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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On this episode of The Daily Show with Bill Maher, Alex Blumberg talks about a tweet that got President Trump to respond to it, and why it's a good thing he's not a racist. Alex also talks about the Democratic Party's attempt to legalize marijuana before the midterms, and explains why it might not be as bad as it sounds.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, come on in.
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00:01:16.080 All right, let's talk about all the things.
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.
00:15:04.660 I mean, that's sort of like a perfect candidate, right?
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?
00:20:20.760 Gestapo, possibly?
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,
00:20:39.020 and you will be slapping yourself
00:20:40.700 on the side of the head.
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
00:22:09.320 ass out off the street.
00:22:12.040 So,
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,
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
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
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
00:27:39.760 talks trash
00:27:41.340 about their
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,
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
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
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
00:31:32.740 jerk, because I
00:31:34.240 don't want to
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
00:31:47.720 a big jerk. 0.93
00:31:49.100 It turns into, I'm
00:31:50.160 a big jerk, and 0.92
00:31:51.020 all I wanted
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
00:33:57.020 one of them,
00:33:57.780 tried, I think
00:33:58.740 maybe shot two
00:33:59.400 of them, and I
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
00:34:04.720 shooting them,
00:34:05.620 but one of the
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
00:34:20.960 trying to shoot
00:34:21.460 people, accidentally
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.
00:35:02.180 I don't want to
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
00:35:16.420 a black professor.
00:35:19.080 Like, just the
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
00:35:23.400 tell a frickin'
00:35:24.060 story just tells
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
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
00:36:06.760 black professor
00:36:08.000 saying that
00:36:09.340 being black
00:36:10.040 helped him
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
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
00:37:22.640 black people
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
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
00:37:37.840 is infantilizing.
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
00:37:54.760 to black
00:37:55.240 people, you've
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
00:38:06.080 infantilizing black 1.00
00:38:07.200 people.
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.