Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1137 Scott Adams： Biden Brain Farts, Black Strategy Matters, Why Antifa Wants Trump to Win, Seattle Solves Racism

00:00:00.000 turn your phones off ringers off okay you don't really have to do that because it turns out

00:00:14.100 i wouldn't even be able to hear it if it rang but you might hear mine so i'll turn mine off

00:00:19.060 you know what you need today yeah let me tell you what you need today first of all this is going to

00:00:25.860 be one of the best days ever not for any particular reason it just is you don't need a reason all you

00:00:34.820 need is a cup or a mug or a glass a tank or chalice or stein a canteen jug or flask a vessel of any

00:00:42.100 kind and fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the dopamine hit of the

00:00:50.400 day the unparalleled pleasure the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip

00:00:57.620 and i know you came here for it join me now for that delight go

00:01:02.880 i guess the day going doesn't it everything's starting to turn up

00:01:16.140 look a little better you you started out a little bit slow today but look how much better things are

00:01:22.620 already it happens quickly i saw today that the company ring that makes the home security

00:01:30.460 they have a new prototype of an indoor drone for security and apparently they'll be they've already

00:01:40.080 made it but they're not selling it yet a little drone that will pop up from its little charging

00:01:45.960 station and do a predetermined route through the air through your uh your home and send you back

00:01:53.600 pictures so you can look at look at what's going on now if that's not cool i guess i don't know what

00:02:01.200 cool is because that got me all excited here's another another little positive trend that is uh

00:02:09.760 unexpected positivity from the coronavirus tragedy hydroponic farms are doing great

00:02:18.160 i have a tiny tiny little investment in a desktop hydroponic company and their their revenue just went

00:02:27.680 crazy uh because of coronavirus and and what they make is uh it's called uh click and grow if you're

00:02:34.720 looking for it and they make these little uh desktop uh garden things they have their own light source and

00:02:41.920 pods and seeds and stuff they're pretty cool but apparently the the full-size farms hydroponic farms just went

00:02:50.240 from well that's a good idea i i suppose you could make an indoor farm if you really needed to

00:02:57.840 it it apparently is completely shifted off to we need some hydroponic farms because if our food source

00:03:05.440 gets cut off like it sort of almost did with coronavirus uh we need a backup plan and having local hydroponic

00:03:14.320 farms is a pretty good way to go so that's good news there's some fake news about joe biden today uh

00:03:23.600 of course he's the gaffe maker so when joe biden makes a joke intentionally in the context of so many

00:03:33.120 gaffes sometimes you can't tell but this one is being reported as a gaffe that's was clearly him making a

00:03:40.400 joke in which he said in one of his zoom uh appearances he said uh i got to the senate 180 years ago

00:03:49.600 and uh the the trump campaign tweeted that as a gaffe

00:03:55.680 i don't think it was a gaffe i i'm willing to place a sizable bet

00:04:01.840 that even joe biden knows that he's less than 180 years old

00:04:06.000 so i think he was he was just joking about how long ago it was but things are so crazy that it's

00:04:13.440 reported as well maybe you know he's he's doing so poorly that maybe maybe he doesn't know he's less

00:04:21.600 than 180 years old maybe but i think that was a joke here's the funniest tweet i saw yesterday and

00:04:31.760 i'm gonna read you the punchline before i read you the setup that wouldn't make sense until you hear

00:04:38.720 it okay and uh it's because it's the way i consumed it because twitter shows the shows the tweet the

00:04:45.680 retweet message before the thing that got retweeted so i'm looking through the through the uh twitter

00:04:52.720 feed yesterday and i see a ted cruz tweet and i did and like you i don't know what he's referring to yet

00:05:00.320 so just consume it the same same way i did he said you know there are decaffeinated brands on the

00:05:06.800 market that are just as tasty and i read that and i was like what what what kind of message is that a

00:05:16.640 reply to you know there are decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty and then i read

00:05:22.480 what he was retweeting and it was elizabeth warren and listen to this word salad that she tweeted

00:05:29.120 this sleazy supreme court double dealing is the last gasp of a corrupt republican leadership

00:05:35.280 numb to its own hypocrisy the last gasp of a billionaire fueled party that's undemocratically

00:05:42.080 overrepresented and desperately clinging to power in order to impose its extremist agenda

00:05:48.480 ted cruz you know there are decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty

00:05:54.400 you have to admit that's one of the all-time great tweets

00:06:02.400 um here's some good news you know you're all these protests are happening and you're

00:06:07.520 you're thinking to yourself well what good is coming out of all these protests you know you'd like

00:06:13.360 you'd like to think that with all that disruption there's something good coming out of it and i'm here

00:06:17.280 to report finally serious progress against systemic racism and this comes courtesy of the uh of seattle

00:06:27.440 so seattle has voted in and approved the following changes thank god because the long nightmare of

00:06:36.480 systemic racism is finally coming to a close at least in seattle i would imagine a lot of places are going

00:06:43.120 to copy this model because once you hear it what they've done to eliminate systemic racism you're

00:06:49.920 going to say to yourself it's obvious once you hear it until you hear it you say to yourself i don't

00:06:56.480 know it feels like such a big problem i i don't even know where to begin but once you see what seattle's

00:07:02.640 done you're going to be slapping yourself in the head and saying why did we not do this before

00:07:09.200 why so here's the three things they've done they have eliminated the police unit that clears homeless

00:07:15.440 camps now i think you know that if you eliminate friction for something um it just stops happening

00:07:25.040 right that's that's the seattle uh theory is if they stop clearing out these homeless camps

00:07:32.080 things should be good now some people are going to say i know critics are going to say

00:07:36.800 scott if you stop clearing out the homeless camps isn't the guaranteed effect of that to attract

00:07:44.400 more homeless camps to which i say i don't think you understand how systemic racism works

00:07:51.440 you're you're in crazy land no if you stop clearing the homeless camps systemic racism goes away

00:08:00.400 you're thinking about how removing obstacles will make more of something happen such as more homeless

00:08:09.200 people will stream into seattle because it's a good place to be homeless that's just crazy because this

00:08:16.240 will get rid of systemic racism but it's not all you know if that was all that would be pretty amazing

00:08:23.680 but there's more to it second thing they've done is they've agreed to cut the command to staff of the

00:08:29.520 police pay there'll still be as many people on the staff apparently or it's a little bit little unclear

00:08:36.880 but it looks like that what they're doing is mostly just cutting the pay of the people who are in

00:08:43.280 charge of making things better for police now i don't have to tell you if you're a student of human

00:08:50.160 nature that one way to get a better result from people and if you really want them to work hard and

00:08:57.200 and give you a good performance cutting their pay that's the way to go

00:09:01.600 so these command staff police officers who are being asked to do more with less

00:09:10.080 they've also been asked to cut their pay and i think that should motivate them in the right direction

00:09:16.080 obviously how else are you going to motivate people other than cutting their pay

00:09:21.200 that just feels obvious after they do it you know until they did this honestly i feel dumb but i

00:09:28.640 wouldn't have even thought of this you know i might have thought of the this is how dumb i am i i

00:09:34.720 would have thought you know if you want more out of these people to do a better job better training

00:09:40.080 better training of their staff etc i would be i would have been thinking in terms of getting better

00:09:46.480 people and paying them more to get more performance but i think seattle's on the right track here just

00:09:53.040 cut their pay that should make them work harder and have better morale and so you should get better

00:09:58.400 results um then they're also going to reduce a hundred officers now if you want to make your city better

00:10:08.800 take the thing that holds it together law and order and get rid of that because the law and order

00:10:18.480 was becoming sort of a trojan horse if you will for racism a lot of people wouldn't realize that you

00:10:25.360 probably think to yourself law and order wait a minute isn't that good for black people and white

00:10:31.120 people and brown people and people of all types is there somebody for whom a an active police force

00:10:39.040 that is pursuing law and order is there is there some demographic group for whom that's bad

00:10:46.640 well seattle has spoken and again these are these weren't obvious solutions if any of this was

00:10:53.680 obvious it would have been done before right you need you need sort of a out of the box thinking you

00:10:59.680 need some genius and seattle has stepped up so they're reducing the number of police officers cut the

00:11:05.680 command staff pay uh and they got rid of the unit that is clearing the homeless camps

00:11:11.440 so those three steps i think are bold i think they should be uh observed for how effective they are

00:11:20.560 and probably in a few weeks the rest of the country should go this way because i can't imagine this not

00:11:26.160 working imagine your black lives matter and you you hear this announcement and you think i'm out here

00:11:33.280 every day i'm protesting i'm trying to get rid of systemic racism but nothing's happening nothing's

00:11:39.200 happening why is nothing happening and then you see this and you say whoa i think i've overperformed

00:11:47.920 i was trying to get rid of systemic racism in seattle but i may have done it in the whole world

00:11:55.120 because once once these three ideas get out there's nothing that's going to stop them from spreading to

00:12:02.080 all of the other smart cities that also want to get rid of systemic racism

00:12:06.400 so that's all good news um you should be pretty pretty happy about that here's some more news

00:12:13.600 um it's going to be harder and harder to run against trump and call him a racist number one uh i love the

00:12:22.880 fact that the organizer of the charlottesville finding people race is endorsing joe biden so joe biden's

00:12:31.760 primary campaign claim is that the the president called the racist in charlottesville fine people

00:12:39.120 now of course that didn't happen that was fake news uh he he said exactly the opposite he condemned them

00:12:45.600 but the organizer of the charlottesville he uh he endorses uh joe biden for president so

00:12:52.800 that's interesting at the same time trump i forgot to mention this yesterday but trump in his speech

00:12:59.920 uh explicitly said and i don't know if he said this before he said that school choice is the civil

00:13:06.720 rights issue of our time in other words if you get school choice right then everybody's going to do

00:13:13.200 better and essentially that's effectively a civil rights issue it's so big and so important to the

00:13:20.480 black community um so that's a big deal have you ever had a president who said there's a gigantic

00:13:28.880 civil rights issue and i'm going to make it a top priority to get rid of it what is what is joe biden's

00:13:36.560 big civil rights issue he has none because seattle already solved it this whole race systemic racism

00:13:44.880 thing used to be a topic that biden could talk about but now seattle's kind of taking it off the

00:13:50.240 table with their with their so effective solution but the president still is working on a civil rights

00:13:56.800 issue which is education is terribly unfair and poorly done so the president's done the prison reform he's

00:14:05.760 massively funded the historically black colleges uh we'll talk more about them

00:14:11.520 uh there's a biden story there he's he's funded the opportunity zones he's putting 500 billion

00:14:17.760 dollars into capital for black american businesses he's he's got black unemployment to the best level

00:14:25.600 it's ever been before coronavirus it's coming back already he's designated the kkk a domestic terror

00:14:32.720 group even obama didn't do that i mean seriously obama didn't do that okay uh he's the law and order

00:14:42.800 president and by a majority uh the black population does like law and order surprise surprise

00:14:52.480 you're surprised that uh people like uh law and order no matter who they are

00:14:56.960 uh it's amazing that that's a surprise all right but here's the other the other thing that sort of

00:15:03.680 snuck up on us trump is the first u.s president to nominate uh a mother of black children to the supreme

00:15:12.720 court he's the first one to nominate a mother of black children to the supreme court now i know what

00:15:20.720 you're thinking you're thinking in terms of diversity on the supreme court wouldn't it be better

00:15:29.040 for an actual black woman with black children to be nominated yeah yeah okay i see that point

00:15:38.480 you know it would be a little bit more on the nose you know you'd say to yourself all right that's

00:15:42.400 exactly you know that's the segment we we want to fill in there but i'd have to say you know if you

00:15:51.200 don't have that you know the the more ideal solution that everybody would recognize is like oh okay that

00:15:57.280 would be good to get that kind of diversity i would think that a strong second place is a woman who has

00:16:04.320 black children because i don't think the mom reflex gets turned off i mean i i've got a feeling that

00:16:12.160 quite legitimately uh amy coney barrett feels that all of her children are awesome so having somebody

00:16:21.600 on here who has that sensibility let me let me put this into a visual persuasion when amy coney barrett

00:16:29.920 watched the george floyd you know shocking video of of the moment of his death do you think that she

00:16:36.880 looked at it the same as people who do not have black children i'll bet not i'll bet the fact that

00:16:43.600 she has black children you know changes her filter on seeing the george floyd situation to make it not

00:16:52.560 exactly what a black citizen of this country felt i mean that's you know you can't really feel what other

00:16:58.960 people feel but if you wanted to get close to it you know if you wanted to get into the the general zip code

00:17:05.760 of that she's a strong choice it's a it's interesting to have somebody who can who has one leg in each

00:17:12.880 world i mean she has one leg sort of you know in the in the parent of black uh kids and one one leg in

00:17:22.880 sort of a generic white person world it's kind of a good perspective um you you've probably heard of

00:17:30.880 uh dr ibram kendi who's a boston university mellon professor professor national book award winner

00:17:39.840 best-selling author and he wrote had to be an anti-racist and recently so he's a sort of a public

00:17:47.840 anti-racist advocate uh he he recently made some news because i guess jack dorsey gave him

00:17:54.160 uh gave his group i guess 10 million dollars unrestricted uh money to help them work on um

00:18:04.080 let's see how is it described uh unqualified support of his vision of putting academic researchers at the

00:18:11.440 forefront of the movement to dismantle policies uh supporting racial inequality and injustice

00:18:18.480 now what do you think of the general idea of having uh academic researchers at the forefront

00:18:26.400 of how to dismantle racism that's not bad i i would say you sort of have to see how it works out right

00:18:34.960 everything's an implementation there's no such thing as just a good idea you need a good idea that is

00:18:41.680 implemented well but on the surface on the surface don't you think that an academic approach to really

00:18:50.400 understand as best we can things such as are black people really being targeted by the police i i think

00:19:00.000 we need the researchers and the scientists and stuff to sort of take the the lead and tell us what's true

00:19:06.880 what is true you know where can we identify this stuff and where we can't now of course you have

00:19:13.120 the risk that because they're academics it'll just all be bullshit and then you make policies that are

00:19:19.840 based on complete bullshit so the execution matters right it could be executed completely wrong

00:19:27.120 but in general if you have a real academic who's got real credentials and working with other academics

00:19:34.080 and they want to dig in to really understand what's going on here with the the systemic racism not a

00:19:42.000 bad play way to go so he said something that was so delightfully provocative uh in a tweet

00:19:50.560 that it made me like him so i didn't know anything about him until this tweet and then then i started

00:19:56.880 looking into it and connecting the dots and i'm gonna say i have a positive opinion

00:20:03.920 of him this may be different than some of your opinions all right but i'll tell you why

00:20:09.600 the same thing that makes me like trump is his provocative way of just going in and shaking the

00:20:16.960 box because there are a lot of cases where just going in and shaking things up is exactly what you need

00:20:24.240 it's you know you don't write it out that way on paper right you know you don't make a plan i'm

00:20:29.600 going to just shake everything up but sometimes you need that here so somebody made a tweet that's

00:20:36.560 been deleted now about um it would be hard to make fun of amy coney barrett because she has

00:20:43.920 two black adopted children from haiti and you think to yourself okay that's unassailable who could

00:20:52.080 possibly who could possibly complain about her in terms of racism when she's gone so far as to adopt

00:21:01.200 two kids from haiti so she's beyond criticism right well not according to dr ibram and here's the part

00:21:09.280 that made me like him all right and i know you're not going to have the same impression but just just

00:21:16.320 understand where i'm coming from that i like provocative people who shake the box they don't

00:21:22.320 have to agree with me all right so that's the part that you're missing i'm not agreeing with his

00:21:28.160 positions necessarily i might agree with some of them i don't know i'm just saying that i like

00:21:33.760 i like how provocative he is here's what he uh tweeted about amy coney barrett

00:21:39.360 he goes some white colonizers quote adopted black children they quote civilized these quote savage

00:21:49.760 children in the quote superior ways of white people while using them as props in their lifelong

00:21:56.400 pictures of denial while cutting the biological parents of these children out of the pictures of

00:22:02.480 of humanity now come on you have to you have to appreciate how wonderfully provocative that is

00:22:12.400 all right you can agree you disagree with it you find it you find it offensive i get that but just but

00:22:19.360 just uh agree with me on this point the way you feel when you hear this has got to be very similar to

00:22:27.760 the way democrats feel when they look at a trump tweet right it's gonna look kind of similar you're

00:22:34.240 you're gonna hate it but you can't look away what if i told you about persuasion 50 of persuasion is

00:22:42.560 getting your attention one way to do it and nobody's come up with a better way to do it is to be

00:22:48.720 just so crazy provocative that people can't look away he has that he has that so if you if you're

00:22:57.360 tempted to dismiss him because you say i don't believe i don't want you know i don't agree with

00:23:02.480 any of the things he's saying i would give it another look because there's there's a whole lot of

00:23:08.320 x factor that comes out of this it just sprays out of this the same kind of x factor that an aoc has

00:23:15.520 same kind of x factor that a president trump has it just it's just coming out of his pores now

00:23:23.920 once he gets all this attention what's he do with it so here's the second part right now that he's

00:23:30.160 got all this attention being provocative what's he do with it here's what he does with it he follows

00:23:36.640 it up with this uh he says and whether this is barrett or not is not the point it is believed too many

00:23:44.640 white people have if they have uh if they have or adopt a child of color then they can't be a racist

00:23:51.040 so basically he's making the point uh by analogy that if you say you have a black friend that doesn't

00:23:59.680 mean you're not a racist it just means you have a black friend and he's extending that to say just

00:24:06.320 because you adopted a black child that alone doesn't make you not a racist it just means you did this one

00:24:12.880 good thing um so he's he's challenging that idea now is that fair is it fair for him to say

00:24:21.520 that uh that's not far enough like you you need to go to the extra level just having a black friend

00:24:29.200 or a black adoptee not enough i think that's completely fair yeah that's a completely fair statement

00:24:36.640 it is also a complete loser statement here's why um the difference between winning and losing

00:24:45.360 strategies is that winning strategies encourage good things to happen more and losing strategies

00:24:53.920 discourage good things from happening more that's it that that's that's the whole tweet if i can use that

00:25:00.160 statement statement and when when you see somebody adopting a baby or babies from haiti you know a white

00:25:10.000 person adopting black babies what is the winner way to look at that the winner way to look at that is

00:25:18.560 she's awesome that's it as soon as you add something to okay that's awesome i i respect that

00:25:26.560 100 100 respect it and now we're done talking about it as soon as you depart it's just good and you put

00:25:34.560 that well it's not good you're still sort of a jerk you have you have put a penalty on good behavior

00:25:41.440 good behavior adopting um black orphans it's good behavior i think we'd all be happy about that

00:25:49.040 but he penalized it a little bit right every time you penalize good behavior or support bad behavior

00:25:59.360 let's say violence and looting you are in a loser strategy and there's no there's no real debate about

00:26:09.360 this there's no domain in the world there's no there's no professional coach there's no mentor there's

00:26:16.880 nobody who knows how the world works who would say you should ever ever ever put a penalty on good

00:26:25.120 behavior nor should you ever ever ever say good things about the behavior you don't want to see

00:26:32.720 more of it's very simple human nature that people will do more of the things that they get praised for

00:26:39.200 and less of the things they don't get praised for um so and i'm going to talk about this a little

00:26:44.960 bit more in a minute paul graham famous famous investor paul graham uh asked this in a tweet he

00:26:52.000 said uh i wonder if the protesters in portland etc realize that roughly 100 of the effect they're

00:26:59.120 having the protests that is on the upcoming presidential election is to help trump that's

00:27:05.520 weird isn't it don't don't you wonder why the protesters are so obviously helping trump

00:27:12.320 because they're playing right into his message at the same time he would be their biggest problem

00:27:19.280 the person they would most want to leave how does that make sense how does it make sense that every

00:27:25.920 day that they're putting lots of personal risk and energy and money into getting trump re-elected how

00:27:33.680 can you explain that here's how i explain it they need trump to get re-elected not all of them you

00:27:41.680 know a lot of the protesters are literally legitimately just protesting uh racism and and that's great

00:27:48.400 but in terms of the organizer class which are really the ones who make it happen right there

00:27:54.320 are most people are just attendees most people are followers there's a small group of people let's

00:27:59.520 call them the organizing class that make it all happen among the organizing class do they want to overthrow

00:28:07.200 the government or do they want joe biden to be president they want to overthrow the government they

00:28:14.480 don't want joe biden to be president you don't see the protesters calling carrying joe biden signs do you

00:28:21.840 do you see any of the protesters with biden signs you don't because they don't want joe biden to win

00:28:31.040 do you know why because if joe biden wins it takes the steam and of their protests takes the energy and

00:28:37.920 of their revolution the worst thing that could happen from the perspective of black lives matter

00:28:43.760 is for joe biden to get elected because the moment he gets elected the the people who are protesting are

00:28:50.960 going to say we got something you know we didn't get everything we want but at least now joe biden will

00:28:58.160 head us in the right direction and kamala harris they'll be moving us toward a better world thank

00:29:03.360 god this trump is gone they don't want that world i'm pretty sure the organizers would prefer

00:29:10.640 the perfect situation would be a non-credible election where trump wins and stays in office and

00:29:18.240 then they can complain that it was a rigged election it was not credible trump is still the problem

00:29:24.640 nothing's been fixed we have to overthrow the system so watch for the protesters to be very unenthusiastic

00:29:34.240 about biden for that reason um dan bongino points out that that that is uh it's incredible that it's been

00:29:46.000 confirmed that the fbi used a suspected russian agent to spy on a trump campaign and it's

00:29:53.840 not a front page story that the fbi actually used a russian agent to spy on the suspected russian

00:30:09.360 agent to spy on the trump campaign and it's just sort of ignored now if you think you live in a world

00:30:18.080 where you form your own opinions you know you look at the news you form your own opinions you don't

00:30:24.880 that i don't know if that world ever existed but it definitely doesn't exist now what happens is you

00:30:31.200 are shown a a little sliver of the news that is designed to give you the opinion that is being

00:30:37.680 assigned to you if they showed you more than the sliver of news you might get too much context and you would

00:30:44.160 not accept the assigned opinion because you might say well i see your point but what about all this

00:30:49.440 other stuff as long as they just leave out all the other stuff they can give you a sliver of reality

00:30:56.080 you'll say looks good to me if i don't know anything else i just know that sliver

00:31:01.600 my my opinion has been assigned to me i accept it um by the way on a uh

00:31:07.680 uh uh a more concerning note dan bongino noted publicly that he's got some kind of a lump on his

00:31:16.080 neck that seems to be a concern and maybe a big concern we don't know yet so wishing him the best on

00:31:23.120 that i i will add this story uh just if it makes dan feel any better um in my 20s i had a lump on my neck

00:31:32.000 went to my doctor at kaiser and they said oh i don't know that looks we better look into that we

00:31:38.000 we better get a closer look took an x-ray i go in and they and they looked at the x-ray and they said

00:31:44.720 ah this doesn't look good and i said well what does it mean if it's not nothing which is the other

00:31:53.440 alternative they said it could be nothing it could be just uh they said one of those things that was the

00:31:59.600 actual phrase it could be just one of those things and and we just drain this little bump and there's

00:32:05.760 nothing that's it it could be it or or you have a horrible cancerous problem and your life will never

00:32:14.880 be the same those are your two possibilities why don't you come back next week and we'll figure out

00:32:19.920 which one it is so i had to wait with a basically you know almost a death sentence

00:32:28.640 preliminary diagnosis of a lump on my neck i had to wait days to figure out what it was

00:32:35.920 now it turns out that the the way to confirm whether it was going to kill me or not

00:32:41.120 and of course spoiler i i lived uh they would stick a needle into it and draw out the fluid

00:32:47.280 and if the fluid was uh blood i'm in big trouble because it means there's some cancer going on there

00:32:54.480 but if it was a clear fluid it was just some kind of minor infection no big deal so i'm sitting there

00:33:01.440 and i can't see the needle because it's back here and i feel it go in and i feel the liquid come out

00:33:07.520 and i'm sitting there thinking you freaking asshole you see the liquid now you know if i'm dead

00:33:17.680 or i'm fine tell me i had to actually ask all right it still bothers me to this day the moment it came

00:33:26.480 out he should have been saying ah no problem you're all good and it turns out it was no problem it was all

00:33:31.440 good so dan i hope your situation goes like mine did i i have more empathy than you could imagine

00:33:39.200 uh but uh i'm gonna hope that it's just one of those things and you're everything's fine

00:33:46.320 um

00:33:48.720 so i tweeted this yesterday i said uh i know lots of people who wrote to success on the strategy of skill

00:33:54.720 acquisition and positivity which is a pretty good package package if your life strategy is to

00:34:01.440 continually acquire skills pretty good strategy and to to approach life with positivity which affects

00:34:09.280 other people and affects yourself that's a pretty good strategy and i know people have done that but

00:34:14.320 i don't know anybody who complained their way to success that might exist but if you have a choice

00:34:20.320 of those two things either building skills and having a positive attitude or complaining and not doing

00:34:27.520 anything useful um you pick the one that works now weirdly elon musk uh tweeted a reply

00:34:37.360 so and a lot of people took note because when elon musk tweets at me people people think you guys need to

00:34:47.280 uh talk or something i don't know for some reason people get excited when when that happens so elon musk

00:34:54.480 tweeted this and i'm not sure exactly how it relates to my tweet but he said there are times when i feel

00:34:59.760 like i'm living in a dilbert cartoon uh so i tweeted back uh the simulation doesn't write itself wait until

00:35:07.440 you see what i have planned for you and then you know he he laughed with some some emoticons uh

00:35:14.080 uh and so anyway that that was fun uh and uh ted cruz also retweeted me yesterday i had a good day for

00:35:25.280 getting retweeted um did you think it was weird when uh acb amy coney barrett when she was giving her a

00:35:36.800 sort of nomination acceptance speech i guess you'd call it she went to great lengths to describe her husband

00:35:44.080 as subservient to her no was that weird and i didn't understand why until the analyst explained it to me

00:35:52.160 which was um so people were criticizing uh acb for being part of a a church group that allegedly and i think this

00:36:02.160 is incorrect but the the allegation was that the people in that church uh the women were taught by

00:36:08.960 their religion to be subservient to their husbands or something i think that's inaccurate i think that

00:36:14.800 it never taught that i think it had to do with their use of the word handmaidens but it was really a

00:36:20.720 biblical reference it wasn't it wasn't a reference to subservience so she goes in and um

00:36:27.520 um i didn't like this at all honestly like it's the thing that felt the creepiest she she needed to

00:36:37.120 describe her her husband as basically the house husband in the group the the one who is serving her

00:36:44.880 needs and although he's an attorney and has a practice of his own he seemed to be the primary caregiver for

00:36:52.800 the seven children because her job was even more high profile and it seemed to be that she was

00:37:00.640 sort of suggesting that the way she could handle an immense workload of being on the supreme court

00:37:06.480 while having seven children is that her husband was unusually supportive in terms of raising the kids

00:37:12.960 and supportive of her now i have of course i don't criticize any couple if they have a situation that

00:37:21.200 works it's not my it's not my issue so if anybody has any kind of arrangement that makes them happy

00:37:28.800 and their family it's great great to me but it felt just uncomfortable that she threw her husband under

00:37:38.400 the bus to help her nomination i didn't like it i just didn't like it now i'm not i'm not saying it

00:37:46.240 wasn't an accurate description and i'm not entirely sure that the husband has any problem with it he was

00:37:52.080 probably perfectly happy with it but i don't know didn't feel right that didn't didn't love it but it

00:38:00.640 probably worked um so what else is going on so uh up in portland the proud boy rally ended with no major

00:38:13.920 clashes so there were a number of arrests and there were a number of you know people throwing stuff

00:38:19.600 and the usual amount of relatively low level violence enough so that you could characterize

00:38:26.160 it as no major clashes but here's the part i found interesting so you knew that the proud boys were

00:38:32.080 going to show up and you knew that there would be counter protesters here's the interesting part

00:38:37.600 there were a thousand people that showed up with the proud boys a thousand and there were 500 who

00:38:45.920 showed up as the counter protesters now if you recall i've been asking for some time why is it that the

00:38:54.160 news does not report how many protesters are at each of these events it's conspicuously missing

00:39:01.600 the most obvious thing that you would say about any protest is how many people showed up it is the

00:39:08.240 number one determinant of how much i should care if six people show up to a protest i probably don't

00:39:14.960 care if a thousand people show up to a protest you have my attention all right and it's not reported and

00:39:22.240 it's it's um characteristically not reported and the reason i thought that was important not just in

00:39:30.640 terms of news value is that you might recall that i said the following if the rest of the country knew

00:39:37.920 how many protesters there were it would allow them to send more non-protesters into the area and take

00:39:45.840 care of it if you had enough locals who were anti-protester whatever that number of locals is you could get

00:39:55.200 enough of them so they would so overwhelm the number of protesters they would effectively become

00:40:01.200 the police force in other words the that the locals if they had enough could just cause the

00:40:07.360 protesters to behave because it would be too much muscle in the general area because force is really

00:40:13.680 the only thing that changes anything in this world and and here it is a thousand proud boys showed up and

00:40:21.760 and supporters and only 500 anti-fascists and the result was no major clashes why was there no major clashes

00:40:32.640 well i would say it's because the proud boys outnumbered the anti-protesters right and it shows you a model

00:40:40.880 that you know it's dangerous of course because if you send lots of you know people willing to fight into an area you know

00:40:47.760 you've got some trouble but so so let me say that this is not a recommendation or a suggestion from me

00:40:55.440 about how to handle it rather i would say it's one of several ways this could end you know there's

00:41:01.280 several paths you could predict you might go down but one of the paths is that if the police force

00:41:08.240 decides not to be the primary power in the area and that's what they've decided the police forces

00:41:13.920 decided that they will they will play for a tie the police have decided that they're not going to

00:41:20.080 defeat the protesters the protesters know they can't defeat the police they're both playing for a tie

00:41:27.440 but the proud boys were not playing for a tie and in theory you could bring in enough people who just

00:41:34.000 want the protest to stop that the the sheer number of bodies of the non-protesters would make it stop

00:41:41.920 there would just be too much power put into the area so that's one way it could happen it could be

00:41:47.760 that the citizens mobilize in enough numbers that they just overwhelm the protesters and or there are

00:41:54.720 enough people to make sure looting doesn't happen because really if you just had enough kyle rittenhouse

00:42:00.640 that the problem with kyle rittenhouse was not a kyle rittenhouse the problem with kyle rittenhouse is

00:42:06.800 there were not enough kyle rittenhouses there if the kyle rittenhouses had outnumbered the people who

00:42:14.320 attacked him and some of them ultimately got shot two of them were killed if the kyle rittenhouses

00:42:20.160 had been the majority instead of the lone ranger trying to help things it would have been different

00:42:27.680 and it probably would have been a lot less violence um here's something interesting in

00:42:34.480 election land pro publica that's a publication election land pro publica they're reporting that

00:42:40.960 in north carolina uh so far this year i guess they're already counting the absentee ballots

00:42:48.000 and already uh there are three times as many ballots from black citizens that are rejected

00:42:55.120 compared to white now what's the first thing you say about that oh my god

00:43:00.560 there there are discriminating people rejecting ballots because they're doing three times as many

00:43:06.080 black ones as white but the story goes on to say that uh there's no demographic information

00:43:13.040 on the ballots that are being rejected and i'm thinking but isn't there at least a name

00:43:19.200 there's a name there's a name on the ballot right a printed name don't you know where the ballot came

00:43:25.280 from am i wrong about that because that is demographic information it isn't too hard if you are a racist

00:43:34.240 to try to guess which names belong to black people you wouldn't get every one but you could get pretty close

00:43:41.840 couldn't you you know if you if you just picked out the obvious ones so i'm not sure i believe that you

00:43:48.320 can't tell uh completely who voted um but the problems that they call out for why they were being rejected

00:43:58.480 were missing a signature or missing a witness signature now that's pretty black and white right

00:44:06.800 there's either a signature or not there's a witness signature or not

00:44:14.160 what would be the reason that both in 2018 and now in 2020 three times as many black voters did not

00:44:22.080 fill in one of those two things what causes that do you have any idea what causes that if i had to

00:44:30.320 take a guess i would say it's correlated with educational levels and that the the more educated

00:44:37.520 you are the more adept you are at reading the form correctly filling it out correctly and not making

00:44:43.200 any mistakes so it probably is just correlated with economic situation and an education situation

00:44:51.760 but it does it does certainly raise the question that trump has been raising that the these ballots are

00:44:59.680 a problem all right um but i didn't know this that apparently the system this year allows the

00:45:09.280 voters to they have apparently they have time i don't know if in every case but they would time have

00:45:14.560 time to fix their errors because i guess they get notified now if they're notified of the errors there must

00:45:20.160 be some information on the the ballot that tells you something about people um so they can either fix it or

00:45:26.640 they can go vote in person but uh as you might imagine not everybody fixes it so the original problem

00:45:34.800 persists even though they could have fixed it all right so maybe that'll make a difference we'll see

00:45:41.120 uh remember i i asked you i said i couldn't understand why people were criticizing trump

00:45:46.800 for saying that doing extra testing is surfacing extra infections and i thought to myself how could

00:45:55.360 that not be true how could you do extra testing without finding extra people feel feel like i feel like

00:46:04.480 that's just obvious and nay silver basically said the same thing in the tweet he said it's not clear

00:46:10.880 whether covet cases are actually on the rise in the u.s or if it's because there's more testing

00:46:16.560 and i thought to myself that's the first time i've seen anybody who i would imagine is more

00:46:22.720 associated with the left i don't know if he he says that about himself he may not identify with the

00:46:28.880 left i don't know but it's the first time i've heard somebody who wasn't obviously a trump supporter

00:46:34.480 say yeah if you test more you're going to find more infection it seems sort of obvious and now

00:46:42.240 nay silver saying it and i'm wondering what am i missing what am i not understanding about this situation

00:46:50.640 that it could ever not be true that more testing wouldn't find more things isn't the reason you

00:46:56.320 you test to find more stuff i'm really confused on that um so i i asked by a tweet today can someone

00:47:06.160 ask democratic leaders uh including blm if they'll commit to a peaceful continuation of the trump

00:47:14.160 administration if he wins why is nobody asking democrats if they will commit to a peaceful transfer

00:47:22.240 if trump wins isn't that a pretty obvious question for democratic leadership of all type here's another

00:47:30.160 one and why are democratic leaders not being asked by the press to disavow the domestic terrorist

00:47:39.200 organization that is ironically called antifa now that antifa has been designated a domestic terror

00:47:47.360 organization isn't the obvious thing to ask democrat leaders do you disavow them now that they're domestic

00:47:55.920 terrorists it's a good question it's the most obvious question you should ask and it's not being asked

00:48:04.560 all right so um a lot of people have asked me you know what kind of persuasion or linguistic kill

00:48:11.440 shot should you use against the protesters uh that you think are going too far and sometimes you have

00:48:19.200 to wait a little bit and see how the public is naturally responding to things and then you find

00:48:24.880 out how people are naturally responding you can design a linguistic kill shot that that plays to the

00:48:31.440 thing they're already thinking that's much easier than just trying to make up some kind of persuasion

00:48:36.800 anything it really helps to know how people already think about something and now that a little time

00:48:44.000 has gone by i have this suggestion for a linguistic kill shot on antifa and you just heard me use it

00:48:52.720 and it is that the press should always refer to them when describing antifa they should be described

00:49:00.080 as the domestic terrorist organization ironically named antifa it's the ironically named that takes their

00:49:09.200 power away because what antifa did that was super clever and has served them really well they called

00:49:16.560 themselves anti-fascists even though they weren't you know in a way that you would you would consider it

00:49:23.040 um and therefore anybody who criticized them was calling themselves a fascist one of the best things

00:49:30.800 anybody ever did in terms of persuasion so in order to take the power out of that you could simply refer

00:49:39.440 to them as the ironically named antifa now you can feel it right if you said that often enough and say

00:49:48.960 the domestic terrorist organization ironically named antifa it would completely take the power out of

00:49:55.200 antifa so that's my suggestion um somebody found a video from 1991 in which joe biden said he was talking

00:50:05.280 about a justice that suitor i think that was being considered at the time and talking about how old

00:50:11.520 people would be in 2020 and biden said in the year 2020 i'll be dead and gone in all probability

00:50:17.920 now what are the odds that there would be an actual video of of joe biden predicting his own death by

00:50:27.600 2020 at the exact same time that we're all wondering if he'll live to election day in 2020 did he say that

00:50:37.120 about lots of other years you know is there also a video of joe biden saying he might not live to 2025

00:50:44.800 or maybe it's something he says a lot and you know they just found the one that had the the 2020 year in

00:50:51.600 it but that is very simulation-y very very simulation-y all right um and there's another video of biden

00:51:05.120 doing a gaffe that that doesn't make any sense at all and the gaffe is he suddenly injects somebody named john

00:51:15.120 into his answer and there is nobody named john involved in any way with the question or the

00:51:20.880 answer you have to hear that to know what's going on but i've now learned um i've learned what biden does

00:51:29.680 when he loses his train of thought and it might be a trick i'll use myself because i often lose my train

00:51:35.760 of thought when i'm doing these periscopes probably i'm losing my mind um what he does is if he if he

00:51:42.320 starts into a point and he loses his train of thought he doesn't even know what the topic is

00:51:47.040 anymore he reverts to this generic statement which is we can't let we can't let trump keep doing what

00:51:55.520 he's doing because that fits everything so he'll be like we've got to change the economy and check the

00:52:03.600 change the taxes and then he forgets completely what he's talking about he's like well here's the

00:52:08.320 thing yep we just can't let trump keep getting away with what he's getting away with

00:52:15.920 so whatever he does that that means he completely forgot what he was talking about so look for that

00:52:20.160 all right um some of you are thinking that it's trump's middle name donald john trump or that he

00:52:30.800 was thinking his name was johnald trump i don't know who he was talking about uh there's another

00:52:39.120 tape that surfaced of biden this is the trouble with being in politics for so long there are infinite

00:52:44.400 number of old biden tapes of him saying bizarre things but jonathan turley who's writing about

00:52:50.080 this today he said that a tape has surfaced of biden claiming back at some point it wasn't too long ago

00:52:59.200 that he quote started at a historically black college

00:53:05.200 he actually claimed biden did in in front of a uh it looked like a crowd of mostly black

00:53:13.520 voters he claimed that he had started out at a historically black college which it turns out

00:53:20.720 never happened as far as anybody could tell and they don't even know what he meant you know they

00:53:26.240 can't even figure out well when he says he started out does he mean he went to school there or did

00:53:33.200 it or did he have some involvement with them it's just sort of bizarre and unstated but the fact that

00:53:40.000 you could have a presidential candidate claim that he or at least apparently claim this could be

00:53:45.920 misinterpreted but apparently claimed that he went to a historically black college and nobody

00:53:51.520 people just let that go nothing to see here yeah he went to a historically black college why not why not

00:53:59.920 i tell you all the time and it's always good to remember this that the human brain is tuned toward

00:54:09.360 change we get used to whatever our situation is so even if something is really really bad if we do it

00:54:16.720 long enough we stop complaining about it so much because we just get used to it but if something is

00:54:22.960 moving in the wrong direction even a little bit you our hair will be on fire and we low it's moving

00:54:29.520 in the wrong direction so we're far more affected by the direction of things than where things are

00:54:35.440 that's just a good thing to understand about human beings because that that dynamic you'll see it all the

00:54:42.640 time and in one of the ways that it's really really important at the moment is that apparently the

00:54:48.480 covid deaths in the united states are kind of flat and as long as they stay about the same

00:54:57.280 even though it's way too high a thousand people a day or something in that neighborhood are dying

00:55:02.640 even at a thousand deaths a day as long as it just sort of stays there and even if the 200 000 deaths

00:55:10.320 that are now i don't know 204 or 5 000 deaths as long as that stays around a few hundred thousand

00:55:18.160 you know it might creep up to i don't know 230 000 by election day or something whatever wherever

00:55:23.440 it is as long as it's in that 200 000 ish range it's going to feel like it didn't change much

00:55:31.520 and the fact that it seems stable ish is really really going to work for the president because we

00:55:38.560 can't stay interested in things that are the same even when they're bad we get way more interested in

00:55:45.600 what's on fire today and what somebody said today so i think the president's biggest you know problem

00:55:53.200 is that what people think of coronavirus is becoming smaller and smaller in people's minds

00:55:59.040 even though the problem isn't going away um i would say this about how to interpret that the united

00:56:06.560 states has such a bad bad outcome with coronavirus according to the experts i'm not convinced that if you

00:56:15.520 looked at all the variables it would look so bad in other words if you considered our obesity you

00:56:20.880 considered our higher percentage of african-american citizens if you considered everything probably

00:56:27.120 wouldn't look so bad but we don't and i would say that one factor that we don't count enough is that

00:56:35.040 americans just like freedom and americans like freedom more than they like life itself that's built into

00:56:41.920 us we're actually designed that way we're actually designed that way to like freedom more than life

00:56:46.560 itself we're literally trained from childhood at least my generation was i don't think it happens

00:56:52.240 anymore but my generation was trained from childhood that if you had a choice of you know you can't get

00:57:00.800 freedom unless you die trying to get it we'll die so this coronavirus is no different than every other

00:57:09.360 challenge the united states has faced since its inception what what's my trade-off yes you could

00:57:17.200 be much much safer if you do the following things or maybe you know i don't you could be skeptical but

00:57:24.400 the experts are telling you you could be much safer if you do these things but to do these things

00:57:29.760 you're going to have to give up this other thing called freedom do americans say sure sure let's give

00:57:37.760 up some freedom i'm in i'll save some lives no we don't do that and we don't want to be those people

00:57:45.520 that's the bigger part in order for us to have had the same success as other countries we would have to

00:57:52.480 be like them in other words the thing that killed 200 000 people in this country this is going to sound

00:58:01.520 really ugly but i think you'll understand what i'm saying the thing that killed over 200 000 americans

00:58:08.960 to it to an extent is a feature not a bug that's cruel it's horrible it's a terror is an ugly thought

00:58:18.880 but there is something that makes america a little bit special and it's this it's it's the fact that we

00:58:26.560 don't believe authority it's the fact that we don't trust the experts all the time it's the fact

00:58:32.560 that if you give us a choice between living like a slave uh and and being healthy or living like a free

00:58:40.560 person and maybe killing your own grandmother you'll kill your own grandmother you will kill your

00:58:47.040 grandmother for freedom you kill yourself too you kill anybody for freedom it's a feature

00:58:53.280 it's a feature not a bug so did president trump preside over a country that got a worse outcome

00:59:02.240 than other countries maybe again i think you really have to dig into the difference in the variables to

00:59:08.080 know that for sure but let's say it's true was it a mistake it's being couched as a mistake i would

00:59:17.280 say it's a choice i would say that the country made a conscious choice now did president trump

00:59:25.120 influenced by his own behavior let's say not wearing masks let's say downplaying the virus

00:59:30.560 did he influence anybody's opinion by his own actions perhaps so perhaps so is that wrong well if the

00:59:41.280 way he's the way he's per the way he's persuading americans is to be more american it's a hard argument

00:59:49.360 to make that it was wrong unless you think being more american in other words preferring freedom over

00:59:55.760 life itself unless you think that's a bug he was he was persuading toward a feature not a bug

01:00:06.880 so that's just one way i'd frame it all right um there was a sign i saw at a protest at yorba linda

01:00:18.080 so it looked like there were some protesters and some counter protesters and one of the signs held up by

01:00:24.080 it looked like a white counter protester to blm said black behavior matters so the response to black

01:00:33.680 uh lives matter from this counter protester was black behavior matters pretty offensive isn't it

01:00:42.400 it is it's offensive now of course he made it to be provocative so you can't again that was a feature

01:00:49.200 not a bug this is somebody who's trying to get your blood boiling and it worked i would say that strikes

01:00:56.160 me as offensive even though i agree with the thought the thought i agree with completely that people have

01:01:02.640 to take responsibility for themselves even if somebody else caused the problem so i agree with

01:01:08.880 the thought but here's how i would have said it better instead of saying black behavior matters i

01:01:14.880 would have said black strategy matters in fact if somebody asked me if black lives matter here's one

01:01:22.160 way i might answer if somebody said scott say it say it do black lives matter i'm not going to be the

01:01:29.200 jerk that says no i'm not going to say the first thing out of my mouth is not going to be all lives

01:01:35.440 matter because i'm not an idiot why would i cause trouble that doesn't need to be caused here's how i

01:01:42.400 might handle it absolutely black lives matter super super true black lives matter black lives matter

01:01:50.640 i might even put up my fist and scream it and then i would say would you agree that black strategy

01:01:57.920 matters in other words that if you have a good strategy you'll probably get a good outcome if you

01:02:04.400 have a bad strategy you might have a bad outcome would you agree with that because that's my problem my

01:02:11.680 problem is not black lives matter because of course they do duh my problem is your strategy sucks if you use

01:02:19.600 a strategy that is guaranteed to get you the wrong answer don't blame me when you get the wrong answer

01:02:26.400 don't put it on me when you're doing an objectively obviously clearly bad strategy that's not on me

01:02:35.360 you got to take that on yourself here's here's a general rule that i think is a good one

01:02:42.000 if you have somebody who's protesting or wants some kind of change and you've got other people who seem

01:02:47.840 to be the ones who are in the way if one of those sides says let's work together i'll do some things

01:02:57.440 differently maybe you'll do some things differently i acknowledge that the problem might not be me i mean

01:03:04.000 i might not have caused the problem we're trying to fix and maybe you didn't cause the problem we're

01:03:08.640 trying to fix but if you're not approaching this from the perspective of both of us need to do something

01:03:13.920 differently you are not really a credible player if somebody comes to you and says

01:03:21.360 only you need to change you'll never get there you can never get there if if your starting assumption

01:03:30.160 is that one side needs to change even if all the problems are on the other side the problem the the

01:03:37.920 group that maybe doesn't think it's their fault still needs to say you know i don't think we did

01:03:44.000 anything wrong but if you're willing to change i want to do whatever i can to make it easy for you to

01:03:50.160 change in other words i'll do something different even though it's not my fault it might not even be my

01:03:55.920 responsibility but if you want to be productive both sides every time have to say i'm going to do something

01:04:04.640 different you need to do something different too but we have to start with that assumption as soon as

01:04:12.000 you say you need to do something different and i don't that's the end of the story you can just walk

01:04:19.760 away stop uh i i i want to tell you a story about that but i can't for privacy reasons but i have been in

01:04:30.560 that situation shall i say in the past where it was expected that i would only change and the other

01:04:37.440 person would not and that can never work can't work never negotiate with yourself all right um

01:04:49.600 millions of acres have burned in california but uh my air quality is good at the moment so still

01:04:55.840 keeping an eye on that all right that's all i got for today um

01:05:03.200 all divorced men have been there buddy all right i guess you knew what i was talking about didn't you

01:05:09.360 i didn't i didn't disguise that well at all did i i'm going to tell you the story all right i'm going

01:05:15.840 to hope that my uh my ex-wife will be okay with this because i i don't want to i don't want to do

01:05:23.040 anything that's uh too personal here but uh toward the end of my my marriage we did what marriage

01:05:32.160 married people do if they're having trouble we went to a a counselor and i wanted to make sure that i

01:05:38.240 got the best outcome from a marriage counselor so i said you pick the marriage counselor so this will be

01:05:44.800 this will be my deal in order for me to feel like like you got the best shot i want you alone to decide

01:05:53.680 who the marriage counselor is because i was so confident that my point of view would um would be

01:06:00.800 well represented no matter who the marriage counselor was it really didn't matter who it was

01:06:06.960 so my ex-wife picked a woman as the marriage counselor in which i said all right this is perfect

01:06:12.800 because if a woman agrees with anything i say it's going to carry a little more weight i think

01:06:21.840 with my ex-wife so i thought this is perfect you picked the marriage counselor and it's a woman

01:06:27.920 this is ideal because i'm pretty persuasive right have you ever met me i'm kind of persuasive so i

01:06:34.800 thought this is a perfect setup i could i could not have asked for a better situation i think it was on

01:06:40.880 probably day one when the marriage counselor told me this was the rule that i had to change but my ex-wife

01:06:51.440 did not need to change in any way whatsoever how do you think it turned out

01:06:59.920 i argued like like a wounded dog i argued okay we got to change that all right we can't even talk

01:07:08.560 about any details about you know what any issues are we have to change that assumption because if we

01:07:14.720 go into it with the assumption that i'm the only one who needs to change in any way they can't possibly

01:07:21.360 have a good outcome and she could not be persuaded away from that she never changed her opinion

01:07:30.000 that independent of what the actual issues were i was the only one who needed to change now i never

01:07:37.840 really even understood it i never understood it i didn't understand why that wasn't obviously the

01:07:44.320 worst advice anybody ever got anywhere in the history of advice but it happened now how many how many of you

01:07:53.440 had the same situation i won't wait for your answers but i know there's a few of them all right so that's the

01:07:59.600 story and i will talk to you later

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 27, 2020

Episode 1137 Scott Adams： Biden Brain Farts, Black Strategy Matters, Why Antifa Wants Trump to Win, Seattle Solves Racism

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