Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1223 Scott Adams： Joe Biden Says Hunter is the Smartest Person he Knows, and That Shouldn't Worry You a Bit

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00:01:09.120 Now, I don't take vacations. Vacations are for quitters.

00:01:17.760 Now, I do take vacations, but I still usually work in the morning

00:01:21.240 because I can do my work, and I can often be done with most of my work for the day by 8 a.m.

00:01:27.260 because in days like yesterday, for example, I started work at 1.30 in the morning,

00:01:34.420 which isn't that unusual these days.

00:01:37.880 And why am I talking about myself?

00:01:40.560 You didn't come here for that.

00:01:42.300 You want to hear about the news.

00:01:43.820 You want to hear a different take on the news, and I got it for you.

00:01:47.380 So, yesterday, I guess Stephen Colbert interviewed Joe Biden

00:01:53.480 because if you want to send your best news interviewer

00:01:58.600 to interview the possible president-elect,

00:02:03.620 you want to send your comedian.

00:02:07.700 Now, you might ask yourself,

00:02:10.660 would they send a comedian to interview Joe Biden

00:02:14.040 if they were planning to ask some tough questions?

00:02:17.940 And the answer is no.

00:02:20.220 You don't send Stephen Colbert to ask the tough questions.

00:02:24.340 So, that's probably why he took the interview.

00:02:27.380 But my favorite part is that when asked about Hunter Biden,

00:02:32.080 Joe Biden says, and I quote,

00:02:35.800 it's being used to get to me, blah, blah, blah.

00:02:37.980 I think it's kind of foul play, meaning just the politics of it.

00:02:42.900 But it is what it is, and he's a grown man,

00:02:45.520 and he is the smartest man I know.

00:02:48.340 Are you at all worried that the president-elect, maybe,

00:02:54.640 of the United States believes that the smartest man he knows

00:02:59.520 is Hunter Biden?

00:03:00.440 Because when he selects his advisers,

00:03:04.660 is he thinking to himself,

00:03:07.700 I've got to get somebody who's as smart as Hunter Biden.

00:03:11.020 We'll see what we can do.

00:03:12.580 But I would like to offer you an IQ test.

00:03:15.560 And it goes like this.

00:03:17.440 Are you smarter than Hunter Biden?

00:03:19.860 So, if you are, that would make you smarter than the smartest person

00:03:26.760 the president-elect of the United States even knows.

00:03:31.220 Now, I know this is a high bar,

00:03:33.980 because when you talk about Hunter Biden,

00:03:35.900 you are talking about some serious smartness,

00:03:38.380 if we're being honest.

00:03:40.580 He's very smart.

00:03:41.780 First of all, he got through law school.

00:03:44.380 That's pretty good.

00:03:45.540 I don't know if I can do that.

00:03:46.900 And he did, allegedly, put together a scheme

00:03:52.720 in which he could make millions of dollars

00:03:54.740 without productively working.

00:03:57.600 Did you do that?

00:03:59.340 I haven't seen you do that.

00:04:01.360 Did you put together a global system

00:04:04.080 where you could make millions of dollars

00:04:05.900 without working much?

00:04:07.760 I don't see you doing that.

00:04:09.700 That's pretty smart.

00:04:11.540 Which, literally, like, no joke,

00:04:15.360 it is pretty smart, right?

00:04:17.780 I mean, even if you take all of the sarcasm out of it,

00:04:21.980 you take all of the snark, the bias, the political side,

00:04:27.260 it's pretty smart.

00:04:29.120 I mean, in the same way that I am impressed by serial killers

00:04:32.720 who do a good job of building an underground structure

00:04:36.100 to keep their victims,

00:04:37.320 and they do good planning and stuff,

00:04:39.280 they're not all bad.

00:04:41.920 Yeah, they're serial killers.

00:04:44.160 I take that criticism.

00:04:46.360 But they're very productive.

00:04:48.880 They work hard.

00:04:49.700 They've got a plan,

00:04:50.940 and you can't take that away from them.

00:04:52.880 Hunter Biden is quite obviously smart.

00:04:57.920 Literally, he seems smart.

00:04:59.560 So he's managed to live a life where he can smoke crack,

00:05:05.000 have sex with strippers and prostitutes 0.93

00:05:08.260 and all kinds of things

00:05:10.220 and make millions of dollars without working hard,

00:05:12.640 and frankly, you didn't do any of those things, did you?

00:05:16.740 Did you?

00:05:17.500 No, you didn't do any of those things.

00:05:19.700 Pretty smart.

00:05:20.940 Now, of course, he had an advantage.

00:05:22.340 His father was the vice president,

00:05:23.520 but still, he took advantage of that opportunity like a smart guy.

00:05:28.340 So I'm going to give you one IQ test.

00:05:29.900 If you can answer this question correctly,

00:05:33.160 you would be smarter than the smartest person

00:05:37.080 the president-elect, maybe,

00:05:40.200 even knows.

00:05:43.260 So are you ready for your test?

00:05:44.440 Here it goes.

00:05:45.520 Question number one,

00:05:46.700 and there is only one question on this test.

00:05:49.880 Would you take a video of yourself

00:05:52.760 smoking crack and getting a foot job

00:05:55.400 and put it on your laptop

00:05:57.340 and then take your laptop in for service?

00:06:00.240 Would you do that?

00:06:01.560 Would you?

00:06:02.660 Because if you wouldn't do that,

00:06:05.780 you're smarter than the smartest person.

00:06:10.200 that the president-elect of the United States

00:06:12.720 maybe even knows.

00:06:16.780 So congratulations.

00:06:18.500 I know most of you failed that test.

00:06:20.700 I know my audience,

00:06:21.780 and most of you said,

00:06:23.580 well, yeah, I'd do that.

00:06:25.920 Why wouldn't I smoke crack on video

00:06:29.880 and get a foot job,

00:06:32.000 leave it on my laptop,

00:06:33.800 and take it in for service?

00:06:35.200 I'm not even sure what that question means,

00:06:37.780 because I've done that three times.

00:06:40.200 Why wouldn't I do that?

00:06:43.700 So most of you answer it that way.

00:06:46.100 But if there's anybody out there

00:06:47.560 who said,

00:06:48.020 ho, ho, ho, 0.98

00:06:49.040 I got this one.

00:06:51.100 I got this one.

00:06:52.420 I think it would increase the odds

00:06:54.720 I would be detected

00:06:55.760 in this behavior.

00:06:57.660 Should I do that?

00:06:58.580 So I wouldn't do it.

00:06:59.380 Well, if you're that smart,

00:07:02.560 you are the smartest person

00:07:04.360 that Joe Biden even knows

00:07:05.960 in the whole world,

00:07:07.160 except he hasn't met you.

00:07:09.700 Let's talk about Twitter.

00:07:10.880 They're testing a new feature

00:07:12.280 to,

00:07:14.260 I think the word was

00:07:15.740 to humanize

00:07:16.960 each other on Twitter.

00:07:21.700 Now, the idea is that

00:07:23.640 at least they're testing it,

00:07:25.200 so you won't see this necessarily.

00:07:26.700 They're only testing it

00:07:27.720 on a small amount of their users.

00:07:30.280 But if you're about to tweet at somebody,

00:07:33.580 apparently it will show you

00:07:34.800 a little message

00:07:35.520 to tell you what you have in common

00:07:37.820 with the person

00:07:39.180 you're going to

00:07:40.380 viciously assault on Twitter.

00:07:43.880 So you call up the reply.

00:07:46.280 I think this is how it works.

00:07:47.500 I might have some of the details wrong.

00:07:49.120 But I think you call up the message

00:07:51.100 where you're going to type in

00:07:52.000 your snarky, evil reply

00:07:54.900 or tweet

00:07:55.900 and it brings you up a message

00:07:57.780 just telling you something

00:07:58.720 about the other person

00:07:59.800 that you might have in common

00:08:01.720 with them.

00:08:03.000 Now, what is your impression of that?

00:08:07.380 Well, I think the parts

00:08:09.220 you have in common

00:08:10.000 are only taken from

00:08:11.260 the known public stuff,

00:08:15.340 stuff that's on Twitter already.

00:08:17.040 So I don't think

00:08:17.640 there's any privacy issue.

00:08:18.580 Now, I'm looking at your comments

00:08:21.920 and I see somebody saying

00:08:23.240 lame

00:08:23.780 and people are just laughing at it.

00:08:26.940 They're just laughing.

00:08:27.580 It's silly.

00:08:28.580 Not going to make any difference.

00:08:30.440 You're all wrong.

00:08:32.020 You're all so wrong.

00:08:34.140 Sorry.

00:08:35.960 If your opinion of this idea

00:08:38.600 is that it's good,

00:08:42.060 you're kind of dumb. 0.92

00:08:43.800 If your opinion of this idea

00:08:45.360 is that it's bad or lame,

00:08:46.880 you're kind of dumb. 0.92

00:08:50.320 Sorry.

00:08:51.720 If you have an opinion

00:08:52.720 in either direction on this,

00:08:54.020 you're kind of dumb. 0.92

00:08:55.480 The opinion that would be smart,

00:08:57.460 in case you wanted to know,

00:08:58.660 if you'd like to be

00:08:59.440 as smart as Hunter Biden,

00:09:01.320 here's what he would tell you

00:09:02.440 about this.

00:09:03.860 We don't know

00:09:04.660 if this is a good idea.

00:09:06.660 That's why you test it.

00:09:08.660 That's the whole point.

00:09:10.080 They wouldn't test it

00:09:11.520 if they knew

00:09:13.140 how it was going to turn out.

00:09:14.760 You don't need to test it.

00:09:15.920 So if you think

00:09:17.560 you know how it's going to turn out,

00:09:19.580 you don't know

00:09:20.320 how it's going to turn out.

00:09:22.060 You don't.

00:09:22.980 How could you possibly know

00:09:24.100 how that experiment

00:09:24.860 is going to turn out?

00:09:26.280 Is it something

00:09:27.840 within the realm

00:09:29.420 of something worth trying?

00:09:32.300 Absolutely.

00:09:34.260 Absolutely.

00:09:35.140 There isn't the slightest doubt

00:09:36.760 in my mind

00:09:37.580 that if you could make

00:09:39.100 the other person

00:09:39.780 seem more like a human being

00:09:41.320 with something in common,

00:09:42.880 that you wouldn't go

00:09:43.840 as hard at them.

00:09:45.400 Now, that's not

00:09:46.080 every person every time.

00:09:48.240 But if they could take,

00:09:49.480 you know,

00:09:49.940 10% off of the temperature

00:09:51.800 of online conversations

00:09:53.800 without ruining the service

00:09:55.240 at the same time,

00:09:57.320 why not?

00:09:58.600 Why not test it?

00:09:59.800 Here's the smart answer.

00:10:01.480 You don't know.

00:10:02.860 It's a perfectly

00:10:03.860 reasonable hypothesis.

00:10:06.000 Is it

00:10:06.820 guaranteed to work?

00:10:09.300 No.

00:10:10.020 Is it

00:10:10.520 more likely

00:10:11.260 to work

00:10:11.700 than not work?

00:10:13.060 Don't know.

00:10:14.120 I wouldn't even

00:10:14.920 put a percentage on it.

00:10:16.020 I couldn't tell you

00:10:16.780 if it's

00:10:17.200 10% likely to work

00:10:19.000 or 90%.

00:10:19.840 But I can tell you

00:10:21.300 it's perfectly

00:10:22.300 reasonable,

00:10:23.680 science-based,

00:10:25.960 perfectly smart

00:10:27.600 thing to try.

00:10:29.140 So trying it

00:10:30.200 and testing it

00:10:31.320 is 100% smart.

00:10:34.140 So if you want

00:10:34.780 to criticize Twitter,

00:10:36.740 you're going to have

00:10:37.600 to find something else

00:10:38.460 because this

00:10:39.580 is 100% right

00:10:41.700 to test it.

00:10:43.220 We don't know

00:10:43.700 how it'll go.

00:10:44.400 That's the point of the test.

00:10:45.940 All right.

00:10:46.960 So I love

00:10:47.780 that Twitter

00:10:49.100 consistently,

00:10:51.060 I think,

00:10:51.540 has this mindset

00:10:52.560 of let's just test it.

00:10:54.880 They tested

00:10:55.540 the reply feature

00:10:57.260 where,

00:10:58.380 you know,

00:10:58.520 for a while

00:10:59.120 you had to quote,

00:11:01.320 you had to quote tweet

00:11:02.580 where it looked like it,

00:11:04.180 but really you didn't need to.

00:11:06.000 So they tried that

00:11:06.740 for a while.

00:11:07.220 People didn't like it,

00:11:08.180 so they got rid of it.

00:11:09.680 That's perfect.

00:11:11.320 That's exactly

00:11:12.200 what you want them

00:11:12.980 to be doing.

00:11:14.680 All right.

00:11:15.000 There's this story.

00:11:16.880 There's a guy

00:11:17.580 named Harold Schmidt.

00:11:19.480 He is an expert

00:11:20.440 in ethics

00:11:21.060 and health policy.

00:11:22.900 And he's said

00:11:24.120 actually in public

00:11:24.980 that maybe

00:11:25.520 the vaccinations

00:11:26.720 should be given

00:11:27.720 as a priority

00:11:29.460 not to old

00:11:31.400 white people.

00:11:33.240 Basically,

00:11:33.760 not to white people.

00:11:34.620 So he believes,

00:11:36.820 Harold does,

00:11:38.380 that white people 0.52

00:11:39.640 in the United States

00:11:40.540 have had such

00:11:41.300 an enduring

00:11:42.700 and permanent

00:11:43.600 health care advantage

00:11:44.880 that if they also

00:11:46.860 got the vaccination

00:11:48.180 at the same time

00:11:49.220 as everybody else

00:11:50.020 or,

00:11:50.660 worst case,

00:11:51.400 before everybody else,

00:11:53.000 then that would just

00:11:54.260 be making things worse.

00:11:56.320 And this guy is,

00:11:57.840 he's an ethicist,

00:11:59.380 right?

00:12:00.480 So he knows

00:12:01.480 what he's talking about.

00:12:02.840 He's an ethics,

00:12:04.520 an ethicist

00:12:05.340 in the health policy realm.

00:12:07.400 He's exactly

00:12:08.020 the expert

00:12:08.740 you'd want to listen to.

00:12:10.460 And he says

00:12:11.340 maybe we should

00:12:12.500 consider not giving it

00:12:13.640 to white people

00:12:14.460 until last.

00:12:19.400 You okay with that?

00:12:24.280 This is so fucked up

00:12:25.840 I don't even know

00:12:26.480 what to say about it.

00:12:27.340 And at the same time,

00:12:30.360 he's not wrong.

00:12:32.620 Right?

00:12:33.860 This is one of those things

00:12:35.060 that you could easily

00:12:36.000 take both sides

00:12:37.160 aggressively.

00:12:39.440 Let me take his side

00:12:40.580 for a moment.

00:12:42.100 Well,

00:12:42.280 it's actually a good point.

00:12:44.540 It's a fairly

00:12:45.460 straightforward

00:12:46.280 good point.

00:12:47.880 Black people

00:12:48.420 have worse

00:12:49.080 outcomes

00:12:50.020 with the coronavirus

00:12:51.000 and they've also

00:12:52.820 got hundreds

00:12:53.640 of years

00:12:54.180 of worse outcomes

00:12:55.180 in a variety

00:12:55.840 of ways.

00:12:56.380 so

00:12:57.860 wouldn't it be

00:12:59.400 ethical

00:12:59.760 to put them

00:13:01.460 first in line?

00:13:05.220 This is the trouble

00:13:06.240 with ethics.

00:13:07.360 The problem

00:13:08.140 is not

00:13:08.700 with the question.

00:13:10.840 The problem

00:13:11.400 is

00:13:11.820 what the fuck

00:13:12.720 is ethics?

00:13:14.600 Ethics

00:13:15.080 is about

00:13:15.640 fairness,

00:13:17.000 wouldn't you say?

00:13:18.540 It's

00:13:18.800 not entirely,

00:13:20.200 but wouldn't you

00:13:20.660 say that

00:13:21.000 fairness

00:13:21.560 is sort of

00:13:22.720 the word

00:13:23.180 that captures

00:13:24.200 what we're

00:13:24.620 talking about

00:13:25.100 in this case

00:13:25.700 that it

00:13:26.600 wouldn't be

00:13:26.960 fair to

00:13:27.760 treat one

00:13:28.260 group

00:13:28.680 consistently

00:13:29.920 bad

00:13:30.460 while another

00:13:31.000 group

00:13:31.420 just sometimes

00:13:32.580 by luck

00:13:33.260 but also

00:13:34.180 sometimes

00:13:34.680 by design

00:13:35.420 gets treated

00:13:36.000 better.

00:13:37.000 How is that

00:13:37.380 fair?

00:13:38.580 How is that

00:13:39.200 fair?

00:13:40.900 Here's the

00:13:41.680 problem.

00:13:43.200 Fairness,

00:13:44.040 as I've often

00:13:44.820 said in public,

00:13:46.280 fairness

00:13:46.820 is a concept

00:13:48.020 developed

00:13:49.340 so that

00:13:50.180 idiots

00:13:50.600 can have

00:13:51.280 debates.

00:13:53.300 Fairness

00:13:53.780 doesn't

00:13:54.140 exist.

00:13:55.660 Fairness

00:13:56.020 isn't a

00:13:56.480 thing.

00:13:57.740 Give me

00:13:58.040 a handful

00:13:58.440 of fairness.

00:13:59.720 Can you

00:14:00.080 put some

00:14:00.420 fairness

00:14:00.760 in a package

00:14:01.400 and send

00:14:01.960 it to me?

00:14:03.020 No.

00:14:03.900 So it's

00:14:04.180 not a

00:14:04.440 physical

00:14:04.720 thing.

00:14:05.940 If it

00:14:06.580 exists at

00:14:07.100 all,

00:14:07.540 it's a

00:14:07.880 psychological

00:14:09.000 phenomenon

00:14:09.980 because if

00:14:11.260 you think

00:14:11.780 something is

00:14:12.380 fair,

00:14:13.440 well,

00:14:13.720 you're

00:14:13.860 good.

00:14:14.580 And if

00:14:15.080 you think

00:14:15.660 it isn't,

00:14:16.800 well,

00:14:17.060 then you're

00:14:17.360 not good.

00:14:18.420 But it

00:14:18.720 doesn't matter

00:14:19.300 what it

00:14:20.260 is about

00:14:20.680 the thing.

00:14:21.540 It has

00:14:21.840 nothing to

00:14:22.300 do with

00:14:22.560 the external

00:14:23.200 objective

00:14:24.480 world,

00:14:25.100 if there

00:14:25.360 is even

00:14:25.900 an objective

00:14:26.780 reality.

00:14:27.880 It's a

00:14:28.500 mental

00:14:28.720 process.

00:14:29.920 So why

00:14:30.420 do I

00:14:30.900 care what

00:14:32.720 some person

00:14:33.380 whose job

00:14:33.940 description

00:14:34.420 is ethicist

00:14:35.520 says is

00:14:37.180 fair?

00:14:38.680 Why would

00:14:39.360 you care

00:14:39.740 about somebody

00:14:40.320 else's opinion

00:14:41.000 of fair?

00:14:42.040 Fair is

00:14:43.240 entirely an

00:14:45.040 internal

00:14:45.680 mental

00:14:46.300 process.

00:14:47.480 If I

00:14:48.120 have an

00:14:48.540 internal

00:14:49.000 mental

00:14:49.400 process

00:14:50.100 that's

00:14:50.940 different

00:14:51.240 from yours,

00:14:52.460 why are

00:14:53.160 you right

00:14:53.640 and I'm

00:14:53.940 wrong?

00:14:56.020 What

00:14:56.660 objective

00:14:57.160 standard

00:14:57.700 makes your

00:14:58.760 opinion of

00:14:59.400 what is

00:14:59.780 fair the

00:15:00.680 good one?

00:15:01.940 Is it

00:15:02.680 because you're

00:15:03.320 a professional

00:15:04.280 ethicist?

00:15:05.600 Does that

00:15:06.060 make your

00:15:06.520 opinion of

00:15:07.100 what is

00:15:07.460 fair the

00:15:08.940 good opinion?

00:15:10.200 No,

00:15:10.560 that's stupid. 0.86

00:15:11.560 Because

00:15:12.020 fair isn't

00:15:13.960 a thing.

00:15:15.440 It was

00:15:15.820 invented so

00:15:16.620 idiots could

00:15:17.420 be part of

00:15:17.980 conversations.

00:15:19.000 So the

00:15:19.660 idiot can

00:15:20.200 say,

00:15:20.600 I don't

00:15:20.840 think that's

00:15:21.260 fair.

00:15:22.340 And then

00:15:22.680 they've had

00:15:23.040 something to

00:15:23.540 say.

00:15:24.680 It doesn't

00:15:25.420 mean anything.

00:15:26.880 It doesn't

00:15:27.580 mean anything.

00:15:28.740 There's no

00:15:29.400 real world

00:15:30.720 implication of

00:15:33.460 this fairness

00:15:34.080 thing.

00:15:34.500 It's just

00:15:34.740 something that

00:15:35.080 happens in

00:15:35.400 your brain.

00:15:36.320 Now,

00:15:37.060 if it

00:15:37.400 happens in

00:15:37.840 your brain

00:15:38.320 and you

00:15:38.620 think

00:15:38.780 something's

00:15:39.220 unfair,

00:15:39.740 you might

00:15:40.060 get a

00:15:40.520 riot in

00:15:40.960 the streets.

00:15:41.420 So it

00:15:42.180 can cause

00:15:42.760 real world

00:15:44.320 things.

00:15:45.860 But it's

00:15:46.740 an internal,

00:15:47.540 just a

00:15:47.880 subjective

00:15:48.300 experience.

00:15:49.640 And nobody

00:15:50.020 should be

00:15:50.480 telling you

00:15:50.980 what's

00:15:51.380 fair.

00:15:52.680 Because in

00:15:53.240 the real

00:15:53.580 world,

00:15:54.400 power is

00:15:55.160 pretty much

00:15:55.640 all that

00:15:55.980 matters.

00:15:56.880 Have you

00:15:57.920 seen all

00:15:58.380 the big

00:15:59.500 group

00:16:00.160 protesting

00:16:01.080 about how

00:16:02.500 short people

00:16:03.420 and ugly 0.61

00:16:04.060 people are

00:16:04.880 treated worse

00:16:05.640 in society?

00:16:06.280 Do you

00:16:07.140 remember all

00:16:07.560 the riots

00:16:08.160 in 2020?

00:16:09.960 God,

00:16:10.360 it was just

00:16:10.900 one riot

00:16:11.720 after another.

00:16:12.480 They were

00:16:12.660 burning cities.

00:16:13.800 And it was

00:16:14.040 all the ugly

00:16:14.860 short people.

00:16:16.660 The ugly short

00:16:17.300 people.

00:16:17.340 I consider

00:16:18.160 myself in

00:16:18.700 that category

00:16:19.260 so I can

00:16:19.720 talk about

00:16:20.140 that.

00:16:20.760 So I'm

00:16:21.160 short and

00:16:21.800 unpleasant to

00:16:22.920 look at.

00:16:23.480 So these

00:16:24.140 are my

00:16:24.400 people I'm

00:16:24.800 talking about.

00:16:26.060 But what

00:16:26.540 about the

00:16:26.920 people who

00:16:27.300 are short

00:16:27.640 and ugly?

00:16:28.260 Their life

00:16:28.920 sucks

00:16:29.660 through no

00:16:31.980 fault of their

00:16:32.760 own.

00:16:33.440 If you're

00:16:33.960 ugly or

00:16:34.420 short,

00:16:34.860 your life

00:16:35.320 is worse.

00:16:35.840 That's

00:16:36.280 just a

00:16:36.820 fact.

00:16:37.760 And if

00:16:38.060 you're

00:16:38.200 male and

00:16:38.640 you're

00:16:38.800 short,

00:16:39.100 it's much

00:16:39.560 worse.

00:16:40.180 There's no

00:16:40.560 doubt about

00:16:40.940 that.

00:16:41.740 Where is

00:16:42.320 the riot

00:16:42.680 for those

00:16:43.060 people?

00:16:43.520 There's no

00:16:43.940 fucking

00:16:44.300 riot.

00:16:44.980 Because

00:16:45.220 fairness

00:16:45.600 is about

00:16:46.840 power.

00:16:48.940 Black 0.64

00:16:49.220 Lives Matter

00:16:49.820 is organized.

00:16:51.860 They created

00:16:52.480 power.

00:16:53.600 When they

00:16:53.960 ask for

00:16:54.440 fairness,

00:16:55.280 it's

00:16:55.760 bullshit.

00:16:57.560 Now I'm

00:16:57.860 not saying

00:16:58.240 that the

00:16:59.020 situation is

00:16:59.860 fair,

00:17:01.220 because

00:17:01.520 obviously

00:17:02.040 slavery,

00:17:03.380 blah,

00:17:03.580 blah,

00:17:03.660 blah,

00:17:03.960 racism,

00:17:04.680 that all

00:17:05.280 exists.

00:17:05.840 But it's

00:17:08.160 a power

00:17:08.680 play.

00:17:09.180 It's not

00:17:09.460 a fairness

00:17:09.880 play.

00:17:11.140 It's not

00:17:11.600 designed that

00:17:12.180 way.

00:17:13.000 It's just

00:17:13.520 power.

00:17:16.060 Did gay 1.00

00:17:16.860 people,

00:17:17.500 let's say

00:17:18.060 LGBTQ,

00:17:19.820 have they

00:17:20.560 done a

00:17:22.220 good job

00:17:22.900 in improving

00:17:24.140 the lot

00:17:25.160 for the

00:17:25.880 LGBTQ

00:17:26.520 community?

00:17:27.400 Yeah.

00:17:28.200 Yeah.

00:17:28.620 How'd they

00:17:29.040 do it?

00:17:29.940 Did they

00:17:30.340 do it by

00:17:30.920 making more

00:17:31.880 fairness?

00:17:32.300 Yes.

00:17:33.420 No.

00:17:34.580 They did

00:17:34.940 it by

00:17:35.160 power.

00:17:36.260 They

00:17:36.500 organized.

00:17:37.760 They organized

00:17:38.500 really,

00:17:39.040 really well.

00:17:39.960 And then

00:17:40.400 they used

00:17:40.860 their power,

00:17:42.100 and then

00:17:42.440 they got

00:17:43.300 more stuff

00:17:43.800 for themselves.

00:17:44.660 I don't

00:17:45.060 mind anything

00:17:45.620 they got

00:17:45.940 for themselves.

00:17:46.580 I'm pro-

00:17:47.620 gay marriage,

00:17:49.000 pro-LGBTQ,

00:17:50.400 as much as you

00:17:51.240 can be pro-

00:17:52.060 anything.

00:17:52.640 I'm as pro

00:17:53.580 as you can

00:17:53.960 get.

00:17:54.180 But it's

00:17:56.120 never about

00:17:56.740 fairness.

00:17:57.940 It's never

00:17:58.620 about fairness.

00:17:59.460 It's about

00:17:59.780 getting stuff.

00:18:01.500 It's about

00:18:01.980 getting stuff.

00:18:03.300 Now, if

00:18:03.660 somebody else

00:18:04.120 has a lot

00:18:04.660 of stuff,

00:18:05.880 and you've

00:18:06.380 only got a

00:18:06.960 little bit

00:18:07.300 of stuff,

00:18:08.540 you're going

00:18:09.560 to try to

00:18:09.920 get some

00:18:10.260 more stuff.

00:18:11.660 And you're

00:18:12.260 going to use

00:18:12.560 your power

00:18:13.140 to do it.

00:18:14.160 And one of

00:18:14.600 the ways

00:18:14.860 you can do

00:18:15.220 that is

00:18:15.520 say it's

00:18:15.840 not fair,

00:18:16.920 and organize

00:18:17.600 around that

00:18:18.200 concept,

00:18:18.840 which is just

00:18:19.380 a psychological

00:18:20.020 concept,

00:18:20.960 then you've

00:18:21.460 got power.

00:18:23.000 It's always

00:18:23.800 just power.

00:18:25.700 Fairness is

00:18:26.380 what idiots

00:18:27.040 use to

00:18:28.160 discuss things.

00:18:29.880 If you

00:18:30.320 were in a

00:18:31.980 bad situation

00:18:32.840 in society,

00:18:33.880 and it just

00:18:34.400 wasn't anybody's

00:18:35.380 fault, it

00:18:36.940 would still be

00:18:37.560 completely smart

00:18:38.440 to organize

00:18:39.140 and say it's

00:18:39.840 not fair,

00:18:41.040 because that's

00:18:41.480 how you get

00:18:42.060 more stuff.

00:18:43.260 It has nothing

00:18:43.760 to do with

00:18:44.180 fairness.

00:18:44.720 Anyway,

00:18:46.520 so that's

00:18:47.200 my take on

00:18:47.880 that.

00:18:48.340 You probably

00:18:49.020 saw a story

00:18:49.540 yesterday that

00:18:50.400 Justice Roberts,

00:18:52.920 Chief Justice,

00:18:54.000 was allegedly,

00:18:55.600 with capital

00:18:57.060 allegedly on

00:18:58.100 this story,

00:18:59.340 was yelling

00:19:00.220 during some,

00:19:01.400 what would

00:19:04.060 you call it,

00:19:05.440 a meeting or

00:19:06.180 whatever the

00:19:06.760 Supreme Court

00:19:07.260 does when they

00:19:07.920 get together

00:19:08.440 and argue

00:19:08.840 things.

00:19:10.240 And he

00:19:10.920 was alleged

00:19:11.660 to have

00:19:12.520 used profanity

00:19:14.060 and said

00:19:16.040 that the

00:19:16.420 difference

00:19:16.760 between how

00:19:18.220 the Supreme

00:19:18.760 Court might

00:19:19.320 act toward

00:19:20.000 this election,

00:19:20.860 the 2020,

00:19:22.040 versus the 0.55

00:19:22.880 way they

00:19:23.220 did act

00:19:23.860 in 2016,

00:19:26.020 is that,

00:19:26.740 quote,

00:19:27.220 there weren't

00:19:27.680 any effing

00:19:28.420 riots in

00:19:30.120 2016.

00:19:31.280 So that's

00:19:31.660 what's,

00:19:32.600 it's reported

00:19:33.240 that Justice

00:19:33.740 Roberts said

00:19:34.400 that why he

00:19:35.680 would treat

00:19:36.160 this one

00:19:36.640 differently

00:19:37.100 had nothing

00:19:38.640 to do with

00:19:39.140 the law.

00:19:40.700 So that's

00:19:41.100 the story.

00:19:42.040 The claim

00:19:42.760 is that they

00:19:43.540 could hear him

00:19:44.160 through a wall

00:19:45.180 because he

00:19:45.920 was yelling

00:19:46.300 so loudly

00:19:46.880 and swearing

00:19:48.040 that they

00:19:49.040 know that

00:19:49.880 behind that

00:19:50.500 wall where

00:19:51.220 they were

00:19:51.600 not

00:19:51.940 themselves,

00:19:53.820 that he

00:19:54.260 said something

00:19:54.980 that clearly

00:19:55.960 and unambiguously

00:19:57.000 said he would

00:19:57.780 ignore the law

00:19:58.780 and the

00:19:59.120 Constitution,

00:20:00.780 which, of

00:20:01.320 course, his

00:20:02.060 job is to

00:20:02.720 do those

00:20:03.560 things,

00:20:04.480 to obey

00:20:05.260 them or

00:20:06.300 interpret

00:20:06.580 them,

00:20:07.120 and that

00:20:09.280 therefore he

00:20:10.180 had simply

00:20:10.640 admitted that

00:20:12.720 he wasn't

00:20:13.200 going to do

00:20:13.700 the job of

00:20:14.460 the chief

00:20:14.760 justice,

00:20:15.160 and that

00:20:16.080 he was

00:20:16.340 just going

00:20:16.740 to play

00:20:17.000 king and

00:20:18.640 just make

00:20:20.660 a decision

00:20:21.160 that he

00:20:21.560 thought was

00:20:21.920 good for

00:20:22.280 the country

00:20:22.700 as opposed

00:20:23.580 to what

00:20:24.160 the Constitution

00:20:24.820 requires.

00:20:25.940 So that's

00:20:26.360 the story.

00:20:27.540 Do you think

00:20:27.920 that's true?

00:20:29.400 Do you think

00:20:29.960 that really

00:20:30.400 happened?

00:20:31.280 Do you think

00:20:31.700 you really

00:20:32.080 said those

00:20:32.680 words and

00:20:33.740 yelled them

00:20:34.220 so loudly

00:20:34.840 with a

00:20:35.340 profanity

00:20:35.880 that you

00:20:36.860 could hear

00:20:37.300 it in

00:20:38.200 another room?

00:20:39.320 Do you

00:20:39.640 believe that's

00:20:40.180 true?

00:20:41.680 Don't.

00:20:43.240 Don't believe

00:20:44.060 that's true.

00:20:45.720 It's a

00:20:46.140 little,

00:20:46.540 as somebody

00:20:47.360 tweeted,

00:20:48.620 the election

00:20:49.260 wizard,

00:20:49.860 that's his

00:20:50.540 Twitter name,

00:20:51.560 the election

00:20:52.100 Twitter tweeted,

00:20:53.560 I know you

00:20:54.000 want it to be

00:20:54.960 true,

00:20:55.280 but the chief

00:20:55.700 justice

00:20:56.020 Roberts story

00:20:56.740 about screaming

00:20:58.860 and cursing

00:21:00.400 is almost

00:21:00.900 certainly fake

00:21:01.760 news,

00:21:02.320 and then he

00:21:02.720 refers to me

00:21:03.500 and he goes,

00:21:04.420 as Scott M

00:21:04.940 says,

00:21:05.380 it's a little

00:21:05.860 quote,

00:21:06.760 too much

00:21:07.240 on the nose.

00:21:08.380 A little

00:21:08.640 too much

00:21:09.040 on the nose,

00:21:09.640 isn't it?

00:21:12.580 And he

00:21:13.540 goes on to

00:21:14.180 say that

00:21:15.140 Supreme Court

00:21:15.780 clerks

00:21:16.400 hardly ever

00:21:17.960 leak.

00:21:19.460 So part

00:21:20.060 of it is

00:21:20.580 that the

00:21:21.300 Supreme Court

00:21:21.940 clerks are

00:21:22.780 somewhat famous

00:21:23.560 for not

00:21:24.020 leaking.

00:21:24.900 And I

00:21:25.260 thought about

00:21:25.720 that and I

00:21:26.160 thought,

00:21:26.480 is there

00:21:27.000 anybody you

00:21:27.580 could trust

00:21:27.980 not to leak?

00:21:29.420 And the

00:21:29.840 answer is no,

00:21:30.460 you can't

00:21:30.780 really trust

00:21:31.160 anybody not

00:21:31.940 to leak.

00:21:32.920 But I

00:21:33.620 was trying to

00:21:34.100 think,

00:21:34.700 have I ever

00:21:35.280 heard a

00:21:35.700 story about

00:21:37.440 Supreme Court

00:21:38.400 clerks leaking

00:21:39.620 anything in the

00:21:40.380 Supreme Court?

00:21:41.080 Have you ever

00:21:41.460 heard that?

00:21:41.780 Well, thank

00:21:46.420 you,

00:21:46.700 Yorkie one.

00:21:48.420 That's the

00:21:48.880 weirdest compliment

00:21:49.600 I've ever

00:21:50.000 got.

00:21:50.740 I have a

00:21:51.040 good nose,

00:21:51.820 somebody said.

00:21:52.760 That's not

00:21:53.300 true, but I

00:21:54.240 do appreciate

00:21:54.760 it.

00:21:56.800 You mean a

00:21:58.520 good nose in

00:21:59.140 terms of

00:21:59.660 sniffing out

00:22:00.560 bullshit.

00:22:01.340 So I'm

00:22:01.860 going to

00:22:02.160 judge this

00:22:02.880 one bullshit. 0.68

00:22:04.080 Now, I do

00:22:04.680 believe that the

00:22:05.440 Supreme Court

00:22:06.080 takes into

00:22:07.020 consideration

00:22:07.780 unrest,

00:22:10.680 potential

00:22:11.420 unrest based

00:22:12.560 on their

00:22:12.880 opinions.

00:22:13.780 So I think

00:22:14.260 the assumption

00:22:16.100 is probably

00:22:16.740 so reasonable

00:22:17.960 you don't

00:22:18.400 even need to

00:22:18.860 check it.

00:22:19.460 Of course

00:22:19.780 they do

00:22:20.080 that.

00:22:20.920 They're

00:22:21.300 humans,

00:22:22.060 so of

00:22:22.340 course they

00:22:22.640 do.

00:22:23.300 And I

00:22:23.780 would even

00:22:24.080 go further.

00:22:25.700 And I

00:22:26.240 know you're

00:22:26.540 not going

00:22:26.800 to like

00:22:27.040 this even

00:22:27.540 a little

00:22:27.960 bit,

00:22:28.840 but I'll

00:22:29.440 say it

00:22:29.740 anyway.

00:22:30.440 That's why

00:22:30.760 you watch

00:22:31.120 this.

00:22:32.340 You watch

00:22:33.140 it for the

00:22:33.820 times I

00:22:34.260 disagree with

00:22:35.060 you.

00:22:35.880 You think

00:22:36.600 you watch

00:22:37.080 this for

00:22:38.260 the times

00:22:38.720 I agree

00:22:39.300 with you,

00:22:40.380 but that's

00:22:42.200 an illusion.

00:22:43.480 The reason

00:22:43.880 you watch

00:22:44.340 this is

00:22:45.360 for when

00:22:45.680 I disagree

00:22:46.220 with you,

00:22:46.880 because that's

00:22:47.300 the only

00:22:47.520 value I

00:22:48.080 actually add.

00:22:48.980 It just

00:22:49.320 feels like

00:22:49.760 the other

00:22:50.020 stuff feels

00:22:50.560 good, so

00:22:50.960 you think

00:22:51.240 that's why

00:22:51.600 you come

00:22:51.900 here.

00:22:52.760 And here's

00:22:53.240 the,

00:22:54.020 what the

00:22:56.120 hell was I

00:22:56.460 going to

00:22:56.640 say?

00:22:56.940 Oh, the

00:22:57.700 point is

00:22:58.060 this.

00:22:58.940 If the

00:22:59.480 Supreme

00:22:59.820 Court,

00:23:00.360 and let's

00:23:00.620 say Justice

00:23:01.160 Roberts in

00:23:01.820 particular,

00:23:02.880 if they

00:23:03.380 have decided

00:23:03.980 in any

00:23:04.460 particular case

00:23:05.460 to ignore

00:23:06.980 the

00:23:08.060 Constitution

00:23:08.760 and simply

00:23:10.100 make a

00:23:10.660 ruling based

00:23:11.440 on what

00:23:11.840 they think

00:23:12.220 would be

00:23:12.540 good for

00:23:12.940 the

00:23:13.080 country,

00:23:14.100 I'm okay

00:23:14.840 with that.

00:23:17.160 I'm okay

00:23:17.820 with that.

00:23:18.440 Now, that's

00:23:18.860 not their

00:23:19.180 job.

00:23:20.180 It's not

00:23:20.540 how they

00:23:20.860 were elected.

00:23:21.480 It's not

00:23:21.780 how the

00:23:22.140 system was

00:23:22.820 designed.

00:23:24.020 You could

00:23:24.560 imagine all

00:23:25.260 kinds of

00:23:25.720 problems that

00:23:27.120 that could 0.68

00:23:27.480 cause.

00:23:28.700 Yeah, I'm

00:23:29.240 watching your

00:23:29.700 reaction to it.

00:23:30.900 People are

00:23:31.460 pretty angry

00:23:31.920 about that.

00:23:32.820 Let me

00:23:33.040 make my

00:23:33.400 case.

00:23:33.720 So I'll

00:23:34.480 make my

00:23:34.820 case first

00:23:35.340 and then

00:23:35.600 you can

00:23:35.900 be angry

00:23:37.140 at me.

00:23:37.880 And it

00:23:38.120 goes like

00:23:38.540 this.

00:23:40.240 The best

00:23:41.160 kind of

00:23:42.500 political

00:23:42.920 system that

00:23:43.780 you could

00:23:44.220 ever build,

00:23:46.400 if you

00:23:47.240 could do

00:23:47.580 it, and

00:23:48.080 it's

00:23:48.280 impossible,

00:23:49.140 it has

00:23:49.520 some

00:23:49.680 problems,

00:23:50.260 but if

00:23:50.660 you could

00:23:50.980 do it,

00:23:51.480 just in a

00:23:51.980 hypothetical

00:23:52.340 sense,

00:23:53.280 the best

00:23:53.820 kind of

00:23:54.120 leader would

00:23:54.660 be a

00:23:55.140 benevolent

00:23:55.860 dictator who

00:23:57.300 is also

00:23:57.720 very qualified

00:23:58.480 and had

00:24:00.300 your best

00:24:00.960 interests in

00:24:01.500 mind.

00:24:02.420 Does

00:24:02.580 everybody

00:24:03.080 agree with

00:24:03.580 this first

00:24:04.000 statement,

00:24:04.980 that the

00:24:05.800 best political

00:24:06.640 system,

00:24:08.500 if you

00:24:08.920 could do

00:24:09.280 it, and

00:24:09.980 you can't

00:24:10.420 do it,

00:24:10.960 but if you

00:24:11.640 could do

00:24:11.900 it, would

00:24:12.860 be a

00:24:13.140 benevolent

00:24:13.620 dictator.

00:24:14.640 Somebody

00:24:15.040 was the

00:24:15.520 most

00:24:16.220 qualified

00:24:16.800 person who

00:24:18.000 had really

00:24:18.520 only your

00:24:19.200 interests in

00:24:19.740 mind, and

00:24:20.760 then they

00:24:21.080 just went

00:24:21.420 out and

00:24:21.680 did that

00:24:21.980 job.

00:24:22.500 Highly

00:24:22.820 qualified,

00:24:23.680 your

00:24:23.940 interests

00:24:24.300 in mind,

00:24:25.380 dictator, so

00:24:26.320 they can get

00:24:26.740 anything done,

00:24:27.720 but they're not

00:24:28.360 going to do

00:24:28.720 anything evil

00:24:29.320 because they're

00:24:30.740 benevolent.

00:24:31.620 So you

00:24:32.280 could trust

00:24:32.860 this hypothetical

00:24:34.220 benevolent

00:24:35.560 dictator to

00:24:36.700 be even more

00:24:37.340 ethical than

00:24:37.860 you are.

00:24:39.640 That's the

00:24:40.240 whole point of

00:24:40.820 the example.

00:24:42.260 They're more

00:24:42.680 ethical than

00:24:43.180 you are.

00:24:44.360 So of course

00:24:45.020 you trust them.

00:24:46.020 But in the

00:24:46.460 real world,

00:24:47.500 anybody who

00:24:48.020 gets power

00:24:48.640 abuses their 0.86

00:24:50.060 power, right?

00:24:50.900 In the real

00:24:51.640 world, if you

00:24:52.320 gave anybody

00:24:53.140 dictator powers,

00:24:55.200 no matter how

00:24:56.140 they started,

00:24:56.920 they might

00:24:58.480 have started

00:24:59.060 out really

00:24:59.800 benevolent,

00:25:00.840 but once you

00:25:01.660 get the

00:25:02.080 dictator power,

00:25:03.380 well, you're

00:25:04.580 not going to

00:25:04.960 be so

00:25:05.360 benevolent anymore,

00:25:06.300 right?

00:25:06.800 Because power

00:25:07.560 corrupts, and

00:25:09.260 it's the most

00:25:10.160 universal, true

00:25:11.920 statement that's

00:25:12.940 ever been made,

00:25:14.380 that power

00:25:14.880 corrupts.

00:25:15.420 So you can

00:25:16.220 never have a

00:25:18.640 benevolent dictator

00:25:19.560 except for week

00:25:20.960 one, maybe.

00:25:21.920 By week two,

00:25:22.580 they're already

00:25:22.980 corrupt.

00:25:23.620 I mean, it's

00:25:23.980 going to happen

00:25:24.340 pretty quickly.

00:25:24.880 But, what

00:25:27.500 if, what

00:25:29.160 if, you

00:25:30.640 could have

00:25:31.180 the benefit

00:25:32.020 of a

00:25:34.000 benevolent

00:25:34.640 dictator

00:25:35.180 without the

00:25:36.760 risk?

00:25:38.600 What if?

00:25:40.040 What would

00:25:40.800 you say to

00:25:41.240 that?

00:25:41.500 Now, again,

00:25:42.420 you're going

00:25:42.680 to say it's

00:25:43.000 not possible,

00:25:44.180 but don't

00:25:44.660 get hung up

00:25:45.500 on the

00:25:45.800 not possible

00:25:46.480 part.

00:25:47.820 Just say

00:25:48.240 what if.

00:25:49.320 If you

00:25:50.020 could have

00:25:50.680 the benefits

00:25:51.640 of a

00:25:52.120 benevolent

00:25:52.880 dictator with

00:25:53.980 none of

00:25:54.300 the risks

00:25:54.980 that they

00:25:55.560 would become

00:25:56.180 corrupt,

00:25:56.720 because of

00:25:57.060 course they

00:25:57.400 would.

00:25:58.820 What about

00:25:59.520 that system?

00:26:01.000 Now, of

00:26:01.620 course, it's

00:26:02.000 completely

00:26:02.600 impossible.

00:26:03.560 It can't

00:26:03.820 be done.

00:26:04.920 But, the

00:26:06.360 Supreme Court

00:26:07.220 is a really

00:26:09.740 good proxy

00:26:11.040 for that.

00:26:12.720 Because the

00:26:13.440 Supreme Court,

00:26:14.840 given that they

00:26:15.920 have positions

00:26:17.100 for life,

00:26:18.280 they can kind

00:26:19.100 of freelance

00:26:19.560 a little bit,

00:26:20.320 can't they?

00:26:21.300 You don't

00:26:21.800 want them

00:26:22.180 to.

00:26:23.300 I know

00:26:24.000 your reasons.

00:26:24.780 I understand

00:26:25.300 them.

00:26:26.100 I completely

00:26:26.820 am empathetic

00:26:28.320 to them.

00:26:28.880 You don't

00:26:29.260 need to

00:26:29.580 explain why

00:26:31.780 you don't

00:26:32.180 want the 0.55

00:26:32.680 Supreme Court

00:26:33.260 to be

00:26:33.620 freelancing.

00:26:34.320 I get the

00:26:34.720 argument.

00:26:35.300 It's very

00:26:35.700 easy to

00:26:36.680 understand,

00:26:37.480 and it's

00:26:37.780 a strong

00:26:38.220 argument.

00:26:38.820 It's not

00:26:39.100 a weak

00:26:39.380 argument.

00:26:40.160 It's a

00:26:40.560 very strong

00:26:41.180 argument.

00:26:42.020 So, anybody

00:26:42.540 who's disagreeing

00:26:43.380 with me,

00:26:44.160 hear this

00:26:44.780 part.

00:26:46.000 Your argument

00:26:46.700 is very

00:26:47.100 strong.

00:26:48.060 Very

00:26:48.320 strong.

00:26:49.380 I'm not

00:26:49.880 going to say

00:26:50.700 it's not.

00:26:51.460 I'm just

00:26:52.000 saying that

00:26:52.400 there's another

00:26:53.460 argument that's

00:26:54.140 also really

00:26:54.720 strong, and

00:26:56.000 it goes like

00:26:56.480 this.

00:26:57.960 Sometimes, you

00:26:59.980 need sort of

00:27:01.720 an emergency

00:27:02.840 break-the-glass

00:27:03.940 situation.

00:27:06.100 You know, even

00:27:06.500 as well-designed

00:27:07.580 as our system

00:27:08.340 has been, it's

00:27:09.020 lasted a few

00:27:09.760 hundred years,

00:27:10.480 and maybe the

00:27:11.000 best system,

00:27:11.920 even with its

00:27:12.580 flaws, as good

00:27:13.780 as it's been,

00:27:15.200 there are going

00:27:16.060 to be those

00:27:16.680 times when maybe

00:27:17.900 you need to

00:27:18.520 break the

00:27:18.940 glass in an

00:27:21.100 emergency.

00:27:22.380 You want

00:27:23.100 that last

00:27:24.400 bit of

00:27:26.380 control or

00:27:27.880 safety if

00:27:29.700 everything goes

00:27:30.660 wrong.

00:27:32.500 And we

00:27:33.000 have, either

00:27:33.780 by design or

00:27:34.660 accidentally, I'm

00:27:35.480 not sure, but

00:27:36.520 we have built

00:27:37.900 that system.

00:27:39.040 That's what the

00:27:39.560 Supreme Court

00:27:40.200 either evolved

00:27:41.160 into, or maybe

00:27:42.100 the founders

00:27:42.780 anticipated this.

00:27:44.740 But because they

00:27:45.580 have their jobs

00:27:46.360 for life, they

00:27:48.220 don't have to

00:27:49.360 follow the

00:27:49.820 Constitution.

00:27:51.800 They don't

00:27:52.120 have to.

00:27:53.140 Now, if they

00:27:53.840 did it too

00:27:54.300 often, I

00:27:55.960 imagine there's

00:27:56.520 some process

00:27:57.080 for removing

00:27:57.900 them, for

00:27:58.560 whatever.

00:27:59.500 But if you

00:28:00.280 call your

00:28:01.260 shots, and

00:28:02.840 you only do

00:28:03.760 it when it

00:28:04.860 really, really

00:28:05.640 matters, as I

00:28:07.960 would say it

00:28:08.360 does really

00:28:08.800 matter in this

00:28:09.400 election situation,

00:28:11.060 I'm okay with

00:28:12.540 it.

00:28:12.760 And here's

00:28:13.860 the part you're

00:28:14.400 really going to

00:28:14.900 hate.

00:28:15.900 I'm okay with

00:28:16.980 it, even if

00:28:17.560 they make the

00:28:18.080 wrong decision.

00:28:19.980 Because if you

00:28:20.840 have a system, you

00:28:23.000 can judge that the

00:28:23.940 system is good or

00:28:24.820 bad, even if it

00:28:25.760 makes some

00:28:26.180 mistakes, right?

00:28:27.260 Because it might

00:28:27.900 be better than

00:28:28.500 whatever the

00:28:28.980 alternative is,

00:28:29.820 even with

00:28:30.280 mistakes.

00:28:31.320 So I would

00:28:32.120 allow that there

00:28:32.800 is certainly

00:28:33.400 risk, a pretty

00:28:34.780 big one, pretty

00:28:35.820 big risk, of

00:28:37.060 having the Supreme

00:28:37.880 Court be able to

00:28:38.740 freelance and get

00:28:40.440 outside of the

00:28:41.220 bounds of

00:28:42.100 interpreting the

00:28:42.760 Constitution.

00:28:44.000 But they can,

00:28:45.700 they can, and

00:28:47.060 if they call

00:28:47.860 their shots

00:28:48.480 right, in

00:28:49.860 other words, if

00:28:50.720 they have been

00:28:51.300 selected properly,

00:28:52.940 if our vetting

00:28:53.840 system has

00:28:55.200 given us an

00:28:56.140 Amy, Coney,

00:28:57.000 Barrett, you

00:28:58.300 name your

00:28:58.820 justice, whoever

00:28:59.620 you want, who

00:29:00.640 have been

00:29:00.920 carefully vetted

00:29:01.780 to be among

00:29:03.440 the best of

00:29:04.560 us.

00:29:06.460 They've been

00:29:07.240 vetted to be

00:29:08.340 among the best

00:29:09.700 of us, of

00:29:11.760 people.

00:29:12.540 They aren't

00:29:13.100 just trained in

00:29:14.120 the law, that's

00:29:15.520 a big part of

00:29:16.040 it, of course.

00:29:16.560 They aren't

00:29:17.000 just experienced

00:29:18.000 with the right

00:29:18.540 kind of

00:29:18.840 experience, that's

00:29:19.820 a big part of

00:29:20.360 it, of course.

00:29:21.380 But they're

00:29:21.960 also good

00:29:22.620 people.

00:29:25.200 That, you

00:29:25.740 know, you

00:29:26.080 don't really ask

00:29:26.740 that question

00:29:27.320 directly, right,

00:29:28.400 when you're

00:29:28.740 doing the

00:29:29.080 vetting process,

00:29:30.040 but that's

00:29:30.860 always the

00:29:31.400 biggest implication

00:29:32.480 beyond skill,

00:29:33.940 right?

00:29:34.400 So you test

00:29:35.000 them for skill

00:29:35.660 and experience,

00:29:37.480 but you're

00:29:38.240 really looking

00:29:38.980 to see, are

00:29:39.580 these good

00:29:40.220 people, are

00:29:41.640 these the

00:29:42.160 people who, if

00:29:43.160 they departed

00:29:43.860 from the

00:29:45.500 constitutional

00:29:46.180 path, you

00:29:48.780 could still

00:29:49.360 get a good

00:29:49.880 outcome, or

00:29:50.840 at least an

00:29:51.400 ethical one,

00:29:52.240 in your opinion,

00:29:53.140 of course it's

00:29:53.700 psychological, or

00:29:55.340 at least one

00:29:56.420 that you think

00:29:57.140 was made by

00:29:58.440 a smart

00:29:58.980 person who

00:29:59.660 has good

00:30:01.020 intentions.

00:30:03.100 intentions.

00:30:04.780 Is the

00:30:05.600 Supreme Court

00:30:06.420 filled with

00:30:07.780 smart people

00:30:09.160 who have

00:30:10.740 good intentions

00:30:11.720 about the

00:30:12.420 United States?

00:30:14.600 Yes.

00:30:15.860 I think so.

00:30:17.340 I would say

00:30:17.960 that would be

00:30:18.440 true of whether

00:30:19.560 they're liberal

00:30:20.320 leaning, or

00:30:21.560 whether they're

00:30:22.140 right leaning.

00:30:23.120 I believe that

00:30:23.900 our Supreme

00:30:25.040 Court vetting

00:30:25.800 process is

00:30:26.540 pretty damn

00:30:27.220 good.

00:30:28.240 Pretty damn

00:30:29.040 good.

00:30:29.380 And I

00:30:31.400 think that we

00:30:32.000 got, you

00:30:32.880 know, nine

00:30:33.340 justices who

00:30:34.700 I would say

00:30:35.380 with complete

00:30:36.140 confidence, every

00:30:37.960 one of them

00:30:38.580 wants what's

00:30:39.500 best for the

00:30:40.160 United States.

00:30:41.680 Every one of

00:30:42.300 them.

00:30:43.100 Now, do you

00:30:44.180 feel uncomfortable

00:30:45.660 in a system

00:30:46.620 where the, you

00:30:48.400 know, the

00:30:48.600 things that

00:30:49.080 should have

00:30:49.480 worked and

00:30:49.900 didn't work?

00:30:50.580 In other

00:30:50.880 words, we

00:30:51.840 wanted to have

00:30:52.580 confidence in

00:30:53.440 our election.

00:30:54.340 No matter what

00:30:55.360 happened or

00:30:55.960 didn't happen in

00:30:56.720 the election,

00:30:58.040 you've got to

00:30:58.560 have confidence

00:30:59.100 in it.

00:31:00.440 And so, there

00:31:01.480 was a big

00:31:02.300 mistake in

00:31:03.080 the rest of

00:31:03.660 the system.

00:31:04.420 It's about the

00:31:05.140 biggest mistake

00:31:05.780 you could make,

00:31:06.880 which is ruining

00:31:07.820 the credibility

00:31:08.600 of your own

00:31:09.420 election system.

00:31:10.240 That's a big,

00:31:11.260 big mistake.

00:31:12.600 Now, even if

00:31:13.180 you argue that

00:31:13.820 there was no

00:31:14.300 real fraud,

00:31:15.060 which would be

00:31:15.520 dumb, but if

00:31:16.460 you argue that,

00:31:18.520 it's still true,

00:31:20.040 objectively true,

00:31:21.080 that half of the

00:31:21.680 country, or

00:31:22.140 whatever the

00:31:22.480 number is,

00:31:23.380 lost faith in

00:31:25.760 the credibility

00:31:26.340 of the system.

00:31:27.020 That's a major

00:31:28.700 breakdown in

00:31:29.400 the system.

00:31:30.480 And we have

00:31:30.980 this safety,

00:31:32.380 this safety

00:31:32.940 catch.

00:31:34.060 Nine reasonable

00:31:35.740 people who we

00:31:37.700 all know,

00:31:38.740 although they may

00:31:39.460 be biased left

00:31:40.360 or right, but we

00:31:41.440 all know with

00:31:42.760 really high

00:31:43.320 confidence that

00:31:44.540 those nine

00:31:45.060 people are not

00:31:45.840 assholes. 0.57

00:31:47.060 There's probably

00:31:47.660 not a single

00:31:48.620 asshole on the

00:31:50.700 Supreme Court.

00:31:52.040 I'll bet there

00:31:52.640 isn't one person

00:31:53.400 on the Supreme

00:31:53.980 Court who thinks,

00:31:54.740 if I do this

00:31:56.560 or that, I

00:31:57.260 can be the

00:31:57.800 dictator, because

00:31:58.940 they can't.

00:32:00.420 There's no

00:32:01.200 career path from

00:32:03.340 Supreme Court to

00:32:04.420 dictator or

00:32:05.400 president.

00:32:06.620 So as long as

00:32:07.500 we have them

00:32:08.060 walled off in

00:32:09.240 their little

00:32:09.660 Supreme Court

00:32:10.320 world, they 1.00

00:32:10.820 can't get out

00:32:11.340 to the rest of

00:32:11.880 the world, they

00:32:12.960 can't become

00:32:13.560 dictators because

00:32:14.380 we've walled

00:32:15.020 them off.

00:32:16.260 Under those

00:32:17.160 conditions that

00:32:18.140 they're walled

00:32:18.800 off from ever

00:32:19.700 being corrupted

00:32:20.400 by dictator power,

00:32:23.000 they've got their

00:32:23.520 own kind of

00:32:23.920 power, but I

00:32:26.240 feel safe with

00:32:26.780 that.

00:32:28.220 I feel safe

00:32:28.820 with that.

00:32:29.560 So did they

00:32:30.100 make the right

00:32:30.660 decision?

00:32:31.160 I don't know.

00:32:32.280 I don't know.

00:32:33.060 I'm not wise

00:32:33.920 enough to know

00:32:35.360 when the Supreme

00:32:36.500 Court is right

00:32:37.180 and when they're

00:32:37.720 wrong, and I

00:32:38.380 know that.

00:32:39.360 I don't have the

00:32:39.980 capability, the

00:32:40.920 experience.

00:32:42.260 I don't have what

00:32:43.000 they have, so I'm

00:32:44.040 not going to

00:32:44.480 second-jud.

00:32:45.620 I very rarely

00:32:47.100 second-guess what

00:32:48.800 the Supreme

00:32:49.300 Court does.

00:32:49.960 Usually I don't

00:32:50.500 understand the

00:32:51.080 issue well enough,

00:32:51.740 but even if I

00:32:52.600 did, what do

00:32:54.020 I have that

00:32:55.700 nine of the

00:32:56.380 smartest, most

00:32:58.760 experienced people

00:32:59.700 who are in

00:33:00.760 this field don't

00:33:02.420 have?

00:33:02.840 Why would I

00:33:03.300 second-guess

00:33:03.820 them?

00:33:04.400 So even if they

00:33:05.080 do something

00:33:05.580 wrong, it's the

00:33:06.320 right system, and

00:33:07.360 that's all my

00:33:08.380 point is.

00:33:09.380 They could still

00:33:09.900 be wrong, but

00:33:11.460 the system is

00:33:12.100 good.

00:33:12.400 I like it.

00:33:14.980 Apparently

00:33:15.460 there's a video

00:33:16.280 going around of

00:33:17.380 some nurse getting 0.95

00:33:18.460 the COVID

00:33:19.860 vaccination and

00:33:21.020 then doing an

00:33:22.380 interview and

00:33:23.020 passing out in

00:33:23.720 the middle of

00:33:24.100 the interview.

00:33:24.880 Have any of

00:33:25.300 you seen that?

00:33:25.840 I haven't seen

00:33:26.340 it yet, but I

00:33:26.940 know it exists.

00:33:29.060 If you see

00:33:29.980 that, assume

00:33:31.720 you're not

00:33:32.680 seeing some

00:33:33.340 reaction to

00:33:34.000 the vaccination,

00:33:36.420 because apparently

00:33:37.500 I'm informed by

00:33:39.260 an actual MD

00:33:40.360 that it's not

00:33:42.200 that unusual for

00:33:43.400 people in, let's

00:33:44.360 say, a stressful

00:33:45.780 situation where

00:33:47.080 there's also a

00:33:47.860 little bit of, I

00:33:49.040 don't want to

00:33:49.380 say bloodshed, but

00:33:52.460 there's a needle

00:33:53.180 going into your

00:33:53.840 body, and even

00:33:54.880 if you're a

00:33:55.380 healthcare

00:33:55.680 professional, if

00:33:57.440 you're being

00:33:58.180 interviewed, it's

00:33:59.240 the most important

00:33:59.940 issue in the

00:34:00.540 world, especially

00:34:01.480 if you're doing

00:34:01.920 it on camera,

00:34:03.460 something got

00:34:04.120 stuck into your

00:34:04.780 body, maybe

00:34:05.700 you're a little

00:34:06.060 worried about it.

00:34:07.420 So it isn't

00:34:08.200 unusual if you

00:34:09.260 did enough

00:34:09.900 vaccinations and

00:34:11.520 interviewed people

00:34:12.720 at the same

00:34:13.220 time for the

00:34:14.500 biggest issue in

00:34:15.240 the world.

00:34:16.680 Somebody's going

00:34:17.300 to get some

00:34:17.980 kind of a

00:34:18.400 reaction and

00:34:18.980 pass out.

00:34:20.540 So your

00:34:21.520 first, most

00:34:22.980 likely diagnosis,

00:34:25.800 far more

00:34:26.640 likely, like

00:34:27.420 way, way, way,

00:34:28.300 way more

00:34:29.100 likely, is

00:34:30.560 that it was

00:34:31.260 the stress of

00:34:31.920 the situation

00:34:32.560 or something

00:34:33.340 about the

00:34:33.780 setup that

00:34:34.820 wouldn't affect

00:34:35.500 most people,

00:34:36.700 but if you do

00:34:37.380 it enough, you're

00:34:38.180 going to find

00:34:38.500 somebody who

00:34:39.000 will pass out.

00:34:40.520 So don't

00:34:41.940 think that that

00:34:42.600 tells you anything

00:34:43.180 about the

00:34:43.760 vaccination.

00:34:44.520 the Wall

00:34:47.040 Street Journal

00:34:47.640 has a story

00:34:49.260 about a

00:34:49.860 study that

00:34:50.340 says that

00:34:51.620 there's less

00:34:52.440 child suicide

00:34:53.600 when there

00:34:55.080 is also

00:34:55.700 school choice.

00:34:57.520 So where

00:34:57.940 school choice

00:34:58.860 exists, kid

00:35:00.620 suicides go

00:35:01.840 down.

00:35:02.900 Do you

00:35:03.400 believe that

00:35:04.040 study, that

00:35:06.520 where you

00:35:07.020 have school

00:35:07.640 choice, suicides

00:35:09.660 go down?

00:35:10.240 at least, I

00:35:13.360 don't know.

00:35:14.060 I would say

00:35:14.840 that this is

00:35:15.780 the sort of

00:35:16.460 study that I

00:35:17.440 would put in

00:35:17.860 the category

00:35:18.480 of, I'm not

00:35:19.660 sure they got

00:35:20.260 the correlation

00:35:20.920 and the

00:35:22.900 causation sorted

00:35:23.900 out quite

00:35:24.500 right.

00:35:25.620 So by its

00:35:26.540 nature, it's

00:35:27.960 the kind of

00:35:28.460 study you

00:35:29.080 shouldn't believe

00:35:29.880 really.

00:35:30.900 I mean, it

00:35:31.260 might be true,

00:35:32.020 might not be

00:35:32.620 true, but I

00:35:33.140 wouldn't believe

00:35:33.580 it just because

00:35:34.060 it's in the

00:35:34.460 study.

00:35:35.120 It's in that

00:35:35.700 category where

00:35:36.520 correlation and

00:35:37.980 causation just

00:35:38.740 get confused

00:35:39.540 so easily.

00:35:40.720 For example,

00:35:41.580 whatever it

00:35:42.160 is that makes

00:35:42.880 you choose

00:35:46.040 an alternative

00:35:47.580 school, or

00:35:48.940 whatever it is

00:35:49.700 about your

00:35:50.180 community that

00:35:51.740 allowed them

00:35:52.360 to push for

00:35:53.780 and get

00:35:54.280 school choice

00:35:55.140 probably makes

00:35:56.420 you different

00:35:56.900 from the

00:35:57.480 community that

00:35:58.280 couldn't get

00:35:58.700 it in some

00:35:59.560 way.

00:36:00.640 So it

00:36:01.080 wouldn't surprise

00:36:02.080 me that you'd

00:36:03.220 have a

00:36:03.520 correlation, but

00:36:04.500 I don't know

00:36:04.940 if there's a

00:36:05.320 causation.

00:36:06.320 Now, I

00:36:08.560 would say

00:36:09.100 if there is

00:36:10.800 a causation,

00:36:12.280 there would

00:36:12.720 be an

00:36:13.260 obvious

00:36:13.640 mechanism for

00:36:14.440 that.

00:36:15.180 Let me tell

00:36:15.700 you the

00:36:16.060 obvious

00:36:16.460 mechanism for

00:36:17.340 why it

00:36:17.820 should make

00:36:18.500 a difference.

00:36:19.400 I don't

00:36:19.680 know if it

00:36:19.940 does, but

00:36:20.360 it should.

00:36:21.240 And it

00:36:21.540 goes like

00:36:21.880 this.

00:36:22.180 how many

00:36:23.500 kids want

00:36:24.480 to kill

00:36:24.780 themselves

00:36:25.300 because of

00:36:26.020 what's

00:36:26.260 happening in

00:36:26.920 their current

00:36:27.580 school?

00:36:29.880 Most, right?

00:36:31.560 If I had to

00:36:32.320 guess, there's

00:36:33.540 probably no

00:36:34.360 kid who ever

00:36:35.200 killed themselves

00:36:35.980 who didn't

00:36:37.020 also have a

00:36:37.740 major problem

00:36:38.480 at school

00:36:39.060 with school

00:36:40.740 friends and

00:36:41.320 bullying and

00:36:41.940 all that, right?

00:36:42.840 Probably.

00:36:43.520 I would guess

00:36:44.200 there's a very,

00:36:45.060 very high

00:36:45.460 correlation between

00:36:47.080 teen suicide and

00:36:48.480 whatever's happening

00:36:49.240 at their school.

00:36:49.940 Now, let's

00:36:50.940 say that they

00:36:52.380 had a choice.

00:36:53.840 They could

00:36:54.240 either be in

00:36:54.820 that school or

00:36:56.520 their parents

00:36:57.220 could say,

00:36:57.640 look, if it's

00:36:58.720 bad, we'll

00:36:59.200 take you

00:36:59.540 somewhere else.

00:37:00.200 It'll cost

00:37:00.640 extra, but I'll

00:37:01.520 get a second

00:37:01.980 job.

00:37:02.380 You could go

00:37:02.740 to the other

00:37:03.100 school.

00:37:04.900 Knowing you

00:37:05.580 have a choice

00:37:06.540 is a completely

00:37:08.540 different

00:37:09.000 psychological

00:37:09.660 existence.

00:37:11.480 Have you ever

00:37:11.980 experienced this?

00:37:12.940 I'll give you

00:37:13.480 my example.

00:37:14.580 When I was

00:37:15.160 working at

00:37:15.580 Pacific Bell

00:37:16.220 before cartooning,

00:37:18.220 I disliked

00:37:19.260 work,

00:37:19.620 because it's

00:37:20.340 work, right?

00:37:21.580 Nobody loves

00:37:22.620 to go to

00:37:22.960 work.

00:37:24.620 But as soon

00:37:25.380 as I became

00:37:26.060 a famous

00:37:26.740 cartoonist,

00:37:27.800 and the

00:37:28.220 cartooning was

00:37:28.920 working, I

00:37:29.480 still had my

00:37:30.280 day job for

00:37:30.880 a number of

00:37:31.320 years, but it

00:37:32.280 took the day

00:37:32.860 job from

00:37:33.380 something unpleasant

00:37:34.280 because I had

00:37:35.920 to be there.

00:37:36.540 I got to

00:37:36.940 work, right?

00:37:37.940 If it's not

00:37:38.400 here, it's

00:37:38.840 going to be

00:37:39.100 some other

00:37:39.520 job.

00:37:40.520 So I got

00:37:41.280 to be here.

00:37:42.460 It made

00:37:43.140 it completely

00:37:44.500 non-painful

00:37:46.280 the moment I

00:37:47.860 realized I

00:37:48.640 didn't need

00:37:49.100 to be

00:37:49.400 there.

00:37:50.380 All of

00:37:51.080 my stress

00:37:51.780 at work

00:37:52.820 disappeared.

00:37:54.660 You know,

00:37:55.040 the person

00:37:55.400 who comes

00:37:55.760 into your

00:37:56.240 cubicle and

00:37:57.020 says something

00:37:57.580 that makes

00:37:57.960 you crazy

00:37:58.460 because they're

00:37:59.420 so stupid

00:38:00.000 or they're

00:38:00.460 so evil

00:38:00.960 or they're

00:38:01.420 so selfish

00:38:02.000 or they're

00:38:02.500 not helpful.

00:38:03.880 Imagine all

00:38:04.840 of that just

00:38:05.340 turning off

00:38:06.080 because I had

00:38:07.420 the ability

00:38:07.860 to just walk

00:38:09.460 out the door.

00:38:10.480 Like,

00:38:10.680 literally,

00:38:11.100 I could just

00:38:11.500 stand up and

00:38:12.000 say,

00:38:12.200 well,

00:38:12.440 I'm done.

00:38:12.860 just walk

00:38:15.080 out the

00:38:15.360 door and

00:38:15.680 never come

00:38:16.040 back to

00:38:16.340 that job 0.53

00:38:16.740 again because

00:38:17.600 I had,

00:38:18.220 you know,

00:38:18.400 the cartooning

00:38:19.000 thing had

00:38:19.360 already taken

00:38:19.900 off at that

00:38:20.400 point.

00:38:21.140 So I got

00:38:21.920 to tell you

00:38:22.460 that your

00:38:23.100 psychological,

00:38:24.740 how you

00:38:25.760 accept your

00:38:26.640 experience,

00:38:28.040 the way you

00:38:28.820 filter your

00:38:30.180 life and

00:38:31.360 is it something

00:38:32.400 that you want

00:38:33.200 to kill

00:38:33.500 yourself over

00:38:34.260 or is it

00:38:35.220 something that

00:38:35.720 you can live

00:38:36.240 with,

00:38:37.240 it makes a

00:38:38.140 big difference

00:38:38.820 if you think

00:38:39.520 it's optional.

00:38:41.020 A big

00:38:41.600 difference.

00:38:42.600 If you feel

00:38:43.340 you're trapped,

00:38:44.120 you might take

00:38:44.700 the only path

00:38:45.460 you can see

00:38:46.120 and it's,

00:38:47.480 you know,

00:38:47.660 the ultimate

00:38:48.080 path.

00:38:48.820 If you think

00:38:49.600 you have a

00:38:49.980 choice,

00:38:50.900 every day you

00:38:51.600 wake up and

00:38:52.180 say,

00:38:52.640 ah,

00:38:52.960 I hate these

00:38:53.500 bullies,

00:38:54.380 I hate my

00:38:54.960 school,

00:38:56.120 I suppose I

00:38:56.760 could just go

00:38:57.180 over to that

00:38:57.540 other school

00:38:58.080 if it gets

00:38:58.480 too bad.

00:38:59.960 It changes

00:39:00.400 everything.

00:39:01.740 So it does

00:39:02.520 make sense

00:39:03.120 that school

00:39:05.440 choice would

00:39:06.180 help kids

00:39:06.860 in that way

00:39:07.540 plus,

00:39:08.360 you know,

00:39:08.620 50 other

00:39:09.220 ways,

00:39:09.520 that are

00:39:09.800 also just

00:39:10.420 as obvious

00:39:10.940 and let

00:39:11.620 me put

00:39:11.860 it to you

00:39:12.260 this way.

00:39:13.540 I don't

00:39:14.120 know if

00:39:14.380 this is

00:39:14.700 true,

00:39:15.000 but I'm

00:39:15.220 going to

00:39:15.400 assume

00:39:15.600 it's true

00:39:15.980 about the

00:39:16.560 suicide

00:39:18.060 being worse.

00:39:19.760 Regardless

00:39:20.200 of the

00:39:20.620 study,

00:39:21.560 it just

00:39:21.900 makes sense

00:39:22.480 that it

00:39:22.760 would be

00:39:23.020 worse.

00:39:25.760 And it

00:39:26.320 feels like

00:39:26.800 war now.

00:39:28.980 Let me

00:39:29.480 put it

00:39:29.720 this way.

00:39:31.220 The

00:39:31.380 teachers' 0.80

00:39:31.980 unions are

00:39:32.520 the reasons

00:39:32.980 and everybody

00:39:34.020 agrees to

00:39:34.740 this,

00:39:35.040 this is not

00:39:35.540 a controversial

00:39:36.220 statement.

00:39:37.120 The teachers'

00:39:37.640 unions are

00:39:38.300 the reasons

00:39:38.680 we don't

00:39:39.060 have a

00:39:39.340 school

00:39:39.540 choice

00:39:39.960 because

00:39:40.220 they don't

00:39:40.520 want it,

00:39:41.000 they control

00:39:41.460 the Democrats,

00:39:42.540 blah, blah, blah.

00:39:45.180 At what point

00:39:46.260 do we say,

00:39:47.080 well, this is

00:39:47.840 political,

00:39:48.740 I don't like

00:39:49.440 it, I sure

00:39:50.600 wish my kids

00:39:51.500 had some more

00:39:52.140 choice.

00:39:53.180 That would be

00:39:53.620 sort of a

00:39:54.040 normal political

00:39:55.680 way to look

00:39:56.500 at it, right?

00:39:57.600 I don't like

00:39:58.520 it, it should

00:39:59.100 be better this

00:39:59.760 way, you know,

00:40:00.640 we get better

00:40:01.160 outcomes,

00:40:01.940 sort of a

00:40:02.620 political context.

00:40:03.840 context.

00:40:04.800 What kind of

00:40:05.320 context is it

00:40:06.220 if they're

00:40:06.600 killing your 0.65

00:40:07.140 fucking

00:40:07.560 children?

00:40:08.940 If the

00:40:09.280 school, if

00:40:10.760 the teachers'

00:40:11.460 unions are

00:40:12.960 knowingly, and

00:40:15.180 they must know

00:40:16.120 that school

00:40:16.900 choice is good

00:40:17.580 for kids, if

00:40:18.620 they're knowingly

00:40:19.400 killing kids, is

00:40:21.240 this political

00:40:21.900 anymore?

00:40:23.000 I don't think

00:40:23.860 so.

00:40:24.540 It's war.

00:40:26.000 This is war.

00:40:27.500 If somebody's

00:40:28.300 killing your 0.65

00:40:28.740 children, you

00:40:29.220 don't say,

00:40:29.720 well, look how

00:40:30.500 political they

00:40:31.200 were with my

00:40:32.020 children.

00:40:33.000 No.

00:40:33.560 If they're

00:40:33.940 killing your 0.65

00:40:34.420 fucking children, 0.96

00:40:35.540 it's not

00:40:35.960 politics.

00:40:37.300 They have to

00:40:38.040 be destroyed.

00:40:39.440 The teachers'

00:40:40.160 unions have to

00:40:40.940 be destroyed

00:40:41.780 because they're

00:40:42.780 killing your 0.65

00:40:43.160 fucking children.

00:40:44.560 Don't think

00:40:45.220 this is

00:40:45.580 political.

00:40:46.560 This is war.

00:40:47.860 It's power.

00:40:49.120 It's not about

00:40:49.760 what's right.

00:40:51.220 It's not about

00:40:51.800 what's fucking

00:40:52.380 fair.

00:40:54.000 It's war.

00:40:55.640 It's power.

00:40:57.500 And the

00:40:58.120 reason that they

00:40:58.740 can kill your

00:40:59.440 kids?

00:41:01.060 It's because

00:41:01.640 they have the

00:41:02.180 power.

00:41:03.300 Do you know

00:41:03.540 why they have

00:41:03.900 the power?

00:41:04.480 You fucking

00:41:05.100 gave it to

00:41:05.760 them.

00:41:06.400 You give it

00:41:07.000 to them.

00:41:07.760 Not you.

00:41:08.440 Most of you

00:41:09.180 hate the

00:41:09.900 teachers' 0.80

00:41:10.520 unions.

00:41:11.060 But you,

00:41:11.820 the public.

00:41:12.820 You give

00:41:13.320 them the

00:41:13.700 fucking power

00:41:14.340 and then they

00:41:14.800 use it to

00:41:15.180 kill your 0.85

00:41:15.540 fucking

00:41:15.840 children.

00:41:17.560 It's war.

00:41:18.840 It's not

00:41:19.380 politics.

00:41:20.480 It's war.

00:41:26.800 You're

00:41:27.240 hearing a lot

00:41:27.780 on social

00:41:28.200 media and

00:41:28.660 in the

00:41:28.940 news this

00:41:29.820 question.

00:41:30.560 Why can't

00:41:31.160 Trump accept

00:41:32.240 defeat?

00:41:33.140 And of course,

00:41:33.780 if you're a

00:41:34.260 Trump supporter,

00:41:34.900 you've heard it

00:41:35.320 from people

00:41:35.720 too.

00:41:36.400 Why can't

00:41:36.860 you accept

00:41:37.320 defeat?

00:41:38.120 Why can't

00:41:38.880 you accept

00:41:39.460 the defeat?

00:41:41.040 What's wrong

00:41:41.660 with you?

00:41:42.580 Why can't

00:41:43.340 you accept

00:41:43.880 the defeat?

00:41:45.960 What's wrong

00:41:46.580 with you?

00:41:47.780 Do you know

00:41:48.080 what's wrong

00:41:48.420 with that?

00:41:48.980 That is

00:41:49.600 propaganda.

00:41:51.200 That is

00:41:51.720 manipulation.

00:41:52.600 That is

00:41:52.780 brainwashing.

00:41:53.500 It is

00:41:55.400 first of

00:41:55.720 all making

00:41:56.060 you think

00:41:56.520 past the

00:41:57.060 sale that

00:41:58.680 there was

00:41:59.120 a defeat

00:41:59.660 because that's

00:42:00.720 the whole

00:42:00.960 question,

00:42:01.500 right?

00:42:02.020 The question

00:42:02.680 is whether

00:42:03.120 there was

00:42:03.600 a defeat.

00:42:04.840 That's the

00:42:05.460 question.

00:42:06.120 The question

00:42:06.740 is not how

00:42:07.680 do you

00:42:07.960 fucking deal

00:42:08.580 with the

00:42:08.900 defeat.

00:42:09.700 That's not

00:42:10.340 the question.

00:42:11.800 The question

00:42:12.540 is not how

00:42:13.080 you deal

00:42:13.540 with it.

00:42:14.680 The question

00:42:15.420 is did it

00:42:15.920 happen?

00:42:17.260 And if

00:42:17.540 they're making

00:42:17.920 you even

00:42:19.080 address the

00:42:20.300 question,

00:42:21.240 even respond

00:42:22.040 to it.

00:42:23.600 It's

00:42:24.080 manipulation.

00:42:25.960 It's

00:42:26.480 brainwashing.

00:42:27.580 And I

00:42:27.880 don't use

00:42:28.240 that word

00:42:28.620 lightly.

00:42:29.240 This is

00:42:29.540 literally

00:42:29.920 brainwashing

00:42:30.640 in every

00:42:31.120 possible way.

00:42:32.540 I don't

00:42:33.860 mean by

00:42:34.240 analogy.

00:42:35.400 I don't

00:42:35.600 mean it

00:42:36.360 reminds me

00:42:37.100 of brainwashing.

00:42:38.480 I don't

00:42:38.720 mean it

00:42:39.320 intersects a

00:42:40.080 little bit.

00:42:40.340 There's a

00:42:40.600 little bit

00:42:40.840 overlap

00:42:41.460 with brainwashing.

00:42:42.300 No.

00:42:43.000 This is

00:42:43.540 100%

00:42:44.720 brainwashing.

00:42:49.180 And let

00:42:50.420 me,

00:42:50.780 if I

00:42:52.020 haven't made

00:42:52.360 that case

00:42:52.800 strong enough,

00:42:53.500 let me put

00:42:54.000 it this

00:42:54.240 way.

00:42:56.900 If you

00:42:57.480 had been

00:42:57.840 mugged on

00:42:59.300 the sidewalk,

00:43:00.960 somebody took

00:43:01.700 out a gun

00:43:02.300 and they

00:43:03.440 robbed you,

00:43:04.920 but you

00:43:05.320 got a good

00:43:05.660 look at

00:43:06.020 them and

00:43:06.240 you called

00:43:06.920 the police

00:43:07.320 later,

00:43:07.960 and the

00:43:08.620 police come

00:43:09.060 to you and

00:43:09.460 say,

00:43:09.680 what happened?

00:43:10.180 You say,

00:43:10.540 I was mugged

00:43:11.260 at gunpoint

00:43:12.100 on the street,

00:43:13.360 but I got a

00:43:13.960 good look at

00:43:14.420 the guy and

00:43:15.280 I think there's

00:43:16.360 a security

00:43:16.880 camera over

00:43:17.460 there.

00:43:17.760 You probably

00:43:18.080 have a good

00:43:18.460 picture of

00:43:19.060 him.

00:43:19.740 Let's

00:43:20.060 prosecute this

00:43:21.580 guy.

00:43:22.440 And then

00:43:22.740 the policeman

00:43:23.800 looks at

00:43:24.300 you and

00:43:24.640 he goes,

00:43:25.700 prosecute

00:43:26.640 him?

00:43:28.520 Why would

00:43:29.080 we do

00:43:30.280 that?

00:43:31.480 And you

00:43:31.760 say,

00:43:32.040 well,

00:43:32.180 he just

00:43:32.480 mugged

00:43:32.740 me.

00:43:33.680 That's

00:43:34.060 against the

00:43:34.460 law.

00:43:35.660 We need

00:43:36.260 to make

00:43:37.540 sure that

00:43:37.940 there are

00:43:38.180 not more

00:43:38.560 muggers in 0.98

00:43:39.120 the future.

00:43:41.940 It kind

00:43:42.660 of makes

00:43:42.880 sense that

00:43:44.120 maybe you

00:43:44.580 would try

00:43:44.880 to catch

00:43:45.200 this guy

00:43:45.540 and put

00:43:45.760 him in

00:43:45.980 jail.

00:43:46.200 And the

00:43:47.060 policeman

00:43:47.400 looks at

00:43:47.840 you right

00:43:48.180 in the

00:43:48.380 eyes and

00:43:48.940 he says,

00:43:49.980 why can't

00:43:51.900 you accept

00:43:52.420 your mugging?

00:43:55.280 Why can't

00:43:56.000 you accept

00:43:56.440 it?

00:43:57.480 Why are you

00:43:58.120 fighting this?

00:44:00.180 Why don't

00:44:00.580 you just

00:44:00.880 accept it?

00:44:01.940 What's wrong

00:44:02.400 with you?

00:44:03.080 Are you

00:44:03.420 weak?

00:44:04.240 Are you

00:44:04.740 stupid?

00:44:05.860 Are you

00:44:06.380 hallucinating?

00:44:08.700 Are you

00:44:09.040 deluded in

00:44:09.720 yourself somehow?

00:44:11.200 Why?

00:44:11.400 I don't

00:44:13.200 understand why

00:44:13.800 you'd ask me

00:44:14.180 to catch

00:44:14.580 this guy.

00:44:15.360 It's sort

00:44:15.720 of too

00:44:16.020 late.

00:44:17.120 Right?

00:44:18.200 Whatever you

00:44:18.920 say happened

00:44:19.460 already happened.

00:44:20.060 I can't go

00:44:20.420 back in time.

00:44:22.160 I'm just a

00:44:22.860 policeman.

00:44:23.400 I'm not

00:44:23.640 doctor who.

00:44:26.000 I don't

00:44:26.540 have a

00:44:26.900 time machine.

00:44:28.420 What the

00:44:28.760 hell am I

00:44:29.120 going to

00:44:29.340 do?

00:44:30.240 It already

00:44:30.680 happened.

00:44:31.900 Just accept

00:44:33.060 it.

00:44:34.940 That's what

00:44:35.540 you're being

00:44:35.920 asked.

00:44:36.900 You're being

00:44:37.380 asked to get

00:44:38.400 over the fact

00:44:39.060 that you got

00:44:39.480 mugged.

00:44:40.320 No.

00:44:40.780 Why should

00:44:41.580 you pursue

00:44:42.200 this in the

00:44:42.800 legal system?

00:44:44.180 Take it like

00:44:44.680 a man.

00:44:45.700 Take it like

00:44:46.120 a man.

00:44:48.480 Analogies are 1.00

00:44:49.080 good for

00:44:49.460 making a

00:44:50.860 point.

00:44:51.440 They're not

00:44:51.740 good for

00:44:52.100 persuasion.

00:44:53.620 All right.

00:44:56.020 Did you

00:44:56.580 hear the

00:44:56.900 story that

00:44:57.620 I guess

00:44:58.500 this was in

00:44:59.020 one of the

00:44:59.480 legal lawsuits

00:45:01.160 that some

00:45:02.020 experts

00:45:02.420 calculated that

00:45:03.660 there was a

00:45:04.080 one in a

00:45:04.620 quadrillion

00:45:05.260 chance that

00:45:07.960 the things we

00:45:08.700 saw in the

00:45:09.160 election

00:45:09.520 were by

00:45:12.000 chance?

00:45:13.180 One in

00:45:13.840 one quadrillion

00:45:14.900 that the

00:45:15.880 election was

00:45:16.480 fair because

00:45:17.740 the things

00:45:18.280 that we

00:45:18.620 observed,

00:45:19.360 the irregularities

00:45:20.680 in it,

00:45:21.560 could not have

00:45:22.220 happened by

00:45:22.880 chance except

00:45:23.960 in a one in a

00:45:24.940 quadrillion

00:45:25.600 odds.

00:45:28.100 That was in

00:45:28.680 the news,

00:45:29.140 right?

00:45:30.280 That's just

00:45:30.900 bullshit.

00:45:32.220 It's just

00:45:32.980 bullshit.

00:45:34.320 Here's why you

00:45:35.260 should have

00:45:35.640 known immediately

00:45:36.780 that that

00:45:37.820 wasn't anything

00:45:39.160 real.

00:45:40.900 And my

00:45:43.280 favorite data

00:45:45.020 analysis

00:45:46.840 person,

00:45:48.520 Andres

00:45:49.260 Backhouse,

00:45:50.280 explained it

00:45:51.060 this way.

00:45:51.520 So he's good

00:45:52.280 at explaining

00:45:52.820 things easily.

00:45:53.760 He said,

00:45:54.340 someone has

00:45:55.460 already taken

00:45:56.040 on the

00:45:56.480 quadrillion

00:45:56.960 claim,

00:45:57.520 and he points

00:45:58.140 to somebody

00:45:58.580 who was

00:45:58.780 debunking

00:45:59.220 it.

00:46:00.140 And then he

00:46:00.880 adds his

00:46:01.260 own summary.

00:46:02.240 So here's

00:46:02.620 the summary

00:46:02.980 that tells

00:46:04.180 you why you

00:46:04.860 shouldn't trust

00:46:05.420 that one

00:46:05.800 in a

00:46:06.000 quadrillion

00:46:06.360 thing.

00:46:07.240 He says,

00:46:07.720 if we

00:46:08.020 observe

00:46:08.420 unusual

00:46:09.140 election

00:46:09.740 statistics

00:46:10.700 A,

00:46:11.160 B,

00:46:11.340 and C,

00:46:12.340 so there

00:46:12.740 are three

00:46:13.280 things that

00:46:13.860 are observed.

00:46:14.680 There's

00:46:14.880 irregularity

00:46:15.720 one,

00:46:16.560 two,

00:46:17.360 and three,

00:46:17.840 and they're

00:46:18.120 not related,

00:46:19.700 or so you

00:46:20.280 think.

00:46:21.680 They likely

00:46:22.580 aren't

00:46:23.060 independent

00:46:23.780 of each

00:46:24.640 other.

00:46:24.940 So that's

00:46:25.280 the key.

00:46:26.240 So forget

00:46:26.900 what I just

00:46:27.320 said.

00:46:27.640 The point

00:46:28.020 is they

00:46:28.920 probably are

00:46:29.500 related.

00:46:30.500 So if you

00:46:30.860 get any

00:46:31.320 one

00:46:31.800 irregularity,

00:46:33.520 there's a

00:46:34.320 really good

00:46:34.700 chance that

00:46:35.440 it means

00:46:35.800 that something

00:46:36.400 is so

00:46:36.860 different that

00:46:38.020 you'll get

00:46:38.380 lots of

00:46:38.840 irregularities.

00:46:39.560 So the

00:46:40.340 likely two

00:46:41.320 cases are

00:46:42.740 lots of

00:46:43.920 irregularities,

00:46:44.900 or not

00:46:46.100 too many.

00:46:47.160 And they're

00:46:47.500 both kind

00:46:48.920 of ordinary.

00:46:50.980 Now, you

00:46:51.880 start from the

00:46:52.560 position that

00:46:53.380 there's no

00:46:55.000 reason to

00:46:55.540 believe the

00:46:56.060 base assumption

00:46:56.920 that Biden

00:46:58.300 would be

00:46:59.620 expected to

00:47:00.640 perform like

00:47:01.700 Hillary.

00:47:02.100 Hillary.

00:47:02.800 Pretty

00:47:03.320 much all

00:47:04.000 of those

00:47:04.520 irregularities

00:47:06.280 seem to

00:47:07.540 come from

00:47:08.160 the, well,

00:47:08.760 what we

00:47:09.100 expected was

00:47:10.700 Biden to

00:47:11.320 do like

00:47:11.760 Hillary.

00:47:12.460 But what

00:47:12.960 if that

00:47:13.280 one thing,

00:47:14.140 just one

00:47:14.520 assumption,

00:47:15.660 wasn't

00:47:16.060 true?

00:47:17.420 And you

00:47:18.060 could easily

00:47:18.480 say it

00:47:18.880 wouldn't be

00:47:19.180 true because

00:47:19.800 having one

00:47:21.420 term of

00:47:21.980 Trump is

00:47:23.120 different from

00:47:23.720 him never

00:47:24.200 being president

00:47:24.840 and you

00:47:25.460 don't know

00:47:25.840 if he's

00:47:26.160 even going

00:47:26.500 to get

00:47:26.700 elected and

00:47:27.340 nobody thinks

00:47:27.860 it's going

00:47:28.140 to happen.

00:47:28.420 But after

00:47:29.200 you've had

00:47:29.600 it, you

00:47:30.000 know, four

00:47:30.660 years of

00:47:31.060 Trump, people

00:47:34.040 are going

00:47:34.340 to behave

00:47:35.220 maybe more

00:47:36.680 aggressively than

00:47:37.460 they had

00:47:37.740 before.

00:47:38.480 Maybe the

00:47:39.120 number of

00:47:39.440 people who

00:47:39.880 go out to

00:47:40.440 vote is way

00:47:41.380 more.

00:47:41.780 Maybe the

00:47:42.500 Democrats

00:47:42.860 learned that

00:47:44.100 they had to

00:47:44.580 work way

00:47:45.340 harder in

00:47:46.300 specific areas

00:47:47.400 to get out

00:47:47.940 to vote.

00:47:49.080 So the

00:47:50.420 one in a

00:47:51.620 quadrillion

00:47:52.280 event could

00:47:54.120 happen two

00:47:55.080 different ways.

00:47:55.860 one is

00:47:58.020 massive

00:47:58.420 fraud, which

00:48:00.140 would explain

00:48:00.840 all the

00:48:01.360 anomalous

00:48:01.780 things.

00:48:02.960 The other

00:48:03.460 is Biden

00:48:04.900 and Hillary 1.00

00:48:05.640 did not

00:48:06.880 perform the

00:48:07.560 same.

00:48:09.180 Is it

00:48:09.700 unreasonable

00:48:10.660 to assume

00:48:11.800 that Biden

00:48:13.320 and Hillary 1.00

00:48:13.820 wouldn't

00:48:14.600 perform the

00:48:15.380 same?

00:48:16.320 Because the

00:48:17.100 fact that

00:48:17.520 we had a

00:48:19.440 2016 election

00:48:20.680 should have

00:48:22.020 taught the

00:48:22.480 Democrats where

00:48:23.380 they have to

00:48:23.860 work harder.

00:48:25.020 You would

00:48:25.420 expect that

00:48:26.920 the most

00:48:27.380 reasonable

00:48:28.000 thing that

00:48:28.460 would happen

00:48:28.920 is that

00:48:30.020 Biden and

00:48:30.900 Hillary would 0.99

00:48:31.840 be disconnected.

00:48:33.140 Not connected.

00:48:34.440 That's not the

00:48:35.020 most reasonable

00:48:35.600 assumption.

00:48:38.760 Could be.

00:48:39.700 But the

00:48:40.260 most reasonable

00:48:40.940 assumption is

00:48:41.720 that they

00:48:42.220 don't have

00:48:43.180 enough in

00:48:43.620 common that

00:48:44.260 you could

00:48:44.520 say that

00:48:45.540 these anomalies

00:48:46.240 are really

00:48:46.800 anything but

00:48:47.600 a broad

00:48:48.280 picture of

00:48:49.380 the whole

00:48:49.700 thing being

00:48:50.140 different than

00:48:50.700 last time.

00:48:51.880 So,

00:48:52.560 none of

00:48:54.220 this proves

00:48:54.760 or disproves

00:48:55.520 the existence

00:48:56.060 of fraud

00:48:57.800 in the

00:48:58.060 election.

00:48:58.500 I'm just

00:48:58.760 saying that

00:48:59.140 the one in

00:48:59.600 quadrillion,

00:49:00.640 you should

00:49:01.520 have known

00:49:02.040 enough to

00:49:03.560 spot that

00:49:04.440 as being

00:49:05.100 false as

00:49:05.920 soon as

00:49:06.340 you saw

00:49:06.720 it.

00:49:07.600 And you

00:49:08.160 don't need

00:49:08.540 to be an

00:49:08.880 expert in

00:49:09.440 statistics to

00:49:10.980 understand what

00:49:11.780 Andres is

00:49:12.420 telling you.

00:49:13.160 And I

00:49:13.700 know this

00:49:14.600 much about

00:49:15.180 statistics.

00:49:16.280 I'm holding

00:49:17.320 my hands in

00:49:18.080 a very tiny

00:49:18.740 way.

00:49:19.060 But I

00:49:21.760 do know

00:49:22.240 that we

00:49:24.040 should not

00:49:24.520 treat each

00:49:25.540 of those

00:49:25.860 individual

00:49:26.360 anomalies

00:49:27.060 like they

00:49:27.480 were independent

00:49:28.120 events if

00:49:29.040 there is one

00:49:29.600 thing that

00:49:30.020 might have

00:49:30.360 influenced all

00:49:31.140 of them.

00:49:31.900 And that one

00:49:32.200 thing could 0.56

00:49:32.540 either be

00:49:32.980 fraud or

00:49:33.700 the fact that

00:49:34.240 Biden just

00:49:34.800 didn't get

00:49:35.220 the same

00:49:35.580 kind of

00:49:36.080 votes that

00:49:36.720 Hillary did 1.00

00:49:37.200 for lots

00:49:37.600 of good

00:49:37.860 reasons.

00:49:39.040 But that

00:49:39.940 said,

00:49:41.900 there's a

00:49:43.480 big dog that

00:49:44.060 isn't barking.

00:49:44.880 And I tweeted

00:49:45.520 a thread about it

00:49:46.240 this morning.

00:49:47.080 And you can

00:49:47.440 see it.

00:49:47.780 Here's the

00:49:48.680 big dog that

00:49:49.280 isn't barking.

00:49:50.740 I've been

00:49:51.060 saying now in

00:49:52.060 public for

00:49:52.680 months the

00:49:53.260 following thing

00:49:54.040 with no

00:49:54.680 pushback.

00:49:56.220 The no

00:49:56.700 pushback is

00:49:57.700 the dog that's

00:49:58.400 not barking.

00:49:59.680 Imagine if

00:50:00.340 you will,

00:50:01.540 somebody who

00:50:02.880 has, let's

00:50:03.560 say, some

00:50:03.940 minor celebrity

00:50:04.920 status, such

00:50:06.040 as myself.

00:50:08.080 You've probably

00:50:08.820 seen it yourself

00:50:09.520 that if I say

00:50:10.220 anything that

00:50:10.920 could be taken

00:50:11.760 out of context

00:50:12.420 or could be

00:50:13.160 made to sound

00:50:13.760 stupid, it's a

00:50:15.020 national news

00:50:15.620 story.

00:50:16.300 Or if not

00:50:16.840 national, it's

00:50:17.500 at least in

00:50:17.960 a lot of

00:50:18.300 publications

00:50:18.800 that are

00:50:20.300 national.

00:50:22.340 So if I

00:50:23.520 were to say

00:50:23.960 something that

00:50:24.560 was both

00:50:25.160 outrageous and

00:50:28.280 tied to the

00:50:28.960 headlines and

00:50:31.000 clearly dumb

00:50:31.960 or false, you

00:50:33.800 would expect a

00:50:35.100 lot of dogs

00:50:36.320 barking.

00:50:37.320 Because I

00:50:37.940 create that kind

00:50:38.740 of energy.

00:50:39.240 You've seen it

00:50:39.620 yourself.

00:50:40.180 That's not a,

00:50:41.480 you know, I'm

00:50:42.300 not bragging.

00:50:43.940 I'm telling you

00:50:44.940 that it's

00:50:45.400 observable that

00:50:47.320 when I say

00:50:47.840 things provocative

00:50:48.680 in the news,

00:50:49.440 it becomes

00:50:49.840 headlines in

00:50:51.240 various publications.

00:50:53.440 You've seen it

00:50:54.060 a lot.

00:50:55.040 So here's the

00:50:55.700 thing that I've

00:50:56.220 been saying that

00:50:57.700 has no pushback.

00:50:59.420 Not a single

00:51:00.540 troll, not a

00:51:02.460 single publication,

00:51:04.900 not a single

00:51:05.940 person has pushed

00:51:06.840 back on the

00:51:07.600 following point.

00:51:08.540 And the

00:51:11.120 following point

00:51:11.800 is, who's

00:51:14.520 texting me in

00:51:15.180 the morning?

00:51:18.380 The following

00:51:19.180 point is this,

00:51:20.740 that the

00:51:21.440 election system

00:51:22.240 is designed in

00:51:23.420 a way that

00:51:24.040 guarantees massive

00:51:25.480 fraud, so much

00:51:27.000 so that you

00:51:27.680 don't need to

00:51:28.200 observe it to

00:51:29.060 know it's there.

00:51:30.520 And what I mean

00:51:31.400 by that is that

00:51:32.160 we've seen even

00:51:33.020 in the process of

00:51:34.200 figuring out where

00:51:34.840 there might have

00:51:35.400 been fraud or

00:51:36.200 there's alleged

00:51:36.760 fraud, it's

00:51:37.560 fairly obvious

00:51:38.380 that our

00:51:39.220 voting system

00:51:39.920 is completely

00:51:41.040 open to a

00:51:44.520 wide variety of

00:51:45.780 attacks that

00:51:46.960 would not

00:51:47.340 necessarily be

00:51:48.240 detected, or if

00:51:49.200 they were detected

00:51:49.840 they'd be too

00:51:50.500 small to, you

00:51:51.560 know, an

00:51:51.840 individual event

00:51:52.900 would be too

00:51:53.460 small to change

00:51:54.120 the result, which

00:51:55.480 would keep the

00:51:56.060 courts out of it

00:51:56.760 and keep the

00:51:57.560 result.

00:51:58.420 So here's the

00:51:59.360 point.

00:52:00.360 You have a

00:52:01.180 system in which

00:52:02.200 fraud is

00:52:03.900 completely feasible

00:52:04.900 in a whole

00:52:06.140 bunch of ways.

00:52:06.820 that's fact

00:52:08.440 number one, and

00:52:09.180 nobody would

00:52:09.660 disagree with

00:52:10.260 that.

00:52:11.020 Having seen

00:52:11.680 all the ways

00:52:12.320 you could

00:52:12.860 cheat, even

00:52:14.300 Democrats at

00:52:15.100 this point will

00:52:15.600 say, yeah, we

00:52:16.920 don't think there

00:52:17.600 was cheating, or

00:52:18.560 we'd like to

00:52:19.120 think there

00:52:19.480 wasn't, but

00:52:20.120 even we can

00:52:22.000 see that it's

00:52:23.760 possible.

00:52:24.700 Do you think

00:52:25.140 there's any

00:52:25.600 Democrat who

00:52:27.040 believes it

00:52:27.660 isn't possible

00:52:28.540 to hack

00:52:29.220 software?

00:52:29.900 What's the

00:52:31.920 biggest headline

00:52:32.680 in the news?

00:52:33.980 The biggest

00:52:34.500 headline today is

00:52:35.540 that Russia 0.72

00:52:36.000 hacked all of

00:52:37.400 our systems,

00:52:38.520 like all the

00:52:39.220 big ones, even

00:52:40.360 government systems,

00:52:41.600 highly protected

00:52:42.440 systems.

00:52:43.660 Russia not

00:52:44.760 only hacked

00:52:45.400 our national

00:52:47.220 systems, they're

00:52:49.000 still in them.

00:52:50.640 They're still

00:52:51.480 in them, like

00:52:52.420 right now.

00:52:53.620 According to

00:52:54.320 our experts,

00:52:55.560 Russia already 0.94

00:52:56.600 has functional

00:52:57.500 control of a

00:52:59.300 huge part of

00:53:00.000 America, or 0.55

00:53:01.500 if it's not

00:53:02.000 Russia, somebody.

00:53:03.540 So, do you

00:53:04.960 think there's any

00:53:05.600 Democrat in the

00:53:06.360 world who

00:53:07.020 believes our

00:53:07.740 election software

00:53:08.700 could not have

00:53:10.260 been hacked?

00:53:11.640 No, there's not.

00:53:13.080 No.

00:53:13.740 You might find

00:53:14.560 somebody who's

00:53:15.140 willing to say

00:53:15.800 that to you, but

00:53:16.440 they're not going

00:53:16.880 to be honest

00:53:18.200 about it.

00:53:19.080 There is nobody,

00:53:21.520 Democrat or

00:53:22.280 Republican or

00:53:23.000 Independent, who 0.59

00:53:24.340 believes that the

00:53:25.100 election couldn't

00:53:26.760 have been stolen.

00:53:28.400 There definitely

00:53:28.960 are people who

00:53:29.560 think it wasn't

00:53:30.500 stolen.

00:53:31.800 But there's

00:53:32.440 nobody who

00:53:33.200 believes it

00:53:34.220 was hard,

00:53:35.780 right?

00:53:36.840 Given the

00:53:38.040 level of

00:53:38.540 difficulty it

00:53:39.140 would take for

00:53:39.680 Russia to take 0.94

00:53:40.300 over all those

00:53:40.900 other systems,

00:53:42.060 this wouldn't be

00:53:43.000 that hard.

00:53:45.200 And you don't

00:53:46.140 have to do the

00:53:46.740 software, that's

00:53:47.400 just the easiest

00:53:48.000 one for everybody

00:53:48.800 to agree on.

00:53:49.700 If you see all

00:53:50.300 the other holes in

00:53:51.460 how they could

00:53:52.220 have gamed the

00:53:53.000 system, and as

00:53:54.420 long as there

00:53:54.880 weren't witnesses,

00:53:55.680 they could do

00:53:56.000 all kinds of

00:53:56.440 things with

00:53:57.020 ballots.

00:53:58.300 Allegedly, you

00:53:59.440 know, we

00:53:59.920 haven't proved

00:54:00.400 it.

00:54:01.000 But here's my

00:54:01.900 point.

00:54:02.320 I analogized it

00:54:03.960 to dropping

00:54:04.500 ice cream on a

00:54:05.400 hot sidewalk.

00:54:06.680 If you drop

00:54:07.540 ice cream on a

00:54:08.240 hot sidewalk in

00:54:09.160 the summer, you

00:54:10.280 don't need to

00:54:10.940 stay to know

00:54:12.560 that it melted.

00:54:13.960 You don't have

00:54:14.420 to watch it.

00:54:15.360 You don't need

00:54:15.820 to take a picture.

00:54:16.820 You don't need

00:54:17.180 to leave a time

00:54:17.940 elapsed video.

00:54:19.660 You know that

00:54:20.720 because of the

00:54:21.380 situation, there's

00:54:23.180 only one way it

00:54:23.840 could go.

00:54:24.200 ice cream will

00:54:25.900 melt on a

00:54:26.620 hot sidewalk.

00:54:27.780 That's it.

00:54:29.120 So, this is

00:54:31.480 one of those

00:54:31.840 cases where the

00:54:32.720 entire country

00:54:33.420 knows that the

00:54:34.320 God fucking

00:54:35.740 damn it, will

00:54:36.880 you stop texting

00:54:38.780 me in the middle

00:54:39.680 of Periscope because

00:54:40.780 you know I'm

00:54:42.780 doing it right

00:54:43.260 now.

00:54:46.940 Where are the

00:54:47.840 Democrats saying,

00:54:49.360 Scott, if there's

00:54:50.820 a system that

00:54:52.240 could easily be

00:54:53.360 corrupted, and

00:54:54.500 the upside

00:54:55.160 potential for

00:54:56.020 doing it is

00:54:56.640 gigantic, it

00:54:58.660 didn't happen.

00:55:01.720 Nobody, not a 1.00

00:55:04.060 single Democrat,

00:55:05.840 not one, not an

00:55:07.380 article, not a

00:55:08.720 story, not a

00:55:10.360 fucking tweet, is 0.90

00:55:12.960 telling me that my

00:55:14.520 statement is even

00:55:16.540 a little bit

00:55:17.260 incorrect.

00:55:19.700 Krebs didn't say

00:55:20.760 that either.

00:55:21.160 nobody is pushing

00:55:23.100 back on the fact

00:55:24.060 that it could have

00:55:24.880 been corrupted, and

00:55:26.320 the stakes for doing

00:55:27.640 it were sky high, and

00:55:29.340 therefore, like ice

00:55:31.040 cream melting on the

00:55:32.000 sidewalk, don't ask me

00:55:33.840 for proof.

00:55:35.620 Don't ask me for

00:55:36.600 proof.

00:55:37.440 It's guaranteed, just

00:55:39.940 like the ice cream on

00:55:40.800 the software.

00:55:41.400 It can't not be

00:55:42.320 fraud.

00:55:42.600 fraud.

00:55:43.420 The weird thing

00:55:44.360 would be if there

00:55:45.560 were no fraud, no

00:55:47.140 massive fraud.

00:55:48.320 You could even put

00:55:49.220 massive in here, and

00:55:50.040 it's still the same.

00:55:51.020 It has to be massive

00:55:52.260 fraud.

00:55:53.260 It has to be.

00:55:55.060 There's no other

00:55:56.120 possibility.

00:55:57.780 There really isn't.

00:55:59.120 And nobody pushes

00:56:00.160 back on that point.

00:56:02.120 Instead, they say,

00:56:03.140 well, it's not

00:56:04.260 proven in court.

00:56:06.420 Right, it's not

00:56:07.500 proven in court.

00:56:08.980 Because they

00:56:09.620 packetized it so

00:56:10.840 well, the courts

00:56:11.860 don't want to look

00:56:12.520 at it, because

00:56:12.940 they're only looking

00:56:13.560 at a packet.

00:56:14.920 One packet wouldn't

00:56:16.120 change the election,

00:56:17.120 so they don't care.

00:56:18.300 It's a perfect system

00:56:19.160 for a crime.

00:56:20.820 All right, so I

00:56:21.780 would say that we

00:56:23.060 could guarantee at

00:56:24.000 this point that that

00:56:25.280 means something.

00:56:26.160 The fact there's no

00:56:26.860 pushback on it.

00:56:28.620 So the news, as I

00:56:29.820 said, is that Russia

00:56:30.820 got into our systems

00:56:32.240 and through the

00:56:33.840 SolarWinds hack and

00:56:36.100 other hacks, now

00:56:36.960 they're saying,

00:56:37.360 and they have

00:56:39.120 like functional

00:56:39.800 control of just

00:56:40.740 all kinds of our

00:56:41.600 systems.

00:56:42.740 Here's my question

00:56:43.700 to you.

00:56:44.860 How do we know

00:56:45.660 it's the Russians?

00:56:47.500 Do you believe that

00:56:50.040 we have the

00:56:50.560 capability to know

00:56:52.140 who is doing the

00:56:52.940 hacks? 0.95

00:56:54.160 Because I don't.

00:56:55.280 I don't believe

00:56:55.840 that.

00:56:56.660 Now, I think that

00:56:57.480 this is me speculating,

00:56:59.520 so this is not based

00:57:00.380 on inside knowledge

00:57:01.920 or anything, but it

00:57:04.280 seems to me that the

00:57:05.180 only way you could be

00:57:06.540 semi-confident that

00:57:09.860 you knew what

00:57:10.340 country had done

00:57:11.200 it, is if the hack

00:57:13.000 was so sophisticated

00:57:14.000 it had to be a

00:57:15.000 country, and it had

00:57:16.700 to be a country that

00:57:17.720 was a nemesis, and

00:57:19.500 it had to be a

00:57:20.040 country that was

00:57:20.640 really, really good

00:57:21.420 at this, and it

00:57:22.540 had to be a country

00:57:23.140 that you know would

00:57:24.180 do it and is trying

00:57:25.000 to do it.

00:57:26.000 So I feel like the

00:57:28.420 way that we know

00:57:29.320 it's Russia is sort

00:57:31.480 of process of

00:57:32.440 elimination.

00:57:33.040 Do you feel

00:57:34.340 comfortable with

00:57:34.940 that?

00:57:35.860 Would you feel

00:57:36.580 comfortable knowing

00:57:37.500 it was Russia when

00:57:39.660 the evidence for it

00:57:41.160 is not direct, but

00:57:43.160 rather the evidence

00:57:44.280 is, well, who else

00:57:45.780 would it be?

00:57:47.620 Could you really tell

00:57:48.760 the difference between

00:57:49.600 a Chinese hack and a

00:57:50.980 Russian hack?

00:57:52.380 And here's to

00:57:53.340 complicate it a little

00:57:54.440 extra.

00:57:56.280 Let's say you were a

00:57:57.720 Russian hacker, a

00:57:59.840 Russian citizen, and you

00:58:00.860 had the ability to

00:58:02.580 do such sophisticated

00:58:03.880 things.

00:58:05.200 Wouldn't China try to 1.00

00:58:06.280 hire you?

00:58:07.400 Wouldn't Iran try to 1.00

00:58:08.580 hire you?

00:58:09.400 Who's going to pay you

00:58:10.380 more, Russia or

00:58:12.940 China? 0.73

00:58:14.680 Right?

00:58:15.640 If you have those

00:58:16.660 skills, are you going

00:58:18.120 to sell it to your own

00:58:18.980 country?

00:58:19.780 Because they'll

00:58:20.360 probably pay you,

00:58:21.220 you know, whatever is

00:58:21.940 your salary for that

00:58:22.800 kind of a job.

00:58:23.840 But suppose you were

00:58:24.680 to try to sell that

00:58:25.740 skill to China.

00:58:28.140 You still sit exactly

00:58:29.340 where you sit in

00:58:30.220 Russia.

00:58:30.860 You've got your

00:58:31.600 little Russia computer

00:58:32.600 and your Russia, you

00:58:34.040 know, your IP address

00:58:35.160 and everything.

00:58:35.960 You're a Russian. 0.94

00:58:37.500 You're a Russian in 1.00

00:58:38.600 Russia, hacking into 0.80

00:58:40.120 the United States.

00:58:41.700 But who's paying you?

00:58:43.640 If you took your pay

00:58:45.020 from Russia, you were

00:58:47.720 underpaid.

00:58:49.400 Right?

00:58:50.220 Wouldn't you be

00:58:50.800 underpaid?

00:58:51.860 Because you know, if

00:58:52.960 China could buy that

00:58:54.220 service, they would pay

00:58:56.120 ten times as much,

00:58:57.500 because it would be

00:58:57.940 worth it easily.

00:58:59.120 Of course.

00:58:59.740 Of course they'd pay for

00:59:00.600 it's an open market

00:59:01.760 for expertise.

00:59:04.020 So, every time you

00:59:06.700 hear that we know

00:59:07.500 it's Russia, you 0.93

00:59:09.480 should put a little

00:59:10.560 skeptical note in

00:59:13.460 your head to say,

00:59:14.980 maybe.

00:59:16.400 I mean, maybe we

00:59:17.300 know.

00:59:17.760 I don't know.

00:59:19.100 And what if our

00:59:20.280 government knows, but

00:59:22.180 the way they know is

00:59:23.500 in a way that they

00:59:24.320 can't explain it to

00:59:26.380 us?

00:59:26.720 In other words, they 0.83

00:59:27.300 know from secret

00:59:28.060 means that they

00:59:29.460 can't tell us.

00:59:30.740 What would you do

00:59:31.960 as a citizen?

00:59:34.220 As a citizen, would

00:59:35.440 you say, well, our

00:59:36.660 intelligence agencies

00:59:37.720 are quite reliable,

00:59:39.540 so if they say it's

00:59:41.180 true, I'm going to

00:59:42.400 believe it.

00:59:44.240 I hope you

00:59:45.320 wouldn't.

00:59:46.400 I hope you wouldn't

00:59:47.540 believe our own

00:59:48.260 intelligence agencies on

00:59:49.540 anything, because we

00:59:51.120 don't live in that

00:59:51.700 world anymore, if we

00:59:52.740 ever did.

00:59:53.220 I don't know if we

00:59:53.760 ever did.

00:59:54.080 But you certainly

00:59:55.100 should not trust your

00:59:56.800 own country's

00:59:57.900 intelligence services.

00:59:59.460 We know that.

01:00:00.540 That's not speculation.

01:00:02.720 We just live through a

01:00:04.200 whole bunch of

01:00:04.860 examples where it's

01:00:06.020 obvious we can't

01:00:06.860 trust them.

01:00:07.720 It's obvious.

01:00:10.300 Anyway.

01:00:13.100 So, I asked a

01:00:16.660 question about

01:00:17.160 hydroxychloroquine,

01:00:18.280 which I like to bring

01:00:18.980 up every now and

01:00:19.660 then.

01:00:20.320 And the reason I

01:00:21.300 bring it up, at

01:00:22.500 this point, anyway,

01:00:23.500 is less to do with

01:00:24.660 treating coronavirus

01:00:25.560 and more to do with

01:00:27.420 understanding how our

01:00:28.520 own minds process

01:00:29.960 information.

01:00:31.420 Because I'd like to

01:00:32.180 know if anything that

01:00:35.200 I've thought over these

01:00:36.340 many months about

01:00:37.240 hydroxychloroquine and

01:00:38.580 its effectiveness, I

01:00:40.040 would like to know if I

01:00:40.900 were right or if I

01:00:43.080 had been a way off.

01:00:45.200 Now, just to

01:00:46.300 reiterate, my

01:00:48.480 evolution of

01:00:49.680 whatever I thought

01:00:51.400 about hydroxychloroquine

01:00:52.520 went from, hey, lots

01:00:54.640 of doctors are saying

01:00:55.620 it works, we can't be

01:00:57.260 sure, but the risk

01:00:58.960 management looks good

01:00:59.940 because the risk part

01:01:01.200 is so low, we should

01:01:02.360 at least try it until

01:01:03.320 we know for sure.

01:01:04.960 And as time went by,

01:01:07.560 I told you I'm

01:01:08.540 lowering my estimates

01:01:09.900 of how likely it is

01:01:11.120 that hydroxychloroquine

01:01:12.320 works because it would

01:01:14.100 be obvious after a

01:01:15.800 while.

01:01:16.540 So the claim is that

01:01:17.640 it basically snuffs out

01:01:19.040 the virus if you give

01:01:20.040 it to people early.

01:01:21.580 And it seemed to me

01:01:22.420 obvious that the

01:01:23.200 longer you wait, the

01:01:24.920 more likely you would

01:01:25.860 know if that claim is

01:01:26.820 true because there

01:01:27.660 would be people trying

01:01:28.720 it, right, and they

01:01:29.560 would have a good

01:01:30.060 result.

01:01:32.040 And so I asked, where

01:01:33.100 is that good result?

01:01:34.520 You know, by now, by

01:01:36.640 now you would have

01:01:37.260 seen it, right?

01:01:38.000 It would be obvious.

01:01:38.780 There would be some

01:01:40.120 country would say,

01:01:42.340 well, all right, I

01:01:43.060 know you guys are

01:01:43.820 skeptics, I know the

01:01:44.880 World Health Organization

01:01:45.920 was a little negative

01:01:47.540 on it, but we little

01:01:49.700 Estonia, I'm just

01:01:50.980 going to pick a random

01:01:51.760 country, but we in

01:01:52.960 Estonia, we think it's

01:01:54.380 worth a try.

01:01:55.640 So we're going to do

01:01:56.500 it like crazy.

01:01:57.140 And then you look at

01:01:57.720 the map after a month,

01:01:59.480 and in one month,

01:02:01.480 Estonia goes to zero

01:02:03.580 deaths.

01:02:05.620 Now, that didn't

01:02:06.720 happen.

01:02:07.320 There's no evidence

01:02:08.060 that Estonia did 0.58

01:02:08.960 anything like that, or

01:02:09.800 anybody else that I

01:02:10.720 know of.

01:02:12.040 But by now?

01:02:13.880 Are you telling me

01:02:15.540 that by now, there

01:02:17.820 wouldn't be one

01:02:19.160 country that said, or

01:02:21.660 even a county, you

01:02:22.960 don't even have to be

01:02:23.560 a country, it could be

01:02:24.180 one county, that said,

01:02:26.060 look, we're just going

01:02:26.780 to do hydroxychloroquine

01:02:28.080 to everybody, everybody

01:02:29.120 gets it, and our deaths

01:02:30.500 just went to zero.

01:02:32.020 Really?

01:02:33.580 Wouldn't it be really,

01:02:35.100 really obvious by now?

01:02:36.920 All right, now I'm

01:02:37.380 seeing in the comments,

01:02:38.380 people are saying, it

01:02:39.540 is true, Africa. 0.99

01:02:40.480 Africa, India, Mozambique,

01:02:44.500 those are some names I

01:02:45.380 heard.

01:02:46.240 India, Africa. 0.50

01:02:48.100 Now, what do all those

01:02:48.980 countries have in common

01:02:50.400 besides alleged

01:02:54.840 hydroxychloroquine use?

01:02:57.840 Well, they're hot.

01:03:00.680 Do you expect the same

01:03:01.920 death rate in a country

01:03:03.120 that's hot all the time?

01:03:05.600 No.

01:03:06.440 So you would expect all

01:03:07.660 things being equal,

01:03:08.480 that Africa would have 1.00

01:03:10.020 less, fewer infections

01:03:12.620 because there's more

01:03:13.440 outdoor living, more

01:03:14.440 sunlight, more heat,

01:03:16.200 and all the things we

01:03:16.880 know for sure tamp

01:03:18.240 down the thing. 0.98

01:03:19.840 So that's the first

01:03:20.500 thing.

01:03:21.340 The second thing is,

01:03:22.380 and as you're pointing

01:03:23.140 out, that in those

01:03:24.300 places where it's hotter,

01:03:25.520 there's also a malaria

01:03:26.480 risk, so it's more

01:03:27.920 likely that people are

01:03:29.020 on hydroxychloroquine

01:03:31.420 or ivermectin or

01:03:33.000 something for that.

01:03:35.140 What percentage of

01:03:36.320 Africans do you think

01:03:37.280 are on hydroxychloroquine?

01:03:39.340 Just off the top of

01:03:40.440 your head, the entire

01:03:41.980 continent of Africa,

01:03:43.820 what percentage of

01:03:44.940 them are taking

01:03:45.820 hydroxychloroquine

01:03:47.200 preventively?

01:03:49.700 I don't know the

01:03:50.540 answer to that, but I

01:03:52.460 doubt it's 20%.

01:03:53.780 Do you think it's more

01:03:55.660 than 20%?

01:03:57.660 I'm looking at your

01:03:58.580 percentages going by.

01:03:59.780 I'm seeing 1%, 2%.

01:04:01.600 Somebody had a higher

01:04:03.580 percentage.

01:04:04.080 I don't know what the

01:04:04.540 percentage is, but there's

01:04:05.720 no way it's enough to

01:04:08.560 show the difference we

01:04:10.020 have.

01:04:10.560 Now, the other thing that

01:04:11.340 these countries that

01:04:12.280 allegedly are doing better

01:04:14.440 on the coronavirus is that

01:04:16.380 they happen to have poor

01:04:17.760 record-keeping.

01:04:19.140 They also have poor

01:04:20.160 hospitals, meaning that

01:04:22.340 people might be dying at

01:04:23.920 home and not record it.

01:04:25.960 In India, one of the big

01:04:27.440 problems is that if you die

01:04:28.780 at home, it just sort of

01:04:30.760 doesn't get into the

01:04:31.500 database.

01:04:31.960 So, there could be lots

01:04:34.180 of old people dying at

01:04:35.500 home in India that just

01:04:37.580 don't get recorded, and

01:04:38.740 that might be part of the

01:04:39.500 story.

01:04:40.320 Africa as well.

01:04:41.660 So, as we were talking

01:04:42.700 about this, it occurred to

01:04:43.680 me that one of the things

01:04:45.100 we've learned about the

01:04:46.120 coronavirus that we did

01:04:47.780 not know in the spring is

01:04:50.180 that it doesn't transmit

01:04:51.560 that easily over surfaces,

01:04:54.260 meaning the stuff you touch

01:04:55.900 with your bare hands.

01:04:57.240 It can, probably, I assume,

01:04:59.320 but that doesn't seem to be

01:05:01.300 the big risk.

01:05:02.480 It's what we know now is

01:05:05.000 that surfaces, I mean,

01:05:06.520 if you go to the grocery

01:05:07.340 store, the clerks don't

01:05:08.980 wear gloves anymore, right?

01:05:11.320 People kind of stopped

01:05:12.440 worrying as much about

01:05:14.020 surfaces.

01:05:14.820 You know, you should do

01:05:15.480 what you can to clean your

01:05:18.100 surfaces, of course, just

01:05:19.560 to be careful.

01:05:20.400 But we do know now it's an

01:05:22.340 aerosol air problem

01:05:24.300 primarily, right?

01:05:26.880 And if it's an air problem

01:05:28.380 primarily, what is it

01:05:30.180 about these African and

01:05:31.700 Indian and Mozambique

01:05:33.300 types of places?

01:05:34.540 Well, I would argue that

01:05:35.620 they don't have a lot of

01:05:37.120 air conditioning.

01:05:39.440 Now, even though they're

01:05:40.440 hot places, you'd expect,

01:05:42.240 you know, the business,

01:05:43.300 the businesses have air

01:05:44.340 conditioning, but does the

01:05:45.720 public, does the public

01:05:47.540 have a lot of air

01:05:50.380 conditioning in these

01:05:51.360 countries?

01:05:52.140 I would think that they

01:05:53.220 would have a low

01:05:54.300 percentage of it.

01:05:55.340 And maybe that's why

01:05:59.220 they're doing well.

01:06:00.520 So I ask the question,

01:06:02.660 is it air conditioning

01:06:04.340 that is really the primary

01:06:06.240 spreader of the disease?

01:06:08.800 I feel as if we now know

01:06:12.120 enough that it's almost

01:06:15.380 certain, isn't it?

01:06:17.220 You know, we hear about

01:06:18.360 spending, you have to spend

01:06:20.740 intense time with somebody,

01:06:22.220 you know, 15 minutes in

01:06:23.320 close contact and such.

01:06:25.020 So that would be the one

01:06:26.300 other thing that I would

01:06:27.540 be curious about.

01:06:28.920 But I wonder if we

01:06:31.300 wouldn't find that most

01:06:32.800 infections are from

01:06:34.180 circulated air.

01:06:35.580 Now, I tweeted, and

01:06:37.400 people are fact-checking

01:06:40.800 me like crazy on this, I

01:06:42.440 tweeted that someday, some

01:06:44.760 entrepreneur will find a

01:06:46.020 way to affix a far-UV

01:06:48.760 light to air conditioning

01:06:51.240 so that the air that goes

01:06:52.820 through the air

01:06:53.280 conditioning at least gets

01:06:54.420 cleaned on its way

01:06:55.820 through.

01:06:56.800 Many people said to me, my

01:06:58.440 air conditioning already

01:06:59.340 has that.

01:07:00.360 And they said, it's already

01:07:01.560 a product.

01:07:02.560 You already can buy a

01:07:04.720 UV light, it's already a

01:07:06.320 thing, and you put it in

01:07:08.260 your AC.

01:07:09.260 To which I say, no you

01:07:10.800 can't.

01:07:11.680 No you can't.

01:07:13.120 I don't have to do any

01:07:14.300 research to know that's not

01:07:15.540 true.

01:07:16.380 All right?

01:07:16.740 A lot of people say it's

01:07:17.720 true.

01:07:18.460 I'm going to do no

01:07:19.300 research.

01:07:20.420 Watch me right in front

01:07:21.360 of you.

01:07:22.000 No research.

01:07:23.720 With no research, I'm

01:07:25.320 going to tell you that all

01:07:26.000 the people who have it,

01:07:28.320 these are people who say,

01:07:29.340 I have it.

01:07:31.020 Like, I could go take the

01:07:32.800 bulb out and show it to

01:07:33.680 you.

01:07:34.540 It's still not true.

01:07:36.180 Because you've confused

01:07:37.340 UV light with far-UV

01:07:38.740 light.

01:07:40.180 That's what happened

01:07:41.000 there.

01:07:41.160 So everybody says, that's

01:07:42.640 already a thing.

01:07:43.720 I've already got it.

01:07:45.080 You have UV light.

01:07:46.700 But you don't have far-UV

01:07:49.960 light.

01:07:52.180 And that's probably the

01:07:53.300 difference.

01:07:53.800 So yes, it's good.

01:07:56.500 So my guess is that

01:07:58.560 somebody will make a sort

01:08:00.220 of an attachment that

01:08:01.740 will go to any HVAC

01:08:05.240 system.

01:08:06.100 You'll be able to insert

01:08:07.260 it somewhere.

01:08:08.280 Maybe it will recirculate

01:08:09.760 the air within itself long

01:08:11.220 enough to clean it all

01:08:12.200 before it releases it to

01:08:13.440 the rest of the system.

01:08:15.180 Something like that.

01:08:15.940 But it would be far-UV

01:08:17.380 light, not UV light,

01:08:19.380 which would be less

01:08:20.180 effective.

01:08:20.920 And I guess there are

01:08:22.300 UV light systems.

01:08:26.960 So there's that.

01:08:33.380 There was another hoax I

01:08:36.700 was going to debunk.

01:08:37.640 Oh, here's the hoax I was

01:08:38.940 going to debunk.

01:08:39.540 A lot of people are

01:08:41.460 arguing that restaurants

01:08:42.920 do not contribute

01:08:44.640 much to infections.

01:08:49.260 And therefore, it is

01:08:50.520 bad policy to close

01:08:52.680 restaurants because you're

01:08:53.900 killing all these jobs

01:08:55.140 and economic

01:08:56.780 opportunities.

01:08:58.320 But it's not doing much

01:08:59.840 of anything in terms of

01:09:01.680 slowing the spread of the

01:09:03.000 virus.

01:09:03.980 Do you see any problem

01:09:04.840 with that?

01:09:05.560 Let me give you some

01:09:06.460 statistics.

01:09:07.140 These are like

01:09:08.300 approximate statistics.

01:09:09.580 So these are not real

01:09:10.800 ones.

01:09:11.580 But it's something like

01:09:13.000 more than half of the

01:09:14.640 infections happen within

01:09:16.060 your own home because

01:09:17.620 other people are coming

01:09:18.660 in and out of your

01:09:19.200 home.

01:09:20.120 So if it's true, and

01:09:22.020 these are just really

01:09:22.760 rough, if it's true that

01:09:23.820 let's say half of your

01:09:25.000 infections come from

01:09:25.980 homes, but only 1%,

01:09:28.700 let's say, is that

01:09:31.360 somewhere in the range?

01:09:32.220 I think it's somewhere in

01:09:32.820 that range.

01:09:33.500 Let's say only 1% of your

01:09:35.260 infections seem to be

01:09:37.000 tied to restaurants.

01:09:38.620 Does that tell you that

01:09:39.940 restaurants are safe?

01:09:42.920 Go.

01:09:44.100 Those of you who are

01:09:45.320 good at analysis and

01:09:47.560 statistics, somebody says

01:09:50.620 yes.

01:09:51.560 1% of the risk is in

01:09:54.280 restaurants, 50% is in

01:09:56.680 homes.

01:09:57.640 Are restaurants,

01:09:59.200 therefore, relatively

01:10:00.800 safe?

01:10:02.080 I'm seeing no's. 0.97

01:10:04.680 Why would you say no?

01:10:06.020 How could you compare 1% 0.98

01:10:07.800 to 50%?

01:10:10.200 How could you possibly

01:10:11.400 make that case?

01:10:13.140 So you're seeing in the

01:10:14.180 comments some people

01:10:15.160 saying yes and some

01:10:16.360 people saying no.

01:10:18.040 If you're saying yes,

01:10:20.700 do you wonder what the

01:10:22.060 people saying no are

01:10:22.940 thinking?

01:10:24.080 Let me tell you what the

01:10:25.220 people saying no are

01:10:26.300 thinking.

01:10:26.620 And thank you user

01:10:29.800 Satrapo for saying what

01:10:31.700 I was going to say next.

01:10:33.260 You spend 95% of your

01:10:34.660 time in your home.

01:10:36.420 You spend 1% of your

01:10:37.760 time in a restaurant.

01:10:40.140 Do you get it yet?

01:10:43.760 You can't get the virus

01:10:45.460 at places you're not.

01:10:48.480 You can only get the virus

01:10:49.880 in places you are.

01:10:52.360 So if you're only in the

01:10:54.680 restaurant 1% of the

01:10:55.720 time and you're at home

01:10:57.520 95% of the time and the

01:11:01.820 restaurant has about

01:11:02.740 exactly the amount of

01:11:04.060 risk you'd expect for the

01:11:05.500 little amount of time you

01:11:06.420 spend there, is the

01:11:07.920 restaurant safer than your

01:11:09.820 house?

01:11:10.980 No.

01:11:12.120 No.

01:11:12.500 It's not safer.

01:11:14.320 It's not safer at all.

01:11:16.020 It's just a preference.

01:11:17.980 You know, if you wanted to

01:11:21.720 have restaurants open with

01:11:24.480 the extra risk, yeah, that

01:11:26.220 might make a reasonable

01:11:27.080 decision.

01:11:27.980 But if you're looking at

01:11:28.920 those two statistics and

01:11:30.600 you're saying, well, 1% is a

01:11:32.060 lot less than 50%,

01:11:33.260 therefore, that's the safe

01:11:34.860 one.

01:11:35.480 No.

01:11:35.880 You're just looking at it

01:11:37.140 wrong.

01:11:38.060 You're just not accounting

01:11:39.020 for the amount of time you

01:11:40.340 spend in those two places.

01:11:42.380 Now, some of you are having

01:11:45.620 an experience right now.

01:11:47.500 Aren't you?

01:11:48.100 By the way, I'm using a

01:11:50.520 persuasion trick.

01:11:51.740 I'll tell you what it is in

01:11:52.500 a moment.

01:11:53.600 But some of you are having a

01:11:54.940 reaction right now because you

01:11:56.880 believe that fucking 1% thing 0.95

01:11:58.900 compared to the, whatever, 50% or

01:12:00.740 60% in the house.

01:12:02.220 You believed it.

01:12:04.200 Why?

01:12:04.780 Because of the news.

01:12:05.980 The news told you, hey, it's

01:12:07.600 1% in restaurants, or social

01:12:09.140 media told you, it's 1% in

01:12:11.020 restaurants and 50% of homes or

01:12:13.400 restaurants are safe.

01:12:14.800 And you just found out that that

01:12:16.280 was fucking stupid. 0.97

01:12:18.480 It was stupid because you spend

01:12:21.080 all your time at home, not in

01:12:22.120 a restaurant.

01:12:23.200 How do you feel now?

01:12:25.560 Think about that experience as

01:12:27.040 it's happening to you.

01:12:27.900 And you realize how abused you

01:12:30.600 were by your news sources.

01:12:34.260 I mean, this is such bad news

01:12:36.280 reporting, or even, you know,

01:12:39.080 truth understanding, that it's

01:12:41.580 shocking.

01:12:42.380 It's just shocking that that

01:12:43.880 statistic could be out there on

01:12:45.940 challenge until, until I just did

01:12:48.880 it, right?

01:12:50.000 Have you heard anybody else tell

01:12:51.660 you what I just told you?

01:12:53.260 Anybody?

01:12:54.320 Has anybody said, no, the 1% 1.00

01:12:56.780 doesn't tell you anything because

01:12:57.800 you don't spend much time there?

01:12:59.700 No.

01:13:00.720 Why the hell am I telling you

01:13:02.700 this, right?

01:13:03.940 I'm not even good at statistics.

01:13:05.580 I'm not even a little bit good at

01:13:06.800 statistics.

01:13:07.580 And this is obvious even to me.

01:13:10.040 So that's the kind of world you're

01:13:12.560 living in where this level of

01:13:14.100 bullshit is just ubiquitous and

01:13:17.300 common.

01:13:19.580 Somebody says, Brambley Spam says,

01:13:22.560 I heard me say it.

01:13:24.320 Now, let me ask you this.

01:13:26.260 For those of you who did

01:13:27.680 immediately realize that statistic

01:13:29.700 was bullshit, were you as 0.98

01:13:32.500 shameless as I am to say it in

01:13:34.320 public?

01:13:35.320 Because even if you said to

01:13:36.880 yourself, you're just sitting at

01:13:39.840 home and you hear that, you're

01:13:40.660 like, I don't think that 1% means

01:13:42.900 anything because you only spend

01:13:44.140 1% of your time in the

01:13:45.260 restaurant.

01:13:46.860 Did you say to yourself, next, I

01:13:49.580 think I'll shout this out loud?

01:13:52.160 I think I'll go to Twitter and

01:13:54.100 I'll tweet my thought that the 1% 1.00

01:13:57.380 must be nonsense?

01:13:58.540 Because it would be hard to do.

01:14:00.120 Because there were so many smart

01:14:01.540 people saying that was a

01:14:03.300 meaningful thing that I think you

01:14:05.580 would sit there and say, yeah, I

01:14:07.740 don't know about that, but I don't

01:14:09.760 think I'm going to be the one to

01:14:10.880 say it out loud.

01:14:12.900 Some of you say you did say it

01:14:14.940 out loud.

01:14:15.380 You're the brave ones.

01:14:16.620 So this is when I've told you that

01:14:19.000 having no sense of embarrassment

01:14:21.300 or shame is a superpower.

01:14:23.700 And that over the years I've managed

01:14:25.780 to work my way into basically a

01:14:30.660 situation where I just don't get

01:14:32.560 embarrassed anymore.

01:14:34.640 Maybe it's possible, but I don't

01:14:37.080 remember the last time it happened.

01:14:38.180 So I can simply do things that you

01:14:40.640 can't do because I'm not afraid of

01:14:42.680 the blowback.

01:14:43.780 I don't have a worry about being

01:14:45.340 embarrassed.

01:14:46.040 It really is a superpower.

01:14:48.220 And if you can work on that, you

01:14:49.940 should.

01:14:52.780 All right.

01:14:55.580 Yeah.

01:14:57.160 Somebody referred to that as FU,

01:14:59.420 social power.

01:15:01.240 Maybe.

01:15:02.060 Might be a good way to look at it.

01:15:04.080 Yeah.

01:15:04.280 It's not just about money, although

01:15:06.080 that's part of it.

01:15:06.920 Yeah.

01:15:07.280 The ability to be financially

01:15:09.620 secure does allow me to be more

01:15:11.420 honest.

01:15:12.460 That is true.

01:15:13.320 But beyond that, I also have a lack

01:15:15.540 of embarrassment that helps me.

01:15:17.380 All right.

01:15:17.560 That's all for now.

01:15:18.380 I'll talk to you later.

01:15:22.680 All right.

01:15:26.040 Those of you on YouTube, I'm still

01:15:27.780 with you for a moment.

01:15:28.760 Let's see if you have any questions.

01:15:34.420 I just absolutely.

01:15:36.520 Have you ever read God, Emperor of

01:15:38.360 Doom?

01:15:38.840 I did not.

01:15:39.620 I read some of the Doom books.

01:15:40.780 I don't remember that one.

01:15:45.520 What about Jimmy Dore on M4?

01:15:49.140 I don't know.

01:15:49.920 I haven't been following Jimmy Dore,

01:15:51.360 so I don't know what he's saying that

01:15:52.720 you wanted an opinion on.

01:15:53.840 Why am I motivated by tax evasion?

01:16:00.780 What a dumbass question.

01:16:02.980 Is there anybody who wants to pay extra?

01:16:06.680 Well, we hear you play drums again.

01:16:08.400 You know, I've got my man cave set up

01:16:10.460 now with my drums.

01:16:11.480 I've got a real good situation.

01:16:13.380 And I realize that you can't learn

01:16:15.680 something until your learning environment

01:16:18.620 is just right.

01:16:19.780 It's really hard to learn something

01:16:21.280 if you haven't optimized

01:16:22.780 your learning environment.

01:16:24.300 So I only recently did that.

01:16:26.440 Put my drums where I knew

01:16:27.700 I would use them

01:16:28.580 and I would have a screen

01:16:29.900 that I could take lessons from

01:16:31.400 and everything else.

01:16:32.700 So maybe if I get a lot better

01:16:34.620 than I am.

01:16:36.460 I've never made a goal of playing

01:16:39.200 in front of other people.

01:16:41.360 I was more interested in the process

01:16:43.540 of learning and just keeping

01:16:45.340 my brain active and finding out

01:16:47.360 some more stuff.

01:16:48.060 It wasn't about music, per se.

01:16:51.280 What do you think about the Pentagon

01:16:53.380 ceasing cooperation with the Biden team?

01:16:55.620 I don't know that that's real.

01:17:00.180 We've got a lot of drummers on here.

01:17:02.500 Well, you wouldn't love to hear me

01:17:04.000 drum because it's just not good.

01:17:08.580 Is it too late for our democracy?

01:17:10.600 We don't have a democracy.

01:17:12.560 Yeah, it's never too late to fix it.

01:17:16.040 But we don't have a democracy

01:17:17.500 or a republic at this point.

01:17:19.380 What is behind the Q idiocy? 1.00

01:17:25.160 The Q thing is really kind of interesting

01:17:30.380 from a psychological perspective.

01:17:33.360 Number one, the Q thing is probably

01:17:35.680 disinformation, meaning that there are

01:17:38.760 probably professionals who are behind it,

01:17:40.940 maybe not every drop,

01:17:43.320 but behind setting it up.

01:17:44.340 So there's the information I have

01:17:48.080 is that professionals who know how to create

01:17:51.800 a psychological phenomenon in the public

01:17:54.160 created a psychological phenomenon in the public.

01:17:57.600 So some say,

01:17:59.800 and the people saying this would be well qualified

01:18:01.960 to say this,

01:18:03.180 that Q is artificially created

01:18:06.420 by outside sources,

01:18:08.160 and the people who believe it

01:18:09.660 believe they came to their own opinions on things,

01:18:11.800 but they actually were manipulated into believing it.

01:18:16.180 And once you start believing it,

01:18:18.740 it's easier to keep doing it

01:18:20.280 than it is to change

01:18:21.620 because then you'd have to admit

01:18:22.820 you had done something maybe irrational.

01:18:25.540 So it's getting it going that's the hard part.

01:18:27.860 Once it's going,

01:18:28.680 it's sort of a fusion engine.

01:18:31.880 It just feeds itself.

01:18:33.040 No, not many Q things turned out to be true

01:18:38.320 except some by coincidence.

01:18:43.800 If Biden takes office,

01:18:45.300 will he put Obama on the Supreme Court?

01:18:47.020 I don't think so.

01:18:47.980 I don't think Obama will ever be on the Supreme Court

01:18:50.100 because I think that would be a demotion.

01:18:53.220 I think if you're an ex-president,

01:18:55.700 being on the Supreme Court is just like a job.

01:18:58.840 I just don't see any ex-president

01:19:01.700 ever wanting to be on the Supreme Court.

01:19:04.320 Not even close.

01:19:09.300 Please fill your shelves.

01:19:11.500 Do my shelves bother you by their emptiness?

01:19:14.660 I actually took everything out of them

01:19:16.440 because I didn't want it to be busy.

01:19:18.220 I've been trying to think

01:19:19.520 how I can clean up my background a little bit.

01:19:22.220 Q is a good bedtime story.

01:19:30.680 Somebody says Howard Taft was on the Supreme Court.

01:19:33.600 Well, you know,

01:19:34.400 being president in the old days,

01:19:37.040 this is weird to say,

01:19:38.980 but being president in the old days

01:19:41.000 wasn't that big a deal.

01:19:43.720 I know that sounds weird to say,

01:19:45.820 but I just don't think being president

01:19:47.680 was as big a deal

01:19:48.940 back in Taft's day.

01:19:50.560 It's now more of a superstar job.

01:19:54.640 You know, Taft was no Obama.

01:19:57.380 Taft was no Trump.

01:20:01.160 CNN will keep tubing.

01:20:02.640 He pulled it off, somebody says.

01:20:04.220 He pulled it off.

01:20:12.300 Should Trump pardon his family?

01:20:14.660 You know, it's bad form, but why not?

01:20:17.220 I would.

01:20:18.220 I would pardon his...

01:20:19.580 I would.

01:20:20.560 You know, I think Trump could do

01:20:22.700 what other people can't do

01:20:24.100 because of the way he's been treated.

01:20:26.180 The way he's been treated

01:20:27.340 would certainly allow him

01:20:28.960 a complete justification

01:20:30.380 for prematurely pardoning everybody

01:20:33.700 from, you know, Jared to Ivanka

01:20:35.500 to Don Jr.

01:20:36.640 to anybody else.

01:20:38.960 I would be okay with that.

01:20:40.540 Yeah.

01:20:41.420 I would be completely okay with that.

01:20:43.780 I think he's earned it

01:20:45.020 by putting up with the abuse

01:20:46.460 that he's put up with,

01:20:47.540 as have the family.

01:20:48.980 You know, I don't think that we...

01:20:50.380 I don't think that we fully appreciate

01:20:53.060 the sacrifice

01:20:54.480 that the Trump family made for this.

01:20:57.000 Now, we observe that they enjoyed...

01:20:59.900 It looks like they enjoyed

01:21:00.940 the whole ride.

01:21:02.440 You know, Don Jr. in particular.

01:21:03.860 I think he just loved the whole fight, basically.

01:21:07.200 He loves a good fight.

01:21:08.960 As did I.

01:21:10.260 I enjoyed the fight.

01:21:12.720 And I think that we owe a debt

01:21:15.200 of gratitude to the Trump family

01:21:18.120 that is enormous.

01:21:21.560 Melania, Ivanka,

01:21:24.060 they didn't want this.

01:21:26.280 You know, they did not sign up for this,

01:21:28.800 but they sure performed.

01:21:30.860 And I think they really...

01:21:34.360 They did...

01:21:35.080 They showed the...

01:21:37.080 You could argue

01:21:38.140 that Melania,

01:21:40.800 and I would say Ivanka, too, for sure.

01:21:43.100 Don Jr., you could throw in there.

01:21:45.220 I feel as if they're the real patriots here

01:21:47.760 because they did not ask for the job.

01:21:52.240 They were not the ones

01:21:53.180 who benefit from the job.

01:21:54.880 You know, probably their reputations

01:21:56.160 will suffer more than they could get a benefit.

01:21:59.720 But they stepped up.

01:22:02.400 They saw a situation

01:22:04.720 in which they could be patriots,

01:22:08.380 but it would require pure sacrifice.

01:22:10.880 Now, some of you might say

01:22:12.200 that's true of Trump as well,

01:22:13.440 but I think he's a separate case

01:22:14.660 because I think Trump wanted the job,

01:22:16.940 and, you know, that's just different.

01:22:18.380 The rest of them are just

01:22:21.440 the purest form of patriots,

01:22:24.460 even if you disagree with everything

01:22:26.040 they've done and said.

01:22:27.280 You know, if you're a Democrat,

01:22:28.620 you don't like what they've done.

01:22:30.040 Still, still,

01:22:32.840 they're the purest patriots

01:22:34.920 that we've observed

01:22:36.620 because they had nothing to gain,

01:22:39.160 basically nothing to gain.

01:22:40.920 I mean, you could argue

01:22:41.620 they were helping the boss,

01:22:43.980 and that's real,

01:22:46.820 but it feels like, you know,

01:22:48.460 we've had lots of presidents

01:22:49.460 and their families didn't get involved

01:22:51.180 in the same ways,

01:22:52.680 and I just feel that

01:22:53.800 that has to be recognized

01:22:54.980 as probably just the purest form

01:22:58.640 of patriotism

01:22:59.940 that this country produces,

01:23:01.760 and thank you.

01:23:02.960 So this is my personal thank you

01:23:04.800 to Ivanka, Melania,

01:23:07.920 Jared Kushner, the family,

01:23:09.760 Don Jr., Eric, Lara,

01:23:12.920 and all of them.

01:23:15.280 All right, that's enough for me,

01:23:16.540 and I will talk to you tomorrow.

01:23:18.200 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 18, 2020

Episode 1223 Scott Adams： Joe Biden Says Hunter is the Smartest Person he Knows, and That Shouldn't Worry You a Bit

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