Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 16, 2020


Episode 1094 Scott Adams： Witches and Video, Three Civil Wars Scheduled, Low Information Voters, Firenadoes, Homeschooling


Episode Stats

Length

44 minutes

Words per Minute

151.71289

Word Count

6,820

Sentence Count

456

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

9


Summary

Coffee makes everything better, except apparently the temperature. And join me for the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything, except the temperature, better than it could possibly be. Scott Adams


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, come on in. It's time for a hot and sweaty version of Coffee with Scott Adams.
00:00:18.640 That's right, today will be hot. No, not in the content way, but rather in the way
00:00:27.280 that if you live in the third world country like I do, it's called California. Have you heard of it?
00:00:35.440 So California is one of those places that doesn't always have electricity. So that's the first thing
00:00:42.740 you need to know about it. The other thing is that if something breaks, you're not going to get it
00:00:48.180 fixed. My air conditioning just went out and I'm not going to be able to get that fixed.
00:00:54.900 So it's going to get really warm for me today, at least in my office. I think it's working in the
00:01:00.900 rest of the house. But to make everything better, as good as it could possibly be, possibly the best
00:01:06.100 thing that will happen to you today is this simultaneous sip. And all you need to make it
00:01:10.700 a reality in your life is a cup or mug or a glass of tank or chalice or stye, a canteen jug or flask,
00:01:16.060 a vessel of any kind. Fill that thing with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
00:01:23.340 And join me now for the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better except
00:01:28.720 apparently the temperature. It's called the simultaneous sip and have us now. Go.
00:01:37.040 Oh, I was wrong. It actually made me a little cooler. I guess there's nothing that coffee can't do.
00:01:42.920 The simultaneous sip, that is. So condolences to the Trump family. The president's brother passed
00:01:53.460 away, as you all know. And what a horrible thing. Made more horrible by the world we live in
00:02:01.220 because, of course, the trolls are saying just the most despicable things, as you can imagine.
00:02:08.480 Buy a portable AC, somebody says. I plan to look into it, but what are the odds that there are any
00:02:18.560 portable ACs left in California? I'm pretty sure those are in demand right now. Because as you know,
00:02:28.360 the only time that you ever need a repair person for your AC is when there's a hot streak. It's the
00:02:33.760 only time it ever breaks. So those are the times you can't get it fixed. When you need it. All right,
00:02:38.940 enough about me. So I tweeted this and it immediately got 10,000 retweets. It's probably
00:02:46.980 at 13,000 by now. And here's what I said. See if you agree with this. Democrats and the FBI,
00:02:53.860 or Democrats and the FBI and the media conspired to overthrow the government, got caught, and 70% of
00:03:04.040 the country will never hear about it. This is actually happening. And it's so mind-boggling.
00:03:11.020 The ability of the press to disappear a story of that size is really impressive, and not in a good
00:03:22.760 way. And I think that that's actually happening. I believe that there was a legitimate, honest-to-God
00:03:29.640 coup attempt. We know their names. At least this Clinesmith guy, it looks like he's in a lot of
00:03:35.500 trouble. We now have enough information that there's no real question that it happened. Nor is
00:03:42.900 there any question that the media was complicit in pushing this narrative without proper evidence.
00:03:51.800 And the fact that the media can just make this go away, like it didn't even happen, is incredible.
00:04:00.080 It makes anything you thought about Animal Farm or whatever weird thing you thought was possible
00:04:07.240 in the future, well, it's the future. And imagine now if the government got rid of, say, Fox News or
00:04:16.260 a few other blue-checked people on social media. At the moment, the only way you know what the news is,
00:04:23.600 is Twitter and social media. Think about what you wouldn't know about the protests that are
00:04:29.820 ongoing every night if you didn't have Twitter. It's not in the news. So, you know, certainly
00:04:37.360 you've got a few, you know, right-leaning entities. You've got your Breitbart's and you've got your
00:04:42.740 Fox News, etc. But what if you had a President Biden? Can you imagine a scenario where they'd find
00:04:51.660 some legal or other way to just make the entities on the right go away? And they could just disappear
00:04:59.260 than from social media, from search. I think they already did that to Breitbart, right? Didn't Breitbart
00:05:04.800 get disappeared if you do a search that doesn't even come up on the news? So the ability to make
00:05:13.840 history actually disappear, it's happening right now, right while you're watching it. History disappearing.
00:05:22.560 It's the most amazing thing. And there's not much to say about it, because it's not like a complicated
00:05:30.060 topic. They're just not talking about it. So it makes it disappear. And I thought, well, at least it'll
00:05:35.700 be in the history books when the students learn about it. No, it won't. It actually won't be in the
00:05:42.480 history books. Think about that. Students learning history about this period of time will never learn
00:05:50.740 that there was an actual, honest to God, almost successful coup attempt. It won't even be in the
00:05:59.920 school books. Now it will be in, you know, individuals writing books. But how many students are going to
00:06:05.100 go out and buy a history book that they don't have to read? Not too many. All right. And so this makes me
00:06:13.920 wonder if what we need is a, what I'll call a low information voter quiz. We need a test that I can
00:06:22.240 just forward to people who disagree with me to find out what their base of understanding about the news
00:06:28.780 in general is. Now, the tough part is a lot of our disagreements are on opinion. So it's an opinion
00:06:35.060 that this will be better than that. It's an opinion that we can find a way to pay for something,
00:06:39.280 etc. But there are other things that are no longer opinion. And one of them is, one of the questions
00:06:45.640 would be, do you believe the president colluded with Putin to rig the election in 2016? That should
00:06:52.720 be on the test. Because if somebody says yes, they're a low information voter because neither the left nor
00:06:58.780 the right report that to be true. How about if you said the FBI colluded to overthrow the government?
00:07:10.220 Now, that's just a fact, right? Wouldn't you say that that qualifies as a fact at this point? I mean,
00:07:17.040 maybe you wait for Durham, but with the Clinesmith plea deal, I think it moves into fact.
00:07:23.180 And you can imagine quite a few other facts. For example, you would ask, do you believe it's been
00:07:31.160 proven that hydroxychloroquine doesn't work for coronavirus and that it might be dangerous?
00:07:38.480 If you said yes, you're a low information voter because that has not been proven. It hasn't been
00:07:44.920 proven for sure that it works in a gold standard way, but there are lots of tests that suggest that it
00:07:51.380 does with lower credibility. All right. And you can imagine a number of other, and I actually do
00:07:59.520 want to make this test, like actual, honest to God, a real test. And here's the thing. If you think the
00:08:07.000 only people who are going to fail this test are on the left, you would be wrong because I have lots of
00:08:13.620 conversations every day with people who basically agree with me on, you know, Trump related stuff and
00:08:21.500 still don't have current information, still have just basic facts about stuff wrong. So we should
00:08:28.700 have a low information voter quiz, and then you could just stop arguing with anybody who's low
00:08:33.620 information. Say, look, I'll debate you, but you've got to get at least an 80% on this test. If you
00:08:40.580 don't get an 80% or higher, maybe you're not the person I need to debate with. So I got into it
00:08:47.740 today with, I made, I don't know why I keep making the same mistake over and over. Some critic on
00:08:53.900 Twitter will say some dumb ass thing, and I'll say, well, that looks really dumb. Let me, let me set
00:09:00.200 you straight. And I'll send my little smart little comment to often, I think I've straightened things
00:09:05.560 out. And then that person will get back to me with something that's even dumber than the first
00:09:10.360 thing. And I'll think, how did you get dumber from that first tweet? I just straightened you out.
00:09:15.480 And I'll look, well, one more time, let me clarify. And they'll be, all right, I've done good work.
00:09:21.600 You know, it was confused. I clarified, had a follow-up question. I clarified, we're done here.
00:09:27.300 Third message, crazier than the first two. And then I say, oh, click on the profile, look at the
00:09:36.900 career. It's a fricking writer, an artist, and then we're done here. You just can't have a conversation
00:09:46.660 with somebody in the arts about politics. They believe that they know enough to have the conversation,
00:09:52.380 conversation. And they are so not even close. They're not even in the general universe of
00:10:00.100 rational discussion. And I will go further and say that the number of my critics who come after me
00:10:06.680 with, you know, any kind of harsh criticism have become almost entirely artists. The people who are
00:10:16.480 rational people who have at least spent some time looking at my opinions,
00:10:22.380 they will sometimes make a clarifying or, you know, a mildly critical comment. But usually it
00:10:31.020 takes one set of interactions to end up on the same page. Somebody will say, well, you're not
00:10:36.300 considering X. And then I'll say, good point. That's it, right? Good point. Yeah, I should consider
00:10:43.600 X. Or they'll say, you didn't consider X. And I'll say, well, that's because I'm looking at it through
00:10:48.760 this lens. You know, and that's a different question. And the first person will say, oh,
00:10:53.260 that's a good point. That's it. When you deal with people who know how to make decisions,
00:10:58.940 know how to compare things, know how to set priorities, you can usually reach agreement,
00:11:05.240 or at least find the factual part that you might disagree on, in seconds. It just takes no time at
00:11:11.740 all. And those people have largely disappeared from my criticism tree, I guess. Well, we've got
00:11:20.660 three revolutions planned that I know of. Now, before I scare you by saying that we have three
00:11:28.120 civil wars, I guess civil wars would be the better way to put it. We have three civil wars planned in
00:11:34.120 this country. They're on the calendar. And I don't know if they can be avoided because we don't have
00:11:42.040 much time. But here are the competing factors. I've told you that there's something called the
00:11:49.840 Adams Law of Slow-Moving Disasters. If you can see something coming from a long ways away, you can
00:11:57.300 usually adapt and be ready for it. Like the year 2000 stuff, such as running out of oil, we didn't
00:12:04.360 running out of food, because of population anyway, we didn't. And climate change will be similar to
00:12:11.740 that. We've got so much time to remediate, we'll be fine. But do we have enough time to make sure that
00:12:20.840 our election is fair? Not really. We don't. Because it looks like the post office will be some part of
00:12:29.560 the process, if not everywhere, maybe some states. And if that's true, there's nothing that has lower
00:12:38.200 credibility than the post office, is there? Think of something that you would just automatically say,
00:12:44.760 well, that's even less credible than the post office. There's kind of nothing. Congress?
00:12:53.720 Well, you know, who is less credible than the post office? Now, I'm not saying that we all know
00:12:59.780 everything about the post office. I might know a little bit more than you do. My father worked for
00:13:05.720 the post office for 30 years. So just about every night, I heard a post office efficiency story,
00:13:12.480 and it didn't go well. Let's put it that way. So unless the post office got a lot better,
00:13:19.200 let's hope they did. But here's what we can know for sure. If nothing changes, you know,
00:13:25.840 if things just go the way they're heading, we'll have an election that absolutely nobody believes
00:13:31.280 is credible. What happens? What happens if Trump wins narrowly? Well, if Trump wins narrowly,
00:13:40.120 it's a civil war, it has to be, because people will say it's rigged. Suppose Trump loses narrowly,
00:13:49.360 maybe a civil war, but the people on the right might be a little less inclined to do that.
00:13:54.640 But if they really think it got stolen? What if they think it's not just a gray area? What if they
00:14:01.600 say, my God, it's just like this, you know, FBI, Clinesmith guy, we thought this couldn't possibly
00:14:09.000 happen? But there it is. What if the people on the right just say, there's not really any question
00:14:16.780 that the that this was rigged? What do they do then? I don't know. How about? How about when
00:14:24.180 the officers that arrested George Floyd and tragically he died during that encounter?
00:14:31.360 What happens when the jury says it looks like he died from fentanyl overdose? And the police
00:14:40.040 officers might not get off completely free, but certainly they're not going to be charged with,
00:14:46.000 or they're not going to be convicted of murder. I think we can say that with a fair degree of
00:14:50.900 certainty at this point. What happens when that verdict comes down? Civil war, right?
00:14:57.420 What happens when, let's say, Trump wins by a solid majority? Will there be a second coup attempt
00:15:06.900 like the first one? Of course there will. Of course there will. Because the coup attempt almost worked.
00:15:14.380 It almost worked. Of course there'll be another one. You know, if people took those ridiculous chances
00:15:20.820 before, nothing says they won't take more ridiculous chances again. So I would think we've got at least
00:15:28.500 three civil wars coming. A coup attempt, a George Floyd, you know, riot situation, and certainly the
00:15:35.360 election has no credibility at this point. We can just stop pretending it'll be credible. We should just
00:15:41.180 prepare for it not to be. Would you agree? It doesn't look like our government has the capability
00:15:48.200 of producing a credible outcome during the pandemic with short notice. Certainly we could get it right
00:15:55.880 if we had enough time, but we don't. So here's the thing. What do you do? What do you do if you know
00:16:04.440 there are three civil wars coming and they're all, they're basically on the calendar. There's nothing
00:16:12.380 you can do to change any one of these, is there? Is there? I don't think there's anything you can do to
00:16:17.560 change any one of them. So we'll have to deal with that. Looks like three, three civil wars. But as I
00:16:26.860 say, when you can see something coming, you can, you can adjust. Certainly every conservative has,
00:16:33.100 uh, has, has put in some ammo. Yeah, I see in the comments, buy ammo. You know, that used to be a joke.
00:16:42.100 You know, there was a time when I would have said, well, you know, hypothetically, the citizens might
00:16:50.440 need to be armed because you never know your government might try to do this or that. And
00:16:57.000 usually I was thinking of it in terms of the government itself, but I think you'd have to
00:17:01.640 worry at this point about Antifa and, uh, people who actually want to overthrow the government.
00:17:07.260 Now here's something that hasn't happened yet. I wonder if I could get kicked off of Twitter for
00:17:11.940 saying this. Let me try to find a way to say this without getting kicked off of Twitter. So I think
00:17:18.680 I have to, so, so I'll start by saying I'm not promoting this idea. Okay. I'm not predicting it. So I'm
00:17:29.040 neither promoting this nor predicting it, nor do I wish it to happen. I'm just wondering why,
00:17:37.140 it hasn't yet. Because you know, there's going to be a massive gun event, right? Like, you know,
00:17:45.020 that's sort of brewing. And the massive gun event may not be Antifa or the protesters doing the
00:17:53.120 shooting. Sooner or later, there's going to be a crazy person on the right who has a lot of firepower
00:18:01.180 and is going to take matters into their own hands. Feeling that they're patriots, not that anybody
00:18:07.700 would ask them to do that and not that anybody would be happy about it. But I'm a little bit
00:18:13.440 amazed at the restraint that has been shown so far. Now, I would guess that that restraint has
00:18:19.420 everything to do with the fact that there's still a big police presence, even though the police are
00:18:24.860 being, you know, relatively generous in how they go rough on the protesters. But don't you think
00:18:33.380 that if those protests start slopping into places where there is not police, somebody's going to take
00:18:40.340 out not just one of them? You know, we're not heading toward a place where there's one tragedy that
00:18:47.620 happened and one person got hurt. We're sort of heading toward the part where you're looking like
00:18:54.520 a mass casualty event. And I think that might be whatever is the turning point. In other words,
00:19:03.360 right now, it's very safe to go out and protest. All right, well, screw it. I'm going to get kicked
00:19:11.980 off of Twitter. I might as well go down in glory. If you're going to get kicked off of Twitter,
00:19:16.000 you might as well do it right, right? Or kicked off a periscope, whatever happens.
00:19:22.080 It might be that that's the only thing that would change the direction of things. I don't want it to
00:19:27.740 happen. I want to be really clear about that. But you have to predict that it will, because that's
00:19:33.780 sort of the obvious thing that would happen eventually. Sooner or later, somebody's going to
00:19:39.220 say, well, there's a mob in my streets. It's my town. They just broke some windows. The police aren't
00:19:45.720 doing anything. I'm armed to the teeth. It's time to stop it. I can imagine somebody going into the
00:19:53.140 street and just taking out the whole crowd, like just all at once. Just literally just clearing the
00:19:59.400 street, if you know what I mean, before anybody has a chance to respond. Now again, not recommending
00:20:05.800 this. Not promoting it. Don't want anybody to get killed. But how does it not happen? Really? Because it's
00:20:15.860 only a matter of how far people get pushed, right? I would say, I feel like giving a standing ovation
00:20:22.340 to the armed conservatives in this country. Because my god, the level of restraint that they're showing
00:20:30.920 is pretty impressive. Now some of it is because they live in different areas, you know, than the
00:20:37.900 protests. And like I said, as long as there's a big police presence, you could you could argue that the
00:20:43.420 the force part is taken care of. You don't need to get into that. But the moment the moment there's a
00:20:49.920 mob, and there aren't enough police, and this extends into some less urban area,
00:20:56.740 I think it ends one way, eventually. And I think we would get to the point where the protesters say,
00:21:04.960 well, there's a one in 10 chance that if I go out and protest, I could get slaughtered.
00:21:11.200 At what point is that risk too high? You know, would the protesters who are protesting,
00:21:17.160 if it was a 1% chance that they would get hurt, probably, probably they'd keep protesting.
00:21:23.520 If there's a 10% chance they'd go to jail, yeah, maybe they'd keep protesting. But suppose
00:21:30.740 there were, suppose they thought there was a 10% chance of all of them and all their friends
00:21:35.400 being slaughtered. And even if they had the odds wrong, maybe just because they saw a news
00:21:42.380 event, in their mind the odds of it happening again would be much harder. That's what happens
00:21:47.540 with terrorism, right? If there's one terrorist act, it's all you can think about. So in your
00:21:53.240 mind, it's like it's happening every day, even if it just happened once. So if you're worried about
00:21:59.780 where the protests go, and you're worried about the fact that law enforcement appears to have
00:22:04.020 not the power or the support from above to stop it, you'd have to ask yourself, where does it stop?
00:22:11.040 And the obvious answer is if the government doesn't stop it, the citizens will. Would you agree that
00:22:19.560 that statement is just a hard fact? If the government is unwilling or unable to stop the protests from,
00:22:27.800 you know, growing out of their contained areas there, wouldn't it be fair to say that the citizens
00:22:33.360 will? I don't see that there's any other way that goes. I would also like to state for the record
00:22:42.360 that should I ever be chosen for jury duty, I don't have any intention of seeking justice.
00:22:52.140 Not even a slight intention. Because if I find that there's a, you know, some Antifa person who
00:22:58.900 shined a light into a police officer's eyes and blinded him, well, if that police officer killed
00:23:06.240 that guy with the laser, not guilty. I don't even need to hear the evidence. If a police officer
00:23:13.540 takes out an Antifa person, put me on the jury. I don't even need to hear the details.
00:23:20.920 All right. So that's where I stand on that. In your two worlds, two movies on one screen,
00:23:30.720 do you notice that CNN and the Trump-hating media, they only report which states are getting worse?
00:23:38.520 But if you go over to, you know, some conservative media, they're more likely to tell you that most
00:23:45.320 of the states are improving, which is what Trump will say. So it's something like, well, 40-some
00:23:51.740 states are getting better, but several states are getting worse. So they can give you whichever view
00:23:58.240 of reality you want. Things are getting worse, or they're getting better. There's another one.
00:24:03.080 Rasmussen did a poll of likely voters supporting President Trump, and if you ask likely voters,
00:24:09.360 you get a ridiculously, or at least impressively, high number of black voters who support the
00:24:18.180 president, support him in terms of doing a good job. Now, that's likely voters. So what does ABC poll do?
00:24:26.660 Do they poll likely voters to see if they can get a number similar to Rasmussen? No. They poll all
00:24:33.960 citizens. So they talk to people whether they vote or not. And so you get a completely different
00:24:41.180 idea of, you know, what the public thinks of the vice president pick. So we don't have anything like
00:24:50.740 news anymore. And I was thinking, I would think that the best news channel, if you could say that,
00:24:56.960 would be if there's a Twitter feed, and maybe somebody could start this, one Twitter account
00:25:03.180 that would do nothing but take other Twitter journalists and combine them so that you had
00:25:10.440 something like a coherent news source. Now, right now, that's all over Twitter. And if you're
00:25:15.940 clever, you found most of them. And, you know, you're following Andy No and, you know, stuff like
00:25:21.520 that. But what if you didn't know where to find all that stuff? Wouldn't it be nice if somebody
00:25:27.520 just had a Twitter feed that takes only the news from independence and puts it together?
00:25:35.720 That might be the only way we can get past the fake news on TV, the CNN types.
00:25:44.280 So one of the things that I'm finding really interesting is this schooling situation. And
00:25:50.900 the coronavirus is obviously making a huge impact on homeschooling. So apparently the number
00:25:57.320 of homeschool applications that people have asked to have permission to homeschool. And
00:26:03.300 let's just stop right there. Permission? Permission to teach your own kids? What? Why do you need
00:26:13.180 permission to educate your own children with your own resources better than the government can
00:26:20.000 do it? You need permission for that? We live in a free country and you need permission
00:26:26.400 to teach your own kids? There's something deeply wrong with that. Now, I get the fact that we should
00:26:33.060 have universal education. But that has more to do with the fact that, you know, we're forcing kids to
00:26:40.200 have some kind of school. But if somebody can do it better and you won't let them. So the school
00:26:45.940 unions, the teachers unions, I mean, the teachers unions are the ones who are behind the limits on
00:26:52.400 how many homeschoolers can be in a school district. And they're keeping that cap. During a pandemic,
00:27:00.040 during a pandemic, an emergency when the kids' health and mental well-being are completely on the line.
00:27:09.040 I mean, we're talking about kids dying if they don't have, you know, better structure. And the
00:27:14.300 teachers unions, pure evil, and the source of all systemic racism, or at least all that matters in
00:27:21.380 the current era. Now, I won't say all that matters. They're the biggest source of systemic racism.
00:27:28.340 Let's say 90%. And they're stopping the only thing that can make things better for some people.
00:27:35.340 And the reason is that other people don't have those advantages. Now, do you want to live in a world
00:27:41.920 where you can't do what's good for your kids because somebody else that you don't know can't do
00:27:48.560 something good for their kids? Is that a reason not to protect your own kids? Well, I think we're
00:27:54.320 talking about Civil War IV. Here's what I think is going to happen. I think there are enough people
00:28:02.100 who want to homeschool that they can't all be arrested. So I think that there's going to be a school
00:28:09.180 revolution, meaning that there will be enough conservatives and people who just want to get
00:28:14.520 out of the school system. I think there will be enough that they'll just do it. Because you can't
00:28:19.720 be stopped from just doing it if there are enough of you. If there's a small number of you, then the
00:28:25.100 police can arrest you for not sending your kid to a proper school, I suppose. But if there's enough
00:28:31.480 of you, it's a non-issue. You just have to have enough people to say, um, let me explain this to
00:28:38.220 you. It's a pandemic. I'm not sending my kids to the pandemic. I am going to educate them at home.
00:28:46.480 If you come and try to stop it, I'm armed. Right? Because the homeschoolers are mostly armed.
00:28:56.720 Now, I don't think you should use your arms if the police come to your house. Of course, that would be
00:29:00.700 the worst idea that you ever had in your life. But it's certainly going to put a little friction
00:29:06.720 into the idea that there's any kind of law enforcement that can change that situation.
00:29:13.480 So I would say at this point, you should not obey the government on school requirements. Let me say
00:29:21.300 that as clearly as possible. If you're a conservative, you're worried about your kids, and you have the
00:29:26.580 ability to homeschool them in some way, you should not obey the government. Let me say that louder.
00:29:34.240 Do not obey the government on this homeschooling stuff if you can make it work. Do not obey the
00:29:42.000 government. If there's a law, break it. Break it. Now, typically, I would not encourage anybody to break
00:29:49.120 law. But there are laws that are unjust. And a law telling you you can't educate your kid because
00:29:57.320 a stranger can't educate his is an unjust law. You have a patriotic responsibility to disobey an unjust
00:30:07.860 law. It's not just an option. It's your responsibility to disobey laws that stop you from educating your own
00:30:18.040 child, period. You have a responsibility to disobey that law. Now, not all of you think it's a good
00:30:25.060 idea. I don't have the resources, etc. But if you're in that situation, boy, do you have, let me just say
00:30:33.620 you've got at least 30% of the country has your back. And when I say has your back, I mean has your back
00:30:39.180 with weapons. You know, I'm talking about something that's so important that armed America isn't going
00:30:47.260 to take isn't going to take it anymore. So I don't think we're at the point where this is a conversation
00:30:54.360 anymore. If you can homeschool your kids, do it. Please, please do it. If for only if if the only reason
00:31:03.300 is it, you know, takes power from these school, the teachers unions who are evil, by the way, not the
00:31:10.960 teachers. I'm still getting people who are saying, Scott, why are you saying teachers are bad? I've never
00:31:16.780 once said that. I've never once said anything bad about teachers, only the union. All right, it's a
00:31:24.380 whole different entity. It's not teachers. It's the union. So it's only the union that I target
00:31:30.840 for destruction. So homeschoolers, the revolution is on. You have my full backing, and I don't see
00:31:39.700 anything that can stop you. Certainly not the law. Because you're watching people looting freaking
00:31:45.240 stores and not getting in trouble. All right. If people are looting stores, getting caught, and then
00:31:53.000 basically released, you can homeschool your kid if you want to. All right. We no longer live in the
00:32:01.620 world where the government can stop you from doing that. There are too many of you. It's it's too
00:32:07.300 obviously the right thing to do. Just go ahead and do it. That's what I say. All right.
00:32:14.980 All right. You saw some stories that said the administration and the FDA have approved some
00:32:23.100 rapid testing technologies. Some people said to me, hey, maybe they're listening to you about this
00:32:30.600 test strip stuff. But that's a whole different thing. The thing that the FDA has approved is a
00:32:37.500 two-day test. You mail it away. There's some kind of device involved. It's faster and better and maybe
00:32:44.200 cheaper. But it's not anywhere close to the idea that is on the table, which could be called more
00:32:52.800 of a screening test. So rather than saying it's more or less sensitive or more or less accurate,
00:32:58.840 those words don't kind of tell the story. The one dollar or so paper strips that you just test at
00:33:07.060 home because you just use your saliva and it changes color in a few minutes. So that test exists,
00:33:12.720 right? There's nothing about the technology of creating these that's hard. And for rapid screening
00:33:18.440 of everybody all the time, it would work really well, even if it missed some people with infections.
00:33:25.600 It's okay. You can miss some people with infections if you're testing everybody every day. And it's so
00:33:31.740 cheap that you can do that. You can still get the virus under control with less than perfect
00:33:37.840 test specificity or test accuracy. Every one of those words is wrong, by the way, because they all
00:33:48.540 have their own little flavor. But you know what I'm talking about. So the administration has not
00:33:53.740 responded to or approved the one of the ideas that has the most promise to get the virus under
00:34:03.660 control. So if you're saying to yourself, is the administration doing a good job or a bad job?
00:34:09.480 I think you can look at this. And this would be a case where if they don't at least respond to the
00:34:16.420 public and say, yeah, we did look into this and it won't work. Here's our reasons. You might agree,
00:34:23.120 you might disagree. But I would say that would be responsible, you know, country management.
00:34:27.980 If you don't hear why the most promising technology that we have to really make a
00:34:34.640 difference, if you don't even hear why it's being blocked by the FDA, there's just no
00:34:40.420 communication, then that is your government just not doing its job. So those I've been arguing with
00:34:46.920 people that you can't tell if a leader is doing the right thing or the wrong thing, because everybody
00:34:52.380 was guessing, first of all. So if somebody guessed right, they're not the good leader. They're just
00:34:57.940 the ones who guessed right. Somebody was going to guess right. Somebody was going to get a better
00:35:02.700 result than somebody else. And then after the fact, you say, oh, they were the smart ones. No,
00:35:07.920 everybody was guessing. But that said, if you don't have good communication with your country,
00:35:17.900 your voters, then you can say, yeah, that's not good management. And this is a case where, in my
00:35:24.620 opinion, the administration is failing and pretty hard. Failing at maybe what could be, in fact, the top
00:35:32.820 priority. So if you're not hearing some communication about what could be the most important thing,
00:35:40.260 then you can't say that that's a good job. All right. So they may be still mulling it or researching it.
00:35:47.320 But if you don't hear something yes or no from your government, that's just not a good job. Sorry.
00:35:55.120 There's an anonymous report, Politico reported, and Business Insider picked it up as a story,
00:36:02.900 that allegedly Obama told another Democrat during the 2020 primary campaign,
00:36:08.720 quote, don't underestimate Joe's ability to F things up.
00:36:15.100 Now, if this anonymous report was about President Trump, and it had been whatever, he had said
00:36:23.220 something, wouldn't you think it was not true? Right? If you heard this about Trump, you'd say,
00:36:29.740 yeah, that didn't happen. Anonymous person, there's always an anonymous person, isn't there?
00:36:35.200 But because we have this gel man amnesia, we look at this Obama story, and we think,
00:36:42.020 oh, that probably happened. Yeah, that probably happened. I don't know if this happened or not,
00:36:48.300 but it plays a little bit into your bias, doesn't it? Doesn't it feel a little bit too on the nose,
00:36:55.640 if you know what I mean? Obama's a pretty cautious guy. Do you think he would have said to somebody
00:37:00.660 who could have blabbed it, that he thinks Joe would F things up? Do you think he would have said
00:37:06.920 that to anyone in the political sphere, knowing that everything gets blabbed? Do you think that
00:37:15.100 Obama wanted people to know that he said this about Biden? I'm going to say fake news on this one.
00:37:22.960 I'm going to say fake news on this. Doesn't mean it couldn't have happened. It is within the realm
00:37:29.620 of possibility. It is, however, not in the realm of credibility, meaning it could be true,
00:37:36.640 but by the nature of the way it's reported, you should assume not. You should assume not.
00:37:44.780 It's a fun story, but just put that filter on and say, if they were talking about your guy,
00:37:51.040 you know, somebody on your team, you wouldn't believe this was true. You probably wouldn't.
00:37:57.120 All right. All right. I need a ruling on this. There's a new form of discrimination that popped
00:38:04.880 up, which I believe is far worse than whatever we had before. So one of the unintended consequences
00:38:13.540 of the Black Lives Matter and the protesters is this. It is one thing to have a difference of
00:38:20.080 political opinion. And in the history of the United States, that hasn't made too much difference in
00:38:25.880 your hiring decisions. I don't, I've never heard of anybody in my whole life who made a hiring
00:38:32.080 decision, you know, plus or minus, uh, based on somebody's political leanings. Never heard it.
00:38:38.420 Not even one time in my whole life. I'm sure it's happened. You know, it's a big country. I'm sure
00:38:43.600 it's happened, but I've never heard of it. So it's, it's not like the most common thing,
00:38:47.260 but what about now? What about now? Suppose somebody came into your office and you're a
00:38:55.920 conservative and you're just hiring somebody and resume looks good and the person comes in
00:39:01.440 and somehow you learned that they were part of the protests or they're, they belong to Black Lives
00:39:08.200 Matter. And let's say you're a white conservative and let's say you're male just to make it extra
00:39:13.060 hard. Uh, what would you think about what the applicant thinks of you? Now I'm not talking
00:39:22.040 about what you think of the applicant. So you might say to yourself, you know, freedom of speech.
00:39:27.060 I'm completely happy that you protested. And in fact, I, I agree with your message. Black Lives Matter
00:39:33.900 totally need to make sure that police are doing their job. So you can be a conservative that even
00:39:39.840 completely agrees philosophically with, with the approach, but you know, maybe not the technique
00:39:46.140 and still wouldn't you have to worry a little bit that although you feel okay about the applicant
00:39:55.020 that the applicant probably hates your guts and would look for any excuse to take you down
00:40:02.160 because you're part of systemic racism. Wouldn't you feel that? Would you not feel that your applicant
00:40:10.680 hates you? Now that's never been the case before. I can't think of it like, is there any time in
00:40:18.380 history, let's say in my life, if I were to interview a black candidate for a job, which of course I have,
00:40:26.580 everybody has, if you've done a hiring. And not once have I ever thought that even though I know
00:40:35.200 we live in a, you know, a racially sensitive world, and even though I know, you know, black citizens on
00:40:41.220 average might have a little bit of a bad feeling about white citizens on average, I can't think of
00:40:47.140 any time in the past that would have mattered to me. Like, because it just, it would have been sort of
00:40:53.180 low-grade, you know, I just have these feelings, but everybody's got a little bias. You can't really
00:40:59.680 hire people who don't have a little bias. No big deal. You just deal with it, right? But today,
00:41:07.180 today, if you hired, given our hyper-partisan situation, if you hired somebody today, and you
00:41:16.000 were, let's say, a white male conservative, and you hired a young female black activist who was in
00:41:23.660 Black Lives Matter, what would you think that person thinks of you? And what would be your risk?
00:41:31.260 Would you be at greater risk of being attacked, meaning legally after, you know, if something goes
00:41:37.060 wrong, are you going to get sued? And I would think that in our current environment, we've
00:41:43.840 accidentally created a whole new kind of discrimination, which is weirdly legal, completely
00:41:52.200 legal. You could actually not hire somebody, not because they're black, like it wouldn't even be
00:41:58.460 racial, because you would say the same thing about, let's say, the white protesters. You just say,
00:42:03.560 I just can't hire anybody who was part of that complaining. You know, in other words, the complaint
00:42:11.720 is that they're complainers about something that you, maybe you don't think they should
00:42:16.780 be complaining about, hypothetically. I don't know. It's a dangerous situation. Political
00:42:25.540 discrimination is legal, I believe. It is completely legal to discriminate on political belief. I
00:42:33.180 believe. I think that's legal. I was told by somebody who knows more than I do that very
00:42:39.780 thing. You're probably already at risk of being sued if you don't hire the person. Well,
00:42:50.260 no, that's not true, because you could find somebody who, well, yeah, I suppose you're
00:42:57.000 always at risk. You're right. You're always at risk. Somebody says you'd be hiring a walking
00:43:02.800 lawsuit. That's what it feels like, even if that's not true. So that's what discrimination
00:43:09.280 is. All right. So everybody wants me to talk about Millie Weaver's film Shadowgate, which
00:43:18.400 is now available on YouTube, somebody says. Let me tell you that during the course of my
00:43:26.800 day, lots of people send me videos that they think I'm interested in. I don't watch most of
00:43:33.260 them. So sending me a link to a video without a summary of why I should watch it, that will
00:43:40.460 kind of never get me to watch it. But if you send me a link and say, this person made this
00:43:46.060 claim, I might think, oh, I'd like to see about that. But if you just send me a link
00:43:50.920 and say, what do you think about it? I'm not going to watch that. Because the context is
00:43:55.560 lots of people are doing that all day long. I'm just getting links all day long. Watch this
00:44:00.200 video. Watch this video. I'm not going to watch any of them. None of them. But if you
00:44:04.200 summarize it, you might get my attention. Then I might watch it. All right. Yeah. So here
00:44:12.720 in California, we've got lightning, rain, power outages, firenados, homelessness, drug overdoses,
00:44:22.100 crumbling economy. And somebody is floating the idea of a wealth tax for Californians. Now,
00:44:30.440 if you don't think a wealth tax will empty the state, you don't know this state. There's a lot
00:44:36.440 of people with wealth who have one foot out the door. And a wealth tax, that would just be the end
00:44:42.080 of it. That would be two feet out the door. All right. All right. I'm about done with everything
00:44:54.300 I have to say. And I will talk to you tomorrow.