Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1093 Scott Adams： Post Office Efficiency, Biden Botching Everything, ACLU Backs China, Barr Disses Teachers Union for Racism

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, come on in, come on in, gather around, grab your beverage.

00:00:16.060 It's time for Coffee with Scott Adams.

00:00:19.300 Is it going to be the best coffee with Scott Adams you've ever seen?

00:00:25.580 Yes, it is.

00:00:27.040 Until tomorrow, because it gets better every day.

00:00:31.380 Yes, it does. It gets better every day.

00:00:33.840 And all you need to join in on this incredible experience that people around the world are enjoying simultaneously.

00:00:43.480 All you need, really, it's very little.

00:00:46.180 Almost trivial if you think about it.

00:00:48.580 All you need is a cup or mug or a glass or tank or jails or stein, a canteen, a jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:00:55.040 Fill it with your favorite liquid I like, coffee.

00:00:59.340 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better.

00:01:06.380 Yeah.

00:01:07.480 Including the legal system.

00:01:10.500 Why not?

00:01:12.240 Go.

00:01:12.580 I feel justice breaking out all over the place.

00:01:22.460 Plenty of it.

00:01:24.560 If you are sitting around tonight and saying to yourself, what could I do in the middle of this pandemic?

00:01:30.660 What type of entertainment can I find that's in my own house without even leaving the house?

00:01:37.880 The answer is you should watch the Greg Gutfeld show tonight.

00:01:43.980 Because I'm on it.

00:01:46.460 I'm not alone, of course.

00:01:48.520 Other wonderful people on it, too.

00:01:50.400 You know the show.

00:01:52.020 Check your local listings.

00:01:54.240 And you will be delighted.

00:01:57.700 So that's the Greg Gutfeld show tonight.

00:01:59.820 So I'll be on that as a guest.

00:02:01.340 The big news, unless you watch the fake news, is that lawyer Kevin Clinesmith is being indicted for falsifying evidence that continued the investigation onto Carter Page, which we know now was all a bunch of BS.

00:02:24.220 And I ask you this.

00:02:27.860 If you have a high-level lawyer working for the FBI, and this high-level lawyer falsifies documents to keep a guy under surveillance and risk his life in the larger service of overthrowing the legal government of the United States,

00:02:49.300 I'm just going to put this out there.

00:02:52.400 Shouldn't that be the death sentence?

00:02:54.220 Because, it's a weird thing, because it's sort of a, it feels blue-collar, or white-collar-y.

00:03:02.860 You know, it's like if you change some words on a document, well, that's not so bad, right?

00:03:09.200 I mean, it's not like you murdered somebody, is it?

00:03:13.580 But it kind of is.

00:03:15.780 It kind of is closer to murdering somebody.

00:03:18.640 Because that's the whole point of treason.

00:03:21.320 Treason doesn't say you murdered this one person.

00:03:25.880 It says you created a situation that is so dangerous for the country that the entire republic is in danger.

00:03:34.280 So this one lawyer did a crime which, in my opinion, put the entire republic at risk.

00:03:42.180 That, in terms of how bad it is, potentially, you know, he got caught.

00:03:50.500 But in terms of how bad it is, potentially, it's treason level.

00:03:56.760 You know, I don't think there's any chance that the death penalty could be, you know, actually used.

00:04:02.840 But it's treason level.

00:04:08.320 So I'll just put that out there.

00:04:10.020 Apparently, the MSNBC and CNN, they don't think this is a big story.

00:04:17.760 It's by far the biggest story.

00:04:19.500 But you're watching it in real time, and it's probably blowing your mind, that the press can make anything important seem like it's completely unimportant.

00:04:33.000 And they can take something that's completely unimportant and blow it into something that looks like it's the big national story.

00:04:40.260 And you stand there, and you look at it objectively, and you think to yourself, are we spending all our time on the unimportant stuff?

00:04:48.160 And the answer is, yeah, we are.

00:04:50.840 We are.

00:04:51.660 A little bit more on that in a bit.

00:04:55.520 Bill Mitchell got banned from Twitter, I understand.

00:05:00.760 Jack Posobiec was reporting on this on Twitter.

00:05:04.200 And this was Jack's information.

00:05:07.060 He said that Bill Mitchell first received a seven-day ban for tweets talking about mask dangers,

00:05:14.380 then was using a second account to tweet during the ban and had his main account permanently suspended.

00:05:20.640 Now, I blocked Bill Mitchell a long time ago.

00:05:27.920 Now, I think he's a nice guy.

00:05:30.780 I've been on his show a few times.

00:05:33.120 And he's very nice personally, so it's not a personal thing.

00:05:36.560 But I blocked him because his certainty on a medical thing just is not good.

00:05:46.920 Now, I wouldn't have necessarily banned him from Twitter.

00:05:53.000 I don't know if that's something I would have done.

00:05:55.100 But I certainly banned him from my life because I didn't want to interact with someone who was not a medical professional

00:06:03.180 who had certainty about a medical thing.

00:06:06.900 It's just not good, right?

00:06:08.860 Now, I'm perfectly okay with anybody who tweets a study that turned out not to be valid.

00:06:15.900 That would be every one of us on Twitter.

00:06:18.460 There's nobody on Twitter who hasn't at one time or another retweeted a story that turned out to be false,

00:06:24.720 a study that turned out to be not reproducible.

00:06:27.400 That's just sort of everyday on Twitter.

00:06:29.140 But most of us don't sell it as a fact.

00:06:34.360 Most of us would say, well, this is interesting.

00:06:37.620 Or these people say this.

00:06:40.060 Once you cross over into I'm telling you the facts, listen to me, people,

00:06:45.060 you're probably on shakier ground.

00:06:46.980 So I don't know the full details of this, but I'm guessing that Bill Mitchell was saying something as a medical fact

00:06:56.100 when maybe we shouldn't be speaking in terms of certainty.

00:07:00.880 But we'll see.

00:07:01.680 I guess more information on that will come out. 0.99

00:07:04.920 All right, here's my favorite stupid story of the day. 0.98

00:07:08.440 Now, as the creator of the Dilbert comic, you know my filters are turned for corporate behavior that's a little bit ridiculous. 0.99

00:07:17.080 And I've always wondered, will there be a day sometime in the future where there'll be some company that's so big and so unwieldy,

00:07:26.340 that has so many moving parts, so big, the bureaucracy, that it would someday sue itself?

00:07:34.920 Right?

00:07:35.320 That sounds silly, right?

00:07:37.060 Would a company ever get so big that it wouldn't know that it was suing itself?

00:07:41.960 Well, something like that's happening.

00:07:44.480 And I thought I would share it with you.

00:07:47.080 So the ACLU is, first of all, it's backing China, saying that TikTok and WeChat,

00:07:58.180 the two Chinese apps that are under review for being banned in this country,

00:08:02.700 it looks like they will be banned, and the ACLU is trying to stop that.

00:08:09.060 What?

00:08:09.740 The ACLU is trying to stop a national security decision by the Commander-in-Chief?

00:08:18.080 What?

00:08:19.160 These are not American companies.

00:08:21.680 And nobody's saying that these products can't exist.

00:08:25.020 They just can't exist under the control of our nemesis who wants to destroy our country.

00:08:30.260 Now, if that doesn't make you think that the ACLU has lost all credibility,

00:08:40.420 I would add this little factoid.

00:08:45.160 The ACLU gets a lot of its funding from Google, for example.

00:08:50.020 So Google is one of the main, you know, big funders of the ACLU.

00:08:55.180 Google, of course, is maybe a little bit friendly with China.

00:08:59.820 So what do you make of the fact that Google is maybe a little bit friendly with China

00:09:06.020 and is funding the ACLU, and the ACLU is siding with China over the United States?

00:09:14.980 Now, they wouldn't put it that way, but that's the way it looks to me.

00:09:17.960 Because even if, you know, even if this is like a gray area,

00:09:24.800 it's still the United States' call how much risk we're willing to take.

00:09:30.100 It's not up to China to decide how much risk the United States takes.

00:09:35.280 They don't get to decide.

00:09:37.280 And also, I don't get to decide.

00:09:39.760 I don't think the ACLU should get to decide how much risk the United States takes

00:09:45.800 in terms of foreign adversaries either.

00:09:48.900 You know where that belongs?

00:09:51.040 Commander-in-Chief.

00:09:53.660 It's purely a security issue.

00:09:57.960 So that makes you wonder about them.

00:10:00.280 But here's the real story I was getting to.

00:10:01.620 The ACLU is also going after this small startup called Clearview AI,

00:10:08.040 who does an app that if you have a photo of anybody,

00:10:14.520 it'll find you more photos of that person so you can figure out who they are.

00:10:19.240 So it's used by law enforcement to identify people.

00:10:23.160 And I guess the ICE, so the federal government's ICE, you know, immigration guys,

00:10:29.620 are, they signed a contract with Clearview to use the app to catch child traffickers.

00:10:37.680 Okay?

00:10:38.040 So here's the setup.

00:10:38.900 There is a technology which we know with complete certainty

00:10:44.000 because it's already being used, already successful at exactly this.

00:10:49.420 So we don't have to speculate whether it works.

00:10:53.160 That's already determined.

00:10:55.100 That's why ICE signed a contract.

00:10:57.100 They're not guessing if it works.

00:10:59.660 They know it works.

00:11:00.760 There are lots of examples already of it working in other contexts, etc.

00:11:03.860 So ICE decides that this technology will help them catch child traffickers.

00:11:11.500 Who would be on the other side of that?

00:11:14.220 Right?

00:11:15.240 Like, who's on the other side of using, you know, a standard technology,

00:11:20.640 which will be widespread far more than it is now, to catch child traffickers?

00:11:26.000 Well, it turns out the ACLU is.

00:11:27.700 So the ACLU is trying to stop ICE from using a technology

00:11:34.240 that we know catches child traffickers.

00:11:38.880 Just wrap your head around that.

00:11:41.520 Now, their argument goes like this.

00:11:43.760 It's not so much that they care about this particular use.

00:11:47.760 They care about the company and that what it might be for, you know, privacy, etc.

00:11:54.000 But that's just a big question for the country.

00:11:59.640 It doesn't really have to do with this contract.

00:12:02.660 And they're using, and there's a punchline to this.

00:12:05.660 It gets better.

00:12:06.440 If you think this is crazy, there's a whole good part coming.

00:12:10.780 So make sure you hear that.

00:12:13.080 So here's the fun part.

00:12:15.480 There's, I guess, an Illinois law recently passed that said it's illegal to scrape personal data,

00:12:23.920 like somebody's picture and identity or something, from other websites

00:12:28.160 and then to use it for some purpose.

00:12:31.840 So since Illinois has this law, that gives the ACLU the ability to, you know,

00:12:37.220 say that Clearview's a problem.

00:12:39.820 Now, they're saying that Clearview's a problem in general,

00:12:44.240 and then they're taking this ICE thing as the little fight they're going to make, 0.94

00:12:48.120 which is the dumbest fight anybody ever took. 0.96

00:12:50.300 They're literally on the side of child traffickers. 0.99

00:12:53.180 And that's not even a joke.

00:12:55.180 They actually, literally, no kidding, took the side of child traffickers.

00:13:02.420 I've never seen anything like that.

00:13:03.760 It's the most amazing thing you'll ever see.

00:13:06.300 But anyway, it gets better.

00:13:08.160 Here's the fun part.

00:13:09.820 So Google, as you know, is one of the big funders of the ACLU.

00:13:17.600 And the ACLU is going after this company, Clearview.

00:13:20.680 And the cause is that they're scraping this personal information, right?

00:13:24.900 So that's the whole story.

00:13:26.400 There's a story in the Wall Street Journal saying the same thing,

00:13:30.540 scraping this personal information, except here's the punchline.

00:13:34.220 They don't do that.

00:13:35.340 The whole basis of the story is that Clearview is scraping the photos and identification of people.

00:13:45.360 And they don't do that.

00:13:46.700 That's not their business.

00:13:47.520 What they do is they create an index of stuff that's available on the Internet.

00:13:52.680 They just focus on faces.

00:13:55.080 That's it.

00:13:56.360 Clearview AI is a subset of Google function itself.

00:14:01.620 It's not a subset of the company.

00:14:03.780 But rather, they do what Google does.

00:14:05.340 Google does not store on their own servers all the information on the Internet.

00:14:11.140 They don't make a copy of it.

00:14:13.000 They make an index.

00:14:15.300 Somebody says you were wrong.

00:14:17.500 Goodbye.

00:14:17.860 So Clearview makes an index of faces and does not store any of that data itself.

00:14:28.540 Rather, it stores the index information so you can go find it if you want to see it.

00:14:33.980 What does Google do?

00:14:36.300 Google does the same thing.

00:14:38.120 Yeah, Google does some caching. 0.94

00:14:39.500 But the main point is they're not storing a copy of the whole Internet.

00:14:43.060 So Google's own business model, if you did a Google image search, it would have an index

00:14:52.960 to the images, and then it would show it to you.

00:14:55.220 That's exactly what Clearview does.

00:14:57.320 They just have an index of where all the faces are, and then it just finds it for you.

00:15:02.760 So Google is funding the ACLU to sue Clearview for the business model that is identical to

00:15:11.220 Google's own business model.

00:15:13.500 And the only reason this is happening is because apparently the people doing the suing don't

00:15:19.620 understand how the technology works.

00:15:21.800 They don't know the difference between an index and a copy.

00:15:27.020 Think about that.

00:15:28.260 This whole thing, it's like national news, and everybody's writing about it, and it's

00:15:33.280 all based on the fact they can't tell the difference between an index, which is perfectly

00:15:38.360 legal.

00:15:38.840 It's the way, basically, Google works.

00:15:43.040 All search engines are an index.

00:15:45.400 It's just another one.

00:15:47.400 It's basically an extension of a fingerprint database.

00:15:50.960 It's just better.

00:15:52.300 That's it.

00:15:52.880 If fingerprints were legal, and they are, to take fingerprints, this is just a better version 0.73

00:16:00.740 of it, using public information that's already available.

00:16:03.540 Google, and if you did a little work, you could find it.

00:16:06.340 It would just be harder without the app.

00:16:07.760 Google actually found a way to sue itself.

00:16:13.120 Not technically, but they're basically suing through ACLU that they fund, trying to stop

00:16:20.580 a company that has the same business model.

00:16:22.500 But here's the kicker.

00:16:24.560 They're a competitor.

00:16:26.820 So the ACLU is managing to sue on behalf of Google, if you count them as the funding source,

00:16:40.640 somebody doing the same thing that Google's doing.

00:16:42.560 Now, how's that going to go?

00:16:47.380 Somebody says, I blocked the wrong person.

00:16:49.560 Well, the one I touched said you were wrong, so if I blocked the wrong person.

00:16:55.300 No, I don't block people for disagreeing with me.

00:16:59.720 If you're new here, the rule is this.

00:17:04.260 You can disagree with me all you want, but you just have to show a reason.

00:17:09.400 It could be a summary of a reason, just, oh, I think you didn't look at this data or whatever.

00:17:13.960 But if you just say you're wrong, I block you, because I don't need it.

00:17:19.280 Anyway, so keep an eye on this ACLU story, because it seems they've turned bad.

00:17:25.760 Now, this is an example of a Gell-Mann amnesia. 1.00

00:17:29.260 I talk about this all the time.

00:17:31.120 Gell-Mann was the name of a physicist who, whenever he saw a story about physics,

00:17:35.680 he knew the story was wrong.

00:17:37.620 But then if he saw a story about some other topic, he would say, oh, that's probably right,

00:17:43.300 knowing that every story he saw that he knew the information about was wrong.

00:17:47.840 Now, is it more likely that they're only wrong about the things he knows about?

00:17:52.780 No.

00:17:53.000 Now, in this case, with the Clearview AI, I know this much about technology,

00:18:02.040 and I've looked into this specific issue, so I know that it's an index.

00:18:08.020 So if you know just a little bit about how things work, 0.94

00:18:11.380 you can tell that all the headline stories are just complete bullshit, 0.97

00:18:14.780 because they think that they're scraping and keeping the personal information, 0.99

00:18:19.120 which isn't happening.

00:18:19.940 All right, I live in California, which, as you know, is a third-world country. 0.93

00:18:29.540 It wasn't always this way.

00:18:31.460 But last night, I'm getting an alert on my phone about which parts of California

00:18:36.120 are going to have to go without electricity,

00:18:38.400 while the temperature yesterday at my house was 106.

00:18:42.440 Now, my house is built to be very green, so it could be 106 outside,

00:18:48.600 and my house wouldn't get warmer than probably 80.

00:18:52.700 You know, it would be livable.

00:18:53.660 But it's pretty rugged if you live in any less insulated house.

00:19:02.220 That's a big deal.

00:19:03.460 So I actually live in a state that can't figure out how to keep the lights on all year.

00:19:09.480 Really.

00:19:09.820 Now, could you even think of any greater indicator of incompetence

00:19:17.860 than you can't keep the lights on?

00:19:20.220 In 2020, you can't keep the lights on all year.

00:19:23.540 And it's not even because there's a surprise.

00:19:26.660 It's not like there was a disaster.

00:19:29.040 It just got warm.

00:19:31.600 That's it.

00:19:32.380 It got warm, and my state is not well-run enough to keep the lights on?

00:19:39.780 Oh, that's pretty bad.

00:19:42.800 You know, it wasn't long ago that we didn't have enough water.

00:19:46.620 So we don't have water, electricity,

00:19:49.640 and it looks like we're going to get rid of police

00:19:51.720 and just fill the cities with, I don't know,

00:19:56.020 homeless and protesters or whatever else.

00:19:58.040 So I saw some stats that people are leaving San Francisco

00:20:01.660 and New York City in droves,

00:20:03.860 but it's not everybody, is it?

00:20:06.840 It's basically all the people with money are leaving.

00:20:11.640 And I have to say that I've wondered for some time

00:20:14.480 why cities can exist.

00:20:18.120 It just seems like cities should disappear.

00:20:22.300 Now, I say this as someone who, you know,

00:20:25.100 through most of my career,

00:20:26.500 I would have to go to New York City,

00:20:28.480 you know, once or twice a year

00:20:29.760 for a book publication thing

00:20:32.280 or, you know, press tour or something like that.

00:20:36.100 And every time I'd go to New York City,

00:20:38.240 I'd have the same feeling,

00:20:39.520 which is, you know, there's a great energy here,

00:20:42.460 and I do like, you know, the people are great.

00:20:44.380 If you're in Manhattan,

00:20:46.500 of course I'm talking about before any of the protests happened,

00:20:51.140 it was great people, great energy,

00:20:53.400 but the city's completely broken.

00:20:56.500 I mean, even months ago,

00:20:58.520 I'd go there and, you know,

00:21:00.520 I'd get like a high-end hotel room

00:21:02.620 where I'd pay a lot of money

00:21:03.580 and it's about the size of a shoebox,

00:21:05.620 and you just can't even wait to get out of there.

00:21:07.820 So it just is unlivable,

00:21:10.160 and then you try to get someplace,

00:21:11.760 and you just can't get across town

00:21:13.880 in less than an hour.

00:21:15.840 It wasn't really livable, in my opinion,

00:21:18.320 but apparently the people liked it.

00:21:19.700 I'm not surprised that San Francisco and New York

00:21:23.840 are going to get emptied out.

00:21:25.560 I also don't necessarily think it's the end of the world

00:21:28.180 because the people leaving have options.

00:21:31.500 They have enough money,

00:21:32.220 and the people staying behind,

00:21:34.920 I don't know,

00:21:35.520 were they shopping at those retail stores anyway?

00:21:38.240 Who knows?

00:21:40.700 We're mixing concepts here.

00:21:42.680 All right.

00:21:45.020 So the New York Post

00:21:46.300 has a story about the New York PD,

00:21:49.060 the police department union,

00:21:50.320 endorsing Trump.

00:21:52.540 Now, you've got this, you know,

00:21:54.460 super Democrat city,

00:21:57.420 New York City,

00:21:58.120 and their police department just endorsed Trump.

00:22:01.580 And I looked at the comments for that article.

00:22:04.160 I tweeted about this.

00:22:05.700 And the people who were really confused,

00:22:09.560 they got cause and effect backwards,

00:22:14.020 which was weird.

00:22:15.520 And they were writing stuff like,

00:22:17.740 well, no wonder the police are not trusted

00:22:20.420 if they're going to back the president of the United States.

00:22:24.180 And I thought,

00:22:25.220 there's something wrong with these people.

00:22:27.660 And I kept seeing comments like that,

00:22:29.160 and I thought,

00:22:30.140 don't they have cause and effect backwards?

00:22:33.160 You know, isn't it,

00:22:33.940 isn't it the everything went wrong

00:22:36.300 and people turned against the police,

00:22:37.960 and that's why they're backing Trump?

00:22:41.060 I mean, they didn't back Trump first

00:22:43.680 and then the city fell apart.

00:22:45.860 Kind of was the other way around.

00:22:47.960 So I thought, 1.00

00:22:48.920 who could be so dumb 1.00

00:22:50.300 that they would reverse cause and effect? 1.00

00:22:53.160 And I started clicking on the profiles

00:22:54.800 of the people with those comments.

00:22:58.000 Writers.

00:22:59.820 Writers, artists, musicians.

00:23:02.420 It is so consistent

00:23:05.260 that the ones who really don't understand

00:23:08.180 anything that's going on,

00:23:10.340 they're just always writers.

00:23:13.240 And I'm looking for somebody

00:23:14.840 who's an economist or an engineer.

00:23:18.400 None.

00:23:19.780 None.

00:23:20.820 There's nobody who understands

00:23:23.100 how to compare things properly

00:23:25.560 or to analyze things.

00:23:27.160 None of those people are confused

00:23:29.200 about why the New York Police Department

00:23:31.540 might want to back Trump.

00:23:34.000 To them, that's not too surprising.

00:23:37.520 But to the artists,

00:23:39.160 what's going on?

00:23:43.060 Bill Barr was on Hannity,

00:23:45.240 might have been last night,

00:23:46.760 and he said this,

00:23:48.100 which made me happy,

00:23:50.020 when asked,

00:23:50.540 you're talking about racism,

00:23:52.040 systemic racism.

00:23:53.640 And Bill Barr,

00:23:54.360 Attorney General,

00:23:55.000 says the racism in this country

00:23:56.900 look no further

00:23:57.980 than our public education system.

00:24:01.140 That's a racist system,

00:24:02.960 he says,

00:24:04.100 maintained by the Democratic Party

00:24:06.040 and the teachers' unions,

00:24:07.800 keeping inner-city kids

00:24:09.120 in failing schools.

00:24:12.120 And I say to you,

00:24:13.980 how perfect is that?

00:24:16.100 Now, I was saying before

00:24:17.660 that the mark of the Democrats

00:24:20.440 seems to be not knowing

00:24:22.460 the difference between

00:24:23.560 what is important

00:24:24.620 and what is not.

00:24:25.740 It's very consistent.

00:24:27.620 Now, what is important,

00:24:30.420 if you're looking at the concept

00:24:32.080 of systemic racism,

00:24:33.500 what are the big things?

00:24:35.360 Well, one thing that's not important

00:24:37.080 is hoaxes

00:24:38.660 and things that aren't true.

00:24:40.800 Another thing that is not important,

00:24:43.260 if you were to rank 0.85

00:24:44.460 all the problems of black Americans, 1.00

00:24:47.320 the least important thing 0.99

00:24:48.860 would be the thing

00:24:49.560 they're protesting about.

00:24:51.420 The protesters are worrying

00:24:53.460 about police brutality.

00:24:55.460 Now, I'm not saying

00:24:56.720 it doesn't exist.

00:24:58.460 Even assuming it exists

00:25:00.520 exactly as is presented

00:25:02.980 by the protesters,

00:25:03.920 which is not so much

00:25:05.240 the killing,

00:25:05.980 but maybe the more stopping

00:25:08.100 and the more physicality,

00:25:10.840 that's certainly something

00:25:12.200 I would assume

00:25:12.900 might be happening.

00:25:14.060 I don't have data on that,

00:25:15.400 but it feels like

00:25:16.020 that probably does happen.

00:25:17.640 And I think to myself,

00:25:18.600 if all of that's true,

00:25:20.920 it's still your smallest problem.

00:25:23.600 What's the biggest problem?

00:25:24.980 Well, Bill Barr just called it out.

00:25:26.800 The biggest problem,

00:25:28.100 the alpha problem,

00:25:29.200 the base problem,

00:25:30.060 the problem that makes

00:25:30.780 all the other problems,

00:25:32.540 is that the school system

00:25:33.720 is broken.

00:25:35.100 You know, 0.97

00:25:35.340 if black Americans 0.79

00:25:36.340 were getting good educations

00:25:38.160 no matter where they lived,

00:25:39.500 inner city or other,

00:25:41.600 would you have as much poverty?

00:25:44.020 Would you have as much crime?

00:25:45.940 Would you have as much anything?

00:25:48.600 I mean,

00:25:49.020 it pretty much fixes,

00:25:51.320 fixes is too strong a word,

00:25:53.520 it removes the friction

00:25:56.120 that racism otherwise

00:26:00.280 puts on the system.

00:26:01.740 So in other words,

00:26:02.460 if you're doing great,

00:26:04.040 you're not as affected by racism,

00:26:05.940 even though racism doesn't go away.

00:26:08.140 As long as you're doing great,

00:26:09.920 it doesn't affect you.

00:26:11.260 So if you fix education,

00:26:13.800 people have a far better chance

00:26:15.320 of doing great,

00:26:16.700 and then, yeah,

00:26:17.660 there's still racism.

00:26:18.600 You can't make it go away.

00:26:19.820 It's one of those things

00:26:20.640 that's like air.

00:26:21.600 It's always going to be there.

00:26:23.400 But you can make it not matter.

00:26:25.580 So I think the administration

00:26:27.640 might want to hammer

00:26:28.900 on this whole priority thing

00:26:30.340 a little bit more

00:26:31.040 because the Dems

00:26:34.020 are getting this wrong

00:26:35.200 all the time,

00:26:36.380 the priority stuff.

00:26:37.140 Let me give you another example of that.

00:26:40.740 You turn on CNN,

00:26:42.160 what are they yammering about?

00:26:43.740 It's about the birther issue.

00:26:46.460 The birther issue.

00:26:48.040 Born out of the fact

00:26:49.100 that when the president

00:26:50.160 was asked about

00:26:51.220 Kamala Harris's

00:26:52.900 legal eligibility

00:26:54.960 to be vice president,

00:26:57.160 and the president said,

00:26:58.080 well, you know,

00:26:58.800 there's an interesting theory

00:27:00.240 about that,

00:27:00.840 but I don't really know.

00:27:02.840 And that turned into

00:27:03.960 CNN's biggest story.

00:27:06.480 That is the smallest story.

00:27:08.400 In terms of the priorities

00:27:10.580 of anybody in this country,

00:27:12.540 that is the smallest story.

00:27:15.060 And it's not even true.

00:27:17.360 Because the president

00:27:18.400 is not pushing birtherism.

00:27:20.600 He's just saying,

00:27:21.620 I don't know, maybe.

00:27:22.980 Which is just enough

00:27:24.300 to get people yapping

00:27:25.340 about all the wrong stuff.

00:27:28.140 Now,

00:27:30.460 it's becoming

00:27:31.260 increasingly clear to me

00:27:32.660 that one of the reasons

00:27:33.900 that CNN might want,

00:27:35.760 and MSNBC,

00:27:37.240 might want

00:27:38.000 a black vice president

00:27:39.880 for Biden

00:27:40.600 is so that they have reasons

00:27:42.480 for insulting

00:27:43.340 President Trump.

00:27:44.920 Doesn't it just make it easier?

00:27:47.060 It makes it easier

00:27:48.360 for them

00:27:50.640 to criticize Trump

00:27:51.800 if they've got 0.83

00:27:52.360 at least one black person 0.98

00:27:53.540 on the ticket, right? 0.97

00:27:54.880 They want a black person, 1.00

00:27:55.980 they want a woman, 0.99

00:27:57.280 they got both,

00:27:58.780 so that they can claim

00:28:00.060 everything Trump says

00:28:01.240 is sexist or racist.

00:28:03.000 It's kind of transparent.

00:28:05.260 I mean,

00:28:05.520 it's just the ultimate situation.

00:28:07.540 Now, compare that

00:28:08.500 to what the president's

00:28:09.980 working on.

00:28:10.640 Let's say,

00:28:11.660 for example,

00:28:12.440 peace in the Middle East.

00:28:14.640 You know,

00:28:14.860 what is more important?

00:28:15.840 Peace in the Middle East

00:28:16.960 or that thing he said

00:28:19.200 he didn't know about

00:28:20.340 but turned into a story

00:28:22.020 where he's really promoting it

00:28:23.660 when all he said

00:28:24.540 is he didn't know about it.

00:28:26.900 How about ending ISIS?

00:28:28.520 How about the economy?

00:28:29.640 How about decoupling

00:28:30.380 from China?

00:28:31.860 Those are pretty big things.

00:28:34.620 And how about,

00:28:35.960 you know,

00:28:36.260 the question about

00:28:36.980 the post office?

00:28:38.540 I guess everybody's

00:28:39.320 treating that one seriously.

00:28:42.660 But look for this

00:28:44.740 pattern that the Democrats

00:28:47.420 can't tell the difference

00:28:48.600 between a big problem

00:28:49.600 and a small one

00:28:50.540 even when it's

00:28:51.620 their own problems.

00:28:52.400 They can't tell

00:28:53.320 their own problems

00:28:54.460 the big ones

00:28:55.640 from the small ones.

00:28:56.740 Very consistent.

00:28:58.900 All right.

00:29:01.620 There are three things

00:29:03.000 that I think

00:29:03.600 have great potential

00:29:04.600 to help with

00:29:06.000 the coronavirus situation.

00:29:08.380 That doesn't mean

00:29:09.520 for sure.

00:29:11.480 So,

00:29:12.240 don't imagine

00:29:13.220 you see any certainty

00:29:14.300 in what I say next.

00:29:15.560 I'm not a doctor.

00:29:16.320 but there are three things

00:29:17.940 that appear to me

00:29:18.920 just from reading

00:29:20.080 and watching the news

00:29:20.980 to have the most

00:29:22.400 immediate

00:29:23.040 short-term potential.

00:29:25.740 One would be

00:29:26.700 the blood serum

00:29:28.280 plasma situation

00:29:29.540 where you're

00:29:30.720 taking the blood

00:29:31.680 antibodies

00:29:32.660 from people

00:29:33.360 who have already

00:29:34.380 recovered

00:29:34.860 and sharing it

00:29:35.820 with people

00:29:36.240 who need some

00:29:37.080 extra protection.

00:29:38.400 The other is

00:29:39.080 these cheap

00:29:39.960 over-the-counter

00:29:41.220 test strips

00:29:42.020 that will get

00:29:43.640 your viral load

00:29:44.620 when it's at

00:29:45.120 the high point

00:29:45.820 which is when

00:29:46.320 you want to catch it

00:29:47.140 but won't get

00:29:49.220 everything in the world

00:29:50.060 that could be caught

00:29:50.840 but they're so cheap

00:29:52.960 that you could do it

00:29:53.560 every day

00:29:54.040 and that would be

00:29:54.720 enough to basically

00:29:55.540 just halt

00:29:57.060 the virus.

00:29:59.520 And the third thing

00:30:00.160 would be

00:30:00.640 hydroxychloroquine

00:30:01.800 which

00:30:02.800 for whatever reason

00:30:04.880 there are still

00:30:05.560 people on both sides.

00:30:07.120 My current view

00:30:07.980 is 30% chance

00:30:09.600 that it really works

00:30:10.640 based on just

00:30:12.300 looking at

00:30:13.780 the various arguments

00:30:14.800 back and forth

00:30:15.480 but that's still

00:30:17.060 enough

00:30:17.580 to give it a whirl.

00:30:19.440 In other words

00:30:19.880 if your doctor

00:30:20.580 says it makes sense

00:30:21.560 for you

00:30:22.000 if in fact

00:30:23.900 I'm right

00:30:24.620 and it's a 30%

00:30:26.060 chance it might work

00:30:27.100 that's totally

00:30:28.220 a good reason

00:30:28.780 to prescribe it.

00:30:32.060 But what

00:30:32.800 do these three

00:30:33.920 things have in common?

00:30:35.080 The blood plasma

00:30:35.840 thing,

00:30:36.280 the over-the-counter

00:30:36.860 test strips

00:30:37.500 and the hydroxychloroquine.

00:30:39.320 The thing

00:30:40.360 they all have

00:30:40.940 in common

00:30:41.420 is that they

00:30:42.860 seem to be

00:30:43.500 under-emphasized

00:30:44.840 at least

00:30:46.340 in this country.

00:30:47.840 It feels like

00:30:48.840 the three

00:30:49.380 most promising

00:30:50.340 things

00:30:51.160 are not

00:30:52.920 really being

00:30:53.640 pursued.

00:30:54.520 At the very

00:30:55.240 least

00:30:55.880 on the

00:30:56.880 hydroxychloroquine

00:30:57.980 we should be

00:30:59.060 animals

00:30:59.860 about finding out

00:31:01.040 if there's

00:31:01.460 something to it.

00:31:02.860 Like we should

00:31:03.520 be chewing

00:31:04.180 through a concrete

00:31:05.140 wall

00:31:05.600 to either

00:31:06.420 dismiss it

00:31:07.260 as useless

00:31:07.900 or to

00:31:09.040 confirm

00:31:09.440 that it

00:31:09.780 works.

00:31:10.760 I don't

00:31:11.640 feel I

00:31:12.080 see that

00:31:12.500 energy

00:31:12.900 happening.

00:31:14.160 It's perfectly

00:31:15.320 fine if the

00:31:16.420 government wants

00:31:17.080 to say

00:31:17.480 it's not

00:31:19.100 proven to the

00:31:19.900 level that we'd

00:31:20.680 want in order

00:31:21.960 to go hard

00:31:22.640 at it,

00:31:23.540 but who's

00:31:24.140 making sure

00:31:24.880 that that's

00:31:25.800 true?

00:31:26.880 Who has

00:31:27.660 studied every

00:31:28.440 situation,

00:31:29.980 bundled them

00:31:30.680 together of

00:31:31.500 the hydroxychloroquine

00:31:33.320 users versus

00:31:34.160 all the

00:31:34.640 states and

00:31:35.160 all the

00:31:35.460 countries that

00:31:36.480 weren't using

00:31:37.040 it and

00:31:37.920 just see if

00:31:38.360 there's any

00:31:38.700 difference.

00:31:40.100 Instead what

00:31:40.880 we see is

00:31:41.520 you'll see

00:31:42.220 one country

00:31:43.040 compared to

00:31:43.680 three or

00:31:44.120 four others

00:31:44.820 completely 0.90

00:31:45.800 useless 0.55

00:31:46.320 because it 0.92

00:31:47.200 would be so

00:31:47.620 easy to

00:31:48.080 cherry pick

00:31:48.700 any countries

00:31:49.380 and say

00:31:49.720 look at

00:31:50.080 this trend

00:31:50.580 these ones

00:31:51.680 I cherry

00:31:52.080 picked are

00:31:52.560 doing better

00:31:53.020 than these

00:31:53.440 other few

00:31:53.960 I cherry

00:31:54.360 picked

00:31:54.620 and of

00:31:55.260 180

00:31:55.760 countries

00:31:56.340 and of

00:31:57.220 50 states

00:31:58.060 all different

00:31:59.600 experiences

00:32:00.180 completely useless.

00:32:01.680 So if you 0.94

00:32:02.660 think you've

00:32:03.340 seen an

00:32:04.120 argument that

00:32:04.980 is completely

00:32:05.780 persuasive that

00:32:07.800 hydroxychloroquine

00:32:09.040 works I

00:32:10.420 think you're

00:32:10.820 wrong.

00:32:12.040 I think you're

00:32:12.580 wrong.

00:32:13.160 There's lots of

00:32:13.820 indication that

00:32:14.580 we should find

00:32:15.280 out if it

00:32:15.740 works.

00:32:16.580 I mean there's

00:32:16.880 plenty of

00:32:17.380 that.

00:32:18.680 But there's

00:32:19.240 no strong

00:32:20.960 indication in

00:32:22.000 my opinion

00:32:22.540 that says it

00:32:24.040 works.

00:32:25.340 But there's

00:32:26.220 plenty of

00:32:27.100 suggestion that

00:32:27.980 it might.

00:32:29.080 The fact that

00:32:29.720 we're not going

00:32:30.360 hard at those

00:32:31.120 or explaining

00:32:32.080 to the

00:32:32.460 public why

00:32:33.620 we're not

00:32:34.100 going as

00:32:34.680 hard as

00:32:35.080 we could.

00:32:36.260 I mean why

00:32:36.660 aren't we

00:32:37.520 seeing some

00:32:38.040 kind of

00:32:38.340 blood plasma

00:32:39.160 donation thing

00:32:40.260 like every

00:32:41.380 day?

00:32:42.280 Why don't I

00:32:42.940 walk out or

00:32:44.440 drive my car

00:32:45.280 into town and

00:32:46.020 see a sign

00:32:46.520 that says

00:32:46.980 sign up here

00:32:48.480 if you've

00:32:49.020 had coronavirus

00:32:49.920 and you've

00:32:50.700 recovered so

00:32:51.360 we'll get

00:32:51.580 your blood.

00:32:52.280 I mean I

00:32:52.600 know it's

00:32:52.920 happening but

00:32:54.240 it feels like

00:32:54.800 it's the most

00:32:55.280 understated part

00:32:56.440 of everything

00:32:56.920 right?

00:32:57.720 We've got

00:32:58.300 hundreds of

00:32:59.060 vaccines being

00:33:00.360 tested.

00:33:01.120 And all

00:33:02.080 this other

00:33:02.700 stuff.

00:33:03.640 But the

00:33:03.880 things that

00:33:04.380 we almost

00:33:05.360 could be

00:33:05.880 sure would

00:33:06.560 work and

00:33:07.140 then hydroxychloroquine

00:33:08.280 we should just

00:33:08.940 make sure we

00:33:09.620 know if it

00:33:10.080 works.

00:33:11.280 I feel they're

00:33:12.140 a little

00:33:12.460 underserved or

00:33:13.580 maybe it's

00:33:14.220 just the

00:33:14.620 communication of

00:33:15.680 them.

00:33:16.660 So I would

00:33:17.100 like one or

00:33:17.740 the other.

00:33:18.300 Either

00:33:18.520 communication

00:33:19.160 that says

00:33:19.640 we're doing

00:33:20.040 everything we

00:33:20.580 can or

00:33:21.860 we've looked

00:33:22.320 into it and

00:33:22.840 we're not

00:33:23.200 going to do

00:33:23.700 anything more

00:33:24.300 because it

00:33:24.660 doesn't work

00:33:25.260 and here's the

00:33:25.860 reason.

00:33:26.280 That would be

00:33:26.600 fine.

00:33:27.800 But they feel

00:33:28.940 underserved.

00:33:29.640 That's all I'm

00:33:30.020 saying.

00:33:31.120 Is it too

00:33:33.760 early to say

00:33:34.360 that braindead 0.55

00:33:35.100 Biden has 0.90

00:33:35.880 botched his

00:33:36.880 campaign?

00:33:38.360 Is it too

00:33:39.240 early to say

00:33:39.840 it's botched?

00:33:41.920 Now if you've

00:33:43.240 been following me

00:33:44.020 for a while you

00:33:44.540 know why I'm

00:33:45.060 saying botched.

00:33:46.280 Botched is one

00:33:47.040 of those great

00:33:47.520 words and you're

00:33:48.300 seeing that the

00:33:48.980 Democrats are

00:33:49.580 using it to

00:33:50.300 refer to the

00:33:50.960 president's

00:33:51.920 coronavirus

00:33:52.420 response.

00:33:53.880 it's just an

00:33:55.380 excellent persuasion

00:33:56.480 word.

00:33:57.380 I didn't realize

00:33:58.400 it until I

00:33:58.860 heard them use

00:33:59.720 it and I

00:34:00.460 thought wow

00:34:00.940 you don't

00:34:01.840 really argue

00:34:02.480 with botched

00:34:03.260 because it's

00:34:04.340 so comprehensive

00:34:05.140 it's like wow

00:34:05.820 I don't even

00:34:06.380 need to give

00:34:06.820 you the

00:34:07.040 details.

00:34:08.520 Details?

00:34:09.420 No it was

00:34:09.980 botched.

00:34:11.320 It just makes

00:34:12.660 the details not

00:34:13.480 matter.

00:34:14.680 So I thought

00:34:15.100 I'd start using

00:34:15.800 that about the

00:34:16.500 Biden campaign

00:34:17.600 because it does

00:34:18.380 seem to fit.

00:34:19.660 I mean you could

00:34:20.160 argue that the

00:34:20.740 whole campaign has

00:34:21.600 been botched even

00:34:22.420 though he's ahead.

00:34:24.600 So yesterday

00:34:26.060 Harris and

00:34:28.380 Biden did

00:34:29.180 their little

00:34:29.660 it looks like

00:34:30.780 they've got some

00:34:31.340 kind of a set

00:34:32.260 that looks like

00:34:32.960 sort of a war

00:34:33.780 room with

00:34:34.540 flags on the

00:34:35.660 wall and maps

00:34:36.680 of the United

00:34:37.120 States and it

00:34:38.260 looks sort of

00:34:39.580 like a news

00:34:40.380 room but maybe

00:34:41.660 like a war

00:34:42.620 room kind of

00:34:44.160 cool thing

00:34:45.000 and my take

00:34:46.940 on it is

00:34:47.640 good try but

00:34:50.060 I think they

00:34:50.700 missed.

00:34:51.220 it felt like

00:34:52.560 a mess.

00:34:53.620 Their little

00:34:54.040 artificial set

00:34:55.180 looked 0.99

00:34:56.480 pathetic 0.99

00:34:58.780 because it 0.99

00:35:00.600 didn't look

00:35:01.240 high end

00:35:02.400 enough so

00:35:03.200 you'd say to

00:35:03.700 yourself well

00:35:04.240 it's like they're

00:35:04.900 broadcasting from

00:35:05.960 the Oval

00:35:06.480 Office or

00:35:07.740 it looks like

00:35:08.260 they're broadcasting

00:35:09.120 from some

00:35:09.700 important place.

00:35:10.980 It just looked

00:35:11.860 like you had a

00:35:12.440 little set

00:35:12.940 designer and

00:35:14.380 you put your

00:35:15.200 little douchey 1.00

00:35:16.900 desks in there.

00:35:19.360 It didn't quite

00:35:20.520 work.

00:35:21.380 I know what

00:35:21.900 they were going

00:35:22.420 for and so

00:35:23.180 what they were

00:35:23.580 going for made

00:35:24.300 sense to give

00:35:25.800 it a more

00:35:26.300 powerful or

00:35:28.420 serious look.

00:35:30.060 That made

00:35:30.560 sense but they

00:35:32.100 didn't quite hit

00:35:32.800 the mark to

00:35:33.520 me.

00:35:33.900 It looked a

00:35:34.640 little amateurish

00:35:36.900 I guess.

00:35:38.060 Botched.

00:35:38.620 I think you

00:35:39.060 could say it

00:35:39.500 was botched.

00:35:40.740 Anyway, here

00:35:42.060 was the

00:35:42.360 interesting thing.

00:35:43.260 If you're

00:35:43.980 looking at it

00:35:44.580 from the

00:35:45.100 audience's

00:35:45.860 perspective,

00:35:46.940 they had

00:35:47.220 Kamala Harris

00:35:47.840 in a desk

00:35:48.540 on the

00:35:48.880 left and

00:35:49.540 they had

00:35:49.820 Biden on

00:35:50.480 the desk

00:35:50.880 on the

00:35:51.200 right.

00:35:51.880 Let me ask

00:35:52.540 you this.

00:35:54.120 If you were

00:35:54.960 the one in

00:35:55.440 charge of

00:35:56.120 designing where

00:35:57.240 each of them

00:35:57.780 sat, would

00:35:59.140 you have put

00:35:59.680 the top of

00:36:01.020 the ticket on

00:36:01.740 the left or

00:36:03.440 would you have

00:36:03.940 put the top

00:36:04.620 of the ticket

00:36:05.140 on the right?

00:36:07.940 I would have

00:36:08.680 put the top

00:36:09.260 of the ticket

00:36:09.740 on the left

00:36:10.820 because the

00:36:12.060 left is the

00:36:13.940 important part

00:36:14.740 part of

00:36:15.660 the position

00:36:16.220 in Western

00:36:17.220 culture.

00:36:18.680 In the

00:36:19.100 West, we

00:36:19.560 read from

00:36:20.680 left to

00:36:21.120 right.

00:36:21.720 I've told

00:36:22.040 you before

00:36:22.480 that if

00:36:22.820 you look

00:36:23.100 at a

00:36:23.300 website,

00:36:24.380 the important

00:36:24.900 news or

00:36:25.520 the news

00:36:25.960 that they

00:36:26.240 want you

00:36:26.540 to think

00:36:26.840 is important

00:36:27.280 is in

00:36:27.660 the top

00:36:28.000 left.

00:36:29.100 Same as

00:36:29.660 reading.

00:36:30.600 Our brains

00:36:31.380 are just

00:36:31.720 wired, at

00:36:32.160 least in

00:36:32.440 the West,

00:36:33.300 to look at

00:36:33.760 the top

00:36:34.120 of the

00:36:34.360 left or

00:36:35.500 at least

00:36:35.760 the left

00:36:36.320 and start

00:36:37.100 there and

00:36:37.460 go to

00:36:37.660 the right.

00:36:38.780 So we're

00:36:40.040 compiling a

00:36:40.920 number of,

00:36:41.680 let's say,

00:36:42.460 subjective-looking,

00:36:43.980 anecdotal,

00:36:45.100 situations that

00:36:46.460 all suggest

00:36:47.280 the same

00:36:47.840 thing.

00:36:48.940 When you

00:36:49.320 see a

00:36:49.660 photograph of

00:36:51.180 Kamala Harris

00:36:52.620 with a big

00:36:53.180 picture and

00:36:54.080 then there's a

00:36:54.580 tiny little

00:36:55.060 Biden behind

00:36:55.840 her just

00:36:57.160 to indicate

00:36:57.660 that he's

00:36:58.060 part of it

00:36:58.500 too, it's

00:36:59.860 all collectively

00:37:00.880 coming together

00:37:01.840 like the

00:37:03.320 public is

00:37:03.900 supposed to

00:37:04.560 see Kamala

00:37:05.200 Harris as

00:37:05.720 the top of

00:37:06.220 the ticket.

00:37:07.260 They don't

00:37:07.620 want to say

00:37:08.060 it out loud,

00:37:09.220 but you're

00:37:09.820 going to see

00:37:10.100 it in

00:37:10.400 photography and

00:37:11.520 positioning and

00:37:13.080 in a hundred

00:37:14.040 different ways.

00:37:18.580 And then

00:37:19.180 they didn't

00:37:19.500 take questions.

00:37:21.540 If they do

00:37:22.360 take questions,

00:37:23.660 I would like

00:37:24.220 to suggest

00:37:24.840 something for

00:37:25.740 any reporter

00:37:26.860 who can get

00:37:27.440 Harris to sit

00:37:28.100 down and take

00:37:28.540 questions.

00:37:29.480 It goes like

00:37:30.140 this.

00:37:30.800 You've probably

00:37:31.260 all seen the

00:37:31.820 video of,

00:37:33.780 so Kamala Harris

00:37:34.620 was giving a

00:37:35.260 talk somewhere,

00:37:36.380 couldn't have

00:37:36.660 been too long

00:37:37.620 ago, I think it

00:37:38.260 was before she

00:37:38.760 was running for

00:37:39.260 president, but

00:37:40.140 not too long

00:37:40.700 ago, in which

00:37:41.720 she said that

00:37:42.900 young people,

00:37:44.800 I think between

00:37:45.500 the ages of

00:37:46.120 18 and 24,

00:37:47.220 she was talking

00:37:47.720 about, she

00:37:48.720 said that 1.00

00:37:49.180 they're stupid. 1.00

00:37:50.940 Now, is she 1.00

00:37:51.740 wrong?

00:37:53.340 No, no.

00:37:55.460 No, she's not

00:37:56.280 wrong.

00:37:57.600 She's completely

00:37:58.700 right, because I've

00:38:00.560 said exactly the

00:38:01.380 same thing.

00:38:02.200 It isn't really

00:38:03.000 even an insult to

00:38:04.200 say that young 1.00

00:38:04.740 people are stupid, 1.00

00:38:05.600 because I was 1.00

00:38:07.440 young, I'm

00:38:08.860 talking about

00:38:09.300 myself.

00:38:10.600 Scott Young, 1.00

00:38:12.520 stupid, compared 1.00

00:38:13.920 to more 1.00

00:38:15.460 experienced Scott.

00:38:17.560 Likewise, and

00:38:18.660 this is meant as

00:38:19.420 no insult to my

00:38:21.100 dear, beloved

00:38:21.880 viewers, but you 1.00

00:38:23.820 were all stupid. 1.00

00:38:25.120 You were all 1.00

00:38:25.900 stupid between the 1.00

00:38:26.740 ages of 18 and 1.00

00:38:27.580 24.

00:38:28.400 There's no way

00:38:29.120 around that.

00:38:30.440 But now you're

00:38:31.800 wiser, you're

00:38:33.280 experienced, you're

00:38:34.700 mature, but you 1.00

00:38:36.060 were stupid then. 1.00

00:38:36.860 I was stupid, 1.00

00:38:38.500 Kamala Harris was 1.00

00:38:39.200 stupid, President 1.00

00:38:40.420 Trump was stupid. 1.00

00:38:41.720 We were all 1.00

00:38:42.660 stupid when we're 1.00

00:38:44.540 that certain age 1.00

00:38:45.660 while thinking we

00:38:46.780 were smart.

00:38:47.720 But here's the

00:38:48.240 thing.

00:38:48.960 If somebody gets

00:38:49.800 Harris to answer

00:38:50.720 some questions,

00:38:52.060 here are the

00:38:52.480 questions I would

00:38:53.260 like her to

00:38:53.860 answer.

00:38:55.380 Kamala Harris, you

00:38:56.100 once said that

00:38:57.580 people, young 1.00

00:38:58.420 people are stupid. 1.00

00:38:59.820 Does that extend 1.00

00:39:00.740 to Greta

00:39:01.320 Thunberg?

00:39:03.800 Isn't that a

00:39:04.620 great question?

00:39:05.160 Would you say

00:39:06.100 that Greta

00:39:06.620 Thunberg is 1.00

00:39:07.780 stupid because 1.00

00:39:10.160 she's in that 1.00

00:39:10.760 age group?

00:39:12.180 And one

00:39:13.220 follow-up

00:39:13.680 question after

00:39:14.300 that is, do

00:39:15.520 you think that 1.00

00:39:16.040 the stupidity just 1.00

00:39:17.660 stops at 24? 1.00

00:39:19.600 Or would you

00:39:20.700 say, Kamala, I'm

00:39:21.880 just asking for

00:39:22.520 your opinion, would

00:39:23.640 you say that

00:39:24.380 somebody like

00:39:26.400 AOC, who's

00:39:28.320 on the younger

00:39:29.440 side of the

00:39:30.240 political

00:39:30.720 professional

00:39:31.860 spectrum, would

00:39:33.160 you say that

00:39:33.880 at the age

00:39:34.780 25, on her

00:39:35.980 25th birthday, she

00:39:37.000 became smart?

00:39:38.340 Or do you

00:39:38.940 think there's a

00:39:39.440 little bit of 1.00

00:39:39.820 that stupid 1.00

00:39:40.820 stuff from age 1.00

00:39:42.640 18 to 24?

00:39:43.960 Does it linger a

00:39:44.840 little bit?

00:39:45.760 Or would you

00:39:46.320 say AOC is

00:39:47.200 out of that 1.00

00:39:47.660 stupid zone yet 1.00

00:39:48.680 completely? 1.00

00:39:49.620 We're just

00:39:50.200 trying to

00:39:51.000 understand how 1.00

00:39:51.680 the stupidity 1.00

00:39:52.380 works according 1.00

00:39:53.060 to your worldview.

00:39:54.940 Now, those

00:39:56.160 would be hard

00:39:56.540 questions to

00:39:57.140 answer, wouldn't

00:39:57.600 they?

00:39:57.760 somebody says

00:40:00.740 awkward, your 0.61

00:40:01.520 wife.

00:40:06.280 See, now, I

00:40:07.080 don't block you

00:40:07.640 for that, because

00:40:08.580 you gave me

00:40:09.280 reasons.

00:40:11.020 As long as you

00:40:11.840 give me reasons,

00:40:12.560 you're okay.

00:40:13.540 So it turns out

00:40:14.200 that Bahrain 0.92

00:40:14.880 joined Egypt and

00:40:16.120 Oman in 0.95

00:40:17.120 backing the

00:40:18.920 UAE's deal

00:40:20.420 with Israel.

00:40:22.280 So the

00:40:22.980 president, and

00:40:23.820 I think Jared

00:40:24.960 Kushner had

00:40:25.580 teased that

00:40:27.340 there might

00:40:28.380 be more

00:40:28.940 good news

00:40:30.020 coming in

00:40:30.480 the Middle

00:40:30.760 East.

00:40:31.220 Maybe this

00:40:31.640 is the

00:40:31.900 beginning of

00:40:32.400 it.

00:40:32.680 So Bahrain 0.95

00:40:33.300 and Oman

00:40:34.460 and Egypt

00:40:35.220 and the

00:40:36.760 UAE are 0.99

00:40:37.840 all leaning

00:40:39.440 in Israel's

00:40:40.100 direction.

00:40:41.100 Now, would

00:40:41.540 we be

00:40:41.940 surprised at

00:40:42.840 this?

00:40:43.480 No.

00:40:44.660 Because the

00:40:45.600 president and

00:40:47.280 Jared Kushner

00:40:48.380 have set up

00:40:49.920 this situation

00:40:50.700 where, if

00:40:52.740 you imagine

00:40:53.160 there were

00:40:53.440 two major

00:40:53.980 powers in

00:40:55.280 the Middle

00:40:55.560 East, and

00:40:56.040 throw in

00:40:56.460 Russia as a

00:40:57.240 complicator,

00:40:58.540 but if

00:40:59.260 there was

00:41:00.000 the Iranian

00:41:00.580 sphere of

00:41:01.280 influence, and

00:41:02.420 there was, let's

00:41:02.880 say, the

00:41:03.300 Saudi, Israel,

00:41:05.020 the United

00:41:05.400 States sphere

00:41:06.480 of influence,

00:41:07.220 because they're

00:41:07.640 sort of on the

00:41:08.760 same team-ish,

00:41:11.000 it didn't make

00:41:13.020 sense to be in

00:41:13.860 the Iranian

00:41:14.320 sphere of

00:41:14.960 influence anymore,

00:41:16.100 did it?

00:41:16.940 Because it's a

00:41:18.420 losing sphere.

00:41:19.500 Nobody wants to

00:41:20.140 be on the

00:41:20.440 losing team, and

00:41:21.280 it's pretty

00:41:21.840 obvious that

00:41:22.560 Iran is not 1.00

00:41:23.900 heading toward

00:41:24.640 a good place.

00:41:25.760 So I think

00:41:27.180 that the

00:41:27.540 president degraded

00:41:28.880 Iran to the 0.94

00:41:29.680 point where

00:41:30.860 it was just

00:41:31.480 smart to be

00:41:32.040 on the winning

00:41:32.480 team.

00:41:33.060 It's like, you

00:41:33.480 might as well

00:41:33.860 just be on the

00:41:34.440 winning team.

00:41:35.080 Why don't we

00:41:35.380 just make

00:41:35.840 peace, act

00:41:37.100 like, you

00:41:38.500 know, civilized

00:41:39.160 people?

00:41:40.020 And the

00:41:40.860 Palestinians

00:41:41.420 apparently did

00:41:42.380 not like what

00:41:43.380 the UAE was 0.81

00:41:44.500 doing, and so

00:41:45.540 they decided to

00:41:46.780 withdraw their

00:41:47.620 diplomat and

00:41:48.740 close their, I

00:41:51.440 don't know if

00:41:51.700 they closed the

00:41:52.160 embassy, but I'm

00:41:54.520 thinking to

00:41:54.940 myself, does the

00:41:55.940 UAE really care

00:41:58.060 that they lost

00:41:58.760 the Palestinian

00:41:59.620 embassy or

00:42:01.660 ambassador?

00:42:03.300 I don't think

00:42:04.000 they care at

00:42:04.560 all.

00:42:06.020 Do they?

00:42:08.080 So, anyway,

00:42:10.120 that's good.

00:42:13.980 You know, there's

00:42:14.940 this little side

00:42:16.440 story about

00:42:17.340 Jeff Zucker, the

00:42:18.700 head of CNN,

00:42:20.020 and how he's

00:42:20.760 been a Kamala 0.60

00:42:21.520 Harris supporter

00:42:22.280 for a long time,

00:42:23.520 and you have

00:42:24.580 to ask

00:42:24.940 yourself, how

00:42:26.220 important was

00:42:27.060 it, in terms of

00:42:28.240 Kamala Harris

00:42:28.800 getting the VP

00:42:30.000 spot, how

00:42:31.420 important was

00:42:32.300 it that CNN

00:42:33.960 was going to

00:42:34.620 back her? 0.91

00:42:36.160 I mean, I'm

00:42:36.580 sure they would

00:42:37.020 have backed

00:42:37.320 whoever the

00:42:38.060 nominee picked,

00:42:39.700 but don't you

00:42:41.600 wonder if CNN

00:42:42.380 was really the

00:42:43.220 one who was

00:42:44.940 the main force

00:42:45.880 behind picking

00:42:46.720 Kamala Harris?

00:42:48.160 You know, the

00:42:48.660 CNN, Clinton

00:42:50.100 universe?

00:42:52.660 Yeah, I don't

00:42:53.340 think anything

00:42:53.900 happens the way

00:42:54.540 you think it

00:42:55.020 does.

00:42:56.380 I feel like the

00:42:57.300 real story behind

00:42:58.380 all of this is

00:42:59.100 never quite the

00:42:59.800 one that you

00:43:00.220 hear.

00:43:01.420 All right, what

00:43:02.180 else we got going

00:43:02.860 on here?

00:43:04.160 I think those are

00:43:05.160 the big things.

00:43:06.740 Just make sure I

00:43:07.460 didn't miss

00:43:07.800 anything.

00:43:09.380 No, I did

00:43:10.140 not.

00:43:10.840 I have been

00:43:11.460 very thorough.

00:43:14.320 Arms embargo?

00:43:15.660 Who's got an

00:43:16.320 arms embargo?

00:43:16.920 I just see that

00:43:19.060 in the Middle

00:43:22.560 East is a 0.95

00:43:23.500 powder keg, you

00:43:24.400 think?

00:43:24.900 Well, that's no

00:43:26.060 different than

00:43:26.540 ever, right?

00:43:31.280 Representative

00:43:31.880 Tlaib didn't

00:43:33.240 like it.

00:43:34.540 What a

00:43:35.020 surprise.

00:43:37.720 Somebody says

00:43:38.340 Brett Baer is

00:43:39.360 anti-Trump.

00:43:40.540 That is not

00:43:41.820 true.

00:43:42.720 He is neither

00:43:43.420 pro nor

00:43:44.360 anti-Trump.

00:43:45.860 You know,

00:43:46.040 Brett Baer is

00:43:46.820 like the one

00:43:47.380 guy who

00:43:48.960 you'd have to

00:43:49.580 say, all

00:43:50.260 right, he's

00:43:50.580 playing it

00:43:51.000 right down

00:43:51.340 the middle.

00:43:51.900 He's trying

00:43:52.540 to tell the

00:43:54.100 actual news.

00:43:59.760 What about

00:44:00.440 Jeff Bezos?

00:44:03.300 Are you

00:44:03.860 saying that

00:44:04.220 he's behind

00:44:04.820 some of

00:44:05.160 this?

00:44:05.780 I don't

00:44:06.100 know.

00:44:06.460 I don't

00:44:06.880 know that

00:44:07.240 exactly.

00:44:08.820 All right.

00:44:09.280 well, let

00:44:13.860 us continue

00:44:14.420 watching what

00:44:15.240 happens with

00:44:16.160 the plotters

00:44:17.460 who were

00:44:18.240 behind the

00:44:18.760 Russia collusion

00:44:19.660 hoax.

00:44:20.740 See how many

00:44:21.580 of them go

00:44:22.040 to jail.

00:44:24.140 The Millie

00:44:24.900 Weaver story,

00:44:25.860 I'm a little

00:44:26.200 confused by that

00:44:27.160 one.

00:44:27.420 We don't know

00:44:27.880 quite what's

00:44:28.480 going on there,

00:44:29.140 so I'll just

00:44:29.480 watch that one 0.65

00:44:30.060 a little bit.

00:44:31.220 Yeah, I'll be

00:44:31.560 on the Greg

00:44:32.060 Gutfeld show

00:44:33.020 tonight.

00:44:34.000 Check your

00:44:34.480 local listings.

00:44:35.500 And thank

00:44:39.600 you.

00:44:40.520 All right.

00:44:40.980 That's all for

00:44:41.400 now, and I

00:44:42.020 will talk to

00:44:42.580 you later.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 15, 2020

Episode 1093 Scott Adams： Post Office Efficiency, Biden Botching Everything, ACLU Backs China, Barr Disses Teachers Union for Racism

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript