Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1018 Scott Adams： Employment, News NOT Covering Protests, Biden Hates Us and More

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody. How are you? It's great to see you. It's now the second day of the Golden

00:00:22.480 Age. A lot of people don't know we're in it, but it started two days ago. You saw the jobs report.

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00:01:05.140 Yep, I can feel those door fronts being repaired and people hogging all over the place.

00:01:22.140 Well, let's talk about some of the things. So you've come to believe now that we're all living

00:01:31.160 in our own little bubbles, our own different realities. And still, every time you see a stark

00:01:39.220 example of living in your own little bubble reality, it's always funny and worth calling out.

00:01:46.600 So yesterday afternoon, I was spending some time trying to figure out a specific plan

00:01:54.060 to help inner-city black schoolrooms. You know, students, not the room, but the students.

00:02:02.620 So I'm literally spending my own free time and offering my own money, reputation, everything,

00:02:10.640 to help inner-city black students. Just telling you the truth. And then I get on Twitter,

00:02:18.480 Twitter, and I open up Twitter, and it's like, you're a racist, you're a racist, stop your racist BS, 1.00

00:02:26.780 you're a racist. What? Well, what do non-racists look like? I'll bet there wasn't one of my critics 1.00

00:02:39.420 yesterday who did anything useful for anybody, much less the black community. So I have more to tell you 1.00

00:02:47.280 about what I'm cooking up. It won't be big. It'll just be a little test, but it could be interesting.

00:02:55.240 Here's something that I don't think people understand. And it's one of the biggest,

00:03:01.280 it's one of the biggest realizations you'll ever have. You ready? Here's one of the most useful

00:03:07.960 reframings of your reality you'll ever have. You control other people when they're in the room with you.

00:03:16.940 If they're in the same place with you, you control how they feel and how they act.

00:03:25.000 Now, until you know that, you're a victim. You're a victim because you have no control over anything.

00:03:34.680 The world is bad, and people are bad, and they're doing things to you, and you're just a victim.

00:03:39.680 But the moment you learn that you're the one in charge of how other people feel and how they act,

00:03:47.740 that's the moment you're free. Now, the specific examples are if the police stop you,

00:03:56.200 you can control that police officer. If there's somebody who's bad to you at work,

00:04:01.820 you can control that person if they're in the room with you. You can't control them when they're

00:04:06.840 somewhere else. And the way you do that is understanding that people are imitation machines.

00:04:12.620 We imitate. We pick up what other people are feeling and doing, and then we just imitate it.

00:04:18.440 So if you walk into a room and you're angry, I'm angry. I'm tense. I'm angry. What does it

00:04:25.600 immediately do to all the other people in the room? Makes them tense. Might even make them angry.

00:04:31.220 Let's say you're laughing, and you're in a great mood, and you just come into the room with your

00:04:36.300 great mood. What's it do to the other people? It puts them in a better mood. What do you do when

00:04:42.660 a policeman walks up to you and you act a little bit aggressive? What do you do to the policeman?

00:04:50.000 You make him aggressive. No, he didn't walk up to you aggressive. You made him aggressive.

00:04:55.740 What happens if you walk, if a police officer stops you, and you've got your hands on the top

00:05:03.460 of the wheel showing that you respect the police officer's safety and your own, because that's

00:05:10.260 what it means when you're showing your hands, so you're keeping people safe. And suppose you

00:05:14.740 turned to that officer and said, good morning, officer. What can we do today to keep us both

00:05:20.060 safe? What happens? If the first thing you say to a policeman who walks up to you, no matter

00:05:27.780 who you are or why he stopped you, good morning, officer. What can we do to keep us both safe

00:05:32.980 today? How is it going to go? Does that person ever get the shit beat out of them? No. I mean,

00:05:42.780 maybe you could test it to just see. I don't even think you need to test it. If you want to

00:05:48.340 not get the shit beat out of you by the police, how about controlling them? Now, if you think 0.99

00:05:57.280 you can't do that, it's because you don't have the tools. And the tools are easy. The first

00:06:05.140 part of the tool is to understand that you can do it. If you don't understand that, then

00:06:09.700 nothing else matters. You'll just think you can't do it. Practice it. Practice it in a small

00:06:16.100 way and watch it work. Just pick a situation and go in and see if you can change the mood

00:06:23.440 in the room, which would, of course, change how people act. If you don't believe it, just

00:06:29.200 test it in your own life. It's easy. Go to have any interaction with any person and just

00:06:34.840 say to yourself, I wonder if I could make this person's mood and therefore their actions

00:06:39.520 change. And then just change yourself and watch them follow. It's really easy to do.

00:06:47.200 Once you've done it enough times, you realize it's a real thing. And then realizing it is

00:06:52.700 the first step to getting out of victimhood. All right. Here's something I need people to

00:07:03.340 understand. And I tweeted this. If you protest against people who are disagreeing with you,

00:07:09.380 you're a protester. That's what it means, right? You're protesting against people who disagree with

00:07:14.860 you. And you might have some really good points. Protesters, most of the time, have good points.

00:07:20.960 I would say 80% of the time I agree with the protesters, no matter who they are, because they

00:07:26.520 usually have some good points. But if you protest against people who agree with you and want to work

00:07:33.940 with you, then you're not really a protester. Because the whole protest thing has to have something to

00:07:43.280 protest against, which has to be people. Because you don't protest against bad luck. You don't protest

00:07:51.560 against bad events. What would that do? Because it's already happened. So you don't protest

00:07:59.660 about something that happened exactly. The point of the protest, that might be the trigger, of course.

00:08:07.920 The George Floyd death was the trigger. But what are you protesting against? Who exactly

00:08:15.640 is on the other side? So it's a silly protest in the sense that everybody is willing to be productive

00:08:23.880 as you just have to ask. You just have to have a good idea, something you might want to test.

00:08:31.800 It turns out that one of the things that a number of the left-leaning cities want to test

00:08:39.520 is dismantling or defunding the police department. I think I speak for everybody who's not a left-leaning

00:08:49.200 Democrat when I say, sure, sure, give it a try. Take a run at it. Now, I mean that completely seriously.

00:09:02.520 Unlike, probably a hundred percent of you watching this, unlike you, I think you probably could in

00:09:10.980 some situation, not every situation, but in some situations, I'll bet you could replace the police

00:09:17.960 department with some other mechanism. Not every time. Most of the time, it would be a gigantic mistake.

00:09:26.120 But it does seem like there are some creative ways you could do that. Let me give you an example.

00:09:30.660 If you had far more connected, let's say, neighborhood watch, more security, more citizens willing to get

00:09:44.420 directly involved, you could imagine some combination of things where the citizens, in some ways,

00:09:51.940 replaced some things that police were doing. And that's not crazy. It's actually not.

00:10:00.000 It sounds crazy when you first hear it. Oh, there's rioting and looting and crime. Let's get rid of the

00:10:07.020 police. Like, it sounds crazy when you first hear it. And it's got to be crazy, probably for most places

00:10:13.200 in most situations. It's crazy. Because the criminals, of course, would take advantage. But I think it's

00:10:20.680 worth exploring a situation where you replace police with some other mechanism. Somebody says community,

00:10:31.640 but you need more than community. You need connections. You need organization. You need some

00:10:38.620 kind of technology. I say give it a try. Give it a try. What I wouldn't do is dismantle police in all the

00:10:47.360 major cities next week. That wouldn't be a good idea. Yeah, somebody says vigilantes. There might

00:10:54.920 actually be a vigilante answer to it. Who knows? Maybe vigilantes are part of the solution in some

00:11:01.860 special cases. So I'm going to be consistent and say if there's anything that can be tested small,

00:11:10.540 and this is a perfect example. If you could find just the right size, let's say a small city,

00:11:16.980 and just test it. You know, you'd have to come up with a pretty concrete plan. I'm not talking about

00:11:23.680 just dismantling the police and seeing what happens. I'm talking about having a real plan

00:11:29.120 for something that would replace some aspects of the police. Try it out. I'm totally on board with that.

00:11:36.720 I just wouldn't go big all at once, and I probably wouldn't do it in Minneapolis first. Seems like

00:11:44.380 sort of a big place. All right. If everybody's on the same side, what exactly are the protesters

00:11:53.560 protesting? Have you ever asked yourself that? If everybody agrees, I don't think there's anybody

00:12:00.800 who disagrees with the idea that we should be talking about some specific solutions to reduce

00:12:08.640 the actual and perceived, because perception matters for these things, to reduce the actual

00:12:15.860 and perceived police abuse. Everybody's open to that. I think if everybody's open to the conversation

00:12:24.340 and there's still lots of protesting, it's kind of turned into a protest against white people,

00:12:31.560 by white people, mostly. Am I wrong? It feels like the protest is a protest against white people,

00:12:41.540 largely by other white people, who are protesting the awfulness of white people. I mean, it looks like 0.99

00:12:48.240 that if we're not talking about specific things that we can change with the police, then what are we

00:12:55.500 there for? It just sort of turned into this gigantic white people are bad and they should stop being bad 1.00

00:13:03.140 thing. I don't know. So that's what it looks like it turned into. I don't think that was the point. 0.99

00:13:10.720 I did another thing that would get me canceled probably pretty soon. And I tweeted this,

00:13:18.160 that from a persuasion perspective only, so we're only talking about the tools of persuasion here,

00:13:24.360 the phrase Black Lives Matter is one of the biggest branding mistakes I've ever seen,

00:13:31.400 probably in all of history. I think Black Lives Matter as a rallying cry is maybe the biggest mistake 1.00

00:13:40.440 and persuasion that I've ever seen. You know, the size of it is immense. If you don't see why,

00:13:48.360 you're going to see it in a moment when I tell you. And as soon as I tell you, you're going to slap 0.96

00:13:53.320 yourself in the head and you're going to say, oh my God, you're right. You ready? Here it goes. 0.99

00:13:59.900 Why is your goal just to matter? Just to matter? I think you need to aim higher. Because you know

00:14:11.240 what? I don't know anybody who wants Black people simply to matter. Like even people who are not Black 1.00

00:14:18.040 would rather that they thrive. Wouldn't you like to see your Black neighbors, your Black friends, 0.98

00:14:25.140 your Black co-workers, not just matter? For God's sakes, matter? That is the lowest goal I've ever seen 1.00

00:14:34.700 anybody set. And I think you already matter. So setting a goal that's low, and honestly, it's already

00:14:44.460 been exceeded. There's nobody who really thinks that Black people don't matter. That's not a real thing.

00:14:49.260 I mean, I've never seen anybody who had that point of view. Have you ever seen anybody who had that

00:14:56.820 point of view? I literally never met anybody who thought Black people don't matter. How is that even

00:15:03.120 a thing? So persuasion-wise, and again, nobody should take this as advice. I'm not Black. Can't get 0.97

00:15:15.460 inside your heads. Don't want to imagine, I could appreciate your situation. I think that's,

00:15:22.820 it's disrespectful, frankly, to think that you can know what anybody else is thinking. It works both

00:15:28.220 ways. But just from a persuasion perspective, so it's not even political, it's not even, it's not

00:15:35.880 racial, it's not anything. It's just persuasion. Just as a tool, you couldn't have picked a worst

00:15:41.300 solution. It's just the worst one I've ever seen. It just shoots so low. All right. So I tell you that

00:15:50.600 as sort of a persuasion lesson. It won't change anything for what's happening today.

00:15:57.340 The virtual news blackout continues. It's a total blackout on real coverage of the bad events,

00:16:06.180 because we know there are some scuffles and some problems with the protests, but they're completely

00:16:11.740 not being covered by the mainstream news. I don't know that that's a bad thing. So I'm not going to

00:16:18.460 criticize that, because it looks like people have realized that the news coverage is an accelerant,

00:16:26.300 and we don't need an accelerant on something that's already burning so fast it might be too hard to

00:16:32.160 control. So it appears that the news business has made some kind of a, I don't know if it's

00:16:38.680 independent, independently they all decided. I don't know if they talked about it. I don't know if the

00:16:45.040 government asked them, because that would be my guess. If I had to guess what's going on,

00:16:52.160 I don't have to, but I will. I'm going to guess that maybe the government said, hey, news business,

00:17:00.120 please cover the news, but just be aware that what you focus on is what is driving emotions.

00:17:09.360 So it's one thing to say, you know, here are our stats, three people got injured last night,

00:17:14.840 etc. Statistics don't really drive emotions, but they're still the news, and we still need to know.

00:17:23.800 So give us the information, but the things you show the visuals of, the things you run in clips,

00:17:29.460 the things your opinion people talk about incessantly, that becomes the active part of the news.

00:17:36.580 That's what drives people to protest, to feel bad, to be racist or not racist. I mean, those are the

00:17:42.520 things that are driving people, and it's obvious that they've stopped doing it, and they stopped doing

00:17:48.520 it at the same time, both the left and the right. And here's the interesting thing about that.

00:17:54.840 It's a complete recognition that the news can cause insurrection. Think about it. The news would not

00:18:05.840 have suddenly stopped covering the news, meaning the worst parts of the protests, the violent parts.

00:18:12.920 They wouldn't have done that unless they knew that the nature of the news changes how people act.

00:18:22.520 So it's sort of a stark admission that they know they're brainwashing the masses, and they wanted to

00:18:30.400 pull back on the brainwashing because they'd gone too far. That's exactly what happened. The news

00:18:37.200 business realized that the brainwashing had gone too far, and they pulled back. Think about that.

00:18:44.480 You live in a brainwash society in which pretty much all of the opinions of the public are assigned

00:18:53.060 to them by the media they watch. If you don't believe that opinions are assigned to people,

00:18:59.900 have a conversation with a person. See if you can find a person who has an opinion that they didn't

00:19:07.680 get from some media source. Good luck. All of our opinions, coincidentally, just match some media

00:19:16.880 source that happens to be a preferred media source. If you think that's a coincidence, then you probably

00:19:22.160 think it's also a coincidence that people have the same religion as their parents, mostly. Is it because

00:19:29.320 people grew up and look at their parents' choice of religion and said to themselves, you know,

00:19:34.620 I've looked at all the options, and my parents nailed it. I'm going to do what they did. I'm so glad

00:19:40.360 that my parents got the right religion, and yet all over the world people have been saying the same

00:19:45.080 things and coming to different conclusions? Well, it's not because you thought about it. That's not

00:19:51.920 how it works, although for some people it's true. But for 80% of the world, they didn't really do

00:19:58.840 research. They just accepted what was handed to them.

00:20:06.280 YouTuber Jake Paul, if you don't know him, very famous YouTuber, has been charged with criminal

00:20:13.000 trespass and unlawful assembly. So he was one of the protesters and followed the looters into a mall

00:20:21.060 mall in Scottsdale, Arizona. And I guess he was taking video from inside the mall. So he's being

00:20:27.780 charged. What do you think of that? Do you think a YouTuber who was not looting himself, but did follow

00:20:36.060 looters in, and he was certainly someplace that the property owner would not have wanted him to be,

00:20:42.820 should he be charged for that?

00:20:46.820 I say yes. I say yes.

00:20:53.140 I don't know if you've heard, but there's a movement for the women who are supporting Black Lives Matter,

00:21:01.380 not necessarily black women, but the protesters in general, to shave their heads. So there's a movement

00:21:10.380 for the women to shave their heads to show their solidarity with Black Lives Matter.

00:21:17.820 Of course, this is a prank. I think it started in 4chan or something. So it's just a total prank

00:21:26.060 made by people on the right. But SticksHexenHammer666, I'm sure most of you follow him on YouTube as well,

00:21:37.020 or wherever he is, BitChute. I'm not sure where he's broadcasting from these days, but maybe both. 0.98

00:21:43.980 He tweets, I strongly support the entirely organic, go bald for Black Lives Matter movement, 1.00

00:21:50.060 and any leftist not following suit should be shamed. So it's pretty funny. The political

00:22:00.700 pranksterism, I always appreciate. All right, here's something.

00:22:07.340 As you might imagine, because of the protests and the George Floyd tragic death,

00:22:12.380 that the topic of this lynching legislation, anti-lynching legislation has come up. So I guess

00:22:18.940 Cory Booker and Kamala Harris are pushing that. Rand Paul actually had the stones

00:22:25.900 to publicly oppose a lynching bill during a race riot.

00:22:42.460 I don't know. Rand, maybe you should have read the room a little bit better.

00:22:46.300 Now, I've told you, I've told you, the thing I like best about Rand Paul is that Rand Paul does

00:22:56.460 not care what you think. He really doesn't care what you think. He's just going to do what he thinks

00:23:02.700 is consistent with his, you know, his philosophy. But watching him be the only person opposing an

00:23:12.060 anti-lynching bill during a race riot. That takes a lot of guts.

00:23:23.020 Because, you know, nobody in the world is going to take him, nobody's going to take his argument

00:23:27.740 seriously. And I don't even know what his argument is, because it doesn't matter. He's,

00:23:32.540 nobody's going to listen to it anyway. But I think his argument has something to do with the fact that

00:23:37.580 the law already has plenty of, you know, plenty of penalties. If you lynch somebody, you're going to

00:23:43.660 be punished pretty hard. You know, so maybe you don't need like extra, a little extra on that.

00:23:49.020 So that's his point. I'm not agreeing or disagree with that. I'm just saying it's hilarious that he

00:23:54.060 would, that he would have the guts to make that point on principle during a, during,

00:24:00.940 during these times. But here's the bigger story. So Kamala Harris got her moment, you know, she had

00:24:10.060 a moment, because she spoke apparently passionately against Rand Paul's point of view. But here's the

00:24:20.940 interesting part. So a long time ago, I don't know how many months ago this was, I made the following

00:24:27.020 weird prediction. I said that Kamala Harris is one of the worst public speakers I've ever seen. I mean, 1.00

00:24:33.740 she's the worst campaigner, just talking impromptu in public and just terrible. And I predicted that when 1.00

00:24:43.020 she dropped out of the race, that she would not only come back as a vice presidential pick by Biden,

00:24:49.660 but there would be another element to it. And that she would be coached to being really good.

00:24:57.020 And it would happen kind of suddenly, sort of suddenly, like if you watch American Idol,

00:25:02.380 you watch these people who don't have any professionalism per se, but they have some

00:25:06.220 talent as singing. And then the coaches and the professionals who work with the show start

00:25:12.940 working with the ones who are going to make it to the top 10. And the top 10 start getting better

00:25:19.020 looking and they just improve like really quickly, because they had raw talent, but then they got

00:25:25.100 coached by really good professionals. And you just see this dramatic change, they become just better

00:25:31.020 looking more charisma, just everything's better. And it happens kind of suddenly. And I predicted that

00:25:36.460 that would happen to Kamala Harris, that she would get world class coaching, and that there would be this 1.00

00:25:44.380 fairly quick improvement. And I think you could see it in her response yesterday. So I watched it with

00:25:51.740 the sound off, which is a really good thing to do. With the sound off, it looks like she cured all of

00:25:59.820 her jumpiness problems. Because for those of you who are watching, she used to do this jumpy shoulder 0.98

00:26:06.380 thing. She'd be talking and she'd be like, you know, she'd be her body language was all nervous and

00:26:13.580 unconfident. And it was just basically a mess. And then I watched her with the sound off yesterday.

00:26:22.300 And it was really good. It was really good. She went from a D minus in terms of just the,

00:26:31.100 let's say, the visual part of her speaking. Everything from her style, to the clothes she

00:26:36.700 wears, to her body language. And all of it just went to A plus. It went to A plus really quickly.

00:26:46.780 So, yeah, now we haven't seen if she stopped the snickering, as somebody said in the comments,

00:26:53.900 because she does the thing where she laughs nervously. Now, it could be that it was the topic

00:27:01.180 that kept her serious. So she didn't have a nervous laugh because she was, it looked like she was really

00:27:06.140 in the moment, you know, and she probably knew she was, she was having a big, a big moment in her

00:27:13.820 career. So she maybe didn't have the opportunity to giggle at her own jokes. It just wasn't a time when

00:27:21.020 anybody would do that. So we don't know if she's cured that. But I'll bet she has for the same

00:27:27.740 reason. It looks like a professional is involved. All right. Yes, we're going to talk about employment.

00:27:34.940 Let's talk about that now. So the employment level unexpectedly was pretty good. Pretty good

00:27:42.780 compared to what people thought it would be. So it turns out that we added jobs. What? We added jobs.

00:27:51.740 Things actually looked up last week. I told you it was the golden age. The violence from the protest,

00:27:58.620 practically gone. Disagreement about racism, not much. Everybody's on the same team if we could just

00:28:06.060 stop marching and have some ideas to play with. And the economy, the economy is looking strong. Stock

00:28:15.820 markets up. So we have this weird situation where it looks like the end of the world and things have

00:28:24.060 never been better. Things have never been better. It looks like the end of the world. Now, when I say

00:28:31.100 things have never been better, obviously, the economy was better a few months ago and stuff like that.

00:28:36.780 But the situation we're in has never been better. Because just breaking everything,

00:28:43.100 breaking all of our old assumptions, breaking a lot of our economic models, it's going to unleash a lot of

00:28:51.340 good stuff. Because we had to shake the box before we could really make some big changes.

00:28:56.060 And it looks like that's happening. So Joe Biden said that 10 to 15% of Americans are, quote,

00:29:05.340 not very good people. So I think BuzzFeed put that at approximately 50 million people.

00:29:11.980 So there are 50 million people who Joe Biden thinks are not very good. Even the New York Times turned on

00:29:22.860 him for that. Because you can't really be the president of the whole country and say that 50

00:29:29.260 million of them sort of suck, especially if I'm in that category. All right, so here's what I tweeted. 0.91

00:29:35.580 I said, Joe Biden wants to be the president of all Americans, not just the 50 million people like me

00:29:41.900 who says Biden are not very good people. On the plus side, Biden will train police to only shoot

00:29:47.660 me in the leg. And that feels like a step in the right direction, if I could walk.

00:29:56.940 So I don't know if this will make any difference. It feels like the kind of thing that moves elections.

00:30:03.020 You know, I was asked earlier this morning what I thought of Trump's new campaign commercial.

00:30:08.540 If you haven't seen it, there's a new Trump campaign commercial, which is

00:30:12.620 very respectful to George Floyd, says every right word about bringing us together and uniting and all

00:30:21.900 that. So it's a Trump commercial that hits every right note for the, you know, the political mood,

00:30:30.220 the mood, the mood of the country, et cetera, won't move the dial a bit.

00:30:36.140 Because there's no, no Democrats going to watch that commercial. You would watch the first five

00:30:42.140 seconds and you say, I'm out because it's Trump. So I don't know if political ads make any difference

00:30:49.820 except to the base. And I don't think it changes the base's mind because there's nothing new from the

00:30:56.700 base. It's sort of where everybody already was. So I don't know. I don't think political

00:31:03.500 commercials in this climate make any difference. But Joe Biden saying that 50 million people are not

00:31:09.740 very good, that could change an election. That could move the needle. I do think that Hillary's 1.00

00:31:16.460 deplorable comments at the very least increased increased people showing up on the conservative

00:31:25.500 side. All right. New York City witnessed zero confirmed deaths from coronavirus on Wednesday.

00:31:35.900 Zero deaths from coronavirus on Wednesday. What?

00:31:40.700 What? What? I've got questions. How is that possible? Really? How is that possible?

00:31:52.300 So there's something going on that we don't quite understand. And when I say we,

00:31:57.420 I don't think anybody understands. How in the world is coronavirus just sort of stopping?

00:32:03.500 Why? Did something happen? Trump's on TV now? How is he? Let's see. What's he saying?

00:32:15.420 I'm guessing he's saying something about the protests or, or he's doing something on prime time?

00:32:20.940 It's over. You don't see the problem in Minnesota now at all. Not even a little bit.

00:32:25.820 Yeah. You take a look at a great city. It just... All right. Well, we'll catch up with that later.

00:32:34.860 All right. So we don't know what's going on with these COVID deaths. But two days ago,

00:32:43.820 I told you it was the beginning of the golden age. Coronavirus disappearing. We don't know why.

00:32:50.380 Economy coming back. All the protesters and the country on the same side. We're all on the same

00:32:59.900 side. Just have to realize it and get something going. All right. We saw the video of the old man

00:33:07.020 who got pushed down by the police. Ah, fuck him. Fuck him. Do you care about the old man who got pushed 1.00

00:33:13.500 down by the police because he was resisting the police? I don't care a bit. I don't care even a

00:33:20.380 little bit about the old man who got pushed down by the police because he was resisting police.

00:33:25.820 Now it's terrible that he got hurt. Like I have, you know, empathy for anybody who got hurt. But I

00:33:31.980 can't care about anybody who opposes the police when they know they're going to get their ass kicked. 1.00

00:33:38.300 If the police kick your ass because you're getting in their face, I just don't care about you. I don't 1.00

00:33:45.340 care about you at all. Don't ask me to. But obviously, I care about anybody who was just abused by the

00:33:53.260 police who did nothing to bring it on. Of course, I care about that. Now, I guess a lot of Democrats

00:34:01.180 Democrats are talking about Trump might reject the election, as Jake Novak points out,

00:34:11.820 that when Democrats are saying that Trump might not accept the results of the election,

00:34:17.340 I think they're broadcasting that they're not going to accept. That's what Jake says,

00:34:22.220 and I agree with it. They're broadcasting that they don't plan to accept the results of the election.

00:34:28.300 So I do think that there is real talk going on. I don't think it's going to turn into real action.

00:34:35.260 I hope not. But there is real talk about an actual physical insurrection by the Democrats.

00:34:42.060 I think it's gone from just talk to actual planning, but I don't expect it to be executed.

00:34:51.580 Because if it were executed, well, I don't even have to finish the sentence. It wouldn't work out well.

00:35:01.500 Can we just leave it at this? On behalf of the people who love the Second Amendment,

00:35:10.140 if the country were overthrown with an insurrection, it's not going to go well for the people who wanted

00:35:17.100 it to go well. It just isn't. I'm being widely mocked by people who can't understand things,

00:35:26.300 and by that I mean artists and writers. So I was amusing a lot of my followers on Twitter

00:35:32.780 by tweeting all of the people who were criticizing me that day. And by the way, it was all of them.

00:35:39.500 Everyone who criticized me yesterday, I tweeted them with the same comment. I looked at their profile,

00:35:46.460 and they were writers or artists, every one of them. And that's my running joke, that writers and

00:35:52.940 artists can't follow critical thinking. And so when they encounter me, they don't understand what I'm

00:36:00.300 saying, they misinterpret it, and then they get mad at their misinterpretation. So it's very consistent.

00:36:05.020 I don't have economists, I don't have engineers who are coming after me with just insults.

00:36:13.340 Now, there are plenty of economists and engineers and lawyers who disagree with a fact or something

00:36:19.260 I said, or even the logic I'm using. And they usually just say those things. Oh, this fact is

00:36:24.860 wrong. Here's a link. You did the math wrong, that sort of thing. That's fine. But the ones who come

00:36:31.180 after me personally, all artists, writers and artists, and usually, almost always, they're not quite that

00:36:39.260 successful, which I think is part of the problem. So today, what they're doing is, I wrote a long

00:36:48.060 thread the other day about how the Joker movie is actually strong persuasion. And you could imagine,

00:36:54.700 you could easily see that the Joker movie caused a pattern in people's minds that increased the

00:37:01.020 likelihood they would act like the Joker. Now, that got turned by writers and artists into,

00:37:08.540 Scott thinks the only thing that caused the protests is the Joker movie. And therefore, I'm a racist.

00:37:17.100 Now, that's pretty far from what I was saying. Pretty far from what I was saying. We don't live in a one

00:37:24.700 variable world. I don't believe that people were peace-loving and had no inclinations or no already

00:37:33.340 primed emotions. I'm just saying that the Joker movie is an underappreciated variable in a world of

00:37:40.860 lots of variables. It's not like the Joker movie was more important than watching the video of George

00:37:46.940 Floyd being killed by a cop. I didn't say that. So for the writers and artists, they have to turn

00:37:55.420 what I say that makes sense into something weird and ridiculous. And then there's this awful 0.78

00:38:01.740 publication called The Mary Sue that I think where writers are going to die. That's got a whole

00:38:10.220 article, a hit piece on me today. If you haven't experienced what it's like to have hit pieces written

00:38:15.900 on you on a regular basis, you really should. Somebody said, did Elon Musk cut his own hair?

00:38:25.500 That would be hilarious if he did. All right.

00:38:32.140 So when Minneapolis said that they were going to, with the exact phrase is,

00:38:37.340 dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department and replace it with a transformative new model of public

00:38:43.580 safety. I don't think you should take that as literally getting rid of police,

00:38:49.660 because it's a little more nuanced than that. When they talk about replacing it with a transformative

00:38:57.020 new model of public safety, it doesn't mean that doesn't involve police. It could mean just a new

00:39:03.980 system in which the police operate differently or something like that.

00:39:08.220 Yeah. And then the artist, as somebody's reminding me in the comments, the artist will attack me for

00:39:15.820 just being a cartoonist, but they never check my other body of work. At this point, cartooning is

00:39:21.820 the smallest part of what I do. Somebody says, I want more hit pieces. They are kind of fun. I have to admit.

00:39:29.740 Scott says, artists aren't logical. They certainly are not, as a rule. Now that doesn't mean there can't be

00:39:40.380 artists who also have built their talent stack, as I have. I mean, I'm an economist and a business person

00:39:47.820 and a trained hypnotist and some other things. So there could be artists who also do those things,

00:39:53.260 and they would be perfectly capable of critical thinking. But not a single non-artist came at me

00:40:00.620 yesterday. Coincidence? You decide. Could the rioters be made to clean up their damage

00:40:09.340 for a live publication? You mean to shame them so that we see them cleaning stuff up? You know,

00:40:15.740 I'm not a big fan of shaming people when you punish them.

00:40:19.020 Yeah, the DAO is up 700 points. Let's see how much Black Lives Matter has made for me. 1.00

00:40:31.820 Oh, looks good. Holy cow. Yeah, the stock market is really up. Wow.

00:40:41.100 What would you do if you were marching to dismantle, you know, privilege and white privilege and the

00:40:51.580 elites? And the more you marched, the more the stock market went up. I mean, how would you feel about

00:40:58.220 that? How would you feel that you're trying to dismantle the system of the elites and you're making

00:41:05.660 them richer as you protest? Because that's what's happening.

00:41:16.300 Scott is an artist. Yeah, so for those who don't follow the point, let me just say it one more time,

00:41:22.060 because there are some artists on here. So I know the rest of you already understand this.

00:41:28.140 So the next thing I'm going to explain is because there are also some artists watching the live stream,

00:41:33.500 and they're all confused now. I know most of you get it. And it goes like this. Being an artist by

00:41:41.340 itself doesn't make you bad at critical thinking. Being an artist only might make you bad at critical

00:41:50.540 thinking because you haven't learned it. If you're an artist and also a lawyer, you might be good at it.

00:41:56.700 If you're an artist and also an engineer, you work in tech, you're a software developer, you're used to

00:42:05.020 solving problems and using critical thinking, you probably have those skills. But if you're only an

00:42:10.940 artist, you don't. And here's the tough part. You also don't know that you don't have the skill.

00:42:18.300 Because we all think we're logical. But until you've seen what it really means to learn how to think

00:42:24.940 critically, like reading my book, Loser Think would get you there. Until you've actually seen

00:42:29.660 that or do it properly the first time, you really don't know how bad you are, because it's not common

00:42:35.820 sense. Critical thinking is not common sense. They're worlds apart. And people who think they have

00:42:44.860 common sense incorrectly think, well, then I also have critical thinking. And they don't. They're

00:42:50.860 just different. All right. Somebody says, I'm a friend and web developer. Are you an engineer or an

00:42:59.020 artist? You're both. It's a good talent stack. What's the slaughter beater? Well, you know,

00:43:08.700 the slaughter beater was a funny concept. It was the idea of if you were to say nothing changed after

00:43:14.380 today who would win the election. But of course, it's a ridiculous idea. Because, by the way, how 0.97

00:43:21.500 many times when I when I gave you this slaughter meter, if you remember this, how many times did I

00:43:27.580 say this is what it would be if nothing changes, but something always changes? Because you knew there

00:43:36.860 were big things coming. You just didn't know what they were. I didn't know what it was. I just knew big

00:43:41.820 things are coming. I also know more big things are coming. Some of the big things I know about.

00:43:50.300 Some of them I don't know about. So when I tell you big things are coming, here's how you should

00:43:56.140 interpret that. I do know about some of them. And there's some really fun shit coming.

00:44:03.500 So just just understand that the slaughter meter today is sort of worthless and it's just for fun, 0.99

00:44:10.860 because there's so much that's going to change between now and election day. And some of it's

00:44:15.260 going to be really big, and it's going to be fun. So the slaughter meter is at about 300% today.

00:44:26.140 Why? Well, the conservatives won every argument this week. They won every argument. All of them.

00:44:35.020 Every one. The only thing that could be better for the president is if Ruth Bader Ginsburg died this 1.00

00:44:42.460 week. And well, actually, that wouldn't work because I think the Democrats would stall. So they'd stall past

00:44:49.260 the election. So at this point, between now and election day, I don't think there's any chance of

00:44:55.500 any Supreme Court seats being filled. But my point is, so let me drop that point. Let me just make the

00:45:03.420 larger point that gun control is dead, obviously. So conservatives have completely won on the issue of

00:45:12.780 guns being necessary. Because the biggest complaint about guns is that the government has guns. That's 0.79

00:45:21.180 all you need. Citizens don't need guns because you've got your police, you've got the army, you've got

00:45:28.620 the government protecting you. But now that we know the government won't protect us, and they will

00:45:35.740 aggressively not protect us under certain situations. It's obvious that you need a gun. Now it's kind of

00:45:43.420 obvious. Now, certainly, nothing's obvious to everybody at the same time. But in terms of the

00:45:50.780 direction of that argument, that direction just went so far right, meaning that the right is winning

00:45:57.260 the argument that it's just off the table. What about reparations? This was reparations.

00:46:04.140 We don't have to talk about reparations. It just happened. Because the trillions of dollars we lost in

00:46:11.740 these protests are far more than reparations would have been. And it's on the same topic.

00:46:18.620 If Black Lives Matters wanted to spend their reparations this way, to sort of put it all in

00:46:25.100 one basket and say, you know, let's make a night of, let's make a few weeks of protesting and whatever comes 0.83

00:46:32.940 out of that. They had the option. That's the way they went. So reparations is off the table.

00:46:41.340 You've got the President of the United States agreeing immediately and aggressively with the

00:46:47.020 black community about the police action against George Floyd. That looks pretty good. 0.99

00:46:54.140 You've got the coronavirus that appears to be solved. And I didn't see any other countries do a better

00:47:02.620 job. Did you? Not really. I mean, people are going to say, oh, look at, look at, I don't know,

00:47:08.540 Sweden or look at some other country, look at South Korea. But I don't think we really compare ourselves

00:47:14.700 to them. Nor should we. So I think we're going to see that we're past coronavirus. You're going to see

00:47:20.540 the economy zooming, even maybe better than the President promised you. It's just all good.

00:47:28.780 It's just all good. But from today's perspective, it just looks scary and bad because of the way the

00:47:36.460 news frames things. But I don't think we're close to a, or even heading toward any kind of a permanent

00:47:46.620 change of government or some kind of an insurrection that matters. If you were to add up all of the

00:47:53.900 protesters, would it be a million? So let me put that as a question. If you added together all the

00:48:01.020 protests in all the places yesterday in America, would it be over a million? It might be. But my

00:48:09.260 point is, there are what, 370 million people in the country? A million people marching is a lot,

00:48:18.460 and could change laws, could change the way we think about things, could be productive,

00:48:23.100 we'll see. But it doesn't overthrow the government. We're not anywhere in that realm.

00:48:31.020 Somebody else with the last name of Floyd died after pepper spray. That would be weird.

00:48:45.660 I don't know if that's up. Somebody says the Dow is up 750 points.

00:48:53.420 Will Bill Barr release the Antifa communications? I don't know. I think it depends on what else

00:49:00.940 is in there, or if it gives away any of our secrets. The camera lies on the scale of the protest.

00:49:08.220 That is correct. Yeah, if there's one thing you should understand is that video lies,

00:49:14.940 and video lies every time. Remember, it used to say, it used to be a thing that a picture doesn't lie.

00:49:21.500 It then came Photoshop. Now pictures do lie. In fact, Instagram is nothing but pictures lying.

00:49:30.460 It's like there's a multi-billion dollar social media service that's nothing but pictures lying. It's

00:49:37.100 called Instagram. And you could argue that Facebook is nothing but pictures lying, because we only show

00:49:43.260 our happy times, which is a big old lie about who we are. Oh yeah, here's my happy time. Look at my

00:49:49.020 vacation. Total lies, because they leave out the rest of your life. But video is even a bigger liar.

00:49:57.660 You know, the camera phone video is the biggest liar of all. Let me give you one example. You can't

00:50:04.460 really tell how hard the police officer was placing his knee on the neck of George Floyd. You've got the

00:50:15.020 um, the coroner report that says his face was scarred, but you don't know if that happened because of the knee,

00:50:22.940 or it happened when they got him down, etc., right? So my point is that the video is mostly lie,

00:50:32.460 but we don't treat it that way. And it's not, I don't mean that video in particular. I mean pretty much all of them.

00:50:38.380 Uh, let me put a number on it. I would say this. A, if you see something with your own eyes,

00:50:46.620 and you're there, and you can see the whole context, and you know who's behind the car and everything

00:50:51.180 else, you could be right most of the time. Maybe 80% of the time your impression of what happened would

00:50:57.420 be correct. But I'm going to give you this number. I would say that video of a real event

00:51:03.020 will be misleading in an important way 80% of the time. So the number you should have in your head

00:51:10.700 is if you see a new video of some horrible thing that happened, in your mind you should be saying to

00:51:16.380 yourself, there's an 80% chance that this is misleading. It's about right. I mean, you know,

00:51:22.780 just observationally, about 80% of videos are misleading. Did you see the one where it looked like

00:51:29.500 the cop was pointing one of those rubber bullet things directly at a protester who had a child

00:51:37.580 on his back? So it looked like he was either pointing it at the guy or even the kid. And you

00:51:44.220 look at the photo and you say, well, photos don't lie. This cop was pointing this rubber bullet gun

00:51:51.020 right in the face of this guy who was standing right in front of him. Except that they weren't even next

00:51:57.260 to each other. You could kind of tell if you look at it that they were beside each other and that

00:52:03.420 where the cop was aiming was to the side of the guy at some other target. It's just the angle of the

00:52:10.540 angle of the picture. It made it look like he was pointing it directly in somebody's face. But if you

00:52:15.580 just look at it a little bit more, you can see, oh, the people are a little bit closer. He's just pointing

00:52:21.260 to the other side of them as something else. So your artist enemies are going to misrepresent what I

00:52:32.220 said. They always do. All right. That's all I got for now. Let's go see what else is new. Today's going

00:52:38.140 to be fun. There's going to be a lot of fun. Things are moving in the right direction. Just doesn't look

00:52:45.420 like it yet. We'll talk to you soon.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 05, 2020

Episode 1018 Scott Adams： Employment, News NOT Covering Protests, Biden Hates Us and More

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