Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1006 Scott Adams： Brainwashing the Public, Enemy of the People, Social Media Censorship, China and More

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00:00:13.480 It's time to talk about all the fire and protesting and looting and shooting

00:00:19.720 Well, we hope there's more looting than shooting

00:00:22.880 Do we? I don't know, I guess that would be a toss-up, depending on your point of view

00:00:27.980 but as you pour in here to experience the delight which is coffee with scott adams

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00:00:49.280 fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure

00:00:55.040 the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better including the riots including

00:01:00.680 the pandemic which i kind of forgot about it's called the simultaneous hip and it happens now go

00:01:07.680 yes i feel the crowds dispersing uh-huh one sip is all it took

00:01:17.800 well the weather is good and the people have been locked up

00:01:23.180 at home too long and it's time for some protesting

00:01:26.260 yeah some protesting we're all going to pretend it's all real today uh in fact none of it's real

00:01:34.340 it's all it's all the result of brainwashing the brainwashing of course starts with fake

00:01:39.480 statistics about who's killing who most people believe they're real statistics but they're fake

00:01:44.960 uh and then of course the the sides are chosen and the media narratives come out and people are assigned

00:01:54.980 their opinions and once people have been assigned their opinions they know which side they're on and

00:01:59.680 then they go fight and when they fight they burn cars and they create good visual effects and the

00:02:06.140 people who brainwash them in the first place film the stuff that's on fire and then make money from it

00:02:13.620 by selling uh ads to pharmaceutical companies

00:02:16.940 i told you that i had started a new cartoon that basically is going to mock cnn

00:02:22.480 it's called robots read news it's just a robot who never moves he just reads the news

00:02:27.620 so here's today's let me see let me ask you do you think that the comic i'm going to read

00:02:34.820 you don't really need to see it because it's just a robot looking at you

00:02:37.660 do you think that this accurately captures cnn so the robot reading news says in today's news we

00:02:45.560 frame a military veteran and actively participate in a coup against the legally elected government

00:02:51.360 then we'll whip up some racial frenzy and make money from pharmaceutical ads while we film while we 0.99

00:02:58.280 film you burning each other's shit in other news protesters are attacking our headquarters 0.98

00:03:03.760 and we don't know what we did to deserve it does that kind of describe what we're seeing now the 0.98

00:03:11.320 weird thing is i told you that it's hard to make a comic that's absurd enough that it doesn't match

00:03:17.580 real life everything i just read is actually right from real life i didn't have to make up anything

00:03:25.100 they did literally frame a military veteran they spent years doing that they did participate in a coup

00:03:32.680 against the legally elected government they really did that that actually happened

00:03:37.000 um and then they're whipping up a racial frenzy and they're making money off it by selling 0.99

00:03:42.500 pharmaceutical ads and they are they are monetizing the filming of citizens burning each other's shit 1.00

00:03:49.620 because they whipped us into a frenzy and caused us to burn each other's shit 0.97

00:03:55.600 and then their headquarters did get attacked i didn't make up a single thing everything in this comic 0.68

00:04:04.320 actually literally specifically happened i couldn't get on the other side of parody sometimes the parody

00:04:12.580 hill is too high you're like uh i'm gonna find reality and then i'm gonna take it a little bit further

00:04:18.580 because that's what makes it a joke and then you can't what what do i take further than framing a

00:04:26.920 military veteran while participating in a coup against the united states what what's the level above that

00:04:34.100 i don't know what satanic satanic stuff barely i mean you could say that's a little bit worse

00:04:43.260 you could add you could add satan worship on top of this but even if you added satan worship

00:04:49.340 on top of the stuff they already did it would only it would only change the end result by such a small

00:04:56.300 percentage you wouldn't even notice i mean once you've framed a military veteran and tried to

00:05:01.820 overtake the or overthrow the united states i don't know that there's much left for parody

00:05:08.480 um so so my view you know sort of the uh persuader's view of what we're watching i've told you that

00:05:18.560 there there are various filters on things and we're all looking at today's news through different filters

00:05:24.560 some segment of the population is saying damn it there's too much too much uh bias and discrimination

00:05:32.040 and we need to protest against it all right there are those who know that they're behind all of this 0.81

00:05:39.760 and know that none of it's real that's another filter and then there are people like me who only see it

00:05:46.720 as its persuasion self in other words i only see the news in terms of who got brainwashed to do what

00:05:53.500 i don't see it in terms of these these people are right these people are wrong other people see it in

00:05:59.800 terms of power the it's a it's a power struggle the details of who did what or said what are actually

00:06:06.700 irrelevant because nobody cares about who said what or did what it's all just being used for power

00:06:12.640 now power of course is another word for persuasion because it doesn't have to be physical power it

00:06:19.000 could be political power and that's persuasion and even even a war i would say is persuasion because

00:06:25.160 the point of killing people is to get them to stop fighting so i get the people who are still alive to

00:06:30.600 stop fighting as well uh yeah your comments are funny so when i look at the news and i see the 0.88

00:06:40.400 protesters and i see that antifa and black lives matter are protesting together and they don't really

00:06:47.280 like each other i don't know if you knew that but black lives matter would like to have businesses and

00:06:55.840 be successful so fact check me on this fact check me to let me know if this is true or false black lives 0.99

00:07:04.580 matter would like among other things they have a number of things that they would like like fixed

00:07:10.160 including police police actions but very high on the list of black lives matter would be just improving

00:07:18.180 you know the life the economic life especially you know the judicial you know the the justice system

00:07:25.800 plus the economics of black life in america they'd like that to be better now of course some of them

00:07:33.220 you know may be funded by who knows what and some of them may be more political but as a group

00:07:38.900 they want what's better for black people in america is that what antifa wants is antifa

00:07:46.000 marching for black lives matter people to have better economic outcomes i don't think so 1.00

00:07:54.020 i don't think so i think that they're trying to destroy everything that is and everything that is

00:08:01.380 including it includes a lot of black-owned businesses so we're very close very close i think

00:08:08.760 to black lives matter just saying you know screw it we're just going to be republican because we can

00:08:14.860 make that work if black lives matter it is just a thought experiment if tomorrow black lives matter 1.00

00:08:24.320 said we're going to change our strategy if we pair if we if we team up with the republicans

00:08:29.860 number one they will accept us they would you just have to agree to respect the constitution

00:08:38.960 respect the rule of law and play within the rules and then conservatives respect you every time

00:08:46.440 it's very easy so if black lives matter or just let's say the black community in general it doesn't 1.00

00:08:52.060 have to be black lives matter involved but let's say the black community just said all right screw it 1.00

00:08:56.860 we're just going to look out for our own best interest we're going to pair up with the republicans

00:09:01.820 and we have more in common with the republicans who are just trying to make money and have good lives

00:09:07.720 because it turns out that's what we want too yeah and maybe maybe the black population doesn't want 0.71

00:09:14.660 open borders because if they have open borders it makes the the latino hispanic vote that much more 0.93

00:09:22.820 powerful and necessarily might work against their interests because because they get marginalized by

00:09:30.700 an even larger minority group that would just suck up all the attention so it feels like the long-term 1.00

00:09:38.260 trajectory for black voters is the republican party but they have to get past a mental block 0.99

00:09:45.520 and the mental block is number one thinking that they wouldn't be welcome right if you were black 0.99

00:09:52.980 and you had been you know watching the fake news for your whole life would you think that you would be 0.79

00:09:58.900 welcome in the republican party like how would you think you would be treated well my guess is very

00:10:08.400 very very welcome and that that's a strong guess meaning i'm sure of it very very welcome because

00:10:15.080 everybody who joins the republican party who simply agrees to follow the rules just follow the rules

00:10:23.440 constitution rule of law you know be nice to your neighbor that's it that's it that's the whole that's

00:10:31.980 the whole deal you do those simple things and you will not only be embraced by the republican party 0.93

00:10:38.460 you'll be absorbed you'll just be a republican so if if the brainwashing holds then black people 0.97

00:10:51.080 and antifa will continue marching together without noticing they're on opposite sides which is what's 0.98

00:10:58.580 happening now antifa just wants to burn everything down black lives matter would like to build 0.93

00:11:04.200 something to build something valuable for black people you don't really get that if everything's 0.98

00:11:10.860 burning down so if black people in this country want to make some money and get serious about 1.00

00:11:18.300 helping their own situation i mean just being selfish you know because our system is designed to allow 0.99

00:11:24.560 you to be selfish completely publicly you know that's what capitalism is that's what that's what

00:11:31.080 democracy is that you can be selfish in public i want to vote for this because it lowers my taxes

00:11:37.340 i'm gonna you know i'm gonna compete in this business because it's good for my bank account you're allowed to

00:11:44.060 be selfish the system encourages it so i would say to the black community in the united states if you want to 1.00

00:11:52.680 be selfish and i recommend it because everybody else is under the system there's certainly a way you

00:11:59.340 can do better and i don't think it's doing what you're doing because the republicans do have the

00:12:04.740 secret they do have the secret of how to make money and how to have a better life it does seem that they

00:12:11.760 have figured that out um and and for the if anybody's new by the way i'm neither a conservative nor

00:12:18.800 republican i'm an observer i would associate myself with uh being left to bernie socially in terms of

00:12:25.840 social issues but if i observe who seems to be happier and i observe as a third party just you

00:12:33.940 know uh uninterested party watching it really feels like republicans have figured in a system that works

00:12:40.440 pretty well here are the rules if you follow the rules we love you we love you you followed the rules

00:12:47.780 so did we that's it end of the story it's a pretty simple system and it works every time

00:12:53.420 um i wonder if cnn will ever apologize for framing flynn because certainly they could argue well we were

00:13:03.560 just following the news where it went and you know we were just reporting what other people said and

00:13:09.160 that that was the news that we knew so i suppose they could excuse it away but the net effect of it is

00:13:18.740 they framed they framed a patriot and not just a patriot but a veteran and not just a veteran

00:13:24.720 but a general and not just a general but somebody who just been uh who just been appointed to a high

00:13:31.180 position in the government by the legally elected president of the united states name one thing that

00:13:37.020 trump has ever done that's true that's the hard part it's true it really happened and it's worse

00:13:45.360 than what cnn and and schiff and company did framing flynn and trying to overthrow the government

00:13:52.440 of the united states if you were to make a rank of all the bad things that anybody's done on either

00:13:59.000 side all the worst things that trump has done the worst ones and then you compare it to

00:14:04.660 what the the anti-trumpers are known to have done so now we know that they framed flynn now we know

00:14:12.900 that they were running a coup to overthrow the government we know that now that's not that's no longer

00:14:17.540 in question and and i ask you on a scale of one to ten where would you put framing a veteran

00:14:26.840 in the united states where where would that be on the scale of one to ten that's a ten now you could

00:14:34.000 maybe you could say you know rape and murder are the only tens and everything else has to be less

00:14:38.120 than that okay but in terms of how it offends me not in terms of the impact on on the victim necessarily

00:14:46.060 but in terms of how it offends my sensibilities framing a veteran is a ten for ten that's a ten

00:14:53.840 if you try to get on the other side of that i don't know what that would be because even

00:14:58.300 you know murder like i said murder rape are arguably a lot worse for the victim not arguably

00:15:05.420 they're a lot worse for the victim

00:15:06.760 but they're not they're not morally worse they're just worse for the victim 0.98

00:15:13.780 morally they're ten out of ten just pinning the dial to the worst fucking things you could ever do 0.93

00:15:20.140 now now now let's now let's do the exercise all right that's what the anti-trumpers have done 0.96

00:15:26.800 framed a veteran knowingly lied about it for years knowingly and then and then they

00:15:34.480 and then they tried to overthrow the government to you through this this thing all right now let's do

00:15:40.660 the worst thing that trump ever did well today there was that or yesterday there was tweet about looting

00:15:48.380 and shooting uh where's that on a scale of one to ten a one a one maybe on a scale of one to ten

00:15:57.800 all right so that's the worst thing i can think of now all right what's the other worst thing that

00:16:03.120 president trump has done and i don't think you can count a mistake because you might say he made a

00:16:09.080 mistake doing this or that but i'm not talking about mistakes let's talk about things that people

00:16:15.020 did intentionally things they knew they were doing okay so let's see he uh he's accusing joe scarborough

00:16:22.760 of murder

00:16:23.600 and and there's no evidence to suggest that there's any murder or crime uh any crime much less any murderer

00:16:34.140 uh so how how bad is that on a scale of one to ten

00:16:38.100 compared to a coup and framing a veteran so where where is where is tongue-in-cheek accusation about

00:16:47.700 scarborough that literally nobody believes well i take that back people who already believed it

00:16:54.180 you may want to keep believing it but they already believed it people who had never heard the rumor

00:16:59.440 just sort of laughed it off anybody who's a little bit smart about politics knows that the president was

00:17:05.640 saying it just for the effect not because he thinks it's true so where is that on a scale of one to ten

00:17:11.260 two two maybe would you give that a three it's literally just words that nobody believes

00:17:20.960 saying words that nobody believes because they know you're just saying it for the effect

00:17:26.480 on a scale of one to ten one two how about calling those countries remember when the president called

00:17:37.320 those countries shithole countries where is that on the scale of one to ten well first of all he was

00:17:44.960 talking about their economic situation obviously in context that's like a zero because it's not even

00:17:52.400 real news it's more like fake news because obviously he didn't mean it racially i think smart people

00:17:58.700 know that that it was just about the countries themselves not producing you know people not

00:18:04.000 necessarily producing people who had gone to good colleges and stuff and may have potentially less

00:18:09.420 economic value that was the nature of the question uh his infidelity somebody says yeah what about

00:18:15.800 the president's infidelity scale of one to ten don't care how about a zero because i don't care

00:18:22.740 that's not a has nothing to do with us how about the president allegedly paying stormy daniels

00:18:30.660 a one a zero these are all nothings literally what am i missing something can somebody list

00:18:41.460 the worst thing that trump has done yeah somebody says golfing yeah he golfed he golfed when there was

00:18:49.620 some business to do zero i was not like he's not always available zero

00:18:56.240 so the fact that anybody thinks these things are roughly even is amazing now just for fairness it looks

00:19:05.480 like uh leland vitter of fox news was reporting uh on site at the protest around the white house

00:19:12.180 last night and he was surrounded and threatened by antifa it looked like it was all antifa and not

00:19:21.060 black lives matter but i only saw a clip so i can't say that for sure but it looked like it was all

00:19:26.700 antifa who was yelling because he's at fox news leland vitter is and they surrounded him and the police

00:19:33.420 wouldn't help apparently until until later uh you know some riot police came and did help

00:19:38.940 um so we see that the rioters don't care who it is whether it's cnn or fox news so you can see that

00:19:47.840 the rioters are not taking a side they're not taking a side they just want to destroy things

00:19:52.800 um at least the antifa people not the black lives matter people who are the opposite and would like

00:19:59.120 to build something um how many of you think george soros is behind the riots can i see that in the

00:20:09.280 comments how many of you think that george soros not only and here i'm not talking about funding

00:20:16.640 groups which in turn fund any of the people who are there so we know that black lives matter for

00:20:22.620 example receives funds from a group that soros is part of the funding of that group he's not the

00:20:28.460 whole funding but i think he's part of it how many of you think that george soros is causing

00:20:34.040 is causing the uh all the trouble all right so i don't know if uh if we'll see any comments on that

00:20:43.520 coming through here's the thing i don't think it's george soros it's just the news the news is the one

00:20:52.340 who who gets people to think of the world the way it is the news is the reason that people are

00:20:57.680 heading the streets that plus good weather that plus having been locked up for weeks

00:21:03.320 is what we is what we're getting that plus you know there was a trigger of george floyd being killed

00:21:10.140 on camera and that obviously was the trigger let's talk about uh how facebook versus twitter

00:21:17.480 handled the president's tweet in which he said uh what's the exact quote uh where where there's looting

00:21:26.220 looting uh where there's when the looting starts the shooting starts that was the quote now apparently

00:21:34.120 that quote has some history with i don't know george wallace and has some racial history but i would

00:21:40.940 really be surprised if the president was thinking of it that way or even knew that it had a racial past

00:21:47.260 he his claim when he clarified it which i accepted under the 48 hour rule for clarifications

00:21:53.340 if you don't know the rule the 48 hour rule for clarifications goes this way if you say something

00:21:59.740 in public or even private and somebody takes it away that causes trouble in other words their

00:22:06.520 interpretation of what you said is they're outraged by it you have 48 hours to either apologize if it's

00:22:13.940 what you really said and what you really meant and an apology is warranted or to clarify to clarify that

00:22:21.080 that's not what you meant and i and my rule is that even if you think the clarification is

00:22:27.540 bullshit you should always accept it because otherwise you're just reading people's minds people

00:22:32.820 uh people should be able to be the only source for their own opinion in other words nobody should 0.99

00:22:40.180 tell me what my opinion is but i can tell you what my opinion is i should not tell you what your opinion is

00:22:46.980 ever under no circumstance should i tell you what your opinion is but you can tell me what it is

00:22:54.040 that's always fair

00:22:55.100 so anyway uh let's uh skip ahead to how facebook and twitter uh took that tweet so the way twitter

00:23:07.040 handled it was they put a warning on it and said that it glorified violence now the phrase uh when the

00:23:15.100 looting starts the shooting starts is sort of a it's a unfortunately playful phrase and if you use

00:23:24.760 an unfortunately playful phrase for what might be a slaughter of civilians twitter is saying i think

00:23:33.040 you're glorifying you're sort of acting like you're a little happy about the shooting that's going to

00:23:38.100 start about the looting now hold that interpretation and now we're going to compare it to facebook all right

00:23:44.620 so summarizing twitter says uh when the looting starts the shooting starts is a little bit

00:23:51.580 too pro shooting so that got a flag uh facebook according to mark zuckerberg uh they they wrestled

00:24:02.100 with the same issue and here's where they came down on it they decided to to leave it intact

00:24:07.660 and the reason they did was that in zuckerberg's opinion i assume other people's opinion as well

00:24:14.060 at facebook that it was giving useful information to the public and that useful information is that if

00:24:21.820 the uh if the looting continues there were literally be people getting shot now should the public know

00:24:30.220 that the president of the united states is sending people that could shoot them based on you know whether

00:24:39.260 they're looting or not do you think the public has a right to know that the government their own

00:24:45.720 government has just announced publicly they're going to send people to shoot them yes yes yes yes the public

00:24:57.100 has a right to know if the government is sending armed people to shoot them maybe i mean depending

00:25:05.340 on the situation so you know we don't assume that the national guard was going to go down there and

00:25:10.780 mow people down and when the president clarified his clarification was that you know it could be the

00:25:16.200 public taking matters into their own hands and gave some examples where it's already happening because

00:25:21.060 it was a looter who got shot by a shop owner so use that example now i don't know if the president was

00:25:27.860 only thinking about shop owners taking matters into their own hands i don't know if that's the only

00:25:33.920 thing he was thinking of but i also don't think it matters because his statement was factually correct

00:25:39.700 the statement was that looting leads to shooting looting has already led to shooting it's a fact we don't have to

00:25:49.080 say can it lead to shooting it's a fact it already happened there was a looter he got shot because he was

00:25:58.060 looting will there be more people tonight who are shot if they're looting almost certainly if there is

00:26:05.760 mass looting tonight you should expect people to get shot i'm not saying i'm not glorifying it i'm just

00:26:12.740 saying you should expect it so i would say if you were to compare facebook's approach that the

00:26:19.040 public has a right to know that their government is sending people maybe to shoot them if they're

00:26:24.760 looting you know and depending on the situation right nobody nobody wants to shoot anybody um

00:26:30.540 versus twitter saying a glorified violence now of course twitter i think twitter allowed you to see it

00:26:38.920 but you had to work a little bit more or something like that i don't i don't know exactly how they

00:26:43.580 how they flagged it i would say that facebook had the um the right answer on this one so i'd say facebook

00:26:52.060 uh i'd say twitter had the suboptimal response compared to facebook which got it right now here's

00:27:02.360 the way i grade things like this um what i don't do is say oh i'll give facebook an a because they got it

00:27:10.700 right and i'll give you know twitter less than a and f or something because they didn't get it right

00:27:15.940 that's not how i'm grading this here's how i'm grading it exactly like the pandemic it's the same

00:27:23.160 standard remember i told you early on that i'm not going to blame any governor any leader any mayor

00:27:28.900 for making a mistake because nobody knew the right thing to do i was going to grade people on whether

00:27:35.480 they corrected their mistake so um and and that's the standard i think we should always use

00:27:43.000 when people you can't really expect people to guess the right decision when nobody knows the right

00:27:48.580 decisions so similarly as facebook and twitter are trying to work their way through this unfamiliar

00:27:54.600 world of adding a little bit of context or truth to what's happening you know trying to see if they

00:28:02.200 can make the world a little better in this in this one dimension they don't know what's the right

00:28:07.400 answer they don't know the right answer facebook doesn't have the right answer for every one of

00:28:13.580 these situations i think zuckerberg got it right this time in this very specific situation he got one

00:28:20.300 right in my opinion twitter twitter's response was less good than facebook's but what just happened

00:28:28.960 twitter got to see how facebook responded facebook got to see how twitter responded both twitter and

00:28:36.320 facebook got to see how the public responded and how the government responded now we're all smarter

00:28:42.120 that's good that means the system is working people are trying stuff and then they see what happens

00:28:49.520 so facebook tried something and then twitter tried something and they tried different things

00:28:54.620 one of them worked better than the other one in my opinion does that mean that the next time they

00:29:00.440 both get in a similar situation they're more likely to be similarly you know a plus far more likely

00:29:07.640 far more likely that getting it wrong leads to getting it right next time

00:29:12.840 so uh i'm not complaining about any of this at this stage i think you should expect both facebook and

00:29:22.720 twitter and you could throw google in there for good measure i think they're going to be making

00:29:26.900 a bunch of minor mistakes minor mistakes meaning that on a scale of one to ten it doesn't really change

00:29:34.640 life or doesn't make you less happy it just doesn't have a big impact on society in general

00:29:40.860 these are very small small little things that we're blowing up because they represent bigger

00:29:46.760 things right but the real world is not in any way bothered by what either of them did with one tweet

00:29:53.020 even in the president's tweet what we're bothered by is that it might signal a trend so people are

00:29:58.520 trying to get it get ahead of the the trend and move it the direction they want it to move but i would

00:30:03.700 say we're in a very positive place in the sense that we're trying things and we're learning and

00:30:08.820 improving if you can try something learn and improve you're in the best possible world

00:30:13.880 and i think that's where facebook and indeed the silicon valley has that as sort of the dna you

00:30:20.460 know the dna of of the tech industry is try it try it measure it test it you know adjust so that's

00:30:30.300 what they're doing it's all good um let's see trump uh it's it's a very strange time in terms of the

00:30:40.300 news because i've i've talked this far without mentioning the pandemic except for how it locked

00:30:46.160 people up for weeks the pandemic is still going on right did we just forget the pandemic

00:30:53.740 uh somebody says facebook has you fooled watch and see i'm gonna i'm gonna block you for that

00:31:03.160 because when you say um has me fooled you are reading my mind remember you can tell me your opinion

00:31:16.040 but what that the person i blocked just did is told me my opinion they told me what was happening

00:31:23.640 inside my mind which was that i was fooled how do you know how do you know what's in my mind

00:31:29.620 how do you know what i'm fooled by you don't again tell me your opinion don't tell me my opinion

00:31:37.620 only i can tell you my opinion there's no exception to that somebody says scots and karen mode

00:31:44.700 um that karen thing is funny every time i don't know i suppose it'll get old but it's still funny

00:31:54.140 every time uh so anyway trump is going hard at china that would be the biggest story in the world

00:32:00.020 except for all these other stories and some of the things he's looking at are uh i didn't realize this

00:32:07.220 though until recently there are 350 000 chinese students in the united states and i'm talking

00:32:13.220 about students who live in china and are just studying here in other words the residents of china

00:32:19.220 is that cool with you are you cool with 350 000 chinese students when we know the government

00:32:28.020 of china is using some portion of them obviously not all of them as spies

00:32:33.620 um i think we ought to uh we ought to shut that down right away so i see i don't see any

00:32:44.660 i don't see any uh excuse for letting china who is essentially proven to be an enemy of the united 0.97

00:32:52.120 states to be educating their elites because it's not the poor people who are coming here for an 0.95

00:32:56.880 education it's the children of the elites who come here to get a name brand education we should stop

00:33:02.660 that right away there's no excuse for educating the elites of your enemy china is an enemy if i were 0.84

00:33:11.440 in the government i would not use that word but since i'm not in the government i'm just a citizen

00:33:16.760 observing china is killing 50 000 americans with fentanyl they did the wuhan flu you know that they 0.96

00:33:24.700 they should have done a better job warning us about that you know they're stealing our stuff they're

00:33:29.860 they apparently they're not they're not even attempting to live up to the trade deal they just signed

00:33:36.820 they're taking over hong kong i mean they're i i got this far saying all the bad things that china's

00:33:43.260 doing and i didn't even mention yet organ harvesting of political prisoners i mean you only need one of

00:33:51.080 these to make them your enemy and of course the concentration camps of the uyghurs i mean really 1.00

00:33:58.000 we can't be friends with this country still like the people chinese people great people but the 1.00

00:34:05.360 government of china um i heard that there's an entity in china called the national people's congress

00:34:15.440 is that true national people's congress and they're literally npcs national people's congress

00:34:23.300 and i thought what are the odds that that's a coincidence anyway um so apparently trump is going

00:34:29.460 to make quote a series of announcements on china in the coming days uh and among them might be

00:34:36.060 restricting chinese graduate students and here's a here's a question for you this is a very provocative

00:34:45.520 question uh and i shouldn't ask this question out loud but i'm going to do it anyway all right so

00:34:54.540 knowing knowing in advance how much trouble this question is going to cause i'm going to ask it

00:34:59.880 anyway because i think you can handle it all right why is it that you have to be born in the united

00:35:06.960 states to run for president why is that isn't that racist why why is it that you could be governor

00:35:15.380 you could be anything you could be a plumber lawyer doctor um as long as you're a citizen well if you have

00:35:22.340 a legal right to work here whatever that looks like you can have any job except president why is it

00:35:31.100 why is it you can't be president that's the only thing that's clearly racist isn't it because the whole

00:35:37.540 point of you can't be president is that we think you would have loyalty to your home country

00:35:42.740 even if you'd lived here all of your life take somebody like arnold schwarzenegger

00:35:49.080 do you think there's any any chance that arnold schwarzenegger is more loyal to austria where he

00:35:56.820 was born versus the united states that made him arnold schwarzenegger i don't think there's any

00:36:03.200 question arnold schwarzenegger clearly is an american in every way that matters just this technical

00:36:11.340 thing he was born in another country so he can't run for president now isn't that racist

00:36:19.020 i mean in in the case of arnold maybe not but it also restricts everybody else who was born in

00:36:25.220 another country was elan omar was born in another country right can elan omar ever run for president

00:36:32.080 in this country no right as she she was born in another country i think i'm right about that 1.00

00:36:37.540 um so why is that fair isn't that racist feels a little racist doesn't it all right well so this

00:36:46.720 first part was just a setup i i just persuaded you a little bit so i wanted you to think about

00:36:52.980 that but that's not even the topic i haven't introduced the topic yet i just wanted you i

00:36:59.140 just wanted you to wrestle wanted you to wrestle with that thought a little bit now we'll talk about

00:37:03.480 the topic the reason that anybody thinks it's okay that you have to be born in this country to run

00:37:11.580 for president and i think there's fairly widespread agreement part of it is that it's just historically

00:37:17.560 there and you know things that are already there you don't question as much you're just used to it

00:37:22.380 so some of it's that but the other part of is that the presidency is unique there's nothing like the

00:37:28.660 presidency would you agree that if i said hey if you could be a plumber or a governor why can't you

00:37:35.640 be president and the answer is there's no job like president being a plumber is not similar to being

00:37:43.300 president and even being a governor is not similar to being president because the governor doesn't have

00:37:50.440 any international responsibilities it's the international stuff that you worry about when

00:37:57.440 you've got a president who may maybe you think maybe possibly has a little bit of loyalty back to

00:38:04.020 the country they're born in it's racist it's racist to make that assumption right but still it's it's

00:38:12.060 the only time that we allow that little bit of racism to to eke into our you know national system

00:38:19.800 because we think the stakes are so high the stakes of having a president who was not 100 loyal to this

00:38:28.040 country the stakes are so high you just wouldn't take a 0.001 chance of that being wrong right but if

00:38:35.360 you get somebody who was born in this country and raised in this country what are the odds i mean

00:38:40.760 really what are the odds someone born in this country has any other country as their primary loyalty

00:38:47.140 pretty low so it's a it's a rule that applies in this special case but i'm wondering if there isn't a

00:38:55.840 new special case are you ready here's the topic everything else was just to get you ready so so

00:39:02.340 far i'm just i'm softening up the room here's the real point you ready why do we let people who were

00:39:09.440 born in other countries work as social media businesses in this country now the first thing you 0.99

00:39:19.660 should say to yourself is oh damn that's racist that's super racist right it's super racist sounding 0.98

00:39:28.140 well let's talk about it if in the end you decide that's just too racist i would say that's a reasonable 0.99

00:39:33.560 opinion i wouldn't argue with that if if you say no scott you've gone too far that's just racist i would

00:39:41.120 say that's a fairly that's a responsible opinion and i will accept that and so therefore we shouldn't

00:39:47.720 do it but i ask you this question if the presidency requires you to be born in this country because

00:39:54.800 the stakes are so high how do you feel about somebody who was born in china and is in charge of the social 0.99

00:40:04.000 media algorithm is that what size is the risk is that bigger than the risk of saying of say being a

00:40:13.080 plumber who was born in china yeah yeah it's a bigger risk is a bigger risk than being say a mayor

00:40:20.600 or a governor well a mayor or a governor they don't have any international dealings it wouldn't matter if

00:40:28.680 they did have a little bit of loyalty back to the place they were born because it wouldn't really

00:40:32.640 express itself it just wouldn't be an issue but if you had a little bit of loyalty to communist china

00:40:41.320 or just say china or just any other country if you had a little bit of loyalty to them

00:40:46.780 is it safe to put somebody who might might almost certainly doesn't i would say the vast majority of

00:40:56.260 people who are born in other countries and are working in tech in tech businesses the vast majority

00:41:01.600 of them are just doing their job well he has nothing to do with anything they just go to work do their

00:41:07.100 job that's the end of the story and and those people of course should be able to do what they

00:41:12.340 whatever they do but there are certain jobs within social media which could make a difference in terms

00:41:18.900 of what the public sees and what they don't see if you're in charge of what the public sees and doesn't

00:41:26.040 see should we make the standard for that as high as the presidency because the presidency has its own

00:41:34.120 standard you know that you have to be born in this country is is there one extra exception 0.98

00:41:40.200 if you're managing what the people in this country see and know and think you're actually managing the

00:41:47.840 minds of the american public is that another exception is that an exception that's so glaring

00:41:55.400 that you'd have to at least consider that that's some similarity to the risk involved of having a president

00:42:02.620 who even has any chance just a even slightly slightly chance of having a little bit of loyalty to some

00:42:09.820 other country even a little bit

00:42:11.820 somebody says you've pissed me off scott i'm going to breakfast instead of listening to this

00:42:18.900 uh well i've done my job so here's the point it's a provocative thought i'm not going to recommend

00:42:26.220 that anything be changed or that the law be changed but i think you have to uh you have to ask yourself

00:42:35.100 why there's a difference between the presidency which feels a little racist that you can't be born

00:42:42.140 in another country i mean if you came here as a baby i'm literally a baby you don't even have a single

00:42:49.420 memory of the other country and you can't run for president in this country raised as a complete

00:42:55.020 american and you can't run for president well that's racist so if we allow that and by the way maybe we

00:43:04.380 shouldn't i think that should be at least on the table we should at least look and see if there's any

00:43:08.940 other situations that are similarly risky uh so maybe you get rid of both of them and that would be

00:43:17.500 consistent or you say oh they're similar all right um somebody says this is a dangerous line of thinking

00:43:27.420 if bias is allowed to determine the answer well uh i don't think bias is what would be part of this it

00:43:36.300 would be a risk management decision and it would be it would be overtly racist exactly the way limiting

00:43:45.580 who runs for president is overtly racist there's nobody disagrees with that right

00:43:52.780 not allowing somebody to to have a specific job because of where they were born if they're legal

00:43:58.540 citizens of the united states there's no way to say anything about that except that it's racist

00:44:03.500 it has a reason the reason is safety of the country but that doesn't make it not racist

00:44:11.580 uh

00:44:13.580 somebody says it's not racist well it's not racist in intention so i'd agree with you that

00:44:19.820 it's not racist in intention and it's not racist if you want to say that countries are not racist

00:44:26.140 not racist so for example you could say well if you're born in canada you also can't run for

00:44:31.580 president and that's not really racism because it's canada to which i would say no the way we use

00:44:37.500 racism in the popular vernacular is anybody who's different in a cultural social way and canada is so

00:44:51.660 amend the constitution if you want to change it yeah that would be the only way you could change

00:44:55.340 that is to amend the constitution that is correct private versus public roles oh well that's a good

00:45:02.380 point so the social media companies are private businesses the government is a public business and

00:45:07.740 that's that's a distinction which we should at least put into the mix but um where i'm going with this

00:45:14.220 is that the social media companies have not not by intention but they've evolved to the point where

00:45:20.940 they're part of the government so although they are not written into the constitution these social

00:45:26.540 media companies are actually you know they have the levers of of democracy at this point so given that

00:45:32.860 they act like governments in terms of their effect on on the on our thoughts and our in our minds

00:45:42.300 maybe they should be treated like it somebody says i'm sorry i don't get how it's racist

00:45:47.660 well i'm using the word racist in the way the left uses it which is anybody who's from another

00:45:55.660 country and they've got anything that's different about them it doesn't have to be race so i'm using

00:46:00.700 racist without race being part of it racist just being a different country that you came from you

00:46:06.780 could call it xenophobic or anything you want but you know what i'm talking about all right uh do we

00:46:13.340 allow top military to be non-citizens or in top defense jobs where they've had access i don't know

00:46:20.620 the answer to that i think the answer is yes right you can be a general in the in the u.s military no matter

00:46:29.420 where you were born is that correct i believe that's correct so you might ask the same question about

00:46:35.340 question about that all right that's all i got for today the virtue signal should be class 4 felony

00:46:43.260 and i'll talk to you later

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 30, 2020

Episode 1006 Scott Adams： Brainwashing the Public, Enemy of the People, Social Media Censorship, China and More

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