Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1107 Scott Adams： Fake Polls, How to Create Fake News Using the ＂HOAX Edit＂ Technique, Coup Two Progress

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00:01:24.020 I can feel the fatality rate dropping even as the coronavirus increases. Coffee, what can't it do?

00:01:34.020 Somebody sent me this mug in the mail. It didn't have a name on it. There will be cursing. There

00:01:40.560 will probably not be cursing today. I try to warn you when it's going to happen. Sometimes I can't

00:01:47.660 always control it. Sometimes it just comes out. Well, I'm having a terrific time watching the

00:01:55.240 Rasmussen Reports dunking on its competition. And it's pretty funny if you're not following them.

00:02:02.460 So you should follow the Twitter account of Rasmussen Reports. And it's pretty hilarious what they do to

00:02:09.280 their competitors. So wouldn't you expect this, since everybody knows there's going to be a bounce

00:02:15.820 after a convention, that as soon as the convention is done, you'd have lots of polls. Because there

00:02:23.480 are lots of polling places, so you'd sort of expect, given that everybody would be hyper-interested in

00:02:31.200 polling immediately after a convention, so there would be a lot of polls, wouldn't there?

00:02:36.900 But as Rasmussen points out, there are a few that haven't weighed in. And it's been quite a while.

00:02:45.300 Among the ones that haven't weighed in are, let's see, as of the 28th anyway, Fox News, CNN, ABC,

00:02:53.180 Washington Post, NBC, Wall Street Journal, NPR, Marist, New York Times, Siena, USA Today, Suffolk,

00:02:59.620 Monmouth, and Quinnipiac. Huh. And as Rasmussen points out, there is a big coincidence in how they

00:03:10.360 seem to be the favorite polls by the Democrats. In fact, the very same polls that the Democrats used

00:03:17.200 to determine if somebody had polled well enough to be in a debate. Huh. Isn't that a coincidence?

00:03:24.180 There is a big coronavirus flare-up in Europe. I'm sure you've heard of it, because it's all over

00:03:36.420 the news. If you open up CNN, obviously, and I'll do this right now to demonstrate, I'll go to the CNN

00:03:44.820 homepage, and we'll look for the story about the big flare-up of coronavirus in Europe. Because,

00:03:51.140 you know, I'd heard that Europe was doing really well compared to the United States. So it would be

00:03:57.480 pretty big news if there was a major flare-up in Europe. So I'll go to CNN to check the major news.

00:04:06.720 Okay, it's not the top story, but obviously it's one of the top stories. So I'll just keep reading

00:04:11.660 down. It's not the second or third story. Huh. It's actually not on their page. But they do have an

00:04:20.380 excellent story about a man who built a bar for the squirrels in his backyard. It's a nut bar.

00:04:28.980 And it's not, as some would say, it's not the biggest story in the news, but it was good enough

00:04:35.580 to make the homepage of CNN. So yeah, there's a man who built a nut bar that dispenses nuts to the

00:04:44.540 squirrels. What about the coronavirus in Europe? Can't be important. I don't know. But I did find

00:04:53.240 an article, not on CNN, that said that there's something curious about this uptick. It turns out

00:05:01.460 that although the number of infections is spiking in some European countries, I think they mentioned

00:05:09.140 Germany, Italy, Spain, France, I think. But they say that the death rate is actually really low

00:05:17.600 relative to the number of people who are getting the coronavirus. Now the speculative reason is that

00:05:26.180 it's young people who are starting to mingle and the young people are getting it and they're less

00:05:31.100 likely to die. So since we've hidden the seniors pretty well, that's the likely explanation is that

00:05:39.800 young people just don't have the same outcomes. Or, or maybe somebody's using hydroxychloroquine

00:05:49.640 that we don't know about. Now I'm not saying they are. I'm not saying they're not. I am saying it's not

00:05:57.800 in the reporting of the story I read. It would just be one of the things I would have checked.

00:06:04.040 Hey, is there any difference in the therapeutics you're using? Just to see. Now I do think the

00:06:10.460 explanation of the young people versus the old people is pretty solid. But is it the whole story?

00:06:17.660 Wouldn't you like to know? Wouldn't you like to know? Uh-oh, what's this?

00:06:27.800 Uh, oh, spam. Nevermind. So, um, I would suggest that one of the possibilities and, uh, there was

00:06:38.760 somebody who recently said to me that, uh, they were worried that, um, well, I don't know, worried,

00:06:45.720 worried might be the wrong word. They were predicting, predicting that Trump probably wouldn't win the

00:06:52.040 election because the coronavirus would be the primary thing that moves any independent voters. 0.96

00:06:57.800 And that would not be looking good. To which I said, November's a long way away. And the most

00:07:07.180 likely outcome is that there'll be flare-ups in these other countries that we thought were the

00:07:12.700 role models of how to do it well. And here it is. It's a flare-up in those other European countries

00:07:19.540 because they're, they're going to, the European countries will be held as the, the most compatible

00:07:25.640 standard to the United States. Because I think people will think, okay, if the, you know, if you're

00:07:32.100 in a, uh, an Asian country and there's a dictator, it's not really as comparable. So that was my

00:07:39.940 prediction that, uh, Europe would add flare-ups. But the other part of the prediction is that the danger

00:07:46.200 from the coronavirus would be much less by November for a variety of different reasons.

00:07:52.780 One of them might be exactly what's happening in Europe, which is maybe we'll have lots of 0.98

00:07:58.400 infections, but not lots of deaths. The president has pointed this out that why is nobody talking

00:08:04.300 about our death rate being so good? And that's a good question. Why are we focusing on the number

00:08:11.020 of infections when we know it's something that, you know, doesn't, doesn't hurt most people who

00:08:17.540 get the infection? But clearly there's some doubts about lingering effects, which we should keep an eye

00:08:23.700 on. Um, but I think that's, we don't know enough about that, but it's certainly dangerous. So I think

00:08:29.780 that the likely outcome is that the president's performance will appear. And again, I always say you

00:08:37.220 can't really compare leaders from one country to another. It's not really a thing because their

00:08:41.440 situations are so different. It's just an apple and an orange. You'll, we will know that some will

00:08:46.540 have better outcomes, but it is not rational to say, therefore the leader, if they had done something

00:08:53.580 differently, you get a different outcome. In most cases that won't be obvious because everybody was

00:08:59.020 guessing in the, in the beginning. All right. So, but I think, uh, we might be in good shape if we

00:09:05.620 follow the same pattern as Europe, even as we get more infections, the death rate will continue to

00:09:11.520 stay down. So as a national problem, still big, but it's going to look a lot smaller. And if the president

00:09:19.760 can say, Hey, we're, I'll just pick a number three weeks away from vaccination, even on election day,

00:09:28.500 even if we don't have a single vaccination on election day, I don't think we will. Um, he's

00:09:34.300 still going to say, look, we're three weeks away and you know, we're on the way. Basically we're on

00:09:39.960 top of this thing. Just give me three weeks. That's pretty strong story. So I think the coronavirus story

00:09:46.600 will be much smaller in people's minds on election day than it is today. That's my prediction.

00:09:54.340 All right. Um, we, and we also don't know about herd immunity, whether this T cell thing is what's

00:10:02.620 going on with the young people might be that as well in the other countries. So it looks like coup

00:10:08.220 number two is on coup two is, you know, the Russia collusion, um, hoax was the first attempted coup to get

00:10:17.780 rid of Trump. Uh, there are still some people who resist that, uh, that narrative, if you will,

00:10:26.120 or that framing. But at this point, it certainly looks like members of the permanent political

00:10:34.200 class, uh, were trying to get rid of the president. And that seems pretty clear at this point. Wouldn't

00:10:40.840 you agree? I guess Democrats wouldn't agree, but it feels clear to me. Now coup two is shaping up this

00:10:47.600 way. And if you have not studied how intelligence agencies influence other countries or even influence

00:10:57.940 your own country, you probably have a, uh, a blank spot in your understanding of the world. So let me

00:11:05.360 fill that in a typical intelligence agency thing would, if you wanted to influence somebody in the long

00:11:12.760 term would be to, let's say, influence movies and television to produce positive or negative portrayals of

00:11:20.780 whatever you would like society to see as in a good way or a bad way. We know that that happens. We know that it

00:11:28.600 works. We know that it's a gigantic thing. Every country that let's say has a dictator will control

00:11:35.840 their media, their movies, et cetera, because it's important. The reason that every dictator, the first

00:11:42.740 thing they do is go to control their own media is because if that media has a life of its own, it becomes

00:11:50.360 the power. You know, the, the leader loses power if the news and we're not the news that's that too.

00:11:58.320 But even if movies and television are sending the wrong message, it's brainwashing the masses in a way

00:12:04.140 that would be cause instability. So knowing that whoever controls the media, and I'm talking about movies and

00:12:12.920 TV and entertainment, et cetera, whoever controls that can control the minds of the public. So far, that's not any

00:12:21.200 conspiracy talk, right? So far, you all understand that that is very science and history driven. There's no

00:12:29.360 hyperbole going on yet. It's a routine thing to influence the media, to influence the minds of the public. And you can, you

00:12:40.100 can see it when it happens once your filter is set. So once you understand that it's a thing, and it's not a

00:12:46.900 minor thing, it's a really, really big, big thing. And it's really powerful. It's not, it's not the thing

00:12:55.660 that's happening over in the weeds while you're watching the important stuff. It's the important stuff,

00:13:02.340 right? The thing you, you maybe were just ignoring is actually the important thing because that's what's

00:13:08.520 making people feel and think the way they feel and think, and therefore they'll vote according to

00:13:14.020 those feelings. So here's some things that are happening in this country right now that fit

00:13:19.860 perfectly into the model of an intelligence agency priming the public for a coup or some kind of a

00:13:29.620 takeover. So you can never know if that's what's happening, meaning you can never know if intentionally

00:13:36.680 people are saying, all right, let's set up a coup and we'll do it this way. These people will do this.

00:13:42.140 These people will do that. That part I would say is without evidence. But if it's really, really,

00:13:49.800 you know, sort of obvious, it's right in front of you and you're primed to recognize it, it's really

00:13:57.720 obvious, for example. And by the way, when I say an intelligence agency might be behind it,

00:14:06.200 I don't mean that necessarily it's a foreign intelligence agency, although it well could be.

00:14:12.160 I don't mean that it's necessarily our own intelligence agencies who, let's say, have a bias

00:14:18.120 and are implementing it. But there are plenty of people who are not, shall we say, on the payroll

00:14:24.600 of any intelligence agencies who are, let's say, intelligence agency adjacent, intelligence agency

00:14:35.420 friendly. All right. So you don't have to be getting a paycheck from an intelligence agency

00:14:41.840 to be part of that construct. And in fact, that's the typical way that things get done.

00:14:47.680 It's a, you know, a sort of a network of a loose network of people who have similar interests,

00:14:55.000 let's say. So here are some things happening in this country. And just ask yourself if this

00:15:02.000 looks a little bit fishy. Number one, these protests slash riots slash looting. Does it seem

00:15:11.180 to you that these are a little bit too persistent? A little bit too organized? Now, I would say that

00:15:18.140 the vast majority of the people who show up probably have good intentions, you know, according to their

00:15:24.600 view of the world. Good intentions in terms of making it a fairer world, good intentions of helping

00:15:30.840 things for black citizens in this country. I'm all for that. I do a lot of work on behalf of black

00:15:37.820 citizens. You don't know it all, you know, because I don't talk about it as much. But I'm all for that.

00:15:44.920 So that's good. And I'm glad that there are people who are willing to, you know, go to the streets to

00:15:50.480 make that case. I think I'm, I'm happy about that, too. But remember when I suggested that,

00:15:59.000 you know, the energy comes out of these things if you just wait? Well, that did work with CHOP slash

00:16:05.440 CHAS. The authorities waited until the energy went down and then they dismantled it. I thought that

00:16:11.260 was the right, exactly the right strategy for that specific situation. But are you surprised

00:16:17.280 at how durable these protests are? It suggests that somebody is getting paid to organize. That

00:16:26.120 doesn't mean it's true, but it strongly suggests there's something non-organic happening because the

00:16:33.240 consistency of it just raises a flag. It looks a little bit like there's money from something,

00:16:41.380 from somebody, someplace that might be propping up the level of energy you're seeing. Sure, it's a,

00:16:49.080 you know, I'll give, I'll give you that it's a divided country. I'll give you that it's an election

00:16:53.840 year. So there was plenty of energy to be had. And that energy was going to go somewhere. But the

00:17:00.740 specific place it's going seems to be the place that you could most effectively hide bad behavior.

00:17:09.160 Let's say if you knew you wanted to send in some people who were going to set things on fire,

00:17:14.120 how would you do it? Well, you'd hide them in a giant crowd of people who have good intentions,

00:17:19.360 who are unwilling to change what they're doing because they're fighting for something important,

00:17:24.680 equality under the law, equality of your life experience, etc. And again, I'm all for that.

00:17:33.360 But it makes it really easy to hide the bad people in the crowd and they become excused because the

00:17:41.060 news will say, but look at all these good people. This is mostly good people. It's a little bit of

00:17:46.560 stuff on fire, but it's mostly good people. So if you were an intelligence organization or you had

00:17:53.980 been trained by one or you were adjacent to them and you knew how they operated, it would be exactly

00:18:01.020 what you would do. You would do it exactly this way. You would organize well-meaning protests and

00:18:07.880 then you would make sure there were some bad elements in there to really mess up the country.

00:18:14.180 And again, I'm not saying that there's evidence that that's happening. I'm saying that once you learn

00:18:19.160 to look for it, you can see the fingerprints, but you'd still have to, you know, you'd have to do a

00:18:24.780 lot of work to know that's what you're seeing and it's not confirmation bias. Have you seen that the

00:18:32.160 fake news media is doing stories about what if Trump doesn't leave office? That's a priming move.

00:18:39.560 And you've seen stories about what would it take in terms of the military removing Trump from office

00:18:47.780 if he lost in a narrow election and refused to leave. That is a priming move. I'm not saying it's coming

00:18:58.220 from an intelligence agency. I'm not saying it's coming from any foreign country, Putin or China. I'm

00:19:05.660 saying that if they wanted to mess with us, it would look exactly like this. It's exactly the way an

00:19:12.240 intelligence operation would be. You'd prime the public and you put the thought in their mind, huh, Trump

00:19:19.500 wouldn't leave. You know, what if he doesn't leave? Because the, if I've taught you anything about influence

00:19:26.600 and persuasion, the more you think about a topic, the more real it becomes. There's no logic to that. That's why it's

00:19:33.780 persuasion and not rational thinking, but simply making you deal with the question over and over

00:19:40.220 again of, huh, what would we do? Would the military step in? It primes you for that being a real

00:19:48.180 possibility, whereas it would have felt impossible, you know, two years ago. But now they've put it in

00:19:55.400 people's head as a possibility. So you've got that going on. And then you've got the third thing,

00:20:02.200 which is it looks like some intentional, intentional activity to make the election outcome less

00:20:11.880 credible. One of those is that the polls would appear to be faked. Does that seem true? Does it look

00:20:20.400 like there's a lot of polling that seems faked? Yes, it does. Again, that doesn't mean the intelligence

00:20:28.020 agencies are faking the polls, but that's how they would do it. You know, if they were involved,

00:20:35.800 it would look exactly like that. Now, because of the mail-in voting, the mass mail-in voting,

00:20:41.180 I'm not, I'm not talking about absentee mailing, which has a long history of being good enough.

00:20:48.100 Whether you think the mass mailing is perfectly credible or you don't, a lot of Republicans would

00:20:55.920 say no. A lot of Democrats would say it's perfectly good. It's going to be fine. Wouldn't you, if you

00:21:02.460 were an intelligence agency and you wanted to really mess with this country, wouldn't you push

00:21:08.000 a type of voting that would be guaranteed to be not credible when it was done? You would. That's

00:21:16.400 exactly what you would do. You would make sure that people were talking about the one thing that

00:21:21.880 you'd know won't be trusted. And it's mail-in votes. Now, that doesn't mean that they're not good.

00:21:28.980 It doesn't mean that the mail-in votes won't be accurate. I'm not saying that they won't be

00:21:34.380 accurate. I'm no expert on that. I'm saying that it would be easy to cheat. All you have to do is

00:21:39.080 throw grandma's ballot in the garbage and you're done. It'd be the world's easiest thing to cheat. 0.56

00:21:43.580 And Republicans assume that. So, you recently had America's senior general responding to this,

00:21:55.360 the chairman of the Joint Chief of Staffs, General Mark Milley, told members of Congress because they

00:22:02.220 had to ask. Can you believe it? They had to ask this question of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs

00:22:08.420 and he had to answer it. This is scary stuff. And he said that the military will not play a role in

00:22:17.180 November's election and won't help settle any disputes if the results are contested. Now, do we

00:22:24.040 believe that? Yes. Yes, we do. I think our military is well trained. I think our military are patriots.

00:22:35.040 It's a volunteer service. Do you think that the people volunteering to fight for this country

00:22:42.640 don't know what the Constitution says about the transfer of power? Do you think the people

00:22:49.720 who volunteer to be in the U.S. military, do you think that they don't like the country or that

00:22:56.100 they would put up with a coup while they still have weapons? Anybody's going to have access to

00:23:04.140 weapons. So I don't think the military is going to be siding with anybody in an election in this

00:23:13.860 country in 2020. You know, anything's possible in the future. But in 2020, no, no. They are way too

00:23:21.980 well trained and they are selected, self-selected, if you will, to fight for this country. They're not

00:23:29.320 self-selecting to fight against it. That's not happening. All right. So let me reiterate that

00:23:38.040 there is no evidence that I'm aware of that there's any outside influence on what you're

00:23:44.520 seeing with the protests and with the continuous news about, hey, what about if this election isn't

00:23:50.400 valid? But it would look exactly like it. So here's what you would want to do. You would certainly

00:23:58.400 want to find out if any of these people that are getting arrested for vandalism and other things

00:24:03.920 during these protests, and especially the organizers, you would want to find out where their money is

00:24:09.860 coming from. And I'm talking about just the average guy who gets, you know, or a woman who gets 0.94

00:24:15.900 picked up for breaking a window. If it looks like they're professional, if it looks like they're

00:24:22.260 just doing all the windows, pick them up, find out where the money is coming from. You might find

00:24:28.660 something. Now, they're probably getting paid in Bitcoin if there's any bad behavior going on. So you

00:24:35.780 probably couldn't find it. But if they had big deposits or expenses, maybe you could find it. If they

00:24:41.400 had big cash deposits that were unrelated to any employment, I'd want to know that. All right.

00:24:49.800 Cloud Research, a group called Cloud Research found that almost 12% of Republicans say they would not

00:24:57.360 report their true opinions about the presidential candidate they preferred on telephone calls. So 12%

00:25:05.360 of Republicans would lie or refuse to answer, I guess, if they were polled. 12%. Do you think that's real?

00:25:17.000 No, that's not real. It's way bigger than that. Do you know any Republicans who don't say that they

00:25:24.080 would hide their opinion from pollsters? I mean, they exist. But I think it might be closer to 80%

00:25:30.940 would lie to pollsters, or at least we consider it. But I suppose when the phone rings, you're not

00:25:37.540 really thinking that necessarily. So you just say your opinion most of the time. So let's accept that

00:25:42.080 12% of Republicans say they would lie to a pollster. How many Democrats? According to this poll, 5.4%.

00:25:49.240 So half as many Democrats would conceal their true feelings. What's that mean? Do you think that the 5%

00:25:59.140 of Democrats who would conceal their true vote is because they're going to vote for Biden? Would

00:26:06.140 Democrats conceal their preference for Biden? So this isn't in the story. But don't you think 5%

00:26:14.580 of Democrats are leaning Trump at the moment? And they don't want to tell pollsters. I've got a feeling

00:26:21.780 that all of the people who are Republican and all of the people who register as Democrat, when they say

00:26:28.520 they wouldn't give the truth to a pollster, I think both the Republicans and the Democrats are

00:26:33.920 thinking the same thing. Just speculation. But it feels like those are the Democrats that are sort of

00:26:40.220 leaning Trump, if you know what I mean. Because seriously, in what world would you be afraid to say

00:26:47.340 you're going to vote for Biden? You wouldn't. If you were a Democrat, you wouldn't be afraid to say you were

00:26:52.940 going to vote for Biden. Not even a little bit. It's perfectly socially acceptable.

00:27:00.540 And 10.5% of independents fell into the shy voter category. So 10% of independents, 11% of Republicans,

00:27:10.780 and 5% of Democrats are all maybe pro-Trump and not willing to say it in public. What does that tell you

00:27:21.860 about what the election's going to look like? It should be a blowout. Remember Rasmussen is teasing

00:27:28.980 the pro-Democrat polling places for holding off on their polling after the convention bump?

00:27:36.820 I think you can see it. You can see it coming.

00:27:44.960 Protesters built a mock guillotine outside of Jeff Bezos' house.

00:27:50.200 Let me ask you this. If you were a foreign intelligence agency, or any intelligence agency,

00:27:56.760 or you had those skills, and you wanted the protesters to get more violent,

00:28:02.120 how would you do it? Well, one way would be to send some plans for how to build a mock guillotine

00:28:10.980 to some organizers. You'd say, hey, have you thought of this? This would be a fun idea.

00:28:17.060 Nice visual for the cameras. Why don't you get a fake guillotine going? You'll get some more 0.99

00:28:22.840 cameras going. It'll be fun. You'll love it. Now the people who get that say, this would be great.

00:28:29.160 I can build that. And they build their fake guillotine, as was done in front of Jeff Bezos' house.

00:28:36.780 And what do you think that that is just a harmless prank? No, it's not. If you were an intelligence

00:28:47.520 agency trying to influence another country, what you would do is you would try to get their imagery

00:28:53.120 and their communication to shift from, hey, let's have a fairer, better world. Let's try harder. Let's

00:29:00.640 work better. Let's work together. Let's fix this inequality. That's the messaging you'd expect.

00:29:07.780 But when you introduce a death sentence message, a guillotine, literally a violent revolution image,

00:29:16.000 does it have an impact on the public? Not by itself. By itself? Just a joke. Just some people

00:29:24.320 with bad, bad, I'd say bad decision making to do that. But collectively, if you insert enough

00:29:33.180 of these images of, hey, maybe this revolution isn't like the other ones. Maybe these protests

00:29:40.340 are not just protests. Maybe they have a violent future, and we're just warning you. There's a

00:29:47.520 little foreshadowing. Let's just put it in your head. Let's just make you think about it. I'm not

00:29:52.120 saying you should execute Jeff Bezos. I'm just saying let's think about it for a day. That's what's

00:29:58.620 happening. If you look for it, it's everywhere. It's identical to what a psychological operation

00:30:07.300 would look like. But we don't know that's what's happening. It just looks exactly like

00:30:13.520 it.

00:30:18.680 Apparently, the Chicago Teachers Union did a glowing endorsement of the people with the

00:30:24.820 guillotine in front of Bezos' house. They tweeted, and this is literally from their Twitter

00:30:32.020 account, the Chicago Teachers Union Twitter account, we are completely frightened by,

00:30:38.420 comma, completely impressed by, and completely in support of wherever this is heading. And

00:30:44.720 then it showed a picture of them assembling the guillotine in front of Bezos' house. Where

00:30:49.100 this is heading? Where this is heading? Where this is heading? You the, you the, I'm sorry.

00:31:02.200 Turns out this mug is a little bit more on point than I thought it would be. There will be cursing.

00:31:10.860 So I'm warning you now. Hide your children. If you don't like cursing, feel free to mute

00:31:20.960 this or turn it off for now. The Teachers Unions are literally encouraging violence against entrepreneurs.

00:31:33.600 Violence against entrepreneurs is coming from an actual Chicago Teachers Union. The Teachers

00:31:42.360 Unions, as you know, are the source of all systemic racism in this country. Now, that's

00:31:48.740 an over-claim, but the point is that if you get the education system right, black people 0.71

00:31:54.960 are educated well instead of as poorly as our current system educates them. Totally systemic

00:32:01.060 racism in education. They're, they're a hundred percent right about that. But the cause is the

00:32:06.380 Teachers Unions. Because the only way anything ever got fixed anywhere in humankind is if there was

00:32:12.980 competition. They're the ones who removed the competition. But they've gone beyond that. It's one thing to

00:32:19.500 protect your, the people in your union. That's the job of the union, right? So if they're doing stuff

00:32:26.080 where they're advocating good things for their members, even if they go too far, you'd say,

00:32:30.920 well, it's not where I wanted it to go. But you have to admit that it was their job. Their job was to

00:32:37.420 get good things for their, their members. But is this, that is encouraging imagery of killing, literally

00:32:46.180 killing with a guillotine, executing the people in charge and favoring that in public. Is that, is that 0.72

00:32:53.380 just protecting their members? No, it's not. And if I were to look for the source of intelligence

00:33:00.200 agency funding from a foreign country, I would look at the Teachers Unions. Because they do have

00:33:06.760 plenty of money from their members to do what they need to do in terms of bribing politicians,

00:33:12.040 literally bribing politicians, and literally getting them elected through, well, I won't say literally

00:33:20.020 bribing, because that implies a legal context. Let me say functionally bribing, for all practical

00:33:27.700 purposes, but in, as far as I know, in a perfectly legal way, because our system allows it, to legally

00:33:34.700 bribe our politicians to get what they want. And here they're actually promoting death. Now, do you think

00:33:43.600 somebody who is a patriot or loves this country would tweet in public something that clearly is intended

00:33:51.200 to make people think more about killing the elite? Do you think that came from an American who had pure

00:33:57.440 American motives? It doesn't sound like it. Sounds like it came from China. Sounds like it came from 0.98

00:34:04.160 a country that does not have our best interests in mind. So I'm not saying that they're on the payroll

00:34:11.040 of a foreign entity. I'm saying that if I were a foreign entity, and I had a long-term plan to destroy 1.00

00:34:18.960 the United States, I would target the Teachers Unions, because that's the lever that moves the country. 0.87

00:34:25.840 And it's only a few individuals who are the powerful people on any leadership group. And if

00:34:33.940 you've got the big cities, let's say you've got your Chicago, your New York, your LA, a few of the big

00:34:39.320 ones, you'd have enough power. So I would guess that a foreign entity could bribe maybe, I'll just put a

00:34:47.020 number on it, 30 people who were the heads of the big Teachers Unions. They could bribe probably just

00:34:56.220 30 people, and how expensive would that be? Not very expensive. Do you know how much it costs to bribe

00:35:02.660 30 people? Not a lot of money. So for bribing 30 people, or co-opting them in whatever subtle way is,

00:35:11.240 they would get to destroy the fiber that holds this country together, the school system,

00:35:17.940 and the equality which it should be providing, but is doing the opposite.

00:35:24.420 Apparently the DOJ, I saw this on a Jack Posobiec tweet, that 74 people face federal charges

00:35:31.480 based on Portland demonstrations. Demonstrations? Okay, I guess I'd call them a demonstration.

00:35:40.100 But 74 people are up for federal charges. I didn't know that many people got arrested,

00:35:45.760 but I guess it adds up over time. And those are exactly the people that we should be looking into

00:35:51.280 where their money is coming from. Even if the money is coming from their parents. And even if the money

00:35:57.260 is coming from the government, because the government might be paying them some unemployment benefits

00:36:02.980 relative to the coronavirus, you know, the extra bump there. And I guess there's a Congress

00:36:09.240 person who wants to take that away. So if you get convicted of protesting, I guess,

00:36:14.860 and doing something bad while you're protesting. There's some thought that maybe you should lose

00:36:20.500 your government benefits related to the coronavirus. I don't think that's going to get passed. But I

00:36:26.080 like where it's coming from. I'm trying to mock Anderson Cooper today. I'm mocking him off of his

00:36:33.980 ridiculous comment that the president suggested drinking bleach, which never happened. Now, when he says 0.81

00:36:42.100 the president suggested drinking bleach, he was mocked on the air by the Trump supporters who

00:36:47.740 knew it was just a lie. And he acted like he didn't know. He acted like he really thought it

00:36:52.920 happened. Now, he modified it from bleach to disinfectant. So apparently he did know that part

00:36:58.480 was a lie. But not a big lie. If it was disinfectant, it wouldn't be a big lie to call it bleach.

00:37:05.520 You know, that would just be, you know, over specifying. Wouldn't be the biggest lie in the world.

00:37:09.900 But it would be a gigantic lie if nothing like that at all had been suggested. And I tweeted this

00:37:16.400 question, trying to find the best way to mock him. So I tweeted, what does Anderson Cooper call it when

00:37:22.020 doctors use a special device to insert UVC light into a patient's trachea or lungs to test whether it

00:37:30.360 can kill viruses without harming the patient? And then I linked to a news story in which they're testing

00:37:37.060 exactly that. And I said the answer is drinking bleach. That's what Anderson Cooper calls it

00:37:43.220 when doctors put a device into your lungs that has UVC light. He calls it drinking bleach on live TV.

00:37:51.880 And by the way, that's actually what he called it. Is that hyperboleic? No. That's literally drinking

00:37:59.120 bleach. Those words are what he did to characterize doctors using a special device to insert UVC light

00:38:07.420 into a patient's trachea or lungs to test whether it could kill virus without harming the patient. 0.99

00:38:13.120 He called that drinking bleach on TV, on a channel that's supposed to be the fucking news. 1.00

00:38:21.380 The fucking news. He did that. Now, has he been corrected? I don't know. He seems to have believed 1.00

00:38:30.620 it was true. He actually fucking thought that was true. Now, how dumb do you have to be to think 0.99

00:38:37.580 to think that anybody, no matter what you think of this president, do you think you really went on 1.00

00:38:43.780 national TV and seriously, you're so fucking dumb that you think you went on national TV and said, 1.00

00:38:49.660 Oh, what about drinking bleach? What about that? And you've hypnotized yourself so deeply that that 1.00

00:38:58.340 sounded like something that was in the realm of maybe true. No, you fucking idiot, Anderson Cooper, 1.00

00:39:06.580 you fucking destructive idiot. That was never in the realm of something that could have been maybe 1.00

00:39:13.920 sort of true. It wasn't on the fucking planet of something that was true. Maybe dig into it a little 0.97

00:39:21.180 bit deeper and find out that there was a news story that very week about the doctors doing this very

00:39:27.820 trial with real doctors in a real clinical setting. How about talking about how, well, let me do this on

00:39:37.400 the whiteboard. I played my own hoax recently to give it a test of how the hoax edit works. So the

00:39:47.380 hoax edit works this way. So the fine people hoax, Trump did in fact say that there were fine people

00:39:53.480 on both sides. That's true. So they keep that part. And then Trump wanted to make sure that he was not

00:40:00.780 misinterpreted. So he went on to say, just to make sure that nobody was confused. He said, I'm not

00:40:08.360 talking about the white nationalists and neo-Nazis. They should be condemned totally. So to make a true 0.98

00:40:15.380 thing into a hoax, you just delete the clarifier, which is what they did. They also deleted some middle

00:40:21.900 part where he talked about people just caring about the statues, you know, in a historical sense.

00:40:28.840 Now the drinking bleach hoax is done a similar way. The first thing you do is get rid of the context

00:40:35.980 because when Trump was making a statement about injecting disinfectant, which was a poor choice

00:40:42.100 of words, but he did clarify it. So they delete the context that there's a real thing, that light is a

00:40:51.300 disinfectant, and that Trump was talking about light as a disinfectant. That was the context. Beyond that

00:40:58.460 is the context that it was really being tested by real doctors. So you get rid of that. So there's

00:41:03.860 no context. You keep the part where Trump was asking about, could you, you know, some way inject

00:41:11.960 this into the body, talking about light, light. So you keep that part, which was a little bit confusing.

00:41:18.380 And then at the end, Trump went back to light. So you'd know that was the topic. So he started with

00:41:26.780 light. That's the context. He ended with light. And there was nothing in between, except he used the

00:41:32.720 word disinfectant, which is a proper use of the word for light. But it's not a common use of it. So

00:41:39.820 people were confused because he used it in the clinical sense, correctly, correctly, light is a

00:41:46.880 disinfectant. He used it correctly. And then he clarified that he was always talking about light

00:41:52.620 and they just get rid of that. So they show you the clip without the front, the context or the

00:41:58.060 clarifier at the end. I tested this recently with my own hoax. I created, I created a, let me give you

00:42:08.640 some context. So some of you have seen, I've been tweeting and talking about the satanic connections

00:42:14.560 to Joe Biden's campaign. The first time I did it. And each time after that, that I've talked about it,

00:42:21.940 at least on Periscope, I always say, I'm not a believer, meaning I don't believe in Satan,

00:42:28.920 which should be a key that anything I say about Joe Biden having a satanic connection means I don't

00:42:36.860 believe it. I do say explicitly and repeatedly, that all we're seeing is confirmation bias and

00:42:45.060 coincidence, and that you would see this kind of coincidence in any complicated topic, no exceptions.

00:42:51.980 Anything that's a rich topic with lots of variables will always have whatever coincidence you're looking

00:42:59.180 for. Just look for a coincidence and you'll find it. And so I did my demonstration of showing how many

00:43:05.780 Biden-Satan coincidences there are, from the pentagram they use in their logo, to Kamala Harris having six

00:43:14.740 letters in Kamala, six letters in Harris, and Vice President of the United States in six words,

00:43:21.420 the fact that Biden had been living and working underground like Satan. I mean, these were clearly

00:43:28.200 jokes. But what you didn't know is that there was a larger purpose to it. What I did was make sure that

00:43:36.900 I created a body of work in which the clarifiers could be removed by the fake news. I actually created

00:43:47.220 it to be turned into fake news, intentionally, right in front of you. All right. Now, I've been telling my

00:43:56.400 followers on Locals, which is a subscription service, so I give them all the secrets first,

00:44:02.340 and I told them exactly what I was doing. That the idea was to get people to lop off my clarifiers

00:44:09.420 so that they would treat me like a crazy person who believes that Satan is walking the earth in the

00:44:15.800 form of Joe Biden. How long did it take for that exact thing to happen? Not long at all. Turns out that

00:44:24.000 there are several articles floating around in which they did the hoax edit. They got rid of my

00:44:29.320 clarifiers. They only showed the part where I'm talking about Biden being Satan. And then they got

00:44:35.640 rid of the, you know, the clarifiers I put at the end saying that it's, you know, you shouldn't believe

00:44:40.800 it. And even I don't believe it. So that is the hoax edit. Now, the news does this all the time.

00:44:49.380 This is the most common thing you see on the news is the hoax edit. And until you understand

00:44:55.160 that it's easy, it's predictable, it's so predictable that I could cause it to happen as a

00:45:04.320 public demonstration right in front of you. Now, the second part of this is that some people will

00:45:10.540 see the fake edit, the hoax, and they will think it's true. Meaning they won't just think that I think

00:45:17.940 it's true. They will actually think it's true. So what I did was trick the fake media into using

00:45:25.160 the hoax edit, which would create a way for me to cross over into their silo. This was the trap door

00:45:32.860 I was looking for. And they fell into it brilliantly. So every time they show me as a kook saying that 0.88

00:45:40.080 Biden has a satanic coincidences and connections, that is going to be spread to their viewers,

00:45:49.560 some of whom are going to say, I'd better look into this. I'd better look into this. Some of whom

00:45:55.640 will come to believe it is true. And they will not vote for Joe Biden. Now, I wouldn't normally

00:46:01.380 intentionally frame somebody as satanic if he were not spreading the fine people hoax.

00:46:09.380 The fine people hoax, as I've told you many times, puts a target on my back, me personally. I'm not

00:46:15.860 talking in some specific generic way. Me personally puts a target on my back and makes it unsafe for me

00:46:24.480 to go in public. Do you see what happened to Rand Paul? We'll talk about that in a minute. Now,

00:46:30.280 as long as Joe Biden is spreading this hoax, which makes me personally in danger, then self-defense

00:46:37.880 is on the table. What can you do in self-defense? Is there anything that it would be immoral

00:46:45.040 in a self-defense context? Not really. Now, your mileage might differ. You might say to yourself,

00:46:55.560 you know, even in self-defense, I wouldn't do something bad to somebody that was this bad,

00:47:02.360 even in self-defense. That's a personal decision. My personal decision is that if it's self-defense,

00:47:10.760 everything's on the table. Everything's on the table. Nothing's off the table if you're attacked.

00:47:17.280 Now, obviously, you could go to jail if you overreact and somebody punches you. And let's say you kill them 0.99

00:47:23.800 when they're running away. You know, you could find lots of things that clearly are a bad idea. 1.00

00:47:29.100 Bad strategy, bad self-defense, doesn't even qualify really as self-defense. Lots of ways to go wrong.

00:47:35.900 I'm just saying it's a personal preference that I'm not going to do anything that will put me in jail

00:47:42.020 if I can avoid it. But I'm just saying it's all on the table if it's self-defense. There is no

00:47:48.480 immoral, you know, that normally it would be completely unethical and immoral to brand somebody

00:47:56.340 as satanic. But not in this case. In this case, he earned it. He has it coming. It would make the

00:48:03.780 world a better place if we can get him off the face of the earth just because of that. Just because

00:48:10.880 the fine people hoax that targets me and you. I'm making it personal because I'm telling you what

00:48:17.720 I'm doing about it. You can make your own decisions, but you're totally targeted if you're a Trump

00:48:22.600 supporter. A word of caution. I asked on Twitter how many people made money in 2020 by betting on things

00:48:33.400 on things that I may have predicted or suggested. And it turns out a lot of people made money

00:48:40.060 placing bets that I would be right about stuff, right about Kamala Harris being vice president.

00:48:47.180 If they bet on her to be president, they lost money. If they bet that Biden would not be

00:48:53.540 the nominee, they would have lost money. So here is my caution to you. I get that it's fun to bet

00:49:02.140 totally get that. And if you were to bet, let's say $20, or if you could afford it,

00:49:10.220 if you bet $100 on some legal betting site or with your coworker, you know, I'm not suggesting you do

00:49:17.500 anything illegal. So let's, let's just keep it to whatever is legal. If it's small and it's just for

00:49:23.980 fun. Yeah, go ahead. Have fun. You know, betting on my opinions is as good as anything else.

00:49:31.020 But don't put big bets on anything that you heard from me. People made a ton of money in 2016 doing

00:49:39.920 that because a lot of people heard me and were convinced that Trump would win and people put

00:49:44.680 big bets on that stuff. I'm talking like $10,000 bets, $100,000 bets, big bets. Now I didn't know

00:49:52.980 about this until after Trump won. If I had known ahead of it, that people were putting serious

00:50:01.040 money on my opinion, I would have tried pretty hard to talk you out of it. And that's what I'm doing

00:50:05.920 now. Don't put big bets unless you can afford it. I mean, if you're a billionaire and you want to bet

00:50:12.200 $100,000, knock yourself out. But if you're, you know, if you're a wage earner, you've got a regular

00:50:17.480 life, don't bet $1,000. You know, don't bet $10,000 because you saw my opinion. If there's

00:50:26.860 anything I can teach you about investing, you know, this is obviously not investing. But even

00:50:33.820 in the investment world, past performance does not suggest future performance. If I had gotten a hundred

00:50:41.700 in a row right, if I'd gotten a hundred in a row right, it still doesn't mean I'm going to get the

00:50:49.760 next one right, unless I've got some weird superpower. So although I would agree that some

00:50:55.460 of my predictions have been spooky, they're so accurate, even I don't believe I can do that

00:51:02.280 forever. All right. So don't have more confidence in me than I have in myself. I don't think I can

00:51:08.140 predict things accurately forever. Even, you know, two and a three type of thing. Obviously,

00:51:12.920 everybody gets some wrong. But don't have more confidence in that than I have in myself.

00:51:19.320 All right. NBA games will resume Saturday. And it turns out that the way they resolved it was they

00:51:28.980 made an agreement, the NBA did, to establish what they call a social justice coalition. And the league

00:51:36.180 in the players said that in a joint statement. So we're good now. I guess systemic racism's been

00:51:44.360 largely fixed by this establishment of a social justice coalition in the NBA. And I'm sure that

00:51:51.880 lots of good will come out of that. They'll be producing lots of actionable, practical things.

00:51:57.760 So we're all looking forward to see what comes out of that.

00:52:00.700 Um, I would say that, um, I was a little worried about ongoing division in the country and racism

00:52:11.220 and systemic racism, which is very real. Um, but now it's been solved by this joint statement about

00:52:18.420 the social justice coalition. So I don't think it happens immediately. Um, so let's, let's give it a

00:52:25.540 little time, but you know, the, the thing that the players were striking about does seem like it's

00:52:33.340 handled now. It looks like they've taken care of it. So congratulations to the NBA for fixing

00:52:39.560 systemic racism without losing a single paycheck. Now that's, that's pretty good. And the NBA players

00:52:48.160 still got paid and, and they solved systemic racism. Did you do that today? No, you're not as

00:52:57.100 awesome as they are. You probably didn't do any of that today, but they solve systemic racism.

00:53:03.960 Didn't miss a paycheck. That's pretty good work. It needs to be said that I think the DNC convention,

00:53:10.680 which was a hot mess of a zoom class looking, uh, thing would have been a lot better if Harvey

00:53:17.700 Weinstein could have been around to produce it. I'm just saying that's a fact that they took their

00:53:24.720 best player off the table and well, now you see what happens. Yes, Harvey Weinstein was their best,

00:53:31.480 their best player. Uh, so that you can see that's hurting them now. Um, Sandia last,

00:53:40.680 has a little, uh, civil war erupting, uh, Christopher Ruffo or Ruffo or UFO is talking about this on,

00:53:49.860 he's following it for us on Twitter and he'd investigated and apparently there's a dissident

00:53:55.540 electrical engineer. Stop, stop right there. Just stop. There's a dissident electrical engineer.

00:54:05.200 I just have to pause to enjoy the tingle that I have on my entire body. He's not an artist.

00:54:15.380 He's not an artist. There's somebody at Sandia Labs who's trained in critical thinking,

00:54:21.760 who's actually getting politically active. I thought, my God, what happens if smart people

00:54:28.460 start getting politically active? I mean, what would happen? What happens if smart people

00:54:34.340 start, like, getting into decision-making on the national level?

00:54:42.480 Things could happen. So let's see what kind of trouble this dissident electrical engineer

00:54:48.060 named Casey Peterson is up to. I guess he mailed, he emailed 16,000 employees denouncing critical race

00:54:56.580 theory in the lab and he hoped to spark a rebellion against the Sandia executives. And I thought to

00:55:03.600 myself, number one, the Sandia executives probably thinking about firing this guy. Do you think he cares

00:55:12.480 about getting fired? Do you know what the market is for electrical engineers? This electrical engineer

00:55:20.760 is almost as bulletproof as I am. And I'm pretty fucking bulletproof. All right. Even I could lose my 0.98

00:55:29.580 job. But this electrical engineer, he's got a job for life because it's really hard to find an electrical

00:55:37.080 engineer. And even if all the liberal leaning companies in the world says, no, no, we can't hire

00:55:43.760 you because that thing you did once, there's still a plenty of startups who are going to say, you know,

00:55:49.960 I just want you to do electrical engineering. You know, I don't care about politics. So this guy

00:55:56.100 realizing that to a large extent, you know, it's not a perfect world, but to a large extent,

00:56:01.700 he's bulletproof. And he's an electrical engineer, which means that if he were to get into a debate

00:56:10.280 with anybody on the other side, he would eviscerate them. Because if I might, if I might swear just one

00:56:19.920 more time, the reason that the electrical engineer would eviscerate the people who he argues with is 1.00

00:56:26.920 because the electrical engineer is not a fucking idiot. That's it. That's a big advantage, not being 1.00

00:56:34.540 a fucking idiot. And he's not. So because he's an electrical engineer, you have to be pretty smart 1.00

00:56:41.520 to be one of those. And so I don't even know exactly what critical race theory is. How many people in

00:56:49.960 the public know what that is even? Are there that many people who can even define critical race theory?

00:56:56.140 I don't know exactly what's in it. But at least part of what he is concerned about is that they

00:57:02.900 were going to separate black people who work for the company to be in their own special groups,

00:57:10.660 which is kind of suspect. And then I guess the white employees would have to take classes to learn 0.84

00:57:15.800 how bad they are there because they're they're biased and racist. So that's part of it. But I don't 0.97

00:57:21.700 know what else is in there. So we'll see if he gets fired. I can't imagine he would keep his job.

00:57:28.460 But good things are going to happen. All right. How many of you saw the video of Rand Paul trying to

00:57:34.980 leave the Republican National Convention being immediately swarmed by angry and dangerous

00:57:43.740 protesters? Who were jostling them and the two police officers who were trying to protect them?

00:57:51.340 As I heard Rand Paul say, and this is amazing, because he had a mask on, he was concerned that

00:57:57.920 the two police officers didn't know that he was a member of Congress. So he as he told that he was

00:58:03.040 telling them, I'm a member of Congress, you'd better call reinforcements. He wasn't just a guy leaving

00:58:10.440 the convention. And he was trying to tell the police officers, you'd better get reinforcements.

00:58:16.300 Now, they I think they did call for reinforcements. But by that time, they got an amount of most of

00:58:21.780 the trouble. Now, Rand Paul is quite a baller, in my opinion, this would be the third time that I'm

00:58:28.160 aware of that he's been targeted just for being Rand Paul. One was, you know, when he was at the

00:58:35.080 the baseball field when the shooter came, he luckily he did not get shot, but he was targeted

00:58:40.500 for being who he is, along with the other people who were who they were, the Republicans. He was

00:58:46.680 targeted by his neighbor. All right, and literally attacked and had a long recovery from that. That

00:58:52.560 was pretty bad. And now he gets assaulted, I think assaulted would be the right word,

00:58:58.600 by this crowd. And he just keeps on going. And he even got assaulted by a crowd who was on the same

00:59:07.380 side with him because he introduced the legislation that they were mad about, that the legislation they

00:59:14.340 wanted to get rid of the no knock warrants. He actually introduced a bill with the name of the

00:59:21.480 victim that the Breonna Taylor, is that it? And they were saying, say her name, say her name,

00:59:26.840 like he was some random guy, instead of the one guy, who was as on their side as they could possibly

00:59:32.740 be on that topic. So that's the first story. But there's a there's a second story that's like it

00:59:40.220 that's different. Rand Paul is probably about my size. Meaning that if an angry crowd were to surround me,

00:59:49.840 I would feel in quite a bit of danger because of just the, you know, the poundage they have,

00:59:54.880 versus the physical size that I have. So that would be pretty dangerous for a guy my size,

01:00:00.520 for a woman who was, you know, smaller, for anybody smaller. These, these crowd danger situations are

01:00:08.700 pretty, pretty scary. But it turns out that the crowd also noticed a guy named Dan Bongino.

01:00:16.660 You know, Dan Bongino, right? Now, Dan Bongino would be whatever is the opposite of Rand Paul in terms of

01:00:27.320 physicality. I'm not making fun of Rand Paul. I'm just saying that Dan Bongino is a beast. Have you seen

01:00:35.560 the arms on that guy? Have you seen what he can deadlift? He's a beast. Ex, you know, ex police

01:00:43.220 training, was he secret service? So he's got all the, he's got all the serious hand to hand training,

01:00:50.220 I assume. I assume he's got all that training. And he's just a monster of a, of a human specimen.

01:00:56.620 Now, he got surrounded by the crowds, except, here's the thing that's different. 0.94

01:01:04.540 One look at Dan Bongino, especially if they knew of him or knew of his work, he's a predator.

01:01:11.040 He's not a victim. And you surround a predator, and here's what you have to be thinking. And I hope

01:01:17.580 that they were. As they surrounded him, were they aware that in his mind, he's having a conversation

01:01:24.460 with them. I think he said something like, you know, watch my show, or, you know, he had some

01:01:29.260 banter going. But you know, based on his training, and the fact that he's a predator, you know that in

01:01:36.820 his mind was this following calculation. True or false? He was thinking, which one do I kill first?

01:01:46.540 You know that's what he was thinking. Because he was thinking, all right, should I take out the big 0.94

01:01:51.720 one first? Because then I can end the smaller ones more easily? Or should I take out a small one,

01:01:58.120 and just, you know, destroy somebody's skull, right in front of the rest? And would they be horrified 0.80

01:02:02.940 enough that that would make them leave? Should I break a leg? Should I take out an eye? Should I

01:02:09.680 permanently cripple somebody? Or should I actually kill them? I don't know Dan Bongino personally. 1.00

01:02:16.980 I'm not a mind reader. But I would think that if you put me in that situation, and I don't have any of

01:02:23.900 that training, that's what I'd be thinking. I'd be thinking which one to kill first and how to do it.

01:02:29.420 I just wouldn't have the skills to pull it off. If I had the skill to pull it off? Yeah, Dan Bongino

01:02:36.380 could have kicked the shit out of the entire crowd in any order he wanted to do it. While protecting, 0.99

01:02:44.320 I don't know, he might have been there with his wife or something. But while protecting other

01:02:48.040 people, because he has those skills. And I wondered if the protesters were even aware how close they

01:02:54.520 were to death. Although I think he's smart enough that he wouldn't have actually killed them. That

01:02:58.960 would be too much trouble for him. But he would have messed them up. There would have been bodies on

01:03:04.140 the street if they had even just gone a little bit too far. And to hear Bongino completely calmly

01:03:12.100 talking to them, versus the image of Rand Paul, who was in real danger. Rand Paul was in serious

01:03:18.020 danger. There's no joking about that. But Dan Bongino? I think the protesters were in serious

01:03:25.560 danger. But it didn't happen. I asked this question on Twitter, has Joe Biden ever fired anybody?

01:03:33.160 Because if he's never fired anybody, he's never managed anything that matters. Joe Biden has never

01:03:41.880 fired anybody that I've heard of. Now, probably in his life he has. But wouldn't you like to hear from

01:03:48.700 anybody he's fired? Because we have this endless string of people that Trump has fired in the past,

01:03:54.880 who say bad things about him? Do you think that the people that Biden fired, if there are any,

01:04:00.960 who knows if they exist, but do you think if he fired anybody that they have a good opinion of him?

01:04:06.140 That's news. I think we should find anybody that Biden has fired and talk to them about how great

01:04:12.480 Biden is. Because I think they would tell us a story. Now, if there is no such thing as a person

01:04:18.920 who's ever fired, been fired by Biden, how can you take him seriously as a candidate to run and

01:04:24.860 manage the United States? You don't go from managing nothing to managing the biggest country in the

01:04:31.880 world. Trump went from managing a vast financial empire with lots of moving parts to managing another

01:04:40.240 vast empire with lots of moving parts. That's pretty close to the kind of talent you want to bring to the

01:04:47.520 job. Let's see what Joe Biden has. Speaking of the Trump administration, I have a theory that no one

01:04:55.200 has ever explained to Trump himself why the idea of using the over-the-counter saliva test strips that

01:05:03.940 don't require any machine to get a result. You just look at the change of color, sort of like a pregnancy

01:05:09.540 test. And they're not on the market because the FDA has some concerns about them. Now, of course,

01:05:17.020 they don't catch as much. They're not as, there are words that the scientists like to use specific,

01:05:24.700 specificity versus accuracy, et cetera. But the basic idea is that the test strips would not get

01:05:30.940 every infected person as accurately as the professional kinds of tests, but they would be so

01:05:39.040 cheap and so, so ubiquitous that it would overwhelm that small defect of not being as, as accurate

01:05:47.200 because you just test twice, test twice, test today, test tomorrow. And even if they're a little less

01:05:53.740 accurate, it's probably going to pick it up. So given that the, as I said before, that the Trump

01:05:59.420 administration is silent on this question, they haven't approved it. They haven't not approved it.

01:06:05.520 They don't respond to it. The working assumption you should have is that this is incompetence or

01:06:12.640 corruption. So this would be just a glaring flag for incompetence or corruption. Now that doesn't

01:06:23.160 mean that Trump personally knows this math because it's a little complicated. When you explain this to

01:06:29.560 people, they, they just say, wait, wait a minute, how in the world could a test, which is less

01:06:36.740 sensitive than these other tests, how in the world is this a good idea? And it's hard to explain. It

01:06:42.900 takes a little explaining. All right, they're so cheap. You could do it at home. Everybody could do

01:06:48.100 it every day. It wouldn't get every, every infection on the day it started, but it would definitely get

01:06:54.120 the vast majority of them. That alone is enough to, you know, it mocks, I would say it mimics 0.98

01:07:01.940 herd. Well, I won't use that because you won't like the analogy, but it would be so effective,

01:07:09.360 even inaccurate, that it would basically stomp out the virus for all practical purposes.

01:07:14.340 It would make the country's economy open up. Now, if anybody ever explained that to Trump,

01:07:20.960 the way I explained it, so he could understand that there's already a cheap, easy way out of

01:07:27.580 the coronavirus, you just have to understand the math, which is a little backwards. It doesn't make

01:07:32.780 sense that the inaccurate tests are the ones you want. That doesn't make sense to your brain when

01:07:38.500 you first hear it. So I don't believe anybody's ever made that case to Trump because it would just

01:07:45.380 be too obvious that that's what he would be pushing to do. Or at the very least, he would tell

01:07:51.360 us where we're at with that or why we can't do it. So there is some kind of massive either corruption

01:07:57.680 or incompetence in the Trump administration. I don't know exactly where. Could be in advisors,

01:08:04.620 could be at the FDA, could be both, but there's something seriously wrong. And I'm not saying that

01:08:10.940 I'm so smart, I know that this is the way to solve the problem. I'm saying that we need an answer,

01:08:16.600 just an answer why it's not the right idea, which would be fine. Or an answer that they're working

01:08:21.800 on it, which would be fine as well. So the fact that the Democrats are not digging into that suggests

01:08:27.640 that they also, meaning the fake news, you know, why isn't CNN reporting on what I just said?

01:08:33.320 I mean, here's one of the most high profile Trump supporters in the world, and I'm calling out

01:08:40.840 corruption or incompetence, you can't tell which one from the outside, in the Trump administration.

01:08:46.940 Why is that not news? Haven't you seen that every time there's anybody who's a Trump supporter

01:08:52.800 who turns on him in any way, it's automatically news. Do you know why this isn't news? Because if they

01:09:00.300 highlight the fact there's a solution to the coronavirus, Trump would learn about it, presumably

01:09:06.160 he's not learning about it through his advisors, he would learn about it for the first time. And

01:09:11.840 then he would solve the fucking crisis. So they can't report on it. Is that the worst thing you've 1.00

01:09:17.920 ever heard in your life? That's what we're living in right now. That's the world you're living in,

01:09:23.120 is what I just described. All right. Jeff Giza, I don't know if I pronounced his name right,

01:09:32.120 G-I-E-S-E-A. Is that the right? Giza? Giza? I hope I didn't mess that up too bad, Jeff.

01:09:40.920 But he said this, and yeah, this is the sort of thing you couldn't have said a few months ago without

01:09:46.860 getting canceled. But because of the way events have gone, and things not working out with the

01:09:53.240 protests, etc., you can now say this out loud in public and not get canceled. So I'm going to say

01:09:59.720 it as well. So what Jeff says is the power of framing is incredible. Of course, I've taught you

01:10:04.680 that. Whoever frames the issue gets to be the owner and controller of that conversation. So if you can

01:10:12.420 reframe better, you win the persuasion. He said the power of framing is incredible. For example,

01:10:18.800 what if, and he said, in quotes, our problem with police shootings, in quotes, was reframed as,

01:10:26.120 quote, our problem with people resisting arrest? Now, it's not a new thought. You know, people have

01:10:32.260 talked about that before. And then he said this is an equally, if not more plausible reframe of the

01:10:37.800 core issue. It's not just equally plausible. It's exactly describing the situation. If you can't give

01:10:47.160 me some examples of people being shot when they're not resisting arrest, I get that police need to be

01:10:54.820 trained as well as they can. I get that we need to put more attention into non-lethal ways. I totally

01:11:01.800 get that police work in general could be better. But I also totally get you could say that about

01:11:09.160 everything. That, you know, the police are not the one thing that's not operating 100% at all times.

01:11:15.720 That's just everything. All right, we should work on it and make it better. But let's not be

01:11:21.160 unrealistic. You can't take the police training with every situation being different and all the people

01:11:26.680 in it being different. You're just not going to eliminate bad shootings. But you can certainly

01:11:33.480 eliminate 100%. Well, you couldn't eliminate 100% of it. But you can certainly go a long way to teaching

01:11:39.640 people how to not resist arrest or to assume they'll be shot. You could come up with a clever saying,

01:11:47.320 like resisting arrest will get you killed. But you make it rhyme in some way.

01:11:53.480 Right? So I would say that you couldn't really say that a few weeks ago even, because it would sound

01:12:00.200 like you were just a racist. But at this point, it's so obvious that there are not any other solutions

01:12:05.400 on the table, other than this vague idea of training people better, this vague idea that nobody has any

01:12:11.480 meat on about non-lethal force, better options. There's one thing you could do today. Every single

01:12:20.280 person could tell their kid how to not resist arrest. You could do that today. Where is the national

01:12:26.920 campaign teaching people not to resist arrest? Do you know why that doesn't exist? It's because

01:12:32.600 white people infantilize the black citizens of this country. It's the most racist thing that white people 1.00

01:12:41.640 do. Now, and they do, you know, lots of racism. So there's lots to choose from. But I would say, 0.99

01:12:48.600 maybe the worst thing. No, definitely the worst thing. Yeah, probably the worst thing is that white 1.00

01:12:55.560 people can't say what I just said, because they're afraid of getting canceled. And the problem is, 0.71

01:13:01.000 if you don't learn to stop resisting arrest, you're just going to keep getting shot. There's no way around

01:13:08.040 that. There's no other way that goes. If you keep resisting arrest, it doesn't matter if you're white. 0.76

01:13:16.120 It doesn't matter if you're black. It probably matters if you're male or female, because 0.63

01:13:21.400 women are perceived as less dangerous because of the difference in physicality. 1.00

01:13:26.360 But certainly, if you're not willing to take responsibility, you're going to get more of this.

01:13:32.280 Now, why is it that white people can't say what I'm saying without the risk of getting canceled? And

01:13:37.960 as you know, I have just less risk because, you know, I made my money already. And the reason is

01:13:44.200 that white people treat black people like their children, like fucking children. If you are going 1.00

01:13:49.960 to talk to an adult, let's say, let's say, let's say, let's take race out of it. Okay. Let's take race

01:13:58.280 completely out of this. Let's say you're a white adult and you see that a whole bunch of other 0.76

01:14:04.120 white people are getting shot by police. But every time you look into it, there's, except for the no 1.00

01:14:11.000 knock warrant thing that I think obviously needs to get fixed. But every time you looked into it,

01:14:15.880 it looked like there was some resisting arrest. Again, this will be a conversation, hypothetically,

01:14:20.840 where only white people are police, only white people are getting arrested. And when they resist,

01:14:26.440 they're getting shot. And you're talking to another white person about it, would you say to them,

01:14:31.560 I think there's a problem with the police? No, you wouldn't. No, you wouldn't. If you were talking

01:14:38.520 to a white person about other white people getting killed by police for resisting arrest, you wouldn't 0.99

01:14:44.600 say there's a fucking police problem, even if there is, even if there is. And of course, like I said, 0.99

01:14:50.840 could be better. It could be more nonlethal solutions. You would say to the person you

01:14:57.800 treated like an adult, how about you stop fucking resisting arrest? How about you start there? If you 0.99

01:15:06.440 can do that, and people are still getting shot, I will march with you. But don't be a child about this.

01:15:14.280 You know, don't be a child. The problem is obviously the resisting arrest. We all know it. And if you're

01:15:21.400 not willing, if you're, if you're a white person, and you're not willing to say that, as clearly as

01:15:26.920 I'm saying it, to another black adult, you're not treating them like an adult. You're not. You're being 0.77

01:15:34.520 a fucking racist. If you can't treat an adult black person like an adult, you're a fucking racist. 1.00

01:15:41.960 That's it. I don't know how you can see that any other way. Honestly, I don't think there's an 1.00

01:15:49.240 argument to that at all. All right. As Michael Schellenberger keeps telling us, we now have

01:15:57.960 Germany and California to show us that the Green New Deal doesn't work. Before, you could have said

01:16:03.880 to yourself, hey, I wonder if the Green New Deal would work. I wonder if we could get rid of all of 1.00

01:16:09.480 our nuclear plants and get rid of our gas, gas energy production stuff, natural gas. I wonder if

01:16:17.080 that would work. You don't have to wonder anymore. We ran, we ran two gigantic trials, one in Germany,

01:16:25.800 and it collapsed totally. It just doesn't work. One in California, and it collapsed exactly the same way,

01:16:33.880 meaning that we couldn't keep the lights on as soon as we got rid of nuclear and started closing down

01:16:41.080 some. It looks like there's some gas plants that are targeted to be closed down.

01:16:48.360 We don't have to wonder anymore. The mystery is gone. Now we just have to choose keeping the lights on

01:16:56.040 or not keeping the lights on. Those are the choices. We don't have to listen to children

01:17:02.600 telling, and I'm talking about you, Greta. We don't have to listen to children telling us how to run our

01:17:08.520 energy programs anymore, because we tried it, children. We tried it the child way. Didn't work.

01:17:15.560 If it had only been California, you could say, well, California did it wrong. But it was Germany too. 0.85

01:17:21.000 All right. It was Germany too. And I hear they're terrific on the coronavirus. So I'm pretty sure

01:17:28.040 they're good on this other stuff. And we do generally think that Germany is good at executing.

01:17:37.640 That sounded like a pun, but it wasn't meant to be. Germany is good at executing. And by executing, 1.00

01:17:44.120 I don't mean killing people. That's the pun. But I mean that they're good at building an industry. 0.65

01:17:48.680 They're good at managing a situation. They're good at it. And they couldn't make the Green New Deal work. 1.00

01:17:55.480 Germany couldn't make the Green New Deal work. How about California? Are there any smart people in 0.95

01:18:01.880 California? Yeah. Yeah. Do you know where smart people like to live? California. I'm not saying

01:18:09.880 there are no smart people in other places, but look at Silicon Valley. A lot of smart people.

01:18:15.800 You know, I would think that the IQ of California, well, averages are misleading, but probably the

01:18:21.560 smartest, a lot of the smartest people in the country are in California. Not all of them, but a lot of them.

01:18:28.200 With all those brains in California and all of those brains in Germany, they couldn't make the Green New Deal work. 1.00

01:18:36.440 Didn't even get close, really. Michael Schellenberger has been warning us of that for years. And now he can

01:18:45.000 just do his victory dance. But who can be happy about this? Of course you can't. So it's not really

01:18:50.120 a victory dance, but it is definitely a told you so. Listen to the people who get it right. If there's

01:18:56.280 somebody who keeps predicting things and they keep getting it right, listen to them next time.

01:19:02.120 All right. That's all. That's all for today. Talk to you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 29, 2020

Episode 1107 Scott Adams： Fake Polls, How to Create Fake News Using the ＂HOAX Edit＂ Technique, Coup Two Progress

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