Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1248 Scott Adams： Trump's Final Scorecard, Vatican Blackout Conspiracy Theories, and More

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00:00:42.580 We do have a double whiteboard.

00:00:45.500 Yeah.

00:00:46.560 You probably signed on today and you were thinking to yourself,

00:00:50.220 God, I hope there's a whiteboard.

00:00:53.280 Two.

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00:00:59.740 All right.

00:01:01.620 Here's an interesting factoid to tie things together.

00:01:05.860 Rob Henderson, who I follow on Twitter,

00:01:08.660 who's got lots of interesting psychology, you know, thoughts.

00:01:13.360 And he sent around a study that said that envy,

00:01:19.700 so the feeling of envy,

00:01:21.680 is above all a phenomenon of social proximity.

00:01:25.660 So the point being that envy is what you feel about the people closest to you,

00:01:30.180 your neighbors.

00:01:31.480 So you feel a lot of envy to your next door neighbor,

00:01:35.260 maybe, if they have more than you do.

00:01:37.000 But you don't care so much about somebody who's living on the other side of the world

00:01:40.960 because you don't have exposure to them.

00:01:43.300 You only have envy for the people close to you.

00:01:45.460 But what happens if you're a species who evolved?

00:01:51.720 So YouTube is back up.

00:01:53.420 I think it is.

00:01:54.600 Anyway, it looks like it's working.

00:01:56.320 So what happens if you're a species who evolves to have envy?

00:02:00.420 But luckily for you, it's limited to just the people around you.

00:02:06.080 So you can kind of handle it.

00:02:07.600 Well, I got a lot of envy.

00:02:09.320 But at least it's just sort of the people around me.

00:02:12.100 And then you get the internet.

00:02:14.240 Now suddenly you have Instagram and social media,

00:02:17.060 and your ability to experience envy goes worldwide.

00:02:23.220 So you have this little problem,

00:02:25.740 which is you're envious of your neighbor.

00:02:27.880 However, now you're envious of the whole freaking world,

00:02:31.200 or at least the ones who are doing better than you.

00:02:33.480 And that seems to be every single person who posts

00:02:35.820 because they only post their awesome day.

00:02:38.800 Here's my vacation.

00:02:39.920 Here's my good thing that happened, etc.

00:02:42.460 So I've got a feeling that one of the ways

00:02:44.280 that social media makes us all mentally sick

00:02:47.680 is that we were not evolved to handle that much envy.

00:02:52.800 We have a certain amount of envy capacity,

00:02:55.640 and it's just blown right through.

00:02:59.760 And so I wonder if instead of regulating social media

00:03:03.860 with a publisher 230 or regulating them

00:03:07.720 in terms of free speech or regulating them in any way,

00:03:12.440 maybe we should regulate them as medical devices.

00:03:16.920 See where I'm going with this?

00:03:18.580 Because I think it would be trivially easy

00:03:22.900 to show that social media has an impact on mental health.

00:03:27.880 Would you even have to do a study?

00:03:30.080 I suppose if you were talking about

00:03:32.900 having some kind of medical regulation on them,

00:03:39.080 then you'd have to do some study because you want data on it.

00:03:41.520 But you wouldn't have to wonder how it's going to come out, right?

00:03:44.720 Do you have any wonder about whether social media

00:03:49.040 is affecting people's mental health?

00:03:51.680 I mean, not really, right?

00:03:53.620 So why don't we just regulate it as a medical device?

00:03:58.360 I mean, all of social media.

00:04:00.420 Because look at the conspiracy theories,

00:04:04.800 the mental health problems that came out of it.

00:04:07.580 I would argue even that the attack on the Capitol,

00:04:10.520 you could blame Trump, and we'll do that later.

00:04:12.500 But I would say that all of these things

00:04:15.300 are a mental health either directly

00:04:19.260 or at least adjacent, right?

00:04:22.520 Because whatever is happening with the,

00:04:25.520 let's say, the most extreme conspiracy theorists,

00:04:30.920 are you kind of all the way into mental health problems?

00:04:34.980 Or is that just people with different opinions?

00:04:37.240 At what point does belief in something that is obviously not true

00:04:43.040 go from, well, that's just somebody who's less informed

00:04:46.620 to actual serious mental health issue?

00:04:50.720 Where's that line?

00:04:52.140 It's pretty blurry at the moment, isn't it?

00:04:54.540 So if we wanted to most directly and usefully regulate social media,

00:05:01.520 it would be as some kind of a medical device.

00:05:03.920 I don't know what that would look like in terms of regulation.

00:05:06.140 But I could easily imagine, for example,

00:05:09.840 children not being allowed to use it

00:05:11.780 or to use parts of it.

00:05:14.840 Wouldn't it be easy to imagine

00:05:16.340 that children would not be allowed to use TikTok?

00:05:20.200 It's easy to believe.

00:05:22.300 When I say children, maybe children under 12

00:05:26.180 or something like that.

00:05:27.340 There might be some cutoff

00:05:28.600 where you just don't want kids to have access to it at all.

00:05:32.840 That would be ruined for life if they did.

00:05:36.140 I think that would be reasonable.

00:05:39.260 So all of the other kinds of regulatory things

00:05:44.220 don't really have a chance at this point.

00:05:46.340 But if we could produce enough evidence

00:05:48.580 that has a medical element to it,

00:05:51.840 regulate it that way.

00:05:52.740 A lot of trolls have been coming at me today.

00:06:01.320 Well, actually, I'll get to that next.

00:06:02.640 That'll be the other side of the whiteboard.

00:06:04.000 On the front side of the whiteboard,

00:06:06.540 I'm having people come at me today

00:06:09.000 and say some version of this.

00:06:11.040 Scott, now, Scott, now will you admit

00:06:17.200 that you were wrong all along about Trump.

00:06:22.540 Now, now you can admit

00:06:25.080 from day one, Scott, Scott, Scott, Scott.

00:06:30.440 You were wrong about Trump

00:06:32.060 and now is the time to admit it,

00:06:33.960 what they say to me.

00:06:36.040 To which I say,

00:06:38.220 unlike my critics,

00:06:40.180 I can do a thing called math.

00:06:42.780 I can also compare things

00:06:44.660 without being emotionally overwhelmed

00:06:47.780 while doing it.

00:06:49.960 Watch me do it right now.

00:06:52.100 Watch how I am not emotionally overwhelmed

00:06:55.180 by simply looking at the costs

00:06:57.720 and the benefits of a situation.

00:07:00.080 Now, a lot of people can't do this.

00:07:03.220 For example,

00:07:05.580 here would be my impression

00:07:06.940 of a Trump hater

00:07:08.720 trying to evaluate

00:07:11.020 the pluses and the minuses

00:07:13.100 of President Trump.

00:07:15.260 We'll start with the minuses

00:07:17.160 because his critics

00:07:18.320 deal with those most productively.

00:07:21.020 Now I give you my impression

00:07:22.880 of a Trump critic

00:07:25.360 speaking about the Capitol riots,

00:07:28.540 which most people believe

00:07:30.380 Trump had some role in

00:07:32.340 directly or indirectly encouraging.

00:07:35.140 This is the critic

00:07:36.700 talking about

00:07:37.620 President Trump's flaws.

00:07:40.220 Oh, what a flaw.

00:07:42.780 Whoa, did you see that Capitol?

00:07:45.000 Oh, yeah.

00:07:48.300 Look at it right there.

00:07:49.460 I'm not imagining it now.

00:07:50.980 I'm not imagining it now.

00:07:52.480 Yeah.

00:07:53.720 Look at the flaw.

00:07:54.980 It's right on television.

00:07:56.100 Even Republicans,

00:07:56.980 even Republicans are saying

00:07:58.520 it's a flaw.

00:07:59.320 Ah!

00:08:02.760 So that's a Trump critic

00:08:04.940 talking about

00:08:05.800 the Capitol protests.

00:08:08.460 Man, are they happy.

00:08:10.400 They're really happy.

00:08:11.840 Now I'd like to give you

00:08:13.020 an impression

00:08:13.480 of that same protester

00:08:15.120 talking about

00:08:18.560 the good things

00:08:20.440 that President Trump did.

00:08:21.760 Mr. Trump critic,

00:08:27.500 what do you think

00:08:28.260 of what Trump did

00:08:29.200 for the economy,

00:08:30.780 at least before

00:08:31.540 the coronavirus?

00:08:33.200 Well,

00:08:34.740 fine people hoax,

00:08:37.560 drinks bleach.

00:08:40.220 No, I'm just asking you

00:08:41.580 just limit it to the economy.

00:08:44.080 Let's say jobs.

00:08:45.700 How'd he do on just

00:08:47.100 jobs?

00:08:48.460 Orange, man.

00:08:51.140 Orange, man.

00:08:52.300 Orange, man, bad.

00:08:56.060 Okay.

00:08:58.500 How about,

00:08:59.440 you've heard that

00:09:00.420 he's been nominated

00:09:01.160 for two Nobel

00:09:03.280 Peace Prizes.

00:09:05.340 So how do you think

00:09:06.260 he did in the Middle East?

00:09:08.680 Moved the embassy.

00:09:10.320 Probably going to start a war. 0.65

00:09:12.480 ISIS.

00:09:12.720 So you can't really

00:09:16.660 even have a conversation

00:09:17.880 with anybody

00:09:18.560 on this topic.

00:09:21.640 You literally can't

00:09:22.820 have anything

00:09:23.400 like a conversation.

00:09:25.080 So here's the way

00:09:26.100 I look at it,

00:09:26.820 for those of you

00:09:27.500 who are going to ask me.

00:09:29.180 Do you still think

00:09:30.480 it was a good idea

00:09:31.300 to support the president?

00:09:33.080 To which I say,

00:09:34.860 all presidents

00:09:35.940 are deeply flawed,

00:09:37.340 just in different ways.

00:09:40.040 Do you think

00:09:40.380 Jimmy Carter

00:09:40.960 was a winner?

00:09:41.500 George Bush, Jr.?

00:09:44.740 We have a lot

00:09:47.160 of bad presidents.

00:09:49.700 So,

00:09:50.260 here's how I do it.

00:09:51.800 I make a list

00:09:52.580 of the benefits

00:09:53.920 you got from your president,

00:09:55.520 and this would apply

00:09:56.380 to any president.

00:09:57.500 So I could be talking

00:09:58.560 about Bill Clinton here.

00:10:01.140 If I were talking

00:10:01.980 about Bill Clinton,

00:10:02.840 he'd have a pretty big list

00:10:04.260 of good stuff he did.

00:10:06.020 But he might have

00:10:06.860 some negative things, too.

00:10:09.200 So that's the way

00:10:09.660 I would look at

00:10:10.180 any president.

00:10:10.800 do I regret?

00:10:14.460 Do I apologize

00:10:15.680 for supporting Trump,

00:10:18.840 despite the fact

00:10:20.020 that we all agree

00:10:20.820 he had a role

00:10:21.720 in a very bad incident

00:10:24.140 this week

00:10:24.760 in which

00:10:25.260 at least five people died?

00:10:28.040 Horrible.

00:10:29.640 Horrible.

00:10:30.120 But it doesn't make

00:10:31.960 the other stuff

00:10:32.500 go away. 0.82

00:10:33.860 You can be against

00:10:34.960 his rhetoric

00:10:35.600 and his personality,

00:10:37.560 and certainly

00:10:38.640 you could be totally

00:10:39.480 against everything

00:10:40.240 that happened this week.

00:10:41.580 But that doesn't mean

00:10:42.600 that he didn't appoint

00:10:43.460 lots of judges,

00:10:44.640 defeat ISIS,

00:10:46.060 become the first president

00:10:47.180 to take China seriously

00:10:48.720 and push back.

00:10:50.160 He's got two Nobel Peace Prize

00:10:52.620 recommendations.

00:10:53.440 He did good work

00:10:55.760 in North Korea.

00:10:56.940 All of that's real.

00:10:58.860 I didn't make

00:10:59.460 any of that up.

00:11:00.900 Right?

00:11:02.060 Didn't make it up.

00:11:05.040 So,

00:11:06.140 to my critics,

00:11:07.780 when you ask me

00:11:09.080 if I feel bad

00:11:10.860 that I supported

00:11:11.960 the president,

00:11:12.740 I say,

00:11:13.280 why are you so bad

00:11:14.920 at comparing things?

00:11:16.980 Why can't you do

00:11:17.940 costs and benefits?

00:11:19.880 And then I'll do

00:11:20.500 that impression

00:11:21.140 of a

00:11:21.760 Trump critic,

00:11:25.400 and that won't go well

00:11:26.980 in that conversation,

00:11:28.020 I'm pretty sure.

00:11:29.340 All right.

00:11:33.640 I asked this question

00:11:34.960 on social media

00:11:35.820 and was immediately

00:11:37.100 mercilessly mocked.

00:11:39.920 Mercilessly, I say.

00:11:41.440 But I can take it.

00:11:42.560 And what I said was

00:11:43.660 that it's too soon

00:11:45.700 to know if

00:11:46.460 the Trump

00:11:47.480 suspension on Twitter

00:11:49.020 will be viewed

00:11:50.440 as one of the biggest

00:11:51.340 mistakes in American history,

00:11:52.980 but it's certainly

00:11:54.120 a candidate.

00:11:56.040 Now,

00:11:56.440 what happens

00:11:57.540 when you say

00:11:58.540 in public

00:11:59.060 that banning

00:12:00.360 Trump from Twitter

00:12:01.260 might be one of the

00:12:02.060 biggest mistakes

00:12:02.880 in American history?

00:12:05.180 Do all of my

00:12:06.760 wise

00:12:07.580 and honest

00:12:09.120 critics,

00:12:10.460 do they come in

00:12:11.380 and say,

00:12:11.900 you know,

00:12:13.200 you're right?

00:12:14.220 Because this could be

00:12:15.400 a landmark

00:12:16.440 point in terms

00:12:18.380 of freedom

00:12:18.920 of speech.

00:12:20.240 Now,

00:12:20.780 we'll talk about

00:12:21.580 freedom of speech

00:12:22.700 in private companies

00:12:23.820 versus the government's

00:12:25.100 version of it

00:12:25.780 in a moment,

00:12:26.260 but do they say,

00:12:29.740 yeah, you know,

00:12:30.300 you've got a point.

00:12:31.080 If we were to lose

00:12:32.460 freedom of speech,

00:12:35.540 you know,

00:12:36.600 the effect

00:12:37.400 wouldn't immediately

00:12:38.240 be obvious,

00:12:38.920 but eventually

00:12:39.920 it would destroy

00:12:40.700 the republic.

00:12:41.460 Wouldn't you agree?

00:12:42.740 Wouldn't you agree

00:12:43.440 that without freedom

00:12:44.340 of speech,

00:12:44.860 you're pretty much

00:12:45.900 putting yourself

00:12:46.580 on a path

00:12:47.200 to dictatorship

00:12:48.660 or destruction

00:12:49.660 or something?

00:12:50.340 So to me,

00:12:52.160 it seemed like

00:12:52.680 a pretty big deal

00:12:53.600 that something

00:12:55.400 that signals

00:12:56.120 the end

00:12:56.660 of freedom

00:12:57.220 of speech,

00:12:57.840 our most bedrock

00:12:58.880 necessary right,

00:13:01.380 that somehow

00:13:01.880 that looks like

00:13:02.540 it's ending,

00:13:03.680 and I had a historian

00:13:04.900 come at me 1.00

00:13:05.660 and say,

00:13:07.200 Scott,

00:13:07.600 you should stop

00:13:08.280 talking in public

00:13:09.160 because you're

00:13:10.060 embarrassing yourself

00:13:11.040 because there have

00:13:12.280 been much bigger

00:13:12.920 problems.

00:13:13.520 You've got your

00:13:14.000 civil war,

00:13:14.860 you've got your

00:13:16.340 you know,

00:13:17.760 everything,

00:13:18.440 every kind of racism

00:13:19.340 and war and everything,

00:13:20.920 and so people

00:13:22.000 mentioned all of

00:13:23.200 those various

00:13:23.840 other problems

00:13:24.960 to mock me

00:13:26.680 for thinking

00:13:27.460 that Trump

00:13:28.100 being kicked

00:13:29.680 off of Twitter

00:13:30.340 is somehow

00:13:31.800 as big

00:13:32.500 as the

00:13:33.080 civil war,

00:13:35.480 to which I say,

00:13:39.020 would there

00:13:39.940 have been

00:13:41.740 a civil war

00:13:42.500 if you didn't

00:13:43.140 have freedom

00:13:43.680 of speech?

00:13:45.820 Think about it.

00:13:47.760 Would slaves 0.75

00:13:48.880 be free

00:13:49.520 if there was

00:13:50.840 no freedom

00:13:51.380 of speech?

00:13:53.720 Would

00:13:54.280 Abe Lincoln

00:13:55.940 ever been elected

00:13:56.760 if they had

00:13:57.920 no freedom

00:13:58.400 of speech?

00:13:59.460 I would contend

00:14:00.740 that basically

00:14:02.300 everything good

00:14:03.260 that's ever

00:14:03.740 happened is

00:14:04.340 because we

00:14:04.800 had freedom

00:14:05.240 of speech.

00:14:06.460 And if you

00:14:07.140 get rid of

00:14:07.600 that,

00:14:08.360 which I believe

00:14:09.040 happened,

00:14:10.240 literally,

00:14:10.900 I think freedom

00:14:11.880 of speech is

00:14:12.480 actually no

00:14:13.940 hyperbole,

00:14:14.860 I'm not

00:14:15.660 saying this

00:14:16.220 to make a

00:14:17.160 political point,

00:14:18.360 to be provocative

00:14:19.380 and get some

00:14:20.180 clicks.

00:14:20.720 This is my

00:14:21.260 honest belief

00:14:22.140 that freedom

00:14:23.540 of speech

00:14:24.160 just ended

00:14:24.840 this week.

00:14:26.160 It ended

00:14:27.040 for all

00:14:27.840 practical purposes.

00:14:29.120 You can still

00:14:29.640 say things

00:14:30.140 that nobody

00:14:30.480 cares about,

00:14:31.560 right?

00:14:32.340 But if you

00:14:33.080 say something

00:14:33.580 that really

00:14:34.100 would move

00:14:34.600 the needle

00:14:35.060 on social

00:14:36.240 media,

00:14:37.020 you can't.

00:14:38.500 You can't.

00:14:40.040 So,

00:14:41.080 historians who

00:14:43.820 are the

00:14:44.200 experts believe

00:14:45.600 that the

00:14:46.160 loss of

00:14:46.800 freedom of

00:14:47.280 speech,

00:14:48.140 no big

00:14:48.560 deal,

00:14:49.240 and they

00:14:49.600 mocked me

00:14:50.080 for my

00:14:50.700 belief that

00:14:51.120 it might

00:14:51.380 be.

00:14:52.240 There's your

00:14:52.700 experts.

00:14:53.820 Believe the

00:14:54.480 experts.

00:14:55.620 Has anybody

00:14:55.940 ever told you

00:14:56.440 that?

00:14:56.640 You should

00:14:56.900 trust the

00:14:57.360 experts.

00:14:58.400 Because they

00:14:58.960 don't know

00:14:59.320 the difference

00:14:59.860 between somebody

00:15:00.940 getting kicked

00:15:01.580 off Twitter

00:15:02.080 and freedom

00:15:03.500 of speech.

00:15:07.000 Here's

00:15:07.520 something we're

00:15:08.040 learning that

00:15:08.700 is deeply

00:15:09.440 disturbing.

00:15:10.660 That when

00:15:11.520 Pence and

00:15:12.220 his family,

00:15:12.920 I guess,

00:15:13.340 I don't know

00:15:13.760 why the

00:15:13.980 family was

00:15:14.420 there,

00:15:14.660 but they

00:15:14.920 were in,

00:15:16.000 I guess

00:15:16.520 they were

00:15:16.720 protected in

00:15:17.320 a bunker

00:15:17.640 during the

00:15:18.360 Capitol riots

00:15:19.600 and the

00:15:20.500 incursion,

00:15:21.460 and they

00:15:21.720 were hunkered

00:15:23.060 down in a

00:15:23.640 bunker,

00:15:24.420 while people

00:15:25.420 within hearing

00:15:26.340 distance were

00:15:27.080 chanting,

00:15:27.820 hang Pence.

00:15:29.740 Can you

00:15:30.040 imagine that?

00:15:31.240 Imagine the

00:15:31.960 Pence family

00:15:32.660 really didn't

00:15:34.800 cause any

00:15:35.360 trouble to

00:15:35.820 anybody,

00:15:36.580 right?

00:15:37.180 If there's

00:15:37.800 anybody who

00:15:38.420 does not

00:15:39.060 deserve to

00:15:42.080 be criticized,

00:15:43.320 in my opinion,

00:15:44.500 I know yours

00:15:45.500 differ, but I'm

00:15:47.800 no fan of

00:15:48.500 Mike Pence in

00:15:49.340 terms of his

00:15:49.840 politics,

00:15:50.800 especially on

00:15:52.620 the LGBTQ

00:15:53.340 stuff, but

00:15:55.360 you can't

00:15:57.760 take away from

00:15:58.400 the fact he's

00:15:59.040 been a damn

00:15:59.720 good vice

00:16:00.300 president in

00:16:01.280 terms of what

00:16:01.780 vice presidents

00:16:02.420 are supposed

00:16:02.860 to do.

00:16:04.200 So here's

00:16:05.000 this poor

00:16:05.380 guy who's

00:16:05.920 been nothing

00:16:06.400 but a

00:16:07.160 loyal patriot

00:16:08.780 in public

00:16:09.360 service,

00:16:10.380 has to feel

00:16:11.280 the end of

00:16:12.380 his vice

00:16:13.640 presidential career

00:16:14.520 and maybe his

00:16:15.080 political career

00:16:15.800 listening to

00:16:17.560 people on his

00:16:18.300 own side

00:16:19.180 until then

00:16:20.940 chanting about

00:16:22.940 hanging him.

00:16:25.460 Put yourself

00:16:26.020 in that position.

00:16:27.880 position.

00:16:28.480 It's scary

00:16:29.100 enough that

00:16:29.880 they're even

00:16:30.700 using these

00:16:31.620 words, but

00:16:33.360 imagine that

00:16:33.940 you've done

00:16:34.280 nothing but

00:16:34.940 serve the

00:16:35.420 country.

00:16:36.480 You've done

00:16:37.000 nothing but

00:16:37.800 serve the

00:16:38.400 country.

00:16:39.520 And these

00:16:40.380 assholes are

00:16:41.920 out there

00:16:42.440 telling you that

00:16:44.300 they want to

00:16:44.980 hang you.

00:16:45.420 I've said

00:16:47.960 again that

00:16:48.640 the people

00:16:49.200 involved in

00:16:49.800 that should

00:16:50.100 be executed.

00:16:52.140 I don't

00:16:52.620 know if

00:16:52.840 there's a

00:16:53.100 legal way

00:16:53.700 to do

00:16:54.000 that, but

00:16:54.740 I don't

00:16:55.600 think jail

00:16:56.080 is good

00:16:56.440 enough.

00:16:57.560 I think

00:16:57.920 execution is

00:16:58.840 an order

00:16:59.200 if you get

00:17:00.020 that far.

00:17:00.740 I don't

00:17:01.020 think there's

00:17:01.340 a legal way

00:17:01.920 to do

00:17:02.180 that.

00:17:02.380 I'm just

00:17:02.700 saying in

00:17:03.000 terms of

00:17:03.340 how bad

00:17:03.680 it was.

00:17:05.540 Now,

00:17:07.060 it seems

00:17:11.320 to me that

00:17:11.940 we've got a

00:17:13.320 problem here.

00:17:14.680 Let me just

00:17:15.740 tie one other

00:17:17.420 point together.

00:17:18.660 So we all

00:17:19.240 saw the video

00:17:20.080 of the

00:17:20.460 shooting in

00:17:21.360 which some

00:17:22.500 kind of law

00:17:23.500 enforcement person

00:17:24.460 shot a

00:17:26.180 woman who 0.99

00:17:26.660 was a

00:17:26.960 protester who

00:17:27.720 was coming

00:17:28.240 through a

00:17:28.940 broken window

00:17:30.200 on a door.

00:17:30.740 Now, here's

00:17:32.060 my revised

00:17:33.000 opinion on

00:17:33.700 that.

00:17:34.740 My first

00:17:35.460 opinion was,

00:17:36.800 what?

00:17:37.860 Why are you

00:17:38.420 shooting somebody

00:17:39.100 who doesn't

00:17:39.600 seem to have

00:17:40.100 a weapon,

00:17:41.040 who is a

00:17:41.540 woman, who 1.00

00:17:43.000 isn't really

00:17:43.480 that close

00:17:44.280 to you?

00:17:47.660 Why would

00:17:48.800 you take

00:17:49.120 that shot?

00:17:50.820 But now

00:17:51.340 that I've

00:17:51.760 heard this,

00:17:53.100 that there

00:17:53.660 were people

00:17:54.080 chanting

00:17:54.620 hangpence,

00:17:56.160 does that

00:17:56.580 change your

00:17:57.460 opinion?

00:17:58.360 Let me tell

00:17:58.900 you, you

00:17:59.460 put me on

00:17:59.940 the jury.

00:18:00.740 And you

00:18:01.640 say, this

00:18:02.120 police officer

00:18:02.900 was here and

00:18:03.580 here's the

00:18:04.000 situation.

00:18:05.340 Suppose, and

00:18:06.140 I don't know

00:18:06.500 that this is

00:18:07.000 true, so I

00:18:07.540 need a fact

00:18:08.000 check on

00:18:08.340 this, suppose

00:18:09.380 the people

00:18:10.040 who were

00:18:10.460 there when

00:18:11.460 that shooting

00:18:11.980 occurred, the

00:18:13.260 people in

00:18:13.580 the crowd,

00:18:14.060 suppose they

00:18:14.600 were chanting

00:18:15.140 or any

00:18:15.720 members of

00:18:16.340 them were

00:18:16.900 chanting,

00:18:18.420 hangpence.

00:18:21.580 Now, do

00:18:22.160 you take the

00:18:22.620 shot?

00:18:23.220 I would.

00:18:24.060 I would

00:18:24.480 take the

00:18:24.800 shot.

00:18:25.680 If I

00:18:26.520 heard a

00:18:26.880 crowd chanting

00:18:28.580 hangpence,

00:18:29.680 I would

00:18:30.360 shoot the

00:18:30.700 first one

00:18:31.120 through the

00:18:31.460 door, weapon

00:18:33.200 or no

00:18:33.520 weapon.

00:18:34.160 You know

00:18:34.420 what else I

00:18:34.820 would do?

00:18:35.080 I would

00:18:35.260 shoot the

00:18:35.560 second person

00:18:36.160 through the

00:18:36.540 door, too.

00:18:37.620 And then I

00:18:38.160 would shoot

00:18:38.420 the third

00:18:38.820 person, the

00:18:39.400 fourth person.

00:18:40.180 I would

00:18:40.520 shoot every

00:18:40.940 person who

00:18:41.340 came through

00:18:41.660 the door,

00:18:42.500 if the

00:18:43.080 crowd is

00:18:44.500 chanting

00:18:44.940 hangpence.

00:18:46.100 Now, if

00:18:46.420 they weren't,

00:18:48.060 and that

00:18:48.440 particular guard

00:18:49.260 had heard

00:18:49.700 nothing of

00:18:50.260 the sort,

00:18:51.840 well, then

00:18:52.180 that's a

00:18:52.500 different

00:18:52.700 situation.

00:18:54.240 But, if

00:18:55.620 he even

00:18:56.060 heard it, if

00:18:57.960 he heard it

00:18:58.420 down the

00:18:58.780 hallway, if

00:19:00.160 he heard it

00:19:00.600 from even

00:19:02.060 one person,

00:19:03.760 if you put

00:19:05.000 me on the

00:19:05.420 jury, boom,

00:19:06.980 innocent.

00:19:08.280 You get into

00:19:09.500 the Capitol

00:19:10.120 chanting hang

00:19:11.580 the vice

00:19:12.020 president, and

00:19:13.080 by the way,

00:19:14.540 the vice

00:19:14.960 president didn't

00:19:15.660 do anything.

00:19:16.880 He didn't do

00:19:17.500 anything that

00:19:18.020 deserves hanging.

00:19:19.280 If you're in

00:19:20.080 the Capitol

00:19:20.560 chanting hang

00:19:21.360 the president,

00:19:22.040 yeah, you can

00:19:22.820 shoot the

00:19:23.200 first person

00:19:23.680 through the

00:19:24.020 door.

00:19:24.900 And that's

00:19:25.500 not even a

00:19:26.240 gray area to

00:19:26.960 me.

00:19:28.140 Not even a

00:19:29.340 little bit

00:19:29.900 gray.

00:19:31.020 Now, I think

00:19:31.700 it's tragic.

00:19:32.580 I don't think

00:19:33.180 she deserved

00:19:34.240 to be killed.

00:19:35.720 I don't think

00:19:36.260 what she was

00:19:36.920 doing was

00:19:38.540 worthy of

00:19:39.340 lethal action.

00:19:41.420 But she was 0.91

00:19:41.980 part of a

00:19:42.400 crowd, and

00:19:43.540 if any one

00:19:44.480 of them was

00:19:45.220 inside the

00:19:46.180 building saying

00:19:47.780 hangpence,

00:19:48.820 you can shoot

00:19:49.680 the first one

00:19:50.180 through the

00:19:50.480 door.

00:19:51.700 Does anybody

00:19:52.060 disagree with

00:19:52.660 that?

00:19:54.200 Because I'm

00:19:54.700 wondering,

00:19:55.340 somebody says

00:19:55.820 only if they

00:19:56.360 are attacking.

00:19:57.460 I don't think

00:19:57.920 so.

00:19:58.560 No, I think

00:19:58.980 that once you're

00:19:59.540 inside the

00:20:00.280 building, that

00:20:02.760 your threats

00:20:03.340 have to be

00:20:03.840 treated as the

00:20:04.560 actual event.

00:20:07.800 Somebody said,

00:20:08.640 did I see the

00:20:09.140 video of it?

00:20:09.760 Yes.

00:20:11.320 What the video

00:20:12.220 doesn't show is

00:20:13.220 if there was any

00:20:13.900 chanting prior to

00:20:15.900 the shot.

00:20:16.340 If it turns out

00:20:18.120 there was no

00:20:18.520 chanting, I have

00:20:20.420 a different

00:20:20.700 opinion of it.

00:20:22.500 No one got

00:20:23.280 through the

00:20:23.660 door, though.

00:20:24.200 It doesn't

00:20:24.460 matter.

00:20:24.780 You shoot the

00:20:25.220 first one who's

00:20:25.900 trying.

00:20:27.000 Who shoots into

00:20:27.920 a crowd?

00:20:28.520 Nobody did.

00:20:29.200 He shot the

00:20:29.720 person coming

00:20:30.320 through the

00:20:30.680 door.

00:20:30.920 I just want

00:20:35.220 to see if

00:20:36.100 that's a

00:20:36.420 pretty extremist

00:20:37.240 position.

00:20:38.080 I don't think

00:20:38.720 it is.

00:20:39.940 It's not

00:20:40.560 extremist to

00:20:41.420 say that

00:20:43.460 self-defense

00:20:45.500 within the

00:20:47.640 Capitol needs

00:20:48.520 to be fairly

00:20:49.940 extreme.

00:20:55.080 No proof

00:20:56.260 nor evidence

00:20:56.900 presented of

00:20:57.660 what part

00:20:59.180 do you believe

00:20:59.720 of the

00:20:59.980 chanting?

00:21:00.920 Somebody says,

00:21:03.500 I saw

00:21:03.740 videos and

00:21:04.380 didn't hear

00:21:04.860 that on

00:21:05.440 any of

00:21:05.880 them.

00:21:06.280 Yeah, that's

00:21:06.640 why I need

00:21:07.000 a fact

00:21:07.340 check.

00:21:07.900 If it turns

00:21:08.460 out nobody

00:21:08.960 was saying

00:21:09.440 that, I

00:21:10.980 do have a

00:21:11.480 different

00:21:11.700 opinion.

00:21:13.560 But think

00:21:14.240 about it.

00:21:15.000 Let me ask

00:21:15.680 you this.

00:21:17.320 In

00:21:17.600 retrospect,

00:21:18.820 was the

00:21:20.660 shooter right

00:21:21.380 no matter

00:21:21.940 what people

00:21:22.680 were chanting?

00:21:23.860 In

00:21:24.080 retrospect.

00:21:25.560 Now, when

00:21:26.360 the shot was

00:21:26.900 first taken,

00:21:27.660 it was in

00:21:28.080 the fog of

00:21:28.660 war when we

00:21:29.240 heard about

00:21:29.620 it, and

00:21:30.440 it looked

00:21:30.980 like on

00:21:31.580 video that

00:21:32.260 it was a

00:21:32.600 bunch of

00:21:33.040 harmless,

00:21:34.480 largely

00:21:34.860 unarmed

00:21:35.620 Trump

00:21:36.340 supporters.

00:21:37.800 That was

00:21:38.140 my first

00:21:38.620 impression.

00:21:39.800 And I

00:21:40.160 thought that

00:21:40.540 the way

00:21:40.880 they got

00:21:41.300 through the

00:21:41.940 security was

00:21:43.020 simply by

00:21:43.500 having numbers.

00:21:44.960 I didn't

00:21:45.320 realize that

00:21:45.860 there were

00:21:46.120 some with

00:21:46.500 lead pipes

00:21:47.140 who were

00:21:47.420 actually, in

00:21:48.360 one case,

00:21:48.900 killing a

00:21:49.360 police officer,

00:21:50.480 seriously injuring

00:21:51.600 others.

00:21:52.180 So it was

00:21:52.620 way worse

00:21:53.160 than it

00:21:54.480 looked on

00:21:54.920 video.

00:21:55.220 But suppose

00:21:56.400 we know

00:21:57.340 now that

00:21:58.620 a number

00:21:59.040 of them

00:21:59.580 have said

00:22:00.660 they had

00:22:00.980 plans to

00:22:01.620 do harm

00:22:02.120 and had

00:22:03.300 weapons.

00:22:04.760 There were

00:22:05.200 guns that

00:22:05.940 got into

00:22:06.320 the capital.

00:22:07.240 There were

00:22:07.460 guns.

00:22:08.680 Mace,

00:22:09.800 these twist

00:22:10.480 ties and

00:22:11.020 all that.

00:22:11.600 Now that

00:22:12.100 you know

00:22:12.700 that some

00:22:14.460 members of

00:22:15.200 the group

00:22:17.100 were armed,

00:22:18.640 had intended

00:22:19.420 danger,

00:22:20.760 even though it

00:22:21.240 was a very

00:22:21.440 small percentage,

00:22:22.220 but you

00:22:23.020 know they

00:22:23.340 were there.

00:22:24.540 What's that

00:22:25.000 tell you

00:22:25.300 about the

00:22:25.660 shooting?

00:22:26.780 Again,

00:22:27.900 you put me

00:22:28.500 on the

00:22:28.840 jury and

00:22:30.260 I say that

00:22:30.880 that guy

00:22:31.280 used good

00:22:31.940 judgment

00:22:32.340 because he's

00:22:33.800 the one who

00:22:34.260 knew that

00:22:34.700 that crowd

00:22:35.200 was dangerous

00:22:35.800 and he

00:22:36.720 stopped it

00:22:37.240 by shooting

00:22:38.160 the first

00:22:38.520 person through

00:22:38.960 the window.

00:22:39.920 Now,

00:22:40.640 tragedy,

00:22:41.900 we all wish

00:22:42.960 that that

00:22:43.320 hadn't happened

00:22:43.960 but when

00:22:46.020 we first

00:22:46.640 heard the

00:22:47.080 story,

00:22:47.860 you were

00:22:48.100 kind of

00:22:48.480 thinking there

00:22:49.440 were no

00:22:49.780 weapons there,

00:22:50.500 right?

00:22:50.720 The guy

00:22:51.940 who took

00:22:52.300 the shot,

00:22:53.100 he was

00:22:53.440 right.

00:22:54.820 He was

00:22:55.400 right.

00:22:56.360 If they

00:22:56.980 had gotten

00:22:57.420 through that

00:22:57.920 barrier,

00:22:58.740 it would

00:22:59.580 have been

00:22:59.820 people with

00:23:00.460 weapons

00:23:01.200 who got

00:23:02.380 through the

00:23:02.760 barrier.

00:23:03.580 Now that

00:23:04.040 you know

00:23:04.400 that,

00:23:05.040 that they

00:23:05.420 had weapons,

00:23:06.720 what do

00:23:07.480 you feel

00:23:07.720 about the

00:23:08.080 shooting?

00:23:09.160 Put me

00:23:09.580 on the

00:23:09.840 jury,

00:23:10.140 I get

00:23:10.400 them off

00:23:10.760 completely.

00:23:12.360 I don't

00:23:12.980 even have

00:23:13.340 a slight

00:23:13.900 whiff of

00:23:17.460 doubt that

00:23:18.060 that was a

00:23:18.560 proper shooting.

00:23:19.700 So I

00:23:20.080 support

00:23:20.440 completely

00:23:20.900 the guy

00:23:21.220 who took

00:23:21.480 the shot

00:23:21.900 under the

00:23:23.140 new information

00:23:23.920 that people

00:23:24.420 were armed.

00:23:26.060 He

00:23:26.180 apparently

00:23:26.660 took a

00:23:27.900 big risk,

00:23:29.060 personal as

00:23:31.020 well as

00:23:31.580 professional,

00:23:32.300 right?

00:23:32.880 He took a

00:23:33.900 really big

00:23:34.800 risk,

00:23:35.960 but he

00:23:37.700 was right,

00:23:39.300 right?

00:23:40.120 Now you

00:23:40.640 probably wouldn't

00:23:41.280 advise somebody

00:23:42.240 in that situation

00:23:43.120 to do what he

00:23:43.780 did, but you

00:23:45.040 can't ignore the

00:23:45.860 fact he was

00:23:46.340 right,

00:23:47.460 right?

00:23:48.000 That counts.

00:23:50.240 Being 100%

00:23:51.540 right has

00:23:52.940 got to be a

00:23:53.500 good defense.

00:23:55.580 So

00:23:55.860 absolutely,

00:23:57.820 that was an

00:23:58.600 appropriate

00:23:59.040 shooting,

00:24:00.000 even though the

00:24:00.600 individual who

00:24:01.360 got shot was

00:24:02.540 not the right

00:24:03.060 person to

00:24:03.500 shoot.

00:24:04.500 But I don't

00:24:05.240 think it

00:24:05.500 mattered under

00:24:06.020 the situation.

00:24:06.820 It's a

00:24:07.420 mob.

00:24:07.780 I saw

00:24:12.880 at least

00:24:13.520 one video

00:24:14.640 of some

00:24:15.500 uniformed

00:24:16.940 law enforcement

00:24:17.600 person as

00:24:19.100 they were

00:24:19.400 letting in

00:24:19.980 the people

00:24:21.880 in the

00:24:22.220 side door.

00:24:23.060 I don't

00:24:23.280 know who

00:24:23.560 opened the

00:24:24.140 door, but 0.71

00:24:25.040 it was clear

00:24:25.520 that the

00:24:25.860 uniformed

00:24:26.480 police were

00:24:27.200 supportive of

00:24:28.840 the protesters.

00:24:30.240 But I think

00:24:30.860 they also

00:24:31.380 miscalculated,

00:24:33.240 thinking it

00:24:33.800 was a bunch

00:24:34.280 of peaceful

00:24:35.100 MAGA people

00:24:35.980 just like any

00:24:36.740 MAGA rally,

00:24:37.780 and they

00:24:38.660 figured,

00:24:39.000 well, they're

00:24:39.240 not going

00:24:39.520 to be

00:24:39.660 armed.

00:24:40.540 These are

00:24:41.020 the ones

00:24:41.320 who don't

00:24:41.740 burn things

00:24:42.420 and riot.

00:24:43.560 But they

00:24:43.940 were wrong.

00:24:45.040 They were

00:24:45.380 wrong.

00:24:45.920 There were

00:24:46.280 some people

00:24:46.920 in the group

00:24:47.420 who absolutely

00:24:48.260 were going

00:24:48.720 to do bad

00:24:49.180 stuff.

00:24:51.700 So that

00:24:52.600 looks like a

00:24:53.260 massive police

00:24:54.160 failure, and

00:24:54.940 it's good that

00:24:55.700 the leadership

00:24:56.920 of at least

00:24:59.000 the Capitol

00:24:59.400 Police resigned.

00:25:01.280 That was

00:25:01.880 appropriate.

00:25:05.580 Let's see.

00:25:07.780 What else

00:25:08.960 have we got

00:25:09.280 going on

00:25:09.780 here?

00:25:11.080 A lot of

00:25:11.840 people telling

00:25:12.360 me that

00:25:13.100 Trump getting

00:25:14.600 kicked off

00:25:15.240 of social

00:25:16.060 media is

00:25:17.900 not a blow

00:25:19.760 to free

00:25:20.220 speech,

00:25:20.800 because free

00:25:21.380 speech, and

00:25:22.660 let me explain

00:25:23.300 it to you

00:25:23.840 like they

00:25:25.100 explain it

00:25:25.640 to me.

00:25:26.700 Scott, you're

00:25:28.300 so dumb.

00:25:29.540 Don't you

00:25:30.060 know that

00:25:31.220 free speech

00:25:31.880 is the

00:25:32.360 government?

00:25:33.440 It's not

00:25:33.780 about private

00:25:34.460 industry.

00:25:35.040 Private industry

00:25:35.700 can do anything

00:25:36.320 they want,

00:25:37.180 if it's

00:25:37.600 legal.

00:25:38.780 But they

00:25:39.380 don't have

00:25:40.000 to guarantee

00:25:40.480 your freedom.

00:25:41.780 Walmart

00:25:42.300 doesn't have

00:25:43.000 to guarantee

00:25:43.540 your freedom.

00:25:44.800 Social media

00:25:45.420 doesn't need

00:25:45.900 to guarantee

00:25:46.380 your freedom.

00:25:46.900 There's nothing

00:25:47.260 in the

00:25:47.560 Constitution

00:25:48.060 that would

00:25:49.240 require that.

00:25:50.380 Scott, Scott,

00:25:51.320 Scott, you

00:25:51.980 low-information

00:25:53.700 idiot. 0.79

00:25:55.820 So that's

00:25:56.540 what I've

00:25:56.800 been listening

00:25:57.180 to for the

00:25:57.640 last 48

00:25:58.240 hours.

00:25:59.560 Let me

00:26:00.340 add a little

00:26:01.040 to that

00:26:01.420 argument.

00:26:02.620 First of all,

00:26:03.380 to my

00:26:04.660 critics who

00:26:05.400 explained to

00:26:06.100 me that

00:26:06.480 freedom of

00:26:07.000 speech is

00:26:07.720 a feature

00:26:08.200 of government

00:26:09.680 and not

00:26:10.300 private

00:26:10.680 industry,

00:26:11.900 let me

00:26:12.420 respond to

00:26:13.220 you this

00:26:13.560 way.

00:26:14.560 No!

00:26:15.600 No!

00:26:17.320 I knew

00:26:18.060 that.

00:26:20.120 Pretty

00:26:20.680 much most

00:26:22.260 people were

00:26:22.880 smart enough

00:26:23.440 to be in

00:26:23.920 the conversation.

00:26:25.640 They knew

00:26:26.380 it too.

00:26:27.540 So why

00:26:28.200 are you

00:26:28.520 telling me

00:26:28.960 something you

00:26:29.900 know and I

00:26:30.480 know, and

00:26:31.420 you should

00:26:31.800 know I

00:26:32.220 know it?

00:26:33.380 as an

00:26:33.920 argument.

00:26:34.800 It's not an

00:26:35.560 argument to

00:26:36.080 tell me

00:26:36.340 something I

00:26:36.800 already know.

00:26:38.340 You need to

00:26:39.080 add something

00:26:39.520 to it.

00:26:40.720 Here's my

00:26:41.640 argument, because

00:26:43.180 I'm not

00:26:43.800 pedantic and I

00:26:45.400 live in the

00:26:45.820 real world and

00:26:46.500 it goes like

00:26:47.240 this.

00:26:48.460 If you look at

00:26:49.280 the arc of

00:26:49.860 time from,

00:26:50.580 let's say,

00:26:51.000 1776 to

00:26:52.520 today, lots

00:26:54.040 has changed.

00:26:55.300 For example,

00:26:55.960 the media has

00:26:56.660 consolidated.

00:26:57.820 Back in

00:26:58.340 1776,

00:26:59.760 freedom of

00:27:00.240 speech, if

00:27:01.280 your newspaper

00:27:02.020 didn't want to

00:27:02.700 print it, I

00:27:03.280 suppose you

00:27:03.740 could go to

00:27:04.160 another

00:27:04.440 newspaper, or

00:27:05.920 you could write

00:27:06.560 it on a

00:27:07.020 scroll, or

00:27:07.640 you could yell

00:27:08.400 it in the

00:27:08.880 town hall.

00:27:09.780 Those are the

00:27:10.300 only tools you

00:27:10.980 had, but at

00:27:11.880 least you had

00:27:12.200 options.

00:27:13.420 Right?

00:27:14.740 As the media

00:27:15.620 consolidated,

00:27:16.740 coming towards

00:27:17.580 2022, it

00:27:19.280 became certainly

00:27:20.760 your right to

00:27:22.220 have free

00:27:22.640 speech, but in

00:27:23.940 a practical

00:27:24.740 sense, if you

00:27:26.400 don't have free

00:27:27.080 speech on the

00:27:27.900 dominant speech

00:27:30.140 platforms, you

00:27:31.960 don't really

00:27:32.760 have freedom of

00:27:33.540 speech.

00:27:34.200 What you have

00:27:34.820 is a legal

00:27:35.720 right that you

00:27:37.340 can't use.

00:27:38.600 Let me give you

00:27:39.160 an example.

00:27:40.160 If you were in

00:27:40.840 a coma, do you

00:27:42.660 have freedom of

00:27:43.460 speech?

00:27:44.400 The answer is,

00:27:45.540 yeah, you do.

00:27:46.540 You're in a

00:27:47.100 coma, but you

00:27:48.560 have freedom of

00:27:49.180 speech.

00:27:50.100 Does it help

00:27:50.820 you?

00:27:52.800 What are you

00:27:53.400 going to do with

00:27:53.900 your freedom of

00:27:54.480 speech when you're

00:27:55.080 in a coma?

00:27:56.480 You don't have

00:27:57.540 real freedom of

00:27:58.580 speech.

00:27:59.360 Technically, you

00:28:00.080 do, but in all

00:28:01.600 practical ways, do

00:28:03.720 you have freedom

00:28:04.100 of speech?

00:28:05.500 When, let's say

00:28:07.040 you're in jail, and

00:28:08.620 you're not allowed

00:28:09.220 to talk to the

00:28:09.920 outside world, and

00:28:10.820 you're in solitary

00:28:12.280 confinement, do you

00:28:13.900 have freedom of

00:28:14.500 speech?

00:28:15.160 Well, legally,

00:28:16.460 legally, yeah, but

00:28:18.620 in a practical

00:28:19.500 sense, do you?

00:28:21.840 Not really, not in

00:28:23.240 any practical sense.

00:28:24.300 If the only way

00:28:26.820 that people

00:28:27.260 communicate in

00:28:28.540 any effective

00:28:29.860 way, in other

00:28:30.760 words, communicate

00:28:31.420 with lots of

00:28:32.180 people, if the

00:28:33.120 only good way to

00:28:33.800 do that is social

00:28:34.620 media, and that's

00:28:35.500 the way it's

00:28:35.900 evolved, and you

00:28:37.540 can't use it, do

00:28:39.000 you have freedom

00:28:39.460 of speech?

00:28:41.680 Technically, you

00:28:42.460 do.

00:28:43.820 Technically, you

00:28:44.580 do.

00:28:46.400 But do you have

00:28:47.300 it in a practical

00:28:48.200 sense?

00:28:49.320 No.

00:28:50.320 Not even close.

00:28:52.020 So here's the

00:28:52.620 question.

00:28:54.300 Do the way we

00:28:56.320 think of freedom

00:28:56.900 of speech, or

00:28:57.740 the way we

00:28:58.340 thought of it in

00:28:58.940 1776, is it the

00:29:01.540 way we should still

00:29:02.340 be thinking of it?

00:29:03.660 Or, and I'll just

00:29:04.720 put this out here,

00:29:06.080 should we take

00:29:07.140 into consideration a

00:29:09.000 changing environment?

00:29:10.760 Is that crazy?

00:29:12.540 Because my critics

00:29:13.560 will say, it's not

00:29:15.620 in the Constitution.

00:29:17.520 I know that.

00:29:19.160 I know that.

00:29:20.260 I know it's not in the

00:29:21.200 Constitution, but

00:29:22.640 thanks for telling

00:29:23.380 me over and over.

00:29:24.720 I'm telling you that

00:29:26.160 we should adjust so

00:29:29.480 that our rights are

00:29:31.100 compatible with the

00:29:32.260 reality on the

00:29:33.260 ground.

00:29:34.100 And the reality on

00:29:35.000 the ground is if you

00:29:35.940 get kicked off of

00:29:36.700 social media, you're

00:29:38.420 effectively closed

00:29:39.440 out from freedom of

00:29:40.460 speech.

00:29:41.840 And so, we should

00:29:43.560 consider whether we

00:29:45.000 want that to be the

00:29:46.560 situation or not.

00:29:47.620 Now, I've heard the

00:29:48.980 argument, Scott, Scott,

00:29:50.700 Scott, if you don't

00:29:51.980 like these platforms,

00:29:53.380 just go start your

00:29:54.780 own.

00:29:55.640 Go over to Parler or

00:29:57.100 Gab, go over to

00:29:58.320 Rumble.

00:29:59.180 You've got options,

00:30:00.340 just like these guys.

00:30:01.520 In fact, you probably

00:30:02.840 have more options than

00:30:04.220 they had because of

00:30:05.520 all the new social

00:30:06.980 media platforms.

00:30:09.400 But really?

00:30:10.880 Really?

00:30:12.100 Let me tell you what

00:30:13.660 that sounds like to

00:30:14.700 me.

00:30:14.920 It sounds like if I

00:30:16.700 tell you that the

00:30:18.440 local energy company

00:30:19.840 that has a monopoly in

00:30:20.980 your town, if they

00:30:22.200 decide to stop selling

00:30:23.420 you electricity, do

00:30:25.380 you have options?

00:30:26.780 You do?

00:30:27.980 Yeah.

00:30:28.460 You could take a

00:30:29.320 balloon and rub it

00:30:30.500 on your hair.

00:30:31.980 And it would create

00:30:33.400 static electricity.

00:30:35.520 So why do you need

00:30:36.840 the electricity from

00:30:38.120 the power company

00:30:39.060 when you could just

00:30:40.580 rub a balloon on

00:30:41.360 your hair?

00:30:42.700 That's the argument

00:30:43.700 that my critics are

00:30:45.500 giving me about

00:30:46.120 social media.

00:30:47.480 Scott, you don't

00:30:48.740 have to be on

00:30:49.400 Twitter.

00:30:50.400 You could shout

00:30:51.440 from your porch.

00:30:53.360 You could go on

00:30:54.560 Parler where nobody

00:30:55.500 hears you, except

00:30:56.820 the people who

00:30:57.380 already agree with

00:30:58.040 you, so there's no

00:30:58.900 point in talking to

00:30:59.620 them.

00:31:01.280 So, do you really

00:31:03.240 have options?

00:31:05.200 Technically, yes.

00:31:06.460 And if you're

00:31:07.140 really, really

00:31:07.860 fucking stupid, you

00:31:09.220 think that those

00:31:09.860 options matter.

00:31:11.420 They don't.

00:31:12.080 They don't

00:31:13.820 matter.

00:31:14.620 If you're not on

00:31:15.260 Twitter, you just

00:31:15.900 don't exist in our

00:31:16.800 world or the other

00:31:17.620 social media.

00:31:19.060 So, if you think

00:31:20.880 rubbing a balloon

00:31:21.720 on your hair is the

00:31:22.840 same as having

00:31:23.560 electricity, then

00:31:25.260 yeah, going to

00:31:26.620 Parler is just like

00:31:27.920 being on Twitter.

00:31:29.600 But it's a stupid

00:31:30.760 fucking argument, 0.95

00:31:32.100 because in the real

00:31:32.900 world, these are

00:31:34.140 monopolies.

00:31:35.460 They're good ones.

00:31:36.660 I love Twitter.

00:31:38.060 Twitter's awesome.

00:31:39.500 But they're

00:31:40.140 monopolies, for all

00:31:41.200 practical purposes.

00:31:42.640 Again, maybe not in

00:31:43.900 a technical sense, but

00:31:45.400 in a practical sense

00:31:46.260 they are.

00:31:47.520 Should we update our

00:31:48.800 school textbooks to

00:31:50.180 reflect the end of

00:31:51.400 free speech that

00:31:52.220 just happened?

00:31:53.480 Don't you believe

00:31:54.400 that we should not

00:31:56.660 be teaching kids that

00:31:57.940 we have freedom of

00:31:58.680 speech in a practical

00:31:59.720 sense?

00:32:00.800 Because we don't.

00:32:02.300 As of today, if

00:32:03.960 your kids are taught

00:32:04.880 in school that they

00:32:05.680 have freedom of

00:32:06.300 speech, that's not

00:32:07.680 true.

00:32:08.360 They only have

00:32:09.020 freedom until some

00:32:10.400 big company tells

00:32:11.220 them they don't.

00:32:12.180 And then they

00:32:12.600 don't.

00:32:13.860 And by the way, do

00:32:15.220 you think that the

00:32:15.860 social media companies

00:32:17.020 would have done what

00:32:17.800 they did without

00:32:19.260 pressure from the

00:32:20.600 government?

00:32:21.460 No fucking way.

00:32:23.200 This was the

00:32:23.920 government suppressing

00:32:24.860 your free speech.

00:32:26.300 You tell me that

00:32:27.080 those social media

00:32:27.900 companies could all

00:32:28.760 make their own

00:32:29.400 private, independent

00:32:30.400 decisions?

00:32:31.420 Yes, they can.

00:32:32.800 Do you think they

00:32:33.400 did?

00:32:33.700 Not a fucking

00:32:34.720 chance.

00:32:35.980 Not a chance.

00:32:37.580 the government, or

00:32:40.500 members of it, pressure

00:32:42.300 the social media

00:32:43.260 companies, and then

00:32:44.160 the social media

00:32:44.840 companies cave and do

00:32:46.020 what the government

00:32:46.560 wants.

00:32:47.320 The government being

00:32:48.160 Democrats.

00:32:49.200 So, what do you

00:32:50.020 argue with me that the

00:32:51.920 government is not the

00:32:52.920 one who is suppressing

00:32:53.780 your freedom of speech?

00:32:55.000 It's Twitter.

00:32:55.840 You're a fucking

00:32:56.420 idiot. 0.79

00:32:57.420 That's not what's

00:32:58.160 happening.

00:32:58.860 It's the government

00:32:59.880 pressuring the

00:33:01.240 companies, and the

00:33:02.020 companies being

00:33:02.940 compatible with or

00:33:04.160 agreeing with the

00:33:04.760 government go along

00:33:06.100 with it.

00:33:06.780 Not one of those

00:33:07.600 companies was going

00:33:08.620 to ban Twitter

00:33:09.600 because they wanted

00:33:11.300 to.

00:33:12.680 Right?

00:33:13.420 Well, maybe.

00:33:14.200 I mean, I don't

00:33:15.360 want to be a mind

00:33:16.000 reader, so I suppose

00:33:16.840 anything's possible.

00:33:18.600 But if you're telling

00:33:19.200 me that the

00:33:20.100 government is not

00:33:21.040 pressuring the

00:33:22.640 Democrats in this

00:33:23.400 case, if you tell

00:33:24.300 me they're not

00:33:24.840 pressuring the social

00:33:25.820 media companies to

00:33:26.800 get rid of Trump,

00:33:28.480 well, that's just

00:33:29.080 stupid. 0.90

00:33:30.520 Because you can see

00:33:31.360 it.

00:33:31.580 It's right in front

00:33:32.360 of you.

00:33:33.360 They're actually doing

00:33:34.260 it in public.

00:33:34.740 Am I wrong that

00:33:36.800 the government is

00:33:37.680 in public calling

00:33:39.460 for the social

00:33:40.080 media companies to

00:33:41.000 ban freedom of

00:33:41.760 speech for a

00:33:42.600 member of the

00:33:43.160 public?

00:33:44.260 This is happening

00:33:45.260 right in front of

00:33:45.900 you.

00:33:46.120 I'm not making

00:33:46.600 anything up.

00:33:47.200 You're watching

00:33:47.640 it.

00:33:48.380 Everything I've

00:33:48.980 said, except the

00:33:50.800 internal intent part,

00:33:52.340 is something you

00:33:52.780 can just observe.

00:33:56.560 On the plus side,

00:33:59.460 Trump derangement

00:34:00.800 syndrome was cured.

00:34:01.880 I don't know if

00:34:04.120 you've noticed it,

00:34:05.560 but TDS has

00:34:07.520 actually been cured.

00:34:09.460 And here's why.

00:34:11.000 For four years,

00:34:12.720 Trump haters were

00:34:15.320 sure that he was the

00:34:16.480 devil and Hitler, 0.97

00:34:18.560 but every time he did

00:34:20.280 something, it wasn't

00:34:21.400 matching their opinion.

00:34:23.820 So if your opinion

00:34:25.040 doesn't match your

00:34:26.000 observation, it's like,

00:34:27.660 he's a racist. 0.75

00:34:29.220 Wait, he did what with

00:34:30.980 prison reform?

00:34:33.340 Who did he

00:34:33.880 pardon?

00:34:35.300 He's, he hates the

00:34:36.880 Jewish people.

00:34:37.880 He did what with the

00:34:38.900 embassy?

00:34:40.740 Wait, Israel's going to 1.00

00:34:41.740 name a town after him?

00:34:43.420 So we've had four years

00:34:45.140 of the worst

00:34:46.860 imaginations of who

00:34:48.240 Trump was being

00:34:49.120 completely opposite

00:34:50.340 of observation.

00:34:52.360 And in order to

00:34:53.360 square the circle,

00:34:54.780 they had to patch it

00:34:56.180 up with hoaxes.

00:34:57.100 So they would put in

00:34:58.500 the fine people hoax

00:34:59.580 to, to prove the

00:35:00.840 thing that was

00:35:01.480 observably not true.

00:35:03.660 So they, you know,

00:35:04.720 they patch it up with

00:35:05.720 a hoax.

00:35:06.480 And that's what your

00:35:07.400 cognitive dissonance

00:35:08.440 is.

00:35:08.840 So cognitive dissonance,

00:35:10.440 which is Trump

00:35:11.140 derangement syndrome,

00:35:12.460 is when your

00:35:13.480 observation and your

00:35:15.060 belief don't match.

00:35:16.320 So you have to, you

00:35:17.640 have to connect them

00:35:18.940 with a hoax or an

00:35:20.720 illusion or a

00:35:21.560 hallucination.

00:35:22.860 So that's what it is.

00:35:23.800 Now, what happens if

00:35:25.280 you get to this last

00:35:26.320 part, last week of

00:35:28.280 Trump, and finally,

00:35:31.260 finally, for the first

00:35:32.700 time, that's my dog

00:35:35.560 asleep barking if you

00:35:36.520 hear that.

00:35:37.000 Hey, Snickers.

00:35:41.500 I have to wake up my

00:35:42.720 dog.

00:35:43.040 She's ruining my 1.00

00:35:43.760 whole periscope.

00:35:46.820 Okay.

00:35:48.940 So what happens when

00:35:50.440 you finally get a

00:35:51.440 situation where

00:35:52.660 somebody who thinks

00:35:53.580 Trump is dangerous

00:35:54.800 can observe how he

00:35:56.720 acted about this

00:35:57.580 capital protest stuff,

00:35:59.240 and they can say,

00:36:00.700 ah, ah, ah,

00:36:03.280 finally, finally,

00:36:06.300 my opinion and my

00:36:08.560 observation.

00:36:10.060 Oh, they finally

00:36:12.000 fanned.

00:36:12.420 Ah.

00:36:15.280 So good.

00:36:16.640 So good.

00:36:18.060 Now, because they're

00:36:19.880 also idiots, they 0.98

00:36:21.380 believe that this one

00:36:22.360 observation cancels out

00:36:25.260 all four years of his

00:36:26.580 accomplishments.

00:36:28.020 So the belief from the

00:36:30.340 TDS recoverers, because

00:36:33.200 they are recovering, it's

00:36:34.240 the first time their

00:36:34.940 observation matches their

00:36:37.060 belief.

00:36:37.800 Now they're revising the

00:36:39.640 last four years to say,

00:36:41.520 well, nailed it.

00:36:44.240 Nailed it.

00:36:44.840 Yeah, maybe Trump did

00:36:48.180 accomplish more than any

00:36:49.600 president in the history

00:36:50.720 of presidents, I think

00:36:52.660 that's true, for the

00:36:54.540 economy and for world

00:36:55.780 peace and for trade

00:36:57.320 negotiations and prison

00:36:59.400 reform and all kinds of

00:37:00.960 stuff.

00:37:02.120 But, well, he sure screwed

00:37:04.800 up that last week, that's

00:37:06.460 for sure.

00:37:06.840 So I think in a weird,

00:37:10.300 weird, unexpected way, and

00:37:12.020 I mean this literally, I

00:37:13.440 think Trump derangement

00:37:14.540 syndrome was kind of

00:37:16.960 cured, accidentally.

00:37:19.500 Now they still have crazy

00:37:20.540 thoughts about the past, but

00:37:22.480 as long as it's cured at the

00:37:23.880 moment, it will probably be

00:37:25.200 cured going forward.

00:37:27.780 There's a big story on social

00:37:29.920 media that is so delicious.

00:37:33.800 I was worried that things

00:37:35.000 would not be interesting

00:37:35.900 after Trump left, but

00:37:37.340 maybe we're just in a

00:37:38.300 world of things are more

00:37:39.640 interesting.

00:37:40.800 So apparently the lights

00:37:42.040 went off in the Vatican.

00:37:43.700 And when I say

00:37:44.320 apparently, I mean, I

00:37:46.140 don't believe anything.

00:37:47.500 I don't know if the

00:37:48.700 lights really did go out

00:37:50.180 in the Vatican.

00:37:51.560 It's being reported, it's

00:37:53.140 on social media, but I

00:37:55.120 don't necessarily believe

00:37:56.280 it happened.

00:37:57.020 But let's say it did.

00:37:58.040 It's being widely

00:37:58.940 reported.

00:38:00.640 This has caused all

00:38:03.420 manner of conspiracy

00:38:04.660 theories, and they're

00:38:06.120 all good ones.

00:38:07.640 So the popular one

00:38:08.980 seems based on one

00:38:10.800 obscure publication with

00:38:12.400 zero credibility, and

00:38:14.260 it makes a claim that I'm

00:38:15.500 telling you now is not

00:38:16.620 true.

00:38:18.020 I think I can stay on

00:38:19.640 social media if I tell

00:38:20.920 you in advance that I'm

00:38:22.540 talking about a claim and

00:38:24.420 it's not true, which is

00:38:26.480 that the Pope has been

00:38:27.320 arrested and charged with

00:38:28.900 80 counts of pedophilia.

00:38:31.800 Now, not a chance in the

00:38:34.520 world, that's true.

00:38:36.260 Not a chance in the

00:38:37.220 world.

00:38:38.080 Other people are saying

00:38:39.100 that it's related to the

00:38:41.180 other conspiracy theory,

00:38:42.560 that Italy had something

00:38:44.400 to do with our election

00:38:46.620 data, and something went

00:38:48.380 through Italy, and then the

00:38:49.560 numbers changed, and it

00:38:50.660 went back, and so

00:38:51.520 somehow Italy was

00:38:52.520 involved with rigging the

00:38:54.680 election, and this is the

00:38:57.360 response to that.

00:38:58.780 Nope.

00:38:59.740 No.

00:39:01.980 Nope.

00:39:03.460 Lights also went out in

00:39:04.640 Pakistan.

00:39:05.600 Somebody said they went out

00:39:06.580 around the Eiffel Tower.

00:39:07.760 I don't know if any of those

00:39:08.540 are true.

00:39:11.020 Certainly more likely

00:39:12.040 coincidence.

00:39:13.000 Now, some people are

00:39:13.640 saying, hey, maybe it's

00:39:15.260 that solar winds hack, and

00:39:17.700 some country is just

00:39:19.360 testing their ability to

00:39:20.600 turn off the electricity in

00:39:21.860 different countries.

00:39:23.580 I doubt you would test it.

00:39:25.320 It doesn't seem like

00:39:26.880 testing it would be smart,

00:39:28.600 because you should test it

00:39:30.200 against your actual enemy,

00:39:31.460 not the Vatican.

00:39:33.120 So that would be a weird

00:39:34.240 way to test that, because

00:39:35.680 if you tested it, and you

00:39:36.780 could see that it worked,

00:39:37.780 and people found it out,

00:39:38.940 then they would be able to

00:39:40.040 harden their own systems

00:39:41.500 against it.

00:39:42.140 So it's not really the

00:39:42.800 thing you should test.

00:39:44.500 You should just do it when

00:39:45.960 you're ready to start World

00:39:47.220 War III.

00:39:49.620 So I don't believe any of

00:39:51.240 the conspiracy theories.

00:39:53.040 I think just they had a grid

00:39:54.200 problem, is my guess.

00:39:56.160 And how would they get

00:39:57.580 past the guards, the

00:40:00.780 Swiss Guard?

00:40:02.040 How would any security

00:40:03.720 force turn off the lights

00:40:05.320 and get past the Swiss 1.00

00:40:07.300 Guard without gunshots?

00:40:10.280 None of it makes sense.

00:40:11.760 So don't believe any of the

00:40:13.000 Vatican stories.

00:40:14.080 But they're fun.

00:40:15.880 I saw an interview with,

00:40:18.700 remember that horned

00:40:19.960 protester, the one who got

00:40:21.200 into the capital?

00:40:22.200 He had the big Viking 1.00

00:40:23.080 horns, and he was

00:40:24.080 shirtless and stuff.

00:40:25.540 Well, I saw an interview

00:40:26.280 with him, and the

00:40:28.060 reporter said, you know,

00:40:31.380 why are you here?

00:40:32.940 You know, why are you

00:40:33.520 protesting?

00:40:34.640 And the guy with the

00:40:35.600 Viking horns looked right 0.90

00:40:36.860 at the reporter, and he

00:40:38.680 said,

00:40:40.040 Fwidum. 0.95

00:40:42.000 Now, the touching part

00:40:43.340 about this story is, I

00:40:44.900 don't even think he knew

00:40:45.800 what the word Fwidum

00:40:46.700 means.

00:40:47.100 But even so, in his

00:40:50.800 simple, uneducated way,

00:40:53.400 even he knew it was

00:40:54.460 important before he even

00:40:56.560 knew what the word

00:40:57.140 meant.

00:40:58.320 And so he was there

00:40:59.520 protesting for his

00:41:01.300 Fwidum, and I just

00:41:04.640 thought it was poignant,

00:41:05.520 so I just pointed it out.

00:41:09.560 All right, let's see if I

00:41:10.880 talked about everything I

00:41:11.960 was going to talk about.

00:41:12.660 Probably did.

00:41:16.480 I believe I did.

00:41:18.320 All right.

00:41:19.720 Poor guy wants to be an 0.99

00:41:21.000 actor.

00:41:21.380 Yeah, a lot of those

00:41:22.020 people are being rolled

00:41:22.880 up.

00:41:23.620 By the way, if you ever

00:41:26.580 do a public illegal

00:41:28.460 thing with cameras

00:41:30.180 rolling, you're going to

00:41:31.760 get caught.

00:41:33.060 I believe we will catch

00:41:34.600 100% of the bad actors

00:41:37.400 who were in the protests

00:41:38.520 who also had no masks.

00:41:41.260 If they didn't have a

00:41:42.140 mask, definitely getting

00:41:44.280 caught.

00:41:45.940 Let me tell you something

00:41:47.080 that Antifa learned, that

00:41:49.380 apparently the MAGA

00:41:50.620 protesters did not learn.

00:41:53.120 Those masks can come in

00:41:55.040 handy.

00:41:56.720 Don't rule out the mask if

00:41:58.760 you're going to be going

00:41:59.400 and doing something

00:42:00.180 illegal in front of a

00:42:02.100 thousand cameras.

00:42:05.380 Somebody's saying that the

00:42:06.500 Viking horn guy is an

00:42:07.880 actor.

00:42:08.620 I think he's also an

00:42:09.940 actor.

00:42:10.220 But he seems to like

00:42:12.260 protests.

00:42:13.280 So here's a little factoid

00:42:15.420 that many of you don't

00:42:16.760 know.

00:42:18.080 There are people who just

00:42:19.540 like going to protests.

00:42:21.660 And so there are people who

00:42:22.600 go from, you know, protest to

00:42:24.120 protest.

00:42:24.660 It's almost like a vacation

00:42:26.440 hobby.

00:42:27.600 I spoke to one, you know, a

00:42:29.460 few years ago.

00:42:30.040 I talked to somebody who

00:42:31.500 literally would say, hey,

00:42:33.200 there's a protest happening.

00:42:34.500 I don't think he even cared

00:42:36.620 too much what it was about.

00:42:37.980 He was just all down for

00:42:39.000 protests.

00:42:39.960 So he just liked traveling and

00:42:41.540 doing, being part of the

00:42:42.460 protest and stuff like that.

00:42:44.720 So I think there are people

00:42:45.800 who perhaps the Viking horn

00:42:48.200 guy just likes the, likes the

00:42:52.100 ambience, just likes the

00:42:53.840 practice.

00:42:55.520 All right.

00:42:56.860 Civil disobedience means no

00:42:58.700 masks.

00:42:59.440 Well, you have a good point.

00:43:00.600 If it's really civil

00:43:02.320 disobedience, where you're

00:43:03.920 not, you're not doing a

00:43:05.420 crime, then no mask is

00:43:07.100 better.

00:43:07.560 Yes.

00:43:08.260 If you don't have a

00:43:09.300 pandemic, it's better.

00:43:12.840 It's also being reported

00:43:14.220 coincidentally that the Pope's

00:43:16.400 personal doctor died of

00:43:18.660 coronavirus, I guess,

00:43:20.460 yesterday or today.

00:43:21.820 So there's a lot happening in

00:43:23.520 the Vatican, but I don't

00:43:25.060 think, don't think we have to

00:43:29.500 worry about it.

00:43:31.060 All right.

00:43:31.880 That's all for now.

00:43:33.840 And I will talk to you

00:43:35.580 tomorrow.

00:43:41.680 Okay, YouTube.

00:43:44.340 You'll be happy to know over

00:43:46.060 on YouTube that I finally got

00:43:48.140 my adapter so that I can

00:43:49.560 charge my iPad at the same

00:43:51.760 time I've got my microphone

00:43:53.080 connected.

00:43:54.300 So thanks to several of you

00:43:56.000 who suggested I get that

00:43:57.540 adapter.

00:43:57.940 Um, the five died of COVID.

00:44:02.680 No, they didn't.

00:44:05.020 John Brennan could be charged

00:44:06.400 with treason if there was

00:44:08.220 an insurrection.

00:44:10.060 You know, I don't think, I

00:44:11.720 just don't think the deep

00:44:13.480 state's going to get charged

00:44:14.460 with anything.

00:44:16.600 Uh, why does your YouTube get

00:44:18.240 more time?

00:44:19.240 I'm sort of training people

00:44:20.820 that, uh, Periscope's going to

00:44:23.060 go offline in a month or two,

00:44:25.240 a few months, I guess.

00:44:25.980 So Periscope will not be a

00:44:28.920 product pretty soon.

00:44:31.180 So I'm, I'm slowly

00:44:33.140 accustoming people to maybe

00:44:35.640 they should be on YouTube,

00:44:36.600 but I don't want to push it

00:44:37.880 yet.

00:44:38.680 So I just give them one more

00:44:40.360 reason to be here and they

00:44:41.440 can choose for themselves.

00:44:42.620 Uh, oh, Poland is passing laws 1.00

00:44:46.960 against big tech suppressing

00:44:48.540 speech.

00:44:49.060 I don't know what kind of law

00:44:49.840 you can pass.

00:44:50.900 The problem is any law you

00:44:52.900 pass is just going to be a

00:44:54.520 problem.

00:44:55.520 That's why I think we have to

00:44:56.660 treat it as a medical problem

00:44:58.020 because at least then you can

00:44:59.280 have data and say, you know,

00:45:00.940 this hurts and this doesn't

00:45:02.080 maybe.

00:45:04.000 Uh, bring in rumble when it

00:45:05.700 goes live.

00:45:06.400 So rumble doesn't have a live

00:45:08.580 option, huh?

00:45:10.460 I don't think it does.

00:45:13.120 Uh, and when you're dropped

00:45:14.280 from YouTube, then what?

00:45:15.600 Well, I'm on the locals

00:45:17.120 platform.

00:45:18.080 It's a subscription platform.

00:45:19.760 If I get dropped from Twitter,

00:45:21.560 I would probably lower my price

00:45:23.560 on, uh, locals.

00:45:25.700 Right now it's $7 a month for

00:45:27.500 content that you won't see

00:45:28.680 anywhere else.

00:45:29.340 I do a lot of micro lessons on

00:45:30.780 persuasion and, and, uh,

00:45:33.860 systems for your life.

00:45:34.980 But, so if you like those

00:45:36.420 things, uh, I think the people

00:45:38.180 who are paying $7 a month

00:45:39.980 think they're getting wildly

00:45:41.640 more value than that.

00:45:43.540 Uh, at least that's what they

00:45:44.500 say.

00:45:46.400 Um, let's see.

00:45:50.220 We regulate private companies

00:45:51.620 all the time.

00:45:52.320 Yeah, but it's hard with

00:45:53.460 opinion stuff and freedom of

00:45:56.280 speech and what's appropriate

00:45:57.840 and not is just too subjective.

00:46:02.180 Uh, a bundle package would be

00:46:03.980 good.

00:46:04.260 We're looking into that

00:46:05.520 actually.

00:46:06.140 We might do some bundle

00:46:06.960 packages.

00:46:07.980 And locals will have, uh, a

00:46:10.300 live stream option, I think,

00:46:12.160 at some point.

00:46:12.900 It doesn't have it yet.

00:46:14.420 But, um, if I had to guess

00:46:16.380 where my fate is, probably

00:46:18.840 getting kicked off of the

00:46:20.140 major platforms and probably

00:46:22.020 only doing things on locals

00:46:23.960 eventually.

00:46:25.620 But I'll stay on the other

00:46:26.820 platforms as long as they'll

00:46:27.920 keep me.

00:46:28.240 By the way, it is my intention

00:46:31.340 to never say anything that

00:46:33.840 would get me kicked off a

00:46:35.220 platform because I don't

00:46:37.360 think I have to.

00:46:38.820 I don't think there's any

00:46:39.920 necessity to say anything in

00:46:42.440 a way that would get me

00:46:43.320 kicked off of any platform.

00:46:44.680 And if I do, that's on me,

00:46:45.920 isn't it?

00:46:46.660 Because if I don't intend it,

00:46:48.200 well, I guess it could be on

00:46:51.540 somebody else if they just

00:46:52.980 decide to get rid of me.

00:46:54.520 All right.

00:46:55.280 Uh, what's the locals?

00:46:56.500 So locals.com is where a

00:46:59.260 number of creators go if

00:47:01.820 they have content that is

00:47:03.560 maybe not quite appropriate

00:47:04.940 for the general public.

00:47:06.520 So a lot of stuff that I do,

00:47:08.120 especially the political

00:47:08.960 stuff, is nuanced.

00:47:11.600 So in the general public, you

00:47:13.580 can't say, hey, somebody did

00:47:16.440 a good job on this, but a bad

00:47:18.060 job on this.

00:47:19.380 You just can't do it.

00:47:21.000 In the general public, you

00:47:22.080 just have to take a side and

00:47:23.300 say, your guy did everything

00:47:24.500 right, the other guy or gal

00:47:26.460 did everything wrong, and

00:47:27.500 that's it.

00:47:28.440 So if you want to see

00:47:29.680 anything smart, you're going

00:47:32.720 to have to go somewhere that

00:47:33.640 the general public doesn't

00:47:35.780 doesn't exist.

00:47:37.620 All right.

00:47:40.180 Um, yes, Patrick Byrne and

00:47:42.160 others have said Italy was

00:47:43.460 involved, but I'm not looking

00:47:45.780 to that.

00:47:46.260 I'm not expecting that to

00:47:48.380 prove out.

00:47:49.600 Could be wrong.

00:47:51.060 Yeah, I'll do more Robots

00:47:52.060 Renews. 0.99

00:47:52.580 I need to get back to that.

00:47:53.700 All right.

00:47:53.940 That's enough for now, and I'll

00:47:55.020 talk to you tomorrow.

00:47:55.700 We'll be right back to you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 10, 2021

Episode 1248 Scott Adams： Trump's Final Scorecard, Vatican Blackout Conspiracy Theories, and More

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