Episode 1140 Scott Adams： I Tell You Who Won the Debate and Why. And is Kim Jong-Un Alive？
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In this episode, we discuss the latest on the latest in the Russia/Trump/Biden debate, a new story about Kim Jong-un, and why my lighting is a little off. Plus, the dopamine hit of the day: The simultaneous sip!
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bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum why is my lighting look wrong today
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hey everybody come on in is there anything to talk about today did anything happen last night
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that's worth discussing? Oh, I think so. Oh, yes. But first, before we get to the discussing part,
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you need is a cup or mug or glass of tanker chalzer stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any
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kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the dopamine hit of
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the day. The thing that makes everything better, the unparalleled pleasure. It's called the
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Ah. Well, of course, we'll be talking about the debates, but a couple of little tidbits before
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that. Number one, we all heard the story the last 24 hours or so about National Intelligence
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Director John Ratcliffe. He declassified some information that indicated that Russia was
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aware that Hillary Clinton was trying to implicate Russia and some kind of collusion with Trump
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as part of a plan to take attention away from her email. Now, as of this morning, Politico is
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reporting that it's fake news, that that's not actually something that happened. Now, I believe
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that's not the final word, rather that the intelligence agencies look like maybe they have some evidence
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of this, but we shall see. I remind you of the following 80-20 rule. Are you ready? Here's the
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80-20 rule of the month before election day. It goes like this. Any new story that happens in the month
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before election, if it's a new thing you haven't heard of before, a new twist on a thing would be the
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same thing. There's an 80% chance it's not true. Doesn't matter which side it comes from. Doesn't
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matter what the topic is. If it looks like it's good for anybody and bad for somebody else in terms
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of the election, you should figure just automatically there's an 80% chance it's not true. So we'll see if
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that one's true. Um, I have to admit it had the sound of not being true. You know, if you had to
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place a bet on it and you said, okay, you, you're no expert, but I want you to place a bet on this
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thing. And the thing is that the Putin actually had a conversation or the intelligence people did
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over in Russia about Hillary Clinton trying to distract with a Russia collusion hoax. What,
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what do I tell you about stories like that? Are they a little bit, a little bit too on the nose?
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You know what I'm talking about? A little bit too perfect? Timing, timing of the story is a little
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bit too good. It might be true, but I would put a 20% chance on it. If you want to know the odds,
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um, it would be interesting if I were wrong on that. Another story is that Kim Jong-un,
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allegedly is holding a coronavirus meeting. Uh, and they showed a still photograph of what looked
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like it could have been the meeting, except everybody was sitting closely together with no
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masks on. And it was a still photo, not a video. Now I know they have video. Still photo is fine for
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some, some purposes, but if you're trying to prove that your leader is still alive, a still photo of
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not wearing masks during a pandemic suggests that that photo was taken some time ago, as in prior to
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the pandemic. So maybe even months and months ago, I don't know if there exists a verifiably, um,
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current video of Kim Jong-un, but I'm going to tell you that all signs are indicating he's not in charge
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or something. But, uh, everything seems to suggest there's something going on there in North Korea. So
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keep a, keep an eye on that. I would wait for a sign of life there. All right, let's talk about the
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debate. Um, I feel terrible after watching the debate. Did any, anybody have that reaction? And you know,
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some of it's personal, um, I'm going to come right out and say it. The, the president lost my vote last
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night. President lost my vote last night. Now that doesn't mean he can't get it back. It doesn't mean
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that Biden's would be a good president. I don't think he would be. I think he'd be a disaster, but
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here's my thing. Um, and I get, I get what you're going to argue. So before you jump in with the
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comments, you should trust that I will say your argument for you. All right. So I'm not ignoring
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the argument. I will say it for you. Here's my problem.
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In my mind, President Trump needed to do one thing to win the election. Just one thing. He had,
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he had one thing he needed to do and it wasn't, you know, make Biden go crazy. It wasn't make strong
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points. It wasn't, you know, be accurate. It wasn't make a good case for a coronavirus. It wasn't
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any of those. He had one thing he needed to do. Disavow white supremacy if asked. That's it. Now,
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it would have been nice if he had gone at the fine people hoax to decry it as a hoax. He mumbled
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something under his breath. When Chris Wallace asked him the question about, you know, would you
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disavow white supremacists and, uh, and the militia? Now here's the part you're going to tell me like I
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don't know it, but I'm going to tell you I know it and watch. It won't even stop you from telling me
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like I didn't just tell you. That's just the way the world works. I don't know why. Yes. I heard Trump
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say, um, sure. He said the word sure in answer to, would you disavow these groups? Said it twice.
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So is it true that Trump did in fact indicate he disavows the white supremacists? Yes. It is
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unambiguously true that the question was asked and answered. He said, sure. Would you disavow them?
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Sure. But here's the thing. When you saw it happened in real time and then he quickly changed
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the subject to Antifa is, is, is bad. Didn't you think to yourself, uh, half of the country is going
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to think you just supported white supremacy because of the way you answered it. Okay. All the people in
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the comments are doing everything that I just said you would do. I don't know how to stop you from
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doing it. Everybody who's making a comment that says he did disavow them. He said, sure. That's what
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I just told you. Okay. Did, did you not catch that? That was the main point I was making is for you not
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to do what you're doing now, which is tell me in the comments, what I just told you. I just told you,
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he said unambiguously, sure. And he answered the question. Doesn't come close to being sufficient.
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Not even close. If you know that the way that's going to be taken is the wrong way, it's the wrong
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answer. It doesn't matter that it's technically accurate. It matters how you say it. Let me give
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you an example. Scott, do you disavow white supremacists? Absolutely. Of course I, I disavowed
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them. I've disavowed them in the past. I disavowed them now. And beyond that, I would disavow any racist
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group. I would disavow Black Lives Matter, Antifa. Uh, I would disavow anybody who's racist.
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That's how you disavow white supremacists. Let me tell you how you don't disavow white supremacists.
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Hey, Scott, do you disavow white supremacists? Sure. Yeah, whatever. Um, but yeah, what about the
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weather? What about the weather? That's how you don't do it. If you want to leave the impression
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that you really support them while technically saying you don't do it exactly the way Trump did
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it. He, the, the way he did it is exactly how you would communicate that you're really okay with
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them. Now I'm not going to make an assumption of what he's thinking. That's the mistake everybody
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makes. I'm not, I'm not telling you that he has bad thoughts in his head. What I'm telling you is
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that his performance was below the level that could earn my vote. I can't vote for somebody
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who can't say in a full throated way that he condemns white supremacy while he's running for
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the fucking presidency. Okay. Uh, I'm off the ship now. I'm not going to vote for Biden. That would
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be crazy. I'm just, he just doesn't earn my vote at the moment. Now here's the interesting part.
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We'll talk about some of the details of this as well. Here's the interesting part. There are two
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more debates. What was the, uh, what was the, uh, the biggest problem that Trump had going into this
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debate? I would say the biggest problem is that the expectation game was on a whack. The expectation
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is that Trump would just destroy Biden. That didn't happen. In fact, I would say maybe his worst
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performance as a debater, maybe his worst performance. And, but what does that do? Well,
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it's going to give him a solid week of bad news, right? But what about the next debate? What happens
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at the next debate? The expectation game just got flipped at the next debate? You're going to think
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to yourself, I know Biden was solid enough. He didn't fall over. So he's solid enough. He should
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be solid ish for the second debate and the third. That's your expectation. Now, what do you expect
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about Trump? Well, you certainly expect he's going to get that question again. Uh, I don't know who the
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moderator is for the next debate, but of course I fit. I think they may have different question
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topics, but I feel like, I feel like they're going to work that question in somehow, or at least Biden
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will work it in. What will Trump do the second time he gets the question? And you know, it's just a
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layup and he missed the layup this last time and other times. Um, somebody says, did Biden earn my
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vote? No, Biden did not earn my vote. He did not. Um, but the expectations are flipped now. So what you
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might find, what you might find is that Trump, uh, if he, if there are three debates, Trump actually has a
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weird advantage. And if you don't see that yet, you will, because it's going to take a while. People
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are still reveling in this debate. They're, they're not yet thinking too much about the next one. The
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moment their minds switch to the next debate, there's going to be an oh shit moment because
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the Democrats are going to say, oh shit, our expectations are sky high now. That's not good.
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The odds that the Biden will have, uh, let's say, uh, uh, a cognitive event and the next two,
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two debates, it's non-zero. I mean, I don't know what the odds are, but it's non-zero.
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So it's got to make them a little bit nervous. All right, let's talk about some of these specific
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things. Uh, I don't believe Joe was wearing an earpiece or a wire. There was no indication
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of an earpiece or a wire, but of course the internet being the internet, there's, uh, there
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are photos of what appears to be a wire, uh, under his lapel, but it's just a fold in his
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shirt. So all over the internet, there's this bad photo of something that looks like a wire,
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but it's just a, a wrinkle. And then there's something that looks like it's coming out of
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his sleeve, but apparently he wears a rosary around his, his, uh, his, uh, wrist for his son
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or something. So, so I would say that that, that is debunked. I don't think there was any
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wire or earpiece. I would say that Trump was prepared. It looked like he was very prepared.
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I think he, he blew it in my opinion, but it looked like he was prepared. So that's good
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news. Um, here's the frame that, uh, was it Ryan Lizza? I think he's the one who pointed
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down and it was the first time I'd ever noticed, but once you notice it, you can't unnotice it.
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And it goes like this. When Trump debates, he has a strong preference for offense. So even
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his defense is sort of an offense. So if somebody says you, you murdered a baby, what Trump doesn't
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do as often as you think he ought to is to start off by saying, that's not true. I didn't murder
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a baby. That's what you would do, right? If you were in a debate and the other person said,
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well, you murdered a baby. Don't you think your first instinct would be to say, well, that's not
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true. I didn't murder a baby. If you watch Trump long enough, and this is what Ryan Lizza noticed,
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and he called it out as a positive in terms of technique. It might be, it might be, but I think
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there's an exception to it. And so if somebody says, Trump, you murdered a baby, instead of saying,
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I did not murder a baby, he will say, you killed a hippopotamus or something. He'll just accuse you
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of something worse. So for example, and I think this is a good technique. So when Biden was saying,
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you did a bad job on coronavirus and killed over 200,000 people, it's a ridiculous claim that
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they're all because of Trump, right? But Trump, instead of trying to defend it, which probably
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would be a strategic mistake, he says, you would have done worse. And here's why. And he says,
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you know, you wouldn't have closed the border, et cetera. That's not bad. It's not bad. I think he's
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weak on coronavirus. So there's not like a kill shot you can do to get out of that. But it probably
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is about as good as you can do in the time constraint and the format of a debate to simply say,
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you would have done worse. Because how can you prove that's not true? It's an unprovable statement
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that might be true, might be untrue. Don't know. So as a debate technique, it's probably pretty
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strong. But here's where it fails. Where it fails is if you're accused of calling neo-Nazis fine
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people. All Trump did was sort of mumble something about it wasn't true. But he never returned to the
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point. He never defended himself against the accusation that he called the neo-Nazis fine
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people, which is not true. He never did it. So how hard would it be to defend yourself against
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something that's so well documented? And I think what he mumbled when Biden was still talking
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was something like, read the rest of the statement. Because that's the defense. The rest of his
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statement that they always leave out is where he clarified that he was condemning the neo-Nazis
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and white nationalists. So to let that go, just because your method is always to attack,
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I feel like that should have been an exception. And honestly, let me depart a little bit from
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objective analysis. Now, I don't think anybody can really be objective about any of this stuff.
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So it's sort of ridiculous to try to claim that you're completely objective. Nobody can achieve
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that at the moment. But I want to confess a little bit of emotional attachment. I felt that I was
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personally thrown under the bus by the president last night. It felt personal. Because I've spent
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a tremendous amount of my personal capital explaining to the world that the fine people hoax was a hoax,
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and obviously he's condemned all these groups. A number of times you'll see compilation clips of
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him condemning those same groups. So it's not like he hasn't done it plenty of times. But when the fine
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people hoax came up again, I literally stood up from the couch and said, here it is. Here's the moment
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where Trump just has to say, you know, you based your entire campaign on that lie. I just encourage
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everybody to look at the transcript. And you'll see that the part that they cut out is the part where
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I clarified that I'm condemning those groups. If he had said that, I would have said, I'm really happy
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that I've spent so much of my time and my personal credibility, a great deal of money. I would say that
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my personal financial situation is way worse, way worse, because of supporting the president. There's no
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question about that. And I thought, it's so obvious what you should say in this situation. And then he just
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didn't. And I thought to myself, I really feel abused. Honestly, I was actually, I took it personally.
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That that wasn't politics anymore. That was not politics anymore. That was me personally. And I feel
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like he screwed me personally. And then I had to sit there stewing in that. And then this, this white
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nationalist, the white supremacist question comes up, and he botched it. It was a layup. It was free
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money sitting on the fucking table. And he left it there. And he left me on that table too. He left me
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just exposed. So he lost my vote. He lost my vote. Can he get it back? Yeah, all he'd have to do is fix
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that. I mean, how hard is it to fix it? Well, apparently, it's pretty fucking hard for him,
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because he's taken three years since, since Charlottesville. And he hasn't fucking fixed it
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yet. Easiest fucking thing he'd ever fix. I take it personally. So those of you who are disagreeing
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with me and saying, blah, blah, blah, Scott, you don't understand, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah,
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blah, blah, blah. No, this is personal. I'm not talking about the election anymore. I'm not talking
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about you. I'm not trying to change your mind. I don't, I don't expect you to come over to my
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point of view. I'm not even trying to. I'm telling you, I feel abused by that. I feel actually abused
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by that. And don't ask me to be happy about it, because I'm not going to be. All right. Let's talk
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about what went right or wrong. So Trump took the approach of just ignoring the rules and sort of
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trying to dominate the situation, and trying to be the more powerful person, so that there would be
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a contrast to the lesser powerful person, Biden. I think that much worked. I think the fact that he
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completely abused the rules and took over the situation, I didn't mind that at all, actually.
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It was a, it was a hot mess. But that's what we signed up for, right? The reason, the reason that
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I waited for two hours before the debate, I couldn't, I couldn't even leave my living room. Like, I didn't
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want to miss the first minute. So I was there like hours early to my own living room. And it's what I
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wanted to see. I wanted to see. I wanted to see a spectacle. I wanted to see a gunfight. I wanted
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to see, you know, pigs wrestling. And that's what I got. So as, as a technique for potentially pushing
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Biden into a mistake, I think it was strong. I think it was pretty strong. So I'm going to give him
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an A plus for energy, power, dominance. And it's hard to know how much that counts, right? Because
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there are lots of other things that happened. So you can't really analyze these things in
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isolation. Everybody, of course, is going to be arguing about how he was so impolite and whatever.
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But that's all baked in. I would argue that what we saw with Trump taking over the room,
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you know, essentially just ignoring all the rules and, and having his way with it. I would argue
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that's more of a feature than a bug, meaning that that's closer to the reason he got elected
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than it is closer to a reason not to be elected. That, that power of personality is a big part of
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his appeal. And I think he did that. He did that well, actually. Let's see, I would say that both
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candidates lied about almost everything. I think it would be ridiculous to say that the president
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was the liar that night. I would guess that 80% of what the president said was not true,
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roughly speaking. And I think that 80% of what Biden said was objectively not true. He did the,
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the bleach hoax. He did the, you know, the fine people hoax. He did the calling soldiers losers
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hoax. I mean, mostly Biden was full of hoaxes. And by the way, what was, what was Trump's response to
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the bleach hoax? He said he was being sarcastic. Even I don't believe that. You know, I'm inclined
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to be favorable to the president's, you know, perspective on things. But even I don't believe
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he was being sarcastic. What he was doing was talking about light technology because that was
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the whole context. And, and that was a real thing. And it was really being tested. So he let that go
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too. But again, you have to look at it in the context of his debate strategy, which is he doesn't go
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after. He doesn't spend a lot of time defending, um, an accusation. Now, Biden had a really good
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answer to something. So when he was, when, when Trump was pressing Biden about the $3.5 million
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from the, uh, I guess the widowed ex-wife of the mayor of Moscow, that's one of those accusations
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that's really damning. It's a really damning accusation. And the way Biden dealt with it,
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I would have to say was really good. Now, I don't know if it's true. I don't know if what he said is
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accurate, but in terms of a debate strategy, it was well done. And it went like this, uh, president
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said, blah, blah, blah. You know, Hunter Biden took that $3.5 million from a Russian. And Biden's
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response was, uh, that has been discredited. That's pretty good because as soon as he gets
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into the weeds about it, he loses, right? So Biden can't get into the weeds. He can't ignore it.
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That would be a bad mistake. So the, the fastest thing you could say about it to dismiss it
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is probably good debate strategy in this concept. So simply being able to say it's disavowed. And I
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don't know if that's true. Do you, I haven't seen any disavowing of it personally. I've not seen
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even an attempt at disavowing it, but the fact that he said it, that's disavowed. I thought that's
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not bad as, as a technique, probably not true that it's disavowed, but, uh, it's good technique.
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Um, it seems that most of the, most of the chatter about last night is about Chris Wallace.
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And I totally get what everybody says that it looks like Chris Wallace was being tougher on Trump.
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Would you all agree? Can we all agree that it looked like Chris Wallace was being tougher on Trump?
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Everybody's on the same page, right? It looked like that. Now, does that also imply
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that because he was tougher on Trump, is it therefore true that he didn't do a good job?
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Because that's where I might depart from your opinion. He was definitely tougher on Trump.
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No question about it. And he's obviously not a big Trump supporter. That's pretty clear.
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But it's also why he got the job. The reason that Chris Wallace was there and, and of the hundreds
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of possible people who could have been the moderator, the reason he got picked is because
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he can do that. He can go at the president and he can go at the other side. There aren't that many
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people who can. So you're going to hate this, but I think he did a great job. Sorry. I know you hate
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it. You hate it because he was, he was tougher on the president and he totally was,
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but I'm okay with that. And here's why part of why he was tougher on the president is the president
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was giving him more material to be tough on. The president was more interrupty and, uh, et cetera.
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And so there was just more to, more to deal with, but there were other things about, you know,
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some people saying he maybe helped Biden by describing Biden's own energy plan, et cetera.
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I, here's my take. All of that other stuff that looked like he was a little pro Biden and a little
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bit anti-Trump, all of that stuff should have been easy for Trump to dismiss. There was nothing that,
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there was nothing that, uh, Chris Wallace added to the process. This should not have been just simple
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for Trump to handle. The fact that Trump didn't handle it well and blew the, you know, he botched
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the white supremacist question. The fact that he did that is not really Chris Wallace's fault.
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That is a hundred percent on Trump. And to put that on Chris Wallace, unfair. Now I was trying to imagine
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as I was watching Chris Wallace, you know, try to get control of these people who were uncontrollable,
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mostly Trump. I thought to myself, I had a hard time imagining some other journalist. Is that
00:28:43.120
what you want to call them? A journalist or TV host, whatever. I had a hard time imagining anybody
00:28:48.020
else doing that better. Uh, because Chris Wallace does have a, uh, a forceful personality and he does
00:28:57.880
have credibility. He has gravitas. And I thought he did as good as a person could do under that
00:29:07.660
situation. I would give him a very high mark actually for that night. Cause I don't think
00:29:12.060
anybody could have done it better given the circumstance. Um, I know I'm disappointing you
00:29:18.820
today, but that's the way it goes sometimes. Uh, now one of the biggest things, which we don't know
00:29:25.680
how it'll play out yet is that Trump did get Biden to, uh, disavow the green new deal.
00:29:34.400
Somebody says, are you a liberal? Uh, I'm left of Bernie, but I typically support the president.
00:29:40.620
Um, so that might matter. Do you, do you think the green new deal people are happy with that?
00:29:48.360
Do you think they said to themselves, Hey, he, he disavowed us? Well, there's a, an extra detail
00:29:55.440
there. Apparently on the Biden website, it says, uh, that he appreciates the framework. There's an
00:30:04.760
actual word. Uh, his website says that the green new deal is quote, a crucial framework.
00:30:12.780
Now, when Joe Biden's website says the green new deal is a crucial framework, but then he goes on
00:30:20.520
to say, but my deal is not that it's the Biden deal. Is he being inconsistent? Is it a lie to have
00:30:29.220
on his website that the green new deal is a crucial framework, but at the same time he's saying I'm doing
00:30:37.380
something that's my own thing. It's not incompatible. It's not incompatible at all. In fact, it's what he's
00:30:44.620
been saying all along, which is, it's, it's sort of a good framework, but we're, you know, if you want
00:30:50.120
to stay practical and do things that can really be done, it looks more like a Biden plan. It's not
00:30:56.980
too far off, but will his own side see it that way? And that's the part that is a question. If, uh,
00:31:04.980
the AOCs and the Bernie supporters think that they've been thrown under the bus or sold a bill
00:31:10.800
of goods, they might stay home. So that might be the biggest thing that came out of this. It's
00:31:16.280
entirely possible that the only thing that changed is some green new dealers decided that they weren't
00:31:23.260
excited about him anymore. But that said, there's still probably like him better than Trump if they
00:31:30.820
were green new deal ish, because at least you get a little bit of, you know, the flavor of the
00:31:36.080
crucial framework of green new deal. That's better than none, right? So I suppose, uh, we'll have to
00:31:43.600
wait on that. All right. One of Biden's worst answers was when he was asked why he's not speaking out
00:31:51.900
about the violence in the streets. He said, quote, I don't hold public office. That's a really weak
00:31:58.560
answer. That is really weak. And, uh, neither, neither candidate disavowed violence last night.
00:32:08.620
Think about that. Think about the fact that Biden would not disavow Antifa acted like it didn't exist.
00:32:17.140
Trump was, you know, we already talked about that. It wasn't, uh, wasn't exactly, uh, anti-violence
00:32:24.720
himself. And these are the two, two guys running for president. And neither one of them could say
00:32:31.040
full-throatedly that all violence is bad. Neither of them could say full-throatedly that all forms of
00:32:39.700
racism are bad. They both wanted to pick their shots. Those are, they're completely unqualified
00:32:45.520
in my opinion. And that's, that's just about the most basic thing you got to get right is to be against
00:32:52.400
domestic violence. If you can't be against domestic violence in a full-throated, unambiguous way
00:33:00.440
that everybody can hear, you're not qualified to be president. So neither Biden nor Trump met that
00:33:08.240
standard last night. So you can't be too happy about that. Um, and then president Trump, uh,
00:33:15.120
he, he, he kind of went, who knows what he was talking about with the proud boys. So you all heard
00:33:22.920
it. I don't need to repeat it. When Chris Wallace was asking about denouncing, uh, racists and whatever.
00:33:28.880
And he said, give me some names. And then I don't know if, I don't know if Chris Wallace said proud
00:33:33.760
boys first or Trump did. I think Wallace did. And then he said, uh, then Trump leapt on the proud
00:33:40.120
boy question. And he said, they should stand back and stand by. Now, of course that's open for
00:33:46.740
interpretation. Stand back sounds good because that's, you know, don't be violent so far. So
00:33:53.320
good. But what does stand by mean? Stand by kind of suggests that maybe, uh, and he went on to say
00:34:00.960
that something, somebody has got to stop the violence. I feel as though he was giving them a green
00:34:06.740
light to mix it up with Antifa. That's what I, that's what I thought. Now, I'm not sure I have
00:34:14.940
a big problem with that, to be honest, because I have been saying for a while that if law enforcement
00:34:20.620
decides to not, not take part in ending violence, for whatever reason, they decide they don't want to
00:34:27.280
do that. You should expect citizens to come in and fill the gap. There's no other way that could go.
00:34:33.500
If the police won't stop violence, there will be some informal citizen thing that happens.
00:34:40.520
Something's going to happen. And I would say that if you get enough people who are willing to
00:34:45.760
stop the violence, even if it takes some violence to do it, we might be at a point where a little bit
00:34:52.640
of violence is, is called for. You know, I'm not going to say that, uh, um, it would be a great idea.
00:35:00.380
It's more like a prediction that it's just the way it's going to go. All right. Unless something
00:35:06.520
else happens, such as better law enforcement. All right. Um, let's see. Biden actually said that
00:35:16.600
Antifa is an idea, not an organization. That is disqualifying, right? Completely disqualifying
00:35:24.480
to say that Antifa isn't an organization. Uh, what can you say about that? Other than that,
00:35:30.940
it's just disqualifying. Um, Trump called the critical race theory training racist. I agree
00:35:40.120
with that characterization, but I don't think he did a good job, you know, given the time constraint
00:35:45.780
and the format of a, of a debate. It takes a little explaining why that's true. It is true,
00:35:51.920
but it takes a little explaining and a debate's the wrong place to do that. So I don't think he
00:35:56.840
nailed that. Uh, it would be great if he could come up with some shorter way to make that point
00:36:02.500
and just be able to, you know, drop that point and walk to his next point. So you probably do that
00:36:08.200
better in the next debate. Um, Biden, Biden said something that I thought was really good.
00:36:16.120
And it was this, when he was talking about whether he would accept the winner after the debate,
00:36:22.140
after the election, given that there would be some uncertainty about the quality of the vote,
00:36:28.320
Biden said this, quote, once the winner is declared after all the ballots are counted,
00:36:34.040
that will be the end of it. And if it's not me, I'll support the outcome. That's just about a
00:36:40.540
perfect statement right there. I don't know how, how practiced that was, but it's kind of perfect
00:36:48.200
because what he did was he took all the energy out of the question. You know, once the winner is
00:36:53.980
declared, that will be the end of it. That statement, that will be the end of it. That is,
00:37:00.620
that is such a good persuasion statement that it makes me think some kind of, you know, expert in
00:37:07.800
persuasion may have coached him on that a little bit, because that will be the end of it is a
00:37:13.760
deflating statement that works really well. It wasn't like, we're going to fight this to the end.
00:37:19.780
You know, we'll, we'll take every measure that we can, you know, it's going to be a battle, et cetera.
00:37:25.600
He just said the most American thing you could ever say. This is the most American statement
00:37:30.900
anybody's ever said. Once the winner is declared after the ballots are counted, that will be the end of it.
00:37:37.800
And I have to say that in that moment, I felt something like leadership from Biden. There was
00:37:48.480
something like leadership in that, because I thought to myself, yeah, that is it. Once the,
00:37:56.160
once the ballots are counted, now, of course, you know, there's going to be some controversy about
00:38:00.380
what does it mean to be counted and when are they counted and how accurate they are. But I like the,
00:38:06.700
I like the notion, I like the leadership notion that there will be an end, and that when we reach
00:38:13.320
the end, that's the end of it. There's something really good about that. When we get to the end, that's the
00:38:19.400
end of it. It's not going to go on forever. That's the end of it. I like that. It's very American.
00:38:26.240
And, you know, I know that Trump is keeping his options open, and that probably makes sense
00:38:33.000
strategically, but it was a good statement. Here's something from The Hill they tweeted today.
00:38:41.760
So The Hill tweeted, Biden and Trump differ greatly on integrity of mail-in ballots.
00:38:46.420
And they quote Joe Biden as saying, there is no evidence at all that mail-in ballots are a source
00:38:52.220
of being manipulated and cheating. And then they quote President Trump as saying, this is going to
00:38:58.340
be a fraud like you've never seen. So their characterization of those two statements is that
00:39:05.000
they're greatly different. There's a great difference on integrity of the election. Is that what you heard?
00:39:10.320
Because that's not what I hear. To me, I hear two sentences that are completely compatible.
00:39:16.980
Let me read them again. One, there is no evidence at all that mail-in ballots are a source of being
00:39:23.100
manipulated and cheating. That's true. It's true. We don't have evidence of the future.
00:39:34.040
Because we only have evidence of things which have happened in the past. And in the past,
00:39:39.400
have we ever done mass unsolicited mail-ins to states that have not practiced it and cleaned up
00:39:47.120
their database? No, no. So how could we have evidence of something that hasn't happened? Is it true
00:39:54.960
that in the past, it doesn't seem like it was a gigantic problem? There were individual problems
00:40:00.720
that we found. The Elon Omar thing with Minneapolis and Project Veritas. They did find that there was
00:40:11.940
definitely a problem in the past. But we don't know if that was widespread. So do you know? Do you know
00:40:19.940
if that would have changed the election? Do you know if it was widespread? Do you know if it was
00:40:24.240
happening everywhere? Would it be fair to say there is no evidence of this problem being widespread?
00:40:31.860
There is certainly evidence of individual problems. But is there any evidence that there were whole
00:40:36.480
elections changed in the past? Yeah, there might be a little evidence. But I would say that's a fairly
00:40:43.740
safe statement about the past. When Trump talks about the fraud of this election. Is he talking about
00:40:53.400
the past? He is not. One man is talking about the past and making a true statement that it hasn't been
00:41:01.100
a giant problem in the past. The future won't look like the past because we haven't done it this way
00:41:09.580
before. Nobody knows. If you've never done it this way and the stakes are sky high and you think Hitler
00:41:16.640
might get re-elected, do you think this is right for election mischief? Yes. Yes. Of course it is.
00:41:29.140
So every idiot who says that Biden and Trump disagree about the election integrity is just talking about
00:41:37.120
two different topics. The past, not too bad. The future, probably a giant clusterfuck. Those two ideas
00:41:47.020
are not in conflict. Let me put it another way. Would you say that the, could you say to the people on the
00:41:58.820
left, climate change is no risk in the future because the sea level hasn't drowned us in the past?
00:42:06.440
Same argument, right? The same argument. We didn't die in the past. So therefore, how could we die in the
00:42:16.200
future? It doesn't even make sense. Yeah, it does make sense. Because you know what? The past is different.
00:42:24.060
It's different. It's different. Things are different. So how about nobody ever died from
00:42:32.000
drinking coffee? So therefore, you should be able to snort as much fentanyl as you want without dying.
00:42:40.640
Logically, right? If nobody ever died from drinking coffee, doesn't it logically make sense that you
00:42:47.140
can't die from ingesting large quantities of poison? That's just common sense. No, they're different
00:42:55.500
situations. So this mail-in vote thing just bugs the crap out of me. All right.
00:43:07.580
Was Biden talking about defunding the police? He was a little weak on that. One of the things he was
00:43:14.320
super weak on is when Trump challenged Biden to name any law enforcement group that was backing him.
00:43:22.740
Now, I don't know if it's true that there are no law enforcement groups backing Biden. Is that actually
00:43:32.640
Well, somebody says you're losing my vote, Scott. So I know that, you know, I know that this doesn't
00:43:44.440
make you happy today, right? But I can't lie to you. What do you want me to do? Get up here and just
00:43:56.380
Someone tells Scott he's embarrassing himself. Oh, you don't have to do that. I'll just block you and
00:44:06.280
then you don't have to worry about it. Goodbye.
00:44:13.740
Anybody else want to get blocked? I've got a feeling we'll be doing a lot of blocking today.
00:44:19.440
Ah, somebody says fentanyl is not caffeine. You're right. You're right. Fentanyl is not caffeine.
00:44:27.600
So it's almost as if you shouldn't compare those two. Same as solicited mail-in votes versus mass
00:44:37.200
untested, unclean databases, unsolicited votes. It's almost like they're different. That would be the
00:44:45.500
point. Yeah, it's a little disconcerting. All right. Now, I don't think that you would pay
00:44:58.780
attention to me if you knew that I was just going to back the president no matter what he did. I don't
00:45:06.520
think would you even find any value in this if you knew what I was going to say before I said it.
00:45:13.020
No, you wouldn't. Your true color. I'm going to block you for that. Whoever said your true
00:45:26.900
color. You're gone. All right. Anybody else want to make it personal? All right.
00:45:38.840
Um, I'm just looking at your, oh, the slaughter meter update. I'd say the slaughter meter is down
00:45:48.180
to 50%, 50, 50. At the moment, I would say it's a toss up. I think the president heard himself last
00:45:55.780
night. Uh, but Biden is so weak that, you know, anything could happen. Somebody says you seem very
00:46:04.960
emotional. Yeah, that's the way I feel that you would be accurate about that.
00:46:15.180
All right. Uh, looks like I got rid of all the, all the bad people. So, uh, thank you for staying
00:46:22.460
around. Oh, packing the court. Yeah. Biden refused to say he wouldn't pack the court. My feeling is
00:46:29.140
that probably doesn't make any difference. I don't think that court packing thing is going to be a big
00:46:34.720
variable. Uh, just because people don't know what to think about it. I think they just don't know
00:46:43.480
which way to go on that. Biden's laugh. Yeah. Did you see, uh, Biden's, uh, crazy smile?
00:46:54.340
That was pretty funny. Yeah. Biden's smile was hilarious. All right. Uh, people are saying run
00:47:01.040
for governor. I would be a terrible governor. You wouldn't want me as governor. I think I would be
00:47:06.880
better outside that realm. It would be a waste of my talents. Will there be more debates? Oh, you know,
00:47:17.220
if the, if the Biden campaign decided to cancel the other two debates and they said the reason they
00:47:24.480
were doing it is because Trump doesn't play fair and they just take their, their performance from this
00:47:30.720
one and say, you know, we're going to live or die on that first debate. That probably would be a
00:47:36.500
reasonable strategy because Trump's best hope is to have a good second and third debate, which by the
00:47:44.720
way, is not unexpected that the first debate, the incumbent does poorly. You've been hearing a lot
00:47:51.500
of reporting that says the incumbent tends to be a little sloppy on the first debate, but might improve
00:47:59.480
as we go. So, um, but I haven't seen them commit to that because, you know, they, they have to,
00:48:07.500
they probably need to feel it out a little bit. Here's what I'd expect. I would expect that the,
00:48:12.460
the Democrat helpers and the media will try to feel that out a little bit and try to see how the
00:48:18.380
public feels about it. Might even be some polls on it. We'll see. All right. That's all I got for now.