Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1104 Scott Adams： RNC Report Card, Wisconsin Trouble and More

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00:00:53.580 yeah i can feel biden's poll numbers falling

00:01:02.660 we took one sip well there's a lot of stuff going on let's jump right into it are you ready

00:01:10.320 yeah we'll talk about wisconsin in a moment we'll let a few more people get in here one thing i didn't

00:01:17.140 see coming is that the government the trump administration has declared the fentanyl dealer

00:01:24.760 in china the big fentanyl dealer whose name we know weirdly we know who he is he's the big fentanyl

00:01:31.760 dealer who sends the fentanyl to the united states and kills our citizens and they've designated it a

00:01:37.620 foreign national what is the word a foreign national no foreign narcotics kingpin designation

00:01:44.480 which allows them to sanction anything that this guy's attached to

00:01:49.300 so this guy's other entities will be starting to get squeezed at this point good keep the pressure on

00:01:57.520 so the big news of course uh there's a tragic shooting in kenosha wisconsin uh you've probably

00:02:08.040 caught the news by now but a uh young man was he 18 years old was allegedly part of uh the boogaloo

00:02:16.960 boys or maybe not or maybe he was just there as a local protecting businesses from looters

00:02:22.640 it's all fog of war right now so i think we should hold off on who he was and why he was there

00:02:28.960 but of course social media has decided he's a white supremacist is he a white supremacist

00:02:35.680 uh so far those claims have come with no evidence of such a thing anything's possible but remember

00:02:44.580 nick sandman if you're going to call this guy a white supremacist you better come with some evidence

00:02:50.960 because i think nick sandman showed that it's a bad idea to start labeling people based on your

00:02:57.720 first impression so uh i think i've been telling you for some time that the obvious way that these

00:03:05.580 protests slash riots slash looting episodes were going to go is there was only one way this was going

00:03:12.580 to go under the assumption that the police would not get more aggressive which seemed likely

00:03:18.980 and that the local uh government would not let the federal government come in and

00:03:25.840 uh take care of the uh the the violent stuff so given that there was going to be no adult

00:03:32.640 supervision and that was intentional that the the local the local leadership decided to not have

00:03:41.420 uh any kind of adult leadership during the protests slash riots slash looting

00:03:48.820 so it was obvious that the locals would end up arming themselves because what else would happen

00:03:55.720 i mean really can you think of any other outcome it's it's obvious that this had to happen

00:04:02.120 but what's more obvious is that this is the beginning not the you know not the the one off

00:04:08.060 it's pretty obvious that more militia are gonna and maybe just more citizens are going to bring

00:04:16.060 heavier arms heavier meaning more than a pistol and they're going to start showing up

00:04:22.800 now how often will this turn into an event like this more there will be more of it and unfortunately

00:04:31.160 there's probably no other way it's going to stop now you could get the worst case scenario which is

00:04:37.800 that the protesters also arm now if the protesters arm and obviously some of them or a lot of them

00:04:44.860 actually are armed but so far they haven't they haven't uh you know started using it in terms of the

00:04:51.900 as a protest so you might see a whole different level in coming nights of who's armed and who's willing

00:04:58.660 to use those arms but ultimately this is the way it had to go so i feel bad for anybody who gets hurt

00:05:06.300 i don't encourage any violence against anybody but as a prediction there's only one way this can go

00:05:14.260 and it won't go forever it will end with more of this uh the only other way we could get an off ramp

00:05:23.780 is if this or maybe there's some you know violence after this that's sort of a copycat

00:05:29.660 usually you could count on the copycat stuff so the it's an easy prediction that there'll be more

00:05:36.420 more that looks a lot like last night with the uh so there was a young white guy unfortunately it

00:05:44.760 matters that he's white because that's the state of things uh shot three people i think two of them 0.67

00:05:51.020 may have passed and he may have been there to protect against looting it looks like there's a

00:05:58.860 video of the police being friendly with him and actually thanking him for his help so i think the

00:06:04.160 police believed he was there just as an armed an armed i don't know citizen and as long as he wasn't

00:06:12.160 pointing his gun at people i guess the police were okay with that uh i don't think they're okay now

00:06:18.140 somebody says one died so remember it's fog of war everything you hear about this is going to be

00:06:25.340 um unlikely to be true so wait you know wait at least 48 hours before you you're sure of anything

00:06:33.020 that happened out of this event so i think that there is now uh a an exit meaning that uh you can now

00:06:44.080 see where the end of it is which is it's going to be more of this and that will in turn cause people

00:06:51.160 to get a little bit more serious about it and either the law enforcement or the federal government

00:06:55.600 will come in and end it or or the the locals will end it it's possible the locals will just do more of

00:07:02.680 this and it'll just become more of a tragedy all right uh let's talk about something else because

00:07:09.340 that's that's pretty pretty dark so there's something that happened at cnn this week and

00:07:15.540 mostly last night and if you didn't catch it it's the most mind-boggling thing you've ever seen in your

00:07:20.900 life cnn has made some kind of an editorial decision to change the way they're framing things

00:07:30.140 somewhat suddenly or it's a coincidence um or or it's temporary it might be temporary but last night

00:07:40.180 cnn almost became republican and i didn't know what i was seeing that they completely left their

00:07:47.120 their crazy frame of everything orange man does is bad and everything everything the left does is good 0.79

00:07:54.060 they pretty much reversed it last night if you watched the coverage cnn was saying in fairly

00:08:01.020 unambiguous language that the rnc night two was really good now a lot of it had to do with the fact

00:08:08.700 that the rnc um very strategically let's say made sure that they hit all the right notes for identity

00:08:18.680 politics so they really did a great job of featuring these successful women in the trump campaign which 0.98

00:08:24.920 is actually a really it's it's a strong spot that they have not really emphasized until now so if you

00:08:31.900 were if you were a cnn viewer or let's say a democrat you you were watching the rnc you probably didn't know

00:08:39.560 what you were seeing because you'd see all these successful black republicans talking about things and

00:08:45.100 you'd say i didn't know there were black republicans uh of course nobody says that exactly but you

00:08:52.460 understand the hyperbole uh just turning it on and watching the republicans create a program

00:08:59.740 that involved lots of republicans deciding what's the best thing to do for republicans and for the

00:09:05.260 country presumably and they decided that the best thing to do was to show lots of support for every

00:09:12.940 disadvantaged group every marginalized group and they put on quite a show and i would say that

00:09:21.020 they basically took all the ammo away from cnn cnn would love to have criticized them for not doing

00:09:28.460 enough for women not highlighting you know black issues but they hit them all and they hit them hard 0.69

00:09:36.620 and uh so even even david axelrod was saying okay you got to give it to him that was a really good

00:09:43.020 production in terms of a political production it was extraordinarily well done so i'd say the rnc

00:09:49.420 has now nailed two in a row like really really well some of the highlights if you didn't watch it nick

00:09:56.780 sandman did his little speech about his situation i thought he did really well i wasn't expecting much

00:10:04.860 just because of his age you know if you see somebody that age and you say okay you're going

00:10:09.820 to be on you know the biggest the biggest stage in the world and we're not going to give you any

00:10:14.700 practice it's just your first day how about giving your first speech ever and it'll be to the entire world

00:10:21.740 and he nailed it if if you didn't watch it he's an impressive kid meaning that uh he's got some game

00:10:29.020 and he actually nailed it now of course the uh the uh the the i guess the punctuation to his little

00:10:37.420 speech was when he put on his baggy hat which was quite a cool moment i gotta say it was a good moment

00:10:45.180 before that uh and uh the president really hit the the uh all the right emotional feels a number of times

00:10:52.540 uh i i caught the uh the show late so i had to catch up on his pardon of uh john ponder so i guess

00:11:03.900 john ponder didn't know that he was there to get pardoned now he was all he's out of prison so the

00:11:10.140 pardon i guess does what does it take away his record i don't know the details of it but he was uh

00:11:16.940 john ponder had been convicted at one point and now he had he'd been active in the community helping

00:11:23.740 people who were trying to transition back from prison to life to regular life and apparently he was very

00:11:29.180 successful at it so uh watching him and being best friends with the police officer that is just a plus

00:11:38.300 imagery i mean the there was a lot of genius in that production this is not normal if if you really

00:11:46.620 studied how well the rnc pulled this together the first two nights it's extraordinary it's this is

00:11:54.380 not normal work you're seeing the best of the best in very short time pull together something that's

00:12:00.540 really impressive and uh to create that moment where john ponder found out on on film i don't know if

00:12:09.020 it was live or it was on film probably live but uh but watching his expression as he found out that

00:12:18.140 he was there to get pardoned was extraordinary uh you have to watch it it's totally worth watching

00:12:24.140 the clip just to watch that moment i didn't think it would be as powerful as it was but it's really

00:12:28.300 powerful um then uh some other stars i guess it's david cameron the african-american attorney general of

00:12:37.660 kentucky uh as even i think even cnn called it his star turn and i'm thinking what am i watching

00:12:46.940 they actually gave him a full just an a plus what he's a republican and cnn just said a plus and i'm

00:12:57.020 waiting for the and and he killed the baby you know and he murdered a person nothing just a plus

00:13:07.660 star turn he might be like a rising star black man in the uh and in the republican party and he

00:13:15.740 wasn't the only one uh people were also talking about tim scott as being you know maybe auditioning

00:13:21.900 for 2024 to run for president as republican another african-american man who's clearly in line for

00:13:30.140 a good shot at the presidency as a republican pretty good uh so it would have been hard for

00:13:38.860 cnn to criticize this thing but let me give you some other high points all right now obviously the this

00:13:45.660 convention stuff is all uh it's all tricks right it's all staged theatrical um it's a little bit

00:13:54.220 heavy-handed as in hey look at our you know black people who are doing well look at our women who

00:14:00.780 are doing well and yeah excuse me i'll be right back

00:14:15.340 i'll sign it for you but i'm i'm live to the world right now

00:14:33.900 so i have to take a little take care of a little business

00:14:35.980 and i'll get right back to you hold on a second here just hold on a second

00:14:46.940 all right thanks all right i'm back um

00:14:54.380 so what was i talking about uh

00:14:59.340 so anyway uh cnn loved this thing here's it was my favorite part now if you're looking for how well it

00:15:05.660 was produced there are moments um i was talking about tim scott so the republican party showed

00:15:15.020 legitimately at least two uh black men in the republican party who you would say you look at

00:15:21.820 them for five minutes and you say yeah i could see them as president i could totally see them as president

00:15:27.820 that's very powerful yeah bett middler somebody says bett middler she was freaking out and said bad

00:15:34.220 things about melania all right let's talk about melania um cnn was

00:15:41.820 praising her republicans are praising her uh one of the most successful speeches

00:15:49.420 you're ever going to see um i think president trump is really happy about her today and if he's not

00:15:57.660 he needs to he needs to he needs to be because she nailed it now there's something about melania that 0.99

00:16:04.220 um is you know different different than any politician because she's mostly about bringing 1.00

00:16:08.940 the empathy and the caring and stuff and because she did a good job on the empathy and caring part

00:16:15.260 that does um that does sort of cross over to her husband in other words uh you have a hard time

00:16:23.420 imagining that first of all melania seems totally genuine you know all of the the caring and the

00:16:30.300 empathy for melania i think everybody agrees that's real you know nobody thinks that's not real

00:16:36.940 and and then you say to yourself well she married this guy who we don't think is so empathetic right

00:16:45.100 but maybe he is because it certainly it certainly confuses things doesn't it

00:16:52.300 so i think that she did a great job of humanizing the president and showing that you know at least his

00:16:59.340 his team has empathy and one assumes that he's got some of that too just by association but here's my

00:17:06.300 favorite part uh if you saw the beginning part where she um did the long tracking walk 0.99

00:17:13.020 uh on the way to the podium that was genius and here's why it's genius most people can't walk

00:17:23.500 and by that i mean could you imagine anybody else who they would give a long tracking shot to so you

00:17:29.740 see them walking toward the camera but for a long ways it wasn't just like you know here's a shot and then

00:17:35.820 cut away they made a deal of showing her as a tiny you know a tiny distant figure and then walking toward 0.92

00:17:42.540 the camera and what was genius about this is you could you could pick a thousand people who couldn't

00:17:50.220 walk the way she walks because she's a trained model so when she walks it's literally professional

00:17:59.340 walking i don't know if i don't know if you were like catching it at the time but whoever had the

00:18:05.500 genius to catch the professional walking before she actually did the speech that's that's beyond 1.00

00:18:14.140 good work that's like next level stuff because not only did it give you a sense of distance because

00:18:21.340 this is the other thing you did if you're watching these televised things without audiences or without

00:18:26.380 much of an audience they can look flat but think of the dimensionality you've got when they did this

00:18:32.700 long shot down the the sidewalk you saw a tiny melania who let's be honest the audience was waiting 0.99

00:18:40.060 for her right she was you knew she was going to be one of the highlights and people were interested

00:18:46.540 because even if they didn't like the president they kind of never interested in melania she's just 1.00

00:18:52.140 interesting in a lot of different ways so to to have that you know just beautiful walk-up introduction

00:19:00.140 give give give some depth to the viewer uh it was just smart just smart

00:19:08.380 yeah and of course you know everybody will talk about her outfit and uh all that so it gives them

00:19:12.860 lots to talk about that's not not too serious and maybe we needed that uh so the the critics were

00:19:19.580 completely out of ammo and they were they're starting to complain about the hatch act which says you can't

00:19:27.340 use the white house or i don't know maybe it's maybe it's all federal property i'm not sure but

00:19:32.380 she can't use the white house for political stuff unless you're the president now of course the 1.00

00:19:37.660 president can do it which makes sense it's not like anybody knows he's not the president so why not do it

00:19:43.100 there but are you going to apply that to melania i don't know if the hatch act applies to her as first 0.92

00:19:50.300 lady she's not elected so maybe she's exempt but they tried to say i was watching joy reed i think

00:19:57.260 say that uh chad wolf uh who is what is he he's he did the immigration uh ceremony thing they're saying

00:20:07.980 that the hatch act was violated because he did his little thing swearing in citizens and i'm thinking

00:20:14.140 oh my god trump did it again he lured them into criticizing the most unimportant thing there were

00:20:22.300 that happened in the entire country there is nothing less important nothing if you made the

00:20:29.740 longest list you could of the problems the united states you would be down to like problem number ten

00:20:36.140 thousand before the problem of chad wolf talked for 60 seconds in a building he wasn't supposed to be

00:20:44.060 in while he was standing next to the president who is completely allowed to do a political act

00:20:51.260 now is it a political act that he swore in um five or six uh new citizens i don't know is that a

00:21:00.780 political act would you consider it a political act per se to see somebody sworn in as a citizen

00:21:08.220 i don't know if you're going to make a complaint about that that is the smallest smallest little

00:21:16.300 pico problem in the united states yeah technically is is joy reed technically right i don't know do you

00:21:24.700 care do you care no so trump once again tricked them into talking about the only thing no audience cares

00:21:34.780 about that even even msnbc was probably saying uh seriously really you're completely out of ammo

00:21:44.620 so your complaint was that chad wolf did his job because i think swearing in people's probably in in the

00:21:53.580 domain of his job uh that's pretty small complaint so you're doing great but let's talk about the

00:22:01.180 you swearing in as uh as anderson cooper noted and it was a great moment of cnn tv i i hope you saw it

00:22:10.140 live because anderson cooper said that watching the president's wearing these uh these new citizens

00:22:17.740 who had come from a variety of countries that anderson cooper actually went there and he said it looks like

00:22:24.780 they were selected to be from the quote shithole countries and i thought to myself did you really 1.00

00:22:31.660 say that did you really say that these people you know even though he's obviously trying to quote

00:22:39.180 president trump from long ago are you really you really tying these these six people who just want to be

00:22:45.660 citizens they just they just want to be good people be good to the kids have good families contribute to

00:22:53.100 our country they just they just want to be citizens and anderson cooper drags them into this

00:23:00.860 shithole country conversation you know i will admit that the president probably was trying to counter

00:23:08.460 you know that story and that's that seems somewhat obvious but here's the fun part and then

00:23:14.300 anderson cooper says it seemed i don't know what word to use jarring or discordant were two of the

00:23:19.660 words that i heard last night it seemed jarring because on one hand the president had said a bad

00:23:24.940 thing about the countries that i don't know if any of them were from those countries which is part of

00:23:30.220 what's bad about what anderson said but he said it was jarring that the president would say bad things

00:23:37.420 about it and then he would act so nice to people from you know at least countries in

00:23:43.100 that class if you will of not the not the superpowers and i thought to myself anderson cooper why is this

00:23:53.260 jarring to you was he unaware that the president is my microphone not good is is the president unaware

00:24:04.060 or i'm sorry is anderson cooper unaware that the president has always been 100 percent in turn in

00:24:13.180 favor of legal immigration is it the first time cnn is finding out that the president of the united

00:24:21.340 states favors legal immigration because i don't think there was any discord there i don't think there was

00:24:30.300 anything that was in conflict there and the fact that he thought so was just mind-blowing because

00:24:36.460 only cnn and you know the fake news made a fake story out of this and so his own fake story wasn't

00:24:44.940 matching with his own observation and he was trying to understand why his own fake news didn't match his

00:24:50.540 observation on live tv it was a great moment you know it was a small movement but it was great

00:24:57.500 all right um one of the best lines of the night that made me just go what was uh david cameron the ag

00:25:09.820 from kentucky who referred to biden as a backwards thinker that's really good i don't know if anybody

00:25:18.060 helps him with his speeches you assume that anybody who gives a speech at the at the at a big convention

00:25:23.660 probably has professionals who are are helping with the uh with everything so it might have been

00:25:31.100 a professional who helped him with that but that's a great great line against biden a backwards thinker

00:25:36.620 as opposed to someone who's focused on the future that was good stuff um let me just say about the

00:25:42.700 naturalization ceremony um i am very cynical and jaded and you know all those things as many of you are

00:25:53.260 but there's one thing that gets me every time i cannot watch um people swearing in to become

00:26:01.500 new members of the united states you know new citizens i can't watch that ceremony without just crying

00:26:07.820 every time it doesn't matter last night yes but i've seen you know other videos i've seen videos of

00:26:14.060 people i know who are going through that process and i gotta say if let me put it this way

00:26:19.500 if a revolution happened tomorrow and you wanted to and let's say something happened that burned all

00:26:28.780 of the books and something destroyed the internet so we lost all of our records of civilization we lost

00:26:37.100 you know all of our structure the government was overthrown and we lost everything and you wanted to build it

00:26:43.500 back what would be the the one thing you'd need to retain to be able to build it back the only thing

00:26:52.940 that everything else could be built back if you just kept that one thing and that's what you saw with

00:26:59.020 that naturalization um ceremony that that's the thing the fact that that could happen that those 0.53

00:27:10.620 people those excellent citizens would come to this country and would buy into not just you know the real

00:27:21.340 estate you know they weren't saying we came to the united states because it has good real estate they weren't

00:27:26.380 saying that they were buying into the the idea so here's the thing no matter how bad things are

00:27:38.220 no matter riots in the street no matter fake news no matter wars no matter coronavirus

00:27:47.260 no matter unemployment no matter bad words on the internet as long as long as that one thing

00:27:59.580 works as long as we keep that one thing we can get back everything else

00:28:07.020 so um so i'm a big baby and i have to admit um that that touched me

00:28:21.900 so um

00:28:28.620 this one funny thing uh yesterday i was joking i have to say something funny because i have to get

00:28:33.260 in a different mood here for a moment um i was i was uh telling you about all the weird coincidences

00:28:40.300 between the biden campaign and satanism now i'm not a believer so i don't believe there's a real satan

00:28:46.700 but it is humorous how many coincidences there are that you could find let's call it confirmation bias

00:28:52.620 but there are lots of coincidences you can find once you're looking for them which is really

00:28:57.820 the lesson in this is that once you're looking for them they're everywhere and after i did that

00:29:02.540 somebody told me that kamala harris's middle name wait for this wait for this you you're going to be 0.99

00:29:09.580 glad you heard this you ready kamala harris's middle name is devi d-e-v-i the only thing that's missing

00:29:22.620 to turn her middle name into literally devil is an l and you know what's funny about that

00:29:31.420 oh that's funny already but you know what's really funny about that kamala harris the only thing she 1.00

00:29:37.420 needs is an l and trump's going to give it to her she's going to get the l she's not going to get the w

00:29:47.820 so did the did the simulation just serve up to us her middle name is devi and all she needs is an l

00:29:56.220 and trump's going to give her the l i mean come on is any of this real is this a real world it

00:30:04.220 couldn't possibly be this is so obviously scripted at this point you couldn't possibly believe this

00:30:09.820 is anything but a simulation all right here's my prediction are you ready i understand that uh trump

00:30:19.260 not only or i'm sorry that uh when biden did his uh convention thing there biden got no bounce

00:30:27.340 there was no biden bounce apparently if you live in the basement you don't get much of a bounce

00:30:32.700 do you think there'll be a bounce from the rnc oh yeah oh yeah just just wait for the next poll

00:30:44.140 now i don't want to say that i'm psychic because that's not what's happening in this particular case

00:30:50.300 but you might get some laughs when you see the next poll

00:30:57.500 all right somebody's telling me that kamala means different things uh that means horrible and finish

00:31:05.100 and and somebody said that lucifer means uh the bringer of light which is literally what biden is

00:31:11.500 claiming biden says he'll bring us light somebody said that that's what lucifer means actually the bringer

00:31:18.460 of light i don't know if that's true but somebody said it all right come on man uh i'm gonna eat my

00:31:25.500 breakfast that's all for now and i'll talk to you tomorrow

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 26, 2020

Episode 1104 Scott Adams： RNC Report Card, Wisconsin Trouble and More

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