Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1127 Scott Adams： Patriotic Education, Biden's Lying Accelerates, Expert Advice, Biden Acts Coherent for Minutes in a Row

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00:01:10.300 right there i hope it was good on your end too all right let's talk about all the stuff that's

00:01:15.720 happening uh rasmussen poll is teasing us today and i think you'll get the official answer uh in an

00:01:24.660 hour or so but there are maybe two hours uh it looks like the president's approval level is gonna be

00:01:33.820 impressive i think you're gonna like it i can't tell you what it is but rasmussen says you're gonna

00:01:42.460 like it if you're a trump supporter all right um so the trump administration announced that they're

00:01:50.200 going ahead with their uh their planned and scheduled turn down of the chinese app tiktok

00:01:58.500 and also wechat i guess and this is they had already announced that if something didn't happen by this

00:02:05.340 date which is sunday i guess that they'll just stop the downloads and start um start blocking

00:02:12.280 these apps now let me ask you this would joe biden have done this do you feel any chance that joe

00:02:23.360 biden would have blocked tiktok and i don't know if anybody's asked him so i asked on twitter

00:02:28.840 has anybody asked joe biden would you block tiktok if you were president would you stop wechat i'd love

00:02:36.180 to hear his answer on that because i think he'd have a little trouble answering it being being relatively

00:02:41.820 more pro china than than trump is you know and i gotta say um i've said this a number of times and

00:02:50.320 every time you see another example of it it strengthens the point trump is bad at doing

00:02:57.260 easy stuff easy stuff being anything that joe biden can do if joe biden is capable of doing it

00:03:05.380 that would be in the category of easy stuff in other words showing up reading from a teleprompter and

00:03:12.240 not uh and not getting everybody mad so trump likes to provoke people so he doesn't do the easy stuff

00:03:20.740 well but the impossible stuff you know peace in the middle east uh shaking hands with uh kim jong-un 0.93

00:03:27.880 you know moving out of uh china decoupling from china these are things which you would have thought

00:03:35.480 were kind of impossible but he doesn't and i would say that this uh banning tiktok i actually can't even

00:03:43.220 imagine another president doing it i can imagine another president complaining but i can't see anybody

00:03:49.880 just you know whacking the most popular app among children in the united states and just saying you

00:03:56.540 know yeah i know you love it i know you really like this kids and goodbye just just get rid of it

00:04:05.340 i just love that it's so decisive it doesn't seem like it's real

00:04:09.900 all right um i've asked on twitter and waiting to see the responses who can give me the most

00:04:19.020 persuasive data you know a source a link or something for whether masks work or don't work

00:04:27.760 and i can't tell you how unhappy i am that i'm asking this question in september because this was

00:04:36.880 sort of a january-ish february question right do masks work how is it we don't know that now now of

00:04:44.820 course most of you are saying scott scott we do know that we do know that it's the most known thing

00:04:52.140 in the world and then half of you will say yes we know it they work and then the other half of you are

00:04:58.880 saying scott it's the most well-known thing in the world it's been debunked a thousand times it doesn't

00:05:05.460 they don't work i would have thought by now that an independent-minded person at least as much as i

00:05:14.140 can muster would be able to look at those two arguments and come to some kind of a conclusion

00:05:20.800 based on the data i have my own opinion based on my own thinking but i should be able to look at the

00:05:26.080 sources and say oh okay these are good ones these are bad ones or it's ambiguous or something but

00:05:33.080 instead there's a little magic trick that people are doing to themselves to fool themselves it goes

00:05:39.840 like this if you think you saw a lab test that says masks don't work you didn't see anything

00:05:47.160 you didn't see anything a lab cannot test whether these work for the coronavirus if you think a lab test

00:05:56.900 which maybe shows that the virus is smaller than the the holes in the mask or it shows that the air

00:06:03.340 comes out the side if you think that kind of test tells you something you're really wrong those those

00:06:09.860 are non-credible tests and here's my argument if i'm talking to you from let's say four feet away

00:06:18.540 without a mask my mouth cannon is shooting my virus directly at you in one street

00:06:26.140 so i'm basically just dosing you with virus if i have the virus compared to i'm wearing a mask

00:06:35.480 that laboratory tests say hey those masks are letting stuff out the side

00:06:41.360 is is the virus that i'm sending as a cannon directly into the mouth of the person i'm talking

00:06:48.420 to because when you talk to somebody you literally face your mouth at their mouth right that's the most

00:06:55.580 common way you talk to somebody face to face mouth to mouth are you telling me that the same amount of

00:07:02.060 viral load because it does matter how much you get we're not talking about whether one virus gets

00:07:08.580 through because it makes a big difference if you get a big viral load or a small one are you telling 0.97

00:07:15.380 me the viral load is the same if it comes out the side as if i can and shoot it right into your mouth 0.68

00:07:21.660 if you can tell me that's true because you studied it in a laboratory i'm just going to say you don't 0.75

00:07:27.900 know how things work you can't study that in the laboratory it's never been studied common sense tells

00:07:35.540 you that friction works every time it's hard to imagine where friction doesn't work at least a

00:07:43.900 little bit now i here here's the evidence that i would take to be reliable if you take any one

00:07:52.040 country and say hey this one country either did or did not use masks and they did or did not get a good

00:07:59.060 result useless completely useless all right one country doesn't tell you anything a bunch of

00:08:08.460 countries if you could collect the basket of countries that had maybe a lot of other differences

00:08:14.640 but the one thing they all had in common this basket was that they used masks and they were really

00:08:20.260 dedicated about it could you compare that to the people who had lots of other things that are

00:08:24.720 different but the one thing that was common is they didn't use masks just see how they did i would

00:08:31.000 consider that beginning to be credible if you can't show me that link you're not in the conversation 0.97

00:08:38.900 and i'm not in the conversation either because i've never seen that evidence of all the the dumbass 0.96

00:08:45.300 graphs and bad statistics and stupid data that i've seen on twitter and it's a lot 0.86

00:08:50.820 why have i never once not even once seen anybody present something that said here are the countries 0.90

00:08:58.920 that use masks well here are the ones that didn't how they do compare to each other why have i never

00:09:06.280 seen that isn't that the most important piece of data and and nobody can collect that data it's the

00:09:13.220 most obvious thing somebody says there's no cannon coming into their mouth well maybe there is you just

00:09:22.360 don't know it so um this uh this old mask thing really shows how bad humans are at understanding

00:09:33.120 anything logical or rational and i'm telling you i don't understand you know i've got this gigantic hole

00:09:39.000 but i feel like we all do all right uh let me give you an update on my smart democrat friend i i give

00:09:47.540 you updates as i every day we go back and forth and i'm chipping away at him to try to make his trump

00:09:53.900 derangement syndrome a little bit less and i have successfully moved him from the following position 0.97

00:10:00.640 where he used to say trump is a big old serial liar and he lies he lies he lies and that's why

00:10:08.880 i like joe biden because he's not like that so every time joe biden lies and according to joel pollock 0.87

00:10:17.640 he counted uh in i guess in the town hall last night there was one answer just one answer that

00:10:24.260 biden gave which included five lies in one answer so so biden is sort of like a gatling gun of lies at

00:10:34.680 this point because you know all of his campaign ads are lies he just did a public service thing

00:10:41.580 where he spread the fine people hoax again to to a jewish audience i mean just the worst thing you could

00:10:48.680 possibly do as a human it's not even just the worst thing you could do as a candidate what joe biden

00:10:54.900 is doing by spreading the fine people hoax is one of the worst things you could do as a human

00:11:00.760 just as a human there's nothing that trump has ever done that's in that class and trump's done some

00:11:08.000 doozies right trump's insulted some people you know you know the list right nobody is unaware of

00:11:15.400 what trump's alleged and actual offenses are but biden i mean that's the worst thing i've ever seen

00:11:23.800 in public i've never seen any public figure let me think about this we'll just say presidents

00:11:31.540 name any president who's done something worse than spread the fine people hoax repeatedly during

00:11:39.880 during a time when the country is divided um you know you'd say oh what about nixon and watergate

00:11:46.240 and i would say not even close not even close uh carl bernstein can you go over here uh no i guess

00:11:53.940 you don't work on this side he only does he only does it when it's bad for trump but if you were being

00:11:59.360 even a little bit objective watergate was sort of a you know a bad thing that you know maybe had no real

00:12:08.060 impact on the country in the end except for the the president left but the impact of the fine people

00:12:14.300 hoax is it's like pouring acid on a baby it's just the worst thing you could ever imagine

00:12:19.480 get that get that image out of your head um so i've convinced my smart democrat friend that his 0.99

00:12:28.460 original position that biden was a truth teller roughly speaking and trump was a big old liar is

00:12:35.180 closer to two people in a political contest they're just both lying all the time all right if you want to

00:12:42.740 tell me that trump only tells the truth in his campaign ads i would say well i don't think you

00:12:48.940 know what a campaign ad is a campaign ad in 2020 doesn't try to tell the truth that's not even

00:12:57.420 that's not even slightly you know on the table as something anybody needs to do and it's not just

00:13:05.060 the president it's just anybody running for office so apparently as long as it's legal to lie

00:13:10.600 in a campaign ad people have figured out it's just easier to shade the truth than it is to tell the

00:13:16.820 real truth all right um the president did something i guess yesterday that might be one of the most

00:13:25.360 important things he'll ever do and it will it will get the the least amount what did somebody say the

00:13:34.460 birth certificate now the the birth certificate let me divulge i think there's somebody here who's

00:13:40.400 trying to argue that uh that trump claiming the birther thing about obama might be bad as the fine

00:13:49.140 people hoax here's the difference and it's a big big difference the birther thing had nothing to do with

00:13:58.340 the race the only race that was injected into that was from the media and from the democrats the

00:14:04.940 democrats are responsible for the birther thing because let me clarify trump is of course responsible

00:14:13.100 for raising the issue but he never raised it as a racial issue it's the same issue he would have

00:14:19.600 you know he would have because he did the same thing with ted cruz you know he would have raised the

00:14:25.180 same issue if hillary clinton had any irregularity on her birth certificate there's nobody alive who can

00:14:32.700 tell me with a straight face you know if hillary clinton had been in that situation with any kind

00:14:39.000 of question that you could make about the eligibility i don't think trump would have mentioned that because

00:14:46.240 she's white nobody believes that the entire racial component of birtherism is an invention of the

00:14:54.580 press and and the enemies of republicans now were there republicans who were thinking

00:15:01.540 ha ha ha it's because he's black i doubt it i doubt it in have you met i've spent a lot of time with

00:15:11.520 republicans the last several years talking about politics and stuff a lot of time and a lot of it 0.65

00:15:16.720 is private and people will tell me things that they won't say you know out loud and people will tell

00:15:23.040 me even just horrible you know thoughts that they would never let anybody hear i hear everything

00:15:27.860 because people kind of trust me not to judge them which is true i tend not to judge people in person

00:15:35.180 and or any other time usually um but

00:15:41.400 all right i was just looking at your comments and it's throwing me off here all right so the point is

00:15:48.740 that there's nothing worse than the fine people hoax and i would argue that the democrats are the ones

00:15:53.860 who turned the birther thing racial that wasn't trump um so trump has signed this thing the uh

00:16:01.380 due to do it's the uh executive order for a patriotic to create a national commission to promote

00:16:10.020 patriotic education and this is somewhat a replacement for or at least a a counter to

00:16:18.700 the so-called 1619 project which tried to reframe history in through the lens of slavery now i happen

00:16:29.380 to think that's that the 1619 project could have been really good you know if if it had been executed

00:16:38.100 correctly i would say that would have been a plus because i would love to have you know our our kids

00:16:43.740 should be educated to know what world war ii was they should know that the holocaust happened 0.88

00:16:49.020 you know that they should know slavery they should know the details about it

00:16:54.280 so you know it was a good idea but the way it was actually going to just turned into a racist

00:17:01.200 nightmare which would destroy the country so i've said that the the way we train our kids

00:17:08.700 is the operating system for the country so the the way you program children it becomes their

00:17:16.580 operating system and they can't run any other apps unless they get that right if you don't get

00:17:22.140 the children brainwashed i like to say because i want to make sure you know exactly what i'm talking

00:17:27.140 about brainwashed if you don't brainwash children you're just giving up your future because there's

00:17:33.720 no alternative to it you don't let children raise themselves that's not a thing right you can't let 0.64

00:17:39.760 children say you know i was going to raise you and give you some values but i think i'll just let you

00:17:45.200 work it out just do it on your own we know what happens when that happens so when president trump

00:17:52.300 signed this executive order to um to look into i guess the national commission will come up with

00:17:59.420 proposals i don't know what's going to come out of it but let's say that this is productive and it

00:18:03.660 produces patriotic education i would say that's one of the most important things that this president

00:18:10.520 will accomplish in his entire terms and i don't think it'll ever get any attention because only people

00:18:18.540 like me who see the world in terms of persuasion and you know operating systems etc you'd have to

00:18:25.620 have a certain filter on life to know that this is the most important thing that this president will

00:18:31.520 ever do i think so i think it's more important well you know anything short of you know avoiding i guess

00:18:39.700 nuclear war this is probably the most important thing and i don't think this would have happened under

00:18:46.540 joe biden do you do you think that joe biden would have instituted some kind of patriotic education

00:18:54.040 or would he have continued pushing even harder on the 1619 kind of racist um framework i think he would

00:19:02.900 have he would go on full racist um as as is the current situation all right imagine being the author

00:19:10.660 of that 1619 project and learning that the president of the united states is so worried about how corrosive

00:19:20.280 it is that he's treating it like a disease

00:19:23.000 yeah how would you like to wake up in the morning you're like ah oh what's what's happening today

00:19:31.480 waking up see what's in the news uh what's in the news is that my life's work the thing i'm most

00:19:39.640 noted for is being treated by the united by the president of the united states as sort of a disease

00:19:47.160 that he's trying to get rid of that's what you call not your best day although i would imagine that

00:19:57.060 the author and people beyond that think that it's still quite wonderful as kurt schlichter said on

00:20:05.300 uh on twitter he said that somehow the president managed to get the entire democrat uh group the

00:20:13.260 establishment to publicly unite against educating our children about the greatness of america

00:20:19.080 and it's kind of perfect isn't it the president given that he knows that whatever he does will be

00:20:29.020 opposed he just keeps picking out things like you know puppies and patriotism and apple pie and the

00:20:35.300 democrats are like ah all right we've got to be against puppies now we like puppies but we're gonna

00:20:42.840 have to be against puppies now so now they're against presumably they'll be against this so they'll be

00:20:49.260 against education and telling kids that their country is good um

00:20:54.140 so the the other thing that biden lied about last night was he said that the uh the president

00:21:04.700 quote has yet to condemn the far right and white supremacists and of course the fact checkers

00:21:11.320 tear him apart because he has in fact condemned white supremacists and racists a number of times in public

00:21:19.240 and biden will just act like it never happened uh does does uh let me ask you this does trump ever

00:21:28.300 tell a lie of that kind it feels like that's a biden kind of a lie biden will tell a lie where he'll

00:21:35.400 just say trump said um he wants to shoot all babies and everybody will look around and say that never

00:21:43.920 happened that just never happened whereas trump doesn't really make up things that biden said does

00:21:52.040 he as much i'm you'll probably come up with an example because in the political season everybody's

00:21:57.880 doing that i suppose but if i feel as though trump says stuff like you're losing it or you're you're

00:22:04.680 going to be a socialist or you're when he makes a claim there's at least something to it so when the

00:22:10.760 president says joe biden you're against fracking even though joe biden is trying to tap dance and

00:22:17.420 say no no no i'm i'm sort of against fracking but i'm not really against fracking well i might be

00:22:23.140 against it in the future but i'm not so much against it now well not on federal land of course

00:22:28.360 and yeah you can still frack because we need a transition but you can't do any new fracking

00:22:33.760 so it just ends up being pretty close to what the president said whereas when biden makes up a lie

00:22:40.940 it just didn't even happen it's not it's not close to what trump said to claim that he said

00:22:48.740 maybe we should drink bleach that's not close that's not that's not in the ballpark

00:22:55.700 when trump says talks uh says biden's soft on fracking and he maybe exaggerates it a little bit

00:23:02.860 just a little bit you know what's going on there like you can it's kind of transparent

00:23:08.440 okay he's he's giving the extreme version biden's softening it but they're basically talking about

00:23:15.100 the same thing now the fine people hoax is literally just made up drinking bleach just made up what was 0.94

00:23:23.400 the the other one that he called uh called soldiers uh losers and suckers totally out of context made up

00:23:31.180 uh just made up these are different um uh just so i'm spreading the criticisms around 0.61

00:23:42.420 uh fox news is making something out of kamala harris laughing about the statement that uh parents want 1.00

00:23:51.120 their kids to go back to school so there's a little clip in which kamala does her uh over laugh you 1.00

00:23:58.640 know that awkward where she laughs too much but what she said was that everybody wants kids to go

00:24:04.720 back to school and then she laughed too hard so it makes it look like she's crazy or demented or

00:24:10.420 something but the joke obviously because she was looking at somebody when she said it the joke was

00:24:17.520 that parents of course want to get their kids out of the house and back to school every parent

00:24:22.320 maybe not every parent lots of parents want their kids to go back to school and then she laughed

00:24:29.640 about that because you know every parent laughs about it'd be good to get the kids out of the house to go

00:24:34.160 to school so that's all it was that's all it was she was just laughing at something that people 0.99

00:24:39.880 would laugh at normally she just overlaps but somehow that became a a clip to damn her 1.00

00:24:46.320 um by the way you know we we've seen now two different uh videos of kamala harris getting off 0.97

00:24:55.740 her jet for from the campaign and walking across tarmac to a car and it's this low angle that makes

00:25:03.380 her look a little more impressive you know it's just the way they film it but one of them was wearing 0.72

00:25:08.100 these what uh these uh chuck maddens or whatever they are shoes and everybody got all excited oh

00:25:15.320 she's running for vice president and she wears cool footwear whoa and then she repeated it so they 1.00

00:25:23.880 did the same camera angle same setup but with wheat wheat timberlands or something like that some

00:25:30.720 other kind of cool cool shoe and on one hand i said to myself well that's the the most empty vacuous

00:25:41.700 stupid thing you could be you know focusing on is somebody's footwear but when i saw the second one

00:25:49.180 i said to myself it's not bad it's not bad because remember yeah the the whole point of the uh 0.99

00:25:57.580 the campaign is to make you feel a certain way it's not really an intellectual process who you're

00:26:03.680 voting for it's who you feel do you like seeing president trump always wearing a suit unless he's golfing i

00:26:09.440 guess but the fact he's always in a suit yes oh it's uh chuck taylor's not chuck maddens i don't know

00:26:16.100 why she wear thanks for correcting me chuck taylor's are the name of the shoes and it's timberlands

00:26:21.780 wheat wheat timberlands are the other kinds of shoes she wore so here's my take on it she looked 1.00

00:26:29.600 really good in in the way they filmed it and wearing the you know interesting footwear it was just a real

00:26:39.960 good angle it was a it was a strong look because she's coming off a jet going to a limo she's being 1.00

00:26:46.520 treated as special i thought it was really good somebody says she's five foot two really yeah i i would

00:26:56.160 say that that was surprisingly well done because it just makes you feel kind of a little bit positive

00:27:02.480 toward her just because she's fashionable and if you think that being fashionable doesn't count you're wrong

00:27:09.780 you're wrong being fashionable absolutely makes a difference voters do respond to stuff like that

00:27:16.940 um uh here's another biden fact check he says that uh trump called covet 19 a hoax

00:27:26.000 no just didn't happen just another thing he completely made up yeah he took something from

00:27:33.280 a different context but he totally made it up all right here's here's three things that i think need to

00:27:40.840 be uh figured out by the press and by the public so i asked people to fact check me on these three

00:27:48.140 points because every time i watch the news it feels like they're talking past these facts so they're so

00:27:55.500 we're we're letting the news make us think past the sale so i'm backing them up to the sale and here are the

00:28:03.380 three things i think we should find out if they're true i think they're true but i'm asking for a fact

00:28:10.260 check and nobody has debunked it yet that i saw number one um is it true that congress ignored the

00:28:17.720 virus to focus on the doomed impeachment theater this is something chris rock was saying uh chris rock

00:28:24.440 was blaming congress you know in his framing of it uh trump is a child so congress should have you know

00:28:32.100 known that the virus was something they needed to work on but they were focused on the impeachment which 0.96

00:28:37.000 was doomed and stupid from the beginning now when i say congress ignored the virus that's a little 0.91

00:28:44.240 overstatement right because not completely ignored because i guess they had some kind of a hearing 0.99

00:28:49.560 about the virus in congress now congress has a hearing about the virus were they as informed at least

00:28:59.040 informed enough compared to what the president knew at the same time is it a fact that key members of

00:29:07.080 congress both democrats and republicans were completely aware of the virus risk with the same information at

00:29:14.360 about the same time as president trump true or false because we didn't see congress doing much

00:29:21.220 did we why why would the president be blamed for quote not taking it seriously which is just crazy talk

00:29:29.760 if congress also knew about it at the same time and didn't seem to be doing anything in fact they were

00:29:36.740 focusing on impeachment that's that's just true right is that is anything i said they're not true

00:29:43.880 all right how about this one trump followed his his experts advice all the way with no exceptions for a

00:29:54.880 while i thought it was an exception that um i thought that nobody agreed with trump about closing uh china

00:30:01.900 travel even though it wasn't totally closed but it turns out fauci says yes he was he was uh asked about

00:30:08.880 it and he agreed so as far as i know there are no examples of fauci and burks giving president trump

00:30:18.160 different advice than what he ended up doing that's the most important question of the election have you seen

00:30:24.980 anybody deal with that in the news i haven't i haven't seen uh fox deal with it i haven't seen cnn

00:30:32.240 deal with it i haven't seen it but it's the most important question give us an example

00:30:38.300 where trump did something either too late or different because even timing could be part of it

00:30:43.920 that wasn't what the experts told them to do if you can't come up with that then the then the problem

00:30:51.340 is that the experts weren't right do we blame the experts for not being right i hope not i hope not

00:30:59.540 because we should be adult enough to know that our experts were doing the best they could

00:31:05.740 and they were world experts they were genuinely genuinely had all the capabilities it's just that

00:31:13.800 there were a lot of unknowns there was a little bit of guessing involved right so i don't blame the

00:31:19.160 experts but you certainly can't blame the person who took their advice when that was the only smart

00:31:24.840 thing to do how about this true or false this is my statement trump never had an option to test our way

00:31:34.040 out of the virus the way some other countries did so my claim is that a few other countries because

00:31:41.580 of special cases they did have an option to be aggressive on testing and and tracking and it could make

00:31:49.580 a difference but that because the united states is not only bigger and has more travel and it just has

00:31:55.920 a lot more variables but also we didn't have tests south korea had tests because one private company

00:32:03.720 ramped up before they they were asked to so somebody did something smart but it wasn't the government

00:32:09.920 it was a private company who thought they could make some money and jumped into it whereas i believe the

00:32:15.660 story is that our test kits were defective but nobody knew it so if you got a late start because your

00:32:23.920 experts didn't know their test kits were bad would that not have happened in the obama administration

00:32:29.540 would would president obama have been sitting in his office in the oval office and looking at his

00:32:35.920 day's work when there's no pandemic it's just just a day it was president obama going to say you know

00:32:43.060 what we need to do is fill up our warehouses with ppe did that happen that didn't happen trump didn't do 0.79

00:32:52.060 it obama didn't do it nobody ever did it didn't happen um how about did obama say to himself you

00:33:00.080 know uh my esp is telling me that the test kits we're going to put together if we have a pandemic

00:33:06.660 i don't think they're going to work we we better you know do some kind of a big program now to get

00:33:13.460 them to work against the virus that hasn't been discovered yet how do you test it before you have a

00:33:19.160 virus yeah so here's the thing clearly the united states did not do well on testing i think we can

00:33:28.320 all agree on that right you don't have to be a republican or democrat to say the u.s did not do

00:33:32.880 good on testing but whose fault was it was that the president was he in the laboratory with the with

00:33:39.860 the mixing up the chemicals and he's like i think i got it now that looks about right ship it guys

00:33:45.280 i don't think that happened i i think that the president had an expectation that the lifetime

00:33:52.480 professionals working there would get it right they didn't now was it their fault well i think

00:33:59.040 you'd have to dig in quite a bit to find out what went wrong it could be that whatever went wrong

00:34:03.160 was something that nobody could have seen you know it could have been just a weird coincidence

00:34:07.800 bad accident kind of thing you don't really know the details of that all right so if we could

00:34:13.380 find out those three things uh did congress ignore the virus too at the same time with the same

00:34:19.580 knowledge did trump follow all of his expert advice or did he depart from it at any time in an important

00:34:25.960 way and number three did trump ever have the option that other countries had of testing their way out

00:34:33.940 because the others the ones that did it had something special going on in each case

00:34:38.240 all right um and as i predicted a few months ago i said don't compare the united states to europe

00:34:51.260 and other countries just yet because those other countries are not done they're not done just because

00:34:58.820 they got on top of it early and really you know really put a lid on it it looked like as soon as they

00:35:04.940 open up international travel that's it there's no such thing as containing the virus in one country

00:35:12.460 that's not a thing unless you keep the borders closed and that's not sustainable so sure enough

00:35:19.500 exactly as every one of you should have been able to predict but for whatever reason at least in the

00:35:25.780 news people weren't uh the there's a big increase in cases um since september in europe and uh france is

00:35:37.220 absorbing 10 10 000 new cases a day and it says from one report that the second wave uh might be uh

00:35:45.300 hitting differently than the first wave in other words the second waves might give them quite a whack

00:35:50.080 so gotta wait till the end you know if if the u.s death rate continues to plunge but europe takes off again 0.94

00:36:00.220 are they going to be so lucky i don't know have to wait i think the dumbest comment that anybody could make 0.87

00:36:09.580 in public is that trump didn't take the virus seriously because first of all that's mind reading 0.81

00:36:16.360 you're assuming that you know somebody's state of mind how seriously they took something and now

00:36:22.080 we've got this former pence advisor uh who's going public against trump and says that he uh didn't take

00:36:30.580 the virus seriously he was only interested in election that is a child's view if you hear that

00:36:38.840 you don't even hear you don't even need to hear the rest of it if somebody tells you that there was a

00:36:45.200 president of the united states who didn't take a pandemic seriously and only cared about election

00:36:51.480 just stop listening to that person they're they're not a person who should be listened to

00:36:56.980 because they don't know what the president's feeling on the inside and objectively speaking

00:37:03.040 he took it deadly seriously he closed traffic from china now yes he should you know maybe closed it

00:37:10.920 more aggressively or sooner or whatever but you can't argue that he took it seriously he did the

00:37:16.660 most serious thing that you could do and early and he did it for exactly the reason that it was serious

00:37:21.640 and he said out loud i'm gonna tell people you know the good the the rosier of you but i'm taking

00:37:29.120 it seriously it's deadly so so making a story out of this woman and i'm gonna be cruel here here for a 0.99

00:37:38.520 minute because i i feel like i i have a free a free shot yeah i wouldn't do this in every situation but when

00:37:46.660 you have somebody who's willing to put themselves personally by their name i first of all i appreciate it

00:37:51.840 when somebody's you know giving their real name so we'll give her credit for that name olivia troy

00:37:57.540 who was the mike pence employee who turned on the president publicly so i'll give her credit for doing it 0.99

00:38:06.180 publicly and with her own name we should always give people credit for that because that you know

00:38:11.180 that's that's invested you know these are not drive-by people these are people who are taking a chance

00:38:17.960 a big chance with their own lives and reputations for apparently they think they need to but if they're

00:38:26.300 taking a chance to get the wrong thing well that's a problem um here's the thing i i'm going to be

00:38:34.380 consistent and say that i can't read the inner thoughts or feelings of a stranger exactly the

00:38:41.120 way olivia troy can't read the inner thoughts and priorities of president trump it's just not a thing

00:38:47.480 can't see in people's heads so i don't know what she's actually thinking or how she actually feels

00:38:54.760 i can only tell you as an observer what does the situation make me feel so i'm only talking about

00:39:01.760 myself that's the only part i can talk about authoritatively and when i see her talking she

00:39:08.600 doesn't look mentally stable which is completely different than saying she is not mentally stable

00:39:16.500 right because i'm not making that claim because i don't know her right she had a high-end job 1.00

00:39:22.860 you know all the evidence suggests that she is perfectly functional because she had a high-end job and

00:39:29.100 she had security clearance you know probably well educated so i'm only telling you how it how i receive

00:39:37.320 it and i don't know why but they seem to pick people for this kind of a role who just have a vibe about

00:39:45.320 them that says there's something wrong and that it doesn't have anything to do with the president

00:39:50.560 do you get that i'm looking at your comments to see if i'm the only one now before you jump on me

00:39:58.920 and say scott scott scott i think you're just being a little sexist would you say that about a man

00:40:05.900 scott if if this had been a man would you say looks a little unstable yes yes yes i would say that

00:40:17.100 about a man that's weird my light just went out by itself of course i would say that about a man

00:40:23.060 so uh alexa turn on studio 1.00

00:40:27.260 huh my light just died on me well we might be a little bit in the dark here um

00:40:38.440 all right that's all i got here uh i'm going to make a prediction just so you have something to

00:40:46.060 track here's here's my prediction that by the end of the year and that december january time frame

00:40:52.040 the news will start to report that the old regular flu you know the one that we've been told kills 50

00:41:00.460 to thousand people a year that the news by the end of this year will be that that was never real

00:41:06.040 it's pretty big prediction isn't it that the most common thing everybody knows to be true

00:41:13.220 universally believed to be true that 50 to thousand 50 to 80 000 people a year will die from the regular

00:41:20.580 flu i am now predicting but that by the end of this year that will no longer be considered a fact

00:41:27.120 it'll be modified somehow it just won't be a true anymore and i say that because you can only go so

00:41:35.300 long denying your own eyes all right i'm always willing to believe the science and the statistics

00:41:41.640 and the experts first that's my first impulse like oh all the experts say that's true okay how many

00:41:48.560 experts say that all of them really so pretty much all of the experts are saying the same thing okay

00:41:53.860 very convincing you know you you have my attention but what happens if you wake up every day and the

00:42:01.480 thing they say is true you don't see and you should see it in other words if they said all the experts say

00:42:10.320 it's going to rain every day where you live and you say all right all the experts say it's going to rain

00:42:16.820 every day and then i wake up and it's not raining and i go okay well you know one day it didn't rain

00:42:23.460 that doesn't mean they're wrong wrong it just means you know slightly wrong maybe could be a lot of other

00:42:28.380 days it rains then you wake up the next day and it's not raining again how many days do you wake up

00:42:33.940 and it's not raining before you say you know all the experts have said it rains every day

00:42:39.540 maybe they're not right well that's where i'm at now the fact just do the math here let's say at the

00:42:48.620 low end 50 000 people had died a year died of the regular flu so take 50 000 a year and multiply it by

00:42:59.560 my 63 years of life but let's say i wasn't really paying attention until i was you know 13 so let's say

00:43:06.720 just 50 years alexa what is 50 times 50 000

00:43:12.440 so i should have seen 2.5 million people or not seen them but there should have been 2.5 million

00:43:24.640 people who died over my lifetime that i should have noticed right i should have noticed a friend of a

00:43:32.180 friend somebody's cousin but 200 000 people have died in this country and we all have noticed we

00:43:41.620 all know somebody who knows somebody right don't you all know somebody who knows somebody or at least

00:43:47.480 you've seen somebody in the news or whatever how how can it be that this regular flu is killing people

00:43:54.140 like crazy and we just never notice the only time we notice is when it's this flu

00:43:59.720 it's possible it's real but i'm going to stick with my prediction that it has never been real

00:44:07.840 and here's my hypothesis that there is danger from the flu but uh the the reason they say that so many

00:44:17.680 people are dying from it has a lot to do with making sure you get the vaccination that's what i think

00:44:23.140 i think it has to do with getting the vaccination i don't think it has to do with reality

00:44:27.280 somebody says they may be very old could be could be that they're very old but i know a lot of old

00:44:37.480 people have died over the course of my life i know quite a bit of people who have died from old age

00:44:43.920 none of them died from the flu that i'm aware of all right that's all for now i'll talk to you later

00:44:52.160 you

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 18, 2020

Episode 1127 Scott Adams： Patriotic Education, Biden's Lying Accelerates, Expert Advice, Biden Acts Coherent for Minutes in a Row

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