Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1019 Scott Adams： Empathy as a System, The Thing That Could Have Ended Protests, Trump's Best Week Ever

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00:00:09.780 Hey everybody, how's it going?

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00:01:34.840 Mm-hmm.

00:01:35.740 Yeah.

00:01:36.260 I feel the racial tension decreasing.

00:01:39.180 Is it just my imagination?

00:01:41.600 No.

00:01:42.060 I think it's real.

00:01:44.980 Well, let's talk about all the things that are happening.

00:01:50.000 If you missed it, last night I did a live stream with Hotep Jesus.

00:01:55.920 If you are not following him, you should.

00:01:59.720 Just look for Hotep Jesus.

00:02:02.740 H-O-T-E-P.

00:02:05.040 And we talked about all things related to COVID

00:02:10.340 and all things related to the George Floyd situation.

00:02:13.180 And I'm getting a lot of good feedback from that.

00:02:17.620 And one of the things that occurs to me,

00:02:23.160 you know, after our conversation,

00:02:25.480 I finally realized that it's impossible for any one person by themselves,

00:02:31.000 just one speaker,

00:02:32.900 to communicate on this topic.

00:02:34.740 And the reason is there are things that I just can't say

00:02:37.760 because they would be offensive,

00:02:39.660 but he can say

00:02:40.400 because, you know,

00:02:41.900 who is doing the saying makes a big difference, right?

00:02:44.540 And I think there would be some things in the other direction as well.

00:02:47.920 So I feel as though,

00:02:50.580 like I had this little light bulb went on when we were talking

00:02:53.600 because if you added the two of us together,

00:02:56.240 we could say everything that needed to be said.

00:02:59.940 But if we're talking individually

00:03:02.420 and we're not there literally at the same time

00:03:04.540 in the same conversation,

00:03:06.420 as soon as you separate us,

00:03:07.920 we can both only say what we can say.

00:03:10.620 Now, maybe it only works one direction,

00:03:13.260 but I assume it works both directions.

00:03:16.020 So there were topics that we could cover as a duo

00:03:19.140 that neither of us could talk about individually.

00:03:22.220 It's fascinating, really,

00:03:23.220 when you think about that limitation on just communicating.

00:03:29.660 It's not a limitation on free speech per se,

00:03:32.420 it's just a communication limit

00:03:34.800 that we place on each other.

00:03:38.500 And here are some of the things that came out of this.

00:03:41.700 And I guess I would put these as sort of

00:03:43.580 preliminary understandings

00:03:50.180 subject to future improvement.

00:03:53.260 So if these are roughly getting closer to the answer,

00:03:57.100 that's good enough

00:03:57.920 because it would show progress.

00:03:59.160 I don't think I'm there yet.

00:04:01.720 But here's what I'm talking about.

00:04:04.700 So, Hotep was making the point

00:04:07.020 that black lives matter,

00:04:09.580 and the feelings of the protesters,

00:04:12.520 the black community in particular,

00:04:14.100 is that conservatives and Republicans

00:04:16.780 don't have empathy.

00:04:21.020 They don't have the right feeling,

00:04:23.660 the feeling in your heart

00:04:25.640 toward the black community.

00:04:28.540 And I thought to myself,

00:04:29.920 I wonder why they think that.

00:04:32.740 Because that's not my impression at all.

00:04:35.020 I spend tons of time

00:04:36.760 with the left and the right,

00:04:38.700 and I don't really see that.

00:04:40.280 I don't see any lack of empathy whatsoever.

00:04:43.260 But it kind of occurred to me

00:04:45.720 that they do see it,

00:04:47.620 and there's an obvious reason why.

00:04:50.020 The obvious reason why

00:04:51.580 is that the black community

00:04:54.700 is mostly seeing

00:04:56.040 the conservative Republican opinion

00:04:58.200 as spoken by people on TV

00:05:01.040 and in the news and stuff,

00:05:02.760 more so than in person.

00:05:05.420 If you were in person,

00:05:07.560 you'd get a different impression

00:05:09.320 than if you're talking,

00:05:11.400 if you're looking at somebody's

00:05:12.740 public pronouncements.

00:05:13.760 And here's the insight.

00:05:15.720 See if this rings true to you.

00:05:20.180 That conservatives and Republicans,

00:05:22.840 by philosophy,

00:05:25.560 reject empathy.

00:05:27.800 Because empathy is a way

00:05:29.360 to take power illegitimately.

00:05:33.220 In other words,

00:05:34.180 if you go too far in empathy,

00:05:37.180 you've departed the rule of law,

00:05:40.300 you've departed,

00:05:40.900 you know,

00:05:42.540 the higher reasoning,

00:05:44.440 you've departed

00:05:45.320 maybe the Constitution,

00:05:47.280 because those guiding documents

00:05:49.540 tell you everything you need to do.

00:05:52.060 Empathy,

00:05:53.780 you know,

00:05:54.820 empathy in a political sense,

00:05:57.340 not in an individual sense.

00:05:59.320 So my claim is that

00:06:00.580 conservatives and Republicans

00:06:01.940 are identical to everyone else

00:06:04.520 in empathy.

00:06:06.300 They're just identical.

00:06:07.620 But as a political philosophy,

00:06:09.700 they choose not to use empathy

00:06:12.800 for decision-making.

00:06:15.280 Because it's an inefficient way

00:06:16.880 to make decisions.

00:06:18.140 You should have empathy,

00:06:19.980 but it should not be

00:06:21.320 necessarily part of your decision-making.

00:06:24.280 So in other words,

00:06:25.780 the Constitution can say

00:06:27.500 everybody gets a fair shot,

00:06:29.860 but that's not going to work out

00:06:31.660 for everybody.

00:06:33.060 And if you said,

00:06:33.740 oh,

00:06:34.060 we gave everybody a fair shot,

00:06:35.760 but it didn't work out

00:06:36.900 for some people,

00:06:37.540 they had bad luck

00:06:38.460 or whatever it was

00:06:39.260 that went wrong,

00:06:41.040 let's fix that.

00:06:43.280 As soon as you do that,

00:06:44.660 then you don't have

00:06:45.800 the same system anymore.

00:06:47.320 Because you can't fix

00:06:48.460 everybody who gets behind

00:06:49.880 without making everybody equal,

00:06:52.020 and then you end up

00:06:52.820 with socialism.

00:06:54.200 So I believe that

00:06:55.740 what the black community,

00:06:57.960 at least through

00:07:00.140 Hotep's opinion,

00:07:02.100 you know,

00:07:02.340 again,

00:07:03.220 we're limited by

00:07:04.440 just the people we talk to.

00:07:06.200 We don't know

00:07:06.920 everybody's opinion.

00:07:08.740 But Hotep's view

00:07:10.760 that the conservatives

00:07:11.800 and the Republicans

00:07:12.580 were hurting themselves,

00:07:14.120 essentially,

00:07:15.200 because they weren't

00:07:16.100 showing the degree

00:07:18.620 of empathy

00:07:19.260 that is clearly

00:07:20.860 being requested.

00:07:22.980 And I would say

00:07:23.620 that it is clearly

00:07:24.820 being requested,

00:07:26.120 demanded,

00:07:26.640 if you will,

00:07:27.560 but certainly requested.

00:07:29.440 We need this much empathy

00:07:31.340 in order to move on,

00:07:32.800 in order to be productive,

00:07:34.540 in order to get past this.

00:07:36.200 We need this much empathy,

00:07:37.840 and you're just not

00:07:38.620 giving it to us.

00:07:40.080 Why not?

00:07:41.520 Like President Trump,

00:07:42.740 where's your empathy?

00:07:45.100 And I was thinking about it,

00:07:47.340 and I thought to myself,

00:07:48.500 yeah,

00:07:49.480 if you didn't already know

00:07:51.660 that conservatives

00:07:54.060 and Republicans

00:07:54.860 are identical to everybody else

00:07:56.380 in terms of empathy,

00:07:57.380 if you didn't know

00:07:58.500 that in their hearts,

00:07:59.840 there's no real difference,

00:08:01.180 and all you saw

00:08:02.740 was their public

00:08:03.680 philosophical look

00:08:05.500 and the political

00:08:06.960 philosophical look

00:08:08.280 is that

00:08:09.240 you don't use empathy

00:08:10.720 to make decisions.

00:08:12.140 It's just a bad way

00:08:13.240 to make decisions.

00:08:14.820 A better way

00:08:15.800 is the law,

00:08:17.300 the Constitution,

00:08:18.660 democracy,

00:08:19.660 the republic,

00:08:20.440 you know,

00:08:20.640 the actual structures.

00:08:22.320 and it felt like

00:08:27.040 I don't know

00:08:28.560 that that point of view

00:08:29.980 had ever been

00:08:30.580 communicated before,

00:08:31.760 and indeed,

00:08:32.280 I don't know

00:08:32.620 that I'd ever thought

00:08:33.400 of it before,

00:08:34.600 because it,

00:08:35.200 you know,

00:08:35.780 it never really came up.

00:08:36.940 It was just something

00:08:37.580 I knew to be true,

00:08:39.860 but I didn't know

00:08:40.760 it was relevant

00:08:41.360 in some way

00:08:42.080 to this conversation.

00:08:43.420 So that was interesting.

00:08:44.220 A point that I made

00:08:47.020 that Hotep seemed

00:08:48.560 to agree with

00:08:49.720 is I made

00:08:50.640 the following analogy

00:08:51.540 that you shouldn't

00:08:52.500 look to the source

00:08:54.080 of the problem

00:08:54.720 for your solution.

00:08:56.520 I talk about that

00:08:57.380 in my book,

00:08:57.880 Loser Think.

00:08:58.960 One of the biggest

00:08:59.580 problems people make

00:09:00.800 is they say,

00:09:01.940 all right,

00:09:02.280 if my problem

00:09:03.420 is coming from here,

00:09:05.300 that's what I've got to fix.

00:09:07.020 I've got to fix

00:09:08.220 the thing

00:09:08.620 that's the problem.

00:09:09.960 Common sense, right?

00:09:11.580 This is my problem.

00:09:12.700 That's what I've got to fix,

00:09:15.280 except it's not common sense,

00:09:17.340 and we don't do that commonly.

00:09:19.860 And the analogy I used was,

00:09:21.900 let's say the problem

00:09:23.060 is it's raining.

00:09:24.900 Can you stop the rain?

00:09:27.040 You cannot.

00:09:28.440 The problem is it's raining.

00:09:30.340 What do you do?

00:09:31.160 Or you could even generalize

00:09:32.380 it to bad weather,

00:09:33.160 but the problem is rain.

00:09:34.900 You can't stop the rain,

00:09:36.900 but what you can do

00:09:38.720 is go indoors.

00:09:40.880 You can build a structure

00:09:42.220 with a roof

00:09:42.920 that stops rain.

00:09:44.280 You can buy yourself

00:09:45.260 an umbrella

00:09:45.820 and a little rain hat.

00:09:47.480 You can wait

00:09:48.460 until it stops raining.

00:09:50.320 All right?

00:09:50.880 So you can't,

00:09:51.660 sometimes there's a problem

00:09:52.980 that just by its nature,

00:09:54.700 you can't really address

00:09:55.720 the problem.

00:09:57.140 You can only find

00:09:58.080 a good strategy

00:09:59.000 that makes the problem

00:10:00.120 irrelevant.

00:10:01.560 And so I was making the point

00:10:02.880 that if young black kids

00:10:06.160 were taught strategy,

00:10:08.600 racism would still exist

00:10:10.180 because people are

00:10:11.160 pattern recognition machines.

00:10:13.480 And even if you cured

00:10:14.540 all racism

00:10:15.360 in all living people today,

00:10:17.220 the very next baby

00:10:18.860 that was born

00:10:19.520 would be a racist

00:10:20.400 because it would be born

00:10:21.880 with a pattern recognition brain

00:10:23.460 and we're not good

00:10:24.820 at pattern recognition.

00:10:26.340 That's what racism is.

00:10:28.160 Your pattern recognition,

00:10:29.480 you have it,

00:10:30.720 but it's not,

00:10:31.560 it's not giving you

00:10:32.400 the right pattern.

00:10:34.680 You know,

00:10:35.200 because it's assuming

00:10:36.160 that everybody is some way

00:10:37.440 and obviously

00:10:38.160 that's never the case.

00:10:40.240 So my analogy was

00:10:43.100 if you worked

00:10:43.720 on the strategy directly,

00:10:46.160 that's a lever

00:10:47.200 that's a big lever

00:10:48.220 and it's available.

00:10:50.100 You can pull it.

00:10:51.640 So if you,

00:10:52.820 and I gave this specific example,

00:10:54.840 I said,

00:10:55.640 how many 12-year-old

00:10:56.800 African-American kids

00:10:58.760 know the following is true?

00:11:01.100 That if they went

00:11:01.840 to get a job interview

00:11:03.020 at a Fortune 500 company

00:11:04.540 and there was one other person

00:11:06.560 just to keep it simple

00:11:07.460 who was a white person

00:11:08.900 with identical credentials,

00:11:11.320 which one of you

00:11:12.180 gets the job every time?

00:11:15.420 It's the black candidate

00:11:16.700 every time.

00:11:17.680 It doesn't matter

00:11:18.340 who's interviewing them

00:11:19.300 and it doesn't even matter

00:11:20.180 what company it is.

00:11:21.440 If it's a big company,

00:11:23.060 they need to hire

00:11:24.520 minority candidates

00:11:25.840 and it's a real problem

00:11:27.580 because they need to recruit,

00:11:29.460 they're going to have

00:11:30.260 to go look for them

00:11:31.240 and the pool of opportunity

00:11:33.900 isn't as large

00:11:34.760 as they would like it to be.

00:11:36.280 So the Fortune 500 companies

00:11:37.800 are competing

00:11:38.660 for the black candidate.

00:11:41.380 They're not competing

00:11:42.380 for the white candidate

00:11:43.280 in the same way,

00:11:44.580 even though the job market

00:11:45.500 is tight.

00:11:47.080 But I said,

00:11:47.600 how many 12-year-old kids

00:11:48.580 know that they have

00:11:49.600 a total lock on a job

00:11:51.280 if they stay out of jail

00:11:53.440 and don't get somebody pregnant

00:11:54.780 and study in school?

00:11:56.560 You know, just the basics.

00:11:57.740 If you just do the basics,

00:11:59.440 how many know

00:12:01.020 that you're guaranteed

00:12:01.980 a good life?

00:12:03.360 I mean,

00:12:03.920 nothing's really guaranteed,

00:12:05.560 but, you know,

00:12:06.980 it's as close as you can get

00:12:08.720 to being pretty sure

00:12:10.560 things are going to work out

00:12:11.660 for you in the long run,

00:12:12.900 if not right away.

00:12:15.420 So anyway,

00:12:16.380 HOTEP seemed to be

00:12:19.160 in agreement

00:12:19.780 on the basic point

00:12:21.340 that you don't look

00:12:22.100 to solve the problem,

00:12:23.660 especially if it's

00:12:24.960 an unsolvable problem.

00:12:27.120 People have

00:12:27.860 pattern recognition machines.

00:12:29.440 machines as brains.

00:12:31.100 You can't solve that.

00:12:33.120 It's like the rain.

00:12:34.740 There's always going to be

00:12:35.840 pattern recognition

00:12:36.700 in human brains.

00:12:38.540 There will always be rain.

00:12:40.700 You can build a roof,

00:12:42.720 and in the case of your

00:12:43.780 pattern recognition brain,

00:12:45.720 you can find strategies

00:12:46.900 to, you know,

00:12:47.960 overcome it.

00:12:48.700 You can make laws

00:12:49.640 to make it illegal.

00:12:50.900 You can teach people.

00:12:52.020 You can train them.

00:12:52.860 You can, you know,

00:12:53.820 live by experience.

00:12:54.920 You can tweak it.

00:12:56.200 And there's just

00:12:57.020 tons of stuff

00:12:57.820 you can do strategy-wise.

00:13:00.400 But the reason

00:13:01.400 that you're not succeeding

00:13:02.640 in getting rid of racism

00:13:03.920 is that it's not possible.

00:13:06.360 It's not possible.

00:13:07.880 It would require

00:13:08.940 rebooting

00:13:10.280 the nature

00:13:11.380 of a brain itself.

00:13:13.740 And again,

00:13:14.300 I'm not saying

00:13:14.760 just white people

00:13:15.600 being biased.

00:13:17.080 I mean,

00:13:17.300 every form of bias

00:13:18.460 is baked into

00:13:19.280 every brain.

00:13:20.380 You can't get rid of that.

00:13:22.000 But you can make

00:13:22.700 a strategy that says,

00:13:23.880 all right,

00:13:24.080 what do you do with that?

00:13:25.320 How about we just

00:13:26.020 admit it's there?

00:13:27.600 Why don't we just

00:13:28.400 say it's there

00:13:29.820 all the time

00:13:30.580 and just work with it?

00:13:34.920 Anyway,

00:13:35.320 I thought it was

00:13:35.700 pretty productive.

00:13:36.520 You should look

00:13:37.000 in my Twitter feed

00:13:38.260 or hoteps

00:13:39.000 to find that.

00:13:40.420 A lot of people

00:13:40.980 say they're enjoying it.

00:13:43.260 All right.

00:13:43.560 If we were

00:13:48.500 a species

00:13:49.280 that used

00:13:50.140 facts

00:13:50.840 to make decisions,

00:13:52.540 there's a fact

00:13:53.740 that just happened,

00:13:54.860 something we all

00:13:55.560 know to be a fact.

00:13:57.280 This should have

00:13:57.960 changed how we see

00:13:59.120 this whole

00:13:59.740 George Floyd thing.

00:14:02.240 But it didn't.

00:14:03.500 It didn't even

00:14:04.060 change it a little bit.

00:14:05.520 So this is one

00:14:06.140 of those examples

00:14:06.760 where you can

00:14:07.400 tell yourself,

00:14:09.500 you know,

00:14:09.860 I've been saying

00:14:10.400 for several years,

00:14:11.280 in fact,

00:14:11.660 it's the subtitle

00:14:12.480 of one of my books,

00:14:13.560 that facts

00:14:14.560 don't matter.

00:14:16.200 Two decisions.

00:14:17.480 Of course,

00:14:18.120 facts matter

00:14:18.700 to what actually

00:14:19.520 happens in the world,

00:14:21.580 but they don't

00:14:22.480 influence us

00:14:23.220 for our decisions,

00:14:24.340 which is weird

00:14:25.120 because you think

00:14:26.120 a fact would

00:14:26.740 actually matter.

00:14:27.880 But here's the fact

00:14:28.780 I'm talking about.

00:14:30.480 So we watched

00:14:31.440 in Buffalo

00:14:32.200 as police pushed

00:14:33.640 a 75-year-old

00:14:35.400 white guy.

00:14:36.500 They pushed him

00:14:37.500 on.

00:14:37.880 I guess he fell

00:14:38.580 and hurt himself.

00:14:40.040 He had,

00:14:40.360 I don't know,

00:14:40.740 some head injury.

00:14:42.160 And when we

00:14:43.280 watched the video,

00:14:44.160 we were all

00:14:44.760 sort of

00:14:45.920 similarly horrified

00:14:47.620 because the police

00:14:48.900 seemed uninterested

00:14:50.080 in his well-being.

00:14:51.680 In other words,

00:14:52.280 they just pushed him

00:14:52.960 to the ground.

00:14:54.040 One started to

00:14:55.020 look after him

00:14:55.940 and the other

00:14:56.280 policeman pulled him

00:14:57.620 away.

00:14:58.440 It looked like

00:14:59.040 somebody was calling

00:14:59.780 an EMT,

00:15:00.740 so they were

00:15:01.340 doing something

00:15:02.720 for him,

00:15:03.300 but they were not

00:15:04.020 showing much

00:15:05.600 that it looked

00:15:06.000 like empathy.

00:15:07.400 It looked like

00:15:08.240 almost robots.

00:15:09.620 It was like,

00:15:09.980 push him

00:15:10.700 out of the way.

00:15:11.740 Okay,

00:15:12.180 don't help him.

00:15:13.200 We'll call

00:15:13.600 somebody else

00:15:14.060 to help him.

00:15:14.600 Just keep going.

00:15:15.660 So there was

00:15:16.100 something cold

00:15:17.640 and robotic

00:15:18.520 and it lacked

00:15:20.340 humanity.

00:15:21.900 But here's the thing.

00:15:23.600 It was a white guy.

00:15:25.580 It was a white guy.

00:15:27.620 You saw a white guy

00:15:28.840 being treated

00:15:29.460 by police

00:15:30.340 with what,

00:15:32.400 at least on video,

00:15:33.660 we can't see,

00:15:34.860 you know,

00:15:35.180 we can't tell

00:15:35.640 what they're thinking,

00:15:36.720 obviously.

00:15:37.120 But on video,

00:15:38.740 the way it looked

00:15:39.360 to us is police

00:15:41.160 treating an old

00:15:42.380 white guy

00:15:43.000 with,

00:15:44.940 I don't know,

00:15:46.240 a complete lack

00:15:47.220 of passion.

00:15:48.480 Compassion.

00:15:49.680 Complete lack

00:15:50.440 of compassion.

00:15:51.760 Now,

00:15:52.220 if we were

00:15:52.880 a fact-based

00:15:54.140 species,

00:15:56.020 we would say

00:15:56.600 to ourselves,

00:15:57.180 wait a minute,

00:15:58.380 what does that

00:15:58.920 look like?

00:16:00.700 Now,

00:16:01.100 obviously,

00:16:01.740 killing a man

00:16:02.480 with your knee

00:16:03.080 on his neck

00:16:03.620 for nine minutes

00:16:04.340 is a whole level

00:16:05.780 different.

00:16:07.120 than just pushing

00:16:08.180 an old man

00:16:08.820 who hits his head.

00:16:10.720 You know,

00:16:10.920 I'm not going to say

00:16:11.660 those are morally

00:16:12.460 equivalent,

00:16:13.240 right?

00:16:13.480 Don't get me

00:16:14.180 in that morally

00:16:14.760 equivalent trap

00:16:15.760 because that's not

00:16:16.360 where we're going.

00:16:17.300 I'm saying it's

00:16:18.140 another piece

00:16:18.680 of information

00:16:19.360 that you watched

00:16:20.880 police seemingly

00:16:23.540 indifferent to

00:16:24.540 his race.

00:16:26.200 You know,

00:16:26.380 if what we had

00:16:27.040 watched is

00:16:27.720 the white guy

00:16:29.160 comes up

00:16:29.680 and resists,

00:16:31.840 basically he resisted

00:16:33.200 what the police

00:16:33.760 were telling him

00:16:34.380 to do,

00:16:34.760 and I guess

00:16:35.800 they knew him

00:16:36.320 to be an agitator

00:16:37.240 who was looking

00:16:37.760 for some trouble.

00:16:39.080 But if they had

00:16:40.200 said,

00:16:40.500 hey,

00:16:40.840 white guy,

00:16:42.000 good job,

00:16:43.600 go back to

00:16:44.160 protesting,

00:16:45.440 you know,

00:16:46.040 how are the kids?

00:16:47.580 If they had done

00:16:48.240 that,

00:16:48.980 I'd say,

00:16:49.500 whoa,

00:16:49.880 we got a big

00:16:50.520 problem here

00:16:51.120 because they

00:16:52.240 killed the black

00:16:53.000 guy who was

00:16:54.740 resisting,

00:16:55.540 but the white guy,

00:16:56.800 they pat on the

00:16:57.300 back and say,

00:16:58.140 we'll see you at

00:16:58.660 the barbecue,

00:16:59.340 what's up with

00:16:59.840 this?

00:17:01.060 But that

00:17:01.460 didn't happen.

00:17:02.800 They just

00:17:03.400 shoved the white

00:17:04.460 guy and

00:17:06.200 hurt him and

00:17:07.700 walked around

00:17:08.360 him.

00:17:09.140 They called

00:17:09.560 the EMT,

00:17:10.540 I think.

00:17:12.880 So,

00:17:13.780 maybe there

00:17:15.220 should be,

00:17:16.500 it's almost like

00:17:17.260 the simulation

00:17:18.000 was trying to

00:17:18.760 send us a hint

00:17:19.660 to see if we

00:17:20.480 were smart enough

00:17:21.160 to get it.

00:17:22.440 Hey,

00:17:23.460 hey,

00:17:24.460 maybe you're

00:17:25.240 looking at the

00:17:25.880 wrong thing.

00:17:27.660 Psst,

00:17:28.480 psst,

00:17:29.060 watch this.

00:17:30.200 Watch what I

00:17:30.700 do to this

00:17:31.100 old white

00:17:31.520 guy.

00:17:32.320 See if this

00:17:32.820 tells you

00:17:33.260 anything that

00:17:33.800 you didn't

00:17:34.100 already know.

00:17:35.180 Hey,

00:17:35.660 psst.

00:17:36.340 Now,

00:17:36.680 this brings us

00:17:37.160 to another

00:17:37.840 point.

00:17:39.120 There's a

00:17:39.860 hilariously

00:17:40.540 failed hit

00:17:41.640 piece,

00:17:42.580 hit piece

00:17:44.760 in terms of

00:17:45.360 a tweet

00:17:45.880 thread that's

00:17:47.140 a hit tweet

00:17:48.020 thread against

00:17:48.700 Tucker Carlson.

00:17:50.640 And the

00:17:51.260 weirdest thing

00:17:51.740 about it is

00:17:52.460 it didn't lay

00:17:53.220 a glove on

00:17:53.800 him.

00:17:55.060 It was the

00:17:56.300 weakest hit

00:17:56.940 piece I've

00:17:57.380 ever seen

00:17:57.780 in my life

00:17:58.380 because it

00:17:59.100 started out

00:17:59.580 talking about

00:18:00.180 his grandparents

00:18:01.780 or his

00:18:05.140 parents who

00:18:06.880 had a

00:18:07.160 company and

00:18:07.840 they used

00:18:08.220 immigrant labor

00:18:09.000 and blah,

00:18:09.680 blah,

00:18:09.900 blah.

00:18:10.120 And I'm

00:18:10.420 thinking to

00:18:10.880 myself,

00:18:11.840 that's your

00:18:12.440 hit piece

00:18:13.100 against Tucker

00:18:14.680 is something

00:18:15.400 his parents

00:18:17.380 did when he

00:18:17.860 was a baby?

00:18:19.320 You've got to

00:18:19.840 try harder than

00:18:20.440 that,

00:18:21.180 right?

00:18:21.520 But then they

00:18:21.980 did try harder.

00:18:22.620 and here's

00:18:24.700 what they

00:18:25.040 said exactly.

00:18:31.580 So here's an

00:18:32.660 actual quote

00:18:33.740 from the

00:18:34.280 tweet thread

00:18:34.820 against Tucker.

00:18:36.160 Remember,

00:18:37.040 this is supposed

00:18:37.800 to be an

00:18:38.280 anti-Tucker

00:18:38.980 hit piece

00:18:39.540 right here.

00:18:40.220 Okay?

00:18:40.360 So one of

00:18:41.860 the tweets

00:18:42.260 says,

00:18:43.100 it is this

00:18:43.520 crisis,

00:18:44.140 meaning the

00:18:44.520 protests and

00:18:45.340 stuff,

00:18:46.000 coupled with

00:18:46.520 the realities

00:18:47.140 of climate

00:18:47.840 change,

00:18:48.840 what?

00:18:50.000 I don't know

00:18:50.300 why you're

00:18:50.540 throwing that

00:18:50.940 in there,

00:18:51.600 the drive

00:18:52.160 revolts against

00:18:53.020 neoliberalism,

00:18:54.680 like we saw

00:18:55.480 recently in

00:18:56.060 France.

00:18:56.360 In the U.S.,

00:18:58.060 the way to

00:18:58.580 classically deal

00:18:59.540 with such a

00:19:00.120 problem has

00:19:00.700 usually been,

00:19:01.580 wait for this,

00:19:02.960 in the U.S.,

00:19:03.860 the way to

00:19:04.260 classically deal

00:19:05.240 with such a

00:19:05.780 problem has

00:19:06.820 usually been to

00:19:07.580 divide the

00:19:08.320 working class

00:19:09.220 against itself

00:19:10.840 along race

00:19:12.340 lines.

00:19:13.640 Now, this is a

00:19:14.380 sentence in a

00:19:16.120 hit piece that's

00:19:17.980 supposed to be

00:19:18.860 against Tucker

00:19:20.700 Carlson,

00:19:21.980 except I don't

00:19:23.880 think they've

00:19:24.400 ever watched

00:19:25.040 his show,

00:19:26.480 because on

00:19:27.120 almost every

00:19:28.440 single show,

00:19:30.120 Tucker Carlson's

00:19:31.160 primary theme,

00:19:32.360 if I can say

00:19:32.980 it's a primary

00:19:33.560 theme,

00:19:34.420 it's the one I

00:19:35.040 see the most

00:19:35.940 by far,

00:19:36.620 is this.

00:19:40.620 This.

00:19:41.600 Tucker Carlson

00:19:42.420 is the number

00:19:43.160 one voice in

00:19:43.980 the country

00:19:44.480 against having

00:19:48.040 the elites

00:19:48.700 separate the

00:19:49.800 working class

00:19:50.520 by race.

00:19:52.160 So the thing

00:19:53.000 that was a

00:19:53.720 hit against

00:19:54.360 Tucker was

00:19:56.060 so uninformed

00:19:57.200 about the

00:19:58.260 major theme

00:19:59.540 of his show,

00:20:00.740 Stop Dividing

00:20:01.740 Us by Race,

00:20:03.980 that they

00:20:04.420 thought this

00:20:06.240 was something

00:20:06.700 to feature

00:20:07.360 as a hit

00:20:09.140 against him.

00:20:10.540 To say that

00:20:11.500 Tucker Carlson

00:20:12.320 is contributing

00:20:13.500 to this problem,

00:20:15.980 as opposed to

00:20:16.840 the number one

00:20:17.760 voice in the

00:20:18.640 country,

00:20:19.940 in terms of

00:20:20.760 how many people

00:20:21.440 see him and

00:20:22.040 how often he

00:20:22.680 talks about it,

00:20:23.420 and how strongly

00:20:24.080 he talks about it,

00:20:25.500 is that Stop

00:20:26.520 Dividing Us by Race.

00:20:28.380 It's what he

00:20:28.900 says almost,

00:20:29.920 not almost,

00:20:30.640 I think every

00:20:31.340 single show.

00:20:32.700 How could you

00:20:33.480 not know that

00:20:34.240 about Tucker

00:20:34.980 Carlson?

00:20:35.860 It's the very

00:20:36.560 thing that

00:20:37.560 defines him.

00:20:39.580 If you could

00:20:40.420 define it,

00:20:41.980 it's like his

00:20:43.100 central identity

00:20:44.140 almost,

00:20:45.040 at least the

00:20:45.640 TV identity,

00:20:47.300 is Stop

00:20:47.840 Dividing Us

00:20:48.420 by Race.

00:20:49.160 There's nothing

00:20:49.780 he says more

00:20:50.380 than that.

00:20:51.540 And this is

00:20:52.080 the hit piece,

00:20:53.180 that he is

00:20:53.840 contributing to

00:20:54.620 it.

00:20:55.980 Okay,

00:20:56.940 that's a

00:20:58.080 pretty weak

00:20:58.560 hit piece.

00:21:03.100 Anyway,

00:21:03.900 you should be

00:21:05.280 so lucky to

00:21:06.020 have hit pieces

00:21:06.740 against you

00:21:07.440 that are so

00:21:08.120 weak that they

00:21:09.000 make you look

00:21:09.700 better.

00:21:12.200 Here's something

00:21:13.000 that CNN

00:21:14.140 is criticizing

00:21:17.140 Fox News

00:21:18.080 for,

00:21:19.320 and normally

00:21:20.300 I don't pay

00:21:21.060 too much

00:21:21.680 attention to

00:21:22.360 the back and

00:21:22.900 forth,

00:21:23.400 because CNN

00:21:24.120 and Fox News

00:21:25.080 are like

00:21:25.520 siblings that

00:21:26.980 are always

00:21:27.280 fighting.

00:21:27.620 So they

00:21:28.800 always fight

00:21:29.240 about each

00:21:29.640 other's

00:21:29.940 coverage,

00:21:30.420 and I

00:21:30.540 don't pay

00:21:30.860 too much

00:21:31.560 attention to

00:21:32.160 it,

00:21:32.360 except sometimes

00:21:33.200 it's fun.

00:21:34.720 But this

00:21:35.220 one's a

00:21:37.160 pretty good

00:21:37.560 criticism.

00:21:39.560 It's so

00:21:40.320 bad that

00:21:40.860 it's funny.

00:21:42.460 I'm laughing

00:21:43.340 because it's

00:21:44.060 bad.

00:21:44.640 I'm not

00:21:45.000 laughing at

00:21:45.460 the content.

00:21:46.440 There's a

00:21:46.860 difference.

00:21:48.060 Laughing at

00:21:48.800 something because

00:21:49.500 it's so

00:21:49.980 inappropriate

00:21:50.500 doesn't mean

00:21:51.900 you're laughing

00:21:52.360 at the

00:21:52.680 inappropriate

00:21:53.120 part.

00:21:53.720 You're laughing

00:21:54.200 because it's

00:21:55.000 so inappropriate.

00:21:56.760 That's an

00:21:57.440 important

00:21:57.740 distinction.

00:21:59.620 I guess

00:22:00.000 Fox had a

00:22:01.060 they showed

00:22:04.160 a graphic

00:22:04.800 of how well

00:22:06.120 the stock

00:22:06.600 market does

00:22:07.260 every time

00:22:11.120 a black

00:22:12.280 person is

00:22:12.820 killed.

00:22:14.000 And this

00:22:14.800 is so bad

00:22:15.580 that it's

00:22:16.440 funny.

00:22:17.680 Right?

00:22:18.840 Like, I

00:22:19.800 don't know

00:22:20.060 how this got

00:22:21.520 on TV.

00:22:22.760 And then I

00:22:23.420 didn't believe

00:22:23.900 it when CNN

00:22:24.620 was saying

00:22:25.100 it, but

00:22:25.320 they showed

00:22:25.860 the actual

00:22:26.320 graphic.

00:22:27.500 And it

00:22:27.700 showed what

00:22:28.120 percentage

00:22:28.600 the stock

00:22:29.320 market went

00:22:29.880 up after

00:22:30.800 MLK was

00:22:31.680 assassinated,

00:22:32.880 after the

00:22:33.400 death of

00:22:33.780 Rodney King,

00:22:34.640 after the

00:22:34.960 death of

00:22:35.360 Michael Brown,

00:22:36.480 and the

00:22:36.840 death of

00:22:37.220 George Floyd.

00:22:38.320 And in

00:22:38.640 each of those

00:22:39.080 cases the

00:22:39.660 stock market

00:22:40.220 went up.

00:22:40.740 and I'm

00:22:42.600 thinking,

00:22:43.640 okay, I

00:22:45.880 get that it

00:22:46.480 might be

00:22:46.860 true, but

00:22:49.460 the fact that

00:22:50.400 it's true,

00:22:52.100 I don't know

00:22:52.840 if that's a

00:22:53.380 good enough

00:22:53.800 reason to put

00:22:54.420 that on the

00:22:54.900 screen.

00:22:56.200 Like, I

00:22:57.300 don't know

00:22:57.620 what you were

00:22:58.080 thinking when

00:22:58.580 you put that

00:22:59.120 on the

00:22:59.460 screen, but

00:23:00.180 let's just

00:23:01.700 say that

00:23:02.040 wasn't your

00:23:02.500 finest day.

00:23:05.140 And again,

00:23:05.980 I'm not

00:23:06.360 laughing, of

00:23:07.160 course, at

00:23:08.340 the deaths of

00:23:09.000 anybody.

00:23:09.420 I'm laughing

00:23:10.440 at the

00:23:10.840 ridiculousness

00:23:11.900 that somebody

00:23:13.360 gave the

00:23:15.020 green light

00:23:15.460 to that

00:23:15.780 graphic.

00:23:17.140 That's just

00:23:17.740 a head

00:23:18.020 shaker.

00:23:18.760 I mean, you

00:23:19.060 can't take

00:23:19.400 that too

00:23:19.760 seriously,

00:23:20.860 because I

00:23:21.340 don't think

00:23:21.600 it means,

00:23:22.420 there's no

00:23:22.800 bad intention.

00:23:25.020 And no

00:23:26.060 matter which

00:23:26.580 way the

00:23:26.980 criticism is

00:23:27.720 going, I

00:23:28.980 generally am

00:23:30.100 in favor of

00:23:31.640 saying, all

00:23:32.120 right, this

00:23:32.480 wasn't bad

00:23:33.140 intention, but

00:23:34.780 wow, there

00:23:35.840 was a blind

00:23:36.320 spot there.

00:23:37.820 That was

00:23:38.140 other.

00:23:42.260 So now

00:23:43.120 we're hearing

00:23:43.620 more information

00:23:45.460 about the

00:23:46.020 other three

00:23:46.680 cops that

00:23:47.500 were involved

00:23:48.020 in the

00:23:48.560 George Floyd

00:23:49.280 incident, and

00:23:50.840 two of them

00:23:51.320 were brand

00:23:51.780 new police.

00:23:53.580 Uh-oh, you

00:23:55.040 know what that

00:23:55.400 means, right?

00:23:56.640 The two who

00:23:57.540 were brand

00:23:58.060 new were

00:23:59.580 necessarily

00:24:00.280 relying on

00:24:01.300 Chauvin's

00:24:01.920 opinion on

00:24:02.760 what to do.

00:24:03.320 If you

00:24:05.540 were a

00:24:06.480 juror and

00:24:08.200 somebody said,

00:24:09.040 all right,

00:24:09.340 these guys are

00:24:10.320 rookies, they're

00:24:11.000 brand new, and

00:24:12.160 they're looking to

00:24:12.700 the veteran of

00:24:13.380 19 years,

00:24:14.600 Chauvin, to

00:24:15.720 tell him what

00:24:16.160 to do, and

00:24:16.740 indeed, that's

00:24:17.600 the conversation

00:24:18.260 that was reported,

00:24:19.780 is that I

00:24:20.220 believe the

00:24:20.840 rookies were

00:24:21.440 asking Chauvin,

00:24:22.320 what should we

00:24:22.780 do, and he

00:24:23.840 was telling

00:24:24.260 them what to

00:24:24.660 do.

00:24:25.660 And it turns

00:24:26.400 out he told

00:24:26.900 them what to

00:24:27.480 do wrong, and

00:24:28.260 it caused the

00:24:28.980 death of this

00:24:29.580 guy, you

00:24:30.520 know, the

00:24:30.780 totality of the

00:24:31.820 events did, and

00:24:33.620 then I guess

00:24:34.400 the third

00:24:34.860 witness is

00:24:35.400 cooperating.

00:24:37.020 Now, do the

00:24:37.520 math.

00:24:38.620 You've got two

00:24:40.100 who are rookies,

00:24:41.180 and probably

00:24:42.080 that's going to

00:24:42.640 be good enough

00:24:43.440 for the jury

00:24:44.400 to get them

00:24:45.920 off or to

00:24:46.620 get some

00:24:46.900 kind of reduced

00:24:47.580 thing that

00:24:48.140 doesn't make

00:24:48.900 anybody happy.

00:24:51.660 And then the

00:24:52.420 third is

00:24:52.820 cooperating, and

00:24:54.680 I don't know

00:24:55.040 if that means a

00:24:55.660 reduced sentence

00:24:56.940 or reduced

00:24:58.480 charges, something

00:25:00.520 like that.

00:25:01.060 So you

00:25:01.880 might have

00:25:02.260 the three

00:25:02.880 supporting

00:25:03.920 police already

00:25:05.820 in a legal

00:25:06.700 situation where

00:25:08.420 it's unlikely

00:25:09.000 that they'll

00:25:09.480 get any kind

00:25:10.160 of a serious

00:25:11.140 penalty.

00:25:13.220 And then, as

00:25:14.280 I've talked to

00:25:14.740 you before, I

00:25:15.980 think Chauvin's

00:25:17.000 defense, forget

00:25:18.920 about what you

00:25:19.500 think about it

00:25:20.600 morally, forget

00:25:21.440 about for the

00:25:22.160 moment, just for

00:25:23.000 this conversation,

00:25:24.200 what you think

00:25:24.780 about it as a

00:25:25.380 human being and

00:25:26.860 how it registered

00:25:27.620 with you.

00:25:28.180 from a purely

00:25:29.940 legal strategy

00:25:31.360 perspective, I

00:25:32.620 think Chauvin's

00:25:33.300 definitely going

00:25:33.820 to get off.

00:25:35.080 I think all

00:25:36.100 four cops are

00:25:38.120 going to get

00:25:38.500 off.

00:25:40.100 So if you're

00:25:41.080 not getting

00:25:41.460 ready for the

00:25:42.140 next wave of

00:25:42.920 this, you

00:25:43.820 need to.

00:25:45.280 So, I mean,

00:25:46.760 it's already

00:25:47.100 baked in.

00:25:47.920 You could just

00:25:48.540 put it on your

00:25:49.040 calendar at this

00:25:49.740 point, the

00:25:50.540 second set of

00:25:51.600 destructions.

00:25:53.900 All right, so

00:25:55.920 that's bad.

00:25:58.800 You know, I

00:25:59.260 think that Trump

00:26:00.660 had maybe one

00:26:01.940 of the best

00:26:02.400 weeks of his

00:26:03.080 life, but I

00:26:03.800 don't know that

00:26:04.200 it'll be

00:26:04.600 recognized as

00:26:05.480 such.

00:26:06.580 But look at

00:26:07.600 the things that

00:26:08.060 went right for

00:26:08.700 Trump.

00:26:09.760 So the jobs, as

00:26:12.400 you know, the

00:26:13.020 jobs were way

00:26:14.020 better than

00:26:14.580 anybody expected.

00:26:15.580 And even though

00:26:16.000 we're coming off

00:26:16.620 a low base, so

00:26:19.520 anything looks

00:26:20.280 good coming off

00:26:21.040 of the low base,

00:26:22.280 we're all happy

00:26:23.780 about it, right?

00:26:24.540 It's unambiguously

00:26:25.700 good news, except

00:26:27.240 that apparently

00:26:28.300 it was not good

00:26:29.180 news for black

00:26:31.100 unemployment, which

00:26:33.040 didn't go up as

00:26:34.280 quickly.

00:26:37.460 So that's no

00:26:40.900 good.

00:26:41.600 But in terms of

00:26:42.640 jobs in general,

00:26:43.500 they went up, and

00:26:44.160 one assumes that if

00:26:45.760 everything's heading

00:26:46.400 in the right

00:26:46.840 direction, everybody

00:26:47.940 gets to go along

00:26:48.900 eventually.

00:26:50.140 So jobs are

00:26:50.780 great, that's good

00:26:51.400 for Trump, but

00:26:52.180 it also, at the

00:26:54.380 same time, the

00:26:55.200 COVID deaths just

00:26:56.320 fell off a cliff.

00:26:58.420 Why?

00:26:59.320 Why did COVID

00:27:00.280 deaths suddenly

00:27:01.660 just plummet?

00:27:02.980 We don't know

00:27:03.780 yet, but the

00:27:05.280 theories floating

00:27:06.260 around are that

00:27:07.420 the virus might be

00:27:09.080 weakening, and

00:27:10.960 just so you know

00:27:13.220 the lay of the

00:27:13.900 land here

00:27:14.340 information-wise,

00:27:15.500 it was only

00:27:16.240 maybe 48 hours

00:27:17.800 ago that I

00:27:19.500 proposed the

00:27:20.280 idea that the

00:27:20.880 virus might be

00:27:22.880 weakening, and

00:27:24.060 at least on

00:27:24.580 social media,

00:27:26.180 people said

00:27:26.780 there's no

00:27:27.140 evidence of

00:27:27.700 that, and it

00:27:28.140 was people who

00:27:28.860 knew what they're

00:27:29.220 talking about.

00:27:30.420 And I thought,

00:27:30.960 oh, okay, there's

00:27:31.780 no evidence of

00:27:32.820 that, we probably

00:27:33.320 would have seen it

00:27:33.980 by now if there

00:27:34.780 was evidence it

00:27:35.420 was weakening.

00:27:36.420 But as of the

00:27:37.560 news yesterday,

00:27:39.020 some experts were

00:27:40.040 saying that's

00:27:41.200 probably what's

00:27:42.080 happening, that it

00:27:43.540 probably is

00:27:44.260 weakening.

00:27:44.640 And the

00:27:45.480 thinking is that

00:27:47.240 viruses tend to

00:27:49.540 weaken, because if

00:27:51.420 they got stronger

00:27:52.300 they would kill

00:27:52.960 you, and then

00:27:53.640 they couldn't

00:27:54.120 spread as easily

00:27:55.060 because you're

00:27:55.560 dead, so you're

00:27:56.320 not walking

00:27:56.820 around and

00:27:57.360 spreading it.

00:27:58.360 So the idea

00:27:59.040 is that viruses

00:28:00.720 generally will

00:28:01.740 weaken over time

00:28:03.280 because they can

00:28:05.040 spread faster if

00:28:06.340 they're weaker.

00:28:07.000 You'll carry them

00:28:07.780 longer to spread

00:28:08.600 them.

00:28:09.140 That's the theory.

00:28:09.920 I'm not sure I'm

00:28:10.700 completely buying the

00:28:12.260 cause and the

00:28:12.800 effect of that being

00:28:13.580 a clean cause and

00:28:14.520 effect, but there's

00:28:16.680 thought that the

00:28:17.320 virus may have

00:28:17.960 weakened.

00:28:18.640 On top of that, and

00:28:20.240 I haven't heard many

00:28:21.140 people say it

00:28:21.960 directly, at least

00:28:23.400 this week, we heard

00:28:24.980 a lot of it before,

00:28:27.020 vitamin D has just

00:28:28.880 got to be in this

00:28:29.820 story somewhere,

00:28:30.680 right?

00:28:31.700 Because one of the

00:28:32.960 ways that it would

00:28:33.660 look to you as if

00:28:34.780 the virus was

00:28:35.580 weakening is if

00:28:36.580 everybody just went

00:28:37.400 outdoors and got

00:28:38.160 some sun.

00:28:39.600 It could be that

00:28:40.740 just the good

00:28:41.380 weather, everybody

00:28:42.480 went outside and got

00:28:43.440 some sun, and

00:28:44.720 then it looked like

00:28:45.540 the virus was

00:28:46.280 weaker because

00:28:47.580 people were getting

00:28:48.860 it and not getting

00:28:49.560 as many symptoms

00:28:50.320 because they had

00:28:51.260 vitamin D.

00:28:53.300 So it could be

00:28:54.120 something about the

00:28:54.800 summer that's the

00:28:55.460 heat, it could be

00:28:56.300 the humidity, it

00:28:58.500 could be the

00:28:59.340 vitamin D that you

00:29:00.140 get from the sun,

00:29:01.040 it could be that

00:29:01.640 it's weakening, but

00:29:02.880 whatever it is,

00:29:04.600 Trump was the one

00:29:05.600 that said, well,

00:29:06.900 what if it just

00:29:07.380 goes away?

00:29:08.600 Do you remember

00:29:09.140 how badly Trump

00:29:11.120 was mocked for

00:29:12.220 saying that the

00:29:13.080 virus would just

00:29:13.920 go away?

00:29:15.320 And it looks like

00:29:16.580 the things that

00:29:17.260 made the most

00:29:17.960 difference, in

00:29:18.980 addition to the

00:29:19.620 masks, I guess,

00:29:20.720 and probably in

00:29:21.840 addition to learning

00:29:23.960 how to use the

00:29:24.640 ventilators in a

00:29:26.780 less deadly way, I

00:29:27.900 think that was part

00:29:28.620 of the story.

00:29:30.160 But weren't we

00:29:32.740 all shocked at how

00:29:33.900 suddenly it appears,

00:29:35.860 sudden, that the

00:29:37.140 virus went from a

00:29:38.840 civilization-ending

00:29:40.680 problem to, hey,

00:29:42.280 where's that virus?

00:29:44.180 It happened kind

00:29:45.040 of quickly.

00:29:46.240 And although the

00:29:47.440 president thought it

00:29:48.220 would happen sooner

00:29:49.000 maybe, no, I'm not

00:29:50.960 even sure he thought

00:29:51.540 it would happen

00:29:51.940 sooner.

00:29:52.600 I think he did say

00:29:53.460 summer, didn't he?

00:29:54.660 Didn't Trump say

00:29:55.540 something like, it

00:29:56.460 might just go away?

00:29:58.700 And then we're

00:29:59.460 watching it, and it

00:30:01.280 hasn't gone away, and

00:30:02.380 indeed there might be a

00:30:03.200 second wave of it

00:30:04.220 doesn't go away.

00:30:05.620 But it's remarkable

00:30:07.400 how close to his

00:30:08.940 prediction this is,

00:30:11.100 that New York

00:30:11.980 went, New York

00:30:12.660 City went from

00:30:13.500 hundreds of deaths

00:30:14.540 down to 42, and I

00:30:16.440 think the day before

00:30:17.140 zero.

00:30:18.180 And that's a pretty

00:30:19.000 big jump.

00:30:20.500 So he's got that

00:30:21.580 going for him, and

00:30:22.820 because the COVID

00:30:24.380 deaths plummeted at

00:30:25.760 exactly the same

00:30:26.720 time that things

00:30:28.020 were reopening, it's

00:30:30.160 going to make Trump

00:30:31.000 look like, wait for

00:30:33.000 it, wait for it,

00:30:35.640 the coincidental

00:30:38.040 timing of the

00:30:39.280 COVID ferocity

00:30:41.540 falling off a

00:30:42.920 cliff at the

00:30:44.280 same time that

00:30:45.720 Trump was pushing

00:30:47.940 to reopen because

00:30:49.080 it was time, is

00:30:50.120 going to make it

00:30:50.680 look like his

00:30:51.620 instincts are

00:30:53.620 freaking amazing.

00:30:55.700 Amazing.

00:30:57.060 In retrospect, he

00:30:58.260 won't get any

00:30:58.820 credit in the short

00:30:59.880 run because people

00:31:00.620 don't do that, but

00:31:01.880 when you look back

00:31:02.700 on this thing,

00:31:03.280 you're going to

00:31:04.640 look at Trump's

00:31:05.400 timing because he

00:31:06.680 was pushing things

00:31:07.780 to open up a

00:31:08.700 little bit earlier,

00:31:09.980 pushing, pushing,

00:31:10.820 pushing.

00:31:11.980 His instinct on

00:31:13.140 that is going to

00:31:13.840 look dead on in

00:31:15.700 retrospect.

00:31:17.060 How about his

00:31:17.900 instinct for closing

00:31:19.040 travel?

00:31:20.780 Dead on.

00:31:22.480 Dead on.

00:31:23.960 Right?

00:31:24.660 He closed travel

00:31:25.740 when the experts

00:31:27.380 were saying don't

00:31:28.120 do it.

00:31:29.220 He did.

00:31:30.700 How about

00:31:31.200 hydroxychloroquine?

00:31:32.360 You know, he was

00:31:35.960 pushing hydroxychloroquine,

00:31:37.440 as you know, and

00:31:38.800 then there were two

00:31:40.220 studies that came out

00:31:41.380 that said, no, no,

00:31:42.240 no, you fool.

00:31:45.180 Hydroxychloroquine

00:31:45.660 will kill these

00:31:46.760 COVID patients.

00:31:48.400 It's so deadly.

00:31:49.340 We did some studies

00:31:50.240 and found out it

00:31:51.460 didn't help a bit,

00:31:52.380 but it sure killed

00:31:53.180 people in some

00:31:54.040 cases.

00:31:55.160 There were two

00:31:55.700 studies.

00:31:57.400 Both of them have

00:31:59.300 been retracted.

00:32:00.420 both studies,

00:32:03.400 which were the

00:32:04.160 basis for mocking

00:32:05.420 Trump for, what,

00:32:07.100 two months?

00:32:08.460 How much has he

00:32:09.120 been mocked for

00:32:09.980 the last two months

00:32:10.800 for this hydroxychloroquine?

00:32:13.020 Viciously.

00:32:14.400 And a lot of that

00:32:15.540 mocking, if not

00:32:17.180 all of it,

00:32:17.900 almost all of it,

00:32:19.300 was based on two

00:32:20.360 studies that were

00:32:22.880 withdrawn for being

00:32:24.080 bogus.

00:32:24.600 In fact, the

00:32:26.420 database that both

00:32:27.680 of them used

00:32:28.400 apparently is just

00:32:29.920 some stuff that

00:32:30.600 some guy made

00:32:31.240 up.

00:32:33.160 There's no

00:32:33.840 credibility in the

00:32:34.640 data whatsoever.

00:32:36.200 So, you can't

00:32:38.160 have a much

00:32:38.920 better week than

00:32:41.060 surprisingly good

00:32:42.480 job numbers.

00:32:43.400 I mean, what

00:32:43.920 makes Trump

00:32:45.020 happier?

00:32:46.460 Seriously.

00:32:47.420 Is there anything

00:32:48.400 that makes Trump

00:32:49.380 happier than good

00:32:50.980 employment numbers?

00:32:52.060 You know, good

00:32:52.560 relatively speaking.

00:32:54.560 So, he got jobs.

00:32:56.180 He timed the

00:32:57.560 back-to-work thing

00:32:58.920 to perfection.

00:33:00.780 To perfection.

00:33:02.300 His instinct on

00:33:03.640 this was

00:33:04.560 freaking awesome.

00:33:06.060 I don't know that

00:33:06.720 he'll ever get

00:33:07.340 credit for that

00:33:08.200 because we just

00:33:09.300 don't do that.

00:33:10.320 We just don't give

00:33:10.980 credit for that

00:33:11.700 sort of thing.

00:33:12.900 He'll just be

00:33:13.440 called anti-science,

00:33:14.540 I think.

00:33:17.100 And then,

00:33:18.880 here's my opinion

00:33:21.880 about the

00:33:22.400 protests.

00:33:23.720 It's easy to

00:33:24.640 imagine that the

00:33:25.400 protests are some

00:33:26.300 sign of racism

00:33:28.640 getting worse or

00:33:29.840 whatever.

00:33:30.540 As I was saying

00:33:31.340 to Hotep

00:33:32.400 Jesus yesterday,

00:33:35.060 I was saying,

00:33:36.320 the pictures I

00:33:37.340 see, there are

00:33:38.320 way more white

00:33:39.060 people marching

00:33:40.980 for racial equality

00:33:42.520 than there are

00:33:43.860 black people.

00:33:45.260 If you tell me

00:33:46.620 that this country

00:33:47.700 is in trouble

00:33:48.420 because there are

00:33:49.720 more white people

00:33:50.780 marching for the

00:33:53.380 end of racism

00:33:54.140 than there are

00:33:54.660 black people,

00:33:55.480 I say there's

00:33:56.420 something wrong

00:33:56.880 with your eyes.

00:33:58.300 Use your eyes.

00:33:59.440 Just look at the

00:33:59.980 crowd.

00:34:01.120 Number one,

00:34:01.860 that's a lot of

00:34:02.780 people marching

00:34:03.860 against racism.

00:34:06.220 That's good.

00:34:07.700 Now, find somebody

00:34:08.900 who's opposed to

00:34:10.400 their message.

00:34:11.860 Nobody.

00:34:12.960 Nobody.

00:34:13.580 There's nobody on

00:34:14.380 the other side.

00:34:15.720 It's one of the

00:34:16.700 biggest protests

00:34:17.500 in this country.

00:34:19.340 Nobody on the

00:34:19.980 other side.

00:34:25.580 I just saw a

00:34:27.660 message that

00:34:28.160 just totally

00:34:28.780 threw me off.

00:34:29.400 Somebody said

00:34:29.740 Bill Mitchell

00:34:30.240 was right.

00:34:31.620 No, Bill

00:34:32.120 Mitchell wasn't

00:34:32.680 right.

00:34:33.660 We don't have

00:34:34.320 time for that,

00:34:35.480 but I can't

00:34:36.400 let that go.

00:34:38.080 I think Bill

00:34:38.740 Mitchell was

00:34:39.200 claiming the

00:34:39.840 virus was not

00:34:41.800 dangerous and it

00:34:42.660 was no more

00:34:43.140 than the flu.

00:34:44.140 He wasn't right

00:34:45.020 about that and

00:34:47.700 nobody knew if

00:34:48.620 it would stop

00:34:49.280 and nobody

00:34:49.660 knows if it

00:34:50.200 has stopped

00:34:50.700 yet.

00:34:51.440 So I'm not

00:34:51.840 going to give

00:34:52.580 you Bill

00:34:52.940 Mitchell was

00:34:53.480 right.

00:34:53.820 But back to

00:34:54.460 Trump's good

00:34:55.620 week.

00:34:56.520 I would say

00:34:57.340 that race

00:34:58.420 relations in

00:34:59.220 this country

00:34:59.780 are at an

00:35:00.960 all-time best

00:35:02.120 this week.

00:35:05.920 That's right.

00:35:07.120 That's a

00:35:07.840 shocking claim,

00:35:08.800 is it not?

00:35:09.280 In my

00:35:10.340 opinion, and

00:35:11.020 I'm quite

00:35:11.880 serious about

00:35:12.800 this and

00:35:13.300 I'm quite

00:35:14.480 confident in

00:35:15.160 it, actually.

00:35:15.780 I don't think

00:35:16.140 there's any

00:35:16.440 question about

00:35:17.000 it.

00:35:17.760 Race relations

00:35:18.600 in the

00:35:19.160 United States

00:35:19.840 have reached

00:35:21.740 an all-time

00:35:22.680 best this

00:35:24.740 week.

00:35:25.920 Today.

00:35:27.140 Today, I'd

00:35:27.700 say.

00:35:30.180 Is somebody

00:35:31.020 accusing me of

00:35:33.040 virtue signaling?

00:35:34.420 Because if

00:35:35.040 that's about me,

00:35:35.760 you're going to

00:35:36.060 get blocked.

00:35:36.600 Because I

00:35:38.780 don't do

00:35:39.100 that.

00:35:40.340 I just

00:35:40.920 don't have

00:35:41.260 any value

00:35:41.720 in it.

00:35:45.640 So we're

00:35:46.280 seeing it all

00:35:46.780 as bad news,

00:35:47.760 but actually

00:35:48.440 it's great

00:35:49.060 news.

00:35:49.540 And of

00:35:49.800 course, we

00:35:50.360 shook the

00:35:50.880 box on this

00:35:51.460 economy to

00:35:52.100 the point

00:35:52.460 where there's

00:35:53.000 no question

00:35:53.560 it's going

00:35:54.320 to come

00:35:54.520 back stronger

00:35:55.280 because there's

00:35:56.260 so much more

00:35:56.880 to work with.

00:35:58.140 We're rethinking

00:35:58.900 everything from

00:35:59.600 scratch.

00:36:00.160 It's going to

00:36:00.420 be amazing.

00:36:01.620 All right.

00:36:02.020 So Trump had

00:36:02.780 one of the

00:36:03.080 best weeks

00:36:03.500 ever.

00:36:03.940 I don't know

00:36:04.340 that the

00:36:06.040 public will

00:36:06.580 notice that.

00:36:07.720 Oh, there's

00:36:08.760 one other

00:36:09.140 little good

00:36:09.620 piece of

00:36:10.140 news for

00:36:10.700 Trump.

00:36:12.000 Did I

00:36:12.220 forget to

00:36:13.080 mention this?

00:36:14.340 Yeah, I

00:36:14.940 forgot to

00:36:15.420 mention it.

00:36:16.340 If you

00:36:16.640 didn't see

00:36:17.020 it, there

00:36:17.300 was a

00:36:17.560 poll of

00:36:19.000 likely

00:36:20.960 black

00:36:21.420 voters.

00:36:23.360 41% of

00:36:25.140 them approve

00:36:25.840 of President

00:36:26.560 Trump's

00:36:27.180 performance.

00:36:31.240 41%

00:36:32.800 of

00:36:34.680 likely black

00:36:36.360 voters,

00:36:36.840 41%

00:36:38.840 approve of

00:36:41.100 the

00:36:41.220 president's

00:36:41.760 performance

00:36:42.320 according to

00:36:43.360 Rasmussen.

00:36:45.120 Now, it's

00:36:46.060 funny, I

00:36:46.600 said this to

00:36:47.740 somebody and

00:36:48.780 their first

00:36:49.440 response, you

00:36:50.120 know what the

00:36:50.420 first response

00:36:51.060 is?

00:36:51.840 Well, it's

00:36:52.440 Rasmussen.

00:36:53.700 Rasmussen,

00:36:54.900 that's not

00:36:56.020 reliable.

00:36:57.260 To which I

00:36:57.800 say, on

00:37:00.000 Trump-related

00:37:00.940 stuff, I'm

00:37:02.200 pretty sure

00:37:02.760 they were

00:37:03.080 the best.

00:37:04.340 I think

00:37:04.760 they smoked

00:37:05.280 everybody,

00:37:05.900 didn't they?

00:37:06.840 Correct me

00:37:07.320 if I'm

00:37:07.580 wrong, but

00:37:08.180 the entire

00:37:09.080 time, Rasmussen

00:37:10.620 was the

00:37:11.120 only poll

00:37:11.780 that had

00:37:12.440 accurate

00:37:13.500 numbers about

00:37:14.280 Trump that

00:37:15.960 said he was

00:37:16.700 in the hunt

00:37:17.160 the whole

00:37:17.480 time.

00:37:18.620 So, I

00:37:20.120 wouldn't

00:37:20.380 discount

00:37:20.780 them.

00:37:22.140 Of course,

00:37:22.940 everything

00:37:23.200 depends on

00:37:23.740 how the

00:37:24.000 question is

00:37:24.500 asked, but

00:37:25.060 what if,

00:37:26.960 let me

00:37:27.520 just put

00:37:28.520 this

00:37:28.780 hypothetical

00:37:30.240 out there?

00:37:31.460 What if,

00:37:33.600 what if,

00:37:36.260 white people

00:37:37.080 are not as

00:37:37.720 racist as

00:37:39.940 we assumed,

00:37:41.160 and what

00:37:41.600 if, this

00:37:43.160 is just an

00:37:43.620 if, you

00:37:44.100 don't have

00:37:44.360 to accept

00:37:44.800 it yet,

00:37:45.400 just a

00:37:45.760 what if,

00:37:46.640 what if

00:37:47.080 white people

00:37:47.820 are not as

00:37:48.540 racist as

00:37:49.360 assumed,

00:37:50.400 and what

00:37:51.680 if black

00:37:52.120 people don't

00:37:52.700 like crime?

00:37:56.180 Maybe they

00:37:56.860 don't like

00:37:57.220 crime.

00:37:57.640 maybe they

00:37:58.920 like good

00:37:59.340 economies.

00:38:01.060 Maybe this

00:38:01.640 41% is

00:38:02.740 exactly what

00:38:03.500 you would

00:38:03.760 think it

00:38:04.060 would be.

00:38:05.020 If I had

00:38:05.680 to guess,

00:38:06.820 where would

00:38:07.780 black approval

00:38:08.840 of the

00:38:09.200 president be?

00:38:10.020 If I'd

00:38:10.440 never seen

00:38:10.880 any poll,

00:38:12.120 I'd never

00:38:12.540 seen anything,

00:38:14.200 I would

00:38:14.540 have guessed

00:38:15.080 somewhere in

00:38:15.740 this range,

00:38:16.660 40 to 60%.

00:38:18.020 That's where I

00:38:18.600 would have

00:38:18.820 guessed.

00:38:19.120 I'm kidding

00:38:24.860 of course

00:38:25.440 because it's

00:38:26.400 obvious that

00:38:27.180 there are

00:38:27.520 plenty of

00:38:28.200 white people

00:38:28.760 who are

00:38:29.140 not racist

00:38:30.500 in any

00:38:31.060 problematic

00:38:31.500 way.

00:38:32.040 I think

00:38:32.260 everybody's

00:38:32.880 biased all

00:38:33.960 the time,

00:38:34.860 but I

00:38:36.180 don't think

00:38:36.520 most people

00:38:37.140 are racist

00:38:37.820 in any

00:38:38.460 actionable,

00:38:39.500 problematic

00:38:39.900 way,

00:38:40.720 no matter

00:38:41.320 their ethnicity.

00:38:42.560 And I

00:38:43.560 also think

00:38:44.200 that generally

00:38:46.080 speaking,

00:38:46.840 every category

00:38:47.860 of people

00:38:48.500 would prefer

00:38:50.200 less crime

00:38:50.980 than more

00:38:51.380 crime.

00:38:53.440 It's just

00:38:54.120 sort of

00:38:54.480 duh.

00:38:55.600 Is there

00:38:56.240 any group

00:38:56.680 of people

00:38:57.120 who wants

00:38:57.560 more crime?

00:38:58.400 No.

00:38:59.480 Of course

00:38:59.800 not.

00:39:02.160 All right.

00:39:04.560 Let's see

00:39:05.200 what else

00:39:05.540 we got going

00:39:06.060 on here.

00:39:07.700 I think

00:39:08.320 we're doing

00:39:08.660 well.

00:39:10.800 I do

00:39:11.480 think that

00:39:11.940 the president

00:39:12.480 has not

00:39:13.360 nailed his

00:39:14.280 messaging

00:39:14.720 with all

00:39:15.960 of this

00:39:16.380 George Floyd

00:39:17.540 stuff.

00:39:18.940 And

00:39:19.020 yesterday

00:39:20.960 was a good

00:39:21.560 example of

00:39:22.140 it.

00:39:23.360 Everybody's

00:39:23.920 getting on

00:39:24.280 the president

00:39:24.760 because he

00:39:25.360 said George

00:39:26.640 Floyd,

00:39:28.340 and again,

00:39:29.200 I'm laughing

00:39:29.740 because of

00:39:30.940 how bad

00:39:31.360 it is.

00:39:32.480 I'm not

00:39:32.860 laughing at

00:39:33.620 any people.

00:39:34.720 I'm laughing

00:39:35.180 just how bad

00:39:35.980 this is.

00:39:37.460 He said

00:39:37.800 George Floyd

00:39:38.340 would be

00:39:38.800 looking down

00:39:39.500 and thinking

00:39:39.880 it was a

00:39:40.280 great day.

00:39:40.880 because

00:39:43.040 employment

00:39:43.640 had improved.

00:39:46.120 The employment

00:39:46.540 numbers were

00:39:47.060 good.

00:39:48.000 And I'm

00:39:48.260 thinking to

00:39:48.560 myself,

00:39:49.700 there's

00:39:50.840 probably a

00:39:51.440 better way

00:39:51.740 to say

00:39:52.080 that.

00:39:52.880 There had

00:39:53.300 to be a

00:39:53.680 better way

00:39:53.980 to say

00:39:54.320 that.

00:39:55.260 But again,

00:39:56.340 I go back

00:39:56.860 to my

00:39:57.140 earlier

00:39:57.460 comments

00:39:58.020 when I

00:39:58.980 was talking

00:39:59.360 to

00:39:59.800 Hotep

00:40:00.700 Jesus

00:40:01.240 that

00:40:02.640 Republicans

00:40:04.560 by philosophy

00:40:05.640 don't do

00:40:06.420 empathy.

00:40:06.860 empathy.

00:40:08.140 So,

00:40:08.440 you know,

00:40:08.920 the

00:40:09.120 Republicans

00:40:09.580 will give

00:40:10.120 you the

00:40:11.180 required

00:40:11.840 minimum

00:40:12.320 amount

00:40:12.800 of

00:40:13.060 empathy.

00:40:13.920 But if

00:40:14.240 they go

00:40:14.540 beyond

00:40:14.860 that,

00:40:15.520 then they've

00:40:15.940 changed

00:40:16.240 their

00:40:16.460 political

00:40:16.860 philosophy

00:40:17.400 and they

00:40:17.820 don't do

00:40:18.140 that.

00:40:18.980 And their

00:40:19.240 political

00:40:19.640 philosophy

00:40:20.140 is I'm

00:40:20.560 not going

00:40:20.820 to give

00:40:21.020 you power

00:40:21.440 because you

00:40:21.980 complained

00:40:22.460 the most.

00:40:23.560 I'm not

00:40:23.940 going to

00:40:24.140 give you

00:40:24.460 power

00:40:24.840 because you

00:40:25.820 were the

00:40:26.460 biggest

00:40:26.800 victim.

00:40:27.620 I'm not

00:40:27.900 going to

00:40:28.060 give you

00:40:28.320 power

00:40:28.680 because you

00:40:29.480 hurt the

00:40:29.960 most.

00:40:30.640 I'm not

00:40:30.980 going to

00:40:31.160 give you

00:40:31.420 power because

00:40:31.940 I feel

00:40:32.360 bad for

00:40:32.960 you.

00:40:33.700 Those are

00:40:34.300 not a

00:40:34.920 workable

00:40:35.380 system.

00:40:36.940 So,

00:40:37.480 again,

00:40:38.840 while it

00:40:39.520 is objectively

00:40:40.260 true that

00:40:40.920 the president's

00:40:41.680 messaging on

00:40:42.740 the whole

00:40:43.200 protests and

00:40:44.460 racial division,

00:40:45.440 etc.,

00:40:46.180 feels to me

00:40:47.140 completely lacking

00:40:48.160 as well.

00:40:49.300 If I'm being

00:40:49.860 honest,

00:40:50.660 I could find

00:40:51.300 a hundred

00:40:51.660 ways that

00:40:52.180 could have

00:40:52.440 been better.

00:40:55.220 But

00:40:55.780 requiring it

00:40:58.120 or expecting

00:40:58.940 it to be

00:40:59.540 better,

00:41:01.460 and I think

00:41:02.160 another Republican

00:41:02.980 could have

00:41:03.400 done a

00:41:03.660 better job,

00:41:04.120 so I'll

00:41:04.620 say that

00:41:04.980 directly.

00:41:05.600 It's not

00:41:05.960 just because

00:41:06.760 he's

00:41:07.040 conservative.

00:41:08.100 It's not

00:41:08.480 just because

00:41:09.200 he's

00:41:09.420 Republican.

00:41:10.240 He just

00:41:10.840 didn't hit a

00:41:11.340 home run

00:41:11.720 on this

00:41:12.200 at bat.

00:41:14.160 I would

00:41:14.520 say at

00:41:15.060 that time

00:41:17.180 at bat,

00:41:17.800 he struck

00:41:18.240 out.

00:41:19.220 Now,

00:41:20.080 I like to

00:41:21.460 be consistent

00:41:22.100 and say

00:41:22.820 I'm

00:41:25.620 forgiving

00:41:26.020 of everybody's

00:41:26.960 mistakes if

00:41:28.400 they're adjusting

00:41:29.080 and tweaking

00:41:30.040 and learning

00:41:31.120 from it,

00:41:31.720 etc.

00:41:32.420 Judging people

00:41:33.360 from mistakes

00:41:34.280 is just

00:41:34.920 a bad

00:41:35.300 way to

00:41:35.600 live.

00:41:36.380 You should

00:41:36.640 judge them

00:41:37.060 by how

00:41:37.360 they deal

00:41:37.800 with their

00:41:38.140 mistakes.

00:41:39.220 So,

00:41:39.920 the president

00:41:40.700 getting lots

00:41:41.780 of pushback

00:41:42.520 for saying

00:41:44.580 that George

00:41:45.680 Floyd would be

00:41:46.300 happy looking

00:41:46.940 down at

00:41:48.080 these good

00:41:48.480 employment

00:41:48.880 numbers,

00:41:50.040 let's see if

00:41:52.040 he can adjust

00:41:52.740 and improve

00:41:53.320 that message.

00:41:54.040 If he does,

00:41:55.240 it's the standard

00:41:56.020 I would apply

00:41:56.600 to him.

00:41:57.580 It would be

00:41:58.120 the same I would

00:41:58.800 apply to anybody

00:41:59.420 else,

00:41:59.840 doesn't matter

00:42:00.280 your political

00:42:00.860 party.

00:42:01.880 I would say

00:42:02.420 if you

00:42:03.740 struck out

00:42:05.100 and then you

00:42:05.600 adjusted

00:42:06.060 and then you

00:42:07.320 got a nice

00:42:07.780 base hit on

00:42:08.520 the next

00:42:08.900 bat,

00:42:09.960 you're all

00:42:10.360 good.

00:42:11.560 You're all

00:42:11.980 good.

00:42:14.500 I see

00:42:15.440 people calling

00:42:17.440 out the

00:42:17.780 hoax part.

00:42:18.940 Yeah,

00:42:19.140 there was a

00:42:19.680 hoax element

00:42:21.280 to this

00:42:21.880 in which

00:42:22.540 the context

00:42:26.780 was left

00:42:27.320 out.

00:42:27.740 I think

00:42:28.020 that's what

00:42:28.480 you're prompting

00:42:29.220 me in the

00:42:29.560 comments.

00:42:30.560 So if you

00:42:31.380 leave out

00:42:31.840 the context,

00:42:33.680 it sounds

00:42:34.120 more bad

00:42:36.500 than it was

00:42:37.080 with the

00:42:37.520 full context.

00:42:38.980 Is everybody

00:42:39.660 with me on

00:42:40.200 that?

00:42:41.020 That the

00:42:41.440 clips that

00:42:42.120 are being

00:42:42.400 shown about

00:42:43.060 his comments

00:42:43.780 when they're

00:42:44.840 shortened,

00:42:45.540 which is the

00:42:46.080 trick the

00:42:47.080 illegitimate

00:42:47.680 fake news

00:42:48.280 uses all the

00:42:48.900 time,

00:42:49.500 if you

00:42:49.880 shorten it,

00:42:50.520 it takes

00:42:50.880 out the

00:42:51.180 context,

00:42:51.800 which would

00:42:52.160 have softened

00:42:52.700 it.

00:42:53.620 And you

00:42:54.100 all agree

00:42:54.500 with that,

00:42:54.820 right?

00:42:55.280 But he

00:42:55.800 did make

00:42:56.660 comments which

00:42:57.980 left him

00:42:58.540 open to this

00:42:59.360 interpretation.

00:43:00.620 And I would

00:43:00.940 call that,

00:43:01.560 for anybody

00:43:02.200 who's been

00:43:02.660 trained in

00:43:03.320 media stuff,

00:43:04.500 that's just

00:43:05.160 an error.

00:43:06.580 So it

00:43:07.600 could be

00:43:07.940 true that

00:43:09.220 they built

00:43:09.620 a hoax on

00:43:10.460 top of his

00:43:11.060 error, but it

00:43:12.020 doesn't take the

00:43:12.580 error away.

00:43:13.580 It was just

00:43:14.040 an error.

00:43:16.100 Somebody says

00:43:16.840 he didn't

00:43:17.200 say it.

00:43:20.040 Okay,

00:43:20.740 well, I

00:43:21.300 heard it.

00:43:22.160 Now, if

00:43:24.380 you're saying

00:43:24.760 he didn't

00:43:25.220 say it in

00:43:26.580 that context,

00:43:27.760 that's true.

00:43:29.540 But he

00:43:30.220 did say that

00:43:31.380 George Floyd

00:43:32.300 would be

00:43:32.780 looking down

00:43:33.380 and be happy

00:43:34.060 about how

00:43:34.920 well things

00:43:36.040 are going.

00:43:36.720 That's not a

00:43:37.440 hoax, right?

00:43:40.000 You're actually

00:43:40.720 saying that he

00:43:41.320 didn't say that.

00:43:42.500 This is kind of

00:43:43.320 interesting.

00:43:44.620 Is it

00:43:44.880 possible?

00:43:45.620 So,

00:43:46.240 wow,

00:43:46.880 a lot of

00:43:48.880 you think

00:43:49.160 that's a

00:43:49.540 hoax.

00:43:50.440 Let's find

00:43:51.060 it.

00:43:51.500 Let's find

00:43:51.920 out.

00:43:52.160 All right?

00:43:53.320 So the

00:43:54.160 claim of

00:43:55.340 the people

00:43:56.460 who are

00:43:56.640 watching this,

00:43:57.360 and it

00:43:57.700 seems quite

00:43:58.160 consistent,

00:43:59.440 is that

00:44:00.060 I've fallen

00:44:02.760 for a

00:44:03.260 hoax and

00:44:04.680 that he

00:44:05.020 did not

00:44:05.520 say that

00:44:08.080 George Floyd

00:44:08.780 was looking

00:44:09.280 down.

00:44:10.040 Let's see if

00:44:10.360 we can find

00:44:10.720 it.

00:44:12.180 Because I

00:44:13.000 don't think

00:44:13.540 you're

00:44:13.820 criticizing me

00:44:14.700 for what

00:44:15.060 you think

00:44:15.480 you are.

00:44:16.100 But let's

00:44:16.320 find out.

00:44:17.860 Looking

00:44:18.260 down

00:44:20.620 and was

00:44:22.100 happy.

00:44:25.740 Let's see

00:44:26.140 how quickly

00:44:26.540 I can find

00:44:27.180 that.

00:44:27.520 I don't

00:44:27.680 want you

00:44:27.880 to wait

00:44:28.440 all day.

00:44:29.600 All right.

00:44:29.940 So here

00:44:30.200 is the

00:44:30.580 Guardian.

00:44:31.360 Trump

00:44:31.600 condemned

00:44:32.020 for saying

00:44:32.540 George Floyd

00:44:33.160 is praising

00:44:33.820 the economy.

00:44:34.920 Of course,

00:44:35.240 he didn't

00:44:35.480 say that.

00:44:38.660 Trump

00:44:39.140 suggests

00:44:39.620 George Floyd

00:44:40.240 is happy

00:44:40.760 about U.S.

00:44:41.360 job

00:44:41.580 members.

00:44:43.820 That

00:44:44.300 doesn't

00:44:45.100 you know.

00:44:45.600 So obviously

00:44:46.080 the headlines

00:44:47.200 are hoaxes.

00:44:47.940 Equal justice

00:44:48.640 under the

00:44:49.320 law must

00:44:51.100 mean that

00:44:52.260 every American

00:44:52.940 receives equal

00:44:53.840 treatment in

00:44:55.300 every encounter

00:44:56.320 with law

00:44:57.420 enforcement

00:44:57.880 regardless of

00:44:58.720 race,

00:44:59.160 color,

00:44:59.600 gender,

00:45:00.060 or creed.

00:45:00.400 They have

00:45:00.700 to receive

00:45:01.220 fair treatment

00:45:02.020 from law

00:45:05.280 enforcement.

00:45:05.860 They have

00:45:06.060 to receive

00:45:06.540 it.

00:45:06.860 Everybody

00:45:07.160 has to

00:45:07.440 do fair.

00:45:07.680 So what

00:45:07.780 happened last

00:45:08.420 week.

00:45:11.020 I can't

00:45:11.440 let that

00:45:11.840 happen.

00:45:12.520 I don't

00:45:13.020 know how

00:45:13.220 long this

00:45:13.620 clip is.

00:45:13.820 George is

00:45:14.480 looking down

00:45:15.020 right now

00:45:15.520 and saying

00:45:15.840 there's a

00:45:16.120 great thing

00:45:16.520 that's

00:45:16.760 happening

00:45:17.060 for our

00:45:17.420 country.

00:45:18.140 There's a

00:45:18.500 great day

00:45:18.860 for him.

00:45:19.280 It's a

00:45:19.500 great day

00:45:19.900 for everybody.

00:45:22.580 This is a

00:45:22.880 great day

00:45:23.200 for everybody.

00:45:23.940 This is a

00:45:24.340 great,

00:45:24.820 great day

00:45:25.340 in terms

00:45:26.940 of equality.

00:45:29.460 It's really

00:45:30.160 what our

00:45:30.740 constitution

00:45:32.000 requires.

00:45:32.740 Oh,

00:45:32.960 you're right.

00:45:33.460 That's what our

00:45:33.680 country is all

00:45:34.400 about.

00:45:35.960 You're

00:45:36.400 totally

00:45:36.760 right.

00:45:37.700 It was a

00:45:38.220 hoax.

00:45:41.100 It was a

00:45:42.040 hoax.

00:45:42.420 you're

00:45:43.520 totally

00:45:43.860 right.

00:45:45.280 I got

00:45:46.020 totally

00:45:46.400 taken by

00:45:47.000 the

00:45:47.320 headlines.

00:45:47.880 I have to

00:45:48.860 admit,

00:45:49.240 I'd never

00:45:49.600 heard the

00:45:52.220 full quote,

00:45:53.580 but I'd

00:45:54.060 seen so

00:45:54.680 many quotes.

00:45:58.800 I'd heard so

00:45:59.660 many quotes

00:46:00.140 that I thought

00:46:00.840 he had said

00:46:01.520 that it was

00:46:02.760 about the

00:46:03.320 good economy,

00:46:04.380 that George

00:46:04.980 Floyd was

00:46:05.480 looking down

00:46:06.020 and he'd be

00:46:06.460 happy.

00:46:06.800 and none

00:46:07.980 of that

00:46:08.240 actually

00:46:08.580 happened.

00:46:11.120 One

00:46:11.600 reporter even

00:46:12.260 retracted.

00:46:13.680 So the

00:46:14.760 comments are

00:46:15.300 a little

00:46:15.540 behind this.

00:46:17.100 So I've

00:46:17.260 played it.

00:46:19.020 So if you're

00:46:19.960 just coming

00:46:20.300 on, I was

00:46:20.800 challenged

00:46:21.360 for saying

00:46:22.360 that the

00:46:22.700 president blew

00:46:23.440 the communications

00:46:24.340 about George

00:46:25.980 Floyd by

00:46:26.820 saying that

00:46:27.440 George Floyd

00:46:28.240 would be

00:46:28.580 happy that

00:46:29.120 the economy

00:46:29.660 was picking

00:46:30.900 up, which

00:46:32.320 is the way

00:46:32.640 it was

00:46:32.880 reported.

00:46:33.820 And that

00:46:34.260 just never

00:46:34.680 happened.

00:46:35.400 It was a

00:46:35.720 complete hoax.

00:46:37.460 That was

00:46:38.160 interesting.

00:46:39.500 All right.

00:46:40.040 So I

00:46:40.380 stand

00:46:40.620 corrected.

00:46:43.000 Can those

00:46:44.340 of you who

00:46:44.880 say, Scott,

00:46:46.280 you never

00:46:46.680 say you're

00:46:47.200 wrong, can

00:46:48.380 you make a

00:46:48.800 mental note?

00:46:50.380 I don't

00:46:50.900 want to hear

00:46:51.880 from anybody

00:46:52.540 on this

00:46:53.160 periscope

00:46:54.300 ever again.

00:46:55.960 You can

00:46:56.520 never say,

00:46:58.020 Scott, you

00:46:58.560 never say

00:46:59.000 when you're

00:46:59.340 wrong.

00:47:00.260 Because I'm

00:47:00.600 saying it

00:47:00.940 right now.

00:47:01.620 I couldn't

00:47:02.020 have been

00:47:02.240 more wrong.

00:47:03.400 All right?

00:47:04.940 Now let me

00:47:05.600 ask you

00:47:05.880 this.

00:47:06.680 Am I

00:47:07.000 embarrassed

00:47:07.620 that I

00:47:08.940 was this

00:47:09.500 wrong in

00:47:10.460 public?

00:47:12.560 Nope.

00:47:14.000 Nope.

00:47:14.920 You really

00:47:15.580 need to

00:47:15.980 build this

00:47:16.780 part of

00:47:18.960 your talent

00:47:19.400 stack.

00:47:20.280 If you

00:47:20.860 can learn

00:47:21.340 to not

00:47:21.940 be embarrassed

00:47:22.780 by being

00:47:23.880 this wrong,

00:47:24.940 I mean,

00:47:25.240 that was

00:47:25.500 as wrong

00:47:25.920 as you

00:47:28.700 could be.

00:47:29.780 And you

00:47:30.000 just watched

00:47:30.920 me do it

00:47:31.400 right in

00:47:31.680 public.

00:47:32.600 And I

00:47:32.980 don't even

00:47:33.260 feel a

00:47:33.640 little bit

00:47:33.980 embarrassed.

00:47:35.560 Because,

00:47:36.500 remember,

00:47:37.140 what is my

00:47:37.620 standard?

00:47:38.240 The standard

00:47:38.720 I told you

00:47:39.260 just minutes

00:47:39.760 ago is

00:47:41.100 mistakes are

00:47:41.960 normal,

00:47:43.360 and therefore

00:47:44.180 I don't

00:47:44.600 judge them.

00:47:45.740 I don't

00:47:46.140 judge your

00:47:46.580 mistake,

00:47:47.500 but I also

00:47:48.180 don't judge

00:47:48.760 my own,

00:47:49.620 which is

00:47:49.980 very important.

00:47:51.000 I don't

00:47:51.540 judge my

00:47:52.280 own mistakes.

00:47:53.700 I do

00:47:54.300 judge how

00:47:55.840 I dealt

00:47:56.240 with them.

00:47:57.320 And this

00:47:57.600 way,

00:47:58.160 in this case,

00:47:59.120 the way I

00:47:59.440 dealt with

00:47:59.800 it is I

00:48:00.860 listened to

00:48:01.400 your

00:48:01.560 criticism.

00:48:02.880 I went

00:48:03.440 back to

00:48:03.860 the original

00:48:04.340 data,

00:48:05.020 I listened

00:48:05.380 to it,

00:48:05.780 found out

00:48:06.180 I was

00:48:06.420 wrong,

00:48:06.760 and then

00:48:06.980 I admitted

00:48:07.420 it clearly.

00:48:09.840 That's how

00:48:10.340 you deal

00:48:10.600 with a

00:48:10.840 mistake.

00:48:12.180 Now,

00:48:13.620 if everybody

00:48:14.200 did that,

00:48:15.460 you'd be

00:48:15.960 happy with

00:48:16.420 everybody.

00:48:17.060 You wouldn't

00:48:17.500 be blaming

00:48:17.960 them for

00:48:18.360 their mistakes.

00:48:19.160 You'd say,

00:48:19.520 well,

00:48:19.660 what'd you

00:48:19.940 do about

00:48:20.300 it?

00:48:21.380 What'd

00:48:21.660 you do

00:48:21.860 about it?

00:48:22.240 By the

00:48:22.480 way,

00:48:22.700 there's

00:48:22.880 nothing better

00:48:25.180 you could

00:48:25.680 train a

00:48:26.360 young person

00:48:26.940 at than

00:48:28.080 young people,

00:48:30.140 teenagers

00:48:30.660 especially.

00:48:31.400 They're

00:48:31.820 going to

00:48:31.920 make every

00:48:32.320 mistake you

00:48:32.880 could possibly

00:48:33.340 make.

00:48:33.860 It's almost

00:48:34.380 their job

00:48:34.900 description to

00:48:35.680 make every

00:48:36.080 mistake and

00:48:36.660 see if they

00:48:37.100 can learn

00:48:37.380 anything.

00:48:38.660 And one

00:48:39.740 of the best

00:48:40.180 messages you

00:48:40.820 can say is,

00:48:41.640 well,

00:48:41.920 I'm not going

00:48:42.620 to dwell on

00:48:43.120 the mistake.

00:48:44.580 What'd you

00:48:45.160 do about it?

00:48:46.740 How do you

00:48:47.760 need to learn

00:48:48.060 something from

00:48:48.460 that?

00:48:49.380 All right,

00:48:50.000 I got a

00:48:50.540 question for

00:48:51.100 you.

00:48:52.660 Is there

00:48:53.240 anybody out

00:48:53.780 there who

00:48:54.300 has a,

00:48:55.160 let's say,

00:48:55.640 a significant

00:48:56.320 following on

00:48:58.240 social media,

00:48:59.300 who is also

00:49:00.200 a conservative,

00:49:01.400 and found

00:49:03.520 that their

00:49:03.940 social media

00:49:04.820 has exploded

00:49:06.320 in the last

00:49:07.000 week?

00:49:08.400 Has anybody

00:49:09.000 who is,

00:49:10.520 let's say,

00:49:10.980 a Trump

00:49:11.360 supporter

00:49:11.920 noticed that

00:49:13.460 your social

00:49:14.000 media traffic

00:49:14.940 just exploded

00:49:16.580 in the last

00:49:17.480 five days or

00:49:18.840 so?

00:49:19.000 the reason I'm

00:49:21.020 asking you is

00:49:21.720 because that's

00:49:22.200 what happened

00:49:22.580 to mine.

00:49:23.840 So the

00:49:24.300 number of

00:49:24.880 people who

00:49:26.500 were signing

00:49:27.000 up on

00:49:27.820 Twitter

00:49:28.180 suddenly just

00:49:30.640 went through

00:49:31.060 the roof.

00:49:33.500 So I'm just

00:49:34.160 looking at my

00:49:34.700 numbers here.

00:49:35.820 All right,

00:49:36.000 so I use an

00:49:37.580 app called

00:49:38.040 Social Blade

00:49:38.880 that tells you

00:49:39.960 how many people

00:49:40.620 are following

00:49:42.680 you each day,

00:49:44.380 how many are

00:49:44.720 signing up each

00:49:45.460 day.

00:49:45.680 So you can

00:49:46.600 tell if you're

00:49:47.040 picking up

00:49:47.440 people based

00:49:48.000 on what you

00:49:48.420 did that day.

00:49:49.220 So my

00:49:49.800 normal number

00:49:50.460 of people

00:49:50.920 that I would

00:49:51.460 get,

00:49:52.220 I'm just

00:49:52.640 looking through

00:49:53.080 the history,

00:49:54.280 it's like,

00:49:54.800 you know,

00:49:55.160 200,

00:49:55.820 500,

00:49:56.900 200,

00:49:57.600 500,

00:49:58.040 500,

00:49:58.220 and then

00:49:59.020 suddenly,

00:50:00.460 the last day

00:50:01.700 of May,

00:50:02.900 it was

00:50:03.340 760,

00:50:04.560 then 1,400,

00:50:05.840 3,400,

00:50:06.820 1,800,

00:50:07.640 1,400,

00:50:08.560 800 yesterday.

00:50:09.780 So suddenly it

00:50:10.540 just went

00:50:10.820 through the roof.

00:50:12.340 And at the

00:50:12.720 same time,

00:50:13.620 my tweets

00:50:14.440 are performing

00:50:15.800 just way

00:50:17.160 better than

00:50:17.620 usual.

00:50:18.640 Just ordinary

00:50:19.400 tweets that

00:50:20.220 wouldn't normally

00:50:21.000 go viral

00:50:22.260 or you're

00:50:23.540 getting 1,500.

00:50:26.320 So I wanted

00:50:27.620 to see if it,

00:50:29.320 so I'm looking

00:50:29.840 at your answers

00:50:30.400 now because

00:50:30.820 they're just

00:50:31.140 catching up.

00:50:32.580 I'm seeing a

00:50:33.320 yes and a no

00:50:34.100 and a me.

00:50:34.920 Somebody said

00:50:35.380 they've heard

00:50:35.780 this.

00:50:37.740 Wow,

00:50:38.300 I'm seeing

00:50:38.620 yeses.

00:50:40.060 Okay.

00:50:41.420 Somebody's

00:50:41.880 asking if

00:50:42.440 it's bots.

00:50:43.220 I don't

00:50:43.460 know.

00:50:46.380 Somebody says

00:50:47.160 they're banned.

00:50:48.580 Somebody says

00:50:49.320 bigger,

00:50:49.980 no.

00:50:52.860 I know

00:50:53.540 some are

00:50:53.940 deplatformed.

00:50:57.320 You're good,

00:50:58.240 that's why,

00:50:58.740 but I haven't

00:50:59.120 been extra

00:50:59.880 good this week

00:51:00.680 or something.

00:51:01.260 There's not

00:51:01.840 something I

00:51:02.360 did this week.

00:51:03.740 Now,

00:51:04.020 the president

00:51:04.480 did retweet

00:51:05.560 me again

00:51:06.140 right about

00:51:07.440 the beginning

00:51:08.040 of this

00:51:08.580 traffic,

00:51:09.320 but I don't

00:51:09.960 think that

00:51:10.360 retweet

00:51:10.920 in the

00:51:13.540 past.

00:51:14.160 So the

00:51:14.440 president

00:51:14.760 has retweeted

00:51:15.580 me in

00:51:15.840 the past

00:51:16.340 and it

00:51:17.780 didn't make

00:51:18.120 that much

00:51:18.520 difference

00:51:18.860 in my

00:51:19.180 social media.

00:51:19.980 You'd think

00:51:20.320 it would,

00:51:20.740 but it

00:51:21.000 really doesn't.

00:51:26.060 Drew

00:51:26.480 Brees.

00:51:27.360 You know,

00:51:27.940 I'm not

00:51:28.240 going to

00:51:28.420 talk about

00:51:28.820 Drew

00:51:29.060 Brees

00:51:29.380 because

00:51:30.140 it's

00:51:31.060 such a

00:51:31.460 small,

00:51:33.100 I don't

00:51:33.800 know,

00:51:34.040 it's just

00:51:34.380 an athlete

00:51:34.940 who said

00:51:35.460 something,

00:51:36.220 they made

00:51:36.560 him apologize,

00:51:37.660 he apologized,

00:51:38.220 I don't

00:51:40.080 know,

00:51:40.720 it's just

00:51:41.080 not a

00:51:41.400 story I

00:51:41.800 care about.

00:51:45.620 Somebody

00:51:46.100 says they

00:51:46.720 were accused

00:51:47.200 of being

00:51:47.580 me.

00:51:49.800 Yeah,

00:51:50.320 I know

00:51:50.540 retweets

00:51:51.060 make it

00:51:51.480 grow,

00:51:52.500 so it

00:51:53.280 could be

00:51:53.700 just I

00:51:54.080 was tweeting

00:51:54.620 well this

00:51:55.160 week because

00:51:56.680 I speak

00:51:57.180 truth.

00:51:59.740 So,

00:52:00.340 okay,

00:52:01.480 so it

00:52:01.760 looks like

00:52:02.280 a lot of

00:52:03.880 no's and

00:52:04.680 some yes's,

00:52:05.400 which would

00:52:05.840 suggest that

00:52:06.520 there's

00:52:06.740 nothing

00:52:07.000 that's

00:52:07.300 some

00:52:07.480 obvious

00:52:07.880 trend.

00:52:08.960 Anyway,

00:52:09.340 I was

00:52:09.520 just

00:52:09.680 wondering

00:52:09.900 about

00:52:10.160 that.

00:52:11.340 Yeah,

00:52:11.580 Trump

00:52:11.880 retweeted

00:52:13.680 me when

00:52:14.280 I had a

00:52:14.820 tweet that

00:52:15.280 said that

00:52:15.820 some of

00:52:16.700 the protesters

00:52:17.260 were fine

00:52:17.960 people or

00:52:20.400 something to

00:52:20.940 that effect.

00:52:22.560 Somebody

00:52:23.040 says I'm

00:52:23.540 very popular

00:52:24.260 in Russia.

00:52:25.640 Is that

00:52:25.920 true?

00:52:26.620 Are you

00:52:27.580 in Russia

00:52:28.120 and you

00:52:28.420 know that?

00:52:29.920 Because I

00:52:30.440 do actually

00:52:30.860 have a

00:52:31.360 number of

00:52:31.720 Russian

00:52:32.000 followers,

00:52:32.720 I'm aware

00:52:33.040 of that.

00:52:33.400 All right.

00:52:40.720 Somebody

00:52:41.160 says more

00:52:41.760 conservative

00:52:42.320 stuff is

00:52:42.960 showing up

00:52:43.420 on Twitter.

00:52:44.200 Well,

00:52:44.520 I guess I'm

00:52:44.960 asking if

00:52:45.900 there was

00:52:46.180 some change

00:52:46.820 that anybody

00:52:47.320 noticed and

00:52:48.240 I'm not sure

00:52:48.940 we can say

00:52:49.560 that based

00:52:50.120 on these

00:52:50.620 replies.

00:52:51.600 All right,

00:52:51.780 that's all I

00:52:52.140 got for

00:52:52.380 today and

00:52:53.300 I will see

00:52:53.840 you later.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 06, 2020

Episode 1019 Scott Adams： Empathy as a System, The Thing That Could Have Ended Protests, Trump's Best Week Ever

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