I always tell you that the Summer Stories and politics are the the really stretching it to make a story out of nothing in order for a good summer story it has to be a story where there's no new facts because the reporters are on vacation so you want a story you could talk about endlessly but not have any facts so both sides are going to do it right they're you know the Democrats are going to talk about Trump's documents that they don't know what they are we still don't know what they are but if if it was about this it's bad you know the the if so the Republicans have their own version of that and so their version of the summer story is that uh Joe Biden won't recognize his own granddaughter the the child of the stripper which is a real messed up thing to say I hate that that came out of my mouth like I hate that I I hate that I accepted the frame let me can I chastise myself for a moment I just called I just called somebody's mother a stripper how up is that I mean that might accurately describe her her profession at some point I doubt she's doing it now but I don't know so yeah that's pretty that's pretty messed up that's pretty messed up I don't like when the news does it it's descriptive it's accurate it's just up it's somebody's mother I mean if you're talking about her in the context of being somebody's mother I know it's just wrong anyway so I I fell into the same trap so I apologize um but let me show you the story the story is that uh the Biden's Joe Biden and Jill don't recognize the uh can we say illegitimate the unmarried daughter of uh you know one night of fun between Hunter and a woman who may have had stripping in her past so and the story is that the the staffers at the White House have all been informed to say that Joe Biden has six grandchildren and she would have been the seventh so the story is that he's ignoring the grandchildren how could he not want to hug her and include her and all that stuff now here's my question to you knowing in advance that all stories about public figures are fake all of them they're all fake I know you don't believe that but when I say fake I don't mean that the details that are reported are untrue I mean that they're often reported with a frame or a framing or some context left out there's always something important left out don't you think there's something important left out of this story I don't know what it is but there's something important being left out now it could be you know if you had to speculate you know maybe there's something about the mom that if they if they mix it it just becomes bearable but I don't that doesn't really explain why you would deny the existence of the child you could simply not invite them to official things so wouldn't you say there's something terribly missing in the story because as written it doesn't make any sense if you tell me if you tell me that Jill Biden doesn't want to recognize your own granddaughter yeah I don't think there's any chance of that I'm sure she does so there's something going on I'm just going to leave it here I'm going to leave it with there's some fact about this that's just not true or not being reported and it could be that you know there's a reason that the Biden's don't want to tell us about it it might be something that's private or sensitive or creepy either May there could be 50 reasons that they don't want to talk about it so that puts some that makes them vulnerable so anybody else can frame it the way they want because they're not talking about it anyway it's just a summer story and I don't believe it's true and that's that's the nature of all summer stories they're not true or at least they're framed in a weird way all right um ending affirmative action according to polls was pretty popular this year's a breakdown according to one poll uh 75 percent of Republicans are in favor of it doesn't that seem low that only 75 percent of Republicans are in favor of ending affirmative action only 75 percent how could you actually be a Republican and be in favor of it it's almost like a it's like a definitional problem of some kind anyway but 75 of Republicans Independents are at 58 supported and even a solid 26 percent of Democrats approve of it um so that's a winner now let me ask you this I'm no expert on Supreme Courts and Supreme Court history and stuff but can you answer this question for me with the affirmative action ruling have happened the way it did overturning it if Trump had never been president if Trump had lost in 2016.

are you sure it's no because if he lost the conservative judges would have been liberal judges and and they would have kept it right so is why is nobody calling this a trump win why why is the news not reframing this as the one of the most popular things Trump ever did this is oh uh jacksopicus right so doesn't that seem like an obvious oversight by the news all right I remind you of my best prediction right my best predictions are the ones that are most contrarian all right so this is a super well I think it was contrarian actually maybe it's not maybe this is not contrarian because you might agree with me when when Trump lost the election in 2020 I predicted that Trump would be seen as a better president the longer time goes by that the longer you waited the better he would look right now look now look at the things that now that we've waited um you know that I had I had an experience with affirmative action it took me out at least four of my career attempts you know the four in a row I think and I was very happy that Trump did it I mean you're confirming what I thought that Trump was the agent of that change that's huge in in my mind and in my life it's really big it's a really really big deal and it's so big that unless Trump had started a war I would be happy if he only did that if that's the only thing he did I'd say he's one of our best presidents um so there's that but what else did Trump get right well let's look at how correct Trump looks right now uh and I'm going to give you one word and then you tell me if Trump looks smart and prescient all right one word France all right am I right Trump warned us he warned us about France he tried to stop it here and he may have he may have actually stopped it because I don't I don't actually know what the current situation is with immigration but we must be doing something right in this country even even under Biden what happened to Islamic terrorism what happened to it where'd it go how in the world did it just stop in in America in the Homeland now I my speculation is that this the what do you call it the uh what do you call it when the security state is spying on everybody the uh the what do you call it statement what's the word I'm looking for it's like not the investigation the you know what it is all right so the fact that everybody is being analyzed is surveillance the surveillance state I figure is the reason we're not getting um a huge terrorism problem I think I think that the government actually is sort of listening to everything and probably using AI so it's not people listening to us but I'm sure AI is listening to all of our traffic are you wouldn't you assume that to be true by now the AI is listening to all of the traffic everywhere it's just picking out the keywords and looking for terrorists but it must be good at it it must be good at it and I would imagine there's a reason that's good at it because AI is built on pattern recognition specifically language pattern recognition but you don't think that language pattern recognition could identify a terrorist pretty quickly I'll bet I'll bet that's one of the easiest things it can do there's no way that a terrorist talks like everybody else they they would almost certainly have a pattern to the way they approach things so yeah and you know did did was Trump behind that well that would be a top top top top top secret thing but I assume so I assume so when he was in office and I would assume that Biden's behind it too and whatever they're doing that's working because we're not friends so I don't know so I assume that France is you know wide open uh immigration is what causes them all the problems all right I'm going to give you one more word and you tell me if Trump gets the win for a problem that you wouldn't have caused you crave Ukraine right now we don't know for sure we don't know but there but there's a reasonable argument he could stop it soon and it wouldn't have happened there's a reasonable argument I'm not saying you could know that for sure um about uh this one's weird is it my imagination or has the hysteria about climate change seem to be tamped down it seems to be dampened lately because the events in the world are not are not supporting the data or the data is not supporting the hypothesis as smoothly as maybe it did in the past now that doesn't mean it's not true I'm not telling you the date is right or wrong I'm just saying that the the Zeitgeist or the way we're feeling about it is that I feel like this is just my sense of the you know where the society is at that we're just not as worried about climate change as we used to be for maybe a variety of reasons maybe it's big improvements in energy production might be that might be that the we're in a period where it doesn't seem to be getting hotter at the moment and of course we're all driven by anecdote so I mean you should know that we could go 20 years without any warming and Global and global warming could still be totally valid you understand that right that over any 20-year period it might not be getting any warmer but after that period baby it gets extra warm because there was some other might have been some you know counterbalancing thing that was going on for 20 years but as soon as the counter balance is gone then all the CO2 kicks in so so it doesn't mean much that there's a 20-year warming or a 20-year cooling either one because that's that's too short a period however Common Sense tells you that if you add 20 years of increasing CO2 and the temperature didn't go up I'm not saying that happened I'm just saying that as we observe it we're anecdotally driven right humans are anecdote if you see one example of something hey it's snowed today I guess there can't be any Global change or climate change so it seems to me that the anecdotes have became they have become unfriendly to the climate change hysteria is that true or not are you feeling that the anecdotes are not and the data is not supporting it like it used to a little little uh more sketchy scientific situation now that that would work toward Trump's favor right if we were in a like a serious frenzy about climate change there's no way Trump could win no way but in a world where everything everything that the scientists and experts have told us seems to be wrong how has climate change look now if we had never had the pandemic wouldn't climate change look more uh secure as a theory it would because we'd be believing all those experts wouldn't we uh well the experts said so experts said so I guess the experts say so so what are we going to do we're just unwashed citizens those those experts but now that now that we basically don't trust experts the entire climate change argument lives on one thing one thing experts that's it the because you and I can't penetrate climate change right what did you do your own analysis did you did do you have your own climate change model no we have no access to it we only have access to the experts telling us stuff so in a world in which all experts have been discredited 2023 doesn't Trump look better than he's ever looked on the topic of climate change and not because he's right I'm not saying that I'm just saying that that where the you know the energy is moving is very it's very moving in this direction and there's no way around that it's moving in this direction how about this one what person I think I gave you this statistic the other day which I don't remember what percentage of the General Public thinks the 2024 election has a good chance of being rigged it turns out it's pretty high whether you're a Democrat or a Republican or an independent it's pretty high right now does that hurt Trump or help him it helps them right because Trump is the the experts have lied to you guy that's who he is he's the experts are lying to you let's figure out what to do about it so in a world in which all of us are becoming convinced that the experts are flawed way more than we understood the guy who's been saying here for years is looking pretty smart so if you put that all together France affirmative action Ukraine war climate change and then trust in the elections and then then you throw in energy policy where Trump dominates you throw in you know Biden's embarrassment do you remember when we used to say that we'd be embarrassed if Trump went overseas and represented the country doesn't that seem funny now we we would be embarrassed we were told embarrassed as Citizens we'd be embarrassed if Trump was the person who represented us overseas how's that feel now it's 2023 we're sending Joe Biden's decomposed bag of bones to represent us you feeling good about that oh yeah America's back we're back we got Joe Biden over there tearing it up overseas man do they respect that guy oh they respect him so not like Trump oh no no no they were just laughing at Trump behind his back I'm sure they've never laughed about Joe Biden behind his back no do you think Joe Biden has ever done anything that would cause an overseas leader to to like chuckle a little bit when they're drinking their tea with their pinky how do they call just ever I think so so you could you could pretty much go down right down the line of everything that Trump was you know pillar pilloried for is that a word I've never used before I've never used that word pillory I've read it I I think it fits does that fit here he was pillow read right like put it in a pillar pillory I don't know where that comes from but he was pillow read let's say he was pillory a very good word if you're at home and you're listening to this um go with your impulse because right now you desperately want to say pilloried out loud if there's nobody around by your pet which is the way you should consume this yeah you can consume it with a pet uh while jogging on the beach or even boxing with your brother any one of those things is fine but say pilloried all right you know you want to all right here's the funniest tweet of the week I'm giving credit to Ricky Schlott who I think is a real woman r-i-k-k-i Ricky um but there's also a big story about remember I told you a story about a woman I wasn't sure she was real but then she apologized I thought she was now people are saying there was always a bot it's pretty disturbing because anyway uh but this is a different story so New York Times reported this so here's a tweet from The New York Times to build a diverse class of students the medical school at UC Davis ranks applicants by the disadvantages they have faced the disadvantage scale helped turn UC Davis into one of the most diverse medical schools in the U.S can it work nationally so that's what the New York Times tweeted and then Ricky schlot tweeted this because everyone wants their brain surgeon to be as disadvantaged as possible if I had a microphone now I would drop it I'm going to use my spare lavalier plugin drop that's right yeah when I pick a brain surgeon I'd like to know that they had a really tough life maybe you still have an attitude about it now when I talk about reality and parody merging here's your perfect example because what makes this funny is that she didn't make anything up that's why it's funny it's funny because you can simply describe it in accurate terms and it'll make you laugh you can describe it in neutral accurate terms and it will still make you laugh that's absurdity and reality merging see if if it were just an absurdity that you needed to make up some fun stuff about it to make fun of it that would not be reality in parody merging that's just parody but when you can just simply describe it with ordinary words and it's hilarious that's a problem that's too far that's too far um but I look forward to a time five years from now when a highly qualified black doctor will be judged to be one of the best doctors because otherwise how could you get through that whole system and uh I honestly I feel like black Americans got a huge promotion I don't think they they feel that way I understand it because something is taken away from them in the short term and it definitely is so they're losing something in the short term but what they're getting back is respect you only get one and you made the right choice you know what's weird I want to see if I can get agreement on this it's a weird observation so white people have had this uh interesting time lately with the affirmative action ruling where we get to sort of hide in the crack and and we get to say well you know this is sort of between you Asian Americans and you black Americans and we're just watching yeah leave us out of this you guys you guys duke it out uh we'll just call the plays as we see them but this is not about us keep us out of this you get you guys go wild hey you guys work it out work it out we'll just go with whatever you decide hey whatever you guys decide that's okay with us we're not part of this but here's here's the thing I realized the other day yeah I was in a conversation uh recently that was some class that had exactly you know one or two Asian Americans in the whole class and one of them was valedictorian right and we both laughed it was just both laughed because it's sort of you know uh stereotypical now here's the thing a hundred percent I'm gonna I'm gonna make a exaggerated claim but I want to say if you agree with it or not uh a hundred a hundred percent of white people are completely aware that Asian Americans kill us in academics would you say that's true that a hundred percent of white Americans are completely aware that we're being lapped in academics by Asian Americans all right we agree now now here's here's the trick question you ready for this have you ever heard a single white American say something negative about that ever you have negative you've heard somebody say negative about that seriously what the state do you live in in what state is somebody complaining about Asian Americans doing really well in school I don't believe that I don't believe you've ever heard that no and here's here's the thing white Americans are just saying I don't know why you know maybe it's cultural maybe it's something else I don't know why it's just a fact and the only thing I feel about it here's my only feeling about it I'm sure glad they're in my country I'm sure glad they're invite they're inventing things for Americans I'm sure glad they're my doctors right if I if I see my optometrist and it's Asian American I think okay you did it the hard way that's what I want you studied I want you but isn't it weird that we don't you know I'm making a universal statement that's clearly not Universal but white people don't have a problem with that and I and you would think that they would you you would think that at least behind closed doors or in private conversations people would say bad things about that but it just doesn't happen it just doesn't happen I don't even know if that's important to anything but I've never heard anybody point it out that when white people talk about Asian Americans success we talk about it with respect the the one word that is universally there's just respect okay you did it you did it the way it's supposed to be done boom all right I'm going to show you a white board that's associated with that in a few minutes but a few other things I've decided that what would be fun would be um well let me start with some background those of you who have been in relationships let's say you've been married a long time I think you would agree with this no matter will get rid of Theron who doesn't know that you get hidden on this channel for all caps um you've been in the experience where you love your spouse and you you love spending time with your spouse but true or not if your spouse had to do a business trip and be away for a day you'd kind of really enjoy that day alone wouldn't you am I wrong even if you love your spouse love spending time with them but you know every now and then you get that day alone it feels great now the only reason it feels great is because you still have a spouse right it wouldn't feel great if you were single necessarily because you'd be like I'm lonely but as long as you've got that person there even if they're on the trip you're like oh I got the data do what I want so I thought I wonder if you could create an AI girlfriend who is uh who you you you take to be your girlfriend but she's always on a business trip she's just always on a trip oh you're definitely married but every day she'll call in a couple times on Zoom say Hey you know just got out of my meetings uh I want to check in with you what are you doing today and I wonder if I wonder if the feeling that you're you know you'd be pretending of course but the feeling that you do have a spouse they're just on a business trip checking in with you I wonder if it would make you feel better I don't know this is a funny thought I wouldn't take it too seriously all right um Ukraine's uh big uh counter-offensive uh it's racking up the gains let's say according to CNN they've gotten uh oh listen to this uh they've lost tremendous casualties and lots of military equipment but they do have something to show for it Ukraine has taken back nine square kilometers wait one night night square kilometers they're having a whole War to reclaim territory and the amount that they've reclaimed I could walk I could walk from one end to the other of the entire territory they've reclaimed after how many losses what 50 000 dead people and they got back uh like a nice baseball field sized area I mean it's bigger than that but right that's not good you probably saw this story I didn't know what to say about it but it's just ridiculous so this will be another one of those uh I'm going to just describe something with just ordinary language and watch how absurd it is I won't add anything this is just what actually happened you do you know Jamil Hill she's a woman who's very active in saying things usually about Black Americans and she thinks everybody's racist that's sort of the summary so she accused so Jamel Hill accused Asians of quote carrying the water for white supremacy for backing affirmative action decision Asian Americans carrying the water of white supremacy the the reason I didn't talk about it even though it's been in the news for a few days is that there's nothing to add to it right I like to add the absurdities of the story but it's already there like what the hell am I going to do with that story there's nothing you can do with that it's it's complete all right so I'll just tell you about it and let it go right there was a trump rally in a town of Pickens it says South Carolina there are only 3 400 residents but they've got 50 000 people to show up for the rally 3 400 people in the town fifty thousand went to the rally now some are saying that the energy is starting to favor Trump it's starting to look like that isn't it it started to look very much like that now too early to make a prediction and uh if you're joining me now I'm a single issue voter so I'm backing Rama Swami because he's tough on fentanyl so is Trump both of them are tough on fentyl um in terms of the Mexican cartels but if it's a tie I go with the younger man all right um there's some reporting that the Trump veteran staff members are saying that when Trump was allegedly holding up an Iran attack secret document that we heard about on the on audio recording that he really was not holding up that document because it doesn't really exist and he was just bullshitting with the reporters I don't believe any of that that doesn't sound true I I don't know what was true and maybe we never will goodbye Don for over capitalizing Don it was nice having you here but you're gone now all right uh so who knows about that story who knows there's still talk of a third party spoiler uh spoiler for the election do you think there'll be a serious Third Party candidate I think Cornel West is a third party but not a big one um and then the experts are saying if there's a third party candidate that would try to be a Centrist apparently they're a Centrist group what are they called they have a name no labels a Centrist group I couldn't think of their name I couldn't figure out their name because they didn't have good branding and the name of their group is no labels it's like maybe you should get a label you know what would work really good in this case when people can't remember the name of your organization a label get yourself a label that would work really well all right um so here's the funniest part of that the story the experts who probably are right they say that if this No Label Centrist thing going it would take more from the left than the right and it would guarantee that Trump won I don't know if that's true I suppose it would depend who that Centrist candidate was but I love the fact that everybody assumes the Democrats are too dumb to know that that that's just assumed that the Democrats presumably the last thing they'd want would be a president Trump so if they went ahead and voted for this non-bidden third party they would effectively just be electing Trump now people people are acting like that's just going to happen and it might I'm not saying it won't but isn't it funny that the only way it can happen is if Democrats are so dumb they don't know that they're voting against their own interests in the most obvious way you could ever vote against your own interest it'll be all over the news I mean long before you actually cast your vote the news would tell you people people listen to us on CNN if you vote for that third party you are electing Trump your worst nightmare don't do this don't don't push that ballot see this finger no don't do this finger thing with that ballot that will make your worst nightmare happen and everybody assumes they're going to do it anyway I don't have much to say about that but it's just funny that no matter how self-destructive a thing is you can count on 25 of the public doing it right yeah it's a terrible idea well let's sign up 25 of the public they'll do it how would you like to go to the go to the Titanic in a in a under tested submarine 25 of the public sign me up all right Dei is declining you can see the signs everywhere d i is diversity equity and inclusion so it's forced on a lot of companies through social and other forces but I guess De.

Santis is Banning Dei in Florida and that means only in universities because he doesn't have control of the corporations right am I right about that he's only Banning it in universities and schools just universities right correct you can't control the private companies then I saw at Wall Street Journal was saying that the staffs of Dei departments are being cut because if you hire less I guess the hiring is decreasing if you hire fewer people you don't need as much Dei because they're trying to get their diversity or something but that sounds like an excuse to cut the Dei staff that isn't giving you any profits and then we're seeing uh who said this this is also the Wall Street Journal Laura agricar nasdaq's Global head of diversity and equity and culture she said that they're seeing a dip in the interest of Dei so she's saying that the energy around Dei is conspicuously down ah is that good or bad for Trump well it suggests that the Zeitgeist is moving in his Direction if it were moving toward Dei that would be a bad sign for Trump if it's moving away from Dei and away from affirmative action that feels like the public is is shifting a little in a trumpian way even if they don't know it so I would say that all of the forces in the world seem to be lining up to make Trump your next president now I promise you a whiteboard whiteboard begins now so I'm going to show you my take on the affirmative action ruling and the let's say the context of all of that so here's how I see the world and I would like as my gift to Black America to solve all your problems right here all right so the American success plan is usually the same if you want to succeed you first have to get rid of your obstacles right if you have an obstacle to success logically would you how many of you would agree if you have an obstacle to success and you want to succeed do you not need to remove your obstacle first yes or no oh somebody says no interesting interesting it's because you're way ahead of me isn't it some of you say yes we'll get to that all right so let's say you've got obstacles you've got to get rid of and let's say one of your obstacles is systemic racism and systemic racism could be connected to a bunch of other problems you've got from poverty to maybe poor nutrition you're in a crime neighborhood too many drugs Etc the ETC on this is doing a lot of work uh but you also if you if you can handle your obstacles you can find a way around them then you'd also have a strategy and your strategy might be study continuously build a talent stack you know learn things all the time it's always good for Success you'd want to stay off drugs and obey the law and here again the ETC is doing a lot of work right you'd want to network you'd want to you know there's a whole bunch of things you dress right so there's a whole bunch of things that we could all name that would be your strategies for success now in my opinion and here's where I'm going to get in trouble it's great to have free speech if you ever get a chance to have free speech like I have that most of you don't it's really awesome it's a great feeling to be able to say whatever you think is true and helpful all right now I try to use my free speech just to be helpful and this would be an example right if you're an Asian American do you have any systemic racism I'd say yes historically most people would agree yes and do any Asian Americans come over here with any problems of poverty and bad nutrition probably there are plenty of poor people of all types Etc but in my opinion what I see is that the Asian American community works on their strategies for success and you know what that does but what happens if you work on your strategies and you ignore your obstacles it removes all your obstacles it removes your obstacles because if you've got a really good skill set nothing's going to stop you nothing if you're not doing drugs you stay down to jail and you developed useful skills that the world wants nothing's going to stop you no you're you're soon will fix your own nutrition your poverty will be fixed your systemic racism might still be there but you wouldn't even notice it you slice through it like it didn't exist so I believe that the the Black American strategy for success is accidentally backwards accidentally is accidentally backwards and I believe that we're being we all of us are being sold an idea that if you don't remove the obstacles to success systemic racism being at the Top If You Don't remove these black Americans are going to be you know depressed and suppressed because they won't have the same level of success Asian Americans do it the other way around they get themselves right they fix themselves and then all this becomes irrelevant so this is the biggest thing that black Americans probably need to imitate success is mostly imitation imitation there's no there's no uh there's no there's no crime to be imitators right I learned to be a cartoonist by imitating other cartoonists right so imitation is the way to succeed you look at other people what did they do and then you try to do that thing and what works for every person black Asian American anything else Hispanic American you name it what works for everybody is this park you do this part first you don't ignore the obstacles you know if there are people who want to be working on those directly that's great but if everybody did this you wouldn't even talk about that it would just disappear in time right and that ladies and gentlemen is my contribution to Black America I believe that if every black American took the free assets that are available and I'm a perfect example I could give you advice on how to do this right I really could a lot of people could I write books on it so you can buy my books and you know how to fail to almost everything and still win big tells you exactly and in a pretty easy way how to do the strategies right to succeed Black America because I have freedom of speech I got it the hard way but let me tell you if you do this work on this strategy first the other stuff is going to disappear in importance in a fairly quick period of time but if you work on the you know focusing on the obstacles and you tell yourself well there's no point in working on myself because I got all these obstacles you will be guaranteed to fail and honestly it's going to be hard to care it's gonna it's gonna be hard for other people to care about you right do you know why Asian Americans never had Asian American lives matter because nobody questioned it wasn't a question nobody even thought about it of course they do the reason that black Americans wanted to make sure that black lives matter is it felt like they didn't it just felt like they didn't but if you want to make black lives matter stop working on this side that's not how you get there this is a false path these are all real things there really is systemic racism you know I'm I'm a big believer in it but you need to ignore it if you want to personally succeed if you want to personally succeed work on strategies the rest of it will become irrelevant pretty quickly really quickly now you might say to me Scott you're being simplistic because the reason you can't work on those personal strategies is you're you're in such a bad situation to which I say that is a loser's strategy or a loser's philosophy if you believe you can't because you have obstacles well then you can't somebody smart said that once if you believe you can't you're right if you believe you can you're probably right so this is my contribution I do it at obviously great personal risk but I'm in a position where I could do that and so I thought it was useful and I only do it because it's useful it probably looks like I'm trying to get clicks but not this this is only because I think it's useful and that ladies and gentlemen concludes our presentation for today You.

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and Thomas Jefferson

little known fact Thomas Jefferson and

John Adams who had been great uh they

had done nemesis

but then they became friends in later

life

and allegedly

when was it when Jefferson was dying he

said Adams is still alive or was it the

other way around which way did it go

when Adams died he said Jefferson's

still alive

it was Jefferson said Adams oh Jefferson

still lives

and they died same day yeah amazing well

anyway let's talk about stuff

um

do you want to make me uh see if I can

make a billion dollars sound like a

small amount of money

watch this here here's the power of

contrast

normally if I said to you hey I'd like

to give you a billion dollars

wouldn't you think that was a lot of

money

you would right because you'd be con

contrasting that to what you already

have

I'm going to make a billion dollars

sound like not a lot of money now you

ready for this it has nothing to do with

Ukraine

um there's some estimates that the cage

match between Zuckerberg and Elon Musk

if it happened could charge a hundred

dollars per person for pay-per-view and

it would bring in over a billion dollars

just one billion

all right between the two of them

they're like worth 300 billion dollars

is there ever is there ever been a

situation where somebody was worth

combined 300 billion dollars fought for

one billion dollars that goes to charity

that it makes a billion dollars sound

like a small amount

wait wait are you telling me that Elon

Musk

is going to do a cage fight for only a

billion dollars

and it doesn't even go to him

all right well I just thought it was

interesting

so uh you know I always tell you that

the Summer Stories and politics are the

the really stretching it to make a story

out of nothing in order for a good

summer story it has to be a story where

there's no new facts

because the reporters are on vacation so

you want a story you could talk about

endlessly

but not have any facts so both sides are

going to do it right they're you know

the Democrats are going to talk about

Trump's documents that they don't know

what they are we still don't know what

they are but if if it was about this

it's bad you know the the if

so the Republicans have their own

version of that and so their version of

the summer story is that uh Joe Biden

won't recognize his own granddaughter

the the child of the stripper

which is a real messed up thing to say

I hate that that came out of my mouth

like I hate that I I hate that I

accepted the frame

let me can I chastise myself for a

moment

I just called I just called somebody's

mother a stripper

how up is that

I mean that might accurately describe

her her profession at some point I doubt

she's doing it now but I don't know

so yeah that's pretty that's pretty

messed up that's pretty messed up I

don't like when the news does it it's

descriptive

it's accurate it's just up it's

somebody's mother I mean if you're

talking about her in the context of

being somebody's mother

I know it's just wrong anyway so I I

fell into the same trap so I apologize

um

but let me show you the story

the story is that uh the Biden's Joe

Biden and Jill don't recognize the uh

can we say illegitimate the unmarried

daughter of uh you know one night of fun

between Hunter and

a woman who may have had stripping in

her past

so

and the story is that the the staffers

at the White House have all been

informed to say that Joe Biden has six

grandchildren and she would have been

the seventh so the story is that he's

ignoring

the grandchildren how could he not want

to hug her and include her and all that

stuff

now here's my question to you

knowing in advance that all stories

about public figures are fake all of

them they're all fake I know you don't

believe that but when I say fake I don't

mean that the details that are reported

are untrue

I mean that they're often reported with

a frame or a framing or some context

left out there's always something

important left out

don't you think there's something

important left out of this story I don't

know what it is

but there's something important being

left out

now it could be you know if you had to

speculate you know maybe there's

something about the mom

that if they if they mix it it just

becomes bearable but I don't that

doesn't really explain why you would

deny the existence of the child you

could simply not invite them to official

things

so wouldn't you say there's something

terribly missing in the story

because as written it doesn't make any

sense if you tell me if you tell me that

Jill Biden doesn't want to recognize

your own granddaughter

yeah I don't think there's any chance of

that

I'm sure she does

so there's something going on I'm just

going to leave it here

I'm going to leave it with there's some

fact about this that's just not true or

not being reported

and it could be that you know there's a

reason that the Biden's don't want to

tell us about it it might be something

that's

private or sensitive or creepy either

May there could be 50 reasons that they

don't want to talk about it

so that puts some that makes them

vulnerable so anybody else can frame it

the way they want because they're not

talking about it

anyway it's just a summer story and I

don't believe it's true and that's

that's the nature of all summer stories

they're not true or at least they're

framed in a weird way

all right

um ending affirmative action according

to polls was pretty popular this year's

a breakdown according to one poll

uh 75 percent of Republicans are in

favor of it

doesn't that seem low

that only 75 percent of Republicans are

in favor of ending affirmative action

only 75 percent

how could you actually be a Republican

and be in favor of it

it's almost like a

it's like a definitional problem of some

kind

anyway but 75 of Republicans

Independents are at 58 supported and

even a solid 26 percent of Democrats

approve of it

um

so that's a winner

now let me ask you this I'm no expert on

Supreme Courts and Supreme Court history

and stuff but can you answer this

question for me

with the affirmative action ruling have

happened the way it did

overturning it

if Trump had never been president if

Trump had lost in 2016.

are you sure it's no

because if he lost the conservative

judges would have been liberal judges

and and they would have kept it

right so is why is nobody calling this a

trump win

why why is the news not reframing this

as the one of the most popular things

Trump ever did

this is oh uh jacksopicus

right

so doesn't that seem like an obvious

oversight by the news

all right I remind you of my best

prediction right my best predictions are

the ones that are most contrarian

all right so this is a super well I

think it was contrarian actually maybe

it's not maybe this is not contrarian

because you might agree with me when

when Trump lost the election in 2020

I predicted that Trump would be seen as

a better president the longer time goes

by that the longer you waited the better

he would look

right

now look now look at the things that now

that we've waited

um

you know that I had I had an experience

with affirmative action it took me out

at least four of my career attempts you

know the four in a row I think

and

I was very happy that Trump did it I

mean you're confirming what I thought

that Trump was the agent of that change

that's huge in in my mind and in my life

it's really big

it's a really really big deal and it's

so big that unless Trump had started a

war

I would be happy if he only did that if

that's the only thing he did

I'd say he's one of our best presidents

um

so there's that

but what else did Trump get right

well let's look at how correct Trump

looks right now uh and I'm going to give

you one word

and then you tell me if Trump looks

smart and prescient all right one word

France

all right am I right

Trump warned us he warned us about

France he tried to stop it here

and he may have he may have actually

stopped it

because I don't I don't actually know

what the current situation is with

immigration

but we must be doing something right in

this country even even under Biden

what happened to Islamic terrorism

what happened to it

where'd it go

how in the world did it just stop in in

America in the Homeland

now I my speculation is that this the

what do you call it the uh

what do you call it when the security

state is spying on everybody the uh the

what do you call it statement what's the

word I'm looking for

it's like not the investigation the you

know what it is all right so the fact

that everybody is being analyzed is

surveillance the surveillance state

I figure is the reason we're not getting

um a huge terrorism problem I think I

think that the government actually is

sort of listening to everything and

probably using AI so it's not people

listening to us but I'm sure AI is

listening to all of our traffic

are you

wouldn't you assume that to be true by

now the AI is listening to all of the

traffic everywhere it's just picking out

the keywords and looking for terrorists

but it must be good at it it must be

good at it and I would imagine there's a

reason that's good at it

because AI is built on pattern

recognition

specifically language pattern

recognition but you don't think that

language pattern recognition could

identify a terrorist pretty quickly

I'll bet I'll bet that's one of the

easiest things it can do there's no way

that a terrorist talks like everybody

else they they would almost certainly

have a pattern to the way they approach

things so yeah and you know did did was

Trump behind that well that would be a

top top top top top secret thing but I

assume so

I assume so when he was in office and I

would assume that Biden's behind it too

and whatever they're doing

that's working because we're not friends

so I don't know so I assume that France

is you know wide open uh immigration is

what causes them all the problems all

right I'm going to give you one more

word

and you tell me if Trump gets the win

for a problem that you wouldn't have

caused

you crave

Ukraine

right now we don't know for sure we

don't know

but there but there's a reasonable

argument he could stop it soon and it

wouldn't have happened there's a

reasonable argument I'm not saying you

could know that for sure

um about uh this one's weird

is it my imagination or has the hysteria

about climate change

seem to be tamped down it seems to be

dampened lately

because the events in the world are not

are not supporting the data or the data

is not supporting the hypothesis as

smoothly as maybe it did in the past

now that doesn't mean it's not true

I'm not telling you the date is right or

wrong I'm just saying that the the

Zeitgeist or the way we're feeling about

it

is that I feel like this is just my

sense of the you know where the society

is at that we're just not as worried

about climate change as we used to be

for maybe a variety of reasons maybe

it's big improvements in energy

production might be that might be that

the we're in a period where it doesn't

seem to be getting hotter at the moment

and of course we're all driven by

anecdote so I mean you should know that

we could go 20 years without any warming

and Global and global warming could

still be totally valid you understand

that right

that over any 20-year period it might

not be getting any warmer

but after that period baby it gets extra

warm because there was some other might

have been some you know counterbalancing

thing that was going on for 20 years

but as soon as the counter balance is

gone then all the CO2 kicks in so so it

doesn't mean much that there's a 20-year

warming or a 20-year cooling either one

because that's that's too short a period

however

Common Sense tells you that if you add

20 years of increasing CO2

and the temperature didn't go up

I'm not saying that happened I'm just

saying that as we observe it we're

anecdotally driven

right humans are anecdote if you see one

example of something hey it's snowed

today I guess there can't be any Global

change or climate change

so it seems to me that the anecdotes

have became they have become unfriendly

to the climate change hysteria is that

true or not are you feeling that the

anecdotes are not and the data is not

supporting it like it used to

a little little uh more sketchy

scientific situation now that that would

work toward Trump's favor right if we

were in a like a serious frenzy about

climate change there's no way Trump

could win

no way

but in a world where everything

everything that the scientists and

experts have told us seems to be wrong

how has climate change look now

if we had never had the pandemic

wouldn't climate change look more uh

secure as a theory

it would because we'd be believing all

those experts wouldn't we uh well the

experts said so

experts said so I guess the experts say

so so what are we going to do we're just

unwashed citizens those those experts

but now that now that we basically don't

trust experts the entire climate change

argument

lives on one thing one thing

experts that's it the because you and I

can't penetrate climate change

right what did you do your own analysis

did you did do you have your own climate

change model no we have no access to it

we only have access to the experts

telling us stuff

so in a world in which all experts have

been discredited

2023

doesn't Trump look better than he's ever

looked on the topic of climate change

and not because he's right

I'm not saying that

I'm just saying that that where the you

know the energy is moving is very it's

very moving in this direction and

there's no way around that it's moving

in this direction

how about this one

what person I think I gave you this

statistic the other day which I don't

remember what percentage of the General

Public

thinks the 2024 election has a good

chance of being rigged

it turns out it's pretty high whether

you're a Democrat or a Republican or an

independent it's pretty high

right now does that hurt Trump or help

him

it helps them right because Trump is the

the experts have lied to you guy

that's who he is he's the experts are

lying to you let's figure out what to do

about it so

in a world in which all of us are

becoming convinced that the experts are

flawed way more than we understood the

guy who's been saying here for years is

looking pretty smart

so

if you put that all together France

affirmative action

Ukraine war climate change and then

trust in the elections

and then then you throw in energy policy

where Trump dominates

you throw in you know Biden's

embarrassment do you remember when we

used to say that we'd be embarrassed if

Trump went overseas and represented the

country

doesn't that seem funny now

we we would be embarrassed we were told

embarrassed as Citizens we'd be

embarrassed if Trump was the person who

represented us overseas

how's that feel now

it's 2023 we're sending Joe Biden's

decomposed bag of bones to represent us

you feeling good about that oh yeah

America's back we're back we got Joe

Biden over there tearing it up overseas

man do they respect that guy

oh they respect him so not like Trump oh

no no no they were just laughing at

Trump behind his back I'm sure they've

never laughed about Joe Biden behind his

back

no do you think Joe Biden has ever done

anything

that would cause an overseas leader to

to like chuckle a little bit when

they're drinking their tea with their

pinky how do they call just ever I think

so

so you could you could pretty much go

down right down the line of everything

that Trump was you know pillar pilloried

for is that a word I've never used

before

I've never used that word

pillory

I've read it I I think it fits does that

fit here

he was pillow read right like put it in

a pillar pillory

I don't know where that comes from

but he was pillow read let's say he was

pillory a very good word if you're at

home and you're listening to this

um go with your impulse because right

now you desperately want to say

pilloried out loud if there's nobody

around by your pet which is the way you

should consume this

yeah you can consume it with a pet

uh while jogging on the beach or even

boxing with your brother any one of

those things is fine but

say pilloried

all right you know you want to

all right here's the funniest tweet of

the week I'm giving credit to Ricky

Schlott who I think is a real woman

r-i-k-k-i Ricky

um but there's also a big story about

remember I told you a story about a

woman I wasn't sure she was real but

then she apologized I thought she was

now people are saying there was always a

bot

it's pretty disturbing because

anyway uh but this is a different story

so New York Times reported this so

here's a tweet from The New York Times

to build a diverse class of students the

medical school at UC Davis ranks

applicants by the disadvantages they

have faced the disadvantage scale helped

turn UC Davis into one of the most

diverse medical schools in the U.S can

it work nationally so that's what the

New York Times tweeted and then Ricky

schlot tweeted this

because everyone wants their brain

surgeon to be as disadvantaged as

possible

if I had a microphone now I would drop

it

I'm going to use my spare lavalier

plugin

drop

that's right yeah when I pick a brain

surgeon I'd like to know that they had a

really tough life

maybe you still have an attitude about

it

now

when I talk about reality and parody

merging

here's your perfect example

because what makes this funny is that

she didn't make anything up

that's why it's funny it's funny because

you can simply describe it in accurate

terms and it'll make you laugh

you can describe it in neutral accurate

terms

and it will still make you laugh

that's absurdity and reality merging see

if if it were just an absurdity that you

needed to make up some fun stuff about

it to make fun of it that would not be

reality in parody merging that's just

parody

but when you can just simply describe it

with ordinary words and it's hilarious

that's a problem that's too far that's

too far

um but I look forward to a time five

years from now when a highly qualified

black doctor will be

judged to be one of the best doctors

because otherwise how could you get

through that whole system

and uh I honestly I feel like black

Americans got a huge promotion

I don't think they they feel that way I

understand it because something is taken

away from them in the short term and it

definitely is

so they're losing something in the short

term

but what they're getting back

is respect

you only get one

and you made the right choice

you know what's weird

I want to see if I can get agreement on

this it's a weird observation

so white people have had this uh

interesting time lately with the

affirmative action ruling where we get

to sort of hide in the crack

and and we get to say well you know this

is sort of between you Asian Americans

and you black Americans and we're just

watching yeah leave us out of this you

guys you guys duke it out uh we'll just

call the plays as we see them but this

is not about us keep us out of this you

get you guys go wild hey you guys work

it out work it out we'll just go with

whatever you decide hey whatever you

guys decide that's okay with us we're

not part of this

but here's here's the thing I realized

the other day

yeah I was in a conversation uh recently

that was some class that had exactly you

know one or two Asian Americans in the

whole class and one of them was

valedictorian

right and we both laughed

it was just both laughed because it's

sort of you know uh stereotypical

now here's the thing

a hundred percent

I'm gonna I'm gonna make a exaggerated

claim but I want to say if you agree

with it or not

uh a hundred a hundred percent of white

people are completely aware that Asian

Americans kill us in academics

would you say that's true that a hundred

percent of white Americans are

completely aware that we're being lapped

in academics by Asian Americans all

right we agree now now here's here's the

trick question you ready for this

have you ever heard a single white

American say something negative about

that

ever

you have negative you've heard somebody

say negative about that seriously what

the state do you live in

in what state is somebody complaining

about Asian Americans doing really well

in school I don't believe that I don't

believe you've ever heard that

no and here's here's the thing

white Americans are just saying I don't

know why you know maybe it's cultural

maybe it's something else I don't know

why it's just a fact and the only thing

I feel about it here's my only feeling

about it

I'm sure glad they're in my country

I'm sure glad they're invite they're

inventing things for Americans I'm sure

glad they're my doctors right if I if I

see my optometrist and it's Asian

American

I think okay you did it the hard way

that's what I want

you studied I want you

but isn't it weird that we don't

you know I'm making a universal

statement that's clearly not Universal

but white people don't have a problem

with that

and I and you would think that they

would you you would think that at least

behind closed doors or in private

conversations people would say bad

things about that but it just doesn't

happen it just doesn't happen

I don't even know if that's important to

anything but I've never heard anybody

point it out

that when white people talk about Asian

Americans success we talk about it with

respect

the the one word that is universally

there's just respect okay you did it you

did it the way it's supposed to be done

boom all right

I'm going to show you a white board

that's associated with that in a few

minutes but a few other things I've

decided that what would be fun would be

um well let me start with some

background

those of you who have been in

relationships let's say you've been

married a long time I think you would

agree with this no matter

will get rid of Theron who doesn't know

that

you get hidden on this channel for all

caps

um

you've been in the experience where you

love your spouse

and you you love spending time with your

spouse but true or not if your spouse

had to do a business trip and be away

for a day

you'd kind of really enjoy that day

alone wouldn't you am I wrong even if

you love your spouse love spending time

with them but you know every now and

then you get that day alone it feels

great now the only reason it feels great

is because you still have a spouse

right it wouldn't feel great if you were

single necessarily because you'd be like

I'm lonely but as long as you've got

that person there even if they're on the

trip you're like oh I got the data do

what I want

so I thought I wonder if you could

create an AI girlfriend

who is uh

who you you you take to be your

girlfriend but she's always on a

business trip

she's just always on a trip oh you're

definitely married

but every day she'll call in a couple

times on Zoom say Hey you know just got

out of my meetings

uh I want to check in with you what are

you doing today and I wonder if I wonder

if the feeling that you're you know

you'd be pretending of course but the

feeling that you do have a spouse

they're just on a business trip

checking in with you I wonder if it

would make you feel better

I don't know this is a funny thought I

wouldn't take it too seriously all right

um Ukraine's uh big uh counter-offensive

uh it's racking up the gains let's say

according to CNN they've gotten uh oh

listen to this uh they've lost

tremendous casualties and lots of

military equipment but they do have

something to show for it Ukraine has

taken back nine square kilometers

wait one night night

square kilometers

they're having a whole War

to reclaim territory and the amount that

they've reclaimed I could walk

I could walk from one end to the other

of the entire territory they've

reclaimed

after how many losses what 50 000 dead

people

and they got back uh like a nice

baseball field sized area I mean it's

bigger than that but

right that's not good

you probably saw this story I didn't

know what to say about it but it's just

ridiculous so this will be another one

of those uh I'm going to just describe

something with just ordinary language

and watch how absurd it is I won't add

anything

this is just what actually happened you

do you know Jamil Hill

she's a woman who's very active in

saying things usually about Black

Americans and she thinks everybody's

racist that's sort of the summary

so she accused so Jamel Hill accused

Asians of quote carrying the water for

white supremacy for backing affirmative

action decision

Asian Americans carrying the water of

white supremacy

the the reason I didn't talk about it

even though it's been in the news for a

few days is that there's nothing to add

to it

right I like to add the absurdities of

the story but it's already there

like what the hell am I going to do with

that story

there's nothing you can do with that

it's it's complete

all right so I'll just tell you about it

and let it go

right there was a trump rally in a town

of Pickens

it says South Carolina there are only 3

400 residents but they've got 50 000

people to show up for the rally

3 400 people in the town

fifty thousand went to the rally

now

some are saying that the energy is

starting to favor Trump

it's starting to look like that isn't it

it started to look very much like that

now too early to make a prediction and

uh if you're joining me now I'm a single

issue voter so I'm backing Rama Swami

because he's tough on fentanyl so is

Trump both of them are tough on fentyl

um in terms of the Mexican cartels but

if it's a tie I go with the younger man

all right

um

there's some reporting that the Trump

veteran staff members are saying that

when Trump was allegedly holding up an

Iran attack secret document that we

heard about on the on audio recording

that he really was not holding up that

document because it doesn't really exist

and he was just bullshitting with the

reporters

I don't believe any of that

that doesn't sound true

I I don't know what was true and maybe

we never will

goodbye Don for over capitalizing

Don it was nice having you here but

you're gone now

all right uh so who knows about that

story

who knows

there's still talk of a third party

spoiler uh

spoiler for the election

do you think there'll be a serious Third

Party candidate

I think Cornel West is a third party but

not a big one

um and then the experts are saying if

there's a third party candidate that

would try to be a Centrist apparently

they're a Centrist group

what are they called

they have a name no labels a Centrist

group I couldn't think of their name

I couldn't figure out their name because

they didn't have good branding and the

name of their group is no labels it's

like maybe you should get a label

you know what would work really good in

this case when people can't remember the

name of your organization

a label

get yourself a label that would work

really well all right

um so here's the funniest part of that

the story

the experts who probably are right they

say that if this No Label Centrist thing

going it would take more from the left

than the right and it would guarantee

that Trump won I don't know if that's

true I suppose it would depend who that

Centrist candidate was

but I love the fact that everybody

assumes the Democrats are too dumb to

know that

that that's just assumed

that the Democrats presumably the last

thing they'd want would be a president

Trump so if they went ahead and voted

for this non-bidden third party they

would effectively just be electing Trump

now people people are acting like that's

just going to happen

and it might I'm not saying it won't

but

isn't it funny

that the only way it can happen is if

Democrats are so dumb they don't know

that they're voting against their own

interests in the most obvious way you

could ever vote against your own

interest it'll be all over the news I

mean long before you actually cast your

vote the news would tell you people

people listen to us on CNN if you vote

for that third party you are electing

Trump your worst nightmare don't do this

don't don't push that ballot see this

finger no don't do this finger thing

with that ballot that will make your

worst nightmare happen

and everybody assumes they're going to

do it anyway

[Laughter]

I don't have much to say about that but

it's just funny that no matter how

self-destructive a thing is you can

count on 25 of the public doing it

right yeah it's a terrible idea well

let's sign up 25 of the public they'll

do it how would you like to go to the go

to the Titanic in a in a under tested

submarine

25 of the public

sign me up

all right Dei is declining you can see

the signs everywhere d i is diversity

equity and inclusion

so it's forced on a lot of companies

through social and other forces but I

guess DeSantis is Banning Dei in Florida

and that means only in universities

because he doesn't have control of the

corporations right am I right about that

he's only Banning it in universities and

schools just universities right

correct you can't control the private

companies

then I saw at Wall Street Journal was

saying that the staffs of Dei

departments are

being cut

because if you hire less I guess the

hiring is decreasing if you hire fewer

people you don't need as much Dei

because they're trying to get their

diversity or something but that sounds

like an excuse to cut the Dei staff that

isn't giving you any profits

and then we're seeing uh who said this

this is also the Wall Street Journal

Laura agricar nasdaq's Global head of

diversity and equity and culture she

said that they're seeing a dip in the

interest of Dei so she's saying that the

energy around Dei is conspicuously down

ah

is that good or bad for Trump

well it suggests that the Zeitgeist is

moving in his Direction

if it were moving toward Dei that would

be a bad sign for Trump if it's moving

away from Dei and away from affirmative

action that feels like the public is is

shifting a little in a trumpian way even

if they don't know it

so I would say that all of the forces in

the world seem to be lining up to make

Trump your next president now

I promise you a whiteboard

whiteboard begins now

so I'm going to show you my take

on the affirmative action ruling and the

let's say the context of all of that

so here's how I see the world

and I would like as my gift to Black

America

to solve all your problems right here

all right

so the American success plan is usually

the same if you want to succeed you

first have to get rid of your obstacles

right if you have an obstacle to success

logically would you how many of you

would agree if you have an obstacle to

success and you want to succeed do you

not need to remove your obstacle first

yes or no

oh somebody says no interesting

interesting it's because you're way

ahead of me isn't it some of you say yes

we'll get to that all right so let's say

you've got obstacles you've got to get

rid of and let's say one of your

obstacles is systemic racism and

systemic racism could be connected to a

bunch of other problems you've got from

poverty to maybe poor nutrition you're

in a crime neighborhood too many drugs

Etc the ETC on this is doing a lot of

work

uh but you also if you if you can handle

your obstacles you can find a way around

them then you'd also have a strategy and

your strategy might be study

continuously build a talent stack you

know learn things all the time it's

always good for Success you'd want to

stay off drugs and obey the law and here

again the ETC is doing a lot of work

right you'd want to network you'd want

to you know there's a whole bunch of

things you dress right so there's a

whole bunch of things that we could all

name

that would be your strategies for

success now in my opinion and here's

where I'm going to get in trouble

it's great to have free speech if you

ever get a chance to have free speech

like I have that most of you don't it's

really awesome

it's a great feeling to be able to say

whatever you think is true and helpful

all right now I try to use my free

speech just to be helpful and this would

be an example right if you're an Asian

American

do you have any systemic racism

I'd say yes historically most people

would agree yes and do any Asian

Americans come over here with any

problems of poverty and bad nutrition

probably there are plenty of poor people

of all types Etc but in my opinion what

I see is that the Asian American

community

works on their strategies for success

and you know what that does

but what happens if you work on your

strategies and you ignore your obstacles

it removes all your obstacles it removes

your obstacles

because if you've got a really good

skill set nothing's going to stop you

nothing if you're not doing drugs you

stay down to jail and you developed

useful skills that the world wants

nothing's going to stop you no you're

you're soon will fix your own nutrition

your poverty will be fixed your systemic

racism might still be there but you

wouldn't even notice it you slice

through it like it didn't exist

so I believe that the the Black American

strategy for success is accidentally

backwards

accidentally is accidentally backwards

and I believe that we're being we all of

us are being sold an idea that if you

don't remove the obstacles to success

systemic racism being at the Top If You

Don't remove these black Americans are

going to be you know depressed and

suppressed because they won't have the

same level of success

Asian Americans do it the other way

around they get themselves right they

fix themselves

and then all this becomes irrelevant

so this is the biggest thing that black

Americans probably need to imitate

success is mostly imitation

imitation there's no there's no uh

there's no

there's no crime to be imitators right I

learned to be a cartoonist by imitating

other cartoonists right so imitation is

the way to succeed you look at other

people what did they do and then you try

to do that thing

and what works for every person

black

Asian American anything else Hispanic

American you name it what works for

everybody is this park you do this part

first

you don't ignore the obstacles you know

if there are people who want to be

working on those directly that's great

but if everybody did this you wouldn't

even talk about that it would just

disappear in time

right and that ladies and gentlemen

is my contribution to Black America I

believe that if every black American

took the free assets that are available

and I'm a perfect example I could give

you advice on how to do this right

I really could a lot of people could I

write books on it so you can buy my

books and you know how to fail to almost

everything and still win big tells you

exactly and in a pretty easy way

how to do the strategies right to

succeed

Black America

because I have freedom of speech I got

it the hard way but let me tell you if

you do this

work on this strategy first

the other stuff is going to disappear in

importance in a fairly quick period of

time

but if you work on the you know focusing

on the obstacles and you tell yourself

well there's no point in working on

myself because I got all these obstacles

you will be guaranteed to fail and

honestly it's going to be hard to care

it's gonna it's gonna be hard for other

people to care about you right do you

know why Asian Americans never had Asian

American lives matter

because nobody questioned it

wasn't a question nobody even thought

about it of course they do

the reason that black Americans wanted

to make sure that black lives matter is

it felt like they didn't it just felt

like they didn't

but if you want to make black lives

matter

stop working on this side that's not how

you get there this is a false path

these are all real things there really

is systemic racism you know I'm I'm a

big believer in it but you need to

ignore it if you want to personally

succeed if you want to personally

succeed work on strategies the rest of

it will become irrelevant pretty quickly

really quickly now you might say to me

Scott you're being simplistic

because the reason you can't work on

those personal strategies is you're

you're in such a bad situation

to which I say that is a loser's

strategy or a loser's philosophy if you

believe you can't because you have

obstacles well then you can't somebody

smart said that once if you believe you

can't you're right

if you believe you can you're probably

right

so this is my contribution I do it at

obviously great personal risk

but I'm in a position where I could do

that and so I thought it was useful and

I only do it because it's useful it

probably looks like I'm trying to get

clicks but not this

this is only because I think it's useful

and that ladies and gentlemen concludes

our

presentation for today YouTube I'll talk

to you tomorrow