Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1120 Scott Adams： Double-Nobel Prize Nominations, Antifa Allied With Shitler, NFL Cancels Itself, Mueller Phone Wipes

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00:01:16.920 now. Delightful. So it's September 11th, as you know. And you know how sometimes bad news

00:01:35.340 turns into accidental good news? You know, the bad part is still there, but there's something good

00:01:41.680 that comes out of it, and vice versa. You know, you never know what kind of unintended consequences

00:01:48.820 anything has. As horrible as 9-11 was, you know, we're all on the same page on that. As horrible

00:01:58.020 as 9-11 was, think about how important it is today. Like, literally today. Think about what

00:02:08.400 the United States is going through as it approaches the election. We are in full-out divisive mode.

00:02:18.400 And we're running at 100 miles an hour. Divisive, divisive, divisive. You know, it's like two muscle

00:02:26.220 cars doing a drag race. It's like vroom, vroom. And it's just two cars, and they're going 100 miles

00:02:32.000 an hour. Bam. It's 9-11. 9-11 hits, and all of your bullshit looks like bullshit. Now, tomorrow,

00:02:46.900 we'll go back to fighting. Tomorrow, we'll be divided along racial lines. We'll be divided along economic

00:02:54.800 lines. We'll be divided along gender lines, you know, as we like to be. But today? Not today. Nope. Not 0.74

00:03:07.060 today. So, think about the fact that just by historical coincidence, it didn't have to happen

00:03:13.800 this way. That September, September 11th, every four years, will just be that little pause

00:03:23.240 that reminds us, oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute. We're all on the same side. And you just need to

00:03:32.240 remember that every now and then. So, I'm just glad that September 11th happens in September, 0.99

00:03:38.200 because it's exactly the time that this country will need every four years. You know, obviously,

00:03:46.020 we'll be reminded every year. But every fourth year, it takes on a completely different meaning.

00:03:52.280 And I've never really felt that until this election, this being so divisive. But let's be

00:03:59.940 thankful that September 11th happened in September. It doesn't make any of those lives come back.

00:04:05.860 It doesn't make it any less of a tragedy. But if there's one thing that this country does well,

00:04:12.920 it's capitalizing on a crisis. We're really good at that. And we can find some value out of charred

00:04:21.920 embers. I mean, literally, we can say, oh, here's some charcoal. We'll make a barbecue. And, you know,

00:04:29.240 maybe we can maybe we can dig out some value of this, this September 11th, eventually. Now,

00:04:37.300 I was wondering what Joe Biden's morning looks like on a day like today. And so I was just trying to

00:04:48.940 picture it like the movie in my head of he wakes up. And at some point, probably there's an advisor

00:04:55.980 there pretty quickly. I'd imagine he's probably swarmed with advisors. And he probably says some

00:05:02.820 version of so what's the news? What's what's happening today? And I'm just imagining his advisor

00:05:09.460 saying, well, so today's not ideal, because it's September 11th. So all day today, you can't be a

00:05:19.540 dick. You're just you're just gonna have to take a day off from being a dick. And today would be a bad 1.00

00:05:25.340 day to, let's say, promote your race hoaxes that are the basis of your campaign. Because that's a 0.91

00:05:33.540 little divisive. And just not today. It's September 11th. So Joe says, all right, all right, well,

00:05:40.420 I guess I won't be making news. And he literally said that this morning to the news crew. He said,

00:05:46.200 I won't be making news today, because he just wanted to treat things seriously. Because it's

00:05:50.780 September 11th. Not a bad approach, you know, good role model kind of a thing. But, you know,

00:05:59.660 there might be a few other news things that pop up. And you could see him saying to his advisors,

00:06:06.080 all right, so it's September 11th. What else? Anything else happen today? Yeah. Yeah. A couple

00:06:13.940 other things happened today. Number one, remember how you thought it was a fluke when you saw that

00:06:21.020 first poll that showed that African American support for Trump was at record levels? And you knew that

00:06:29.820 couldn't be true, right? And remember how the second time you saw a poll that said the same thing,

00:06:37.260 you said to yourself, well, you know, that's just two. That can't really be real, can it? Well,

00:06:47.660 Rasmussen will have some numbers coming out today from North Carolina. And you might see,

00:06:55.180 you might see that there's an actual trend here. It turns out that this president probably will break a

00:07:06.480 record for black support. Did you see that coming? Now, when I say break a record for black support, 0.78

00:07:15.160 I mean of Republicans, Republican presidents, right? Obviously not for Democrats. But how many of you

00:07:24.300 would have predicted, how many of your filters would have predicted in 2015 or 16, that Trump would be

00:07:32.880 legendary, like not just do okay, but break records for black support? How many of you had a filter on

00:07:42.440 life that predicted that was likely? I did. Because I predicted it directly, publicly, many times. I said,

00:07:52.360 this president's going to break records for black support. Here we are. And then Joe Biden says to his

00:08:00.080 advisor in the morning, after he gets his coffee, oh, that's not good. It's 9-11, so I can't use my race

00:08:07.360 hoaxes today. So I'm kind of unarmed. And now you're telling me that the main reason that I even got

00:08:15.740 nominated is because I would have black support. And you're telling me that Trump will have more black 0.95

00:08:19.860 support than any Republican president, maybe ever? Except, you know, maybe Lincoln or something.

00:08:25.480 And then the advisor says, oh, just one more thing. Just one more thing. It's not a big deal.

00:08:38.940 But election is coming up, and your competitor, President Trump, he just got nominated for,

00:08:48.100 I don't know how to say this, a second Nobel Peace Prize for his Kosovo-Serbia agreement and helping

00:09:02.460 that get done. So you're running against a guy who will have the highest African American support of

00:09:10.940 any Republican president who just got nominated for two, two Nobel Peace Prizes. Now you say to

00:09:24.400 yourself, ah, anybody can get nominated. Being nominated doesn't mean you won. But if you look at the

00:09:32.820 details of why he got nominated, they're pretty solid. Nobody made anything up. Nobody's fact-checking

00:09:43.000 it. Nobody said, hey, there's no Kosovo-Serbia agreement. Nobody's saying that. Nobody's saying,

00:09:52.280 what UAE-Israel deal? That doesn't exist. Even the fake news doesn't say that. Apparently,

00:10:00.280 President Trump has earned two Nobel Peace Prize nominations. But I think if you look at the

00:10:15.020 details, whether or not he gets the actual prize, he earned the prizes. He earned two Nobel Peace

00:10:25.000 Prizes. And Joe Biden has to wake up in the morning and say, well, what am I running against? Oh,

00:10:31.680 are you kidding me? So in the history of presidents, nobody has ever run against somebody who had just

00:10:40.900 got nominated for, did I mention two Nobel Peace Prizes? Now, what I've been telling you that I think

00:10:54.040 the president's going to win in a landslide, but even I didn't think it was going to be this bad.

00:11:02.880 So if you take into account that he's starting to, depending on what polls you're looking at,

00:11:08.460 he's drawing even or pulling ahead in the battleground states. Biden continues to just decompose. And CNN had

00:11:17.140 lots of good things to say about Kamala Harris. Because, you know, Kamala Harris is considered not just the

00:11:24.100 vice presidential candidate, but because it's Biden, people think of her as almost a shadow president 0.99

00:11:29.620 situation. You know, maybe she'll be the real power right away or soon or something. And so you'd expect that the

00:11:37.200 people promoting her would have some good things to say about her, about her policies and her accomplishments and

00:11:45.360 stuff like that. So let me check the news. Let's see what CNN is saying about Kamala Harris. There's probably lots of

00:11:51.980 news about her accomplishments, I'm thinking. If not her accomplishments, then certainly there's going to be lots of

00:11:57.360 news about the policies that she promotes. Checking. Oh, here it is. There's a story about Kamala Harris on the front page of

00:12:05.500 CNN clicking that. People are talking about her footwear and her skinny jeans. Apparently, there's quite a bit of 0.89

00:12:17.800 excitement because she wears a particular kind of footwear, sort of a sneakerish situation. But there's probably,

00:12:27.220 that's just the lead in. Obviously, there's stuff here about her accomplishments and her

00:12:32.260 policies, looking, looking. No, it's still about her footwear.

00:12:41.120 Nope, that's all we got. That's all we got. So I don't know if I've mentioned yet, but President

00:12:48.000 Trump was nominated for two Nobel Peace Prizes, which he's earned, both of them. But he's got some

00:12:58.400 strong competition because on the other side, there's somebody who's wearing sneakers who lots of

00:13:06.120 people think is a good fashion statement. So that should be close. I would like to give you my

00:13:15.140 impression of every Democrat that I've been debating online. And they seem to be able to win arguments

00:13:25.680 by facial expressions and not arguing. And I'd like to give you my impression of Dale

00:13:33.340 representing every Democrat that I've debated with this week. And it goes like this. I'll first start in

00:13:40.620 my character, played by myself. You know, mathematicians say that two plus two equals four.

00:13:51.280 And then Dale, the Democrat, will come in to fact check me. And he'll fact check me this way.

00:13:58.260 Oh, why don't they just call you Dilbert's boss?

00:14:03.220 Did you see what I did there? Oh, yeah. Show me your sources. What sources? What college did

00:14:14.380 you go to? Look at this guy. Two plus two equals four. Idiot. Idiot. Oh, this is why you support

00:14:26.640 Trump. You're just thinking two plus two equals four. Oh, idiots. Idiots. I gotta say, I thought

00:14:42.280 somebody else was the dumbest person in the world. But now that I see you with your two plus 0.99

00:14:47.200 two stuff, I'm like, well, now you're the dumbest person in the world, obviously. 0.99

00:14:58.360 So, yeah, the wide-eyed tell. Did you see the interview with, I guess, one of the major 0.99

00:15:10.860 advisors for Joe Biden on his campaign, his name is Duck Low, spelled just like a duck,

00:15:18.900 D-U-C-K-L-O. That's his last name, Duck Low. So, Joe Biden, who literally was in a basement below

00:15:27.840 the ground ducking questions, his main advisor is Duck Low. I think the simulation is talking to us. 0.74

00:15:37.400 Maybe we can figure out what it means. But the funny part was that, I guess it was Brett Baer

00:15:42.880 who asked him directly, did Biden agree with the travel ban from China? And Duck Low, he gets the

00:15:53.440 wide-eyed look. Now, if I've taught you nothing, Democrats all lie with a similar liar face. It's 0.97

00:16:01.820 where their eyes get really big to try to convince you of something that didn't happen. And so, Duck Low

00:16:09.300 gets the big eyes, and he says, there is plenty of fact-checking, Brett Baer. I could give it to you.

00:16:17.680 I mean, I could send you the fact-checking that said that Joe Biden did not disagree with the travel

00:16:23.620 ban. And then Brett Baer says, just clarifying, so you're saying that Joe Biden agreed with the travel

00:16:30.860 ban when President Trump suggested it. You're saying he agreed with it. I'm saying I can send

00:16:39.280 you all the fact-checking. It's been debunked and debunked and fact-checked. And everybody knows

00:16:47.380 that Joe Biden did not disagree with it, Brett Baer says. Okay, but just clarifying, you haven't

00:16:55.760 quite answered the question. You've ducked low. Now, Brett Baer didn't say that, but I wish he had

00:17:01.900 ducked low. But that's not exactly the answer to the question. So I'll ask again, are you saying

00:17:10.320 that Joe Biden agreed with President Trump? Well, he didn't give an answer to that, as you might expect.

00:17:18.520 But he did give very big eyes, like that. If you are listening to this on audio only, you're

00:17:30.360 missing my tremendous impressions, in which I make big bug eyes, and, well, you're just

00:17:38.600 missing the best part. Police departments are trying to dispel the rumors that Antifa is

00:17:45.300 starting the wildfires in the West Coast. And I guess they're starting, I guess Antifa

00:17:55.020 is very particular, because wildfires don't destroy many black businesses. So I think Antifa

00:18:02.580 is more concentrated on burning up black businesses and urban centers. They don't say it that way, 0.97

00:18:08.660 but that's how it turns out. They burn other businesses, too. Just to be fair, to be fair,

00:18:15.140 they do burn other people's businesses. So in that way, you could say they are pursuing

00:18:22.020 equality, in a way. We'll talk a little more about Antifa in a moment. So India, this was

00:18:31.520 reported on CNN's website, that India may have a lot of problems with their reporting.

00:18:37.540 Apparently in India, most people die at home or somewhere that's not a hospital. So India 1.00

00:18:44.220 has a real trouble counting the number of coronavirus-related deaths, because so many people just die at home

00:18:51.200 or not under medical care. But here was an interesting statement. Again, it's important that this was

00:18:57.920 on a CNN website. And it says, and I quote, with more tests, authorities are detecting more cases.

00:19:05.920 What? What? This is CNN. CNN is stating that in India, if you test more, you'll detect more virus.

00:19:17.940 Huh. Because I'm sure that I have been mocked for suggesting that the president may have made sense

00:19:27.020 when he said that the more you test, the more virus you will detect, because that's why you test,

00:19:32.980 to detect virus. And all the smart people told me that didn't make sense. May I do an impression

00:19:38.500 of every smart person who's telling me why it's so dumb to think that if you test more,

00:19:44.540 you will detect more. Oh, look at this guy. Oh! Why don't you stay in your lane?

00:19:51.500 Pointy here, boss. Much. Oh! So that was the intellectual debate I've been getting on the question of

00:19:59.180 does testing find more cases? So did you watch the first NFL game last night? Did anybody watch that?

00:20:14.540 If you saw the stands, I don't know what, I don't know what kind of rules they have about

00:20:22.960 in person, but the stands were largely empty. There were people there, but there are lots of,

00:20:29.320 I don't know if that was just the social distancing rules or just not a people, a lot of people went or

00:20:34.340 what, but it wasn't well attended. And yet when, when the players locked arms to support

00:20:42.900 their social positions, there was a lot of booing, a lot of booing. For the fact that there weren't

00:20:52.100 many people there, it was a lot of booing for not many people in attendance, making me think that

00:20:59.600 there were more boos than there were supporters. Now, my take on it is that sports are not terribly

00:21:08.160 important just in general. I wouldn't care if all professional sports ended tomorrow. I just wouldn't

00:21:15.380 care. I stopped watching professional sports a while ago. But the real question is whether you need to mix

00:21:22.940 your social messaging in every product, or can you separate your social messaging from your product?

00:21:31.680 If the sports game is the product, does it make sense to always mix those? So without debating whether

00:21:41.200 it's good to talk about equality, of course it is. Without debating whether it's good to always

00:21:49.120 strive for a more equal society, of course it is. So the message, you know, the idea behind it,

00:21:55.380 of course it's fine. Everybody, I think everybody agrees with it in concept. But do you need to put

00:22:02.100 it in your sports? Does it have to be everywhere? And I saw the most scathing, if that's the deepest

00:22:11.740 cutting criticism of the NFL that I've ever seen. Are you ready for this? I don't believe anybody's

00:22:19.480 ever said anything worse about the NFL than what I'm going to, and I didn't write down who said it,

00:22:25.840 but it was a Twitter user, and said that, you know, the, why can I never remember all the victims' names?

00:22:36.760 I think I'm supposed to remember all the victims. But the gentleman who got shot seven times but

00:22:42.720 survived, and he was alleged to have been a sexual assaulter. And somebody on Twitter commented

00:22:52.840 that there's a real woman in the United States, a living real woman, not a conceptual woman,

00:23:01.380 not in principle somebody might exist that, but an actual woman with a name and a life, 0.96

00:23:08.200 who someday will turn on TV and see the name of her rapist written on the helmets of the football 0.97

00:23:16.740 players. Imagine that. Imagine that you are literally a victim of a sex crime, and you have to watch

00:23:27.420 the NFL, all these multi-millionaires, write the name of your attacker, allegedly, on their helmet,

00:23:36.600 and then play a game in front of the whole country. Think about that. That's actually the most

00:23:45.540 cutting criticism I think I've ever heard. Maybe the worst criticism I've ever heard of any

00:23:54.260 professional league for doing anything, not even on this topic. You could say any topic.

00:24:00.720 Putting that guy's name on their helmets, I would say you'd have to nominate that for one of the

00:24:08.540 worst things anybody's ever done. Not just in sports, but if you don't count actual physical

00:24:18.980 violence to stuff, that's the worst stuff. But of things that are not physically violent,

00:24:25.060 but are, let's say, socially or psychologically devastating, just imagine that you were a victim

00:24:34.380 of a crime, and you see the perpetrator's name, according to you, on the helmets of the NFL.

00:24:42.340 If you ever watch another NFL game, I don't know why you would, really. I just don't know why you

00:24:49.420 would. Because they've completely thrown, you know, women and Me Too under the bus. And I don't think

00:24:57.740 they could be further from social justice warriors, which is what they'd like to be. They'd like to be,

00:25:05.300 you know, if I could use that term, they'd like to be on the right side of history. They'd like to be

00:25:09.640 on the right side of justice. But boy, did they miss it. You know, I think the players' intentions are

00:25:16.280 great. I wouldn't, I don't even, you know, I don't fault any of the players for doing what they need

00:25:22.800 to do, freedom of speech, blah, blah, blah. But man, did they miss their, they missed the target by a

00:25:29.780 mile. There's another story in the news that is so mind-boggling that you can't actually hold it in

00:25:38.180 your mind for long. In other words, there's something that if you could accept that it's true,

00:25:45.160 and it is true, there's no, there's no argument about whether it's true, if you can accept that

00:25:49.920 it's true, you just can't process it in your brain to do something about it. And here's the story,

00:25:57.840 that apparently several dozen phones associated with the Mueller investigation were accidentally

00:26:05.860 wiped of all their data so that when the, who was it, the department, the inspector general wanted

00:26:15.360 to review them, that they were not available. And the excuses they gave were physical damage in a few

00:26:21.960 cases, but that they'd forgotten their own passwords, and they tried their password too many times and it

00:26:27.980 deleted their phone. Now, have you ever tried entering the wrong password in your phone? It makes

00:26:35.800 you wait to do it again if you do it too many times. You'd have to really work hard to delete your

00:26:41.620 data, like it would have to be a project where you'd come back to it every several hours, say, all right,

00:26:47.640 put in one more password, time out, I'll come back to this hours later. Now, I don't think there's

00:26:56.160 anybody dumb enough to think that these are real accidents and these are obviously excuses. They're 0.94

00:27:02.120 transparent excuses for people who wiped the data that could have been relevant to the inspector

00:27:08.980 general. Now, that is so mind-bogglingly big that nothing will happen. Do you get that? The idea of it,

00:27:20.860 you almost can't hold it in your brain. Like, I can't conceive that there were dozens, several

00:27:30.080 dozen, several dozen phones, people deleted evidence, and these were people working in a legal field for

00:27:40.280 the United States, and they were looking for crimes of exactly this nature. They were looking for this

00:27:51.700 kind of crime, obstruction of justice. Now, I don't know how you could see it any other way, but destroying

00:28:00.420 evidence that they knew could be later discoverable because it might be relevant feels to me exactly like

00:28:07.820 obstruction of justice and not a little bit. I'm talking about coordinated, because obviously there

00:28:14.840 must have been some coordination. I'm talking about massive, obvious, direct. You almost can't hold it in

00:28:23.340 your mind. And because, and I mean this literally, that you can't hold it as true because it's just too

00:28:30.060 ridiculous. Too ridiculous. And because your brain can't quite process it, I think they actually will just 0.99

00:28:37.280 get away with it. It's kind of a weird situation that is so unusual, you just can't really process it.

00:28:45.440 That's what I think. All right. I drew out a bunch of, a bunch of trolls, as I like to do. They were all

00:28:57.700 confused about what I was saying and what I was doing. But I made a tweet that I said that, you know,

00:29:04.040 Antifa, I'll paraphrase my own tweet, the Antifa would be surprised to learn that the original Antifa

00:29:11.300 fought on the same side with Hitler against the Weimar Republic. And now, I can tell you because

00:29:23.860 you're my insiders. So let me tell you what I was thinking and why I sent that tweet. Number one,

00:29:31.820 do I think it's relevant that a German organization in the 30s had the same name as, you know, at least

00:29:40.840 translated, it's the same name as Antifa in Portland in 2020. Do I think that that matters? No.

00:29:49.580 No. Oh, I don't think that matters. It has nothing to do with anything. I also don't think it matters

00:29:56.000 that the KKK used to be, you know, more of a Democrat kind of a thing. Because if it's not

00:30:04.920 relevant to 2020, I don't care. It's just history. It's not history that matters. It's just a fact

00:30:11.040 that doesn't matter. You know, because all that matters is today. And so the first tongue-in-cheek

00:30:20.140 that people should have known, it should have been a red flag, how serious I was about this.

00:30:26.580 The first flag should have been, is he serious that this unrelated group, because there's no

00:30:34.060 connection through time, they're unrelated. And I guess it was a Swedish group that was also some

00:30:39.280 kind of Antifa that was separate from both Germany, separate from the current one, separate one,

00:30:44.820 separate from the modern version of Antifa in Europe. So I think there are at least four versions

00:30:50.660 of Antifa. I guess the US one has some connection to Europe. But no, I was not serious, not even a

00:30:59.960 little bit serious, that it matters what Antifa in Germany in 1930s did. I don't think it matters.

00:31:09.040 It's just a different group, different circumstance. But I knew it would bring out the trolls.

00:31:14.560 And here's the next part. Just to be provocative, I said that Antifa in Germany in the 30s was

00:31:22.700 allied with Hitler. Now, is that an overclaim? I gave people the link on Wikipedia. And it will tell

00:31:33.140 you that the German Antifa and Hitler's group fought each other, which is not like allies, right? That

00:31:41.060 would be the opposite, because they were fighting each other. But at the same time, they were both

00:31:46.500 fighting the common government that they both wanted to overthrow. Now, the government was overthrown.

00:31:53.280 Hitler came to power. And one of the first things he did was get rid of Antifa, because they were 0.99

00:31:59.720 useful fighting the government. But as soon as Hitler was in power, they were no longer useful. And 0.88

00:32:05.400 so he dealt with them harshly. So the historians are coming after me and saying, Scott, Scott, Scott,

00:32:12.200 you idiot, you pointy-haired idiot. Read some history. Where are you making up these stories about 1.00

00:32:17.560 Antifa being allied with the Nazis? And then I do this. Are you waiting for the second part? 0.53

00:32:25.760 I say, well, I get why you might not like that word allied. But they were fighting on the same side,

00:32:34.680 meaning that they were both opposed to the government. We'd agree on that. Historians will

00:32:40.060 agree on that. We also agree that they fought each other a little bit. Doesn't remove from the fact

00:32:48.120 that they had a common enemy. But here's the thing. It's a lot like 2020 Antifa and Black Lives

00:32:56.340 Matter. Here's why it's similar. Have you seen Antifa and Black Lives Matter get into any scuffles? 0.89

00:33:04.560 I think you have. I think you have. Now, they've been minor. And primarily, BLM and Antifa are opposed to

00:33:14.360 the current government, current, you know, systems, I guess. But what would happen if they prevailed?

00:33:24.580 Suppose, suppose Antifa and Black Lives Matter overthrew the government. I don't think it's going

00:33:31.740 to happen. But imagine they did, just like Antifa and Hitler overthrew the German government. What

00:33:38.180 would happen if Black Lives Matter and Antifa somehow came to power? Would they say,

00:33:44.360 I'm glad we're all on the same side? Let's form a government that's part Antifa and part Black 1.00

00:33:50.580 Lives Matter? No! Antifa is against governments. No, Antifa are anarchists. They don't want to be

00:33:59.720 part of a government. Black Lives Matter, they're Marxists, etc. But even they like a Bernie Sanders 0.93

00:34:08.020 kind of capitalism. But they still want a capitalist system. I think most of them do. You know, maybe

00:34:16.760 some of the leaders are radical. But most of Black Lives Matter, you know, rank-and-file kind 0.58

00:34:22.140 of people, they're not looking to get rid of Bernie Sanders socialism. They kind of like it. Antifa?

00:34:30.900 Antifa? They can't live with any kind of capitalism. Even a Bernie Sanders capitalism is way too much.

00:34:39.060 So Black Lives Matter and Antifa are allied only because they have a common enemy. But they are not

00:34:45.980 on the same team. And if they ever came to power, they would have to fight. Who would win? Well, I'd bet on

00:34:54.840 Black Lives Matter, frankly. In part because, do you know who would be on the same side as Black Lives 0.99

00:35:00.100 Matter if they ever decided to turn on Antifa? Republicans. Republicans. Black Lives Matter would 0.97

00:35:10.180 have plenty of allies because they're the people who want capitalism. Now, of course, all of this is

00:35:16.600 silly and will never happen. But what I wanted to do was to get people to think through the analogy

00:35:22.680 and just make them uncomfortable about the current situation because of how they feel about the

00:35:30.360 other one. Now, here was the other thing that I learned while looking into this. Apparently,

00:35:35.520 Antifa in Germany, the original 1930s version, when they used the word fascist, all it meant was

00:35:43.960 capitalism. That's it. It didn't matter if you had, you know, classic fascist elements.

00:35:52.680 If you were a capitalist, that's just fascist by definition. So when the Antifa people say to me,

00:36:00.140 I have to get my Dale beard again to say this, as they do often,

00:36:04.700 Scott, anti-fascist? It's in the name? How could you be confused? It's in the name. Did I mention

00:36:17.360 it's in the name? Anti means opposed? Are you following me so far? Anti means opposed to? Second

00:36:25.540 word, fascist. Fascist. Opposed to fascist. Therefore, Antifa is opposed to fascist. Scott, do you not 1.00

00:36:36.000 understand? Am I talking too fast? Do you not following this yet? To which I say, what did it mean in

00:36:45.920 Germany? Didn't mean that. So it is obvious from the original Antifa that the word fascist sort of

00:36:55.440 means just anybody who's making money, basically, capitalism. If you're making money in any way,

00:37:04.160 you're a fascist. So all I wanted to get out of this was to sort of stir the thinking pot and just

00:37:14.920 make people uncomfortable and maybe they would shift in their opinions over time.

00:37:20.540 So it's just a little context that I thought was fun. I'm being accused of being the dumbest guy 0.99

00:37:26.880 in the world. In the world. For that tweet. But people don't realize that it was more mischievous 1.00

00:37:35.160 than historical. All right. So Lindsay, Lindsay Graham says there's a big surprise coming in 10 to 12

00:37:48.220 days about the situation with Russia collusion and the investigation about how that went down.

00:37:56.300 So something big coming in 10 to 12 days. Now, I don't know if it'll be 10 to 12 days, but the fact

00:38:02.440 that the Durham investigation looks like it might wrap up before the election, that is an interesting

00:38:11.360 coincidence. In France, the hospitalization rates are up for coronavirus, COVID-19. And I use this as

00:38:23.100 further evidence that leadership is an illusion, or at least leadership as a major variable in how people

00:38:32.220 are doing with coronavirus is probably just an illusion. And the illusion goes like this. If you're

00:38:37.640 Democrats and you're not good at analyzing stuff, President Trump didn't do enough testing.

00:38:45.840 Okay. What was he supposed to test with? Was the president supposed to do lots of testing

00:38:52.440 with the test kits that didn't exist? And that even the people who are responsible for the test kits

00:38:59.020 didn't know they didn't exist because they had test kits. They just didn't know they were defective.

00:39:04.080 So was the president supposed to magically make test kits or magically know they needed to be made

00:39:10.980 when the experts themselves didn't know that? And where were all the test kits from the Obama

00:39:16.820 administration that he could just use? What about all that time he lost in preparation where he could

00:39:22.520 have been getting PPE ready? Wait a minute. Why would Trump have to need time to get a bunch of PPE

00:39:32.360 when Obama had a gigantic storehouse of it just in case? Oh, did I get that wrong? Wait, are you

00:39:41.860 telling me that Obama and Biden, when they were in office, they didn't have a gigantic national supply

00:39:48.480 of PPE? I don't know why they didn't have that since they knew this pandemic was coming and they knew

00:39:54.540 they would need it. Can you explain to me why they were so aware of it coming and yet we did not have

00:40:00.980 warehouses full of PPE to be to be ready? Huh? So it's only people who are and then the third point

00:40:09.620 there is that testing and contact tracing only works if you have a small group of infections and maybe a

00:40:19.660 an island situation or a small country. If you get it early, maybe, maybe you can tamp it down. But if you're

00:40:28.060 the United States and people are driving in and walking in and flying in from every direction and

00:40:34.040 you're one of the main destinations on planet Earth and it's just impossible to stop at all. I mean,

00:40:39.940 even if you stop travel from China, still people walking across the border, still coming in from

00:40:45.420 Canada who came from China. So the United States never really had the option in a realistic way 0.96

00:40:52.460 of doing contact tracing and stopping it while it was small. You can fantasize that that was possible

00:41:00.480 but it wasn't. It wasn't. Was it possible in New Zealand? I think so. I think it was. If President

00:41:09.760 Trump had been the leader of New Zealand, could he have done the same thing that the leader of New Zealand

00:41:15.580 did, which seems to be effective? Probably. Do you think the leader of New Zealand just made her own

00:41:22.680 decisions? Or, or, do you think she talked to her experts and the experts said, well, we're a small

00:41:31.360 country, don't have many infections. I think we can test our way through this because we do have enough

00:41:36.720 tests to do that. And then she said, well, I don't have a better idea. Well, I'm not the expert.

00:41:42.540 If that's what you say will work, let's do that. Now replace her with President Trump. 0.99

00:41:49.680 Experts come up and they say, we've got enough test kits. We're a small country. We can test.

00:41:54.340 Let's do it. Does President Trump then say, ah, no, I don't think so? No, no. He says the same thing

00:42:04.680 that the leader of New Zealand said. Yeah, let's do that. You're the experts. Let's do that.

00:42:09.940 So if you are unsophisticated and you don't have much experience in life, or you've never read the

00:42:17.720 Dilbert comic strip, you might still be suffering the illusion that leadership is a big variable in

00:42:24.320 how things turn out. It really isn't. Because most of life in big organizations is people at lower 0.94

00:42:32.740 levels surfacing their expertise. And then the leader says yes or no. But it's not really the

00:42:38.840 leader deciding. Because it's very rare for the leader to say, well, there's your expert opinion.

00:42:44.060 I'm going to go a different direction. Because if you make a mistake that way, you're done.

00:42:49.420 So as long as everybody's following directions from the experts, and the experts largely were

00:42:55.540 in agreement around the world, it's not like there was one country where all the experts

00:43:00.640 were on a different page. That didn't happen. So we should see that the most predictable thing

00:43:08.980 that you could see is that hypothetically, if you could just switch all the leaders, you

00:43:14.520 know, just snap your fingers, and all the leaders go into different countries. And they're just as

00:43:18.920 smart, just as capable as before. But now, magically, they know the language and the culture and stuff.

00:43:25.800 So you've just replaced the leaders. How do those countries turn out in terms of coronavirus?

00:43:32.820 Exactly the same. Exactly the same. So the big illusion that the fake news and the people who don't

00:43:40.900 have experience in big companies are selling you is that the leadership is the big variable.

00:43:47.480 And then, you know, they all had a menu of tools. So it's how you decided to use those tools,

00:43:54.480 your leadership, that is the big, you know, the differentiator between who gets a good result

00:44:00.220 and who gets a bad result. Nothing like that's happening. That is just an illusion. They were all

00:44:07.120 just following expert advice. Experts largely gave the same advice. Some countries faster,

00:44:13.140 some slower. Some had hydroxychloroquine supplies, some didn't. So some had options that others didn't.

00:44:20.200 But it's not leadership that you're seeing here. That's not the main filter. All right.

00:44:25.300 All right. I'm not in favor of raising taxes, just in general. You know, if there's any way you can not

00:44:35.520 raise taxes, you should do it. But let's say you wanted to mess with Bernie Sanders. And let's say you

00:44:44.820 wanted to, what's the word, where you co-opt or you somehow take somebody else's policy. There's a

00:44:54.520 better word for that. Suppose President Trump, this is not going to happen. This is purely a thought

00:45:00.060 experiment. So don't get hung up on, that'll never happen. Because I'm telling you, this will never

00:45:06.040 happen. But it's a good thought experiment. It goes like this. Tax the monopoly digital companies,

00:45:15.620 you know, your Facebooks, your Googles, you could throw a few more names in there. Amazon, maybe.

00:45:20.720 And you tax them specifically to pay for health care and free college for anybody who doesn't have

00:45:28.700 it yet. So I'm not talking about paying for health care for the whole country. I'm talking about they

00:45:34.200 would cover the gap for those people who can't get health care. They would cover the gap for anybody

00:45:39.300 who wanted to go to college but couldn't afford it, that sort of thing. And here's the beauty of the

00:45:45.120 idea. It would basically be a sin tax. Because social media is sort of like liquor and cigarettes, in the sense

00:45:54.060 that it's not good for you. You know it's not good for you. But it's a free country, so we're not going to get

00:45:59.380 rid of it. And because it's not healthy, in a variety of different ways, it does make sense that you tax the

00:46:06.780 things that are least healthy. And then you use that money, we have a tradition for this, cigarette taxes, for

00:46:12.240 example. Then you use that sin tax money to do something that's very healthy for the public.

00:46:18.200 What would be healthier for the public than getting everybody good health care?

00:46:22.340 Nothing. What would be healthier for the public than making sure they could get good educations?

00:46:29.020 Nothing. I mean, it's probably one of the best things you can do for your health

00:46:33.180 is to have an education and therefore a good chance for a good economic situation.

00:46:39.420 And there's a big difference. The richer you are, the better your health. It's pretty direct.

00:46:45.780 So in a practical sense, nothing like that would happen. But here's the interesting part of the idea.

00:46:55.700 If the big digital companies realized that only they were being taxed for this very special kind of tax

00:47:02.840 for health care and for education, now it doesn't have to be college education, it could also be maybe school

00:47:09.480 choice, etc. What would they do? Well, the first thing they'd do is they'd say, wait a minute, I'm paying a billion

00:47:17.080 dollars a year for these things, or however many billions, but if I can make the cost of providing health care

00:47:24.840 go down, so too would my taxes. If I can make the cost of going to college, just how it's done, the whole process of

00:47:33.040 education, if I could alter that and make it less expensive, I could lower my own taxes. So you would create a

00:47:40.900 situation where the companies most capable of solving health care, most capable of solving education, would have

00:47:49.460 an enormous financial incentive to do it, and suddenly you don't mind so much, those big companies.

00:47:56.520 Because

00:47:56.940 I think you would agree with the following statement.

00:48:02.200 If

00:48:02.760 a big company is super important to the country itself,

00:48:08.620 you're a little bit more forgiving if there are some

00:48:11.560 rough edges to that company, wouldn't you say?

00:48:14.740 Just a general statement. As long as you're providing

00:48:17.720 some enormous benefit, you can be a little more forgiving about any

00:48:22.640 things that are imperfect about it.

00:48:26.260 So if those big companies, which are suffering quite a

00:48:29.440 reputation hit, if they wanted to fix two of the biggest problems in the country

00:48:34.800 and tie it to their own self-interest, and it is pretty tied to their self-interest,

00:48:41.060 that might be a healthy situation. It might be a situation where the public says,

00:48:45.860 you know, I was mad about Amazon for whatever reason yesterday, but now I see that they're

00:48:53.780 helping give health care to poor people and educating people. I'm like, well,

00:48:58.520 well, I like that part. So there you go.

00:49:02.660 Somebody says private would be better. Well, you know, who knows if the solution would look

00:49:07.400 more private or public to be determined. All right. That's all I got for now. And I will talk to you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 11, 2020

Episode 1120 Scott Adams： Double-Nobel Prize Nominations, Antifa Allied With Shitler, NFL Cancels Itself, Mueller Phone Wipes

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