Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 25, 2020


Episode 1135 Scott Adams： Details on the Coup Plotters Emerge, BLM Focuses on Revenge Over Solutions, Hacking Voter Brains


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1 hour and 2 minutes

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150.95946

Word Count

9,456

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11

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

16


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00:01:47.840 subscription site all right so let's talk about some stuff i like looking at the interesting ideas
00:01:56.700 that entrepreneurs come up with for dealing with the coronavirus situation and the alamo draft house
00:02:04.640 which is a series of i guess movie theaters they might be in texas and they came up with an idea of
00:02:14.160 letting people rent out the whole theater and just take people in there that are your own friends
00:02:20.000 so you basically for 150 for the theater and other 150 for popcorn and food or whatever
00:02:27.880 you you and your friends can just have the whole theater for for a movie not bad i don't know if it's
00:02:35.120 the best idea in the world you know my town has outdoor movie theaters now they're they're doing
00:02:41.040 drive-ins and such but i like the creativity of it it was a good idea um so so president trump
00:02:51.980 signed an executive order essentially saying that uh pre-existing conditions would be covered
00:02:58.460 but of course it's a non-binding executive order now let me ask you this how much is a nine
00:03:07.000 non-binding promise if you will to uh to maintain um so to make sure the pre-existing conditions are
00:03:17.740 covered would you trust a president who made a promise like that and said i'm going to cover the
00:03:25.220 pre-existing conditions don't worry about it do you trust that president well here's the thing
00:03:31.520 one of the things that president trump has done right is he's done such a good job at doggedly
00:03:40.220 pursuing uh the promises that he's made that it is completely credible now nothing in this world is
00:03:47.360 guaranteed but in terms of whether president trump would stick to his promise of fighting to keep the
00:03:54.540 uh the pre-existing conditions covered uh the pre-existing conditions covered i feel as though he created
00:03:59.840 that asset meaning that if you asked me four years ago i'd say well i don't know you know politicians
00:04:08.140 make promises sometimes they keep them sometimes they have a reason not to you know read my lips
00:04:14.940 no new taxes well change my mind so four years ago i would have said i don't think you could
00:04:22.460 be positive that this president or any other president would keep a campaign promise
00:04:27.660 but now we've watched him operate for four years it seems really clear to me that the president puts
00:04:35.860 a very high value on doing what he says he'll do wouldn't you agree now he puts a very low value
00:04:43.320 on being specifically accurate on details and you know he uses hyperbole and he fails the fact
00:04:50.060 checking and it's abundantly clear that he's not concerned whatsoever about getting those details
00:04:57.440 right now you can hate that or you can love it but anybody can observe that you know you no matter
00:05:05.080 which side you're on we're observing the same thing he puts a very low value on those little niceties
00:05:12.160 and the details and and being technically accurate he does try to be directionally accurate in other
00:05:18.920 words he's he's trying to persuade the country in a productive direction there's nothing evil about it
00:05:25.100 but but when it comes to keeping a promise even if he can't get it done as quickly as he wants or
00:05:33.080 can't get it done at all you know such as you know building building the wall it's slow but it's happening
00:05:39.980 so you can tell he's at least putting the full measure of effort into it and i feel as though the
00:05:47.340 president created this asset out of nothing he created an asset of believability when it comes
00:05:54.720 to keeping his campaign promises which is unique i'm not sure every every president had that exactly
00:06:01.340 you know you always had the you can keep your doctor if you want it situations but i don't know that
00:06:08.760 trump has any of those if you look for something like that in trump and fact check me on this i might
00:06:15.800 be just missing something that i'm nothing that would be obvious to you but i know that a critic
00:06:22.560 would say well what about the part about making mexico pay for the wall i would say i don't think
00:06:29.800 anybody took that too seriously i mean sure that was a campaign theme etc you could say it was a promise
00:06:37.940 but was it was it really did the people who voted for him say yeah i think he means that he's totally
00:06:44.420 going to get mexico to pay for that wall now you could argue that he did get them to pay for the wall
00:06:49.560 you know indirectly in terms of uh keeping the keeping the migrant groups from coming across
00:06:56.520 so he did get a lot done in terms of transferring some of the cost to mexico that really happened
00:07:03.220 but nobody took that too seriously it wasn't a requirement i don't think all right moving on
00:07:11.800 um so i think i understand finally because of the new revelations coming out about the uh the coup
00:07:21.460 attempt the the russia collusion coup where uh brennan and comey and all those characters apparently if we
00:07:31.880 are to believe the documents we're seeing i don't know how to interpret them other than a confirmation
00:07:38.780 that there was literally a coup attempt i don't know how else to interpret it and and i really really
00:07:45.880 tried hard in the beginning of this russia collusion stuff when when people who were you know even more
00:07:53.340 skeptical than i am if that's possible were saying hey from the very beginning people were saying hey this
00:07:59.500 looks like just a coup attempt it looks like some kind of organized coup and i said if you remember
00:08:05.900 i said no let's you know let's cool down that talk i don't quite see any evidence of a coup sure lots of
00:08:15.420 people didn't like the president there there are people in jobs and they can do little things that
00:08:20.980 make his life hard but it's not some kind of organized understood you know explicit coup attempt i mean
00:08:30.900 that's just crazy except that apparently it was apparently it was exactly that it wasn't even
00:08:41.220 sort of like that it wasn't suggestive of that it wasn't reminding you of that it was actually that
00:08:49.420 from based on the documents that we've seen especially the ones that just came out
00:08:55.420 now if you understand that and you understand that the latest documents are a little bit more damning
00:09:02.740 to both obama and biden meaning that apparently if we're to believe what we see in the documents
00:09:10.100 it looks like president obama was pretty deeply involved in something that looks exactly like a coup
00:09:19.020 attempt and that means that biden was involved because he you know he was in the room he would have
00:09:25.220 had to know about it now here's the thing how do you explain that i feel as if you would agree with
00:09:33.180 this the following uh supposition that the the leaders and the important people in the democratic
00:09:40.180 party they could kind of get anybody nominated they wanted don't you think don't you think that the
00:09:46.780 you know the the old clinton crowd and the obama crowd and the deep state you know the democrats
00:09:52.380 don't you think that the leadership of the party could kind of push things in whatever direction
00:09:59.020 they wanted in terms of the nominee and you might have asked yourself well if that's the case and
00:10:06.340 they could make sort of anybody they wanted the nominee by you know controlling the media for one
00:10:13.040 thing they can control the media coverage they can control the funding probably they can control which
00:10:18.800 advisors work for whom etc so if you take uh my assumption that the people in charge do have the
00:10:27.880 ability to create the nominee they want essentially manipulating the voters into voting for who they
00:10:34.380 want why would they choose biden because by any measure he's the least capable candidate who has ever
00:10:42.940 run for president i don't think you could find somebody who is less capable than biden it's it's certainly
00:10:49.600 not missing their their gaze that they they're running an incompetent that's pretty obvious at this point
00:10:58.560 so why would they do it and the answer is
00:11:03.000 to protect themselves biden is the only person who was in the uh in the race for the nomination he's the
00:11:13.760 only one who had the following quality he was just as guilty as the as the other people in the party
00:11:20.460 he's part of presumably this is the speculation right my speculation uh i think they needed him
00:11:30.660 because he's both controllable and he has the same risk profile as they do so you could count on him to
00:11:37.880 to make all the investigations go away because he had the same risk i don't think there was anybody
00:11:44.260 else in that category was there anybody else who would be as good a stooge as as biden to keep them
00:11:51.880 out of jail so now when i say stuff like this you you should be saying to yourself well that's just about
00:12:01.340 the biggest story i there's never been a bigger story than this watergate was a peanut compared to
00:12:09.040 this um what what was as big as this can you think that monica lewinsky no tiny tiny little problem
00:12:17.660 there's nothing that i can think of in modern you know at least my lifetime i can't think of anything
00:12:25.160 except maybe the you know getting into the iraq war the wrong way with bad information
00:12:30.560 but this has got to be gigantic enormous biggest story of all time so let's look at the cnn home page
00:12:39.480 and see how they're carrying and see how they're uh covering the biggest story in the history of the
00:12:46.620 united states um let's see nothing nothing
00:12:53.540 now have you ever seen them just not cover a story usually they'll at least put a line in there or say
00:13:07.700 well something happened but we're not going to talk about it or well these these uh crazy conservatives
00:13:13.360 they're making some claims but they're all wrong so don't pay attention to them
00:13:17.280 but have you ever seen them just go dark on the biggest story in the history of the united states
00:13:24.480 just not covering it what's that tell you it tells you they're complicit what else would it mean
00:13:34.300 why else would they not cover the biggest story in again the history of the united states
00:13:42.640 there's no bigger story than this you know wars maybe are bigger stories but this is pretty big
00:13:49.780 and if you wondered hey is cnn and the mainstream media are they are they sort of complicit with
00:13:58.800 whatever this coup thing was and i would say at this point it's obvious
00:14:03.420 you know there's some claims that you know you have to be careful about making because you you get
00:14:11.160 into uh uh you know legal problems if you make a claim that can't be backed up so i'll just put it
00:14:17.440 in the form of an opinion based on what i've seen a reasonable person would conclude there was an actual
00:14:25.180 coup attempt brennan was probably the leader if not one of them one of them or the leader and that
00:14:33.040 cnn at least probably other media were 100 complicit what else could you interpret this as
00:14:43.860 now um i don't know what other entities are covering or not covering it but keep an eye on that
00:14:50.840 um so here are some of the things that are coming out in these this new drops and if i understand this
00:14:58.580 right this this stuff's all too complicated for me so i yeah i may be missing some details but i believe
00:15:04.600 it's true i believe it's true that um the only reason we're learning about these new things
00:15:13.560 is because the flynn case wasn't dismissed is that true that we wouldn't have known this stuff
00:15:21.620 except that they made the mistake of keeping the flynn thing alive even after the prosecutor wanted to
00:15:27.340 drop it i mean what they're doing to flynn is just should just be another crime i mean it's just a
00:15:32.460 crime the way they're treating that guy and i don't so it uh it looks to me like that's the only reason
00:15:41.820 we would know this stuff which is shocking in itself so here are some of the things we found out
00:15:46.300 that one of the primary sources for the steel dossier was uh suspected to be a russian agent
00:15:54.280 at the time at the time at the time they put the dossier together and they were deciding what to do
00:16:00.960 with it even then they knew they knew that the person who was a source was a suspected russian spy
00:16:10.160 now you think that they would mention that to let's say the the courts or to anybody who needed to know
00:16:17.600 hey just a heads up we've got this information but an important part of it comes from somebody we
00:16:24.560 suspect is a russian spy you leave that out and you're not playing on the on team america
00:16:32.220 wouldn't you agree if you intentionally leave out that little fact you're not really on team america
00:16:40.160 i don't know what team you're on but it's not this country um apparently there's an agent who worked
00:16:49.640 on the case william barnett who believed at the time and i guess presumably still does that the whole
00:16:56.440 thing was driven by a get to trump attitude which he actually had said at the time he didn't see the
00:17:02.580 he didn't see the basis for the case it just looked like it was political to him now don't make too
00:17:09.620 much out of that because unfortunately any work group if you could actually talk to them you know
00:17:16.720 privately and individually any work group for any company any organization anywhere you're going to
00:17:24.060 find some people in the group who say i don't know why we're even doing this it's all a big mistake
00:17:29.260 are we doing this for all the wrong reasons so there's always that guy so if you're if you're ranking
00:17:35.540 what importance to put on these revelations the fact that there was somebody on the team
00:17:40.740 who thinks the whole thing was bs and shouldn't have been done you want to believe that that's
00:17:48.480 really meaningful and maybe it is you know i'm not ruling it out i'm just saying that's one you got to
00:17:54.780 watch because you'll always get that guy there's always a disgruntled employee look at look at all the
00:18:01.140 whistleblowers who have stories about trump you always have that guy so just keep in mind that
00:18:08.100 that's on the lower end of credibility but might be true it fits at least it fits all the rest of the
00:18:14.500 story all right what else did we learn there um we learned that brennan falsified the intelligence
00:18:24.340 about russia what now if if brennan had he was head of cia at that time right so he put together this
00:18:36.240 small team of five people and the head of the team was somebody who was his personal friend
00:18:41.780 somebody had control over they come up with a um you know a set of uh conclusions about russia
00:18:50.420 and then brennan tried to sell it to the country as 17 intel agencies agreed when in fact it was a
00:18:57.900 group of five just five people all in the cia and really one of them wrote it so really one person
00:19:04.860 and that one person was handpicked by brennan so really just brennan so brennan sold that his own
00:19:12.700 analysis which was not in agreement with other people in his own group people in his group said hey
00:19:19.520 you know you should you should include this part where we think there's a good chance that
00:19:24.720 uh putin actually prefers hillary clinton and the reason we think he might prefer hillary clinton
00:19:31.360 is that she's predictable and she had already offered a reset so he knows what he's getting
00:19:37.900 but he doesn't know what he's getting with trump at the time so brennan chose to leave out the part
00:19:46.680 where his own people said you know we think putin might actually prefer hillary clinton
00:19:53.160 is that a big deal yeah yeah it's the biggest story in the history of the united states that's not a war
00:20:01.680 um it's the biggest story in the united states in my opinion the head of the cia literally falsifying
00:20:10.440 russian intel according to what we've been told for the purpose of overthrowing the united states
00:20:18.780 government the illegally elected government now weirdly there might be no penalty for this
00:20:27.080 because how do you prosecute somebody for having a different opinion because that would that's just
00:20:34.540 what he could claim he could say yeah yeah i i saw the intel about putin preferring hillary clinton
00:20:41.080 but in my opinion it was not worthy of including that's sort of the whole defense you really don't
00:20:49.640 need much of a defense beyond um yeah maybe i was wrong but that was my opinion and it was my job to
00:20:55.060 have an opinion i think i think it's not exactly illegal to overthrow the try to overthrow the
00:21:05.320 government and fail so people operating at that level know how to stay you know outside the the bounds
00:21:12.800 of illegality while at the same time overthrowing the government or attempting to now since the penalty
00:21:20.540 for that is probably zero because it you know there'll always be reasonable doubt what would
00:21:27.520 you think the penalty should be if it were true and if it could be proven hypothetically what would be
00:21:34.960 the appropriate penalty for a john brennan if hypothetically it was found that he had actually
00:21:42.200 tried to overthrow the government and he did it by you know falsifying intelligence essentially leaving
00:21:48.260 out intelligence which falsified it um i think the death penalty right should you not be subject to
00:21:58.880 the death penalty for that crime because i can't think of a bigger crime you know how could you do
00:22:04.680 something worse seems like a death penalty crime to me but i'll bet there will be no penalty whatsoever
00:22:11.380 um so here's i i guess i just don't know what to do about the fact that it looks like what's going to happen
00:22:24.320 is that conservative media will make a big deal about it but have you noticed that if conservative
00:22:31.820 media is the only one that talks about something it never becomes real to the rest of the world
00:22:39.420 right so i believe that our siloed news has created this weird situation where um you know somebody
00:22:49.260 associated with the the left could murder somebody on fifth avenue i just pick an example they could
00:22:58.040 murder somebody on fifth avenue it could be recorded on 10 000 cameras confirmed in every possible way
00:23:05.200 that that's exactly what happened this person murdered this person in front of people in front of a million
00:23:10.980 cameras and if the entire left mainstream media decided just not to cover it it wouldn't exist
00:23:20.220 even if the conservative media went crazy on it every day and it was headlines and couldn't stop talking
00:23:27.820 about it as long as the other side simply treats it like it doesn't exist it actually doesn't exist
00:23:36.000 we've reached the point where they can disappear reality not just make facts disappear not just leave
00:23:46.560 out a you know leave out a detail not get something wrong not even fake news actually disappear
00:23:53.420 an entire chunk of reality while you're watching them do it that's where we're at now if you had told me
00:24:03.840 that that was even possible i might have said well in some weird theoretical way but watching it happening is
00:24:12.560 just blowing my freaking mind i mean my head is just coming right off when i'm watching cnn literally just
00:24:20.660 ignore it no there was no coup attempt i don't know what you're talking about what else could they
00:24:26.360 ignore what else could they ignore it's like they could ignore anything and just ignore it and then it
00:24:34.780 doesn't exist here's a weird little story kim jong-un has issued an apology for killing some south
00:24:45.520 korean guy who tried to defect to the north what the first thing you have to ask yourself is why did
00:24:55.040 somebody in south korea try to defect to north korea what the hell is is there somebody in south korea who
00:25:04.240 hadn't done any reading about north korea what did he think was going to happen when he went to north korea
00:25:09.900 well i'm gonna have a good life up there in north korea so apparently he was he was just drilled full of
00:25:17.700 bullets and and killed by the north koreans because they didn't they didn't know what they had there it was
00:25:22.120 just somebody it looked like was breaching their territory so they killed him um kim jong-un and here's the
00:25:29.900 weird part issued an apology he issued an apology that's a pretty big deal because you know you want
00:25:39.980 north korea to say enter the let's say enter the the field of adult you know adult countries if you will
00:25:49.620 to just act like more of a citizen of the world and this is a small thing because you know obviously
00:25:57.180 the apology was warranted but you still didn't expect it right you you would have more expected
00:26:04.400 yeah it was an accident but don't send your people across the border what did it what the hell did you
00:26:09.300 think was going to happen or just not mention it or something like that but apparently kim jong-un
00:26:15.840 assuming he's still alive if he's still alive thought that uh playing it more diplomatically was
00:26:25.620 was good so that's a good sign but i have to ask you this question what was the last time we know we
00:26:33.780 saw kim jong-un what was the last time we saw him alive now i realized that there was some video of him
00:26:41.420 uh visiting someplace uh after people had had been rumoring that maybe he had died so you remember a
00:26:51.200 few months back there was a rumor he died but then there was a video of him in public he looked healthy
00:26:55.500 so then the rumor just went away sort of not to me not to me i'm not convinced he's still alive
00:27:07.920 and or functioning you know he might be on machines or something but i'm not i'm not convinced he's alive
00:27:14.520 because we haven't seen live video have we we've only seen recorded video and they probably have you
00:27:21.060 a vault full of recorded video of places he visited that they just didn't publish the uh the video
00:27:28.360 so they probably just pulled out something from the archive and said here he is he's he's visiting
00:27:34.220 this factory over here so i'm totally alive there is some evidence that his sister is gaining power
00:27:41.840 which might be a tell um but this apology feels a little out of character but maybe not because he
00:27:51.120 is you know moving toward you know friendlier relations i would just keep an eye on it and i'm
00:27:57.440 gonna put it out there again that uh well here here's your best clue do you remember uh i forget when it
00:28:04.620 was maybe a month or two ago when president trump tweeted with no um no prompting there was nothing that
00:28:14.520 triggered the tweet he tweeted that kim jong-un is alive and well do you remember that tweet just came
00:28:22.240 out of nowhere nobody was accusing kim jong-un of being anything but alive and the president just out of
00:28:29.600 nowhere tweets oh yeah he's alive and well that felt very much like a favor for north korea didn't it a favor
00:28:39.220 that would only have one purpose which is to have friendly relationship with perhaps kim jong-un if he
00:28:49.160 were to survive whatever hypothetical problem he had or whoever takes over it may have been just a favor
00:28:57.240 for the current or maybe the incoming administration because it looked like it it was just a tweet out of
00:29:04.440 nowhere it looked like there was some kind of a favor going on there so just keep an eye on north korea
00:29:10.460 all right i did a little twitter um twitter survey and i asked uh people if their opinion of black lives matter
00:29:21.380 was uh improved or or lessened you know let's say their empathy was their empathy for blm more or less
00:29:32.980 because of the events of 2020 92 percent people who answered my unscientific poll mostly conservatives
00:29:40.380 because if you're following me on twitter you probably are 92 percent said that they have less empathy
00:29:46.500 for black lives matter less empathy
00:29:50.980 um and here's my question what's the point of black lives matter is the point of black lives matter to
00:30:02.860 convince themselves that black lives matter i don't think so i don't think they're talking to
00:30:09.120 themselves is the point of black lives matter to convince progressives to change their mind about
00:30:15.420 something well i don't think so because the progressives are actually marching with them
00:30:20.100 they're they're on the same side so who are they trying to convince if anybody well i would think they
00:30:27.020 would be trying to convince conservatives under the assumption that that's the group who needs to be
00:30:32.920 convinced then everybody would be on the same side that some changes need to be made
00:30:37.660 and then they would work toward those changes but if 92 percent of the mostly conservatives who
00:30:45.900 answered my unscientific poll said that they feel worse you know they have less empathy for black lives
00:30:52.820 matter isn't that exactly the opposite direction that's not just missing the target that's running as
00:31:00.780 hard as you can in the wrong direction while knowing it so here's the key part do you think
00:31:07.200 black lives matter doesn't know it do you think that they are that they would be surprised to find out
00:31:14.600 that rioting and looting is making them less popular now for the for the anybody who's new here
00:31:21.700 you know make an assumption that i'm not a freaking idiot okay so when you hear me say something like
00:31:28.440 black lives matter rioting and looting your brain should translate that into yes yes yes most people are just
00:31:36.280 protesting peacefully i get it most people by the numbers in terms of percentage of people by far are
00:31:44.340 protesting peacefully but they also are creating a container which they know will contain the bad
00:31:51.800 people so if you're part of an intentional process to create a safety container for looters and rioters
00:31:59.500 i throw you in the same same you're in the same bag the first few times you do it maybe you just need to
00:32:06.900 get something out of your system but if you do it every day and the rioters and the looters are in your
00:32:12.440 container every day well it's a bad container and you're part of it so who is black lives matter
00:32:21.560 trying to persuade if it's so obvious that they're doing the opposite of persuading well what if it's
00:32:29.380 just the obvious what what would be the most obvious interpretation of what you see if you saw
00:32:37.820 black lives matter say we need these following changes these are the changes we need and then we were
00:32:44.480 talking about them and we were meeting about them maybe there was some legislation about them
00:32:49.120 then i would say okay this is a solution oriented movement this is a group of people who know what
00:32:55.620 the problem is they they've got a pretty good idea where the solutions lie or where they could lie
00:33:01.460 or at least where it's worth trying you know it's worth trying something and and they're going to work
00:33:06.800 on it they're going to put up a trial they're going to try to get some funding try to get everybody
00:33:11.280 on the same page really make this world a better place where's that is defund the police
00:33:18.540 anything like a plan no it's not even that's not even really trying to be a plan because you would
00:33:25.140 need you know way more than that so what would be the most reasonable interpretation of a group
00:33:33.300 that it has apparently no interest in solutions they sometimes talk about things got to be better
00:33:40.500 but without some detail about a solution any kind of a leader who's putting together a task force
00:33:46.740 any kind of a document that you know everybody's rallying around without any of that what is this
00:33:53.740 i only i can only give it one interpretation
00:33:57.720 it's revenge it's just pure revenge and when i say revenge i include envy
00:34:08.620 you know i i had been a skeptic of the idea that um that income inequality would drive society apart
00:34:20.440 because i would say to myself if everybody is doing better why would they want to change that
00:34:27.140 situation by killing the people who are doing extra good knowing that it would make the whole system
00:34:32.640 fall apart and i i think the the only conclusion that i can come to from all of this is that it's hard
00:34:43.060 to have a difficult life while you're watching other people have a good life and you kind of hate them
00:34:49.340 i you know i think back to my early days when i grew up and i i guess my family would have been
00:34:57.100 considered maybe lower middle class something like that i think we would have called ourselves lower
00:35:02.960 middle class and every day i would wake up and there was a big window in the front of the living room
00:35:10.260 and across and looking out my window was a ski slope and the ski slope is where all the the wealthy
00:35:16.840 people came to ski so every day i would look at that ski slope and i would say every one of those people
00:35:23.420 coming down there this is an exaggeration but it felt like this those people skiing over there
00:35:29.380 they all have a better life than i do how did we talk about those rich people did we talk about them
00:35:37.300 in glowing terms but because you know man we sure we sure do love those rich people who are over there
00:35:45.380 having a great time while we're trying to get by um no we did not no we did not we spoke of them
00:35:53.400 in somewhat dismissive terms like there was something a little bit wrong with them
00:35:59.600 for being rich and happy and successful now it wasn't we weren't terrible about it i mean we weren't
00:36:06.640 you know we didn't think they should be hung or anything but we had a little bit of an attitude
00:36:11.500 that just sort of comes with the fact that somebody is doing much better than you
00:36:15.740 to me it looks like black lives matter the movement including the the white folks who are
00:36:22.760 you know the allies if you will the antifa it feels to me like these are people who are hating people
00:36:30.380 who are doing better and that it's not a movement of equality per se it's far more a movement of
00:36:38.100 revenge against people who are living good lives it looks revengey now i'm seeing in the comments
00:36:46.400 somebody saying that they're bullies well i'm not sure bullying is quite exactly the right vibe
00:36:53.160 although that's the the the output of it so they you know the result of it certainly looks like bullying
00:36:59.720 but in terms of the internal intentions which are always difficult to you know discern with
00:37:06.160 because you can't read minds but without solutions it is obvious that it's not a solution-based
00:37:14.100 movement i think that part we can conclude and remember uh it was blowing my mind when i was
00:37:21.500 watching uh van jones talking about the brianna taylor um situation and when you watch somebody who's
00:37:30.620 clearly smart you know he's got all the knowledge in the world about the situation
00:37:35.980 there's no no gaps in his understanding whatsoever and then i watch him realize that the story wasn't
00:37:43.620 what it had been reported earlier in other words it wasn't police killing somebody because they were
00:37:50.280 black rather it was just an accident tragic stupid terrible accident shouldn't have happened you know
00:37:58.440 you can say lots of bad stuff about it it's all true but it was an accident now what should have been
00:38:05.420 the reasonable response to someone who had let's say legitimate feelings about you know police brutality
00:38:12.220 but they had been triggered by at least lately triggered by this event and then find out that
00:38:18.100 event was not what they thought it was what what would they do if they were a legitimate movement who
00:38:25.500 wanted solutions well i think they would have said okay we were wrong about that one but there's still
00:38:33.260 plenty to talk about and sorry we missed that one you know you can see why we missed it it's it's uh you
00:38:40.940 know they made errors when when they killed her maybe we made some errors when we interpreted it but let's
00:38:46.920 not get hung up on that we got lots of other stuff to talk about that's bad let's talk about that let's
00:38:52.580 just let that one go but that didn't happen instead they doubled down they doubled down on the thing
00:39:00.260 that we can all see the same information and it just wasn't relevant to the complaint the only thing
00:39:07.320 that makes sense since they don't care about the facts of the case and they don't care about solutions
00:39:13.920 it only makes sense and even van jones sort of talked about it as a an emotional pain which seems to
00:39:22.240 be you know fairly a widespread feeling that there's actual pain that they're experiencing by
00:39:29.520 you know the i guess the fullness of the entire situation including their entire lives in fact van jones
00:39:36.880 was saying that he was getting sick and tired if i can paraphrase it right that in his own own life
00:39:44.100 experience and you would expect him to have more of a more of a favored experience because he's
00:39:51.380 he's you know talented smart good looking successful you'd expect that his life would look pretty good
00:39:57.320 compared to most people but even he said that that pretty much it's a daily weight you know racism is
00:40:05.340 like a daily pain that never goes away it's just always there it's just following you all day long
00:40:11.160 and while i wouldn't deny that that that feeling is true i have no reason to question that even a
00:40:17.880 little what does that make you do have you ever been anger angry uh and lashed down at somebody
00:40:28.020 has anger ever caused you to be mean to somebody who just didn't deserve it yeah yeah that's what it
00:40:35.740 does that's what anger does it causes you to be angry and it causes you to be uh mean to other
00:40:42.560 people so i feel like we need to stop pretending that this is about solutions and we need to stop
00:40:49.760 pretending it's about making the world a better place because it so clearly is not and if any of
00:40:56.860 these people ever wanted to do any of those things talk about solutions talk about how to make it a better
00:41:02.640 place i feel like there would be plenty of people to help them remember when the george floyd thing
00:41:08.620 first happened and i and lots of other people made this observation this was the one time when the
00:41:16.520 whole country was on the same side what should have happened if people wanted solutions then the the black
00:41:25.160 community should have said some version of this do you see what we mean now the white community having
00:41:31.280 seen the george floyd video would have said as i did and many people said oh i get it now i wasn't
00:41:38.140 quite seeing what you were saying but now we've watched this video and i totally get it now now it
00:41:43.620 turns out fentanyl was part of the story so even that was fake news but at the time all white people
00:41:51.200 were on their side all white people i mean it was just universal you saw that video and you said oh whoa
00:41:57.440 whoa whatever we thought before this is different like this this uh this just puts you on the same
00:42:05.940 page like okay i get it now we got it we got to figure out how to make this never happen again
00:42:10.620 but that didn't happen instead of being on the same side we were treated like the enemy
00:42:17.080 when when white people were saying i really want help like this is real i seriously legitimately want to
00:42:26.120 help no you're the enemy how am i the enemy if i want to help legitimately and seriously
00:42:32.720 and so i'm going to completely uh disregard um disregard blm and antifa as any kind of a positive
00:42:44.420 movement in society uh we have to treat them like they're a revenge movement and then what do you do
00:42:54.040 what do you do if you if you finally correctly diagnose the problem and the and the problem is
00:43:01.680 that revenge is what they're trying to accomplish well they're going to have to get revenge
00:43:07.420 you know the the one way that this could be i won't say solved but you could take the some of the
00:43:14.940 energy out of it black people are going to have to get revenge and if it's not presented you know
00:43:22.980 as some kind of a package hey this will hurt us so how about we do this because it'll hurt us
00:43:28.240 you know we'll take some pain if you'll stop protesting um i don't know how you could package that up
00:43:37.360 i don't know any practical way to do that so my guess is that the way this goes is that there will be
00:43:45.840 a bunch of white people probably police who just get killed just get slaughtered and that the number
00:43:53.880 of white people who are killed and you saw this happen in louisville right the two police officers
00:44:00.200 were shot in what looked like just a targeted sniper attack i don't see any other way this goes
00:44:07.620 i think it goes to some amount of slaughter of police officers probably of you know various colors
00:44:16.380 and white people i i think death is probably the only way to get to get the emotion out of it
00:44:24.800 so that even you know even the black public who support blm uh by and large you have to get to the
00:44:32.920 point where even they say whoa that's not exactly what i signed up for i wanted less systemic racism
00:44:40.100 i wanted less you know danger from the police i wasn't signing up for killing white people
00:44:45.620 that's that's you know that's too far i'm out probably has to get there otherwise it can't
00:44:52.660 ever be resolved but if we think it has anything to do with solutions or legislation i think we can
00:44:58.660 rule that out now feels like that could be completely ruled out all right i said in a tweet
00:45:05.960 yesterday that i'm no political campaign expert but isn't it suspicious that uh biden doesn't know his
00:45:14.280 campaign schedule a day in advance because it seems to me that if you're going to put a lid on your
00:45:19.840 entire day you would know that yesterday wouldn't you are they so unorganized they don't know what
00:45:26.720 biden would should be doing today they have to wake up and it's like nine in the morning and
00:45:31.540 they're like all right well i i guess there wasn't anything public on the schedule so we'll put a lid on
00:45:37.860 it um it feels way more like they have to see how he's doing doesn't it it feels more like they wake
00:45:48.300 up in the morning and they say all right is anybody has anybody checked on joe yet and they and they
00:45:54.060 talk to you know here i'm just imagining this but they talk to jill and they say how's he doing
00:46:00.340 is he okay this morning and then jill says one of two things i think he's doing okay let's let's go
00:46:07.480 ahead with the schedule or she says i don't know he's he's a little slow this morning we better put a lid
00:46:14.460 on it i feel like that's what's happening if there's another explanation for why the lid would be put on
00:46:21.140 at the last minute instead of knowingly in advance i'd like to hear it um are you also
00:46:30.000 wondering why there are no insider leaks in the biden campaign isn't that a little suspicious
00:46:37.340 don't you think that there are conversations in the biden campaign about things that would be
00:46:45.500 embarrassing if they came out there are probably conversations about how they deal with the
00:46:50.480 progressive wing that if anybody heard those about those conversations that would be news
00:46:55.840 there certainly are conversations about biden's um let's say his uh mental acuity and even his
00:47:05.700 his general health you know those conversations are happening because you can see with your own eyes
00:47:12.080 that he has days that he's better than other days so obviously they're talking about it behind
00:47:17.200 the closed doors but nobody except for this one except for 4chan so acknowledging that there are
00:47:26.960 insider leaks allegedly on 4chan what i'm talking about is why they're completely missing in the new
00:47:34.740 york times where is the washington post story about the insider and the biden campaign who says you know
00:47:42.640 this is what they're talking about in the campaign it's kind of missing right to am i being crazy here or is
00:47:51.820 it obviously missing because there are tons of insiders who are willing to you know narc on trump for any
00:47:59.140 any number of real or imagined things but there's nobody nobody on the biden campaign is willing to do a
00:48:06.040 little whisper whisper to a to a journalist i'm not buying it what i believe is that insiders probably
00:48:15.440 have talked to the press and i believe that the press is just not running the stories that's my belief
00:48:23.020 i don't know if it's true but i don't know why else there would be no insider stories on in the in
00:48:30.040 the major press that is um what would happen under the condition that the election is not deemed
00:48:39.720 credible now i know that there's a constitutional series of steps um let's let's say it goes to the
00:48:47.240 supreme court but they're you know the country is still not happy with whatever they come up with
00:48:51.740 i know there's the part where nancy pelosi could become president if things aren't sorted out by
00:48:58.420 certain dates so i know the constitution has some steps but suppose because it's 2020 you know in 2020
00:49:06.020 nothing's clean but suppose that despite all the well described steps for solving this stuff
00:49:12.740 the country is just not convinced we had a real election what if 40 percent of the country 30 percent
00:49:21.280 pick a number uh at the end of it say you know i don't trust the result i just don't trust the
00:49:26.820 result what would happen well um let me put this thought into the public mind if it's a tie the tie goes
00:49:39.100 to the incumbent because it has to now not if it's a second term you know not if it's the end of a
00:49:46.420 second term right if you know if if a president served two terms that's a different situation
00:49:52.960 but in this situation where you've got a president who has served one term is running for re-election
00:49:58.100 if we don't have a clean result you have to default to the incumbent now yes i would say the same thing
00:50:06.280 if the incumbent were a democrat all right same situation just reverse the party and i will still be
00:50:13.940 consistent you have to go with the incumbent if you don't get a clean result now if at the end of
00:50:20.580 the eight years then you're gonna have to bring in somebody new one way or the other but you just got
00:50:27.300 to go tie has to go to the runner because that would be the most stable situation and anything less
00:50:34.040 than that would be so just destabilizing i don't think it would be worth it um and that's and and i say
00:50:39.700 that again regardless of which party is involved you just can't inject that much uncertainty into the
00:50:46.420 system and hope that it is free pbs did a fascinating experiment that should uh scare the hell out of you
00:50:56.580 and it showed how easily brains could be hacked and i think it was hacking your mind was the name of the
00:51:04.280 the special and so what pbs did was they primed people uh before asking them for their voting
00:51:11.720 preferences and the way they primed them was uh half of the people got uh just generic information that
00:51:18.920 had no no emotional content and then they said all right uh who do you vote for then they give them
00:51:26.760 some you know dry unemotional information and then they check later and they say okay now who do you
00:51:32.840 vote for and what what topics do you favor now the people who just got dry boring information
00:51:40.040 had the same opinion afterwards as they had before so you might ask yourself what kind of information
00:51:48.600 could you give somebody that would fairly instantly change their voting preferences
00:51:54.600 is that such a thing and if there was such a thing would it be true in other words could you
00:51:59.880 give somebody information that's unambiguously just true and it instantly changes their voting
00:52:06.840 preferences yup because they did it they did it they instantly changed people's voting preferences
00:52:18.440 instantly meaning you know in a few hours they changed people's voting preferences here's the
00:52:24.200 information they gave them they had only white voters so they started with just a white group of voters
00:52:32.680 and they gave them the information that white people were becoming a minority in the united states
00:52:38.840 which is you know factually true uh in the sense that uh the population of white people
00:52:45.160 is dipping below 50 of the total population having primed a bunch of people who were voting sort of
00:52:53.800 left-leaning ways people who were let's say um against the wall once they were told that their group was
00:53:04.440 the implication is threatened because well your power is going to be decreased because now you're you're
00:53:10.200 going to be under 50 and shrinking as soon as white people were told that their power was decreasing
00:53:17.480 their numbers were no longer a majority they voted conservative suddenly they wanted a wall suddenly they
00:53:26.680 voted for a whole range of conservative things that two hours earlier they wouldn't have voted for
00:53:33.960 instant change now remember i've told you that persuasion um you know is not all equal there are some
00:53:41.000 things far more persuasive than other things facts are usually not persuasive but fear is fear is persuasive
00:53:50.520 in fact nothing is more persuasive than fear so the way the information was presented to this
00:53:57.080 these groups of white people in the experiment was that they were there there was some kind something to be
00:54:04.120 afraid of and i believe they tried to see if they could soften it by just changing the way they
00:54:10.760 described the same set of facts so if they described the set of facts of hey you know white people are
00:54:17.000 becoming a minority but if they softened it and said but it won't make any difference to your life
00:54:23.080 because what matters is education level and the non-white population this is you know far more
00:54:30.040 educated than it's ever been before and improving every day they've got good jobs everything's going
00:54:36.200 to be great melting pot we're good so they can actually keep the votes the way they were originally
00:54:44.520 left-leaning simply by the way they described a fact if they described it just objectively people were
00:54:52.920 scared to death and they voted accordingly and if they fixed the data by couching it and
00:54:59.240 ah don't worry about this you know there's nothing to worry about their votes didn't change
00:55:07.720 somebody says as a master persuader you are not surprised no i was not surprised that a fear
00:55:15.240 that is this direct would have an impact i i was a little surprised although i shouldn't have been
00:55:21.480 because the book persuasion um says this pretty much exactly that that the entire range of conservative
00:55:28.920 opinions changed things that had nothing to do with being you know white or not white even those
00:55:35.320 things ended up being influenced so that was a even more dramatic than i would have expected i think
00:55:43.800 even though the science suggests that that would be the case
00:55:46.520 somebody says the left doesn't want a melting pot in unity they want destruction and division
00:55:57.000 well i would not align with that i don't i don't think that anybody wants destruction what they want is what
00:56:06.600 comes after the you know the rebuilding or they're just angry and they're they're just jealous they're just
00:56:16.520 they just are full of hate and i think that explains it better
00:56:25.000 there's videos of black antifa beating up white antifa members all right well i'm sure there will be more
00:56:32.280 uh infighting among the protesters
00:56:39.080 yes did you all see the uh the crenshaw ad uh so a representative uh crenshaw texas um did uh
00:56:49.720 did a campaign ad that is such high production values it looks like a a trailer for a bad action movie
00:56:57.640 now they did it kind of campy so they weren't trying to make it look too serious you know it
00:57:01.880 was all tongue-in-cheek but man was a high production value it's it's probably one of the
00:57:07.640 best campaign ads you'll ever see just in terms of quality of production and stuff and it did make you feel
00:57:14.200 good you you actually felt something when you watched it and you liked all the people in it it made
00:57:19.880 you like them and uh it was good it was a little awkward uh with the male female part of how they
00:57:29.320 handled it the the problem that they had when they made the video apparently is that it started out with
00:57:36.920 several ex-military people who are running as republicans and and they were men so the men who
00:57:44.360 were first introduced were ex-military and so you know they were they were presented as awesome
00:57:50.680 fighters and stuff but there were two women that they wanted to include part of the republican
00:57:56.040 family of candidates who did not have military experience so they they tried to make them seem
00:58:03.320 awesome too it was a little cringe worthy but they did the best they could still i would say that uh
00:58:11.080 i i would say that they did a great job on it it was very fun and it was very viral so they i think
00:58:18.840 they had all the right hit all the right notes um yes my i'm hearing from a number of people who really
00:58:27.720 liked my uh hold my beer video that uh jack murphy was tweeting uh the other day i'm surprised that that
00:58:37.400 didn't get wider play because the people who saw it seemed to like a lot um by the way i'm getting
00:58:43.320 lots of ideas from people who are uh suggesting things about my idea for a small but awesome house
00:58:51.480 i will remind you that my idea for building a small cheap inexpensive dwelling for people
00:58:58.520 is only i'm only interested if it's cheaper and better than regular houses if it's just cheaper
00:59:05.480 but way worse i have no interest in it so don't send me anything like that i don't i don't care about
00:59:12.200 these little small homes i don't care about factory built homes none of that is interesting to me because
00:59:17.800 they're not better they're just cheaper it's got to be cheaper and better i think we can get there all
00:59:24.520 right um how to break the news silo somebody says uh pop music says
00:59:36.120 well i don't know that you can um if i could come up with a way i would i would certainly do it
00:59:41.720 i've been asked often as you might imagine how can you uh how can you beat um trump derangement
00:59:49.880 syndrome yeah how do you unprogram somebody and i think the answer is you really can't do it unless
00:59:55.640 you're one-on-one if you give me somebody one-on-one i i could work on them and maybe i could convert one
01:00:02.840 person if i spend all afternoon but i don't know if there's a mass way to do it except that
01:00:10.120 that pbs experiment i told you the pbs experiment would change your vote
01:00:16.680 but i don't know if it would cure your tds
01:00:22.200 somebody says dwell magazine has some great designs for small structures no they don't so that's what i was
01:00:29.480 that's what i was warning you about if you look in dwell magazine or pretty much any place that talks
01:00:35.800 about smaller structures they're just worse they're just worse it's got to be better than a regular
01:00:45.400 house it's got to be better that's the only thing i'm interested in and there's no reason it can't be
01:00:50.760 all right uh yes the amy comey barrett announcement if she's the one it's starting to sound like she will
01:00:58.840 be one oh somebody says that the tiny home pickup truck idea uh rests on sips sips that are structurally
01:01:09.800 integrated panels so they're like big chunks of things that you can easily build things with i just
01:01:15.400 saw an australian company somebody sent me on linkedin a link to a company that builds walls and
01:01:21.400 solar panels so they frame it with a metal structure and i guess the metal structure parts
01:01:28.920 two people can assemble themselves but the outside of the home is mostly solar panels and they actually
01:01:36.840 figured out how to make solar panels wait for this this is cool plywood now costs more than a solar
01:01:44.840 panel so if you had a choice of making making your home with a wall of plywood or just using a solar
01:01:53.880 panel that wasn't even hooked up to the grid the solar panel would be cheaper the for the same physical
01:02:00.440 square footage a solar panel is cheaper than plywood now that was the claim i just read from a company
01:02:07.080 that's making these things and they figured out how to get the solar panels structurally hard enough
01:02:13.400 using the metal backing the metal frame that they just build the outside of the wall with with the
01:02:19.800 solar panels so i'm not sure if that idea is less expensive but it's interesting all right that's all
01:02:27.160 all i got for now i'll talk to you tomorrow
01:02:36.360 you