Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1268 Scott Adams： Sunday Coffee and Headlines

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody. Come on in. Come on in. It's time. It's time for Coffee with Scott Adams.

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00:01:04.880 So let me tell you about all the interesting news today.

00:01:13.800 Okay, there wasn't any interesting news today, because there's this fellow, you may have heard

00:01:19.940 of him. Donald Trump. He's not in the news as much anymore. And turns out there isn't any news

00:01:28.340 when he's not there. But we can still talk about him, even though he's not in the news. Yeah,

00:01:34.340 we still have that. It's sort of like trying to get off a heroin. And you have that whatever that

00:01:40.700 drug is you take when you're trying to get off heroin. That's what we got. So let's have a little

00:01:45.420 bit of that. So a Cardiff University study of Chinese social media influence discovered that

00:01:55.500 one of the things that the Chinese were pushing was the claim that Trump had said to drink bleach.

00:02:04.240 That's right. So now there's a study that shows that China was boosting the hoax that Trump had said

00:02:16.480 drink bleach. Now, of course, the hoax is started by our own media. So you can't really blame China

00:02:23.060 for. So basically, all China needed to do to, to influence our elections is retweet CNN hoaxes.

00:02:34.640 And I'm looking at it, and I'm saying, damn, you, China, China. Wait a minute. Is that really

00:02:42.240 China influencing the elections? Because all they did was use social media and retweet some stuff they

00:02:48.400 liked, which I'm pretty sure is legal. You can retweet things you agree with, right? Now, of course,

00:02:56.560 I don't know how many accounts were involved, but apparently not a lot. It was like dozens of accounts.

00:03:02.160 Did it make any difference to our election? Probably not. But I would just point out that China and CNN

00:03:10.440 were apparently on the same side when it comes to the bleach drinking hoax, which even today people are

00:03:17.820 arguing with me online. But that really happened, Scott. I saw it with my own eyes. Here's a link to

00:03:24.480 it. And of course, the link doesn't have it. But they think they actually sent a link with something

00:03:31.460 about Trump saying drink bleach, but it's not there. It's kind of spooky. Speaking of believing things that

00:03:40.760 don't exist. The Q phenomenon needs to be understood very differently than the way it's being portrayed.

00:03:51.540 So I think CNN's take on it is that there are people who believed in Q, and they're crazy people.

00:03:58.580 And then there are people like CNN's hosts who don't believe in the Q stuff. And they are

00:04:05.200 reasonable people. People with good brains that are working really well. They're seeing the world about the

00:04:14.180 way it is. Pretty accurate. But those other people, those Q people, according to CNN, they're a crazy bunch.

00:04:23.880 We don't even know what's going on there. Let's just laugh at it. Let's just laugh at it.

00:04:28.380 But is that a good description of what's happening in the world? Well, I would have said so before I

00:04:36.780 became a hypnotist. You hear about this too much for me already. But the one of the main things that

00:04:43.700 you learn to learn to be a hypnotist is that everybody is Q. Everybody is a Q believer. If you

00:04:55.020 don't get that, then you can't be a persuader. You can't be a hypnotist. It's a basic understanding

00:05:01.900 of how people are wired. If you don't understand the basic way a human being, any human being,

00:05:08.980 normal human being, if you don't understand the basic way we're wired, you just can't be a hypnotist.

00:05:14.580 It just doesn't work because you wouldn't have the most fundamental understanding.

00:05:18.100 And the most fundamental understanding is this. Every one of you is a Q believer. Every one of us.

00:05:27.260 We just believe different stuff. Maybe you believe the Q stuff. Maybe I believe a religion that you

00:05:35.540 think is a cult. Maybe I believe a religion that you think was wrong. Maybe I believe something I saw

00:05:43.320 in the news on CNN. But it didn't really happen. And it should be obvious it didn't happen. But people

00:05:49.420 believe it. Here are some of the things that Q believers do not believe. We've heard the things

00:05:57.680 that Q believers believe. And then those who don't believe that stuff, which is most of us, say,

00:06:04.980 ha ha ha, ha ha, ha ha, the Q believers. Right? They're crazy people. Here are some things that

00:06:12.620 the Q believers don't believe. Okay? These are the things they don't believe. Most of them. You know,

00:06:19.980 it's a generalization. Mostly they don't believe in the fine people hoax. They don't believe in the

00:06:27.200 bleach drinking hoax. They don't believe the hoax that there was something like a real coup attempt at

00:06:33.700 the Capitol assault. They don't believe that it's been proven that elections were transparent or that

00:06:41.640 it's been proven that fraud didn't happen. It is true that it has not been proven that fraud happened

00:06:47.700 at a widespread level. So while there is no information that it's been proven, there's no

00:06:56.240 information that it's been proven to be transparent either, which is a common belief. The Democrats

00:07:03.460 seem to have that it was a transparent election. Now, those are things that Q believers don't

00:07:10.020 believe. How many of the people who watched the CNN special about the Q believers sat there in their

00:07:18.860 little stupid chairs saying, ho ho ho, look at the things those idiots believe. At the same time,

00:07:26.400 they believed everything CNN told them for years. That's what's actually happening.

00:07:34.640 Somebody says, why are you defending Q? Why are you so fucking stupid that you think I'm defending Q?

00:07:41.920 What's wrong with you? Seriously? How could you fucking listen to this and say, why are you defending Q?

00:07:53.360 That's like the dumbest fucking thing anybody's said in months.

00:07:56.880 No. The point is, they're not any worse in any way than any of you idiots, right? And that includes me. So we're all idiots. So I don't put you in the idiot class and then not put myself there. Human beings are fucking idiots.

00:08:19.080 We're all idiots. We're all idiots. We're just idiots in different ways. All right? So I was playing, we've been playing Trivial Pursuit, Christine and I have, and some of our downtime. So not Trivial Pursuit per se, but we've been playing on these online trivia games.

00:08:35.960 And it is fascinating to play online trivia with someone who's also very smart, but the things they know about are different than the things you know about. And you realize, like, for example, I learned I don't know anything about the planets.

00:08:55.220 Nothing. Turns out the solar system is like this big, you know, black box. I knew there was planets. I just didn't really care about them too much.

00:09:04.260 What's the biggest planet? Let's see how much you know about planets. What's the biggest planet, without looking it up? I think it's Jupiter, right? How many moons do each of the planets have? Do you know that?

00:09:20.220 Well, here are the planets in order. I think you got your, what's closest? You got your Mercury, and your Venus, your Earth, your Mars, your Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in that order. Did you know that? I didn't know it until the other day.

00:09:39.640 Do you know how many moons each of the planets have? Well, Mercury, closest to the Sun, in terms of how close they are to the Sun. Mercury is zero, Venus zero, Earth one, Mars two, and then I think it's Saturn with like 79 moons.

00:10:02.520 And then it goes to Uranus, and then 24, and something else, 14, 27, 14. So look how much I don't know about the solar system I'm in. Pluto, don't give me your Pluto. I don't need any Pluto stuff.

00:10:25.420 Let's not call Pluto a planet. Let's go with the consensus. Anyway, my point is that everybody has blind spots. Everybody has stuff that they think is true that isn't. Everybody has gigantic gaps in their common understanding of the world. And I'm no different. You're no different.

00:10:47.760 So as soon as you tell yourself that the Q people have some kind of weird mental problem, you don't understand anything about the world. It's the most basic understanding that you need to have about reality is that the Q believers are normal. They're not right. They're just normal.

00:11:10.780 Just like you. Just like you. They just believe different stuff, and you believe other stuff that isn't true. For the most part, we're all in that category.

00:11:19.600 All right. So COVID hospitalizations have dropped below 100,000 for the first time in nearly two months. And that's not enough to celebrate, yes, but yet. But could be the turning point.

00:11:38.600 Because correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't the pandemic still be getting worse? Because we're right smack dab in the middle of the winterest time, right?

00:11:53.380 So I would think, all things being equal, the virus should have continued getting worse through February, unless we were doing things that worked.

00:12:03.380 So one of the things you should know is that although the vaccinations have only gotten to, what, 5% or 10% of the population, if they get the 5% or 10% that matter the most, first, you should probably guess something like, I'm just going to put a guess on this, but I'll bet that 10% to 20% of the public being vaccinated would be something like a 50% reduction in deaths.

00:12:33.380 If you vaccinated the right people, right? If you get the people most at risk of actually dying from it, the old people, and the most risk of getting it, the frontline workers, let's say, you should be able to take 50% right off the death rate in maybe another month.

00:12:50.980 The last 50% is going to be tough. But the first 50% you should get fairly quickly, and I think we might be just a week or two away from seeing a pretty steep drop. So we'll see.

00:13:05.360 I'm being an optimist. Maybe the numbers don't quite work that way, but it should make a difference if you get the ones who are going to die. If you protect them, that should make a big difference.

00:13:15.120 All right. Apparently, five of, I guess all of them, I think, Trump's impeachment defense attorneys all quit a little more than a week before the trial is going to be set.

00:13:30.000 And somebody who's familiar with the discussion says that the reason that they quit is that Trump wanted the attorneys to argue there was a mass election fraud and that the election was stolen.

00:13:42.000 Now, does that sound familiar? So that's exactly what I said Trump should do, because he's not going to get convicted in the Senate, and he's never made his argument.

00:13:56.220 His argument has always been made by, you know, hyperbole, and it's always, you know, the bad claims, and if there are any good claims, we haven't heard them yet.

00:14:05.080 But if the bad claims are the ones getting all the attention.

00:14:09.900 So Trump has never had qualified people stand in front of the whole public and just tell them what he believes to be true, you know, with whatever is the best information they have without the crazy Venezuela and stuff, etc.

00:14:24.680 Now, how much would you like to see Trump just make his case for what he was thinking about the election security?

00:14:37.260 I'd really, really like to see it. And I think the country would be better off, actually. I think we actually need to get past it.

00:14:44.640 Now, my guess is that if you were going to see some kind of, you know, a kill shot, probably you would have seen it by now, right?

00:14:54.640 So it could be that all that happens is that Trump makes his case, everybody on both sides looks at it, it gets completely debunked by people who are credible,

00:15:04.160 and then the public says, okay, all those Republicans who thought the election was stolen, you've seen the best case made, you've seen it debunked, can we move on?

00:15:16.840 That could be a possibility, right? Would that be bad?

00:15:20.100 Would it be bad for the Republicans who still harbor some feelings about the election to just sort of get it out of their system?

00:15:27.180 Let's just put it all out there. There's a little time has gone by, so it's not as red hot as it was.

00:15:31.760 Just put it out there. Let the debunkers debunk. Let's just see what we know and what we don't, and maybe it tells us how to fix it for next time.

00:15:42.120 I feel as though the temperature has come down enough that we could talk about it now, for the first time, really, because people are too excited about it might change the outcome if you talk about it.

00:15:55.220 Somebody says, you lost. Get over it, loser.

00:16:01.760 Goodbye.

00:16:03.400 I don't think you quite understand what's going on here, cuke, but you're gone.

00:16:11.460 I think the country needs to hear the argument and also hear the debunk of the argument,

00:16:17.840 and that really hasn't been done to, let's say, the satisfaction of the public.

00:16:23.920 Now, some will say it's been done to the satisfaction of the courts.

00:16:26.900 I don't believe that to be true. I believe the courts sort of had a casual acquaintance with some of the claims that were more ridiculous than the others.

00:16:39.360 The courts sort of had a brushing, glancing relationship with the claims.

00:16:47.040 So, I'd like to hear it. Let's hear the claims.

00:16:51.600 And by the way, if every claim turned out to be ridiculous, a lot of the claims that we've heard are clearly ridiculous,

00:16:59.740 but if they all turned out to be ridiculous, and every one of them were debunked right in front of you,

00:17:07.300 wouldn't that be better than what we have now?

00:17:10.640 Because what we have now is, you know, people not so confident in the result.

00:17:17.160 But I'd like to have more confidence, so why can't we put it out there?

00:17:21.900 Let the people who want to embarrass Trump and whoever backs his claims, let them do it.

00:17:28.720 If Trump wants to make the argument in public, I feel like it's a public service.

00:17:33.820 Because it would be more a referendum on the transparency of our election system in general than it would be about any specific claims.

00:17:42.380 Because nothing's going to be reversed at this point.

00:17:45.060 But we still have interest about the next election.

00:17:49.400 So let's put it out there.

00:17:51.100 Let's see if the public says, yeah, that's been debunked and we can move on.

00:17:58.980 Well, unless he has some complaints that can't be debunked.

00:18:01.880 Here's what I would expect to come out of it.

00:18:05.580 I would expect to see some statistical claims that maybe you haven't seen before that would be short of proof.

00:18:14.480 But certainly strong enough to, you know, give you some suspicion that maybe we should look into this a little more.

00:18:21.840 Probably enough to make you work harder to fix the integrity of the system so that it's more transparent.

00:18:29.820 If all we get out of it is more transparency for the next election, that's a lot.

00:18:34.500 That would be a lot to get out of it.

00:18:36.480 And I wouldn't sneeze at that.

00:18:37.860 That could be a great public service, actually, if done right.

00:18:41.040 If done wrong, it's just a good show.

00:18:43.520 Which would be okay, too.

00:18:44.640 So Russia has arrested over 1,000 people who are protesting in favor of this critic of Putin's, this Navalny guy who was poisoned but lived.

00:18:59.520 People assume that Putin tried to kill him.

00:19:02.720 And I guess he's got some popular support because there are protests in Russia.

00:19:09.080 But I wonder if the U.S. is behind any of that.

00:19:14.700 Do you think the U.S. or, I don't know, Great Britain or anybody, do you think anybody is helping the protesters a little bit?

00:19:24.760 Wouldn't you assume they are?

00:19:26.300 Don't you assume that in the Biden administration, since we know that Hillary Clinton was at least accused of helping the protesters moving against Putin back in Hillary's day,

00:19:40.860 wouldn't you assume that Biden is doing a similar thing?

00:19:43.340 You know, trying to move against Russia by, you know, giving their opposition a little bit of a hand or a little bit of a push, maybe just propaganda-wise, maybe, you know, maybe just propaganda.

00:19:59.200 Yeah, why not?

00:20:00.160 I mean, I assume that everybody's doing it to everybody.

00:20:02.980 So I guess we'll never know.

00:20:05.720 There was one of the claims by the critic is that Putin has this secret mansion that's just super gaudy and it's got a giant aquarium and stuff in it.

00:20:18.920 And Putin says that's not his and doesn't belong to anybody he's close to.

00:20:23.940 To which I say, does any of that matter?

00:20:28.060 Is there somebody who thinks that Putin doesn't have a nice house?

00:20:31.120 If you found out that Putin's house was a little bit nicer than you thought it was, or he found out he had more homes than you thought he had, would that change anything?

00:20:42.480 Is there somebody who thinks that Putin is living like a monk?

00:20:45.520 He's probably one of the richest people in the world, you know, given that he essentially controls the wealth of Russia.

00:20:52.680 So I'm not sure that the critic has much on him, given that it's just what everybody would assume.

00:20:59.180 He's living like a king.

00:21:03.440 All right, so we'll keep an eye on that.

00:21:07.700 Here's, in propaganda news, have you seen the phrase, the big lie?

00:21:14.780 I think CNN uses it, maybe on MSNBC.

00:21:18.180 The big lie with capital B, capital L.

00:21:21.900 Now, I believe that the origin of that phrase, the big lie, comes from Nazi propaganda.

00:21:27.660 And the idea that the bigger the lie, the more likely you can get people to believe it.

00:21:33.260 If a lie is so big and outrageous, people are actually more likely to believe it.

00:21:39.080 You can see the Q phenomenon is one of those examples.

00:21:42.580 The Q was such a big, crazy claim that the very bigness of it makes it look convincing.

00:21:49.400 It's small claims that you can doubt.

00:21:51.480 It's like, hey, did somebody do something?

00:21:53.160 I don't know, I doubt it.

00:21:54.100 But you make it big enough, and people will just sort of buy into it, because it's so big.

00:21:59.080 The bigness actually is part of selling it.

00:22:01.840 So that's what the Democrats have decided that anybody who's claiming there was a problem with the election

00:22:08.080 are part of the, quote, big lie.

00:22:11.740 Basically painting them as Nazis.

00:22:14.980 Right?

00:22:16.100 Basically painting them as Nazis.

00:22:18.100 And basically painting me by association.

00:22:20.900 Right?

00:22:22.620 And I'd like to give a shout-out to the propaganda masters who have done this.

00:22:28.840 The branding of the election claims as being the big lie is really good Nazi propaganda.

00:22:36.140 Because what they've done is they've projected their own fault on other people,

00:22:42.500 turned it into the big lie, put a brand on it, and actually sold it.

00:22:48.320 They actually sold it to the people who were complaining about transparency.

00:22:54.080 They said, your claim of fraud is the big lie,

00:22:58.720 rather than the claim that the election was transparent.

00:23:02.640 Which one's the big lie?

00:23:04.020 Is it true that the election was transparent?

00:23:10.140 I haven't seen any evidence of that.

00:23:12.920 I've seen evidence that people have not found proof there was widespread fraud.

00:23:17.460 I agree that that's a completely true statement in terms of the courts.

00:23:24.160 Yeah.

00:23:25.440 And if I'm going to be objective about pointing out who has good technique,

00:23:30.840 as opposed to who is right and wrong, which is a separate question,

00:23:36.040 you can decide who's right and wrong.

00:23:38.080 But in terms of the propaganda and persuasion technique,

00:23:41.700 this is good Nazi technique.

00:23:44.140 So the Democrats are using fairly tried-and-true Nazi methods for propaganda,

00:23:50.580 and it's really working well.

00:23:51.980 I guess that's why Hitler was as successful as he was,

00:23:57.200 and the Democrats are borrowing that technique here, and it works.

00:24:00.840 Here's what I tweeted this morning, and I don't know if I'm canceled yet.

00:24:07.460 I should probably check Twitter and see if I'm still on there.

00:24:12.620 Let's see if I got canceled.

00:24:14.700 Let's see if I still have an account.

00:24:17.340 Boom, boom, boom.

00:24:19.740 Let's see.

00:24:20.760 Does Scott still have an account?

00:24:23.200 That looks like it.

00:24:24.120 I haven't been canceled yet.

00:24:25.080 All right, what I tweeted this morning, maybe gone by the end of the day,

00:24:31.600 I said, as I often say, and you've heard me say this, right?

00:24:35.360 I've often said that I'm 100% in favor of referring to people

00:24:39.500 by their preferred pronouns and labels.

00:24:43.380 I think that's just good manners.

00:24:46.920 I know some of you are, you know, incensed.

00:24:49.620 Why are they making me use these words when I want to use the other words

00:24:53.600 that I've always used?

00:24:55.440 Why must I use your pronoun?

00:24:57.800 Why must I call you, you know, this word when the other word used to be fine?

00:25:03.420 And I hear what you're saying.

00:25:05.900 It's annoying to you.

00:25:07.440 You feel like maybe they're taking advantage of you or something like that.

00:25:11.060 But to me, the biggest factor is just good manners.

00:25:16.740 If somebody says, this word for me makes me feel uncomfortable,

00:25:20.500 but this other word for me does not, what am I going to do with that?

00:25:25.540 I'm not going to use the word that makes them uncomfortable

00:25:27.880 because I'm used to it, right?

00:25:31.160 Wouldn't good manners, just pure good manners,

00:25:34.480 should tell you to call people what they would like to be called.

00:25:38.000 That's it.

00:25:38.520 If you think it's a political thing, if it's Democrat versus Republican,

00:25:43.620 it's not any of that.

00:25:45.340 It's just good manners.

00:25:48.340 I'm watching violent disagreement by some of you in the comments.

00:25:52.840 But I would like to take their, take that theme

00:25:57.080 that mostly people on the left are pushing,

00:26:00.080 that there are, you know, preferred pronouns and preferred labels,

00:26:03.100 and agree with it, and say, let's do more of it.

00:26:07.640 Let's do more of it.

00:26:08.680 And I would like to add to that,

00:26:10.580 that calling anybody a white supremacist,

00:26:13.440 unless they're actually a member of a group

00:26:15.460 that has that in the, you know, in the mission statement,

00:26:18.560 but calling just Republicans

00:26:20.080 and people who are

00:26:22.280 not in any way affiliated

00:26:24.200 with any kind of racist organization,

00:26:26.480 calling them white supremacists,

00:26:28.120 I want to put that out there

00:26:30.680 that that's basically the N-word

00:26:32.560 for white people.

00:26:35.540 When somebody refers to me that way,

00:26:37.880 as happens, you know, about three times a day

00:26:39.860 on social media,

00:26:41.680 the way I receive it

00:26:43.220 would be a way I would imagine

00:26:46.260 somebody would receive the N-word.

00:26:47.880 It's the way I would imagine

00:26:50.040 somebody would receive

00:26:51.080 being called the wrong pronoun.

00:26:53.680 It's the way I would imagine

00:26:55.480 people would receive

00:26:57.280 using the insulting word for them

00:27:00.260 instead of, you know, the polite word.

00:27:02.700 Now, I'm not going to say

00:27:04.280 it's a contest, right?

00:27:06.700 If somebody says,

00:27:07.720 no, the N-word is worse than all the other words,

00:27:10.840 I would say, yeah,

00:27:11.560 you can make a pretty good argument for that.

00:27:13.400 I'd probably agree with it.

00:27:14.660 I think the N-word is

00:27:15.680 maybe the worst of all words,

00:27:18.340 you know, if you were going to list

00:27:19.200 all the words in the English language,

00:27:21.560 you could make a pretty good case

00:27:23.260 that the N-word is the worst word.

00:27:26.480 So, I'll give you that.

00:27:28.200 But in terms of how it feels

00:27:31.220 when you're on the receiving end of it,

00:27:33.340 I would like to ask for the same consideration

00:27:36.020 that I would like to grant other people.

00:27:40.200 I grant other people

00:27:41.940 absolute right under

00:27:45.500 all rules of social behavior

00:27:48.040 and manners

00:27:48.780 to be called exactly what they want.

00:27:51.180 Now, of course,

00:27:51.880 if they want to be called

00:27:52.780 king and lord,

00:27:55.160 I might resist that a little bit.

00:27:57.100 But if somebody has a,

00:27:58.160 you know,

00:27:58.900 a proper name for the group

00:28:00.340 that they belong to,

00:28:01.420 I'm happy to use that word.

00:28:02.700 I would just like to ask the same.

00:28:04.300 I would like to ask the same

00:28:05.740 that if anybody uses

00:28:06.780 the white supremacist label

00:28:09.620 about people who are not,

00:28:11.580 you know,

00:28:12.440 directly involved

00:28:13.240 in that kind of behavior,

00:28:14.580 that that should be

00:28:15.660 a firing offense.

00:28:18.560 I think that you should lose your job

00:28:20.860 for calling somebody

00:28:22.660 a white supremacist.

00:28:24.900 Unless, like I say,

00:28:26.020 they're actually a member

00:28:26.780 of the Ku Klux Klan.

00:28:27.920 That's fine.

00:28:29.120 But calling, say,

00:28:30.400 a politician

00:28:31.140 or just a supporter

00:28:33.980 or calling the people in queue

00:28:36.380 or the rally people,

00:28:38.140 calling them white supremacists

00:28:38.860 should be a cause

00:28:40.580 for losing your job.

00:28:42.620 And if that's not

00:28:44.980 immediately true,

00:28:46.600 well, maybe the Republicans

00:28:47.740 should push a little on that.

00:28:49.940 Maybe we should make that

00:28:51.400 something that costs you your job.

00:28:53.500 Because it's only up to the people

00:28:55.400 who are being called the name

00:28:57.020 to decide whether that's inappropriate.

00:29:01.440 And I think that it's just time

00:29:03.880 to say that the white supremacist label

00:29:06.940 is essentially the N-word

00:29:08.860 for white people.

00:29:10.140 Again, it's not a contest.

00:29:13.520 If you want to tell me

00:29:14.480 the N-word's worse than all words,

00:29:16.500 I'd agree with that.

00:29:17.580 But you see the point, right?

00:29:18.920 You see the point?

00:29:21.880 So, when you tell me

00:29:24.720 that we must push back

00:29:26.380 against people trying to

00:29:28.100 push you to act

00:29:29.900 and be a certain way,

00:29:32.060 I say,

00:29:33.680 why not adopt their rule

00:29:34.960 and see if they like it.

00:29:36.960 So, adopting the rule

00:29:38.740 that calling somebody

00:29:39.740 a white supremacist

00:29:40.720 should be a firing offense.

00:29:42.760 It should be the last time

00:29:43.900 you do business with a company.

00:29:45.900 If they use that,

00:29:46.900 the last time you vote for somebody.

00:29:49.000 It should be automatic.

00:29:51.800 All right.

00:29:57.340 Scott thinks conservatives

00:29:58.620 have rights.

00:30:00.060 Well, you only have the rights

00:30:01.540 that you assert, right?

00:30:03.220 That's one of the weird parts

00:30:06.940 of the law,

00:30:08.140 that you could have a right,

00:30:10.180 but if you don't assert it,

00:30:12.440 you sort of lose it

00:30:13.760 by not using it.

00:30:15.220 You know, there's some context

00:30:16.200 where that's true.

00:30:18.280 And this is one of those.

00:30:19.880 I think you don't have the right

00:30:21.360 to anything if you don't assert it.

00:30:23.720 So, if you assert it,

00:30:25.320 you can create the right.

00:30:27.580 But if you don't assert it,

00:30:28.920 it doesn't matter

00:30:30.160 if it's in the Constitution.

00:30:32.060 That's not going to help you.

00:30:33.300 You've got to assert it

00:30:34.360 to make it real.

00:30:37.300 Somebody says,

00:30:38.220 fight fire with fire.

00:30:39.180 And I say, no.

00:30:40.860 Fight sugar with sugar.

00:30:44.100 You don't have to be unkind.

00:30:46.160 It doesn't have to be a fight.

00:30:47.860 You just need to agree.

00:30:49.780 If you use these words,

00:30:51.340 that's over the line.

00:30:52.440 If you say,

00:30:53.100 I use these words,

00:30:54.020 that's over the line.

00:30:54.900 Let's agree.

00:30:56.240 Let's agree there's some words

00:30:57.660 over the line

00:30:58.360 and the affected group

00:31:00.480 gets to say

00:31:01.140 what words are acceptable.

00:31:02.740 I find that standard

00:31:04.100 completely reasonable.

00:31:05.800 Completely.

00:31:06.920 Now, yesterday,

00:31:08.640 I did a micro lesson

00:31:10.540 on the locals platform

00:31:12.200 that you haven't seen here.

00:31:14.100 And some people said,

00:31:15.520 but Scott,

00:31:17.740 why can you ever,

00:31:19.160 why do you agree with the left

00:31:20.560 when they say

00:31:21.200 you use these pronouns

00:31:22.240 or whatever?

00:31:23.020 Because they never,

00:31:24.100 they never give in

00:31:25.920 to the right.

00:31:27.660 To which I say,

00:31:29.700 I don't know if that's true.

00:31:31.460 Are you saying that the left

00:31:32.540 never gives an inch

00:31:34.240 and only the right

00:31:36.060 gives in

00:31:36.920 to whatever,

00:31:38.760 whatever they think

00:31:39.900 the topic requires?

00:31:42.420 I would say,

00:31:43.400 I don't know.

00:31:44.380 Let's see with the Supreme Court.

00:31:47.100 If the Democrats

00:31:48.380 do not increase

00:31:50.800 the number of

00:31:51.700 people on the court,

00:31:54.000 then I would say

00:31:55.640 that they accepted

00:31:56.560 a lot.

00:31:58.600 That would be

00:31:59.120 accepting a lot.

00:32:00.360 If you were a Democrat,

00:32:01.920 it's got to be

00:32:02.720 pretty tough

00:32:03.520 to accept

00:32:04.140 what happened

00:32:04.760 at the Supreme Court.

00:32:06.280 You know,

00:32:06.500 the nominations

00:32:07.180 that Trump did.

00:32:08.760 Kind of tough

00:32:09.440 to accept.

00:32:10.520 But if they don't

00:32:11.460 pack the court,

00:32:12.680 they accepted it.

00:32:14.460 That's a pretty big deal.

00:32:15.380 Right?

00:32:16.580 Now,

00:32:17.540 and then I heard

00:32:18.840 the argument

00:32:19.240 that if

00:32:20.080 they're forcing you

00:32:21.320 to use,

00:32:21.940 I don't know,

00:32:22.320 pronouns

00:32:22.760 or use certain words

00:32:24.120 about people,

00:32:25.300 that you're losing

00:32:27.100 somehow

00:32:27.740 and they're winning

00:32:29.320 because they forced you

00:32:30.700 to do something

00:32:31.300 but you didn't force them

00:32:32.360 to do anything.

00:32:33.420 To which I say,

00:32:34.900 I don't know.

00:32:36.720 Why is everything

00:32:37.840 framed as a battle?

00:32:39.820 You don't really

00:32:40.760 have to frame this one

00:32:41.800 as a fight.

00:32:43.040 You can just say,

00:32:44.640 we always had manners.

00:32:46.680 We had manners before.

00:32:48.220 We'll always have

00:32:50.780 good manners.

00:32:51.640 It's not a new thing.

00:32:52.980 The fact that

00:32:53.560 some new words

00:32:54.400 are coming into

00:32:55.100 the conversation

00:32:56.520 of what is good manners

00:32:57.680 is no big deal.

00:32:58.960 That happens all the time.

00:33:00.420 Words come and go.

00:33:02.040 So I don't think

00:33:02.940 that Republicans

00:33:04.520 would be giving up

00:33:05.560 anything

00:33:06.320 by calling people

00:33:08.100 by the names

00:33:08.780 that they would like

00:33:09.340 to be called.

00:33:09.860 There's nothing given up.

00:33:11.480 It's just good manners

00:33:12.980 and you wanted that.

00:33:14.980 Who are the Republicans

00:33:16.180 who are arguing

00:33:17.100 in favor of bad manners?

00:33:20.400 Who?

00:33:21.800 Is that an argument?

00:33:23.180 I don't think so.

00:33:24.480 So if you think of it

00:33:25.420 as a fight,

00:33:26.280 yeah, I guess you're losing.

00:33:28.120 So don't think of it

00:33:29.220 as a fight.

00:33:30.320 Think of it

00:33:30.940 as a continual update

00:33:32.740 of what good manners are.

00:33:34.800 And if you want

00:33:35.440 to have good manners,

00:33:36.940 be there.

00:33:40.840 Somebody says

00:33:41.600 they're amazed

00:33:42.160 that they're agreeing

00:33:42.820 with me four times

00:33:43.760 in one periscope.

00:33:45.000 Let's see.

00:33:50.420 It's tough to remember.

00:33:52.360 I'm just looking

00:33:52.920 to see if I'm getting

00:33:53.860 much agreement

00:33:54.800 or disagreement.

00:33:57.580 Somebody says,

00:33:58.380 okay, I'm done.

00:33:59.300 I'm not going to be

00:34:00.120 giving any

00:34:00.800 good manners.

00:34:04.060 Who enforces

00:34:04.980 good manners?

00:34:05.820 Well, society does.

00:34:06.960 I mean, we do it

00:34:07.580 to each other.

00:34:08.760 That's how it works.

00:34:10.980 Now, I would say also

00:34:12.200 that at the same time

00:34:13.880 you can say

00:34:14.900 people should be called

00:34:15.840 by the words

00:34:17.060 that they prefer.

00:34:18.480 I think you also

00:34:19.520 have to say

00:34:20.160 that humans

00:34:21.400 are somewhat flawed

00:34:22.580 and they're not going

00:34:23.920 to get it right

00:34:24.460 all the time.

00:34:25.900 Right?

00:34:26.660 If you accidentally

00:34:27.840 call somebody

00:34:28.600 a he who would

00:34:29.620 prefer to be called

00:34:30.380 a she or vice versa,

00:34:31.560 how about just

00:34:34.980 correcting it

00:34:35.780 when it's pointed out?

00:34:37.120 And how about

00:34:37.500 just saying,

00:34:38.020 oh, okay,

00:34:38.620 we're normal people

00:34:39.520 who make mistakes

00:34:40.840 or we simply

00:34:41.900 didn't know

00:34:42.380 it's not a mistake

00:34:43.120 if you didn't know.

00:34:44.640 And just allow

00:34:45.980 that it's an

00:34:46.960 imperfect system.

00:34:48.020 It's the best

00:34:48.300 you can do.

00:34:49.600 All right.

00:34:51.420 Enough on that.

00:34:52.300 Have you noticed

00:34:57.260 that

00:34:57.800 there's

00:35:00.920 very little

00:35:01.680 happening

00:35:02.040 in the news?

00:35:03.800 I'm kind of

00:35:04.680 hoping for

00:35:05.220 Trump

00:35:06.760 to handle

00:35:07.460 the impeachment

00:35:08.440 the way he wants

00:35:09.540 to,

00:35:09.920 which is defending

00:35:10.700 the election

00:35:11.960 integrity

00:35:12.500 or questioning

00:35:15.040 the integrity

00:35:15.840 of the election.

00:35:16.820 That would be

00:35:17.700 entertaining

00:35:18.140 and we'd finally

00:35:18.880 have something

00:35:19.340 to talk about.

00:35:20.080 But Biden

00:35:21.320 is just

00:35:21.880 pushing through

00:35:22.740 tons of stuff

00:35:23.780 that

00:35:25.220 I don't know

00:35:26.500 how much impact

00:35:27.260 any of it's

00:35:27.760 going to have

00:35:28.080 on me.

00:35:28.880 I woke up today

00:35:30.120 and it was

00:35:31.060 sort of like

00:35:31.660 yesterday.

00:35:33.080 I don't know.

00:35:33.600 It's amazing

00:35:34.340 how many things

00:35:34.980 can change

00:35:35.820 in the government

00:35:36.600 without any of it

00:35:38.020 having any impact

00:35:38.900 on you.

00:35:40.120 I mean,

00:35:40.460 Biden just has

00:35:41.400 some kind of

00:35:41.880 record for

00:35:42.720 signing

00:35:43.780 executive orders.

00:35:46.300 I don't know

00:35:47.140 that any of it

00:35:47.840 will affect me.

00:35:50.080 Have you seen

00:35:52.160 all the

00:35:53.160 executive orders?

00:35:54.740 Do any of them

00:35:55.480 affect you?

00:35:56.980 I mean,

00:35:57.280 if you work

00:35:57.900 for the oil

00:35:58.960 industry,

00:35:59.560 you probably

00:35:59.940 get pretty

00:36:00.660 affected.

00:36:03.260 But beyond

00:36:04.040 that,

00:36:04.420 I'm just

00:36:05.240 not seeing

00:36:06.480 much effect.

00:36:08.060 Somebody says,

00:36:08.780 you're rich,

00:36:09.760 Scott.

00:36:12.080 Is that why

00:36:12.960 it's not

00:36:13.420 affecting me?

00:36:17.380 Okay,

00:36:18.040 yeah,

00:36:18.260 oil field

00:36:18.760 workers are

00:36:19.700 definitely

00:36:20.080 affected.

00:36:20.720 So the

00:36:20.940 oil industry

00:36:21.460 is directly

00:36:22.160 affected for

00:36:23.040 sure.

00:36:24.900 Somebody says,

00:36:25.600 typical rich guy

00:36:26.520 attitude.

00:36:28.040 Well,

00:36:29.420 if there's

00:36:31.260 someone here

00:36:31.820 who is

00:36:32.380 directly affected

00:36:33.280 by an

00:36:33.700 executive order,

00:36:34.720 except for the

00:36:35.420 oil industry,

00:36:36.100 that one's

00:36:36.440 obvious,

00:36:37.540 let me know.

00:36:38.660 What is it

00:36:39.580 that you've

00:36:41.500 been affected

00:36:42.000 by so far?

00:36:44.040 Somebody says,

00:36:44.680 gas prices

00:36:45.260 going up,

00:36:45.740 but have

00:36:46.080 they?

00:36:46.820 Have they

00:36:47.620 gone up

00:36:49.240 already?

00:36:50.920 It seems

00:36:51.600 like they

00:36:51.940 would,

00:36:52.300 right?

00:36:52.580 But have

00:36:52.940 they?

00:36:56.180 Somebody's

00:36:56.660 saying the

00:36:56.900 price for gas

00:36:57.460 will go up.

00:36:58.480 You know,

00:36:58.740 I'm not sure

00:36:59.200 that's even

00:37:00.200 predictable

00:37:01.300 anymore,

00:37:01.760 because the

00:37:02.800 demand for

00:37:03.480 gas,

00:37:03.980 I think,

00:37:04.440 will be

00:37:04.900 permanently

00:37:05.620 lower because

00:37:06.800 of lack

00:37:07.660 of commuting

00:37:08.880 going forward.

00:37:09.560 Yeah,

00:37:11.900 I've got a

00:37:12.480 feeling that

00:37:12.940 at least in

00:37:13.400 the short

00:37:13.760 run,

00:37:14.300 gas doesn't

00:37:15.240 have enough

00:37:15.740 demand to

00:37:16.720 go up,

00:37:17.240 but I

00:37:17.480 could be

00:37:17.740 wrong.

00:37:19.260 Oh,

00:37:19.480 increased

00:37:19.840 costs of

00:37:20.300 insulin.

00:37:20.960 Yeah,

00:37:21.160 there's one.

00:37:22.040 Now,

00:37:22.700 when you

00:37:23.980 hear these

00:37:24.360 stories about

00:37:26.180 Trump signed

00:37:27.380 something that

00:37:28.080 would lower

00:37:28.780 insulin costs,

00:37:29.980 but now

00:37:30.500 Biden has

00:37:31.600 reversed it,

00:37:32.640 don't you feel

00:37:33.180 like you're

00:37:33.500 missing a lot

00:37:34.020 of context?

00:37:35.500 I mean,

00:37:35.700 do you think

00:37:36.080 that Biden

00:37:36.600 got,

00:37:37.640 you know,

00:37:37.840 he was given

00:37:38.580 this executive

00:37:39.320 order to

00:37:39.860 sign and

00:37:40.980 said,

00:37:41.440 we're going

00:37:41.700 to raise

00:37:42.100 the price

00:37:42.500 of insulin

00:37:43.020 and he

00:37:43.800 looked at

00:37:44.220 it and

00:37:44.440 said,

00:37:44.820 well,

00:37:44.980 that's a

00:37:45.240 good idea

00:37:45.660 and then

00:37:46.440 he signed

00:37:46.820 it.

00:37:47.960 There's got

00:37:48.600 to be more

00:37:49.020 to that

00:37:49.360 story,

00:37:49.880 right?

00:37:51.100 Or is it

00:37:52.040 exactly what

00:37:52.680 it looks like

00:37:53.300 that the

00:37:53.900 pharmaceutical

00:37:54.380 industry got

00:37:55.340 to Biden

00:37:55.800 and he

00:37:56.860 just gave

00:37:57.260 them a

00:37:57.560 gift?

00:37:58.580 Was it

00:37:58.960 that?

00:37:59.820 I have a

00:38:00.500 feeling that

00:38:00.960 there was

00:38:01.220 an argument.

00:38:02.880 He might

00:38:03.500 have had a

00:38:03.900 reason,

00:38:05.220 might have

00:38:05.640 been a good

00:38:06.020 one,

00:38:06.300 might have

00:38:06.540 been a bad

00:38:06.900 one,

00:38:07.280 but I

00:38:07.700 didn't hear

00:38:08.060 it.

00:38:08.520 Did you?

00:38:08.880 Did anybody

00:38:09.680 hear it?

00:38:13.680 D.C.

00:38:14.620 statehood.

00:38:15.760 Yeah,

00:38:16.020 we'll see

00:38:16.360 where that

00:38:16.740 goes.

00:38:17.640 We'll see

00:38:18.020 where that

00:38:18.440 goes.

00:38:19.100 The most

00:38:19.600 reasonable,

00:38:20.680 likely thing

00:38:22.160 that will

00:38:22.420 happen is

00:38:22.900 that the

00:38:23.260 Democrats

00:38:23.660 will overplay

00:38:24.440 their hand

00:38:25.020 and Republicans

00:38:26.160 will surge

00:38:27.440 back eventually.

00:38:33.000 Somebody

00:38:33.600 says,

00:38:34.040 okay,

00:38:34.460 so Scott

00:38:35.360 is just

00:38:35.780 a naysayer.

00:38:36.880 here.

00:38:38.760 Now,

00:38:39.240 I think

00:38:39.680 my new

00:38:40.060 thing is

00:38:40.700 that I'm

00:38:41.100 just going

00:38:41.400 to block

00:38:42.040 anybody who

00:38:43.700 wants to

00:38:44.180 characterize

00:38:44.640 me as

00:38:45.660 always does

00:38:47.520 one thing.

00:38:49.320 So it

00:38:49.940 doesn't matter

00:38:50.340 what you

00:38:50.760 say I

00:38:51.160 always do,

00:38:52.300 but if you

00:38:52.920 say I

00:38:53.260 always do

00:38:53.640 that thing,

00:38:54.180 you're always

00:38:54.500 wrong,

00:38:55.200 because I

00:38:56.460 don't always

00:38:57.060 agree with

00:38:57.680 Trump,

00:38:58.140 I don't

00:38:58.580 always

00:38:59.060 criticize

00:38:59.560 everything,

00:39:00.700 I don't

00:39:01.280 always do

00:39:02.000 anything.

00:39:02.340 So the

00:39:04.040 worst take

00:39:04.940 about me

00:39:05.620 is,

00:39:08.180 you know,

00:39:09.000 Scott always

00:39:09.900 does this,

00:39:10.920 so,

00:39:11.840 okay,

00:39:12.500 so Scott

00:39:12.920 is a

00:39:13.200 naysayer,

00:39:13.840 says this

00:39:14.260 person that's

00:39:15.040 blocked forever,

00:39:15.920 goodbye Mike.

00:39:19.440 So I like it

00:39:20.580 when you make

00:39:20.900 comments about

00:39:21.660 the content,

00:39:22.720 but when you

00:39:23.280 make global

00:39:24.740 sweeping statements

00:39:25.960 about me that

00:39:26.820 are stupid,

00:39:27.760 I'll go block

00:39:28.560 those.

00:39:28.840 he doesn't

00:39:34.400 know what

00:39:34.680 he's signing,

00:39:35.560 yeah,

00:39:36.260 who knows,

00:39:38.400 what's your

00:39:38.980 best,

00:39:40.180 Scott has

00:39:42.160 blind spots,

00:39:43.620 what kind of

00:39:44.240 a dumb comment

00:39:45.020 is that,

00:39:46.060 Scott has

00:39:46.660 blind spots,

00:39:47.480 because there's

00:39:48.140 people who

00:39:48.540 don't,

00:39:48.900 right?

00:39:50.360 I just gave

00:39:51.200 you like a

00:39:51.800 whole presentation

00:39:53.040 about how

00:39:53.820 everybody has

00:39:54.480 blind spots,

00:39:55.760 and then your

00:39:56.280 comment is about

00:39:57.120 me,

00:39:57.940 that I have a

00:39:58.480 blind spot,

00:39:59.520 you know I'm

00:40:00.000 a person,

00:40:00.620 right?

00:40:01.220 I just went

00:40:01.960 through a whole

00:40:02.380 thing about

00:40:02.820 human beings

00:40:03.900 having different

00:40:05.020 blind spots,

00:40:06.420 so you're

00:40:08.820 going to get,

00:40:10.260 going to hide

00:40:11.560 you.

00:40:16.180 All right,

00:40:16.960 that's it for

00:40:17.500 now,

00:40:18.040 and I will

00:40:18.380 talk to you

00:40:19.060 tomorrow.

00:40:22.080 Did I seem

00:40:22.560 grumpy today?

00:40:24.620 Maybe I am.

00:40:26.220 Bye for now.

00:40:28.480 Bye for now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 31, 2021

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