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

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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, 0.95

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. 1.00

00:17:39.260 That was the initial stance.

00:17:42.280 Now, America first. 0.70

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. 0.81

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, 0.72

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 0.79

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 1.00

00:28:14.340 with China.

00:28:15.680 The Green New Deal 0.96

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 0.84

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.

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

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