Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1062 Scott Adams： Portland Fake Kidnappings, Fake News, Fake Studies, Fake Opinions, Fake Ellen, Real Coffee

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00:01:18.920 So, this morning I noticed that one of my tweets had picked up quite a few retweets.

00:01:26.580 I had over 10,000 retweets on the tweet, and I thought to myself,

00:01:31.400 huh, what's going on with that?

00:01:33.640 And then I noticed that President Trump had retweeted me yet again, yet again.

00:01:40.200 But the funny part about it, or the interesting part, if you will, is not that he retweeted me,

00:01:47.600 because I think he's done that, I don't know, several times in the past year.

00:01:53.880 But it's why he retweeted.

00:01:56.520 And this is why he retweeted of mine.

00:01:59.020 I tweeted that I'm no political expert, but the Democrats' strategy of effectively legalizing violent crime

00:02:07.340 before a national election seems suboptimal.

00:02:12.380 Hashtag, jobs not mobs.

00:02:14.980 So, here's what you need to know.

00:02:17.620 That my hashtag, jobs not mobs, got retweeted by the President.

00:02:22.600 So, you know that he's at least friendly to that framing.

00:02:28.020 It doesn't mean that that will be any kind of a feature, but it does mean that he responded to it.

00:02:34.340 And I will go further and tell you the Trump campaign ad that will guarantee victory.

00:02:41.160 Are you ready?

00:02:43.000 Visualize with me.

00:02:44.440 Close your eyes if you must.

00:02:46.640 And imagine that you're watching a Trump campaign ad.

00:02:49.740 It's a split screen.

00:02:51.960 On the left are a bunch of images of Democrat-run cities,

00:02:57.760 mostly with protests and looting and crime in the streets.

00:03:02.340 And, you know, it's all gray and dismal and dystopic.

00:03:05.820 It looks like the end of the world.

00:03:07.720 And each time there's a new picture, there's a new Democrat city.

00:03:13.900 So, you'd have to say something like, you know, Chicago.

00:03:16.940 And then the name of the mayor, Democrat.

00:03:19.740 And then you do city after city after city.

00:03:23.140 Meanwhile, on the right of the screen, you would show, you know, nice things going right.

00:03:31.040 You know, the Republican-Trump view.

00:03:34.560 Maybe you'd show some Republican cities, but you don't need to.

00:03:37.880 You could just show, you know, gleaming capitalism going right and people being happy.

00:03:45.440 And you could just say, it's the two visions.

00:03:49.760 You know, two worlds.

00:03:50.760 Pick one.

00:03:52.900 And that could actually be the closing screen as you just go to a solid black screen.

00:03:58.820 And you just say, two worlds.

00:04:00.680 Pick one.

00:04:01.280 Because if you frame it as those two choices, it's extremely visual.

00:04:08.460 The split screen gives you contrast.

00:04:11.240 It's very simple.

00:04:13.480 Right?

00:04:13.900 You don't want to be explaining why your system that you want to implement is better and, you know, systemic racism.

00:04:22.080 And it's a concept and there's no picture that goes with it.

00:04:25.900 And it just doesn't grab your head.

00:04:27.940 But, man, you show me a split screen where one of them just looks like the end of the world.

00:04:34.040 And that's what the Democrats are actually promising you.

00:04:37.000 Because they're saying, we want to do more of this.

00:04:40.120 I mean, they're literally saying, give us more of this.

00:04:43.080 And we know what this looks like visually.

00:04:46.740 So that's, you know, obviously just in terms of a campaign ad, that's what it looks like.

00:04:54.580 So I think that ad would be the end of it.

00:04:56.660 I was just watching Jason Miller from the Trump campaign just moments before I came on, talking to Smirkanish on CNN.

00:05:06.460 Now, Smirkanish is one of the most interesting media characters.

00:05:13.360 Because I feel as though it's a little bit like Harry Potter, where the wizards have to pretend they're not wizards.

00:05:23.940 They have to sort of fit in with the muggles. 1.00

00:05:25.920 And I often look for the wizards hiding among the muggles. 1.00

00:05:32.800 And the way that you can tell the wizards from the muggles is that the wizards are capable of independent thought. 1.00

00:05:41.580 They're capable of having an opinion that maybe doesn't agree with their own team.

00:05:46.100 And Smirkanish is one of those. 0.97

00:05:47.520 So Smirkanish, this is just my take, my personal opinion. 0.99

00:05:53.400 I think Smirkanish is a wizard hiding among muggles as CNN, meaning that he's an actually open-minded person who would legitimately listen to arguments on both sides. 0.97

00:06:06.060 And we've seen him do it.

00:06:07.120 He's had me on his show several times.

00:06:11.260 But he does it orderfully, so that he's really just presenting the opinions.

00:06:16.600 And I guess that's good enough to keep him employed at CNN.

00:06:19.820 So Smirkanish had Jason Miller on, and Jason was saying how all the polls showing that Trump is way behind are the types of polls where, once again, they overweight Democrats.

00:06:32.060 And they don't ask likely voters.

00:06:35.880 They just ask voters.

00:06:38.820 So Jason Miller was saying that their internal polls, and any poll that does it correctly, shows that it's a toss-up.

00:06:46.460 It's already neck and neck.

00:06:48.480 So hold this in your mind.

00:06:51.040 According to Jason Miller, their internal polls, and also looking at, I don't know, Rasmussen or some other poll,

00:06:58.980 they're saying that if you do it right, which the other polls have not done right,

00:07:04.920 it's actually kind of a toss-up, or the president is ahead in the key states that he needs to win.

00:07:12.120 Is that true?

00:07:13.360 Now, first of all, do you think that's true?

00:07:16.280 Do you think that their internal polling is, first of all, done more appropriately than the public ones?

00:07:23.820 You'd have to accept that as true.

00:07:25.300 And then secondly, that he's correctly and accurately telling you that it looks like a toss-up.

00:07:30.920 Now, suppose that's true.

00:07:33.500 That doesn't even count the shy Trump supporters who are just literally hiding.

00:07:40.120 So it looks like a toss-up, according to Jason Miller.

00:07:45.440 So you have to put your own credibility on it, right?

00:07:47.940 Anything that comes out of a campaign, whether it's your team or the other team,

00:07:52.560 if it comes out of the campaign, you're going to have to put that credibility filter on it a little bit.

00:07:59.340 But if it's true, it looks like a landslide.

00:08:04.660 It looks like a landslide to me.

00:08:07.100 Now, there are lots of things that could change and will change between now and Election Day.

00:08:13.740 And one of the factors is whether people are frightened and will stay home.

00:08:18.600 And I would say at this point, I can't even imagine the situation.

00:08:26.400 Help me along on this with the comments.

00:08:28.480 I want to see if I'm way off base.

00:08:30.820 I want to see if you agree with me overwhelmingly or I'm just lost in my own mind.

00:08:35.260 In my opinion, there will never have ever been and may never be again

00:08:42.760 a presidential election that is more motivating for conservatives.

00:08:49.720 More motivating for conservatives.

00:08:52.620 Because remember, conservatives are looking at the alternatives now.

00:08:56.640 It's not a concept anymore.

00:08:58.420 We're actually looking at these cities just being destroyed.

00:09:01.700 And in the conservative mind, that's now the option.

00:09:05.960 It's like, okay, the way we were, you know, a little more order.

00:09:09.860 Or that stuff.

00:09:11.140 A lot more of that stuff.

00:09:12.640 It's not even close.

00:09:14.680 It no longer looks like a political decision of like,

00:09:19.560 well, I'd like lower taxes.

00:09:21.580 They want higher taxes.

00:09:22.700 It's nothing like that.

00:09:24.340 At this point, it looks like an existential threat.

00:09:27.200 That the Republicans will be wiped off the face of the political earth,

00:09:32.160 if not the real one.

00:09:34.460 Now, I don't think that the risk of actual death is very high.

00:09:39.900 But it will feel like it.

00:09:42.200 It's going to feel like it.

00:09:44.060 So if you count the fact that there's at least one,

00:09:47.420 certainly one Supreme Court position in play,

00:09:52.560 you know, Ruth Bader Ginsburg,

00:09:56.480 and you add everything else that's at risk,

00:09:59.580 I don't think there will ever be a bigger turnout from conservatives.

00:10:04.440 It's going to be records.

00:10:07.520 But will Joe Biden get the same record turnout?

00:10:11.880 Well, I don't know.

00:10:13.020 Keep in mind that even his own side is a little questionable on him.

00:10:16.660 Now, the other thing that Jason Miller said is that,

00:10:19.400 depending on whether you're looking at Zogby or Rasmussen,

00:10:23.640 that African-American support for the president is at a record high.

00:10:28.280 Now, do you believe that?

00:10:29.980 Do you believe that African-American support for President Trump is at a record high?

00:10:35.460 I do believe it.

00:10:37.140 I do believe that.

00:10:38.680 Now, record high for a Republican is still 14 to 20 percent.

00:10:42.860 So lots of room to improve there.

00:10:45.480 But, yeah, I completely believe that.

00:10:49.720 Because it just looks that way to me.

00:10:52.700 Meaning that if I were to look at what he's offering,

00:10:56.100 and I were to look at, you know, what I know about the world,

00:10:59.160 I would say, yeah, that feels about right.

00:11:01.060 He should get about that ratio.

00:11:03.580 That kind of passes the sniff test.

00:11:07.380 So, slaughter meters at 100 percent.

00:11:10.420 But, of course, that will change a lot.

00:11:12.760 Did you all watch the major wall-to-wall news coverage of the violence and, I call it a riot,

00:11:21.400 around the Columbus statue at Grand Park in Chicago?

00:11:25.720 Did you all watch that?

00:11:26.840 It was all over the TV news last night.

00:11:29.460 And then you turn on, you know, you open up to your major news sources, and there it is again.

00:11:35.540 It's just videos and pictures.

00:11:37.820 What?

00:11:38.200 You didn't see it?

00:11:39.920 Oh, you didn't see it?

00:11:41.980 Oh.

00:11:43.020 Oh, you had to go to social media to see it, didn't you?

00:11:47.760 You probably did.

00:11:49.320 You may have seen a clip on the regular news,

00:11:54.120 but if you wanted to see the real action,

00:11:57.600 you probably had to see somebody's Periscope or live stream

00:12:00.760 or video that got posted on social media.

00:12:05.140 And it looked pretty brutal, actually.

00:12:07.460 But it does look like the police have made a stand,

00:12:10.740 and that Columbus statue is not going to come down anytime hard

00:12:14.000 because the police actually held the territory.

00:12:20.600 So you would agree, would you not,

00:12:23.640 that the news, both the left and the right,

00:12:26.160 are intentionally not showing the news, right?

00:12:30.040 Do you back me on this?

00:12:31.920 I'm not sure if you do,

00:12:33.600 but it seems like it's just obvious

00:12:36.880 that they're intentionally not showing the protests

00:12:40.560 to reduce them, I guess.

00:12:44.000 Right?

00:12:44.620 Just to reduce them by not showing them, I would think.

00:12:52.220 So the big news, of course,

00:12:55.740 is that John Lewis,

00:12:57.100 a congressman and civil rights legend,

00:12:59.480 has died at age 80.

00:13:02.360 So that will be a big headline today.

00:13:05.640 I noticed I was comparing CNN to Fox News coverage

00:13:12.100 because, you know,

00:13:13.820 Fox News has to try harder to not look racist

00:13:18.280 because they're always being accused of it.

00:13:21.140 So Fox News, if you go to their front page,

00:13:24.080 it's like John Lewis, John Lewis, John Lewis.

00:13:27.100 I mean, they went hard at the John Lewis story.

00:13:30.000 Now, it's also featured on the CNN page,

00:13:31.980 but it's interesting to watch Fox go at it even harder

00:13:36.020 as sort of a branding defensive play,

00:13:40.400 I would think, successfully.

00:13:43.120 So it was actually a smart play.

00:13:46.300 Business-wise, it was a smart play.

00:13:48.560 Now, here's the other thing that's funny

00:13:50.720 about that Portland situation,

00:13:53.200 Portland being another city that's got the Antifa.

00:13:56.700 By the way, I want to try out a name for Antifa.

00:14:04.460 All right, I want to give them a new name.

00:14:07.340 How about this?

00:14:09.060 The Flu Klux Klan. 0.85

00:14:12.160 What do you think?

00:14:13.500 Because the only reason that Antifa

00:14:15.540 is getting as much traction as it is right now

00:14:19.480 is because of the coincidence of Black Lives Matter

00:14:22.560 and the coincidence of the coronavirus, the flu.

00:14:27.600 So it feels like they're the Flu Klux Klan now, Antifa.

00:14:31.440 Anyway, just trying that out.

00:14:33.860 Here's an interesting tidbit.

00:14:36.060 Did you know that Anderson Cooper's family,

00:14:38.920 Anderson Cooper's family, meaning his ancestors,

00:14:43.340 once owned Michelle Obama's great-great-grandfather as a slave?

00:14:49.380 Now, there's nothing funny about slavery,

00:14:51.400 but there's something a little bit funny

00:14:53.380 about the fact that Anderson Cooper

00:14:55.760 could not possibly be more of a poster child

00:15:00.360 for white supremacy. 0.63

00:15:04.660 I mean, that's sort of like a perfect candidate, right? 0.67

00:15:07.900 Now, keep in mind that white supremacy

00:15:11.480 and white supremacists have changed in meaning.

00:15:15.480 It no longer means, and when I say no longer,

00:15:18.640 I mean just in the last few weeks.

00:15:20.180 Like, within the last 30 days,

00:15:23.040 the definition of this race changed.

00:15:25.540 So it used to be people who thought

00:15:27.380 other races were inferior. 0.99

00:15:31.020 It doesn't mean that anymore

00:15:32.200 because, frankly, nobody thinks that way

00:15:35.100 quite the way people did in the old days.

00:15:38.240 Of course, there are lots of people in the world,

00:15:42.160 so there are people with bad feelings and opinions,

00:15:46.020 but generally speaking,

00:15:47.660 there are not people thinking in that way.

00:15:49.740 There are still plenty of racists,

00:15:51.880 but they're not thinking,

00:15:53.220 everybody in my group is better than everybody

00:15:55.140 in those other groups.

00:15:56.360 That just doesn't exist in 2020.

00:15:59.760 But white supremacy certainly exists

00:16:02.120 in the way that it has newly been defined

00:16:04.280 as simply the situation that there are white people in charge

00:16:08.460 who maybe would not be so in charge

00:16:11.940 except for the history of everything from slavery on,

00:16:16.280 which sort of keeps them in power.

00:16:18.940 And what would be a better example

00:16:20.360 than the Vanderbilt family

00:16:22.900 who owned, among other things,

00:16:24.600 they owned a lot of stuff,

00:16:26.000 but apparently at least one of the things

00:16:27.700 they owned was a plantation,

00:16:29.100 including Michelle Obama's great-great-grandfather.

00:16:31.580 And now Anderson Cooper got a great education,

00:16:36.560 lots of contacts, probably helped him too,

00:16:38.760 and now he's on a major news channel.

00:16:42.500 Is Anderson Cooper not the most perfect example

00:16:45.780 of white supremacy?

00:16:47.180 According to the new definition,

00:16:49.900 it doesn't mean the way he's thinking,

00:16:52.020 it just means by his position,

00:16:54.400 he's advantaged by his past,

00:16:56.760 which directly was benefited by slavery.

00:17:00.060 Although his ancestors have lots of money

00:17:03.220 from lots of different places too.

00:17:06.120 Just an interesting fact

00:17:07.740 that doesn't have any importance.

00:17:10.620 Here's the other Portland thing that was interesting.

00:17:14.120 Do you know that the,

00:17:15.180 I think he's the acting head

00:17:17.840 of the Department of Homeland Security.

00:17:20.720 This is his actual name.

00:17:23.480 If you haven't caught this,

00:17:25.740 you don't know how hard the simulation is winking at you.

00:17:28.920 I mean, all these coincidental names

00:17:31.400 are just too much.

00:17:33.920 All right, so the guy who is the head

00:17:36.480 of the Department of Homeland Security,

00:17:39.020 which at the moment are being demonized

00:17:41.600 for being, you know, too Gestapo-like,

00:17:43.920 the left is saying.

00:17:45.180 His name is Chad Wolf.

00:17:49.260 Wolf.

00:17:50.220 His last name is Wolf.

00:17:52.060 And he's the head of the organization

00:17:53.780 which is being demonized

00:17:55.140 as being, you know, too aggressive.

00:17:57.040 Yeah, his name is Wolf.

00:17:59.780 And he's the head of a,

00:18:01.360 and his first name is Chad.

00:18:03.760 Come on.

00:18:05.340 Come on.

00:18:07.020 Can that be real?

00:18:12.040 Somebody says I should use

00:18:13.420 the flu-flux-flan

00:18:14.880 instead of flu-clux-clan.

00:18:17.660 Flu-flux-flan?

00:18:18.740 I don't know that that makes sense,

00:18:20.020 but I like it.

00:18:20.780 Here is a,

00:18:23.320 let me add a little conspiracy theory

00:18:25.700 on top of your breakfast this morning.

00:18:28.040 This one I like.

00:18:29.860 When I say I like it,

00:18:31.700 it means it's a total,

00:18:34.160 it just screws with your brain.

00:18:36.520 And I think it's more likely true than not.

00:18:40.600 I wouldn't say that about every conspiracy theory,

00:18:43.440 but this one feels a little more true than not.

00:18:45.780 Now, of course, conspiracy theory

00:18:47.620 is not exactly what this is,

00:18:49.760 but it's,

00:18:50.720 let's call it fake news.

00:18:52.600 So you may have all seen by now

00:18:54.740 the video of the

00:18:56.180 Department of Homeland Security

00:18:58.520 guys who were in heavy camo.

00:19:02.360 They looked very military,

00:19:04.160 you know,

00:19:04.380 fully tricked out with the military gear.

00:19:06.860 And you saw them get out of an unmarked

00:19:08.820 regular sedan,

00:19:10.380 or actually on a minivan or something,

00:19:12.380 and go over and arrest

00:19:15.620 some Antifa-looking guy

00:19:18.420 who was not doing anything wrong.

00:19:21.600 He was just sort of there with a few friends.

00:19:24.740 And they grab this guy

00:19:26.260 without much conversation,

00:19:29.820 and they take him back,

00:19:30.720 and they put him in the car,

00:19:31.740 and they leave.

00:19:33.140 And that's on video.

00:19:34.360 And the people that were left behind

00:19:35.860 were like,

00:19:36.560 what's your name?

00:19:37.500 What's your name?

00:19:38.320 So they could help him out later.

00:19:40.120 Now,

00:19:42.620 do you think that actually happened?

00:19:46.480 You saw it on video,

00:19:47.920 right?

00:19:48.700 Would you ever doubt your eyes?

00:19:51.080 You saw it right on video.

00:19:52.360 You saw it on video.

00:19:55.060 Obviously it happened.

00:19:57.460 You didn't see anybody say

00:19:58.920 that that was a fake video,

00:20:01.180 right?

00:20:02.020 So if you watched it

00:20:03.580 with your own eyes,

00:20:04.800 what happened was

00:20:05.880 these military-looking people

00:20:08.520 grabbed a peaceful protester,

00:20:11.520 put him in an unmarked car,

00:20:13.280 and it disappeared.

00:20:14.740 It's pretty bad.

00:20:16.360 Is that like a death squad?

00:20:18.960 Maybe a death squad? 0.93

00:20:20.760 Gestapo, possibly? 0.99

00:20:22.380 Are they taking them

00:20:23.480 to secret torture facilities?

00:20:27.840 Maybe.

00:20:29.760 Or,

00:20:30.960 let me give you another hypothesis.

00:20:33.540 Now,

00:20:34.840 when you hear

00:20:35.260 the other hypothesis,

00:20:36.700 you have to go back

00:20:37.700 and watch the video, 0.78

00:20:39.020 and you will be slapping yourself 0.99

00:20:40.700 on the side of the head. 0.99

00:20:42.420 All right?

00:20:42.980 Here's the other interpretation

00:20:44.600 of the same video,

00:20:46.700 and see which one

00:20:47.760 you like better.

00:20:50.440 They were extracting

00:20:51.800 their own source.

00:20:54.360 In other words,

00:20:55.100 the guy they arrested

00:20:56.740 was actually just

00:20:58.420 one of their guys.

00:20:59.600 He was just dressed

00:21:00.640 as Antifa,

00:21:01.440 fully made up

00:21:03.040 so you could only see

00:21:03.680 his eyes.

00:21:04.660 He had his, you know,

00:21:05.260 black block outfit on.

00:21:07.400 And, yeah,

00:21:08.440 because there was

00:21:08.880 no resisting whatsoever.

00:21:10.540 He just sort of

00:21:11.320 backed up with his hands up,

00:21:13.160 you know,

00:21:13.400 like he wasn't trying

00:21:14.500 to run away,

00:21:15.480 and he wasn't resisting,

00:21:16.980 but other people

00:21:17.680 were watching,

00:21:18.440 so he couldn't just, like,

00:21:19.640 run into their arms.

00:21:21.280 And these two guys

00:21:22.420 walk up to him.

00:21:23.700 They gently take him

00:21:24.860 by each arm.

00:21:26.340 He turns

00:21:27.060 and willingly walks

00:21:28.360 as fast as they do,

00:21:29.700 completely cooperative,

00:21:32.140 no handcuffs,

00:21:34.260 the smallest amount

00:21:35.700 of force.

00:21:36.360 They're literally

00:21:36.760 just holding him

00:21:37.740 by the arm

00:21:38.340 on both sides,

00:21:39.400 and they walk him

00:21:40.160 directly to the car

00:21:41.160 and they put him in.

00:21:43.540 Now,

00:21:44.580 he wasn't,

00:21:45.220 he didn't seem

00:21:45.800 to be resisting too much.

00:21:47.340 I think he might have

00:21:48.020 been yelling,

00:21:49.060 I didn't do anything

00:21:49.800 or something,

00:21:50.360 which would be

00:21:50.860 part of the show.

00:21:52.420 Now,

00:21:52.960 if you were going

00:21:53.860 to remove

00:21:54.620 one of your sources,

00:21:57.240 isn't that the way

00:21:58.400 you do it?

00:21:59.740 The way you do it

00:22:00.940 is to look like

00:22:01.760 you're arresting him.

00:22:02.840 It's because you

00:22:03.300 get a twofer.

00:22:04.280 It makes you look tough,

00:22:05.900 makes you look scary,

00:22:07.780 and you get your 0.99

00:22:09.320 ass out off the street. 0.99

00:22:12.040 So, 0.82

00:22:12.900 now,

00:22:13.700 I can't tell you

00:22:14.860 that it was

00:22:16.020 an extraction,

00:22:17.220 so I don't know that,

00:22:18.920 but go watch,

00:22:19.680 go watch the video.

00:22:21.680 Watch it again,

00:22:23.340 and just hold

00:22:24.000 the two hypotheses

00:22:25.080 in your head

00:22:25.780 and see which one

00:22:26.880 it looks exactly like,

00:22:28.660 because there's one

00:22:29.400 it looks exactly

00:22:30.260 not like,

00:22:31.520 and there's one

00:22:32.060 it looks exactly like.

00:22:34.240 You decide.

00:22:35.940 We can't know,

00:22:37.040 because video lies.

00:22:38.240 This would just be

00:22:38.820 another example

00:22:39.460 of video lying,

00:22:40.880 but it's fun

00:22:41.400 to think about it.

00:22:44.220 All right,

00:22:45.420 so Ruth Bader Ginsburg

00:22:47.180 has had this liver cancer,

00:22:48.880 which apparently

00:22:49.520 she says she's battling

00:22:51.500 somewhat successfully,

00:22:53.400 but here's the real question.

00:22:54.940 if the worst

00:22:57.200 were to happen,

00:23:00.500 and let's say

00:23:01.160 she did not survive

00:23:02.380 to election day,

00:23:05.020 what would Mitch McConnell

00:23:06.500 do?

00:23:07.720 If there were an opening

00:23:08.880 on the Supreme Court,

00:23:10.680 and the Republicans

00:23:11.460 knew that if they

00:23:12.500 rushed it,

00:23:13.500 and they could get

00:23:14.200 Democrats to go along

00:23:15.420 with it,

00:23:16.300 that they could push

00:23:17.520 through

00:23:18.200 another Supreme Court

00:23:21.520 person before the

00:23:22.660 election even happens,

00:23:23.700 but given that

00:23:25.280 Mitch McConnell

00:23:25.980 held the last seat

00:23:28.000 open until

00:23:29.180 Trump was elected,

00:23:32.240 how can he not

00:23:33.380 do the same thing

00:23:34.360 now so close

00:23:35.680 to the election?

00:23:37.260 To me,

00:23:37.740 I think that if

00:23:38.960 the worst happened,

00:23:41.100 and let's say

00:23:41.580 Ruth Bader Ginsburg

00:23:42.800 did not survive

00:23:44.060 until election day,

00:23:45.580 I think what

00:23:47.080 McConnell should do

00:23:48.320 is keep the seat

00:23:49.160 open.

00:23:49.460 I think he should

00:23:51.660 keep the seat

00:23:52.340 open because

00:23:52.960 then he's

00:23:53.440 consistent,

00:23:54.820 but also,

00:23:55.720 my God,

00:23:57.020 what an election

00:23:58.320 it would be.

00:23:59.840 I say keep it

00:24:00.620 open.

00:24:01.580 Let the voters

00:24:02.240 decide,

00:24:03.960 because that's

00:24:04.420 what McConnell

00:24:05.080 said in the last

00:24:05.940 election,

00:24:06.620 and nothing's

00:24:07.160 changed.

00:24:07.740 I mean,

00:24:08.060 the dynamic

00:24:08.740 of that decision

00:24:10.700 is the same.

00:24:12.100 So I would

00:24:13.180 suggest that he

00:24:13.960 leave it open

00:24:14.600 should that

00:24:15.420 become a possibility,

00:24:17.020 but I would

00:24:17.760 say she's

00:24:18.160 going to

00:24:18.380 survive at

00:24:18.900 this point,

00:24:19.960 given the

00:24:20.480 last update,

00:24:21.640 it looks like

00:24:22.140 she'll be with

00:24:22.680 us through

00:24:23.280 the election.

00:24:26.080 I was reading

00:24:26.900 that the

00:24:28.200 meatpackers in

00:24:29.100 the United

00:24:29.400 States have a

00:24:30.060 very high

00:24:30.500 rate of

00:24:30.820 infection,

00:24:31.900 which you

00:24:32.380 would expect

00:24:32.900 because they're

00:24:33.320 sort of working

00:24:34.060 indoors and

00:24:35.040 close quarters

00:24:35.720 and stuff,

00:24:36.780 but that they

00:24:37.880 have a low

00:24:38.340 death rate.

00:24:40.160 So this was

00:24:41.260 given as sort

00:24:42.020 of a mystery.

00:24:42.960 Why is it

00:24:43.500 that there's a

00:24:44.780 low death rate

00:24:45.680 among these

00:24:46.420 meatpackers

00:24:47.080 when there

00:24:47.460 are so many

00:24:47.960 who are

00:24:48.260 infected?

00:24:49.640 And I

00:24:50.400 don't know

00:24:50.660 the answer

00:24:51.020 to that,

00:24:51.820 but I

00:24:53.800 would suggest

00:24:54.600 that a

00:24:55.800 story that

00:24:56.360 says we

00:24:56.780 don't know

00:24:57.260 why a

00:24:57.700 certain group

00:24:58.340 of people

00:24:58.800 is surviving

00:25:00.520 better,

00:25:01.540 I would

00:25:01.960 suggest that

00:25:02.640 that story

00:25:03.200 should always

00:25:03.840 include are

00:25:05.620 they taking

00:25:06.120 hydroxychloroquine

00:25:07.240 or not.

00:25:09.120 Now,

00:25:09.500 I'm not saying

00:25:10.000 that it works.

00:25:11.000 Again,

00:25:11.600 I've upped

00:25:12.940 my estimate

00:25:13.860 of hydroxychloroquine

00:25:15.320 being important

00:25:16.380 and working

00:25:17.100 from about

00:25:18.120 30% to

00:25:19.680 about 50%

00:25:20.880 based on

00:25:22.160 unscientific

00:25:23.300 things that

00:25:23.880 I'm hearing

00:25:25.140 lately.

00:25:26.440 But,

00:25:27.220 if you're

00:25:28.720 just silent

00:25:29.300 on that

00:25:29.740 question,

00:25:30.360 it just sort

00:25:30.860 of leaves it

00:25:31.260 out there

00:25:31.560 hanging.

00:25:32.460 If you were, 0.96

00:25:33.240 let's say you

00:25:33.840 were the

00:25:34.120 government of

00:25:34.680 the United

00:25:35.040 States,

00:25:35.540 and you

00:25:35.880 knew that

00:25:36.280 keeping the

00:25:36.840 meatpacking

00:25:38.160 industry

00:25:38.780 working was

00:25:40.380 essential to

00:25:41.180 the food

00:25:42.040 security of

00:25:44.360 the United

00:25:44.720 States.

00:25:45.780 So,

00:25:46.320 we're talking

00:25:46.720 about something

00:25:47.260 that's equally

00:25:48.720 as important,

00:25:49.780 maybe more,

00:25:51.360 than even

00:25:51.900 healthcare.

00:25:53.120 You know,

00:25:53.400 as important

00:25:53.920 as healthcare

00:25:54.400 is in a

00:25:54.900 pandemic,

00:25:55.820 you've still

00:25:56.220 got to have

00:25:56.620 food,

00:25:57.620 so you've

00:25:57.920 got to keep

00:25:58.260 the food

00:25:58.660 supply going.

00:25:59.800 I mean,

00:26:00.560 you know,

00:26:01.300 a Band-Aid

00:26:01.800 isn't going

00:26:02.200 to help you

00:26:02.580 if you

00:26:02.840 starve to 0.99

00:26:03.300 death.

00:26:04.180 So,

00:26:05.300 given the

00:26:05.960 importance of

00:26:06.720 meatpackers

00:26:07.520 to the

00:26:08.620 food security

00:26:09.540 of the

00:26:09.740 United States,

00:26:11.040 would you

00:26:11.680 assume that

00:26:12.520 they are

00:26:12.940 on hydroxychloroquine

00:26:14.780 prophylactically?

00:26:17.840 Because I

00:26:18.560 would.

00:26:19.100 I would

00:26:19.720 assume that

00:26:21.080 that group

00:26:21.820 is the,

00:26:23.420 you know,

00:26:24.000 after healthcare

00:26:24.700 workers and

00:26:25.380 first responders,

00:26:26.680 I would think

00:26:27.280 that they would

00:26:27.740 be the number

00:26:28.300 one group

00:26:29.040 that the

00:26:29.960 doctors,

00:26:30.520 even if it

00:26:31.020 wasn't a

00:26:31.660 rule,

00:26:32.400 I would think

00:26:32.860 that the

00:26:33.260 doctors would

00:26:33.820 say,

00:26:34.140 you know,

00:26:35.480 you know,

00:26:37.080 healthcare

00:26:37.520 workers are

00:26:38.220 taking this

00:26:38.740 prophylactically.

00:26:40.380 You might

00:26:40.980 think it's

00:26:41.480 the same.

00:26:42.520 Now,

00:26:43.000 again,

00:26:43.480 we wouldn't

00:26:44.480 see any

00:26:44.860 difference if

00:26:45.440 hydroxychloroquine

00:26:46.440 doesn't work,

00:26:47.340 but the fact

00:26:48.000 that there

00:26:48.340 could be a

00:26:48.780 story about

00:26:49.500 a group

00:26:50.180 with low

00:26:50.680 infections

00:26:51.180 and not

00:26:51.800 mention

00:26:52.340 whether or

00:26:53.740 not their

00:26:54.100 own

00:26:54.260 hydroxychloroquine

00:26:55.240 is missing.

00:26:57.240 Here's one

00:26:57.920 of my fun

00:26:58.460 stories of

00:26:59.000 the day.

00:27:00.560 Put this

00:27:01.300 in the

00:27:01.540 category of

00:27:02.300 everything

00:27:02.680 you think

00:27:03.280 you know

00:27:03.640 is wrong

00:27:04.200 just all

00:27:04.960 the time.

00:27:06.300 So,

00:27:06.620 you know

00:27:06.820 Ellen of 0.75

00:27:07.620 the Ellen

00:27:08.100 show.

00:27:09.600 Apparently,

00:27:10.380 there's some

00:27:10.720 stories now

00:27:11.440 about ex-staffers

00:27:13.260 talking about

00:27:14.440 what a

00:27:14.980 hellscape it

00:27:15.760 was to

00:27:16.200 work for

00:27:16.920 Ellen.

00:27:18.500 Now,

00:27:19.060 Ellen appears

00:27:19.900 to be one

00:27:20.660 of the

00:27:21.100 nicest human

00:27:22.440 beings in 0.99

00:27:23.020 the world,

00:27:23.400 and I would

00:27:24.020 like to

00:27:24.360 continue

00:27:24.840 believing

00:27:25.240 that is

00:27:25.700 true.

00:27:26.700 And I'd

00:27:27.280 like to

00:27:27.580 use this

00:27:27.980 one example

00:27:29.020 from what

00:27:29.620 the staff

00:27:30.280 were bitching 1.00

00:27:30.860 about to

00:27:31.880 make my

00:27:32.320 case.

00:27:33.400 Number

00:27:33.620 one,

00:27:34.580 how typical

00:27:35.300 is it

00:27:35.860 that somebody

00:27:36.700 who used

00:27:37.740 to work

00:27:38.200 someplace

00:27:38.880 and then

00:27:39.420 left 0.99

00:27:39.760 talks trash 1.00

00:27:41.340 about their 0.99

00:27:41.880 boss?

00:27:43.680 It's kind

00:27:44.400 of universal,

00:27:45.720 right?

00:27:46.300 You see

00:27:46.880 that the

00:27:47.280 ex-employees

00:27:48.180 of President

00:27:48.700 Trump

00:27:49.140 write books

00:27:49.840 about how

00:27:50.420 terrible he

00:27:51.000 is, 0.97

00:27:51.380 blah,

00:27:51.560 blah,

00:27:51.940 and one

00:27:52.720 of the

00:27:52.900 things I

00:27:53.320 always say

00:27:53.920 is,

00:27:54.560 you realize

00:27:55.140 that's just

00:27:55.700 every boss.

00:27:57.160 Every boss

00:27:58.260 who's had

00:27:58.880 lots of

00:27:59.320 employees

00:27:59.840 churn

00:28:00.200 through,

00:28:01.220 every boss

00:28:02.100 could have

00:28:03.200 one of

00:28:03.600 those

00:28:03.840 employees

00:28:04.220 write a

00:28:04.680 book about

00:28:05.140 what a

00:28:05.500 monster

00:28:05.880 that boss 0.95

00:28:06.460 was.

00:28:06.860 Every boss.

00:28:08.320 So you can

00:28:08.860 always find

00:28:09.520 disgruntled

00:28:10.120 ex-employees,

00:28:11.560 and if you

00:28:12.520 treat them

00:28:13.100 like they've

00:28:13.900 told you

00:28:14.300 something

00:28:14.700 useful,

00:28:16.340 you're doing

00:28:16.860 it wrong

00:28:17.340 because

00:28:18.440 they,

00:28:20.400 yeah,

00:28:21.740 you're doing

00:28:22.520 it wrong

00:28:22.880 because you're

00:28:24.740 not learning

00:28:25.160 something useful

00:28:25.780 there.

00:28:27.000 So now we

00:28:27.820 know even

00:28:28.200 Ellen,

00:28:29.280 you know,

00:28:29.620 the probably

00:28:30.220 most open-minded

00:28:31.320 seemingly,

00:28:33.460 from our

00:28:33.820 point of view,

00:28:34.380 I don't know

00:28:34.740 her personally,

00:28:35.460 but from the

00:28:35.880 outside,

00:28:36.900 looks like the

00:28:37.480 nicest person

00:28:38.180 in the world.

00:28:39.500 And the staff

00:28:40.380 says it's like

00:28:40.980 a hellscape.

00:28:41.860 But here's one

00:28:42.440 of the anecdotes

00:28:43.460 for why it

00:28:45.640 was an

00:28:46.080 unpleasant

00:28:46.540 place to

00:28:47.200 work.

00:28:48.140 So people

00:28:48.800 had been

00:28:49.160 told that if

00:28:49.920 they see

00:28:50.400 Ellen walking

00:28:51.280 around,

00:28:52.040 you know,

00:28:52.620 before the

00:28:53.140 show,

00:28:53.620 or after,

00:28:54.240 I guess,

00:28:55.160 if they see

00:28:55.780 her just

00:28:56.060 walking around

00:28:56.700 the set

00:28:57.120 somewhere,

00:28:57.960 they are not

00:28:58.600 to engage

00:28:59.320 her and

00:28:59.800 talk to

00:29:00.220 her.

00:29:01.080 They are

00:29:01.580 not to

00:29:02.060 talk to

00:29:02.440 her.

00:29:03.380 So that's

00:29:03.820 a pretty

00:29:04.060 unpleasant

00:29:04.640 place,

00:29:05.160 right?

00:29:05.480 So as soon

00:29:05.960 as you hear

00:29:06.320 that,

00:29:06.560 you go,

00:29:06.920 oh,

00:29:08.020 oh,

00:29:08.380 Ellen,

00:29:09.380 she's

00:29:09.740 actually,

00:29:10.760 she's just

00:29:11.920 not very

00:29:12.380 friendly.

00:29:13.180 She doesn't

00:29:13.680 even want

00:29:14.100 the common

00:29:14.660 people to

00:29:15.760 even talk

00:29:16.440 to her if

00:29:16.860 she walks

00:29:17.280 by.

00:29:17.960 Are they

00:29:18.340 supposed to

00:29:18.760 look away

00:29:19.320 and not

00:29:19.700 make eye

00:29:20.500 contact?

00:29:21.020 What a

00:29:21.360 monster.

00:29:22.580 All right,

00:29:22.840 now let me

00:29:23.240 put this in

00:29:23.800 context for you

00:29:24.680 because it's

00:29:25.060 all fake news.

00:29:26.640 All fake

00:29:27.480 news.

00:29:27.900 That same

00:29:29.620 story can

00:29:32.280 be and

00:29:32.900 has been

00:29:33.380 told about

00:29:34.520 me.

00:29:36.260 All right,

00:29:36.460 so when you

00:29:37.360 see it from

00:29:37.760 the other

00:29:38.120 side,

00:29:38.640 you know

00:29:38.980 what's

00:29:39.180 happening.

00:29:39.880 Here's how

00:29:40.520 it works.

00:29:42.460 All right,

00:29:42.860 here's how

00:29:43.300 this works.

00:29:44.140 I often

00:29:44.800 get speaking

00:29:46.140 requests,

00:29:46.980 and I used

00:29:47.520 to do a lot

00:29:48.060 of them in

00:29:48.500 the past,

00:29:49.320 and I would

00:29:49.860 go to an

00:29:50.400 event,

00:29:50.920 and I'd be

00:29:51.240 backstage,

00:29:52.080 and maybe I'd

00:29:52.700 be backstage

00:29:53.160 for an hour

00:29:54.260 or more in

00:29:55.280 whatever their

00:29:55.900 little green

00:29:56.480 room situation

00:29:57.160 is,

00:29:57.900 so I'd

00:29:58.440 have an

00:29:58.740 hour before

00:30:00.120 I was

00:30:00.600 supposed to

00:30:00.980 be on.

00:30:02.100 Now,

00:30:02.740 the secret

00:30:03.200 of being a

00:30:03.780 good presenter,

00:30:04.940 which would

00:30:05.360 be true on

00:30:06.380 television as

00:30:07.560 it would for

00:30:08.680 live,

00:30:09.480 is energy.

00:30:11.040 You want to

00:30:11.700 have your

00:30:12.040 highest energy.

00:30:13.580 You really,

00:30:14.260 you want to

00:30:14.700 make sure that

00:30:15.720 your best is

00:30:17.060 in that moment

00:30:17.720 when everybody's

00:30:18.480 watching.

00:30:19.480 And if your

00:30:20.720 energy gets

00:30:21.560 siphoned off

00:30:22.600 before you go 0.92

00:30:23.520 live,

00:30:24.740 you can tell.

00:30:26.000 It's actually a

00:30:26.660 pretty big

00:30:27.180 difference.

00:30:28.100 You can feel

00:30:28.720 it yourself.

00:30:29.560 The audience

00:30:30.020 can feel it

00:30:30.660 too.

00:30:31.600 And so,

00:30:32.200 I have often

00:30:33.020 told the

00:30:34.340 people who

00:30:35.900 book me that

00:30:37.380 if they didn't

00:30:37.960 mind, I'd

00:30:39.040 sort of like to

00:30:39.660 stay to myself

00:30:40.520 for the hour

00:30:41.500 before the show.

00:30:42.740 I mean, of course,

00:30:43.380 I talk to the

00:30:44.060 promoters and

00:30:44.860 the organizers,

00:30:46.700 and I talk to

00:30:47.260 the people who

00:30:48.440 are micing me up

00:30:49.360 and everything.

00:30:50.040 So it's not like

00:30:50.640 I'm not talking

00:30:51.360 to people.

00:30:51.820 But I have

00:30:53.480 directly said

00:30:54.980 to the people

00:30:55.700 who are sort

00:30:56.500 of managing

00:30:56.920 it, if it

00:30:58.140 would be all

00:30:58.420 right, I'd

00:30:58.800 like to just

00:30:59.220 sort of be

00:30:59.720 to myself

00:31:00.300 to get my

00:31:01.480 energy together.

00:31:02.820 Now, what

00:31:03.460 happens when

00:31:04.380 the person I

00:31:05.220 tell, tells

00:31:06.920 somebody on

00:31:07.620 the staff?

00:31:08.780 Does it

00:31:09.140 come out the

00:31:09.580 same?

00:31:10.880 When the

00:31:11.880 person I

00:31:12.500 told, and I

00:31:13.300 told them

00:31:13.660 politely, and

00:31:14.460 they completely

00:31:15.440 understood, but

00:31:16.820 when they tell

00:31:17.340 it to somebody

00:31:17.880 else, what's

00:31:18.380 it sound like?

00:31:20.080 It sounds like

00:31:20.700 don't talk to

00:31:21.340 this guy.

00:31:22.780 Don't talk to

00:31:23.600 Scott.

00:31:24.860 He doesn't

00:31:25.640 like it.

00:31:26.440 Or then it

00:31:26.820 turns into, he

00:31:27.920 hates it when

00:31:29.000 you talk to

00:31:29.600 him.

00:31:30.900 And it turns

00:31:31.700 into, I'm a 0.99

00:31:32.740 jerk, because I 0.99

00:31:34.240 don't want to 0.92

00:31:34.600 talk to the

00:31:35.040 little people.

00:31:36.100 And then

00:31:36.760 somebody maybe

00:31:37.720 has a book

00:31:38.260 they want to

00:31:38.900 sign, and

00:31:40.160 somebody else

00:31:41.100 will stop

00:31:41.600 them.

00:31:42.400 Say, no, no,

00:31:42.940 no, he

00:31:43.320 doesn't want to

00:31:44.780 be bothered.

00:31:46.300 And then it

00:31:46.800 turns into, I'm 1.00

00:31:47.720 a big jerk. 1.00

00:31:49.100 It turns into, I'm 1.00

00:31:50.160 a big jerk, and 1.00

00:31:51.020 all I wanted 1.00

00:31:51.760 to do was do

00:31:53.840 the best job I

00:31:54.800 could for the

00:31:55.760 people who

00:31:56.120 hired me.

00:31:57.100 That's all.

00:31:58.060 I wanted to do a

00:31:58.900 good job so that

00:31:59.680 all those people

00:32:00.280 who were mad at

00:32:00.940 me would have a

00:32:03.180 good experience

00:32:03.840 too, and their

00:32:05.080 business would do

00:32:06.000 well.

00:32:06.460 I have no bad

00:32:07.320 intentions.

00:32:08.560 All I want to

00:32:09.280 do is protect my

00:32:10.460 energy for when I

00:32:11.860 need it.

00:32:12.880 So my guess is

00:32:14.580 that Ellen has

00:32:15.260 that times ten.

00:32:16.680 Imagine if you're

00:32:17.580 Ellen, you're trying

00:32:19.280 to keep your

00:32:20.080 thoughts together,

00:32:21.060 you're thinking

00:32:21.500 about what jokes

00:32:22.380 you might say,

00:32:23.420 how you're going

00:32:23.880 to talk to your

00:32:24.440 guests.

00:32:25.240 You've got five

00:32:26.160 different guests,

00:32:27.300 you've got 15

00:32:28.000 different topics,

00:32:29.340 you've got to put

00:32:29.980 them all in your

00:32:30.480 head for this

00:32:31.120 show, and then

00:32:32.280 you're walking

00:32:32.860 from place to

00:32:33.600 place, and the

00:32:35.020 lighting person

00:32:36.120 stops you.

00:32:37.540 It says, Ellen,

00:32:38.240 Ellen, I just

00:32:39.540 got to tell you

00:32:40.100 this story about

00:32:40.880 my cousin who

00:32:42.400 loves you.

00:32:43.580 My cousin loves

00:32:44.480 you.

00:32:45.200 So my cousin,

00:32:45.940 all right, so my

00:32:46.900 cousin, she went 1.00

00:32:48.040 to the store, and

00:32:49.840 she saw her

00:32:51.700 friend, Betty, and

00:32:52.860 you know, hold

00:32:53.680 on, Ellen, and

00:32:54.840 then Betty, and

00:32:56.160 then she was

00:32:56.500 talking, and

00:32:57.060 then she said

00:32:57.580 to Betty, and

00:32:58.580 then, well, you

00:32:59.320 know, it's a long

00:33:00.160 story, and by the

00:33:01.320 way, you know, can

00:33:01.980 I get your

00:33:03.200 autograph?

00:33:04.820 Okay.

00:33:06.120 What would you

00:33:06.960 like me to sign?

00:33:07.580 Well, I don't

00:33:08.160 have anything.

00:33:09.180 I don't have

00:33:09.580 anything.

00:33:10.340 Could you wait,

00:33:11.900 and I'll go get

00:33:12.920 something?

00:33:13.180 I'll go find

00:33:14.360 something to

00:33:14.860 sign.

00:33:16.780 So, now, imagine

00:33:18.320 that encounter

00:33:19.320 multiplied by

00:33:21.160 everybody on the

00:33:21.960 staff who all

00:33:23.420 want to talk to

00:33:24.180 Ellen.

00:33:25.080 They'd all want

00:33:25.860 to talk to

00:33:26.300 her.

00:33:27.600 So, I

00:33:28.680 guarantee you

00:33:29.420 that at some

00:33:30.240 point, somebody

00:33:31.220 said, don't

00:33:32.780 talk to Ellen

00:33:33.340 if you see

00:33:34.120 her, but they 0.97

00:33:35.560 didn't give the

00:33:36.040 full explanation,

00:33:37.520 so that's the

00:33:38.100 point.

00:33:38.480 Anyway, here's

00:33:41.180 another great

00:33:42.280 story from the

00:33:42.980 simulation.

00:33:43.700 I like these

00:33:44.300 coincidences, except

00:33:45.520 it's a terrible

00:33:46.120 story.

00:33:47.240 So, there was

00:33:47.700 some shooting at

00:33:48.760 a cemetery, I

00:33:49.900 forget where,

00:33:50.900 yesterday, I

00:33:51.640 guess, and

00:33:52.440 somebody with a

00:33:54.220 gun was chasing

00:33:55.200 two other

00:33:55.760 people, shot 0.63

00:33:57.020 one of them, 0.71

00:33:57.780 tried, I think

00:33:58.740 maybe shot two 0.95

00:33:59.400 of them, and I 0.99

00:34:00.900 don't know what

00:34:01.260 the situation was

00:34:02.180 that caused 0.77

00:34:02.680 somebody to be

00:34:03.540 running after

00:34:04.180 people and 1.00

00:34:04.720 shooting them, 0.97

00:34:05.620 but one of the 0.93

00:34:06.580 stray bullets hit

00:34:07.600 a car that was

00:34:09.420 waiting at a

00:34:10.020 stoplight, I

00:34:10.600 think.

00:34:10.840 the car happened

00:34:12.720 to be owned by

00:34:13.480 somebody who

00:34:14.900 was a firearms

00:34:15.780 trader.

00:34:18.480 So, the guy with

00:34:19.440 the crazy guy with

00:34:20.420 the gun who was 0.91

00:34:20.960 trying to shoot

00:34:21.460 people, accidentally 0.98

00:34:22.980 one of his

00:34:23.560 bullets hits a

00:34:24.740 car, and by all

00:34:26.040 coincidence, it's a

00:34:27.680 person who has a

00:34:28.780 gun with him, and

00:34:29.980 he's a firearms

00:34:31.060 expert.

00:34:33.560 Grabs his gun,

00:34:34.540 gets out of the

00:34:35.100 car, and takes that

00:34:36.120 guy out.

00:34:36.560 What are the

00:34:37.860 odds that your

00:34:38.760 one stray bullet

00:34:40.240 that hits a car

00:34:42.200 hits a firearms

00:34:43.820 expert who is

00:34:44.860 sitting there next

00:34:45.800 to his loaded gun?

00:34:47.860 Come on.

00:34:50.780 All right.

00:34:54.440 There was a, I

00:34:56.560 think it was on

00:34:57.080 Fox News, they've

00:34:58.900 got a story about

00:34:59.720 what they call a

00:35:01.340 black professor. 0.91

00:35:02.180 I don't want to 0.99

00:35:04.480 live in a world

00:35:05.120 where you ever have

00:35:05.940 to say somebody's

00:35:06.960 racial identity

00:35:09.000 before you tell

00:35:10.000 the story.

00:35:11.220 Like, that's how

00:35:11.720 you know, someday

00:35:12.940 you'll know you

00:35:13.660 live in a better

00:35:14.260 world when you

00:35:15.540 don't have to say 0.95

00:35:16.420 a black professor.

00:35:19.080 Like, just the 0.84

00:35:19.680 fact that you

00:35:20.080 even have to

00:35:20.500 specify anybody's

00:35:22.100 race before you 0.71

00:35:23.400 tell a frickin' 0.53

00:35:24.060 story just tells 0.73

00:35:26.260 you where we're

00:35:26.760 at.

00:35:27.220 All right.

00:35:28.100 But he's a

00:35:29.300 Colombian associate

00:35:30.020 professor.

00:35:30.540 name is Mick

00:35:31.580 Worker.

00:35:33.060 And he was

00:35:34.240 complaining that

00:35:34.900 that book,

00:35:35.600 White Fragility, 0.99

00:35:37.060 which tells white 0.98

00:35:37.880 people how to be

00:35:38.760 better people, I

00:35:39.480 guess, in terms

00:35:41.340 of racism.

00:35:43.660 And he said

00:35:44.620 this, quote,

00:35:45.920 In my life,

00:35:47.060 racism has

00:35:47.720 affected me now

00:35:48.740 and then at the

00:35:49.460 margins, in very

00:35:50.760 occasional social

00:35:51.680 ways, but has

00:35:53.060 no effect on my

00:35:54.100 access to societal

00:35:55.600 resources.

00:35:57.100 If anything,

00:35:58.060 it has made

00:35:58.820 them more

00:35:59.280 available to

00:36:00.280 me than

00:36:01.480 they would

00:36:01.900 have been

00:36:02.380 otherwise.

00:36:05.760 So it's a 0.95

00:36:06.760 black professor 0.97

00:36:08.000 saying that 0.99

00:36:09.340 being black 0.81

00:36:10.040 helped him 0.92

00:36:11.460 more than

00:36:12.080 it hurt him,

00:36:13.160 except for

00:36:14.180 annoying social

00:36:15.180 things that

00:36:15.820 were not of

00:36:16.460 great consequence.

00:36:18.600 Now,

00:36:19.380 here's my

00:36:21.320 question.

00:36:22.460 If you,

00:36:23.260 let's say you

00:36:23.960 buy into the

00:36:24.740 entire Black 0.96

00:36:26.100 Lives Matter

00:36:26.760 narrative,

00:36:27.920 how did

00:36:29.060 they explain

00:36:29.960 the existence

00:36:30.900 of this guy?

00:36:32.680 Because if

00:36:33.800 it's clear and

00:36:35.380 obvious to all

00:36:36.320 people, you

00:36:37.580 know, that

00:36:38.220 the racism is

00:36:39.420 holding people

00:36:40.020 back, why is 0.95

00:36:41.560 there a black

00:36:42.220 professor in the

00:36:43.260 United States who

00:36:44.300 hasn't seen it?

00:36:46.560 How could there

00:36:47.540 be such a

00:36:48.240 gigantic problem,

00:36:50.220 and this guy's

00:36:51.040 lived his whole

00:36:51.680 life, and he

00:36:52.520 says, well, I

00:36:53.600 see, like,

00:36:54.220 trivial stuff,

00:36:55.340 like, annoying

00:36:55.820 stuff, but

00:36:57.500 it's actually

00:36:58.100 helped me more

00:36:58.800 than it's

00:36:59.140 hurt me. 0.53

00:37:00.340 How can he

00:37:01.180 be alive?

00:37:02.240 How can he

00:37:02.720 exist in the

00:37:04.480 same world and

00:37:05.460 not see what

00:37:06.120 the other

00:37:06.680 people are

00:37:07.080 seeing?

00:37:08.280 So that's

00:37:08.980 just a

00:37:09.480 question.

00:37:10.600 You know,

00:37:10.860 they can't

00:37:11.500 all be

00:37:11.880 right, how

00:37:13.360 can he

00:37:13.740 exist?

00:37:16.140 All right.

00:37:17.520 And his

00:37:18.320 argument is that

00:37:19.140 the Black

00:37:19.680 Lives Matter

00:37:20.280 movement is

00:37:21.460 infantilizing 0.98

00:37:22.640 black people 1.00

00:37:24.740 because it's

00:37:26.640 sort of, in

00:37:27.700 the White

00:37:28.060 Fragility

00:37:28.700 book especially,

00:37:30.440 training white

00:37:32.240 people how to 0.73

00:37:33.500 be, let's

00:37:35.540 see, more

00:37:36.220 gentle with

00:37:37.120 black people 1.00

00:37:37.840 is infantilizing. 1.00

00:37:40.880 It's like, oh,

00:37:41.740 well, you don't

00:37:42.060 have to worry

00:37:42.540 about the, you

00:37:43.300 know, Filipino

00:37:43.960 Americans, you

00:37:44.880 don't have to

00:37:45.240 worry about the

00:37:45.720 Asian Americans,

00:37:47.280 you know, the

00:37:47.700 Hispanic Americans,

00:37:48.840 they're looking

00:37:50.460 fine, you know,

00:37:51.600 there are no

00:37:52.200 special problems

00:37:53.160 there, but

00:37:54.120 when you talk 0.97

00:37:54.760 to black 0.97

00:37:55.240 people, you've 0.99

00:37:55.900 got to talk a

00:37:56.460 whole different

00:37:56.900 way so that

00:37:58.240 you're not a

00:37:58.760 racist.

00:38:00.040 And so

00:38:01.540 McWhorter makes

00:38:03.720 the point that

00:38:04.920 he feels it's 0.90

00:38:06.080 infantilizing black 1.00

00:38:07.200 people. 1.00

00:38:07.720 That's exactly

00:38:08.480 how I feel.

00:38:10.100 I feel like it's

00:38:11.380 infantilizing.

00:38:12.280 I'm surprised,

00:38:14.020 I'm honestly

00:38:14.520 surprised that

00:38:16.040 it's popular.

00:38:18.360 But, I

00:38:19.320 don't know.

00:38:19.600 but I would

00:38:21.460 agree with him

00:38:22.100 that it's

00:38:22.820 infantilizing and

00:38:23.840 you can't get to

00:38:24.800 equality that

00:38:26.120 way.

00:38:27.200 So, you need

00:38:27.800 some better

00:38:28.680 something.

00:38:32.680 I always feel

00:38:33.760 like the

00:38:34.560 cancel culture

00:38:35.360 has scouts.

00:38:37.400 Do you ever

00:38:37.720 feel that?

00:38:38.820 That, you

00:38:39.480 know, it's the

00:38:40.460 mob that comes

00:38:41.200 after you online

00:38:42.280 or otherwise if

00:38:43.280 you're about to

00:38:44.000 get canceled.

00:38:45.000 But before the

00:38:45.780 mob comes,

00:38:47.180 there are scouts

00:38:48.000 scouts that

00:38:49.240 just probe your

00:38:50.180 defenses.

00:38:51.120 So, I've got a

00:38:51.720 few scouts who

00:38:52.520 are probing my

00:38:53.260 defenses today

00:38:54.700 on Twitter.

00:38:57.160 And I had

00:38:58.400 asked the

00:38:58.740 question, how

00:38:59.340 many people who

00:39:01.280 had at least a

00:39:02.180 B average in

00:39:03.240 school have

00:39:04.800 ever been killed

00:39:05.540 by cops?

00:39:07.500 Now, how are

00:39:08.840 you supposed to

00:39:09.380 interpret that?

00:39:11.040 So, forget

00:39:11.940 about, it has

00:39:12.780 nothing to do

00:39:13.320 with race, just

00:39:14.560 how many people

00:39:15.560 who had at

00:39:17.080 least a B

00:39:17.700 average were

00:39:19.180 ever killed

00:39:19.720 by cops.

00:39:21.760 And the

00:39:22.880 implication, which

00:39:25.080 I was hoping

00:39:25.660 people would

00:39:26.220 see, is that

00:39:27.240 the way you

00:39:27.860 act is

00:39:29.240 probably a

00:39:29.740 big determinant

00:39:30.340 of the

00:39:31.280 outcome.

00:39:32.140 In other

00:39:32.500 words, what

00:39:33.920 I implied, but

00:39:35.820 I guess people

00:39:36.380 didn't get it,

00:39:37.380 is that the

00:39:38.460 kids who

00:39:39.160 would do

00:39:39.460 well in

00:39:39.860 school are

00:39:41.200 likely the

00:39:42.040 same kids who

00:39:42.800 would know to

00:39:43.660 stay out of

00:39:44.320 trouble with a

00:39:44.940 cop and not

00:39:46.180 push back too

00:39:47.000 hard and

00:39:47.520 therefore not

00:39:48.400 get killed. 0.94

00:39:49.660 But how was

00:39:50.600 that interpreted?

00:39:52.260 That was

00:39:52.700 interpreted by

00:39:53.480 one of the

00:39:54.000 cancel culture

00:39:54.800 scouts as

00:39:56.660 me being in

00:39:57.780 favor of

00:39:58.400 genocide based

00:39:59.680 on IQ.

00:40:03.180 So, that's

00:40:04.980 kind of close

00:40:05.720 to what I

00:40:06.160 said, not.

00:40:08.300 So, the

00:40:09.120 cancel culture

00:40:09.840 is trying to

00:40:10.740 ding me for

00:40:11.740 promoting

00:40:13.780 genocide.

00:40:14.940 which is

00:40:17.840 pretty close

00:40:18.320 to the

00:40:18.600 opposite of

00:40:19.100 what I'm

00:40:19.340 promoting.

00:40:20.600 All right,

00:40:21.420 there's

00:40:21.720 somebody saying

00:40:22.760 that those

00:40:23.180 Portland

00:40:23.600 kidnappings

00:40:24.480 where the

00:40:25.800 DHS people

00:40:27.400 are taking

00:40:27.840 people off

00:40:28.520 the streets,

00:40:29.700 they're probably

00:40:30.380 not all

00:40:30.920 extractions.

00:40:31.740 Some of

00:40:31.960 them might

00:40:32.280 be just

00:40:32.600 people they

00:40:33.060 need to

00:40:33.400 question,

00:40:34.000 which is

00:40:34.300 what they

00:40:34.620 say.

00:40:35.840 But somebody

00:40:36.720 tweeted that

00:40:38.520 how can

00:40:40.360 people,

00:40:42.900 libertarians

00:40:43.460 especially,

00:40:44.100 watch this

00:40:44.540 happen and

00:40:45.800 watch their

00:40:46.360 rights be

00:40:46.980 taken away.

00:40:48.360 They're

00:40:48.600 watching their

00:40:49.140 rights be

00:40:49.820 taken away

00:40:50.440 by these

00:40:51.080 armed people.

00:40:52.620 To which I

00:40:53.440 said, I'm

00:40:54.420 glad I don't

00:40:54.980 live in this

00:40:55.540 subjective reality

00:40:56.740 in which law

00:40:58.120 enforcement is

00:40:59.060 stripping away

00:40:59.860 rights instead

00:41:00.560 of reclaiming

00:41:01.500 them for the

00:41:02.000 residents.

00:41:02.520 it's not

00:41:04.240 just one

00:41:04.800 set of

00:41:05.280 rights that

00:41:05.800 are on the

00:41:07.820 line here.

00:41:08.660 The people

00:41:09.420 who live in

00:41:10.040 those areas,

00:41:11.300 they had a

00:41:12.180 right to

00:41:12.860 peacefully

00:41:14.020 coexist in

00:41:14.980 the United

00:41:15.360 States without

00:41:16.100 violence and

00:41:17.300 threats.

00:41:18.040 They have

00:41:18.560 rights too.

00:41:19.720 So I don't

00:41:20.320 see that world

00:41:21.000 in which rights

00:41:21.640 are being taken

00:41:22.180 away.

00:41:22.560 I do see a

00:41:23.080 world in which

00:41:23.620 they're being

00:41:24.100 given back.

00:41:26.820 That's what I

00:41:27.600 see.

00:41:29.060 All right.

00:41:32.520 Yes, where

00:41:35.120 did the

00:41:35.480 violent mobs

00:41:36.220 get the

00:41:36.620 rights to

00:41:37.140 destroy

00:41:37.500 everything?

00:41:38.340 Well, I

00:41:38.660 guess it's

00:41:39.020 the right

00:41:39.360 of free

00:41:39.700 speech.

00:41:41.480 And as

00:41:42.440 the proponents

00:41:43.080 of free

00:41:43.460 speech often

00:41:44.060 say, sometimes

00:41:44.940 it gets a

00:41:45.400 little out of

00:41:45.840 control.

00:41:47.200 I'm not sure

00:41:47.700 that I have a

00:41:48.900 big problem

00:41:49.440 with freedom

00:41:49.980 of speech

00:41:50.400 getting out of

00:41:51.000 control now

00:41:51.560 and then.

00:41:53.400 Mobs do 1.00

00:41:54.080 that.

00:41:55.080 You can't

00:41:55.560 approve it,

00:41:56.500 obviously, but

00:41:57.860 you know it

00:41:58.460 does come with

00:41:59.200 some of that.

00:42:02.520 you've been

00:42:05.220 watching my

00:42:05.780 scopes since

00:42:06.420 the very

00:42:06.740 beginning.

00:42:07.220 Thank you.

00:42:10.280 All right.

00:42:12.360 Those are

00:42:13.120 peaceful

00:42:14.240 protesters, not

00:42:15.620 mobs.

00:42:16.900 Well, the

00:42:17.380 ones I see

00:42:18.020 look like the

00:42:20.160 bad people

00:42:21.160 that are mixing

00:42:21.800 in with the

00:42:22.400 good people.

00:42:27.660 Street mayhem

00:42:28.860 trumps

00:42:29.700 everyone else's.

00:42:31.200 Yeah.

00:42:31.900 All right.

00:42:32.200 Just looking at

00:42:32.760 your comments

00:42:33.560 and I think

00:42:35.160 I will talk

00:42:35.660 to you

00:42:36.120 tomorrow.

00:42:37.440 Tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 18, 2020

Episode 1062 Scott Adams： Portland Fake Kidnappings, Fake News, Fake Studies, Fake Opinions, Fake Ellen, Real Coffee

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