Episode 1018 Scott Adams： Employment, News NOT Covering Protests, Biden Hates Us and More
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Learn how to control other people when they re in the same room with you, and you can control how they feel and how they act. It s one of the biggest realizations you ll ever have, and it s one that I don t think many people understand.
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Good morning, everybody. How are you? It's great to see you. It's now the second day of the Golden
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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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We'll talk about all that in a minute. But first, what's the best part of the day? Yeah, that's right,
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the simultaneous sip. And all you need is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or stein,
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a canteen drink or a flask, a vessel of any kind to fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
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Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes
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everything better. It cured the pandemic. It's making employment go up and tensions are going
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down. Join me now for the simultaneous sip. Go.
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Yep, I can feel those door fronts being repaired and people hogging all over the place.
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Well, let's talk about some of the things. So you've come to believe now that we're all living
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in our own little bubbles, our own different realities. And still, every time you see a stark
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example of living in your own little bubble reality, it's always funny and worth calling out.
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So yesterday afternoon, I was spending some time trying to figure out a specific plan
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to help inner-city black schoolrooms. You know, students, not the room, but the students.
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So I'm literally spending my own free time and offering my own money, reputation, everything,
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to help inner-city black students. Just telling you the truth. And then I get on Twitter,
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Twitter, and I open up Twitter, and it's like, you're a racist, you're a racist, stop your racist BS,
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you're a racist. What? Well, what do non-racists look like? I'll bet there wasn't one of my critics
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yesterday who did anything useful for anybody, much less the black community. So I have more to tell you
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about what I'm cooking up. It won't be big. It'll just be a little test, but it could be interesting.
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Here's something that I don't think people understand. And it's one of the biggest,
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it's one of the biggest realizations you'll ever have. You ready? Here's one of the most useful
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reframings of your reality you'll ever have. You control other people when they're in the room with you.
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If they're in the same place with you, you control how they feel and how they act.
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Now, until you know that, you're a victim. You're a victim because you have no control over anything.
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The world is bad, and people are bad, and they're doing things to you, and you're just a victim.
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But the moment you learn that you're the one in charge of how other people feel and how they act,
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that's the moment you're free. Now, the specific examples are if the police stop you,
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you can control that police officer. If there's somebody who's bad to you at work,
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you can control that person if they're in the room with you. You can't control them when they're
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somewhere else. And the way you do that is understanding that people are imitation machines.
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We imitate. We pick up what other people are feeling and doing, and then we just imitate it.
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So if you walk into a room and you're angry, I'm angry. I'm tense. I'm angry. What does it
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immediately do to all the other people in the room? Makes them tense. Might even make them angry.
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Let's say you're laughing, and you're in a great mood, and you just come into the room with your
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great mood. What's it do to the other people? It puts them in a better mood. What do you do when
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a policeman walks up to you and you act a little bit aggressive? What do you do to the policeman?
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You make him aggressive. No, he didn't walk up to you aggressive. You made him aggressive.
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What happens if you walk, if a police officer stops you, and you've got your hands on the top
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of the wheel showing that you respect the police officer's safety and your own, because that's
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what it means when you're showing your hands, so you're keeping people safe. And suppose you
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turned to that officer and said, good morning, officer. What can we do today to keep us both
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safe? What happens? If the first thing you say to a policeman who walks up to you, no matter
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who you are or why he stopped you, good morning, officer. What can we do to keep us both safe
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today? How is it going to go? Does that person ever get the shit beat out of them? No. I mean,
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maybe you could test it to just see. I don't even think you need to test it. If you want to
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not get the shit beat out of you by the police, how about controlling them? Now, if you think
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you can't do that, it's because you don't have the tools. And the tools are easy. The first
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part of the tool is to understand that you can do it. If you don't understand that, then
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nothing else matters. You'll just think you can't do it. Practice it. Practice it in a small
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way and watch it work. Just pick a situation and go in and see if you can change the mood
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in the room, which would, of course, change how people act. If you don't believe it, just
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test it in your own life. It's easy. Go to have any interaction with any person and just
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say to yourself, I wonder if I could make this person's mood and therefore their actions
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change. And then just change yourself and watch them follow. It's really easy to do.
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Once you've done it enough times, you realize it's a real thing. And then realizing it is
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the first step to getting out of victimhood. All right. Here's something I need people to
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understand. And I tweeted this. If you protest against people who are disagreeing with you,
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you're a protester. That's what it means, right? You're protesting against people who disagree with
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you. And you might have some really good points. Protesters, most of the time, have good points.
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I would say 80% of the time I agree with the protesters, no matter who they are, because they
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usually have some good points. But if you protest against people who agree with you and want to work
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with you, then you're not really a protester. Because the whole protest thing has to have something to
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protest against, which has to be people. Because you don't protest against bad luck. You don't protest
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against bad events. What would that do? Because it's already happened. So you don't protest
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about something that happened exactly. The point of the protest, that might be the trigger, of course.
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The George Floyd death was the trigger. But what are you protesting against? Who exactly
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is on the other side? So it's a silly protest in the sense that everybody is willing to be productive
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as you just have to ask. You just have to have a good idea, something you might want to test.
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It turns out that one of the things that a number of the left-leaning cities want to test
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is dismantling or defunding the police department. I think I speak for everybody who's not a left-leaning
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Democrat when I say, sure, sure, give it a try. Take a run at it. Now, I mean that completely seriously.
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Unlike, probably a hundred percent of you watching this, unlike you, I think you probably could in
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some situation, not every situation, but in some situations, I'll bet you could replace the police
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department with some other mechanism. Not every time. Most of the time, it would be a gigantic mistake.
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But it does seem like there are some creative ways you could do that. Let me give you an example.
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If you had far more connected, let's say, neighborhood watch, more security, more citizens willing to get
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directly involved, you could imagine some combination of things where the citizens, in some ways,
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replaced some things that police were doing. And that's not crazy. It's actually not.
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It sounds crazy when you first hear it. Oh, there's rioting and looting and crime. Let's get rid of the
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police. Like, it sounds crazy when you first hear it. And it's got to be crazy, probably for most places
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in most situations. It's crazy. Because the criminals, of course, would take advantage. But I think it's
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worth exploring a situation where you replace police with some other mechanism. Somebody says community,
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but you need more than community. You need connections. You need organization. You need some
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kind of technology. I say give it a try. Give it a try. What I wouldn't do is dismantle police in all the
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major cities next week. That wouldn't be a good idea. Yeah, somebody says vigilantes. There might
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actually be a vigilante answer to it. Who knows? Maybe vigilantes are part of the solution in some
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special cases. So I'm going to be consistent and say if there's anything that can be tested small,
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and this is a perfect example. If you could find just the right size, let's say a small city,
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and just test it. You know, you'd have to come up with a pretty concrete plan. I'm not talking about
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just dismantling the police and seeing what happens. I'm talking about having a real plan
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for something that would replace some aspects of the police. Try it out. I'm totally on board with that.
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I just wouldn't go big all at once, and I probably wouldn't do it in Minneapolis first. Seems like
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sort of a big place. All right. If everybody's on the same side, what exactly are the protesters
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protesting? Have you ever asked yourself that? If everybody agrees, I don't think there's anybody
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who disagrees with the idea that we should be talking about some specific solutions to reduce
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the actual and perceived, because perception matters for these things, to reduce the actual
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and perceived police abuse. Everybody's open to that. I think if everybody's open to the conversation
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and there's still lots of protesting, it's kind of turned into a protest against white people,
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by white people, mostly. Am I wrong? It feels like the protest is a protest against white people,
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largely by other white people, who are protesting the awfulness of white people. I mean, it looks like
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that if we're not talking about specific things that we can change with the police, then what are we
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there for? It just sort of turned into this gigantic white people are bad and they should stop being bad
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thing. I don't know. So that's what it looks like it turned into. I don't think that was the point.
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I did another thing that would get me canceled probably pretty soon. And I tweeted this,
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that from a persuasion perspective only, so we're only talking about the tools of persuasion here,
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the phrase Black Lives Matter is one of the biggest branding mistakes I've ever seen,
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probably in all of history. I think Black Lives Matter as a rallying cry is maybe the biggest mistake
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and persuasion that I've ever seen. You know, the size of it is immense. If you don't see why,
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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
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yourself in the head and you're going to say, oh my God, you're right. You ready? Here it goes.
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Why is your goal just to matter? Just to matter? I think you need to aim higher. Because you know
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what? I don't know anybody who wants Black people simply to matter. Like even people who are not Black
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would rather that they thrive. Wouldn't you like to see your Black neighbors, your Black friends,
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your Black co-workers, not just matter? For God's sakes, matter? That is the lowest goal I've ever seen
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anybody set. And I think you already matter. So setting a goal that's low, and honestly, it's already
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been exceeded. There's nobody who really thinks that Black people don't matter. That's not a real thing.
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I mean, I've never seen anybody who had that point of view. Have you ever seen anybody who had that
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point of view? I literally never met anybody who thought Black people don't matter. How is that even
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a thing? So persuasion-wise, and again, nobody should take this as advice. I'm not Black. Can't get
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inside your heads. Don't want to imagine, I could appreciate your situation. I think that's,
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it's disrespectful, frankly, to think that you can know what anybody else is thinking. It works both
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ways. But just from a persuasion perspective, so it's not even political, it's not even, it's not
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racial, it's not anything. It's just persuasion. Just as a tool, you couldn't have picked a worst
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solution. It's just the worst one I've ever seen. It just shoots so low. All right. So I tell you that
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as sort of a persuasion lesson. It won't change anything for what's happening today.
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The virtual news blackout continues. It's a total blackout on real coverage of the bad events,
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because we know there are some scuffles and some problems with the protests, but they're completely
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not being covered by the mainstream news. I don't know that that's a bad thing. So I'm not going to
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criticize that, because it looks like people have realized that the news coverage is an accelerant,
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and we don't need an accelerant on something that's already burning so fast it might be too hard to
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control. So it appears that the news business has made some kind of a, I don't know if it's
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independent, independently they all decided. I don't know if they talked about it. I don't know if the
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government asked them, because that would be my guess. If I had to guess what's going on,
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I don't have to, but I will. I'm going to guess that maybe the government said, hey, news business,
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please cover the news, but just be aware that what you focus on is what is driving emotions.
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So it's one thing to say, you know, here are our stats, three people got injured last night,
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etc. Statistics don't really drive emotions, but they're still the news, and we still need to know.
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So give us the information, but the things you show the visuals of, the things you run in clips,
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the things your opinion people talk about incessantly, that becomes the active part of the news.
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That's what drives people to protest, to feel bad, to be racist or not racist. I mean, those are the
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things that are driving people, and it's obvious that they've stopped doing it, and they stopped doing
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it at the same time, both the left and the right. And here's the interesting thing about that.
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It's a complete recognition that the news can cause insurrection. Think about it. The news would not
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have suddenly stopped covering the news, meaning the worst parts of the protests, the violent parts.
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They wouldn't have done that unless they knew that the nature of the news changes how people act.
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So it's sort of a stark admission that they know they're brainwashing the masses, and they wanted to
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pull back on the brainwashing because they'd gone too far. That's exactly what happened. The news
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business realized that the brainwashing had gone too far, and they pulled back. Think about that.
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You live in a brainwash society in which pretty much all of the opinions of the public are assigned
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to them by the media they watch. If you don't believe that opinions are assigned to people,
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have a conversation with a person. See if you can find a person who has an opinion that they didn't
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get from some media source. Good luck. All of our opinions, coincidentally, just match some media
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source that happens to be a preferred media source. If you think that's a coincidence, then you probably
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think it's also a coincidence that people have the same religion as their parents, mostly. Is it because
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people grew up and look at their parents' choice of religion and said to themselves, you know,
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I've looked at all the options, and my parents nailed it. I'm going to do what they did. I'm so glad
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that my parents got the right religion, and yet all over the world people have been saying the same
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things and coming to different conclusions? Well, it's not because you thought about it. That's not
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how it works, although for some people it's true. But for 80% of the world, they didn't really do
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research. They just accepted what was handed to them.
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YouTuber Jake Paul, if you don't know him, very famous YouTuber, has been charged with criminal
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trespass and unlawful assembly. So he was one of the protesters and followed the looters into a mall
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mall in Scottsdale, Arizona. And I guess he was taking video from inside the mall. So he's being
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charged. What do you think of that? Do you think a YouTuber who was not looting himself, but did follow
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looters in, and he was certainly someplace that the property owner would not have wanted him to be,
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I don't know if you've heard, but there's a movement for the women who are supporting Black Lives Matter,
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not necessarily black women, but the protesters in general, to shave their heads. So there's a movement
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for the women to shave their heads to show their solidarity with Black Lives Matter.
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Of course, this is a prank. I think it started in 4chan or something. So it's just a total prank
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made by people on the right. But SticksHexenHammer666, I'm sure most of you follow him on YouTube as well,
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or wherever he is, BitChute. I'm not sure where he's broadcasting from these days, but maybe both.
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He tweets, I strongly support the entirely organic, go bald for Black Lives Matter movement,
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and any leftist not following suit should be shamed. So it's pretty funny. The political
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pranksterism, I always appreciate. All right, here's something.
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As you might imagine, because of the protests and the George Floyd tragic death,
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that the topic of this lynching legislation, anti-lynching legislation has come up. So I guess
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Cory Booker and Kamala Harris are pushing that. Rand Paul actually had the stones
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to publicly oppose a lynching bill during a race riot.
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I don't know. Rand, maybe you should have read the room a little bit better.
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Now, I've told you, I've told you, the thing I like best about Rand Paul is that Rand Paul does
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not care what you think. He really doesn't care what you think. He's just going to do what he thinks
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is consistent with his, you know, his philosophy. But watching him be the only person opposing an
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anti-lynching bill during a race riot. That takes a lot of guts.
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Because, you know, nobody in the world is going to take him, nobody's going to take his argument
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seriously. And I don't even know what his argument is, because it doesn't matter. He's,
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nobody's going to listen to it anyway. But I think his argument has something to do with the fact that
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the law already has plenty of, you know, plenty of penalties. If you lynch somebody, you're going to
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be punished pretty hard. You know, so maybe you don't need like extra, a little extra on that.
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So that's his point. I'm not agreeing or disagree with that. I'm just saying it's hilarious that he
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would, that he would have the guts to make that point on principle during a, during,
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during these times. But here's the bigger story. So Kamala Harris got her moment, you know, she had
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a moment, because she spoke apparently passionately against Rand Paul's point of view. But here's the
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interesting part. So a long time ago, I don't know how many months ago this was, I made the following
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weird prediction. I said that Kamala Harris is one of the worst public speakers I've ever seen. I mean,
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she's the worst campaigner, just talking impromptu in public and just terrible. And I predicted that when
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she dropped out of the race, that she would not only come back as a vice presidential pick by Biden,
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but there would be another element to it. And that she would be coached to being really good.
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And it would happen kind of suddenly, sort of suddenly, like if you watch American Idol,
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you watch these people who don't have any professionalism per se, but they have some
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talent as singing. And then the coaches and the professionals who work with the show start
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working with the ones who are going to make it to the top 10. And the top 10 start getting better
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looking and they just improve like really quickly, because they had raw talent, but then they got
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coached by really good professionals. And you just see this dramatic change, they become just better
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looking more charisma, just everything's better. And it happens kind of suddenly. And I predicted that
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that would happen to Kamala Harris, that she would get world class coaching, and that there would be this
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fairly quick improvement. And I think you could see it in her response yesterday. So I watched it with
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the sound off, which is a really good thing to do. With the sound off, it looks like she cured all of
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her jumpiness problems. Because for those of you who are watching, she used to do this jumpy shoulder
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thing. She'd be talking and she'd be like, you know, she'd be her body language was all nervous and
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unconfident. And it was just basically a mess. And then I watched her with the sound off yesterday.
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And it was really good. It was really good. She went from a D minus in terms of just the,
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let's say, the visual part of her speaking. Everything from her style, to the clothes she
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wears, to her body language. And all of it just went to A plus. It went to A plus really quickly.
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So, yeah, now we haven't seen if she stopped the snickering, as somebody said in the comments,
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because she does the thing where she laughs nervously. Now, it could be that it was the topic
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that kept her serious. So she didn't have a nervous laugh because she was, it looked like she was really
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in the moment, you know, and she probably knew she was, she was having a big, a big moment in her
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career. So she maybe didn't have the opportunity to giggle at her own jokes. It just wasn't a time when
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anybody would do that. So we don't know if she's cured that. But I'll bet she has for the same
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reason. It looks like a professional is involved. All right. Yes, we're going to talk about employment.
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Let's talk about that now. So the employment level unexpectedly was pretty good. Pretty good
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compared to what people thought it would be. So it turns out that we added jobs. What? We added jobs.
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Things actually looked up last week. I told you it was the golden age. The violence from the protest,
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practically gone. Disagreement about racism, not much. Everybody's on the same team if we could just
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stop marching and have some ideas to play with. And the economy, the economy is looking strong. Stock
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markets up. So we have this weird situation where it looks like the end of the world and things have
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never been better. Things have never been better. It looks like the end of the world. Now, when I say
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things have never been better, obviously, the economy was better a few months ago and stuff like that.
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But the situation we're in has never been better. Because just breaking everything,
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breaking all of our old assumptions, breaking a lot of our economic models, it's going to unleash a lot of
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good stuff. Because we had to shake the box before we could really make some big changes.
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And it looks like that's happening. So Joe Biden said that 10 to 15% of Americans are, quote,
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not very good people. So I think BuzzFeed put that at approximately 50 million people.
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So there are 50 million people who Joe Biden thinks are not very good. Even the New York Times turned on
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him for that. Because you can't really be the president of the whole country and say that 50
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million of them sort of suck, especially if I'm in that category. All right, so here's what I tweeted.
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I said, Joe Biden wants to be the president of all Americans, not just the 50 million people like me
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who says Biden are not very good people. On the plus side, Biden will train police to only shoot
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me in the leg. And that feels like a step in the right direction, if I could walk.
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So I don't know if this will make any difference. It feels like the kind of thing that moves elections.
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You know, I was asked earlier this morning what I thought of Trump's new campaign commercial.
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If you haven't seen it, there's a new Trump campaign commercial, which is
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very respectful to George Floyd, says every right word about bringing us together and uniting and all
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that. So it's a Trump commercial that hits every right note for the, you know, the political mood,
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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
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
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.
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
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
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?
00:38:32.140
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.
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
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,
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
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
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
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.
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