Episode 1011 Scott Adams: Let's Talk About Antifa and Looters Setting Civil Rights Back a Decade
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1 hour and 8 minutes
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146.66817
Summary
Join me for the most important part of the morning, the dopamine hit of the day, the hit that makes everything better, including the protests, riots, and all-around uglyness, as I discuss the events that took place across the country last weekend.
Transcript
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oh well you know what the third act is right the third act is the place in the movie where
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you think it can't get any worse and the third act was the coronavirus now you're saying to yourself
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but wait scott we had the third act the coronavirus it does seem like we've beaten it you know a lot
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of work to do still people will die but it does seem like we've gotten over the top of that so
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it seems like we beat the third act the place where the hero of the movie has this impossible task
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but here we are in the in the protests slash riots slash destroying retail everywhere
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and you might say to yourself uh this looks worse no no no no in script writing terms after the third
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act quite often there's that part where the terminator comes back to life for about a minute
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and then the the hero has to kill the the bad guy one more time or he's already killed the top
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henchman but the the top bad guy is still alive so it's very common that after the third act
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there's another seemingly impossible problem to get solved now i told you before that uh i see the
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protests as of course there's a combination of lots of social factors in history and all that
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and there's a trigger specific trigger but i see it as an energy problem meaning that there's a whole
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bunch of people who've been cooped up all winter cooped up for the coronavirus didn't get to exercise
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often didn't get to work just too much energy and if caesar the dog walker taught us nothing
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it's that you can't have a well-behaved uh dog unless you burn off his energy people are not that
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different people are not that different i'm talking about all people so don't make it racial
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all people all people human beings we if we have too much energy we can get in trouble
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and when we've burned off our energy and we're ready to relax well we're easier to deal with
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just like any other animal and we have a serious energy problem there's way too much energy now i think
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this weekend may have burned off a little bit but we'll talk about that after the most important part
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of the morning the simultaneous sip you don't need much to participate all you need is a cup or a
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glass of tank or chalice or stein a canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite
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liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the
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day the thing that makes everything better including the coronavirus including the protests
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it's called the simultaneous sip it happens now go
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well here's my take on the whole ugly situation uh first of all the protests have reached my territory
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the places where i planned to shop for my my summer shorts and such
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don't exist anymore so that the stores that i would normally shop at just got destroyed last night
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now uh i hear the pleasanton stores were targeted
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the mall were the one that's actually closest to me
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now i did hear that there was a uh a protest scheduled for my town which is just walking distance
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uh last night but i didn't hear any outcome from it because i didn't want to get too close to it
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and when i heard it was being organized it was being organized as a peaceful protest
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but aren't they all they're they're sort of all organized as peaceful protests they just
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well i guess they're not all the antifa is not peaceful at all but at least the black lives matter part of it
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and when i saw somebody organizing one for my town yesterday
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demonstrate in favor of you know equality and treating everybody well that part's good
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was doing it now and in that way because it would invite trouble
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so i have to i have to be stark about this i don't want to leave any wiggle room or a gray area
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so i'm going to say this as clearly as i possibly can
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for the first several days this triggering event the the george floyd um killing
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do something needed to act needed to change needed to improve
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needed to get it out of their system needed to scream
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with the fact that uh protests brought with them some violence
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i was quite tolerant when we got a little caught off guard
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because i would say not everybody saw it coming
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you didn't exactly know where it was going to go
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the chief you know the top priority was keeping everybody physically safe
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it was economically bad very bad for the store owners and such
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is that there's somebody on the other side of the argument
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that there was damage and destruction that came with it
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and in fact controlling it might have made things worse
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created a situation where very bad things happened
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but i don't think you can completely blame them
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feels that they would like to persuade to their side
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so i would say that i personally have felt a great turn
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i would say that i've turned from completely productive
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looks like the only thing that i can do for myself
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you know other people are saying the same thing
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but i assume a lot of people would feel similar
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i don't like to put thoughts into other people's heads
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but i know my own reaction toward black lives matter
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then i would think that anybody who participates in that
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would have to be considered domestic terrorists along with antifa
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uh... way you could understand the continued protests
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completely validating the protests that have happened so far
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or you really were concerned about something else and it just happened
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so we don't have to guess what happens if we do this again tonight
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i'm saying that it seems like it would be inconsistent
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because they'd be working for some big fascist corporation
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that there are enough people watching my Periscope
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so any good ideas we collectively come up with here