Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1017 Scott Adams： I Teach You How to Break Others Free From Their delusions. We Might Need That.

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00:01:02.060 Yep, yep. Temperature's going down. Golden Age is here.

00:01:08.880 So in case you missed it, the Golden Age started yesterday.

00:01:12.900 What do I mean? The Golden Age started yesterday.

00:01:17.420 The economy is in the toilet and the protesters are protesting in record numbers against the injustices of the police.

00:01:25.480 Well, here's how I see it.

00:01:30.100 The economy is on the way up. It is.

00:01:33.880 The economy is going to be turning around, no doubt about it.

00:01:37.200 We don't know how fast, etc.

00:01:39.780 But it's definitely going to go up from this point on.

00:01:45.060 It probably will go to new highs and we probably uncovered a whole bunch of problems with civilization that now can be fixed.

00:01:53.600 Because they had to get broken and we had to see all their flaws under stress, which we did.

00:02:00.640 And now we can go fix them.

00:02:02.200 Everything from the police to how we handle pandemics, our medical system, our education system, commuting, you name it.

00:02:11.440 If we had not taken the box of civilization and shaken it so hard, there would not be as many economic opportunities as there will be.

00:02:24.720 Because we just made everything in play.

00:02:27.980 Suddenly we went from, well, there were a lot of industries that were sort of sleepy and not doing much.

00:02:34.600 But now everything's in play.

00:02:36.800 You could be an entrepreneur in pretty much any realm and you saw all the problems, you saw all the flaws, you know exactly what to work on.

00:02:45.520 That needs to get fixed.

00:02:48.240 So the economy is not just going to improve.

00:02:53.580 It's going to improve and be a whole new machine.

00:02:57.260 It's a brand new car.

00:02:59.320 It's not fixing the spark plugs on your old car.

00:03:03.100 That's where we've been for, I don't know, 20 years.

00:03:05.980 For 20 years, I would say we've done nothing but change the oil and rotate the tires.

00:03:13.440 We're going to have a brand new car.

00:03:16.220 And so the economy, I completely buy into the president's framing of this, that what's happening is something amazing.

00:03:27.120 We're at the cusp of economic growth, the likes of which we've never seen.

00:03:34.100 I think that's true.

00:03:35.780 So that's good.

00:03:37.040 The protests, I believe, have now almost completely changed from unruly and full of crime and anarchist to something last night.

00:03:48.640 Assuming the coverage is giving me the real story, that's a big F.

00:03:52.240 But it looks like the protests have turned into a love fest.

00:03:58.020 A love fest in the sense that nobody disagrees.

00:04:02.840 Nobody disagrees that that George Floyd situation looked bad, bad, bad.

00:04:09.880 Nobody disagrees. 0.81

00:04:11.180 Nobody disagrees that some change would be good.

00:04:14.900 Nobody disagrees. 0.81

00:04:15.800 It looks like the protesters and the police were completely on the same side on the question of, do you want looters and anarchists ruining your message?

00:04:27.760 Nope.

00:04:28.760 Don't want any anarchists and looters ruining the message.

00:04:33.140 Same page.

00:04:33.860 So, weirdly, literally everyone except a tiny, tiny number of, you know, looters, I suppose, and anarchists were on the same side last night.

00:04:48.980 Did you see anybody report that the whole country came together last night?

00:04:55.900 Nope.

00:04:58.420 Nope.

00:04:59.540 That's what happened last night.

00:05:01.140 Last night, everybody in the country agreed.

00:05:08.360 It's the biggest story in the world.

00:05:10.820 It's never happened before.

00:05:12.620 Last night, everybody in the country agreed.

00:05:17.740 Let's do something about police procedures.

00:05:21.080 Let's make something better.

00:05:23.300 We're all agreeing.

00:05:24.620 Now, some of the details, right?

00:05:26.680 Disagree in the details, but...

00:05:29.580 I don't know.

00:05:30.600 Now, if that's not the golden age, what is?

00:05:33.340 If the only people who disagree with you are looters because they want extra footwear, you're in a pretty good place.

00:05:41.500 Pretty good place.

00:05:43.240 You saw the military agree with the protesters.

00:05:46.940 You saw the police agree with the protesters and march with them.

00:05:50.780 You saw protesters helping the police, you know, take the brick throwers out of the game. 1.00

00:05:57.820 You saw the entire country come together.

00:06:00.600 And it was reported as the opposite.

00:06:02.720 I was going to do a whiteboard presentation on that, but I'm going to give it to you without the whiteboard.

00:06:17.260 And it goes like this.

00:06:20.240 Here's the system you live in.

00:06:22.740 Your news organizations present a frame of how to see things.

00:06:29.200 When the frame is presented, people just inhabit the frame as if that's the way to look at it.

00:06:36.880 The frame that the news has put on things is that it's a race problem.

00:06:43.100 Once you have that frame, people just inhabit it.

00:06:47.160 Some say, no, it's not.

00:06:48.860 Some say, yes, it is.

00:06:50.640 No, it's not.

00:06:51.720 Yes, it is.

00:06:53.080 No, it's not.

00:06:54.280 You did things.

00:06:55.200 No, I didn't.

00:06:56.300 You did things.

00:06:57.180 No, I didn't.

00:06:58.400 So the frame that's given to you by the news is meant to be divisive.

00:07:04.740 If it's not divisive, it doesn't generate more news.

00:07:08.140 So the news business has learned that framing things divisively generates more division, which generates more news, which generates more profits.

00:07:21.180 Now, here's that part.

00:07:22.720 You knew all that part.

00:07:24.420 Here's the part I'm going to add that you probably did not know. 0.99

00:07:29.020 And it's going to blow your freaking head right off. 0.99

00:07:31.700 Are you ready? 0.99

00:07:33.000 This one you're going to be thinking about probably for weeks.

00:07:36.460 And it goes like this.

00:07:38.980 If I can frame something first and you accept the framing, remember, the framing is not your opinion.

00:07:48.740 The framing is simply how you enter the conversation, like who's on what side.

00:07:53.660 Your opinion is separate from that.

00:07:56.580 But it's an overlay on the frame that somebody has given you.

00:08:00.440 If somebody frames it first, you will think your opinion is real.

00:08:09.140 Did you get that?

00:08:10.700 If somebody else frames the topic, you will form an opinion and you will think that you came up with the opinion.

00:08:20.240 And you didn't.

00:08:21.420 That's the big illusion of life.

00:08:24.120 The way the news industry hypnotizes, brainwashes, manipulates, whatever word you want to put on it, the masses is by the framing.

00:08:34.500 So by framing this issue as a race issue, it guarantees division.

00:08:40.860 Division guarantees more news.

00:08:43.280 More news guarantees more clicks, more profits.

00:08:47.320 So they've suckered you into a frame that makes you think you have an opinion, but you didn't.

00:08:55.740 It's actually an illusion of an opinion.

00:08:57.920 Because your opinion just went to whichever part of the frame you thought you fit the best.

00:09:03.680 They made your opinion for you and gave you the impression you made it yourself.

00:09:10.440 Now, that fact is very difficult to accept as your worldview.

00:09:19.420 But you will.

00:09:20.900 Because it's also so sticky that once you hear it, you just have to hear it the first time.

00:09:26.600 That the frame gives you the illusion of forming an opinion, but that didn't happen.

00:09:33.000 It didn't happen.

00:09:33.760 All you did is pick the part of the frame you were closest to.

00:09:36.880 If somebody had picked a different frame, the thing you thought your opinion would look different.

00:09:44.420 Once you realize that, you realize what the game is.

00:09:47.840 And you can see behind the curtain.

00:09:51.300 You want to get red-pilled a little bit harder?

00:09:54.220 Here it comes.

00:09:56.500 Let that last one settle in a little bit, because this next one is going to just knock you off your chair.

00:10:00.860 The only way that the elites can stay in power is by making you think we're racially and gender divided.

00:10:11.640 It's mostly racially.

00:10:15.160 The only way the elites can stay in power is making you think we're racially divided.

00:10:22.180 Do you know why?

00:10:22.740 Because if people realized that poor people, let's just say low-income people, so there's more of them in the group.

00:10:30.620 So low-income people.

00:10:31.740 If low-income people realized that they had more in common with each other, regardless of anything else, regardless of religion, regardless of ethnicity, regardless of gender.

00:10:44.560 Gender is sort of special, so let's leave that out at the moment.

00:10:47.160 So let's just say, regardless of ethnicity, all people with low-income have a lot in common in terms of their situation. 0.98

00:10:57.280 Now, one of the things that black people don't know, because they've been poorly informed by white people, is that being a poor white person is a really shitty deal. 0.97

00:11:07.720 Well, if you don't believe me, ask any poor white person how it's going. 1.00

00:11:14.220 It's a really shitty deal. 0.99

00:11:16.160 It's a really shitty deal. 0.97

00:11:18.200 And if the people who have really shitty deals could simply understand they're on the same team, they would have all the power in this country. 0.94

00:11:27.460 Because there are a lot of them.

00:11:28.900 And we have a system that allows the majority to rule if they're smart enough to know they're on the same team.

00:11:34.540 But they're not.

00:11:37.560 And I shouldn't say smart enough, because that's the wrong word.

00:11:40.420 They are smart enough, but they've bought into a frame.

00:11:44.940 The frame of racism forces you to, it's a hip, let's say it's a magician's trick.

00:11:52.320 It's misdirection.

00:11:53.880 As long as you're looking over here, oh, racial, race, race, race.

00:11:58.020 It's a race thing.

00:11:59.240 Race is holding us down. 0.97

00:12:00.940 It's prejudice.

00:12:01.900 It's racism.

00:12:02.860 As long as you're looking over there, you can't see the obvious, which is the rich people can only stay in power.

00:12:10.340 They can only keep their money if you're fighting about race.

00:12:16.120 Because otherwise you would get together and there's too many of you.

00:12:23.320 Roll that around in your head for a little while.

00:12:25.320 So, if that doesn't wake you up, I don't know what will.

00:12:31.300 You want more?

00:12:32.460 Oh, I think you can handle it.

00:12:34.240 You can handle it.

00:12:36.640 Here's some more.

00:12:37.760 We're going deep today.

00:12:41.140 I'm going to show you one of the ways in which you have been, let's say, fooled.

00:12:47.640 It goes like this.

00:12:49.860 People get primed by patterns that they see.

00:12:54.140 And if they see a pattern often enough, they assume that the next thing they see is likely that same thing, even if it's not.

00:13:01.600 So patterns are a necessary part of your brain.

00:13:05.480 In fact, I say it's the primary part of your brain.

00:13:07.920 We're mostly pattern recognition machines, but we're not very good at it.

00:13:12.780 We're bad at pattern recognition, but it's also the only way we think.

00:13:17.120 We say, well, it looked like this before.

00:13:19.500 I don't see reasons.

00:13:21.020 I don't see any logic for it.

00:13:23.040 But this always happens when this always happens.

00:13:25.400 So I'll just say that they usually come together.

00:13:28.880 So that's how fuzzy and irrational our thinking is for most things.

00:13:34.120 Most of the time, most things, we have this fuzzy pattern recognition thing going on.

00:13:40.840 But it's a trap.

00:13:42.860 Because while you have to use pattern recognition to get through life, it can fool you into thinking the wrong things.

00:13:50.860 Here's an example.

00:13:52.480 You are primed by movies.

00:13:54.760 One of our most powerful cultural elements, I guess, is watching TV and movies, etc.

00:14:03.240 So you're used to watching a screen in which a story is presented.

00:14:08.560 And in the story that's presented in the fictional movie TV world, everything you see on the screen is important.

00:14:16.640 And nothing that you don't see is important.

00:14:20.120 Meaning that the director and the writer have guaranteed that what you're looking at is complete.

00:14:26.260 So you spend your whole life looking at movies and TV shows in which, in every case, the pattern is this.

00:14:34.660 The stuff you see on the screen is all that you need to know.

00:14:38.740 There's nothing else.

00:14:40.040 If there was anything else you needed to know, the director would have put it there so you'd understand the story.

00:14:46.440 Real life is completely different.

00:14:49.240 In real life, there may be somebody behind the car that is not seen on the video.

00:14:57.160 In a movie, that would never happen.

00:14:59.340 No director would put something behind an object so that the people in the audience can't see it.

00:15:05.140 What would be the point?

00:15:06.720 There'd be no point of that.

00:15:07.680 So you are primed that what you see on the screen is the whole story.

00:15:13.500 There's nothing else.

00:15:15.040 You're looking at it.

00:15:16.640 And then you're exposed to real life.

00:15:18.380 Let's say somebody's phone video.

00:15:20.300 And it doesn't need to be about anybody in particular.

00:15:23.700 You could make it about the recent case about George Floyd.

00:15:29.180 But it's a general statement that a video phone doesn't show you what's behind the car because you're not a director and a writer.

00:15:38.660 There just might be something behind the car.

00:15:40.860 In the case when you saw the first video of George Floyd, you couldn't tell that behind the car were the two other officers who were also involved holding down the suspect.

00:15:51.780 Now, that changed your story a little bit when you learned that.

00:15:54.780 It's like, oh, okay, well, that adds a question because it looked like he was the one officer when you only saw one.

00:16:01.920 It was obvious he was killing him.

00:16:04.100 Kind of obvious.

00:16:05.380 It looked like murder to you.

00:16:07.680 But then you learned there were two other policemen on the other part of George Floyd's body, but that's not on the video, at least the first video.

00:16:15.080 We saw it later.

00:16:16.540 And then you say, okay, I got to incorporate this new information.

00:16:19.700 But once you've already decided, any new information that comes after you've already decided just becomes confirmation bias and you simply interpret it according to your original thought.

00:16:33.840 So by seeing the original video without any explainers, people solidified an opinion based on almost no information.

00:16:44.420 And I think that this pattern recognition thing is part of the problem.

00:16:48.880 It's not the whole problem, right?

00:16:50.260 It's just part of the problem that's interesting.

00:16:52.360 That you assume that what you saw is complete enough to have a complete opinion.

00:16:58.240 And it's not even close.

00:17:00.680 It's not even in the ballpark of being enough.

00:17:04.520 It's far closer to being completely misleading than it is to being complete.

00:17:10.700 And I think that we take this pattern of, well, it must be all there.

00:17:14.740 I can see it with my own eyes.

00:17:16.340 I hear it with my own ears.

00:17:18.320 You know, it's got to be all I know.

00:17:21.040 So I think that that makes us susceptible to being fooled as well.

00:17:31.440 So we've got that going on.

00:17:33.060 All right, I'll talk a little bit more about this, but we've got some other things happening.

00:17:36.180 I like to call out when the anti-Trump people are doing something that's funny.

00:17:44.920 All right, so just so I don't always say that the funny thing is on the pro-Trump side,

00:17:50.980 but I have to say that the pro-Trump people do seem funnier.

00:17:55.820 As a professional humorist, it is my impression that the pro-Trump people just have a better sense of humor about this stuff.

00:18:03.660 But I think that could be biased.

00:18:05.000 I don't know.

00:18:06.360 But I saw some signs that people were, some anti-Trumpers were holding up, I think somewhere near the White House.

00:18:14.200 And there was two signs that went together. 0.97

00:18:16.580 One said, racist president, go back to your bunker. 0.98

00:18:19.960 Okay, that wasn't the funny part. 1.00

00:18:21.640 And then the big sign was bunker bitch. 1.00

00:18:24.260 So they're calling the president a bunker bitch. 1.00

00:18:30.820 And then the White House is, well, you have to admit that's just funny, bunker bitch. 1.00

00:18:37.540 It's as funny as basement Biden. 0.99

00:18:39.900 You know, I think that's funny. 0.98

00:18:41.580 If basement Biden is funny, you have to sort of accept that bunker bitch is sort of a funny sign. 0.98

00:18:50.020 But here's the other one. 0.96

00:18:53.320 So the White House is putting up, I guess, an extra or maybe a new security fence around the White House to protect the president.

00:19:01.200 So what's trending today is, is Mexico paying for the wall around the White House?

00:19:08.440 Now, you could be pro-Trump, but that's just funny.

00:19:13.060 That's pretty funny, you have to admit.

00:19:15.180 Somebody's asking me about Jimmy Dore.

00:19:20.140 So let me answer that, just since I saw the question.

00:19:24.020 So Jimmy Dore was, he tweeted some nonsense at me.

00:19:29.700 I guess he was questioning, so I had a tweet in which I said that if you're Antifa, you might not want to bring your phone to meetings.

00:19:39.400 And Jimmy Dore says, oh, you know, he asked me several questions, but the first one of the several was, you know, where are these Antifa meetings?

00:19:50.740 In other words, he was questioning that Antifa has meetings, rather than, you know, I guess, rather than a dispersed organization.

00:20:01.240 So the first thing I did was look for his profile and check his biography.

00:20:07.040 Do you know why?

00:20:07.900 Why? Because the nature of the question suggested that he had not been exposed to a number of fields and that his talent stack was a little light.

00:20:20.820 And so I looked at his biography and his talent stack is really light.

00:20:26.380 It's really light.

00:20:27.860 In other words, his experience seems to be in the entertainment realm and I didn't see anything else.

00:20:33.040 In other words, he didn't used to work as an engineer or he didn't used to work as an economist or something.

00:20:42.080 So he doesn't have experience in, as far as I can tell from his biography, he doesn't have experience in either technology or system development, economics, engineering or anything like that.

00:20:54.520 So, unfortunately, in order to answer his question honestly, well, where are these Antifa meetings?

00:21:03.000 I had to look at his profile and call it out, that I understand why he is confused.

00:21:09.980 He doesn't have any background in tech development.

00:21:13.600 Now, I have a ton of background in development projects from probably 30 years of experience being directly part of some development team of a website or an app or some technology thing, both in my prior corporate life and in my current life.

00:21:31.540 And so there are some assumptions I make about what other people know that are sometimes unfair because they don't have the same experience.

00:21:41.480 So when I talked about meetings in the context of the, let's say, the government tracking your phone, your location, I meant any meeting.

00:21:50.760 If you walk over to one other person and say, hey, Bob, how's Antifa going?

00:21:55.740 That would be a meeting of two phones.

00:21:58.060 And the point is, any time those two phones were in any kind of a cluster and you knew that at least one person in the cluster was definitely Antifa and he was traveling in another little cluster, well, you know, sooner or later you could piece together enough clues that you could definitely tell who Antifa was simply by where phones have been.

00:22:20.260 So I had to explain that to Jimmy Dore because it's not obvious if you have a very light talent stack, you can't really fill in the rest of the details just with your own experience.

00:22:31.880 Somebody has to explain it to you.

00:22:33.520 So I explained it to him that probably all the Antifa have been tagged and tracked by now.

00:22:39.480 And it probably is a factor in why there were fewer of the bad actors in last night's protests, because I think the government is so far up Antifa's ass at this point that anybody who showed up would either have to leave their phone home, and who can do that?

00:22:57.060 What 20-year-old can leave their phone off or leave it home when they're going to be out all night?

00:23:07.100 Almost none.

00:23:08.680 I don't care if you're Antifa or not Antifa.

00:23:11.760 If you're in your 20s, you just can't really leave your phone home all night or leave it off.

00:23:18.480 So I don't think it happened much, and it doesn't, of course, happen.

00:23:24.040 And then Jack Posamek weighed in with a comment saying that one of the ways that Antifa used to try to fool people who might be tracking their phones is that they would, I think they would, I may have this backwards, but I think they would turn them off as they were traveling to someplace and then turn them on or something.

00:23:46.120 But anyway, there was something about the pattern of when they turned them off and when they turned them back on that also gave them away.

00:23:53.820 So in other words, their method of hiding turned into a method of identifying them.

00:24:00.120 So the point is, yes, if the government had the will to do it, we don't know that.

00:24:06.000 We don't know what they choose to do.

00:24:07.980 But they certainly have all the technology that by now they know every member of Antifa, because between the social media traffic and the location traffic, if you see a bunch of Antifas standing there and you can check their phone locations, you're going to see like 10 of them together.

00:24:26.640 You're going to know.

00:24:27.940 All right.

00:24:29.300 So that's the Jimmy Dore story.

00:24:30.900 CNN is, well, it looks like there's another news blackout on any bad stuff that's happening or that the protests are mostly peaceful last night.

00:24:44.620 So it's being reported as mostly peaceful by the mainstream news.

00:24:49.020 At the same time, the non-mainstream news, let's call them the individuals with phones, are reporting that there were pipe bombs.

00:24:58.180 Pipe bombs.

00:25:00.780 Now, I don't know if I've seen that report in the mainstream news, do you?

00:25:06.340 But I know Jack Posavik mentioned it, and then I think Jack Murphy mentioned he heard explosions, which sounded like they could have been those bombs.

00:25:17.640 Now, think about that reporting and then compare it to the mainstream news.

00:25:22.320 The mainstream news is not even talking about the question of whether or not there were pipe bombs or even if there was a rumor that there were that was disproven, not even as a debunked thing.

00:25:35.680 Oh, somebody says they saw it yesterday.

00:25:37.880 Did you see it in the mainstream news?

00:25:42.120 I'm looking at your – because I could be under-informed here.

00:25:45.240 That's entirely possible.

00:25:47.080 Hmm, okay.

00:25:51.460 So I could be wrong about that, but it seems like the mainstream news is not covering – it seems like they've decided to lower the temperature, which they can, by the way they report it.

00:26:03.660 So CNN has become an apologist for Antifa to the point of being hilarious.

00:26:11.160 And, yeah, there was an ATM that exploded.

00:26:15.460 I don't know what kind of bomb that was.

00:26:17.220 Somebody is reminding me.

00:26:19.060 So here are some of the things that CNN is saying to excuse Antifa.

00:26:23.180 And if you look for it, you're going to have a good laugh, all right?

00:26:26.660 And they say these things with – these are written things that I read.

00:26:32.320 But figuratively speaking, they say it with a straight face.

00:26:36.280 And you read it and you go, this could easily be the onion.

00:26:39.380 This could so easily be in the onion, and they wouldn't even have to change anything.

00:26:44.380 All right, here it is.

00:26:48.440 First of all, the CNN says Antifa was not any part of organizing anything.

00:26:54.660 But one wonders, where did all the BRICS come from, and how did all those Antifa know to show up at the same place wearing the same outfits?

00:27:03.940 It's obviously – there's some coordination.

00:27:06.220 I don't know how much coordination, but it's pretty obvious there's some coordination, at least among the Antifa.

00:27:14.040 And there's no question they're there.

00:27:16.280 We see them on the video.

00:27:18.320 They dress distinctively so you know who they are.

00:27:21.360 They dress so you know who they are.

00:27:24.340 And there they are.

00:27:26.660 Sure enough.

00:27:27.520 And the CNN is acting almost like they're just – they don't exist or – so that – not quite.

00:27:34.180 They're downplaying it.

00:27:35.100 But listen to this next part.

00:27:36.260 Here's the fun part.

00:27:38.980 So they say that Trump keeps talking about Antifa, but then CNN goes – this is an actual quote –

00:27:46.140 Federal law enforcement officials pointed to groups, including anarchists, white supremacists, and far-left extremists.

00:27:54.200 And I'm thinking to myself, what does it mean to point to groups?

00:27:58.140 They pointed to groups.

00:28:00.340 Okay.

00:28:00.620 So if federal and law enforcement officials pointed to groups, does that mean that they've identified that these groups are definitely part of the action?

00:28:13.180 No.

00:28:13.920 It doesn't mean that.

00:28:14.820 It means they pointed to them.

00:28:16.660 Does it mean that it was mostly anarchists but only a few people in Antifa?

00:28:22.600 Well, no.

00:28:23.180 It's silent on the numbers.

00:28:25.080 It's just pointing to them.

00:28:26.660 Was there maybe three anarchists in the entire operation?

00:28:33.440 Don't know.

00:28:34.580 But we do know that federal law enforcement officials pointed at them.

00:28:38.880 So they've all been pointed at.

00:28:41.340 Notice how ambiguous pointed at is?

00:28:44.720 Pointed at.

00:28:45.960 Pointed at does mean guessing.

00:28:47.840 Yes, somebody in the comments is saying pointed at equals guessing.

00:28:51.380 That's exactly what that was.

00:28:54.060 They pointed at them.

00:28:55.340 And when you wanted to see something in the list is white supremacists, so I thought to myself, well, by now they've obviously found a white supremacist.

00:29:06.740 So I clicked through the article to read about the white supremacist that they've caught red-handed organizing something.

00:29:14.960 Do you think that there's actually a story about a white supremacist that they caught organizing something?

00:29:20.580 Nope.

00:29:21.660 No.

00:29:22.920 No.

00:29:23.200 There's no photograph.

00:29:25.100 There's no text that somebody sent.

00:29:28.260 There's no social media call for the white supremacist.

00:29:32.560 There's nothing.

00:29:33.820 There's nothing there.

00:29:34.520 The closest they get is the accusation that there are some far-right people involved who also, coincidentally, and unrelated to what these far-right people who have not been identified and have no pictures and have no verifying information, but allegedly exist, were associated with white supremacy.

00:29:57.700 In other words, not even necessarily white supremacists.

00:30:02.760 In other words, simply people on the right.

00:30:06.760 Because do you know who else is associated with white supremacists, according to CNN?

00:30:14.080 You.

00:30:15.460 You.

00:30:15.900 So most of the people watching this are Trump supporters, just historically speaking, probably 90% are Trump supporters.

00:30:24.160 Would it not be an accurate statement by CNN standards, by CNN standards, would it not be accurate to say that every one of you is, quote, associated with white supremacy?

00:30:37.860 Yeah, yeah, yeah, me too, associated with, meaning that I've talked, I've said good things about the president of the United States.

00:30:49.320 The president of the United States, they say, praises white supremacists.

00:30:54.180 So would that make me, by CNN standards, associated with white supremacists?

00:31:01.240 Yes.

00:31:02.220 Yes, it would.

00:31:04.800 How'd that happen?

00:31:05.800 There's nobody, you know, I dislike white supremacists, you know, a 10 out of 10, but I also don't think they exist.

00:31:15.800 In the sense that I've never met one, never seen one on TV in the last 20 years or so, right?

00:31:22.520 I think they used to exist, but I don't think anybody has the supremacist part.

00:31:27.440 There are plenty of racists, of course.

00:31:29.720 Racists are common.

00:31:31.240 But the supremacist part, that went away a long time ago.

00:31:34.440 So it's mostly the opposite of that, in terms of how they think about themselves.

00:31:42.640 So then I clicked through, and I'm reading about this, and they made a distinction between antifa and anarchists.

00:31:54.240 So they said, well, you got your antifa, but then separately you got your anarchist.

00:32:01.560 Uh-huh, uh-huh.

00:32:04.120 Is that what's happening?

00:32:06.080 Are the anarchists, do they have their own little group, and they're not part of antifa?

00:32:12.260 Which antifa are you looking at?

00:32:14.300 Because the antifa I'm looking at are anarchists.

00:32:19.060 But they've decided that they're separate groups, so that they can make antifa a smaller impact.

00:32:25.240 But here's the even funnier part.

00:32:29.520 They're called the far-left extremists.

00:32:32.140 Would you say that the far-left extremists are antifa?

00:32:38.980 Or are they a separate group, and antifa is over here?

00:32:44.420 I don't know what antifa you're looking at, but I think they're far-left extremists.

00:32:50.640 And anarchists.

00:32:52.340 So CNN has broken them into like three separate groups, so that they all seem smaller.

00:32:58.240 What's that sound like?

00:32:59.300 What does that sound like?

00:33:02.940 It's the same trick that they're doing with the framing, of framing race as the major frame.

00:33:10.120 If they can give you the frame, then they've given you your opinion.

00:33:15.620 If they allow you to frame it this way, that there are all these separate individual groups

00:33:20.800 and they're all really tiny, then there's no antifa.

00:33:24.120 If you accept the frame, they've given you an opinion, and you think you made up your own opinion,

00:33:31.920 and it didn't happen.

00:33:32.980 It just didn't happen.

00:33:34.360 They gave you an opinion, and you thought it was your own.

00:33:37.400 That's how framing works.

00:33:39.560 So, this is really clever.

00:33:42.880 I've got to say it's clever.

00:33:44.960 I can't take that away from them. 1.00

00:33:46.120 So, General Mattis, it turns out he's an idiot. 1.00

00:33:54.160 I used to have such respect for General Mattis, and then he got fired, and I thought, oh, this 1.00

00:34:00.380 is going to be bad.

00:34:01.860 And as soon as he got fired, everything turned good on the battleground.

00:34:05.640 Did you know?

00:34:06.280 Am I right about that?

00:34:07.280 I may have false memories of this, because I'm just going by memory, but it seemed to

00:34:12.300 me that the turning point when the United States made gains and finally could get out of the

00:34:18.680 Middle East and start withdrawing forces wasn't the positive turning point when Trump fired

00:34:25.520 Mattis.

00:34:27.220 I'm not imagining that, right?

00:34:28.880 So, I think Mattis doesn't like the president, we know that, and he is very much against the

00:34:38.200 president bringing in the military for these protesters. 1.00

00:34:43.220 Now, here's the thing that makes Mattis an idiot. 1.00

00:34:47.800 Do you think that the president wanted anybody in the military to actually shoot anybody? 1.00

00:34:54.120 I don't think so.

00:34:55.320 I think the president really, really didn't want anybody to get shot, like really, really

00:35:02.080 didn't want anybody to get shot or hurt.

00:35:05.440 Do you know a massive military presence with full camo helmets and whatever firepower they

00:35:13.820 had?

00:35:14.160 I don't know what kind of weapons the soldiers had, but they had the big ones.

00:35:19.640 We're not talking about the sidearm that's holstered and the mace.

00:35:24.420 The military was the military.

00:35:28.060 They came in with full, you know, full armor, you know, strapped with weapons of every kind.

00:35:35.800 Now, if you're a looter and you see any one of those guys in anywhere in the area, right?

00:35:43.200 Let's say there are 20 of you, 20 looters, normally 20 would be enough, right?

00:35:48.360 You would overwhelm police.

00:35:49.680 If 20 looters came to a store and they looked over and looking at them was one trained military

00:35:58.840 person, full camo with a long rifle.

00:36:03.000 That may be the wrong term, but, you know, some kind of a military rifle strapped with 0.74

00:36:08.520 ammo, military vest, trained to kill.

00:36:13.800 Well, somebody's saying M4 and somebody's saying M16, so we don't know. 0.99

00:36:19.380 Now, you're a looter and you've got 20 of them.

00:36:21.600 You have the numbers, but you look over and you see that guy and he's got his gun and he

00:36:26.820 goes, or whatever you do with, who knows, whatever you do with, you know, take the safety

00:36:31.880 off, whatever he does.

00:36:33.180 He goes, clicks it off and then turns it at your group of 20.

00:36:37.600 What do they do?

00:36:40.860 What do they do?

00:36:42.460 Do they rob the store?

00:36:44.440 No.

00:36:45.300 I think they leave.

00:36:47.020 I think they leave really quickly and nobody gets hurt.

00:36:50.720 If they had gone in, somebody probably would get hurt because looting is sort of a, you

00:36:56.540 know, dangerous thing.

00:36:57.440 There's broken glass.

00:36:58.600 There's people, you know, fighting with each other over the goods they're stealing.

00:37:02.720 There's who knows what happens with vigilantes when you leave.

00:37:05.760 If it's a really dangerous situation to let them loot, but what is a lot less dangerous

00:37:12.120 is a fully trained military person aiming a serious killing machine at your group of

00:37:19.620 20 and saying, whatever, you know, whatever, do what you need to do, but something's going

00:37:26.820 to happen and then they just leave.

00:37:29.740 So the thing that Mattis I don't think understood, I don't think anybody in the news quite understands

00:37:34.760 is that the whole point of the military was a massive show of force that you didn't have

00:37:39.260 to use.

00:37:40.500 Trump says this directly.

00:37:42.180 I mean, the whole point of building up the military is that he doesn't have to use it.

00:37:46.380 That's expressly what he says.

00:37:48.640 It's the same play.

00:37:50.120 We're going to send in massive military force for the express purpose of not using it.

00:37:57.020 But that's the reason you do it.

00:38:00.000 And even if the military had killed somebody, I think it was very unlikely that was going

00:38:05.900 to happen, frankly.

00:38:07.120 But if the unlikely thing happened, a military killed a person, it would still be way less

00:38:13.900 death than if it hadn't happened.

00:38:16.900 Because if they don't have that presence, which in this hypothetical would cause, let's say,

00:38:22.140 one person to get killed that wouldn't have otherwise, they probably saved 15 lives just

00:38:28.300 by being there because things were devolving.

00:38:31.960 You know that the vigilantes were about two days away, right?

00:38:37.640 If you're being honest, vigilantism was about two days away.

00:38:43.300 Anyway, there was going to be somebody with a powerful weapon who was going to start taking

00:38:49.860 people out.

00:38:51.200 It could have been a shopkeeper.

00:38:52.780 It could have been anybody.

00:38:54.180 I don't know.

00:38:54.760 But it was going to happen.

00:38:56.580 So I think the president's use of military was 100% right with a risk, right?

00:39:04.440 It came with a risk.

00:39:06.080 And people like Mattis just talk about the risk part.

00:39:09.340 They don't talk about the benefits.

00:39:10.780 If you're only talking about the risk, and you're not talking about what benefits it

00:39:15.760 gave, which it looks like the military calmed it down right away.

00:39:19.700 I think the military presence, I think so, was the primary variable that got us from massive

00:39:27.580 looting to, well, it looks more like a protest now.

00:39:31.140 I think it worked.

00:39:32.840 I think the president will never get credit for that.

00:39:35.560 I think it was 100% successful.

00:39:37.380 All right.

00:39:41.900 God, there's so much news today.

00:39:43.480 It's very newsy time.

00:39:44.780 Things are getting really busy over the summer.

00:39:50.300 All right.

00:39:51.200 Let's see.

00:39:51.920 Oh, the other category that CNN creates, as if this is its own category, is an anti-government

00:40:00.560 group.

00:40:01.560 So you've got your Antifa, you've got your anarchists, and you've got your anti-government

00:40:07.220 group.

00:40:09.080 They're all the same.

00:40:11.780 They're all the same people.

00:40:13.980 Not CNN.

00:40:15.360 Three different groups.

00:40:18.040 All right.

00:40:18.840 Would you like to know how to unhypnotize the hypnotized masses?

00:40:27.420 Now, the hypnotized masses have been hypnotized by the framing of the media.

00:40:32.660 So the media said, we've got a big racism problem, but you look at the statistics and

00:40:38.620 what do you see?

00:40:39.280 When you look for the big racism problem of, specifically, the problem of police killing 0.96

00:40:47.040 black men at a higher rate than other people.

00:40:50.780 So when you looked at the statistics to see this problem, where was it?

00:40:57.760 It wasn't there.

00:40:58.820 So it doesn't show up in the statistics.

00:41:02.420 In fact, it's the opposite.

00:41:04.560 That if you look, if you only count the number of people getting stopped by police in the first

00:41:08.620 place, just that population, which is the relevant population, more white people get killed by 0.77

00:41:14.400 police per capita, you know, of the number of people stopped than black.

00:41:20.400 Now, of course, everybody on the right already knows this, right?

00:41:24.040 You knew this.

00:41:25.700 Tucker Carlson did a show on it.

00:41:27.560 I saw McCarthy just talked about it on TV.

00:41:33.380 I think the Five has probably talked about it.

00:41:36.260 Probably every news outlet, I'm sure Breitbart's talked about it, probably every news outlet

00:41:42.160 on the right has reported that the very thing they're marching about, the massive protests

00:41:47.560 overwhelming the country, is actually based on nothing.

00:41:53.600 That's what the right is reporting.

00:41:55.160 But on the left, this is as real as it could be, because it's a lived experience.

00:42:00.540 I like that phrase, because it's sort of a phrase that needed to happen, a lived experience,

00:42:07.600 because lived experience speaks to the subjectivity of reality.

00:42:12.040 Now, suppose you wanted to talk people out of their frame. 0.96

00:42:17.840 The frame is that there's racism and the police are killing black people at a higher rate.

00:42:23.900 If you wanted to talk them out of that, how would you do it? 0.74

00:42:27.200 I'm going to teach you how.

00:42:29.360 Won't work every time.

00:42:30.580 It doesn't necessarily work instantly, but it does work.

00:42:36.880 And I don't know anything else that would work.

00:42:39.220 And this is a really deep trick in hypnosis.

00:42:43.320 You ready?

00:42:44.240 This is now you've got a background on how to persuade.

00:42:48.900 Most of you do if you've been watching me for a while.

00:42:50.780 Well, you've got a lot of the basics, you know how to sell past, you know, you know not

00:42:55.440 to sell past the clothes, but you should make people think past the sale.

00:43:01.160 You know that, you know, you should contrast, you know that you should use visual, etc.

00:43:05.540 So you know, you've seen a lot of the tools.

00:43:08.720 But now I'm going to take you into a deeper level. 0.99

00:43:11.080 I'm taking you into some serious shit. 0.99

00:43:13.560 All right? 0.99

00:43:14.760 It may not look like it when you first see it.

00:43:17.020 And you're going to say to yourself, I don't know that that would work.

00:43:21.000 It works.

00:43:22.680 Won't work every time with every person.

00:43:25.500 Persuasion doesn't work that way.

00:43:27.040 But it's really powerful.

00:43:28.260 Have I built it up enough?

00:43:29.740 Let's take a look at it.

00:43:34.660 It goes like this.

00:43:35.700 This is one of the things we learned in hypnosis class, by the way, as an actual technique.

00:43:43.520 And it goes like this.

00:43:47.020 If you want to pop somebody's delusion, and let's say that you know for sure that they're

00:43:51.640 operating in a delusion that can be easily proven to be a delusion.

00:43:57.200 Now, in this case, there are statistics.

00:43:59.780 And those statistics easily prove that it's a delusion.

00:44:03.140 But people don't, just don't talk about those statistics.

00:44:06.780 They just act like the statistics don't exist.

00:44:09.760 Because if they did talk about them, their illusion would pop.

00:44:12.760 Now, if you say to them, hey, your issue is fake, what are they going to say to you? 1.00

00:44:19.540 You freaking racist. 1.00

00:44:21.980 You racist. 1.00

00:44:23.480 My issue is real. 0.95

00:44:25.180 And then you say, but look at the statistics.

00:44:28.380 What do they say?

00:44:29.760 In the real world, people don't agree with you because you have facts.

00:44:34.560 We've learned this, right?

00:44:35.620 You have no chance of persuading with information, even if the people agree your information is

00:44:42.480 correct, and even if the information is simple and very clear, which it is in this case.

00:44:47.960 It's the clearest example that you can see, where if you just show them the statistics and

00:44:52.540 look, number of people dead, black deaths, white deaths, death by cop, you can see that

00:44:59.360 the thing you're marching about actually doesn't exist, the problem you're talking about.

00:45:03.600 Specifically, the death part, not racism in general.

00:45:07.320 Racism in general, we assume to exist, but we're talking about the death by cop problem.

00:45:13.960 Here is the method.

00:45:16.240 You agree with the thing that you're trying to debunk, and you amplify it.

00:45:22.800 You agree, and you amplify it.

00:45:27.080 It's the amplifying, so the agreeing is just pacing.

00:45:30.640 If you agree with somebody, they'll listen to you.

00:45:33.360 If you disagree, they'll just tell you you're wrong, and they don't even care what the reasons

00:45:36.700 are.

00:45:37.480 So you have to agree, or you're not in the conversation.

00:45:40.540 You got that right?

00:45:41.900 Agreeing is your invitation to the conversation.

00:45:45.800 If you haven't done that, if you start with a disagreement, there's nothing that's happening

00:45:51.300 after that.

00:45:52.680 You're done before you start.

00:45:54.760 So you agree, and then you amplify it.

00:45:58.160 You take their own point, like Stephen Colbert did when he would mock conservative beliefs, 0.53

00:46:05.720 he would adopt them and amplify them so that you could see the ridiculousness because he

00:46:11.180 just amplified them a little bit.

00:46:13.120 Now, if you amplify too much, you get the Stephen Colbert show, and it's just humorous.

00:46:18.400 So the trick is, you don't want to amplify that much, because then it just looks like

00:46:23.580 a joke.

00:46:24.380 You want to amplify enough that people can't tell if you're joking.

00:46:28.280 So here is a sentence that demonstrates that.

00:46:31.600 So if somebody says, you know, what's your view on this?

00:46:34.700 You could say, police brutality against black Americans is a huge problem.

00:46:40.860 That's the agreeing part. 0.76

00:46:42.200 It's a huge problem in every way except statistically.

00:46:48.380 And you just say this like this makes sense.

00:46:52.080 Does this make sense?

00:46:53.880 That it's a huge problem in every way except statistically?

00:46:57.640 Because this statistically tells you it doesn't exist.

00:47:01.560 And yet, we see that people are protesting.

00:47:05.340 We see a video of a guy dying.

00:47:07.080 We see people upset.

00:47:08.720 We see looting. 0.97

00:47:09.440 So it is true that police brutality against black Americans is a huge problem. 0.66

00:47:15.700 It's true, right?

00:47:17.360 It's totally true.

00:47:18.840 Because we're seeing protests and the economy being destroyed, and we're at each other's

00:47:23.000 necks.

00:47:23.540 There's no question it's a huge problem in every way, well, except statistically.

00:47:30.720 So this is the persuasion technique to pop a delusion.

00:47:36.380 You've got to get inside it.

00:47:37.780 It's called getting inside it.

00:47:40.320 So getting inside it means that you adopt it as your own frame.

00:47:45.440 So instead of saying, that frame is wrong, it's not about racism, it's about power, it's

00:47:50.640 about Democrats, anything else like that is completely useless.

00:47:54.060 It's just a waste of talk.

00:47:55.900 You can't persuade that way.

00:47:57.240 You've got to agree, and then amplify it just enough that somebody else will say, what's

00:48:04.780 that mean?

00:48:06.240 And you say, I'm agreeing with you.

00:48:09.200 This is a gigantic problem.

00:48:11.220 And they say, but what do you mean by except statistically?

00:48:13.900 Well, you know, if you look at the statistics, there's no support for it.

00:48:18.060 But that doesn't matter.

00:48:21.580 You agree with them.

00:48:22.480 You say, it doesn't matter.

00:48:23.860 It's a huge problem in every other way, except for the part, the statistical part.

00:48:28.980 Now, let's say you say that to somebody, and you get their attention.

00:48:36.440 The hard part is getting people to think about it later.

00:48:41.080 And they go home, and they say, what does it mean to say it's a huge problem in every

00:48:45.880 way except statistically?

00:48:47.740 That can't be true.

00:48:49.820 That can't be true, right?

00:48:52.200 And then you get them to Google it.

00:48:54.000 So the win is not that they change their mind while they're standing there.

00:48:59.420 That's not going to happen.

00:49:00.980 They'll never change their mind while you're standing there.

00:49:04.160 But you can certainly cause them to go home and in the privacy of their own room say, I

00:49:10.240 just need to check this.

00:49:12.480 Click, click, click, click, click.

00:49:14.060 Google it.

00:49:15.360 And then you see it.

00:49:17.000 And you say to yourself, oh my God, I've been marching for five days over an issue.

00:49:24.380 That isn't even identifiable statistically.

00:49:28.720 Now, probably what you're going to get, because I've already tested this a little bit, is

00:49:35.520 something like this. 0.80

00:49:37.440 But it is true that the police will hassle black people more than white people. 0.65

00:49:42.140 That just sounds true, doesn't it? 0.92

00:49:44.820 Right?

00:49:45.120 I mean, anecdotally, that seems so obviously true that even I wouldn't agree, even I wouldn't

00:49:52.200 believe statistics if the statistics showed, let me put it this way, if I ever saw a statistic

00:49:58.800 that said that black citizens and white citizens are stopped and hassled, just hassled, by the

00:50:05.580 police at the same rate.

00:50:08.100 Would you believe that statistic?

00:50:10.500 No.

00:50:11.540 No, you wouldn't. 0.76

00:50:12.800 And you're not, you know, even people who are not black wouldn't believe that statistic. 0.97

00:50:16.260 That's not even the slightly credible statistic.

00:50:19.180 There is a hundred percent chance that black citizens, peace-loving black citizens, are

00:50:27.100 stopped by police and hassled more than white citizens.

00:50:30.560 There's no way that's not true.

00:50:32.280 So, but I think the argument would shift to that as if anybody disagreed with that.

00:50:37.960 And I don't think anybody disagrees with that.

00:50:39.720 I think the police agree with that.

00:50:41.380 I don't know, but I would guess.

00:50:43.600 All right.

00:50:44.760 Here's some, uh, here's some more of those.

00:50:49.220 So here's another example of agreeing and amplifying.

00:50:53.560 Are you ready?

00:50:54.460 Now this one goes a little bit too far because you can tell it's a joke.

00:50:59.560 All right.

00:50:59.900 But it's a good example.

00:51:00.860 But just be aware it goes a little too far where this one didn't, you know, the, the

00:51:06.780 every way except statistically doesn't go too far, but this one does.

00:51:10.680 So you can tell the difference.

00:51:12.100 And it goes like this.

00:51:13.260 And I tweeted this today.

00:51:14.460 I said, I demand change, which is what the protesters are demanding.

00:51:18.720 I demand change.

00:51:19.940 I also demand that you not know specifically what change I'm talking about.

00:51:24.000 So you can't help because that's what the protesters are saying, except I've amplified

00:51:29.900 it a little.

00:51:30.860 What they're saying is we demand change.

00:51:33.680 And what they're also not saying is specifically what change.

00:51:38.640 And if they did, would you be willing to talk about it and maybe help?

00:51:43.620 Probably.

00:51:44.140 Why wouldn't you?

00:51:45.520 You know, you're a helpful person.

00:51:47.960 If somebody had a problem and they had a specific suggestion, you'd at least talk about it.

00:51:53.300 You'd at least discuss it.

00:51:56.140 So here's the, here's the sentence again, just so you can appreciate it.

00:51:59.960 I demand change.

00:52:01.000 I also demand that you not know specifically what change I want.

00:52:06.220 So you can't help.

00:52:09.060 That's exactly what they're asking for, but not in those words.

00:52:12.540 I just amplified it a little bit.

00:52:15.560 All right.

00:52:16.680 Here's another one.

00:52:18.700 Let's keep rich people in power by using identity politics.

00:52:21.760 So every, the, the left agrees that identity politics is a useful tool and say that by the

00:52:31.160 way, that's not my impression of what they think.

00:52:34.120 They say that directly.

00:52:36.400 There are a number of quotes from people on the left saying it in plain language.

00:52:40.760 Identity politics is a useful tool for getting stuff done.

00:52:46.460 So what if you agree with them?

00:52:49.060 Because there's nobody who's arguing your point that if you use identity politics, it

00:52:54.660 has the effect of dividing us and that allows the rich people to stay in power because as

00:53:00.900 long as the public is divided, they don't have enough combined power to go take the money

00:53:05.940 from the rich people.

00:53:07.060 The moment they got together and realized it's not about race, they would have all the 0.93

00:53:13.760 power.

00:53:14.360 They would raise the taxes on the rich and they would just take their money.

00:53:17.680 So as a rich person, on behalf of all rich people, I can't say identity politics is bad

00:53:26.420 for me because it's kind of good for me.

00:53:31.340 If you know what I mean?

00:53:32.500 I mean, in a bad way, it's good for me.

00:53:34.360 So I'm not laughing in the ha ha ha, you know, it's good for me.

00:53:38.280 I'm laughing at the absurdity of it.

00:53:40.580 I'm laughing that I can be a rich person and I can tell you in public, the moment you stop 0.99

00:53:46.340 fighting about identity politics, I'm going to lose all of my shit because, because low 0.99

00:53:51.660 income people would just vote higher taxes and then I would have to pay my taxes or go 1.00

00:53:56.880 to jail and then they would have all my shit. 0.92

00:54:00.280 So do I want identity politics to completely stop? 0.99

00:54:07.740 Well, I'd like it to calm down a little bit so nobody's dying and the economy can get running.

00:54:13.980 But is it good for me to get rid of identity politics?

00:54:21.240 Not financially.

00:54:24.040 Not financially.

00:54:26.660 It's not.

00:54:28.640 So be honest about that.

00:54:31.940 How do you know that identity politics is good for rich people?

00:54:37.260 Well, well, I haven't checked the stock market today, but as of yesterday, the stock market

00:54:46.820 was telling us that, yep, it looks like the S&P 500 is up again today, which tells you that

00:54:54.740 rich people, wait for it, rich people, wait for it, think that the protests and the identity

00:55:06.680 politics are good for them.

00:55:10.780 That's right.

00:55:12.180 Rich people have bid up the stock market because who has money to put in stocks?

00:55:17.400 Not poor people.

00:55:19.000 Poor people did not move the stock market, only rich people.

00:55:22.020 Rich people are looking at racial riots and bidding the stock market up.

00:55:31.860 Are there any other questions?

00:55:33.680 Rich people are looking at racial division and bidding stocks up.

00:55:42.600 It's not a coincidence.

00:55:46.880 If everybody got together, the stock market would plunge.

00:55:52.280 All right.

00:55:54.020 But luckily it won't happen because the media is so good at dividing us.

00:55:58.120 Ben Shapiro, others have made this point, but Ben Shapiro said it well. 0.60

00:56:05.360 When the police officer who was charged in the George Floyd death, the main guy with the

00:56:11.220 knee, he was charged with third degree murder originally.

00:56:14.920 And then that got raised by Keith Ellison to second degree.

00:56:18.480 Now, as a crowd pleaser, that was probably a good play.

00:56:22.620 It's kind of a crowd pleasing thing to increase the charge.

00:56:27.260 And then he also charged the other cops who were involved.

00:56:30.220 Again, another crowd pleaser.

00:56:31.940 But it creates a new risk, as Ben Shapiro points out, which is that he says, elevation of Floyd

00:56:43.940 killing to second degree is quite risky.

00:56:46.360 It requires proving intent to kill rather than depraved indifference to human life.

00:56:52.820 And that's a heavy legal burden.

00:56:55.920 Do you think there's even the slightest chance that the prosecution can prove intent to kill?

00:57:05.020 Do you think there's even the slightest chance?

00:57:08.080 And the answer is, nope.

00:57:11.260 There really isn't.

00:57:12.840 There isn't the slightest chance.

00:57:14.860 So why would Keith Ellison change the charge to something that guarantees there won't be a conviction?

00:57:25.960 Why do you think?

00:57:28.020 It guarantees a second riot.

00:57:33.280 So by charging, overcharging, and making intent to kill part of the charge, which can't be proven.

00:57:40.640 I mean, unless there's some whole new story we don't know about, because it said that they worked at the same place,

00:57:48.200 but we think they didn't meet because they worked at different times, and one was indoors and one was out.

00:57:52.860 So they may have never met.

00:57:54.640 We don't know if they did, but they did work at the same place.

00:57:57.200 So it's possible that the prosecution has a theory that shows intent.

00:58:03.560 But if the only way they're going to try to show intent is by the actions that happened on film,

00:58:08.800 if that's all they have, not a chance.

00:58:12.760 There's no chance.

00:58:14.480 Because the conversation that they had, and has been reported as true, there were witnesses,

00:58:19.540 but the conversation was about keeping them alive, specifically about keeping them alive.

00:58:27.100 Now, you don't believe he's going to get off?

00:58:30.200 Let me give you my defense.

00:58:32.200 And again, I'll frame this by saying, I watched the same video all of you watched.

00:58:43.200 It looked like a crime to me.

00:58:46.160 All right?

00:58:46.860 So can we start all on the same page?

00:58:50.200 It looked like a crime to me.

00:58:52.500 So we're not going to argue about that, right?

00:58:54.720 I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not going to say first degree, second degree, third degree.

00:58:59.820 I think you need a little more training to talk about that stuff in public.

00:59:04.860 Ben Shapiro has the training, so I quote him rather than giving you my opinion on the law.

00:59:12.180 So here's the defense of George Floyd's killer that is guaranteed to work, whether you like it or not.

00:59:25.300 And I'm not saying I want it to work.

00:59:27.920 Again, it looked like a crime.

00:59:30.120 Probably there needs to be some, you know, justice for that.

00:59:34.420 But legally, God does he have a good case.

00:59:39.340 And it goes like this.

00:59:40.780 And by the way, the thing I'm going to say next, you've never heard before.

00:59:44.580 You've never heard what I'm going to say next. 0.99

00:59:46.860 And when you hear it, you're going to say, shit, there's definitely going to be a second riot. 0.99

00:59:53.660 Here it is. 1.00

00:59:55.800 Did you hear that George Floyd tested positive for coronavirus?

01:00:02.100 So that happened last night.

01:00:03.880 We heard it yesterday.

01:00:05.480 So that's a fact.

01:00:07.260 So in evidence, the coroner's report shows that he tested positive for coronavirus.

01:00:12.900 Now, just store that fact.

01:00:15.780 Just keep that in your head.

01:00:17.800 Now, you're a police officer in the age of coronavirus.

01:00:21.600 You're in the middle of a pandemic.

01:00:23.520 You're not wearing a face mask or protective gear.

01:00:27.220 You've got you stop somebody who is clearly under the influence.

01:00:31.000 This person under the influence.

01:00:33.040 Do they face you or do they turn their back away from you when they talk to you?

01:00:38.620 You know the answer.

01:00:40.660 Everybody faces a police officer.

01:00:42.940 In fact, you face anybody you're talking to.

01:00:45.500 Now, in the police officer world, given that they apparently felt they needed to subdue him

01:00:51.180 for whatever he was doing, we don't know all the details,

01:00:54.920 but it's clear there was some kind of a scuffle and some kind of a subduing.

01:00:59.340 We don't know that that necessarily means resisting arrest, but it's implied.

01:01:04.380 We just don't have any confirmation of that.

01:01:06.180 In the act of trying to subdue this person who is large and can't be reasoned with because of the drugs,

01:01:17.780 anybody on the right kind of drugs can't be reasoned with,

01:01:20.620 but he's facing you, he's talking, he's spitting because he's a drunk, he's inebriated.

01:01:29.380 People who are inebriated, there's some stuff coming out, right?

01:01:34.380 There's some spray.

01:01:35.060 Now, this police officer has to subdue this person, and they have to subdue every part of them

01:01:40.960 because it's actually the only thing you can do.

01:01:43.300 If somebody is in a zombie-like drug state, you can't reason with them.

01:01:47.820 You can't even hurt them.

01:01:49.300 In other words, they're not even afraid of pain.

01:01:52.240 So pain doesn't work, threats don't work, negotiating doesn't work,

01:01:57.520 offering them rewards wouldn't work.

01:01:59.460 There is no other solution for somebody who's in a zombie state

01:02:05.880 except restraining every part of their body.

01:02:09.100 That's why three police were trying to do it.

01:02:11.800 Now, if you're trying to restrain somebody in the age of coronavirus

01:02:15.280 and you don't want their face in your face

01:02:19.280 because then you could die from coronavirus,

01:02:23.120 what do you do about it?

01:02:25.120 How do you keep somebody's face not facing you?

01:02:28.780 Well, the first thing you do is you might try to control them facing the other direction.

01:02:34.160 So in other words, if you had him face up,

01:02:37.360 your face would be somewhere around his face.

01:02:40.040 That's not what you're looking for.

01:02:41.940 And plus, maybe you could fight back easily

01:02:43.980 because his knees would be up instead of down.

01:02:46.580 You don't want your suspect to be able to get his knees up

01:02:49.580 because then he can knee anything even if he's handcuffed.

01:02:53.740 So it's good to have him on their face just for control.

01:02:57.340 But in addition, what was the police officer supposed to do?

01:03:01.540 Was he supposed to hold George's head with his hands

01:03:05.780 to keep it faced away from him?

01:03:08.080 Because he couldn't reason with him, right?

01:03:10.020 But he didn't want his face facing his.

01:03:13.740 Hands? Not so good.

01:03:15.740 Because hands might be where you pick it up.

01:03:19.040 You don't want to touch a suspect's face if he's got coronavirus.

01:03:22.600 Now you might say to yourself,

01:03:23.740 they didn't know he had coronavirus.

01:03:25.840 No, they didn't.

01:03:27.180 But they did know,

01:03:28.620 they did know,

01:03:30.620 that there was a chance of it.

01:03:32.680 And they did know that all the experts say,

01:03:35.320 you should treat everybody like they might have it.

01:03:38.740 And what we watched

01:03:40.080 was somebody who was treating a suspect

01:03:42.480 like he had coronavirus.

01:03:46.000 In other words,

01:03:46.780 putting his knee in a place

01:03:48.780 that would prevent him from turning his head

01:03:51.300 or getting up.

01:03:52.940 Because if he turned his head or got up,

01:03:55.240 he would be dangerous to the police

01:03:56.800 because of coronavirus.

01:03:59.120 Now, do you believe that the police

01:04:00.920 were thinking of coronavirus at the time?

01:04:03.620 I don't.

01:04:06.340 Not really.

01:04:08.240 Does it give you all the reasonable doubt you need?

01:04:11.600 Yes.

01:04:12.920 Yes, it does.

01:04:14.440 We have no information about what they were thinking.

01:04:17.700 We only know what they did.

01:04:20.020 You can't really know what people are thinking.

01:04:22.920 But if the,

01:04:23.900 you can assume that the defense will say,

01:04:26.360 in the age of coronavirus,

01:04:28.660 it was very important,

01:04:30.280 if you can't control a suspect,

01:04:31.680 that at the very least,

01:04:33.040 you guarantee he's not facing you.

01:04:36.160 You've got to guarantee that

01:04:37.580 because of the health situation.

01:04:40.260 It's over.

01:04:41.980 Yeah, no, but you didn't think about that, did you?

01:04:43.940 I also didn't think about it

01:04:45.820 until we heard the news that he tested positive.

01:04:49.100 Now, you tell that story,

01:04:51.200 and then you add at the end of it,

01:04:53.400 and by the way,

01:04:54.980 they didn't know if he was,

01:04:56.300 if he had coronavirus,

01:04:58.560 but he did test positive,

01:05:00.180 which doesn't mean he was able to spread it,

01:05:04.340 because we don't know the timing of things,

01:05:06.160 but he did test positive.

01:05:10.840 There's not the slightest chance

01:05:12.300 he can get convicted,

01:05:13.280 not even a little bit.

01:05:16.400 Remember, you have to convince 12 people of this.

01:05:19.020 Now, could you convince nine people

01:05:22.620 that he was guilty anyway?

01:05:23.900 Sure.

01:05:24.600 You could probably convince nine out of 12.

01:05:27.060 No conviction.

01:05:29.040 So, yeah,

01:05:31.020 and then there was the other issue of,

01:05:32.980 we may find out more about,

01:05:35.180 allegedly,

01:05:35.760 there was something in his hand

01:05:37.100 that might have been drugs,

01:05:38.940 and did he take a bunch of drugs

01:05:41.560 so they wouldn't be discovered?

01:05:43.520 Is that why the cops were wrestling with him

01:05:45.420 in the back seat?

01:05:46.500 Because he tried to put the drugs in his mouth?

01:05:48.700 Is that what was happening?

01:05:50.700 We don't know.

01:05:51.740 So there's a whole bunch of stuff

01:05:53.060 we're going to learn

01:05:53.860 that will almost certainly change

01:05:55.580 how you look at it.

01:05:57.300 All right.

01:05:59.940 By the way,

01:06:00.680 when I was talking about the real frame

01:06:02.960 is people with low income

01:06:05.480 are really on the same team,

01:06:07.500 they just don't know it

01:06:08.320 because of this identity politics frame.

01:06:10.620 That's the same thing Chappelle said.

01:06:12.080 So Dave Chappelle,

01:06:14.080 one of his funniest routines

01:06:15.800 is when he talks about the fact

01:06:17.800 that he doesn't get discriminated against

01:06:20.000 because he's rich.

01:06:21.840 Dave Chappelle

01:06:22.520 is about as woke as you could possibly be

01:06:25.740 because he understands

01:06:27.860 that being rich

01:06:30.100 was the main variable.

01:06:32.600 And as soon as he was rich,

01:06:34.320 well, he can join any country club he wants.

01:06:37.000 Turns out Dave Chappelle

01:06:37.960 can do anything he wants.

01:06:39.380 Doesn't matter if he's black or anything. 0.85

01:06:40.920 As long as he's rich. 0.95

01:06:43.820 O.J. Simpson once said

01:06:45.300 something like that.

01:06:48.080 Allegedly.

01:06:48.660 Who knows?

01:06:49.520 But I watched an O.J. Simpson,

01:06:52.640 I wish my gardener

01:06:55.940 were not leaf blowing

01:06:56.880 right below my window right now.

01:06:58.560 I don't know how much you can hear that.

01:06:59.800 So O.J. said at one point

01:07:05.240 allegedly in a biography I saw about him

01:07:08.620 that he said he wasn't black,

01:07:10.820 he was O.J.

01:07:12.580 And he was right.

01:07:14.760 Yeah, O.J. is not black, 0.99

01:07:16.820 he's O.J.

01:07:17.420 meaning that his reputation,

01:07:21.180 his talent,

01:07:21.900 his money,

01:07:23.000 his fame,

01:07:23.920 in this case also for bad reasons of fame,

01:07:26.880 but his,

01:07:27.900 who he was

01:07:28.740 was so much bigger

01:07:30.200 than his racial identity

01:07:31.640 that it just didn't even matter anymore.

01:07:34.180 Chappelle was saying the same thing.

01:07:36.120 So,

01:07:37.500 anyway,

01:07:38.260 I'm not the only person saying this.

01:07:40.200 What do you think about

01:07:43.460 the people getting on their knees

01:07:45.720 to the protesters?

01:07:49.760 Are you having the same reaction

01:07:51.140 to that that I am?

01:07:54.040 Which is,

01:07:54.760 it's not a good look,

01:07:55.840 but hey,

01:07:56.340 if they want to do that.

01:07:57.560 There's another

01:07:58.140 hydroxychloroquine study

01:07:59.900 that says it doesn't work at all.

01:08:01.420 It's a controlled clinical trial

01:08:03.420 that said the hydroxychloroquine

01:08:09.420 hydroxychloroquine

01:08:10.140 didn't work at all

01:08:11.660 for reducing the symptoms

01:08:14.060 even if you took it

01:08:15.780 as a prophylactics.

01:08:18.320 It took about

01:08:19.840 a minute and a half

01:08:20.860 for the smartest people

01:08:22.900 on the Twitter to say,

01:08:24.700 all right,

01:08:25.240 this will be debunked in,

01:08:27.020 I said 48 hours.

01:08:29.260 So my guess was

01:08:30.140 that that study

01:08:31.040 would be debunked

01:08:31.840 in 48 hours.

01:08:33.020 It took less than a day

01:08:34.200 and somebody smart

01:08:36.280 went in and said,

01:08:37.220 your headline says

01:08:39.060 that it doesn't work

01:08:40.060 but your data says it does.

01:08:43.260 That's right.

01:08:44.620 The summary was

01:08:45.660 that it doesn't work

01:08:46.680 but the data

01:08:48.280 very clearly

01:08:49.380 says it does.

01:08:52.420 Now it says it does

01:08:53.660 at a rate of like

01:08:54.540 17% better

01:08:55.840 than the alternative.

01:08:57.460 17%

01:08:58.300 is a pretty big deal.

01:09:00.840 If you had a 70%

01:09:02.380 reduction in,

01:09:03.700 you know,

01:09:04.460 coronavirus risk

01:09:05.660 but you added

01:09:07.380 to that risk

01:09:08.140 the risk

01:09:08.920 from the meds

01:09:09.640 themselves

01:09:10.140 because the hydroxychloroquine

01:09:11.880 has a little bit

01:09:12.580 of a risk as well,

01:09:14.760 would you take

01:09:15.520 a 17% advantage

01:09:17.300 for the risk

01:09:19.740 of a drug

01:09:20.180 that's been approved

01:09:20.900 for, I don't know,

01:09:21.540 50 years

01:09:22.180 and if you don't have

01:09:23.760 a heart problem

01:09:24.380 it doesn't seem

01:09:25.000 to be any problem

01:09:25.660 and if you're only

01:09:26.540 taking it for two weeks

01:09:27.440 it doesn't seem

01:09:27.980 to be any problem

01:09:28.580 at all.

01:09:29.620 Would you take

01:09:30.120 that risk?

01:09:30.600 Of course you would.

01:09:31.740 You would take

01:09:32.220 that in a heartbeat.

01:09:32.800 And guess how

01:09:34.240 they got from

01:09:35.180 17% benefit

01:09:38.420 down to

01:09:39.920 not statistically

01:09:41.140 valid.

01:09:42.180 Do you know

01:09:42.440 how they got

01:09:42.880 from that?

01:09:44.020 They did the math

01:09:44.940 wrong.

01:09:45.960 That's right.

01:09:47.000 They did the math

01:09:47.760 wrong and not even

01:09:48.700 hard math,

01:09:49.860 simple math.

01:09:52.180 And one of the

01:09:53.600 smart critics

01:09:54.300 came in and said

01:09:55.100 ah,

01:09:55.840 here are your

01:09:56.460 own numbers.

01:09:57.840 Here's how you

01:09:58.540 do math.

01:10:00.020 It was devastating.

01:10:01.240 I think it's true.

01:10:02.080 The critics

01:10:03.380 sounded more

01:10:05.380 right than the

01:10:06.340 study.

01:10:07.300 You should check

01:10:07.800 out Candace

01:10:08.420 Owens' video

01:10:09.480 that's got

01:10:09.980 1.2 million

01:10:10.860 views.

01:10:11.920 I won't repeat

01:10:12.920 her argument

01:10:13.480 because it's

01:10:15.100 just better if

01:10:15.580 you hear it

01:10:15.860 from her.

01:10:16.500 It is the best

01:10:17.260 thing I've seen

01:10:17.840 her do so far

01:10:18.640 and she's done

01:10:19.160 a lot of good

01:10:19.620 things.

01:10:20.600 So Candace

01:10:21.420 Owens' argument

01:10:22.560 about George

01:10:24.080 Floyd is,

01:10:25.800 I would say,

01:10:26.380 is just one

01:10:26.960 of the best

01:10:27.780 presented

01:10:29.400 live stream

01:10:31.440 videos that's

01:10:32.180 now recorded.

01:10:32.940 You can watch

01:10:33.360 it.

01:10:34.040 Just one of

01:10:34.600 the best

01:10:35.280 performances

01:10:36.500 plus argument

01:10:37.580 that you'll

01:10:38.900 ever see

01:10:39.400 because she

01:10:40.060 has the whole

01:10:40.540 package.

01:10:41.180 She has the

01:10:41.520 whole talent

01:10:41.940 stack.

01:10:42.780 She doesn't

01:10:43.200 just have

01:10:43.600 good points

01:10:44.580 but man

01:10:46.180 is she good

01:10:46.680 on camera.

01:10:48.120 That's a

01:10:48.740 really separate

01:10:49.440 skill.

01:10:50.340 If you've

01:10:50.680 watched anybody

01:10:51.320 else on

01:10:51.820 Periscope,

01:10:53.360 can I have

01:10:54.480 some agreement

01:10:55.060 that almost 0.99

01:10:56.020 everybody sucks 0.97

01:10:56.980 on live stream? 0.98

01:10:57.720 almost everybody

01:10:59.920 is terrible.

01:11:00.600 Did you watch

01:11:01.000 Obama?

01:11:02.280 Obama on

01:11:03.140 live stream?

01:11:04.320 Oh my God,

01:11:04.860 he's terrible. 0.99

01:11:06.220 He's terrible. 0.99

01:11:07.500 That's right. 0.85

01:11:08.320 Obama, who you

01:11:09.360 believe is like

01:11:11.240 a media

01:11:12.160 kind of genius.

01:11:14.580 I mean, he's

01:11:14.860 just great on

01:11:15.500 camera, great in

01:11:16.400 interviews, great

01:11:17.760 in debates.

01:11:18.580 You think that

01:11:19.160 Obama was like

01:11:21.160 one of the

01:11:22.140 champions of

01:11:23.020 that realm.

01:11:25.060 And then you

01:11:25.380 watch him on a

01:11:26.060 live stream,

01:11:26.780 just a little

01:11:27.480 bit different

01:11:27.920 technology with

01:11:28.960 not as much

01:11:29.940 production values

01:11:30.820 and he

01:11:31.600 disappeared.

01:11:33.420 That's right.

01:11:33.940 His charisma

01:11:34.720 disappeared on

01:11:36.680 live stream

01:11:37.220 because it's a

01:11:38.040 different medium.

01:11:39.720 And he was

01:11:40.060 just boring and

01:11:40.780 you could barely

01:11:41.220 listen to him.

01:11:42.520 Then Candice

01:11:43.180 comes on and

01:11:43.900 you're like,

01:11:44.700 okay, I can't

01:11:45.280 even turn this

01:11:46.600 off.

01:11:47.620 I mean, she

01:11:48.000 is so

01:11:48.880 engaging.

01:11:51.740 She has the

01:11:52.480 whole package,

01:11:53.220 the presentation,

01:11:54.300 she's got the

01:11:55.340 look.

01:11:55.820 look, you

01:11:56.720 know, and

01:11:57.160 I don't mean

01:11:58.560 in a sexist

01:11:59.400 way, she 0.85

01:12:00.800 just has a

01:12:01.220 look.

01:12:01.920 That could 0.68

01:12:02.420 apply to

01:12:02.800 male or

01:12:03.160 female or

01:12:03.780 any gender

01:12:04.700 you want.

01:12:05.560 She just 0.65

01:12:05.920 has the

01:12:06.640 presence.

01:12:07.540 That's a

01:12:08.000 better way to

01:12:08.360 say it.

01:12:08.600 I'll say the

01:12:09.000 presence, not

01:12:09.740 the look.

01:12:12.620 So check that

01:12:13.420 out.

01:12:13.680 It's got like

01:12:14.060 1.2 million

01:12:14.860 views worth

01:12:15.560 every view.

01:12:16.480 I will talk

01:12:17.020 to you

01:12:17.420 later.

01:12:18.520 And

01:12:42.520 I'm

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 04, 2020

Episode 1017 Scott Adams： I Teach You How to Break Others Free From Their delusions. We Might Need That.

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