Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1245 Scott Adams： Let's Discuss the Capitol Protest and Elon Musk's Prediction

00:00:00.000 Bum-bum-bum-bum. Bum-bum-bum-bum. Bum-bum-bum. Bum-bum-bum. Good morning, everybody. Come on in. Come on in. You'll be fine.

00:00:14.560 Everything's going to work out. Now, you might be wondering why the sound quality is not so good if you're watching this on the live stream on YouTube.

00:00:24.140 And it's because I haven't yet ordered my adapter so I can charge my iPad. At the same time, I can have my microphone plugged in.

00:00:33.120 So if you want the better sound quality, you go over to Periscope live stream.

00:00:39.940 Why are you here this morning? I think I know. I think I know. And it starts with a simultaneous sip.

00:00:45.940 And all you need is a copper. I got up a little early this morning.

00:00:51.560 Speaking might be a problem.

00:00:55.460 But all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or a flask of a vessel of any kind.

00:01:00.820 Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

00:01:04.860 And somebody says, are you missing a microphone?

00:01:12.560 The plug in the audio.

00:01:14.040 All right. So those of you just coming in, I just told you that the audio on YouTube will be low because I'm not using a microphone.

00:01:23.020 I have it plugged in for charging.

00:01:26.440 Go to go to my Twitter feed and go to.

00:01:30.960 Well, if you go to my Twitter feed, you'll see the live stream with microphone on the other platform.

00:01:35.680 So, I will be ignoring the rest of you.

00:01:42.380 All right. Fuck you.

00:01:44.820 I'm just going to turn off YouTube.

00:01:47.840 All right. YouTube is canceled.

00:01:51.360 Because they couldn't handle the...

00:01:53.700 They couldn't handle the sound.

00:01:55.960 So, just you today, Periscope.

00:02:02.200 Turns out the YouTube people complained too much, so I had to...

00:02:05.660 I just turned them off.

00:02:08.540 Let us begin again with less complaints.

00:02:15.660 Here's the most interesting thing that happened today, and it wasn't the Capitol protests.

00:02:19.880 We'll get to those in a minute.

00:02:20.800 But Elon Musk tweeted that the most entertaining outcome is the most likely.

00:02:27.800 The most entertaining outcome is the most likely.

00:02:33.920 What do you think?

00:02:35.520 Well, it may be something you've heard me say before, and it's a coincidence that two people who are known to believe that we are in a software simulation and not a classic reality

00:02:47.300 believe that the outcomes tend to be biased toward whatever is the most entertaining.

00:02:54.320 Why would that be?

00:02:56.740 Can there be any logical reason why, if we're a simulation or even if we're not, the outcomes would be biased toward what is most entertaining?

00:03:11.720 And the answer is, yeah.

00:03:14.900 Yeah.

00:03:15.160 Yeah.

00:03:17.300 Oh, I know what happened.

00:03:19.860 I got sidetracked in the middle of the simultaneous sip.

00:03:23.640 And I realize that I've primed you so much that if you don't get it, something's going to be wrong with your day.

00:03:30.760 Back up.

00:03:31.760 Back up.

00:03:32.640 For those of you who are not addicted to the simultaneous sip, please bear with us.

00:03:37.280 It will only take a second.

00:03:40.240 You ready?

00:03:41.320 Let's go from the top.

00:03:42.900 A cup or mug or glass is all you need.

00:03:44.500 A tank or chalice or stein.

00:03:45.460 I can't take a jug of glass with a vessel of any kind.

00:03:47.080 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:03:49.280 I like coffee.

00:03:50.520 Join me now for the dopamine hit of the day.

00:03:52.460 The thing that makes everything better.

00:03:53.960 Go.

00:03:54.120 Now, there you go.

00:04:00.960 Wasn't that what you wanted?

00:04:02.720 I think so.

00:04:04.160 I think so.

00:04:04.660 All right.

00:04:06.660 There is a reason that reality tends to trend toward whatever is most entertaining.

00:04:12.780 And it is this.

00:04:13.660 I believe that artificial intelligence is making a lot more decisions for us than we know.

00:04:20.760 And if there's one thing that artificial intelligence wants, at least if that artificial intelligence is being used as part of a social media platform,

00:04:30.540 that artificial intelligence wants the most interesting outcome.

00:04:34.660 That's what gets the most clicks.

00:04:36.900 So when Elon says the most entertaining outcome is the most likely, I agree.

00:04:43.000 Because we do have a system that is biased in that direction.

00:04:46.120 The Department of Energy released a statement that says they're going big on energy for space strategy.

00:04:56.200 A big part of that is nuclear energy, which means that, well, I won't say it means that,

00:05:02.180 but the only way you can have a good nuclear power program for space is if you've got a robust private industry of nuclear energy.

00:05:12.520 Right now, it's kind of shrinking or staying the same.

00:05:15.320 But unless we grow our private nuclear energy industry, we won't have the experts we need to take that expertise into space.

00:05:24.140 So this is a really, really big deal for the country and the world and the fate of humanity.

00:05:29.440 But it just sounds like a boring little press release.

00:05:31.800 Oh, yeah, we're going to work really hard for energy sources for space.

00:05:37.120 It's a big deal.

00:05:38.860 All right.

00:05:39.540 Those are the good news.

00:05:40.560 Let's talk about the protests.

00:05:43.920 Here's the bad news first.

00:05:46.140 According to the D.C. police, there were four deaths.

00:05:49.540 One shooting and then three had some kind of medical problems that are unclear.

00:05:55.220 It might have been coincidence.

00:05:56.340 I don't know.

00:05:57.160 But four people dead.

00:05:58.220 That's horrible.

00:05:59.520 Fifty-two arrested.

00:06:01.260 That's horrible.

00:06:02.960 And 14 Metropolitan Police Department officers wounded.

00:06:08.000 Now, isn't wounded an interesting choice of words?

00:06:12.000 Isn't injured maybe more objective?

00:06:16.460 Wounded sounds like people were trying to hurt them.

00:06:21.920 Were they all hurt because people were trying to hurt them?

00:06:25.520 Because then wounded would make sense.

00:06:27.960 I don't know.

00:06:28.960 I would say that injured would be, you know, injured in the course of the job would be at least more objective.

00:06:36.620 Now, do we have only adults watching this today?

00:06:42.240 Because if there are any children watching, there's something that I need to explain to the children.

00:06:49.620 You can be in favor of things even if there is a big cost to them.

00:06:56.480 The children don't understand that.

00:06:58.260 I know the adults understand it, that you could still be in favor of, let's say, a defensive war knowing that people will die.

00:07:06.040 So you're not in favor of death, you're in favor of self-defense.

00:07:11.600 That would be one example.

00:07:13.300 Likewise, with these protests at the Capitol, I would like to unambiguously say that I support them.

00:07:20.920 While still unambiguously saying I don't support any violence of any kind.

00:07:26.480 Now, and certainly the types of numbers that we saw in this protest are disturbing.

00:07:34.440 The death is extra tragic.

00:07:37.120 The deaths.

00:07:38.100 And I don't minimize that.

00:07:41.600 So for the benefit of the children watching, I'm not minimizing the death and destruction.

00:07:49.360 They're real.

00:07:50.820 And you don't want more of that.

00:07:52.540 But at the same time, the energy of this protest, the purpose of the protest, the intention of it, I think the well-meaning purpose of it, I support 100%.

00:08:07.420 Now, when I say I support the protesters, I am not saying that I personally have proof of election fraud and I've seen it.

00:08:18.220 Nothing like that.

00:08:19.000 But I'm just saying that we had a non-transparent, non-credible election for a variety of reasons.

00:08:25.940 Some of them, nobody's fault.

00:08:28.060 You know, the coronavirus situation made it hard to do it right.

00:08:32.760 So we did it.

00:08:34.340 Didn't do it right in terms of credibility.

00:08:37.320 I don't know about the vote count, but the credibility of it was low.

00:08:41.960 So is there anything more important than that to protest?

00:08:46.460 I can't think of anything.

00:08:49.440 I think Black Lives Matter had an important issue, which is a concern that, you know, the police were treating people differently.

00:08:59.140 Now, you could argue about the facts of that, but that's a pretty good issue.

00:09:03.120 So if you're asking me, should Black Lives Matter, you know, is it moral or ethical for them to protest that issue?

00:09:12.380 I'd say, yeah, that's totally ethical, totally moral.

00:09:15.640 Probably get a better world out of it if you can keep the violence and the destruction down.

00:09:20.060 Now, Black Lives Matter, especially because Antifa got in on it, didn't really keep violence and destruction down to a minimum. 0.87

00:09:30.980 So that's suboptimal.

00:09:32.960 Nobody can be happy about that.

00:09:34.660 But I think their issue was absolutely worth airing out, even if some of the facts behind it maybe were not exactly what they thought they were.

00:09:44.600 But the issue is still worth it to find out what are the facts.

00:09:49.800 Do we have a problem?

00:09:51.180 How big is the problem?

00:09:52.160 What can you do about it?

00:09:53.100 Absolutely worthwhile.

00:09:54.720 But then the violence is not.

00:09:57.260 You know, that's the violence, the destruction are condemned.

00:10:00.560 So I will condemn them exactly the way I condemned Black Lives Matter. 1.00

00:10:05.620 Exactly the same.

00:10:06.620 So I'll be maybe the one person who's consistent today.

00:10:11.380 You're not going to see a lot of consistency in the next few days.

00:10:15.000 But I'll try to be.

00:10:16.260 I'm going to say that same standard for these protesters.

00:10:20.180 If anything they did led to destruction and or injury, especially injury of police,

00:10:27.620 then I disavow them and condemn them in the same language.

00:10:31.680 Okay.

00:10:31.800 That said, here are some things we don't know about this protest yet, and I'd like to.

00:10:40.180 Number one, how much damage was there?

00:10:43.820 Because I feel as if one of the stories is the low amount of damage.

00:10:49.620 Now, have you seen the video yet of a protester who was at least in the crowd with the Trump supporting people?

00:10:58.960 And he had some kind of a club, and he was trying to break a window, and the MAGA people were trying to stop him,

00:11:06.620 and eventually one of them physically, you know, tackled him.

00:11:11.820 Now, the allegation is that the person's trying to break the window, that one that I saw on video,

00:11:19.780 and apparently there are a number of other videos of similarly sketchy behavior,

00:11:25.200 that looks exactly like it was Antifa pretending to be Trump supporters.

00:11:29.940 In fact, the guy beating on the window had an Antifa black block outfit on,

00:11:36.020 with a bumper sticker that said Trump on the back of his helmet.

00:11:40.540 Didn't look exactly like a Trump supporter, if you know what I mean.

00:11:44.520 Looked exactly like Antifa, being stopped by Trump supporters.

00:11:51.100 That's what it looked like.

00:11:53.280 So, I would say the jury is out about who exactly was doing what.

00:11:58.720 Still the fog of war.

00:12:00.460 If you're saying that Antifa is confirmed to have been there,

00:12:04.800 I would say, not yet.

00:12:06.820 But, if I had to put money on it, they looked Antifa to me.

00:12:13.360 But I'm not in the 80% likelihood.

00:12:17.180 I'm 60%, maybe.

00:12:20.140 So, I don't think I would bet my life that Antifa was actually infiltrating the group.

00:12:26.220 There could have easily been, you know, Trump supporters who went a little too far,

00:12:30.280 and the other ones stopped.

00:12:31.260 We don't know.

00:12:32.720 But, it's definitely a good question.

00:12:36.820 So, don't let me minimize the potential or the risk that had been infiltrated.

00:12:44.380 Let me ask you this.

00:12:46.900 If you were an enemy of this country,

00:12:51.060 wouldn't it be the perfect thing to do?

00:12:53.380 Infiltrate that group and cause more trouble than the group itself was likely to cause?

00:12:59.460 It would be a good strategy.

00:13:00.380 So, if nobody tried to do it,

00:13:04.900 if nobody tried to put some troublemakers in there to make things worse,

00:13:09.360 well, then our enemies are not as capable as we thought.

00:13:15.340 So, there's a good chance that there were some troublemakers in the crowd

00:13:19.240 that were not technically MAGA people, but we don't know.

00:13:22.580 Now, the big story, of course, and the most concerning one,

00:13:27.840 is that one of the protesters, a woman who's actually a veteran,

00:13:32.060 which I think is important to the story,

00:13:34.620 was shot in the neck at fairly close range

00:13:38.480 as she was trying to breach through a, I guess, a broken large window in a door. 0.89

00:13:44.980 She was trying to climb through it. 0.93

00:13:48.040 And somebody we don't know who in the security side of things for the building,

00:13:52.580 could be Secret Service, maybe somebody else,

00:13:55.400 you could see a gun come out, point directly at her,

00:13:59.300 take one shot, and killed her. 0.98

00:14:02.700 Now, I asked Dan Bongino this morning,

00:14:06.680 and by the way, how amazing is it

00:14:08.440 that I can just have a question

00:14:10.520 and just type it out on my keyboard here in California

00:14:13.880 and somebody who actually knows the answers to this sort of thing

00:14:17.560 gives me a direct answer.

00:14:19.340 So, Dan Bongino answered almost right away.

00:14:22.720 And he said this.

00:14:24.080 He said, well, the question I asked was this.

00:14:27.140 Is there ever a strategy, an intentional strategy,

00:14:32.560 that involves shooting a woman in a crowd

00:14:36.020 as a strategy to suppress the crowd?

00:14:40.020 Now, I just asked that question.

00:14:43.400 It's not an accusation.

00:14:45.060 It's just, I don't know.

00:14:46.940 And the reason I asked the question is,

00:14:48.500 I was thinking, what would I do?

00:14:51.720 Let's say a crowd of people gathered around my home,

00:14:55.380 and I knew that they all wanted to cause me harm.

00:14:59.420 Some were women, some were men,

00:15:01.080 but they were all there to cause me harm.

00:15:03.240 So they were all kind of equally guilty

00:15:05.360 in this artificial scenario.

00:15:07.540 And I thought to myself, what would I do

00:15:10.180 if I had one gun, but it was a big crowd,

00:15:13.580 and maybe they weren't so armed,

00:15:16.220 but I wanted to stop them from getting in the house?

00:15:21.140 I probably shouldn't say this in public,

00:15:23.580 but I'd probably take out a woman. 1.00

00:15:26.540 Because here's my theory,

00:15:29.020 and this is what I was checking with people

00:15:30.540 who actually know this world.

00:15:31.760 This is a world I don't know,

00:15:33.940 so I'm just sort of speculating and guessing

00:15:36.020 how things might go.

00:15:37.880 If you took out a man,

00:15:40.120 I believe the crowd would say,

00:15:42.400 get him, because it's war now.

00:15:45.900 When a man gets killed in a conflict,

00:15:48.220 that's just war.

00:15:49.680 So war is on, the crowd goes nuts,

00:15:52.580 passions are inflamed,

00:15:54.920 they surround me, they kill me.

00:15:56.640 But, and this is just the hypothesis,

00:16:01.820 just a hypothesis,

00:16:03.780 that if you take out a woman, 1.00

00:16:06.900 the crowd, instead of saying,

00:16:08.620 it's war, let's attack, 0.99

00:16:10.140 the crowd immediately re-evaluates their lives.

00:16:15.620 You see the difference?

00:16:17.040 Kill a man in some kind of a dangerous situation,

00:16:20.460 and people go, eh, men get killed.

00:16:23.320 Because if we're being honest,

00:16:24.500 society doesn't really care that much about men. 1.00

00:16:27.940 Let's be honest.

00:16:29.460 That's why men do the dangerous work, 1.00

00:16:32.340 and nobody looks to change that situation.

00:16:35.240 Men are a little bit expendable.

00:16:37.620 So if you shoot a man

00:16:38.940 as your strategy for stopping the crowd,

00:16:42.180 you have to accept

00:16:43.240 that the crowd doesn't give a shit about men.

00:16:46.440 Now, the people know him personally would,

00:16:48.500 and it wouldn't be nothing.

00:16:50.600 But compared to shooting a woman, 0.59

00:16:52.420 it's not the same.

00:16:53.540 I think shooting a woman 1.00

00:16:55.240 takes all the energy out of the crowd.

00:16:57.200 Because then they say to themselves,

00:16:59.400 my God, am I involved in something

00:17:01.440 that's killing women? 1.00

00:17:02.940 It's different.

00:17:04.680 Let me tell you male brain strategy. 0.66

00:17:08.760 If I'm involved in something,

00:17:10.460 let's say I've got a good point to it,

00:17:12.560 you know, I think I'm in the right,

00:17:14.360 but I'm involved in something

00:17:15.620 that might get a man killed,

00:17:17.720 do I care?

00:17:19.840 Nope.

00:17:20.360 Nope.

00:17:21.220 Nope.

00:17:22.180 Not if the thing I'm fighting for

00:17:24.720 is more important than some lives.

00:17:27.660 And that could easily be the case.

00:17:30.480 But if you told me I'm involved in something

00:17:33.280 and it's very important,

00:17:34.960 but I'm going to get a woman killed, 1.00

00:17:37.740 I might stop immediately.

00:17:39.800 Now, not for any logical reason.

00:17:42.540 It's just purely psychological.

00:17:46.000 If women are getting killed, 1.00

00:17:47.700 I just reassess my whole life.

00:17:49.940 If men are getting killed,

00:17:50.980 it's just a Tuesday.

00:17:53.200 True, right?

00:17:54.380 So I simply asked the question

00:17:56.620 whether it could ever be

00:17:58.180 an intentional strategy,

00:17:59.640 because I don't know

00:18:01.300 how many women were there. 1.00

00:18:02.980 Now, obviously,

00:18:03.600 she was breaching the door,

00:18:05.120 so that's all the reason you need

00:18:06.800 if shooting had been allowed.

00:18:09.720 But I asked Dan Bongino,

00:18:10.920 and he said this.

00:18:11.480 He said their use-of-force guidelines are clear,

00:18:14.340 and unless there's a threat of SPI,

00:18:17.440 which I don't know what that is,

00:18:18.600 but it must be a threat of physical danger,

00:18:22.320 or death,

00:18:23.640 they can't use deadly force.

00:18:26.860 So here's my second follow-up question.

00:18:30.700 I totally agree with Dan Bongino

00:18:32.760 that there would be nothing in writing

00:18:35.500 in terms of use-of-force guidelines.

00:18:38.080 There's definitely nothing in writing

00:18:40.500 that says shoot the woman in the crowd. 1.00

00:18:44.060 So here Dan and I completely agree.

00:18:46.200 I don't think there's any chance

00:18:47.880 that that's written down somewhere, right?

00:18:51.780 But here's my follow-up question.

00:18:54.700 Regardless of what their guidelines say,

00:18:58.520 is it a known,

00:19:00.020 as in not just Scott speculating,

00:19:02.320 but is it an understood and known strategy

00:19:06.120 to shoot one protester

00:19:08.380 if you think you're at risk of a breach

00:19:12.100 that could get elected politicians captured?

00:19:16.680 So let's boil down the question

00:19:18.680 to the simplest specific.

00:19:21.860 Could, forget about the police,

00:19:24.860 now I'm going to make a change

00:19:26.540 from police officers

00:19:28.320 and what use of force they have,

00:19:31.040 because I think that police officers

00:19:33.860 would have a different standard

00:19:35.260 than Secret Service protecting the president.

00:19:38.720 Let me give you an example.

00:19:40.420 If, and I don't know this is real, by the way,

00:19:42.580 this is just speculation.

00:19:45.000 Pure speculation.

00:19:46.420 Do not take anything away from this next part

00:19:49.180 as being true or fact or credible, right?

00:19:52.300 Just speculation.

00:19:52.960 That a police officer

00:19:55.620 would never be allowed

00:19:57.680 to shoot a civilian

00:19:59.000 to save somebody else.

00:20:02.760 Would you say that's true?

00:20:04.280 No police officer could shoot

00:20:05.940 a civilian who was not causing,

00:20:08.620 you know, imminent problems

00:20:10.020 no matter the reason.

00:20:12.980 There just wouldn't ever be a reason

00:20:14.220 to shoot an innocent person.

00:20:15.440 But, suppose you're the Secret Service

00:20:20.420 and you're protecting

00:20:22.360 maybe a vice president

00:20:23.700 who might be somewhere

00:20:25.540 behind these doors.

00:20:27.400 If you're protecting a vice president

00:20:29.360 and you're not a cop,

00:20:31.260 you're Secret Service,

00:20:33.040 and there is an opportunity

00:20:36.060 to protect your vice president,

00:20:39.040 but to do it,

00:20:40.260 you might have to shoot

00:20:41.480 an innocent person.

00:20:42.720 Would you do it?

00:20:47.280 I kind of hope yes.

00:20:49.800 Now, it would be a strange situation

00:20:52.320 where you would ever have to do that.

00:20:55.420 But, if there's a choice

00:20:58.120 between shooting one innocent person,

00:21:02.620 innocent meaning they haven't done something

00:21:04.300 that's quite a shootable crime yet,

00:21:07.540 but might, they haven't done it yet,

00:21:09.580 could you do that

00:21:12.400 to protect the government?

00:21:15.020 Meaning, meaning the leaders

00:21:16.660 who give stability

00:21:18.040 to the entire situation.

00:21:20.980 And I feel as though

00:21:22.560 it would never be taught

00:21:26.000 that you should do it.

00:21:28.040 I feel as though

00:21:29.020 people with deep military training

00:21:31.180 might see it as the best path.

00:21:35.380 I'm just speculating.

00:21:36.660 I would like to be wrong about that,

00:21:40.540 but when I watched the video,

00:21:42.700 what I saw was somebody

00:21:44.420 who was not making a mistake.

00:21:47.880 Because it was too intentional,

00:21:49.840 and they were not quite

00:21:50.900 in the heat of the moment,

00:21:52.100 meaning there was some distance

00:21:53.300 between the person they shot,

00:21:55.040 who was not threatening them

00:21:56.060 at the moment.

00:21:57.640 You know, not directly.

00:21:59.320 And it looked really intentional

00:22:02.940 as if it had been a strategy.

00:22:05.440 Now, if it had been a panic,

00:22:08.240 I would have expected

00:22:09.140 more bullets

00:22:10.120 or shot in it

00:22:13.660 when it got a little bit more

00:22:15.340 maybe dangerous

00:22:17.120 than it was at that point.

00:22:19.080 But, you know, it's fog of war.

00:22:20.840 Anything could be true

00:22:22.140 at this point.

00:22:23.560 Don't commit to any

00:22:24.780 of your assumptions yet, okay?

00:22:26.860 We're all making

00:22:27.640 a lot of assumptions about that,

00:22:29.140 but don't commit to any of them.

00:22:30.340 You're going to find out

00:22:31.000 a lot of new stuff.

00:22:31.820 Why is it that,

00:22:38.440 given that Ted Cruz

00:22:39.340 and the other people

00:22:40.140 were asking for a 10-day,

00:22:42.400 basically 10 days

00:22:43.860 to do an audit,

00:22:46.800 and it wouldn't even

00:22:48.460 stop the inauguration?

00:22:49.940 In other words,

00:22:50.560 it wouldn't even slow down

00:22:51.800 the process that's already happening.

00:22:54.580 So, how unreasonable is it

00:22:57.160 to ask for 10 days of an audit

00:22:59.800 when do you have 10 days?

00:23:01.620 Is that unreasonable?

00:23:03.240 Because the way

00:23:04.440 the fake news

00:23:05.360 is framing this

00:23:08.560 is that Ted Cruz

00:23:09.980 and the other politicians,

00:23:11.420 the Republicans

00:23:12.000 who are going to challenge

00:23:12.920 the election integrity,

00:23:14.520 that they have inspired

00:23:15.900 the riots

00:23:16.600 and inspired the violence

00:23:18.000 and that they're guilty of it.

00:23:20.160 Now, here's what

00:23:22.160 inspiring violence

00:23:23.940 would sound like.

00:23:25.400 Hey, you people,

00:23:27.020 pick up your weapons

00:23:28.200 and go down there

00:23:29.140 and do something bad.

00:23:31.400 That's what

00:23:31.920 inspiring violence

00:23:33.060 sounds like.

00:23:34.900 But, if instead of that

00:23:36.440 you say something like,

00:23:38.140 can we use the 10 days

00:23:39.560 that we have

00:23:40.420 to do an audit

00:23:41.840 so that the public

00:23:43.040 feels more confidence

00:23:45.260 in our election process?

00:23:47.280 If you do that,

00:23:49.300 that's more like

00:23:49.980 being an accountant.

00:23:52.020 Right?

00:23:52.240 That's so far

00:23:54.740 from encouraging violence

00:23:56.940 and is literally

00:23:58.320 intended

00:23:59.040 by its design

00:24:00.480 to reduce

00:24:02.040 the risk

00:24:02.720 of violence.

00:24:03.800 Because if Trump supporters

00:24:05.300 could see that the audit

00:24:06.580 had been done

00:24:07.220 and they said,

00:24:08.240 oh, okay,

00:24:08.860 I thought there were

00:24:09.400 more problems

00:24:10.040 but I guess we would have

00:24:11.000 found them in the audit,

00:24:12.300 would that make the world

00:24:13.360 a worse place?

00:24:14.560 Is that a call

00:24:15.460 to arms?

00:24:17.400 Let me read you

00:24:18.320 a headline

00:24:19.040 that I just had

00:24:21.360 sent to me

00:24:21.920 from my old

00:24:22.700 local paper

00:24:23.480 which is

00:24:25.660 the Times Union

00:24:26.500 and of Albany.

00:24:27.920 The headline says

00:24:28.800 Chaos at the Capitol.

00:24:30.900 So far, so good.

00:24:32.480 Subtitle says

00:24:33.400 Pro-Trump Mob

00:24:35.100 Storm Site

00:24:36.160 After President's

00:24:37.480 Call to Arms.

00:24:40.360 Call to Arms?

00:24:43.400 Did anybody here

00:24:45.520 the President

00:24:46.280 do a call

00:24:48.460 to arms?

00:24:50.360 Because I heard

00:24:51.200 him say the opposite.

00:24:53.400 I heard him say

00:24:54.260 the opposite,

00:24:55.360 you know,

00:24:55.660 be peaceful

00:24:56.300 and go home.

00:24:58.900 But

00:24:59.340 this is an

00:25:00.960 actual newspaper

00:25:02.080 who put

00:25:03.820 an actual

00:25:05.100 subtitle,

00:25:06.180 I guess you would

00:25:06.680 call that,

00:25:07.060 to the headline

00:25:07.600 saying that

00:25:09.300 the President

00:25:10.160 had a call

00:25:10.940 to arms.

00:25:13.440 Oh,

00:25:14.180 my God.

00:25:16.280 Oh,

00:25:17.500 my God.

00:25:19.520 The thought

00:25:21.300 that we have

00:25:22.000 a press

00:25:22.940 that works

00:25:24.040 for the benefit

00:25:24.700 of the public

00:25:25.440 is ridiculous.

00:25:27.700 It's just ridiculous.

00:25:29.640 They're not

00:25:30.180 on your team.

00:25:31.560 Whatever is happening here,

00:25:32.760 they're not on your side,

00:25:33.800 that's for sure.

00:25:35.540 All right.

00:25:35.880 Trump has

00:25:40.500 now announced,

00:25:41.440 I guess he couldn't

00:25:42.140 do it on Twitter

00:25:42.800 right away

00:25:43.360 because he was

00:25:44.180 still blocked

00:25:44.680 from Twitter

00:25:45.220 for claiming

00:25:46.260 that the election

00:25:46.940 was rigged.

00:25:48.240 I believe that's

00:25:48.900 why they blocked him.

00:25:49.800 I saw that he

00:25:51.180 deleted his two tweets

00:25:52.300 so he should be

00:25:52.920 back in a few hours.

00:25:54.940 But he

00:25:55.580 committed publicly

00:25:56.980 with a written

00:25:57.800 statement

00:25:58.200 to an orderly

00:25:59.660 transfer of power.

00:26:00.640 Now,

00:26:02.360 is there anybody

00:26:03.100 as of right now

00:26:05.460 who still thinks

00:26:07.020 that there's a risk

00:26:07.980 that Trump

00:26:09.120 will not

00:26:10.000 go along

00:26:12.420 with an orderly

00:26:13.260 transfer of power?

00:26:15.540 Here's my take

00:26:16.520 on that.

00:26:17.420 Everyone who thought

00:26:18.680 that he was going

00:26:19.480 to try to sit it out

00:26:20.800 and,

00:26:21.320 I don't know what,

00:26:23.260 squat in the White House

00:26:24.480 and pretend

00:26:25.580 he was still

00:26:26.080 running the country,

00:26:26.800 you don't know

00:26:28.460 much about the world

00:26:29.440 because that was

00:26:30.680 the worst prediction

00:26:31.920 anybody ever made.

00:26:34.020 If you predicted

00:26:35.120 that he was even

00:26:35.980 inclined to do that,

00:26:37.940 you've bought into

00:26:38.580 the full fake news

00:26:39.940 narrative

00:26:40.340 that was never

00:26:41.740 credible.

00:26:43.920 On top of that,

00:26:45.840 if your reading

00:26:47.220 of the situation

00:26:48.340 is that it was

00:26:48.960 even possible,

00:26:50.760 you don't know

00:26:51.720 anything about

00:26:52.440 the world.

00:26:54.480 The only way

00:26:55.440 that would have

00:26:55.920 been possible

00:26:56.620 is if Trump

00:26:58.560 had a secret army.

00:27:00.600 I think we would

00:27:01.600 have known

00:27:01.920 about his secret army.

00:27:03.320 You need a private

00:27:04.200 army to do that.

00:27:05.120 You can't count

00:27:06.100 on voters

00:27:07.140 who happen to be

00:27:07.980 part of a voluntary

00:27:08.920 army to back you

00:27:10.460 in a freaking coup.

00:27:12.340 That's not going

00:27:13.040 to happen.

00:27:14.360 You know,

00:27:14.800 the fake news

00:27:15.880 sold this idea

00:27:17.220 that that was

00:27:18.220 an actual,

00:27:18.980 literal,

00:27:19.640 factual thing

00:27:20.520 that could happen,

00:27:21.880 that Trump

00:27:22.380 could just decide

00:27:23.520 to stay

00:27:24.500 and people

00:27:25.680 would rally around

00:27:26.620 him and somehow

00:27:27.200 that would happen.

00:27:28.640 No.

00:27:29.220 There was never

00:27:29.700 any chance,

00:27:31.480 not the slightest

00:27:32.660 chance,

00:27:33.680 that that could

00:27:34.580 have happened.

00:27:35.360 Even if you

00:27:36.080 imagined,

00:27:36.720 which I think

00:27:37.180 would be crazy,

00:27:38.000 but at least

00:27:38.480 not impossible,

00:27:40.660 it's crazy but not

00:27:41.540 impossible,

00:27:42.100 if you imagined

00:27:42.820 that Trump even

00:27:43.560 wanted to try

00:27:44.960 doing that,

00:27:45.660 I don't think

00:27:50.240 you should make

00:27:50.680 predictions anymore.

00:27:52.120 If you thought

00:27:53.420 Trump was actually

00:27:54.800 not going to go

00:27:55.820 along with an

00:27:56.520 orderly transfer

00:27:57.480 of power,

00:28:00.000 you really

00:28:01.080 shouldn't make

00:28:01.600 predictions anymore.

00:28:02.540 That was the

00:28:03.000 worst prediction

00:28:03.800 anybody ever made.

00:28:06.700 All right.

00:28:07.620 So a bunch

00:28:10.680 of people

00:28:10.960 in the

00:28:11.240 administration

00:28:11.640 are quitting.

00:28:12.960 See Stephanie

00:28:13.720 Grisham,

00:28:14.620 former White

00:28:15.240 House

00:28:15.420 Communications

00:28:16.120 Director and

00:28:17.120 Press Secretary

00:28:17.800 and former

00:28:19.340 Chief of Staff

00:28:20.020 for Melania

00:28:20.820 and I guess

00:28:23.120 one,

00:28:24.420 the ex-Chief

00:28:25.200 of Staff

00:28:25.780 who is now,

00:28:27.320 it doesn't matter.

00:28:28.340 So a bunch

00:28:28.740 of politicians

00:28:30.260 are quitting

00:28:30.880 over what they,

00:28:32.720 they are horrified

00:28:34.000 by Trump's

00:28:34.760 behavior.

00:28:35.160 how much

00:28:38.860 does that matter

00:28:39.540 when you only

00:28:40.040 had two weeks

00:28:40.700 left of the

00:28:41.280 job?

00:28:44.360 Let me

00:28:45.460 applaud

00:28:46.420 these brave

00:28:47.480 patriots

00:28:48.160 who resigned

00:28:49.780 two weeks

00:28:50.640 before they

00:28:51.620 were going

00:28:52.040 to resign

00:28:52.620 anyway because

00:28:53.420 it wasn't

00:28:53.780 their choice

00:28:54.460 and have

00:28:55.200 already lined

00:28:55.880 up new

00:28:56.320 jobs.

00:28:57.600 You're so

00:28:58.420 brave.

00:28:59.560 Thank you

00:29:00.240 patriots

00:29:00.920 for taking

00:29:02.000 that big

00:29:02.580 step of

00:29:03.800 resigning

00:29:04.360 after you

00:29:04.860 already had

00:29:05.440 new jobs

00:29:06.180 and two

00:29:06.960 weeks

00:29:07.320 of basically

00:29:09.200 ugliness

00:29:10.100 that you

00:29:11.020 didn't want

00:29:11.460 to experience.

00:29:13.400 I don't

00:29:14.300 know if

00:29:14.920 this is

00:29:15.420 the big

00:29:15.980 patriotic

00:29:16.700 move that

00:29:17.420 it's being

00:29:18.040 portrayed as

00:29:20.420 or is this

00:29:20.960 just some

00:29:21.400 small people

00:29:22.320 taking an

00:29:23.460 opportunity

00:29:23.860 to look

00:29:24.540 good before

00:29:25.200 they go

00:29:25.560 to their

00:29:25.900 new jobs.

00:29:26.980 It feels

00:29:27.960 like a

00:29:28.640 little bit

00:29:29.160 of selfishness

00:29:30.420 more than

00:29:31.680 heroism

00:29:32.320 but you

00:29:33.880 can make

00:29:34.500 your own

00:29:34.780 judgments

00:29:35.080 on that.

00:29:38.680 So

00:29:39.240 Representative

00:29:39.840 Cori Bush

00:29:40.620 a Democrat

00:29:41.400 tweets

00:29:43.240 I believe

00:29:44.000 the Republican

00:29:44.600 members of

00:29:45.720 Congress

00:29:46.140 who have

00:29:46.520 incited this

00:29:47.300 domestic terror

00:29:48.280 attack

00:29:48.740 through their

00:29:49.800 attempts to

00:29:50.360 overturn the

00:29:50.980 election

00:29:51.400 must face

00:29:52.500 consequences.

00:29:54.020 They have

00:29:54.260 broken their

00:29:54.800 sacred oath

00:29:55.440 of office.

00:29:56.020 I will

00:29:57.640 be

00:29:57.840 introducing

00:29:58.340 a

00:29:58.580 resolution

00:29:59.040 calling

00:29:59.640 for

00:29:59.900 their

00:30:00.100 expulsion.

00:30:02.300 So

00:30:02.900 does that

00:30:03.360 seem like

00:30:03.780 the right

00:30:04.240 response?

00:30:05.720 Look at

00:30:06.240 the

00:30:06.500 illogical

00:30:08.060 connections.

00:30:09.500 So

00:30:09.580 members of

00:30:10.180 Congress

00:30:10.700 who are

00:30:12.860 attempting

00:30:13.220 to overturn

00:30:13.880 the election

00:30:14.540 is that

00:30:15.240 what they're

00:30:15.500 doing?

00:30:16.460 Or are

00:30:17.320 they attempting

00:30:18.000 to make

00:30:19.900 sure that

00:30:20.480 whoever won

00:30:21.340 was the

00:30:21.820 one who

00:30:22.120 got the

00:30:22.520 right amount

00:30:23.020 of votes

00:30:23.640 given the

00:30:24.460 electoral

00:30:24.800 college?

00:30:26.020 I feel as

00:30:27.040 if what's

00:30:27.540 happening is

00:30:28.200 they're just

00:30:28.600 trying to

00:30:28.980 make sure

00:30:29.400 that the

00:30:29.720 right person

00:30:30.260 won.

00:30:31.960 Does that

00:30:32.560 equal and

00:30:33.240 is that the

00:30:33.700 same as

00:30:34.220 overturning

00:30:34.980 an election?

00:30:35.720 No.

00:30:36.920 Let me ask

00:30:37.560 you this.

00:30:39.020 Find me

00:30:39.580 one

00:30:40.180 fucking

00:30:41.440 Trump

00:30:42.320 supporter

00:30:42.900 who if

00:30:44.520 they could

00:30:44.980 see the

00:30:45.440 vote in

00:30:45.940 a way that

00:30:46.340 they believed

00:30:46.980 and it

00:30:47.940 showed that

00:30:48.560 Biden won

00:30:49.420 fair and

00:30:49.940 square,

00:30:50.860 show me

00:30:51.300 one

00:30:51.800 fucking

00:30:52.620 Trump

00:30:53.480 supporter

00:30:53.900 who wants

00:30:54.400 Trump to

00:30:54.800 be president

00:30:55.400 anyway if

00:30:57.160 they knew

00:30:57.540 he fucking

00:30:58.100 lost.

00:30:59.140 Zero

00:30:59.680 fucking

00:31:00.200 people.

00:31:01.840 None

00:31:02.340 want that.

00:31:04.600 They just

00:31:05.240 want to

00:31:05.620 know there

00:31:06.080 was a

00:31:06.460 real vote

00:31:07.200 and the

00:31:08.000 right person

00:31:08.640 won.

00:31:09.140 Now they

00:31:09.440 would prefer

00:31:09.880 Trump won,

00:31:10.740 of course,

00:31:11.700 but not if

00:31:12.640 he lost the

00:31:13.320 fucking vote.

00:31:14.660 Do you

00:31:15.020 even know

00:31:15.400 what a

00:31:15.700 Republican

00:31:16.140 is?

00:31:18.340 Sorry.

00:31:18.980 Let me

00:31:21.080 summarize what

00:31:22.580 a Republican

00:31:23.160 is.

00:31:24.400 A

00:31:24.620 Republican

00:31:25.060 is the

00:31:25.700 one who

00:31:26.020 wants the

00:31:26.620 person who

00:31:27.080 got the

00:31:27.520 most votes,

00:31:29.120 according to

00:31:29.740 the Electoral

00:31:30.240 College,

00:31:31.060 to be the

00:31:31.960 president.

00:31:32.380 If you

00:31:34.020 don't want

00:31:34.560 that, you're

00:31:35.060 not a

00:31:35.360 fucking

00:31:35.640 Republican.

00:31:36.840 So stop

00:31:37.240 blaming

00:31:37.620 Republicans for

00:31:38.520 wanting something

00:31:39.360 that is

00:31:39.880 literally the

00:31:40.540 opposite of

00:31:41.100 their fucking 0.62

00:31:41.720 definition.

00:31:44.260 That bothers

00:31:45.320 me.

00:31:45.620 a Twitter

00:31:47.880 user named

00:31:48.580 Simon.

00:31:49.480 Seems like a

00:31:50.080 nice guy.

00:31:51.080 He said he

00:31:51.480 woke up feeling

00:31:52.240 very shameful

00:31:53.060 as an

00:31:53.640 American.

00:31:54.920 He said,

00:31:55.780 this is no

00:31:56.500 longer the

00:31:57.000 great country

00:31:57.640 I wanted

00:31:58.080 to be.

00:31:59.440 No justice,

00:32:00.280 no dignity.

00:32:01.380 We are

00:32:01.720 cheaters.

00:32:02.720 Shame on

00:32:03.140 us.

00:32:03.960 So he's

00:32:04.480 feeling bad

00:32:05.500 about the

00:32:05.840 election and

00:32:06.580 the response.

00:32:08.600 And I read

00:32:09.060 that and I

00:32:09.460 thought, you

00:32:09.900 know, Simon,

00:32:11.920 I like

00:32:12.820 Simon.

00:32:13.520 I like the

00:32:14.280 Simon, you

00:32:15.560 who has

00:32:15.840 that kind

00:32:16.780 of love

00:32:18.800 of the

00:32:19.000 country,

00:32:19.660 you know,

00:32:19.880 I guess.

00:32:20.900 So good

00:32:21.820 for Simon,

00:32:22.560 but I

00:32:23.380 don't quite

00:32:23.860 agree with

00:32:24.280 this take.

00:32:26.200 And here's

00:32:26.880 my take.

00:32:28.660 What I

00:32:29.300 think is

00:32:29.680 that we

00:32:30.020 are acting,

00:32:31.820 we collectively,

00:32:33.100 and I'm

00:32:33.540 going to

00:32:33.720 include the

00:32:34.180 protesters in

00:32:35.160 this, I

00:32:36.160 think we

00:32:36.520 are acting

00:32:37.200 exactly like

00:32:38.200 a great

00:32:38.540 country.

00:32:39.740 Exactly

00:32:40.220 like a

00:32:40.740 great

00:32:40.920 country.

00:32:42.440 And here's

00:32:43.120 what I mean

00:32:43.440 by that.

00:32:44.540 Because we're

00:32:45.160 a great

00:32:45.540 country that

00:32:46.180 just discovered

00:32:47.020 a bug in

00:32:47.720 the system.

00:32:48.860 The bug

00:32:49.740 is that the

00:32:51.500 election was

00:32:52.140 not credible

00:32:53.200 in a way

00:32:54.340 that half

00:32:54.780 of the

00:32:54.980 country can

00:32:55.500 be happy

00:32:56.560 with it.

00:32:57.340 That's a

00:32:57.900 bug.

00:32:59.020 Now, what

00:33:00.820 do you do

00:33:01.180 when there's

00:33:01.600 a bug in

00:33:02.080 the system?

00:33:03.320 If you

00:33:04.020 ignore it,

00:33:05.200 are you a

00:33:05.720 great country?

00:33:07.240 Nope.

00:33:08.320 No, you're

00:33:08.740 not.

00:33:09.380 If you try

00:33:10.400 to fix it

00:33:11.120 and you

00:33:12.500 meet

00:33:12.800 resistance

00:33:13.560 and then

00:33:14.900 you give

00:33:15.400 up because

00:33:16.760 you've met

00:33:17.140 some

00:33:17.400 resistance.

00:33:18.400 The swamp

00:33:19.200 tried to

00:33:19.620 slow you

00:33:19.980 down, the

00:33:21.060 fake news

00:33:21.740 tried to

00:33:22.140 cover for

00:33:22.680 you, the

00:33:23.120 politicians

00:33:23.600 were lying.

00:33:24.680 So you

00:33:24.980 got some

00:33:25.320 resistance to

00:33:26.280 fixing this

00:33:26.880 bug.

00:33:28.260 And then you

00:33:28.960 just said,

00:33:29.420 okay, well,

00:33:29.960 we've got

00:33:30.200 resistance, so

00:33:31.960 I guess we'll

00:33:33.100 let it go.

00:33:34.120 Does that

00:33:34.620 sound like a

00:33:35.120 great country

00:33:35.660 to you?

00:33:36.620 Is that the

00:33:36.980 country you

00:33:37.380 want to live

00:33:37.720 in?

00:33:38.180 Oh, it's

00:33:38.620 hard.

00:33:39.760 It's hard, so

00:33:40.640 we quit.

00:33:42.320 Nope.

00:33:42.900 That's not a

00:33:43.440 great country.

00:33:44.700 A great country

00:33:45.640 says we've got

00:33:46.420 a problem.

00:33:47.120 If we can't

00:33:47.680 fix it the

00:33:48.220 easy way, we'll

00:33:49.980 fix it the

00:33:50.520 other way.

00:33:52.120 Right?

00:33:52.840 Now, if you

00:33:53.400 try the other

00:33:53.900 way first, well,

00:33:54.740 that's not smart.

00:33:55.600 That's not a

00:33:56.060 great country.

00:33:56.780 But if you

00:33:57.400 try to do it

00:33:58.080 the normal

00:33:59.060 approved way,

00:34:01.000 and it doesn't

00:34:01.720 work, and it's

00:34:02.700 still the biggest

00:34:03.680 bug in the

00:34:04.400 system, because

00:34:05.320 if you don't

00:34:05.700 have credible

00:34:06.260 elections, you

00:34:07.340 don't have

00:34:07.700 fucking

00:34:07.940 anything.

00:34:09.320 So, could

00:34:10.420 they walk

00:34:10.880 away from

00:34:11.300 this bug and

00:34:13.320 consider themselves

00:34:14.500 patriots?

00:34:16.200 Could they

00:34:16.980 let this bug

00:34:17.880 persist into

00:34:18.660 the next

00:34:19.080 election and

00:34:20.660 still call this

00:34:21.460 a great

00:34:21.820 country?

00:34:23.100 No.

00:34:24.200 No, you

00:34:24.620 can't.

00:34:25.500 What you're

00:34:26.100 seeing is

00:34:27.980 what a great

00:34:28.540 country does.

00:34:29.920 Now, a

00:34:30.500 great country

00:34:31.040 still has

00:34:31.520 bugs, because

00:34:32.920 things change,

00:34:33.860 nobody saw

00:34:34.280 the coronavirus,

00:34:35.300 we had to

00:34:36.700 improvise at

00:34:37.420 the last

00:34:37.820 minute, and

00:34:38.360 that allowed

00:34:38.800 some mischief.

00:34:40.240 But we're

00:34:41.940 still a great

00:34:42.740 country, and

00:34:44.400 the greatest

00:34:45.460 proof of that

00:34:46.240 is exactly

00:34:47.480 what you just

00:34:48.220 saw.

00:34:49.540 Exactly what

00:34:50.420 you watched

00:34:50.920 yesterday is

00:34:51.800 the proof that

00:34:53.320 it's a great

00:34:53.740 country.

00:34:54.380 Because when

00:34:55.100 they saw a

00:34:55.680 bug, they

00:34:56.800 went after it,

00:34:57.840 tried to fix

00:34:58.460 it.

00:34:58.900 When they

00:34:59.440 met resistance,

00:35:00.840 they pushed

00:35:01.780 through it, at

00:35:04.080 least into the

00:35:04.680 Capitol.

00:35:05.520 Now, are we

00:35:06.120 done?

00:35:07.000 Let me say

00:35:07.580 this to any

00:35:09.800 politician who

00:35:11.540 might be

00:35:11.900 listening.

00:35:14.100 It is

00:35:14.920 definitely not

00:35:16.860 appropriate to

00:35:18.780 do physical

00:35:20.520 intimidation and

00:35:21.540 to take over the

00:35:22.240 Capitol building

00:35:23.000 under any

00:35:25.120 normal situation

00:35:26.380 I can think

00:35:27.060 of.

00:35:28.500 But this

00:35:29.220 isn't normal.

00:35:31.900 It's not

00:35:32.640 normal.

00:35:34.040 The way the

00:35:35.000 public is

00:35:35.580 viewing this

00:35:36.220 election, half

00:35:37.320 of them anyway,

00:35:38.420 is not like any

00:35:39.600 time before.

00:35:40.660 At least no

00:35:41.180 time I can

00:35:41.680 remember in my

00:35:42.500 memory.

00:35:43.800 Maybe in

00:35:44.360 ancient history.

00:35:45.520 But this

00:35:46.960 isn't like

00:35:47.400 normal times.

00:35:48.880 You need an

00:35:49.920 extraordinary

00:35:50.480 solution to an

00:35:52.200 extraordinary

00:35:52.720 situation.

00:35:54.180 And I think

00:35:54.840 that giving

00:35:56.740 our government

00:35:57.440 a tap on the

00:35:58.440 shoulder,

00:35:59.220 and that's

00:36:00.420 what I would

00:36:00.840 call these

00:36:01.280 protests.

00:36:02.380 These protests

00:36:03.100 were not to

00:36:03.640 kill anybody and 0.98

00:36:04.440 not to capture

00:36:05.000 anybody.

00:36:05.560 They're not

00:36:05.880 trying to take

00:36:06.700 anybody hostage.

00:36:09.020 Nothing like

00:36:09.720 that was

00:36:10.060 happening.

00:36:11.300 This was a

00:36:11.920 tap on the

00:36:12.460 shoulder.

00:36:13.600 Let me put it

00:36:14.200 to you this

00:36:14.620 way.

00:36:15.420 Let me give

00:36:15.820 you a little

00:36:16.180 story.

00:36:17.320 Imagine a

00:36:18.020 president,

00:36:18.500 it doesn't

00:36:18.680 matter what

00:36:19.040 president,

00:36:19.480 you could use

00:36:19.920 Biden for this

00:36:20.640 example.

00:36:21.480 Imagine President

00:36:22.280 Biden.

00:36:22.940 He's sitting in

00:36:23.520 the Oval

00:36:23.880 Office and

00:36:25.140 there's an

00:36:25.680 issue and it

00:36:26.300 comes to him

00:36:26.840 and it's on a

00:36:27.320 piece of paper.

00:36:28.420 He reads it

00:36:29.000 and he goes,

00:36:29.460 OK, here's the

00:36:29.980 argument, here's

00:36:30.680 the argument

00:36:31.000 against it, not

00:36:32.400 too interested,

00:36:33.320 yeah, seems like

00:36:34.020 a problem, but I

00:36:34.900 got other things

00:36:35.480 to do, puts it

00:36:36.700 down.

00:36:38.660 That's it.

00:36:39.360 That's all you

00:36:39.840 got.

00:36:40.100 You saw the

00:36:41.380 problem, he

00:36:41.820 didn't do

00:36:42.100 anything about

00:36:42.640 it.

00:36:43.540 Now imagine

00:36:44.360 that the very

00:36:45.600 person who is

00:36:46.260 most affected by

00:36:47.420 whatever this

00:36:48.060 problem is, is

00:36:49.440 standing in the

00:36:50.360 Oval Office with

00:36:51.300 him and literally

00:36:52.600 puts his hand on

00:36:53.460 his shoulder, on

00:36:54.640 the president's

00:36:55.280 shoulder, and

00:36:56.300 says to him,

00:36:56.840 look, Mr.

00:36:58.680 President, let's

00:37:00.080 say it's Biden

00:37:00.660 for this example,

00:37:01.400 look, Mr.

00:37:01.900 President, hand

00:37:03.820 on shoulder, I

00:37:07.220 need you to take

00:37:07.900 this more

00:37:08.320 seriously.

00:37:09.820 I know you

00:37:10.640 think the

00:37:10.980 election was

00:37:11.460 fair, but just

00:37:13.180 understand that I

00:37:14.500 and 70 plus

00:37:16.060 million people

00:37:16.800 don't.

00:37:19.320 That by itself

00:37:20.680 is a problem.

00:37:22.260 We don't, you

00:37:22.900 know, it's not

00:37:23.340 just a question of

00:37:24.000 what the votes

00:37:24.520 were or were

00:37:25.200 not, the

00:37:26.140 problem is half

00:37:27.000 of us don't

00:37:28.060 believe it.

00:37:29.740 Hand on the

00:37:30.420 shoulder, you

00:37:31.720 need to stop

00:37:32.300 what you're

00:37:32.660 doing.

00:37:34.940 I don't know

00:37:35.700 what this other

00:37:36.520 stuff is on

00:37:37.140 your desk, but

00:37:39.540 Mr.

00:37:39.920 President, hand

00:37:41.340 on shoulder, you

00:37:42.980 need to stop

00:37:43.580 that other

00:37:44.040 stuff.

00:37:45.040 You need to

00:37:45.540 only work on

00:37:46.240 this.

00:37:47.140 This is our

00:37:47.660 top priority.

00:37:49.220 Now, what

00:37:50.040 does Biden

00:37:50.440 do in that

00:37:52.540 situation?

00:37:53.660 Does he

00:37:54.080 respond exactly

00:37:55.140 the same

00:37:55.640 way as he

00:37:56.800 did when he

00:37:57.280 read it on a

00:37:57.800 piece of

00:37:58.120 paper and

00:37:58.640 thought he

00:37:59.060 had other

00:37:59.420 things to

00:37:59.840 do?

00:38:01.100 Nope.

00:38:02.360 Nope.

00:38:03.220 This protest

00:38:04.260 is the people

00:38:06.580 of the United

00:38:07.120 States standing

00:38:08.120 in the Oval

00:38:08.920 Office,

00:38:10.000 figuratively

00:38:10.520 speaking, not

00:38:11.460 literally, with

00:38:13.080 their hand on

00:38:13.860 the President's

00:38:14.660 shoulder,

00:38:16.920 telling the

00:38:18.140 President what

00:38:20.300 our priorities

00:38:21.200 are, because

00:38:23.760 apparently they

00:38:24.380 don't understand.

00:38:26.360 This isn't a

00:38:28.040 passing phase.

00:38:31.400 This is the

00:38:32.600 fundamental

00:38:33.520 fabric of the

00:38:37.420 United States,

00:38:38.760 and you

00:38:39.600 fucked up. 0.93

00:38:41.180 You fucked

00:38:41.940 up, Mr.

00:38:42.640 President, Mr.

00:38:43.980 President Trump.

00:38:45.080 You blew this.

00:38:46.580 There were better

00:38:47.260 ways to handle

00:38:47.860 this.

00:38:48.120 Congress,

00:38:49.640 absolutely

00:38:50.480 disgusting.

00:38:52.740 You fucked

00:38:53.380 up.

00:38:54.560 Totally.

00:38:55.960 Local

00:38:56.460 governments, I

00:38:58.260 don't know what

00:38:58.720 the pluses and

00:38:59.380 the minuses are in

00:39:00.180 the local stuff,

00:39:01.520 but certainly in

00:39:02.580 the key

00:39:03.200 battleground

00:39:03.760 states, you

00:39:04.340 fucked up. 0.93

00:39:05.560 You fucked

00:39:06.280 up big.

00:39:07.540 And if you

00:39:08.540 keep insulting

00:39:09.600 us by telling

00:39:11.800 us the fuck

00:39:12.660 up wasn't

00:39:14.040 that big, I

00:39:16.120 want to tell

00:39:16.660 you as clearly

00:39:17.500 as you can

00:39:18.060 hear this, we're

00:39:20.120 going to be

00:39:20.520 back in the

00:39:21.120 Oval Office,

00:39:22.360 we're going to

00:39:23.260 put our hand on

00:39:23.960 your shoulder

00:39:24.440 again, and

00:39:26.220 we're going to

00:39:26.720 remind you, this

00:39:28.100 is our fucking 0.95

00:39:28.880 top priority.

00:39:30.640 Anything you're

00:39:31.420 doing that isn't

00:39:32.040 national defense,

00:39:33.900 this is your

00:39:34.400 fucking top

00:39:34.900 priority.

00:39:35.920 Not to change

00:39:37.340 the election,

00:39:39.000 necessarily.

00:39:40.380 Not to put

00:39:41.480 Trump in office

00:39:42.300 and get rid of 0.81

00:39:42.880 Biden.

00:39:43.140 That's not the

00:39:43.620 top priority.

00:39:44.100 The top

00:39:45.160 priority is

00:39:46.120 stop fucking

00:39:47.120 with us about

00:39:48.180 the basic

00:39:49.020 nature of the

00:39:50.520 fucking

00:39:51.080 constitution, which

00:39:52.520 is we need a

00:39:53.240 little bit of

00:39:53.680 credibility, we

00:39:54.820 need a little bit

00:39:55.680 of comfort, we

00:39:57.560 need a little bit

00:39:58.300 of feeling like

00:39:59.060 the fucking

00:39:59.720 government cares

00:40:00.940 about the

00:40:01.560 fucking people. 0.83

00:40:02.720 And if that

00:40:03.240 requires visiting

00:40:04.300 your fucking 0.97

00:40:05.360 house, guess

00:40:06.440 what?

00:40:07.240 The capital

00:40:07.840 isn't your

00:40:08.380 fucking house, 0.99

00:40:09.720 it's our

00:40:10.380 fucking house.

00:40:11.100 house, if I

00:40:12.200 go to your

00:40:12.620 real house, well

00:40:14.560 that's on me, I

00:40:15.460 don't want to go

00:40:15.940 to your real

00:40:16.380 house.

00:40:17.300 Like, you know,

00:40:18.240 if you live in

00:40:18.820 the suburbs, you're

00:40:20.160 a politician, I'm

00:40:21.060 not going to go

00:40:21.660 mess with your

00:40:22.380 family, your

00:40:23.020 situation, that's

00:40:24.300 way out of

00:40:25.040 bounds.

00:40:25.940 But the

00:40:26.300 capital, that's

00:40:27.400 our fucking

00:40:27.860 house.

00:40:28.780 If you fuck

00:40:29.640 with us in our

00:40:30.280 fucking house, we're

00:40:31.640 going to visit

00:40:32.160 you.

00:40:33.220 But we're not

00:40:33.940 going to kill

00:40:34.380 you, we're not

00:40:35.520 going to capture

00:40:36.100 you, we're not

00:40:36.660 going to blackmail

00:40:37.300 you, we're going

00:40:38.720 to put a hand on

00:40:39.320 your shoulder.

00:40:39.760 And we're

00:40:41.140 going to remind

00:40:41.720 you where your

00:40:43.420 priorities are.

00:40:44.520 And if you

00:40:45.100 forget, we're

00:40:46.280 going to come

00:40:46.580 back to your

00:40:47.060 fucking house, 0.99

00:40:48.360 because it's our

00:40:49.300 fucking house.

00:40:50.800 And we're going

00:40:51.440 to remind you

00:40:52.020 again.

00:40:53.280 This isn't going

00:40:54.380 to go away. 0.66

00:40:55.840 The next election

00:40:57.040 better be fucking

00:40:59.260 better.

00:41:00.800 Transparent,

00:41:01.720 better be

00:41:02.400 auditable.

00:41:03.460 If I hear again

00:41:04.660 that I can't see

00:41:05.460 the software on

00:41:07.240 our voting machines,

00:41:08.300 or at least they

00:41:09.160 can't be audited

00:41:09.800 by people who

00:41:10.440 know what

00:41:10.660 they're doing.

00:41:12.460 Absolutely

00:41:12.940 unacceptable.

00:41:15.040 So let's plan

00:41:16.360 today that if

00:41:18.920 our next election

00:41:19.900 does not have

00:41:20.920 these obvious

00:41:21.760 problems fixed,

00:41:23.380 we'll be back

00:41:24.400 in the Capitol.

00:41:26.460 Literally,

00:41:27.340 physically,

00:41:28.280 back in the

00:41:29.160 Capitol.

00:41:30.300 With a hand on

00:41:31.340 the President's

00:41:31.940 shoulder, by

00:41:33.180 analogy, not

00:41:34.000 literally, just

00:41:35.680 reminding him what

00:41:37.500 the fucking

00:41:38.120 priorities are.

00:41:39.500 Do you know

00:41:39.800 who understood

00:41:40.360 it?

00:41:41.840 Trump.

00:41:43.600 Trump understood

00:41:44.580 it.

00:41:45.340 Now, the way he

00:41:45.920 presents it as

00:41:47.440 a lot of

00:41:48.000 hyperbole about

00:41:48.940 fake bullshit

00:41:49.660 claims of

00:41:50.480 fraud, almost

00:41:51.800 everything that

00:41:52.440 Trump said about

00:41:53.920 fraud isn't

00:41:54.600 true.

00:41:55.660 Not even close.

00:41:57.540 Pretty much, I

00:41:58.660 don't think I've

00:41:59.200 heard anything he

00:41:59.840 said that is

00:42:00.840 confirmed to be

00:42:01.580 true.

00:42:02.920 But separate from

00:42:03.940 that, there are

00:42:04.700 allegations that do

00:42:05.840 have weight, in

00:42:06.860 my opinion, in

00:42:08.080 the sense that

00:42:08.640 nobody has

00:42:09.220 debunked them

00:42:09.840 yet.

00:42:10.820 Courts have

00:42:11.300 not.

00:42:11.800 Nobody else

00:42:12.280 has that I

00:42:12.720 know of.

00:42:13.940 So, let's

00:42:16.000 get to the

00:42:16.380 bottom of

00:42:16.760 this, people,

00:42:18.040 or we will

00:42:20.960 visit again.

00:42:22.540 We will visit

00:42:23.480 the Capitol

00:42:23.960 again.

00:42:25.460 Fucking fix

00:42:26.460 it.

00:42:27.540 And let me

00:42:29.360 say as clearly

00:42:29.980 as possible, all

00:42:31.020 of this is

00:42:31.500 caused by fake

00:42:32.220 news.

00:42:32.960 If we had a

00:42:33.860 real press, all

00:42:35.580 of these issues

00:42:36.340 would have

00:42:36.720 been worked

00:42:38.740 out through

00:42:39.520 the press, and

00:42:41.340 we would have a

00:42:41.900 completely different

00:42:42.700 feeling about what

00:42:44.140 our situation is

00:42:45.080 now.

00:42:45.700 But because we

00:42:46.640 don't have a

00:42:47.160 real press, and

00:42:48.240 they say things

00:42:50.120 such as, pro-

00:42:51.860 Trump mob storm

00:42:53.040 site after

00:42:53.820 president's call

00:42:54.840 to arms, that

00:42:56.460 never happened.

00:42:58.220 There was no

00:42:58.900 call to arms.

00:43:00.660 Literally the

00:43:01.420 opposite was

00:43:02.020 true.

00:43:02.600 If you don't

00:43:03.340 have a free

00:43:03.960 press that is

00:43:05.560 on your side,

00:43:06.540 and the free

00:43:06.940 press is not,

00:43:07.800 they're definitely

00:43:08.320 not on your

00:43:08.860 side as a

00:43:09.460 citizen, you

00:43:10.460 don't really

00:43:11.080 have a system

00:43:11.660 that works.

00:43:12.920 And the free

00:43:13.480 press has this

00:43:14.220 special quality

00:43:15.360 that they can

00:43:16.360 blame Trump

00:43:17.160 for whatever

00:43:17.920 problems they

00:43:18.780 caused, such

00:43:20.140 as division

00:43:20.800 within the

00:43:21.300 country would

00:43:21.780 be the obvious

00:43:22.480 one.

00:43:22.980 They can blame

00:43:23.740 somebody else,

00:43:24.420 and they can

00:43:24.860 sell it.

00:43:26.420 And a lot of

00:43:27.300 people bought

00:43:27.900 it.

00:43:28.180 Half of the

00:43:28.620 country bought

00:43:29.240 what the fake

00:43:29.840 news was selling.

00:43:31.580 And if we

00:43:32.860 don't fix

00:43:33.420 that, probably

00:43:36.220 doesn't matter

00:43:36.740 what else you

00:43:37.340 do fix.

00:43:38.280 If you don't

00:43:38.740 fix the news,

00:43:40.040 the citizens

00:43:40.800 will be bouncing

00:43:41.640 around like

00:43:42.280 idiots, because

00:43:43.400 they won't know

00:43:43.840 what's true.

00:43:44.740 And that was

00:43:45.140 true.

00:43:45.460 That's what

00:43:45.760 happened this

00:43:46.180 year.

00:43:46.960 2020 is what

00:43:49.200 you get.

00:43:49.940 I mean, the

00:43:50.620 coronavirus was a

00:43:51.640 special problem.

00:43:52.620 But 2020 with

00:43:53.720 its craziness is

00:43:54.660 what you get when

00:43:55.380 you don't have a

00:43:55.940 free press.

00:43:56.500 an honest

00:43:58.180 free press.

00:43:59.720 And we don't

00:44:00.280 have that.

00:44:01.520 That's the

00:44:02.320 basic problem

00:44:04.160 is the fake

00:44:05.640 news.

00:44:06.880 You take that

00:44:07.940 away, I don't

00:44:09.240 believe the

00:44:09.700 Capitol would 0.73

00:44:10.340 have been

00:44:10.680 stormed.

00:44:12.200 I don't.

00:44:14.540 By the way, I

00:44:15.680 think all of you

00:44:16.520 know, if you're

00:44:17.400 watching this, that

00:44:19.120 I'm going to be

00:44:19.900 taking quite a bit

00:44:21.280 of heat today.

00:44:22.300 You know that,

00:44:23.000 right?

00:44:23.740 Because I'm not

00:44:24.760 supposed to go in

00:44:25.560 public.

00:44:26.500 And say anything

00:44:27.140 positive about the

00:44:28.280 protesters.

00:44:29.660 I believe I will

00:44:30.780 have to be punished

00:44:31.620 for that.

00:44:33.400 But before that

00:44:34.920 happens, and if

00:44:35.880 this is the last

00:44:36.640 day you see me on

00:44:37.400 social media, I

00:44:38.520 suppose anything's

00:44:39.140 possible.

00:44:40.280 Let me say again,

00:44:42.200 fuck you to every 0.85

00:44:43.240 one of you who

00:44:44.160 thinks that this

00:44:45.700 wasn't appropriate

00:44:46.620 to put a little

00:44:49.280 pressure on the

00:44:49.960 government.

00:44:50.880 This was the

00:44:51.540 most appropriate,

00:44:53.720 probably the most

00:44:55.600 appropriate thing

00:44:56.480 I've ever seen

00:44:57.260 the citizens do.

00:44:59.160 I am completely

00:45:00.300 proud of the

00:45:03.140 citizens who are

00:45:04.940 doing this.

00:45:05.800 Completely.

00:45:06.840 Now, for the

00:45:08.080 children and the

00:45:08.920 idiots, let me

00:45:10.140 clarify again that

00:45:11.700 I'm not in favor of

00:45:12.840 violence and

00:45:13.440 destruction.

00:45:14.420 So that part's all

00:45:15.120 bad.

00:45:17.540 Was that good for

00:45:18.560 the idiots?

00:45:19.700 If you're an idiot

00:45:20.620 or a child, do I

00:45:22.100 need to explain that

00:45:23.180 it's okay to be

00:45:25.240 opposed to the

00:45:25.920 bad parts and

00:45:26.980 favor the good

00:45:28.160 parts?

00:45:28.840 I know a lot of

00:45:29.600 people can't 0.97

00:45:30.060 understand that.

00:45:30.900 That's a little

00:45:31.280 complicated.

00:45:32.640 You can't have a

00:45:33.400 complicated opinion,

00:45:34.500 but my regular

00:45:35.700 viewers, I think,

00:45:37.140 can handle that

00:45:37.940 well.

00:45:38.300 So, let me say

00:45:44.760 this about Trump

00:45:45.540 because it's

00:45:48.660 just, I think

00:45:49.620 it's time.

00:45:50.960 I disavow

00:45:52.020 Trump's

00:45:53.000 approach

00:45:53.760 to, you

00:45:56.020 know, his

00:45:56.280 communication

00:45:56.720 style and his

00:45:57.960 approach to how

00:45:59.580 he's handled the

00:46:00.420 outcome of the

00:46:01.040 election.

00:46:02.040 So do I need to

00:46:02.860 say that clear?

00:46:04.420 I disavow

00:46:05.480 Trump's

00:46:06.960 approach to this

00:46:07.980 because I think

00:46:08.640 too much, too

00:46:09.700 many fake

00:46:10.280 allegations just

00:46:12.020 ruined everything.

00:46:13.140 He had a real

00:46:13.660 point, but he

00:46:14.380 ruined it with

00:46:14.880 all the fake

00:46:15.380 allegations.

00:46:19.680 Here's how I

00:46:21.700 disavow him,

00:46:22.520 though, with a

00:46:24.720 healthy dose of

00:46:25.660 humility.

00:46:26.880 And I said this

00:46:27.480 yesterday, but it's

00:46:28.340 worth repeating,

00:46:29.500 that there are

00:46:30.940 times when I've

00:46:31.820 thought Trump

00:46:32.760 was too extreme

00:46:33.940 only to find

00:46:35.900 out that he

00:46:36.420 wasn't.

00:46:37.860 You know, North

00:46:39.040 Korea is an 1.00

00:46:39.740 example, negotiating

00:46:40.760 with China is an 0.93

00:46:41.560 example, moving

00:46:42.780 the embassy to

00:46:43.520 Jerusalem is an 0.99

00:46:44.240 example.

00:46:44.820 So he has a

00:46:45.300 pretty long track

00:46:46.000 record of doing

00:46:47.260 things that I

00:46:48.060 thought were too

00:46:48.800 risky that seem

00:46:50.680 fine, which means

00:46:51.920 I probably just

00:46:52.840 calculated the risk

00:46:54.660 wrong, or he got

00:46:55.460 really lucky, I

00:46:56.420 don't know which.

00:46:57.040 It's more likely I

00:46:57.820 calculated the risk

00:46:58.660 wrong.

00:46:59.500 So once again, he's

00:47:00.940 doing that, which

00:47:02.560 is a pattern that

00:47:03.520 he's done

00:47:04.800 successfully forever.

00:47:06.220 So if you see

00:47:07.280 Trump doing

00:47:07.860 something that

00:47:08.460 seems too risky,

00:47:09.900 and you see

00:47:10.920 Scott saying,

00:47:11.800 I'm going to

00:47:12.340 have to disavow

00:47:13.020 that, that looks

00:47:13.700 too risky, just

00:47:15.840 know that I'm

00:47:16.580 doing it with

00:47:17.180 humility, that I'm

00:47:19.060 well aware of the

00:47:20.060 pattern that he's

00:47:21.660 usually right in the

00:47:23.140 end, and I'm

00:47:24.400 usually wrong.

00:47:26.480 Right?

00:47:27.060 If you can't say

00:47:27.760 that out loud, you

00:47:29.400 probably shouldn't

00:47:30.000 talk in public and

00:47:31.240 give opinions.

00:47:33.640 So here's one

00:47:35.840 way he could be

00:47:36.880 right, and I'm

00:47:38.400 not on that side

00:47:39.460 yet.

00:47:40.020 I'm still

00:47:40.460 disavowing his

00:47:41.380 approach.

00:47:42.400 But there is an

00:47:43.960 explanation where

00:47:45.160 it's right.

00:47:46.540 And he does use

00:47:47.960 hyperbole to

00:47:48.940 guarantee that you

00:47:49.760 can't look away, and

00:47:51.420 he did take the

00:47:52.420 most important

00:47:53.140 question in this

00:47:53.960 country and turned

00:47:55.360 it into the most

00:47:56.220 important question in

00:47:57.160 this country.

00:47:57.620 If what happens

00:47:59.840 because of this is

00:48:01.340 more election

00:48:02.140 reform than would

00:48:03.320 have happened

00:48:03.860 without it, who's

00:48:06.380 the smart one?

00:48:08.740 Right?

00:48:09.760 Do you think that

00:48:10.860 the way Trump

00:48:11.900 handled that, even

00:48:12.800 with me disavowing

00:48:13.980 it, the Republicans

00:48:14.980 disavowing it,

00:48:16.400 basically everybody,

00:48:17.900 right?

00:48:18.720 You know, at least

00:48:19.560 people from every

00:48:20.720 group are disavowing

00:48:21.780 him.

00:48:22.040 But what if?

00:48:25.220 What if his, you

00:48:27.920 know, inappropriate

00:48:28.640 behavior is the

00:48:30.800 only thing that

00:48:31.440 makes the elections

00:48:32.120 get fixed?

00:48:32.880 Because that's what

00:48:33.740 focused the heat on

00:48:34.700 it.

00:48:35.500 If that's the only

00:48:36.780 outcome, he's a

00:48:38.980 legend.

00:48:40.460 He's a legend.

00:48:43.180 Because if you get

00:48:44.760 me to turn on you,

00:48:46.840 right?

00:48:47.740 I know you're

00:48:48.580 thinking that, right?

00:48:49.620 If you see me

00:48:50.760 turning on Trump,

00:48:52.040 he's taking a

00:48:53.540 risk, and I just

00:48:55.460 turned on him.

00:48:56.500 I'm turning on him

00:48:57.280 right in front of

00:48:57.820 you.

00:48:58.180 I'm disavowing his

00:48:59.920 approach.

00:49:00.860 But I can't ignore

00:49:02.080 the fact that he

00:49:03.800 does this successfully

00:49:05.080 time after time

00:49:06.260 after time, and I

00:49:07.600 can't ignore the

00:49:08.440 fact that he's the

00:49:09.880 only person who

00:49:10.800 knew what the top

00:49:11.660 priority for the

00:49:12.380 country was, at

00:49:13.320 least in politics.

00:49:15.580 I'm going to have

00:49:16.300 to give that to

00:49:16.900 him.

00:49:18.000 At the same time

00:49:18.980 that I disavow,

00:49:20.200 you know, the

00:49:20.880 allegations,

00:49:22.040 that are

00:49:22.640 obviously false.

00:49:25.280 Yeah.

00:49:26.180 So, you can

00:49:28.680 see how much I'm

00:49:29.480 going to get

00:49:29.840 attacked today

00:49:31.000 after this.

00:49:31.840 Should be fun.

00:49:34.800 There's a

00:49:35.480 doctor who is

00:49:36.840 some expert on

00:49:37.780 narcissism, which

00:49:40.060 is the funny part

00:49:40.800 of this story,

00:49:42.100 who has been

00:49:45.480 trolling me on

00:49:46.780 Twitter for the

00:49:47.540 last 24 hours,

00:49:48.340 and he's making

00:49:49.740 the claim that

00:49:50.360 not only am I a

00:49:51.200 narcissist, but

00:49:52.320 that all of the

00:49:56.260 fraud claims have

00:49:58.040 been looked at by

00:49:59.500 the courts and

00:50:00.300 rejected.

00:50:01.880 Now, there's your

00:50:03.600 problem with fake

00:50:04.440 news.

00:50:05.880 So, you're saying

00:50:06.420 that all of the

00:50:07.140 fraud allegations have

00:50:08.260 been reviewed by the

00:50:09.180 courts and rejected.

00:50:10.700 Now, of course,

00:50:11.480 Republicans believe

00:50:12.460 exactly the

00:50:14.100 opposite of that

00:50:14.800 happened, that

00:50:16.680 none of the

00:50:17.620 fraud allegations

00:50:18.420 were dismissed by

00:50:20.040 any of the

00:50:20.360 courts.

00:50:21.060 Rather, they

00:50:21.800 dismissed things for

00:50:22.900 technical reasons

00:50:24.480 instead.

00:50:26.500 Now, it is also

00:50:27.960 true that some

00:50:31.060 or most of those

00:50:32.340 lawsuits did not

00:50:34.440 have evidence of

00:50:36.620 fraud.

00:50:36.880 you know, lots

00:50:38.180 of them were on

00:50:39.000 technicalities and

00:50:40.080 constitutional

00:50:40.620 questions.

00:50:42.120 So, I am

00:50:44.240 aware, I'm

00:50:45.420 personally aware,

00:50:46.400 of a number of

00:50:47.340 allegations that

00:50:49.000 never made it into

00:50:49.960 any kind of a

00:50:50.600 lawsuit.

00:50:51.760 Now, here's one

00:50:52.880 that I find

00:50:53.740 strong, because

00:50:55.200 somebody asked me,

00:50:55.900 give me an example

00:50:56.980 of a strong

00:50:58.400 argument that

00:51:00.120 did not make it

00:51:01.080 into any court

00:51:02.120 case.

00:51:03.200 And, I'll

00:51:05.160 just give you

00:51:05.600 one, and it's

00:51:06.140 just an

00:51:06.780 example.

00:51:08.600 That would be

00:51:09.540 that, and I

00:51:11.340 saw this on, I

00:51:12.540 think it was

00:51:12.840 Robert Barnes'

00:51:14.360 podcast with

00:51:17.120 Vive Frey, and

00:51:19.640 he was talking

00:51:20.440 about how some

00:51:22.400 counties that

00:51:23.220 were demographically

00:51:24.700 similar, let's say

00:51:25.640 there are two

00:51:26.080 counties, they

00:51:26.720 sit next to each

00:51:27.440 other, demographics

00:51:28.780 are the same as

00:51:29.600 they were in the

00:51:30.100 last election, and

00:51:32.020 let's say in every

00:51:33.200 election they were

00:51:34.220 80% Democrat, or

00:51:36.760 whatever it is.

00:51:37.700 If one of them

00:51:38.820 suddenly becomes

00:51:39.860 wildly different, and

00:51:42.100 the other one acts

00:51:42.980 just like it always

00:51:43.880 did, and they have

00:51:44.620 the same demographics,

00:51:46.100 that's a really

00:51:47.560 strong indication that

00:51:48.820 there's something

00:51:49.260 wrong with one of

00:51:50.100 them.

00:51:50.260 things like that.

00:51:51.260 But, if it were only

00:51:53.060 one, you could say

00:51:54.720 coincidence, statistical

00:51:57.340 oddity, it's just

00:51:59.360 one.

00:52:00.220 But apparently there

00:52:01.120 are a number of

00:52:01.960 cases where paired

00:52:03.520 voting areas that

00:52:05.820 should have been

00:52:06.640 really, really close

00:52:07.940 because they always

00:52:08.860 are, and nothing

00:52:10.040 changed, and it's the

00:52:11.040 same demographic, same

00:52:12.220 number of Democrats,

00:52:13.660 same number of racial

00:52:15.040 difference, same age,

00:52:16.360 everything, and there

00:52:18.660 are a whole bunch of

00:52:19.260 pairs of those where

00:52:20.900 one went wild, and

00:52:22.520 one stayed kind of

00:52:23.920 where it was.

00:52:24.920 Now, suppose you

00:52:26.260 took that to a

00:52:26.940 court.

00:52:27.980 You said, here are my

00:52:28.960 statistics, and when I

00:52:30.640 show you these

00:52:31.280 irregularities, I

00:52:33.060 believe, Mr.

00:52:34.480 Judge, that the

00:52:37.800 odds of this being a

00:52:38.800 fair election are now

00:52:39.860 .001 or whatever.

00:52:41.460 Not being a lawyer, I

00:52:45.460 ask you this question

00:52:46.440 because I have no

00:52:47.400 idea what the answer

00:52:48.320 is.

00:52:49.500 Would the court say,

00:52:51.080 ah, a statistical

00:52:52.400 proof, that's good,

00:52:54.420 you got it.

00:52:56.380 Or would the court

00:52:57.340 say, all you've done

00:52:59.400 with your statistical

00:53:00.540 evidence is suggest

00:53:03.160 maybe where you should

00:53:04.180 look into it.

00:53:06.060 But if you don't have

00:53:07.460 the thing in your

00:53:08.240 hand that's a document

00:53:09.480 or the video or the

00:53:11.640 eyewitness, you know,

00:53:12.620 the things you normally

00:53:13.400 have in court, if you

00:53:14.720 don't have those

00:53:15.360 things, all you have

00:53:17.980 is some statistics

00:53:19.000 that could be explained

00:53:21.200 another way.

00:53:22.260 In other words, it

00:53:22.960 just might be a weird

00:53:23.760 year.

00:53:24.480 Or maybe they did,

00:53:25.680 you know, better, I

00:53:26.860 don't know, recruit,

00:53:28.160 better get out the

00:53:29.020 vote in one county

00:53:29.900 than another, right?

00:53:31.840 So I have a feeling

00:53:33.220 that, and by the way,

00:53:36.180 I don't know that that

00:53:37.060 particular proof is the

00:53:38.500 strongest one.

00:53:39.460 I'm just listing one

00:53:40.740 that I know the courts

00:53:41.780 haven't looked at.

00:53:43.200 Can you give me a fact

00:53:44.020 check on that?

00:53:45.260 Have the courts ever

00:53:46.660 heard that argument?

00:53:48.400 And then the second

00:53:49.300 part of that, if they

00:53:50.240 did, is it the sort

00:53:52.220 of argument that a

00:53:53.340 court could ever buy

00:53:54.280 into?

00:53:55.400 Do they buy into

00:53:56.220 purely statistical

00:53:57.200 arguments without some

00:53:58.900 supporting direct

00:54:00.500 evidence?

00:54:01.600 I feel like they

00:54:02.420 shouldn't, but I don't

00:54:04.460 know if they might.

00:54:06.320 You know, maybe it's

00:54:07.060 enough to say do a

00:54:08.100 re-election or a

00:54:09.040 recount.

00:54:09.660 Maybe if all you're

00:54:11.100 asking for is a

00:54:12.040 recount or an audit,

00:54:14.000 maybe it's enough.

00:54:15.660 I don't know.

00:54:18.720 So, yes, Mrs. Judge.

00:54:24.300 Let me correct it.

00:54:26.300 Mr. or Mrs. Judge.

00:54:30.140 Yeah, somebody's saying

00:54:31.260 that something being

00:54:32.400 unlikely is not proof

00:54:33.940 that something bad

00:54:35.120 happened.

00:54:35.420 So, it could be that

00:54:37.220 we're in this weird

00:54:37.880 situation where there

00:54:39.740 are types of evidence

00:54:41.880 which are completely

00:54:43.180 persuasive to the

00:54:44.360 public, but because of

00:54:46.080 the rules of law, they

00:54:47.760 just don't fit.

00:54:49.780 Is that what's

00:54:50.860 happening?

00:54:51.700 That's a question, not a

00:54:52.820 statement.

00:54:54.540 All right.

00:54:57.240 So, here's how we can

00:54:58.960 fix all of this.

00:54:59.940 Because this disagreement

00:55:01.500 about what has been

00:55:02.720 educated in the

00:55:03.820 courts could be as

00:55:05.340 simple as a matrix that

00:55:06.840 somebody would have to do

00:55:07.660 a lot of work to

00:55:08.420 produce.

00:55:09.480 And on one column would

00:55:11.040 be all of the separate

00:55:11.980 claims.

00:55:13.060 You know, claim about the

00:55:14.400 shredding ballots, claim

00:55:15.740 about this and that.

00:55:16.880 The second column would be

00:55:19.000 what the argument against

00:55:20.960 it is.

00:55:21.680 Not in court, just the

00:55:23.340 argument against it.

00:55:24.360 So, you can see the point

00:55:25.480 and then the counterpoint.

00:55:26.440 And then the third

00:55:27.700 column would be which

00:55:30.280 courts have ruled on

00:55:32.120 this specifically.

00:55:34.360 I think that column is

00:55:35.880 blank, but there might

00:55:38.020 be a few filled in.

00:55:39.540 But if we had that, a

00:55:40.800 three-column list, all the

00:55:42.520 allegations in one

00:55:43.480 column, all of the

00:55:44.940 responses and debunks to

00:55:46.500 them in the second 0.89

00:55:47.180 column, and then what

00:55:49.520 did the court say about

00:55:50.640 any of these in the

00:55:51.520 third column, none of

00:55:53.780 this would be happening.

00:55:54.680 None of this would be

00:55:56.840 happening.

00:55:57.520 Because every time

00:55:58.360 somebody would make that

00:55:59.320 argument and say, the

00:56:00.560 courts have ruled on all

00:56:01.760 this, you would just send

00:56:03.280 them the spreadsheet and

00:56:04.200 say, no, actually the

00:56:05.400 courts have ruled on two

00:56:07.220 N of 50 things.

00:56:09.960 Here it is.

00:56:11.060 Check it for yourself.

00:56:13.180 Right?

00:56:13.800 Now, why does that not

00:56:15.120 exist?

00:56:16.640 You know the reason,

00:56:17.740 right?

00:56:18.600 Because we don't have a

00:56:19.740 press, a news industry.

00:56:22.960 We have a rumor bias

00:56:25.880 industry, an entertainment

00:56:27.920 industry, but how much

00:56:30.200 work would it have taken

00:56:31.380 for a reporter to simply

00:56:33.380 collect all the

00:56:34.220 allegations, collect all

00:56:36.400 the debunks or attempted

00:56:37.820 debunks of those

00:56:38.740 allegations, and then list

00:56:40.240 which court dealt with

00:56:41.820 which one?

00:56:42.840 Doesn't that seem well

00:56:44.320 within the ability of a

00:56:46.400 large news organization?

00:56:47.960 I feel like that, I feel

00:56:51.640 like that should have been

00:56:52.360 a big story.

00:56:53.920 Nothing.

00:56:55.120 Right?

00:56:55.940 Because if that existed, I

00:56:57.460 feel like we'd know about

00:56:58.540 it, because somebody would

00:56:59.640 have forwarded it to be in

00:57:00.760 Twitter by now.

00:57:01.680 So the fact that that

00:57:03.100 doesn't exist tells you

00:57:06.000 that we don't have anything

00:57:10.240 like a news organization.

00:57:11.620 But even worse, now that

00:57:15.320 you know that the news has

00:57:16.500 completely fallen down on

00:57:18.000 the most basic question that

00:57:19.620 the public wants to know

00:57:20.880 about, and it's completely

00:57:22.180 discoverable, by the way.

00:57:23.620 I'm not talking about

00:57:24.580 something that can't be

00:57:25.480 found fairly easily.

00:57:27.800 It's just a lot of work.

00:57:29.740 Right?

00:57:29.880 It's just hours.

00:57:31.060 There's nothing that would

00:57:31.920 stop you from finding it

00:57:33.120 all.

00:57:33.440 You could literally Google

00:57:35.260 every bit of that.

00:57:37.200 How much do reporters like

00:57:38.620 stories where they can just

00:57:39.640 Google shit, and that's it?

00:57:41.040 They don't even have to

00:57:42.160 talk to humans.

00:57:43.560 And they still can't write

00:57:44.840 it?

00:57:45.800 Just Google it and write it

00:57:48.160 in?

00:57:48.440 Oh, my God.

00:57:49.880 Now, so the press is bad.

00:57:53.620 But what about the

00:57:54.540 Republicans?

00:57:55.740 You've got a whole bunch of

00:57:56.540 Republicans, you know, Ted

00:57:57.860 Cruz, et cetera, saying that

00:58:00.140 the election has some

00:58:01.320 questions.

00:58:02.380 Why is there no Republican

00:58:03.860 who has created the chart

00:58:06.200 with those three columns?

00:58:07.760 Because all they'd have to

00:58:08.880 do is create it, hand it to

00:58:11.020 the press and say, hey, we

00:58:12.280 did your work.

00:58:13.460 You better fact check it,

00:58:14.660 but I think it's pretty

00:58:15.480 good.

00:58:16.320 Just publish it.

00:58:18.160 Do you know why that

00:58:19.040 doesn't exist?

00:58:22.160 It's because politicians are

00:58:23.920 not competent.

00:58:25.080 If the Republicans were

00:58:26.360 competent, that's the first

00:58:28.240 thing they would have done.

00:58:29.720 Here's the list.

00:58:31.200 Here's what's been judged

00:58:32.220 in court.

00:58:33.080 Look at the difference.

00:58:34.860 But instead, the Republicans

00:58:37.060 allow the fake news to

00:58:39.340 create the story that it's

00:58:40.440 all been judged by the

00:58:41.340 court.

00:58:42.620 Like, you couldn't, you

00:58:43.880 could not fail harder than

00:58:46.300 that.

00:58:47.500 Here's my claim.

00:58:49.340 I think I'll just ignore it

00:58:50.620 and talk about other things.

00:58:52.680 What?

00:58:53.740 That's complete incompetence.

00:58:56.020 The Republicans should be

00:58:57.460 creating that list.

00:58:59.280 And if the press won't do it,

00:59:00.920 just give it to them.

00:59:02.040 Put it on social media.

00:59:03.400 That's all.

00:59:04.780 It's easy.

00:59:07.600 But if you're lazy, it's

00:59:08.880 hard, I guess.

00:59:11.080 So,

00:59:13.840 Assange had a little video.

00:59:17.440 So, you know, Assange has

00:59:19.280 been the subject of, you

00:59:20.760 know, maybe being brought to

00:59:23.940 this country for trial and

00:59:25.400 that didn't work out.

00:59:26.820 And then, of course, there's a

00:59:29.260 question about the pardon.

00:59:30.400 And I just saw a video of

00:59:32.560 Assange, and I finally

00:59:34.160 understand why they don't

00:59:36.440 want him free.

00:59:37.980 They meaning, I don't know,

00:59:39.460 deep state or intelligence

00:59:40.640 agencies or whoever it is.

00:59:42.740 But in the video, Assange

00:59:45.760 pointed out that all wars in

00:59:47.620 the last 50 years are based

00:59:49.300 on media lies.

00:59:51.120 And I thought to myself, is

00:59:53.380 that true?

00:59:54.240 All of our wars in the last

00:59:55.680 50 years are based on the

00:59:57.720 press lying to us?

00:59:59.800 And I thought to myself, I

01:00:02.520 can't really think of an

01:00:03.540 exception.

01:00:05.800 And Assange points out that

01:00:07.300 populations don't like war,

01:00:09.720 even if you've got a really

01:00:11.300 good reason.

01:00:12.600 They still don't like it.

01:00:14.720 That the only way you can have

01:00:16.380 a war, and this is the part

01:00:18.660 that made my head fall off,

01:00:20.040 the only way you can have a

01:00:23.440 war in modern times is by

01:00:28.020 fooling the population.

01:00:30.660 You have to fool the

01:00:32.480 population into war.

01:00:34.600 Otherwise, it can't happen.

01:00:37.480 And Assange says that's the way

01:00:39.840 it's been for 50 years.

01:00:41.860 The only wars in which the

01:00:43.600 population doesn't know what's

01:00:45.380 going on can happen.

01:00:46.400 Now, how much does that guy

01:00:49.660 need to be in jail forever?

01:00:52.140 Right?

01:00:52.820 Because if you think you're

01:00:53.940 living in a military-industrial

01:00:55.500 complex supported by the fake

01:00:57.260 news, you would say to

01:00:59.000 yourself, there's a lot of

01:01:01.380 profit in war.

01:01:04.260 And those people who would

01:01:05.740 make that lot of profit would

01:01:08.160 like to sell that war to the 0.78

01:01:09.640 public.

01:01:10.280 How do they do it?

01:01:11.740 They do it through the fake

01:01:12.780 news.

01:01:13.180 The fake news creates

01:01:15.560 public support for a war,

01:01:19.220 and then the people who make

01:01:20.460 money selling war equipment

01:01:21.860 and other ways to make money

01:01:24.520 on war get rich, and then the

01:01:27.200 public thinks that something

01:01:28.900 like Homeland Defense

01:01:30.420 happened.

01:01:31.680 And nothing like that

01:01:32.980 happened.

01:01:33.920 It was literally some people

01:01:35.300 who wanted to make some

01:01:36.200 money, who invented some

01:01:38.060 lies, fed it to the fake

01:01:40.020 press.

01:01:41.040 Fake press told the

01:01:42.120 population there was a reason

01:01:43.440 for a war.

01:01:44.960 The population supported it.

01:01:47.940 The politicians that are

01:01:49.560 corrupt started the war, and

01:01:51.960 then the people who had this

01:01:53.140 plan got rich.

01:01:57.340 I don't think Assange is going

01:01:58.880 to get pardoned.

01:02:01.340 Or let me put it this way.

01:02:04.600 Trump is the only person with

01:02:06.260 enough balls to pardon Assange.

01:02:08.220 If it's not Trump, he's not

01:02:12.520 going to get pardoned by a

01:02:13.660 subsequent president.

01:02:15.040 You're not going to see it with a 1.00

01:02:16.160 Biden or anybody who comes 1.00

01:02:17.300 after him.

01:02:18.160 Trump is the only one who has

01:02:19.720 balls big enough to pardon

01:02:21.380 Assange, and should.

01:02:26.600 Lastly, I would like to point

01:02:28.100 out, I've mentioned this a few

01:02:29.400 times, but it's so useful that I

01:02:32.140 want to do it again.

01:02:32.920 Have you noticed that some

01:02:35.740 books are good, and some

01:02:39.620 books are bad, and some books

01:02:41.040 are just okay?

01:02:42.720 But every now and then, a book

01:02:44.420 becomes a cultural, social

01:02:47.360 phenomenon, and it starts to

01:02:50.980 change the actual nature of

01:02:52.660 society.

01:02:55.000 I would say In Search of

01:02:56.320 Excellence, years ago, by Mike

01:02:58.900 Peters, not Mike Peters, Tom

01:03:00.960 Peters, was one of those.

01:03:03.560 That was, I think, it

01:03:05.480 transformed the way we thought

01:03:07.040 of business.

01:03:07.780 It was a phenomenon.

01:03:10.740 And there are others.

01:03:11.640 You know, you can think of a

01:03:12.700 half a dozen books.

01:03:15.020 What was it?

01:03:16.760 The, you know, the tools of,

01:03:21.200 there's several others you can

01:03:22.500 think of.

01:03:23.180 But my book, How to Fail at

01:03:24.520 Almost Everything and Still

01:03:25.560 Win Big, has officially entered

01:03:28.260 that territory.

01:03:29.080 Arguably, God's Debris, one of

01:03:32.800 my other books, is sort of a

01:03:35.180 phenomenon, but that seems to

01:03:36.940 be limited to, like, a large

01:03:38.940 cult following.

01:03:40.520 So it's more like a cult

01:03:42.400 phenomenon.

01:03:43.600 Cult in this sense just

01:03:45.140 meaning a limited number of

01:03:47.880 people liking it, not an actual

01:03:49.100 cult.

01:03:50.040 But the How to Fail at

01:03:52.060 Almost Everything book has

01:03:53.200 entered the general public's

01:03:54.880 thinking, all the way from

01:03:56.880 politics and business and

01:03:58.480 personal life, in a way that,

01:04:01.300 you know, I have a front row

01:04:02.960 seat to it because people are

01:04:04.240 sending me feedback.

01:04:05.680 I've never seen anything like

01:04:07.140 it.

01:04:08.840 In terms of a book, you know,

01:04:11.620 the reviews are spectacular.

01:04:13.600 In terms of a social phenomenon,

01:04:16.720 it's picking up steam seven years

01:04:20.340 after it was published.

01:04:22.100 It's kind of crazy what's

01:04:23.420 happening.

01:04:24.140 If you see the, yeah, Seven

01:04:25.700 Habits of Highly Successful

01:04:27.080 People.

01:04:27.440 Thank you.

01:04:27.780 That's what I was trying to

01:04:28.580 think of.

01:04:29.340 That book, I think, was a social

01:04:30.880 phenomenon.

01:04:32.360 And it lived forever on the

01:04:34.000 bestseller list.

01:04:35.140 How to Fail just seems to have

01:04:36.560 entered that phase this year.

01:04:39.520 I'd said when I wrote it, when I

01:04:41.220 first wrote it, I believed it

01:04:43.240 would be what I would be

01:04:44.340 remembered for.

01:04:45.140 I don't believe that Dilbert

01:04:47.760 will last much after my, you

01:04:50.080 know, my death or my

01:04:51.000 irrelevance.

01:04:52.420 But I feel like the How to

01:04:53.780 Fail book just entered some

01:04:56.200 different kind of phase.

01:04:58.500 Yeah, and look in the comments,

01:05:00.640 somebody says, congratulations,

01:05:02.120 I bought three copies.

01:05:03.640 The reason that I point that

01:05:05.160 out is that the number of people

01:05:06.600 who have read that book three

01:05:08.600 times is crazy.

01:05:11.200 I don't know how many books you

01:05:12.480 read three times, but the

01:05:14.980 most common comment I got is

01:05:17.660 that I'm reading it for the

01:05:18.880 third time right now.

01:05:20.600 And I've already implemented a

01:05:22.360 bunch of the processes.

01:05:24.320 So, I feel there's no way to

01:05:29.060 say what I just said without

01:05:30.860 sounding like a jerk making a

01:05:33.020 commercial, and that's not why

01:05:34.660 you're here.

01:05:35.360 The reason I do it is that the

01:05:37.020 feedback from that book is so

01:05:39.040 positive in terms of it actually

01:05:40.540 changing people's lives.

01:05:42.340 Not just entertainment, but

01:05:43.640 changing people's lives.

01:05:45.700 That I'm in this weird bind,

01:05:47.940 because I hate doing like

01:05:49.640 over-marketing, even though you

01:05:51.700 have to sometimes.

01:05:53.640 It just sort of is an ugly

01:05:55.380 thing.

01:05:56.780 But it's just too useful.

01:05:59.640 I just don't feel like you

01:06:00.760 should not hear about it.

01:06:02.120 So I'll take that hit of looking

01:06:03.960 like the narcissist for a little

01:06:06.180 while.

01:06:06.960 All right, that's all for now.

01:06:07.940 I will talk to you tomorrow.

01:06:10.960 I will talk to you tomorrow.

01:06:10.980 Thank you.

01:06:11.820 Thank you.

01:06:12.700 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 07, 2021

Episode 1245 Scott Adams： Let's Discuss the Capitol Protest and Elon Musk's Prediction

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