Episode 1127 Scott Adams： Patriotic Education, Biden's Lying Accelerates, Expert Advice, Biden Acts Coherent for Minutes in a Row
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Scott Adams joins me to talk about the latest in the world of politics and pop culture, including the Trump administration s decision to block the Chinese app TikTok and Wechat, and whether or not masks work or don t work.
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hey it's time yeah it's time it's time for coffee with scott adams and you lucky viewer you came to
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right there i hope it was good on your end too all right let's talk about all the stuff that's
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happening uh rasmussen poll is teasing us today and i think you'll get the official answer uh in an
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hour or so but there are maybe two hours uh it looks like the president's approval level is gonna be
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impressive i think you're gonna like it i can't tell you what it is but rasmussen says you're gonna
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like it if you're a trump supporter all right um so the trump administration announced that they're
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going ahead with their uh their planned and scheduled turn down of the chinese app tiktok
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and also wechat i guess and this is they had already announced that if something didn't happen by this
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date which is sunday i guess that they'll just stop the downloads and start um start blocking
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these apps now let me ask you this would joe biden have done this do you feel any chance that joe
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biden would have blocked tiktok and i don't know if anybody's asked him so i asked on twitter
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has anybody asked joe biden would you block tiktok if you were president would you stop wechat i'd love
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to hear his answer on that because i think he'd have a little trouble answering it being being relatively
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more pro china than than trump is you know and i gotta say um i've said this a number of times and
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every time you see another example of it it strengthens the point trump is bad at doing
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easy stuff easy stuff being anything that joe biden can do if joe biden is capable of doing it
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that would be in the category of easy stuff in other words showing up reading from a teleprompter and
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not uh and not getting everybody mad so trump likes to provoke people so he doesn't do the easy stuff
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well but the impossible stuff you know peace in the middle east uh shaking hands with uh kim jong-un
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you know moving out of uh china decoupling from china these are things which you would have thought
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were kind of impossible but he doesn't and i would say that this uh banning tiktok i actually can't even
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imagine another president doing it i can imagine another president complaining but i can't see anybody
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just you know whacking the most popular app among children in the united states and just saying you
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know yeah i know you love it i know you really like this kids and goodbye just just get rid of it
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i just love that it's so decisive it doesn't seem like it's real
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all right um i've asked on twitter and waiting to see the responses who can give me the most
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persuasive data you know a source a link or something for whether masks work or don't work
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and i can't tell you how unhappy i am that i'm asking this question in september because this was
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sort of a january-ish february question right do masks work how is it we don't know that now now of
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course most of you are saying scott scott we do know that we do know that it's the most known thing
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in the world and then half of you will say yes we know it they work and then the other half of you are
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saying scott it's the most well-known thing in the world it's been debunked a thousand times it doesn't
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they don't work i would have thought by now that an independent-minded person at least as much as i
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can muster would be able to look at those two arguments and come to some kind of a conclusion
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based on the data i have my own opinion based on my own thinking but i should be able to look at the
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sources and say oh okay these are good ones these are bad ones or it's ambiguous or something but
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instead there's a little magic trick that people are doing to themselves to fool themselves it goes
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like this if you think you saw a lab test that says masks don't work you didn't see anything
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you didn't see anything a lab cannot test whether these work for the coronavirus if you think a lab test
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which maybe shows that the virus is smaller than the the holes in the mask or it shows that the air
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comes out the side if you think that kind of test tells you something you're really wrong those those
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are non-credible tests and here's my argument if i'm talking to you from let's say four feet away
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without a mask my mouth cannon is shooting my virus directly at you in one street
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so i'm basically just dosing you with virus if i have the virus compared to i'm wearing a mask
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that laboratory tests say hey those masks are letting stuff out the side
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is is the virus that i'm sending as a cannon directly into the mouth of the person i'm talking
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to because when you talk to somebody you literally face your mouth at their mouth right that's the most
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common way you talk to somebody face to face mouth to mouth are you telling me that the same amount of
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viral load because it does matter how much you get we're not talking about whether one virus gets
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through because it makes a big difference if you get a big viral load or a small one are you telling
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me the viral load is the same if it comes out the side as if i can and shoot it right into your mouth
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if you can tell me that's true because you studied it in a laboratory i'm just going to say you don't
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know how things work you can't study that in the laboratory it's never been studied common sense tells
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you that friction works every time it's hard to imagine where friction doesn't work at least a
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little bit now i here here's the evidence that i would take to be reliable if you take any one
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country and say hey this one country either did or did not use masks and they did or did not get a good
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result useless completely useless all right one country doesn't tell you anything a bunch of
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countries if you could collect the basket of countries that had maybe a lot of other differences
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but the one thing they all had in common this basket was that they used masks and they were really
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dedicated about it could you compare that to the people who had lots of other things that are
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different but the one thing that was common is they didn't use masks just see how they did i would
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consider that beginning to be credible if you can't show me that link you're not in the conversation
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and i'm not in the conversation either because i've never seen that evidence of all the the dumbass
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graphs and bad statistics and stupid data that i've seen on twitter and it's a lot
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why have i never once not even once seen anybody present something that said here are the countries
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that use masks well here are the ones that didn't how they do compare to each other why have i never
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seen that isn't that the most important piece of data and and nobody can collect that data it's the
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most obvious thing somebody says there's no cannon coming into their mouth well maybe there is you just
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don't know it so um this uh this old mask thing really shows how bad humans are at understanding
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anything logical or rational and i'm telling you i don't understand you know i've got this gigantic hole
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but i feel like we all do all right uh let me give you an update on my smart democrat friend i i give
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you updates as i every day we go back and forth and i'm chipping away at him to try to make his trump
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derangement syndrome a little bit less and i have successfully moved him from the following position
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where he used to say trump is a big old serial liar and he lies he lies he lies and that's why
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i like joe biden because he's not like that so every time joe biden lies and according to joel pollock
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he counted uh in i guess in the town hall last night there was one answer just one answer that
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biden gave which included five lies in one answer so so biden is sort of like a gatling gun of lies at
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this point because you know all of his campaign ads are lies he just did a public service thing
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where he spread the fine people hoax again to to a jewish audience i mean just the worst thing you could
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possibly do as a human it's not even just the worst thing you could do as a candidate what joe biden
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is doing by spreading the fine people hoax is one of the worst things you could do as a human
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just as a human there's nothing that trump has ever done that's in that class and trump's done some
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doozies right trump's insulted some people you know you know the list right nobody is unaware of
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what trump's alleged and actual offenses are but biden i mean that's the worst thing i've ever seen
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in public i've never seen any public figure let me think about this we'll just say presidents
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name any president who's done something worse than spread the fine people hoax repeatedly during
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during a time when the country is divided um you know you'd say oh what about nixon and watergate
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and i would say not even close not even close uh carl bernstein can you go over here uh no i guess
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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
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even a little bit objective watergate was sort of a you know a bad thing that you know maybe had no real
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impact on the country in the end except for the the president left but the impact of the fine people
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hoax is it's like pouring acid on a baby it's just the worst thing you could ever imagine
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get that get that image out of your head um so i've convinced my smart democrat friend that his
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original position that biden was a truth teller roughly speaking and trump was a big old liar is
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closer to two people in a political contest they're just both lying all the time all right if you want to
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tell me that trump only tells the truth in his campaign ads i would say well i don't think you
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know what a campaign ad is a campaign ad in 2020 doesn't try to tell the truth that's not even
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that's not even slightly you know on the table as something anybody needs to do and it's not just
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the president it's just anybody running for office so apparently as long as it's legal to lie
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in a campaign ad people have figured out it's just easier to shade the truth than it is to tell the
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real truth all right um the president did something i guess yesterday that might be one of the most
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important things he'll ever do and it will it will get the the least amount what did somebody say the
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birth certificate now the the birth certificate let me divulge i think there's somebody here who's
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trying to argue that uh that trump claiming the birther thing about obama might be bad as the fine
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people hoax here's the difference and it's a big big difference the birther thing had nothing to do with
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the race the only race that was injected into that was from the media and from the democrats the
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democrats are responsible for the birther thing because let me clarify trump is of course responsible
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for raising the issue but he never raised it as a racial issue it's the same issue he would have
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you know he would have because he did the same thing with ted cruz you know he would have raised the
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same issue if hillary clinton had any irregularity on her birth certificate there's nobody alive who can
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tell me with a straight face you know if hillary clinton had been in that situation with any kind
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of question that you could make about the eligibility i don't think trump would have mentioned that because
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she's white nobody believes that the entire racial component of birtherism is an invention of the
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press and and the enemies of republicans now were there republicans who were thinking
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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
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republicans the last several years talking about politics and stuff a lot of time and a lot of it
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is private and people will tell me things that they won't say you know out loud and people will tell
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me even just horrible you know thoughts that they would never let anybody hear i hear everything
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because people kind of trust me not to judge them which is true i tend not to judge people in person
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all right i was just looking at your comments and it's throwing me off here all right so the point is
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that there's nothing worse than the fine people hoax and i would argue that the democrats are the ones
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who turned the birther thing racial that wasn't trump um so trump has signed this thing the uh
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due to do it's the uh executive order for a patriotic to create a national commission to promote
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patriotic education and this is somewhat a replacement for or at least a a counter to
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the so-called 1619 project which tried to reframe history in through the lens of slavery now i happen
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to think that's that the 1619 project could have been really good you know if if it had been executed
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correctly i would say that would have been a plus because i would love to have you know our our kids
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should be educated to know what world war ii was they should know that the holocaust happened
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you know that they should know slavery they should know the details about it
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so you know it was a good idea but the way it was actually going to just turned into a racist
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nightmare which would destroy the country so i've said that the the way we train our kids
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is the operating system for the country so the the way you program children it becomes their
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operating system and they can't run any other apps unless they get that right if you don't get
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the children brainwashed i like to say because i want to make sure you know exactly what i'm talking
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about brainwashed if you don't brainwash children you're just giving up your future because there's
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no alternative to it you don't let children raise themselves that's not a thing right you can't let
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children say you know i was going to raise you and give you some values but i think i'll just let you
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work it out just do it on your own we know what happens when that happens so when president trump
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signed this executive order to um to look into i guess the national commission will come up with
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proposals i don't know what's going to come out of it but let's say that this is productive and it
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produces patriotic education i would say that's one of the most important things that this president
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will accomplish in his entire terms and i don't think it'll ever get any attention because only people
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like me who see the world in terms of persuasion and you know operating systems etc you'd have to
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have a certain filter on life to know that this is the most important thing that this president will
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ever do i think so i think it's more important well you know anything short of you know avoiding i guess
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nuclear war this is probably the most important thing and i don't think this would have happened under
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joe biden do you do you think that joe biden would have instituted some kind of patriotic education
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or would he have continued pushing even harder on the 1619 kind of racist um framework i think he would
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have he would go on full racist um as as is the current situation all right imagine being the author
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of that 1619 project and learning that the president of the united states is so worried about how corrosive
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yeah how would you like to wake up in the morning you're like ah oh what's what's happening today
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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
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noted for is being treated by the united by the president of the united states as sort of a disease
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that he's trying to get rid of that's what you call not your best day although i would imagine that
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the author and people beyond that think that it's still quite wonderful as kurt schlichter said on
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uh on twitter he said that somehow the president managed to get the entire democrat uh group the
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establishment to publicly unite against educating our children about the greatness of america
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and it's kind of perfect isn't it the president given that he knows that whatever he does will be
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opposed he just keeps picking out things like you know puppies and patriotism and apple pie and the
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democrats are like ah all right we've got to be against puppies now we like puppies but we're gonna
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have to be against puppies now so now they're against presumably they'll be against this so they'll be
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against education and telling kids that their country is good um
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so the the other thing that biden lied about last night was he said that the uh the president
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quote has yet to condemn the far right and white supremacists and of course the fact checkers
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tear him apart because he has in fact condemned white supremacists and racists a number of times in public
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and biden will just act like it never happened uh does does uh let me ask you this does trump ever
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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
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just say trump said um he wants to shoot all babies and everybody will look around and say that never
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happened that just never happened whereas trump doesn't really make up things that biden said does
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he as much i'm you'll probably come up with an example because in the political season everybody's
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doing that i suppose but if i feel as though trump says stuff like you're losing it or you're you're
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going to be a socialist or you're when he makes a claim there's at least something to it so when the
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president says joe biden you're against fracking even though joe biden is trying to tap dance and
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say no no no i'm i'm sort of against fracking but i'm not really against fracking well i might be
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against it in the future but i'm not so much against it now well not on federal land of course
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and yeah you can still frack because we need a transition but you can't do any new fracking
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so it just ends up being pretty close to what the president said whereas when biden makes up a lie
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it just didn't even happen it's not it's not close to what trump said to claim that he said
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maybe we should drink bleach that's not close that's not that's not in the ballpark
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when trump says talks uh says biden's soft on fracking and he maybe exaggerates it a little bit
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just a little bit you know what's going on there like you can it's kind of transparent
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okay he's he's giving the extreme version biden's softening it but they're basically talking about
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the same thing now the fine people hoax is literally just made up drinking bleach just made up what was
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the the other one that he called uh called soldiers uh losers and suckers totally out of context made up
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uh just made up these are different um uh just so i'm spreading the criticisms around
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uh fox news is making something out of kamala harris laughing about the statement that uh parents want
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their kids to go back to school so there's a little clip in which kamala does her uh over laugh you
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know that awkward where she laughs too much but what she said was that everybody wants kids to go
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back to school and then she laughed too hard so it makes it look like she's crazy or demented or
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something but the joke obviously because she was looking at somebody when she said it the joke was
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that parents of course want to get their kids out of the house and back to school every parent
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maybe not every parent lots of parents want their kids to go back to school and then she laughed
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about that because you know every parent laughs about it'd be good to get the kids out of the house to go
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to school so that's all it was that's all it was she was just laughing at something that people
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would laugh at normally she just overlaps but somehow that became a a clip to damn her
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um by the way you know we we've seen now two different uh videos of kamala harris getting off
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her jet for from the campaign and walking across tarmac to a car and it's this low angle that makes
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her look a little more impressive you know it's just the way they film it but one of them was wearing
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these what uh these uh chuck maddens or whatever they are shoes and everybody got all excited oh
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she's running for vice president and she wears cool footwear whoa and then she repeated it so they
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did the same camera angle same setup but with wheat wheat timberlands or something like that some
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other kind of cool cool shoe and on one hand i said to myself well that's the the most empty vacuous
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stupid thing you could be you know focusing on is somebody's footwear but when i saw the second one
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i said to myself it's not bad it's not bad because remember yeah the the whole point of the uh
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the campaign is to make you feel a certain way it's not really an intellectual process who you're
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voting for it's who you feel do you like seeing president trump always wearing a suit unless he's golfing i
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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
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why she wear thanks for correcting me chuck taylor's are the name of the shoes and it's timberlands
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wheat wheat timberlands are the other kinds of shoes she wore so here's my take on it she looked
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really good in in the way they filmed it and wearing the you know interesting footwear it was just a real
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good angle it was a it was a strong look because she's coming off a jet going to a limo she's being
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treated as special i thought it was really good somebody says she's five foot two really yeah i i would
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say that that was surprisingly well done because it just makes you feel kind of a little bit positive
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toward her just because she's fashionable and if you think that being fashionable doesn't count you're wrong
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you're wrong being fashionable absolutely makes a difference voters do respond to stuff like that
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um uh here's another biden fact check he says that uh trump called covet 19 a hoax
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no just didn't happen just another thing he completely made up yeah he took something from
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a different context but he totally made it up all right here's here's three things that i think need to
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be uh figured out by the press and by the public so i asked people to fact check me on these three
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points because every time i watch the news it feels like they're talking past these facts so they're so
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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
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three things i think we should find out if they're true i think they're true but i'm asking for a fact
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check and nobody has debunked it yet that i saw number one um is it true that congress ignored the
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virus to focus on the doomed impeachment theater this is something chris rock was saying uh chris rock
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was blaming congress you know in his framing of it uh trump is a child so congress should have you know
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known that the virus was something they needed to work on but they were focused on the impeachment which
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was doomed and stupid from the beginning now when i say congress ignored the virus that's a little
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overstatement right because not completely ignored because i guess they had some kind of a hearing
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about the virus in congress now congress has a hearing about the virus were they as informed at least
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informed enough compared to what the president knew at the same time is it a fact that key members of
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congress both democrats and republicans were completely aware of the virus risk with the same information at
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about the same time as president trump true or false because we didn't see congress doing much
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did we why why would the president be blamed for quote not taking it seriously which is just crazy talk
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if congress also knew about it at the same time and didn't seem to be doing anything in fact they were
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focusing on impeachment that's that's just true right is that is anything i said they're not true
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all right how about this one trump followed his his experts advice all the way with no exceptions for a
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while i thought it was an exception that um i thought that nobody agreed with trump about closing uh china
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travel even though it wasn't totally closed but it turns out fauci says yes he was he was uh asked about
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it and he agreed so as far as i know there are no examples of fauci and burks giving president trump
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different advice than what he ended up doing that's the most important question of the election have you seen
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anybody deal with that in the news i haven't i haven't seen uh fox deal with it i haven't seen cnn
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deal with it i haven't seen it but it's the most important question give us an example
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where trump did something either too late or different because even timing could be part of it
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that wasn't what the experts told them to do if you can't come up with that then the then the problem
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is that the experts weren't right do we blame the experts for not being right i hope not i hope not
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because we should be adult enough to know that our experts were doing the best they could
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and they were world experts they were genuinely genuinely had all the capabilities it's just that
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there were a lot of unknowns there was a little bit of guessing involved right so i don't blame the
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experts but you certainly can't blame the person who took their advice when that was the only smart
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thing to do how about this true or false this is my statement trump never had an option to test our way
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out of the virus the way some other countries did so my claim is that a few other countries because
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of special cases they did have an option to be aggressive on testing and and tracking and it could make
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a difference but that because the united states is not only bigger and has more travel and it just has
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a lot more variables but also we didn't have tests south korea had tests because one private company
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ramped up before they they were asked to so somebody did something smart but it wasn't the government
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it was a private company who thought they could make some money and jumped into it whereas i believe the
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story is that our test kits were defective but nobody knew it so if you got a late start because your
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experts didn't know their test kits were bad would that not have happened in the obama administration
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would would president obama have been sitting in his office in the oval office and looking at his
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day's work when there's no pandemic it's just just a day it was president obama going to say you know
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what we need to do is fill up our warehouses with ppe did that happen that didn't happen trump didn't do
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it obama didn't do it nobody ever did it didn't happen um how about did obama say to himself you
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know uh my esp is telling me that the test kits we're going to put together if we have a pandemic
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i don't think they're going to work we we better you know do some kind of a big program now to get
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them to work against the virus that hasn't been discovered yet how do you test it before you have a
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virus yeah so here's the thing clearly the united states did not do well on testing i think we can
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all agree on that right you don't have to be a republican or democrat to say the u.s did not do
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good on testing but whose fault was it was that the president was he in the laboratory with the with
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the mixing up the chemicals and he's like i think i got it now that looks about right ship it guys
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i don't think that happened i i think that the president had an expectation that the lifetime
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professionals working there would get it right they didn't now was it their fault well i think
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you'd have to dig in quite a bit to find out what went wrong it could be that whatever went wrong
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was something that nobody could have seen you know it could have been just a weird coincidence
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bad accident kind of thing you don't really know the details of that all right so if we could
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find out those three things uh did congress ignore the virus too at the same time with the same
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knowledge did trump follow all of his expert advice or did he depart from it at any time in an important
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way and number three did trump ever have the option that other countries had of testing their way out
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because the others the ones that did it had something special going on in each case
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all right um and as i predicted a few months ago i said don't compare the united states to europe
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and other countries just yet because those other countries are not done they're not done just because
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they got on top of it early and really you know really put a lid on it it looked like as soon as they
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open up international travel that's it there's no such thing as containing the virus in one country
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that's not a thing unless you keep the borders closed and that's not sustainable so sure enough
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exactly as every one of you should have been able to predict but for whatever reason at least in the
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news people weren't uh the there's a big increase in cases um since september in europe and uh france is
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absorbing 10 10 000 new cases a day and it says from one report that the second wave uh might be uh
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hitting differently than the first wave in other words the second waves might give them quite a whack
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so gotta wait till the end you know if if the u.s death rate continues to plunge but europe takes off again
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are they going to be so lucky i don't know have to wait i think the dumbest comment that anybody could make
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in public is that trump didn't take the virus seriously because first of all that's mind reading
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you're assuming that you know somebody's state of mind how seriously they took something and now
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we've got this former pence advisor uh who's going public against trump and says that he uh didn't take
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the virus seriously he was only interested in election that is a child's view if you hear that
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you don't even hear you don't even need to hear the rest of it if somebody tells you that there was a
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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
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because they don't know what the president's feeling on the inside and objectively speaking
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he took it deadly seriously he closed traffic from china now yes he should you know maybe closed it
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more aggressively or sooner or whatever but you can't argue that he took it seriously he did the
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most serious thing that you could do and early and he did it for exactly the reason that it was serious
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and he said out loud i'm gonna tell people you know the good the the rosier of you but i'm taking
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it seriously it's deadly so so making a story out of this woman and i'm gonna be cruel here here for a
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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
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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
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who was the mike pence employee who turned on the president publicly so i'll give her credit for doing it
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publicly and with her own name we should always give people credit for that because that you know
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that's that's invested you know these are not drive-by people these are people who are taking a chance
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a big chance with their own lives and reputations for apparently they think they need to but if they're
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taking a chance to get the wrong thing well that's a problem um here's the thing i i'm going to be
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consistent and say that i can't read the inner thoughts or feelings of a stranger exactly the
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way olivia troy can't read the inner thoughts and priorities of president trump it's just not a thing
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can't see in people's heads so i don't know what she's actually thinking or how she actually feels
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i can only tell you as an observer what does the situation make me feel so i'm only talking about
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myself that's the only part i can talk about authoritatively and when i see her talking she
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doesn't look mentally stable which is completely different than saying she is not mentally stable
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right because i'm not making that claim because i don't know her right she had a high-end job
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you know all the evidence suggests that she is perfectly functional because she had a high-end job and
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she had security clearance you know probably well educated so i'm only telling you how it how i receive
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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
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them that says there's something wrong and that it doesn't have anything to do with the president
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do you get that i'm looking at your comments to see if i'm the only one now before you jump on me
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and say scott scott scott i think you're just being a little sexist would you say that about a man
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scott if if this had been a man would you say looks a little unstable yes yes yes i would say that
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about a man that's weird my light just went out by itself of course i would say that about a man
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huh my light just died on me well we might be a little bit in the dark here um
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all right that's all i got here uh i'm going to make a prediction just so you have something to
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track here's here's my prediction that by the end of the year and that december january time frame
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the news will start to report that the old regular flu you know the one that we've been told kills 50
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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
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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
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it'll be modified somehow it just won't be a true anymore and i say that because you can only go so
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long denying your own eyes all right i'm always willing to believe the science and the statistics
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and the experts first that's my first impulse like oh all the experts say that's true okay how many
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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
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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
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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
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low end 50 000 people had died a year died of the regular flu so take 50 000 a year and multiply it by
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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
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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
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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
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people have died over the course of my life i know quite a bit of people who have died from old age
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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