Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 30, 2020


Episode 1236 Scott Adams： Non-Kinetic War With China, With Whiteboard, Stimulus Checks, Vaccinations and Fake Science


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1 hour and 2 minutes

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149.10939

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9,359

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650

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

31


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Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody. It's about time you got here. I've been waiting for seconds.
00:00:09.920 And you know what time it is. It's time for Coffee with Scott Adams, the best time of the day.
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00:00:33.780 The thing that makes everything better. Everything. Literally everything. Go.
00:00:43.660 Ah, I believe it even made the comments kinder. I feel my critics backing off a little bit.
00:00:52.220 I feel my investments doing better. I feel my natural biological defenses at maximum. And that's
00:01:03.840 all from the simultaneous sip, by the way. Don't try to blame that on anything else.
00:01:08.760 All right. Let's talk about some stuff. I have for you a recommendation for entertainment.
00:01:15.300 Are you ready? It's a recommendation for entertainment. I highly recommend that you listen
00:01:21.860 to a podcast with Hugh Jackman as the guest, Tim Ferriss being the host. Now, if you think
00:01:30.380 to yourself, why do I want to hear a podcast from some actor? That's probably what you should
00:01:37.780 think. That would be your first impression. And the answer is, this is no ordinary actor.
00:01:42.440 He has a very complicated, not complicated, I would say sophisticated, but not complicated,
00:01:49.520 sophisticated, but fairly simple, systems for success. And you really have to hear it to hear
00:01:57.480 the structure and dedication and the system that he puts together to do all the things he does,
00:02:04.700 because Hugh Jackman is unusually successful in a whole bunch of different areas, right? So he does
00:02:10.860 stage in movies and see things and blah, blah, blah. Anyway, so watch that. You will enjoy it,
00:02:17.380 because he's really fun to listen to. But when you hear how disciplined he is at absorbing
00:02:25.920 self-help stuff, including from Tim Ferriss, you'll see a really good strategy there. All right.
00:02:34.940 So I guess Mitch McConnell played the Grinch and blocked the Senate Democrats and a lot of
00:02:41.640 Republicans also wanted $2,000 checks, but he blocked the vote on that. Now, here's the problem. And I'm
00:02:49.680 going to be talking about this when we get to the whiteboard. We're at a point where it's hard to trust
00:02:59.640 anybody who has a China connection, wouldn't you say? And unfortunately, Mitch McConnell is married
00:03:07.460 to someone. Fact check me on this, because I almost can't believe this is true. So I guess I'm going to
00:03:14.020 say it as something I've heard that I can't believe is true. Is it true that he's married to a woman whose
00:03:20.960 father is connected to the Chinese Communist Party and is some really rich shipping magnate?
00:03:28.860 Right? Now, I'm not making any accusations, because one assumes that short of any evidence to the
00:03:35.200 contrary, she's a patriot. She's on the right team. So I'm not making any accusations. Somebody says
00:03:42.340 she's Taiwanese, which would make a big difference, I suppose. But I'm hearing that her father has
00:03:47.980 connections to the CCP. Can you fact check that? Because it feels like that couldn't be true.
00:03:54.240 Right? I'm seeing a lot of you saying it is true, but I feel as if it couldn't be true.
00:03:59.880 Check that on me. But the point is that we have to ask that question. We're no longer in a world
00:04:05.960 where you can ignore that. I hope, and I assume, there's nothing to worry about there. But we're just
00:04:13.720 not in that world where you can assume that you can't worry about it. I'll say a lot more
00:04:17.860 about that later. So apparently that Nashville bomber, a year ago, the FBI was warned by, I believe it
00:04:25.680 was his girlfriend, so a direct witness, that he was building bombs in his camper. That's right.
00:04:34.000 The FBI was told by a direct witness, not somebody who had suspicions, but somebody, you know, with this
00:04:42.480 guy, direct witness, that he was building bombs in his camper. FBI decided not to follow up on it.
00:04:54.760 Now, what was the FBI doing instead of that? Probably not something as useful as this would
00:05:03.140 have been. And every time you think to yourself, well, I've reached a new low in my trust for American
00:05:11.200 institutions, and you see that they weren't that interested in somebody who has a direct witness,
00:05:17.140 they were building bombs in a camper. If he had been building bombs in his bedroom, I would be less
00:05:24.760 concerned than he was building them in the camper. Because you know the camper is going to be part of
00:05:29.420 the plan, right? Like, you don't have to be an evil genius to know that. And this is one of those
00:05:35.060 stories that you just have to shake your head and say, what? What? Now, if I may defend the FBI,
00:05:44.060 it's probably fair to say that they get way more solid-sounding tips than they could possibly
00:05:52.320 follow up on. Don't you think that's probably true? They probably get so many tips that it's just
00:05:58.740 really hard to know which ones are real, and they couldn't possibly look into all of them. So maybe
00:06:02.820 that's all that's going on. They're just, you know, not enough resources. Let's hope that's the
00:06:08.220 situation. When you voted, if you voted this year, did you think your vote mattered? Because it turns out
00:06:16.560 there's a lot of evidence that maybe it didn't. It turns out there might have been only one voter that
00:06:22.040 mattered in this country, a lawyer named Mark Elias. Now, he didn't matter in the sense that his one vote
00:06:30.020 mattered. But when you hear the full story of the things that he did to get rules changed in key
00:06:38.320 states, so he was working on making sure that, you know, the right rules changes happened right before
00:06:44.400 the election. So the allegation against him is that he was the legal mastermind behind bending the rules or
00:06:57.880 changing the rules in Georgia, North Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, and he's best friends with Stacey
00:07:04.840 Abrams. Watch how small the world is about to get. All right? So Stacey Abrams, you know, she ran for
00:07:14.200 governor, thought she won, but didn't. And then she's now she's very involved in getting out the vote for the
00:07:19.920 Democrats in Georgia. So this guy, Mark Elias, coincidentally, who was one of the main people who got rules
00:07:27.440 changes, which may have been the difference in the election. He's coincidentally good friends with Stacey Abrams.
00:07:34.840 But it gets stranger. Stacey Abrams' sister is a judge. And instead of recusing herself on an election
00:07:44.640 case, she ruled against the purge of 4,000 voters from the rolls, blah, blah, blah. So there's some
00:07:53.020 technical reason that the lawsuit said they should be purged. But she ruled against that, which is good
00:08:00.740 for Democrats and bad for Republicans. And she's the actual sister of Stacey Abrams, who is good
00:08:11.120 friends with Mark Elias. And she didn't recuse herself. When I read this story, I thought, well,
00:08:21.180 clearly I'm reading this wrong. I couldn't actually be reading this story. And this actually happened
00:08:26.580 that Stacey Abrams' sister gets to decide. What? And this goes with the story about the FBI,
00:08:38.180 you know, not following up on the camper full of bomb-making equipment. And I'm thinking to myself,
00:08:44.360 there are some stories that are so wildly implausible that you actually can't believe they really
00:08:52.340 happened. Well, you can read it. But my brain can't hold that in my head. I can't even hold this as a real
00:08:57.800 thing. It goes in, and then my brain says, no, no. Stacey Abrams' sister couldn't be the judge who made the
00:09:07.220 decision. Not really, right? That couldn't possibly be true. And so my brain just rejects it. And I won't
00:09:16.560 even act on it. I can't even get outraged, because I literally can't hold it in my head that that could
00:09:21.820 possibly be true. But maybe it is. Tragic news that a congressman-elect Luke Letlow, I think he was 41,
00:09:33.640 and he died of COVID before taking office. But as is the case for 2020, which we're still in,
00:09:41.600 there's more to the story. It turns out he was noted for his non-mask wearing and saying that we should
00:09:49.600 open up and get back to normal. Yes, the guy who said we should live more dangerously died from the
00:09:57.080 thing he said we shouldn't be afraid of. Now, that, of course, is a coincidence. Tragic one. And we should
00:10:03.980 not make really anything out of it, in my opinion, because one anecdote of one person who had one
00:10:11.160 experience shouldn't be telling us anything about the world in general. But because we like stories,
00:10:18.300 when I say like, I mean our brains naturally go to stories. So one story where you can imagine what
00:10:25.240 the person looked like, and you could put yourself in that situation in your mind, that's going to be
00:10:31.080 more persuasive than a lot of data. So unfortunately, this is going to be fairly persuasive, and just
00:10:38.080 one of the most tragic things you could ever imagine. So he's got a three-year-old kid and a
00:10:44.380 wife, so it's just horrible. But Democrats on Twitter are being insanely cruel and pointing out that
00:10:52.520 basically they're saying he had it coming. Now, here's my question. Are you sure he died of COVID at
00:10:59.480 age 41 with at least not obvious comorbidities? He didn't look like he was severely overweight, he wasn't
00:11:06.700 old, wasn't black? Somebody says he had a heart attack. Is that true? A heart attack during surgery, somebody
00:11:15.180 said? So I would say that I wouldn't believe anything about this story. Just start there. Don't believe
00:11:23.960 anything about the story. Because you don't really know what he died of, right? You really don't. He
00:11:31.140 might have. Might have. Let me give you an update from California based on an experience of somebody I
00:11:37.820 know very well. It took over one week to get a COVID test result for my local Kaiser Permanente
00:11:45.680 health care. One week to get a COVID result. A week. During this time, this person quarantined
00:11:56.060 and did not have coronavirus. So for one week, somebody had to give themselves jail because my
00:12:04.780 health care provider couldn't give a result in a week. Do you know what the result was when we got it?
00:12:11.280 I don't know. We never got it. As far as I know, it never came in. But the quarantine had gone so long
00:12:20.120 that it wouldn't matter because the symptoms would have been gone by then anyway. So if you think that
00:12:26.580 we're doing a good job on the coronavirus, you should think again. We're doing a terrible job.
00:12:32.540 I'm in California. Think of this. I'm in California and one of the most sophisticated health care
00:12:39.300 organizations going, which is why I use it. Kaiser is actually a tremendous organization. I compliment
00:12:46.040 them all the time, at least the one I use. But even they couldn't get me a test. Not me. It was
00:12:52.140 somebody else. But they couldn't get a test in one week? A result? Come on. It feels like not even
00:12:59.240 trying, honestly. Here's another report in fake news. You may have seen the story that said there was a
00:13:05.620 study at OSU. They studied 26 college athletes and found out that several of them had, let's see,
00:13:13.140 what they had, ones that had coronavirus and said that they had myocarditis. Myocarditis. So a little,
00:13:23.120 an issue with your heart that could be quite serious. Now, so that's what the news reported.
00:13:30.580 So if the news reports that these college athletes had an unusually high number of heart-related
00:13:41.140 problems that couldn't even be permanent, I don't know how permanent these are, but shouldn't that
00:13:46.300 tell you, oh my goodness, oh my goodness, that's a big problem, right? But then you read the follow-up
00:13:53.540 story. And one of the people involved in the study says, well, you should probably point out that the
00:14:01.040 way they tested for this myocarditis is using a different technology than it is normally looked
00:14:07.980 for. So they used a more sensitive imaging. So the first thing you need to know is, what would happen
00:14:14.560 if you just randomly picked athletes and gave them this more sensitive test that is not the normal one
00:14:21.060 that you would do for myocarditis? It's going to pick up more small nuances. Is that maybe the
00:14:28.940 whole story? That they had just tested in a more sensitive test? So it looks like there's more of
00:14:34.680 them, but no, it's just a more sensitive test? I don't know. And I won't claim that that's the case.
00:14:40.740 I'm saying that I feel like that was an important fact that was left out of the original reporting.
00:14:45.780 And then, of course, there are only 26 people studied, and that's not enough to make a claim.
00:14:54.220 It wasn't a controlled study, blah, blah, blah, blah. So I don't know how, I just don't know what
00:14:59.920 weight to put on that. It's enough to scare me, but if you think that you can follow the science,
00:15:08.080 good luck, because this science was reported through the filter of the media, and the media told
00:15:14.040 you the wrong science. So do you believe the science when the media describes it wrong?
00:15:20.220 Because that would be smart, according to Democrats, right? According to Democrats,
00:15:24.720 if there's real science that's described completely wrong by a journalist, you should trust it,
00:15:31.480 the completely wrong interpretation, because that's trusting science. According to Democrats,
00:15:37.860 they believe that's what they're doing. What I believe I would be doing in that case is listening to a
00:15:43.040 journalist who has almost no chance of correctly interpreting science. I'll give you, let me give
00:15:50.000 you an example. There's an article in the, was it the Wall Street Journal recently, about hypnosis.
00:15:56.700 It was talking about using hypnosis for quitting cigarettes and stuff like that. Now, I, as a trained
00:16:03.540 hypnotist, read the article in the Wall Street Journal, and I could tell that almost every part of it was
00:16:08.900 wrong. Almost all of it. Pretty much everything they thought they understood about hypnosis and what
00:16:15.320 it can and cannot do, all of it wrong. But did you know that? If you read that article, could you tell
00:16:22.740 the difference? Because you're not a hypnotist, right? You probably read the article and said, yeah, that looks
00:16:28.600 pretty good to me. So keep in mind, yeah, it's the Murray-Gell-Man amnesia, that's called, when the
00:16:36.380 experts can tell the news is fake, but other people can't. All right. What do you make of the fact that
00:16:44.220 California has some of the strictest COVID restrictions, but at the same time, they're not
00:16:50.980 doing that well. There are other places that are, you know, doing worse. But California has most
00:16:58.820 restrictions, but it doesn't seem to be helping as much as it should. What do you make of that?
00:17:05.400 Here's what I make of it. Having harsh restrictions in place has no correlation with what the people are
00:17:14.320 actually doing. Now, if you had told me that Californians do the best job of conforming,
00:17:23.940 conforming to the guidelines and restrictions, then I'd say, whoa, this is telling me something.
00:17:31.180 Because we've got big restrictions, but it doesn't seem to be having a big result, at least one that's
00:17:36.580 obvious just by eyeballing it. You can't really tell unless you've done a controlled study. But when you
00:17:42.280 eyeball it, just look at the graph, you're like, I can't tell if this is working at all. Right? But
00:17:48.760 here's the part that they leave out. Don't tell anybody. But Californians are not socially distancing.
00:18:00.620 They're not. Where is the biggest infections coming from? Well, not restaurants. They're closed.
00:18:06.760 Not movie theaters. They're closed. The biggest infections are coming from households that are not socially
00:18:14.300 distancing from other households. In other words, the blending of households within the house.
00:18:20.360 Do you know how much social distancing there is in California among households?
00:18:25.720 Close to none. Right? The only thing that matters really is whether you're blending households at this
00:18:35.060 point. Because we know that people do wear masks to use the grocery store, because they kind of have
00:18:40.000 to. Right? So we know they're not getting it from touching things in public, because surfaces don't
00:18:45.260 seem to be the big problem. It's got to be households. And it's got to be blending households. It's got to be the
00:18:51.580 blending part. Right? My observation as a Californian is that, at least for young people, I think people
00:18:58.740 are still trying to keep the old people safe. But among the young, the households just gave up on
00:19:04.900 social distancing. Is that what you see? I don't see households stopping a teenager from visiting
00:19:12.260 another household. I just don't see that. And somebody's saying divorced parents. Does California have
00:19:18.580 more two household situations than anybody else? I don't know. But we might. We might have the most
00:19:27.400 cases where there's a kid who has to go back and forth from mom and dad to a different household.
00:19:33.240 I don't know. So when you say that there's a state that has the most restrictions, I just don't know
00:19:38.440 that that matters anymore, because I think people gave up on it. That's what I observed. People just gave up
00:19:44.420 on it. And I think that the news that asymptomatic people are not the big spreaders and that young
00:19:51.000 people aren't having as bad outcomes. I think you put those two things together, that you need to be
00:19:58.200 symptomatic and probably won't kill you as likely if you're young. And I think households just made the
00:20:05.900 decision. I can't go another month keeping a teenager locked up. I think people just said the risk
00:20:13.480 reward is now reversed. Early on, yeah, lock up everybody. Because you thought it was just going
00:20:20.360 to be maybe a month or something. Yeah, lock up the teenagers, lock up the kids, lock up the schools.
00:20:25.940 If we can kill this thing in a month, that's a good deal. But once you realize you can't,
00:20:31.840 and that it's going to be a year or whatever it's going to be, maybe longer, you can't really keep the
00:20:37.200 teenagers locked up anymore. So I think we should stop pretending that social distancing is even
00:20:43.080 happening. Because it isn't. It's happening in public places, you know, the grocery store. But it's not
00:20:50.200 happening in homes. People just stop doing it, I think. I think that's the whole story.
00:20:56.520 All right. Are you worried about this new virus strain? Now, the experts say that the vaccinations
00:21:04.120 might work against the new one. But they're saying that it's more viral, but possibly less deadly.
00:21:09.960 Quick. Is that good or bad?
00:21:15.260 Can you tell? Is it good or bad that there's a second strain of the virus that's spreading rapidly,
00:21:21.960 but it seems less deadly? I don't know how much less. They say less. That could mean anything.
00:21:28.360 Less deadly, but more viral. Good or bad?
00:21:32.160 Can't tell, can you? Yeah. I'm seeing goods, and I think you're saying it's because there will be more
00:21:39.760 natural herd immunity, and if it's less deadly, you'll get to the... If it spreads more and it's
00:21:47.480 less deadly, maybe you get to some kind of herd immunity of the variant that might work against
00:21:53.980 the original. Probably. Because they're still close enough that if you got antibodies to the variant,
00:22:01.120 I would imagine, this is not confirmed, but I'd imagine you'd have antibodies sufficient to the
00:22:07.160 other one. So this is another example of where we can't tell good news from bad news. I hear this
00:22:13.640 news, and I'm like, ah, is that good or bad? I don't know, because I don't know that the vaccinations
00:22:20.560 will ever get us to herd immunity. I don't know. Here's another question I have.
00:22:27.820 When you're trying to decide who to give it to first, should we have government rules about who
00:22:34.660 gets it first, or would we be better off if we said to everybody, look, you make your own decision?
00:22:42.280 Which would get you to a better outcome? The government with the strict guidelines of who
00:22:49.220 gets it first, or just let everybody decide on their own? Now, I think that's unclear. Israel is
00:22:58.240 doing something closer to letting people decide on their own. I think they have some guidelines,
00:23:02.640 but they're doing way less filtering. So I think if you go in and you say you need it,
00:23:07.720 you're probably going to get it. Now, here's the problem. If you have government guidelines,
00:23:11.860 they're never going to fit your situation. Am I right? Let's say you've got somebody in your
00:23:17.400 household who's 25, and they're just not socially distancing. They're totally healthy. They should
00:23:24.820 be the last person to get the vaccination, right? But what if they're not doing any social distancing,
00:23:30.740 and there's nothing that's going to change that? They're dating on Grindr, or they're dating on
00:23:35.820 some app, and they're mixing with other people every day? Shouldn't that perfectly healthy person
00:23:43.460 get it first? Because they're not going to socially distance. And if they're not socially distancing,
00:23:50.980 they're the problem. They're the one who gets into your household, right? If you vaccinate grandma,
00:23:57.860 well, she wasn't going anywhere anyway. And I could probably get her to stay home,
00:24:02.740 and I could probably get her to socially distance. But I can't get the 25-year-old to do it.
00:24:08.600 They just won't do it. So do the math for me. Forget about the, just for a moment, forget about the
00:24:15.280 morality and the ethics of it, right? Because I'm going to say that whatever gets us to pass the
00:24:21.600 pandemic fastest might be the best result. I don't know that that's true. But I feel as if,
00:24:29.180 if you let people make their own decisions, you might optimize. Because people know their own
00:24:35.600 situation better than you do. And here's the other factor that isn't picked up in any kind of a
00:24:42.020 checklist. The psychological part. Do you believe that there are people who are psychologically
00:24:50.100 deeply damaged by what they feel is their risk, compared to other people who are just handling
00:24:56.660 it better psychologically? Of course. The mental health element of this is gigantic. And how is
00:25:04.500 that going to be picked up on a checklist? Are you going to put on the checklist, I'm way worried about
00:25:10.540 the virus, and it's ruining my life? Versus, you know, oh, I'm not too worried. I know it's bad,
00:25:16.940 but I just don't worry too much. Because the amount you're worried about it is a really big factor.
00:25:23.660 Take me, for example. I'm worried about it. And I'm at an age, and I've got a comorbidity that I
00:25:30.460 would, I think I'd be in maybe the next wave of who's approved to get it, or maybe the one after that.
00:25:37.220 But I'd be in the top third of people who would get it. But if he asked me to make my own decision,
00:25:43.860 I might wait a little longer. And the reason I would wait a little longer is maybe I thought I
00:25:49.960 could socially distance better. Because let's say if Christina got the vaccination, and I'm only,
00:25:58.760 you know, I only have close contact with her, do I need it right away? I'm not saying she would get
00:26:04.860 it right away, but I'm just using an example. So there are so many specific weird situations
00:26:11.200 where you would have to include what people are likely to do, socially distance or not,
00:26:17.480 what their mental state is, what they know about their own comorbidities, what they know about
00:26:23.420 whether they can socially distance well or not. I think maybe you just let people make their own
00:26:29.340 decision. I could tell you that I would voluntarily wait a little bit longer than I will under the
00:26:36.440 current guidelines. So I'll just put that out there. Apparently, there's some kind of idea from
00:26:45.640 Representative Louis Gohmert from Texas. And he was, the Constitution is so weirdly complicated for
00:26:58.420 some of this stuff. So weirdly complicated, that you can't tell what the rules ought to be in any
00:27:09.840 given situation. But apparently, there's at least a theory that if both Democrats and Republicans from
00:27:18.420 a state put forward their own electors for the electoral college, even if only one set of them
00:27:25.300 should have gone, if the others, I guess if they send their people anyway, even though they should
00:27:31.040 not be going, that there's one theory that says that the vice president gets to decide which electors
00:27:38.960 are the real ones. Now, I doubt that that's going to pass any kind of court ruling, because does it seem to
00:27:51.040 you that, I don't even understand this, does it seem to you there could ever be a situation in which the
00:27:58.120 vice president's the only one who gets to decide who becomes president? Under any scenario, under any
00:28:04.780 scenario, does it sound like that actually could be our system? Because I've got a feeling that even if
00:28:11.020 technically it is, the Supreme Court would say, are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? I think the
00:28:19.180 Supreme Court would just throw it away, no matter what the Constitution says, because it would be a
00:28:24.620 stupid process. And the country would be torn apart. There's, there's no possible way that it
00:28:30.400 would be good for the country if he did it. But here's the funny part. I might be Mike Pence's biggest
00:28:37.980 supporter, and I'm not even a supporter, meaning he wouldn't be my first choice for president. But damn,
00:28:44.960 he's good as a vice president. I would say Pence might be one of the world's best vice presidents.
00:28:52.620 Al Gore was good, in my opinion. I know you don't agree with that, but he was great as a vice president.
00:28:58.260 And Pence decided that he wouldn't do it. Pence decided that even if that were the constitutional
00:29:06.120 right, and even if he could do it, Pence said no. He said no. I love that. I know you hate it, some of you,
00:29:17.680 because you just want, you know, Trump to be president, and maybe this would be a way. But I could not
00:29:23.680 respect Pence more for just saying this is bullshit, effectively. And be saying, even if I could, this is
00:29:32.700 bullshit. This is not the way you pick a president. I mean, I'm reading his mind. I don't know exactly
00:29:37.940 what his thought process was. But if that's what he was thinking, good for you. Good for you. Put the
00:29:43.900 country first. Even if it's not what you wanted. I still respect the decision. Can you fact check this
00:29:52.460 following statement for me? Fact check this, because it's the most important question in the country,
00:29:58.900 and I don't know the answer to it. It's the most important question. Have any courts seen actual
00:30:08.840 fraud evidence and ruled on the evidence, as opposed to ruling that there was no standing,
00:30:14.820 so they don't have to look at the evidence, or ruling that there's a doctrine of latches that says
00:30:19.900 it's too late, which again would not have them looking at any data. Were there no lawsuits that even
00:30:28.120 got entertained? Because if you read, if you listen to, you know, pundits on the right, they say that.
00:30:34.580 They say that nobody's ever looked at any evidence of fraud, in terms of the court.
00:30:40.880 But I'm having trouble believing that, because is that the only reason that none of the court cases
00:30:49.080 got to the evidence place? Or is it the case that there were some lawsuits that were based on just
00:30:56.740 evidence, and maybe the court looked at it and just said that's not going to be enough? Oh, I think
00:31:03.000 the other reason was that even if the case was valid, it wouldn't be enough to overturn an election.
00:31:11.280 And in some cases, I guess there's a standing problem that the state should be in charge of it, right?
00:31:17.020 All right, so what do you make of the fact that I don't know the answer to that? Does this sound
00:31:26.040 like, so just see which parts you agree with, and then we'll see if we have any disagreement here.
00:31:33.260 Do we agree that the country is unclear on this question? Would you say that that statement is true,
00:31:42.280 that the public is unclear, you think you know the answer, but the public is unclear on whether the
00:31:50.960 fraud allegations have even been looked at by the court, right? Now, some are saying, I'm seeing a
00:31:58.800 little bit of disagreement here. Now, how could we be in this situation? How could it be this far after
00:32:06.600 the election, when the election is the biggest news in the country, and the question of whether the
00:32:13.520 courts have seen any fraud is the biggest question on the biggest topic in the whole country, right?
00:32:20.720 It's the biggest question. How do I not know the answer to it? How does the public not know the answer
00:32:27.080 to it? It's almost as if there were some kind of external force that is keeping us from understanding
00:32:35.680 even the simplest questions. Some kind of force, maybe even outside the country, for example.
00:32:46.780 Did you know, and I guess Rahim Kassam was tweeting on this, Rahim Kassam, he said that on his show
00:32:57.760 today, they're going to reveal that every major Western media outlet is compromised by the Chinese
00:33:03.660 Communist Party, and we show the receipts. And he lists CNN, the Atlantic, BBC, Reuters, Washington
00:33:10.840 Post and the Hill, AFP, Bloomberg, you name it. So according to some people who have looked into
00:33:19.220 this, it would seem that China has infiltrated, at least in a monetary way, all of our major news
00:33:26.780 sources. Now, if China was, let's say, influencing our news sources, what would that look like?
00:33:34.780 Well, let me take this to a wider context. Are you ready? Here's the part that gets me assassinated
00:33:41.220 by Chinese spies. So if you never see me again, it's been nice knowing you. Totally worth it. Actually,
00:33:49.720 if they kill me over this, it'll be a good death. I hate to be a Klingon about it, but if I get killed
00:33:55.340 over this, it's worth it. Totally worth it. Let me show you my view of our world. And I tend to look
00:34:03.220 at things as sort of a fake engineer. I'm not really an engineer, but I spend enough time around them
00:34:08.700 that I pick up some thinking patterns. And so I see the world as sort of like a machine with lots of
00:34:15.260 moving parts that are connected. And you can't really change any one of the moving parts without
00:34:20.100 affecting the whole machine. But because we're humans, and because the news needs to be simplified
00:34:25.800 for our little brains, we often look at one part of the machine as if we can analyze it in isolation.
00:34:33.880 But that doesn't work, because there is nothing in the real world that is that isolated. Everything's
00:34:39.340 connected. And so I want to give you a little lesson for those of you who maybe don't have a
00:34:45.460 background in economics or don't follow the news that closely. And here it is, that your economy
00:34:51.940 and your military are in some sense interchangeable or proxies for the other. What I mean by that is
00:34:59.560 you can't have a good military unless you've got a strong enough economy. So if you have a strong
00:35:06.320 economy, you're in good shape, assuming you make the right decisions also, right? So protecting the
00:35:13.000 economy is a military action. You have to understand that point. Keeping the economy strong
00:35:21.220 is a military decision. It's a homeland security decision. Now, what will happen in the next coming
00:35:28.380 decades if, let's say, if nothing changes from the trends we already see? Well, because China is so
00:35:35.480 large, just physically and has a number of people, its economy should, in the next decades or two,
00:35:42.980 should overcome the United States. So in very short order, at least within my lifetime even,
00:35:50.080 you're going to see that the economy of China will be bigger than the United States. What does that
00:35:55.540 imply for the military of China? Bigger than the United States, right? More eventually, eventually,
00:36:04.060 just because of size, they will have more power, both economically and militarily, and China uses them
00:36:13.260 interchangeably to get control. Now, if you have a big military, you don't actually have to go to war
00:36:21.380 with a country that has a weak military. You can bribe them. You can tell them you won't protect them
00:36:27.640 unless they do what you want, let's say the Middle East. You can threaten them, right? So you don't
00:36:34.260 have to attack them if your military is the strongest. You can just sort of control things
00:36:40.360 because people know not to get on your bad side, if you know what I mean, right? But then you can also
00:36:46.900 directly control things through your economy because you can buy off people. You can invest with people
00:36:55.040 who don't want to get you mad. You can hold out the possibility of doing business that'll make you
00:37:00.180 rich. You can start a factory so you don't want to lose your factory in China. So China can find a
00:37:06.140 thousand ways to buy influence if their economy is big enough. Now, here's what I believe Trump
00:37:16.120 understands and Biden does not, or Biden is already under the influence of China. Either of them would,
00:37:24.040 either of those two situations would explain what we observe, and I don't have an opinion of which
00:37:29.280 one that is, but they're both possible. Here's what Trump understands, that all of these things which
00:37:36.560 feed into the economy are really a military homeland security decision, and our biggest rival is China,
00:37:47.240 and we are already at war. If you don't understand that we're already at war, or that sounds like
00:37:54.640 hyperbole, you need to catch up, right? Because there's nobody who really understands the world
00:38:01.800 who would disagree with the statement. Everybody who really understands international events
00:38:07.540 would agree with the statement, we are already at war. It's a non-kinetic war, meaning there's,
00:38:13.340 at least at the moment, there's no bullets and bombs, but it's full-out war. They're sending us
00:38:19.260 fentanyl, intentionally. They're, you know, they're stealing their IP, they're sending spies
00:38:25.140 to sleep with Eric Swalwell, etc. They're buying property, they're investing in businesses,
00:38:31.880 little by little, and in a thousand different ways, they're finding ways to buy influence over our
00:38:39.300 country. And they're succeeding. And because we don't, let's say a President Biden is not going to
00:38:45.240 see it as a war that's even happening, he won't even know he's at war. You don't win a war if you
00:38:52.580 don't know you're in one. That's like step one. Trump knows he's in one. Now, you may have asked
00:38:58.980 yourself, why do I harp on certain topics? Why is it that in a world with lots of topics,
00:39:05.800 I'm not talking so much about wokeness, but I'm talking more about, let's say, nuclear power?
00:39:13.800 Let's say the school, the teachers' unions, you hear me talk about them all the time.
00:39:19.420 Why do I talk about those topics? Here's why. Because those topics feed directly into the economy,
00:39:26.420 which feeds into the military, and is the only way to protect us from China. So, if you looked at,
00:39:33.660 say, the school system, we need a really good school system to compete with China, everybody
00:39:38.960 would agree. But what's the biggest problem with our school system? The teachers' unions, who prevent
00:39:45.800 any possibility of meaningful competition, and without competition, nothing works.
00:39:52.880 Who influences the teachers' unions? Do you know? Who influences the teachers' unions? Well,
00:40:00.800 I don't know. But they're acting as though they're influenced by China. Again, I'm not saying
00:40:07.620 they're influenced by China. I don't have direct evidence of that. I'm saying that everything we
00:40:11.840 observe would suggest that they're playing for China, not the United States. So, if I were president,
00:40:19.540 I would say, this isn't really about a union. This is a military decision. We're not going to have
00:40:26.920 shitty schools. You motherfuckers. We're not going to have shitty schools, because you're going to be
00:40:33.180 working for China, and you're going to be in a fucking concentration camp if you keep fucking up
00:40:39.320 our fucking schools. You motherfuckers. So, when you see me go off on the teachers' unions as the
00:40:46.440 enemies of the United States, and effectively Chinese spies, effectively, not literally, but effectively,
00:40:54.040 they're working for the enemy. This should be a government decision. Federal government should
00:41:01.400 just nationalize it. They should just ban the unions for military reasons, because we're in a war.
00:41:10.600 If our schools suck, China wins. They're fighting on the wrong side. You get that? This isn't one of the
00:41:19.600 issues that's, well, this is one of many issues, and I just, you just noticed I seem to have a hard
00:41:25.320 on for this one issue. It's like, Scott, why are you so obsessed about this little issue, when there's
00:41:30.500 so many other things? So many other things are not going to put you in a fucking concentration camp.
00:41:37.180 This will. That will put you in a fucking concentration camp if you let that problem go.
00:41:42.960 That's how big it is. If you don't see that as a military problem, you don't see the whole field.
00:41:51.140 Trump sees it. Trump sees it. Biden does not, because the Democrats have some kind of deal with
00:41:58.520 the teachers' unions, and they have a mutual love fest, and they can keep each other in power.
00:42:06.880 Take nuclear energy. Are you tired of me talking about the importance of nuclear energy for
00:42:13.980 climate change, etc.? Do you know why I talk about nuclear energy so much? Is it because of climate
00:42:20.100 change? A little bit. I mean, that's really important. No, I talk about nuclear energy because
00:42:27.780 if we don't have the most robust domestic nuclear energy program, we won't have the right scientists
00:42:34.920 and experts to control space. And if we don't control space, and you would need nuclear energy
00:42:42.000 to really do it well, if we don't control space, China fucks us. Eventually. Guaranteed. Guaranteed.
00:42:51.540 There is no possibility that anybody smart can say that if we leave our nuclear energy private industry
00:43:00.440 where it is and don't boost it the way China is, we're fucking done. This is the end of your
00:43:08.480 fucking country if you don't make this a lot better than it is. So why do I harp on this so much? Because
00:43:16.420 your whole fucking country is going to be gone. You're going to be a fucking Uyghur in a concentration
00:43:22.020 camp. Not next year. Not probably in five years. But that's where it's going when China gets enough
00:43:30.860 control. Of course, we need a robust startup situation. So this is one of our advantages over
00:43:38.780 China. They don't have quite the startup entrepreneurial situation for a variety of
00:43:44.340 reasons. So we need to goose our startup world as much as possible because it's a strategic advantage
00:43:50.280 for our military. For our military. Right? What about all the Chinese students that we allow to come
00:43:58.060 over here to our top universities, get all our good training, and then go back? Got to stop that
00:44:04.460 immediately. If all we were doing is competing with an economic rival, I'd say, well, maybe we should
00:44:13.560 try to have some openness and cross-communication. And maybe the Chinese people who go to American
00:44:19.180 schools become sort of Americanized and that's good. That's if you're not at war. The moment
00:44:26.960 you're at war, they all got to go. They all got to go right away. All of them. Doesn't matter if
00:44:34.460 they're spies because we can't tell the difference. Right? It doesn't matter that many of them are just
00:44:40.360 perfectly nice people who would like to be American someday. They might. But it's war. Right?
00:44:47.420 It's war. In a wartime situation, you don't pick and choose. You just say, this is a hole. I'm going
00:44:54.440 to block the hole. That's it. It's a war decision. We can't keep losing our IP to them. Here's the
00:45:03.280 most controversial thing on the list. Geniuses drive economies. Right? You need workers for every part
00:45:11.940 of the economy. But it's kind of geniuses. The super smart people who are inventing the next stuff,
00:45:18.580 the AI and the space travel and all that stuff. We need more geniuses. One way to get them is through
00:45:25.520 targeted immigration, where we create an immigration system that really tries to get the geniuses from,
00:45:32.360 let's say, India. If we could get lots more geniuses from India who are not naturally friendly with
00:45:40.720 China, we're in good shape. Recently, you saw, I don't know the details of this, I think Trump was
00:45:47.920 allowing more immigration from India recently. Why? Well, the more Indians we get in this country,
00:45:55.360 the more defense we have against China. The Indians from India who tend to come to this country
00:46:02.440 tend to be technical, tend to be educated, tend to add something right away. They assimilate
00:46:10.680 immediately, almost instantly. And they're a huge strategic advantage. So when you're doing your
00:46:20.440 border control and your immigration, if you're just trying to, you know, let's say, control the
00:46:26.160 population or whatever, or keep out crime, you're not doing enough. You should use your immigration and
00:46:31.560 border control as a strategic military asset. And the military part is you want to get the geniuses in
00:46:38.560 and get enough people, other people that, you know, you have a good, vibrant economy, but you want to
00:46:45.760 get the geniuses. Here's the other thing you need to do. In the long term, I don't know that this is
00:46:52.800 avoidable in the long term. We're going to have to make designer babies in the long term. Because if
00:47:01.160 we're not actually finding a sperm and an egg that has the right DNA to create an unusually smart
00:47:08.100 person, China will. China will. So if you're looking at a hundred year war, and you should be, because
00:47:16.340 it's a hundred year war, you're going to need to build some geniuses, and you're going to need to design
00:47:21.820 them. And you're going to have to figure out how to change the laws and get comfortable with the ethics and the
00:47:27.300 morality of it. Because if you don't, they're going to have more geniuses, bigger economy, completely control
00:47:35.340 us in the long run. And likewise, you have to control the border against everything from fentanyl to
00:47:42.980 spies getting in. So border control should be seen as not a domestic issue. Our border control is part
00:47:49.860 of our war with China. If we can keep our economy at the maximum, and still, you know, still want
00:47:56.980 immigration, you just have to do it intelligently and control it as much as possible. So Trump gets
00:48:02.820 that. He sees the bigger picture. Persuasion, of course, is very important to the economy. Trump is
00:48:09.700 good at it. Biden is bad at it. Biden's telling us our worst days are ahead. I mean, he's a disaster
00:48:16.200 for persuasion for the economy. Trump is the best we've ever seen in persuasion for the economy
00:48:22.760 specifically. And then, of course, one of China's big advantages is they will target an industry such
00:48:29.140 as 5G. And they'll say, we're going to own 5G because it's a strategic asset. Strategic asset,
00:48:36.680 read that as military. We're going to give it away. We'll own this industry because it's so important.
00:48:43.620 And we'll have like our nodes everywhere that will steal the data potentially, etc. So we don't do this
00:48:50.760 as much. But Trump has started a little bit. And you can see that Trump went against TikTok. He moved
00:48:57.140 against Zoom. But I guess nothing happened there. Or maybe they maybe they tightened up there. I don't
00:49:03.040 know why Zoom is still in business. I actually don't understand that because of the Chinese Communist
00:49:08.740 Party indirect connection. I just don't understand that. But you do see that Trump is more willing to
00:49:15.080 be an activist from the federal government in terms of specific industries. Now, the way we've seen it
00:49:22.960 is that he's pushed against 5G. And he's pushed against things that, you know, like TikTok, etc. But
00:49:30.880 we probably need to do a lot more of directly promoting the industries that have a national defense
00:49:38.260 element to them, which is a lot of them, right? So we probably have to be better at that because
00:49:43.840 China's good at it. So here's my field. That's my field. If you don't see that the economy and the
00:49:55.080 military are basically the same thing, they're interchangeable. Now, let me give you an example
00:50:00.720 of that interchangeability. I'm bad at history. So if I get some of this wrong, you'll understand.
00:50:06.720 Kuwait was pretty rich, but didn't have much of a military. Iran had a big military and enough money
00:50:15.940 that they could use it attacked Kuwait. But because Kuwait was rich, and a lot of countries that had
00:50:24.000 big militaries like the United States said, hey, we'd rather keep Kuwait where it is because we might
00:50:30.320 want to get some of that oil out of the ground. So effectively, Kuwait's wealth became its military.
00:50:35.860 It didn't defend itself originally, but because it was wealthy, other people kicked out the Iraqi army.
00:50:45.060 All right. So in all cases, think of the economy as your military, because they're interchangeable.
00:50:52.460 And, oh, did I say I meant Iraq? If I said Iran, correct that. I meant Iraq attacked Kuwait.
00:51:02.460 In the comments, somebody says I accidentally said Iran, and I probably did.
00:51:10.300 All right. I'm just looking at your comments for a moment.
00:51:16.220 So I'm not saying that Trump necessarily has a chance of taking office for a second term,
00:51:21.340 but this is part of the larger story that I've been telling you, which is as we see less of Trump
00:51:31.180 as a personality when he's doing his provocative stuff in public, if he's out of office, if we assume
00:51:38.520 that happens, we'll see less of his personality, and we'll start to forget how it affected us.
00:51:43.800 You'll remember intellectually, but you'll start to fade. That memory will fade. But the things that he did
00:51:51.440 that permanently work, such as improvements in the Middle East, defeating ISIS, North Korea looks a
00:51:58.620 little better, warp speed, et cetera, all those things are going to look like lasting accomplishments.
00:52:03.780 So Trump's legacy is just pretty much guaranteed to improve. Now, you might be saying, yes, but what
00:52:11.360 about all this election fraud stuff he's claiming, and he's tweeting things that don't pass the fact
00:52:17.260 checking like crazy, like every day now, to which I say, you won't remember any of that. You're not
00:52:23.120 going to remember his angry tweets about the election. I mean, it's barely going to be a footnote in any
00:52:32.740 history book. But you're going to remember warp speed. We'll always talk about it. You'll always
00:52:38.580 remember that Space Force was created. It's a pretty big list of things you're going to remember
00:52:43.880 that Trump did, but you're not going to remember his personality as much.
00:52:52.680 So here's the question or the task that I would assign to you. Look at everything that happened
00:53:02.400 in 2020, all the big political news, including everything from the street riots on. Ask yourself
00:53:10.000 this. How much of that would have happened the way it happened if China were not already controlling
00:53:16.840 our media and our politics? Because there are two filters I can think of to explain what I watched in
00:53:27.640 all of 2020. One filter is everybody went crazy and we just noticed it, or maybe they were crazy and we
00:53:35.260 just noticed it. Maybe. Did everything just get crazier in 2020? It's possible, right? So it's possible
00:53:43.940 that it was just a crazy year, and that's the whole story. Could have been a coincidentally crazy year.
00:53:49.040 Maybe Trump got us all worked up or something. But the other explanation for everything we saw
00:53:55.860 from the election result, to the riots, to even laws that got passed, even how we negotiated with
00:54:04.820 China, the Biden stuff, almost all of it. Now ask yourself, what would it have looked like
00:54:10.260 if the reporting and the way we filtered it was influenced by China? It would look exactly like 2020.
00:54:21.040 2020. So there are two theories. One of them is just a coincidental, random, bad year when
00:54:28.060 everything happened. And the other one is that we're at war with China. And the with war with China
00:54:33.200 explains every frickin' thing that you saw. Every bad decision, every absurdity, every bit of fake news
00:54:42.020 could all be explained by China. I mean, even take the Swalwell impeachment stuff. Would Swalwell have
00:54:54.980 been pushing impeachment as hard if he had not slept with a Chinese spy? I don't know. I don't know.
00:55:02.400 Maybe. But it certainly explains a lot, doesn't it? All right. I feel as if there was one other topic
00:55:11.080 that you were interested in me talking about. Yeah, I don't remember what that was.
00:55:21.880 Yeah, Black Lives Matter, Antifa. You would have to assume that they're all influenced directly or
00:55:27.120 indirectly by Chinese money. Now, I don't know that that's true, but it would be the explanation.
00:55:32.840 Oh, the stimulus. Yeah, the stimulus check, you know, getting back to that. So here again is something
00:55:42.920 that prominent Republicans and Democrats agree about this $2,000 thing. And coincidentally, the person
00:55:50.540 who's married to somebody who allegedly has Chinese connections, and that's something that needs to be
00:55:57.720 fact-checked. He's the one who stops it. Just look at how many coincidences start to add up.
00:56:05.480 There are a whole lot of coincidences that track back to China. And if that's an accident, I don't know.
00:56:13.800 I don't know. All right. I think that's what we wanted to talk about today. And
00:56:20.020 Oh, there's a video from Ukraine naming Biden. Yeah, I saw some story about that. But I would wait for a
00:56:29.220 little more confirmation on that. That looked a little sketchy. My favorite podcasts? Yeah, the Tim Ferriss
00:56:37.180 podcast is consistently great. But I don't listen to a lot of podcasts, actually.
00:56:42.880 All right, that's all for now. And I will talk to you tomorrow.
00:56:57.440 All right, YouTubers, still here for another moment.
00:57:04.300 Thank you. You like that picture?
00:57:05.640 What are the books on your shelf? So those are my books. Are you looking at the ones at the top?
00:57:12.640 Those are just random books that I think they're all Dilbert books. And
00:57:18.880 they're not going to be happy with this one. So this will be interesting, right? It'll be a good test.
00:57:29.300 Watch the numbers that this video does. I would argue that this Periscope or this live stream on
00:57:39.360 YouTube, whichever, I would argue that this is as good as any other live stream I've done. But if the
00:57:46.360 numbers are much less than you've seen for my other live streams, could be. It could be it's the
00:57:53.120 holidays. But I would be looking for that. All right. So Mitch presented another bill with the
00:58:01.580 with the 230 stuff on it. I'll have to look into that. Do I play an instrument? I've been trying to
00:58:08.540 learn the drums for several years, but I would say that I do not play an instrument. Let's just say
00:58:14.300 my drum learning isn't going as quickly as I'd hoped. But I'm still at it. How does the golden age
00:58:21.420 happen? Well, all we have to do is put China in check and do the things that are good for the
00:58:27.900 United States, you know, from nuclear energy, etc. And we should be fine. It's just not dealing with it
00:58:34.700 would be the problem. Where do I learn hypnosis, somebody says. I would recommend that you only learn
00:58:40.900 it in person. The Wall Street Journal article was talking about how hypnosis is being put on videos
00:58:47.880 so people could just watch the video and get hypnotized for some purpose. I would not think
00:58:53.060 that that's going to work. Because the biggest part of hypnosis is observation and then adjusting
00:58:59.020 your technique. So if you're just sending out the same hypnosis to a bunch of people, it would only be
00:59:04.940 a coincidence that it happened to hit your specific brain pattern. So I don't see that hypnosis can work
00:59:13.220 as effectively as it works in person. But of course, advertising works and marketing works. So
00:59:19.280 on some level, on some level, it would work, but I wouldn't call it hypnosis.
00:59:25.740 Is hypnotherapy acceptable to learn? Sure. Why would it be unacceptable? What if you're self-taught?
00:59:33.440 I don't know that you could be self-taught. That's an open question. My experience of it was that the
00:59:40.240 things that happened in person would not be reproducible in any other way.
00:59:45.420 How do I benefit from marijuana? So many ways. It's hard to list. It gets rid of allergies. It
00:59:53.060 gets rid of mental health problems. Some of them. Not every mental health problem. It makes you feel
01:00:01.160 younger. You can exercise more. Your sex is better. Almost everything. And you wake up better.
01:00:09.240 You're better rested. You're happier. There's very few things that doesn't make better.
01:00:18.260 So Debbie's been listening so long, you can recognize the hypnosis. Well, you should be able
01:00:23.420 to because I call it out and I highlight it when I use it quite often. So I've been telling you what
01:00:29.920 I've been doing and demonstrating it. So you should be able to see it by now.
01:00:33.300 Who taught the first hypnotist? Mesmer. I think Mesmer was the first hypnotist and he figured
01:00:40.300 it out. That's why the word mesmerize exists. What's the best way to prep the U.S. public
01:00:49.500 to accept designer babies? I feel as if it's just going to sort of happen. Meaning that we're
01:00:57.140 at a point now where I think we can already do it. And I think that a couple, if they
01:01:02.220 wanted to, probably could do it now. I don't think it's illegal. I think you get to choose
01:01:08.300 which fertilized egg you take to completion, right? So I think it's legal. I don't know
01:01:15.900 if it's illegal. It probably happens right now.
01:01:18.080 Why wouldn't Biden reverse everything Trump did? Well, he will reverse a lot of stuff,
01:01:25.320 but it's going to be the small stuff. Things he can't reverse would be, you know, ISIS is
01:01:31.880 gone. If they try to reverse the Iran deal, they're going to run into a brick wall. If they
01:01:38.380 try to, what is it exactly he would reverse? If he tries to raise taxes during a pandemic,
01:01:43.960 I don't know that that's going to work out. So it's going to be tough. It'll be tough for
01:01:52.240 Biden to reverse anything that was a good idea. Space force is going away, somebody thinks. No,
01:02:01.900 that's not going away. Space force will be with us forever. All right. How can I go about
01:02:08.660 learning hypnosis? The only way I know of is to learn it from an actual hypnotist.
01:02:13.960 And if you can just Google something local, but your trouble is that you would need
01:02:19.100 references. And unfortunately, a hypnotist is going to be really good at making sure somebody
01:02:26.240 gives you a good reference. So you can't really shop for a hypnotist the way you could shop for,
01:02:32.440 you know, a product because there's a little extra going on there. But I would say there's not much
01:02:38.620 to lose. Try a local class if you could find one. All right, that's all I got. I'll talk to you tomorrow.