Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1038 Scott Adams： I Reclaim my Freedom of Speech Today. Sorry About You Losing Yours

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00:00:16.020 Hey, everybody.

00:00:18.200 Guess what?

00:00:20.740 A lot of people ask me,

00:00:23.200 Scott, when will you do the best periscope you will ever do?

00:00:28.320 When does that happen?

00:00:30.000 Today. It's today. Yeah, the best periscope I'll ever do. It's today.

00:00:38.160 And before we start, is there something we do before we get to the good part?

00:00:46.520 Yeah, yeah, there is. It's called the simultaneous sip.

00:00:49.980 And look at me. I'm back. I've got my notes. I can do it right.

00:00:55.980 All you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:01:07.580 Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

00:01:12.340 And join me now for the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, including racism, including the pandemic, pretty much everything.

00:01:23.860 It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go.

00:01:33.720 Well, allow me to make your day a little bit better.

00:01:38.400 And it goes like this.

00:01:39.600 Many of you have contacted me, privately in many cases, and said some version of this.

00:01:50.600 Scott, I'm afraid the world is, or at least the United States, is coming apart.

00:01:57.280 Revolution is coming. The Marxists are gaining power.

00:02:01.280 There is a racial strife.

00:02:03.060 And everything's bad, and we're all going to die.

00:02:07.880 Some version of that.

00:02:10.420 And I would like to give you some perspective.

00:02:14.620 Based on the fact that I'm old.

00:02:17.440 Yeah, you would think there would be not that many benefits of being old.

00:02:21.920 Boy, would you be wrong.

00:02:23.100 I've got to tell you, the most surprising thing about becoming my age, I'm 63 now.

00:02:33.300 The most surprising thing is that while there are obvious disadvantages, and everybody would know what those are, physical, etc.

00:02:42.000 There are way more advantages than you would ever imagine ahead of time.

00:02:47.980 You just couldn't imagine.

00:02:49.020 And one of them is that I've been through this before a lot of times.

00:02:56.120 This thing that looks like it's the end of the world, I've seen this a lot.

00:03:01.860 But if you're younger, you haven't.

00:03:03.960 Or if you just hadn't been paying attention to the news until now, you haven't.

00:03:08.640 Now, why does it seem worse this time?

00:03:11.800 Why does it seem so much worse?

00:03:13.880 It's because the media changed its business model from telling you the facts to getting you worked up and getting you worried.

00:03:25.800 So you are part of a system, social media plus the news business, which absolutely, and there's no exaggeration here,

00:03:34.580 nothing I say should even be slightly hyperbolic.

00:03:38.100 These are facts that are established.

00:03:41.380 The left agrees, the right agrees, every researcher, everything I'm going to say is 100% agreed by everybody.

00:03:48.920 There will be no facts which you say,

00:03:51.580 Well, Scott, I'm questioning that part of your assumption.

00:03:55.160 You won't.

00:03:56.340 The next thing I say, you'll agree with completely.

00:03:58.600 The business model of social media and of the news is different than it used to be.

00:04:06.860 And it's different in the sense that they're intentionally promoting content that gets you worked up.

00:04:16.760 So here's the first thing you need to know.

00:04:18.820 If you can just, for a moment, do this exercise.

00:04:22.880 This is a real thing.

00:04:23.800 But imagine yourself in your body, right, wherever you are.

00:04:28.400 You are yourself.

00:04:30.380 All right?

00:04:30.760 You are yourself and how you feel.

00:04:33.320 And just feel that.

00:04:34.340 Like, look around and say,

00:04:36.080 All right, this is me.

00:04:37.000 I'm in my body, in the world.

00:04:40.240 Now do this.

00:04:41.580 Take your imagination and arise out of your body and literally float above it.

00:04:47.000 And just in your mind's eye, see yourself getting smaller and smaller as you get higher and higher and away from the earth.

00:04:53.800 And now that you've got some distance, in your mind's eye, you're like a satellite looking down on the earth.

00:05:00.560 And it's just this big ball of nonsense.

00:05:03.900 And now, with a little bit of distance, ask yourself this.

00:05:07.680 Do you think that your opinions about the news are objective?

00:05:13.000 Or do you think that you have been manipulated by the highest level of science we've ever applied to manipulating the human mind?

00:05:25.020 That's what social media is.

00:05:26.800 And it's what the news business becomes by testing and then retesting until they know what works and what doesn't.

00:05:34.000 So, from the perspective of space, you can look down and you can see yourself.

00:05:42.940 And now you can see yourself as part of that system.

00:05:46.720 And as you see yourself from above, objectively now looking at yourself, you can see all the forces attacking you.

00:05:54.520 Every time you turn on Twitter, look at Facebook, turn on the news, and you can see all those forces now.

00:06:00.900 They're almost physical.

00:06:02.200 You can almost see a line from those entities to you.

00:06:05.800 And these lines are affecting you.

00:06:08.420 They have to.

00:06:09.560 You're affected by everything.

00:06:11.260 You're affected by bad news, good news, events, successes, failures.

00:06:15.960 You know you're affected by all of it.

00:06:17.600 And now the most effective, scientifically honed, precise technology is being directed right at your brain.

00:06:27.700 And you can see the lines, these lines of influence now in your imagination.

00:06:32.800 They're physical now.

00:06:34.200 It's not just a thought is not invisible now.

00:06:37.120 Now you can see it.

00:06:38.400 You see yourself.

00:06:39.380 You're small.

00:06:40.340 You see the lines coming in from all the forces.

00:06:43.200 They're the ones that are programming you.

00:06:44.900 There's something I've been saying for a while that you've heard and you understood, but you didn't really understand it until I took you to space.

00:06:59.040 And you got to look down, and you can actually see the lines of influence now.

00:07:03.880 And here's the thing that you didn't understand before.

00:07:07.720 Your opinions are assigned to you.

00:07:12.040 Your opinions are not your own thoughts.

00:07:16.620 Your opinions on the big stuff, the political stuff, your opinions are assigned to you.

00:07:24.060 That wasn't always the case.

00:07:27.180 Before, when the forces of manipulation were weak, we did not have the science to know how to do it so perfectly and so strongly.

00:07:35.580 You had a little bit of freedom because you were not being controlled by external forces so much.

00:07:42.740 Of course, you always had illegitimate media throughout history, but it wasn't that big a force.

00:07:48.420 Maybe you didn't even think about these things too much.

00:07:51.640 So here's what you need to know.

00:07:54.320 There are real problems in the world, but have always been.

00:07:58.660 There are real problems in the world now, as enormous as you think they are, are actually quite small by historical perspective.

00:08:09.760 As big as this is, protests across the country, coronavirus, the economy, these are real problems.

00:08:19.320 There are absolutely 100% real problems that are really just this big.

00:08:26.400 There are some of the smallest problems in the history of humankind.

00:08:31.600 You are experiencing the best of times that the media has told you are the worst.

00:08:37.520 Now, when I say the best of times, I don't mean the current few months, which are difficult by any standards.

00:08:44.040 Those are real problems, but they're not real problems that are real big compared to what the civilization has handled in the past.

00:08:55.900 Imagine, if you will, the 60s, and young people who were a gigantic part of the population said, revolution.

00:09:05.300 I grew up in a time of revolution.

00:09:08.880 When I was young, we wanted to, not we, not me so much, but young people wanted to overthrow the government.

00:09:16.440 And you had Nixon, who was a criminal.

00:09:18.940 You've had Kennedy, who was assassinated maybe by the mafia.

00:09:22.780 You don't really know.

00:09:24.780 There's never been a time in our history, you know, if you include the civil rights marches, all the violence that came with that,

00:09:32.480 these are way bigger problems.

00:09:35.300 Way bigger problems.

00:09:37.460 And the way you can test this for yourself is look at the way people are talking about them.

00:09:44.700 They're not talking about solutions so much.

00:09:48.280 No.

00:09:50.020 They're talking about it in political terms.

00:09:52.800 That's how you know these are not real problems in the way that they're being presented.

00:09:58.440 They're real problems in the sense that they are problems and they should be solved.

00:10:02.400 You know, police brutality, et cetera.

00:10:05.020 Real problems do need to be solved.

00:10:07.900 But they're not nearly as big as you think they are.

00:10:10.600 And by historical perspectives, kind of easy.

00:10:17.080 Kind of easy.

00:10:18.400 If I were to, let's say, go to another planet, meet another civilization, and they would say,

00:10:24.760 hey, tell us about your problems there on Earth, but give us sort of a historical context.

00:10:31.140 And I'd say, well, you know, you've got your mass starvation throughout history and the wars and the nuclear bombs falling on people,

00:10:40.640 World War I, World War II, and then the alien would say, all right, all right, you're scaring me.

00:10:45.760 Those are really some big problems.

00:10:48.080 And you say, are you kidding?

00:10:49.140 I haven't gotten started.

00:10:50.240 We got the Korean War.

00:10:51.660 Then we went to Vietnam for no good reason.

00:10:54.040 We went to Iraq, killed a million people for reasons we don't know. 0.99

00:10:57.580 And the alien says, man, you're getting me depressed.

00:11:01.300 Fast forward to the future.

00:11:02.560 Like, is it still that bad?

00:11:05.860 Is it still that bad?

00:11:07.180 And now, of course, you've been hypnotized back on Earth.

00:11:09.980 So here's how you answer.

00:11:11.420 Is it that bad?

00:11:12.640 Are you kidding me?

00:11:14.840 In 2020, it's so bad, people are destroying statues.

00:11:20.720 And the alien says, well, I'm a little confused now because you were telling me about world wars and nuclear bombs.

00:11:27.980 And now you're talking about a statue being defaced.

00:11:32.560 Not really the same.

00:11:36.840 Now, I know that some of you are saying, Scott, Scott, Scott, how naive are you?

00:11:40.780 Do you not know that this is a clever plan by the Marxists?

00:11:44.580 The Marxists are controlling Black Lives Matter. 0.55

00:11:47.000 The Marxists are controlling Antifa.

00:11:49.500 And what they're doing, you think it's just some statue stuff?

00:11:53.500 Oh, Scott, Scott, Scott.

00:11:55.760 What you don't realize is this is step one, a necessary plan.

00:11:59.440 It's all been scripted and planned.

00:12:01.080 And it goes like this.

00:12:03.120 First, we will suppress your free speech.

00:12:05.400 Then we will get rid of all your symbols that make you what you think you are.

00:12:11.020 And once we've dismantled all of your symbolism and your hope and your free speech,

00:12:16.960 then we move to the next level of control.

00:12:21.640 Maybe.

00:12:23.300 Maybe.

00:12:23.740 When was the last time something that sounded like that really happened?

00:12:30.120 When was the last time anything that sounded even vaguely like that?

00:12:36.240 You know what I'm talking about, right?

00:12:38.080 Just sort of vaguely, sort of like that.

00:12:41.880 When has that ever really played out?

00:12:44.960 How about never?

00:12:47.060 How about never?

00:12:47.700 Are you worried about gun confiscation?

00:12:51.840 We just sold the most guns that have ever been sold in the history of humankind in the last three months.

00:12:59.240 Do you know what the biggest conversation among civilians who don't have guns is?

00:13:05.100 When they're going to get their gun.

00:13:06.740 I don't know anybody who doesn't have a gun who in the last three months didn't say,

00:13:13.600 I'm going to get a gun.

00:13:15.060 Nobody.

00:13:15.720 I haven't heard a single person who was gunless who didn't say,

00:13:20.300 I'm going to get me a gun now.

00:13:22.520 Now I'm getting a gun.

00:13:24.840 All right.

00:13:25.800 So we are very bad at predicting where things are going to go.

00:13:30.680 But the big point is things are not nearly as bad as you think.

00:13:36.740 Now, here's a little red pill for you that I tweeted.

00:13:40.820 The only reason we don't treat social media as a national mental health crisis.

00:13:47.100 You would agree, right?

00:13:48.940 Social media has created a national mental health crisis.

00:13:54.700 Is that statement even a little bit controversial?

00:13:58.640 It's not, is it?

00:14:00.200 Wouldn't you say that science pretty much backs that up 100%?

00:14:04.560 I don't even think there's any dissent.

00:14:06.740 I doubt anybody on the left or anybody on the right,

00:14:10.820 anybody educated, anybody uneducated,

00:14:13.960 would disagree with the statement,

00:14:16.300 social media is a national mental health crisis.

00:14:20.560 But why don't we treat it that way?

00:14:23.440 Do you know why we don't treat it that way?

00:14:26.220 Because the things we think are important,

00:14:29.000 and the way we think about them,

00:14:30.640 is controlled by social media.

00:14:32.160 Social media tells you not to worry about social media destroying your mental health.

00:14:38.880 Now, I don't say that they don't tell you that.

00:14:42.460 What they do is,

00:14:44.920 either consciously or unconsciously,

00:14:46.760 it's the effect of the system,

00:14:48.940 is that it's not the biggest issue we're talking about.

00:14:53.080 Somebody says Germany, 1930s.

00:14:55.100 Germany, 1930s, had so many differences

00:14:58.260 that that analogy is rejected.

00:15:04.220 And by the way,

00:15:05.340 if you have to go to the Hitler analogy,

00:15:09.080 to debunk my point,

00:15:11.620 you've already lost.

00:15:13.160 That rule is 100% solid.

00:15:20.680 If your only argument is a Nazi analogy,

00:15:24.280 you have self-immolated.

00:15:27.640 You've lost your argument before you started.

00:15:30.800 All right.

00:15:31.080 I was asked on Twitter today

00:15:38.400 to comment on Joe Biden's decency theme.

00:15:44.360 So I guess Joe Biden is sort of branding his campaign

00:15:48.820 as one based on decency

00:15:51.680 and words of that type.

00:15:55.040 And here's my take on that.

00:15:57.360 Nobody wants decency.

00:15:58.840 Decency is the sort of thing you say in public.

00:16:04.940 It's not anything you care about.

00:16:07.460 If you put a microphone in my face

00:16:10.420 and you put a camera on me and say,

00:16:13.500 Scott, you're going to be on national television.

00:16:16.040 Tell us some things you think are important.

00:16:18.500 I'll look right in the camera and I'll say,

00:16:20.380 I think we need to restore decency in America.

00:16:26.080 And then you turn the camera off

00:16:27.760 and I go home and Christina says,

00:16:31.300 you know, I've never heard you talk about decency before.

00:16:33.980 Is that like one of your top priorities?

00:16:37.180 And I'll say, no.

00:16:40.220 I haven't even thought about that once in my entire life.

00:16:43.380 Not once if I woke it up and say, you know,

00:16:47.000 decency would be good.

00:16:48.320 Somebody is using Hong Kong as an example of,

00:16:52.880 you know, the slippery slope.

00:16:55.300 Nope.

00:16:56.060 Hong Kong was doomed on the day that they signed their original agreement

00:17:00.840 with Great Britain to be Hong Kong

00:17:03.280 because the agreement itself said that it would return to China.

00:17:08.160 Hong Kong never had a chance.

00:17:09.700 There's nothing like Hong Kong.

00:17:13.080 Hong Kong had no chance of permanently being independent

00:17:16.980 because of the geography and power.

00:17:19.980 There wasn't anything that could have stopped that from happening.

00:17:23.080 And while we can not like it,

00:17:25.600 we also can't stop it.

00:17:26.920 So I would say that Joe Biden's decency angle

00:17:32.500 doesn't hit any emotional lever.

00:17:36.820 And so it's just sort of dead on arrival.

00:17:39.660 It's the sort of thing you'd say

00:17:41.020 if you just don't want to cause any trouble.

00:17:44.640 Joe, say something that just,

00:17:46.900 it's easy to understand

00:17:49.560 and people will not mock you for it too much

00:17:53.860 because it's just sort of basic.

00:17:56.180 But it won't get anybody excited in any way whatsoever.

00:17:59.980 What would that be?

00:18:01.060 Well, America's going to return to decency.

00:18:04.780 All right.

00:18:05.680 That's as close to nothing as an opinion could be.

00:18:12.440 And if Joe Biden is serious about returning to decency,

00:18:16.960 you would think he would be speaking a little bit more

00:18:19.840 about destruction of public property,

00:18:22.020 looting and violence in general.

00:18:26.100 But I don't hear that.

00:18:27.380 I don't hear him being against decency

00:18:31.280 unless it's directed, of course,

00:18:33.580 at his political rival.

00:18:36.420 Speaking of Joe Biden,

00:18:39.020 there was a little news item.

00:18:41.820 Did you catch it?

00:18:43.080 There was a little small news item yesterday

00:18:44.920 that apparently the smoking gun has been found

00:18:48.340 that he's one of the key architects of a coup

00:18:50.720 against the legally elected president of the United States,

00:18:55.020 President Trump.

00:18:56.720 Oh, yeah.

00:18:57.600 That's a little bit of news.

00:18:59.880 Now, any news like this is subject to re-evaluation

00:19:04.320 and finding out it's all wrong 48 hours later.

00:19:07.020 So I remind you of that.

00:19:08.720 But at the moment,

00:19:11.000 it seems that a Peter Strzok memo

00:19:13.920 suggests that Biden was the first one

00:19:19.440 to float the idea of using the Logan Act

00:19:22.680 against wrongly accused General Flynn.

00:19:27.580 Now, it's in the note.

00:19:32.020 Now, does that mean it's true?

00:19:34.000 Well, you can't know that the note

00:19:36.480 accurately represented the actual meeting.

00:19:41.760 So there's always that uncertainty.

00:19:43.760 But you're going to believe it.

00:19:46.660 I mean, if it's on the note,

00:19:47.800 you're going to treat it like it was true.

00:19:49.580 And given that we all understand

00:19:55.220 the Logan Act is transparent bullshit,

00:19:58.360 by the way, I would like to introduce a term today.

00:20:03.760 There are lots of excuses for things

00:20:07.280 and rationales for things that you might call bullshit.

00:20:12.120 But the Logan Act,

00:20:15.380 as a means of getting at General Flynn,

00:20:17.840 might be the bullshittiest thing

00:20:21.460 that anybody ever came up with in the world.

00:20:24.320 There's bullshit.

00:20:26.140 And then there's bullshit.

00:20:28.100 And then there's whatever would be

00:20:30.060 the bullshittiest thing

00:20:31.360 anybody could ever think of or do.

00:20:34.120 And it would be using the thoroughly

00:20:35.840 unconstitutional,

00:20:38.880 hasn't been tested,

00:20:39.960 but it's clearly unconstitutional,

00:20:42.120 Logan Act.

00:20:42.820 The idea that an American citizen,

00:20:45.260 especially one who's in the

00:20:47.420 incoming administration,

00:20:49.260 can't have a conversation

00:20:50.440 with a member of another country.

00:20:53.900 So whoever came up with the idea

00:20:56.620 of the Logan Act

00:20:57.660 as their way at Flynn

00:21:00.800 is clearly the person

00:21:04.780 who kicked off the coup,

00:21:07.060 wouldn't you say?

00:21:08.160 I would say that Biden

00:21:09.360 has been identified now

00:21:10.900 as the co-conspirator

00:21:12.500 with Obama

00:21:13.600 of the coup.

00:21:15.160 Now,

00:21:15.840 will that ever be

00:21:17.280 American history?

00:21:18.980 Let me ask you this.

00:21:20.180 Who writes history?

00:21:22.560 Well,

00:21:23.200 you think history

00:21:24.060 is written by the winners.

00:21:25.940 And that's true

00:21:26.620 in a national sense.

00:21:29.160 You know,

00:21:29.420 if a country

00:21:30.540 beats another country

00:21:32.620 in war,

00:21:33.300 then the winning country

00:21:34.460 gets to write the history.

00:21:35.520 But what about

00:21:36.720 a history

00:21:38.080 that's disputed

00:21:39.140 within the country?

00:21:40.980 It has nothing

00:21:41.940 to do with another country.

00:21:44.200 Do you think

00:21:44.740 history will show

00:21:46.020 that,

00:21:47.280 based on Strzok's note,

00:21:49.100 that we could determine

00:21:50.100 that Obama

00:21:51.540 and Biden

00:21:52.360 conspired

00:21:53.360 to use

00:21:53.840 a transparently

00:21:54.880 bogus,

00:21:56.100 bullshittiest

00:21:57.080 excuse, 0.89

00:21:58.880 the Logan Act,

00:21:59.740 which,

00:22:00.040 by the way,

00:22:00.560 there's nobody

00:22:01.300 who thinks

00:22:01.740 that's a real thing

00:22:02.580 in terms of

00:22:03.840 something that

00:22:04.580 should be

00:22:05.180 or could be,

00:22:07.100 you know,

00:22:07.800 something that

00:22:09.040 somebody would

00:22:09.440 go to jail for.

00:22:12.140 And if it's true,

00:22:14.640 and this is also

00:22:15.800 in the handwritten

00:22:16.780 note from Strzok,

00:22:17.760 that Obama said,

00:22:19.320 make sure you use

00:22:20.180 the right people.

00:22:21.920 What's that mean?

00:22:23.720 What's it mean

00:22:24.660 when the president

00:22:25.540 says to a subordinate,

00:22:27.320 make sure you use

00:22:28.500 the right people?

00:22:30.560 Because

00:22:31.080 if he meant

00:22:32.640 use your best

00:22:33.720 people,

00:22:35.040 seems like

00:22:36.780 he would have

00:22:37.100 said that,

00:22:38.540 can't read his mind.

00:22:40.360 I,

00:22:40.760 you know,

00:22:41.440 we're deeply

00:22:42.900 involved in

00:22:43.600 mind reading

00:22:44.200 here because

00:22:46.120 it's necessarily

00:22:47.200 important because

00:22:48.100 the intentions

00:22:48.720 of the people

00:22:49.360 are the whole story.

00:22:51.500 If you don't

00:22:52.580 understand their

00:22:53.260 intentions,

00:22:54.220 then you don't

00:22:55.000 understand what

00:22:55.600 happened.

00:22:56.520 Because things

00:22:57.340 either accidentally

00:22:58.100 happened or

00:22:58.960 it was a coup

00:22:59.700 against the United

00:23:00.380 States elected

00:23:01.600 president.

00:23:02.040 those are

00:23:03.340 big differences.

00:23:05.260 But I

00:23:06.180 can't,

00:23:07.000 my brain

00:23:08.100 cannot conceive

00:23:08.980 of why you

00:23:09.840 would use

00:23:10.260 the phrase

00:23:10.880 use the

00:23:12.080 right people

00:23:12.660 when what

00:23:14.320 you meant

00:23:14.740 was use

00:23:15.680 your best

00:23:16.140 people.

00:23:16.500 Do you

00:23:18.140 have to say

00:23:18.540 right people

00:23:19.180 if you

00:23:21.160 mean use

00:23:21.740 your A

00:23:22.720 team,

00:23:23.160 use your

00:23:23.440 best people?

00:23:24.520 Doesn't really

00:23:25.240 seem like a

00:23:25.800 phrase you'd

00:23:26.240 use,

00:23:26.540 does it?

00:23:27.020 Now again,

00:23:27.620 can't read his

00:23:28.220 mind.

00:23:29.440 Can't read his

00:23:30.260 mind.

00:23:31.500 But the way

00:23:32.260 this will be

00:23:32.820 received is

00:23:34.980 that we have

00:23:35.840 the smoking

00:23:36.320 gun.

00:23:36.700 it seems

00:23:37.940 now completely

00:23:38.760 clear that

00:23:39.560 Obama and

00:23:40.120 Biden used

00:23:40.780 the power

00:23:41.260 of the

00:23:41.560 government to

00:23:42.900 try to take

00:23:43.860 out a

00:23:44.220 political rival

00:23:44.980 and in this

00:23:46.580 context,

00:23:47.380 taking him

00:23:47.820 out would be

00:23:48.400 literally a

00:23:49.080 coup against

00:23:49.600 the United

00:23:50.020 States.

00:23:51.240 Now,

00:23:51.640 based on what

00:23:52.300 we know

00:23:52.620 today,

00:23:53.540 and again,

00:23:54.040 this could

00:23:54.360 change tomorrow,

00:23:55.180 right?

00:23:55.720 Could change

00:23:56.200 tomorrow.

00:23:57.060 Tomorrow we

00:23:57.720 might find

00:23:58.260 out,

00:23:58.720 oh,

00:23:59.160 he writes

00:23:59.600 notes and

00:24:00.440 he makes

00:24:00.740 stuff up.

00:24:01.920 Maybe we

00:24:02.460 find another

00:24:03.040 Strzok note

00:24:03.780 that is so

00:24:04.460 clearly fake

00:24:05.340 that it

00:24:06.140 makes this

00:24:06.540 one look

00:24:07.060 less credible.

00:24:07.760 Anything can

00:24:08.240 happen,

00:24:08.560 right?

00:24:09.340 So every

00:24:10.140 conclusion is

00:24:10.900 preliminary in

00:24:11.840 today's world.

00:24:13.800 And then it's

00:24:14.520 also revealed

00:24:15.180 that Comey 0.81

00:24:16.060 thought the

00:24:16.540 call with

00:24:17.140 Kislyak,

00:24:18.120 Flynn's call

00:24:18.660 with Kislyak,

00:24:19.380 was fine.

00:24:20.720 So given

00:24:21.400 these three

00:24:21.960 data points,

00:24:23.900 Biden

00:24:24.360 suggesting the

00:24:25.360 Logan Act,

00:24:26.200 Comey saying

00:24:26.840 that the phone

00:24:27.500 call was fine,

00:24:28.360 in other words,

00:24:28.920 obviously no

00:24:30.200 crime,

00:24:31.260 and Obama

00:24:32.380 saying use the

00:24:33.140 right people

00:24:33.660 instead of use

00:24:34.920 highly qualified

00:24:35.640 people or the

00:24:36.640 A-team or the

00:24:37.440 best team,

00:24:38.560 I would say

00:24:39.640 that if you

00:24:40.360 wrote the

00:24:40.860 history of

00:24:41.840 the United

00:24:42.200 States,

00:24:43.320 it should say

00:24:44.160 that the

00:24:45.760 Obama-Biden

00:24:46.440 administration

00:24:47.180 committed

00:24:48.860 essentially an

00:24:51.060 act of

00:24:51.500 treason under

00:24:53.160 the cover of

00:24:55.120 law.

00:24:56.000 So I would

00:24:56.640 call it an

00:24:57.080 act of

00:24:57.460 treason,

00:24:58.000 but under

00:24:58.300 the cover of

00:24:58.940 law,

00:24:59.400 so not

00:24:59.720 technically,

00:25:01.020 or is

00:25:02.060 treason the

00:25:02.500 right word?

00:25:02.840 Whatever it

00:25:03.180 is,

00:25:03.320 when you

00:25:03.540 overthrow the

00:25:04.060 country,

00:25:04.680 your own

00:25:05.080 country.

00:25:06.840 But let me

00:25:07.560 ask you this,

00:25:08.060 do you think

00:25:08.400 the history

00:25:08.900 books will

00:25:09.440 record that?

00:25:11.320 Because I

00:25:12.180 think that's

00:25:12.720 the truth,

00:25:14.240 and let's

00:25:15.580 say it gets

00:25:16.020 confirmed that

00:25:16.900 everything we've

00:25:17.820 heard is actually

00:25:18.600 what happened.

00:25:20.280 The history

00:25:20.860 books will

00:25:21.440 never write

00:25:22.060 that.

00:25:23.020 That will

00:25:23.620 never be

00:25:24.480 your history.

00:25:25.700 And you

00:25:26.060 can watch it

00:25:26.660 in real time,

00:25:28.520 because you're

00:25:29.240 alive now.

00:25:29.920 how long

00:25:32.500 will it

00:25:32.820 take for

00:25:33.260 the history

00:25:33.780 of this

00:25:34.360 period to

00:25:34.860 be written?

00:25:35.840 It's sort

00:25:36.440 of being

00:25:36.880 written as

00:25:37.660 you're alive.

00:25:39.280 So you

00:25:39.740 get to

00:25:40.160 watch the

00:25:41.920 history books

00:25:42.880 being written.

00:25:44.540 Now, just

00:25:45.260 to be clear,

00:25:46.440 there will

00:25:46.720 certainly be

00:25:47.360 published books

00:25:48.980 that make the

00:25:51.040 same statements

00:25:51.820 that I just

00:25:52.400 made.

00:25:53.180 But there

00:25:53.560 will be books

00:25:54.280 that don't

00:25:55.260 make that

00:25:55.640 statement,

00:25:56.100 or say it's

00:25:56.760 BS or hyperbole.

00:25:58.040 But what

00:25:59.460 will we

00:25:59.900 teach in

00:26:00.480 schools?

00:26:03.420 What will

00:26:04.380 high school

00:26:05.580 kids learn?

00:26:06.600 What will

00:26:06.980 college students

00:26:08.020 learn?

00:26:09.020 Will they

00:26:09.560 learn what

00:26:10.940 I just

00:26:11.340 told you?

00:26:12.820 Nope.

00:26:13.880 Not even a

00:26:14.560 slight chance,

00:26:15.240 in my opinion,

00:26:15.820 that they will

00:26:16.300 learn that.

00:26:17.620 All right,

00:26:18.200 let's talk

00:26:18.520 about Bubba

00:26:19.480 Wallace,

00:26:20.100 who, in my

00:26:21.080 opinion, gets

00:26:22.520 cooler every

00:26:23.260 day.

00:26:23.940 So I have a

00:26:24.500 very positive

00:26:25.280 opinion about

00:26:26.200 Bubba

00:26:26.600 Wallace.

00:26:27.040 only limited

00:26:28.480 to the few

00:26:29.560 things I

00:26:29.980 know about

00:26:30.400 him.

00:26:31.780 So I

00:26:32.340 don't like

00:26:32.900 to endorse

00:26:33.500 anybody's

00:26:34.180 complete

00:26:34.660 anything,

00:26:35.900 because God

00:26:36.800 knows what

00:26:37.720 he'll be,

00:26:38.800 what else he's

00:26:39.560 ever done in

00:26:40.040 his life,

00:26:40.600 who knows if

00:26:41.180 I like that

00:26:41.680 or not.

00:26:42.480 But we

00:26:43.540 know he's

00:26:44.060 a very

00:26:44.540 successful

00:26:45.040 athlete,

00:26:45.860 we know

00:26:46.300 he's very

00:26:46.960 charismatic,

00:26:48.440 and we

00:26:49.120 know that he

00:26:49.880 was fooled,

00:26:51.280 essentially,

00:26:51.800 because somebody

00:26:52.340 very credible

00:26:53.160 told him this

00:26:55.000 noose was

00:26:55.560 hanging there,

00:26:56.160 and he

00:26:56.620 believed it.

00:26:57.840 Believing

00:26:58.240 people who

00:26:58.940 are credible

00:26:59.980 is not really

00:27:01.920 a big mistake.

00:27:03.200 It was a big

00:27:04.020 impact, but

00:27:05.660 as mistakes

00:27:06.500 go, I

00:27:08.320 mean, that's

00:27:08.720 such a small

00:27:09.300 mistake, I'm

00:27:09.920 not even sure

00:27:10.400 you'd call it a

00:27:11.040 mistake, really.

00:27:12.900 But here's his

00:27:14.100 statement, and I

00:27:14.820 told you before he

00:27:15.920 issued his

00:27:16.440 statement about

00:27:17.020 this, I told

00:27:19.180 you what form it

00:27:20.040 should take to

00:27:21.060 be perfect, and

00:27:22.660 I think he

00:27:23.140 hit it.

00:27:23.540 So his

00:27:24.780 actual statement

00:27:25.580 is about as

00:27:27.600 perfect as

00:27:29.040 you can play

00:27:30.560 this, and

00:27:31.600 it's almost

00:27:32.860 identical to

00:27:33.640 what I said

00:27:34.260 should be the

00:27:34.880 form.

00:27:35.620 Now, I don't

00:27:36.220 think that

00:27:36.680 anybody listened

00:27:37.400 to me, and

00:27:38.160 therefore that's

00:27:38.840 why they did

00:27:39.240 it.

00:27:39.640 This is a

00:27:40.160 fairly standard

00:27:41.020 thing that a

00:27:41.880 good PR agency

00:27:44.340 would guide you

00:27:45.540 to this, but

00:27:46.160 it's especially

00:27:46.800 well done.

00:27:47.780 So here's the

00:27:48.220 statement, and

00:27:48.620 let me tell you

00:27:49.020 what's good

00:27:49.380 about it.

00:27:49.780 So he

00:27:51.140 starts off by

00:27:51.780 saying it's

00:27:52.240 been an

00:27:52.560 emotional few

00:27:53.240 days.

00:27:54.720 Now, so

00:27:55.900 first of all, he's

00:27:56.540 pacing you, because

00:27:58.680 it was sort of an

00:27:59.600 emotional few

00:28:00.220 days.

00:28:00.580 You've been

00:28:00.840 feeling it, right?

00:28:02.020 When you heard

00:28:02.840 it, maybe you

00:28:03.540 got a little

00:28:03.860 emotional.

00:28:05.040 So he's

00:28:05.760 pacing you.

00:28:06.360 Yeah, he's

00:28:06.820 emotional, you're

00:28:07.520 emotional, good

00:28:09.180 form.

00:28:09.980 So he's pacing

00:28:10.820 the audience.

00:28:11.420 Then he says

00:28:11.800 first off, first

00:28:13.900 off, first

00:28:16.840 off, right?

00:28:17.940 He says

00:28:18.900 first off, so

00:28:20.040 he's signaling,

00:28:21.340 here's the

00:28:21.740 important part.

00:28:23.360 I want to say

00:28:23.860 how relieved I

00:28:24.680 am that the

00:28:25.180 investigation revealed

00:28:26.320 that this wasn't

00:28:27.160 what we feared it

00:28:27.900 was.

00:28:28.840 He wrote, I

00:28:30.200 want to thank my

00:28:30.920 team, NASCAR, and

00:28:31.760 the FBI for

00:28:32.420 acting swiftly and

00:28:34.180 treating this as a

00:28:35.140 real threat.

00:28:36.480 So see what he

00:28:37.160 did.

00:28:38.000 He emphasized that

00:28:39.360 the important

00:28:39.940 thing is how

00:28:40.820 people responded

00:28:41.760 because it was so

00:28:43.220 well-intentioned and

00:28:44.600 really perfect.

00:28:46.460 You know, I'd have

00:28:47.420 to compliment

00:28:48.060 NASCAR.

00:28:49.620 So even though

00:28:50.560 NASCAR, you

00:28:51.580 know, you

00:28:52.600 could say made

00:28:53.200 a mistake, and

00:28:55.480 you'd be right

00:28:56.120 because it's

00:28:56.620 obviously a

00:28:57.260 mistake, but

00:28:59.040 they kind of

00:29:00.320 still came out

00:29:01.060 looking pretty

00:29:01.660 good, meaning

00:29:03.200 that NASCAR, I

00:29:05.860 thought, presented

00:29:07.940 themselves to the

00:29:08.900 world in a very

00:29:09.620 positive way by

00:29:11.480 backing one of

00:29:12.540 their people.

00:29:13.800 Now, you know,

00:29:14.600 you could argue

00:29:15.180 that they're, you

00:29:16.220 know, they're being

00:29:16.940 politically correct,

00:29:18.140 et cetera, but it

00:29:19.560 didn't really play

00:29:20.200 that way.

00:29:21.040 It played more

00:29:22.440 like sincere people

00:29:23.720 who actually care

00:29:25.460 about this, and

00:29:26.340 they care about

00:29:26.860 their teammates,

00:29:27.560 they care about

00:29:28.040 their sport, and

00:29:29.560 actually felt what

00:29:31.500 they did.

00:29:32.140 So I think it was

00:29:32.800 all sincere.

00:29:34.260 All right, so

00:29:34.620 here, so then he

00:29:35.740 goes on, and

00:29:37.120 here's the magic

00:29:37.820 part of this.

00:29:39.400 Wallace says,

00:29:40.140 I think we'll

00:29:41.300 gladly take a

00:29:42.320 little embarrassment.

00:29:44.160 See how he

00:29:44.860 framed it?

00:29:46.020 He framed his

00:29:47.340 role in it

00:29:48.200 perfectly.

00:29:50.760 Perfectly.

00:29:51.800 He did not, he

00:29:53.560 did not say, I

00:29:56.940 mean, basically, he's

00:29:58.540 just saying, here's

00:29:59.900 how to frame me.

00:30:01.520 Frame me as, you

00:30:02.520 know, silly,

00:30:03.080 basically.

00:30:04.100 He said, I think

00:30:04.900 we'll gladly take a

00:30:06.280 little embarrassment

00:30:06.960 over what the

00:30:08.120 alternatives could

00:30:09.000 have been.

00:30:09.940 Ah, that's so

00:30:10.840 good.

00:30:12.040 That's so good.

00:30:13.840 Because, because

00:30:18.740 he frames it as

00:30:20.520 these two choices,

00:30:21.520 a little embarrassment

00:30:22.360 or it could have

00:30:24.180 been this bad

00:30:24.760 thing.

00:30:25.540 Now, there is a

00:30:26.460 third choice, right?

00:30:27.780 A third choice is he

00:30:28.820 made some kind of a

00:30:29.660 boneheaded mistake.

00:30:31.700 But the way he

00:30:32.560 framed it was a

00:30:33.300 little embarrassment.

00:30:34.820 That's really good.

00:30:36.640 Really good

00:30:37.400 communication.

00:30:38.120 really good

00:30:38.880 persuasion.

00:30:40.200 Whoever, whoever

00:30:41.240 advised him, and

00:30:42.480 this is obviously the

00:30:43.540 work of professionals,

00:30:45.060 that, you know, as

00:30:46.040 smart as Wallace

00:30:47.280 appears to be,

00:30:49.240 because he looks, he

00:30:50.820 looks like a smart

00:30:51.460 guy just based on his

00:30:52.480 interviews, he can't

00:30:54.440 come up with this.

00:30:56.140 Right?

00:30:57.560 This is not something

00:30:58.860 that an athlete comes

00:31:00.100 up with unless they

00:31:01.940 really, you know,

00:31:03.780 really had some

00:31:04.300 background in this.

00:31:05.460 This is professional

00:31:06.360 work and it's done

00:31:07.280 well.

00:31:08.120 And then he says,

00:31:10.800 make no mistake,

00:31:12.000 though some will

00:31:12.740 try.

00:31:13.800 This should not

00:31:14.440 detract from the

00:31:15.360 show of unity we

00:31:16.440 had on Monday and

00:31:17.380 the progress we've

00:31:18.220 made as a sport to

00:31:19.780 be more welcoming

00:31:20.640 environment for all.

00:31:22.620 Yes.

00:31:24.260 Perfectly done.

00:31:26.320 Congratulations to

00:31:27.420 Bubba Wallace.

00:31:28.140 my guess.

00:31:29.140 My guess is that his,

00:31:30.200 despite this, I think

00:31:32.520 that his reputation

00:31:34.700 and brand will come

00:31:35.700 out ahead just because

00:31:37.480 of the way he

00:31:37.840 handled it.

00:31:38.680 All right.

00:31:40.660 Apparently, General

00:31:41.480 Flynn can sue the

00:31:43.100 Department of Justice

00:31:44.160 because if his

00:31:46.360 prosecution is

00:31:48.240 continuing to be

00:31:49.260 shown in bad faith,

00:31:50.380 and it looks like the

00:31:51.360 recent ruling by the

00:31:53.260 appeals court

00:31:53.940 demonstrates that the

00:31:55.720 prosecution was in bad

00:31:57.000 faith, like there's

00:31:58.580 enough objective

00:31:59.440 evidence that he can

00:32:00.860 actually sue the

00:32:01.620 Department of Justice

00:32:02.420 to get his six plus

00:32:04.180 million dollars back.

00:32:05.560 How much do you want

00:32:06.600 him to do that?

00:32:07.400 a lot.

00:32:09.220 Some of you do.

00:32:10.360 All right.

00:32:14.440 Let's talk about

00:32:15.520 Kung Flu.

00:32:16.900 So the latest

00:32:18.400 little anti-Trump

00:32:20.420 media is to try to

00:32:21.380 make Kung Flu

00:32:22.360 sound like a

00:32:23.360 super racist thing.

00:32:25.380 And of course, to

00:32:26.140 make it sound racist,

00:32:27.240 you would have to

00:32:27.800 leave out the

00:32:29.180 following obvious

00:32:30.360 fact, which I feel

00:32:34.460 I can speak to as a

00:32:35.940 white person.

00:32:37.400 So as your, let's

00:32:40.340 say, spokesperson

00:32:42.020 for all white

00:32:42.940 people, I just

00:32:44.040 appointed myself, you

00:32:45.080 don't have to like

00:32:45.760 it, but here's what

00:32:47.820 you need to know.

00:32:49.080 I have never met a

00:32:50.600 white person who

00:32:52.640 thought Kung Fu, the

00:32:55.120 actual sport of

00:32:56.060 Kung Fu, was 0.82

00:32:57.800 anything but kind of

00:32:58.820 awesome.

00:33:01.260 Have you?

00:33:02.800 Is there any white 0.93

00:33:04.560 person who thinks

00:33:05.460 that the actual

00:33:06.620 practice of

00:33:07.380 of Kung Fu is

00:33:09.220 anything but kind

00:33:10.100 of awesome?

00:33:11.760 That's it.

00:33:12.740 It's just a positive

00:33:13.660 thing.

00:33:14.440 Like karate, right?

00:33:16.460 Does anybody have a

00:33:17.240 bad opinion of

00:33:18.260 karate?

00:33:18.860 No.

00:33:19.800 How about

00:33:20.420 Judo?

00:33:22.320 Jiu-Jitsu?

00:33:22.840 Do you have any

00:33:24.140 negative feelings

00:33:24.860 about them?

00:33:25.600 No.

00:33:26.620 Not at all.

00:33:27.120 So when I hear

00:33:28.580 Kung Fu, I just

00:33:30.920 have a positive

00:33:31.680 thought about it

00:33:32.480 and the fact

00:33:33.400 that it's

00:33:33.860 associated with

00:33:34.780 its origins and

00:33:36.220 its creation is in

00:33:37.580 Asian countries.

00:33:38.720 Does that make me

00:33:39.740 think less of a

00:33:42.120 country?

00:33:42.680 In fact, I don't

00:33:43.400 even know where I

00:33:43.760 came from.

00:33:44.280 Did China invent 0.94

00:33:45.460 Kung Fu or do I

00:33:46.760 have the wrong

00:33:47.420 country?

00:33:47.760 Probably.

00:33:48.480 That would be

00:33:49.360 typical of me.

00:33:50.380 I am not

00:33:50.760 informed on my

00:33:51.540 Kung Fu.

00:33:52.880 But given that

00:33:53.680 Kung Fu is

00:33:54.640 considered nothing

00:33:55.460 but positive,

00:33:56.520 literally you

00:33:57.040 couldn't find a

00:33:57.600 negative opinion

00:33:58.220 about Kung Fu

00:33:59.320 and it's

00:34:00.800 associated with a

00:34:01.700 certain part of

00:34:02.660 the world, its

00:34:03.220 origin, doesn't

00:34:04.880 that also make

00:34:06.100 that kind of a

00:34:06.960 positive thing for

00:34:07.820 where it came

00:34:08.300 from?

00:34:09.660 So you can try

00:34:12.480 to turn that into

00:34:13.320 a racist thing,

00:34:14.640 but at the very

00:34:15.580 least, Kung Fu

00:34:16.640 would have to be a

00:34:17.520 bad thing to be

00:34:19.420 racist.

00:34:20.220 Otherwise, it's

00:34:21.060 just a, it's a

00:34:22.760 provocative way to

00:34:23.760 call attention as

00:34:24.720 the president does

00:34:25.680 to the origin of

00:34:26.720 it.

00:34:29.020 So as I pinned my

00:34:31.060 tweet today, I've

00:34:32.300 decided to reclaim

00:34:33.460 free speech.

00:34:36.080 Now, as you've

00:34:37.260 noticed, freedom of

00:34:38.420 speech has been

00:34:39.720 narrowed and

00:34:40.340 narrowed by what

00:34:41.820 other people are

00:34:43.000 telling you is

00:34:43.740 polite or

00:34:44.620 appropriate to

00:34:45.400 say.

00:34:46.400 And there have

00:34:47.540 always been words

00:34:48.360 that you wanted to

00:34:49.160 stay away from.

00:34:49.800 For example, the

00:34:51.400 N-word.

00:34:52.600 I personally find

00:34:53.700 that word

00:34:54.160 offensive, and

00:34:55.600 so I don't even

00:34:56.640 like, I don't even

00:34:57.800 know how I could

00:34:58.320 get it out of my

00:34:58.860 mouth.

00:34:59.340 It's like, it's

00:35:00.400 the worst of all

00:35:01.860 words in the

00:35:03.140 entire English

00:35:03.920 language.

00:35:05.280 I think I could

00:35:06.480 say this safely.

00:35:07.420 It's literally the

00:35:08.240 worst word in the

00:35:10.160 English language.

00:35:10.900 language.

00:35:11.460 So if you, let's

00:35:13.160 say, roll back the

00:35:13.980 tape to a few

00:35:14.680 years ago and

00:35:15.380 you say, Scott, do

00:35:17.020 you find yourself

00:35:17.800 oppressed because

00:35:20.080 white people can't 1.00

00:35:21.360 use the N-word?

00:35:22.400 And I would say,

00:35:23.280 no.

00:35:25.920 No.

00:35:27.000 Is that a big

00:35:27.900 ask?

00:35:29.100 Is that like really

00:35:30.520 inconveniencing you

00:35:32.020 that you can't use

00:35:33.560 the worst word in

00:35:34.700 the whole freaking

00:35:35.520 language?

00:35:36.080 the most insulting,

00:35:37.900 demeaning, worst

00:35:38.720 word ever?

00:35:39.900 No.

00:35:40.600 It's no big deal.

00:35:42.120 Now, does that

00:35:42.880 reduce my freedom

00:35:44.080 of speech?

00:35:44.700 Yes.

00:35:45.640 Yes.

00:35:46.620 You know, in a

00:35:47.680 practical sense, not

00:35:48.940 in a government

00:35:49.680 legal sense.

00:35:51.760 But in a practical

00:35:52.560 sense, that word

00:35:53.820 and your freedom to

00:35:55.140 use it in polite

00:35:56.440 society is

00:35:57.800 effectively removed.

00:35:59.340 But you don't

00:36:00.060 really miss it,

00:36:00.840 right?

00:36:01.940 You don't really

00:36:02.460 miss it.

00:36:03.460 So it doesn't

00:36:04.440 bother you.

00:36:04.860 But then more

00:36:07.180 and more things

00:36:07.780 get added and

00:36:08.920 the realm of

00:36:10.280 things you can

00:36:10.860 talk about shrinks 1.00

00:36:11.920 and shrinks and

00:36:12.600 shrinks.

00:36:13.480 And at some

00:36:14.040 point you have to

00:36:14.640 say to yourself,

00:36:15.440 okay, that's far

00:36:16.160 enough.

00:36:17.680 You know, because

00:36:18.480 remember, I always

00:36:19.200 tell you that the

00:36:19.880 slippery slope

00:36:20.800 isn't real because

00:36:23.720 eventually there'll be

00:36:25.020 a counterforce that

00:36:26.160 pops up.

00:36:27.560 Here it is.

00:36:29.380 So I'm one small

00:36:31.060 example of the

00:36:31.840 counterforce.

00:36:33.080 So here's

00:36:33.720 something I

00:36:34.660 tweeted today,

00:36:35.300 which I'm not

00:36:35.960 allowed to say.

00:36:37.880 And that's why I

00:36:38.760 pinned it.

00:36:39.600 Because I'm going

00:36:40.340 to reclaim that

00:36:41.140 space.

00:36:42.300 Now, I'm not

00:36:43.000 going to push all

00:36:43.740 the way back to,

00:36:44.820 I need to say

00:36:45.720 the N-word.

00:36:46.760 There's no other

00:36:47.520 word that can

00:36:48.220 work for me.

00:36:49.260 No.

00:36:50.220 I'm not going

00:36:50.820 to be a jerk. 0.79

00:36:52.540 I have no interest

00:36:53.800 in offending people

00:36:54.740 whatsoever.

00:36:56.140 There's nothing,

00:36:57.200 I don't get any

00:36:57.860 advantage from that.

00:36:59.040 Why would I do it?

00:36:59.720 So without

00:37:01.260 wanting to offend

00:37:02.140 anybody and

00:37:03.540 wanting to be

00:37:04.120 helpful, which I

00:37:05.560 always am, I

00:37:06.960 tweeted this.

00:37:08.280 White privilege is 0.66

00:37:09.500 a racist term.

00:37:11.540 In my opinion,

00:37:12.400 anyone who uses it

00:37:13.460 is either a racist, 0.63

00:37:14.660 an idiot, or an 0.96

00:37:15.340 asshole.

00:37:16.660 But rich privilege

00:37:17.760 is a thing.

00:37:19.200 You know, obviously

00:37:19.760 rich people have

00:37:20.600 privilege.

00:37:22.220 So that's my

00:37:23.500 statement.

00:37:23.820 Now, I would

00:37:24.880 say that maybe

00:37:27.520 a week ago, I

00:37:29.920 would have been

00:37:30.300 canceled for saying

00:37:31.240 this.

00:37:32.340 And I think only

00:37:33.220 one troll has come

00:37:34.200 after me so far.

00:37:35.460 I swatted him 0.98

00:37:36.340 down.

00:37:37.520 But to me

00:37:39.560 personally, the

00:37:41.140 term white

00:37:41.660 privilege, and I

00:37:42.440 think a lot of

00:37:43.320 you would have the

00:37:43.840 same effect, is

00:37:45.160 nothing but racist.

00:37:46.820 Because what it

00:37:47.640 does is it

00:37:48.420 basically throws

00:37:50.100 poor white people

00:37:50.940 under the bus.

00:37:52.280 Now, I'm not a

00:37:53.440 poor white person.

00:37:54.820 Not anymore.

00:37:56.580 I used to be.

00:37:57.660 I used to be a

00:37:58.320 poor white person.

00:37:59.380 But I also had an

00:38:00.460 education.

00:38:01.600 So, you know, I

00:38:03.000 wasn't disadvantaged.

00:38:04.340 I had a way to get

00:38:06.580 money.

00:38:08.100 So just being clear

00:38:09.200 about that.

00:38:10.480 So certainly being

00:38:11.280 educated is an

00:38:12.160 advantage.

00:38:12.760 Being tall is an

00:38:13.800 advantage.

00:38:14.320 Good looking.

00:38:15.080 Healthy.

00:38:16.320 Healthy is an

00:38:17.060 advantage.

00:38:17.520 Where you're born.

00:38:18.300 Who your parents

00:38:18.860 are.

00:38:19.260 Not being a drug

00:38:20.000 addict.

00:38:20.900 Not having mental

00:38:21.860 health problems.

00:38:23.440 We have a world

00:38:24.400 full of advantages.

00:38:25.840 If you're going to

00:38:26.440 pull out my, if

00:38:28.540 you're going to

00:38:28.860 pull out one of

00:38:29.760 them and say, oh,

00:38:30.380 this is the special

00:38:31.200 one.

00:38:31.740 That's the bad

00:38:32.540 one.

00:38:33.400 You know, you

00:38:33.780 can't have that

00:38:34.380 special advantage.

00:38:35.900 Even if you

00:38:36.640 imagine it exists.

00:38:38.600 So, let me be as

00:38:40.260 clear as possible.

00:38:41.660 White privilege is 0.66

00:38:42.800 not imaginary.

00:38:45.420 But everybody has a

00:38:46.620 little bit of

00:38:47.020 privilege for

00:38:47.580 different things.

00:38:48.740 There is also

00:38:49.660 black privilege.

00:38:50.540 What would be an

00:38:52.380 example of black

00:38:53.120 privilege?

00:38:54.180 Well, freedom of

00:38:54.780 speech.

00:38:56.340 Black people have 0.99

00:38:57.160 freedom of speech in

00:38:58.360 a way that white 0.88

00:38:59.000 people simply don't.

00:39:01.200 Nobody, even, you

00:39:02.680 know, I don't think

00:39:03.560 there's even a black

00:39:04.220 person who would

00:39:04.720 disagree with that

00:39:05.360 statement.

00:39:06.440 It is objectively

00:39:07.640 clear that black 1.00

00:39:09.480 people have more

00:39:10.180 freedom of speech.

00:39:12.380 So every, you know,

00:39:13.780 and I don't find

00:39:14.360 myself complaining

00:39:15.180 about it too much.

00:39:16.640 Like, it's just

00:39:17.800 something you notice,

00:39:18.920 but it doesn't

00:39:19.560 really affect your

00:39:20.320 life too much.

00:39:21.460 It's like, oh, yeah,

00:39:22.180 there are a few

00:39:22.480 things you could say

00:39:23.300 that I couldn't

00:39:24.380 say.

00:39:25.500 How much does that

00:39:26.480 affect my life?

00:39:28.000 Not at all.

00:39:28.920 Not at all.

00:39:29.400 It's no big deal.

00:39:31.080 So, do I care that

00:39:33.140 tall people get paid

00:39:34.140 more?

00:39:34.900 Because that's

00:39:35.640 established beyond

00:39:36.840 any doubt.

00:39:37.940 Do I care?

00:39:39.020 Yeah.

00:39:39.840 Yeah, I care.

00:39:41.320 Because that's an

00:39:42.320 advantage I don't

00:39:43.000 have.

00:39:43.640 I wish I did.

00:39:45.380 How about

00:39:45.880 handsome people,

00:39:47.320 strong people,

00:39:48.220 healthy people,

00:39:48.920 people whose

00:39:50.940 parents were

00:39:51.540 awesome, you

00:39:52.760 know, there's a

00:39:53.760 million kinds of

00:39:54.440 advantages.

00:39:55.520 Picking out this

00:39:56.160 one privilege or

00:39:57.540 one advantage that

00:39:58.500 you're being white 0.84

00:39:59.160 doesn't matter if

00:40:01.000 it's true or

00:40:01.720 false, it is

00:40:03.040 just racist.

00:40:04.680 Right?

00:40:05.240 It is racist to

00:40:06.880 talk about white 0.59

00:40:08.180 privilege in

00:40:09.380 exactly the way

00:40:10.280 it's racist to

00:40:11.600 talk about a

00:40:12.300 high crime rate

00:40:13.260 in the black

00:40:13.860 community.

00:40:15.180 Why do white 0.96

00:40:16.380 people cross the

00:40:17.360 road if they

00:40:18.560 say, if they

00:40:19.400 see, let's

00:40:19.980 say, 10

00:40:21.500 black youths,

00:40:23.900 let's say 20

00:40:24.560 somethings, coming

00:40:26.220 the other

00:40:26.620 direction and

00:40:28.080 you don't know

00:40:28.660 what their deal

00:40:29.280 is?

00:40:31.260 Is that

00:40:31.920 racist?

00:40:32.200 every group has

00:40:35.660 their own

00:40:36.060 privilege, and

00:40:38.700 let's just

00:40:39.460 acknowledge it.

00:40:40.560 Why not just say

00:40:41.560 there's lots of

00:40:42.120 privileges, find

00:40:43.100 your advantage and

00:40:44.960 talk about that.

00:40:45.680 So I no longer

00:40:48.440 acknowledge the

00:40:49.200 category of black

00:40:50.440 problems.

00:40:51.740 They're just

00:40:52.140 problems.

00:40:54.200 And by the

00:40:54.800 way, Ed

00:40:55.180 Latimer, I

00:40:56.920 think he pushed

00:40:58.180 me over the

00:40:58.700 edge on this.

00:40:59.920 Do you all know

00:41:01.000 Ed Latimer on

00:41:02.600 Twitter?

00:41:03.760 So he's

00:41:04.300 African-American,

00:41:05.420 but he doesn't

00:41:07.300 buy into the,

00:41:08.320 let's say he's

00:41:09.020 not drinking all

00:41:09.980 the Kool-Aid.

00:41:11.120 So when you

00:41:12.000 see his advice,

00:41:13.280 and that's

00:41:13.540 mostly what his

00:41:14.240 Twitter feed is

00:41:15.200 about, is sort

00:41:15.840 of blunt,

00:41:18.100 truth, advice

00:41:19.460 from his

00:41:21.160 perspective.

00:41:22.120 First of all,

00:41:22.800 his advice is

00:41:23.980 typically brilliant.

00:41:25.120 It's some of

00:41:25.440 the best, most

00:41:26.900 usable, functional

00:41:29.020 way to frame

00:41:31.280 your reality that

00:41:32.160 you'll ever see.

00:41:32.920 So it's really

00:41:33.420 important.

00:41:34.620 And he tweeted

00:41:36.740 the other day,

00:41:37.300 I don't have the

00:41:37.720 exact tweet, but

00:41:38.580 the essence of it

00:41:39.780 was,

00:41:40.540 that your

00:41:41.460 problems aren't

00:41:42.980 special.

00:41:44.680 So this is

00:41:45.520 Ed saying,

00:41:47.040 your problems

00:41:47.700 aren't special.

00:41:48.940 And I wish I

00:41:49.720 had the exact

00:41:50.340 quote, but he

00:41:50.940 said something

00:41:51.460 like,

00:41:54.520 no matter what

00:41:55.980 your problem

00:41:56.500 is, there's

00:41:58.960 somebody in the

00:41:59.640 world who has

00:42:00.300 that same

00:42:00.740 fucked up

00:42:01.220 problem and

00:42:02.500 fixed it.

00:42:05.020 No matter

00:42:05.820 what your

00:42:06.240 problem is,

00:42:07.480 somebody's had

00:42:08.240 that problem

00:42:08.820 and fixed it.

00:42:10.540 Now,

00:42:11.100 that's just

00:42:11.540 the most

00:42:11.860 useful way

00:42:13.740 to see the

00:42:14.240 world that

00:42:15.480 you'll ever

00:42:15.920 know.

00:42:16.980 And it's

00:42:18.140 almost,

00:42:18.900 that's almost

00:42:19.600 a recording

00:42:20.360 that runs in

00:42:21.100 my head all

00:42:21.920 the time and

00:42:22.620 always has since

00:42:23.320 I was a kid,

00:42:24.380 which is,

00:42:26.120 yeah, you've

00:42:26.540 got problems,

00:42:27.920 they're not

00:42:28.380 special,

00:42:29.520 and somebody

00:42:31.080 has had your

00:42:31.960 fucking problem

00:42:32.740 before and

00:42:33.900 they solved it.

00:42:35.360 So how about

00:42:35.960 that?

00:42:36.280 how about

00:42:37.600 maybe you

00:42:38.060 figure out

00:42:38.620 how to

00:42:38.840 solve your

00:42:39.220 problem?

00:42:40.600 So that's

00:42:42.060 my new

00:42:42.640 frame on

00:42:43.620 this.

00:42:44.120 I'm no

00:42:44.680 longer going

00:42:45.140 to have a

00:42:45.460 conversation

00:42:45.980 about fixing

00:42:46.700 black

00:42:47.120 problems,

00:42:47.840 but I'll

00:42:48.540 have lots

00:42:49.060 of conversations

00:42:49.680 about fixing

00:42:50.840 poor people's

00:42:51.760 problems,

00:42:53.180 just people

00:42:53.700 who are

00:42:53.880 poor.

00:42:55.500 If anybody

00:42:57.600 wants to have

00:42:58.140 a conversation,

00:42:59.120 and actually I'm

00:43:00.160 deeply involved

00:43:01.060 in this

00:43:01.500 whole,

00:43:01.720 this category,

00:43:03.280 because I

00:43:03.600 think where

00:43:04.020 this needs

00:43:04.440 to go is

00:43:05.640 lowering the

00:43:06.260 cost of a

00:43:07.300 good life,

00:43:08.500 from housing

00:43:09.640 to energy

00:43:11.080 to your

00:43:11.680 phone bill,

00:43:12.680 just making

00:43:13.280 all that

00:43:13.640 stuff affordable

00:43:15.600 so that somebody

00:43:17.060 who didn't get

00:43:17.700 a great start

00:43:18.400 in life can

00:43:19.780 still get into

00:43:20.820 a good life

00:43:21.520 and then build

00:43:22.580 from there.

00:43:23.460 In other words,

00:43:24.300 if you handled

00:43:25.260 all your basic

00:43:26.040 living requirements

00:43:27.200 at a low

00:43:28.940 income,

00:43:29.900 well,

00:43:30.220 then maybe you

00:43:30.700 can take some

00:43:31.220 classes.

00:43:32.580 Maybe you

00:43:32.940 can work

00:43:33.800 on building

00:43:34.440 your skills

00:43:35.060 and get to

00:43:35.640 the next

00:43:35.960 level.

00:43:37.120 So if you

00:43:37.960 want to work

00:43:38.380 on the

00:43:38.640 problem of

00:43:39.180 how do

00:43:39.440 poor people

00:43:40.160 of any

00:43:40.900 type

00:43:41.340 rise up,

00:43:44.740 I'm all

00:43:45.180 over that.

00:43:46.260 Acknowledging,

00:43:46.880 of course,

00:43:47.740 that as a

00:43:48.280 percentage that

00:43:49.040 would be far

00:43:49.680 more helpful

00:43:50.200 for black

00:43:50.760 people than

00:43:52.000 other groups

00:43:52.640 just because

00:43:53.260 of the way

00:43:53.560 the percentages

00:43:54.160 work.

00:43:55.140 But I

00:43:55.460 don't want

00:43:55.700 to talk

00:43:55.920 about black

00:43:56.640 problems

00:43:57.120 anymore.

00:43:58.880 Now,

00:43:59.620 could I

00:43:59.940 have said

00:44:00.260 that a

00:44:01.220 week ago?

00:44:03.220 No,

00:44:03.620 a week ago

00:44:04.080 that would

00:44:04.420 be considered

00:44:05.000 racist, 0.77

00:44:05.880 and I believe

00:44:06.760 that it will

00:44:07.220 be considered

00:44:07.800 racist today.

00:44:08.960 So I expect

00:44:09.840 I'll get some

00:44:10.380 blowback.

00:44:11.240 But what I'm

00:44:11.760 doing is what

00:44:12.500 some of you

00:44:13.000 can't do.

00:44:14.380 You couldn't

00:44:15.080 have pinned

00:44:15.480 that quote

00:44:16.140 because you

00:44:16.500 would get

00:44:16.760 fired.

00:44:17.080 fired.

00:44:17.820 So the

00:44:18.360 things that I'm

00:44:19.080 going to be

00:44:19.360 saying in

00:44:19.940 the next

00:44:20.300 few weeks

00:44:21.000 are almost

00:44:22.320 entirely things

00:44:23.300 that would

00:44:23.560 get every

00:44:23.960 one of you

00:44:24.420 fired.

00:44:25.300 You don't

00:44:26.080 need to

00:44:26.460 retweet me.

00:44:27.820 Okay?

00:44:28.660 You don't

00:44:29.320 even need to

00:44:29.860 follow me.

00:44:30.640 In fact,

00:44:31.260 it's going to

00:44:31.660 be dangerous

00:44:32.120 to follow me.

00:44:33.320 You might

00:44:34.040 want to

00:44:34.400 unfollow me

00:44:35.160 and just

00:44:36.360 check my

00:44:36.820 Twitter feed

00:44:37.320 if you're

00:44:37.660 interested.

00:44:38.960 So I

00:44:39.740 wouldn't

00:44:40.080 necessarily

00:44:40.840 think it's

00:44:41.520 a good idea

00:44:42.000 to follow me

00:44:42.720 in the coming

00:44:43.680 weeks.

00:44:44.060 But here's

00:44:46.060 what you

00:44:46.700 need to

00:44:46.980 know.

00:44:47.660 Here's the

00:44:48.240 larger picture.

00:44:49.740 I do not

00:44:50.380 have any

00:44:51.100 negative

00:44:51.780 intentions.

00:44:53.240 I'm not

00:44:53.700 trying to

00:44:54.060 hurt anybody.

00:44:55.780 All right?

00:44:56.440 I'm not

00:44:56.800 trying to

00:44:57.160 hurt anybody.

00:44:58.080 I'm not

00:44:58.660 even taking

00:44:59.220 sides.

00:45:01.080 All I'm

00:45:01.800 saying is

00:45:02.400 I'm done

00:45:03.480 with white

00:45:04.000 privilege as

00:45:04.980 being something

00:45:05.500 I will accept

00:45:06.300 as polite

00:45:06.960 conversation.

00:45:07.980 It's just

00:45:08.520 not polite

00:45:09.040 conversation.

00:45:10.680 It has no

00:45:11.300 place in

00:45:12.360 public discourse.

00:45:14.060 If you

00:45:14.540 want to

00:45:14.780 say there

00:45:15.160 is rich

00:45:16.900 person

00:45:17.340 privilege I

00:45:19.220 will agree

00:45:19.800 and I'll

00:45:20.340 say yeah

00:45:20.720 you're talking

00:45:21.120 about me

00:45:21.540 now.

00:45:22.540 Do I

00:45:23.020 have

00:45:23.240 privilege?

00:45:24.180 Hell

00:45:24.460 yes!

00:45:25.420 Are you

00:45:25.860 freaking

00:45:26.280 kidding

00:45:26.620 me?

00:45:27.460 Do you

00:45:27.780 know how

00:45:28.300 much extra

00:45:29.000 privilege you

00:45:29.640 get when

00:45:29.980 you're rich?

00:45:31.200 It's fucking

00:45:31.760 amazing.

00:45:32.960 You should

00:45:33.220 try it.

00:45:33.580 You should

00:45:33.920 do whatever

00:45:35.800 you can to

00:45:36.380 get it because

00:45:36.960 it's so good

00:45:37.600 you won't

00:45:37.900 even believe

00:45:38.420 it.

00:45:39.340 So yeah

00:45:39.680 there's rich

00:45:40.220 privilege and

00:45:41.160 I will do

00:45:41.620 whatever I

00:45:42.360 can that

00:45:43.080 makes sense

00:45:43.800 for my

00:45:44.200 skill set

00:45:44.760 etc.

00:45:45.520 to help

00:45:46.420 poor people

00:45:47.260 whatever they

00:45:48.960 look like

00:45:49.540 to get what

00:45:51.160 I got.

00:45:52.120 I would like

00:45:53.100 poor people

00:45:53.640 to get what

00:45:54.400 I got.

00:45:55.700 Extra freedom.

00:45:57.480 You want some

00:45:57.980 extra freedom?

00:45:59.040 I think I can

00:46:00.080 help.

00:46:01.200 You know that's

00:46:01.540 why I wrote the

00:46:02.120 book How to

00:46:03.040 Fail at Almost

00:46:03.580 Everything and

00:46:04.220 Still Win Big.

00:46:04.940 You will see

00:46:07.040 on Twitter

00:46:07.620 literally every

00:46:08.480 day people

00:46:09.140 refer to that

00:46:09.840 book and

00:46:10.400 say how it

00:46:11.340 changed their

00:46:11.900 life, how

00:46:13.200 they learned

00:46:13.620 how to stack

00:46:14.460 skills, how

00:46:15.260 to use systems

00:46:16.000 instead of

00:46:16.500 goals, pretty

00:46:17.100 simple stuff.

00:46:18.580 But just

00:46:19.220 those simple

00:46:20.060 reframings allowed

00:46:21.280 them to build

00:46:22.500 their life

00:46:23.160 substantially in

00:46:25.180 usually a year

00:46:25.940 or two.

00:46:26.600 Fairly quick

00:46:27.400 results.

00:46:27.960 So I would

00:46:29.580 love those

00:46:30.540 sorts of

00:46:31.520 useful tools

00:46:32.520 to be more

00:46:33.280 widely available

00:46:34.200 to people who

00:46:35.160 need a hand.

00:46:36.340 Whoever they

00:46:36.980 may be.

00:46:38.060 But talking

00:46:39.040 about black

00:46:39.620 problems is

00:46:40.680 just being a

00:46:41.820 sucker to the

00:46:42.840 manipulation of

00:46:44.220 social media and

00:46:45.340 people who are

00:46:46.040 jockeying for

00:46:47.240 power and the

00:46:48.420 political process.

00:46:49.940 I declare myself

00:46:50.940 a free person.

00:46:52.900 I declare myself

00:46:54.000 a free person.

00:46:55.880 I'm free.

00:46:56.420 I don't have

00:46:59.600 to frame it

00:47:00.820 the way you

00:47:01.220 tell me to

00:47:01.660 frame it.

00:47:03.200 I don't care

00:47:03.880 that ignoring,

00:47:06.040 I'm not ignoring

00:47:06.740 it because

00:47:07.460 statistically there's

00:47:08.380 something there.

00:47:09.760 And there are

00:47:10.300 real ripples from

00:47:11.500 slavery.

00:47:12.000 It's all real.

00:47:13.180 It's just not

00:47:13.900 special.

00:47:16.220 That's the

00:47:16.900 difference.

00:47:17.860 The problem is

00:47:18.720 real.

00:47:19.680 It's just not

00:47:20.780 special.

00:47:23.800 So is it my

00:47:24.760 imagination or

00:47:25.640 as Facebook

00:47:26.440 just turned

00:47:27.440 into a digital

00:47:28.820 photo album run

00:47:29.880 by bigots?

00:47:31.900 Why does

00:47:32.680 Facebook stay

00:47:33.440 in business?

00:47:34.520 Have you ever

00:47:34.840 asked yourself

00:47:35.340 that?

00:47:37.220 Because it's

00:47:38.160 sort of weird

00:47:38.760 at this point,

00:47:39.460 isn't it?

00:47:40.560 That Facebook

00:47:41.180 is this

00:47:41.680 gigantically

00:47:42.820 successful,

00:47:45.260 profitable

00:47:45.760 business,

00:47:46.760 and it's

00:47:47.660 nothing but a

00:47:48.300 digital photo

00:47:49.020 album run

00:47:50.760 by bigots.

00:47:51.960 That doesn't

00:47:52.660 even make any

00:47:53.160 sense,

00:47:53.460 does it?

00:47:54.980 And you

00:47:55.600 have to ask

00:47:56.000 yourself,

00:47:56.480 why is this

00:47:57.200 happening?

00:47:58.320 And the

00:47:58.880 answer is kind

00:47:59.420 of dark.

00:48:00.720 I use that

00:48:01.340 word intentionally.

00:48:03.420 There's something

00:48:04.120 very dark

00:48:04.920 happening that

00:48:06.280 allows Facebook

00:48:07.460 even to be a

00:48:08.160 business.

00:48:09.340 And here are a

00:48:09.900 few of the

00:48:10.200 things.

00:48:10.800 Number one,

00:48:11.760 it is a

00:48:14.120 psychological

00:48:15.120 manipulation

00:48:16.140 app.

00:48:17.860 the point

00:48:19.160 of Facebook

00:48:20.980 in terms of

00:48:21.720 what it's

00:48:22.060 doing to

00:48:22.480 you, the

00:48:22.860 user, is

00:48:24.340 it's almost

00:48:24.780 like farming.

00:48:27.000 It's almost

00:48:27.760 like you, the

00:48:29.160 public who

00:48:29.700 uses Facebook,

00:48:30.540 are like the

00:48:31.020 livestock, and

00:48:32.660 they're giving

00:48:33.020 you a little

00:48:33.580 shot of this,

00:48:35.900 little growth

00:48:38.360 hormones and

00:48:39.200 stuff.

00:48:40.060 So basically,

00:48:41.060 you're just

00:48:41.640 this experimental

00:48:42.500 livestock, and

00:48:43.860 Facebook feeds

00:48:44.700 you all this

00:48:45.380 psychological

00:48:46.140 manipulation.

00:48:47.860 And then they

00:48:48.840 can measure how

00:48:49.600 worked up you

00:48:50.580 get about it.

00:48:51.420 Oh, this one

00:48:51.960 got somebody

00:48:52.460 really angry.

00:48:53.740 This is making

00:48:54.540 them really

00:48:54.920 angry.

00:48:55.460 Let's promote

00:48:56.040 that one.

00:48:57.440 Now that we

00:48:58.140 know this makes

00:48:58.700 people angry,

00:48:59.540 we'll put that

00:49:00.380 in the front

00:49:00.840 of the algorithm.

00:49:02.400 So the

00:49:03.020 first thing

00:49:03.460 that's pure

00:49:05.320 evil about

00:49:06.700 Facebook is

00:49:08.100 that it is a

00:49:08.860 psychological

00:49:09.760 manipulation

00:49:11.060 business model.

00:49:14.000 And by the

00:49:14.440 way, I don't

00:49:15.300 think anybody

00:49:15.800 would argue

00:49:16.260 with that

00:49:16.600 characterization.

00:49:17.860 There are

00:49:18.260 people within

00:49:18.960 the company

00:49:19.460 who would

00:49:20.020 agree with

00:49:20.440 that.

00:49:21.280 That's

00:49:21.840 objectively,

00:49:23.420 observably

00:49:24.380 true, that

00:49:25.660 psychological

00:49:27.080 manipulation is

00:49:28.160 the primary

00:49:28.700 thing they

00:49:29.180 do.

00:49:30.740 But then

00:49:31.500 there's the

00:49:31.960 business model

00:49:32.840 of selling

00:49:33.240 advertising.

00:49:35.340 You've

00:49:35.940 probably heard

00:49:36.520 that advertising

00:49:37.180 doesn't work.

00:49:39.420 Now it does

00:49:40.320 in some special

00:49:41.060 cases.

00:49:41.980 But for most

00:49:42.840 people, it just

00:49:43.600 sort of doesn't

00:49:44.160 work.

00:49:44.540 Now I know

00:49:45.440 that because

00:49:45.940 I've advertised

00:49:46.680 lots of

00:49:48.080 stuff, different

00:49:49.580 things from

00:49:50.380 books to

00:49:51.640 restaurants to

00:49:52.920 everything.

00:49:55.080 And so I've

00:49:55.860 seen Facebook

00:49:57.180 ads being used

00:49:58.480 a lot.

00:49:59.540 I've never

00:50:00.140 seen them

00:50:00.540 work.

00:50:01.500 Not once.

00:50:02.860 Now, do you

00:50:03.600 think that the

00:50:04.140 people who buy

00:50:05.160 the ads know

00:50:07.320 it doesn't

00:50:07.820 work?

00:50:08.180 Well, the

00:50:09.780 people who buy

00:50:10.260 the ads, at

00:50:11.080 least the

00:50:11.520 biggest ones,

00:50:12.340 the ones that

00:50:12.820 have the most

00:50:13.600 money, the

00:50:14.100 ones that

00:50:14.400 matter the

00:50:14.780 most, are

00:50:15.540 not the

00:50:15.880 people like

00:50:16.380 me who

00:50:16.880 would buy

00:50:17.160 an ad and

00:50:17.800 test it out,

00:50:18.540 that sort of

00:50:18.920 thing.

00:50:19.360 We're talking

00:50:19.840 about a big

00:50:20.240 corporation who

00:50:21.520 would make a

00:50:21.860 big corporate

00:50:22.460 buy.

00:50:23.720 The way that's

00:50:24.580 done is that

00:50:25.120 there would be

00:50:25.400 an ad agency

00:50:26.300 and the ad

00:50:27.620 agency makes

00:50:28.540 money by

00:50:29.800 getting a

00:50:30.360 company to

00:50:31.160 buy the

00:50:31.620 biggest amount

00:50:32.600 of advertising.

00:50:33.920 Because the

00:50:34.460 more advertising

00:50:35.380 they buy, the

00:50:36.900 more the

00:50:37.520 agency can

00:50:38.380 charge, because

00:50:39.680 they're involved

00:50:40.300 in a bigger

00:50:41.020 deal.

00:50:41.920 So the

00:50:42.960 ad agency has

00:50:44.260 an incentive to

00:50:45.760 lie and

00:50:46.720 manipulate the

00:50:49.100 corporate leaders

00:50:49.880 who do the

00:50:50.400 buys.

00:50:51.860 Do they have

00:50:52.780 the power and

00:50:54.380 the technique and

00:50:55.740 the persuasive

00:50:56.460 ability?

00:50:57.160 These are ad

00:50:57.880 agencies, literally

00:50:59.760 trained to

00:51:01.120 psychologically

00:51:01.800 manipulate people.

00:51:03.220 That is their

00:51:03.880 skill.

00:51:05.080 They've learned

00:51:05.680 that.

00:51:06.260 They only get

00:51:06.920 to work at a

00:51:07.680 top ad agency

00:51:08.760 because they

00:51:09.800 have the

00:51:10.260 skills to

00:51:10.980 manipulate minds.

00:51:12.780 And those

00:51:13.100 people with

00:51:13.620 those skills

00:51:14.280 come in and

00:51:15.380 sell their

00:51:15.860 service to

00:51:17.260 some Facebook

00:51:18.500 person who's

00:51:19.800 in charge of

00:51:20.320 buying ads and

00:51:21.920 they say, this

00:51:22.600 is the greatest

00:51:23.100 stuff in the

00:51:23.560 world, it'll

00:51:24.100 make you a

00:51:24.560 star.

00:51:25.360 And by the

00:51:25.700 way, you

00:51:26.560 probably don't

00:51:27.100 need to be

00:51:27.520 told this, but

00:51:28.360 Facebook

00:51:29.860 employee, if you

00:51:31.020 were in charge

00:51:31.700 of a really

00:51:32.260 big budget,

00:51:34.000 you'd probably

00:51:34.500 get paid more.

00:51:35.140 you might get

00:51:36.200 promoted for

00:51:36.840 being somebody

00:51:37.400 who was in

00:51:37.800 charge of a

00:51:38.260 big budget and

00:51:39.040 people would

00:51:39.860 think that's

00:51:40.260 important.

00:51:41.600 So, Facebook

00:51:42.780 employee that I'm

00:51:43.640 selling this

00:51:44.240 service to, you

00:51:45.660 know that your

00:51:46.260 career will be

00:51:47.120 better the more

00:51:48.880 you buy because

00:51:50.860 that's the bigger

00:51:51.800 your budget.

00:51:53.040 So, I'm going to

00:51:53.960 give you some

00:51:54.560 bullshit that's

00:51:56.000 not true and you

00:51:56.820 don't believe it

00:51:57.560 about how well

00:51:58.520 advertisement will

00:51:59.660 work.

00:52:00.520 You're going to

00:52:01.140 take that bullshit

00:52:02.380 that you don't

00:52:03.040 believe, but you're

00:52:04.520 going to sell it

00:52:05.160 to your boss

00:52:05.800 because if he

00:52:07.000 buys the

00:52:07.460 bullshit that's

00:52:08.220 now went

00:52:09.240 through two

00:52:09.800 filters and he

00:52:10.980 thinks this

00:52:11.480 advertisement's

00:52:12.240 going to work

00:52:12.780 or she thinks

00:52:15.020 this advertisement

00:52:15.720 is going to

00:52:16.180 work, notice

00:52:16.980 how inclusive I

00:52:17.840 am, then your

00:52:21.100 career will be

00:52:21.780 better.

00:52:23.040 So, what's

00:52:23.780 happening is you're

00:52:24.600 seeing the

00:52:25.000 advertisement which

00:52:26.060 basically doesn't

00:52:27.380 work except in

00:52:28.420 some specific

00:52:29.240 cases.

00:52:30.320 A specific case

00:52:31.380 would be, for

00:52:31.800 example, a new

00:52:33.060 product that somebody

00:52:34.060 didn't know existed

00:52:34.960 and they needed

00:52:36.700 it.

00:52:36.940 It's like, oh, I

00:52:37.380 didn't know that

00:52:37.780 existed.

00:52:38.340 So, in those

00:52:38.980 limited cases it

00:52:39.920 can be useful.

00:52:43.640 So, that's

00:52:44.520 their business

00:52:45.480 model.

00:52:46.020 It's basically

00:52:46.620 people selling

00:52:48.040 bullshit to

00:52:48.840 people who want

00:52:50.340 to believe it's

00:52:51.040 true because that

00:52:52.620 will be good for

00:52:53.340 their career if

00:52:54.500 they act like

00:52:55.220 it's true.

00:52:57.820 So, there you

00:52:59.240 go.

00:52:59.480 that's Facebook.

00:53:02.120 And now we

00:53:03.020 know from the

00:53:03.860 there was

00:53:04.500 another undercover

00:53:05.680 video, this

00:53:07.520 time again by

00:53:08.720 James O'Keefe and

00:53:10.820 Project Veritas.

00:53:12.500 And once again

00:53:13.420 we're seeing that

00:53:14.200 the people who

00:53:15.380 manage the

00:53:16.020 Facebook algorithms

00:53:17.380 and others are

00:53:18.900 literally racist.

00:53:20.880 They're literally

00:53:21.920 racist.

00:53:23.120 And you hear it

00:53:24.220 in their own

00:53:25.060 words.

00:53:25.980 They're not

00:53:26.520 hiding it.

00:53:27.980 Pretty much

00:53:28.520 just hate

00:53:29.820 white Trump

00:53:32.240 supporters.

00:53:33.920 All right.

00:53:35.040 So, that's a

00:53:35.840 business that just

00:53:36.480 doesn't need to

00:53:37.060 exist.

00:53:39.580 Robert Johnson,

00:53:40.820 the black

00:53:41.920 entertainment

00:53:42.540 television founder,

00:53:44.940 I think he must

00:53:45.900 be a billionaire,

00:53:47.560 he said in an

00:53:48.460 interview with

00:53:48.900 Fox News, this

00:53:51.140 just made me

00:53:51.760 laugh.

00:53:52.020 If you want to

00:53:52.880 know what kind

00:53:54.160 of mental

00:53:55.760 model makes

00:53:57.280 you a 0.57

00:53:57.620 billionaire, this

00:53:59.880 is it.

00:54:01.100 So, don't

00:54:02.140 think of it just

00:54:02.820 in terms of the

00:54:03.980 comment is kind

00:54:05.220 of funny.

00:54:06.100 Think of it in

00:54:06.800 terms of, oh,

00:54:08.640 that's why he's a

00:54:09.600 billionaire.

00:54:10.980 This is why he's

00:54:12.100 a billionaire.

00:54:13.060 It's this type of

00:54:14.880 thinking.

00:54:15.440 And he says,

00:54:18.040 Johnson said that

00:54:19.840 those who are

00:54:20.460 destroying statues

00:54:21.420 across the country

00:54:22.320 quote, have the

00:54:23.860 mistaken assumption

00:54:24.740 that black people

00:54:25.600 are sitting around

00:54:26.400 cheering for them

00:54:27.840 saying, oh my

00:54:28.960 God, look at

00:54:30.000 these white people.

00:54:30.940 They're doing

00:54:31.460 something so

00:54:32.040 important to us.

00:54:33.640 They're taking

00:54:34.380 down the statue

00:54:35.080 of a Civil War

00:54:35.880 general who fought

00:54:36.740 for the South.

00:54:38.200 Now, I could not

00:54:39.400 love that better

00:54:40.160 because really,

00:54:43.080 do you think that

00:54:44.200 there are black

00:54:44.760 people sitting

00:54:45.300 around saying,

00:54:46.580 thank you white

00:54:47.200 people for taking

00:54:48.580 down those statues.

00:54:50.040 We thought we had

00:54:50.760 some problems to

00:54:51.620 solve, but man,

00:54:52.620 I think you've

00:54:53.840 taken a bite

00:54:54.380 out of it.

00:54:55.700 We thought we

00:54:56.540 wanted to make

00:54:57.880 more money and

00:54:59.040 have more freedom

00:55:00.420 and less

00:55:01.140 discrimination, but

00:55:02.700 we didn't know

00:55:03.460 that what we

00:55:04.540 needed was for

00:55:05.320 white people to

00:55:06.140 knock down

00:55:06.600 statues.

00:55:08.680 The whole thing

00:55:09.560 is ridiculous.

00:55:11.200 And to watch

00:55:12.260 the way Robert

00:55:14.400 Johnson just so

00:55:16.280 succinctly just

00:55:17.680 took the piss out

00:55:18.520 of the whole thing

00:55:19.120 and summarize it

00:55:21.000 so clearly, you

00:55:21.700 can see in just

00:55:22.460 this little quote,

00:55:24.240 you can see why

00:55:24.860 he's a billionaire.

00:55:26.280 You take this

00:55:27.340 mindset to

00:55:28.040 anywhere, you're

00:55:29.260 going to have

00:55:30.060 some kind of

00:55:30.600 success.

00:55:33.180 BuzzFeed is

00:55:33.820 reporting that the

00:55:34.660 cities that had

00:55:35.380 the big Black 0.70

00:55:35.980 Lives Matter

00:55:36.480 protests are not

00:55:37.920 seeing any

00:55:38.460 coronavirus spikes.

00:55:40.120 Oh, we're so

00:55:41.080 surprised.

00:55:42.800 Are you surprised

00:55:44.080 that when people

00:55:45.740 march for what

00:55:46.800 BuzzFeed would

00:55:48.100 support as a

00:55:49.820 good cause, and

00:55:50.600 of course, less

00:55:51.680 racism is a

00:55:52.640 good cause, and

00:55:53.780 less police

00:55:54.420 brutality is a

00:55:55.440 good cause, that

00:55:56.620 when you march for

00:55:57.180 a good cause, the

00:55:57.860 coronavirus doesn't

00:55:58.820 touch you.

00:55:59.800 Now, they've got

00:56:00.560 reasons, of course.

00:56:02.160 Maybe it's because

00:56:02.680 it's outdoors.

00:56:03.960 Maybe, and this is

00:56:04.820 the funny part,

00:56:06.040 they're saying maybe

00:56:06.640 it's because the

00:56:07.560 protesters were

00:56:08.740 wearing masks.

00:56:10.060 And they showed a

00:56:10.820 picture of a bunch

00:56:11.500 of protesters wearing

00:56:12.480 masks.

00:56:13.620 And I said to

00:56:14.140 myself, I've seen

00:56:15.860 a lot of pictures

00:56:16.500 of protesters.

00:56:17.980 I didn't see a

00:56:20.720 lot of masks.

00:56:21.920 There were

00:56:22.120 definitely masks.

00:56:23.700 Maybe 40%?

00:56:25.260 What would be

00:56:25.780 your estimate of

00:56:26.380 how many had

00:56:26.840 masks?

00:56:27.800 30%, 40%, I

00:56:29.180 don't know.

00:56:30.200 I guess it

00:56:30.900 depends which one

00:56:31.520 you're looking at.

00:56:32.440 There were some

00:56:33.060 where they had a

00:56:33.620 lot of masks.

00:56:36.700 And of course,

00:56:37.640 now if you want

00:56:39.240 to see the

00:56:39.780 future, let me

00:56:41.200 predict the

00:56:41.960 future.

00:56:42.440 Black Lives Matter

00:56:46.000 protesters do not

00:56:47.320 spread coronavirus,

00:56:49.020 but wait, wait,

00:56:50.660 there's some new

00:56:51.300 information coming

00:56:52.200 in about the

00:56:53.120 future.

00:56:54.020 Yes, Trump

00:56:54.920 rallies do create

00:56:56.760 coronavirus hotspots.

00:56:59.920 Yep, I think we're

00:57:01.380 going to find that

00:57:01.900 out.

00:57:02.480 Now it could be it's

00:57:03.300 also true.

00:57:04.840 The thing you can't

00:57:06.220 rule out is it's

00:57:07.700 also true.

00:57:08.660 Because when you

00:57:09.500 pack people tightly

00:57:10.440 together inside a

00:57:12.100 building and they

00:57:12.780 don't have any

00:57:13.440 masks, which would

00:57:14.860 be a Trump rally,

00:57:16.420 and they're yelling,

00:57:18.780 which would be like

00:57:19.440 a choir, if the

00:57:21.200 Trump rallies do

00:57:22.280 not cause a spike

00:57:23.740 in coronavirus, I'm

00:57:26.060 going to be amazed.

00:57:27.680 But the truth is,

00:57:28.960 even if it didn't,

00:57:30.600 I think it would

00:57:31.180 still be the news.

00:57:33.480 So let me say that

00:57:34.520 again clearly.

00:57:35.300 I'm no medical

00:57:39.020 doctor, but 0.58

00:57:40.600 everything we've

00:57:41.360 heard so far,

00:57:42.240 especially that like

00:57:43.280 a choir singing

00:57:45.040 together is

00:57:46.520 guaranteed to

00:57:47.340 spread the

00:57:47.700 coronavirus if any

00:57:48.740 of them have it,

00:57:49.540 because it's the,

00:57:50.480 you know, the being

00:57:51.300 close for a long

00:57:52.300 time and exhaling a

00:57:53.440 lot and singing.

00:57:54.960 So the Trump

00:57:56.060 rallies are almost

00:57:58.000 designed to create

00:57:59.800 hotspots.

00:58:00.720 I mean, you

00:58:01.040 couldn't come up

00:58:01.740 with a better way

00:58:03.120 to do it.

00:58:03.540 And let me say

00:58:04.380 as bluntly as

00:58:05.600 possible, because

00:58:06.320 whenever I get

00:58:08.300 painted into the

00:58:09.160 corner of saying

00:58:09.980 it looks like I'm

00:58:12.140 agreeing with

00:58:12.940 everything Trump

00:58:13.920 does, I don't

00:58:15.840 agree with

00:58:16.280 everything Trump

00:58:16.840 does.

00:58:18.140 Indeed, having

00:58:19.240 now watched the

00:58:21.260 rallies, I would

00:58:23.200 have to say they're

00:58:23.880 a bad idea.

00:58:25.700 Very bad.

00:58:26.880 In fact, it makes

00:58:27.780 Trump supporters

00:58:28.560 look stupid.

00:58:29.680 Honestly.

00:58:30.720 It just makes

00:58:31.480 them look stupid.

00:58:32.120 Now, I don't

00:58:34.020 think Trump

00:58:34.560 supporters are

00:58:35.080 stupid. 0.90

00:58:35.800 That's not what

00:58:36.480 I'm saying.

00:58:37.080 I'm saying that

00:58:37.700 the look of it

00:58:38.540 is a really bad

00:58:39.900 look.

00:58:41.420 You know, honestly,

00:58:42.500 when I watched

00:58:43.000 the rallies, I

00:58:45.500 had a different

00:58:46.060 feeling than I'd

00:58:46.880 ever had before.

00:58:47.720 I used to watch

00:58:48.320 them as just

00:58:49.620 entertainment.

00:58:50.480 It's like, ah,

00:58:50.900 that's pretty

00:58:51.200 entertaining, and

00:58:52.040 look at the size

00:58:52.840 of that crowd.

00:58:53.800 It's a lot of

00:58:54.280 energy.

00:58:55.180 That's all I would

00:58:55.820 think.

00:58:56.760 The last two I

00:58:57.820 thought of, I

00:58:59.460 thought, that

00:58:59.840 looks stupid. 0.51

00:59:00.500 I'm not saying

00:59:02.160 the people are

00:59:02.760 stupid. 0.90

00:59:03.260 I'm saying that

00:59:03.740 the idea of

00:59:04.740 packing people

00:59:06.040 in together

00:59:07.600 without masks

00:59:08.560 and then running

00:59:09.800 continuous footage

00:59:10.920 of those people

00:59:11.700 is the worst

00:59:13.020 possible look,

00:59:14.080 really.

00:59:15.160 Now, some

00:59:16.480 people are

00:59:16.880 saying, yes,

00:59:17.580 but freedom.

00:59:19.000 Absolutely.

00:59:20.220 Yeah.

00:59:20.580 If you wanted

00:59:21.280 to look like

00:59:21.960 it's a bunch

00:59:22.440 of people who

00:59:22.980 were very

00:59:23.960 concerned about

00:59:24.640 freedom, even

00:59:26.240 more than

00:59:26.900 health, that's

00:59:29.220 what you got.

00:59:31.100 So if your

00:59:32.240 priority was

00:59:32.840 freedom, it

00:59:33.420 probably looked

00:59:33.860 terrific to

00:59:34.420 you, but if

00:59:35.240 you're trying to

00:59:35.820 convince somebody

00:59:36.780 who's not

00:59:37.400 already on your

00:59:38.180 team, probably

00:59:39.760 a bad way to

00:59:40.340 do it.

00:59:41.060 And you didn't

00:59:41.780 see that much

00:59:42.340 energy in the

00:59:43.120 rallies, so it's

00:59:44.060 not getting the

00:59:44.580 benefit of thought.

00:59:45.860 So in my

00:59:46.340 opinion, if the

00:59:48.360 president held

00:59:49.080 more rallies, I

00:59:50.340 think it would

00:59:50.640 just be a

00:59:51.100 mistake.

00:59:52.420 I think it

00:59:53.080 would work

00:59:53.580 against his

00:59:54.240 interests, frankly.

00:59:56.720 That's just me.

00:59:57.700 All right.

00:59:57.840 Hawk Newsome

00:59:58.560 is making

00:59:59.040 some news.

00:59:59.860 You know, I

01:00:00.700 know Hawk, and

01:00:02.540 he's a leader of

01:00:03.900 Black Lives Matter

01:00:04.540 in New York.

01:00:05.980 And when I was

01:00:06.700 talking to him, I

01:00:07.360 was trying to

01:00:07.760 see if we could

01:00:08.300 find some

01:00:08.860 solutions, like

01:00:09.900 specific things

01:00:11.320 that we could

01:00:11.860 recommend.

01:00:13.000 We got a

01:00:13.500 little bit of

01:00:14.140 progress on

01:00:17.200 making a list

01:00:18.200 of things that

01:00:18.860 you could actually

01:00:19.560 do.

01:00:20.760 And I think

01:00:21.160 some of those

01:00:21.700 were considered

01:00:22.780 in the Tim

01:00:23.540 Scott bill and

01:00:24.420 the Kamala

01:00:24.920 Harris bill, etc.

01:00:26.740 So some of

01:00:27.980 them have

01:00:28.280 bubbled up, not

01:00:29.140 necessarily because

01:00:29.980 of us, but

01:00:30.760 they were just

01:00:31.540 good ideas.

01:00:32.980 And I broke

01:00:34.900 my contact with

01:00:35.960 Hawk because he

01:00:37.280 needed for his

01:00:38.740 purposes to be

01:00:40.720 more provocative

01:00:41.540 than I was

01:00:42.420 willing to be

01:00:43.060 associated with.

01:00:44.020 In other words,

01:00:46.520 you know, he was

01:00:47.340 more willing to

01:00:48.040 call white people

01:00:48.760 racist and

01:00:49.620 suggest indirectly

01:00:51.460 or directly that

01:00:52.560 maybe violence 0.80

01:00:53.400 could be

01:00:54.200 productive.

01:00:54.620 And those

01:00:55.900 were thoughts

01:00:56.580 that I didn't

01:00:57.000 want to be

01:00:57.300 associated with.

01:00:58.240 So I broke

01:00:59.480 contact with

01:01:00.100 him.

01:01:00.480 But he's

01:01:00.880 making news

01:01:01.300 again.

01:01:02.840 And I want

01:01:03.340 to break out

01:01:03.920 something he

01:01:04.540 said because I

01:01:05.300 think it needs

01:01:05.720 some interpretation.

01:01:12.860 So he said,

01:01:13.820 quote, if this

01:01:14.340 country doesn't

01:01:15.120 give us what we

01:01:15.860 want in terms of

01:01:17.020 fixing systemic

01:01:18.260 racism, etc., if

01:01:20.120 this country doesn't

01:01:20.960 give us what we

01:01:21.580 want, then we

01:01:22.700 will burn down

01:01:23.560 the system and

01:01:24.440 replace it.

01:01:25.440 Newsom responded,

01:01:26.980 all right, and I

01:01:28.400 could be speaking

01:01:29.240 figuratively.

01:01:30.860 I could be

01:01:31.860 speaking literally.

01:01:33.400 It's a matter of

01:01:34.320 interpretation.

01:01:38.120 Like, let's be

01:01:39.120 very real and

01:01:40.040 observe the history

01:01:40.840 of the 60s.

01:01:42.000 Blah, blah.

01:01:42.420 Anyway, he makes

01:01:43.040 good points that

01:01:44.360 violence has been

01:01:45.220 productive and a

01:01:46.980 part of American

01:01:48.180 fabric and

01:01:49.540 including gun

01:01:50.400 ownership.

01:01:50.840 And why are we

01:01:52.000 so afraid if

01:01:52.660 black people have

01:01:53.800 guns, etc.

01:01:54.760 So those are

01:01:55.520 actually some

01:01:56.180 good and

01:01:57.840 interesting contextual

01:01:58.780 points.

01:01:59.300 But here's the

01:01:59.660 part I wanted to

01:02:00.460 point out.

01:02:03.060 He says that

01:02:04.640 we'll burn down

01:02:05.480 the system and

01:02:06.200 replace it.

01:02:07.560 And then he

01:02:07.940 says, all right,

01:02:08.860 and I could be

01:02:09.480 speaking figuratively

01:02:10.540 and I could be

01:02:11.440 speaking literally.

01:02:12.660 It's a matter of

01:02:13.500 interpretation.

01:02:15.260 Now, who says

01:02:16.640 something and

01:02:17.960 then in the very

01:02:18.880 next sentence

01:02:19.620 they tell you

01:02:20.760 that you can

01:02:21.260 interpret it in

01:02:22.640 two different

01:02:23.060 ways?

01:02:24.560 Who does that?

01:02:25.900 Because normally

01:02:26.640 when you

01:02:27.080 communicate, don't

01:02:28.200 you tell people

01:02:28.780 what you mean?

01:02:29.960 Here's how I do

01:02:30.800 it.

01:02:31.500 Well, there are

01:02:32.080 two ways to

01:02:32.600 interpret this.

01:02:33.240 I want to be

01:02:33.640 clear that this

01:02:34.300 is the way I'm

01:02:34.880 saying it.

01:02:36.340 Isn't that the

01:02:36.960 way you would

01:02:37.360 communicate if you

01:02:38.120 wanted people to

01:02:38.840 actually really

01:02:40.180 understand what

01:02:40.980 you're thinking?

01:02:41.860 You know, I know

01:02:42.460 there's two ways

01:02:43.040 to see it, but I'm

01:02:44.260 telling you this is

01:02:45.000 the way I see it

01:02:45.820 and I'm

01:02:46.920 communicating it this

01:02:47.860 way.

01:02:48.140 I'm not talking

01:02:48.640 about that other

01:02:49.240 way to see it.

01:02:51.320 But Hawk did a

01:02:52.800 completely unexpected

01:02:53.940 thing.

01:02:55.460 Oh, no, you're

01:02:56.100 not, if you think

01:02:57.940 this is going to be

01:02:58.580 a criticism, you're

01:02:59.680 on the wrong page.

01:03:00.960 This is going to

01:03:01.700 be a compliment to

01:03:03.600 skill.

01:03:04.580 Now, I've told you

01:03:05.440 I'm going to be

01:03:06.160 consistent about this.

01:03:08.000 Regardless of

01:03:08.680 whether somebody has

01:03:09.500 the political opinions

01:03:10.620 that I do, if they

01:03:12.160 employ skill, I'm

01:03:13.920 going to call it

01:03:14.420 out.

01:03:15.400 All right?

01:03:15.680 Because I think you

01:03:16.520 need to learn the

01:03:17.220 skill part.

01:03:17.860 And then you can

01:03:18.860 apply it to your

01:03:19.840 own moral and

01:03:20.900 ethical world.

01:03:23.080 But this was

01:03:24.680 very skillful.

01:03:26.480 It looks like just

01:03:28.100 a weird sentence,

01:03:29.220 but it's really

01:03:29.780 skillful.

01:03:30.440 And here's why.

01:03:31.960 Hawk is talking

01:03:33.000 to two separate

01:03:33.880 audiences.

01:03:35.000 And he found a

01:03:36.000 way to talk to

01:03:36.680 them simultaneously,

01:03:37.540 which I've never

01:03:38.920 seen before.

01:03:40.460 He needs to talk

01:03:41.840 to his radical

01:03:43.540 base in a way

01:03:45.240 that suggests he's

01:03:46.140 on board with

01:03:46.760 actual violence,

01:03:47.700 like burning

01:03:48.180 stuff down.

01:03:49.180 Because they

01:03:49.820 need to hear

01:03:50.340 that.

01:03:51.080 Now, am I

01:03:51.520 reading his

01:03:51.980 mind?

01:03:52.740 No, he told

01:03:53.440 me that.

01:03:54.460 He told me that

01:03:55.160 directly.

01:03:56.080 He told me that

01:03:57.100 he needs to be

01:03:58.000 more radical or

01:03:59.740 he would lose

01:04:01.020 his base.

01:04:02.500 Direct language.

01:04:03.540 There's no

01:04:04.060 interpretation here

01:04:04.880 going on.

01:04:05.860 So, was this

01:04:07.220 language in which

01:04:08.180 he says burn down

01:04:09.060 the system, does

01:04:09.980 that speak to

01:04:10.700 his base?

01:04:11.120 Yes, very

01:04:12.520 well.

01:04:13.480 And how do

01:04:14.120 they interpret

01:04:14.660 it?

01:04:15.400 They say, looks

01:04:17.020 like burning

01:04:17.880 down stuff is

01:04:18.960 on the table.

01:04:20.000 Looks like a

01:04:20.800 little bit of

01:04:21.240 violence.

01:04:22.460 Hawk is in

01:04:23.040 favor of.

01:04:23.820 So that's how

01:04:24.440 they would

01:04:24.780 interpret it.

01:04:27.020 Later, if he's

01:04:28.120 challenged, and

01:04:30.180 he will be, by

01:04:31.880 white people, he'll 0.98

01:04:33.720 say, hey, you

01:04:35.560 could take this

01:04:36.200 as figurative.

01:04:38.180 And I said

01:04:38.980 that when I

01:04:39.460 said it.

01:04:39.880 I said you

01:04:40.380 could take this

01:04:40.980 as figurative.

01:04:42.180 So take it as

01:04:42.880 figurative.

01:04:44.020 And then white 0.73

01:04:45.320 people who don't

01:04:46.200 like his message

01:04:46.940 won't, and

01:04:47.720 they'll just have

01:04:48.360 their own opinion,

01:04:49.040 but they were

01:04:49.340 going to anyway.

01:04:50.620 But the white 0.65

01:04:52.760 people who are

01:04:53.420 sort of supporting

01:04:54.260 Black Lives Matter

01:04:55.200 but don't want to

01:04:56.120 think they're part of

01:04:56.820 anything violent,

01:04:58.600 do have the

01:04:59.680 option of

01:05:01.660 interpreting it as

01:05:02.960 figurative.

01:05:04.140 In other words,

01:05:04.940 he found a way to

01:05:05.680 talk to the, let's

01:05:07.140 say, Antifa and

01:05:08.420 the white

01:05:08.740 protesters who

01:05:10.120 are siding with

01:05:10.880 Black Lives Matter.

01:05:12.140 He found a way to

01:05:13.060 talk to them.

01:05:13.680 At the same time, he

01:05:15.160 was saying essentially

01:05:16.160 the opposite thing

01:05:17.320 to Black Lives

01:05:19.140 Matter.

01:05:19.960 And he pulled it

01:05:21.020 off.

01:05:21.820 He actually pulled

01:05:22.700 it off.

01:05:23.400 Because everybody

01:05:24.160 who reads this is

01:05:24.880 just going to see

01:05:25.420 what they want to

01:05:25.980 see.

01:05:26.540 And I've never

01:05:27.080 seen anybody say

01:05:27.900 it directly.

01:05:28.780 He goes, it's a

01:05:29.820 matter of

01:05:30.180 interpretation.

01:05:31.540 He actually put

01:05:32.260 that right into

01:05:33.020 the original

01:05:33.640 statement.

01:05:34.860 You've never seen

01:05:35.980 that before.

01:05:37.140 And if you

01:05:39.420 had imagined that

01:05:40.960 this was a good

01:05:41.740 idea and you

01:05:43.000 were not trained

01:05:43.760 in this, you

01:05:44.760 would say, that's

01:05:45.320 not a good

01:05:45.720 idea.

01:05:46.800 And how is that

01:05:47.240 a good idea to

01:05:47.880 say two things

01:05:48.500 that are opposite

01:05:49.040 and say you can

01:05:49.640 interpret it any

01:05:50.320 way you want?

01:05:51.220 How is that not

01:05:51.900 the worst idea

01:05:52.520 in the world?

01:05:54.820 Here's what you're

01:05:55.560 missing.

01:05:57.720 Hawk is good 0.98

01:05:58.560 at this.

01:06:00.280 He's really good

01:06:01.180 at this.

01:06:02.320 You don't know

01:06:03.220 how smart he is.

01:06:05.020 I do.

01:06:05.760 I spend enough

01:06:06.360 time talking to

01:06:07.100 him that he's

01:06:08.500 really smart.

01:06:10.380 And he does

01:06:11.160 understand this

01:06:12.020 stuff.

01:06:12.860 And this is not

01:06:13.660 an accident.

01:06:14.840 The fact that he

01:06:15.660 found a way to

01:06:16.420 square a circle

01:06:17.380 that I would have

01:06:19.480 thought wasn't

01:06:20.040 even a thing,

01:06:21.200 he pulled it off.

01:06:23.260 All right?

01:06:23.820 Now, I'm not

01:06:24.920 supporting his

01:06:25.540 message or anything

01:06:26.860 like that, so don't

01:06:27.620 take it like that.

01:06:28.320 I'm just saying

01:06:29.300 skill-wise, pretty

01:06:32.000 good skill.

01:06:35.360 All right.

01:06:37.080 If you thought

01:06:37.820 there was going

01:06:38.220 to be a fair

01:06:38.740 election, I don't

01:06:39.520 think there's any

01:06:40.060 chance of that now.

01:06:41.740 You can see that

01:06:42.700 Twitter is starting

01:06:44.200 to kick off the

01:06:45.760 voices that are

01:06:48.020 pro-Trump.

01:06:49.000 So Rahim

01:06:49.760 Kassam, his

01:06:51.400 account got locked

01:06:52.220 yesterday.

01:06:52.880 To me, that was

01:06:53.440 the last straw.

01:06:55.520 You know, Carpi

01:06:56.020 dunked him and

01:06:56.940 he also got

01:06:58.020 permanently blocked.

01:06:59.240 But between those

01:07:00.140 two, I think that

01:07:01.560 that's now kind of

01:07:02.600 transparent to

01:07:03.480 what's going on.

01:07:04.840 Before, I would

01:07:05.700 have said, well,

01:07:06.500 you know, maybe

01:07:07.200 this is confirmation

01:07:08.040 bias.

01:07:09.240 Because they always

01:07:10.120 had a reason for

01:07:12.080 anybody who got,

01:07:13.180 you know, filtered

01:07:14.160 or blocked or

01:07:14.920 whatever the words

01:07:15.860 are.

01:07:16.400 There was always a

01:07:17.100 reason.

01:07:18.480 And, you know,

01:07:19.340 they've got

01:07:20.060 guidelines.

01:07:21.420 So if it fits the

01:07:22.700 guidelines, there's a

01:07:23.740 reason.

01:07:24.600 You can't necessarily

01:07:25.900 think that's any

01:07:27.840 kind of a larger

01:07:28.780 political act.

01:07:30.360 But as we see the

01:07:31.500 specific examples,

01:07:32.680 they start to form a

01:07:33.840 pattern that's pretty

01:07:34.520 clear.

01:07:35.240 So the standards

01:07:36.240 seem to be enforced

01:07:37.600 in one way but not

01:07:38.780 another.

01:07:39.580 And it does look like

01:07:41.020 the standards are being

01:07:42.520 used as an excuse,

01:07:44.520 a convenient way to

01:07:45.920 kick off the voices

01:07:46.940 that are effective.

01:07:48.620 So watch for people

01:07:49.860 who are effective

01:07:50.880 to be kicked off.

01:07:52.760 We'll see how that

01:07:55.720 goes.

01:07:57.580 And I think I've

01:08:01.020 covered most of my

01:08:02.560 most of my important

01:08:04.760 points.

01:08:05.240 Just let me check my

01:08:06.120 notes here.

01:08:07.240 Talk among yourselves.

01:08:09.160 Yes, I think you did.

01:08:10.700 All right.

01:08:11.340 So that's all for now.

01:08:13.340 I did go over.

01:08:14.860 I do have an account

01:08:15.560 on Parler.

01:08:16.980 Parler is the tiny

01:08:20.160 competitor to Twitter.

01:08:21.420 The problem with

01:08:22.760 Parler is I think it's

01:08:23.920 just going to be

01:08:24.420 conservatives go there.

01:08:25.940 If it turns out to be

01:08:26.880 the conservative

01:08:28.120 Twitter, then you're

01:08:29.660 just going to have a

01:08:30.440 left-leaning Twitter

01:08:31.740 and a right-leaning

01:08:33.060 Twitter, but it'll have

01:08:34.060 a different name.

01:08:36.300 And all it does is

01:08:37.540 divide us.

01:08:38.740 So I have very mixed

01:08:40.340 opinions about Parler.

01:08:41.780 I don't think it makes

01:08:42.960 sense unless you also

01:08:44.140 keep your Twitter

01:08:44.880 account, but you all

01:08:46.320 get to make your own

01:08:47.000 decisions.

01:08:47.980 So I would do it in

01:08:49.100 addition to Twitter.

01:08:49.960 Twitter, but I

01:08:51.640 wouldn't do it instead

01:08:53.140 of Twitter unless you're

01:08:54.320 really trying to make a

01:08:55.100 statement of some sort.

01:08:56.440 Because Twitter,

01:08:57.080 unfortunately, whether you

01:08:58.260 like it or not, is too

01:09:00.000 important to your business

01:09:02.240 life for most of you.

01:09:04.440 All right.

01:09:04.880 If it's not important to

01:09:06.060 your business life, then do

01:09:08.560 what you will.

01:09:10.980 All right.

01:09:11.540 That's it for today.

01:09:12.660 Hope you enjoyed it, and I

01:09:13.940 will talk to you tomorrow.

01:09:15.520 Oh, somebody's telling me

01:09:17.380 that Parler is pronounced

01:09:19.500 Parlay.

01:09:20.840 Is that true?

01:09:23.020 I hope it's not true, but

01:09:24.540 it might be.

01:09:25.500 Talk to you later.

01:09:26.140 Bye-bye.

01:09:27.940 Bye-bye.

01:09:28.280 And then, of course, you

01:09:29.640 know where we are.

01:09:30.520 And then, go ahead

01:09:31.460 and make sure to

01:09:34.440 keep us going as

01:09:35.140 the BYU.

01:09:35.860 uçãonder.

01:09:36.560 Bye-bye.

01:09:37.200 Bye-bye.

01:09:41.820 Bye-bye.

01:09:42.220 Bye-bye.

01:09:43.620 Bye.

01:09:43.940 Bye-bye.

01:09:43.980 Bye-bye.

01:09:44.440 Bye-bye.

01:09:45.220 Bye-bye.

01:09:46.660 Bye-bye.

01:09:47.180 Bye-bye.

01:09:48.060 Bye-bye.

01:09:48.180 Bye-bye.

01:09:48.620 Bye-bye.

01:09:48.960 Bye-bye.

01:09:49.360 Bye-bye.

01:09:49.960 Bye-bye.

01:09:50.340 Bye-bye.

01:09:50.960 Bye-bye.

01:09:51.840 Bye-bye.

01:09:52.340 Bye-bye.

01:09:52.480 Bye-bye.

01:09:52.840 Bye-bye.

01:09:52.920 Bye-bye.

01:09:53.320 Bye-bye.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 25, 2020

Episode 1038 Scott Adams： I Reclaim my Freedom of Speech Today. Sorry About You Losing Yours

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