Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 01, 2020


Episode 1012 Scott Adams： Black Americans, Your ＂Leaders＂ Are Leading You Off a Cliff. Profanity Guaranteed.


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18 minutes

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2,749

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00:00:00.000 Yes, you're surprised to see me at this time of day, but I had a message that has some timeliness element to it, so I thought I'd jump in here and deliver it.
00:00:18.220 I'll wait for a few of you to come online before I get going. This may be the last day you ever see me, because the odds of me being cancelled forever in the next ten minutes are pretty high.
00:00:30.920 I listened to a little bit of Charlemagne, and that will be part of what I wanted to talk about.
00:00:36.880 All right, so the title of my Periscope today, as I said, I was going to give some advice to black Americans.
00:00:43.840 Now, it's not really advice, and I don't believe in advice per se.
00:00:48.240 And the reason is, you can give people information, and they can make their own decisions, and certainly it would be presumptuous to make advice for some community you are not a part of.
00:01:02.840 So, when I say advice, you should just see it as context, maybe some new information, maybe something that you hadn't considered before.
00:01:12.140 But don't take it as presumptuous, because it's not really advice.
00:01:16.240 You're going to do whatever you need to do.
00:01:18.160 I'm just going to tell you some things that maybe you had not considered.
00:01:22.560 And it goes like this.
00:01:25.280 And by the way, I warned you that there would be some profanity.
00:01:29.700 Right?
00:01:30.100 There's going to be some profanity.
00:01:32.660 So, if you've got any kids in the room, you probably want to get them out of the room.
00:01:38.640 So, let me start with the good news.
00:01:41.900 Martin Luther King was really good at this stuff.
00:01:47.980 You remember his I Had a Dream speech?
00:01:51.900 How perfect that is, because it takes your mind to the future.
00:01:55.720 You can visualize it, you know, dream where everybody is treated fairly.
00:02:01.020 And it was also accurate, because it wasn't true that things were good at the time.
00:02:06.540 But it was true that everybody dreamed of a time when it would be better.
00:02:11.500 So, not only was his message perfectly appropriate to how people were thinking.
00:02:16.640 In other words, it fit what they were already trying to think, were thinking.
00:02:21.300 Both white and black, everybody was thinking, well, I'd like to get to a time.
00:02:25.720 When it's all working.
00:02:28.340 So, I point that out, because he was an unusually effective leader.
00:02:34.180 But also, his persuasion technique, if you're looking at the actual tools of persuasion, very, very good.
00:02:42.000 Not only did he match conservatives by being as religious as they were, took the high ground, didn't use violence.
00:02:49.460 I mean, basically, persuasion-wise, he was excellent.
00:02:52.300 But that brings us to today.
00:02:55.920 And we don't really have a Martin Luther King who's in the arena.
00:03:01.440 At least not one I've noticed.
00:03:03.620 And let me say this as starkly as I can.
00:03:07.400 And by the way, if you'd like some context, I've been complaining about President Trump's, let's say, leadership in the last few days on this, on the protests and the riots.
00:03:17.500 So, this will not be directed strictly at the African-American community, because it's just as true for Trump.
00:03:25.860 But your leaders are incompetent.
00:03:29.260 Your leaders are incompetent.
00:03:31.560 That's the problem.
00:03:33.500 The problem is not really anything else.
00:03:37.220 It's not anything else.
00:03:38.280 If you had good leadership, you could identify and work toward fixing problems.
00:03:44.440 That would get you everything you need.
00:03:46.600 You don't have that.
00:03:48.120 You don't have anything like that.
00:03:50.040 And here is what your, I guess, it comes off as leadership, whoever is leading Black Lives Matter especially.
00:03:58.640 Here's what they're doing wrong.
00:04:00.720 Have you ever heard the phrase, selling past the clothes?
00:04:04.540 It's one of the most famous sayings in persuasion.
00:04:08.920 And it refers to the fact that, let's say, you're a salesperson, you're trying to sell somebody on a product.
00:04:13.920 You get them to say yes, and they take out their wallet.
00:04:18.880 Selling past the clothes is when you keep selling after they said yes.
00:04:24.040 Because there's nothing good that can happen after that, because you've already made the sale.
00:04:29.420 The only thing that can happen if you keep talking is you lose the sale.
00:04:36.820 It's one of the most basic and strongest persuasion recommendations in the world.
00:04:45.660 Don't talk past the sale.
00:04:49.780 The sale is done.
00:04:51.400 Take the money.
00:04:53.000 Take the money.
00:04:54.680 What happened when everybody saw the video of George Floyd?
00:04:59.740 The sale was concluded.
00:05:02.860 That was the sale.
00:05:04.240 The sale was, white America, do you understand how bad this is?
00:05:08.920 And most of white America probably didn't.
00:05:11.720 Probably didn't understand it.
00:05:13.760 Then we saw the video.
00:05:16.060 The sale was made.
00:05:18.560 You made the sale.
00:05:20.460 What did you do after the sale?
00:05:23.180 You protested.
00:05:25.720 No problem with that.
00:05:27.020 Protesting.
00:05:28.820 Make sure everybody hears it.
00:05:31.160 Make sure you reinforce it.
00:05:33.620 Peaceful protest.
00:05:35.640 Excellent.
00:05:36.520 Good idea.
00:05:37.200 Good way to reinforce the sale that you've already made.
00:05:41.440 Make sure some action actually happens.
00:05:43.480 Maybe a good time to come up with some specific recommendations.
00:05:47.080 Do you know what would be the dumbest fucking thing you could do?
00:05:52.380 The dumbest fucking thing you could do after you've made the sale?
00:05:57.680 Well, a riot.
00:06:01.860 Set on fire the shit of the people who agree with you.
00:06:07.460 Set it on fire.
00:06:10.060 And then, oh, it gets better.
00:06:11.540 And then your fucking incompetent leaders, who I'd love to help, literally, literally, I'd like to help.
00:06:20.680 If I can help, let me know.
00:06:22.080 But your incompetent fucking leaders have once again decided that their best play tonight, Monday night, is to have the protests again, which will bring the looters again, which will bring Antifa again.
00:06:41.480 What are you going to be watching on social media all night tonight?
00:06:46.560 You're going to be watching young black men and women commit crimes all night.
00:06:53.920 So all night, I'm going to be fucking watching black people commit crimes.
00:06:58.840 You fucking incompetent leaders.
00:07:01.080 Why are you doing this to your people?
00:07:03.680 Why?
00:07:04.420 Do you fucking hate black people, you black leaders?
00:07:07.580 Because you're leading them right off the fucking cliff.
00:07:10.620 Let me say this as clearly as possible.
00:07:14.180 If there are riots tonight, and it's planned by Black Lives Matter to have a peaceful protest, I get that part.
00:07:21.740 I know the plan is for peaceful.
00:07:23.640 But you fucking know what's going to happen.
00:07:26.640 You know what's going to happen.
00:07:29.040 If you do it again tonight, now that you know, I'm out.
00:07:34.940 I'm out.
00:07:36.880 I will never do anything productive for the black community again.
00:07:41.020 Period.
00:07:41.980 Done.
00:07:42.960 Will I ever hire a black person?
00:07:45.760 Well, in public, I have to say yes, don't I?
00:07:49.900 But black employment is fucking done after tonight.
00:07:55.040 Now, if it stops tonight, I think we can recover.
00:07:57.100 Like, if tonight goes well, because I think the police are getting smarter, they're maybe joining in with the protesters.
00:08:04.680 You've seen some examples of that.
00:08:06.760 Honestly, the best thing the police could do is march with the protesters.
00:08:09.640 Think about it.
00:08:11.560 The best thing the police could do is actually just break up and march with the protesters.
00:08:18.460 Why?
00:08:19.380 Because then there would be a policeman or a policewoman right where the looters are.
00:08:25.740 The looters and the police would be in the same place.
00:08:28.720 And then maybe they could do something.
00:08:30.320 Or the police could say to the peaceful people, hey, those looters, see what you can do.
00:08:37.360 Try to talk them out of it.
00:08:38.480 Because otherwise I have to arrest them.
00:08:40.160 I'm standing right here.
00:08:41.180 They're looting right in front of me.
00:08:42.660 Can you guys talk them out of this?
00:08:45.060 That might help.
00:08:45.700 So tonight might go well.
00:08:49.800 It might.
00:08:51.060 Maybe a little trouble.
00:08:52.180 Maybe we figure out how to do this.
00:08:54.460 But if we're watching more pictures of black people setting shit on fire, breaking fucking windows, you're losing.
00:09:03.840 You're losing hard.
00:09:05.700 You're going right off the fucking cliff.
00:09:08.320 I want to help you.
00:09:10.320 I want to help.
00:09:12.880 White people want to help.
00:09:16.000 You made the fucking sale.
00:09:18.200 You made the fucking sale.
00:09:20.720 Stop fucking it up.
00:09:22.520 Who are your leaders?
00:09:24.040 Let me tell you who your leaders are.
00:09:26.460 And I'm not sure this is anybody's fault.
00:09:28.820 It's sort of a default situation.
00:09:30.880 If you don't have a real leader, you end up following a podcaster.
00:09:36.340 It's probably bad enough you listen to me.
00:09:38.580 But you might know that Rush Limbaugh, again, trying to help.
00:09:43.440 What is Rush Limbaugh trying to do today?
00:09:47.700 Trying to fucking help.
00:09:49.820 Because he saw the video.
00:09:51.700 He says, this is terrible.
00:09:53.280 How can I help?
00:09:55.200 Rush Limbaugh goes and seeks out the best qualified voices to speak for the black community.
00:10:02.720 So he's got, you know, somebody who can speak with some weight.
00:10:06.160 He finds Charlemagne the God and has a polite discussion with him, which could have been great.
00:10:13.440 Think about it.
00:10:14.580 I mean, that could have been quite a moment.
00:10:16.780 Rush Limbaugh, Charlemagne the Great, same side.
00:10:21.180 Same side.
00:10:21.980 All they had to do is find out what the two of them could do to move the ball forward.
00:10:26.660 So what happened instead?
00:10:27.960 Rush Limbaugh asked Charlemagne the God, what can be done?
00:10:32.020 What practical things can be done?
00:10:35.000 What real practical things can be done?
00:10:38.360 What did Charlemagne the God say to the question about what real things can be done?
00:10:43.840 He said that you have to, I'm paraphrasing, but this is pretty close.
00:10:50.760 You have to dismantle the entire system of white supremacy.
00:10:56.760 That's it?
00:10:58.400 You have to dismantle the entire system of white supremacy.
00:11:03.680 Charlemagne the God, where's that button?
00:11:07.460 Is there a lever that I pull?
00:11:10.540 Because that's a little nonspecific.
00:11:12.640 It's fucking worthless.
00:11:14.700 It's fucking worthless.
00:11:17.900 It's just words.
00:11:19.920 They might be true words.
00:11:21.540 I'm not even saying if they're true or false.
00:11:24.040 They're fucking worthless.
00:11:26.540 We're having riots.
00:11:28.380 Shit's burning.
00:11:29.560 People are getting killed.
00:11:31.060 And Charlemagne the Great, the person that the black community, at least some of them,
00:11:34.920 have turned to for some kind of a leadership voice,
00:11:37.700 the best he can fucking do is dismantle the entire system of white supremacy.
00:11:43.080 Yeah, where do you start?
00:11:44.680 Where do you start?
00:11:45.980 Is it hiding under my couch?
00:11:48.060 Do I vacuum under my couch?
00:11:51.320 Do I kill somebody?
00:11:52.620 Do I put somebody in jail?
00:11:54.040 Do I change a law?
00:11:54.860 What does it fucking mean?
00:11:57.440 Useless.
00:11:59.080 Useless.
00:12:00.260 Fucking useless.
00:12:03.140 Oh, my God.
00:12:04.280 Here's what you should be doing.
00:12:10.520 Now, I'll take the should out of here.
00:12:12.100 Here's what you could be doing.
00:12:13.960 Should and advice are obnoxious words.
00:12:17.840 So, I'm not going to give advice, and I'm not going to say should.
00:12:22.640 I'll take those words back.
00:12:24.760 Because people have to make their own decisions what to do.
00:12:27.660 But here's the information I will give you.
00:12:32.700 If you want to make the sale, make things better, change some things,
00:12:37.520 the President of the United States is waiting.
00:12:40.740 He's just waiting.
00:12:42.280 Give him an idea.
00:12:44.140 What happened when somebody took to the President of the United States
00:12:47.280 the idea of prison reform?
00:12:49.880 He did it.
00:12:51.420 He did it.
00:12:52.740 He did it.
00:12:54.240 Because it was a specific idea that was well thought out.
00:12:58.740 You know, eventually they figured out how to do it.
00:13:01.520 And then he signed it.
00:13:04.720 What better time would there be to come up with three to five specific suggestions,
00:13:10.800 take him to the President, and say,
00:13:12.700 we don't know if these are the final things,
00:13:15.060 but these are the ones we want to focus on.
00:13:17.100 Maybe work through it, do a little more research,
00:13:19.520 you know, do a test maybe.
00:13:21.020 But how about these five things?
00:13:23.660 Where are your fucking five things?
00:13:26.220 You got, you got, you know, like a million people marching in the street.
00:13:30.340 Does anybody have a typewriter?
00:13:32.080 Typewriter?
00:13:33.040 I'm dating myself.
00:13:34.540 Does anybody have a keyboard or a fucking pencil to write something down?
00:13:38.980 You got some ideas?
00:13:40.680 Fucking write them down.
00:13:41.980 We'll take a look at them.
00:13:43.740 I will take a look at them.
00:13:44.920 I will sell your idea for you.
00:13:47.480 In fact, if you can't find a fucking black leader who isn't completely incompetent,
00:13:52.540 and obviously you haven't,
00:13:53.880 because everything that's happened in the last few days is nothing but incompetence.
00:13:58.580 And by the way, I'm saying the same thing about our government at the moment.
00:14:01.380 So it's not about black people.
00:14:03.800 It's, we have this weird leaderless situation.
00:14:07.600 Who is the leader of Antifa?
00:14:09.160 Mostly white people, right?
00:14:10.340 Who is the leader?
00:14:11.120 Don't know.
00:14:12.380 I have no idea.
00:14:13.200 They don't have a leader, right?
00:14:14.200 They're a leaderless organization.
00:14:16.080 Well, so are the Democrats, and so are the Republicans at the moment.
00:14:20.480 The whole fucking country is leaderless.
00:14:23.020 If you need one, I'm happy to help.
00:14:27.840 I mean, I don't want to be the leader, but I'm happy to help.
00:14:30.500 If you can find somebody who can bring some specific suggestions to the president,
00:14:35.260 I'll even go further.
00:14:36.660 I will guarantee that if you can give me three to five, you know, well-thought-down ideas,
00:14:42.860 even if they need some work, I guarantee it will get to the White House.
00:14:47.680 Guarantee it.
00:14:48.200 There's not even the slightest chance that won't happen, all right?
00:14:54.000 So if you want to be helpful, you've got a clear path.
00:14:59.340 You've got a clear highway where everybody's agreeing.
00:15:04.520 They just need some specifics.
00:15:06.820 Just give them some specifics, something to wrestle with, something to work on, all right?
00:15:12.400 But if, instead of that, your leaders have decided to walk you off the fucking cliff
00:15:19.040 by having yet another night of nothing but video of black people committing crimes,
00:15:25.280 because that's what's coming,
00:15:27.980 don't expect any fucking help in the future.
00:15:31.940 All right, just speaking for myself,
00:15:34.160 but one imagines that there are other people having similar feelings.
00:15:37.540 I've offered a lot.
00:15:38.980 I've taken a lot of fucking shit from the right
00:15:42.360 for even having a conversation with Black Lives Matter, all right?
00:15:46.520 How much shit did I get for just sitting down and talking to, you know,
00:15:51.140 Hawk Newsom from Black Lives Matter
00:15:52.900 and seeing if we could figure out something that would be useful?
00:15:55.340 It turns out that Hawk Newsom was fucking useless
00:15:58.180 because he didn't want to.
00:16:00.240 He didn't want anything that was useful in the end.
00:16:02.440 He just liked the issue.
00:16:03.960 So he was addicted to the issue.
00:16:05.660 He was not committed to any kind of solutions.
00:16:08.600 At least that's my opinion after working with him.
00:16:10.880 But I took the chance.
00:16:14.220 I took the personal risk of working with Black Lives Matter to try to help
00:16:19.240 because I thought I could.
00:16:22.040 There was no interest in solutions that I could find.
00:16:25.440 I really couldn't.
00:16:26.440 I couldn't find any interest in solutions.
00:16:27.960 And, in fact, that was somewhat confirmed by my interaction.
00:16:35.320 You know, I heard from some behind-the-scenes stuff
00:16:38.100 that the worst thing that could happen is a solution, right?
00:16:42.180 Because they need the issue, not the solution.
00:16:45.420 So let me say it as clearly as possible.
00:16:48.080 Tonight's the last night.
00:16:49.840 Tonight's the last night.
00:16:50.900 If shit burns up tonight, if windows are broken tonight,
00:16:56.640 I don't care if Antifa held the hammer.
00:16:59.560 If Black Lives Matter organized protests,
00:17:04.280 Antifa shows up with a hammer, I'm out.
00:17:08.440 And I don't know if I could get back in.
00:17:11.120 But if you want to walk off the cliff,
00:17:14.020 tonight's the night.
00:17:15.580 So let's see how fucking incompetent your leaders are tonight.
00:17:20.160 See if you follow them.
00:17:21.560 Walk right off the fucking cliff.
00:17:23.860 Go ahead.
00:17:25.040 Because this is the biggest mistake
00:17:27.420 the black community has ever made.
00:17:30.520 By far.
00:17:31.740 By far.
00:17:32.900 Nothing's even close.
00:17:34.520 Anyway.
00:17:36.360 So I wanted to do that,
00:17:38.560 give that little bit of context
00:17:40.560 that I won't call advice
00:17:42.180 because that's presumptuous.
00:17:43.700 You really need to know
00:17:47.000 how white people think
00:17:48.340 if that's who you're trying to persuade.
00:17:51.260 And I believe that's the problem, right?
00:17:52.980 You are trying to persuade white people.
00:17:55.260 You're not trying to persuade yourself.
00:17:57.120 If you want to persuade white people,
00:17:58.820 I just told you how.
00:18:00.320 Stop selling past the close.
00:18:02.740 Give us some suggestions.
00:18:05.180 We're ready.
00:18:06.500 All right.
00:18:07.280 I'm just repeating myself now.
00:18:09.080 I'll leave it at that.
00:18:10.380 I'll probably be canceled in an hour.
00:18:12.320 And I will talk to you...
00:18:15.120 Well, I don't know if I'll ever talk to you again.
00:18:16.600 I'll try it.
00:18:17.620 Bye.
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