Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1145 Scott Adams： Trump Goes For a Drive and Other Excitement

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00:01:02.300 well i don't like to brag you know because i live in california and there's a lot to brag about

00:01:15.140 for example today the air is actually breathable um again i don't like to brag but i'll be able to

00:01:24.680 walk outside my home today open up my mouth and breathe in the air without risking a serious medical

00:01:34.680 problem yeah in my town the smoke has actually subsided to the point where i can go outside

00:01:42.140 so look at me oh try to hold your jealousy um there's a new turn in the uh the president trump's

00:01:55.360 medical situation i don't know if you've heard this but he is exhibiting a new side effect

00:02:00.520 um i don't know if this is a side effect from the the meds or it's something that the coronavirus

00:02:08.640 does but apparently he can only tweet in all caps um i don't know exactly what the treatment for that

00:02:17.360 is you know sometimes people will send one tweet in all caps as kind of a way to emphasize a specific

00:02:26.460 tweet and that's okay that's not necessarily a sign of any kind of illness or side effect

00:02:31.860 but if you tweet a whole series of tweets the same morning and they're all in all caps

00:02:40.240 that's that's time for some serious medical intervention and so i think president trump

00:02:47.900 needs a little more a little more attention uh otherwise we're going to be treated to all caps

00:02:55.240 tweets from now on and it's worse than that it's worse than that because as you know the president

00:03:01.880 took a little drive yesterday uh and he wanted to just wave to the supporters who were gathered

00:03:08.920 around walter reed hospital but because he's still infected he was in the car with two secret

00:03:18.340 service agents and now people are concerned that those secret service agents could in worst case

00:03:25.420 scenario they might start tweeting in all caps as well because we don't know what it is about the

00:03:32.400 president that's causing him to tweet in all caps but i don't think it's the sort of thing you want

00:03:37.800 to expose other people to because the secret service people are just trying to do their jobs

00:03:43.480 and you know what if what if they have to go through life tweeting in all caps because of this

00:03:50.720 exposure to whatever this is that's not fair is it no it's not fair at all so i think we should be

00:03:58.240 concerned about that um now some people are saying it's very very uh inappropriate for the president

00:04:08.180 to put the secret service at risk now i did hear an ex-white house physician talking about this and

00:04:17.420 he he determined that the risk was very very small tiny tiny tiny little risk

00:04:24.020 and apparently the doctors at walter reed the ones that are treating the president

00:04:30.700 cleared him to do this so they too judged that the risk to the secret service agents

00:04:37.980 and to anybody else was very very very small very very very small but it wasn't zero it wasn't zero

00:04:46.220 so was it worth it was it a good risk management decision by the president well one of the things

00:04:55.080 it does is it it reminds the public that the president is relatively uh good shape and probably

00:05:03.660 recovering on schedule and the country will go ahead and probably the stock market will will open a

00:05:10.060 little bit higher today i don't know if it has but there's a good chance it will because the president's

00:05:15.760 looking uh robust so i would say the trade-off is this a tiny tiny little chance that the secret

00:05:24.480 service could be infected versus the benefit of showing the public that he is alive um

00:05:34.580 somebody just asked me what city should i move to to be successful not san francisco

00:05:42.420 don't come here not los angeles i would rule out baltimore chicago new york city

00:05:50.520 um austin maybe i'm hearing good things about austin maybe someplace in texas uh hearing good things

00:05:59.380 about nashville uh so that was just a question about where to move for success all right now here's a

00:06:07.040 question if the secret service agents who drove the president around in his little uh one block drive

00:06:14.600 there if if they were put at risk what about the doctors why why do we ignore the fact that there

00:06:24.680 apparently there's a an army of doctors i don't know how many of them looks like a lot of them but

00:06:30.380 there must be probably 15 people who have daily access to the president now they're also wearing

00:06:37.400 protective gear but so are the so are the secret service agents shouldn't each of those uh medical

00:06:46.020 people have to go into a 14-day quarantine every time they talk to the president i mean i suppose you

00:06:53.300 have to treat the medical community differently but i only point this out to say we're really bad at

00:07:00.980 estimating a risk because we've got this team of people going in and out and dealing with probably

00:07:07.420 other coronavirus patients and then going in and out and dealing with other diseases and then going in

00:07:13.440 and out of the president's uh room there is a lot of leakage i also would like to point out

00:07:21.160 that the average person the average person doesn't do that good a job with social distancing and mask

00:07:32.180 wearing yeah if people are watching if people are watching you're probably pretty good with your mask

00:07:38.900 if there are people around you're probably good with your social distancing what happens when you're home

00:07:45.700 is anybody come in your home without a mask is there anybody anybody who comes in and out of your home

00:07:52.820 that maybe goes in and out of other homes i've got a feeling that if you drilled down and found out what

00:07:59.760 was happening behind closed doors that the social distancing is not nearly as good as you would hope

00:08:05.980 not nearly as good it doesn't have to be perfect just has to be pretty good all right um i understand that

00:08:14.600 there are some kind of basketball playoffs happening i have reached a new all-time low in caring about

00:08:23.200 sports for all the right reasons sports never really needed to be important did they

00:08:29.260 you know what what hole was it that sports were filling i think the hole that sports fills other than

00:08:36.300 taking up some time is that it allows you to have a team that you can root for but i feel as if

00:08:43.120 we're all already on teams because of politics it feels like you're on the team then some people are

00:08:49.660 joining antifa and black lives matter i feel as if the purpose of sports is much less because sports

00:08:59.000 in a way you could argue is like this symbolic kind of a fight you know this big symbolic battle so that

00:09:07.660 your need for a real battle is somewhat siphoned off by your enjoyment of entertainment in these fake

00:09:16.140 battles called sports but if you see fake battles every day and you feel like you're on one of those

00:09:22.400 teams or rooting for them maybe you don't need sports as much maybe you don't

00:09:28.200 um did you notice how little news there is today

00:09:34.740 that the biggest news is the infinitesimally infinitesimally small risk that two secret service

00:09:44.320 agents who sign up to risk their lives for the president and for the for the nation i would say

00:09:50.260 even more than the president that there there's slight risk to these two people because the president

00:09:55.020 drove around the block that's it all the other news in the world just sort of stopped

00:10:01.400 what does that tell you about the subjectivity of your news consuming experience because this happens

00:10:11.320 on holidays and weekends whenever the people who make the news take some time off there's no news

00:10:19.200 so if you think that your understanding of the world and what's important is driven by what's

00:10:25.700 actually happening it's not it's not at all um it's it's really entirely because people make up the

00:10:37.400 news they they decide what's important they transmit it to you and then they assign your opinions and then

00:10:44.240 you get worked up over the opinion that somebody else has assigned to you and if you don't think

00:10:49.820 that's what's happening just pay attention and you'll notice these little these little suggestions that

00:10:56.400 that's what's happening and you're seeing it right now as soon as president trump can't be attacked

00:11:02.500 as easily because he is sick so you don't want to attack sick people as much it just makes all the news

00:11:09.380 go away it's like nothing is important suddenly but is that the case did did the world change

00:11:16.520 no the world didn't change at all but the way you process the world completely changed because the

00:11:24.300 people who are assigning you opinions stopped doing it for a couple days they just stopped assigning

00:11:30.300 you opinions and they're giving you dumb ones like you know the president driving around in a car

00:11:36.120 and you know it's a it's a real thing but in terms of the global things that you're worrying about

00:11:43.000 pretty small today i got a little back and forth with a twitter troll who tells me that president

00:11:51.360 trump has no empathy he has no empathy to which i quite naturally responded that mind reading is not a

00:12:00.620 thing can you really tell if an if a stranger has empathy well the troll got back to me and said

00:12:08.380 quite reasonably quite reasonably said you can tell empathy by people's actions now that's not a hundred

00:12:16.240 percent true because our actions don't always correspond to our inner thoughts we might be concealing

00:12:21.980 our inner thoughts for any variety of reasons either to look strong or whatever but you could conceal your

00:12:30.460 your your true inner thoughts but i thought well but let me consider this accusation accusation

00:12:37.980 that president trump has not acted in a way that would demonstrate empathy what do you think of that

00:12:45.740 do you think that the president has so far in in his uh let's say campaign for and then first term

00:12:53.580 as he demonstrated as he demonstrated through his actions not just his words but his actions

00:12:58.960 empathy

00:13:00.060 well i would say he based his entire campaign on it didn't he correct me if i'm wrong but wasn't the

00:13:11.160 central message of his campaign empathy for the middle class americans who have been forgotten

00:13:18.240 that was not just an add-on that wasn't something he said you know uh i got my campaign platform and

00:13:27.980 uh it probably sounds good i'll throw in some stuff about the middle class no it started there

00:13:34.560 the entire heart of his entire movement started with an empathy core and then built on top of that

00:13:43.700 it's all built around the middle class and the empathy for them because if you get that part right 0.97

00:13:49.560 everything else works you know it's it's a general truism that if the middle class is healthy

00:13:56.720 you have a much better chance of helping everybody else right you know the the rich are going to be fine

00:14:02.280 if the middle class are good and the poor are in much better shape if the middle class are healthy 0.67

00:14:08.900 they don't need help they can provide help so and of course the president has been very direct

00:14:16.100 more direct than anybody's ever been

00:14:18.560 but saying that his empathy is for americans

00:14:21.480 and he's going to keep it that way

00:14:23.540 because he cares the most about the people who are closest

00:14:26.920 which is the most human thing you could do

00:14:29.800 because empathy you can think of it as

00:14:32.700 something that's like the center of a bullseye

00:14:35.600 you know a person's primary empathy is to themselves

00:14:39.400 even if you think you're a good person

00:14:41.860 we're designed to to take care of ourselves first

00:14:45.640 but then there's your family your loved ones your

00:14:48.980 you know your extended family your co-workers your

00:14:52.600 your local town then your state your country in the world

00:14:56.340 and the empathy that you have if you're a normal human

00:15:00.560 is the greatest the closer you are to the center of your core

00:15:05.260 more empathy for your family than for strangers etc right

00:15:09.100 so the president has said you know his empathy stake in the ground is

00:15:14.680 the middle class it's pretty big big group of people

00:15:18.880 so um i've noticed that and maybe this is an exaggeration

00:15:25.680 but it seems like i can tell somebody's political affiliation

00:15:29.640 online by whether they criticize systems or people

00:15:35.760 when you see conservatives criticizing stuff

00:15:40.060 you know of course both sides criticize people

00:15:43.260 so i'm not i'm not saying that's exclusive to the left

00:15:45.980 but you will more often see uh conservatives

00:15:50.940 talking about free markets and the system capitalism

00:15:56.040 the system socialism the system how many people on the supreme court

00:16:01.120 a system um you know the separation of powers a system

00:16:05.600 so mostly mostly systems they do also talk about people

00:16:12.140 because it's you know that's the game we're in

00:16:14.460 but if i feel as though conservatives

00:16:17.280 have a feeling about people

00:16:20.560 and then they'll throw in a little bit about systems if they need to

00:16:24.460 seems like a big difference and i'm watching for that

00:16:27.500 i i saw somebody in the comments

00:16:30.260 refer to the president as a con man

00:16:33.180 and i've often thought that that's the lowest level of analysis

00:16:40.060 because the lowest level of analysis is simply substituting a word

00:16:45.380 for other words

00:16:46.820 because there's no actual analysis there

00:16:49.480 all you did is put a feeling

00:16:51.400 on an observation

00:16:53.420 which is sort of nothing

00:16:55.580 it adds nothing

00:16:56.840 so what would be the difference between a salesperson

00:17:00.560 and a con man

00:17:03.360 what would be the difference

00:17:05.100 well the difference would be

00:17:06.760 whether they're doing something for good or for bad

00:17:10.660 is the president trying to help the middle class

00:17:14.720 trying to help the united states

00:17:16.360 trying to make this you know the economy good

00:17:19.380 yeah yeah obviously he can't he can't do anything good for himself

00:17:23.340 unless he's doing things that are good for the country

00:17:26.860 his job is so transparent

00:17:29.500 that it would be impossible to be a

00:17:30.980 to be a bad president

00:17:32.720 and then have a good outcome for himself

00:17:34.820 that's not even a thing

00:17:35.940 nobody would even think that way

00:17:37.860 it's too obvious that you're connected

00:17:40.620 so

00:17:41.960 seems to me the president is

00:17:44.520 it's so hard to read all these comments and think at the same time

00:17:49.920 or somebody's saying that that was up 300

00:17:51.960 so that would

00:17:52.920 suggest that the country

00:17:55.240 likes what the president does

00:17:57.800 because his health

00:17:59.820 is probably what's driving the market right now

00:18:02.400 so it looks like the stock market thinks they want more president trump

00:18:06.160 all right

00:18:07.100 so

00:18:07.920 i made a list of

00:18:10.880 made a list of the attacks that i get on twitter

00:18:15.800 and i think i'll just paste

00:18:17.600 i just paste this list

00:18:19.880 to my trolls from now on

00:18:22.040 so here's the list of every criticism i get on twitter

00:18:25.620 you're going to recognize these right

00:18:27.000 all right

00:18:28.260 so what i was saying about a con man versus a salesperson

00:18:30.820 because i forgot my train of thought there

00:18:32.780 going back to it

00:18:33.880 the difference is

00:18:35.560 what do you think is the intention

00:18:37.120 and if you're going to imply

00:18:39.860 imply an intention on a stranger

00:18:42.600 and you can't read minds

00:18:44.860 it's just sort of useless crazy talk

00:18:47.380 right

00:18:48.340 you can like what somebody's doing

00:18:50.360 but you can't then go back into their head

00:18:53.340 and find out that they're really doing it for bad reasons

00:18:55.980 you know that's kind of not a thing

00:18:58.700 you can't read minds

00:18:59.620 um

00:19:01.000 and then there are the people who say

00:19:03.580 he's a grifter 0.99

00:19:04.420 or he's a narcissist

00:19:05.780 or he's whatever you want to call him

00:19:08.400 the the this is what i called word thinking

00:19:11.680 so instead of saying what is it we want to be done

00:19:15.320 and then does he do those things

00:19:18.140 which is sort of all the matters

00:19:20.300 right from the president

00:19:21.440 what are what are the things you want accomplished

00:19:24.160 is that a president who can do those things

00:19:27.540 have they demonstrated the ability

00:19:29.620 or a track record to do those things

00:19:31.820 that's what matters

00:19:33.420 but if you just want to put a different word on it

00:19:36.320 i i would like to refer to his salesmanship as con man

00:19:41.060 what have you added

00:19:43.060 what what was your what was your contribution to the conversation

00:19:47.540 you just change the word

00:19:49.720 that's it

00:19:51.060 um

00:19:53.000 so word thinking is not useful

00:19:55.780 all right so here are the list of

00:19:57.260 the six things that capture almost every criticism i get on

00:20:01.360 on twitter

00:20:02.420 number one a personal attack

00:20:04.140 instead of any kind of argument

00:20:05.840 mind reading failures

00:20:07.680 where they imagine i'm thinking something i'm not

00:20:10.100 goofy hallucinations of my opinions

00:20:12.740 where they just imagine some straw man opinion and attack it

00:20:16.840 you've all had that

00:20:17.860 sarcasm unconnected to reality

00:20:20.620 just a pure sarcastic tweet

00:20:23.300 with no with no complaint about the facts or the reasoning

00:20:28.360 just sarcasm

00:20:29.240 uh strong opinions based on fake news

00:20:32.660 you'll get that one lot

00:20:33.580 somebody has a real strong opinion

00:20:35.660 because they think that the president

00:20:37.120 once suggested uh injecting bleach into your arm

00:20:41.200 never happened

00:20:42.540 but they have a strong opinion on that

00:20:44.320 uh failure to compare the right things

00:20:47.160 which would be comparing

00:20:49.180 the united states to other countries

00:20:51.920 in the coronavirus

00:20:53.000 that would be one example

00:20:54.220 and the illusion of understanding science

00:20:57.160 we're all guilty of that

00:20:59.480 i think every one of us

00:21:01.620 is guilty of this flaw

00:21:03.320 of imagining that we understand science

00:21:06.500 and the person we're talking to doesn't understand science

00:21:09.220 probably not the case

00:21:11.560 we're all pretty sure that we've got the right view of science

00:21:15.340 the way i like to look at it is

00:21:17.520 uh trusting science

00:21:20.100 makes complete sense

00:21:22.140 is there anybody here who doesn't think you should trust

00:21:25.200 science

00:21:26.560 now when i say science

00:21:28.300 i mean the the process of science

00:21:30.540 it's pretty good right

00:21:32.040 the process

00:21:33.180 for finding truth

00:21:35.140 yeah

00:21:36.680 the process

00:21:39.080 is pretty good

00:21:40.300 here's what i don't trust

00:21:41.920 scientists

00:21:43.320 because scientists

00:21:45.560 are people

00:21:47.280 i don't totally trust people

00:21:49.900 people lie

00:21:51.440 people are biased

00:21:52.500 people have cognitive dissonance

00:21:54.100 there's nothing you can trust

00:21:55.800 less

00:21:56.840 than a person

00:21:58.380 people are terrible

00:22:00.460 but science

00:22:03.020 described as the process of science

00:22:06.820 and and the things that

00:22:08.500 scientists do

00:22:09.620 that's great

00:22:10.440 i'm all in on science

00:22:12.580 but scientists

00:22:14.360 sometimes good

00:22:16.280 sometimes bad

00:22:17.900 but they're no more reliable than people in general

00:22:20.800 and people in general are terribly unreliable

00:22:23.340 for any variety of reasons

00:22:25.100 so i'm going to start uh pasting

00:22:28.020 this list of six things

00:22:30.180 and just putting a number on it

00:22:32.140 oh shit

00:22:33.340 i just realized that

00:22:34.500 i've got two number fives in my list

00:22:37.480 damn it

00:22:38.040 i have to go rewrite that

00:22:39.440 um

00:22:40.680 and i actually can't remember the last time

00:22:45.420 somebody disagreed with me in public

00:22:47.900 who also understood what my point was

00:22:51.340 and understood

00:22:54.100 let's say economics

00:22:55.560 so

00:22:56.500 so here's a uh

00:22:58.160 here's a bold statement

00:23:00.300 i'm not aware of any time in my adult life

00:23:04.120 that anyone has disagreed with me

00:23:06.940 who understood economics on any level

00:23:10.960 you know

00:23:11.760 don't have to be an expert

00:23:13.160 or a nobel prize winning economist

00:23:15.180 but just understand economics

00:23:17.020 and how decisions are made

00:23:18.440 and also understood my opinion

00:23:21.200 lots of people imagine

00:23:24.040 they're disagreeing with me

00:23:25.240 but they're always disagreeing with some

00:23:27.320 phantom opinion

00:23:28.760 that's their

00:23:29.440 just their imagination

00:23:30.500 somebody says

00:23:32.940 i'll take that challenge

00:23:34.080 okay

00:23:34.800 um

00:23:38.960 you should skip number two on purpose

00:23:43.900 all right

00:23:45.900 so

00:23:47.080 would you all agree

00:23:49.520 that there's not much news happening today

00:23:51.460 that's not my imagination

00:23:52.800 is it

00:23:53.720 um

00:23:55.280 greg asks

00:23:57.420 do i think that trump would do as well

00:23:59.240 if the media was fair to him

00:24:01.780 that's a good question

00:24:03.720 one of the things that trump has going for them

00:24:06.220 for him

00:24:06.800 is that

00:24:07.400 the media

00:24:08.540 um

00:24:09.520 is sort of set up as his

00:24:11.140 grand nemesis

00:24:12.740 and there's something useful about that

00:24:15.500 having a real

00:24:16.820 clean

00:24:17.640 nemesis

00:24:18.420 that other people

00:24:19.240 can get behind

00:24:20.100 hating

00:24:20.700 that could actually

00:24:22.380 help you out

00:24:23.440 so

00:24:24.260 i've got a feeling that

00:24:25.540 trump's uh

00:24:27.000 setup of

00:24:27.920 being against the

00:24:29.180 uh

00:24:29.580 the media

00:24:30.280 is really helping them

00:24:31.120 um

00:24:33.580 somebody says

00:24:36.380 scott thinks

00:24:37.000 tariffs are good

00:24:37.940 and therefore

00:24:38.960 i don't understand

00:24:39.980 economics

00:24:40.740 well whoever said that

00:24:42.240 obviously

00:24:42.780 doesn't understand

00:24:43.980 economics

00:24:44.740 tariffs

00:24:46.300 are bad

00:24:47.660 unless you're using them

00:24:49.280 as part of a trade war

00:24:50.380 if what you're doing

00:24:52.200 is trying to punish

00:24:53.360 another country

00:24:54.200 as part of your negotiations

00:24:55.800 and it's part of a trade war

00:24:57.980 then a tariff

00:24:59.180 can be a good thing

00:25:00.140 meaning that it

00:25:01.420 creates pain in a way that

00:25:03.280 can get you to the end of your negotiations

00:25:05.840 permanent tariffs

00:25:07.600 probably be better off without them

00:25:10.520 countries use them to protect their

00:25:12.440 their local industries

00:25:13.960 and yes i do understand that the tariffs are not paid by the other country

00:25:18.700 so

00:25:19.960 uh

00:25:20.560 nice try

00:25:21.680 but it didn't work

00:25:23.880 uh

00:25:25.840 yeah

00:25:26.200 when there's no news

00:25:27.540 buckle your seatbelts

00:25:28.760 somebody says

00:25:29.820 i'm gonna look at some of your

00:25:31.160 comments here

00:25:31.940 and see what

00:25:32.420 what you guys are thinking

00:25:33.480 because there really isn't much happening

00:25:36.380 and you know there's something coming

00:25:37.920 oh there is something coming

00:25:40.120 but it could be that

00:25:41.740 that all of the news

00:25:43.140 is going to center around the president

00:25:44.700 getting out of the

00:25:46.500 uh

00:25:46.940 and of walter reed early

00:25:49.140 now i think you know

00:25:52.520 what's going on with the

00:25:54.000 the mixed messages

00:25:55.920 you know there was

00:25:56.900 uh

00:25:57.760 i guess mark meadows

00:25:58.860 said something about

00:26:00.180 there was great concern

00:26:01.880 about the president

00:26:02.800 but then the president

00:26:04.240 is trying to

00:26:04.920 paint a picture

00:26:06.120 where he is

00:26:06.920 in good shape

00:26:07.840 so which is it

00:26:09.400 was there great concern

00:26:11.120 for the president's

00:26:12.340 vital signs

00:26:13.460 was it touch and go

00:26:15.180 was it dangerous

00:26:16.240 or was it

00:26:17.840 no problem

00:26:18.600 i'm going to get over this

00:26:19.680 everything's going fine

00:26:21.140 we're all recovered

00:26:22.020 which one would help the president more

00:26:25.180 which of those two versions of reality

00:26:28.500 is better

00:26:29.900 the one where everything's fine

00:26:31.960 and he's getting through this great

00:26:33.560 or the one where it really was pretty bad

00:26:36.940 but looks like he'll make it

00:26:38.680 i would argue that

00:26:40.720 some uh

00:26:41.900 some uh

00:26:43.240 mashup of the two is best

00:26:45.920 because

00:26:47.100 it does help the president

00:26:48.940 to think he was in real trouble

00:26:51.400 because that gives him the maximum empathy

00:26:54.140 but at the same time

00:26:56.180 it helps the country

00:26:57.260 to think that the president

00:26:59.180 is unusually good at recovering

00:27:01.420 because it makes him feel

00:27:04.100 it makes him look like a little bit of a

00:27:05.940 you know

00:27:06.760 a super superman kind of situation

00:27:09.100 it's like wow

00:27:09.740 he sure got over that pretty quickly

00:27:11.860 so i think the president's best case scenario

00:27:14.900 is that when he's talking

00:27:17.420 he minimizes it

00:27:18.760 but when other people are talking

00:27:21.100 they don't minimize it as much

00:27:22.860 so it sounds scary

00:27:24.360 when you're hearing other people

00:27:25.600 but when the president talks about it himself

00:27:27.960 he just says he did great

00:27:29.920 got through it

00:27:30.800 boom

00:27:31.600 i think that's the perfect place to be

00:27:34.000 this is one of those cases

00:27:35.420 where being on the same page

00:27:36.940 is not nearly as good

00:27:38.600 as having a variety of opinions

00:27:40.280 because that

00:27:40.760 i think that's going to serve him best

00:27:42.780 simone sanders was acting squirrelly

00:27:50.580 on jake capper

00:27:51.280 on the topic of biden being exposed

00:27:53.600 well he's been tested enough

00:27:55.680 i think we know at this point

00:27:57.280 yeah then there's a question

00:28:00.480 of whether trump knowingly spread the virus

00:28:04.740 my guess is that that didn't happen

00:28:07.320 and that if we ever figured out

00:28:09.400 what what really happened when

00:28:11.320 we would find out that it didn't

00:28:13.660 so that's the sort of thing

00:28:15.620 where unless you get proof

00:28:17.080 that that happened

00:28:17.940 i wouldn't worry about the rumor

00:28:19.960 that it might have

00:28:20.960 stagecraft is the new statecraft

00:28:29.520 yeah well it always has been

00:28:30.860 stagecraft is super important

00:28:33.260 how would you like to be

00:28:36.580 uh joe biden right now

00:28:38.160 and know that nothing you say matters

00:28:40.240 as long as the president is

00:28:42.800 and walter reid

00:28:43.620 and really even after he comes back

00:28:45.620 it's still going to be the story

00:28:46.720 nothing nothing that joe biden

00:28:49.880 says or does

00:28:51.280 makes any difference

00:28:53.280 as long as trump is absorbing

00:28:55.500 all of the energy out of everything

00:28:57.180 all right um

00:29:01.560 one of the questions that people are asking is

00:29:05.240 whether uh he's having any kind of side effects from the meds

00:29:09.260 it was my understanding that if things get bad

00:29:13.100 they'll use steroids right 1.00

00:29:14.800 but uh can somebody who knows more than i do tell me

00:29:19.360 is there anything the president's getting

00:29:21.160 that would be a steroid

00:29:22.560 or anything that he's getting

00:29:24.640 that would have any chance of changing his decision making

00:29:28.260 now you

00:29:29.600 those of you who have been watching me on periscope for a while

00:29:32.040 you know that in the past year

00:29:33.800 i went through several bouts of taking prednisone

00:29:38.240 and as i described to you during the process

00:29:42.140 taking prednisone changes your personality

00:29:45.140 and it's really obvious

00:29:47.340 you know when you're on it

00:29:48.800 you're you become

00:29:49.800 you know sort of a super person

00:29:52.100 and your

00:29:53.040 your enthusiasm

00:29:55.000 and your optimism

00:29:56.340 and your energy are high

00:29:57.580 but on the downside

00:29:59.500 you can get pretty aggressive

00:30:02.000 and for people who are already aggressive

00:30:05.120 you don't want to give somebody who's already aggressive

00:30:08.200 a little extra you know chemical aggression

00:30:12.020 uh so i would worry about that

00:30:14.900 if trump had anything in that family

00:30:17.800 but i don't i don't necessarily think he is

00:30:20.280 uh if it were me i'd worry about it

00:30:23.680 oh yeah there's a story about 60 minutes

00:30:27.100 ted cruz was calling this out

00:30:28.860 60 minutes i guess is doing a story about tara reid

00:30:32.400 the accuser of you know joe biden's accuser of sexual assault

00:30:37.820 and uh he's being asked

00:30:41.500 so ted cruz is asking 60 minutes publicly

00:30:45.280 why they would run that story in australia

00:30:48.320 but they don't run it in the united states

00:30:50.900 it's 60 minutes

00:30:52.320 and it's a and it's a u.s story

00:30:54.900 it's not like a some australian specific story

00:30:58.880 it's a u.s specific story

00:31:00.980 so why is a u.s specific story

00:31:04.300 that's bad for biden

00:31:05.500 only showing in australia

00:31:07.800 that's a good question isn't it

00:31:11.800 and so i hear these on that dexamethasone

00:31:16.360 somebody says it's a powerful steroid

00:31:20.060 i just looked it up and it didn't say steroid

00:31:22.600 um let me see this question

00:31:28.200 if you were president

00:31:30.420 how would you handle the 3,000 refugees 1.00

00:31:32.780 being sent to the u.s for added chaos

00:31:35.680 yes so i guess i guess the refugees situation

00:31:40.020 is being handled by um just asking the mexican government

00:31:45.780 to take care of it

00:31:46.680 and that i guess i would do it the same way

00:31:49.040 you want mexico to handle that

00:31:51.400 somebody says that steroids make you aggressive

00:31:59.120 if you're male

00:32:00.260 maybe i would think it would make anybody aggressive

00:32:03.840 but maybe who knows

00:32:05.260 yes i'm saying you say australia 60 minutes

00:32:12.880 there's a little bit of a lag here

00:32:14.280 will will trump having covid help him or hurt him

00:32:19.860 um it's a little bit hard to uh to know

00:32:26.580 if i had if i had to put money on it

00:32:29.380 i would say it will help him

00:32:30.940 because it's going to it's going to create

00:32:34.160 the uh it will create the impression

00:32:37.340 that he understands it

00:32:39.460 like you could only understand it

00:32:43.080 if you've been through it

00:32:44.020 it's simply true that you'd rather have somebody

00:32:46.820 who has experience in the very thing that you're trying to manage

00:32:49.840 in every category

00:32:51.960 it's going to be it's going to be an advantage to have some experience

00:32:54.540 so trump just learned a whole lot about coronavirus

00:33:00.340 probably that he didn't know before

00:33:02.800 and he also has a you know

00:33:05.580 an sort of an appreciation for

00:33:07.900 how it feels like

00:33:09.980 you know the the actual mental psychological part of it

00:33:13.680 uh and even with his superior health care

00:33:18.040 he probably has some good idea

00:33:20.820 what's you know what the

00:33:22.520 what anybody would feel going through that situation

00:33:25.680 especially if they're older

00:33:27.180 so i feel like it's going to help him

00:33:29.660 but you could certainly make an argument

00:33:32.600 that it would go the other way

00:33:33.760 uh why did your uploader youtube have so many ads

00:33:39.540 well you should

00:33:40.980 uh i think i changed the ad setting on youtube

00:33:45.180 so you should not see the interstitial ads anymore

00:33:48.340 unless i said it wrong

00:33:50.260 i heard a complaint on that

00:33:52.060 and i changed that yesterday

00:33:53.220 so that i should have changed

00:33:54.420 um

00:33:57.560 all right

00:34:00.560 somebody says that dexamethasone is stronger than prednisone

00:34:06.340 um

00:34:08.400 i don't know

00:34:09.860 you know when i looked it up

00:34:11.180 it did say that there was a rare

00:34:12.880 a rare possibility of mood change

00:34:15.860 but it looked like it was pretty rare

00:34:18.300 um

00:34:22.360 my mother took prednisone

00:34:27.060 and she became an aggressive house cleaner 1.00

00:34:29.140 yeah you can get a lot done

00:34:30.840 it's really a dangerous drug that way

00:34:33.500 yeah if you if you're not paying for the

00:34:41.860 prime version of youtube that gets rid of the ads

00:34:45.380 you really ought to

00:34:46.100 i personally i found that youtube is

00:34:48.780 probably my favorite form of

00:34:51.620 uh entertainment now

00:34:53.520 because you can get these little short hits of things

00:34:57.180 if i try to watch a movie on regular tv

00:35:00.500 like on cable

00:35:01.480 the time it takes me to search for a movie

00:35:04.520 on my slow slow interface on my tv

00:35:07.540 and find a movie

00:35:09.160 and then i've got to wait for the opening credits

00:35:11.720 i'm sort of 15 minutes into a project

00:35:15.080 that i only wanted to spend 10 minutes on

00:35:18.020 but if i go to youtube

00:35:19.880 i can just click some interesting 10 minute video

00:35:23.380 and i'm happy

00:35:23.980 what percent of your followers have had to re-follow you at least once

00:35:30.620 i don't know percentage but it's certainly thousands

00:35:32.960 let's see that comment i missed

00:35:37.300 uh opinions are assigned

00:35:40.540 do you believe that you also assign opinions to your viewers to a certain extent

00:35:44.600 well that's a good question

00:35:45.860 somebody asked

00:35:46.680 do i think that i assign

00:35:49.000 that i personally have assigned opinions to my viewers

00:35:52.900 yes

00:35:55.740 yes i would say so

00:35:57.140 based on feedback

00:35:58.160 so there are quite a few people who

00:36:00.840 are right to me on a regular basis

00:36:03.000 and say that the way they see the world is changed

00:36:06.420 because of something i said

00:36:08.120 so i would say that the feedback

00:36:10.100 is yes

00:36:11.660 now what i try to do

00:36:13.360 is not assign opinions

00:36:15.340 so much as assign

00:36:16.900 technique

00:36:18.140 so what i'm trying to do

00:36:20.040 is tell you the way to frame something

00:36:22.360 the way to think of it

00:36:23.640 the way to change the way you frame it

00:36:25.700 the way you compare it to the right things

00:36:27.800 so i'm trying to give you tools

00:36:29.640 which would allow you to

00:36:31.720 you know

00:36:32.780 not have to have opinions assigned to you

00:36:35.520 but in the process of that

00:36:37.260 i'm sure i assign opinions

00:36:38.540 whether i want to or not

00:36:39.700 all right

00:36:42.460 yeah there's people claiming

00:36:47.360 somebody said in the comments

00:36:49.100 that trump is only hoaxing

00:36:51.720 having coronavirus

00:36:53.440 i think you just have to look at the number of people involved

00:36:57.700 to know that it's not a hoax

00:36:59.100 you know nobody would plan a hoax

00:37:01.720 that would end your political career

00:37:04.580 and you would have this many witnesses

00:37:06.660 i mean there are a lot of doctors

00:37:08.280 and nurses 0.99

00:37:08.800 and spouses of doctors

00:37:10.640 and you know

00:37:11.420 there's just way too many witnesses

00:37:12.700 so one thing i feel confident in saying

00:37:15.140 it's not a hoax

00:37:16.020 all right

00:37:20.320 i'm seeing people

00:37:25.820 agree that i have

00:37:27.420 changed their opinions

00:37:28.720 somebody says

00:37:31.100 how's the little wife

00:37:32.100 so christina

00:37:36.180 is taking

00:37:37.320 aerobatic flying lessons

00:37:39.420 in fact

00:37:40.340 she might actually be in the air right now

00:37:42.820 so while i'm doing these periscopes

00:37:45.460 and during the day

00:37:46.740 somewhere you know

00:37:48.400 somewhere up in the air up there

00:37:50.040 not directly above the

00:37:51.580 populated parts

00:37:52.920 christina is doing barrel rolls

00:37:55.800 and you know

00:37:56.940 she's doing

00:37:57.500 any number of hammerheads

00:38:00.060 and things that i don't have words for

00:38:02.400 so she's

00:38:04.940 she's doing very scary stuff

00:38:06.740 imagine being

00:38:07.720 this is what she does every day 0.99

00:38:09.200 so every day she'll be in an airplane

00:38:12.160 she's

00:38:12.980 very close to getting her

00:38:14.740 her pilot lesson

00:38:15.800 but she's 0.97

00:38:16.360 pilot license

00:38:17.340 but she's taking lessons in

00:38:19.160 aerobic flying

00:38:20.380 aerobatic flying

00:38:21.940 and

00:38:22.700 imagine doing this in an airplane

00:38:25.740 going straight up

00:38:27.240 stalling it

00:38:28.860 and letting the plane just

00:38:30.540 free fall down to earth

00:38:32.540 and then trying to recover it

00:38:34.780 because that's what you do

00:38:36.440 that's you know

00:38:37.420 that's part of the fun

00:38:38.300 is try to recover the plane

00:38:40.060 when it's free falling

00:38:41.000 with the engine off

00:38:41.860 she does that every day 1.00

00:38:44.280 it's crazy

00:38:45.420 all right

00:38:47.460 um

00:38:48.200 vice presidential debates

00:38:50.940 you know

00:38:52.340 i say this a lot about

00:38:53.940 mike pence

00:38:55.100 mike pence

00:38:57.000 is just gotta be

00:38:58.300 one of the most solid

00:38:59.460 uh dependable

00:39:01.560 vice presidents

00:39:03.040 of all time

00:39:03.940 now i don't

00:39:04.980 i wouldn't choose him for president

00:39:06.380 but

00:39:07.940 i love

00:39:10.680 how complimentary

00:39:11.960 he is

00:39:12.620 to the president

00:39:13.580 and i love

00:39:14.860 that he's so dependable

00:39:16.260 he just doesn't make mistakes

00:39:18.320 and if they do

00:39:19.340 they're

00:39:19.700 they're trivial ones

00:39:20.660 right

00:39:20.860 so

00:39:21.780 the fact that

00:39:23.080 uh

00:39:23.700 pence

00:39:24.060 who's just

00:39:24.580 the most solid

00:39:25.760 solid

00:39:26.240 politician

00:39:27.640 is gonna go out there

00:39:29.180 against uh

00:39:30.240 kamala

00:39:30.640 it's pretty interesting

00:39:32.020 i have to admit

00:39:33.220 this will be the most

00:39:34.560 interesting

00:39:35.080 vice presidential debate

00:39:36.620 um

00:39:37.840 so you've got a

00:39:38.840 a guy who doesn't make mistakes

00:39:40.660 against somebody

00:39:42.040 who's

00:39:42.380 needs to mix it up

00:39:43.480 a little bit

00:39:44.040 i feel like

00:39:45.020 kamala harris needs to do

00:39:46.600 more than play for a draw

00:39:48.160 i think she needs to play

00:39:49.800 for a win

00:39:50.400 and

00:39:51.360 you know

00:39:52.160 pence can play for

00:39:53.320 play for a tie

00:39:55.460 because if he gets a tie

00:39:57.220 he wins

00:39:57.780 because pence just needs to make it

00:40:00.360 not about him

00:40:01.080 right

00:40:01.660 you know he just wants

00:40:02.840 don't

00:40:03.500 don't vote based on me

00:40:04.980 just

00:40:06.000 you know

00:40:06.900 i'll just play for a tie

00:40:08.200 not cause any trouble

00:40:10.040 make sure the news is about

00:40:11.740 the boss

00:40:12.520 and i think he'll pull that off

00:40:15.000 so if i had to guess

00:40:16.260 no matter who they say

00:40:17.600 won the debate

00:40:18.540 as long as pence

00:40:20.100 is solid

00:40:20.920 and i

00:40:21.940 i'm sure he will be

00:40:23.040 as long as he's solid

00:40:24.460 he wins

00:40:25.000 that's all he has to do

00:40:26.580 um

00:40:29.880 yeah he doesn't have to win-win

00:40:31.480 he just has to not

00:40:32.700 lose hard

00:40:33.940 and he's fine

00:40:34.600 um

00:40:38.760 kamala never fixed her laugh

00:40:42.080 well we'll see

00:40:43.640 she hasn't fixed her laugh

00:40:45.980 in some videos

00:40:46.900 that we've seen

00:40:47.680 and some

00:40:48.220 some interviews

00:40:49.320 but i would expect that

00:40:52.020 in the context of a

00:40:53.940 debate

00:40:54.540 she'll probably 0.89

00:40:56.060 feel a little more

00:40:58.000 controlled on her

00:40:59.720 uh

00:41:00.040 her mannerisms

00:41:00.980 so i would not expect to see

00:41:02.900 the

00:41:03.260 the weird cackle

00:41:05.020 during the debate

00:41:05.880 um

00:41:09.480 turn up

00:41:15.900 turn up his microphone

00:41:16.640 yeah

00:41:17.460 and

00:41:18.520 you also wonder if

00:41:19.460 there'll be any

00:41:20.000 interrupting

00:41:21.080 do you think

00:41:23.220 kamala will be

00:41:24.380 interrupting pence

00:41:25.380 or the pence will

00:41:27.060 interrupt

00:41:27.640 interrupt

00:41:28.340 kamala harris

00:41:29.300 i would expect

00:41:31.360 her to do a little 0.69

00:41:32.380 more interrupting

00:41:33.140 maybe

00:41:34.020 but maybe there won't be

00:41:36.380 you know

00:41:36.900 they

00:41:37.100 they might just

00:41:38.240 both play it straight

00:41:39.400 all right

00:41:44.340 i've got nothing else for you

00:41:45.420 so i'm gonna

00:41:45.860 call the game

00:41:47.600 now

00:41:48.280 so i will talk to you

00:41:50.160 tomorrow

00:41:51.420 all right

00:41:54.420 periscope is off

00:41:55.760 um

00:41:56.680 i'm now with you

00:41:57.920 uh

00:41:58.340 youtubers alone

00:41:59.280 all those periscopers 1.00

00:42:01.460 are gone

00:42:01.920 so uh

00:42:05.220 do you have any other

00:42:05.840 questions for me here

00:42:06.820 on uh

00:42:07.460 youtube

00:42:07.720 you like us better

00:42:11.400 obviously

00:42:12.540 you're all my favorites

00:42:15.160 uh

00:42:18.840 read the super chats

00:42:19.900 well i'm trying to

00:42:20.960 read them all

00:42:21.460 uh

00:42:22.960 i can't respond to them

00:42:24.100 all but i do try to

00:42:24.980 read them all

00:42:25.500 and i

00:42:25.820 and i appreciate them

00:42:26.860 very much

00:42:27.480 all right

00:42:29.120 that's all for now

00:42:30.340 i will talk to you

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 05, 2020

Episode 1145 Scott Adams： Trump Goes For a Drive and Other Excitement

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