Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1122 Scott Adams： Biden's Biggest Lies, Google's Election Interference, Fact-Checking Tapper, Woodward Story Goes Biden

00:00:00.000 Well, that's the view, once again, outside my window of my office.

00:00:14.020 That is all smoke.

00:00:16.640 Looks like we've got a few weeks more of this.

00:00:19.700 I'm literally, not literally, but figuratively, I'm in house arrest

00:00:23.460 because it is unhealthy to go out there.

00:00:27.180 The air quality is literally unhealthy.

00:00:32.900 And what does my governor say about that?

00:00:36.660 My governor, Governor Newsom, has decided to go completely anti-science on this

00:00:42.840 and has decided that he's going to blame the forest fires on climate change.

00:00:49.080 Now, if you know anything about climate change, there are two claims.

00:00:54.460 Number one, climate change will make everything wetter. 0.73

00:00:59.660 And number two, climate change will make everything drier.

00:01:04.240 I'm not even making that up.

00:01:06.420 Those are two claims that I've just read even this week.

00:01:10.280 Climate change will make it wetter and climate change will make it drier.

00:01:15.440 In the same places, apparently.

00:01:16.880 And everybody ignores the obvious, which is that the forests have not been managed,

00:01:24.760 the underbrush has not been cleared out, and anybody could have predicted these fires.

00:01:30.760 So anybody who was in the fire management business could have told you this was going to happen

00:01:36.880 without any climate change.

00:01:39.380 Completely irrelevant, it was still going to happen.

00:01:43.040 Well, but that's not why we're here.

00:01:45.060 However, first we need to do the simultaneous sip, and we need a cup or mug or a glass,

00:01:50.400 a tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:01:54.860 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:01:57.060 I like coffee.

00:01:58.700 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day,

00:02:02.720 the thing that makes everything better when you're in jail, as I am right now.

00:02:07.580 Can't go outside, can't go anywhere.

00:02:10.340 And it's called the simultaneous sip.

00:02:12.980 It happens now.

00:02:13.480 Go.

00:02:15.060 I do not see the air clearing up.

00:02:21.540 Well, let's talk about all the things in the news.

00:02:26.900 I've decided that there are two kinds of people in this country.

00:02:30.800 People who are trying to work toward making things better for all people,

00:02:35.200 and people who are trying to stop those people.

00:02:38.300 Now, the trouble is, people don't know which group they're in.

00:02:43.440 Lots of times people don't know.

00:02:45.620 I caused, as I told you, I caused some trouble on Twitter by saying something true,

00:02:52.380 which caused people to go nuts.

00:02:53.820 And what I said was that, you heard this a little bit the other day, I said that Antifa, the original Antifa, there were several of them, I guess,

00:03:03.460 but one in Germany in the 30s, but one in Germany in the 30s, was allied with Hitler.

00:03:09.200 Now, of course, all of the Antifa-loving people said, you crazy dope.

00:03:14.460 You know nothing about history.

00:03:17.380 In fact, it was the opposite of that.

00:03:20.600 Don't you know that Hitler, you know, imprisoned and killed Antifa in Germany and that Antifa was against Hitler?

00:03:28.080 How do you not know that, Scott?

00:03:30.820 How do you not know that?

00:03:31.860 To which I say, well, those things are all true.

00:03:37.260 It's true that Antifa and Hitler hated each other.

00:03:42.080 It is simultaneously true, and here's the fun part, that Antifa and Hitler were on the same side at the same time, 0.94

00:03:50.380 meaning that they were both opposed to the German government for different reasons, but they were both opposed.

00:03:56.380 Antifa was essentially supported by Stalin, and Hitler and Stalin both wanted a change in the German government for different reasons,

00:04:08.980 but they were allies in the sense that they both fought against a common enemy.

00:04:14.040 Now, can you think of another example like that?

00:04:15.980 Am I overusing the word ally?

00:04:18.680 Am I?

00:04:19.900 Well, let me ask you this.

00:04:22.460 If you were to do a Google search on Stalin and Russia and the United States and their fighting in World War II,

00:04:33.660 would the Internet say that Stalin was an ally of the United States?

00:04:40.120 Well, yes, it would.

00:04:41.520 It would say exactly that.

00:04:43.300 If you look it up, the word ally will show up as just a common description of Stalin and the United States,

00:04:53.120 because for a while we fought against a common enemy.

00:04:56.140 Now, if we didn't have a common enemy, which was Nazi Germany, would we have been fighting against each other?

00:05:03.800 Yes, because as soon as the common enemy was defeated, we immediately lined up against each other.

00:05:09.880 So, it is not a conflict to say somebody is both an enemy and an ally, even at the same time.

00:05:19.240 So, what I really wanted to get people to understand, though, is that Antifa, the original anti-fascist organization,

00:05:29.740 defined fascism as any form of capitalism.

00:05:34.940 Usually they said late form, but it ends up being the same.

00:05:37.840 So, in other words, Bernie Sanders' version of a socialist capitalist system would be something that Antifa in Germany would have wanted to destroy.

00:05:52.280 So, Bernie Sanders is nowhere near what Antifa wants, because Bernie is still a capitalist.

00:05:59.060 He's on the edge of capitalism, because he wants a big socialist component.

00:06:05.200 But Bernie says directly, yes, yes, yes, yes, totally, I want capitalism.

00:06:13.800 Bernie is very clear about that, but, you know, a modified, kinder version in his model.

00:06:20.100 So, when every idiot says to you, Scott, don't you understand, Antifa means anti-fascist.

00:06:32.620 Anti-fascist.

00:06:35.560 If you're against them, you're obviously, because of the logic, you must be for fascists.

00:06:42.740 Can you explain that, Scott?

00:06:46.840 And part of the fun is making the pro-Antifa people understand that fascists and capitalists,

00:06:55.500 even the Bernie Sanders version of capitalists, are the same thing,

00:07:00.560 because you can't really have capitalism without, at least the accusation of fascism.

00:07:05.800 Anyway, that was fun.

00:07:10.320 What about that Bob Woodward book?

00:07:13.640 That's kind of gone, isn't it?

00:07:16.040 The biggest bombshell we had going was this Bob Woodward thing.

00:07:21.360 It's sort of already gone, I think.

00:07:25.160 You know, there's like one little note on it on the CNN homepage.

00:07:29.740 The Fox News was done with it on day one.

00:07:32.440 How do you explain that?

00:07:36.040 How do you explain that there was a gigantic bombshell

00:07:39.920 that should be like the biggest piece of news you've ever heard,

00:07:43.860 and it just sort of disappeared?

00:07:46.180 Well, here's my explanation.

00:07:49.040 It was never news.

00:07:51.840 The bombshell was that the thing that Trump had been telling us directly was true.

00:08:00.180 That's it.

00:08:00.900 But the way they told it, they tried to make it into something,

00:08:06.480 but it never was something, because there's such a good record of Trump saying directly,

00:08:12.020 yeah, it was very serious, that's why I closed travel.

00:08:14.980 It's five times worse than the flu, as he told Woodward.

00:08:19.480 Serious business, and I'm going to downplay it because I think this is the way to play it.

00:08:24.320 And he told the public he was doing it while he was doing it.

00:08:26.860 That is the closest to nothing that anything could ever be.

00:08:33.940 Now, you could certainly say, I disagree with how the president handled it.

00:08:38.700 That would be a normal thing.

00:08:40.620 People always disagree with every leader on some issues.

00:08:44.600 But it is not a thing to say that the Woodward brook told you something you didn't already know.

00:08:51.180 There was literally no news there.

00:08:53.980 It was just a retelling of what we all, all, every one of us, already knew.

00:08:59.780 Now, how is it that the news can turn nothing into what they sell as a bombshell,

00:09:07.700 which actually may change voters' minds?

00:09:10.980 How can they do that?

00:09:12.960 They can do that because they are brainwashers, not a news organization.

00:09:18.040 If you still think that the news is just the telling of facts, you're many years behind.

00:09:26.800 The news and certainly the social media platforms have for some time now been just pure brainwashing the vehicles.

00:09:37.180 And so they actually brainwashed the country into thinking something they already knew was news.

00:09:45.420 And not just news, but so important that you should change the government of the United States

00:09:52.660 based on something that you could just look at and say,

00:09:56.020 there's actually nothing here.

00:09:59.180 There's literally nothing here.

00:10:01.700 But they are that good.

00:10:03.640 All right.

00:10:05.600 Brian Stelter did a piece on talking about how Fox was downplaying the bombshell.

00:10:12.800 And it showed some clips of Fox people saying it was a big nothing.

00:10:18.080 And I'm thinking to myself, that is so bold to act as though there's something wrong with Fox

00:10:24.940 for saying something that is clearly nothing.

00:10:28.100 And you can just look at it and say it's nothing.

00:10:30.680 They're saying it's nothing.

00:10:31.680 And CNN is reporting it as something wrong with Fox.

00:10:37.220 No, that's not what's happening here.

00:10:40.280 What's happening is you tried to make something out of nothing and Fox didn't buy it.

00:10:45.400 That's it.

00:10:48.760 Catherine Watson, who's, I guess, works for CBS,

00:10:51.720 she tweeted because Biden put a lid on his, his schedule yesterday.

00:10:58.320 That's sort of insider language.

00:11:00.540 If you put a lid on it, I just recently learned.

00:11:04.440 It means that the candidate will not be available for the public stuff.

00:11:08.220 Now, this close to the election, can you come up with any possible reason that Joe Biden would not be available for the public?

00:11:22.420 Now, I certainly understand if he had a busy schedule, say, meeting with advisors or practicing maybe a speech or something like that.

00:11:31.580 But the entire day, while you're running for president, the whole day, you can't sit in front of a Zoom and take a question and make some news.

00:11:41.200 Because I'm pretty sure that during a whole day, President Trump does a lot of stuff.

00:11:51.220 And I think he does a lot of stuff when he's tired.

00:11:55.100 I think he does, this is Trump, I think he does a lot of stuff when he doesn't want to, because it's a busy job.

00:12:02.340 He probably does a lot of stuff every single day on weekends.

00:12:06.800 Do you think on a day when you know he's golfing, do you think he's also not working that day?

00:12:13.500 No, there are no days that the president doesn't work.

00:12:18.920 So seeing a CBS person saying, not sure why Biden isn't doing more to show he can outwork Trump.

00:12:25.780 I have a theory.

00:12:27.840 There might be something wrong with Joe Biden.

00:12:32.900 We'll talk more about Joe Biden's issues here in a moment.

00:12:36.920 But I want to put out this thought.

00:12:41.440 And I don't know why I'm the person who has to say this.

00:12:44.960 There's some things that you see in the world and you say, well, surely somebody will explain this correctly if I wait long enough.

00:12:53.460 Okay, they haven't done it yet.

00:12:55.140 But surely by tomorrow, somebody will do a good job of explaining this thing we're all looking at.

00:13:01.340 So I guess it's up to me, because nobody did it.

00:13:05.300 But here it is.

00:13:06.020 It goes like this.

00:13:07.800 And I tweeted this earlier.

00:13:08.940 If a hundred well-meaning protesters do their protest, but in the course of their protest, they are quite aware that they've created an environment where just two of the hundred people, just for example, just say two of them, cause some looting and some rioting and some trouble.

00:13:27.720 Now, the first time that happens, you say to yourself, freedom of speech, I'm certainly feeling bad that some bad stuff happened.

00:13:37.220 Nobody's in favor of that.

00:13:38.700 But at least we got our free speech and it was an important issue.

00:13:43.700 The second time they do it, if there's also rioting and some bad stuff, they have to say to themselves, huh, I wonder if what we're doing is making it easy for this other stuff to happen.

00:13:57.840 We don't mean this to happen, but we're kind of making it easy for it to happen, guaranteeing that it happens.

00:14:04.120 Now, what happens if you do that process a hundred times in a row, like Portland, literally a hundred times in a row?

00:14:13.900 At what point do you say, okay, protesters, we all got the message.

00:14:19.960 So there's no new freedom of speech thing happening.

00:14:23.540 We all got the message.

00:14:25.220 But you keep showing up every day, knowing that two of your hundred, might be a different two, are going to burn down a big part of the city or cause trouble or get somebody killed.

00:14:38.740 At what point do the 98 people who are the good people, they only mean well, at what point do you say that all hundred of them are assholes?

00:14:50.200 Well, I'm already there.

00:14:51.540 I think the protesters, whether you say 98% of them are peaceful, and I think that's probably about right, wouldn't you say?

00:15:01.400 If you looked at all the protests, many of them don't get coverage because they're nothing but peaceful.

00:15:07.520 So if you looked at everything, maybe 98%, you know, if you say it's 99%, that's fine.

00:15:14.140 But something like 98% are peaceful, but they're also assholes.

00:15:22.440 Not originally.

00:15:24.060 Not originally.

00:15:25.420 Originally, they were just free speech.

00:15:27.560 They had a cause.

00:15:28.660 They had a concern.

00:15:30.360 Most of them, I believe, genuinely wanted to make the world a better place, put that energy out there.

00:15:36.500 Very American.

00:15:37.920 It's very American to put your energy out there, complain.

00:15:41.020 I'm all good with that.

00:15:42.220 But a hundred times in a row, when people are dying and stuff's going up in flames, that's not really the same thing anymore.

00:15:50.740 And if you're defending it at this point, you're kind of an asshole.

00:15:56.780 All right?

00:15:57.360 There isn't really a way around that.

00:15:59.860 If you know that you're bringing this danger with you, even if you don't mean it, but you know it's going to happen because of what you're doing, you're just an asshole.

00:16:09.240 You're not technically guilty of the crimes, true, but you're still bringing them, and you're still an asshole.

00:16:18.500 So let's get that clear.

00:16:19.740 Oh, and here's a funny thing that happened when I tweeted that.

00:16:27.400 On Twitter, nobody expects anybody to have a consistent political opinion.

00:16:34.440 You've seen this, right?

00:16:35.480 That people will make a claim for their team, and then the other team will say, well, aren't you being a hypocrite?

00:16:42.180 Because what about this?

00:16:43.420 If you're going to say that, then don't you also have to agree that it's true on the other side, you know, in some other different way?

00:16:49.900 And so people came after me when I said that all 100 protesters are assholes.

00:16:57.740 They said, okay, Scott, now do police.

00:17:01.540 All right?

00:17:02.560 Let's say there are only two bad cops, but 98% of the cops are somehow supporting them.

00:17:10.180 You know, they're backing them.

00:17:12.360 How about that, Scott?

00:17:13.980 What do you say to that?

00:17:15.400 Gotcha.

00:17:16.540 Gotcha.

00:17:16.880 Gotcha.

00:17:16.960 Yeah, to which I say, no, that's an example of 100 cops that are assholes.

00:17:22.860 That's exactly the same.

00:17:24.700 If 100 cops are consistently protecting two bad cops that are killing citizens who shouldn't be killed, yeah, yeah, they're all, you might not say they're as bad, but they're all assholes in exactly the same way.

00:17:38.520 So, I hope that wasn't a surprise to my critics, that I am completely consistent, that if you're an asshole Democrat or you're an asshole Republican, it's still the same to me.

00:17:53.400 I'm completely consistent on that.

00:17:55.920 I love watching Daniel Dale, the fact-checker for CNN, partly because he has so many things to fact-check from Trump that he's like the most overworked guy on TV.

00:18:20.620 And so he's arguing that the Trump campaign ads that say Kamala Harris is in favor of the riots is not true.

00:18:35.000 And his description of why it's not true that Kamala Harris is in favor of the riots is that when she says stuff like it's going to keep going and she says she's in favor of it, she's talking about the legitimate protests.

00:18:50.040 So, it is not true that Kamala Harris is in favor of the riots, it's only true that she's in favor of the things which guarantee there are riots.

00:19:00.840 You see the difference, right?

00:19:03.940 Totally different.

00:19:05.420 She's not in favor of the riots, she's in favor of doing all the things that guarantee there are riots. 0.99

00:19:11.920 So, obviously, the Trump campaign must be totally lying about that, because those aren't the same.

00:19:21.300 Those are completely different.

00:19:23.760 Come on.

00:19:24.860 Obviously, supporting the riots has nothing in common with supporting the things that guarantee you'll get riots.

00:19:35.020 Different.

00:19:37.040 So, that's funny.

00:19:38.160 Also, that Daniel Dale claims that the types of lies that the Trump campaign says are so outrageous that they, and he acknowledges, so Daniel Dale acknowledges, as context, that all campaign ads, you know, have a problem with the truth.

00:19:59.980 We're all on the same side on that, right?

00:20:02.300 All campaign ads, Biden, Trump, doesn't matter who it is.

00:20:05.240 They all push the truth as much as they can.

00:20:08.160 So, he does acknowledge that, but he says that the Trump campaign ads are a whole different level of bad behavior.

00:20:17.600 To which I say, doesn't it depend what you fact check?

00:20:22.120 Because it's the Biden campaign that's based on the most destructive and divisive lie in American history.

00:20:30.300 There's nothing Trump has ever said that's even close to the fine people hoax, or even close to saying that the president suggested drinking bleach to get rid of coronavirus.

00:20:46.100 Nothing the Trump campaign is even in the same zip code with how evil just those two things are.

00:20:54.340 And those aren't the only Biden lies.

00:20:57.180 They're just the alpha lies that are the most impressive lies in American history, in my opinion.

00:21:03.260 I doubt anything has hurt the country as directly as that lie.

00:21:07.740 So, I don't know how you compare lies.

00:21:13.120 And the Trump campaign, when they were challenged about the veracity of their campaign ads,

00:21:19.720 they responded by saying, it's comedy, and you should lighten up.

00:21:24.160 Now, when you see the Trump campaign ads, and let's say they've stretched a point a little bit to the point where the fact checkers don't agree anymore.

00:21:35.500 When you're watching it, do you watch a campaign ad like it's true?

00:21:40.280 Because if you do, you're going to have to, you know, you've got some questions to answer here.

00:21:45.340 If you watch anybody's campaign ad and say to yourself, yeah, I think that's true, you should check yourself, right?

00:21:55.160 Campaign ads are not designed to be true.

00:21:58.840 They're just not built that way.

00:22:00.820 It's not their purpose.

00:22:02.500 They have no intention of transmitting the truth.

00:22:06.680 It's a campaign ad.

00:22:08.260 It's a lie by design every time.

00:22:11.180 It's, at the very least, it's a lie by omission.

00:22:16.040 At the least, right?

00:22:17.380 It's never going to say, well, the other side has good points, too.

00:22:22.020 But there's no comparison.

00:22:25.080 All right.

00:22:27.840 Two police officers in Compton were, it looks like they were just hunted, and they're so far surviving, I don't know how bad in shape they are, but they were both shot in the head.

00:22:39.180 They were both shot in the head.

00:22:41.400 They were just sitting in their car in Compton, and somebody ran up and just fired bullets into it and just executed them.

00:22:50.560 Now, would that execution have happened without the fine people hoax?

00:22:57.520 Would it?

00:22:58.260 Did these two cops get killed because of Joe Biden and the mainstream news creating this division with the fine people hoax?

00:23:09.340 Because in my view of things, the fine people hoax caused all the other hoaxes to be believable and caused people to believe that black people were being hunted by police officers.

00:23:22.160 And a lot of the protest energy comes from that core hoax.

00:23:28.820 I would argue that these two police officers, maybe, you don't know if this was just a crazy person or he had a, you know, maybe it was personal, you don't know.

00:23:37.860 But there's a good chance that this sort of thing is directly coming from the Biden type of lie.

00:23:46.600 There's nothing Trump does that does this, all right?

00:23:51.440 It doesn't cause anybody to shoot a police officer.

00:23:54.140 And while we don't know that that was the direct cause, you could see how it could be.

00:24:00.840 I mean, there's a pretty direct line of cause and effect, even if that wasn't exactly what was happening.

00:24:09.020 My smartest Democrat friend, and I mean that literally, as if, you know, if he took an IQ test, he'd do great.

00:24:18.480 If you looked at his academic credentials, top shelf, all right?

00:24:24.680 So literally, no joke, a smart, smart person told me he doesn't think that Biden's campaign ads are lies.

00:24:36.020 What?

00:24:37.220 What do you do with that?

00:24:39.400 What do you do with that?

00:24:41.080 He thinks only Trump lies in campaign ads.

00:24:43.540 So here's a model or a filter on the world that I think you should use.

00:24:49.860 I believe that people are walking around the earth experiencing three different realities, or three different dimensions, if you will.

00:25:01.220 The lowest dimension of understanding your reality is to believe that both of the campaign ads are telling you the truth.

00:25:09.200 So the lowest understanding of your reality is to look at a Biden ad and look at a Trump ad and say, yeah, they're both probably true.

00:25:21.660 So I'll, you know, given that these are both true, I'll pick my preferred candidate based on these facts, the truth in these campaign ads.

00:25:29.700 Now, that would be a first dimension thinker.

00:25:32.480 Higher up, a second dimension thinker would be one who says, hey, one of these two ads is wrong.

00:25:41.840 I think it's this one.

00:25:43.620 And that's where my smart Democrat friend is.

00:25:46.780 He believes that one's wrong and one's right.

00:25:50.800 A third dimension thinker, which I hope all of you are becoming, you're either there or you're becoming,

00:25:57.980 is somebody who understands that none of it's true.

00:26:00.840 It's not meant to be true.

00:26:03.120 It's not designed to be true.

00:26:05.200 Nobody has the intention of making it true.

00:26:07.800 It's never been true.

00:26:09.160 It will never be true in the future.

00:26:10.980 Not either of them.

00:26:12.680 And again, when I say not true, that doesn't mean that there are no claims in them that are technically true.

00:26:18.760 But they're all lies of omission, lies of persuasion, etc.

00:26:23.660 So, if you're a third dimension thinker, and you know it's all lies and why, and you're talking to somebody from a first or second dimension,

00:26:35.400 it's like being a ghost where you can't actually talk to them.

00:26:39.320 Have you noticed that?

00:26:40.820 Imagine you remind you're an actual ghost, and you're in the room, and people are saying things that are just ridiculous and dumb,

00:26:46.940 and you're trying to correct them, and you're like, no, no, no, yeah, but what about the facts?

00:26:52.100 Here's my source.

00:26:53.200 And they act like you're not actually there.

00:26:57.340 They don't argue it exactly.

00:26:59.360 They act, it's more like that movie, The Sixth Sense, where they're doing something independently,

00:27:07.220 and you as the ghost are trying to interact with them, but they don't have any idea that you even exist.

00:27:13.260 That's the kind of feeling you get.

00:27:15.320 It doesn't feel like a conversation, does it?

00:27:18.140 Have you noticed that?

00:27:19.180 It doesn't feel like a give and take at all.

00:27:21.960 I just had one of those on Twitter, as I do every day, in which I asked people to give me some examples of Biden lies,

00:27:32.260 because I wanted to see how big the list was.

00:27:34.700 So people gave me some lies, but of course a troll came in, a Biden-supporting troll, to say,

00:27:41.820 well, what about the president saying you should drink bleach?

00:27:46.660 And there was some other claim that he had wrong.

00:27:49.240 Now, so here's somebody who believed that he understands the world and has been watching the news,

00:27:55.440 and that the president of the United States once asked about, in all seriousness,

00:28:01.080 drinking bleach or a disinfectant to cure coronavirus.

00:28:06.220 Now, those of you who have followed me know that that never happened,

00:28:09.800 that there was a technology with light, UVC light, as a disinfectant

00:28:13.780 that would be injected by a ventilator-type device into your trachea.

00:28:18.760 Maybe they could get it further into the lungs.

00:28:21.220 It was being actively tested.

00:28:24.180 People talked about it on the Internet.

00:28:26.000 It was in the news.

00:28:27.880 And the president asked about it.

00:28:29.880 Now, all the people who didn't know that it was a real thing,

00:28:33.160 and it involved UVC light as a disinfectant, the very word that they use,

00:28:38.180 and injecting, the very word that they use,

00:28:40.840 the people doing it.

00:28:42.980 If you didn't know that, you'd say,

00:28:45.400 oh, the president's crazy.

00:28:47.760 He wants to drink bleach.

00:28:50.960 So I send him a source, a news source,

00:28:53.780 that describes the company that's doing this exact thing

00:28:56.820 contemporaneously with the president's claim

00:29:00.120 so that you can see he was talking about a real thing.

00:29:02.660 What did the second generation,

00:29:06.080 or what did the two-dimensional thinker do?

00:29:09.200 Did the two-dimensional thinker say,

00:29:12.120 oh, that's new information to me?

00:29:15.400 Interestingly, I had never heard of this.

00:29:18.080 And so I guess I was confused

00:29:19.900 when the news told me about drinking disinfectant,

00:29:23.100 and I believed it.

00:29:24.020 But now that you show me the clear fact,

00:29:27.060 I changed my mind.

00:29:28.460 Did that happen?

00:29:31.260 Nope.

00:29:32.780 Question the quality of the source.

00:29:36.360 Now keep in mind that all you had to do

00:29:39.140 is take the name of the company out of that source

00:29:41.680 and just Google it,

00:29:43.060 and you would get other sources saying the same thing.

00:29:46.340 So you didn't have to depend on the source.

00:29:48.920 You just use another source.

00:29:50.660 And I find that the two-dimensional thinkers

00:29:54.600 will generally either attack the messenger,

00:29:57.760 well, I guess it's the same,

00:29:59.980 or the news source is the same,

00:30:01.720 attacking the messenger.

00:30:03.380 And they don't ever really even address,

00:30:06.080 huh, I guess I had all my facts wrong.

00:30:09.560 So that's why you don't get into any debate

00:30:12.520 with somebody who's on a different dimension.

00:30:14.980 So you have to first understand,

00:30:17.620 can they say something bad about their own team?

00:30:20.940 Here's a little test for you

00:30:22.220 if you want to test what dimension somebody's on.

00:30:24.920 So you say to somebody,

00:30:26.380 let's say they're a Biden supporter,

00:30:28.700 let's say you're a Trump supporter, hypothetically,

00:30:31.260 and you're trying to determine,

00:30:33.040 are they in the same dimension I am?

00:30:35.280 And here's how you do it.

00:30:36.340 You say, hey, just to see

00:30:38.940 if we're in the same dimension here,

00:30:41.620 why don't you say several good things about Trump

00:30:45.740 and I'll say several good things about Biden?

00:30:50.240 No criticism at all.

00:30:51.880 Then when you criticize Trump,

00:30:54.460 I'll know that you can see it in context.

00:30:56.760 And likewise, when I criticize Biden,

00:30:59.240 you'll know that I can still see the good qualities.

00:31:02.000 And so maybe we'll have a little credibility that way.

00:31:05.200 So then I'll go first.

00:31:06.840 Joe Biden, very experienced.

00:31:09.400 Joe Biden, a lot of people say he's a good guy.

00:31:12.260 A lot of people say he has good intentions.

00:31:15.240 There you go.

00:31:16.820 Those were some good things about Joe Biden.

00:31:19.860 I'll even throw in some Kamala Harris.

00:31:22.380 Kamala Harris, very smart, 0.80

00:31:24.700 very ambitious, which I happen to like.

00:31:27.280 You know, she gets,

00:31:28.700 of course she gets, you know,

00:31:29.780 knocked for being a woman if she's ambitious.

00:31:32.340 But I don't knock her.

00:31:33.400 I say, that's great.

00:31:34.460 How about more of that?

00:31:36.460 Kamala Harris, good politician.

00:31:40.100 She has most of the game. 0.94

00:31:41.700 She needs a little practice,

00:31:42.540 but she has all the raw materials. 1.00

00:31:44.580 So there, did you see that?

00:31:46.640 That was me operating in the third dimension,

00:31:50.620 saying, there are some good things about this candidate,

00:31:53.120 which I can clearly see.

00:31:54.860 Now let me tell you the bad things.

00:31:56.760 Boom, boom, boom.

00:31:58.520 And I could do the same thing with Trump.

00:32:01.140 If you ask me,

00:32:02.300 hey, why do you always say there are good things about Trump?

00:32:05.420 I say, uh, that's the opposite of what I do.

00:32:09.180 I say bad things about what he does or has done all the time.

00:32:15.120 I also say that the good things he does are far bigger than the other things.

00:32:20.580 Not even close.

00:32:22.120 So, but I do, I do always acknowledge the, uh, the mistakes.

00:32:26.940 And the, and the thing that always amazes me

00:32:30.520 is that people will come at me and say,

00:32:34.080 but don't you understand?

00:32:35.820 The president's failed the fact-checking 20,000 times.

00:32:39.540 What about that, Scott?

00:32:40.960 Acknowledge it.

00:32:42.020 Acknowledge it.

00:32:42.600 And then you'll be on my side.

00:32:44.720 And then I say, I've never denied that.

00:32:48.260 Have I ever denied that?

00:32:51.520 Not once.

00:32:52.440 Now, of course, I would argue with lots of individual fact-checking,

00:32:56.900 but am I unaware that the president uses hyperbole and salesmanship and persuasion

00:33:03.720 when there are facts that maybe don't quite fit the persuasion, the hyperbole, etc.

00:33:10.240 Am I, does anybody think I'm not aware of that?

00:33:14.160 Seriously?

00:33:14.720 That's that second, third dimension thing.

00:33:18.640 To imagine that I'm not aware of that,

00:33:22.080 and I haven't incorporated that into my larger thinking,

00:33:25.240 is not even on the same dimension.

00:33:28.920 That's, that's a second dimension thinker.

00:33:31.460 And it's like being a ghost.

00:33:32.780 You can't, can't have a conversation with a ghost.

00:33:34.860 All right.

00:33:39.520 Here's, here's something that just blows me away.

00:33:43.400 And if this doesn't make your head spin, I haven't done enough work with you yet.

00:33:48.980 This should be, the following topic should make you feel unmoored from reality.

00:33:57.120 It's that big.

00:33:58.000 But it probably won't.

00:33:59.280 Let me test it.

00:34:00.040 It goes like this.

00:34:02.440 Take your Google page, open Google, and type into the search box,

00:34:08.220 does Joe Biden have dementia?

00:34:11.520 What you'll notice is that the autofill will never fill it.

00:34:16.340 You have to type out the entire sentence, does Joe Biden have dementia?

00:34:21.160 If you do that, you can get some results.

00:34:23.940 Now go to Bing or DuckDuckGo.

00:34:26.280 Start typing in, does Joe Biden have dementia?

00:34:30.920 How far do you get before it autofills, does Joe Biden have dementia?

00:34:36.340 You get to, does J.

00:34:40.240 That's right.

00:34:41.540 Does, and then the first letter of Joe Biden, autofills have dementia.

00:34:47.200 Now, if you're Google, do you want people to know that the entire, that the most popular search is, does Joe Biden have dementia?

00:35:00.080 Now, is there any scenario you can imagine in which this happened naturally?

00:35:08.600 No.

00:35:09.700 No, you can't.

00:35:10.640 And so, given that it's public, you know, you can just test it.

00:35:17.520 I tested it myself.

00:35:18.980 I saw somebody tweet it, and I thought, I better test this.

00:35:22.980 Because, you know, it's the sort of thing you read, and then you think, I don't know if this is true.

00:35:27.300 Because if it were true, it would be a huge, gigantic example that would be impossible to question, that's election interference.

00:35:40.400 Is there any way to not define that as election interference?

00:35:45.580 Is there any lawyerly argument?

00:35:47.400 And again, I'm being, I'm trying to be open-minded here.

00:35:51.920 If there was, if there were an argument for how this is not election interference, I would mention it, even in the context of saying why I agreed with it or disagreed with it.

00:36:04.160 As far as I know, there is no argument offered for why that would be legitimate.

00:36:10.820 Can somebody fact check that?

00:36:12.640 I'm not aware of any argument that says that's natural.

00:36:15.780 And if it's not natural, it's generated by people, and it clearly has a tremendous effect on the national consciousness.

00:36:26.580 Now, if what I say is true, and there is an obvious public, public being the key mind-blowing part of this, you don't have to do research.

00:36:41.380 It's public.

00:36:43.240 It's right in front of you.

00:36:44.380 Why is this not the biggest story in the news?

00:36:49.680 Because it's not the biggest story anywhere.

00:36:52.800 It's the biggest thing, but it's not in the news.

00:36:57.280 Why?

00:36:58.800 Here's why, and you're not going to like it.

00:37:01.600 Are you ready?

00:37:03.140 We don't form our own opinions on politics.

00:37:07.120 We don't form our own opinions.

00:37:10.740 We believe we do.

00:37:11.920 It's one of the great illusions of life.

00:37:14.300 We believe that we're looking at sources, forming our own opinions.

00:37:18.380 A little bit of that happens.

00:37:19.680 But in general, you know, the big picture is that your opinions on politics are assigned to you, literally assigned to you.

00:37:30.400 So if you're watching more of the news on the right, they'll assign you a certain opinion, and you will adopt it.

00:37:36.500 If you're watching more of the news on the left, they will assign you your opinion, and you will adopt it.

00:37:42.320 Yeah, there are a few people who can think through that, but it's rare.

00:37:45.800 In general, you are assigned your opinion, and here's the part that will make your head blow off.

00:37:52.940 The reason that the biggest story in the country, if not the world, is this Google manipulation and brainwashing,

00:38:00.620 the reason it's not the biggest story is because it hasn't been assigned.

00:38:07.320 Let that sink in.

00:38:08.720 The only reason it's not the headline story is that they haven't assigned it to anybody.

00:38:17.860 We don't come up with independent opinions.

00:38:21.180 It's not a thing.

00:38:23.720 Opinions are assigned, and this isn't assigned.

00:38:27.040 And until somebody assigns it and says, here's your opinion, we won't act on it, and we can't really deal with it.

00:38:36.620 It's like, if it hasn't been validated by the assigners of opinions, and I'm not one, so I'm not an official assigner of opinions,

00:38:47.080 I can tell you about it, you can hear it, you can hear all the details, you can logically understand it,

00:38:55.020 you can logically know this is a gigantic problem.

00:38:58.580 I mean gigantic.

00:38:59.520 Maybe one of the biggest problems of civilization, that's how big it is.

00:39:05.580 Bigger than climate change, by far, it's not even close.

00:39:09.180 If the citizens of the United States are being brainwashed to this extent, without their agreement or understanding,

00:39:18.200 would you agree that's bigger than climate change?

00:39:21.320 Because that would affect everything.

00:39:22.880 It would affect climate change.

00:39:24.460 It would affect whether we go to war.

00:39:26.620 It would affect the economy.

00:39:28.020 It's by far the biggest story.

00:39:31.720 But it's never been assigned to you.

00:39:34.380 So you don't hold it in your head as a big story.

00:39:37.380 And even having heard it from me, it still won't be a big story.

00:39:41.920 You will leave this periscope, and it will leave your consciousness.

00:39:46.960 But if it had been constantly on the news and social media, it would be the biggest topic in your mind.

00:39:53.960 And you would think nothing was more important than that.

00:39:56.620 You do not have opinions.

00:40:00.360 They are assigned to you.

00:40:03.080 All right.

00:40:05.320 So if that didn't blow your head off a little bit, I don't know what would.

00:40:10.760 Here are some of the destructive lies from the Kamala Harris group.

00:40:15.380 So she's talking about, as is the governor of California, that the climate change is what's fueling and intensifying the wildfires, as I mentioned.

00:40:25.140 Now, what is the evidence for that?

00:40:28.160 And I've asked people, can you give me some evidence that it's climate change causing this?

00:40:34.360 And sure enough, they'll send me to a source.

00:40:37.040 And it'll be a source that says, climate change is making this worse.

00:40:40.860 And then I'll say, all right, now connect the dots.

00:40:46.320 I hear the claim, but why and where's your data?

00:40:51.620 What study shows that?

00:40:54.460 And it's just not there.

00:40:55.400 So there are people who keep reading the claim, and the claim is in fairly reputable places.

00:41:02.720 So they'll read the claim, and they won't notice that there's no connecting tissue to any kind of data or anything, just some hand-waving that might make things drier at the same time it's making things wetter.

00:41:15.900 And that's basically the argument, which is a non-argument.

00:41:19.640 And then you say, well, maybe we should ask the experts at forestry.

00:41:25.160 How many experts in the country who are experts at forest fires and forest management, how many of those people think the problem is climate change?

00:41:36.700 It's kind of zero.

00:41:38.820 It's basically zero.

00:41:40.840 The people who know forest management say, well, just look at it.

00:41:44.820 We didn't do forest management.

00:41:47.320 We got exactly the outcome that that would predict, which is why there's a thing called forest management, removing the underbrush, et cetera.

00:41:56.860 There's a reason it's a thing, because it predicts this.

00:42:01.520 There's a direct connection.

00:42:04.100 Now, is it true that climate change also has some impact?

00:42:10.540 I don't know.

00:42:12.160 Do you know?

00:42:13.320 Well, because if we know that the forest management piece predicts all of it, could it be that there is an extra 5% kicker on there from climate change?

00:42:24.660 Could be.

00:42:25.780 I would be completely open to the argument that it's a little 10% worse because of climate change.

00:42:33.000 Maybe 20%.

00:42:33.840 But there's no science for that.

00:42:36.940 There's no science for that.

00:42:38.360 It's just maybe.

00:42:40.160 Maybe.

00:42:40.900 Who knows?

00:42:42.920 So when you see somebody like Harris promote a lie that big, she's either completely anti-science, which is a problem, especially since she accuses the other side of that,

00:42:55.760 or she's telling one of the biggest lies you could ever tell, which would tell you not to do forest management.

00:43:04.500 Why would you do forest management if Kamala Harris, who might be president someday, if a person this important is telling you it's climate change, why would you do forest management?

00:43:17.700 It doesn't seem to be a variable, according to her.

00:43:22.060 This is the kind of lie that you can't compare this to anything Trump has ever done.

00:43:27.300 Maybe there's an exception that I can't think of, but the worst things Trump has ever said, if you believe them, you would still end up doing the right thing.

00:43:39.700 Right?

00:43:40.220 So let's say the worst thing he said was, there are a lot of rapists coming in over the border.

00:43:46.320 And you say to yourself, that's just a terrible thing to say.

00:43:49.520 Maybe.

00:43:50.500 I'm not even going to argue the point.

00:43:52.520 But what would be the downside?

00:43:54.060 The downside is we would get a better border security, and then there would be, in fact, fewer rapists coming in, because there would be fewer people.

00:44:03.020 So you don't even need to know what the ratio of rapists to regular immigrants is. 0.99

00:44:08.340 You would end up ahead.

00:44:10.480 Right?

00:44:11.040 If you liked immigration, of course. 0.99

00:44:13.920 So the Trump, quote, lies all have that quality, I think, where if you believe them, you'd end up in a good place.

00:44:21.860 The Kamala Harris ones, if you believe them, you end up with a divided country.

00:44:26.980 You end up with California on fire.

00:44:30.840 I don't know.

00:44:31.320 Maybe you end up being friends with China while they're trying to destroy you. 1.00

00:44:35.300 All of their lies are the kind that can kill you.

00:44:38.680 Whereas Trump's lies are the kind that, oh, yeah, well, it wasn't exactly true, but we came out ahead.

00:44:43.680 And obviously he knew that, which is why he framed it that way.

00:44:46.900 So, all right, I know you want me to talk about this.

00:44:52.200 There's a post on 4chan.

00:44:55.240 You ready for this?

00:44:56.860 Okay, so the first part you need to know, it's on 4chan, and it's anonymous.

00:45:02.600 So what kind of credibility should you place on something that's on 4chan and it's anonymous?

00:45:08.980 The answer is none, right?

00:45:11.520 So if we can be honest, let's try to keep some kind of rational thought here.

00:45:16.940 The credibility should be none.

00:45:19.980 What credibility should you put on the Bob Woodward anonymous, or anybody else's, anonymous stories about President Trump?

00:45:30.020 Zero.

00:45:31.360 The same.

00:45:31.940 Now, you could argue that if you've checked on the anonymous source and you found out at least it's a real person that could have been in the room,

00:45:40.520 that that's a little more confirming than just a stranger, anonymous stranger on 4chan.

00:45:46.140 I can see that.

00:45:47.840 But it's such a small difference that it's more rational just to say these are two things in the category of non-credible things.

00:45:57.080 That said, since it is now the election season, and apparently it's okay, apparently it's okay to say things that are anonymous reports,

00:46:07.380 I will report this to you with the caveat, I wouldn't think it's credible.

00:46:13.980 But there's something I want to call out in it.

00:46:16.860 There's a detail in this report.

00:46:18.980 It's about Biden having dementia.

00:46:20.540 So that it's reportedly some campaign insider, who is now no longer with the campaign,

00:46:27.140 who reports that it was just common knowledge that Biden was on dementia medication,

00:46:34.880 and that the dementia medication would cause incontinence,

00:46:38.720 and that the real reason they don't want him answering questions or staying too long in public is the incontinence.

00:46:44.760 Now, again, this is something an anonymous person on 4chan is saying.

00:46:52.880 The odds of anything in that category being true, not so good.

00:46:58.500 But I'm reading this thing and trying to answer the question just to my own satisfaction of,

00:47:06.640 is it obviously untrue?

00:47:08.440 I mean, can you pick it up by the way it's told?

00:47:10.400 Or is there something in there, a tell, a little signal that there might be something true?

00:47:17.440 And here's what's interesting.

00:47:20.700 There's a detail in this post that it's hard for me to imagine somebody would have thought of this detail

00:47:28.500 to put it in a fake story.

00:47:31.400 And here's the detail.

00:47:33.180 The detail, again, is an allegation.

00:47:35.960 Don't take any of this as credible.

00:47:37.600 But the allegation is that the Biden team has had actual, literal meetings

00:47:43.480 on the topic of what kind of depends undergarment would cause the least amount of obvious visual something,

00:47:56.200 but also would crinkle the least.

00:47:59.700 They wouldn't have a crinkling sound.

00:48:01.440 Now, that detail either means it's true or that this post was created by a really good liar.

00:48:11.940 A really good liar.

00:48:13.820 And you can't rule out either of those possibilities.

00:48:16.600 Because if you were a really good liar and you wanted to put a rumor someplace,

00:48:21.540 well, 4chan would be a good place to do it, right?

00:48:23.560 So, I only call out this technique.

00:48:28.640 If you're trying to determine if somebody is lying about a story, look for the weird detail.

00:48:35.260 Because a liar doesn't come up with weird details.

00:48:39.480 They're trying to just give you the most basic version.

00:48:42.840 Yes, there was a gun on the sidewalk.

00:48:44.580 I picked it up, blah, blah.

00:48:45.540 But they wouldn't throw in something like, I picked up the gun and there was like, I don't know, there was something on it.

00:48:52.020 Like, I don't know if it fell in some tar or it was gum or whatever.

00:48:56.180 So, I'm scraping off the gum, off of the gun, and it goes off.

00:49:00.340 If somebody tells you a story like that, you say to yourself, okay, nobody makes up that story.

00:49:06.100 Nobody makes up a story they found a gun on the ground and there was some kind of stuff on it.

00:49:11.620 I mean, it could be made up, but you wouldn't make up that story.

00:49:15.940 You would make up something that just sounded more real.

00:49:19.100 So, anyway, the crinkle part of the story stands out as either a very experienced liar or true.

00:49:29.360 But it's definitely not a bad lie.

00:49:31.980 You can rule that part out.

00:49:33.540 All right.

00:49:34.520 Here are some of the Biden lies that people suggested.

00:49:37.760 That if Biden had been president, he could have prevented all the COVID deaths.

00:49:46.020 That's crazy.

00:49:48.200 That Biden was for the travel ban.

00:49:52.260 There's a doubt on that one.

00:49:55.200 That he was against NAFTA at one point.

00:49:58.680 That he's for fracking.

00:49:59.620 The fracking one, by the way, seems to be a lie on the conservative side.

00:50:06.340 So, here's me, just taking note here, when I said that the campaign ads from both sides are lies, well, here's an example.

00:50:16.840 This is just a lie from the Trump side.

00:50:20.060 So, the truth on this one is that, I think, is that Joe Biden was against fracking on public government land.

00:50:30.840 And so, there's a quote saying that.

00:50:32.440 And then there are other quotes saying he's not against fracking.

00:50:36.040 So, I believe that he said he's against it on government land, but he's not going to ban it in private, where most of it, I imagine, happens.

00:50:45.600 Whereas Kamala Harris has said directly that she's against fracking, but she's the vice president.

00:50:52.420 It doesn't really matter what her opinion was, because she would have to adapt Biden's.

00:50:57.880 Now, is it a giant lie?

00:51:02.320 Not really, because I think the Trump campaign is, let's say, in the neighborhood of truth, without being technically true.

00:51:11.340 They're in the neighborhood of truth, because it is fair to say that the entire pressures of the base would cause Biden to probably fold,

00:51:20.520 and he would probably become anti-fracking, especially if Kamala Harris is anti-fracking, once he got in the job. 1.00

00:51:28.600 You can easily imagine that he's so close to being anti-fracking, you can imagine his base pushing him over the line.

00:51:36.220 So, I would say that's another example of the Trump campaign, or Trump, saying something that might be not exactly true, in terms of the fact-checking,

00:51:48.260 but it's basically directionally true.

00:51:51.820 Like, even if it's not true, it leads you to the right place.

00:51:58.820 Because the Trump campaign wants you to know that these are two people who are not too firm on fracking in a party that's very much against it,

00:52:09.980 and if they get power, what are the odds that Biden's weak little complaint that,

00:52:16.620 no, no, no, I only meant government land, is that believable?

00:52:21.060 Could you depend on it?

00:52:22.340 Probably not.

00:52:23.360 Probably couldn't depend on that.

00:52:24.740 And so, I would say that, even though it fails the fact-checking, it certainly gets you in the right direction.

00:52:31.800 There's a whole bunch of other lies here.

00:52:34.320 I won't mention them.

00:52:35.940 I asked if anybody could come up with the first documented, as in the Internet documented,

00:52:42.220 case of somebody who had seriously accused Biden of dementia.

00:52:48.220 And I wondered how far back that went.

00:52:50.300 And I don't know for sure, but a lot of people did some research for me.

00:52:55.900 Thank you.

00:52:56.940 And there's a Mark Levin quote in which he says,

00:53:02.080 seriously, I think Joe Biden may have dementia.

00:53:05.500 And then he goes on to talk about it.

00:53:08.100 This was April 28, 2012, eight years ago.

00:53:13.960 So, if this stands as the earliest serious, serious question about dementia,

00:53:23.300 I think Mark Levin gets the award for the first one to spot it.

00:53:28.380 I would say that Biden wasn't really on my radar back then.

00:53:31.820 So, I wasn't looking for it one way or the other.

00:53:34.400 I think my first mention of it was,

00:53:37.120 somebody says that I mentioned it in August 27th of 2019.

00:53:45.520 So, that might have been my earliest mention.

00:53:47.620 But there are mentions in 2008 that were sort of semi-serious.

00:53:55.220 So, there are a number of people who talked about Biden being slow in 2008 and 2009.

00:54:03.260 But they stopped short of asserting an actual medical diagnosis.

00:54:09.440 It was a little bit more like just insulting a politician on the other side.

00:54:14.860 He's stupid. He's slow. He's losing it.

00:54:16.840 That sort of thing.

00:54:18.240 But the actual, I'm completely serious.

00:54:21.720 I think there's dementia.

00:54:24.380 I think Mark Levin might have the winner on 2012.

00:54:28.380 So, think about that.

00:54:29.960 Eight years ago.

00:54:30.660 Eight years ago, a smart observer, and Levin is definitely smart.

00:54:38.760 A smart observer picked this up eight years ago.

00:54:43.440 Robin Williams in 2008.

00:54:45.580 But, you know, I think a lot of them were just joking.

00:54:48.880 But I think Levin was actually dead serious on that.

00:54:51.760 Oh, in October 2012, Dr. Keith Ablo mentioned that he thought Biden might have dementia.

00:55:03.440 Or at least that had to be considered, he thought.

00:55:05.800 Because if you're a doctor, you don't diagnose people you haven't met.

00:55:10.600 So, Dr. Ablo was more saying it has to be considered.

00:55:13.720 All right.

00:55:18.160 Here's an interesting factoid.

00:55:21.640 There's data that shows that half of the donations in 2019 for a democratic action group, Act Blue,

00:55:30.320 came from untraceable, quote, unemployed donors.

00:55:33.940 And there was 400 million in donations.

00:55:38.480 And so the thinking is that maybe these were untraceable foreign donations.

00:55:44.040 Because in the United States, it would be weird if half of all your donations were from people who didn't have jobs.

00:55:51.280 I am not sold on this story.

00:55:55.620 Call me a skeptic on this.

00:55:57.820 It sounds a little bit too perfect, like a story that you'd see in a campaign season.

00:56:03.140 But here's my problem with it.

00:56:05.580 I don't know if everybody who donates to every organization gets the same form to fill out.

00:56:12.880 It would be easy to imagine that the people who got donations from this group

00:56:19.360 had a form in which the employment box looked optional.

00:56:25.140 I'm just making something up here to show you that there are other ways this could be explained.

00:56:29.220 Maybe the box was optional.

00:56:30.840 Or maybe it was explained differently, you know, how important it was or something like that.

00:56:36.480 But here's the thing you should understand.

00:56:40.940 Most people in America don't work.

00:56:42.740 So don't be fooled by the fact that there was a 4% unemployment rate at the time these donations were coming in, in 2019.

00:56:52.340 A 4% unemployment rate means half of the people in the country don't have a job.

00:56:57.760 Did you know that?

00:56:59.120 Go out in the street during the workday any week, and the street is filled with people.

00:57:05.100 The stores are filled with people who are not working.

00:57:08.000 You know, all the seniors, all the spouses who are in between jobs, or the other spouse works,

00:57:15.080 maybe one stays at home, which is working in itself.

00:57:19.400 There are students, there are children.

00:57:21.660 I think there are 100-some million workers in a country of 300-some million people.

00:57:26.440 So I wonder if the Republican numbers are right, meaning that the Republicans show only like a tiny percentage don't have jobs,

00:57:36.400 but the Democrat donations show that half of them or so don't have jobs.

00:57:41.840 Half of them is closer to real, because if you took all the retired people, et cetera, who give $10,

00:57:49.080 I think half of the people would be unemployed in a normal anything.

00:57:53.080 If a big group of people just met across the street from your house, and it was just a big public rally,

00:58:00.860 how many people who went to a public rally have jobs?

00:58:04.600 Half? About half, right?

00:58:07.000 If you have a job, you can easily be misled into thinking lots of other people have jobs.

00:58:13.620 It turns out that having a job, it's not even the majority.

00:58:17.280 Most people have had a job or will have a job, but at any moment, most people don't have jobs.

00:58:24.800 All right, here's another fact-check fund.

00:58:29.000 So Jake Tapper tried to fact-check Peter Navarro, today I think it was,

00:58:33.300 in which Peter Navarro claimed that Biden said it was xenophobic to stop travel from China.

00:58:42.040 And Jake Tapper quite rigorously fact-checked him and said, nope, never happened.

00:58:48.820 Joe Biden never said that the China ban was xenophobic.

00:58:53.420 Is that true or false? What do you think?

00:58:55.760 Do you think it's a true fact that Joe Biden once said that the travel ban from China was xenophobic?

00:59:05.080 Well, I went to PolitiFact to find out.

00:59:09.580 Here's what PolitiFact says, as they rate it mostly, it's mostly false.

00:59:15.460 So PolitiFact says it's mostly false that Biden called it xenophobic to ban travel from China.

00:59:22.420 But here's how they word it.

00:59:24.600 Carefully listen to this wording from PolitiFact.

00:59:27.980 So it talked about the situation, and then it says, quote,

00:59:32.680 but Biden has not directly said that the travel restriction was xenophobic.

00:59:37.820 So therefore it's false.

00:59:40.240 So PolitiFact says he has not directly said that China ban was xenophobic.

00:59:45.200 Okay, but they continue.

00:59:47.900 He has used that phrase in reference to Trump and his handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

00:59:55.580 What?

00:59:56.100 What does it mean if Joe Biden did use the phrase against Trump that it was xenophobic

01:00:04.840 the way he was handling the coronavirus outbreak, but he wasn't talking about the travel ban?

01:00:12.460 It happened about the same time as the travel ban, you know, just after it.

01:00:17.920 And yet there was something else that the president did that was xenophobic

01:00:22.520 that didn't have to do with the travel ban.

01:00:26.100 So, okay, okay, could it be that he was calling it the China virus or the Chinese virus?

01:00:34.220 I think you could say that was maybe offensive, but is it xenophobic?

01:00:42.180 The only xenophobic thing he did, according to the Democrats, was the travel ban.

01:00:48.760 So, yeah, technically maybe he didn't directly say it,

01:00:53.360 but is the Trump campaign lying when they say he did say it?

01:00:58.700 Again, it's one of those directional kind of things.

01:01:04.020 If you were to believe the Trump campaign, you know, that they were technically true,

01:01:08.440 and Biden said that he was being xenophobic, would you be misled?

01:01:14.160 Would it cause you to make a decision that's wrong?

01:01:17.880 No.

01:01:19.180 No.

01:01:19.500 You might be not technically exactly accurate, but you would be the opposite of misled.

01:01:26.180 You would be led to Joe Biden saying that Trump is xenophobic all the time, which is true.

01:01:34.340 So, that's a weird fact check.

01:01:37.300 There are no real facts anymore.

01:01:39.520 Everything is subjective.

01:01:40.500 I think I have to fact check this myself, but I think that Biden said it was xenophobic, the Europe ban.

01:01:52.940 So, that technically you could say the Chinese ban, he did not call xenophobic.

01:01:57.420 He called it in reference to the European travel ban, but check that.

01:02:02.840 I saw it on the Internet, but I don't know if it's true.

01:02:08.240 All right.

01:02:09.360 Did PolitiFact give Biden's actual quotes?

01:02:13.960 I think he gave one of them.

01:02:16.040 I forget.

01:02:17.920 Calling it the China virus is accurate. 1.00

01:02:20.540 It is.

01:02:21.400 Calling it the Chinese virus, I think, is a problem.

01:02:25.740 Because Chinese is a word that refers to the people as well as the government.

01:02:30.700 That's a little unfair.

01:02:32.140 No, that's totally unfair.

01:02:33.140 It's totally unfair to blame the Chinese people for what the government decides to do.

01:02:39.740 But calling it the China virus is just a description of where it happened.

01:02:45.520 Totally fair, because we call the other viruses by their place.

01:02:49.120 And the president made that adjustment.

01:02:52.520 You know, I say this a million times, but judging people from what they used to do, as opposed to how they corrected it, just feels like a loser way to go through life.

01:03:04.640 You know, it seems like the smarter way to go through life is if somebody used to have an opinion you don't like, and then they changed it to an opinion you like.

01:03:13.840 Like, you should say, well, there's an awesome person.

01:03:17.040 That's an awesome person.

01:03:18.260 They agree with me.

01:03:19.820 That would be the better way to go through life.

01:03:23.660 All right.

01:03:24.660 Somebody says, stop it.

01:03:26.240 I don't know what you're talking about.

01:03:28.800 Have you ever been fact-checked?

01:03:30.940 Yeah, all the time.

01:03:32.860 Incorrectly.

01:03:34.040 Probably 100% of the time.

01:03:35.800 I think I've been fact-checked, not by politifact, exactly.

01:03:39.660 I've been fact-checked by the news, you know, a million times.

01:03:44.460 But, not a million times, but I have been fact-checked by the news.

01:03:47.820 I don't think they've ever fact-checked me correctly.

01:03:50.500 Not once.

01:03:55.160 Well, Chinese food is not racist, because Chinese people eat Chinese food.

01:04:03.200 Is that an insult or something?

01:04:04.960 Can't even drive two hours away from the Bay Area to go to a gym or go for a run.

01:04:14.900 Yeah.

01:04:15.340 The entire state of California is in smoke right now.

01:04:18.020 There's no place you can drive to that doesn't look like outside my window, as far as I know.

01:04:24.340 All right.

01:04:25.540 Just looking at your comments now.

01:04:28.140 What about the Spanish flu?

01:04:32.620 Oh, so somebody's saying, why was it called the Spanish flu, as opposed to the Spain flu?

01:04:37.200 Does it matter?

01:04:38.720 Does it matter?

01:04:39.520 It doesn't matter, because in the old days, if they were racist in the old days, that was the old days.

01:04:47.120 So I don't think we should use the standard of the early 1900s for how we name things.

01:04:52.800 If people are more sensitive today, that's fine.

01:04:56.300 By the way, I'm never the one who complains about all forms of social correctness.

01:05:02.960 I think a lot of that's useful.

01:05:05.100 I think that they call it political correctness, but I would call it social correctness.

01:05:10.440 I think that social correctness is something we should be tuning all the time.

01:05:15.340 You just don't want to go wild with it.

01:05:16.940 You don't want to go too far, but it's good stuff.

01:05:19.220 All right.

01:05:21.540 What will be the October surprise?

01:05:24.820 Well, the obvious one would be Biden being replaced.

01:05:30.200 The obvious one would be Biden being replaced.

01:05:33.600 You want a bigger one?

01:05:35.620 A bigger Saudi peace deal?

01:05:38.900 How about some kind of a Saudi-Israel deal?

01:05:42.760 That'd be pretty big.

01:05:44.300 That'd be pretty big.

01:05:45.040 So, somebody says they like my shirt and my lighting.

01:05:51.620 Oh, the reason you like my lighting is because I did it wrong.

01:05:55.320 My lighting is supposed to have the curtains down, but I forgot to put them down.

01:05:59.320 The only reason the lighting works today is because there's so much smoke inside

01:06:03.840 that I'm getting a good lighting effect.

01:06:08.620 All right.

01:06:10.620 That's all for now, and I will talk to you tomorrow.

01:06:12.880 All right.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 13, 2020

Episode 1122 Scott Adams： Biden's Biggest Lies, Google's Election Interference, Fact-Checking Tapper, Woodward Story Goes Biden

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