Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 19, 2021


Episode 1257 Scott Adams： I Tell You How the Giant Pile of Pocket Lint Called Joe Biden is Doing So Far


Episode Stats

Length

47 minutes

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155.68828

Word Count

7,368

Sentence Count

501

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

8


Summary

Scott Adams explains why some people are still not on board with the Pandemic, and why he thinks it's a fake pandemic. Plus, why Alex Berenson thinks the numbers are fudged, and what would the people who are wrong say when they're wrong.


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00:00:50.660 Oh, well, so I've been very curious since the beginning of the pandemic about how the people who turned out to be wrong would manage their public reputations.
00:01:12.260 And what I mean by wrong is that in the beginning, some people were saying it was the end of the world.
00:01:16.700 Or, you know, it was a big, not the end of the world, but it would be a major, major pandemic.
00:01:22.780 And other people said, bah, it's just basically a cold. Forget it.
00:01:28.380 Now, one of those two sides was going to be right in the end.
00:01:32.740 Because, you know, probably there's nothing in the middle ground there that people would say, well, it was or it wasn't.
00:01:38.780 I feel like it's either going to be the pandemic or it was no big deal.
00:01:43.140 Now, wouldn't you say that we can say at this point, are you not on board with the fact that it's a big deal?
00:01:50.840 400,000 people dead in this country, millions dying around the world.
00:01:55.280 I feel as though the people who said it wasn't a big deal have been disproved.
00:02:00.740 A lot of you still are not on board.
00:02:06.360 You know, it's actually amazing to see this.
00:02:09.700 Because I spend time in the conservative bubble as well as the liberal bubble.
00:02:15.940 I try to spend time in both bubbles.
00:02:18.760 I'm amazed that so many of my audience who is watching right now and watching the comments go by,
00:02:28.840 there's a strong bias toward thinking that the pandemic is fake.
00:02:35.020 Let me tell you something with complete confidence.
00:02:39.640 The pandemic, it's real.
00:02:43.260 It's real.
00:02:43.980 Something like half of the people getting the virus are having ongoing complications.
00:02:49.680 Does that sound like no big deal to you?
00:02:52.340 Half of them?
00:02:54.900 I don't know if that number is right.
00:02:57.520 But somebody says the numbers aren't real.
00:03:00.500 So it's just, it's basically the election thing just applied to the pandemic.
00:03:06.640 Let me finish my point.
00:03:08.080 Let's say hypothetically, since most of you do not accept what I consider obvious at this point,
00:03:16.340 that the pandemic's a real pandemic.
00:03:19.000 I consider that beyond obvious at this point.
00:03:22.780 Now, if you're still on the side, this says it's a fake pandemic.
00:03:26.800 The numbers are fudged.
00:03:28.140 There's no real problem out there.
00:03:30.440 I feel as though your day will come when you might move over to my side.
00:03:35.980 If you're not there yet, I'll give you some time.
00:03:39.980 We should have probably half a million deaths pretty soon.
00:03:43.320 That might get your attention.
00:03:45.080 By June, maybe a million.
00:03:46.940 I don't know.
00:03:47.600 How big is the number going to get?
00:03:49.720 But at some point, you'll agree with me.
00:03:53.200 And here's my point.
00:03:54.740 What would the people who are wrong, and I guess we don't know that yet, according to you,
00:04:00.260 what would the people who are wrong say when they're wrong?
00:04:02.860 I was watching Alex Berenson, who's probably famous as the most skeptical of the tight lockdown restrictions.
00:04:11.920 And I was listening to him on Fox News yesterday, and he did a little verbal sleight of hand that I'd like you to look for.
00:04:19.740 Now, I don't personally know if the science of masks is perfectly accurate or not.
00:04:28.160 I don't know.
00:04:29.140 I don't personally know what kind of lockdowns and restrictions work and which ones don't.
00:04:36.220 But there are people who have strong opinions on it.
00:04:38.680 I don't feel that the information is quite out there to have a strong opinion.
00:04:42.200 But so Alex Berenson, I believe he went from saying that masks don't work.
00:04:50.240 Can somebody fact check me on this?
00:04:52.420 I feel he had been saying masks don't work to change the pandemic curve.
00:04:58.440 But his latest statement I heard was that masks don't protect the wearer.
00:05:03.020 But that's actually what the scientists say.
00:05:07.560 So has he, give me a fact check on this, has he shifted back while trying to act like he hasn't
00:05:13.880 to completely agree with the science from being a skeptic?
00:05:18.360 Because science always said the mask isn't going to help the wearer so much,
00:05:23.080 but it might reduce the risk to other people.
00:05:26.260 And I feel that that's what Alex is saying now, that it doesn't help the wearer.
00:05:31.680 But I feel like he's saying it like you're supposed to hear it like it doesn't help anybody.
00:05:37.280 Does it feel to you that he's shifted?
00:05:39.360 So I'll put that as a question, not an allegation.
00:05:43.480 Just the question whether he's shifted and whether you're detecting that or not.
00:05:51.100 Here's a comment people made when I was asking the question,
00:05:53.980 is there any physical possible way to massively, let's say widespread,
00:06:00.440 cheat on a major election and get away with it?
00:06:04.080 And have it not detected by either an audit or a recount.
00:06:08.560 And some people weighed in and said, well, there is one way,
00:06:12.860 which is you throw away the ballots before they ever reach the counting station.
00:06:18.280 So let's say, and I'm not saying this happened, by the way,
00:06:21.120 so I'm not alleging this happened.
00:06:22.700 I'm just pointing out that there is a way to do widespread fraud
00:06:27.140 without it being detectable by a recount or by an audit.
00:06:32.400 And that would be, and again, no allegation that this happened.
00:06:36.620 I have no information that what I'm going to say next happened.
00:06:40.840 I don't even suspect it.
00:06:42.920 It's just, if you want to know the complete story,
00:06:45.440 if the folks in the post office decided to just throw away the ballots for certain zip codes
00:06:53.760 that they knew were going to be Trump voters, that's it.
00:06:59.000 That's all it would take.
00:07:00.180 It would just take the postal employees to take all the ballots and just throw them away.
00:07:05.640 Now, when you did the recount, there would be nothing to count
00:07:08.380 because those ballots never reached the counting center.
00:07:10.880 How would the person whose vote was thrown away know if they voted?
00:07:16.680 Probably wouldn't.
00:07:17.840 And if they checked, they might find out, oh, I guess mine got lost in the mail.
00:07:22.700 Right?
00:07:22.960 So, if you thought that there was no way for it to happen, that is a way.
00:07:31.080 But let me add that it would require lots and lots of people being in on it,
00:07:35.480 and therefore the odds of being caught just because you'd have a whistleblower is really high.
00:07:40.880 So, I don't think it could be that widespread.
00:07:44.980 Maybe it didn't need to be if it was concentrated in the swing cities or swing zip codes.
00:07:49.920 But if it was even that widespread, I think we'd get a whistleblower.
00:07:56.060 There would be a little information on that.
00:07:57.820 So, I don't think it happened.
00:07:59.520 But I just put that out there for completeness.
00:08:03.500 I saw some tweets, people talking about,
00:08:07.060 there's a Stanford study that says there's no clear significant benefit of the more restrictive shutdowns.
00:08:14.820 Now, what does a more restrictive shutdown mean?
00:08:17.960 I mean, I guess you could use your imagination there.
00:08:21.860 But do you think that this is a reasonable study without even looking at it?
00:08:27.580 Without looking at the study, without knowing who did it,
00:08:30.800 without knowing that it's peer-reviewed, because it is peer-reviewed.
00:08:35.160 Does this sound real, like a useful study to you?
00:08:38.900 And if not, what's wrong with it?
00:08:41.340 Just on the surface.
00:08:43.020 Anything wrong with it?
00:08:43.860 Well, let me tell you what's wrong with it.
00:08:46.520 I imagine that they looked at places that had restrictive rules and places with a little less restrictive,
00:08:53.540 although everything is restricting at some point, right?
00:08:56.720 I think everybody is doing a little something.
00:08:59.420 And so, they probably looked at them and said,
00:09:01.200 hey, there's not much difference.
00:09:03.100 The super-restrictive people had bad infections.
00:09:06.320 The less restrictive people had bad infections or at least similar.
00:09:11.880 You're done, right?
00:09:13.640 If the people who did the restrictive stuff did not get better outcomes than the people who did restrictive stuff,
00:09:21.980 that's all you need to know, isn't it?
00:09:25.020 Peer-reviewed, we're good now, right?
00:09:27.440 If you think that, you need to learn a little bit more about the world and how to compare stuff.
00:09:35.520 Here's what's wrong with it, in my view, just on the surface, without even looking into it at all.
00:09:40.920 Which places had the most restrictive lockdowns?
00:09:45.520 Was it the places that didn't have many infections?
00:09:49.340 No.
00:09:49.760 Now, the places with the most infections and the most reason to think that there would be more,
00:09:55.840 let's say they have lots of travel, it's a population center, they know it's a problem area.
00:10:01.840 Do you think that the problem areas would do more restrictive lockdowns than the non-problem areas?
00:10:08.740 I think so.
00:10:09.920 That would be the whole point, right?
00:10:11.880 You do more restrictive lockdowns where you think there's going to be more problem.
00:10:15.280 Now, let's say that the restrictive lockdowns and the non-restrictive lockdowns end up generating
00:10:21.060 something similar in terms of outcomes.
00:10:24.520 What have you learned?
00:10:26.520 Nothing.
00:10:27.980 Nothing.
00:10:28.760 Because you don't know what would have happened in the bad infection area if they had not done the lockdown.
00:10:35.480 There's nothing to compare it to.
00:10:37.360 If you're comparing it to a different situation, a different place with a different infection rate,
00:10:44.020 that's the wrong comparison.
00:10:46.460 Now, did this study do that?
00:10:48.180 Or did this study do a controlled study where they did the same city with restrictions in the same virus?
00:10:55.380 And then, no, of course they didn't.
00:10:56.840 There's no way to test that.
00:10:58.400 You couldn't do any kind of a controlled study.
00:11:00.980 The only thing you know is what happened.
00:11:03.900 That's it.
00:11:05.520 All you know is what happened.
00:11:07.100 You actually don't know why.
00:11:08.840 There are too many variables.
00:11:10.340 Is it the sun?
00:11:11.340 Is it the pattern of people?
00:11:12.860 Is it the demographic?
00:11:14.620 The age?
00:11:15.540 Is there something about the culture that they're more likely to get together?
00:11:21.240 There are a lot of young people in it that are violating the rules.
00:11:27.320 There's so many variables here.
00:11:29.020 There isn't the slightest chance that you could isolate the difference for the lockdowns.
00:11:36.100 But I would say that common sense says that staying away from each other has got to be better than not,
00:11:41.800 which is not to say that we should keep the restaurants closed.
00:11:45.860 Right?
00:11:46.420 I mean, I feel as though the restaurant situation, we could probably manage that.
00:11:52.120 And maybe the gyms and stuff.
00:11:53.720 So we could definitely do a better job than the super, super restrictive shutdowns.
00:11:58.940 And I think we'd be willing to pay a little extra infection for that, too.
00:12:04.140 Probably.
00:12:04.760 It'd be worth it.
00:12:06.520 All right.
00:12:07.820 So in a month, Trump is going to be off golfing, we think.
00:12:11.780 And we will think less about Trump in the future, but not yet.
00:12:17.060 Apparently, Trump is still the only headline that matters with one day left.
00:12:21.120 But I was listening to Biden's daughter talking about Biden's main quality for leadership,
00:12:28.740 and she said that empathy is what makes him stand out.
00:12:32.700 He has tremendous empathy.
00:12:34.780 You've heard that a lot, right?
00:12:36.080 It's probably the main thing that people say about Biden.
00:12:41.040 You know, they say he's not Trump.
00:12:42.500 I guess that's the number one thing.
00:12:44.340 But number two, he has all this empathy.
00:12:47.200 To which I say, do you know who else has that leadership quality?
00:12:54.020 Every sentient being.
00:12:56.600 Turns out that even sociopaths do show empathy.
00:13:01.260 They just don't act on it.
00:13:03.100 They have empathy.
00:13:04.460 They feel it.
00:13:05.220 They just don't act on it.
00:13:06.720 That's what makes a sociopath.
00:13:08.720 But even, that was recent news, by the way, that even sociopaths have empathy.
00:13:12.360 So, Biden's main leadership quality is something that every human being, except for psychopaths, plus every dog, possesses.
00:13:23.860 And you're actually being sold that these are his leadership qualities.
00:13:29.000 Something that literally your dog possesses.
00:13:32.100 Empathy.
00:13:32.380 Now, I've often said that I would be a terrible leader because I have too much empathy.
00:13:41.000 Have you ever seen a good leader?
00:13:43.480 Do they have lots of empathy?
00:13:46.180 Nope.
00:13:47.620 In fact, the thing that makes a good leader is a lack of empathy.
00:13:51.620 Now, that's my personal view.
00:13:53.740 And it's the reason that I can't be a good leader.
00:13:56.240 Because sometimes you just have to crush somebody to make a better world, right?
00:14:01.060 Somebody's got to take it on the chin for somebody else or maybe the larger good or something.
00:14:06.120 But you're always picking winners and losers.
00:14:09.140 I'm not good at that because I can't pick the loser.
00:14:12.380 I don't want to be the one that says, uh-huh, you're going to have a bad time so that other people who are not you can have a better time.
00:14:20.740 I just can't do that.
00:14:22.240 So, I have too much empathy.
00:14:23.480 The last person who talks to me is going to influence me too much.
00:14:25.980 So, the fake news has sold you that having lots of empathy is good when I think it is clearly a negative.
00:14:35.360 What is empathy going to get you when you're, say, managing immigration?
00:14:41.100 Empathy would get you to open the border completely because you don't want to leave anybody behind who's got a bad life and they want to get a better one.
00:14:50.220 Empathy would say just open the border.
00:14:51.960 What would be the obvious outcome of that?
00:14:55.720 The end of the United States.
00:14:58.000 Now, I don't think Biden is going to go that far.
00:15:00.840 I think he'll be forced to put some kind of controls on it when the caravans start coming over.
00:15:05.240 But the point is that the assumption is wrong that empathy is a good thing.
00:15:11.460 Even my dog has it.
00:15:13.640 And it's probably worse.
00:15:14.920 It's probably more bad than good.
00:15:16.900 Indeed, one of the things I liked about Trump is that he seemed to have empathy, but he could get past it.
00:15:24.340 He could get past it.
00:15:26.020 That's sort of what you need.
00:15:27.900 I would be bad at getting past it, so I wouldn't be a good leader.
00:15:31.040 The vaccine rollout seems to be a mess.
00:15:35.440 I don't know how much of that we should blame Trump for.
00:15:39.000 I feel like probably a lot, if we're being honest.
00:15:43.340 He's still in charge.
00:15:45.440 I doubt he's got his eye on the ball at the moment during the most important part of the country.
00:15:50.680 I think if you want to criticize the Trump administration for the vaccine rollout,
00:15:54.840 even though the states are the ones who are not getting it right, they probably needed funding, needed more support.
00:16:01.200 I think this is an example where Biden will do a better job.
00:16:06.300 Can I be objective?
00:16:10.280 And say, if I had to guess, Biden will probably do a little bit better job on vaccine rollout.
00:16:17.280 But don't know yet.
00:16:19.120 I mean, we'll have to wait and see.
00:16:20.240 And there'll be nothing to compare it to, because we don't see what Trump would have done
00:16:24.600 if he'd had a chance to correct whatever's wrong.
00:16:29.000 Everybody who's thinking about going to Washington, D.C. for the inauguration, this is a bad idea.
00:16:34.360 Whatever your strategy is, if you're on the right, just stay away from the inauguration.
00:16:40.060 Stay away from Washington, D.C.
00:16:42.080 There's no strategy in which that makes sense.
00:16:45.440 There's not going to be a revolution.
00:16:47.820 Nothing's going to change.
00:16:49.680 You can only make things bad for everybody, whoever supported Trump.
00:16:54.920 So stay away from the inauguration.
00:17:02.240 So here's the pattern that we've been seeing through the Trump administration.
00:17:07.400 Trump will do some policy that has obvious national security implications,
00:17:12.140 such as closing travel from countries where they can't verify easily who you are.
00:17:19.300 And before that, the so-called Muslim ban, before they refined their rule,
00:17:25.140 it was a rule that was bad for those people in those countries,
00:17:29.120 but good for the United States.
00:17:30.920 Basically, it was discriminatory, because we weren't going to check people from those countries.
00:17:35.580 We were just going to say, that's a problem country, so we won't let you in.
00:17:39.260 That was the initial stance.
00:17:42.280 Now, America first.
00:17:45.240 He's the president, and he does get to say, I'm going to disadvantage another country to advantage us.
00:17:52.100 That was why he was hired.
00:17:54.900 But so, and you can think of several other examples, immigration, et cetera,
00:17:59.220 where what he's doing is clearly for national security,
00:18:02.640 but CNN and their ilk reported as white supremacism.
00:18:06.500 So, if you're only watching CNN, and you see that Trump is making these national security moves,
00:18:14.200 but CNN reports it as obvious white supremacism,
00:18:17.680 what are you going to believe if that's the only news you watch?
00:18:21.260 So, the news is, I think it's wrong to call it the news,
00:18:25.380 when it's a little bit of news and a lot of narrative.
00:18:28.520 I feel like we should stop using the word news,
00:18:31.580 and maybe even stop using the word fake news,
00:18:35.180 because it's really just narrative.
00:18:36.940 They're trying to interpret the news for you.
00:18:40.380 They're not trying to tell you what it is.
00:18:43.200 So then, Trump does a national security policy.
00:18:46.340 CNN and their cousins all do, turn that into white supremacism.
00:18:53.640 Their public accepts it, because it's on this thing called the news.
00:18:57.120 And then, you conflate the white supremacists with Q supporters,
00:19:02.600 which are a completely different thing.
00:19:04.780 But, of course, there's overlap with every group and every other group in this country.
00:19:08.860 So then, you turn it into Q supporters,
00:19:11.980 and Republicans are all part of this white supremacist thing,
00:19:15.440 either directly or by a tacit support.
00:19:18.840 And then, here's the best part.
00:19:21.380 Then, CNN blames Trump for dividing the country.
00:19:23.880 That wasn't Trump.
00:19:27.420 Did Trump divide the country by implementing a national security policy
00:19:31.680 that was bad for other countries and their citizens, but good for us?
00:19:36.800 Is that what divided America?
00:19:39.840 No.
00:19:41.180 It was CNN that divided America.
00:19:43.520 And then, they placed the blame on Trump,
00:19:46.120 and it got him unelected.
00:19:49.900 How will history even report this?
00:19:52.260 Will history follow the lead of the narrative business
00:19:58.700 that used to be called the fake news,
00:20:01.560 but I'll just call it the narrative business?
00:20:03.620 Will they report that that's what happened?
00:20:06.000 That Trump was divisive, and he did all these white supremacist things,
00:20:09.940 and he divided the country?
00:20:12.460 Will that actually be the history?
00:20:16.120 Because I didn't see that happen, and I was here.
00:20:18.220 I watched it just like you did.
00:20:21.500 I didn't see that happen.
00:20:23.500 I saw that there are white supremacists, of course.
00:20:27.220 There are bad people everywhere.
00:20:29.620 And what I saw was the news business divide the country.
00:20:33.600 That's all I saw.
00:20:35.660 So, we need some kind of a Yelp review for the news.
00:20:40.840 Don't you?
00:20:42.800 Wouldn't you like to see some objective entity
00:20:45.380 whose job it is to do an ongoing report
00:20:48.700 on the quality of the different news organizations?
00:20:52.760 Now, you might say to yourself,
00:20:54.280 Scott, Scott, Scott,
00:20:55.320 that would be so subjective that it would just be nonsense.
00:21:00.000 But I'm not sure it would be.
00:21:02.040 Because I do think you could create a master list
00:21:04.760 of things that are hoaxes according to the left,
00:21:08.700 things that are hoaxes according to the right,
00:21:11.360 and just things that are fact-checked as pure hoaxes
00:21:14.300 no matter who you are.
00:21:16.660 Wouldn't you like to see a ratio
00:21:18.200 that said how many hoaxes,
00:21:21.000 based on whoever says it's a hoax or not,
00:21:23.880 how many hoaxes every entity buys into?
00:21:28.420 Wouldn't you?
00:21:29.420 Because I haven't done the math,
00:21:31.200 but I will bet you that CNN, MSNBC,
00:21:34.780 were about two to three times the hoax ratio of Fox News.
00:21:40.140 Just to pick an example.
00:21:41.680 Now, that's anecdotal and subjective and unbiased.
00:21:47.160 So, I don't know if that number would hold,
00:21:48.660 but it feels like that.
00:21:50.080 It feels like it was two to one.
00:21:51.720 Now, I'm going to reverse that
00:21:53.300 for the coming administration.
00:21:55.900 In all likelihood,
00:21:56.820 once Trump gets out of the news,
00:21:59.180 however long that takes,
00:22:00.760 once Trump is out of the news,
00:22:02.380 I've got a feeling that Fox News
00:22:03.840 is going to be telling more hoaxes
00:22:06.960 and reporting them as if they're true.
00:22:10.480 Because that's the way it goes.
00:22:11.780 Whoever's in power,
00:22:13.300 the news entity that's opposite of that
00:22:15.380 ends up having to create a lot of hoaxes
00:22:17.320 because the real news isn't bad enough.
00:22:20.780 But I'd like to see some kind of a Yelp industry.
00:22:24.420 Because otherwise, the news has control of the citizens.
00:22:29.360 You need to put something above the news,
00:22:31.820 such as a rating organization.
00:22:34.820 Now, how would you do it?
00:22:36.340 It'd be hard.
00:22:37.400 But I think if you had enough money behind it
00:22:39.260 and the right people,
00:22:41.080 you could have people who actually,
00:22:42.640 let's say historians, objective people,
00:22:45.360 just looking into it and then scoring things.
00:22:48.300 And maybe you have judges.
00:22:50.360 And maybe you have,
00:22:52.020 let's say you had a dozen judges
00:22:53.200 and they scored every story
00:22:55.360 for whether it's a hoax or it's true
00:22:57.280 or it's misleading.
00:22:58.800 And then you just report what the vote was
00:23:01.460 from the 12 people who were pretty objective.
00:23:06.280 I don't know.
00:23:07.000 I think we need that more than anything.
00:23:11.920 Have you noticed that the news can't quit Trump?
00:23:14.360 So there's this guy, Don Winslow.
00:23:18.020 He's trending today with the hashtag,
00:23:20.560 Trump's New Army.
00:23:22.800 And I think some of it's been removed from Twitter
00:23:26.520 for being too dangerous.
00:23:29.060 I couldn't get to it,
00:23:30.240 but I don't know if it's because I'm blocked
00:23:31.540 or it got taken down.
00:23:33.100 So fact check that.
00:23:34.380 Was his content removed by Twitter
00:23:36.700 or am I just blocked because he blocks people?
00:23:39.820 I don't know.
00:23:40.780 But I couldn't see it until I looked on YouTube
00:23:42.760 and there was a video of it.
00:23:43.920 And he's got this video in which he's saying
00:23:45.640 that the day that Trump leaves office,
00:23:48.800 he'll become the de facto leader
00:23:50.640 of the MAGA army of white supremacists and QAnon
00:23:54.520 and that basically you'll have a domestic army.
00:23:59.800 Can you just let Trump go?
00:24:02.740 Can we just let him golf?
00:24:05.080 Now he might be back in some news-related business entity
00:24:08.740 some way, which will be really fun
00:24:10.880 and I'm looking forward to it.
00:24:12.700 But can you just let it go?
00:24:15.860 Let me tell you what Trump isn't going to do.
00:24:19.420 Create a domestic army.
00:24:23.620 In fact, if you were going to make a list
00:24:26.020 of all the things that Trump might do
00:24:28.620 the day after and after he's out of office,
00:24:31.780 I would say create a domestic army
00:24:34.460 would be dead last.
00:24:36.740 That's not going to happen.
00:24:38.960 And if you're a sucker enough to believe it is,
00:24:42.460 you've bought into the whole CNN narrative from day one.
00:24:46.880 I mean, you've got to check your thinking
00:24:48.760 if you think this is happening.
00:24:50.680 But of course, it's trending because it's...
00:24:53.860 You know, I've talked to you before
00:24:54.860 that the more fake the news is
00:24:57.240 and the more ridiculous it is,
00:24:58.880 the more it will trend.
00:24:59.700 Because people, you know,
00:25:01.980 are not going to get excited about routine stuff
00:25:04.140 that's just like yesterday.
00:25:05.800 They want something special.
00:25:07.680 And when you hear,
00:25:08.460 Trump is raising a MAGA army?
00:25:11.380 You know, like your head lights up
00:25:14.160 and you're like,
00:25:14.580 ah, I've got to trend that.
00:25:16.120 Got to retweet that.
00:25:17.580 But the things which are most sensational sounding
00:25:20.900 are also the least likely to be true.
00:25:23.080 This is no exception.
00:25:23.880 That would be the most ridiculous,
00:25:27.300 absurd, damaging hoax
00:25:29.560 that something like that's going to happen.
00:25:32.760 All right.
00:25:36.480 So here are some steps
00:25:40.080 that the fake news is doing
00:25:42.800 to demonize all Republicans.
00:25:45.020 So step one,
00:25:46.600 you say that the fake news,
00:25:49.840 let's say the narrative business,
00:25:51.760 will tell you that white supremacist terrorism
00:25:54.880 is the biggest threat in the country.
00:25:57.640 Do you buy that?
00:25:58.760 Because that's what we're being told.
00:26:00.400 Because the headlines are really focusing on it.
00:26:02.700 Biggest threat in the country,
00:26:03.780 white supremacist terrorism.
00:26:06.240 Now, is there such a thing
00:26:08.120 as white supremacist terrorism?
00:26:11.400 I think so.
00:26:13.460 I mean, I don't know of any examples.
00:26:16.680 I know that there are white people
00:26:19.440 who have done domestic terrorist things.
00:26:22.440 I don't know.
00:26:23.580 Personally, I haven't heard of an example
00:26:25.320 that was because of white supremacism.
00:26:28.600 But I've heard that people
00:26:29.800 who have that belief
00:26:31.800 may have done some bad things.
00:26:34.920 There was one in New Zealand
00:26:36.640 that was real.
00:26:39.040 Now, I'm not saying they don't exist.
00:26:40.640 I'm just saying that
00:26:41.420 I'm not aware of one.
00:26:43.220 So if you say,
00:26:44.580 here are three examples,
00:26:45.620 I'd say, okay,
00:26:47.000 those are three good examples.
00:26:48.280 So I'm not arguing
00:26:49.440 that it's not happening.
00:26:51.580 I'm sure it's happening.
00:26:53.460 But I live in this country
00:26:55.700 and I can't think of one.
00:26:58.040 But the news is telling you
00:26:59.980 it's the biggest problem.
00:27:01.840 Now, I suppose the assault on the Capitol
00:27:04.160 would be part of that story.
00:27:05.540 I don't know how many people
00:27:06.720 in that group
00:27:07.440 were white supremacists
00:27:08.640 or even trying to do something like a coup.
00:27:11.120 I think the number is zero
00:27:13.120 for the ones who thought
00:27:15.120 that that was a coup
00:27:16.120 because how do you do a coup
00:27:17.340 by taking over an empty room?
00:27:19.980 And even if they captured
00:27:21.100 the vice president,
00:27:22.200 it's not going to work
00:27:23.700 because we would give up
00:27:27.140 the vice president
00:27:27.960 before we would give control
00:27:29.860 of the country
00:27:30.420 to some white supremacists
00:27:32.700 who captured it.
00:27:33.680 So there wasn't any kind of a plan
00:27:35.520 that could have ever been a coup,
00:27:37.900 but it was reported that way.
00:27:38.980 So now the fake news has told us
00:27:40.880 that white supremacism
00:27:41.840 is the biggest problem
00:27:42.640 in the country.
00:27:43.500 If I were going to make a list
00:27:45.200 of the biggest problems,
00:27:46.540 I'd probably have, you know,
00:27:48.100 drug and alcohol addiction,
00:27:50.520 overdose deaths,
00:27:51.500 mental health crisis,
00:27:53.500 the loneliness crisis,
00:27:54.840 especially lately.
00:27:56.160 The fake news is a bigger problem
00:27:57.900 than any of this stuff.
00:27:59.420 The platform censorship
00:28:00.980 will kill us all eventually.
00:28:03.500 Teachers unions
00:28:04.320 were basically the main cause
00:28:06.400 of systemic racism
00:28:08.060 and every problem
00:28:08.940 that we have in this country.
00:28:10.380 The national debt,
00:28:11.440 I'm worried about that.
00:28:12.820 China, 10 different problems
00:28:14.340 with China.
00:28:15.680 The Green New Deal
00:28:16.820 could kill us,
00:28:18.040 could save us,
00:28:18.720 but it's a big problem, right?
00:28:20.300 So you think the problem is,
00:28:21.880 depending on where you are,
00:28:23.360 the problem is that
00:28:24.200 we're not doing enough about it
00:28:25.520 or the problem is
00:28:26.320 we'll do too much about it.
00:28:27.740 But either way,
00:28:29.200 big problem, right?
00:28:32.000 Immigration,
00:28:32.700 no matter what you think of it,
00:28:33.960 is a big problem.
00:28:35.040 Again,
00:28:36.920 you could be on either side
00:28:38.400 of immigration,
00:28:40.400 but it's a big problem.
00:28:42.120 Nobody thinks that
00:28:43.380 migrant caravans
00:28:44.880 is some kind of an easy,
00:28:46.580 good thing.
00:28:47.140 It's a big problem,
00:28:48.140 even if you're in favor
00:28:49.300 of letting them in.
00:28:51.160 So the fake news
00:28:53.400 or the narrative news
00:28:54.280 has told us,
00:28:55.280 first,
00:28:55.880 the white supremacist,
00:28:57.020 that's the thing
00:28:57.600 that needs to be
00:28:58.100 in front of your mind.
00:28:59.780 That's what you need
00:29:00.420 to be thinking about.
00:29:01.260 And then it says,
00:29:03.240 the narrative news does,
00:29:05.140 it says that we should
00:29:06.160 complete any Trump supporter
00:29:08.240 with white supremacists.
00:29:10.020 Now, they're saying
00:29:10.600 that directly.
00:29:11.540 Don Lemon on CNN
00:29:13.280 says it directly.
00:29:15.620 Trump supporters,
00:29:16.640 white supremacists,
00:29:18.060 not enough difference
00:29:18.980 to make a distinction.
00:29:21.180 Saying it directly.
00:29:23.240 So then after you've done that
00:29:25.680 and you've painted
00:29:27.520 all Republicans
00:29:28.320 and Trump supporters
00:29:29.320 with that brush,
00:29:30.060 then you have
00:29:31.580 everything you need
00:29:32.480 to employ private censorship.
00:29:35.440 You know,
00:29:35.620 the big tech companies,
00:29:37.000 their censorship.
00:29:37.920 You can do your boycotts
00:29:39.360 because you're boycotting Nazis,
00:29:41.420 right?
00:29:42.040 That's easy.
00:29:42.980 And you can do
00:29:43.540 your public shaming
00:29:44.480 so that people
00:29:45.240 can't get jobs,
00:29:46.280 can't get banking,
00:29:47.760 can't get anything.
00:29:49.100 And then you also
00:29:50.240 normalize the violence
00:29:51.520 against Trump supporters,
00:29:52.940 which has been
00:29:53.400 happening for years.
00:29:54.460 By calling them
00:29:55.440 Nazis and white supremacists,
00:29:56.840 you do normalize
00:29:57.980 and approve of violence,
00:29:59.840 basically,
00:30:01.020 essentially.
00:30:01.760 That would be different
00:30:02.680 than, say,
00:30:03.280 Black Lives Matter,
00:30:04.200 right?
00:30:05.520 Painting somebody
00:30:06.420 as Black Lives Matter
00:30:07.520 does not put a target
00:30:08.640 on their back.
00:30:09.440 In fact,
00:30:09.840 you might want to help them.
00:30:11.360 But painting somebody
00:30:12.160 as a white supremacist,
00:30:14.040 especially if they're not,
00:30:16.200 is painting a target
00:30:17.120 on their back.
00:30:17.900 It does normalize violence.
00:30:20.380 Then the other thing
00:30:21.360 they do is disappear
00:30:22.400 the violence
00:30:23.140 on the other side.
00:30:23.980 So now we're learning
00:30:24.940 that there wasn't
00:30:26.240 much riots
00:30:27.520 and destruction
00:30:28.260 in Washington, D.C.
00:30:29.780 when Trump was inaugurated
00:30:32.240 or last summer.
00:30:34.960 Apparently,
00:30:35.640 Washington, D.C.
00:30:36.500 has got a lot of problems
00:30:38.800 a lot of the time.
00:30:40.160 But that's a little
00:30:40.940 de-emphasized.
00:30:43.120 And Andrew Sullivan
00:30:45.620 is associated more
00:30:48.040 with the left
00:30:48.620 than the right,
00:30:49.300 but he's one of those
00:30:50.000 few people
00:30:50.520 who can cross over
00:30:51.480 when something
00:30:52.020 doesn't make sense.
00:30:52.840 So I like Andrew Sullivan
00:30:54.520 because he can call out
00:30:55.560 his own team
00:30:56.300 when they're being silly
00:30:57.200 as he did.
00:30:58.520 In this case,
00:31:01.040 I guess the New York Times
00:31:02.500 was saying that last summer
00:31:03.840 was just isolated instances
00:31:05.520 of property destruction
00:31:06.920 versus...
00:31:09.720 But that isolated incidences
00:31:11.460 of property destruction
00:31:12.920 in the Capitol
00:31:14.000 that was done by the left
00:31:15.760 was $1 to $2 billion
00:31:17.780 worth of damage
00:31:18.880 this summer.
00:31:20.300 Just this summer,
00:31:21.060 $1 to $2 billion
00:31:22.800 worth of damage.
00:31:24.620 And the New York Times
00:31:25.780 reports that as
00:31:26.620 isolated incidents
00:31:27.820 of property destruction.
00:31:30.080 Now,
00:31:30.820 you can start to see
00:31:31.980 the narrative
00:31:32.640 becoming the thing.
00:31:34.680 You know,
00:31:35.160 the word fake news
00:31:36.460 actually has a problem
00:31:37.620 because it has news in it.
00:31:40.620 And I think it's still useful
00:31:41.880 to have that term,
00:31:43.260 but calling it news anymore
00:31:45.160 just doesn't even feel right.
00:31:47.740 It's narrative.
00:31:48.460 It's narrative
00:31:49.980 on top of a little bit
00:31:52.080 of news
00:31:52.600 that may or may not
00:31:53.700 even be true.
00:31:55.000 And it's certainly
00:31:55.600 out of context.
00:31:57.240 So,
00:31:57.960 calling it fake news
00:31:59.280 is sort of a compliment
00:32:01.360 because it assumes
00:32:02.420 that news
00:32:03.120 is even part of the mission.
00:32:05.280 And that's clearly
00:32:05.940 not the case.
00:32:07.220 I don't believe
00:32:08.060 there's anybody
00:32:08.780 in senior management
00:32:10.580 at CNN
00:32:11.240 who wakes up
00:32:12.580 in the morning
00:32:13.040 and says,
00:32:13.960 got to inform the public.
00:32:15.500 Got to go to my job
00:32:17.540 and make sure
00:32:18.720 the public knows
00:32:19.660 the real story.
00:32:21.480 I don't think
00:32:21.940 that's happening.
00:32:23.320 I think they wake up
00:32:24.240 and try to make money
00:32:25.020 and that's
00:32:25.920 a narrative business.
00:32:30.120 So,
00:32:30.760 let's look at
00:32:31.500 Biden's performance
00:32:32.740 so far.
00:32:33.980 I think I got around
00:32:34.920 20,000 retweets
00:32:36.200 on this,
00:32:36.620 which is huge
00:32:37.560 for my account.
00:32:39.100 Might set a record,
00:32:40.060 but here's what I said.
00:32:41.200 I said,
00:32:41.640 so far,
00:32:42.080 Biden has refused
00:32:43.040 to halt
00:32:43.520 a divisive impeachment,
00:32:45.460 questioned the loyalty
00:32:46.420 of the troops,
00:32:48.020 sparked an immigration
00:32:49.040 crisis,
00:32:50.260 and surrendered
00:32:51.260 to China
00:32:51.860 via energy policy,
00:32:53.640 you know,
00:32:53.840 the Paris Climate
00:32:55.240 Accord,
00:32:55.620 et cetera.
00:32:56.080 And he hasn't even
00:32:56.780 started the job yet.
00:32:58.720 Those are the things
00:32:59.740 he's done
00:33:00.320 and he hasn't
00:33:01.860 started the job.
00:33:04.180 This is the worst
00:33:05.320 start of any president
00:33:06.800 of all time.
00:33:08.480 He could have easily
00:33:09.520 made the impeachment
00:33:10.440 thing go away,
00:33:11.500 calmed down the country,
00:33:12.440 he didn't need
00:33:14.600 to question
00:33:15.120 the loyalty
00:33:15.720 of the troops.
00:33:18.500 Again,
00:33:19.240 we're going to
00:33:20.040 come into this
00:33:20.660 situation where
00:33:21.380 everything that
00:33:22.020 Biden does
00:33:22.740 has an automatic
00:33:24.040 contrast,
00:33:25.080 which is,
00:33:25.700 what did Trump do
00:33:26.500 or what would
00:33:27.840 Trump have done
00:33:28.520 in that situation?
00:33:29.420 You can't get away
00:33:30.040 from that.
00:33:30.880 That comparison
00:33:31.720 is just going to
00:33:32.500 dog Biden
00:33:33.760 the whole way.
00:33:34.820 And let me point
00:33:35.500 this out.
00:33:37.480 Trump never had
00:33:38.640 to protect himself
00:33:39.880 from his own
00:33:41.380 troops.
00:33:42.440 Trump never had
00:33:45.360 to protect himself
00:33:46.600 from American
00:33:48.700 troops.
00:33:50.260 I just have to
00:33:51.340 say that three
00:33:52.080 more times.
00:33:53.500 Trump never had
00:33:54.540 to protect himself
00:33:55.640 from American
00:33:57.340 troops.
00:33:59.420 Trump never had
00:34:00.680 to protect himself
00:34:01.580 from American
00:34:03.460 troops.
00:34:04.500 And then the third
00:34:05.380 time I'm going to
00:34:05.920 say it.
00:34:07.080 Trump never had
00:34:08.260 to protect himself
00:34:09.000 from American
00:34:09.640 troops.
00:34:13.040 Is there a
00:34:13.820 worse start
00:34:14.840 of any president
00:34:16.120 in the history
00:34:16.980 of presidents
00:34:17.900 starting things?
00:34:19.200 Let me tell you
00:34:20.120 what Biden
00:34:20.980 should have done.
00:34:22.780 Let me tell you
00:34:23.280 what he should have
00:34:23.920 done.
00:34:24.700 Of course you
00:34:25.720 should be looking
00:34:26.260 for people who
00:34:26.980 might be a problem.
00:34:29.100 So I think the
00:34:29.820 deep vetting
00:34:31.220 of the people
00:34:33.840 who will be there
00:34:34.540 guarding.
00:34:34.940 That makes sense.
00:34:35.920 But if you're
00:34:36.420 tossing anybody
00:34:37.120 out for being
00:34:37.840 a Trump supporter
00:34:38.900 you're making
00:34:40.520 things worse.
00:34:42.540 Right?
00:34:43.440 You're not making
00:34:44.360 things better.
00:34:45.500 Let me put it
00:34:46.040 this way.
00:34:47.300 As a commander
00:34:48.300 in chief
00:34:48.800 you are always
00:34:50.280 in physical
00:34:50.960 danger.
00:34:52.300 Because a leader
00:34:53.740 is always a target.
00:34:54.860 Right?
00:34:55.080 You're always in
00:34:55.720 physical danger.
00:34:56.540 That's why the
00:34:56.960 Secret Service
00:34:57.500 exists.
00:34:58.440 And part of
00:34:59.280 being a good
00:34:59.740 leader is
00:35:00.380 knowing when
00:35:00.960 to extend
00:35:01.560 your own
00:35:02.120 physical danger
00:35:03.060 and when
00:35:04.140 not to.
00:35:05.300 Joe Biden
00:35:06.040 should have
00:35:07.400 just by
00:35:08.480 opinion
00:35:09.340 should have
00:35:10.600 extended his
00:35:11.520 own physical
00:35:12.280 danger and
00:35:12.980 that of
00:35:13.400 Kamala Harris
00:35:14.520 and the other
00:35:15.100 major leaders.
00:35:16.980 He should have
00:35:17.500 taken the risk
00:35:18.380 that somebody
00:35:20.000 in the troops
00:35:21.160 might have
00:35:22.460 had bad
00:35:23.400 intentions.
00:35:24.400 He should have
00:35:25.100 taken the risk.
00:35:26.260 That risk
00:35:27.080 was one the
00:35:28.280 leader should
00:35:28.760 have taken.
00:35:29.800 Because if he
00:35:30.520 takes the risk
00:35:31.180 and everything's
00:35:31.800 fine, then the
00:35:33.420 troops are still
00:35:34.220 loyal.
00:35:34.780 We all believe
00:35:35.300 the troops are
00:35:35.820 loyal, just like
00:35:36.760 always.
00:35:37.700 The president
00:35:38.740 has shown trust
00:35:39.740 in the troops.
00:35:41.580 The troops
00:35:42.160 didn't show
00:35:43.560 anything bad
00:35:44.120 to the commander
00:35:44.900 in chief.
00:35:45.680 And we would
00:35:46.240 be at the best
00:35:46.840 place we could
00:35:47.520 be at the end
00:35:49.040 of it.
00:35:50.080 But Biden
00:35:50.820 didn't do that.
00:35:51.940 He made
00:35:52.300 exactly the
00:35:53.080 wrong choice
00:35:53.820 for a commander
00:35:54.840 in chief.
00:35:55.840 He said he's
00:35:56.720 afraid of his
00:35:57.360 own troops.
00:35:58.920 Now, of
00:35:59.900 course, the
00:36:00.560 thing I worry
00:36:01.200 about is that
00:36:02.020 that's the
00:36:02.440 first step
00:36:03.040 toward getting
00:36:04.040 some kind
00:36:04.600 of private
00:36:06.980 army that
00:36:08.460 protects him,
00:36:09.200 and then you've
00:36:09.740 got a dictatorship
00:36:10.540 because it
00:36:11.260 might not be
00:36:11.720 Biden, but
00:36:12.300 somebody who
00:36:12.760 comes in
00:36:13.120 after him
00:36:13.760 might inherit
00:36:14.840 this private
00:36:15.480 army, and
00:36:16.000 then you've
00:36:16.280 got a lot
00:36:16.540 of trouble.
00:36:17.200 You've got
00:36:17.460 Saddam Hussein
00:36:18.220 situation.
00:36:19.260 I'm not
00:36:19.680 predicting that
00:36:20.280 will happen.
00:36:20.880 I don't think
00:36:21.280 it will.
00:36:22.320 But, wow,
00:36:24.400 it's the worst
00:36:24.920 start I've ever
00:36:25.560 seen for a
00:36:26.100 president, and I
00:36:27.220 feel like I
00:36:27.720 could add
00:36:28.160 several things
00:36:28.840 to that
00:36:29.220 list, but
00:36:30.880 imagine if
00:36:31.820 Trump had
00:36:32.500 done any of
00:36:33.220 these things.
00:36:33.920 I hate doing
00:36:34.680 that.
00:36:35.240 I hate doing
00:36:35.740 the imagine if
00:36:36.520 Trump had done
00:36:37.020 this, what they
00:36:37.620 would say, but
00:36:38.920 imagine if Trump
00:36:39.880 had doubted the
00:36:40.720 loyalty of the
00:36:41.480 troops.
00:36:42.620 Just wrap your
00:36:43.300 head around
00:36:43.640 that.
00:36:45.340 It's unthinkable.
00:36:46.460 the amount of
00:36:50.020 fallout that
00:36:50.760 there would
00:36:51.160 be if Trump
00:36:52.560 had doubted
00:36:53.140 the loyalty
00:36:53.740 of the
00:36:54.220 troops.
00:36:55.540 Now, do you
00:36:55.980 think Trump
00:36:56.640 had any doubts
00:36:57.420 himself, given
00:36:58.320 TDS and the
00:36:59.920 fact that, I
00:37:00.920 don't know, maybe
00:37:01.920 half of the
00:37:02.540 military is
00:37:03.600 probably anti-Trump?
00:37:05.300 Do you think
00:37:06.020 that Trump was
00:37:07.400 also at risk?
00:37:08.940 I think he
00:37:09.480 was, and I
00:37:10.900 think he took
00:37:11.540 the physical
00:37:12.220 risk because
00:37:13.620 that was the
00:37:14.100 right play for
00:37:15.460 the country.
00:37:16.460 Was it the
00:37:16.980 right play for
00:37:17.600 Trump?
00:37:18.200 No.
00:37:19.020 No, not
00:37:19.760 directly, meaning
00:37:20.960 that he would
00:37:21.480 put himself in
00:37:22.140 physical risk
00:37:23.100 potentially, but
00:37:25.660 it would have
00:37:26.720 been the right
00:37:27.100 play for a
00:37:27.600 leader.
00:37:28.140 He's got to
00:37:28.540 lead from the
00:37:29.000 front.
00:37:30.220 All right.
00:37:33.740 That's my main
00:37:34.820 points for today.
00:37:36.920 And is there
00:37:37.620 anything I missed?
00:37:39.980 Yeah, what's
00:37:40.640 going to happen
00:37:41.040 in North Korea?
00:37:43.200 What's going to
00:37:43.700 happen with
00:37:44.280 funding the
00:37:44.820 military?
00:37:45.260 And by the
00:37:46.600 way, you
00:37:46.880 don't hear a
00:37:47.320 lot about
00:37:47.760 defund the
00:37:48.460 police anymore,
00:37:49.180 do you?
00:37:50.420 Defund the
00:37:51.000 police was all
00:37:52.040 over the place
00:37:52.820 until Biden
00:37:54.940 won and they
00:37:55.640 found out that
00:37:56.360 it was a bad
00:37:56.860 idea.
00:37:58.900 Somebody says,
00:37:59.720 you miss
00:38:00.000 everything every
00:38:00.800 time, Scott.
00:38:01.720 Well, that's a
00:38:02.300 good comment.
00:38:04.420 Thank you for
00:38:05.060 that comment that
00:38:05.840 I miss everything
00:38:06.620 every time.
00:38:09.140 I feel that that
00:38:10.060 was useful.
00:38:11.400 You spent your
00:38:12.160 time in a good
00:38:12.820 cause there.
00:38:13.340 Thank you.
00:38:14.540 I feel that I've
00:38:16.900 been bettered by
00:38:18.160 it, by your
00:38:19.740 constructive
00:38:20.320 criticism that I
00:38:21.760 get everything
00:38:22.280 wrong every
00:38:22.820 time.
00:38:23.960 Thank you for
00:38:24.720 that.
00:38:25.400 I feel myself
00:38:27.220 correcting now to
00:38:28.700 full accuracy.
00:38:31.280 All right.
00:38:34.680 Because everything.
00:38:35.660 what does your
00:38:40.260 guts say about
00:38:41.580 the Biden win?
00:38:43.100 I mean, in
00:38:43.480 terms of whether
00:38:44.120 it was a
00:38:45.760 legitimate
00:38:47.140 election?
00:38:48.380 Here's what my
00:38:49.120 gut says.
00:38:50.440 I've said this
00:38:51.180 before, I'll just
00:38:51.840 summarize.
00:38:52.780 That any digital
00:38:54.120 system can be
00:38:55.120 hacked, but the
00:38:56.960 narrative, the
00:38:58.720 narrative is that
00:38:59.600 the election system
00:39:00.620 is the only one
00:39:01.340 that can't be
00:39:03.380 hacked.
00:39:03.700 Now, I say
00:39:04.860 can't, because
00:39:06.980 how would you
00:39:08.120 know?
00:39:10.500 So, treating
00:39:11.900 the election as
00:39:12.860 it's a given
00:39:13.840 and it's solid
00:39:14.680 and we must all
00:39:15.860 accept the
00:39:16.520 outcome, which
00:39:17.060 by the way, I do
00:39:17.700 accept the
00:39:18.140 outcome, and I
00:39:19.140 have from the
00:39:19.680 start, because I
00:39:20.800 think the system
00:39:21.480 does what the
00:39:22.120 system is going
00:39:22.660 to do.
00:39:23.080 You know, Biden's
00:39:23.700 the president, the
00:39:25.120 system decided he
00:39:26.040 was, whether or
00:39:27.560 not the voters
00:39:28.140 decided is a
00:39:29.360 question that we
00:39:30.020 can't know, because
00:39:31.520 we don't have
00:39:32.220 transparency.
00:39:33.700 So, I would
00:39:34.340 say that the
00:39:36.380 Biden win did
00:39:39.420 not track with
00:39:40.500 my observations
00:39:41.880 of the world, so
00:39:44.360 it did not match
00:39:45.180 my observation.
00:39:46.640 So, that's a
00:39:47.580 red flag, but it
00:39:48.600 doesn't mean it's
00:39:49.420 wrong, right?
00:39:50.260 And I think most
00:39:51.020 of you have the
00:39:51.460 same experience,
00:39:52.260 which is, I
00:39:54.420 could see him
00:39:55.020 winning in a
00:39:55.660 squeaker, but I
00:39:57.640 can't see him
00:39:58.260 winning that much,
00:39:59.480 because it
00:40:00.960 just, you
00:40:02.240 know, my
00:40:03.180 experience did
00:40:03.860 not suggest that
00:40:04.660 could happen.
00:40:05.680 Now, there are
00:40:06.140 other people who
00:40:07.360 have said that
00:40:08.540 for the last four
00:40:09.360 years, I've been
00:40:10.020 talking to enough
00:40:10.780 people that, of
00:40:11.640 course, Biden was
00:40:12.520 going to win.
00:40:13.620 So, there are
00:40:14.080 other people whose
00:40:14.740 objective, let's
00:40:17.040 say, not
00:40:17.500 objective, but
00:40:18.200 their observation
00:40:19.120 is completely
00:40:20.880 consistent with a
00:40:22.100 big win by
00:40:22.880 Biden, because
00:40:23.500 everybody they
00:40:24.540 talk to hated
00:40:25.160 Trump.
00:40:25.500 So, given
00:40:28.000 Trump's
00:40:28.880 popularity, and
00:40:31.140 the advantage of
00:40:33.160 an incumbent, and
00:40:34.300 all of that, I
00:40:36.240 would say that the
00:40:37.920 election raised
00:40:39.040 questions, which
00:40:42.680 many of them have
00:40:43.500 been answered.
00:40:44.680 So, I would say
00:40:45.420 almost every
00:40:47.880 election fraud
00:40:49.560 claim that I've
00:40:50.340 seen has been
00:40:51.000 addressed in a
00:40:51.800 way that makes
00:40:53.180 me trust the
00:40:54.180 debunk more
00:40:55.260 than the
00:40:55.700 claim.
00:40:56.660 Doesn't mean
00:40:57.340 I'm always
00:40:57.660 right, but the
00:40:59.000 debunks do sound
00:41:00.020 stronger than the
00:41:00.840 claim, maybe
00:41:02.260 only because they
00:41:02.980 went second.
00:41:03.880 That always
00:41:04.200 sounds stronger.
00:41:08.900 How soon
00:41:09.760 have you
00:41:09.940 forgotten about
00:41:10.520 bullying?
00:41:13.100 Bullying?
00:41:15.360 That's what we
00:41:16.180 liked about Trump,
00:41:17.480 was the
00:41:17.940 bullying.
00:41:19.440 The bullying
00:41:20.280 was his feature,
00:41:21.220 not his flaw.
00:41:22.580 I'm not sure if
00:41:23.520 that's what the
00:41:24.320 comment was getting
00:41:24.980 to.
00:41:25.800 But those who
00:41:27.200 supported Trump
00:41:27.960 wanted a bully.
00:41:29.680 They wanted
00:41:30.100 somebody to bully
00:41:30.900 the people who
00:41:31.500 needed to get
00:41:32.060 bullied.
00:41:32.880 Other countries,
00:41:33.940 China, North
00:41:35.300 Korea, Democrats.
00:41:37.660 So, that's kind
00:41:39.080 of what they
00:41:39.380 wanted.
00:41:40.080 Now, is there
00:41:40.800 some blowback
00:41:41.520 from having a
00:41:42.200 bully?
00:41:42.520 Yeah, it looks
00:41:42.980 like a bully is
00:41:43.980 a one-term
00:41:45.100 president, probably.
00:41:46.020 Oh, talking
00:41:50.100 about bullies
00:41:50.720 preventing the
00:41:52.100 observers.
00:41:54.180 Yeah, so we
00:41:55.040 didn't have as
00:41:55.840 much transparency
00:41:57.660 in the
00:41:58.240 observation.
00:41:59.120 We don't have
00:41:59.600 enough transparency
00:42:00.300 in the code.
00:42:01.800 There are
00:42:02.100 probably lots of
00:42:02.800 ways that an
00:42:03.440 election could be
00:42:04.760 rigged in small
00:42:06.720 ways.
00:42:07.360 We wouldn't have
00:42:07.960 visibility to it.
00:42:08.960 But, I would
00:42:10.340 say that if
00:42:12.600 the Trump
00:42:13.700 team didn't
00:42:14.420 put together
00:42:15.100 a convincing
00:42:17.000 package of
00:42:17.940 the strong
00:42:18.540 claims, and
00:42:20.020 just make a
00:42:20.880 good show of
00:42:21.480 that, and
00:42:22.040 that didn't
00:42:22.440 happen, we
00:42:23.860 observed that
00:42:24.500 there was no
00:42:25.140 strong package
00:42:26.480 of claims.
00:42:27.940 They were all
00:42:28.380 all of the
00:42:30.000 claims seemed
00:42:30.620 to be combined
00:42:32.280 with weak,
00:42:33.280 ridiculous stuff
00:42:34.040 about Venezuela
00:42:34.920 and Italy and
00:42:35.720 stuff, so
00:42:36.380 everything looked
00:42:37.500 like trash
00:42:38.160 because it was
00:42:38.740 combined with
00:42:39.440 the trash.
00:42:41.620 But I think
00:42:42.400 there are some
00:42:43.840 of the statistical
00:42:44.780 arguments I
00:42:45.960 haven't heard
00:42:46.640 one way or the
00:42:47.860 other about
00:42:48.380 them.
00:42:49.020 Now, the
00:42:49.480 statistical
00:42:49.940 arguments don't
00:42:50.760 prove any kind
00:42:51.460 of fraud.
00:42:52.500 They just say,
00:42:53.280 hey, you
00:42:53.640 should look
00:42:53.960 here.
00:42:54.600 And if they
00:42:55.100 say, hey, you
00:42:55.700 should look
00:42:56.040 here, they
00:42:56.460 did a recount,
00:42:57.140 that's all
00:42:58.720 we have.
00:42:59.740 We can't
00:43:00.240 look any
00:43:00.600 deeper than
00:43:01.040 that.
00:43:04.460 Scott is
00:43:05.140 acting like
00:43:05.680 legitimate
00:43:06.140 claims were
00:43:06.980 heard from
00:43:07.500 any courts.
00:43:08.400 No, I'm
00:43:08.960 not saying
00:43:09.620 that at all.
00:43:10.500 My
00:43:10.720 understanding
00:43:11.240 is that the
00:43:12.980 courts saw
00:43:13.940 few, if any,
00:43:15.280 of the actual
00:43:16.300 claims.
00:43:17.520 Part of that
00:43:18.100 is because they
00:43:18.560 weren't presented
00:43:19.160 to the court
00:43:19.740 for reasons,
00:43:20.640 I don't know.
00:43:21.360 Part of it
00:43:21.880 is that the
00:43:22.960 cases were
00:43:24.400 thrown out for
00:43:24.960 technical reasons,
00:43:25.960 so they were
00:43:26.320 never judged.
00:43:27.580 Some of
00:43:28.020 them, because
00:43:28.480 the claims
00:43:28.940 weren't big
00:43:29.420 enough to
00:43:29.760 change anything,
00:43:30.720 so the
00:43:31.000 court said,
00:43:31.780 get out of
00:43:32.300 here.
00:43:33.660 But the
00:43:34.280 courts were
00:43:34.800 irrelevant to
00:43:35.860 the question
00:43:36.420 of whether
00:43:37.020 there was
00:43:37.460 any
00:43:38.460 impropriety in
00:43:40.620 the election.
00:43:42.040 If you
00:43:42.620 believe that
00:43:43.080 the courts
00:43:43.600 told you
00:43:44.300 something that
00:43:45.660 would be
00:43:46.040 useful to
00:43:46.680 understand whether
00:43:47.420 the election
00:43:48.040 was as fair
00:43:49.020 as you wanted
00:43:49.480 it to be,
00:43:50.200 those are
00:43:50.760 just disconnected
00:43:51.540 things.
00:43:52.920 There's what
00:43:53.360 the court
00:43:53.720 did, and
00:43:55.060 there's whatever
00:43:55.660 happened in
00:43:56.240 the election,
00:43:56.860 but the
00:43:57.080 court doesn't
00:43:58.660 know.
00:43:59.620 What's the
00:44:00.240 court know?
00:44:01.160 They don't
00:44:01.680 know any
00:44:01.980 more than
00:44:02.240 you do.
00:44:05.120 All right.
00:44:06.940 Now, just
00:44:07.680 because things
00:44:08.240 were tossed
00:44:08.680 for technicalities
00:44:09.600 doesn't mean
00:44:10.100 they weren't
00:44:10.460 debunked.
00:44:11.440 So almost
00:44:12.220 everything that
00:44:12.960 I saw claimed
00:44:13.780 was either
00:44:14.360 ridiculous on
00:44:15.640 the surface,
00:44:16.380 the Venezuela
00:44:16.820 stuff, or
00:44:17.980 was debunked
00:44:19.880 by somebody
00:44:20.460 who had
00:44:21.100 enough information
00:44:21.900 to debunk
00:44:22.580 it.
00:44:23.340 There are
00:44:23.620 a few
00:44:23.780 things that
00:44:24.460 I haven't
00:44:24.820 heard of
00:44:25.080 debunked
00:44:25.480 for, but
00:44:25.840 that doesn't
00:44:26.240 mean they're
00:44:26.540 not debunked.
00:44:28.160 All right.
00:44:30.440 I've never
00:44:31.020 heard of this
00:44:31.460 book, Sinclair's
00:44:32.480 book.
00:44:32.960 All right, one
00:44:33.340 other thing I
00:44:33.880 want to leave
00:44:34.280 you before I
00:44:35.220 go.
00:44:38.260 My profile,
00:44:39.960 if you will,
00:44:40.640 in this realm
00:44:41.620 of talking
00:44:42.400 about, I
00:44:43.720 guess, politics
00:44:44.400 and life and
00:44:45.320 strategies and
00:44:45.960 stuff, has
00:44:47.300 been increasing
00:44:49.680 over time with
00:44:50.540 these live
00:44:50.960 streams, and
00:44:52.120 there's a weird
00:44:52.880 thing happening
00:44:53.400 which is people
00:44:54.020 are sending me
00:44:54.740 massive amounts
00:44:55.800 of research
00:44:56.760 material and
00:44:58.520 gigantic emails
00:44:59.860 with multiple
00:45:00.920 points, and
00:45:02.340 usually it's
00:45:02.880 because they
00:45:03.300 want to win
00:45:03.920 me over to
00:45:04.420 their side
00:45:05.040 because they
00:45:05.580 think I'll
00:45:06.200 be a good
00:45:06.600 advocate, or
00:45:07.380 they're filling
00:45:07.860 in some
00:45:08.260 blanks, something
00:45:09.480 they think I
00:45:10.020 should know to
00:45:10.560 make my
00:45:11.180 presentation
00:45:12.040 better.
00:45:13.080 So what I
00:45:13.580 want to tell
00:45:13.920 you is that I
00:45:15.340 can't look at
00:45:15.960 all those.
00:45:17.040 There are so
00:45:17.940 many things
00:45:18.560 being sent to
00:45:19.220 me now, just
00:45:20.340 long emails
00:45:21.600 and complicated
00:45:22.840 messages, and
00:45:24.040 you know, what
00:45:25.160 do you think of
00:45:25.620 this book?
00:45:28.680 So most
00:45:29.640 things I
00:45:30.160 won't be able
00:45:30.600 to respond
00:45:31.100 to, some
00:45:31.760 things I'll
00:45:32.180 be able to
00:45:32.720 skim, but
00:45:34.160 somebody says,
00:45:35.860 how do we
00:45:36.220 email?
00:45:37.100 Don't, don't.
00:45:39.480 I'm telling
00:45:40.100 you, don't
00:45:40.620 email me, because
00:45:41.720 it's a waste
00:45:42.180 of time.
00:45:44.100 If you had
00:45:44.740 asked me six
00:45:45.360 months ago, I
00:45:46.160 would say, yeah,
00:45:46.700 send me a
00:45:47.080 message, I'll
00:45:48.100 take a look.
00:45:48.640 But I
00:45:49.500 can guarantee
00:45:50.180 you that you
00:45:51.280 have a very
00:45:51.880 low chance of
00:45:52.820 me looking at
00:45:53.460 anything that's
00:45:54.160 more than, say,
00:45:56.100 several sentences.
00:45:57.820 So anything
00:45:58.520 beyond several
00:45:59.520 sentences, just
00:46:00.480 assume I'm not
00:46:01.260 going to look at
00:46:01.740 it, even if
00:46:03.120 it's valuable, and
00:46:04.020 even if I
00:46:04.480 should, and even
00:46:05.960 if I ask for
00:46:06.660 it.
00:46:07.680 I just don't
00:46:08.380 have the capacity
00:46:09.080 at the moment.
00:46:10.020 All right, I'm
00:46:10.480 going to be
00:46:10.840 trying today to
00:46:11.920 go and take a
00:46:12.940 honeymoon.
00:46:14.220 Yes, a
00:46:14.960 delayed honeymoon.
00:46:15.780 I will keep
00:46:17.100 from you my
00:46:17.840 secret location.
00:46:19.360 If all goes
00:46:20.260 well, the next
00:46:20.960 time you hear
00:46:21.480 from me will
00:46:22.080 be from not
00:46:23.840 this room.
00:46:25.560 I think there
00:46:26.440 will be at
00:46:26.780 least one day
00:46:27.740 in which I
00:46:28.560 will be
00:46:28.820 traveling during
00:46:29.920 the time of
00:46:31.940 the SIP.
00:46:34.280 So if there's
00:46:35.320 one day you
00:46:35.880 don't see me
00:46:36.460 by 7.02, and
00:46:39.100 I haven't
00:46:39.560 tweeted about
00:46:40.180 it, probably
00:46:41.180 I'm not going
00:46:41.620 to show up
00:46:41.980 that day, but
00:46:42.540 it should be
00:46:42.900 just one day.
00:46:43.960 Otherwise, as
00:46:45.060 long as they
00:46:45.560 have Wi-Fi, and
00:46:50.980 yes, it's my
00:46:52.320 honeymoon.
00:46:52.880 Yes, Christina's
00:46:53.680 going with me on
00:46:54.500 my honeymoon, but
00:46:55.660 thanks for
00:46:56.000 asking.
00:46:58.560 Yeah, it's a
00:46:59.180 delayed honeymoon
00:46:59.780 because we got
00:47:00.340 married during
00:47:01.320 COVID, so we're
00:47:03.140 trying to figure
00:47:03.640 out what works
00:47:04.240 and what doesn't.
00:47:05.200 I'll tell you
00:47:05.760 later where it's
00:47:08.680 at, but for now
00:47:09.660 you don't need to
00:47:10.240 know, and I'll
00:47:11.220 talk to you
00:47:11.900 tomorrow, I
00:47:14.220 think.
00:47:14.480 I think I'll
00:47:14.960 talk to you
00:47:15.320 tomorrow.
00:47:18.420 All right, bye
00:47:19.200 for now.