Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1252 Scott Adams： I Teach You How to Fix Wokeness and Free Speech Problems With Aggressive Compliance

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00:00:42.340 pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the

00:00:46.760 simultaneous sip and have a stamp. Go. What's the slaughter meter? Somebody says. Well, you know,

00:00:55.240 it's interesting if you make a prediction about the outcome of the election, but you're not entirely

00:01:02.040 sure if everything's been audited as much as it could be. Is the prediction wrong or is it hard

00:01:11.200 to measure? So let's talk about all the things big news today. I think you heard Trump got impeached

00:01:19.180 for a second time. You know, I don't hate that at all. It has nothing to do with what Trump did or

00:01:28.960 didn't do. I kind of like the fact that he got impeached twice. It feels better than once. Am I the

00:01:37.340 only one who feels that? Because if you get impeached once, what does history make of it? I think they

00:01:44.740 say, well, probably did something to deserve getting impeached. I mean, that would be the first thing

00:01:49.740 you'd assume, right? Because impeachment is pretty serious. If you're going to impeach somebody,

00:01:55.520 you probably put some thought into it and, you know, made an argument, etc. So if you're impeached

00:02:02.120 once, that feels really, really bad on your record. But if you're impeached twice, and especially if the

00:02:11.260 last one is a week before you leave office, does that say something about Trump, or does that say

00:02:19.400 something about impeachment? See where I'm heading? I think he came out ahead. Now, I know I'm the guy

00:02:27.380 everybody mocks for spinning things pro-Trump, no matter what it is. No matter what it is.

00:02:34.000 But I'll just put that out there. If it were me, if I were in his position, I would much prefer being

00:02:41.540 impeached twice. Because the second one is so obviously bullshit, it makes the first one look 0.99

00:02:47.600 like bullshit. See where I'm going here? Two impeachments, obviously just political. One 1.00

00:02:53.900 impeachment, maybe he did something worth impeaching. It just makes the credibility of the

00:03:00.020 whole thing so much less. So and I also like the fact that Trump is a sort of a person of extremes

00:03:07.540 and a person of records, good records, bad records, but records. He's a guy who sets all kinds of

00:03:15.100 records. I kind of like the fact that he has the record for impeachments. Because it does tell the

00:03:22.360 story better than if he only had one. If he has the record, well, then he's truly a, let's say,

00:03:31.200 a disruptive character. If he just has one, maybe he just did something wrong. All right. Jack Dorsey

00:03:40.000 made a large, largest statement on Twitter about the banning of Trump from Twitter. And I like to look

00:03:48.380 at these CEO statements about controversial, controversial items to see how they did, just

00:03:56.840 to see how the communication went, whether it's persuasive. So separating from the topic, I'm just

00:04:04.240 going to talk about whether the communication was done well. Skipping to the final vote, it was done

00:04:11.360 well. It's an impossible situation, meaning that Twitter and the others, they really didn't have a

00:04:20.460 clean winning path. So anybody who thinks, oh, just take the easy path. Why didn't you do that?

00:04:27.420 There was an obvious solution, but you did the wrong thing. That's not really what's happening here.

00:04:33.320 But Twitter basically had two bad choices and had to pick one. They didn't have the choice of not

00:04:39.520 picking, because not picking a choice is a choice too. So here's how Jack does this. I'll read some

00:04:46.220 of the highlights from his thread. And I want you to see the technique, because it's really good.

00:04:53.240 All right. Now, if you can separate from a moment what you currently feel about Twitter and what you

00:04:59.100 think about Jack Dorsey, what you think about Trump, just separate from that for a moment. We'll just

00:05:04.060 talk about the persuasion part, just the skill. All right. Forget about the politics. We'll just talk

00:05:08.920 about the skill. The skill in this is extreme. It's really good. The first thing you need to do if you

00:05:15.640 are going to deal with something that's controversial is you have to acknowledge the complaining side.

00:05:24.620 It is not good technique to say something like, somebody is complaining, therefore we're going to do

00:05:32.080 X, Y, Z. It's not good enough just to note that there are problems or complaints. You need to describe

00:05:39.880 the complaint in your own words as clearly as the complainers describe it. Right? So if you can't put

00:05:49.520 it in your own words, what the other people are saying about you, it doesn't look like you understand

00:05:55.000 it or accept it or treat it as valid. So that's the first thing you look for. And Jack did that

00:06:01.000 perfectly, actually, in a few different ways. Let me give you some quotes.

00:06:06.620 He says, you know, he goes, I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban Trump. So the very

00:06:14.720 first sentence is, he's telling you he's not happy about it. That's pacing, because he knows the people

00:06:21.420 who are looking at this are not happy about it. So the first thing he says is, I'm not happy about it either.

00:06:26.420 That's good. Good technique. He's not happy about it either. His reasons may be different than yours,

00:06:33.960 but we'll get to that. And he says that they made the decision with the best information they had

00:06:39.600 based on threats to physical safety, blah, blah, blah. And then he asked the question, was this correct?

00:06:46.580 Correct. Now, have I told you the technique of saying what people are thinking the moment they're

00:06:55.140 thinking it? It's a really strong communication technique. It binds you to the listener. So at the

00:07:00.980 very moment that Jack says in his tweet thread, was this correct, is exactly the moment you were thinking

00:07:06.760 it. So he says, you know, we made this decision based on our best information. And the moment you read

00:07:13.140 that, you're saying, yeah, but was it correct? And then he says, was this correct? It's exactly the

00:07:20.700 right sentence in exactly the right place. If you don't sort of study this stuff, you don't see how

00:07:26.200 well this is constructed. It's actually engineered really, really well. So we'll get to some more.

00:07:33.460 He says, I believe this was the right decision for Twitter.

00:07:36.120 Twitter. The right decision for Twitter. That's very transparent. Because what he did not say,

00:07:44.440 he did not say, I think it was the right decision for the country. And later he goes on saying,

00:07:50.520 maybe it wasn't the right decision for the country. Maybe we need to do better.

00:07:55.800 But he says directly, I believe this was the right decision for Twitter. Now, was it? Are you a CEO?

00:08:03.120 Do you know if this was the right decision for Twitter? Would Twitter as a company pursuing profits

00:08:09.840 within a capitalist system, which is their right? Was this the right decision? And I feel like maybe,

00:08:19.080 maybe yes, maybe no. I'm not really sure. But I don't take that decision away from Twitter. I mean,

00:08:25.700 it's their decision, right? What I don't have a better idea. I might have played it differently.

00:08:31.040 But I don't know if that would have been better for Twitter. So I think it's very transparent. And I

00:08:37.040 appreciate that the first thing he says is, I think we made the right decision for Twitter,

00:08:42.560 which is his job. His job is to make good decisions for Twitter. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. I don't,

00:08:50.140 I don't feel I have insight into that. And he talks about the extraordinary and untenable circumstance,

00:08:56.720 meaning there wasn't any way to do everything right. That wasn't really an option. And that they

00:09:01.900 basically took the reduction of harm as their highest priority. Pretty good, right? Now, if you

00:09:11.760 were making the decision, you might have said, you know, free speech has some rough edges. You know,

00:09:20.240 maybe I'd prefer free speech, even if people get hurt. Maybe I prefer free speech, even if people get

00:09:27.780 killed. I still might prefer it. But that's something you can say as an individual, right? That's not

00:09:35.340 really something you can say if you're a leader, exactly, because you can't be in favor of anybody

00:09:41.280 getting killed under any circumstances. So they had an untenable situation. And, and he says they

00:09:49.760 have to reflect on their operations and the environment around it. He acknowledges that it's

00:09:55.920 has a negative impact on the public, and that it's a pretty big one. So he's not, he's not minimizing

00:10:04.860 whatsoever that this has an impact on free speech that could be a big, big, big, big deal. So he's

00:10:12.760 saying it directly. That's good technique, because that's what you're thinking, right? You're thinking

00:10:17.480 it's a big, big, big deal. And he acknowledges it. So that's good technique. And he says, and this,

00:10:26.880 I think this part I like the most, because just listen to this, how well this is constructed. He says,

00:10:32.460 the check-in accountability on this power, the power of Twitter to, you know, ban people or not

00:10:37.500 ban people, has always been the fact that a service like Twitter is one small part of a larger public

00:10:44.060 conversation happening across the internet. If folks do not agree with our rules and enforcement,

00:10:49.500 they can simply go to another internet service. Now you don't agree with that, right? Here's the

00:10:56.660 second part. The second part is he doesn't agree with it either. He's going to agree with you now.

00:11:02.460 Watch how good this is. He says, this concept, meaning the concept that you could just go

00:11:08.020 somewhere else if you don't like Twitter, was challenged this week when a number of foundational

00:11:12.500 internet tool providers, the social media platforms meaning, also decided not to host what they found

00:11:18.120 dangerous. I do not believe this was coordinated. I agree with him that, you know, there wasn't like a

00:11:25.700 meeting to talk about it. More likely companies came to their own conclusions and were emboldened by the

00:11:31.360 actions of others. I think that's actually the way I see it. I don't think they needed a meeting

00:11:36.380 because you don't need to have a meeting and collude on something that you all kind of are

00:11:41.520 going to just go the same direction anyway. So he's basically debunking the argument that

00:11:51.000 Twitter could ban you and then you could just go somewhere else because now we've seen in the real

00:11:57.180 world that if there's something big enough for Twitter to ban you, you're probably going to be

00:12:01.760 banned on the other platforms or at least they'll be emboldened to do that. So he's acknowledging that

00:12:07.760 that argument doesn't work and that was always their best argument. So when have you ever seen a CEO

00:12:13.000 respond to a major public uprising by saying that their own argument doesn't work?

00:12:21.340 I've never seen it before. I've seen people admit mistakes, but I've never seen anybody say our

00:12:28.180 own argument doesn't work. Here's why. It's kind of remarkable. And again, try to separate from what

00:12:36.580 you feel about Twitter, feel about Trump, feel about Jack Dorsey. Just look at the technique. It's kind

00:12:42.420 of extraordinary. And then he talks about what they're going to do about it, which is the next part of a

00:12:49.980 good CEO response. So they've got some kind of an effort that they're ramping up for some kind of a

00:12:57.780 service that they would be a client of their own, their own entity. Well, I don't know who owns the

00:13:05.700 entity. That might be, there's a question there. But the point is there's some plan that Twitter's

00:13:11.820 doing to address directly the free speech thing so that everybody can get their free speech. But

00:13:18.300 Twitter could also be protected and you as a user can see what you want to see. So they've got

00:13:23.120 something they're working on. I don't know how long that's going to take. I'd like, you know,

00:13:27.780 it'd be better to have some transparency on that. But as a response, I thought it was excellent.

00:13:34.760 It's a complete acceptance of the situation. That's about as good as you can do. Completely accepting

00:13:41.520 the complaints and telling you what they're going to do about it. Right? You can hate, you can hate

00:13:47.720 everybody. But this is good technique. All right. I tweeted yesterday that this was the low point

00:13:54.220 in the Biden presidency yesterday. And he hasn't even started the job. What do you think about an

00:14:01.740 incoming president, Biden, who won't stop this impeachment when he knows it's going to lead to

00:14:08.340 division? He knows it has no purpose. And he said so, basically. He basically said out loud,

00:14:14.760 he's not really so much in favor of the impeachment. He's just seems like he doesn't care.

00:14:20.840 But that's not too much leadership. I feel as if Biden could have stepped in and said, look,

00:14:26.880 it's time for healing. My entire proposition was healing and getting rid of the division. So we're not

00:14:33.320 going to pursue this because there's not enough of an upside. But there's definitely a downside.

00:14:38.440 There's just not much of an upside. So let's not do more division for that little bit of gain you

00:14:43.260 think you're going to get. That would have been presidential. And indeed, I would have been a

00:14:48.640 little bit impressed. Not going to lie. If Biden had done that, I would have reassessed his entire

00:14:57.860 starting presidency. I would have said to myself, huh, that actually is what's good for the country.

00:15:05.720 But he didn't do that. It's clearly what's best for the country is to not do the impeachment and try

00:15:12.060 to move on. Because all the impeachment does is it guarantees that you're going to get more and more

00:15:18.060 Trump past the inauguration. Because now the Senate is going to give him a platform.

00:15:22.720 So I would say it's the worst day of the Biden presidency. I don't know if he'll ever do worse

00:15:29.120 than this. I mean, it's pretty bad. And at the same time, well, we'll talk about that later.

00:15:37.360 So what is the price to the country of the Congress focusing on impeachment? Well, here's a little

00:15:45.660 report on Twitter that Secretary Gene Scalia, I guess he's a must be in the cabinet or something.

00:15:53.960 He asked for recently asked for $2 billion from Congress to fix the state unemployment system.

00:16:00.620 And they were not able to persuade Congress. So he asked for $2 billion recently to fix this system

00:16:06.680 didn't get it. Now, that's not too unusual, right? It's not terribly unusual that you'd ask for $2

00:16:12.900 billion. And somebody would say no, except that there was a strong case that spending $2 billion

00:16:19.580 would have saved $10 billion. Meaning that it was a new system that would get rid of the fraud,

00:16:25.380 and they can measure the fraud. And it's around $10 billion. So just think of this, your Congress,

00:16:31.700 if you're American, your Congress didn't have the capacity to say yes to spending $2 billion to save

00:16:40.980 $10 billion. Didn't have the capacity. Now, is that a hard decision? Do you want to spend $2 billion to

00:16:48.160 make $10? That wasn't even a hard decision. Neither was it political. Is there a Democrat position to

00:16:55.680 saving $10 billion? No. Is there a Republican who's opposed to it? No. Your Congress is so obsessed,

00:17:04.140 that's a persuasion word. I'll take obsessed away. They're focusing on impeachment at the expense of

00:17:13.460 doing even things that everybody agrees on. That is as incompetent as you could possibly get.

00:17:20.580 How could you become more incompetent than that? That's what they're giving you. 0.98

00:17:25.700 So it feels like the impeachment of Trump is really an impeachment of free speech. Wouldn't you say?

00:17:35.560 It feels like a continuation of impeachment of free speech. Yeah, Patrick Byrne, didn't he get

00:17:42.440 kicked off of Twitter recently too? So there does seem to be an impeachment going on, but it doesn't

00:17:47.440 feel like it's so much about Trump. It feels like it's a free speech thing. Because when you say that

00:17:54.240 if you say what you believe to be true is incitement, are you going to get impeached for it?

00:18:02.820 Because you think it's true? Meaning is election fraud claims? That really is impeaching free speech.

00:18:11.120 That's not so much about the person. It is working. Free speech is actually going away while we watch.

00:18:19.040 Funniest story is that whoever stole the lectern, Pelosi's lectern during the

00:18:23.960 capital assault. Twitter user John Henry humorously notes that they got it back. And he says,

00:18:31.720 breaking, Florida man's reign comes to an end. Gainesville, Florida. The power of the United

00:18:38.600 States federal government has finally been wrestled out of the hands of a Florida man,

00:18:43.800 marking an official end to his brutal reign. So all the people who think that there was something like

00:18:49.800 a coup or an insurrection was pretty much limited to taking a lectern as a, as a souvenir. Now,

00:18:59.420 a lot of people think that if you get the magic lectern, you actually run the country.

00:19:05.240 But no, it turns out that having the lectern did not give him the nuclear codes. Now, I don't know if

00:19:13.340 you knew that. It came as a big surprise to the Democrats. They're having full control over the

00:19:18.560 magic lectern. Not as important as you'd think. Turns out you can't, can't order the army to do

00:19:26.160 anything. You probably tried. So, um, all right. Uh, I was, I was mildly in favor of impeaching Trump

00:19:38.860 for inciting violence that led to the, you know, the, you know, the Capitol assault. Until I heard their

00:19:45.140 argument. After listening to the Democrats argue why he should be impeached, I thought to myself, uh, you

00:19:53.340 already had me. You already had me. And how hard is it to get me? I mean, for God's sakes, if you can get

00:20:03.420 me to say that Trump should be impeached, stop selling. You've already made the sale. Stop

00:20:12.700 selling. But did they stop selling? They did not. They kept selling. And in their selling,

00:20:21.160 they proved beyond any doubt that I have. I mean, you might have a different experience,

00:20:26.460 but they removed any doubt I had that it's just revenge. And it's just political.

00:20:33.960 I was completely on board when they were talking about real things. Should the president, this is

00:20:40.020 sort of the Geraldo view, which I share, which is, although the president's words had nothing in them

00:20:45.860 to incite violence directly, he should have known that just being involved the way he was

00:20:52.960 created a dangerous situation. And I, and my opinion was, well, that's true. I feel as if he should

00:21:00.220 have known that the way he played it created a little more danger than was necessary, even though

00:21:06.060 his words did not incite violence and directly said, be peaceful. Very directly, he said, be peaceful.

00:21:14.360 But still, should have known. I would have known. I think you would have known. I feel like he should

00:21:23.680 have known that there was a little danger involved in that. All right. So if that was the argument that

00:21:28.460 they had used, they already had to be sold. Now, I'd said before that if it were the beginning of his

00:21:34.340 term, that I might think differently, but I don't care if he gets impeached three days before,

00:21:38.280 before he's gone anyway. You know, it makes it funnier. Two impeachments is funnier than one.

00:21:44.060 Helps him more than it hurts him. I don't care. But as soon as I heard them sell it, it was so

00:21:49.060 obviously demented, evil, poorly conceived, revengey, emotional. Now I'm fully against it.

00:21:59.640 Now he got impeached anyway, so it doesn't matter what I think. But don't, this is a good example of

00:22:05.520 why you don't keep selling after you've made the sale. Because everything you say after that might

00:22:11.260 hurt you, like you did here, but it's not going to help you. You already made the sale.

00:22:18.420 Extreme incompetence by the Democrats just making their arguments in public.

00:22:22.300 I saw a CNN piece in which a person on the street was talking to Trump supporters. And the CNN person

00:22:34.500 asked this question, quote, what if you found out Trump was lying to you about the election being

00:22:40.480 stolen? And they asked that hypothetical question. What if you found out Trump was lying? Now, correct me

00:22:47.500 if I'm wrong. CNN and the other news sites that are anti-Trump, don't they report that Trump is lying

00:22:54.140 about his election fraud claims? They don't say he believes it, but he's wrong. They say he's lying.

00:23:03.720 Which was such a tell for propaganda, because my take on it is that all the evidence suggests he believes it.

00:23:11.000 All evidence suggests he believes that the election was stolen. Just like tens of millions of other

00:23:19.500 Americans also believe it. And when they say it, they're not lying. They believe it. They could be

00:23:26.920 wrong. They could be right. But they're not lying. It's what they actually believe. Now, when you change

00:23:33.640 somebody's honest belief, which might be right, might be wrong, into their lying, that's just propaganda.

00:23:42.140 Because you're not a mind reader, and there's no evidence of lying. There's plenty of evidence that he believes

00:23:48.000 it. As in all of it, 100% of everything you see suggests that the president absolutely believes it. Just like

00:23:57.680 tens of millions of other voters believe it as well. So CNN decides that they'll just try to get away with

00:24:03.200 calling it a lie, and you won't notice. There's no evidence that it's a lie. There is evidence that it

00:24:10.500 might not be true. That's not a lie. So here's the little thread that I did. People liked it a lot this

00:24:18.000 morning, so I'll just go over it. Here's how you can tell you're in a propaganda bubble, as opposed to

00:24:24.540 being in a world with real news. And here are six reasons. The fake news tells you Trump is lying

00:24:30.460 about the election stolen, as opposed to actually believing it the way tens of millions of people do.

00:24:35.640 That's an obvious tell. That's an example where the news is not even really trying to be anything

00:24:43.100 but propaganda. Because if they were trying, they wouldn't be calling it a lie. They'd say it's just

00:24:49.780 he's saying it, and it's not true, in their opinion, if that's what they believe to be true.

00:24:54.540 Number two, the fake news tells you all of the election fraud claims have been rejected by the

00:25:02.320 courts. But where's the master list? Have you seen it? Have you seen the list of all the election

00:25:08.880 fraud complaints, and then a list of all the courts that have ruled, so you can see that all the

00:25:14.720 complaints have been ruled on and rejected? Have you seen it? Well, if you haven't seen it,

00:25:21.200 and you watch the news as much as I do, I haven't seen it, wouldn't you assume it doesn't exist?

00:25:28.480 Right? Now, soon after I put out this tweet, I was contacted by, let's say, a prominent member of

00:25:38.000 our government to say that that list does exist, and he could provide it to me. Now, I haven't looked at it

00:25:47.380 yet, but I do know that whatever that list includes, it does not include we looked at the source code of

00:25:55.640 the digital systems involved in voting, because I know that didn't happen. And if you didn't look at

00:26:01.480 the source code, do you really know what did or did not happen in the election? Now, not looking at the

00:26:10.140 source code, it doesn't tell you there was any problem. It just tells you you don't know. So

00:26:16.120 apparently there is some kind of a large list. I'll look at it, and I'll let you know how many of the

00:26:21.400 claims it looks like it did address. But we know it didn't address at least, I don't know, three quarters

00:26:29.160 of the votes, which probably were, went through some, well, 100% of the votes went through some

00:26:34.900 kind of digital system at one point. So that's an open question I have. All right, so here's some

00:26:43.960 more of the six points that, oh, here it is. So then I also said you're in a propaganda bubble.

00:26:53.640 If knowing you are inciting domestic violence is a standard for impeachment, and that's what's

00:27:03.260 happening, what happened with Trump, is that they said, well, he knew that what he was saying would

00:27:07.640 incite violence, therefore, he's guilty of it. But that standard needs to apply to everybody or else

00:27:17.040 it's just propaganda. If you applied the same standard to Harris and Biden, pushing the fine

00:27:23.600 people hoax and supporting the BLM rioters, Harris actually helped start a fund, I think,

00:27:31.100 to bail out some of the bad actors in Antifa and Black Lives Matter. So if inciting violence is a

00:27:39.180 standard that we accept for impeachment, you have to impeach everybody who did it. Otherwise, it's just

00:27:44.900 propaganda. So given that there's no interest whatsoever on the Democrats of policing it within

00:27:52.240 their own ranks, you can't call that news. That's just propaganda. If there's no acknowledgement

00:28:00.440 that the fine people hoax is still the most damaging fake news in the history of America,

00:28:07.340 that's not any attempt to be a news organization. That's propaganda. Because the fine people hoax is the

00:28:15.080 most well documented, easy to debunk hoax. And CNN still reports it like it's real. That's how you

00:28:22.040 know you're in a propaganda bubble. In 2016, when Trump won, the fake news said definitely Russia

00:28:29.980 interfered. And that interference definitely made the difference. And yet, when Biden wins,

00:28:36.560 suddenly Russia doesn't have any role? That whatever they did didn't make any difference?

00:28:44.060 So that's how you know you're in a propaganda bubble. Because either Russia is trying to change

00:28:48.560 things or they're not. Either it's working or it isn't. But it's going to be the same-ish. Or at

00:28:54.580 least you would have to address why you thought it was different. Nothing. It's just that Russia was a 0.94

00:29:00.240 problem. Now they're not. Blah, blah, blah. Don't look over here. Propaganda bubble.

00:29:09.080 And of course, the big one is when the fake news labels the Capitol assault, I'll call it an assault,

00:29:15.020 a coup, or when they called it an insurrection. How did they think these protesters were planning to

00:29:22.420 conquer and hold power from a superpower by occupying a few empty rooms and stealing a

00:29:31.500 lectern? Did they think that those plastic ties would be enough to secure the entire military of

00:29:40.940 the United States? Or did they think the military was going to join them? Exactly how was this supposed

00:29:48.060 to be a coup? Because I don't think I've ever seen a coup that didn't bring weapons. Too many people

00:29:56.020 did have weapons, but it's obvious they were not planning to use them offensively. They used some

00:30:01.960 clubs and stuff, and they did kill people. And they need to go to jail for that. Anybody who was

00:30:06.760 involved in that, that has to be treated with extreme prejudice. But it didn't look like they were

00:30:13.900 preparing to take over a country. I didn't see that. Because if they did, they're really bad at

00:30:20.580 planning, and I don't think that's the case. There were a lot of military people there, ex-military,

00:30:25.060 et cetera. If they wanted to take over the country, if they wanted to do a coup, if they wanted it to be

00:30:32.500 an insurrection, it would have looked a lot different. A lot different. Somebody is prompting me in the

00:30:41.420 comments that the trouble there was planned long before Trump had made comments. I don't totally

00:30:49.440 buy that that matters to the argument. I think it's true. I just don't know that it matters to

00:30:55.000 the argument. Because whether or not they had planned something, Trump was still saying things.

00:31:01.700 And the things he was saying, a reasonable person could have said, eh, you could have told them to

00:31:06.280 stay home. So there's room for judgment on that. All right, here's the important part. I'm going to

00:31:15.180 tell you the one and only way that Republicans can get back something like a country. In other words,

00:31:22.480 how can they get out of the wokeness cycle? How do they get out of the end of free speech?

00:31:28.720 What would be a strategy that the Republicans can use? The strategy they're trying to use is the

00:31:34.500 hypocrisy argument. You just saw me use it right now. The hypocrisy argument, Lindsey Graham also has

00:31:42.460 used it. He says, if you want to end the violence, end impeachment. Now, Lindsey Graham, I would say a

00:31:50.640 credible person, even if you don't agree with him. He's a credible person who understands the world.

00:31:55.880 He has just stated to Democrats that pursuing impeachment will incite violence. They did it anyway.

00:32:04.500 Now, does the hypocrisy claim move the needle? Does it solve anything? No. Claiming hypocrisy

00:32:12.760 and blaming somebody of being a hypocrite has no persuasive power. It has no political weight. 0.97

00:32:21.520 Nobody in the history of the world has ever won an argument or changed anything because of claiming,

00:32:26.940 even accurately claiming, hypocrisy on the other side. It's a complete empty strategy. It can't work.

00:32:34.880 It's worth noting. So you shouldn't ignore it. But don't think it's some kind of a strategy.

00:32:40.760 It's not going to change anything. If you want to change something, I believe we're down to one

00:32:47.160 choice. You know, and here I'm ruling out anything like a coup. I'm ruling out any kind of violence. I'm

00:32:53.920 ruling out all the crazy stuff. If you want to live in a real world with real rules,

00:32:58.840 and you don't want one side to be beating the other side like a seal,

00:33:07.100 there's only one strategy that could work. And I've mentioned this before in the context of my

00:33:14.360 first job as a bank teller. And the strategy is aggressive compliance with the rules. And here's how

00:33:22.740 it worked when I was a bank teller. We had a whole bunch of rules about what we could or could not do

00:33:26.620 in terms of dealing with the customers. So, you know, if they didn't have two IDs, you couldn't

00:33:31.060 cash the check. If they didn't bank here, you couldn't do this. If the amount was over a number,

00:33:35.720 you had to get signatures. So we had all these restrictive rules of what you could or could not do.

00:33:40.320 But they were so restrictive that if you actually followed them all, you couldn't do anything.

00:33:45.300 You wouldn't be able to do your job at all. Just every single customer, you'd have to call a

00:33:51.360 supervisor. So you quickly learn to bend the rules when, let's say, it's a customer that you've waited

00:33:58.280 on 15 times, and you've seen their two IDs before. Well, you don't need to ask for the second ID if

00:34:05.860 you've checked the same person and you know them personally, because they come to your window all the

00:34:10.480 time. It's like, okay, I'll just check one ID. I literally know your last name as soon as you

00:34:15.480 walked up here. Now, would that be a security problem? Obviously not. Obviously, bending that

00:34:22.340 little rule was just good for the customer, good for the bank, good for me. But what happened when I

00:34:30.960 got in trouble for doing some other bent rule? Well, as soon as I got in trouble, I and the other

00:34:37.840 tellers said, you know, it's a good idea. We should follow all these rules. And so I would call a

00:34:43.620 supervisor for every transaction, because that was the rule. I wasn't making up stuff. The rule was, oh,

00:34:50.520 I can't do this. I better call it a supervisor. At the same time, all the other tellers in the line

00:34:57.500 were also calling the supervisor for the same reason. There was only one supervisor. What did the

00:35:03.940 supervisor fairly quickly learn to do? Change the rules? Because we proved that following the rules

00:35:12.340 couldn't possibly work. All we did is follow the rules aggressively. We aggressively complied,

00:35:21.000 and it broke the whole system and immediately forced a change. All right. Now, the Democrats have said

00:35:29.400 wokeness is important, fairness is important, and freedom of speech should be limited if we can make

00:35:36.520 an argument that it incites violence. Those are their rules. They're using them like a club to beat the

00:35:43.900 living shit out of Republicans. What are Republicans doing in response? Ow! Ow! You're a hypocrite! Ow! Ow! Stop 0.99

00:35:54.100 hitting me! You're a hypocrite! Ow! Why isn't this working? I keep saying you're a hypocrite, but you keep 1.00

00:36:00.720 hitting me! Ow! Ow! That's it. That's the whole fucking strategy, is to get hit with a club and say, 1.00

00:36:09.460 stop hitting me with a club. The whole fucking strategy is to get hit with a club. That's it. 1.00

00:36:16.340 Here's a better strategy. Adopt their techniques more aggressively than they use their own techniques.

00:36:26.660 Use their own arguments and never break character. For example, they should, Republicans should,

00:36:34.820 close the entire government down. Don't let any work get done until they handle the important things.

00:36:41.220 Wokeness, fairness, and making sure that everyone who incited violence is impeached. That's big work.

00:36:50.280 And they shouldn't do anything else until they get that work handled. So they should immediately do

00:36:55.500 articles of impeachment for every Democrat who supported Black Lives Matter. Harrison Biden, of

00:37:01.400 course. Pelosi, of course. And this would be a much bigger task than you could actually handle

00:37:07.700 and still do the business of government. So you should stop doing the business of government.

00:37:14.320 Just let it go. Don't let any checks go out. Don't let any laws get passed. Don't do anything else

00:37:22.340 except try to get some fairness in the Democrats. For example, does it seem fair to you that Pelosi,

00:37:29.440 a white woman, is the speaker? I don't think so. I think that there should be a lot of pressure 0.63

00:37:36.820 on the Democrats to get a person of color to replace Nancy Pelosi. Why? Because I don't want 1.00

00:37:44.100 to live in any racist country where a racist white person can be in charge of the Democratic Party, 0.95

00:37:50.420 which isn't even catering to white people. How is that right? Right? So instead of arguing your own

00:37:59.560 side, let's say you're Republican, and saying, hey, how about everybody has free speech? And hey,

00:38:05.380 Adam, how about we don't pick ourselves to death over this wokeness stuff? Doesn't work. You need to

00:38:12.120 embrace it harder than the other side until it shuts down the whole government. Now, when you say,

00:38:19.600 Scott, isn't that a little dangerous to shut down the whole government? It's not as dangerous as the

00:38:23.900 alternative, which is to let one side dominate the other, because one side has a club, you know,

00:38:31.240 this wokeness and the impeachments and the you're not fair and you're all racist. And the other side

00:38:36.340 doesn't have a weapon. They're not even looking for one. They don't have anything. So if you want

00:38:42.700 that to persist, keep doing what you're doing. If you want it to end, you've got to impeach every one

00:38:49.880 of the Democrats who pushed the fine people hoax. That would be a minimum. Anybody who said that in

00:38:58.860 public, the fine people hoax, that was inciting violence. They've got to be impeached. And you

00:39:04.260 should close down, if you're Republican, you should close down the whole government. Just say, I'm not

00:39:08.740 even going to work on other stuff. If you think this is the important thing, if you think that stopping

00:39:14.760 the incitement of violence is your top priority, it's my top priority too. And we're not going to go,

00:39:21.460 we're not going to do a fucking thing until we get this handled. And how about the fairness? Let's 0.98

00:39:27.260 take a look at all those Republican committees and appointments. Does that look like America?

00:39:34.660 Well, probably pretty well compared to Republicans, but I don't think it's nearly good enough.

00:39:39.300 Do they have enough LGBTQ representation? I think we ought to look into that, because they ought to

00:39:46.200 have a lot more. I think they ought to have a lot more black people in their cabinet. I think they need

00:39:51.620 a lot more Islamic folks in the cabinet. And I don't think we should allow this. Not a bit. We need more 1.00

00:40:03.520 fairness. We should call them racist for everything. In fact, we shouldn't even talk about it any other

00:40:10.200 way. Every single thing they do should be called racist. Because it is. Not because it isn't. Because

00:40:17.580 it is. What I'm suggesting is no lying. No exaggeration. Just take their own standard and use it aggressively

00:40:26.340 until it closes the government, because it would. And then see if they get flexible. If that doesn't

00:40:33.140 make them flexible, that's the end of the country. And that would be okay with me.

00:40:42.880 Because living under the current situation is untenable. Meaning it can't last. It will either

00:40:49.700 push people to violence. No, actually, that's all it will do. It will just push people to violence.

00:40:55.600 So violence is pretty much guaranteed in the current system. So if you tell me, you know, that shutting

00:41:05.080 down the government leads to bad outcomes, I say, yeah, not as bad as the other way. It's the only way

00:41:11.740 that you have actually, you know, some chance that you might be able to fix things.

00:41:16.620 So if you don't see aggressive movement toward impeaching every Democrat who pushed the fine

00:41:25.440 people hoax, I would say Republicans should not be supported anymore. I'm not Republican,

00:41:31.160 by the way, just for full disclosure. I liked a lot of the things that I thought Trump could do,

00:41:38.160 because I thought he could do some things that other regular politicians couldn't do.

00:41:42.180 And sure enough, he did. The Middle East would be the best example of that. So I feel that

00:41:50.800 Republicans have just, they've just basically surrendered. Because if all they've got is argument,

00:41:59.280 and all they've got is, hey, stop hitting us with that club, they don't have anything. And I don't see

00:42:05.660 any reason you should back them whatsoever. If they're not willing to fight to get rid of these

00:42:11.720 weapons on the other side, the wokeness, and the racism stuff, and the fake news, and the fake

00:42:18.180 impeachments, and the fake incitement of violence, and the getting rid of free speech, and the banning

00:42:22.780 you on social media, if they're not fighting against that stuff, then everything's lost anyway.

00:42:29.640 So it doesn't matter what else you do. So let's see if some Republicans can get a spine,

00:42:35.160 and shut down the government. Because I think we're at that point where they just need to do that.

00:42:40.760 Just shut it all down. Because this impeachment is so aggressively offensive to the public.

00:42:49.080 Obviously, some people like it. But it's aggressively offensive in the sense that they're not even trying

00:42:53.900 to do the job of the people. Because this wasn't it. This was the job of the politicians.

00:42:59.020 All right? They just wasted all of our time doing something that had no benefit,

00:43:04.180 except to what? Their own feelings? That's it.

00:43:13.600 Scott, you said they have to fight. Where's the rest of your comment?

00:43:19.160 Yeah, and you should also approach the NBA. Now, I think it would be a mistake

00:43:25.380 to go at it like, oh, white people are being discriminated against. You still need to say that 0.98

00:43:31.820 if you think it's true. But that's not a strategy. That's more the hypocrite thing.

00:43:36.820 It would be better to make them live up to their own rules. And Biden has to go because he's an old 0.99

00:43:42.200 white guy. I mean, those are their rules. It's not our rules. 0.90

00:43:45.480 All right. Just looking at your comments.

00:43:55.920 COVID-19 vaccinations or MIA. I read something disturbing that I guess Israel has vaccinated 1.00

00:44:03.400 20% of their population. I'm guessing that that 20% is in the people who have the most risk.

00:44:11.100 But they're not yet seeing any reduction in the coronavirus, you know, outcomes. So if you could

00:44:18.580 get, if you vaccinated 20% of your population, and it happens to be the 20% that matter the most,

00:44:25.220 the ones that need the most protecting, I always think that within the week, the statistics should

00:44:33.160 start to reflect that, right? If we don't see that reflected really soon, I'm going to have some

00:44:38.900 questions. I don't quite understand that. All right.

00:44:50.260 Adults are so woke. Just looking at your comments for a moment.

00:44:54.380 All right. That's all we got now. Yeah, we might have to wait a few weeks to know if the

00:44:58.360 vaccinations are already making a difference. There's some reporting lag as well.

00:45:04.560 All right. That's all I got. And I'll talk to you tomorrow.

00:45:08.900 See you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 14, 2021

Episode 1252 Scott Adams： I Teach You How to Fix Wokeness and Free Speech Problems With Aggressive Compliance

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