Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1050 Scott Adams： I'll Be Testing My Freedom of Speech Today. Confederate Flags, Fake College, Bad Experts

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, come on in. It's time. You know what it's time for. Yeah, you do. It's

00:00:14.580 time for Coffee with Scott Adams. And have I printed out my notes? No, I have not. So

00:00:20.340 that's going to happen while we're waiting. But before we talk about all the things, let

00:00:29.980 us first, enjoy a little thing I like to call the simultaneous sip. And all you need is

00:00:37.180 a cup or mug or a glass of tank or chalice or stein, a kentine jug or flask, a vessel of

00:00:41.600 any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled

00:00:49.620 pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, including

00:00:55.460 the death rate of coronavirus. Have you noticed that since we've been sipping, it's been going

00:01:01.060 lower? Yeah. One sip will make the coronavirus death rate go down in your state. Try it.

00:01:07.940 Go.

00:01:08.140 Uh-huh. Yeah. I can feel my stock prices going up and the death rate going down. I think you

00:01:19.900 can feel it too. Stay right there. Stay right there. Don't go anywhere. Don't go anywhere.

00:01:26.180 Stay. All right. I'm back. I know it was hard to do, to go on without me. All right. We're

00:01:36.580 going to do a little experiment today. Are you ready? Depending what devices you're using right

00:01:43.860 now to watch me, you might be able to open up Twitter separately and put the alert on so that you

00:01:51.420 get an alert from me. Because in a moment, I'm going to send a tweet that has no purpose other

00:01:59.080 than to see if you get an alert. Okay? So I'll do that in a little bit. I'll just send out a test

00:02:05.980 tweet and you'll tell me in real time if you got an alert or you did not. So hold on that. But you've

00:02:13.960 got a few minutes if you have two devices to see if you can make sure your alerts are set for my tweets

00:02:19.440 and then we'll test it. I got a, one of my critics today, Jordan Sather said that I said Trump was on

00:02:30.320 a losing path, which I'll talk about in a minute. And Jordan Sather said to me, you think Trump is on

00:02:36.060 a losing path? That's loser think. Now I invented the term loser think. So I said, thanks for incorrectly

00:02:46.640 defining the term I invented. Sounds like your troll school went online. May I take a bow for the

00:02:56.100 following troll response? You may use this. You are welcome to borrow this. Let me read it again.

00:03:05.080 Sounds like your troll school went online. Come on, that's pretty good. Because you know your Harvard

00:03:12.140 education isn't going to mean quite as much if you've never stepped foot on the campus. You know

00:03:17.700 that, don't you? All right. I remind you that according to virology experts, virologists, you might call

00:03:29.260 them, nobody knows why viruses go away. Isn't that the most mind effing thing you've ever heard in your

00:03:39.280 life? You've probably heard it before. Some of you have. But just think about the fact that we have

00:03:45.680 all these experts talking about, you know, which way is the curve going? Are we bending the curve? And

00:03:51.320 you know, which countries are eradicating the virus? And, you know, this works and masks works. And what

00:03:57.360 about the hydroxychloroquine? And all the stuff we're talking about. And let me read this again.

00:04:03.200 No one knows why any virus goes away. And you're thinking to yourself, well, I know. I know. It's

00:04:12.200 because of herd immunity. It's because of vaccine, you know, vaccinations work. Nope. Nope. It's not.

00:04:20.980 It's not that we don't know. Nobody knows why they go away. Now, you can check that. But I did hear

00:04:28.400 that from a top virologist in some interview, who just just tossed that little, completely,

00:04:35.180 it's like a hand grenade that goes into your, your thinking process. Oh, here's a little hand

00:04:39.640 grenade. Here you go. Did you know nobody knows why a virus goes away? And I think we're in that

00:04:47.420 situation. Because we're watching the infection rates zoom. And of course, people have stories,

00:04:53.600 it's because the testing is more blah, blah, blah, blah. But we don't know why the infection

00:04:58.820 rate is zooming while the death rate is dropping like crazy. Something's going on. And, and it could

00:05:07.620 be DNA, it could be some kind of, you know, accidental immunity, because people had other kinds of colds.

00:05:16.320 There's some new, a new study showed that there's some DNA genetic propensity to be more susceptible.

00:05:25.620 Who knows? Who knows? But may I tell you a narcissistic story? I'm going to ask for permission

00:05:34.600 to be narcissistic. In other words, I'm going to tell you a story, which is just a fun story.

00:05:41.720 But since it makes me look good, I'm going to ask you in advance. Do you mind a story

00:05:48.740 that makes me look good? If it's, it's an interesting story. All right, if you if you don't

00:05:56.100 like stories that make me look good, probably want to sign off. So the story goes like this. It's a

00:06:03.140 two parter. Part one happened in the 80s. I don't know. I was working at 90s. I guess I was working

00:06:11.000 at Pacific Bell, the local phone company. And my department had a training session. And the

00:06:18.360 training session was on problem solving. And we learned a rigorous process for looking at a

00:06:25.220 complicated situation and being able to very systematically break it down from its complexity

00:06:32.080 into its simplest questions, and then solve it. It was a general format for solving any kind of

00:06:38.700 problem. And then we broke into teams after we learned the technique. And the instructor gave

00:06:45.460 us all the same problem, a complicated problem that we had to use the structure to solve. So we go into

00:06:52.660 our breakout teams. And here's the story. So this is based on a real world event. There was an airline

00:07:00.240 that was having a problem because its flight attendants kept getting a rash during flights.

00:07:06.860 So they'd get a rash on their upper chest. It was always in the same place. They didn't get

00:07:11.820 rashes in other places. It was always just upper chest. And here's the story that we were asked to

00:07:17.920 solve. Some of you may have heard the story. And here are the facts. It only happened on international

00:07:25.520 flights. Weird, right? It only happened on international flights. It only happened to women. It didn't happen to 1.00

00:07:34.960 men. Men didn't get the rash. Weird, right? So only international flights, only men. And it only happened

00:07:45.180 at the beginning of flights, like near the start of the flight, and never toward the end. So there was

00:07:53.760 nobody who was clear until toward the end of the flight, and then just suddenly got it at the end.

00:08:01.920 Now, then there were some other details, but those those are kind of the key ones. So we were given this

00:08:10.300 complicated story. So imagine those details, but there were lots of others to complicate the story. And we were asked to do

00:08:16.980 the process. And I read the story. And I did what I know some of you are doing right now. I solved it.

00:08:25.440 But I solved it without the process. I just read the story. And I said,

00:08:31.160 okay, I'm seeing it in the comments. That's right. It's the life preservers. I just read the story said,

00:08:37.740 well, what's different about international versus domestic? Well, they do the life preserver thing if

00:08:43.560 you're going to fly over water. But domestically, you're generally not. So they generally don't do

00:08:48.560 it. Why would it be women instead of men? Maybe they dress differently. Maybe women have an open 1.00

00:08:54.820 collar. Maybe men have it buttoned. And so I guessed that they were allergic to the life preservers,

00:09:05.920 you know, the ones that they would demonstrate at the beginning of flights, because they put it on,

00:09:09.940 it touches their skin, they get allergic, and that's it. So I presented that to the group. And

00:09:15.820 I said, I think it's the life preservers, because it fits all the facts. And everybody looked at me,

00:09:21.380 and they looked at each other. And they said, well, that sounds right. What do we do now? Because we

00:09:28.080 didn't do any of the process. We didn't do any of the problem solving process. So I said, well, let's take

00:09:33.860 it back to the instructor, see what he says, because we're supposed to come back to him as soon as we'd solved

00:09:38.860 it. So we go back to him. And I think we were done in 15 minutes or something. It was supposed to take

00:09:45.120 hours. And we find the instructor, and we say, we think we have the answer. We think they're having

00:09:50.420 an allergic reaction to the life preservers, or what do you call it? The life jackets.

00:09:59.320 And it turns out that the real answer was that there might have been some paint on it that was

00:10:04.560 coming off. So it wasn't a rash per se. It was actually just something on the life preserver that

00:10:08.920 was rubbing off on the skin, I think. But basically, it was the right answer. And here's what happened

00:10:15.720 next. The instructor accused me of cheating. That's right. The instructor accused me flat out

00:10:24.360 of cheating. And he said, I've been teaching this course for however many years. We always use the

00:10:30.260 same example. Nobody's ever solved it without using the process. And I said, but is it right?

00:10:38.940 And he said, yeah, it's right. But I think you cheated. I think you heard the story somewhere in

00:10:44.420 the news. And maybe you remembered it. And I didn't, you know, it wasn't familiar to me. But so instead of

00:10:52.300 being the hero for solving the story, I was judged a cheater. And I think it ended like that.

00:10:58.060 I tried to defend myself. But you can't really, you can't defend yourself by saying I never read

00:11:05.440 about this story in the past in the newspaper or something. How can you prove it? You can't prove

00:11:09.680 that. So keep that story in mind. All right. Just hold that, hold that story. And now here's the

00:11:16.380 second story. Seemingly completely disconnected. Or not. So when the COVID thing started, and we started

00:11:26.680 getting information about who was being more affected and who was less affected, I had that

00:11:31.260 same feeling. And I flashed back to that time. And the feeling was this, I'm looking at it, and I'm

00:11:37.060 thinking, gosh, I feel like I'm seeing some kind of correlation that's just jumping out at me. Does it

00:11:44.060 seem like low vitamin D is explaining everything? In terms of how bad it was in some places and not

00:11:51.260 others? So I started googling. Do black people have less vitamin D? The answer is yes. The skin color, 1.00

00:12:00.840 et cetera, doesn't absorb as well. And black people were having much worse experience. I thought, all

00:12:07.000 right, how about overweight people? Well, sure enough, if you're obese, or if you have diabetes, or if you're

00:12:16.740 just sick, or if you're elderly, and you're in a rest zone, low vitamin D. But what about those

00:12:24.800 Scandinavian countries? They were ruining everything, because the Scandinavian countries didn't seem to 1.00

00:12:30.100 have any bad problems. But they would, you would expect to have the least vitamin D just because

00:12:35.480 where they're physically located, less sun. But it turns out, if you look into it, they know they have a

00:12:41.380 vitamin D problem there. So part of their culture is they supplement with vitamin D like crazy,

00:12:47.320 you know, more so than anybody else would. But it's because they need to. So they know they need

00:12:51.800 to. Yeah, fish oil, exactly. They do fish oil to supplement. So it turns out that every place you look

00:12:58.040 for it, vitamin D is just stands out as being an obvious thing. So here's what I'm going to say.

00:13:05.580 I think that when this is all said and done, there will be some point at which somebody says,

00:13:09.600 you know, if we'd just gotten everybody's, if we had just gotten everybody's vitamin D up,

00:13:16.280 we could have just gone back to work. Now, maybe you also have to keep the people in rest homes and

00:13:23.100 old folks homes, you have to probably protect them especially. But for anybody who did not have an

00:13:28.940 obvious comorbidity, I'll bet we could have just supplemented with vitamin D. Because why is it that

00:13:36.580 a virus always goes away in the summer? Could it be that in the summer, everybody has more vitamin D?

00:13:44.940 You know, I'm not a not a scientist. There's not a study that backs us up exactly. Although you see

00:13:52.820 little studies that suggest it might be true. But that's that's where I'm at. So I think I think

00:13:59.220 we're going to find the vitamin D was the big actor that was unrecognized. All right, let's talk about

00:14:05.980 some other things. Trump is doing his usual Trump thing, where he'll make an exaggerated claim to make

00:14:12.620 people look into it. Now, does he do that as a strategy? Well, I don't know his internal mental

00:14:19.940 process. I just know he does it all the time. And it works every time. And by that, I mean,

00:14:24.620 when he says that 99% of people survive Coronavirus, is that true? No, no, that's not true. It's not true

00:14:37.200 that 99% survive. But what's it make you do? It makes you pay attention to the survival rate. It

00:14:45.280 makes you look into it. And if you look into it, it kind of favors his his preferred plan, which is we

00:14:51.800 get back to work a little sooner than other people might like. So once again, it works. And that he's

00:14:58.260 also made the completely false claim that the US Coronavirus death is the lowest worldwide.

00:15:05.100 Apparently, not really even close to being the lowest worldwide. Not really even close. But it makes 0.97

00:15:14.240 you look at the death rate, doesn't it? Do you think you're more or less likely to look at the death

00:15:19.780 rate? If the president makes wild claims about it? More likely, way more likely. What was the base

00:15:27.140 claim that Trump is most complaining about? Same as me. They're not showing us the death rate numbers.

00:15:34.820 The press is completely illegitimately hiding the death rate numbers from the public. So what does

00:15:42.080 that allow Trump to do? Any fucking thing he wants, because they're not showing you the numbers.

00:15:47.900 So the president just goes out. And again, I don't know what his internal thought process is. But he

00:15:53.840 has the freedom to go out and say 99% of you will be fine. Because the only thing that the press can do

00:16:02.960 is show the mortality numbers. And that's all he wanted in the first place. He just wanted the press

00:16:09.360 to show us to show us the mortality numbers, which are, you know, going down.

00:16:16.600 Does it change your opinion about what to do if your survival rate is 99% or if it's 96%?

00:16:24.580 If you know you don't have a comorbidity, so you're not even in the people who are likely to get it,

00:16:30.520 do you change your behavior? Because a president incorrectly said you had a 99% chance of survival,

00:16:36.520 but because of your lack of comorbidity, it's really not 98, 99%. From you personally, it's more

00:16:44.500 like 98%. So do you act differently? Do you manage your life differently? Because oh my god, he's so

00:16:51.660 wrong. He said 99. But in my particular case, I'm 25, no comorbidities. I get a 98% chance or whatever

00:17:00.280 it is. I'm just making up numbers now. But the president's totally made up number doesn't hurt

00:17:05.580 anything, but it causes the fake news to present real news. I call that a success.

00:17:13.640 Here's a note because there may be, so this is a note to one person who may or may not be watching

00:17:20.620 me right now. I did get a message from an African American viewer. And I only say the African American 0.78

00:17:27.600 part so you can identify yourself. It's not important to the story. But if you contacted me with a

00:17:35.280 specific question, I saw it, I put it aside, I was going to answer and then I lost it. So I'm not

00:17:42.760 ignoring you. Just resend your message. I looked for it. I can't find it. So I wanted to answer your

00:17:48.100 question. All right. Put that out there. Are you waiting for the part where I exercise my free speech?

00:17:56.040 It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. I just read an article somebody sent me in which it gave a very

00:18:05.320 eloquent, I would say, and academic sounding good explanation of why white people need to change 0.99

00:18:14.980 their mindset about racism and structural racism and systemic racism and all that. So white people need

00:18:23.340 to change their mindset. And the word mindset was actually used. Now, that may be true. It might be

00:18:33.560 true that white people need to change the way they're thinking. But it is so wrong to focus there.

00:18:45.060 Because let me give you two possibilities. Number one, white people change the way they think about

00:18:51.140 racism. So let's say you can only change one thing. You could change the mindset. You could just use

00:18:57.980 magic, snap your fingers, and all white people would have a different mindset about racism and structural

00:19:04.280 racism. And it would be more compatible with what the black community themselves think. So let's just say 0.96

00:19:11.300 that's one possibility. You've got magic. You make all the white people change their minds about how they think

00:19:17.000 of these things. Or, or number two, black people change their mindset to say, yeah, racism exists, but so does 0.83

00:19:28.520 rain. And I don't spend any time trying to stop it from raining. But I do spend time buying a raincoat.

00:19:37.060 I do go inside when it rains. So I can avoid the rain by managing my own life. How much do you complain

00:19:46.100 about rain in your life? Well, if you did nothing to manage it, it would be a big problem. You'd be out in the rain

00:19:53.680 all the time. You'd be getting wet, and you know, it'd be a problem. But because you manage it, if I ask you what are

00:20:00.920 your big problems in life, nobody ever says rain. It's because we manage it. So managing your own mindset will

00:20:10.060 always be the winning play. Trying to manage other people's mindset, it's worth trying. You know, it's

00:20:17.460 worth trying to get other people to see more the way you see. It's worth trying to get people to just

00:20:24.260 sort of, you know, live through your eyes for a little while, sort of get your point of view. That's all good.

00:20:29.480 doesn't solve anything. So while it may be good and useful and proper and appropriate to ask white 1.00

00:20:40.880 people to change their mindset, and I think it's a good exercise, by the way, I would be all in favor

00:20:46.360 of taking my mind to a new place, if it's useful. But it doesn't come close to solving racism.

00:20:55.740 not even close. Because the people involved are going to have to have a strategy that works.

00:21:02.940 More about that in a moment. All right, let's do the test tweet. Those of you who were prepared,

00:21:11.580 or maybe you've already set your alerts on Twitter, I'm going to hit the button and send literally a

00:21:17.140 test tweet. And you will tell me in the comments, there'll be a little delay there. You will tell me

00:21:22.980 in the comments, bam, sending it right now. All right, sent. You will tell me if you got the alert

00:21:29.260 or not. Now let me tell you. So a number of people are saying that they think I'm shadow banned because

00:21:34.600 they don't get alerts. But I'm not so sure that's the case. I think maybe more likely people don't get

00:21:43.040 alerts just in general. It could be because of the way you set your filters. Could be because alerts

00:21:50.680 don't alert you every time. I don't know. But my suspicion is that problems with alerts are probably

00:22:00.100 not shadow banning. Probably something else. All right, so I'm looking at your comments. Got it,

00:22:06.460 got it, got it, got it. Got it, got it, got it. Yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes. Got it, yes, yes, yes.

00:22:13.200 Got it, got it, got it. Somebody says, how do you set the alert on Twitter? Well, you could Google that

00:22:21.940 and you would get the... All right, so I'm not seeing any no's, but I'm not sure if the people

00:22:26.440 who didn't get it would leave a comment. So I don't think I set this up very well. Yeah, so it looks

00:22:35.300 like you're getting it. All right. Now, could it be that it depends what kind of tweet I send?

00:22:41.920 Could it be looking for keywords and deciding that if it sees some, it doesn't send you an

00:22:47.040 alert? I don't think so. I kind of feel like the alert thing might be confirmation bias,

00:22:56.440 meaning that it probably works just fine and there's no shadow banning in the alerts,

00:23:01.180 but it just feels like it sometimes because you don't hear it, don't see it, whatever.

00:23:05.080 All right. Oh, somebody's saying no now. No alert. Nope. Now I'm getting some no's. Oh,

00:23:15.540 all the no's are coming in now. So that makes sense. The people who heard it were first to respond.

00:23:23.000 People who didn't hear it were waiting. They were waiting to see if they would get it.

00:23:27.320 Okay. And look at that. A lot of people didn't get it. Interesting. So those of you who did not get

00:23:34.640 it, if you know how to set your alerts and you could confirm. So the tweet I sent was, it was just

00:23:42.700 a test tweet. You'll see it. It's at the top of my feed. Could you put it in the comments that you

00:23:48.300 confirmed you had your alerts set and you had your, make sure you had your phone on, right? Don't have

00:23:54.180 your alerts turned off on your phone and don't have it turned off within the Twitter app. So

00:24:02.200 there are two places you have to have on the physical phone and the app itself both have

00:24:07.460 to be in the right setting. So just tell me if you really didn't get it. All right. Enough

00:24:11.960 on that. Um, I would say that what makes the United States, the United States is our operating

00:24:21.900 system. Meaning that, um, the thing that makes a country is of course, you know, borders and a

00:24:29.860 common, a common understanding of things. But I would say that there's sort of a DNA or a, uh,

00:24:36.380 an operating system. I'll just use operating system for the country. And when I grew up,

00:24:41.600 that operating system was patriotism. So patriotism and capitalism were sort of the things that were

00:24:48.880 drilled into us as kids. And those were a really functional operating system. The operating system

00:24:56.840 worked pretty well in the country, did well for decades. But lately there's a bug in the operating

00:25:03.300 system. The bug seems to take the form of the education system. The education system for whatever

00:25:10.600 reason produces a certain kind of person who wants to teach. And that certain person who wants to teach

00:25:16.860 tends to have a view of the world that is not entirely compatible with capitalism or patriotism.

00:25:24.040 So it's like there's a bug in the operating system and it's the education system. Now,

00:25:29.860 what's happening interestingly is that, um, current events with the, the protests are almost like a system

00:25:39.820 upgrade. Meaning it's almost like we're waiting for the new operating system to come in and we don't

00:25:45.620 know what features it has yet because the country is sort of wrestling with who we are. And that's a

00:25:51.840 pretty big question. The country doesn't know, are we still patriotic and capitalist? Or is that the

00:25:59.040 old way? And we're, now we're going to be a little more Marxist socialist and, you know, a little less

00:26:04.760 patriotic and more identity politics. So is identity politics, the new operating system? Well, I would

00:26:11.760 suggest that if it is, that is an operating system that doesn't work. However, as these things go,

00:26:20.240 the unintended consequences of the protests and everything else from coronavirus to the economy,

00:26:26.540 it's all one big ball of problem right now, right? Coronavirus economics and the protests about race,

00:26:32.980 they feel like they're not even separate anymore. It's like one big thing that's affecting us

00:26:37.820 with their own little features. But here, here are just the, some of the things

00:26:42.900 that the new operating system suggests are our new features. Are you ready? So here are the new

00:26:50.100 features of our new operating system that's being installed through, you know, through the events that

00:26:57.600 are happening in the world. Number one, climate change just changed. We will never be able to see

00:27:06.200 climate change the same because we now have no trust in experts. And we know that the experts are

00:27:12.960 winging it, they're making it up. We know that the media is a complete liar. And so the odds that we

00:27:19.460 will take climate change to be the end of the world scenario, it's really different now. And not,

00:27:27.540 we weren't talking about climate change for months. Climate change was basically just completely off the

00:27:33.060 table. But because we were learning what experts and scientists and doctors and, in our government,

00:27:40.360 we were learning more about how much we can trust them. And we found out we can't trust them at all.

00:27:47.520 Not at all. So are you going to trust them for climate change? I don't think so. By the way,

00:27:53.780 I'm reading Michael Schellenberger's book, Almost Done With It, Apocalypse Never, which talks about how

00:28:02.360 we're really not doomed. Yes, the temperature is going up, but we adapt so well. And, you know,

00:28:08.580 there's so much good news that it will overwhelm whatever negative comes from the higher temperature.

00:28:13.940 So I'll have Michael on Coffee with Scott Adams when I'm done with the book, which I thought I'd be

00:28:22.040 done with, but almost done. All right. Here's some other changes. Gun control. Do you remember when

00:28:29.600 gun control was a question? Not anymore. Nope. We've sold more guns than we've ever sold in a three-month

00:28:37.940 period in the history of the United States. Gun ownership reached a new high. But more importantly,

00:28:44.620 that visual image that we all have of the McCloskeys protecting their home with their guns

00:28:51.720 against a mob, that picture is sort of the end of gun control, in my opinion. I mean, I suppose if no

00:29:01.020 Republicans were in Congress, you could push something through. But I don't think the country is ready to

00:29:07.140 accept it at this point. I think if you push through gun control at this point, you'd have trouble getting

00:29:12.840 reelected. So gun control is pretty much dead. Commuting. I think commuting will never be the same

00:29:23.180 because people just said, I'm going to work at home. So I think commuting is going to change. College is

00:29:31.440 probably never going to be the same. The online college thing really, it really lays bare that

00:29:37.780 the college education thing is half bullshit and half useful. And the bullshit part probably will go

00:29:45.300 away. I'll talk more about that. I think we might find that vitamin D and exercise are closer to

00:29:52.780 essential activities than optional. So I think our whole, when I go outside and see how many people are

00:29:58.880 walking and biking, it's really impressive. The number of people who are taking matters into their

00:30:07.220 own hands to get outside, get a little sun, get a little vitamin D, get your legs moving, get some

00:30:12.360 exercise, it's really different. It feels like it's now a widespread habit, whereas before it wasn't so

00:30:19.480 widespread. We're certainly going to know way more about pandemics. We'll probably develop lots of

00:30:24.680 technologies and understanding. So probably our risk of future pandemics went way down because we had

00:30:31.820 to work so hard on this one. We'll be more ready. We lost all of our trust of experts. We lost all of

00:30:37.580 our trust in the news. Anybody who thought the news was really the news, I think that that's gone.

00:30:43.700 And nobody trusts data. And the protesters, the good news about both the CHOP, which used to be CHAZ,

00:30:55.540 and also the defund the police calls, you can see in real time that they don't work. So the police

00:31:02.860 have said, okay, fine. How about you have your protest to defund us and maybe we'll put a little

00:31:09.700 less attention into your neighborhood? Murders doubled. So the black community is just basically, 1.00

00:31:17.420 you know, a crime wave is rolling over it. And the police are just stepping back and they're just

00:31:24.480 letting it happen. Now, that's what you get. I'm not saying that in a, you know, this is what you get.

00:31:31.260 I'm not saying that in a, like, revenge-y kind of way. I'm just saying that cause and effect,

00:31:36.180 if you have fewer police, you have more crime, and then you get to prove it by watching it happen

00:31:41.920 in real time. That's valuable. It's really valuable. The president continues to be the president.

00:31:55.420 So, excuse me. I thought I'd wait 48 hours to see what the president did about his confederate flag

00:32:04.620 tweet, where he was tweeting at Bubba Wallace and mentioned something that sounded at least

00:32:10.580 to, to a lot of people, it sounded like he was supporting the confederate flag. At the same time,

00:32:17.760 he was accusing a black guy of something that wasn't his fault. You couldn't make a worse tweet when you're

00:32:24.700 running for president. You really couldn't. Now, is it a clever play, people will say? Is it clever to

00:32:32.880 sort of semi-support the confederate flag that Kayleigh McEnany tried to, tried to play off as? Well,

00:32:41.040 he wasn't pro-flag, but he wasn't anti-flag. He really wasn't talking about the flag. It was in the

00:32:47.980 quote as context, but he wasn't showing his opinion. Unfortunately, there's nothing that even

00:32:54.820 Kayleigh McEnany can do about that tweet. That tweet is so far, so far over the line in terms of,

00:33:03.040 there's just no way you can redeem it. So, as long as the president is iffy on the confederate flag,

00:33:10.780 he's not really qualified to be president. Sorry. You can't really be iffy on the confederate flag if

00:33:18.740 you're running for president. You can't really do that. Now, will he get elected? Well, he might if

00:33:24.680 Kanye decides to really run. That might be enough to give the president the win, but I can't imagine

00:33:33.000 a worse approach than somewhat maybe kind of supporting the confederate flag. Now, did you hear

00:33:42.640 an opinion about the confederate flag from me? Did you? You thought you did, but you didn't. Did I give

00:33:49.680 you, did I give you my personal opinion of the confederate flag? No, you did not hear it. I'm only

00:33:56.880 talking about other people and what would be good political strategy. My personal opinion is that while

00:34:02.660 free speech is a wonderful thing, the confederate flag is clearly divisive and, you know, you have to

00:34:10.540 weigh your free speech against destroying the country, you know, one, one stab at a time. So,

00:34:19.180 it doesn't even look like the president's trying to win at this point because that whole confederate 0.84

00:34:25.500 flag thing is such an own goal and so easy to avoid, really. I mean, all the president would have

00:34:32.560 to do is say, look, that's a local issue. Yeah, I'm not in favor of the confederate flag. You guys

00:34:39.700 could work it out. You know, it's not a, it's not a federal problem. It's not my job. That would be okay.

00:34:46.280 I'd be okay with that. Just say, I'm just not going to worry about it. You figure it out. If the states

00:34:52.260 want to take them down, they can do it. All right.

00:34:54.940 All right. This is what CNN said about the president. This, so this is, I think this was

00:35:03.260 Stephen Collinson. So, he's the one that I always mock as being the most ridiculous, TDS,

00:35:11.000 just crazy mind reading opinions on CNN. But here's one thing of this. Here's one thing he said that I

00:35:17.240 just completely agreed with. And it was clever. So, I'm going to quote it. He said,

00:35:21.940 one-fifth of the way through the 21st century, Donald Trump is seemingly running to be the last

00:35:28.220 president of the confederacy, which is clever. Come on. You have to admit, it's pretty clever.

00:35:38.020 And it does look like Trump is running to be the president of the confederacy. He wants his

00:35:43.360 confederacy. He's at least open to the confederacy flag. And what did he say this week about the

00:35:53.920 future? Do you remember it? Do you remember all the things that President Trump said he would do

00:36:00.720 for the future? All the things that would be better and he'd fix it and stuff? No, nothing. So,

00:36:07.600 the Trump campaign is literally running a campaign to take you back to the past. I mean, accidentally,

00:36:15.680 it's not what they're trying to do. But sort of they got trapped into talking about the past.

00:36:22.300 Meanwhile, Biden tweets that he's going to transform the country. Do you want the country transformed?

00:36:28.820 Well, probably not, because he's talking about changing capitalism and some things you might like.

00:36:34.260 But there's no way around the fact that Biden is associated with sort of the AOC world of let's

00:36:42.540 change everything. Biden is very much about the future and change just because he's sort of

00:36:49.580 surrounded by all the changey people. Whereas the president seems to be kind of locked in the past.

00:36:57.720 Now, if you didn't know anything else about the race, except that one person was focusing on the past,

00:37:04.260 a racist past. I mean, it almost sounds like a joke. It's like, oh, there are two people. The

00:37:12.300 only thing you know about them is one of them is very fond of our racist past, our statues and

00:37:18.880 symbolism. And the other one is looking to, you know, really change things in the future for the

00:37:25.480 better. It's kind of no contest. The one who wants to change something, the one who wants to go to the

00:37:31.700 future should win that every time. Now, those are not the only variables. Those are not the only

00:37:39.180 variables. And so that doesn't mean that this will determine anything. But at the moment, Trump has a

00:37:46.520 backwards looking campaign and Biden has a forward looking one. Even if you don't like what he wants

00:37:53.740 to do, it's still forward looking. It's tough to beat. It's tough to beat the forward looking

00:38:01.480 campaign with a backward looking campaign. If that doesn't change, I would expect Biden to win.

00:38:10.560 So the at the moment, the the slaughter meter, which is the meter I use to show if nothing changed,

00:38:19.100 you know, what would the election look like? But of course, lots of things will change. So it's not

00:38:24.300 a prediction. It's just a point in time, point in time, the slaughter meter is negative, meaning that

00:38:30.280 if nothing changed, between now and election day, you'd expect Biden to win. But lots of things will

00:38:37.240 change. Kanye, who knows, lots of things are going to change. Are you ready for some free speech?

00:38:49.100 I was tweeting that I was going to exercise my free speech today. And so this will also be a little

00:38:55.980 test to see if I can say things that would have gotten me canceled a month ago. All right. So this

00:39:02.640 might be the last time you ever hear me. We'll see. I've said that a few times and so far not canceled.

00:39:07.780 So I'll keep pushing it to see what I can get away with.

00:39:10.100 Um, here's my starting point. I believe that Black Lives Matter has had a weird and good 1.00

00:39:20.920 unintentional impact. The weird and good unintentional impact is that it's, um, it begs

00:39:30.480 for free speech in an area in which it never existed. I don't have to tell you if you happen to be

00:39:37.740 non-black, I don't have to tell you that you've probably been lying because you can't tell the 1.00

00:39:44.280 truth. In other words, you can't really give your actual opinion on anything about Black Lives Matter

00:39:49.560 because then you get canceled. Am I right? So first of all, I think you'd all agree with that statement.

00:39:55.900 If you were non-white, that if you said something that was really kind of, you know, a little too 0.91

00:40:04.800 honest, uh, that you would get canceled. But I think that's changing. And I think that people are

00:40:11.780 willing now to just be a little more honest. And we have a weird problem that if you don't speak of

00:40:17.800 it, honestly, you don't really have a chance of solving it. Do you? Can you think of any problem

00:40:22.980 that can get solved when you're not allowed to talk about it honestly? So here's the, so here's the

00:40:30.160 context. Uh, we're talking about, uh, police and how they are more brutal to the black community.

00:40:39.940 And we're taking that as our starting point for discussion and that that's, uh, obviously racism.

00:40:48.480 And then we go from there. So that's the big trigger. It's not the only problem, of course,

00:40:53.380 but it's the trigger for the black lives matter movements. But here's, here's the part that white

00:41:00.200 people can't say in public. You ready? Here's the good part. I don't think there's a white person in

00:41:10.060 the world or a black person who will disagree with the following statement. A young black person on average

00:41:22.160 does not respond to police the same as any other group. Meaning that if we're not looking at the

00:41:31.700 actual individual strategy and behavior of the person who stopped by the police, we don't know

00:41:37.740 anything. We don't know anything. There's not a single fucking person in the world who thinks that a

00:41:44.980 young black guy from an urban area responds the same way as I'll pick random example, Asian American

00:41:53.400 in the suburbs. There's just nobody in the world who thinks they act the same way. Now, if you act in a

00:42:01.400 way that's different, should you get the same outcomes? No, no, you should not. And there's nobody who

00:42:11.340 believes, nobody black, nobody white, nobody anything, who would disagree that on average,

00:42:19.300 different, you know, cultures will have a different response to police. Now, am I saying that there's

00:42:26.100 something wrong with black people? No. If you heard that, you're just reading something into it. What I'm

00:42:32.460 saying is that everybody has a different way of reacting. And it could be because of their history.

00:42:38.120 Suppose you had a history in which you observationally, anecdotally, the news tells

00:42:44.700 you that you're being hunted by the police, basically. If you thought you were being abused

00:42:50.060 by the police, and that was like a basic truth of your life, would you respond the same to them if

00:42:56.140 they pull up on you? No, no. Would I respond the same way to the police if I had been told my entire

00:43:03.840 life that they were there to beat me up and kill me and they're all bad or whatever? No. No, of course

00:43:09.900 I wouldn't. Now, because I don't believe the police are there to hurt me, how do I respond when the

00:43:16.820 police roll up on me? Politely. Politely. Do you think a police officer can tell in one second that I'm

00:43:24.480 no danger? Probably. Probably. And it's not just because I look like I'm not dangerous.

00:43:32.640 It's because I act like it. I mean, it's two things. Let me ask you this. Do you remember when

00:43:39.360 you saw the studies of how many black women were killed by police stops versus white women killed

00:43:48.580 by the police? Do you remember those? It was a gigantic story. Like, everybody was talking about

00:43:54.120 it. And it was so useful. Because, you know, once you know the answer to it, are the women who are

00:44:01.360 being stopped by police also being killed? You know, the black women at a higher rate than white 1.00

00:44:08.640 women? Oh, oh, wait. You've never seen that statistic, have you? Because nobody will show it to you. 1.00

00:44:15.480 What do you think it would show? Would it show that the police kill women? Maybe they do. But

00:44:24.700 I'll bet the number of women killed by police is really low. Like, close to zero? Now, why would

00:44:35.140 that be? Why would that be? Could it be? Oh, hold on a second. Hold on a second. I've got to fix

00:44:40.980 something. Be right back. Oh, don't jump. Don't jump. Don't do that. Come here. Lay down. Lay down.

00:44:54.300 Sorry, I had a dog emergency there. I'm back. All right. So, does anybody believe that women 1.00

00:45:03.420 who are stopped by police act the same way as men? No. No. And if they did, would the

00:45:11.300 police officer be as afraid of a woman? No. Because the police officers can physically

00:45:18.460 control someone who is less muscular. Someone who is a smaller human being, the police are

00:45:25.440 less afraid of. They're not going to resort to a gun because they just don't need it. Right?

00:45:30.980 Now, let me ask you this. Have you seen the statistics? And again, they were

00:45:34.860 everywhere. So, how could you miss it? It was a headline. The study that showed that

00:45:39.700 police are more likely to use violence if you're larger. Larger, just taller or more

00:45:49.480 muscular. Have you seen that study? They showed that black people who were under

00:45:54.620 five foot eight had about the same rate of being killed as other people who were under

00:45:59.840 five foot eight? Have you seen that study? Oh, you haven't seen it because nobody fucking

00:46:05.680 did it? How important would that be? Seriously. Do you think the police act exactly the same with

00:46:13.420 a six foot three guy who looks like he could lift a house versus me? No, they don't. Of course

00:46:22.000 they don't. They act completely different because I'm not a threat. They can beat me up with

00:46:27.740 one hand. So, of course, they're not going to resort to whatever the more drastic things are.

00:46:34.440 Does anybody need to put me in a chokehold? Not so much. Not so much. All right. So, here's the

00:46:41.500 thing. Here's my free speech. The whole black people get treated worse than police is all bullshit. 1.00

00:46:49.640 The entire protests are based on poorly educated people who don't know how to compare things,

00:46:54.280 don't know how to analyze things, and been sold a bill of goods by undereducated people who think

00:47:00.640 they're overeducated. The people on the left believe that they have most of the knowledge,

00:47:06.180 and they do have some advantages in terms of, you know, they might be a little more scientific

00:47:11.240 on some topics. I'll give them that. But they also don't have any appreciation of the other side of

00:47:17.560 an argument, any argument. They only hear one side, where conservatives tend to hear both.

00:47:24.120 So, part of the problem is that the lefties, I'll say the white lefty type people, is that they think

00:47:33.340 they are informed, but they are deeply uninformed, very deeply uninformed. They don't even know what

00:47:39.420 the other argument is. It would be one thing to hear the other argument and say, okay, but I don't

00:47:44.020 buy it and hear my reasons. That's not what's happening. They haven't ever heard what I just

00:47:50.800 said. How many people on the left have heard what I just said? None. You know why? Because you'd get

00:47:57.240 canceled if you say it. You can't say what I just said directly. And let me say it again directly now

00:48:02.540 that I, you know, I couched it in ways that make it a little more acceptable. Directly. The whole police

00:48:10.040 treat black people worse is complete bullshit, and I don't know any white person who believes it.

00:48:17.020 There might be. I mean, it's a big world and there are lots of people. So, there must be,

00:48:21.560 there must be people who believe it. But I've never met one. All right? So, can I say this to

00:48:27.380 any black viewers? Any white person who tells you that they think this issue is real,

00:48:33.640 they are lying. Most of them. There might be some people who just haven't been exposed to any

00:48:40.420 way to analyze things. But they're mostly lying. Can you solve a problem if somebody's lying to you?

00:48:47.940 One, you know, one of the things you hear a lot is, and I inhibited to say this, is that people will

00:48:53.340 tell you exactly what they want if you can listen to them. But you have to listen because you tend to

00:49:00.000 hear what you think they're saying. You don't hear what people say, and it's actually a different

00:49:04.160 skill. It's a skill. You have to learn to listen to what they're saying instead of immediately

00:49:10.940 interpreting it into what you think they're meaning. And one of the things that black people say all the 1.00

00:49:16.800 time, and you've heard lots of different examples, lots of interviews, I'll bet you've all heard this,

00:49:21.780 which is the white liberals who pretend to be on their side are bothering them. Bothering them

00:49:30.840 because it feels like they're racist too, and they're liars. So it's like they're racist and

00:49:38.100 they're liars, and they're trying to be on our side, but they're burning up buildings, making us look

00:49:43.940 bad. I don't think the black community is loving the white liberals taking their cause without

00:49:51.640 really understanding it either. You'll hear black people say fairly often, you know, give me a 1.00

00:49:57.820 choice. I'd rather talk to someone who's straight up racist, because at least we're talking about the

00:50:04.060 same topic. At least we're talking about something that's, you know, you could deal with it. You could

00:50:09.580 figure out how to change it or whatever. But if you're only talking to a liar, how can you make

00:50:15.680 progress? So that's the first bit of truth. Now, let me give you some background on this. The other

00:50:25.860 day, there was an old Trump video from 1989 that surfaced. And on it, Trump was saying that in 1989,

00:50:34.100 so you have to think of the time, he was saying that he thought it was an advantage to be black

00:50:39.220 in terms of employment. So he limited it to employment. He said it would be an advantage to be black 0.99

00:50:45.220 for employment. And the context, of course, is that businesses were actively trying to improve

00:50:51.460 diversity, which I approve of. They should actively try to do that. And the only way you can do that,

00:50:58.360 there is no other way. You have to favor diversity. Otherwise, how would it happen? If it hadn't happened

00:51:05.340 yet, you need to put a little more muscle into it. So that was a completely non-controversial

00:51:12.680 statement that I thought, given the times, might be a bigger one. So I retweeted it, and then I added

00:51:21.040 some gasoline to the fire by saying that in 1989, guess what was happening to me? So I made it vague

00:51:29.500 so that people would say, well, what's happening to you? And of course, if you look at my pinned tweet,

00:51:35.340 you'll see that I lost one job for being white and male, a banking job, and they told me directly,

00:51:42.680 can't promote you because you're white and male. So I left, went to the phone company. And there I 0.97

00:51:49.720 was again told that I couldn't be promoted because I was white and male. And for those of you who are

00:51:54.560 new, they said it in those words, directly to my face. There's no interpretation going on here.

00:52:01.460 And that was about when I decided to not have a boss anymore and started working on what became the

00:52:09.220 Dillborough comic. So that situation remains to some extent. In other words, it's still easier to get a

00:52:18.680 job if you are black and educated. I think the president said educated, so he was doing apples to

00:52:24.540 apples. If you're educated and you're black, you have an advantage over somebody who's educated and 1.00

00:52:29.840 white. Although it may be harder to become educated because of the schools being not as good.

00:52:37.300 So here's the other thing that people don't say out loud. The protesters are our dumbest citizens.

00:52:44.520 The protesters are our dumbest citizens. We should just say that because it matters.

00:52:50.620 And when I say they're our dumbest, it's because they're our youngest. And young people just don't 0.68

00:52:56.360 know as much as people who've been around a while. Nobody knows as much at 20 as they know at 40. It's

00:53:03.220 just a fact. You can't, there's just no argument to that. We've all, if you've experienced all of

00:53:09.260 those ages, you know what I'm talking about. If you're 20, you probably doubt it, but you'll know.

00:53:13.940 Just wait. So we have people who are educated poorly at big colleges and only gave them some

00:53:23.240 weird indoctrination. They're the youngest. They're the dumbest. We should just be able to say that,

00:53:31.480 that it's the dumbest people. And how can you prove that they're dumb? They don't know how to

00:53:35.880 analyze any situations. For example, they still can't even sort out that you should look at not

00:53:43.260 the percentage of black people who are killed compared to the population of black people.

00:53:48.340 That doesn't make any sense. You should look at the number of black people who were killed by police

00:53:53.640 based on the number of stops. And then the problem goes away if you look at it correctly.

00:54:00.100 So if you analyze things correctly, sometimes the problem isn't even there.

00:54:03.840 Now, is there a problem with racism? Of course. Of course. Is there a legacy from slavery? Of course.

00:54:12.680 Of course there is. But here's how I would say that you should proceed. If you have a strategy,

00:54:21.320 and here's just one of many books, you know, libraries and amazon.com is full of books that will

00:54:28.000 tell you how to change your own mindset, which makes sense, as opposed to changing someone else's,

00:54:34.480 how to have a strategy for life that makes whatever your obstacles are less. So you can make the problem

00:54:43.160 of racism go away if you're Michael Jordan. Does Oprah have a lot of problems with racism? Well,

00:54:50.960 maybe in terms of like personal encounters that are unpleasant, but it doesn't hurt her job. I think

00:54:57.260 her job's going pretty well. You know, so the idea is to simply be successful. And that part you can

00:55:05.660 pretty much control. So while it is, and let me say it as clearly as possible, all of the protesters,

00:55:13.480 the young people are dumb, are dumbest citizens, because they're young, just the young part, that's the 1.00

00:55:18.780 only part I'm focusing on, nothing about ethnicity, they're just young. They don't understand the

00:55:28.360 strategy makes a better approach. So instead of saying, let's look at the data incorrectly, because we

00:55:35.940 don't know how to look at data, and then looking at it all wrong and deciding there's a gigantic problem and

00:55:41.120 protesting and burning cities over your inability to understand the data. And that's what happened. Let me say

00:55:48.340 that again, as clearly as possible. So I'll get canceled by being clear, not unclear. Well, I said,

00:55:56.560 that's fine. It was fine the way it was. So until we have data about how anybody is acting differently

00:56:06.860 during a stop, which we do not have, there is no data, nobody's ever studied it, as far as I know,

00:56:13.820 to show that the way you act during a stop will have some impact on the outcome. Obviously, it makes

00:56:20.100 a difference. So I am now rejecting the infantilizing way of the past, which is to act like you can't speak

00:56:30.380 honestly to black people. If there's anybody black watching, do you appreciate that I'm speaking to 1.00

00:56:36.720 you honestly? And don't you think you could work with that? Because even if I said something that I think

00:56:42.660 is honestly true, but you can say, oh, you're looking at the wrong data, look at this data,

00:56:48.300 I'm happy to do that. But if I can't tell you the truth, how can we get there? Like, I got to tell

00:56:54.880 you the truth first, and then you can tell me to look at different data, and then I'm happy to.

00:56:59.620 I'm happy to. You know, I told you the example the other day, where it blew my mind that the whole

00:57:09.160 problem of black kids being less likely to have two parents, turns out that at least partially might

00:57:17.740 be a fake data. Because there are lots of couples who are unmarried in the black community, and they 0.95

00:57:23.760 just act like a parental couple, and that doesn't show up in the data. So that's a perfect example of

00:57:31.600 where my opinion was modified by data. Now, I need some confirmation on that, but I certainly was

00:57:39.400 willing to change my opinion on it. Trump wants to open schools, which I think is a really winning

00:57:47.740 political strategy, because mothers want to open schools, and fathers too. So I think he's got a

00:57:57.360 really strong play there, because the public is pretty much on his side about opening the schools.

00:58:04.580 Did you see the Don Lemon interview with Terry Crews? So Terry Crews, despite being an African-American 1.00

00:58:11.640 man, insists on thinking for himself. And so Terry Crews has some, let's say, non-standard opinions about

00:58:21.640 things, meaning that they, I don't know if he would describe himself as a conservative, but let's,

00:58:27.960 just for understanding purposes, he's not buying into the full Black Lives Matter narrative. Let's just 0.63

00:58:35.140 put it that way. And Don Lemon interviews him and literally wouldn't let him talk. You have to see

00:58:41.980 it. Mike Cernovich tweeted it, and I retweeted him. But you have to actually see that clip to understand

00:58:48.680 how afraid Don Lemon is of a Black man with a different opinion. He actually wouldn't let him talk.

00:58:56.620 He just talked over him. It was amazing to watch.

00:58:59.500 All right.

00:59:06.400 There's a new idea for testing for coronavirus that people who are smart say it could be a big

00:59:13.860 breakthrough. Now, you've heard of the idea before, but I don't think I understood how powerful it was

00:59:18.760 until somebody who is smarter worked through it. And the idea is this, that instead of testing individuals,

00:59:24.680 you start focusing on groups. So instead of testing, you know, you, they would test the,

00:59:32.080 I don't know, the group you belong to. If you're in a nursing home, they test the whole nursing home,

00:59:37.200 and they just throw all the blood in one pile and test it. If nobody in the entire nursing home

00:59:42.580 has COVID, well, you're done. You've effectively tested everybody in their nursing home,

00:59:49.760 but you did it with just one test because you threw all the blood together and you just tested it and

00:59:55.020 there was no coronavirus in there. So I'm doing a bad job of explaining it, but smart people will say

01:00:01.220 that if you maximize that technique of pooling it, and then if you find something you can dig in

01:00:07.140 further, they say that that would just, you know, amazingly change the nature of what we know about

01:00:14.220 it very quickly. So that, that's an example of just human ingenuity that you didn't really see

01:00:21.100 that one coming because that just came in the left field. I mean, we've been hearing about it for a

01:00:25.440 while. It's not brand new, but what's brand new is a more rigorous analysis of how useful that would

01:00:32.040 be. And it's way more useful than you might've thought just commonsensically. Over in Bethel, Ohio,

01:00:39.200 there was going to be a small town and they were going to have a protest, which didn't go well

01:00:46.040 because hundreds of bikers showed up to make sure they didn't destroy the town. Now, of course,

01:00:52.080 some of the people who showed up were outright racists. The N word was hurled, which we do not

01:00:59.260 support. And it was an ugly situation, but the town did not get destroyed. Now, I don't think that

01:01:07.320 the 50 protesters were going to destroy this little town. So I don't know that there was any real danger,

01:01:12.940 but here's my point. If you're worried about the slippery slope, I've always said to myself from

01:01:19.020 the start that all of this, you know, at least the looting and protesting part, the parts that are

01:01:24.320 physical damage to places, I thought to myself, well, there's sort of a logical end to that.

01:01:30.440 Because as soon as it, as soon as it gets to the, to the point where armed Americans are part of the

01:01:38.860 game, that's it. That's it. Because the protesters are probably not going to take up arms. I mean,

01:01:45.760 some of the people in the group would have small arms, but as a general statement, these are intended

01:01:51.780 as peaceful protests that get out of control. But as soon as they hit armed America, like this

01:01:58.360 little town of Bethel, I think it's over. I don't think you can, it just can't spread into armed

01:02:04.560 America. Because the people in the rural places will say, how about no? How about we say you can't do

01:02:12.020 that? That's just going to be the end of it. I love the fact that Harvard is going to charge full

01:02:19.360 tuition, but you can only go there online. I guess maybe some freshmen will be able to come in in person.

01:02:25.400 And I was thinking that instead of calling it Harvard, because if you can't go there and network

01:02:31.180 and do all those things, it's not really Harvard anymore, is it? It's not really Harvard. If you

01:02:36.400 don't, if you can't network, you're not there in person. It's just some online classes. And I'm

01:02:41.780 thinking they should rename Harvard to, because it's Harvard is a racist guy from the past, to call

01:02:48.000 it George Floyd University. So is there any reason they can't just rename it George Floyd

01:02:54.920 University? Because I think that would be compatible with their view of the world. I don't see any

01:03:01.800 reason they wouldn't do that. And now that Harvard, as a name, doesn't have much value, because an

01:03:08.020 online class is an online class. It doesn't matter if you're Harvard or anywhere else. Let's call it

01:03:14.360 George Floyd University. And we'll see how that goes. All right. The president has apparently

01:03:21.800 decided that foreign students in America have to go home if their college is only online. If they

01:03:29.460 don't, if they can't go to the college anyway, the president is saying, well, you have to go home.

01:03:34.060 Now, this is will destroy a lot of lives, it seems to me, you know, not in a way that they can't

01:03:42.580 recover. But it's kind of expensive to come live in the United States. And it's kind of expensive

01:03:47.760 and doesn't give you what you want. If you have to go back to your country and study online in the

01:03:53.140 middle of the night, because the, let's say that the time zones are different, you have to go home and

01:03:58.120 study in the middle of the night. And I mean, it's really bad. If you were a foreign student in 0.99

01:04:04.220 America, this is really, really bad. That said, there are some benefits to it. And benefits, I'm

01:04:13.280 going to put quotation marks around, because it depends on your point of view, whether these are

01:04:17.920 benefits. Apparently, a third of the money that universities make comes from foreign tuition,

01:04:24.340 because they don't get, if you're from another country, you don't get any scholarships. So

01:04:29.660 they're paying full price. It's about a third of what the colleges make. If you take away the foreign

01:04:35.360 students, a lot of colleges aren't going to make it. And that may be part of the plan. It may be part

01:04:42.840 of the plan to put these colleges out of business. If you're a conservative, you're saying to yourself,

01:04:48.520 well, maybe put them out of business. You know, are they helping? It looks like the colleges are

01:04:53.780 destroying the country at the moment. And people are kind of anti-college as a trend. Not everybody,

01:05:00.460 of course, but there's a growing trend toward anti-college. But here's another thing. The

01:05:06.460 Chinese students, of which there were many, the ones born in China, Chinese citizens studying in the

01:05:12.500 United States, I don't think they're ever coming back. My guess is that sending everybody home

01:05:19.820 is a way to make it easier to not invite everybody back. In other words, if you're from France and you

01:05:28.000 got sent home, you probably get to come back. If you're from China and you got sent home, 0.99

01:05:35.200 you're probably not coming back. I don't think Chinese students are necessarily going to ever come back.

01:05:41.500 So that might be a decision because there's a spying problem and because we might want to put

01:05:47.840 pressure on China. And let's see. I saw an article in which somebody was complaining that one of the

01:06:01.080 problems with scientists and academics is that their writing is so stilted and academic that the regular

01:06:08.040 public can't read what they're saying. And so their knowledge is sort of lost because they don't

01:06:13.900 know how to communicate. The interesting thing about it is that the woman who wrote an article

01:06:18.120 on how science can communicate better is really a bad writer. And when I say bad, I mean it in

01:06:28.220 Scott's personal definition, not in the sense that she couldn't get a book published because she does

01:06:34.220 have, she has a high level of writing skill that obviously came from some college or university 0.55

01:06:39.820 education. And she was an English major, she says, but her sentence are almost unreadable because

01:06:46.720 they're complicated. And she's writing an article about how the other people are too complicated

01:06:52.160 that you can't read them easily. And I'm looking at her sentence structure and I'm thinking,

01:06:56.780 man, I'm working hard to read this article. And ultimately I skipped it. So my point is,

01:07:03.820 that these are college educated people arguing that the other ones are basically useless because

01:07:11.540 they can't communicate. And it turns out they're all useless because they can't communicate.

01:07:16.620 The only skill in writing that you need in the real world is business writing. Business writing

01:07:23.180 gets rid of all the adjectives that you don't need, the adverbs you don't need,

01:07:27.660 simple direct sentences and no long sentences with multiple points in them, which is sort of how this

01:07:35.080 article was written. So college is just ruining people. And this is what's the bad part. College

01:07:42.980 is just ruining people. In this case, somebody went to college to become a far worse writer than they

01:07:50.220 could have become with a one day class of business writing. Now that's just a fact. This is somebody who got

01:07:55.420 an English major, you know, a degree. And the net effect of all this English major, you know,

01:08:03.900 writing and reading is that the result is an adult who can't write well. Think about it. It was a course on

01:08:13.680 English, English literature, you know, being an English major. And the result was somebody who was taught to

01:08:21.440 write poorly. And then it's just poor writing, in my opinion. All right. Mike Pompeo is reportedly

01:08:29.540 looking at banning TikTok. Now, will, will Mike Pompeo be in favor of banning TikTok? Will the

01:08:37.880 government, let's say the president? Well, here's what Mike Pompeo said. Here's an exact quote. And see if

01:08:44.760 you can read between the lines of this Mike Pompeo quote, talking about banning TikTok. He says,

01:08:51.420 I don't want to get out in front of the president, but it's something we're looking at, he says.

01:08:56.920 I don't want to get out in front of the president, but it's something we're looking at. Read between

01:09:02.380 the lines. They've already decided to ban TikTok. So TikTok is definitely getting banned. Because you

01:09:09.360 don't say this sentence, because they asked Pompeo, do you think it should be banned? He goes,

01:09:13.780 I don't want to get out in front of the president. That is not something you say if it's not going

01:09:19.600 to be banned. Right? It's going to be banned. All right. I think those were my main points. Let me

01:09:29.460 quickly look at them just to make sure I didn't miss anything that was exciting and good. No, I didn't.

01:09:35.660 It's all there. So I think keep your vitamin D levels up and you will be in good shape.

01:09:46.400 Oh, do you want, do you want some more free speech? I saved a little nugget for you. Here's

01:09:52.760 some free speech. The other day, I think it was CNN ran a story about a tragic death of a young,

01:09:58.800 I think 17 year old, and ran a picture of him and said he didn't have any comorbidities.

01:10:07.060 But you look at the picture and he was clearly obese and he was black. Now, did he have low vitamin D?

01:10:15.700 I would like to know that. Wouldn't you? Because the odds are, unless he was supplementing, he did.

01:10:23.540 Because if you're black, you have more trouble getting it just from the sun in this part of the

01:10:28.100 world. He was obese. And they didn't mention that. They said no. They said there was no comorbidity.

01:10:35.800 And I'm looking at the picture and I'm saying, are you fucking kidding me? Now, I get it.

01:10:41.460 And I am completely opposed to fat shaming. And if this sounds like it's fat shaming,

01:10:47.460 you're hearing it wrong. Your weight is just a medical situation. I don't mock people for medical

01:10:54.760 situations. What would be the point of that? Nothing good can come from that. I'm just making a fact

01:11:00.680 that if you can't speak freely and say a 17 year old died who had two comorbidities,

01:11:08.500 one of them probably low vitamin D, probably statistically very, very high likelihood of

01:11:15.180 low vitamin D. And the other one, he was obese, unless the picture was wrong. So we just got to

01:11:25.260 have a little bit more free speech and we'll be a little bit safer from the coronavirus and we'll be

01:11:31.460 way ahead in terms of race relations. So let me close on a positive note. You don't have to read

01:11:38.840 my book, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. Although, if you look at the reviews,

01:11:44.820 you'll see it's changing people's lives. What it teaches you is a life strategy that would make

01:11:50.640 racism or whatever your problem is. If your problem is not racism, you've got some other problem.

01:11:57.060 You know, you're short, you're old, you're whatever. Just pick something that you think

01:12:02.200 is your obstacle and it will make it much less important. So you can't get rid of racism and

01:12:07.900 those who are trying to do it are trying to solve an unsolvable problem. You can't make the rain go

01:12:13.960 away, but you can buy a raincoat. You can get an umbrella. That's my advice. If the black community 1.00

01:12:20.340 would like to work on strategy, I'd like to help. Strategy for individuals works every time.

01:12:29.200 Trying to get rid of racism in people who were born racist and die racist and will always be so

01:12:34.540 because brains are pattern recognition machines. You can use your higher level thinking in your

01:12:39.920 moral sense to overcome it, but it's hard. It's hard and you're not going to get rid of it. You can

01:12:45.840 only overcome it. All right. Just looking at your reactions. Somebody said ugly people are the true

01:12:56.660 victims. Yeah, there's another thing that you can't say out loud, but watch me because I have

01:13:01.320 freedom of speech now. The biggest problem you could have in the world is to be less attractive

01:13:09.040 than the average. There's no way that being a tall, good looking, well-educated black man is a 1.00

01:13:16.140 disadvantage in America compared to a short, poor, didn't go to college person who doesn't look so 0.98

01:13:24.340 good. There's no way that those are equal. They're not even close. You'll take the six foot three

01:13:31.860 healthy black guy with a good college education every time. That person has a good life ahead of

01:13:39.040 him. That's it. All right. So that was a little bit of free speech for you. And I hope it,

01:13:46.060 I hope it allows me to come back tomorrow. I'll see you then.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 07, 2020

Episode 1050 Scott Adams： I'll Be Testing My Freedom of Speech Today. Confederate Flags, Fake College, Bad Experts

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