Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1113 Scott Adams： How to Know the ＂Losers and Suckers＂ HOAX is Fake News, How to Avoid a Civil War, Voting Twice

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, come on in. It's a very newsy day. There's news all over the place. You got your real

00:00:17.400 news, you got your fake news, all kinds of news. You got your hoaxes and we have a brand new hoax,

00:00:25.220 the hoax of the day. We don't have a name for it yet. Let's call it the losers and suckers hoax.

00:00:32.600 Goes well with the fine people hoax, the drinking bleach hoax, the overfeeding the goldfish 0.95

00:00:38.280 hoax, and all of the other hoaxes. But first, what do you need first to get ready for all this

00:00:45.220 excitement? I think you know you need a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or stein,

00:00:50.760 a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like

00:00:57.380 coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day,

00:01:02.800 the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it's happening

00:01:09.760 right now. Go. I feel the soul of Michael Forrest Rehanoll going to hell. That's good coffee.

00:01:27.320 Makes everything better. All right. Good news on the economy or as people who don't like President

00:01:35.860 Trump call it very bad news. That's right. We can't even tell the difference between good news

00:01:42.220 and bad news. For example, is it good news that the unemployment rate has improved all the way to

00:01:48.540 8.4 percent, surpassing the estimates of experts? You would think that would be good news, wouldn't

00:01:56.860 you? But no. According to the Washington Post and New York Times, that good news is filled with bad

00:02:02.700 news. And if you add enough bad news together, I guess it just looks like good news to people who

00:02:07.800 don't know any better, like me. But there's some core long-term employment numbers within those

00:02:15.920 numbers that don't look so good. So I think it is true that there's some internals that are weak.

00:02:22.240 But if you're an optimist, you look at the big numbers. If you're a pessimist, you dig in there

00:02:27.400 and find something to complain about. And they did. Amazingly, one quarter of all the people who

00:02:36.440 were employed in August in the United States worked from home. Worked from home. One quarter of the

00:02:44.040 United States worked from home. What? That's not going to change. I mean, the one quarter part will

00:02:51.680 change. But if you thought we were going back to a commuting society, I don't know. I mean, the biggest

00:03:01.540 reason to go back to that commuting way of life would be to get out of the house. So I guess there'll

00:03:07.560 be some of that. Here's my favorite, my favorite peak 2020 story. There was a professor of African

00:03:17.360 history at George Washington University. It matters to the story that she was a professor of American

00:03:25.580 history. And she recently admitted that she'd been living her life a lie, and that for all of her adult

00:03:32.860 life, she had claimed to be an African American woman, when in fact, she had zero African American, 0.96

00:03:42.340 I guess you would just say African background. She was literally just a white girl who had lived her

00:03:50.560 life, and looks exactly like a white girl, and lived her life just telling people she was black. 0.84

00:03:58.600 And people, and what's funny about this is that nobody wanted to challenge it, because the people she

00:04:09.440 was dealing with, nobody wants to be in that fight, right? If somebody says they're black, 0.99

00:04:15.820 it's not really up to somebody else to tell them they're not. And that's not really the conversation

00:04:22.840 you want to get into. You know you can't win. So I think, I think, but the fact that she took it so

00:04:31.160 far that she became a professor of African American history, and you have to ask yourself,

00:04:38.020 could a real white person get hired to be a professor of African history? I don't know what

00:04:46.040 the hiring practices are, but if I had to venture a guess, I would say you really couldn't get hired

00:04:53.560 for that job, as I understand the world and the way it works. I don't think you get hired for that

00:05:00.260 job unless they think you're African American. And I can just wonder what that job interview looked

00:05:05.920 like. It's like, yeah, yeah, I'm African American, and I'd like to be a professor of African history.

00:05:12.440 And you can see the administrators, whoever's doing the hiring, saying,

00:05:17.420 I really want to say something right now, such as, you're obviously not black, 1.00

00:05:28.460 but I could be wrong about that. And I'm not going to take a 1% chance of being wrong, because,

00:05:36.260 you know, it is true that people can look different from their ethnicity. That's a real thing.

00:05:42.440 It's just, it wasn't the thing in this case. So everything about that story is hilarious,

00:05:48.640 in the sense of really understanding where we're at and how humans are wired.

00:05:55.440 All right, my favorite other story of the day. I'm typically not happy about somebody getting gunned

00:06:03.680 down. Usually that's a bad thing, but not in this case. If the person is Michael Forrest

00:06:11.240 right now, it's a bad thing. It's a bad thing. It's a bad thing. It's a bad thing. It's a bad thing.

00:06:17.440 If you've ever watched Beavis and Butthead, you know Cornolio, this guy's cousin. And anyway,

00:06:25.000 he was the guy who allegedly, allegedly and admittedly, shot the Trump supporter who I guess was a

00:06:34.120 pro-police person. Now think about this. This guy murdered somebody who was demonstrating in favor of

00:06:45.100 police. The police show up. How happy are they to shoot this guy? Now, what was not reported in the

00:06:54.900 story is how many bullet holes are in Michael Forrest Reinhold? How many bullet holes do you

00:07:02.900 think he has in them? Well, we'll probably hear a lot about it because I assume there'll be a mass

00:07:08.860 protest because isn't that what happens when someone gets shot by the police? Don't we have a mass

00:07:18.100 protest to demonstrate against police brutality? Oh, wait, let me check his... Nope, nope, not for him.

00:07:29.820 Turns out we don't have a mass protest for a murderous white man. Now, I would like to 0.95

00:07:40.100 see if I can crawl a little bit closer to getting canceled.

00:07:43.540 My trick here is that if I only go a little bit each time, it'll be hard to cancel me for a specific

00:07:51.320 thing because it'll just be, oh, but not that one thing you said. That just moved it 1%. We're really

00:07:58.500 waiting for the one we can nail you on. But we know it's coming. All right, so here's me getting a

00:08:04.500 little closer to the cancellation. If you knew there were two groups of people, let's say in a country or

00:08:11.580 anywhere else, and the only difference, let's say the only difference between the two groups is that

00:08:17.960 one of them idolized its criminals and the other said it's a good day when their criminals get shot 0.99

00:08:26.280 and killed. Which of those two groups will do better in society?

00:08:32.060 Would it be... Would it be the group that keeps as heroes criminals? Or would it be the group that says,

00:08:44.340 thank you for shooting our criminals? One of those two groups is going to be more successful.

00:08:50.660 So keep that in mind. And I've said before that we should stop sorting the world into ethnicity and 0.97

00:09:02.480 gender. Instead, we should sort the world into strategy. Very much the way we're looking at 1.00

00:09:09.840 the coronavirus response. Is anybody looking at the coronavirus response and saying,

00:09:15.660 how did the black people do? No. No. That's quite appropriately, that's not a question. Is anybody

00:09:27.760 looking at the coronavirus responses across countries and saying, how'd the Asians do? Not exactly.

00:09:37.120 Because it's not really an appropriate question. What we are asking is, how did this strategy work?

00:09:43.620 How did the Swedish strategy work? How did the U.S. strategy work? How did Taiwan or New Zealand's

00:09:52.380 strategy work? Isn't that the right way to look at it? To look at what people did. And if you did these

00:10:00.260 things, did it work better than the people who did these things? That is a productive way to look at

00:10:06.240 the world. But when we're looking at our own citizens and who's succeeding and who isn't, we don't do that.

00:10:12.260 We don't look at the ones who have good strategy and say, all right, let's just look at the ones with

00:10:17.740 good strategy. Now, if you took all the people with good strategy and within the group of good

00:10:24.780 strategy, the black people, for example, let's say they weren't doing as well. Well, now you've got a 1.00

00:10:35.100 racism, I would say. It could be systemic racism. It could be ordinary racism against an individual.

00:10:43.120 But if they're using the same strategy and they're getting different outcomes, that would be the most

00:10:48.680 worrisome thing. But if people are getting different outcomes with completely different strategies,

00:10:55.060 why are we even talking about their ethnicity? How does that even come into the conversation?

00:11:00.180 What does their gender have to do with it if they're doing different things? 1.00

00:11:07.460 You've got to do the same thing or else you can't be

00:11:09.720 analyzed for whether racism is in that equation. It's always in the equation, but identifying it

00:11:17.460 is hard unless you isolate the other variables. So here's another funny thing. We'll get to the

00:11:23.420 the hoax of the day in a little bit. B Machiavelli on Twitter had this funny tweet. He said,

00:11:35.340 I'm voting twice, once in the polls for Biden and once in the booth for Trump. I think that's going

00:11:42.620 to describe a lot of people. And he showed a picture of himself wearing a Biden hat on the outside,

00:11:47.820 but under his jacket was a Trump shirt. And I thought to myself, I think I'm going to get a

00:11:55.320 Biden hat. Because if you're going out in public, a Biden hat would work a little bit like a hard hat,

00:12:02.620 wouldn't it? You wear a hard hat into a construction zone because you don't want heavy objects to hit

00:12:08.540 you in the head. If you go into a public place in 2020, you also don't want something to hit you in

00:12:16.280 the head. Because it turns out that being in any kind of a crowded situation in 2020, it's probably

00:12:22.780 a riot or something that's going to become one. And you are worried about getting hit in the head.

00:12:29.780 So you can't protect yourself completely. But I would wear a Biden baseball cap. It would greatly

00:12:37.700 reduce the odds of me getting hit in the head in public. So it's like a hard hat.

00:12:41.660 Okay. And somebody else said, I think it was Brian Rosen said, this frame, Biden in the streets and

00:12:54.160 Trump between the sheets. I modified his statement there to add between Biden in the streets and

00:13:01.100 Trump between the sheets. All right. So that's funny. Another funny story is there was an American 1.00

00:13:13.200 who was tricked into writing Russian disinformation. So it was some guy who was at a work, but he wanted

00:13:21.620 to be a writer. And he saw a publication called Peace Data. You know, the prestigious publication,

00:13:29.300 Peace Data, you probably subscribe to it, don't you? I mean, who hasn't read a copy of Peace Data,

00:13:37.180 that well-known publication? And the so-called editor, who was not a real person, he was actually

00:13:44.240 a computer-generated photo, which is scary because it looks exactly like a person. And that whoever was

00:13:52.580 behind the fake identity contacted him and paid him a few hundred dollars per article to write articles

00:13:58.420 that apparently they would select to be pro-Russian propaganda. Now, apparently the same Russian troll 0.73

00:14:08.520 farm that did the Facebook ads is associated with this disinformation. And I think to myself,

00:14:17.420 the funniest thing about the Russian troll farm is how bad they were and how completely ineffective 1.00

00:14:25.400 they were. Yeah, they existed. Yes, there seems to be good evidence that they made memes that were 0.93

00:14:32.560 interfering with the election. But they were so bad, the memes. They look like, I've said this many

00:14:38.360 times, they look like a high school project. And they didn't even put much money into them. And they

00:14:43.720 didn't even persuade in the same direction. They were completely amateurish work. And now they've added

00:14:50.520 to this hiring 26-year-olds to write articles for a publication that nobody reads. Peace data.

00:14:59.240 And I think to myself, is this really the finest Russian disinformation? Or is it disinformation

00:15:09.640 to get caught doing something that's so amateurish that when you catch them, you say, well, I guess we

00:15:16.620 don't have to worry about Russia. I mean, look how easy they were to catch. Look how weak their effort 0.87

00:15:21.940 was. But are they so clever that they actually have a super clever thing that's going on that

00:15:27.960 they're diverting our attention? And we'd never see it because they've acted so intentionally stupid 1.00

00:15:33.000 on this other one. Well, I don't know. I don't know. I'm not smart enough to know if this is a 0.99

00:15:39.020 super clever diversion. Or if Russia is just really, really, really bad at interfering with

00:15:47.460 elections. I don't want to brag. But I could interfere with our election better all by myself.

00:15:55.440 I wouldn't even need a, you know, the KGB, whoever they are, the intelligence agency of the

00:16:01.860 of Russia, I wouldn't even need their help. They could say, we'll give you a few hundred dollars if

00:16:08.520 you don't say, yeah, keep it. I got this. I could interfere with an election so much better than

00:16:15.420 Russia. Even Howard Kurtz is calling President Trump's piece, or at least the, whoever did the

00:16:24.340 title to the piece, called it a masterstroke when he suggested voting twice. Now, I feel as if I was

00:16:33.700 one of the first people to be on to this method, which is the president says, and how many times have I

00:16:40.280 said exactly this, he'll say something that is a little bit wrong, but it's the wrongness, or a lot

00:16:47.960 wrong, it's the wrongness that makes you unable to look away. If he said things that were ordinary, you'd

00:16:55.380 say, okay, fine, and then you'd go on with your business. But if he says something that you know to be

00:17:00.280 wrong, or dangerous, or provocative, or just too far over the line, you can't look away. All of your

00:17:08.320 attention will go to that thing, even if you don't want it to, even if you know it's a trick, it's just

00:17:14.300 good technique. And so Howard Kurtz has called out in his article, and I think he's completely right,

00:17:22.580 that when the president suggested that maybe you should do a mail-in vote, and then go vote in person

00:17:26.880 anyway. And then cheekily, he suggested that you couldn't do it anyway. So even if you tried to

00:17:34.540 break the law, it wouldn't be possible, because the people who oppose the president have told us

00:17:41.340 it's not possible. They would immediately flag it as, oh, no, you've already voted by mail.

00:17:47.260 You don't need to vote by machine. But your common sense and everything you know about the government,

00:17:54.940 everything you know about human beings, everything you know about complicated situations, everything

00:18:00.540 you know about bureaucracy, everything you know about politics, is screaming in your head,

00:18:06.540 this mail-in vote thing is a problem. And so the president makes you think about that problem,

00:18:14.680 and also gives you a specific challenge. Do you think you could vote twice? And I'll tell you,

00:18:21.620 I don't think there's anybody on either side who doesn't think that you could vote twice. Is there?

00:18:28.840 Is there even one person in the United States who is such a simpleton that they believe you couldn't 0.78

00:18:35.580 vote twice? You could vote twice. Don't do it. I think it's a federal offense, right? Sounds like a bad 0.76

00:18:43.180 deal. But if you had, let's say, mailed your ballot not too long ago, I'm not sure when the mailing

00:18:49.620 deadline is. But if you'd mailed your ballot not too long ago, do you think that somebody at the

00:18:56.140 voting booth or the voting area would have in their extensively accurate records that your ballot

00:19:03.220 got counted? I don't think so. So it's kind of brilliant the president has made people think

00:19:09.720 about this and makes his point well taken. I hope that it doesn't cause people to vote twice

00:19:16.980 and go to jail or even just ruin the election. You don't want that. So that's why only Trump would

00:19:25.900 even say something like that, because it's so dangerous that you say to yourself, ah, but how many

00:19:32.720 times has the president done something that was dangerous that worked out fine? He kind of does

00:19:38.500 it a lot. I think I'll drone Salomon A. No, you can't do that. Okay, that worked. I think I'll move

00:19:45.400 the embassy to Jerusalem. You can't. Okay, that worked. I think I'll say the Golan Heights belongs

00:19:52.740 to Israel. You can't. Okay, that seemed to work okay. You can't start a trade war. Okay, China seems

00:20:00.160 to be getting flexible now. I guess you can. So every time he does something that's way too

00:20:04.460 dangerous, fairly consistently it seems to work out, which means that he has a better sense of what

00:20:10.860 is really dangerous and what is it so far. All right, but I, and the people who are saying that there's

00:20:21.360 no history of mail fraud in this country probably are right in terms of big enough fraud to sway an

00:20:29.480 election. But we know at the same time that there's definite fraud, you know, individual cases that

00:20:35.500 can be verified. In the mail, in the news recently, there was somebody who admitted he was part of

00:20:42.400 organized efforts to change mail votes. So we know that it happens on the small, but the argument is

00:20:50.500 that it's never happened enough in history where there was mail-in to make a difference. To which I

00:20:57.060 say, uh, that doesn't make sense. That's not an argument. It's not an argument that it hasn't

00:21:03.540 been a problem in the past because 2020 is not like the past. It's not like it in terms of what

00:21:10.140 kind of mail-in votes it will be. It's different if you request a ballot, you're probably a real person.

00:21:16.060 If they just send you ballots, well, you're going to get somebody else's ballot in the mail

00:21:20.000 and you may or may not fill it out. So there are lots of weaknesses that in 2020 that just wouldn't

00:21:27.360 have existed before. What about the states, several states who have had, uh, mailing mail mail in voting

00:21:35.140 for a while? Did they get it right on the first try? Uh, probably not. Probably took a little bit of

00:21:42.920 scrubbing the database. Probably had to set up some systems to double check stuff. If you did all that,

00:21:49.480 you might be in good shape, but we haven't done all that. And we don't have any baseline for which

00:21:56.340 to compare our results this year. The one thing that's the biggest change this year is that no

00:22:03.060 matter what the results are, mail-in vote or even regular vote, you're not going to know if that's

00:22:10.160 what it should have been. Imagine, if you will, that you're some state and it's not 2020. It's

00:22:17.040 sometime in the not too distant past. You were thinking about going to mail-in votes.

00:22:22.460 You could look at all your prior elections where people mailed and voted in person. You can say,

00:22:28.060 okay, if our mail-in votes come in really close to what we voted in person, then we'll say, all right,

00:22:36.700 that looks like the mail-ins and the in-person were kind of close. But if it's 2020 and it's a

00:22:43.740 coronavirus year, you don't know what's going to happen and how that would compare to any prior

00:22:49.520 year. So this is the most dangerous situation because the mail-in vote could say almost anything

00:22:57.000 and you would have a poll that supports it because the polls in many cases are false. So there will

00:23:03.280 always be at least one poll that supports, no matter what the outcome is, there will be at least

00:23:09.340 one poll that says, yeah, look, we predicted it. It's not that uncommon for only one or two polls

00:23:15.380 to be close. This is just like that. Yeah, it's a Biden by 10. Look at my poll. I've got a poll that

00:23:22.700 said he was going to win this state by 10. There you go. The other polls didn't say that, but that's

00:23:28.660 not unusual. It's not unusual that only a few polls are really good and other ones are not. So there's no

00:23:35.480 baseline. How would you know this is false? Anyway, so that's happening. I would like to, before we talk

00:23:45.360 about the new hoax, I would like to remind you, and there will probably only be a few people on this

00:23:52.760 periscope who ever heard me say this because it was so long ago. Can you, in the comments, confirm

00:24:00.360 confirm that maybe 10 or 15 years ago, I first started saying the following, you know, all those

00:24:10.260 scientific studies that show that moderate drinking is good for your health? I alone on planet earth

00:24:18.180 said, yeah, there are a lot of those studies. They keep, they keep producing a new one. And, and each

00:24:23.860 time, each time it seems to show that moderate drinking is actually good for you. And what did

00:24:30.700 I say? Fake. Every one of the studies, fake. I said that 10 to 15 years ago. Did somebody else

00:24:41.200 said that too? Oh, good. We've got some confirmation. So there, there are people on, on the, you know,

00:24:49.200 the comments who are saying that they confirmed that I've been saying for years, that those studies

00:24:54.020 would be debunked. And today the wall street journal, uh, in an article saying that men should

00:25:00.520 not have more than one drink per day. That's a new lower standard. Um, the article just brushes aside

00:25:07.580 those prior studies and says that more recent studies have debunked them. And it was a selection

00:25:13.920 bias problem. That's right. It was a selection bias. They were picking people who probably had a

00:25:21.100 Mediterranean diet is what the wall street journal speculated. So the people who knew that, who knew

00:25:29.520 it from the first moment that it was fake news, those are the people you should listen to in the

00:25:36.500 future. Now, if I'd only ever gotten one prediction, right, well, that doesn't mean much, but look at the

00:25:43.300 body of my predictions, but especially look at the ones where I've debunked a news story, no matter how

00:25:50.400 much evidence there was for that news story that I debunked it publicly and was right. So, you know,

00:25:58.840 you were still looking at the Cuban, uh, sonic weapon or the Cuban embassy sonic weapon. I said from

00:26:06.000 moment one, there's no sonic weapon. None has been found. It's been a long time. I think we would

00:26:12.560 have found the sonic weapon by now. When the, uh, the shooting happened in Las Vegas, I, and even

00:26:19.500 people were saying it's ISIS. I said on day one, this is not ISIS. ISIS claimed credit for it. I still

00:26:28.160 said in public, even though ISIS has a long history of not claiming credit for things, unless it was

00:26:34.620 pretty real, might've been wanting one exception. I still said, even though they've claimed credit, it's not

00:26:40.860 ISIS. And it wasn't. So look at my record. And now let's talk about this newest, um, hoax. So the

00:26:50.560 newest hoax comes from the Atlantic, uh, Jeffrey Goldberg, I guess wrote it. And the claim is that

00:26:56.740 there are four anonymous sources who said that Trump didn't want to go to the event in France to honor

00:27:05.340 the, uh, service people for world war two, I guess, or was it one? But anyway, he canceled the visit

00:27:11.640 and they're saying it's because he didn't want to get his hair messed up. So that's the first part.

00:27:17.500 And then the second part, allegedly, uh, I can't believe they would even write this bullshit. All right. 0.99

00:27:25.080 They claimed that Trump labeled as losers, Marines who died in the battle of Belleau Wood during world war

00:27:32.720 one referring to the war. Um, referring to the war, Trump allegedly asked who were the good guys in

00:27:39.040 this war and that, uh, and he called them losers and suckers if they were, if they died in the war. Now, 0.97

00:27:48.800 if you can't tell that that's not true, if you can't tell that's not true, just by listening to it,

00:27:57.680 then I've taught you nothing. But I will, I will, uh, reiterate the lesson here. Here are all the

00:28:05.200 signs that this is an obvious hoax. And there were so many of them. I ran out of, I literally ran out of

00:28:11.680 room writing down all the obvious flags for this big hoax. Number one, the timing, the timing,

00:28:19.280 you know, close to an election definitely ramps up the chance that somebody would make something up,

00:28:25.920 especially if Biden looks like he's in a little bit of trouble. If Biden were, had a commanding lead,

00:28:33.280 you wouldn't see as much fake news because they wouldn't need it. So in this situation,

00:28:38.400 do they need fake news to beat Trump? And I would say yes, because the real news isn't going to be

00:28:44.660 negative enough. They needed fake news and they needed it now. Now that alone doesn't make it fake

00:28:51.020 news, right? That should just, that should just make your antenna start vibrating. It's like, all

00:28:56.300 right, that's not enough to tell me if it's real or not real, but I'm on the lookout. All right, so

00:29:02.620 that's your first flag. Um, number two, we know that, uh, the Democrats have admitted that they're going

00:29:11.800 to be using artificial intelligence to figure out how to manipulate and brainwash the masses. They don't

00:29:18.660 use those words, but as clearly as I'm expressing it, they have expressed it. They just use different

00:29:25.000 words. Now, what would it look like if an AI came up with a line of attack? What would it look like?

00:29:35.140 Have you seen the articles about AI trying to write a blog post and it actually fooled people? And you can

00:29:42.140 look at it and you can see that when an artificial intelligence tries to write an article pretending to be a

00:29:48.460 human, it does have some tells in it. And the first tell is that it seems to be based on frequency

00:29:55.980 of keywords. In other words, if it picks up a tendency, it doesn't have any intelligence really

00:30:02.480 on that, but it just, it picks up the tendency. So, okay, people are talking about this, this word

00:30:09.860 gets used a lot. I'll throw that into the sentence. I'll make grammar that makes sense and boom, it looks

00:30:14.960 like a person said it. So here's, here's the tell that this wasn't human generated. Or if it was

00:30:25.020 human generated, somebody who's not good at it. And what I mean is not good at writing. Okay. So

00:30:33.120 in order to create a good hoax, the best kind of hoax is one, I'll wind back to my point. We'll get to a

00:30:41.760 point here. A good hoax is one that only the person who is the subject of the hoax believes.

00:30:48.260 That's your best hoax. Because if it's something that everybody believed, that's pretty rare,

00:30:54.500 first of all. But you want something that only the subject believes. I'll give you an example.

00:31:00.440 Let's say I was such a narcissist that I believe that even at my current age and with my current

00:31:06.900 unpleasant look, that I could be a model because I believe, and I'm the only one who believes this,

00:31:14.120 that I'm really just so sexy that, yeah, I'm an older guy and I don't have anything that a model

00:31:21.000 would typically have. I have glasses, I'm bald, you know, blah, blah, blah. But a perfect hoax for me,

00:31:28.640 if I were believing that I was model beautiful and nobody else did, would be to call me under a fake

00:31:35.840 name and say, hey, you know, you don't know me, but I'm a model agent. I'd like to hire you to be a

00:31:42.060 famous model. Now, the reason that's a good hoax is I'm the only person who would fall for that

00:31:47.180 in this scenario. Everybody else who was watching the hoax would know in a heartbeat it's not true

00:31:53.360 because just look at me. So I'm the only person who would have the blind spot. That's a good

00:31:59.160 hoax. And here's how that blind spot fits with the AI and with the bad writer concept.

00:32:09.420 The initial, you want to build a hoax around a kernel of truth. And here are the kernels of truth.

00:32:17.220 Number one, can you believe that the president would say something unpleasant about somebody?

00:32:22.800 Yes. As a general statement, the president could insult people. Would you believe that he might

00:32:29.880 say something crueler behind closed doors than he might say in public? Yes. Completely believable that

00:32:37.900 anybody really would be a little more unguarded, not in public. But here's the part. Remember where

00:32:46.080 Trump said something about McCain being captured and prisoner of war? I forget the exact words, but

00:32:52.320 Trump quipped, and probably wishes he hadn't, that he prefers people who didn't get caught.

00:32:59.100 Now, here's the trick. If you have a sense of humor, you know that that was nothing but a joke.

00:33:07.200 And it was a joke about McCain. It wasn't a joke about people in the service. It wasn't a joke about

00:33:13.760 prisoners of war. But it so easily became that when the public got a hold of it, that it was probably a

00:33:20.260 mistake. He shouldn't have done that joke. The first thing you need to know is that one third of the

00:33:25.060 public doesn't understand a joke, doesn't even recognize it. And you saw that in that story,

00:33:31.960 a lot of the coverage failed to understand that it was a joke. Somebody says it was a Dave Chappelle

00:33:38.600 joke. No, it was a Chris Rock joke. Trump actually used the same joke, and I don't know if he saw it from

00:33:45.360 Chris Rock. I think Chris Rock did it first, about McCain. And he said, you know, he's a hero, but

00:33:51.260 some version of, you know, I prefer people who don't get caught. Now, the reason it's funny is

00:33:58.180 because it's terrible. It's the terribleness of it that makes it funny. Because when you're thinking,

00:34:05.200 and your head is in the American prisoner of war, military hero model, so your brain is thinking,

00:34:12.900 you know, the greatest amount of respect, and then you hear somebody make this clever witticism that

00:34:18.220 takes this greatest amount of respect you could ever have, and reduces it down to, I like people

00:34:24.220 who didn't get caught. It just turns them into somebody who was bumbling, is hilarious. And it's

00:34:30.320 hilarious because it's so inappropriate. If you take out the fact that it's inappropriate,

00:34:35.800 it's not a joke. It's only a joke because it's inappropriate, and overtly inappropriate in a way

00:34:44.380 that's intended and designed to make you laugh. Now, if you didn't know that Trump was doing the

00:34:49.480 same joke, literally the same joke, not almost the same joke, the same joke as Chris Rock. And he

00:34:58.940 delivers with a, you know, straight face most of the time. He doesn't laugh at his own jokes. So the

00:35:04.940 news was like, we're not sure. So it allowed a third of the people to believe that he really

00:35:10.780 said that, and really meant it, and he had some animus against even a prisoner of war that he would

00:35:16.780 speak disrespectfully for. Now, if you believe that that was true, and you didn't understand that it

00:35:24.220 was always a joke, and it was always just about McCain, it was never about service people. If you

00:35:30.540 didn't know his joke, how easy would it be for you to believe that he said a similarly disrespectful

00:35:37.420 thing in another circumstance? It's really easy. So if you are going to design, let's say you are an AI,

00:35:46.860 and you are going to design a hoax, you would start with one that's got a little bit of confirmation

00:35:52.920 bias already built in. The part where people are already primed to think that Trump would say

00:35:59.320 something like that behind closed doors. So that's perfect. But here's the tell that it was an AI or a

00:36:08.840 human who's really bad at writing. A good human writer would have known it was a joke and would have made

00:36:17.960 the new thing also a joke. That's the part that's missing. If this story, this obvious hoax that was written in the

00:36:28.920 Atlantic, if this obvious hoax had gone the extra mile and turned this new allegation that's obviously didn't

00:36:37.560 happen, but if they put it in the form of a joke, they could have sold it. Because that's how you know it wasn't Trump.

00:36:45.460 Trump leaves a signature with these things. The joke. We just talked about Trump saying you should

00:36:51.960 vote twice. That has Trump's signature on it. You could take that story and remove it from Trump

00:37:00.180 and say, who said this? And most of the world would say, okay, that's funny because it's so inappropriate.

00:37:07.200 Why is it funny to say you should vote twice? Because it's so inappropriate. That's what's funny.

00:37:13.580 Is it funny to say that Trump likes people who didn't get caught? Very inappropriate. That's why

00:37:21.960 it's funny. The Trump sense of humor has a fingerprint to it that's sort of unmistakable if you're a good

00:37:29.660 writer. If you're an AI, you don't see it because you just see the keywords. If you're a bad writer or

00:37:37.500 you didn't know he meant it as a joke the first time you saw it, you would not make your hoax

00:37:42.560 include a joke either. Because you would think, well, it's more true to the original if I just play

00:37:50.000 it straight. But Trump doesn't. That's your biggest tell. So Trump would never just say a thing that

00:37:57.340 would get him. Obviously, if he had ever said that out loud, he would know that it would get back to

00:38:03.660 people. He would know it would be the end of his presidency if people believed it. So the odds of

00:38:10.400 him having said that are zero, essentially. All right, here's another, here's some more tells.

00:38:17.680 Number one, not number one, CNN is downplaying it. Okay, I looked on CNN's page because I thought,

00:38:26.160 okay, is this going to be like the major story? Because it's just like Red Me, it's like, oh, 0.52

00:38:32.900 we got another thing. Nope. CNN put it on the far right in one, no picture, just text, and just

00:38:43.500 treated it like an allegation. CNN did not pounce. Do you know why? Do you know why CNN did not pounce?

00:38:54.560 By the way, MSNBC did pounce. Do you know why CNN didn't pounce? Isn't it exactly, isn't it exactly

00:39:03.540 the right kind of story for CNN to pounce on? Can you think of anything that would be more red meat 0.93

00:39:09.640 for CNN than this story? And they didn't pounce on it. They're playing it a little bit soft. Now,

00:39:16.720 that may have changed even since I saw it this morning. But the initial reaction was to downplay it.

00:39:23.500 What does that tell you? It tells you they know it's not true, and they can't take another hit.

00:39:30.120 CNN is obviously wounded by all the fake news it has promoted, and it just can't take another hit.

00:39:38.520 And this one is so obviously not true that even CNN couldn't take a chance on it. That's another flag.

00:39:45.320 All right? The other flag is it's in the Atlantic. The Atlantic is not anything close to a credible

00:39:53.100 news organization. They would be closer to Russia today, closer to, I don't know, less credible than

00:40:02.120 the National Enquirer. Now, I don't know what they used to be, but in 2020, the Atlantic is a gigantic,

00:40:09.500 you know, flashing sign that says, whatever you read in here is not true. It's probably the most

00:40:15.660 fake news publication in America. Coincidence? Is it a coincidence that this did not appear in, say,

00:40:24.000 the New York Times? You know, it wasn't their scoop. It wasn't the scoop of, let's say,

00:40:30.620 even the Washington Post, as disreputable as they are. It had to be in the Atlantic,

00:40:35.640 because who else is going to publish four anonymous sources? You know, a basic journalist's standard

00:40:43.520 is if you can't get at least one person to go on the record. Maybe you don't publish that.

00:40:51.480 So anonymous sources is your, you know, of course, big red flag. The Atlantic, big red flag. The author,

00:40:58.960 Jeffrey Goldberg, big red flag. The fact that it was written like an AI or a bad writer, instead of

00:41:07.060 having that signature humor that Trump has, big red flag. The timing of it, big red flag. The fact

00:41:13.120 that Biden needs a Hail Mary pass to win, big red flag. I mean, this is just flags all the way. But here's

00:41:20.960 the most obvious one. It's a little too on the nose. It's a little too perfect. Have I told you that

00:41:28.540 if you hear, let's say there are two news stories. One news story is a shark attacks a surfer. Now,

00:41:36.800 if you heard that story, you'd say, well, it doesn't happen a lot, but that's a thing, you know,

00:41:41.500 that could happen. But let's say you heard this story. A man attacks a shark with just his bare teeth,

00:41:48.840 and he kills his shark by biting it to death. If you heard that story, would you need research to

00:41:55.760 know it's fake? You shouldn't. Immediately upon hearing it, you should say, ah, that just by its

00:42:04.040 nature, I know didn't happen. And the Trump story about the losers and the suckers, that has that 0.99

00:42:11.260 written all over it. It has the exact look of, yeah, no, a man bit a shark. No, seriously, seriously, 1.00

00:42:18.840 a man bit a shark, and he killed the shark with his jaws. He just, ironically, with his jaws,

00:42:25.960 he bit the shark to death. Yeah, that happened. That totally happened. You shouldn't need to do

00:42:31.760 research to know that that didn't happen. So this is in that class. All right.

00:42:38.200 All right. I got a few more. Oh, here's another one. One of the sources is Malcolm Nance. Now,

00:42:50.100 if you've never heard that name before, the only thing you need to know is if you were looking for

00:42:55.920 a big red flag that a story is not true, associating it with Malcolm Nance would be the biggest of the

00:43:03.600 big flags. There's no name, I don't think, I don't think there's another name in America

00:43:10.680 that would be less credible than Malcolm Nance. You can do your own Googling to find out why I'm

00:43:17.520 saying that. But just that, the fact that that's a source, if you knew nothing else, and you knew

00:43:24.260 he was the source, you should immediately discount this as ridiculous. How about the fact that even

00:43:31.120 John Bolton debunked it in his book? So part of the claim about why Trump didn't go to the ceremony,

00:43:37.800 the new claim is he didn't want to get his hair disheveled in the wind, which is ridiculous because

00:43:44.360 Trump does lots of outdoor events all the time. But the fact that Bolton tells a completely different

00:43:54.060 version of that story, and Bolton hates the president. Bolton doesn't like the president, and even he told a

00:44:00.100 completely different version. So if you know that part of the story almost certainly has to be false

00:44:06.620 because even Bolton told a different version, then the rest of it's false. Like if a big part of it

00:44:13.060 can be confirmed to not be true, and I think the John Bolton thing is about as close as you can get

00:44:18.620 to a confirmation, then, you know, no credibility for the rest. How about does it work? Let's talk about

00:44:29.200 whether the hoax will work. Here's the bad news. Yes. Yes, that hoax could actually cost Trump the

00:44:37.220 election. It's actually that powerful. It's as powerful as the fine people hoax, and it will work

00:44:43.400 the same way, which is that people who want to believe it's true are just going to believe it's

00:44:48.760 true, and there's nothing you can do to talk them out of it. Now, can you prove something didn't

00:44:54.040 happen? No, that's the beauty of this. You can't prove something didn't happen. You can't prove a

00:45:00.420 negative. You can sometimes prove things did happen, but it's not a thing to prove something

00:45:05.920 didn't happen. All you can know is that you don't have evidence. That's all you can know. You can't

00:45:11.020 prove it didn't happen, generally speaking. So it's sort of perfect that way.

00:45:15.320 Okay. I would expect that some number of people will believe this, and it will change their votes.

00:45:24.820 It could easily be powerful enough as a hoax to change the nature of the election. Now,

00:45:31.280 what do you do about it if you get wounded by a hoax and you have the entire media complex is not going

00:45:37.800 to debunk it? What do you do? Unfortunately, you just deal with it. It's a wound, and it's a real

00:45:46.940 one, and it's not going to go away. Now, the only way that this could go away is if something remarkable

00:45:53.780 happened, such as, let's say, all four people who were the sources came forward and said, no, no,

00:45:59.900 we just made it up. Now, that's not going to happen, but you can imagine some amazing scenario in

00:46:06.520 which maybe it all blows up. But assuming that it doesn't, because the fine people hoax is still

00:46:12.660 alive and well, even though it's the most widely debunked hoax in American history, nothing is more

00:46:19.140 debunked or more easily debunked because you could just show the actual transcript or show the video.

00:46:25.120 And still, it completely works. The reason the fine people hoax is so pervasive is that it works.

00:46:31.740 People do believe it, despite how easily it's debunked. This one is just like that. It's really

00:46:39.420 deadly, and it happens to graft a little too well to the president's biggest unexploited weakness.

00:46:49.040 If you found out that suddenly before the election, there was an artificial intelligence involved in a

00:46:54.980 campaign. And suddenly also, at about that same time you found that out, you found that they had

00:47:01.040 opened a new line of attack that was innovative. I would say this is an innovative attack, wouldn't

00:47:07.940 you? To go after the president's strength, because his strength is the military and law enforcement.

00:47:15.120 That's his strength. America, patriotism, service. So going after his strength is a non-obvious move.

00:47:24.720 Does a human come up with that? I don't know. It has a whiff of artificial intelligence. Because

00:47:34.620 artificial intelligence could pick a target that a human just wouldn't have seen. It would seem

00:47:39.960 invisible to you to go after his strength. But you're only looking to chop 2% off, remember? You're

00:47:48.220 not trying to change everybody's mind. And so a good hoax that goes against his strength

00:47:54.480 is a really solid play. It's, you know, it's despicable. It's unethical. It's immoral. It's all those

00:48:03.780 things. But it's really effective. So the fact that they went after his strength kind of tells me that

00:48:12.180 there's a little extra going on here. Maybe they've identified that it's the lowest information

00:48:20.440 voter. Now, I don't want to say something that's insulting to our heroes in the service.

00:48:31.040 But would you say that it might be true that they may be less into politics? In other words,

00:48:39.520 the younger you are, probably the less you're following things. If you're in the military,

00:48:43.740 you got better things to do. You're probably just following the surface stuff. You're not really

00:48:48.580 digging into the details. So by identifying a group that is somewhat isolated from the news,

00:48:55.040 if you can penetrate their isolation and get that rumor in there, nothing can get it out.

00:49:01.480 So the AI may have done two things. It may have found an attack place, sort of like the Death Star.

00:49:10.680 You know, you've all watched Star Wars. You know that there's just one weakness in the Death Star.

00:49:16.220 It could be that the AI found that one weakness, figured out how to exploit it with a targeted hoax,

00:49:24.240 but also may have found out that once you get the hoax in there, there's something about that

00:49:30.240 population that makes it harder to get rid of the hoax. Could be. It's also possible that because

00:49:37.380 there's so much emotional content evolved with our service people, especially families,

00:49:44.600 that it's just something that people can't think rationally about. It just has too much emotional

00:49:52.080 content. All right. So what would you do if you were the Trump campaign and you were the recipients of

00:49:59.840 this hoax and it worked? You would, of course, do all your denials and the president's doing that.

00:50:05.320 But because people don't believe the president, especially if they're anti-Trump, it doesn't

00:50:11.440 really help. The denials are not going to make much difference at all. And even the other people

00:50:16.240 saying, I was with him every minute, it never happened. Well, nobody's with anybody every minute.

00:50:23.060 So you could easily say, well, we don't know. So here's the only thing you could do. You have to

00:50:30.200 come up with your own hoax. That's just as bad. The only defense to this is offense. If Trump plays

00:50:38.780 defense, he loses. Trump on defense is not a good Trump. Trump on offense. Oh, that's a good Trump.

00:50:47.000 So Trump has to figure out how to go on offense. And even if you were succeeding in just changing the

00:50:53.720 focus of the news cycle, which we assume he will do, it's probably going to be an interesting day.

00:50:59.020 I'm sure President Trump will change the news cycle. That alone isn't enough because once that

00:51:04.680 stain gets in there, it's just not coming out. I mean, that hoax may have taken 2% right off of his

00:51:12.040 polling numbers. So I'm not going to recommend this. I'm just telling you the only response that

00:51:22.180 could work is an equally bad hoax about Biden that sticks. Now, you would have to design your

00:51:29.780 hoax as good as this one. This is a really well-designed hoax because as ridiculous as it is, 0.95

00:51:36.820 and as obviously fake as it is, it's only obviously fake to the people who are smart enough to know 0.75

00:51:43.380 that, and they're not the ones they're trying to influence. We are completely irrelevant. All of us

00:51:48.960 who know that it's a fake news story, we're not relevant because nobody listens to us. You know,

00:51:55.480 we're like the boy who cried wolf or something. We can scream all day. Nobody's going to listen.

00:52:01.780 So if Trump could do the same thing, it would be devastating. Now, if you were to design a hoax for

00:52:08.720 Biden, you would do the same process. You would find something that had not yet been exploited. So

00:52:15.200 it's fresh, you know, something that's new, something that has a great emotional content. And if you heard

00:52:20.980 it, you could never be objective about him again. So, and I think that's been tried before. So

00:52:28.660 accusations about, let's say, an accusation about Biden and an underage female. Now, this didn't

00:52:38.960 happen. As far as I know, I'm not trying to start a rumor. I'm giving you an example. If you believe

00:52:46.280 that Biden is a little touchy, and even his own supporters would admit that, if you agree that he

00:52:52.940 he sniffs a little bit too much hair, and I think even his supporters would say, yeah, there's a

00:52:59.200 little hair sniffing we're not comfortable with. So you start with something that people are biased

00:53:03.780 to believe. And then you add the thing that is purely ridiculous. So a purely ridiculous thing 0.96

00:53:11.080 might be, for example, that there was some underage girl that he did some bad thing with. Now, it's one 0.99

00:53:18.400 thing to hear that maybe something happened with a staffer, the Tara Reid thing. But still, those are

00:53:24.320 adults. And as bad as that is, in the Me Too way, if you believe that it's true, it's still adults.

00:53:32.460 And that doesn't hit you the way anything would if a child was involved. So that would be the response.

00:53:40.760 But that would be unethical and immoral, but it would totally work, just as the losers and suckers hoax 0.99

00:53:48.560 will work. Here's a question for you. How are we going to avoid a civil war? 0.99

00:54:00.420 How are we going to avoid a civil war? What would it take to not have violence after the election?

00:54:07.640 Here are some things we can be sure of. We can be sure that no matter what the result,

00:54:14.560 people won't be happy. Let's say if Trump loses narrowly, or just loses at all, would Trump supporters

00:54:25.760 likely start a revolution? Let's say they didn't even believe the vote. They thought the vote was a

00:54:32.120 little rigged. Would Trump supporters go to the streets and cause a revolution, like a civil war?

00:54:39.420 And the answer is no. No, I don't think they would. Because they might take it to the Supreme Court,

00:54:45.320 they might want the legal system to be involved, they might scream like crazy, but they're not going

00:54:51.020 to become Antifa. They're not going to try to overthrow the country. But what if it goes the

00:54:59.180 other way? If it goes the other way, will the Biden people, if they lose, narrowly or not narrowly,

00:55:07.660 will they just go quietly? No. No. No, of course not. So the way it's shaping up is a Trump win,

00:55:16.800 followed by a civil war. And that could last months or whatever. Now, I don't know how much

00:55:23.000 violence that means. It could mean just civil unrest and more businesses getting burned,

00:55:27.660 which would be plenty bad. But certainly, we have a real dangerous situation.

00:55:35.200 What would it take to fix that? We can actually see the fuse burning. It's like you can see the pile of

00:55:44.940 dynamite. And it's November 4th, let's say, the day after the election. And then you can see the

00:55:51.720 fuse, which goes all the way to today. And you can see the fuse is lit. We're watching it in real

00:55:58.180 time. The fuse is actually lit. What's going to stop it from turning into a civil war? And so

00:56:08.180 I will take that as my task. The only thing that would change it is a feat of persuasion that

00:56:21.080 deactivated the bomb prior to the civil war. Could there be such a strong bit of persuasion

00:56:32.520 persuasion that you could actually, you know, completely snuff out a civil war? Because that

00:56:40.320 would be some pretty big persuasion. And so I don't know, but we'll see. We'll give it a try. So I'm

00:56:50.340 going to make that my to-do, my personal task to save the country. Not single-handedly, of course,

00:56:57.920 but rather to think a little bit more productively about what it would take to change the mindset in

00:57:04.800 America to productive. What would it take? Now, somebody says Kanye. Yeah, Kanye is, Kanye, maybe he

00:57:15.420 would be important for healing the country. But I think that it's going to require something more

00:57:21.660 than that, something that we haven't seen, something we haven't thought of yet. And I will take that as

00:57:25.960 my, oh, there is a story about Biden groping a Secret Service agent's girlfriend. But again,

00:57:34.260 that's a story about adults. And as bad as it might be, if it were true, don't know if it is,

00:57:40.920 as bad as that would be, still isn't as bad as this losers and suckers hoax against Trump. Because 0.99

00:57:49.360 that one really gets, that gets to your core. Whereas accusations about adults, no matter how bad,

00:57:56.260 you just say, it's a bad world. We wish it didn't happen. You just have a different feeling about it.

00:58:04.500 All right. Switch off the internet. I believe that there is a way to go here. The ideal way to go

00:58:15.500 would be for the black voters to realize that they've been had. The Antifa is not on their side.

00:58:27.340 And I don't think that's far away. If you could convince black voters, and when I say convince, 0.95

00:58:34.200 I don't mean lie to them. I mean, it's fairly obvious. So what I'm talking about is actually

00:58:41.240 observably true, that Antifa is not on the side of black Americans. Black Americans, for the most 0.94

00:58:48.840 part, would like prosperity and jobs and education, safety, you know, the ability to be, not be afraid

00:58:56.020 of police. They'd like a lot of stuff that Republicans want to give them. Republicans want to give them

00:59:04.020 the things they want. Antifa wants to take it all away, wants to take it away from rich white people,

00:59:12.380 wants to take it away from poor black people, wants to take everything away. And if you can make the 1.00

00:59:18.920 case that Antifa is the enemy of black America, and that the Black Lives Matter movement is just a 0.95

00:59:28.800 corrupt thing that's working against the interest of black voters, that could be something. And if you look 0.97

00:59:37.440 at the support numbers from African Americans for President Trump, you can see that a lot of black voters

00:59:45.300 have, let's say, emerged from the fog of fake news, and said to themselves some version of, wait a minute,

00:59:54.760 why would I believe these guys? Let me just put it in the form of a question. Just imagine you're a black 1.00

01:00:05.380 American voter, you've been involved with the protests, and you suddenly have this thought about

01:00:10.900 Antifa. Why would I believe those guys? What is it about those guys that would make me believe that

01:00:18.960 they have my best interests? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. In fact, literally everything about Antifa

01:00:26.760 says that they're going to screw you next, because that's their whole deal. Their deal is not to

01:00:33.640 create a society where everybody's doing well. They're literally looking to rip everything apart.

01:00:41.300 And that means your stuff too. So black Americans, you would lose your stuff, and you would lose it fast. 1.00

01:00:48.960 Under your own partner's, Antifa's preference. All right. 0.99

01:00:59.340 I'm looking at your comments. And BLM the same as Marxists. Yeah. And let me work on fixing this whole 0.73

01:01:12.760 protest thing. And I'll get back to you with some ideas on that. What if he croaks after winning?

01:01:21.140 Somebody's saying to Biden. Well, he will die after winning. We just don't know how long it'll take. 0.78

01:01:30.940 Stop the money. Yeah. You know, if you've been watching the internet, you know that there's some

01:01:36.960 thought that the guy who killed the guy in Portland, that things look a little more organized than you

01:01:47.360 would expect, meaning that there may be either some foreign or domestic military-style organization

01:01:54.580 involved with the Antifa stuff. I'm not sure I'm buying that completely. But there's enough evidence,

01:02:01.520 and there are enough indications that I'd say it's a 65% chance that the Antifa, BLM stuff is not

01:02:12.360 American organic. So I don't think it's an organic movement. We just don't know who's pulling the

01:02:19.260 strings. The president mentioned shadowy groups. And then the press tried to make him look like a kook

01:02:27.160 for saying that. But the truth is, I don't think anybody knows. It's just obvious that there's some

01:02:33.420 kind of organization behind the scenes. And I don't think it's a coincidence that we don't see the

01:02:38.780 leaders. The fact that we don't see the leaders of these groups, and that they don't have a leadership

01:02:45.380 structure, suggests that the real leaders are hidden. And why would the real leaders be hidden?

01:02:51.160 Well, the obvious explanation is, they're not on our side, if you know what I mean. All right.

01:03:02.260 High odds he gets COVID soon, somebody's talking about. Well, the slaughter meter, because of this

01:03:07.920 latest hoax, which is a good one, I'd say that sets the slaughter meter back to, I'd say, 50%. 0.59

01:03:17.160 So, and of course, this won't last. You know, there will be 50 more outrages between now and

01:03:25.700 election day. But the slaughter meter only is a snapshot in time that if things went the way

01:03:31.160 they're going now, in other words, if people believe this losers and suckers hoax, that would 0.97

01:03:38.580 take probably Trump's chances down by 50%. It's that strong. It's as strong as the fine people hoax. 0.98

01:03:46.160 And the fine people hoax is the only reason Trump doesn't have a, you know, a massive lead in just

01:03:52.960 the polls. It's the only reason. Because as I've told you before, there are lots of complaints about

01:03:57.540 Trump. But if you took away the fine people hoax, all of the other ones are only sort of speculative.

01:04:04.140 It's like, well, I think he was thinking this when he said that. Or I think he had a bad feeling when

01:04:09.100 he suggested this. The fine people hoax is the only one where people say, I saw it with my own eyes.

01:04:14.660 I heard it with my own ears, even though they didn't. They were hoaxed by a fake edit.

01:04:24.120 Somebody says, now finally we're talking treason and the death penalty. Yeah, there is something

01:04:29.740 going on that looks like professionals at work trying to overthrow the country. We just don't

01:04:35.020 know exactly who's behind all that. I don't even know if they're Americans.

01:04:39.280 Trump offers VP to Biden. What? That's the worst idea I've heard today. What would the October

01:04:51.740 surprise be? You know, it's almost like we're running out of surprises, aren't we?

01:04:55.320 Oh yeah, and then Biden shook hands when he got off the plane against all recommendations.

01:05:05.880 All right, that's all I got for you today. I will talk to you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 04, 2020

Episode 1113 Scott Adams： How to Know the ＂Losers and Suckers＂ HOAX is Fake News, How to Avoid a Civil War, Voting Twice

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