Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1031 Scott Adams： News. Lots of it.

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00:00:07.980 It's a little overlit today because I'm going to be reading off of my gigantic computer screen,

00:00:15.280 which creates more light than the sun. True. More light than the sun.

00:00:21.840 But before we get going with all the news, have you noticed how much news there is?

00:00:26.400 Oh, there's a lot of news. And it's all interesting today.

00:00:31.080 So let's talk about it. But first, let's prepare properly.

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00:01:05.800 I'm so tired. I can barely remember my name. So this will be interesting.

00:01:16.840 So I just published a tweet thread on my one week challenge for people to give me examples of systemic racism.

00:01:30.100 Because like most of you, I just didn't know what it was.

00:01:34.860 Did any of you think you knew what it was?

00:01:38.880 So let me tell you what I found out.

00:01:41.160 And I will look at my own thread here to remind myself of all that goodness.

00:01:48.240 So what I found out is everybody has different opinions of what it is.

00:01:52.880 Now, there might be some people who have the same opinions, but there are lots of different ones.

00:01:59.480 So if you ask two people, hey, describe to me, what is systemic racism?

00:02:05.140 You're going to get very different answers.

00:02:08.680 And let me give you some of them.

00:02:11.320 And then you can see if you agree with these.

00:02:13.880 All right, I'll find it.

00:02:20.900 I'm so tired.

00:02:22.160 I can't even find my own tweets.

00:02:24.520 All right.

00:02:26.160 So here are some examples I got.

00:02:29.920 I got lots of examples that would apply to anybody poor.

00:02:35.180 So let me ask you if you would call this systemic racism.

00:02:38.580 So if there's somebody who lives in a poor neighborhood, because historically there are conditions that caused it to be a poor neighborhood,

00:02:49.540 they have probably a school system that has less funding because of a smaller tax base, and therefore a worse education.

00:02:59.720 And that bad education will basically ripple into the future forever.

00:03:04.040 So that would be one given example of systemic racism, to which I say, wait a minute.

00:03:11.900 I was born in a town with a low tax base.

00:03:15.480 I went to a bad school relative to, you know, better funded schools.

00:03:23.280 So how can you have systemic racism if it applies, at least in this specific example of underfunded school?

00:03:32.260 It would be the same.

00:03:34.560 The white kids who happen to go to that underfunded school, are they doing better? 0.53

00:03:40.520 Right?

00:03:41.040 How does that example work?

00:03:42.820 All right, give you some more.

00:03:44.280 So I reject that because it would apply to anybody who is poor, and there are lots of people who are poor of all types.

00:03:50.960 I got lots of answers that were outcome-based, meaning that if the outcomes for any group were different, that's your systemic racism.

00:04:02.960 To which I say, is it?

00:04:06.400 Is it?

00:04:07.800 Do we have enough science to know that that's the one reason for the different outcomes?

00:04:12.200 I don't think we have that kind of science.

00:04:14.240 Now, I'm not saying that, you know, that I know what's going on, because I don't.

00:04:20.900 But I would say that different outcomes is not even close to getting you a reason why you have the different outcomes.

00:04:30.600 There's a lot of work you'd have to do to get to the why.

00:04:35.040 Some people told me that a non-racist system, let's say a system that doesn't have any rules that are different by race, let's say the legal system.

00:04:47.820 So on paper, the legal system is colorblind, but only on paper.

00:04:54.360 In reality, it produces disparate outcomes.

00:04:58.300 And I think most people would agree that that is true.

00:05:01.040 But is that proof of systemic racism if you don't know why you have different outcomes?

00:05:10.340 And has the why been looked into?

00:05:15.320 I don't think so.

00:05:17.480 Before I blocked Tim Poole, I had to block him because he did some bad mind reading in public.

00:05:26.020 So I have a rule that I block anybody who attributes an opinion to me and then criticizes the opinion that they hallucinated as if it was my opinion.

00:05:37.120 And I'm not even involved in this at all.

00:05:39.100 It's like, okay, that wasn't my opinion.

00:05:41.480 And I can't really speak to the criticism of your hallucination of it.

00:05:45.180 So whenever I encounter such individuals, I block them because it's just been my experience that interacting with them just causes more of that.

00:05:55.980 Like anybody who does that once, they're not going to stop doing that.

00:06:01.580 All right.

00:06:02.160 They will just come up with a new hallucination for what you're thinking.

00:06:05.400 If you disprove that one, they'll come up with another hallucination of what you're thinking.

00:06:09.520 Now, I'm not saying that that would apply to Tim Poole specifically.

00:06:13.540 I'm saying that as a pattern I've noticed in life, my experience of life is better if I just immediately get rid of people who are like that.

00:06:24.400 I'm seeing in the comments, free Tim Poole.

00:06:27.760 But let me say clearly, it's nothing personal.

00:06:31.260 There's nothing personal about this.

00:06:33.140 I think I saw a tweet from Tim that thought, I don't know, he just mind, his reaction to being blocked was to do more of what got him blocked, which is to imagine he knows what I'm thinking or why I do anything, and then saying it in public.

00:06:53.240 By the way, somebody says, somebody's bringing Cernovich into it.

00:06:59.300 Here's something that Mike Cernovich has never done.

00:07:03.140 He has never assigned a motive or a thought to me in public and then criticized it in public.

00:07:12.280 And I don't think he ever will because it's a fucked up thing to do.

00:07:16.600 It's completely fucked up.

00:07:19.220 Never assign somebody a motive that they have not said themselves and then criticize them for it.

00:07:27.820 You can ask them if they're thinking that.

00:07:30.260 You can ask them to clarify their opinion.

00:07:33.580 Perfectly fine.

00:07:35.440 But just coming up with an opinion about what I'm thinking and then saying it in public and it's wrong.

00:07:41.860 Well, it's not even close.

00:07:43.220 And then criticizing it, that creates a permanent record that would confuse people about my opinion.

00:07:50.640 I don't want a confusing permanent record.

00:07:53.340 So I just delete people who do that.

00:07:54.920 And there are certain people who will do it over and over again.

00:08:01.420 That's all I'm saying.

00:08:03.640 All right.

00:08:03.940 Back to this topic of systemic racism.

00:08:09.780 So Tim Poole's example is that let's say there's something small that happens that snowballs.

00:08:15.820 Let's say you get a speeding ticket and you can't afford to pay it.

00:08:18.740 Then the next time you get stopped, maybe the cop says you didn't pay your tickets.

00:08:24.440 Maybe your license gets taken, but you still have to go to work.

00:08:28.620 Next thing you know, you're in jail.

00:08:30.920 You know, it just builds and builds from that little infraction that you just can't recover from.

00:08:37.400 Maybe you got put in jail for something minor, but now you've got a jail record.

00:08:42.380 So it just accumulates.

00:08:43.700 But I rejected that.

00:08:48.980 Tim got mad because he didn't see my post in which I responded to him.

00:08:54.260 So he thought I didn't respond and they got extra mad for me not responding.

00:08:58.560 But of course I had responded.

00:08:59.940 He just didn't see it.

00:09:01.460 And what I responded was that that example, as far as I can tell, would apply to everybody who is poor.

00:09:09.080 How does a poor white person pay a speeding ticket?

00:09:14.620 Do poor white people just suddenly get money if they need to pay a speeding ticket?

00:09:20.060 I think this just applies to poor people.

00:09:22.940 Now, there may be a version of this that doesn't apply to everybody equally, but I didn't hear it.

00:09:30.620 Now, I did say that I'm convinced.

00:09:32.840 I think all the data suggests this or says it pretty clearly.

00:09:37.180 That authority figures, be they teachers, cops or judges, whatever.

00:09:41.300 I think they do treat young African-American males, in particular, differently on average, wouldn't you say?

00:09:49.560 That's probably true.

00:09:51.340 I mean, but we don't know why, right?

00:09:54.360 Is that the one reason?

00:09:57.200 Because I think it's true.

00:09:59.340 But you only have one reason?

00:10:01.340 That authority figures are treating African-American young males differently?

00:10:06.580 Let me see if those of you who watch me know that I'm on a sort of a non-stop path to try to get myself canceled.

00:10:18.180 Now, I don't want to be canceled.

00:10:19.820 But as I've said before, you have to walk right up to the line of cancellation to be honest enough to say anything useful.

00:10:29.100 So if you're not right on the edge of getting canceled, you're also, you're just not useful.

00:10:35.360 You're just not part of the conversation.

00:10:37.200 You're just way over there lying about stuff so that nobody will be mad at you.

00:10:40.960 So if you can't walk up to that line, maybe just don't be part of the conversation because you can't possibly help if you're too afraid of saying the wrong thing.

00:10:51.820 So let me say something that I think is so inappropriate that I'll get canceled.

00:10:57.880 See what you think.

00:11:00.060 So you and I and most people have been watching lots of coverage of the protests.

00:11:05.540 OK, so when I watch the protests and I'm watching people get into physical alteration, altercations, I'm saying to myself, OK, what if I were in that position?

00:11:18.320 Don't you do that automatically?

00:11:20.280 OK, you see you see the TV scuffle and you put yourself in the position of somebody.

00:11:25.760 You're either the cop or you're the you're the protester or maybe you go back and forth.

00:11:29.980 But it's just sort of normal.

00:11:32.220 You read yourself into the story exactly the way when the George Floyd video came out.

00:11:38.480 What was so powerful about that is that no matter who you were, you know, no matter your ethnicity, your age, anything, you put yourself into George Floyd's world there just for nine minutes.

00:11:52.080 You know, I at least for me, it was just automatic.

00:11:54.640 I wasn't the cop.

00:11:56.620 I was George Floyd when I watched the video.

00:11:58.880 And I think that's why every white person who watches said, oh, OK, now I get it.

00:12:05.100 Like before I knew what you were saying and intellectually I understood it.

00:12:09.840 But now I get it like in a full body way.

00:12:13.060 Like now I feel like artificially I inhabited his life, at least in my imagination, during those last moments of life.

00:12:21.720 It was horrible.

00:12:22.800 Now, you know, I'm emotionally sort of compatible with what you're saying.

00:12:28.880 So there are a lot of things we saw that, you know, make us just automatically read ourselves into the situation.

00:12:36.680 That's a long way of saying this.

00:12:38.560 If you looked at the two primary groups that were in the protest among the protesters themselves, you had the Black Lives Matter people and you had a lot of Antifa looking people, right?

00:12:53.140 When I watched any of the Antifa looking people getting into some kind of a scuffle, here's what I said to myself.

00:13:02.420 I could take that guy.

00:13:03.680 Did any of you have that feeling?

00:13:09.000 Maybe it's just a male feeling.

00:13:10.540 I don't know how many women would think in that way. 0.98

00:13:13.820 But if you're a man and you see any two people fighting, you automatically put yourself in the fight.

00:13:20.460 The same way you see a video of, you know, a tragedy.

00:13:23.280 You just put yourself there.

00:13:24.140 And I put myself in the fight and I say to myself, I could take that Antifa guy, you know, if I had to.

00:13:32.840 Not every one.

00:13:34.160 Some of them are pretty big.

00:13:36.120 You know, I couldn't if an Antifa guy is six feet tall and, you know, he's pretty beefy.

00:13:41.660 But none of them looked, let's say, like they play sports.

00:13:45.820 I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I didn't do a survey, right?

00:13:52.920 I don't have data.

00:13:54.780 This is purely subjective and biased.

00:14:00.560 Completely subjective and biased.

00:14:02.800 But since what we're talking about is how we're persuaded by things, I'm not telling you what's true.

00:14:08.160 I'm just telling you how I felt.

00:14:10.360 This is just my impression.

00:14:11.540 So I'm watching the Antifa guys, miles and miles of video footage, scuffle, scuffle, blah, blah.

00:14:18.800 And every time I look at them, I'm thinking, yeah, I might be able to take that guy.

00:14:23.600 I mean, I'm 63 years old, five feet eight.

00:14:27.060 I weigh 158 pounds.

00:14:29.500 And still, you know, just because I have muscle definition and, you know, if you put me in a situation, I can handle myself.

00:14:38.940 I thought to myself, I could take most of those guys, even me.

00:14:46.300 Now, I also saw many, many miles of footage of black men, young black men who were in scuffles or some not in scuffles.

00:14:57.100 You know, some of them were just protesting.

00:14:59.100 And do you know what I said when I watched any of the black people in any kind of an altercation? 0.68

00:15:06.080 I'll tell you what I said.

00:15:07.840 That guy would kick my fucking ass.

00:15:11.360 I would not want to get in a fight with that fucking guy.

00:15:14.780 He looks like he could tear me a fucking part.

00:15:17.540 Now, am I being racist?

00:15:22.720 I don't know.

00:15:23.660 You watch the same video as me.

00:15:25.660 Do you think that the black people looked as soft and weak as the white people? 1.00

00:15:30.180 I don't.

00:15:31.700 I mean, to me, it looked like a pretty big difference.

00:15:34.860 There was a physicality difference that was hard not to notice.

00:15:39.160 Now, am I being racist to say that it was my impression that the black people in those protests were far more fit?

00:15:49.880 Is that racist?

00:15:51.520 You watched it.

00:15:52.660 What did you see?

00:15:54.360 If there's anybody, and I hope there is, are there any black people on this Periscope who will just back me up on this? 0.99

00:16:02.880 Did it not look to you like most of the black people were far more fit and capable, physically capable,

00:16:12.620 than most of the white people who looked like they'd been playing video games in the basement for the last seven years?

00:16:18.680 Now, if you're a cop, and you pull over some weedy-looking Antifa white guy who weighs 140 pounds, 0.83

00:16:28.420 and you know he's never thrown a punch,

00:16:30.520 how do you treat him?

00:16:34.180 Are you worried?

00:16:36.400 Probably not.

00:16:37.360 You're not really worried.

00:16:38.840 Not in the same way.

00:16:40.380 Now, let's say you pull over a guy who's your size. 0.56

00:16:45.060 He's your size or he's bigger.

00:16:47.960 And he looks like he knows his way around.

00:16:52.940 You know what I mean?

00:16:53.860 He's a guy who looks like he could take care of himself in a fight.

00:16:57.240 You don't know if he's a fighter.

00:16:58.920 You just look at him.

00:17:00.680 You're saying, I don't know.

00:17:02.140 He looks like he could take care of himself in a fight.

00:17:04.520 Do you treat him exactly the same as this skinny little punk white kid who you know couldn't throw a punch, 0.52

00:17:11.520 and if he did, it wouldn't hurt you anyway?

00:17:13.860 I don't think so.

00:17:14.960 I don't think so.

00:17:17.840 Now, who studied that difference?

00:17:21.060 That's just one of maybe 15 differences that you would find if you started digging down into the why of things.

00:17:27.140 The thing we continually ignore is that, and I teach you this consistently, it's one of the most important rules of persuasion.

00:17:36.360 And I'll say it again.

00:17:37.720 The way you act when you and I are together, the way you act is up to me.

00:17:43.880 As soon as you think it's the other way around, the whole world is confusing, and nothing will make sense to you.

00:17:51.140 Now, of course, you have agency, and you can also make your own decisions.

00:17:56.080 And the biggest part of what you do is going to be yourself.

00:17:59.640 But until you understand how much I can change your actions, you're just lost.

00:18:06.720 You're just lost.

00:18:07.700 Let me go a little bit closer to the line of getting canceled.

00:18:13.740 Is there anybody who believes, anybody black, anybody white, anybody Asian American,

00:18:21.420 is there anybody in any group who believes this isn't true,

00:18:26.200 that different groups respond differently to the police?

00:18:29.840 Does anybody doubt that?

00:18:32.340 That different groups probably respond differently to authority figures in general.

00:18:37.700 Does anybody believe that every group responds the same on average?

00:18:44.540 Again, it's an average.

00:18:45.820 Every individual is going to be different, right?

00:18:48.660 There's no general statement that applies to every person.

00:18:53.000 Can we agree on that?

00:18:54.340 We're at least beyond that, right?

00:18:56.300 We know that averages don't mean anything for any one person.

00:18:59.480 That's the whole point of racism.

00:19:01.320 That we are confused about the average applying to the individual.

00:19:04.760 But do you think that the average Asian American who gets stopped by police reacts exactly the same

00:19:14.720 as the average white American?

00:19:17.260 White American? 0.71

00:19:18.040 Yeah.

00:19:18.780 Is that even a word?

00:19:19.900 Or the average African American?

00:19:21.620 Well, how many differences do you see?

00:19:26.560 Number one is the average physical size of the average African American who's stopped by the police.

00:19:33.320 If you were just to say, all right, let's just weigh them.

00:19:38.040 Let's just take their height and their weight. 0.59

00:19:41.500 Would it be the same?

00:19:42.500 If you're a cop, do you treat somebody the same if they're small?

00:19:49.660 Do you treat women the same as men?

00:19:53.120 You should, right?

00:19:54.140 Shouldn't you treat women the same as men? 0.83

00:19:55.980 I mean, except for, you know, searching them.

00:19:58.840 You want to have a woman to do the search and stuff. 0.99

00:20:00.740 So the special cases, yes, of course, there would be differences.

00:20:03.920 But just in terms of your demeanor, how much force you use,

00:20:07.840 do you think you use the same on, do the police use the same force on women as they do on men?

00:20:14.400 I doubt it.

00:20:16.280 I doubt it.

00:20:17.780 Do you think that the average Asian American scares a police officer the same way that the average African American,

00:20:28.840 that they don't know anything about?

00:20:31.500 Do you think the police are being, you know, having the same reaction?

00:20:36.940 Probably not.

00:20:38.240 Now, is that racism?

00:20:40.360 Kind of.

00:20:42.220 Kind of.

00:20:43.320 It's kind of racism, isn't it?

00:20:45.680 But on the other hand, is it the bad kind?

00:20:49.280 If the thing you're reacting to is the physical size and the extent of the threat to you personally,

00:20:57.760 is that racism?

00:20:59.360 Because I'm not talking about an average.

00:21:01.200 I'm talking about there's two specific people.

00:21:03.980 One is smallish.

00:21:05.560 One is large.

00:21:07.700 I don't know.

00:21:08.320 It feels like it'd be different.

00:21:10.480 Let me ask you this.

00:21:12.320 If you believed that, if your history, your personal history, the thing that defines you,

00:21:19.520 was a legacy of slavery,

00:21:21.320 and that was like just a big part of your mental, you know, your mental map, was that slavery was your origin story,

00:21:32.880 how would you naturally react to authority if that was a defining part of your personality?

00:21:40.940 Would you react the same as I would when my defining story was the founders of the United States?

00:21:51.280 Think about it.

00:21:52.520 Think about it.

00:21:53.340 My origin story, if you will, you know, the thing that you're brainwashed with as a kid,

00:21:59.000 is that the people that I should relate to would be George Washington, you know, Thomas Jefferson.

00:22:07.380 Oh, forget about the slavery part for a minute.

00:22:09.920 You know, we're just looking at their good parts because that's how I was brainwashed as a kid.

00:22:14.100 I was brainwashed to literally ignore their bad parts and say,

00:22:19.060 look at these white people who were leaders and inventors and revolutionaries in a good way,

00:22:25.620 and they did all these wonderful things.

00:22:27.500 Oh, let's ignore the fact they were raping their slaves. 1.00

00:22:30.420 We won't talk about that.

00:22:32.160 Now, my origin story is about authority, that I am part of authority.

00:22:38.940 I'm part of the ruling class, if you will, just by virtue of being a white guy.

00:22:46.620 I wasn't born into a ruling class, but it is my origin story.

00:22:51.040 All right, now I encounter an authority figure.

00:22:54.100 What would be the natural way that I would respond to an authority figure

00:22:59.960 if I had been trained from birth that I am one, right?

00:23:06.480 If you're dealing with somebody who's just you at a different age, you're perfectly polite.

00:23:15.160 If I talked to a CEO or a teacher when I was a kid or a police officer or something,

00:23:22.960 I saw them as part of the structure that's me.

00:23:26.620 You know, stuff, leadership, you know, people in control, authority figures.

00:23:30.820 Well, that's either what I'm already, if I'm older, or when I was a kid,

00:23:35.820 I just assumed I would be an authority figure someday.

00:23:38.400 I always thought I would be an authority figure.

00:23:41.200 So my feeling about authority was somewhat positive.

00:23:47.100 Suppose your origin story was that the authority figures were raping and killing you for generations.

00:23:51.980 Do you act the same?

00:23:55.820 It'd be hard.

00:23:56.980 If you're a human being with normal brain, it'd be pretty hard to start with that,

00:24:04.120 you know, to start that far in the well and find your own way out without a lot of help, right?

00:24:10.360 Most of us don't have a lot of help.

00:24:13.080 So here's my point.

00:24:14.260 To imagine that everybody who has such a different origin story, such different cultural influences,

00:24:23.560 to imagine that everybody as a group responds in ways that are similar enough

00:24:29.060 that the only thing you need to know is what the cops did.

00:24:33.000 The only data you need to know is what the teacher did.

00:24:37.440 The only data you need to know is what the authority figure did.

00:24:40.540 I would say that's naive to the point of intentional stupidity.

00:24:48.660 Because you're going to need to know a lot more things to know what happened in any situation.

00:24:54.660 You're going to need to know the sizes, ages.

00:24:58.080 You're going to need to know expectations, what their history, just a million things.

00:25:03.620 Their income, I could go on.

00:25:06.340 All right, let's see what else is in the news today.

00:25:07.960 Oh, the fun stuff is the John Bolton book.

00:25:12.620 So one of the great stories in the John Bolton book, which looks like just made-up stuff to me.

00:25:21.300 Now, we've seen a number of these tell-all books, and they all have that same quality.

00:25:25.660 The worst thing in the book doesn't have other witnesses.

00:25:31.480 Have you noticed that?

00:25:32.800 All these tell-all books have the same quality.

00:25:34.940 There are a few little bombshell things in there.

00:25:38.280 They're like, oh, man, you can't believe this happened.

00:25:42.680 And what's the next thing you find out about it?

00:25:46.500 No witnesses, except for the person who wrote the book.

00:25:50.240 And if there were other people in the room, they don't remember it happening.

00:25:55.460 They didn't see it.

00:25:57.600 Huh, what a coincidence.

00:25:59.780 So the John Bolton one, which is hilarious, is he says that the president said to President Xi of China that Trump allegedly told him Xi that building concentration camps for Uyghurs was fine, and he should do more of it. 0.99

00:26:19.300 Now, do you think there's any chance that that happened?

00:26:24.660 No.

00:26:25.560 There's no chance that that happened.

00:26:28.400 And then, you know, as soon as I read that, I'm like, okay, start the timer.

00:26:33.900 Timer's running at one, two.

00:26:35.960 There it is.

00:26:37.380 There's the guy who was in the room.

00:26:39.080 I think it was Lighthouser or something who said, I was in the room.

00:26:41.980 I don't remember anything like that.

00:26:45.440 Now, I think you'd remember something like that.

00:26:49.040 And, of course, the story had translators involved, so there's a pretty obvious place where things could have gone wrong if there were translators involved.

00:26:58.560 All right.

00:27:00.000 Now, the other thing you don't know is what Trump's inner strategy was.

00:27:06.840 So you don't know, anytime you see a story of Trump dealing with Putin, Trump dealing with President Xi, Trump dealing with Kim Jong-un, the stories, the criticism stories will typically be of the form, Trump gave them too much.

00:27:24.960 Right?

00:27:25.620 You've seen it for Kim, Putin, and now President Xi.

00:27:29.480 The President Trump, oh, he's such a great negotiator, is he?

00:27:33.180 He gave them too much.

00:27:34.520 And it'll be a specific point of something he gave them.

00:27:40.480 In North Korea, the point was that he let Kim do some short-range rocket testing that technically, you know, that he said was okay and it probably wasn't.

00:27:51.880 With Xi, I guess it was something about the tariffs being reduced if Xi would buy more products, which he never did, more foreign products, which he didn't do.

00:28:02.160 And then, of course, you all know the Putin stories.

00:28:05.200 Now, all of these stories are the out-of-context type.

00:28:09.820 If you're looking at a negotiation, which is, first of all, a long-term affair, if you're talking country to country, and has lots of elements, some of those elements may not have anything to do with the thing you're talking about.

00:28:23.460 So, in other words, you could be talking about a trade deal, but what you really want is a nuclear missile deal.

00:28:31.360 And everything's sort of connected, right?

00:28:33.260 So, maybe you can give something away on a trade deal, but you get something back in some other way, et cetera.

00:28:41.180 So, all of these are out-of-context stories.

00:28:43.040 The other thing you don't know is if Trump gave up something with the hope that that would soften them up, maybe set the stage, so that later when you ask for something, you could say,

00:28:56.160 look, we gave you this, show of goodwill, you got it, now we're asking you for this, like a similar show of goodwill.

00:29:05.080 Well, because reciprocity, if I've taught you nothing, is very powerful.

00:29:12.860 Now, does reciprocity work in international deals?

00:29:19.280 Well, I think that's a real question, because if you're dealing with somebody who sees themselves as your enemy, doing something nice for them with nothing in return might be just free money.

00:29:30.240 Hey, thanks for the free money, we're going to kill you anyway. 1.00

00:29:32.420 Okay. But, if you were dealing with, let's say, Great Britain, if you're dealing with France, and let's say there was a situation in which the United States could do something that would benefit them,

00:29:45.560 and we didn't have any immediate thing that we would give back.

00:29:49.000 You know, it wasn't a tip for tat, it's just something we could do for France.

00:29:52.840 We had the ability, we had the opportunity, we could do it, they couldn't do it for themselves, so we just do it.

00:29:59.680 Because we're allies. Is that a good play?

00:30:03.760 Yeah, yeah, it's totally a good play with an ally.

00:30:08.480 So, because you assume that allies are often going to be in a situation where you need to ask a small favor, sometimes even a big favor.

00:30:17.460 But if you've primed the situation with reciprocity, France someday will say, you know, it's sort of like Lafayette, we are here, you know, sort of situation,

00:30:31.280 that even military alliances, the reciprocity of a military alliance can last generations.

00:30:37.940 So the fact that we fought on the same side as Great Britain, same side as France, in their area, not in their country, in the case of Great Britain,

00:30:48.780 but those feelings can last generations.

00:30:54.420 So, yeah, reciprocity is very strong.

00:30:56.340 So if you see the president testing reciprocity, in other words, giving something that clearly any objective person would say,

00:31:05.820 ooh, it looks like he gave a little bit too much there and didn't ask for something in return,

00:31:11.440 you'd have to ask yourself, is he testing the waters?

00:31:15.160 Is he just testing to see if it does work?

00:31:18.040 Because imagine if that worked.

00:31:19.640 Imagine if you were dealing with somebody who really did just want to have a deal that works for both sides.

00:31:25.620 They weren't trying to destroy your country.

00:31:28.340 They just wanted something that works now and will work in the future.

00:31:33.380 Reciprocity is worth testing.

00:31:36.760 Now, if it doesn't work, you go to Plan B.

00:31:40.500 Plan B just got implemented.

00:31:42.520 Plan B is where Trump just signed some document to hold the Chinese authorities responsible for the Uyghur prison camps.

00:31:54.860 That's what Plan B looks like.

00:31:57.440 Now, when you treat somebody like an ally, but they're not, one of two things can happen.

00:32:05.020 Either you've just given them free money.

00:32:07.260 Oh, thanks for that favor.

00:32:08.560 You're going to get nothing in return and we're going to destroy you.

00:32:11.240 That's bad.

00:32:13.340 But, persuasion-wise, you can sometimes turn somebody into something by treating them like that thing you wanted them to turn into.

00:32:22.860 In other words, you could actually turn an enemy into a friend by acting like a friend.

00:32:29.120 Not every time.

00:32:31.500 None of this persuasion stuff works every time.

00:32:34.200 But it's a good play to simply act like you're a friend and it will cause the other person to not know what to do.

00:32:41.240 Well, I thought we were kind of frenemies, but this person keeps acting like I'm an actual friend.

00:32:48.520 That is very persuasive.

00:32:50.860 It's worth a try.

00:32:52.780 I don't think it worked.

00:32:54.080 In the case of China, I don't think it worked, right? 1.00

00:33:00.080 But it was worth a try.

00:33:01.520 What's the other thing Bolton is saying?

00:33:03.960 So, he had a couple of crazy things.

00:33:06.740 Oh, I think he says that Trump claimed he didn't know if Great Britain was a nuclear power.

00:33:13.540 Now, is that true, first of all?

00:33:19.780 Is it true that Trump wasn't sure if Great Britain was a nuclear power?

00:33:25.580 So, I have a few different takes on this.

00:33:28.260 Number one, it's probably not true.

00:33:31.620 The story itself is probably no more true than Trump telling China that he was on board with them building prison camps.

00:33:40.200 It just, on its surface, it's probably not true.

00:33:43.960 But, let's say it was.

00:33:45.800 Let's say it was true. 0.98

00:33:48.080 How could you explain that without the explanation that the president is mentally incapable or under-informed or something?

00:33:56.620 Is there any other way to explain it?

00:33:58.480 Let me offer you a few possibilities.

00:34:03.520 One, he may have asked if they're bluffing.

00:34:07.340 In other words, he may have been asking, yeah, technically Great Britain can make a bomb, but can they really launch one?

00:34:17.480 I mean, do they really have as much as they would like you to believe, or are they using the belief that they're a nuclear power, which is a little more hyperbole than truth, because they obviously have some kind of nuclear capability.

00:34:34.520 But, is it more like North Korea, where we're not sure if it works, because it hasn't been quite tested?

00:34:41.860 Or, is it the kind where, oh yeah, it's solid.

00:34:44.740 The Great Britain nuclear defense, just like the best countries in the world.

00:34:50.880 Now, what was the context?

00:34:54.020 Was it just making sure that it's real?

00:34:56.420 Because I would consider that a fair question.

00:34:59.820 Wouldn't you?

00:35:00.460 Because Israel says it's not a nuclear power, right?

00:35:06.520 If you know there's at least one ally who is lying completely about its nuclear capability, in this case, Israel, saying, no, what nukes?

00:35:15.880 We got no nukes.

00:35:17.500 Is it possible that another ally could be lying in the other direction?

00:35:21.240 Oh yeah, we got nukes.

00:35:24.500 Our nukes are the best.

00:35:26.820 And maybe it's not exactly true.

00:35:28.340 It's worth asking.

00:35:32.760 So, I'm not saying that's what happened.

00:35:34.720 I'm just taking you through an imagination exercise to show that sometimes when you say, well, there's only one explanation for this.

00:35:43.900 Sometimes there are multiple.

00:35:45.460 Let me give you another one.

00:35:46.360 How many times in your life have you found yourself being, you know, the educated, smart person that you are, not knowing a fact that was just embarrassing?

00:36:00.500 That it was so embarrassing that for some reason you just have a little skip in your brain and there was a fact that everybody knows?

00:36:08.700 And just for whatever reason, you didn't.

00:36:12.200 All the time.

00:36:14.580 All the time.

00:36:17.260 All the time.

00:36:19.760 Yesterday, last night, I wish I could tell you the story, but I can't.

00:36:23.420 There was something that Christina said, and I said, what?

00:36:28.980 Seriously?

00:36:29.860 That's a thing?

00:36:31.520 And she looked at me like, where have you been all of your life?

00:36:36.060 Yes, it's a thing.

00:36:37.660 And of course, it is a thing.

00:36:38.800 So, just last night, I had a very specific, you know, experience where I don't think I'm mentally incapable.

00:36:50.280 I don't think I'm stupid in an overall way.

00:36:54.140 But sure enough, there was that little stupid thing that I did last night that even I think was stupid.

00:36:59.980 Like, even I think it was like, why didn't I know that?

00:37:03.360 How could I go through my whole life and not know that?

00:37:07.420 Everybody knows that.

00:37:09.240 So, it's a very common sort of a thing.

00:37:13.640 Has the president lost a step because he's in his 70s?

00:37:17.820 Of course.

00:37:19.280 Of course.

00:37:20.180 That's why I say, don't elect presidents in their 70s if you have a choice.

00:37:25.860 And I'm going to tell you something that you're not going to want to hear.

00:37:28.520 This might go down kind of hard.

00:37:31.640 If Democrats had run a candidate in his or her 40s or 50s,

00:37:37.860 it would have been hard for me not to support them.

00:37:41.220 Honestly.

00:37:43.960 I mean, I would have had to look at it pretty hard.

00:37:46.220 Because I do think age is a factor.

00:37:49.500 And it's a big one.

00:37:50.880 And I don't think we should just keep ignoring it.

00:37:53.820 And I wouldn't say a different thing for Biden as I would for Trump.

00:37:58.480 You know, everybody's different.

00:37:59.580 And it's pretty clear that Trump's in way better shape than Biden.

00:38:02.620 I mean, I wouldn't compare them in that sense.

00:38:05.580 But nobody over 70 is operating the same.

00:38:09.740 You've got to ask that question.

00:38:13.340 All right.

00:38:14.040 Let's talk about some other things.

00:38:15.760 I pulled up on my computer here the CNN homepage next to the Fox News homepage

00:38:22.700 to look at differences.

00:38:24.240 And the Bolton thing will just sort of come and go.

00:38:31.800 But let's see some other things that the CNN thinks are news.

00:38:37.160 So you've got the news about Representative Swalwell asking GOP to state that black lives matter.

00:38:44.060 And then I guess Matt Gaetz said absolutely.

00:38:47.880 And then he answered with all lives matter.

00:38:49.820 So he's very good at provocation.

00:38:54.540 But the way he does it is just so clever.

00:39:00.860 Because instead of saying that the wrong way to do it is,

00:39:04.700 do you believe black lives matter? 1.00

00:39:06.640 And if you just say all lives matter,

00:39:09.820 then you've fallen into the trap and you're a racist

00:39:12.300 and why don't you care about black people?

00:39:15.040 But if you look at this little nuance that Gaetz added to it,

00:39:19.020 so Swalwell asked,

00:39:20.860 can you say absolutely that black lives matter? 1.00

00:39:24.820 And he answered yes.

00:39:27.480 Absolutely yes.

00:39:29.020 All lives matter.

00:39:31.420 That's different.

00:39:32.900 If you don't add the absolutely yes part,

00:39:36.180 and then you just go with all lives matter,

00:39:38.820 well, you're sort of a racist. 0.61

00:39:40.660 But if you say absolutely yes,

00:39:43.120 you've agreed with the statement,

00:39:44.480 and then you've extended it to all people who are valuable,

00:39:47.860 and then if you're Swalwell and you laid the trap,

00:39:53.260 and then you think he fell into the trap,

00:39:55.480 but he's hovering over the trap,

00:39:58.180 and you're thinking to yourself,

00:39:59.640 I know I dug a big hole,

00:40:02.700 and I know he fell into it,

00:40:05.140 but why is gravity not taking him to the bottom of the hole?

00:40:08.380 Why is he hovering above it?

00:40:09.800 It's because Gaetz is linguistically gifted.

00:40:14.840 I mean, there's no other word for it.

00:40:16.040 He's just gifted in that way.

00:40:19.940 All right.

00:40:21.700 Every poll on everything about race is complete bullshit.

00:40:26.580 Can we just agree on that?

00:40:27.940 Every poll about race and racism

00:40:33.040 and who's racist and who trusts who

00:40:35.660 and race and this,

00:40:37.060 at the moment, it's just all bullshit

00:40:39.260 because I don't think people are in their permanent minds.

00:40:43.840 I think people are in their temporary minds,

00:40:46.580 meaning that they're so influenced by the images on TV

00:40:50.080 that they're in a mode

00:40:52.320 which is not their ordinary mode.

00:40:55.220 So everything's attenuated.

00:40:56.560 And, of course, the reason for that

00:40:58.420 is that the technology to do that is so good now.

00:41:02.160 Let's talk about that, the blue flu.

00:41:07.460 So last night I was on Twitter quite late,

00:41:12.120 and I'm watching mostly Mike Cernovich's Twitter account and others,

00:41:17.940 and they're talking about lots of reports

00:41:20.860 that were people getting individually from people they knew in Atlanta

00:41:24.640 that the police were calling in sick.

00:41:27.540 So it was a call-out, not a walk-off.

00:41:30.400 So they were calling in sick to protest the charges

00:41:35.280 against the two police officers,

00:41:37.220 one of whom killed the suspect,

00:41:40.380 shot him in the back as he was running away,

00:41:42.200 the gentleman who had the stun gun.

00:41:43.640 So we've got that going on,

00:41:49.700 and I'm watching on Twitter

00:41:51.840 this giant theme of how many police are not going to work.

00:41:58.420 And then I open up the news

00:42:01.780 because it was the biggest thing on Twitter,

00:42:04.360 and let's see.

00:42:05.280 All right, I'm on CNN,

00:42:06.500 and let's see if they talk about the blue flu,

00:42:09.820 hashtag blue flu.

00:42:12.840 Looking down lists,

00:42:14.840 going, going, going,

00:42:16.420 going, going, going.

00:42:18.560 I don't even see it.

00:42:22.560 It's actually not even on the homepage.

00:42:26.060 Or I don't see it.

00:42:27.480 I mean, it's not called out anyway.

00:42:29.460 All right, so that's the biggest story

00:42:30.800 from real people on the Internet.

00:42:34.160 And assuming that the reports are true,

00:42:37.200 that's a really big deal.

00:42:39.520 Why would it not be on CNN?

00:42:41.740 All right, let's try Fox News.

00:42:44.040 Now, you'd expect to find it here, right?

00:42:45.760 All right, there it is.

00:42:49.220 Top left, right where you'd expect to find it.

00:42:51.620 Multiple Atlanta officers have resigned.

00:42:54.740 Oh, actually, talking about resigned,

00:42:56.660 that is different.

00:42:58.300 That's not the blue flu.

00:42:59.780 So they'll keep going,

00:43:00.760 go lower on the page.

00:43:03.140 Not there.

00:43:04.540 Not there.

00:43:05.660 So neither Fox News nor CNN

00:43:09.360 have, at least prominently,

00:43:11.860 anything about this blue flu.

00:43:15.760 Why?

00:43:18.320 Why?

00:43:19.580 Is it because it's not news?

00:43:22.800 Well, let's check OAN.

00:43:29.360 Let's see if we've got that as a headline.

00:43:32.520 I don't know where to find them.

00:43:34.740 They don't have a website.

00:43:36.180 Are they only broadcast?

00:43:43.540 Oh, okay.

00:43:44.680 You've got to go to the right URL

00:43:45.920 and then it helps.

00:43:47.720 Okay.

00:43:49.460 One American News Network, OAN.

00:43:51.400 All right.

00:43:54.560 Suicides of veterans.

00:43:55.840 Going down the list on the front page.

00:44:03.200 I don't see it yet.

00:44:05.240 It's not being called out.

00:44:06.640 So I believe you when you say in the comments

00:44:09.960 that it was covered.

00:44:11.260 Maybe it was covered in broadcast way.

00:44:14.260 But I don't see it on that page.

00:44:15.860 Somebody here said it was on the Washington Post page.

00:44:19.300 WashingtonPost.com.

00:44:24.580 Let's see if it's there.

00:44:27.220 Washington Post.

00:44:30.960 Nope.

00:44:32.200 Don't see it.

00:44:35.120 Maybe I'm missing it.

00:44:36.380 But at the very least,

00:44:38.060 it's not being called out.

00:44:41.020 Okay.

00:44:41.980 So,

00:44:42.900 the other thing that you didn't see in the news

00:44:46.020 is coverage of the protests.

00:44:48.800 Why not?

00:44:50.960 Here's what I think.

00:44:55.200 Somebody in the comments says,

00:44:56.780 don't order an OAN shirt.

00:44:58.760 There's a story about that.

00:45:01.900 You probably saw.

00:45:03.700 So,

00:45:04.860 is it,

00:45:06.040 would it be true that nothing bad happened in Atlanta

00:45:09.520 and that the police

00:45:10.700 didn't have any real problem?

00:45:13.200 Maybe a few people,

00:45:14.840 maybe a few people.

00:45:16.540 Somebody says it's on Washington Post.

00:45:18.120 I'm looking at it right now.

00:45:19.040 I'm on the homepage.

00:45:20.740 I'm looking at the homepage right now.

00:45:23.240 Don't see it.

00:45:26.600 So,

00:45:27.040 it might be a story somewhere deeper down.

00:45:29.780 But does it feel to you

00:45:31.120 that the news might be collectively underplaying it?

00:45:35.340 Do you think that the news industry,

00:45:37.980 they all said to themselves,

00:45:39.560 let's not make this a story

00:45:41.220 because all the police everywhere will walk out.

00:45:43.460 Do you think that the news has decided

00:45:48.700 to manipulate the public,

00:45:51.500 both the left and the right,

00:45:53.520 into not making this,

00:45:55.120 which could be,

00:45:55.880 you know,

00:45:56.680 a local Atlanta problem,

00:45:59.340 not making this a national problem?

00:46:02.000 Because it does seem to me

00:46:04.560 that this could easily become

00:46:06.340 all police walking out

00:46:08.320 or calling in sick

00:46:09.600 for a week.

00:46:13.140 Somebody says Hannity

00:46:14.300 talked about the blue flu.

00:46:16.480 But you do see

00:46:17.700 that it's not

00:46:18.320 on the written news pages.

00:46:20.480 There are individual pundits.

00:46:22.580 You can expect to talk about it.

00:46:24.720 But it's not being treated

00:46:26.100 as news,

00:46:27.200 is it?

00:46:28.320 Likewise,

00:46:29.240 were there protests last night?

00:46:31.760 Does anybody know

00:46:32.500 if there were any protests last night?

00:46:34.200 Because I don't see

00:46:36.500 any evidence of it

00:46:37.520 in the news.

00:46:39.980 Were there giant protests last night

00:46:42.240 that are just not being covered?

00:46:44.320 If that's true,

00:46:45.680 and it does look like that's true,

00:46:47.920 wouldn't you say

00:46:48.580 that the news

00:46:49.360 has abdicated

00:46:51.100 its responsibility

00:46:52.160 for news

00:46:53.240 and have now

00:46:54.840 accepted their role

00:46:56.160 as manipulators

00:46:57.840 of the public?

00:46:59.660 Does it not seem

00:47:01.020 to you obvious

00:47:01.980 that the news business

00:47:03.900 is not trying

00:47:05.420 to be news anymore?

00:47:07.420 They are trying

00:47:08.420 to manage

00:47:10.120 your psychology

00:47:11.040 directly.

00:47:12.260 Because they're not

00:47:13.420 covering the two

00:47:14.240 biggest stories

00:47:14.900 in the world.

00:47:15.840 Not the biggest stories

00:47:17.320 in the world,

00:47:17.980 but two of the biggest stories

00:47:18.920 in the country

00:47:19.520 for today.

00:47:22.200 It looks like

00:47:23.260 they're completely ignoring

00:47:24.520 left and right.

00:47:26.560 Or,

00:47:27.600 or,

00:47:28.180 am I completely confused

00:47:29.460 and those stories

00:47:30.160 don't exist?

00:47:31.660 Are there no protests?

00:47:33.640 Maybe.

00:47:34.320 How would I know?

00:47:35.940 How about

00:47:36.500 deaths

00:47:37.760 from coronavirus?

00:47:39.500 Can you think

00:47:40.140 of a bigger story

00:47:41.040 than that?

00:47:42.220 What would be

00:47:43.040 a bigger story

00:47:43.940 than the number

00:47:45.660 of people

00:47:46.060 who have died

00:47:46.840 of coronavirus

00:47:47.760 since people

00:47:49.420 started going

00:47:50.020 back to work?

00:47:50.740 That's like big,

00:47:51.540 right?

00:47:52.460 That's big.

00:47:53.320 So I'm going to look

00:47:54.020 for the death rate,

00:47:55.560 not the number

00:47:56.200 of people

00:47:56.540 who were infected,

00:47:58.320 right?

00:47:58.640 Because if the death

00:47:59.500 rate's going down,

00:48:00.520 it doesn't really

00:48:01.820 matter too much

00:48:02.680 if the infection

00:48:03.540 rate's going up.

00:48:04.480 I mean,

00:48:04.680 it matters,

00:48:05.540 but in a different

00:48:06.520 level of mattering.

00:48:07.980 Because it could be

00:48:09.000 that we're just

00:48:09.580 getting better

00:48:10.020 at treating things.

00:48:11.660 It could be

00:48:12.380 that we have

00:48:13.480 enough immunity

00:48:14.180 that,

00:48:15.160 I don't know,

00:48:15.620 maybe the people

00:48:16.220 who could have it

00:48:17.480 the worst

00:48:17.940 already got it.

00:48:18.860 I don't know.

00:48:19.580 But something's

00:48:20.260 going on

00:48:20.860 that those lines

00:48:22.080 are disconnected now.

00:48:23.580 More infections,

00:48:24.520 more infections,

00:48:25.300 and not just

00:48:26.040 because we're testing.

00:48:27.360 That's part of it,

00:48:28.380 but not just

00:48:28.960 because of that.

00:48:30.200 While the death rate's

00:48:31.060 going down.

00:48:31.940 So if the death rate

00:48:32.900 is continued to go down,

00:48:35.180 let's say it went down

00:48:36.480 today and yesterday,

00:48:38.420 or it went up

00:48:39.580 today and yesterday,

00:48:41.340 whichever direction

00:48:42.400 it went,

00:48:42.860 or even if it was flat,

00:48:44.980 wouldn't that be

00:48:45.620 the biggest story,

00:48:47.020 right?

00:48:47.900 The death rate

00:48:48.700 from coronavirus.

00:48:49.560 So let's find it.

00:48:51.860 We'll go to

00:48:52.900 CNN homepage.

00:48:54.840 Let's see.

00:48:55.620 stuff on

00:48:57.100 DACA,

00:48:58.300 DACA,

00:48:59.000 DACA.

00:49:01.280 Florida has

00:49:02.020 the makings

00:49:02.560 of the next

00:49:03.120 epicenter.

00:49:04.040 All right.

00:49:04.380 So we'll dig into

00:49:05.180 that if there's

00:49:05.780 no other story.

00:49:07.460 All right.

00:49:07.720 So that looks

00:49:08.160 like the only one.

00:49:09.820 So on CNN,

00:49:11.260 they have a

00:49:12.180 coronavirus story,

00:49:13.140 as they should,

00:49:13.720 and it's highlighted.

00:49:15.140 So it's,

00:49:15.680 so,

00:49:15.980 so far we're good.

00:49:17.540 It's a,

00:49:18.160 it's a big story

00:49:19.600 and it is highlighted.

00:49:20.800 Let's dig in

00:49:21.520 and see how long

00:49:24.200 it takes them

00:49:24.780 to say the

00:49:25.800 death rate.

00:49:26.900 Ten states

00:49:27.860 saw a record

00:49:28.460 number of new

00:49:29.200 cases,

00:49:30.660 infections.

00:49:31.600 So we've got

00:49:32.160 lots of new

00:49:32.620 infections.

00:49:33.460 That's the first

00:49:34.120 sentence.

00:49:36.160 Shouldn't the

00:49:36.840 death rate be in

00:49:37.480 the first sentence?

00:49:39.200 Would you be

00:49:40.340 more concerned

00:49:41.020 about getting

00:49:42.140 coronavirus

00:49:42.660 or fucking 0.93

00:49:44.900 dying?

00:49:46.120 Which of those

00:49:46.640 seems like news?

00:49:48.100 Ah,

00:49:48.340 he's got the

00:49:48.840 coronavirus.

00:49:49.700 Ninety-eight

00:49:50.160 percent of people

00:49:50.760 are fine.

00:49:52.480 Or,

00:49:53.840 he fucking

00:49:54.620 died.

00:49:55.960 Which of

00:49:56.320 those is news?

00:49:58.080 Well,

00:49:58.580 according to CNN,

00:50:00.340 getting the

00:50:01.180 virus is the

00:50:01.880 news,

00:50:02.240 not the

00:50:02.540 dying part.

00:50:03.380 All right.

00:50:04.400 And it talks

00:50:04.880 about Florida

00:50:05.440 becoming a

00:50:06.600 hotspot and

00:50:08.180 other states

00:50:08.980 also have

00:50:09.820 problems.

00:50:10.780 Talk about the

00:50:11.680 president saying

00:50:12.480 Wednesday in

00:50:13.040 an interview that

00:50:13.820 the virus is,

00:50:15.040 dying out,

00:50:16.000 which of course

00:50:16.580 all the data

00:50:17.520 says is not

00:50:18.300 true.

00:50:20.640 But what about

00:50:21.500 the death rate?

00:50:23.220 If the

00:50:23.900 president had

00:50:25.600 noticed that the

00:50:26.400 death rate was

00:50:27.460 getting smaller

00:50:28.620 every day,

00:50:30.180 would it be

00:50:30.940 inaccurate to

00:50:31.660 say the virus

00:50:32.300 is dying out?

00:50:33.940 Yes,

00:50:34.660 it would be

00:50:35.200 inaccurate.

00:50:36.140 But it would

00:50:36.700 look different,

00:50:37.280 wouldn't it?

00:50:38.200 If you knew

00:50:38.860 that the death

00:50:39.480 rate was

00:50:40.700 trending towards

00:50:41.660 zero,

00:50:42.600 the death

00:50:43.400 rate,

00:50:44.820 and your

00:50:45.220 president said

00:50:45.860 the virus is,

00:50:46.640 quote,

00:50:47.000 dying out,

00:50:48.380 is that like

00:50:49.260 a hundred

00:50:49.640 percent lie?

00:50:51.040 Or is that

00:50:51.960 really focusing

00:50:53.240 on the important

00:50:53.960 part,

00:50:54.840 the part where

00:50:55.440 people die

00:50:55.960 from it?

00:50:58.360 It would

00:50:59.020 violate the

00:51:00.340 fact-checking

00:51:00.980 for sure,

00:51:02.060 so it would

00:51:02.800 not be true

00:51:03.980 technically.

00:51:05.640 But if you

00:51:06.380 could ignore

00:51:06.940 the death

00:51:07.400 rate,

00:51:08.220 I don't

00:51:09.220 think you're

00:51:09.620 playing this

00:51:10.120 straight.

00:51:12.380 Somebody

00:51:12.860 says more

00:51:13.380 tests because

00:51:14.120 more infections

00:51:15.360 because of

00:51:16.380 more testing.

00:51:17.380 Apparently

00:51:17.740 that's not

00:51:18.440 the whole

00:51:19.000 story.

00:51:19.600 So if you

00:51:20.000 think the

00:51:20.460 only reason

00:51:21.200 there's more

00:51:21.820 cases is

00:51:23.240 because we're

00:51:23.720 testing it

00:51:24.260 more,

00:51:24.620 that has

00:51:25.060 been debunked.

00:51:26.120 I'm pretty

00:51:26.480 sure that's

00:51:26.900 not true.

00:51:28.140 Testing is

00:51:28.640 part of it,

00:51:29.800 but there's

00:51:30.200 also just

00:51:30.640 more of it.

00:51:32.180 I believe

00:51:32.860 the experts

00:51:33.360 say.

00:51:34.780 All right,

00:51:35.780 so now we've

00:51:37.320 got a whole

00:51:37.800 list of how

00:51:38.420 they're trending.

00:51:39.640 So surely

00:51:40.200 the death rate

00:51:41.120 will be in

00:51:41.520 this.

00:51:41.820 It's like a

00:51:42.140 whole details

00:51:43.700 about

00:51:44.020 coronavirus.

00:51:45.760 Point number

00:51:46.580 one, no,

00:51:47.740 no, it's

00:51:48.360 all about

00:51:48.820 infections.

00:51:49.820 Every one of

00:51:50.740 the points is

00:51:51.380 about infection

00:51:52.180 and none

00:51:53.000 of them are

00:51:54.360 about death.

00:51:56.640 Let's keep 0.77

00:51:57.360 going.

00:51:58.260 Let me just

00:51:59.000 cancel death

00:52:00.180 or search

00:52:01.240 for it.

00:52:03.300 D-A.

00:52:04.840 Nope, the

00:52:05.380 word death

00:52:05.860 is not on

00:52:06.720 the page and

00:52:07.640 nowhere in the

00:52:08.360 article.

00:52:08.700 But surely

00:52:09.820 Fox News

00:52:10.660 will do

00:52:11.180 better.

00:52:12.480 Let's see.

00:52:13.160 Fox News,

00:52:14.100 biggest story,

00:52:16.660 a lot about

00:52:18.080 John Bolton,

00:52:19.780 a lot about

00:52:20.300 police,

00:52:22.540 a lot about

00:52:23.360 racism,

00:52:25.660 and John

00:52:27.760 Bolton some

00:52:28.440 more,

00:52:29.060 and DACA,

00:52:30.340 and DACA,

00:52:32.500 and DACA,

00:52:33.080 and protests

00:52:35.540 outside Portland

00:52:36.920 mayor's home.

00:52:38.700 So, the

00:52:40.140 only protest

00:52:40.820 coverage on

00:52:41.640 Fox News is

00:52:42.640 outside the

00:52:43.260 mayor's home.

00:52:44.440 Was that the

00:52:44.900 only protest?

00:52:46.640 Don't know.

00:52:48.140 Because,

00:52:49.920 all right,

00:52:51.780 so,

00:52:52.700 neither Fox

00:52:53.320 News nor

00:52:53.880 CNN are

00:52:55.200 highlighting the

00:52:56.180 only thing I

00:52:56.920 care about,

00:52:57.960 which is the

00:52:58.860 death rate from

00:52:59.560 coronavirus.

00:53:00.640 Let me ask

00:53:01.240 you, what 0.91

00:53:02.180 would the

00:53:02.660 stock market

00:53:03.440 respond to,

00:53:05.400 and let's

00:53:06.140 say the

00:53:06.600 stock market

00:53:07.120 as a proxy

00:53:07.820 for the

00:53:08.200 economy as

00:53:08.820 a whole.

00:53:09.640 What would

00:53:10.080 be more

00:53:10.580 important to

00:53:11.440 the economy

00:53:12.020 as a whole

00:53:12.640 than the

00:53:13.700 coronavirus

00:53:14.200 death rate?

00:53:16.260 Go.

00:53:18.000 I'm not even

00:53:18.660 going to wait

00:53:19.040 for your

00:53:19.380 fucking answers.

00:53:20.320 There's nothing

00:53:21.000 more important

00:53:21.820 than the

00:53:22.240 whole fucking

00:53:23.260 world than

00:53:24.620 the coronavirus

00:53:25.340 death rate,

00:53:26.640 and the news

00:53:27.580 doesn't

00:53:28.600 fucking cover

00:53:29.540 it.

00:53:30.820 Do you get

00:53:31.640 what's happening

00:53:32.200 yet?

00:53:33.060 What are they

00:53:33.520 covering?

00:53:33.820 John Bolton's

00:53:35.340 obvious bullshit

00:53:37.020 about the

00:53:38.320 president being

00:53:39.000 in favor of

00:53:39.720 prison camps

00:53:40.400 for Uyghurs.

00:53:41.400 That's what

00:53:42.140 they're fucking

00:53:42.740 covering.

00:53:46.120 Disgusting.

00:53:47.160 All right.

00:53:49.880 Let me say

00:53:50.740 this about the

00:53:51.660 police officers

00:53:52.680 who were

00:53:53.720 charged in

00:53:55.040 Atlanta.

00:53:57.100 I watched

00:53:58.000 the video,

00:53:59.000 you watched

00:53:59.540 the video.

00:54:00.060 can we all

00:54:01.520 agree the

00:54:01.980 video lies?

00:54:03.980 Right?

00:54:04.820 Because if

00:54:05.800 you and I

00:54:06.340 watched the

00:54:06.760 video and

00:54:07.440 you said,

00:54:08.220 oh, that's

00:54:08.560 obviously a

00:54:09.280 crime committed

00:54:10.020 by the

00:54:10.420 police, and

00:54:11.840 somebody else

00:54:12.340 watches the

00:54:12.840 video, let's

00:54:13.320 not make it

00:54:13.800 me.

00:54:14.440 Somebody else

00:54:14.960 watches and

00:54:15.460 says, I'm

00:54:15.880 watching the

00:54:16.260 same video,

00:54:16.960 and the

00:54:17.380 police acted

00:54:17.960 responsibly under

00:54:19.080 the situation.

00:54:21.740 Video lies.

00:54:23.540 If video did

00:54:24.420 not lie, we

00:54:25.800 would all look

00:54:26.380 at that video

00:54:26.980 and be on the

00:54:27.760 same page.

00:54:29.100 We're not.

00:54:31.060 Video lies

00:54:32.360 every fucking

00:54:34.400 time.

00:54:35.920 Not sometimes.

00:54:37.420 If you think

00:54:38.020 that, well,

00:54:38.640 yes, sometimes

00:54:39.360 a video could

00:54:39.960 be a little

00:54:40.300 bit misleading.

00:54:41.380 No.

00:54:42.020 By the time

00:54:42.620 it's a headline

00:54:43.240 story, it's

00:54:44.540 misleading.

00:54:45.460 It doesn't

00:54:45.840 mean the

00:54:46.220 whole story

00:54:46.720 is wrong.

00:54:47.940 But there

00:54:48.400 are extenuating

00:54:49.460 circumstances,

00:54:50.540 important details,

00:54:52.020 things that

00:54:52.440 would add

00:54:52.760 context.

00:54:53.880 The video

00:54:54.460 is a lie.

00:54:56.560 Let me

00:54:57.020 suggest this.

00:54:58.560 I believe

00:55:00.020 it should be

00:55:00.520 illegal to

00:55:01.260 show that

00:55:02.640 kind of

00:55:03.000 video.

00:55:05.020 Now, free

00:55:05.640 speech, blah,

00:55:06.520 blah, blah,

00:55:06.820 it'll never

00:55:07.220 be illegal.

00:55:08.380 But are

00:55:09.640 there not

00:55:10.120 plenty of

00:55:10.720 videos that

00:55:12.380 social media

00:55:13.200 scrubs for

00:55:14.460 various reasons

00:55:15.380 that are good

00:55:15.840 for society?

00:55:16.500 is it good

00:55:18.120 for society

00:55:18.900 to see, let's

00:55:20.380 say, a brutal

00:55:21.060 murder that

00:55:21.800 didn't have

00:55:22.220 any context?

00:55:23.240 No.

00:55:24.300 That's not

00:55:24.740 good for

00:55:25.120 society.

00:55:25.920 Is it good

00:55:26.540 for society

00:55:27.160 to keep

00:55:28.180 online, let's

00:55:29.120 say, the

00:55:30.620 KKK's 0.77

00:55:31.760 program or

00:55:33.240 whatever the

00:55:33.680 KKK is

00:55:34.520 producing?

00:55:35.400 No.

00:55:36.300 That's not

00:55:36.740 good for

00:55:37.140 society.

00:55:38.200 And so,

00:55:38.720 there are

00:55:39.060 these special

00:55:40.000 cases where

00:55:41.760 you see that

00:55:42.320 we do self-censor,

00:55:43.460 at least in

00:55:45.520 the private

00:55:46.000 realm.

00:55:47.100 The government

00:55:47.560 can't tell you

00:55:48.240 not to look at

00:55:48.820 something like

00:55:49.280 that.

00:55:50.080 How about

00:55:50.540 certain types

00:55:51.780 of pornography?

00:55:52.800 Child porn.

00:55:54.040 There's a good

00:55:54.520 example.

00:55:55.360 Child porn,

00:55:56.560 generally

00:55:57.020 considered harmful,

00:55:58.920 and therefore,

00:56:00.080 even though

00:56:00.620 there's freedom

00:56:01.280 of speech,

00:56:02.840 that exception

00:56:03.940 is carved

00:56:04.500 out, and

00:56:05.000 we're okay

00:56:05.400 with it.

00:56:05.960 Because, of

00:56:06.760 course, you're

00:56:07.280 going to carve

00:56:07.580 out that

00:56:07.940 exception.

00:56:10.960 So,

00:56:11.220 here's my

00:56:14.260 question.

00:56:15.940 Is society

00:56:16.680 well-served

00:56:17.700 by showing

00:56:18.660 videos of

00:56:19.600 specific police

00:56:20.940 encounters

00:56:21.480 which you

00:56:22.880 know, with

00:56:24.460 100%

00:56:25.260 certainty,

00:56:26.660 will be

00:56:27.160 misleading?

00:56:28.220 How do you

00:56:28.860 know that it

00:56:29.300 will be

00:56:29.520 misleading?

00:56:30.560 Because it's

00:56:31.220 a video.

00:56:32.660 They're all

00:56:33.460 misleading.

00:56:34.520 They don't

00:56:34.900 know how not

00:56:35.400 to be

00:56:35.660 misleading.

00:56:36.900 Now, a

00:56:37.220 video can

00:56:38.360 be true

00:56:39.080 completely,

00:56:40.360 but you

00:56:41.000 don't know

00:56:41.380 by looking

00:56:41.820 at it.

00:56:42.920 You can't

00:56:43.480 know that

00:56:43.860 by looking

00:56:44.320 at it,

00:56:44.680 because

00:56:44.960 videos in

00:56:45.800 general are

00:56:46.920 so misleading

00:56:47.640 that no

00:56:48.060 matter how

00:56:48.580 certain you

00:56:49.300 are on

00:56:50.300 any specific

00:56:51.240 video, you

00:56:52.440 shouldn't be.

00:56:53.420 You should

00:56:53.900 not be

00:56:54.320 certain of

00:56:54.940 any video.

00:56:55.940 Forget about

00:56:56.680 doctoring,

00:56:57.560 forget about

00:56:58.000 deep fakes,

00:56:59.260 that's bad

00:56:59.800 enough.

00:57:00.280 I mean, in

00:57:00.640 the future,

00:57:01.240 your certainty

00:57:01.660 should go

00:57:02.100 even lower.

00:57:03.620 But you

00:57:04.060 should not

00:57:04.580 feel any

00:57:05.240 sense of

00:57:05.720 confidence by

00:57:06.440 looking at

00:57:06.840 a video of

00:57:07.440 anything.

00:57:08.360 It wouldn't

00:57:08.740 matter if

00:57:09.240 this situation

00:57:10.000 had been

00:57:10.380 reversed,

00:57:11.440 doesn't

00:57:11.800 matter who

00:57:12.240 is the

00:57:12.800 black person,

00:57:13.460 who is the

00:57:13.760 white person

00:57:14.240 in the

00:57:14.520 video.

00:57:15.180 If it's

00:57:15.720 a video,

00:57:16.920 it's a

00:57:17.620 lie.

00:57:19.180 If society

00:57:21.000 could just

00:57:21.540 learn that

00:57:22.040 one thing,

00:57:23.420 if it's a

00:57:24.500 video,

00:57:25.760 it's a

00:57:26.340 lie.

00:57:28.000 Because we

00:57:28.720 believe the

00:57:29.220 opposite.

00:57:30.000 I saw it

00:57:30.480 with my

00:57:30.760 own eyes,

00:57:32.020 I looked

00:57:32.580 at it,

00:57:33.040 I saw it

00:57:33.660 with my

00:57:33.960 own eyes.

00:57:34.480 that would

00:57:35.400 be the

00:57:35.720 lowest level

00:57:36.520 of awareness

00:57:37.320 about your

00:57:38.200 reality.

00:57:39.460 If you say

00:57:40.780 that about

00:57:41.120 anything,

00:57:42.480 I saw it

00:57:42.880 with my

00:57:43.160 own eyes,

00:57:43.820 therefore I

00:57:44.360 know everything.

00:57:45.820 If you

00:57:46.380 don't know

00:57:46.780 that that's

00:57:47.180 not a

00:57:47.560 thing yet,

00:57:48.520 you've got

00:57:49.120 much to

00:57:49.500 learn.

00:57:49.660 All right.

00:57:51.620 So,

00:57:53.140 I watched

00:57:54.060 the video,

00:57:55.020 and here's

00:57:56.120 my subjective

00:57:57.040 opinion.

00:57:58.800 Now,

00:57:59.680 all of us

00:58:00.540 are operating

00:58:01.340 with incomplete

00:58:02.340 information.

00:58:04.180 So,

00:58:04.520 when I tell

00:58:04.920 you what my

00:58:05.440 subjective

00:58:05.980 opinion is,

00:58:06.920 at the same

00:58:07.540 time,

00:58:08.400 and without

00:58:08.920 stopping for

00:58:09.760 punctuation,

00:58:11.280 I'm going

00:58:11.720 to say,

00:58:12.880 could change

00:58:13.500 completely as

00:58:14.420 new information

00:58:15.080 comes out.

00:58:16.700 So,

00:58:17.500 this is my

00:58:18.300 opinion that

00:58:18.880 could change

00:58:19.380 completely when

00:58:20.840 new information

00:58:21.520 comes out,

00:58:22.160 and it

00:58:22.380 definitely will.

00:58:23.840 And it

00:58:24.280 definitely will.

00:58:25.380 We will learn

00:58:26.280 things about

00:58:26.860 this case that

00:58:27.620 we didn't

00:58:28.100 know,

00:58:28.940 and those

00:58:29.460 things will

00:58:30.080 matter.

00:58:31.360 Guaranteed.

00:58:32.640 Guaranteed.

00:58:33.800 But,

00:58:34.440 because we're

00:58:35.080 all operating

00:58:36.280 on what we

00:58:36.880 think and

00:58:37.440 feel and

00:58:38.060 our current

00:58:39.000 understanding,

00:58:40.380 I'll give

00:58:40.860 you my

00:58:41.280 current

00:58:41.800 understanding,

00:58:44.340 just subjectively,

00:58:45.920 of what I

00:58:46.540 saw,

00:58:47.620 and especially

00:58:48.500 about how the

00:58:49.220 police department

00:58:49.820 and the

00:58:50.140 prosecutors are

00:58:50.840 handling it.

00:58:51.740 It looks like

00:58:52.500 a white lynching

00:58:53.200 to me.

00:58:55.420 To me,

00:58:55.920 it looks like

00:58:56.620 black people

00:58:57.620 are going to

00:58:58.060 lynch,

00:58:59.260 and yes,

00:58:59.780 I'm using

00:59:00.160 that word

00:59:01.680 to be as

00:59:02.900 provocative

00:59:03.440 as it

00:59:04.480 sounded.

00:59:06.440 Provocative

00:59:06.920 for good

00:59:07.460 purposes,

00:59:07.980 I'm not just

00:59:08.440 trying to

00:59:08.800 cause trouble.

00:59:10.240 It looked

00:59:10.800 like a

00:59:11.100 lynching.

00:59:13.880 I'm not

00:59:14.480 going to use

00:59:14.800 any other

00:59:15.180 term,

00:59:16.880 you know,

00:59:17.420 because I

00:59:18.660 think we

00:59:19.100 agree that

00:59:19.660 lynching

00:59:20.020 doesn't

00:59:20.420 specifically

00:59:21.180 limit it

00:59:22.220 to a rope

00:59:22.820 on a tree,

00:59:23.520 right?

00:59:23.740 that's

00:59:24.940 more of

00:59:25.300 a term

00:59:27.160 of art,

00:59:27.820 if you

00:59:28.100 can call

00:59:28.480 it that,

00:59:29.140 in this

00:59:29.860 realm of

00:59:30.500 race relations.

00:59:31.780 It would

00:59:32.080 be a term

00:59:32.720 that we

00:59:33.060 all understand

00:59:33.840 a black

00:59:35.280 person being

00:59:35.920 targeted

00:59:36.360 and killed

00:59:37.820 for race,

00:59:39.620 right?

00:59:40.420 Now,

00:59:41.420 in this

00:59:42.760 case,

00:59:43.200 these are

00:59:43.660 two white

00:59:44.160 cops that,

00:59:45.140 in my

00:59:45.380 opinion,

00:59:46.200 this is

00:59:46.840 what I

00:59:47.180 see and

00:59:47.840 feel.

00:59:48.740 Doesn't

00:59:49.280 mean it's

00:59:49.680 true,

00:59:50.900 right?

00:59:51.760 And I'll

00:59:52.240 always make

00:59:52.620 that distinction.

00:59:53.620 It's just

00:59:54.000 what I saw

00:59:55.160 in the

00:59:55.400 video.

00:59:56.480 And it's

00:59:56.820 what I

00:59:57.120 know now

00:59:57.800 could be

00:59:58.740 completely

00:59:59.560 different a

01:00:01.280 day from

01:00:01.680 now.

01:00:02.140 And I

01:00:02.520 allow that

01:00:03.000 that could 0.68

01:00:03.320 happen.

01:00:04.640 But at

01:00:05.220 the moment,

01:00:06.340 I register

01:00:07.020 it as a

01:00:07.920 white lynching.

01:00:09.740 And when I

01:00:11.740 heard that the

01:00:12.500 police were

01:00:13.460 doing this

01:00:13.960 call out,

01:00:15.620 what was

01:00:16.880 my reaction?

01:00:18.440 My reaction

01:00:19.080 was,

01:00:20.720 yeah,

01:00:21.040 you don't

01:00:21.540 want to

01:00:21.860 leave a

01:00:22.240 city and

01:00:23.360 all these

01:00:23.740 innocent

01:00:24.100 people in

01:00:24.700 the city.

01:00:25.520 You don't

01:00:26.180 want to

01:00:26.440 leave them

01:00:26.860 helpless because

01:00:27.720 as soon as

01:00:28.280 the bad

01:00:29.140 people realize

01:00:30.100 that the

01:00:30.660 city is

01:00:31.220 undefended,

01:00:32.220 it's going

01:00:32.920 to turn

01:00:33.240 into some

01:00:33.800 joker

01:00:34.440 situation,

01:00:35.160 right?

01:00:35.600 And it's

01:00:35.980 going to

01:00:36.140 happen quickly.

01:00:38.220 On the

01:00:38.900 other hand,

01:00:40.200 on the

01:00:41.240 other hand,

01:00:42.920 that's less

01:00:43.800 of a problem

01:00:44.500 in my

01:00:45.100 opinion than

01:00:46.820 a public

01:00:47.440 lynching of

01:00:48.460 anybody.

01:00:48.900 it wouldn't

01:00:50.700 matter if

01:00:51.160 it's two

01:00:51.860 white police

01:00:52.380 officers,

01:00:54.060 certainly.

01:00:55.780 Well,

01:00:56.060 let me put

01:00:56.640 it in the

01:00:57.000 starkest

01:00:57.440 terms.

01:00:58.480 If you

01:00:58.840 were to

01:00:59.080 say,

01:00:59.440 what's

01:00:59.640 worse?

01:01:01.000 The police

01:01:01.600 do a

01:01:01.940 call out

01:01:02.540 and they

01:01:03.040 allow some

01:01:03.580 crime to

01:01:04.440 be rampant

01:01:04.980 and could

01:01:05.320 affect a

01:01:05.740 lot of

01:01:06.000 people.

01:01:06.740 People

01:01:07.000 could die.

01:01:08.400 Probably

01:01:08.720 multiple

01:01:09.400 people could

01:01:09.920 die just

01:01:10.880 because there's

01:01:11.380 less police,

01:01:12.180 although they

01:01:12.720 don't really

01:01:13.040 stop people

01:01:13.560 from killing

01:01:14.200 because they

01:01:15.120 get there

01:01:15.440 after the

01:01:15.900 killing is

01:01:16.340 done.

01:01:16.540 So maybe

01:01:16.920 it wouldn't

01:01:17.200 be that

01:01:17.520 much

01:01:17.720 difference

01:01:18.060 in terms

01:01:19.020 of killing,

01:01:19.540 but there

01:01:19.720 would certainly

01:01:20.080 be a lot

01:01:20.480 more property

01:01:21.060 damage.

01:01:21.580 I think

01:01:21.780 that's

01:01:22.140 fair to

01:01:23.220 say.

01:01:24.580 So let's

01:01:25.100 say all

01:01:25.580 of that

01:01:25.880 property

01:01:26.300 damage and

01:01:27.120 maybe extra

01:01:27.860 violence,

01:01:28.460 et cetera,

01:01:28.960 of the

01:01:29.820 police not

01:01:30.500 going to

01:01:30.940 work and

01:01:31.500 calling out.

01:01:32.800 Compare that.

01:01:33.860 Would that

01:01:34.180 be worse

01:01:34.760 than lynching

01:01:37.300 a black

01:01:37.940 person in

01:01:39.620 public with

01:01:41.820 the, let's

01:01:42.600 say, the

01:01:42.920 authority of

01:01:43.600 the government

01:01:44.120 of the

01:01:44.480 United States?

01:01:45.300 which one's

01:01:46.900 worse?

01:01:48.240 No contest.

01:01:50.420 Lynching a 0.99

01:01:51.220 black person

01:01:51.940 in public

01:01:52.680 under the

01:01:54.020 authority of

01:01:55.580 the United

01:01:56.000 States in

01:01:56.720 a way that

01:01:57.220 it's obvious

01:01:57.780 to the

01:01:58.300 viewer that

01:01:59.400 it's an

01:01:59.780 illegitimate,

01:02:01.400 any penalty

01:02:02.140 would be

01:02:02.620 illegitimate and

01:02:03.440 lynching, of 0.99

01:02:03.940 course, would

01:02:04.240 be the

01:02:04.520 worst of

01:02:06.060 the worst.

01:02:07.740 So if it

01:02:10.260 were a black

01:02:10.740 person being

01:02:11.320 lynched by

01:02:12.700 the government,

01:02:13.360 I think we'd

01:02:14.880 all agree,

01:02:15.660 it doesn't

01:02:15.880 matter what

01:02:16.260 color you

01:02:16.740 are, we'd

01:02:17.140 all agree,

01:02:17.760 like, okay,

01:02:18.320 that, that's

01:02:20.020 my top

01:02:20.460 priority.

01:02:22.040 All right, that

01:02:22.620 can't happen.

01:02:24.480 Like, I'm

01:02:25.460 going to stop

01:02:25.960 everything for

01:02:26.740 that.

01:02:27.540 Do I care

01:02:28.060 about climate

01:02:28.680 change if the

01:02:30.300 government is

01:02:31.220 publicly lynching

01:02:32.580 a black

01:02:33.000 person?

01:02:34.580 No.

01:02:35.660 I don't care

01:02:36.480 about climate

01:02:37.060 change.

01:02:37.880 I don't even

01:02:38.480 care if I think

01:02:39.100 climate change

01:02:39.720 was going to

01:02:40.160 destroy the

01:02:40.680 whole frickin'

01:02:41.160 world.

01:02:41.980 At the

01:02:42.560 moment, it's

01:02:43.900 not my

01:02:44.280 biggest problem.

01:02:46.040 At the

01:02:46.440 moment, my

01:02:47.240 biggest problem

01:02:47.780 is that the

01:02:48.260 government is

01:02:48.920 lynching

01:02:49.440 citizens based

01:02:50.960 on their skin

01:02:51.680 color in

01:02:52.440 public, and

01:02:53.460 they're not

01:02:53.780 even hiding

01:02:54.320 it.

01:02:55.360 That's my

01:02:56.080 biggest fucking

01:02:56.660 problem.

01:02:57.880 All right?

01:02:58.400 So do I care

01:02:59.560 that the

01:03:00.140 citizens of

01:03:01.580 Atlanta are

01:03:02.440 unprotected?

01:03:03.720 Yes.

01:03:05.200 Yes.

01:03:06.500 I care a lot.

01:03:08.000 I don't want

01:03:08.440 any innocent

01:03:09.500 people of

01:03:10.320 any type

01:03:11.200 anywhere to

01:03:12.840 be victimized.

01:03:13.900 Who does?

01:03:14.940 Right?

01:03:16.160 But still, as

01:03:18.020 enormous as

01:03:19.040 that problem

01:03:19.620 is, at least

01:03:20.380 in our minds,

01:03:21.220 of lack of

01:03:22.520 police in a

01:03:24.100 city that has

01:03:24.760 some crime

01:03:25.840 potential, as

01:03:27.360 big as that

01:03:28.000 is, it's

01:03:29.380 nothing compared

01:03:31.320 to lynching

01:03:32.200 somebody with

01:03:33.880 government approval

01:03:34.920 in public.

01:03:36.580 It's not even

01:03:37.180 close.

01:03:37.640 So, I

01:03:39.440 support the

01:03:39.960 police doing

01:03:40.460 the walkout

01:03:41.060 if that's

01:03:41.580 what it

01:03:41.880 takes to

01:03:43.400 move forward

01:03:45.080 their side

01:03:46.040 of the

01:03:47.200 debate.

01:03:48.400 Do I

01:03:49.080 think that

01:03:49.540 the police

01:03:50.020 should be

01:03:51.600 innocent of

01:03:52.300 their crimes?

01:03:53.080 I will hold

01:03:53.920 my opinion on

01:03:54.700 that, because

01:03:55.840 I think there's

01:03:56.420 a lot more

01:03:57.180 to find out.

01:03:58.520 And it could

01:03:59.080 be, but

01:04:00.020 there's something

01:04:00.460 I don't know

01:04:00.960 that changes

01:04:01.400 my opinion.

01:04:01.920 But, I

01:04:03.460 will take

01:04:03.840 what I'll

01:04:04.140 call the

01:04:04.460 Jesse Waters

01:04:05.180 view of

01:04:07.080 that event,

01:04:08.560 that when

01:04:09.680 the gentleman

01:04:12.140 who got

01:04:12.600 killed aimed

01:04:14.620 the taser at

01:04:15.620 the cop's

01:04:16.140 head, if

01:04:18.120 that taser

01:04:18.760 had hit the

01:04:19.300 cop, the

01:04:20.580 cop's gun

01:04:21.300 would have

01:04:22.020 been in

01:04:22.340 play.

01:04:23.700 We don't

01:04:24.320 know necessarily

01:04:25.020 he would have

01:04:25.460 dropped it.

01:04:26.020 We don't know

01:04:26.440 necessarily that

01:04:27.940 the person with

01:04:29.120 the taser would 0.85

01:04:29.880 have picked it

01:04:30.300 up.

01:04:30.520 We don't

01:04:30.820 know that he

01:04:31.240 would have

01:04:31.480 used it if

01:04:32.200 he did pick

01:04:32.600 it up.

01:04:33.700 But you don't

01:04:34.360 need to know

01:04:34.880 any of that.

01:04:36.000 You just need

01:04:36.600 to know that

01:04:37.060 the risk has

01:04:37.880 moved from

01:04:38.560 smallish to

01:04:39.760 holy hell, we

01:04:41.020 could die.

01:04:42.220 As soon as

01:04:42.780 that risk went

01:04:43.500 to, you just

01:04:45.680 made a play

01:04:46.200 for my gun,

01:04:48.260 well, then I

01:04:49.580 say let's let

01:04:51.300 the legal system

01:04:52.080 look at that and

01:04:52.800 see what it

01:04:53.760 does.

01:04:54.200 All right, I've

01:04:54.840 talked enough

01:04:55.280 for today.

01:04:56.280 Is there any

01:04:56.580 news that I

01:04:57.040 missed that

01:04:57.600 matters?

01:05:00.520 There's

01:05:01.080 something on

01:05:01.520 DACA happening 0.70

01:05:02.220 but I haven't

01:05:02.740 read into that

01:05:03.300 yet.

01:05:04.660 Roberts

01:05:05.260 cast a swing

01:05:06.120 vote as

01:05:07.020 the Supreme

01:05:08.420 Court upholds

01:05:09.380 Obama-era DACA

01:05:10.840 program.

01:05:12.500 Okay, so

01:05:13.660 basically it's a

01:05:17.160 ruling that says

01:05:17.800 we're not going

01:05:18.200 to change anything

01:05:18.860 in that regard.

01:05:19.860 So it's news

01:05:21.000 but it's news

01:05:22.360 that there isn't

01:05:23.180 going to be a

01:05:23.580 news, I guess.

01:05:25.020 All right, that's

01:05:25.540 it for now and

01:05:26.160 I will talk to

01:05:26.700 you later.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 18, 2020

Episode 1031 Scott Adams： News. Lots of it.

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