Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 02, 2021


Episode 1270 Scott Adams: AOC, The Big Lie, Fake News Alert, How to Distinguish a Coup from a Selfie Opportunity


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 5 minutes

Words per Minute

146.3274

Word Count

9,642

Sentence Count

659

Misogynist Sentences

18

Hate Speech Sentences

21


Summary

It's Groundhog Day, which means it's time for Groundhog's Day! President Trump's impeachment is back in the news, and the stock market is doing what it's supposed to do. Plus, I buy a new book and a bunch of other stuff.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Come on in. Come on in. Happy Groundhog Day.
00:00:04.540 Probably one of the best holidays of the whole year.
00:00:08.060 Yeah, Groundhog Day. A lot of people like their Christmas.
00:00:12.040 They like their 4th of July, but I'm kind of a Groundhog Day
00:00:16.280 kind of a guy all the way.
00:00:19.280 And you know it's Groundhog Day because, once again,
00:00:25.280 they're trying to impeach President Trump, as they do
00:00:27.940 every year at this time. It's Groundhog Day.
00:00:32.340 I stole that joke from Joel Pollack on Twitter.
00:00:35.840 He gave...
00:00:37.760 I've been laughing all morning about how our government
00:00:42.800 has somehow become like Groundhog Day.
00:00:49.020 And I'm thinking, if you were to describe a government
00:00:52.380 that was not doing its job, and you were trying to pick
00:00:56.340 the right movie, well, you might go with the idiocracy.
00:01:01.000 But Groundhog Day would be a good one.
00:01:03.220 And if you'd like to enjoy this Groundhog Day
00:01:05.480 to its maximum potential, and I know you do,
00:01:09.200 what do you need besides a Groundhog?
00:01:12.160 I mean, you're going to need at least one Groundhog.
00:01:14.760 But you also need a copper mugger glass,
00:01:17.040 a tanker chalice, a stein, a canteen jug of flowers,
00:01:19.320 a vessel of any kind.
00:01:20.760 Fill it with your favorite liquid, not with a groundhog.
00:01:25.480 No, they don't belong in a copper mugger glass.
00:01:28.260 Fill it with your favorite liquid.
00:01:30.000 I like coffee.
00:01:31.660 Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure
00:01:33.700 of the dopamine of the day.
00:01:34.860 The thing makes everything better.
00:01:37.360 It's called the simultaneous hip.
00:01:38.820 Go.
00:01:39.040 I think we got the simultaneity right.
00:01:48.140 Sometimes I'll be off half a beat, but no.
00:01:50.240 This time I nailed it.
00:01:51.620 Nailed it.
00:01:53.300 All right.
00:01:54.380 What else is going on?
00:01:56.220 According to Rasmussen poll,
00:01:58.800 two-thirds of voters, roughly,
00:02:01.160 say that insiders manipulate the stock market.
00:02:06.720 What?
00:02:07.240 Two-thirds of citizens,
00:02:10.100 I guess it doesn't matter if you lean left or lean right.
00:02:14.240 The number's about the same.
00:02:16.040 Two-thirds of the citizens think the stock market is rigged.
00:02:21.400 Or at least that it's being manipulated by insiders.
00:02:24.820 And here's the funny part.
00:02:27.300 Who are the one-third?
00:02:29.540 Who are the one-third of this public
00:02:31.820 who don't think insiders are manipulating the stock market?
00:02:35.260 Who are these people
00:02:37.540 who believe the stock market is fair?
00:02:44.060 Andy Ngo.
00:02:45.260 You know Andy Ngo, spelled G-N-O.
00:02:48.660 You've seen lots of his videos of Antifa.
00:02:51.120 And he's got a new book coming out
00:02:53.720 that Antifa and his haters would like to cancel.
00:02:58.220 So here's Andy Ngo reporting on very important stuff
00:03:02.380 of great national interest,
00:03:04.260 the Antifa situation.
00:03:06.860 I think he was driven out of the country,
00:03:09.680 threatened.
00:03:11.160 And now he's got a book.
00:03:13.860 His book is called Unmasked.
00:03:18.480 You can find it.
00:03:19.320 Just Google Unmasked
00:03:21.260 and Andy Ngo, N-G-O.
00:03:23.860 And this is me buying his book.
00:03:26.640 Boop.
00:03:27.640 Placing my order
00:03:28.700 on Amazon.
00:03:31.700 Done.
00:03:34.100 Whenever there's a book
00:03:35.640 that somebody's trying to ban
00:03:37.400 or a person or a product,
00:03:40.460 I'm just going to automatically buy it.
00:03:43.500 So that's going to be my new habit.
00:03:45.640 I'm not going to look at the description of the product.
00:03:48.900 If it's something, you know,
00:03:50.560 in the consumer level of expense,
00:03:53.480 I'm just going to buy it.
00:03:55.400 It's just going to be automatic.
00:03:56.420 And I think Andy's book
00:03:58.800 was already number 54
00:04:00.340 on Amazon's bestseller list.
00:04:04.180 Do you know how hard it is
00:04:05.840 to be number 54
00:04:07.080 on Amazon's bestseller list?
00:04:10.560 It's pretty hard.
00:04:11.940 It's pretty hard.
00:04:13.660 But let's see if we can get him to number one.
00:04:16.240 He's number one
00:04:16.980 in all of the important political categories.
00:04:20.400 But let's see if we can get him number one
00:04:22.040 on all of Amazon.
00:04:23.180 And maybe in the future,
00:04:27.480 there will be people who say to themselves,
00:04:29.820 hey, maybe we should boycott
00:04:31.800 this product or this book.
00:04:34.000 And the moment they say it,
00:04:35.480 that should make the person
00:04:36.420 who made that book or product rich.
00:04:39.380 You should get rich
00:04:40.740 as a result of people trying to cancel you.
00:04:45.180 I can't make it happen myself,
00:04:47.100 but I can buy their products.
00:04:48.540 And if you do as well,
00:04:50.320 let's see if we can push Andy
00:04:51.560 up to number one
00:04:52.380 on principle alone.
00:04:56.200 Freedom!
00:04:57.340 Yeah, Goya beans.
00:04:58.860 I also bought the Goya
00:05:00.700 Mexican food products
00:05:03.220 that I don't think I ever ate.
00:05:05.540 I think I put it in the cupboard.
00:05:07.920 But the moment I heard
00:05:09.000 that he was going to get canceled,
00:05:10.340 the CEO of Goya Foods,
00:05:12.140 I said,
00:05:12.920 well, I'm going to get me some of that.
00:05:14.700 I went directly to the store
00:05:16.040 and bought a bunch of his products.
00:05:18.780 So that's my new habit.
00:05:20.740 If you like freedom,
00:05:22.680 maybe it could be your habit too.
00:05:26.960 AOC is making news,
00:05:28.360 as she is so good at doing.
00:05:29.980 She did a live stream,
00:05:31.140 I think it was on Instagram.
00:05:33.580 And she talked about her experience
00:05:38.040 during the Capitol assault
00:05:40.100 and that she was afraid for her life.
00:05:43.040 And she said,
00:05:45.660 I guess the first time in public,
00:05:47.380 she said that she was a survivor
00:05:48.820 of sexual abuse.
00:05:51.700 Now, I say this often,
00:05:55.340 much to your chagrin.
00:05:57.520 The same standard that I used for Trump,
00:06:00.400 I apply to AOC.
00:06:02.240 That's fair, right?
00:06:03.320 Same standard.
00:06:04.460 And the standard is,
00:06:05.480 you might like or not like
00:06:07.180 his or her policies,
00:06:09.000 but if we could just look
00:06:10.940 at their technique,
00:06:12.440 their persuasion technique,
00:06:14.120 how they communicate,
00:06:15.980 oh my God, they're good.
00:06:18.180 Right?
00:06:18.500 And AOC is, you know,
00:06:20.200 she wouldn't want to hear this,
00:06:21.440 but she is sort of the female Trump.
00:06:24.940 Probably the last thing
00:06:25.980 she'd want to hear.
00:06:26.640 But in terms of technique,
00:06:28.680 it's just A plus.
00:06:30.180 Just consistently A plus.
00:06:32.120 Just for technique.
00:06:33.220 You don't have to like her policies, right?
00:06:35.380 Separate decision.
00:06:36.160 But this, doing a live stream,
00:06:40.000 which is exactly the right way to do it,
00:06:43.000 combining her story of, you know,
00:06:46.100 her personal trauma
00:06:47.140 with surviving sexual abuse,
00:06:50.660 you could argue that doesn't belong
00:06:52.820 in the story about the capital assault,
00:06:55.880 but she made it belong.
00:06:57.640 She made it fit.
00:06:59.740 And technique-wise,
00:07:02.040 it's just really good.
00:07:03.600 Like, you could put yourself in the scene,
00:07:07.340 you could feel it,
00:07:08.760 you probably connected it
00:07:10.100 to something you've experienced before.
00:07:11.860 If you're a woman,
00:07:12.740 chances are you've had some,
00:07:14.300 you know, ugly sexual situation
00:07:17.320 in your past.
00:07:18.260 Most do, unfortunately.
00:07:20.400 So technique-wise,
00:07:21.740 it was frickin' good.
00:07:24.100 Right?
00:07:25.180 Gotta say that.
00:07:26.360 It was good.
00:07:27.360 Technique-wise.
00:07:28.640 But,
00:07:29.960 that's not the only thing to consider.
00:07:31.560 She is perpetuating
00:07:34.940 what I call the big lie.
00:07:36.480 Now, the big lie
00:07:37.280 is that the election
00:07:39.020 was known to be transparent
00:07:41.600 and free of fraud.
00:07:44.320 That's not true.
00:07:46.820 What we do know
00:07:47.760 is that no widespread fraud
00:07:49.900 was recognized by any court.
00:07:53.600 That's also true.
00:07:55.700 Right?
00:07:56.040 That's true.
00:07:56.880 There's no court
00:07:58.000 that recognized any widespread fraud
00:08:00.600 in the election.
00:08:01.700 So we can say that unambiguously
00:08:03.700 because no matter what
00:08:05.280 did or did not happen
00:08:06.900 in the election,
00:08:07.620 it's just a fact
00:08:08.480 that no court
00:08:09.960 ruled or acknowledged
00:08:13.400 any widespread fraud.
00:08:16.100 Now, it's worth saying
00:08:17.440 that the court
00:08:18.060 is not the right tool for that.
00:08:20.320 It is also true
00:08:21.420 that there is no toaster
00:08:23.340 that solved world peace.
00:08:26.060 Do you know why?
00:08:28.020 Well, toasters don't do that.
00:08:30.020 That's not one of the things
00:08:30.880 a toaster does.
00:08:31.780 A toaster is pretty good
00:08:32.640 at making toast,
00:08:34.000 except for mine.
00:08:34.920 Mine will only make toast
00:08:35.840 on one side,
00:08:36.540 but that's just my problem.
00:08:40.920 So,
00:08:41.580 it doesn't mean anything
00:08:42.740 that the courts
00:08:43.500 have not found
00:08:44.660 any widespread fraud,
00:08:45.900 but it's still a fact.
00:08:47.160 It's not a meaningful fact
00:08:48.760 because it's the wrong place
00:08:50.960 to look for fraud.
00:08:52.600 But,
00:08:53.380 that's all we have,
00:08:54.360 so they used that.
00:08:55.840 So,
00:08:56.280 the big lie
00:08:56.920 is that the election
00:08:58.200 was definitely,
00:08:59.780 definitely,
00:09:00.400 and we know it,
00:09:01.260 and we've confirmed it,
00:09:02.960 fair and free.
00:09:06.120 And,
00:09:06.720 the second part
00:09:07.600 of that big lie
00:09:08.920 is that there was
00:09:10.020 something called a coup
00:09:11.020 or an insurrection
00:09:12.980 that happened
00:09:13.900 at the Capitol,
00:09:15.480 which,
00:09:16.280 as far as I can tell,
00:09:18.000 did not happen.
00:09:19.600 I'm watching the same news
00:09:20.840 that everybody else
00:09:21.500 is watching,
00:09:22.760 and I didn't see it.
00:09:25.320 But,
00:09:26.180 she reports it
00:09:27.280 as if it's true.
00:09:28.860 Now,
00:09:29.160 here's what I find
00:09:30.060 is most interesting.
00:09:32.620 What would have happened,
00:09:34.460 and nobody,
00:09:35.400 there's nobody
00:09:36.040 who wants this to happen,
00:09:37.200 but what would have happened
00:09:38.720 if the,
00:09:40.380 the rioters,
00:09:42.140 the people
00:09:43.000 that are being called
00:09:43.880 the insurrectionists,
00:09:45.340 what if they had found
00:09:46.680 AOC
00:09:47.200 that night?
00:09:49.660 What if AOC
00:09:51.140 had actually been,
00:09:52.800 let's say,
00:09:53.340 surrounded by
00:09:54.240 the insurrectionists?
00:09:56.500 Well,
00:09:57.140 her opinion,
00:09:58.720 and I don't have
00:10:00.560 any,
00:10:00.940 you know,
00:10:01.520 proof that she's wrong,
00:10:03.180 is that she would have
00:10:03.960 been in great danger,
00:10:05.780 physical danger.
00:10:07.500 And,
00:10:08.020 I can't rule that out.
00:10:09.600 I mean,
00:10:09.920 if you have a big,
00:10:11.040 unwieldy crowd,
00:10:12.580 and,
00:10:13.400 you know,
00:10:14.380 some of them have clubs,
00:10:15.820 and whatnot,
00:10:17.340 you can't rule out
00:10:18.840 that she would have been
00:10:19.920 in big trouble.
00:10:20.980 So,
00:10:21.420 it makes sense
00:10:22.900 that she would have
00:10:23.580 seen it that way
00:10:24.440 and treated it that way,
00:10:26.160 and I wouldn't want her
00:10:27.020 to have treated it
00:10:28.180 any other way.
00:10:30.300 But,
00:10:31.180 I think there's
00:10:32.780 a blind spot here.
00:10:35.100 And again,
00:10:36.300 safety first,
00:10:37.560 so she should definitely
00:10:38.640 have,
00:10:39.980 you know,
00:10:40.360 tried to get to safety,
00:10:41.600 period.
00:10:42.620 But I don't think
00:10:44.040 AOC understands
00:10:45.540 her own power.
00:10:47.880 I don't think
00:10:48.740 she understands
00:10:49.400 her power.
00:10:50.920 And,
00:10:51.560 maybe that's good,
00:10:52.580 because if she ever
00:10:53.320 understood it,
00:10:54.140 she'd probably use it more.
00:10:55.880 But,
00:10:56.560 here's what I think.
00:10:58.800 I think if AOC
00:11:00.060 had simply walked
00:11:01.940 into the middle
00:11:02.640 of the crowd,
00:11:03.960 she would have been
00:11:04.620 perfectly safe.
00:11:06.660 That's what I think.
00:11:08.540 Now,
00:11:08.880 and I think
00:11:09.740 that the crowd
00:11:10.520 would have respected her,
00:11:12.080 and they would have stopped.
00:11:13.220 They wouldn't have stopped
00:11:14.000 everything they're doing,
00:11:15.240 but they would have
00:11:15.940 stopped and listened.
00:11:17.580 And I think
00:11:18.120 if anybody in that crowd
00:11:19.360 had tried to
00:11:19.900 mess with her,
00:11:20.760 like physically,
00:11:21.920 I think other people
00:11:23.060 in the crowd
00:11:23.540 would have taken
00:11:24.160 them out instantly.
00:11:25.900 That's what I think.
00:11:27.040 I don't think
00:11:27.920 this crowd
00:11:28.860 was going to let
00:11:30.500 a woman get hurt
00:11:31.820 right in front of them.
00:11:34.860 You know,
00:11:35.220 and certainly not
00:11:36.200 as the agent
00:11:37.700 of that trouble.
00:11:40.240 That is a complete
00:11:41.480 misreading of the crowd,
00:11:43.240 I believe.
00:11:44.060 Now,
00:11:45.220 was Mike Pence
00:11:47.020 in any danger?
00:11:49.640 He might have been,
00:11:51.060 because they were
00:11:51.720 calling for him
00:11:52.540 by name,
00:11:53.560 because he was
00:11:54.620 on their team
00:11:55.620 and wasn't doing
00:11:56.680 what they wanted.
00:11:57.760 Now,
00:11:58.080 what would the crowd
00:11:58.780 do if they saw
00:11:59.580 somebody who's known
00:12:00.620 to be on the other team
00:12:01.780 and playing
00:12:04.100 for the other team?
00:12:05.200 I think they would have
00:12:06.180 said,
00:12:06.840 oh,
00:12:07.120 you're okay.
00:12:08.000 You're doing exactly
00:12:09.040 what the other team does.
00:12:10.320 if the situation
00:12:11.940 were reversed,
00:12:12.800 we would probably be you.
00:12:14.660 They were mad
00:12:15.520 at Mike Pence
00:12:16.400 for not doing
00:12:17.900 what they imagined
00:12:18.960 he could or should do.
00:12:20.280 I don't know
00:12:20.580 if he could have done it.
00:12:22.240 But,
00:12:22.660 I don't think
00:12:24.380 this was about
00:12:25.280 Democrats.
00:12:27.100 I don't think
00:12:28.080 that anybody
00:12:28.580 who entered
00:12:29.100 that building
00:12:29.780 wanted to do
00:12:31.560 anything bad
00:12:32.660 to a Democrat.
00:12:33.000 I won't say anybody,
00:12:34.160 because it was
00:12:34.500 a big crowd.
00:12:35.400 You only need
00:12:35.860 one person
00:12:36.420 who has,
00:12:36.860 you know,
00:12:37.380 a crazy idea
00:12:38.280 for trouble to happen.
00:12:39.520 So,
00:12:40.600 like I said,
00:12:41.700 for sure
00:12:42.400 they should have
00:12:42.940 treated it
00:12:43.420 like a deadly risk.
00:12:45.300 For sure
00:12:45.860 she had a reason
00:12:46.900 to be scared.
00:12:48.500 I can definitely
00:12:49.940 see how that would
00:12:50.700 connect to any
00:12:51.360 past experiences
00:12:52.320 of trauma.
00:12:53.940 And so I think
00:12:54.440 she played it
00:12:55.080 honestly
00:12:55.600 and I think
00:12:58.460 that she's effective
00:12:59.360 as she often is.
00:13:00.860 But she definitely
00:13:02.260 underestimates
00:13:03.700 her personal power.
00:13:05.800 I think she could have
00:13:06.720 walked into the middle
00:13:07.640 of that crowd
00:13:08.520 and they would
00:13:09.520 have stopped
00:13:10.140 and they would
00:13:11.680 have listened
00:13:12.040 and they would
00:13:13.280 have protected
00:13:13.800 her.
00:13:14.740 Now,
00:13:15.240 I wouldn't
00:13:15.540 take the chance
00:13:16.300 so it would
00:13:17.580 be stupid
00:13:18.080 to try to
00:13:18.660 test this theory.
00:13:20.240 I just think
00:13:20.880 she has way
00:13:21.420 more power
00:13:21.980 than she knows
00:13:22.680 and maybe
00:13:24.780 that's good.
00:13:25.740 All right.
00:13:27.740 But she's part
00:13:28.580 of the big lie
00:13:29.240 that there was
00:13:29.960 something called
00:13:30.600 a coup
00:13:31.040 or an insurrection
00:13:31.900 and that
00:13:33.260 that's what
00:13:35.400 was actually
00:13:35.860 going on.
00:13:37.560 Meanwhile,
00:13:38.760 because the
00:13:39.380 simulation loves
00:13:40.240 us,
00:13:41.540 this big
00:13:42.020 simulation
00:13:42.640 we're in
00:13:43.160 with its
00:13:43.560 code reuse
00:13:44.480 and its
00:13:44.840 weird coincidences
00:13:45.920 and its
00:13:46.500 irony that it
00:13:47.740 serves up
00:13:48.300 so frequently.
00:13:50.060 Well,
00:13:50.520 it's serving up
00:13:51.060 some irony
00:13:51.540 over in Myanmar
00:13:53.140 that Fox News
00:13:56.380 calls Burma.
00:13:57.780 I still don't
00:13:58.600 know why.
00:13:59.040 I don't
00:14:00.240 know why
00:14:00.480 the news
00:14:00.880 calls it
00:14:01.380 two different
00:14:01.780 countries.
00:14:02.760 I'm sure
00:14:03.060 there's a
00:14:03.440 reason.
00:14:05.060 But the
00:14:05.900 CNN is
00:14:06.400 reporting that
00:14:07.240 the Biden
00:14:07.820 administration,
00:14:09.120 they can't
00:14:09.860 decide if
00:14:10.460 they want
00:14:10.740 to call
00:14:11.040 the armed
00:14:11.800 military
00:14:12.560 takeover
00:14:13.240 of the
00:14:13.720 civilian
00:14:14.160 government
00:14:14.880 in Myanmar
00:14:16.320 as a
00:14:17.460 coup or
00:14:18.220 not.
00:14:19.460 Let me
00:14:19.740 say that
00:14:20.160 again because
00:14:20.820 you'll think
00:14:21.360 you missed
00:14:22.060 something in
00:14:22.680 the sentence.
00:14:23.900 No,
00:14:24.180 you didn't
00:14:24.400 miss anything
00:14:24.920 in the
00:14:25.200 sentence.
00:14:26.240 Here it
00:14:26.600 is again.
00:14:27.640 The Biden
00:14:28.160 administration
00:14:28.840 can't decide
00:14:29.980 whether the
00:14:31.060 armed military
00:14:32.460 takeover of
00:14:33.420 the civilian
00:14:33.980 government in
00:14:35.620 Myanmar is
00:14:36.600 a coup or
00:14:38.000 not.
00:14:39.860 But one
00:14:41.720 thing they're
00:14:42.240 pretty sure
00:14:42.800 about is
00:14:44.160 that when
00:14:44.480 that guy
00:14:44.860 with the
00:14:45.220 Viking hat
00:14:45.920 and his
00:14:46.400 selfie army
00:14:47.220 went into
00:14:47.740 the capital,
00:14:48.740 well,
00:14:49.040 that's a
00:14:49.400 coup.
00:14:50.460 That's a
00:14:50.900 coup.
00:14:51.560 And the
00:14:52.040 way that you
00:14:52.440 can tell a
00:14:53.100 coup from
00:14:54.580 a whatever
00:14:56.560 thing is
00:14:57.200 happening in
00:14:57.860 Myanmar that
00:14:58.640 doesn't have
00:14:59.060 a name,
00:15:00.280 the way you
00:15:00.960 can tell is
00:15:01.540 whether there's
00:15:02.160 a Viking
00:15:02.760 hat.
00:15:04.120 If there's a
00:15:05.080 Viking hat
00:15:05.740 involved,
00:15:06.600 well,
00:15:06.800 that's a
00:15:07.200 coup.
00:15:08.740 But if it's
00:15:09.880 an armed
00:15:10.520 military entering
00:15:12.300 the capital and
00:15:13.160 taking control of
00:15:14.060 the government,
00:15:15.320 that's more of a
00:15:16.440 we don't know
00:15:17.000 what that is,
00:15:17.860 really.
00:15:18.360 Does it have
00:15:18.940 a name?
00:15:20.000 Should we give
00:15:20.640 everything a
00:15:21.280 name?
00:15:22.600 Not everything
00:15:23.280 needs a label,
00:15:23.980 does it?
00:15:24.780 Why can't we
00:15:25.340 just speak of it
00:15:26.020 as the
00:15:26.740 events that
00:15:27.260 happened?
00:15:28.700 So that's the
00:15:29.800 Biden administration.
00:15:31.780 Selfie army and
00:15:33.520 Viking hat,
00:15:34.520 totally a coup.
00:15:36.240 And let me tell
00:15:37.480 you, I'm not a
00:15:38.820 military expert,
00:15:41.320 but when you do
00:15:43.320 a coup, you also
00:15:44.740 have to hold the
00:15:45.720 government.
00:15:46.720 It's not enough
00:15:47.780 that you've
00:15:48.980 captured an
00:15:49.620 empty room.
00:15:50.380 Oh, that's a
00:15:50.840 good start.
00:15:52.120 Once you've
00:15:52.640 captured an
00:15:53.200 empty room,
00:15:54.340 well, slippery
00:15:55.000 slope, next
00:15:55.840 thing you know,
00:15:56.300 you're going to
00:15:56.640 capture all the
00:15:57.260 rooms.
00:15:58.120 You'll have every
00:15:58.980 room in the
00:15:59.480 United States.
00:16:00.100 If we let them
00:16:00.800 have that one
00:16:01.400 empty room,
00:16:03.680 they're going to
00:16:05.360 own the
00:16:05.620 government.
00:16:06.980 I mean, what
00:16:07.320 can we do?
00:16:08.260 You've got a
00:16:09.300 nuclear option,
00:16:12.140 you've got a
00:16:12.800 very large
00:16:13.300 military and
00:16:14.340 police force,
00:16:15.400 but I don't
00:16:17.220 know how they're
00:16:17.760 going to have
00:16:18.100 any hope of
00:16:20.240 dislodging
00:16:21.080 unarmed people
00:16:22.640 from an empty
00:16:23.280 room.
00:16:24.220 I mean, how
00:16:26.040 would you even
00:16:26.500 begin?
00:16:27.740 So, yes, we
00:16:30.180 know that the
00:16:30.880 Viking hat guy
00:16:31.800 was a legitimate
00:16:32.960 coup with a
00:16:34.420 really good chance
00:16:35.460 of controlling
00:16:36.280 the country that
00:16:37.920 they had conquered
00:16:38.620 with their hat
00:16:39.900 and their
00:16:40.300 selfies.
00:16:43.440 So, that's
00:16:45.020 the big lie.
00:16:46.140 Anyway, I
00:16:47.740 would like to go
00:16:48.480 from that, which
00:16:49.400 you all agreed
00:16:50.080 with, at
00:16:51.100 least my
00:16:51.440 audience, to
00:16:53.300 something that
00:16:54.020 you all hate.
00:16:56.060 It's why you
00:16:57.040 watch me.
00:16:57.860 Come on.
00:16:59.600 You know when I
00:17:00.320 do this, you
00:17:01.600 hate it when I
00:17:03.340 disagree with you,
00:17:04.880 but it's also
00:17:06.160 why you watch.
00:17:07.280 You're looking for
00:17:08.100 the part where I
00:17:08.680 disagree, because
00:17:09.420 that's the only
00:17:10.040 interesting part.
00:17:13.140 Me just agreeing
00:17:14.260 with you isn't
00:17:14.760 any fun.
00:17:15.500 You can get
00:17:16.100 that anywhere.
00:17:16.600 At the
00:17:18.800 beginning of the
00:17:19.340 pandemic, I
00:17:20.760 said loudly and
00:17:22.080 often the
00:17:23.000 following, we
00:17:24.980 should not hold
00:17:26.080 our leaders
00:17:26.760 accountable for
00:17:28.140 the mistakes they
00:17:29.240 are about to
00:17:30.040 make with all
00:17:32.280 good intention.
00:17:34.240 Do you remember
00:17:34.880 me saying that?
00:17:35.580 I said it a lot.
00:17:36.940 Like, I tried to
00:17:37.760 make a really big
00:17:38.680 point of it, that
00:17:40.160 before our leaders
00:17:41.220 even started making
00:17:42.260 decisions, we
00:17:43.540 should forgive them
00:17:44.420 in advance, because
00:17:46.440 nobody knew the
00:17:47.580 right thing to
00:17:48.180 do.
00:17:49.320 Nobody knew.
00:17:50.900 And I applied
00:17:52.000 this standard to
00:17:53.260 Trump, you know,
00:17:55.580 that nobody knew
00:17:56.800 what to do, so if
00:17:58.060 he did something
00:17:58.640 wrong, well, who
00:17:59.660 knew?
00:18:00.560 But I also apply
00:18:01.880 it to Governor
00:18:03.120 Cuomo in New York.
00:18:05.080 This is the part
00:18:05.840 you might not
00:18:06.460 like.
00:18:08.300 Governor Cuomo
00:18:08.940 is blamed, and
00:18:10.440 of course the top
00:18:11.300 guy or top
00:18:12.300 top person, needs
00:18:14.520 to take the
00:18:15.220 responsibility, because
00:18:16.460 the buck has to
00:18:17.400 stop somewhere,
00:18:18.040 right?
00:18:18.500 So the nursing
00:18:19.440 home deaths are
00:18:21.220 unambiguously Cuomo's
00:18:25.260 fault, if you want
00:18:26.480 to use that word.
00:18:27.700 It's his responsibility
00:18:28.940 to take care of his
00:18:30.620 people.
00:18:31.500 There was something
00:18:32.200 that happened that
00:18:32.940 was clearly the wrong
00:18:34.080 set of decisions.
00:18:35.640 People died.
00:18:37.140 Cuomo was in
00:18:38.000 charge.
00:18:39.100 That's on his
00:18:39.940 record, right?
00:18:40.740 So let's agree it
00:18:43.060 was a mistake.
00:18:46.120 So I'm not going to
00:18:47.060 argue that, right?
00:18:48.720 Clearly it was a
00:18:49.540 mistake.
00:18:50.420 But how exactly did
00:18:51.880 that mistake happen?
00:18:53.680 Was there a
00:18:54.320 conversation in which
00:18:55.480 somebody went to the
00:18:56.620 governor and said,
00:18:57.780 Governor, as it
00:18:59.360 stands now, we
00:19:00.300 would be putting
00:19:00.900 these people back in
00:19:01.860 rest homes.
00:19:02.640 It's the worst
00:19:03.460 thing you could
00:19:03.960 possibly do, and
00:19:05.380 it will probably kill
00:19:06.500 all the other people
00:19:07.460 in the rest home.
00:19:08.340 Should we go ahead
00:19:09.060 and do that?
00:19:09.680 And then the
00:19:10.740 governor, in this
00:19:12.100 hypothetical, said,
00:19:13.580 huh, put them
00:19:15.100 back in the rest
00:19:15.940 homes, the very
00:19:16.760 worst place to put
00:19:17.700 them.
00:19:18.420 It'll kill a bunch
00:19:19.260 of other people.
00:19:20.320 Yeah, let's do
00:19:21.000 that.
00:19:23.000 How did you
00:19:23.820 imagine this
00:19:24.480 happened?
00:19:25.800 Like, when you
00:19:26.660 play it in your
00:19:27.320 mind of how we
00:19:29.140 got to that
00:19:29.660 horrible situation
00:19:30.680 of putting infected
00:19:32.360 people back in
00:19:33.200 rest homes, or
00:19:34.300 old people
00:19:35.200 facilities, whatever
00:19:36.080 they're called,
00:19:37.640 how did it
00:19:38.420 happen?
00:19:38.680 Now, I
00:19:39.820 wasn't there, but
00:19:40.880 I'm going to
00:19:41.220 make an educated
00:19:42.220 guess based on
00:19:43.440 being the creator
00:19:44.460 of the Dilbert
00:19:45.160 comic strip, and
00:19:46.460 I know big
00:19:47.420 organizations.
00:19:48.880 It probably
00:19:49.780 happened something
00:19:50.560 like this.
00:19:52.580 There was a
00:19:53.440 process in place,
00:19:54.820 according to
00:19:55.720 Governor Cuomo,
00:19:56.620 the federal
00:19:57.160 government process
00:19:58.120 was that those
00:19:59.580 people would go
00:20:00.400 back to where
00:20:01.360 they came from,
00:20:02.140 and they would
00:20:02.780 do the best job
00:20:03.480 they could to
00:20:04.060 keep them separated
00:20:04.980 from other people.
00:20:05.800 people.
00:20:06.860 Now, did you
00:20:08.500 know in advance,
00:20:10.720 did you know
00:20:11.520 that if you did
00:20:13.200 that, the
00:20:13.980 infection would
00:20:14.680 definitely spread
00:20:15.420 to the rest of
00:20:16.000 the people?
00:20:16.560 Or did you
00:20:17.320 think to
00:20:17.680 yourself, well,
00:20:19.080 I mean, it's a
00:20:19.740 professional facility,
00:20:21.220 they're clearly not
00:20:22.260 going to put them in
00:20:22.820 the same place with
00:20:24.800 any kind of
00:20:25.400 cross-pollination
00:20:26.300 with other
00:20:27.180 people.
00:20:28.720 So if you were in
00:20:29.780 that situation,
00:20:30.700 would it have even
00:20:31.480 occurred to you,
00:20:32.820 necessarily, to even
00:20:34.680 ask the right
00:20:35.300 question?
00:20:36.680 If nobody brought
00:20:37.740 it up to you and
00:20:38.700 said, hey, this is
00:20:40.720 a special virus, I
00:20:41.760 don't think you
00:20:42.320 could keep the
00:20:43.500 infected people in
00:20:44.400 one room and hope
00:20:45.480 that it's not going
00:20:46.180 to get to the
00:20:46.640 other rooms, you
00:20:48.200 know, through the
00:20:48.780 AC or something.
00:20:51.060 And people here are
00:20:52.280 saying, yes, I knew,
00:20:53.440 I knew that, I
00:20:54.340 would not have made
00:20:54.940 that mistake.
00:20:55.860 And I believe you.
00:20:57.280 I believe that some
00:20:58.480 number of you would
00:20:59.460 not have made that
00:21:00.320 mistake.
00:21:01.760 But remember, this was
00:21:02.980 a bureaucracy.
00:21:05.220 And there was
00:21:06.100 probably a lot of
00:21:07.140 back and forth with
00:21:08.260 underlings trying to
00:21:09.500 decide what works and
00:21:10.540 what doesn't.
00:21:11.620 Do you think that at
00:21:12.520 some point the
00:21:13.880 old folks' homes
00:21:16.060 said, yeah, we can
00:21:18.780 handle this?
00:21:21.640 I don't know.
00:21:23.040 Do you think there
00:21:23.680 were any people at
00:21:24.780 those facilities who
00:21:25.780 said, absolutely not,
00:21:28.500 I realize this is the
00:21:29.720 law, but let me tell
00:21:31.200 you, we're not letting
00:21:32.260 these infected people
00:21:33.520 anywhere near our
00:21:34.340 property, period.
00:21:36.320 That's it.
00:21:36.880 They're just now
00:21:37.380 coming on our
00:21:38.000 property.
00:21:38.980 Did they say that?
00:21:40.540 Or did the old folks'
00:21:42.280 homes say, we can
00:21:43.700 make this work?
00:21:45.420 You know, if you just
00:21:46.180 give us the PPE and
00:21:47.540 some extra funding, we
00:21:49.320 can make it work.
00:21:51.780 I don't know that
00:21:53.120 Cuomo was ever part of
00:21:54.840 any of those
00:21:55.320 conversations.
00:21:56.820 I suspect that by the
00:21:58.860 time he got the
00:21:59.720 information, it sounded
00:22:00.960 more like they think
00:22:03.040 they can work it out.
00:22:04.460 It's our best option.
00:22:05.940 We don't want to put
00:22:06.540 them in hospitals either
00:22:07.680 because even putting
00:22:09.040 them in hospitals is
00:22:09.880 dangerous because of
00:22:10.620 the rest of the
00:22:11.080 hospital.
00:22:12.300 So it's not going to
00:22:13.420 be more or less
00:22:14.320 dangerous no matter
00:22:15.340 where we put them.
00:22:16.280 We'll just try to
00:22:16.840 handle it right.
00:22:17.960 By the time he heard
00:22:19.300 it, if he heard it at
00:22:21.080 all, I don't even know
00:22:21.880 if he was part of the
00:22:22.500 conversation, but do you
00:22:23.960 think he heard it as if
00:22:25.460 we put them there,
00:22:26.300 people will die?
00:22:28.100 Yes or no?
00:22:31.700 This is where I say,
00:22:34.320 this is where you have
00:22:35.940 to understand the fog
00:22:38.160 of war that was
00:22:39.240 happening.
00:22:40.120 Yet you can't judge
00:22:41.300 Cuomo by today's
00:22:42.840 standard.
00:22:43.920 Today we know it was
00:22:44.880 the biggest mistake
00:22:45.740 anybody made.
00:22:47.060 That's obvious.
00:22:47.980 Today.
00:22:48.900 And many of you are
00:22:49.960 saying, oh boy, if I
00:22:51.100 had been there, if I
00:22:52.700 had been there, I
00:22:53.240 wouldn't have made
00:22:53.660 that mistake.
00:22:54.220 And you're probably
00:22:54.680 right.
00:22:55.580 For many of you, I'll
00:22:56.860 bet if you had been
00:22:57.760 in charge, and you
00:22:59.780 had known about this
00:23:00.640 risk, I'll bet you
00:23:01.780 would have played it
00:23:02.300 right, many of you.
00:23:04.020 But it's a real
00:23:06.000 messy world, and we
00:23:07.280 ask our leaders to
00:23:08.600 make decisions on our
00:23:09.780 behalf that we know
00:23:11.660 aren't going to be
00:23:12.220 right every time.
00:23:13.580 So if you've got
00:23:14.480 somebody who cares
00:23:15.740 about your well-being,
00:23:17.140 and I think Cuomo does
00:23:19.160 care about your
00:23:19.940 well-being, right, I
00:23:21.500 don't believe that any
00:23:22.740 of our leaders are the
00:23:23.800 type who literally
00:23:24.580 don't care.
00:23:25.980 Like, Trump cared
00:23:27.820 about people getting
00:23:29.340 better, the Democrats
00:23:31.840 care, the Republicans
00:23:32.740 care, everybody cares,
00:23:34.200 right?
00:23:34.680 So you've got somebody
00:23:35.540 who cares, you've got
00:23:37.320 somebody who's doing
00:23:38.140 his level best.
00:23:40.160 I think Cuomo put in
00:23:41.620 the time, he put in
00:23:42.640 the effort, he had all
00:23:44.220 the right intentions,
00:23:45.280 he's smart enough.
00:23:47.660 This was a giant
00:23:48.620 mistake, despite all of
00:23:50.440 that.
00:23:50.920 Giant mistake.
00:23:51.620 But how do you treat
00:23:53.540 him for this giant
00:23:55.640 mistake?
00:23:56.300 I'm going to treat him
00:23:57.560 the way I started out,
00:23:59.700 by saying we know there
00:24:01.220 are going to be mistakes
00:24:02.140 this big.
00:24:02.760 We knew that.
00:24:03.720 We just didn't know the
00:24:04.420 details.
00:24:05.280 But we knew there were
00:24:07.320 going to be some big
00:24:08.480 leadership mistakes.
00:24:10.080 It was just baked into
00:24:11.080 the situation.
00:24:13.300 So my take is this.
00:24:15.380 You could reasonably
00:24:16.740 assume that Cuomo's
00:24:18.400 political career is over
00:24:20.460 because of it.
00:24:22.420 And I don't know that
00:24:23.580 that would be wrong,
00:24:25.020 because, again, the
00:24:27.300 person in charge takes
00:24:28.460 the responsibility, no
00:24:29.600 matter what they knew or
00:24:30.660 didn't know.
00:24:31.240 That's just how the
00:24:32.160 system has to work.
00:24:33.680 So there's probably a
00:24:34.900 penalty, but personally,
00:24:36.640 I'm not going to hold it
00:24:37.420 against him.
00:24:38.480 In the same way that I'm
00:24:39.740 not going to hold any
00:24:40.700 mistakes that Trump made
00:24:42.520 against him, or any
00:24:44.300 other leader, because I
00:24:45.580 think there was too much
00:24:46.640 uncertainty, and I think
00:24:48.320 that they all had the
00:24:49.480 best interests of the
00:24:50.560 public in mind.
00:24:52.120 So that will be my
00:24:53.460 charity for the day.
00:24:57.040 I'd give Cuomo a break,
00:24:58.720 but I wouldn't ask you
00:24:59.720 to.
00:25:00.660 I'm just giving you my
00:25:01.840 opinion.
00:25:02.960 If you want to treat him
00:25:05.120 harshly for that, I think
00:25:06.380 that you could make a good
00:25:07.420 argument for that.
00:25:09.340 All right.
00:25:10.540 McConnell is slamming
00:25:12.040 new congressperson Marjorie
00:25:15.920 Taylor Greene for her,
00:25:17.780 quote, conspiracy theories
00:25:19.140 that she believes being a
00:25:21.400 cancer on the GOP.
00:25:23.480 McConnell didn't mention
00:25:24.560 her by name, but everybody
00:25:25.620 knew who he was talking
00:25:26.860 about.
00:25:28.240 Now, if you've looked at
00:25:30.800 some of the things that
00:25:31.900 she's believed, you can't
00:25:34.620 possibly support that, can
00:25:36.640 you?
00:25:37.600 Just because she's on your
00:25:40.120 team if you're a Republican?
00:25:42.520 I mean, seriously?
00:25:43.460 Have you looked at the
00:25:45.300 things that she has
00:25:46.280 believed and said in
00:25:47.360 public?
00:25:49.300 She does not belong in
00:25:52.860 government.
00:25:54.540 I mean, she really, really
00:25:55.840 doesn't belong in the
00:25:56.980 government.
00:25:58.280 So I'm hoping Republicans
00:25:59.760 can fix that because they're
00:26:01.580 just shooting themselves in
00:26:02.660 the head with that as any
00:26:05.400 kind of a leadership role in
00:26:06.880 their party.
00:26:08.600 And of course, because the
00:26:09.960 CNN and the Democrats,
00:26:11.460 the Democrats, etc., they
00:26:13.620 love this kind of a story
00:26:16.000 because it makes all
00:26:16.760 Republicans look crazy.
00:26:19.140 So she's going to get a lot
00:26:20.460 of attention if Republicans
00:26:22.360 don't get rid of her.
00:26:24.240 You know, you do it at your
00:26:25.760 own peril.
00:26:26.900 I mean, she was a big
00:26:28.600 mistake.
00:26:30.000 All right.
00:26:32.580 So Congress continues to be
00:26:34.560 amazingly incompetent with this
00:26:36.640 relief bill.
00:26:37.420 How many years do you have
00:26:41.100 to wait for an emergency
00:26:42.360 relief bill?
00:26:43.900 I feel like every member of
00:26:45.440 Congress should be fired for
00:26:48.180 this alone.
00:26:49.580 I mean, you should just vote
00:26:50.640 against every incumbent.
00:26:54.240 Yeah.
00:26:54.820 Because they're not all bad,
00:26:56.620 of course.
00:26:57.560 You know, there are elected
00:26:59.840 officials who, you know, are
00:27:01.620 doing the right thing or trying
00:27:02.820 to do the right thing.
00:27:04.460 But as a group, they're a
00:27:06.220 complete failure.
00:27:07.680 I mean, it's just embarrassing
00:27:09.620 to be in a country where
00:27:11.360 they can't figure out this
00:27:12.400 emergency relief stuff.
00:27:14.200 It's not that hard.
00:27:16.500 It really isn't.
00:27:17.680 This is not abortion.
00:27:20.380 It's not deciding to go to war.
00:27:22.960 This is not that hard on the
00:27:25.100 list of things that Congress
00:27:26.520 has to deal with.
00:27:27.720 If they can't do this in a
00:27:30.380 timely fashion, even if all
00:27:33.480 they decided was to, hey, let's
00:27:35.020 give half of it and see how it
00:27:36.380 goes and be ready to give the
00:27:38.400 other half quickly if things go
00:27:41.000 well.
00:27:41.360 Something like that.
00:27:42.920 That would be reasonable.
00:27:44.500 But the way it's being handled
00:27:45.760 now, just pure stupidity.
00:27:48.400 And under these conditions, if the
00:27:50.660 Democrats want to go ahead and
00:27:51.940 just push it through with, you
00:27:53.880 know, their rule shenanigans,
00:27:57.800 which they have the option, I'd
00:27:59.360 say go ahead.
00:27:59.880 I would rather do something wrong
00:28:02.940 than do nothing.
00:28:05.300 And I don't think in the case of
00:28:06.680 this relief stuff, I don't think
00:28:08.580 it's ever going to be wrong to go
00:28:10.120 big.
00:28:11.240 Democrats want to go big.
00:28:13.200 I think going big is the right
00:28:14.680 economic decision in this case.
00:28:18.040 How often do I agree with Democrats
00:28:20.360 on economic decisions?
00:28:23.140 Maybe never.
00:28:24.520 Maybe it's never happened.
00:28:25.800 Well, what I'm agreeing with
00:28:27.720 them now, the big number is the
00:28:29.500 right number.
00:28:30.000 That's it.
00:28:30.640 That's, you know, the Republicans
00:28:32.500 have a good point about money that
00:28:35.460 hasn't been spent yet.
00:28:36.680 Let's spend that first.
00:28:38.660 They have a good point about maybe
00:28:41.580 some of the money is going to
00:28:43.520 people who don't need money.
00:28:45.120 They didn't lose their job in the
00:28:46.380 first place.
00:28:47.060 That's a good point.
00:28:48.720 But where are the Democrats
00:28:50.580 saying, oh, you make a good point
00:28:52.960 about let's not send money to this
00:28:55.180 group?
00:28:55.980 Or are they saying, we'd love to
00:28:58.880 not send money to people who
00:29:00.140 didn't lose their job, but we don't
00:29:01.500 know how to identify them in time
00:29:03.140 in some fair way.
00:29:04.460 So it's just better to put the
00:29:06.180 money out there and get things
00:29:08.040 stimulated.
00:29:09.580 I'm not even hearing the argument.
00:29:11.500 Are you?
00:29:12.840 Have you turned on the news and
00:29:14.540 you've heard the Democrats say, oh,
00:29:17.280 this is why we want this size check.
00:29:19.920 And then talk to a Republican who
00:29:21.740 says, oh, well, but why don't you
00:29:23.840 only give it to the people who
00:29:25.520 need it instead of giving it to
00:29:28.140 people you know don't need it
00:29:29.760 because you know they don't need it.
00:29:32.500 And what does the Democrats say to
00:29:34.100 that?
00:29:35.020 Do they say we'd love to do that
00:29:36.760 and only give it to people who need
00:29:38.660 it, but we don't know how?
00:29:41.380 There's not a mechanism to identify
00:29:43.280 them in a fair way.
00:29:45.500 I'd like to hear that argument.
00:29:47.480 The news business is so corrupt at
00:29:49.760 this point that you don't even know
00:29:51.600 the argument.
00:29:53.620 What side am I supposed to be on?
00:29:56.180 I don't know.
00:29:57.860 I mean, I default to the big number
00:29:59.560 until somebody gives me an argument.
00:30:01.780 If there's no argument presented,
00:30:04.580 which is not to say there isn't an
00:30:06.100 argument, but it's not presented to
00:30:08.480 the public, I'm going to use the
00:30:10.680 information I have.
00:30:12.140 And the information I have is that
00:30:14.260 the bigger number is usually the smart
00:30:15.720 one in an emergency situation,
00:30:18.200 right?
00:30:20.280 So the news business,
00:30:23.420 complete failure on this topic
00:30:25.380 and others as well.
00:30:29.960 There's some fake news,
00:30:31.880 mostly on Fox News and their
00:30:33.700 right-leaning organs.
00:30:36.620 Remember I told you that whoever has
00:30:39.900 the president at the time,
00:30:42.580 whether Republican or Democrat,
00:30:44.620 the news organization that
00:30:46.480 opposes that form of president
00:30:48.980 will be the one who does most of
00:30:50.380 the fake news.
00:30:51.700 Now that may not be true this time,
00:30:54.220 but that's what I predicted.
00:30:56.500 So you should see more fake news
00:30:59.660 coming out of the right-leaning
00:31:01.660 publications compared to what you saw
00:31:04.480 under Trump.
00:31:06.140 Here's an example.
00:31:07.060 So you've probably heard this as news,
00:31:09.480 but it's fake news,
00:31:11.160 that Biden once said that
00:31:12.560 using executive orders
00:31:14.640 to govern is like being a dictator.
00:31:19.340 How many of you think that happened?
00:31:22.580 How many of you believe the news
00:31:24.860 that Biden said while campaigning
00:31:28.960 that Trump's use of executive orders
00:31:31.980 would make him like a dictator?
00:31:34.760 And then the second part of the news is
00:31:36.720 and that Biden is breaking records
00:31:39.180 for executive orders.
00:31:42.780 How many think that actually happened?
00:31:46.260 I'm looking at your comments.
00:31:47.780 Yes, I saw the clip.
00:31:49.620 So somebody said,
00:31:50.500 I saw the tape.
00:31:51.500 I do.
00:31:52.020 I saw the video.
00:31:53.420 You saw it with your own eyes, right?
00:31:56.160 What do people say
00:31:57.480 when I point out to them
00:31:59.520 that the fine people hoax is a hoax?
00:32:01.960 How did they respond?
00:32:04.000 How did they respond every single time?
00:32:06.720 They say,
00:32:07.720 Scott, it's not a hoax.
00:32:09.920 I saw it on video.
00:32:11.820 I saw it myself.
00:32:14.360 How do people respond
00:32:15.660 when I say that the Trump
00:32:17.540 suggesting people drink bleach
00:32:20.300 was a hoax
00:32:22.180 and didn't happen?
00:32:23.060 How do people respond?
00:32:25.260 They respond by saying,
00:32:26.920 Scott, I saw it with my own eyes.
00:32:29.620 I saw the video.
00:32:30.600 The video doesn't lie.
00:32:32.700 The video doesn't lie.
00:32:34.020 I saw it.
00:32:35.780 Would you like me to send you
00:32:37.020 the clip of the video
00:32:39.020 that clearly says
00:32:41.060 drinking bleach?
00:32:43.540 And of course,
00:32:44.280 it doesn't exist, right?
00:32:46.760 But many of you in the comments
00:32:48.640 have seen the video
00:32:49.880 of Biden saying
00:32:51.700 that using executive orders
00:32:53.480 to govern
00:32:54.280 would be like a dictator.
00:32:56.380 Many of you say
00:32:58.680 you've seen that.
00:33:00.380 You know it doesn't exist, right?
00:33:04.840 Now, when I tell you
00:33:06.440 that that video doesn't exist,
00:33:09.000 what's your brain doing right now?
00:33:11.760 All of you who say
00:33:12.940 you saw it with your own eyes,
00:33:14.840 heard it with your own ears,
00:33:15.920 are thinking,
00:33:16.880 what's going on right now?
00:33:19.180 Because one thing
00:33:19.940 I can tell you for sure,
00:33:21.380 those of you who saw it
00:33:23.260 with your own eyes
00:33:24.120 and heard it with your own ears,
00:33:25.460 you really did see it
00:33:26.940 with your own eyes
00:33:27.540 and you really did hear it
00:33:28.540 with your own ears.
00:33:29.680 So why would I be telling you
00:33:31.140 it didn't happen?
00:33:32.720 What's going on here?
00:33:33.820 Is it a trick?
00:33:35.160 What do you think I'm up to?
00:33:37.140 Because I gave you two examples
00:33:38.540 where the other side,
00:33:40.200 from you politically,
00:33:41.500 most of you politically,
00:33:42.860 had this problem
00:33:44.140 where they thought
00:33:44.800 they saw things
00:33:45.560 that didn't happen.
00:33:47.320 And I'm telling you
00:33:48.240 that it might have happened to you.
00:33:50.300 What's that feel like?
00:33:52.300 Because you saw that it happened
00:33:53.580 to other people
00:33:54.220 and they're normal people.
00:33:55.880 The people who believe
00:33:57.020 they saw Trump say
00:33:59.240 the neo-Nazis are fine people,
00:34:01.760 the people who believe
00:34:02.580 they saw that with their own eyes
00:34:03.840 and heard it with their own ears
00:34:04.960 are not crazy.
00:34:07.160 They're normal people,
00:34:08.520 just like you.
00:34:10.520 But those normal people
00:34:12.140 had an experience,
00:34:13.720 a hallucination essentially,
00:34:15.780 of something that didn't happen.
00:34:18.120 I'm telling you,
00:34:19.680 you the people
00:34:20.900 who said here in the comments,
00:34:21.980 that Biden did say,
00:34:24.340 and you heard it
00:34:25.020 with your own ears,
00:34:25.840 you saw it on the video,
00:34:27.080 probably saw it multiple times,
00:34:28.920 that he said
00:34:29.580 using executive orders
00:34:30.960 is what dictators do.
00:34:34.260 Is anybody having
00:34:35.380 any question in your mind?
00:34:38.160 Now, keep in mind
00:34:39.780 that I just gave you
00:34:40.960 two examples
00:34:41.640 where normal people
00:34:42.760 imagine something
00:34:44.320 was on video
00:34:45.140 and they saw it
00:34:45.840 that didn't happen.
00:34:46.480 And I'm saying
00:34:48.460 it's happening to you,
00:34:49.740 the people who think
00:34:50.640 they saw Biden say that,
00:34:52.100 right now.
00:34:53.520 Are you even a little bit
00:34:56.040 doubting
00:34:57.560 your own impression
00:34:59.520 of what you saw or heard?
00:35:01.020 Let me see in the comments
00:35:02.140 before I finish my point
00:35:03.480 and tell you
00:35:03.900 what really happened
00:35:04.660 and how the illusion
00:35:06.100 is working.
00:35:07.820 Somebody says,
00:35:08.840 I saw it.
00:35:10.860 A stretch to say.
00:35:12.040 People got a little
00:35:17.180 quiet now, right?
00:35:18.320 Got a little quiet.
00:35:20.580 So, this is what
00:35:22.000 I was hoping.
00:35:22.700 I was hoping
00:35:23.260 that I had built
00:35:24.260 enough credibility
00:35:25.280 with this particular audience
00:35:26.880 over time
00:35:27.500 that if I tell you
00:35:28.840 something is an illusion,
00:35:31.160 even if you're positive
00:35:32.520 it's not,
00:35:34.580 isn't there just
00:35:35.380 part of you
00:35:36.000 that says,
00:35:37.160 wait a minute,
00:35:37.840 this guy's got
00:35:38.620 a pretty good record
00:35:39.600 of calling out illusions.
00:35:42.040 How would I know
00:35:43.320 if I'm having one?
00:35:45.080 You realize
00:35:45.960 that the whole point
00:35:46.860 of an illusion
00:35:47.500 is that the person
00:35:48.920 who's in it
00:35:49.560 is the one who can't tell.
00:35:51.420 The person who's not in it
00:35:53.220 might be able to
00:35:54.700 tell you
00:35:55.640 you're having an illusion,
00:35:57.040 an outsider,
00:35:58.120 if they're not having
00:35:58.920 the illusion themselves.
00:36:00.300 But you can't tell.
00:36:02.140 So,
00:36:02.780 your level of certainty
00:36:04.540 that Biden said
00:36:05.960 that using executive orders
00:36:07.440 is for dictators,
00:36:08.900 your level of certainty
00:36:10.220 about that
00:36:10.900 should not be
00:36:12.380 an indicator
00:36:13.000 of whether it happened.
00:36:15.140 It shouldn't be.
00:36:16.220 It's not an indicator.
00:36:17.560 It's not a hint.
00:36:20.580 It shouldn't even bias you.
00:36:24.060 Here's what really happened
00:36:25.280 on the video
00:36:26.300 you thought you saw.
00:36:28.180 The context
00:36:28.980 was removed.
00:36:30.720 Just the way
00:36:31.500 the fine people hoax happened.
00:36:33.360 Just the way
00:36:34.000 the drinking bleach
00:36:35.020 hoax happened.
00:36:36.720 The context
00:36:37.520 was this.
00:36:39.100 That there are
00:36:39.920 some things
00:36:40.500 you can do
00:36:41.000 executive orders for.
00:36:42.880 There are some things
00:36:44.140 which you can't.
00:36:45.880 And Biden
00:36:46.320 was specifically
00:36:47.220 making the point
00:36:49.120 just like I did
00:36:50.580 that there are
00:36:51.520 some things
00:36:52.020 that executive orders
00:36:52.980 are good for.
00:36:53.640 There are some things
00:36:55.300 that you can't
00:36:56.060 use them for
00:36:56.620 such as
00:36:57.460 voting on a budget.
00:37:00.080 The specific example
00:37:01.260 they were talking about.
00:37:02.620 And he said
00:37:03.120 that if you were
00:37:04.080 to use an executive order
00:37:05.620 where legislation
00:37:07.300 is the only way to go
00:37:09.520 let's say a budget thing
00:37:11.220 that that would be
00:37:12.840 like being a dictator.
00:37:14.820 Now
00:37:15.000 did Trump
00:37:16.300 do that thing
00:37:17.900 that would be
00:37:19.160 like being a dictator?
00:37:20.220 And the answer is no.
00:37:21.880 Biden was not
00:37:22.780 accusing Trump
00:37:23.720 of being a dictator
00:37:25.240 because
00:37:26.100 the executive orders
00:37:27.960 that Trump used
00:37:28.800 were the same nature
00:37:30.180 of the ones
00:37:30.800 that Biden
00:37:31.460 contemplated
00:37:32.360 even when he was running
00:37:33.380 said he would do
00:37:34.860 when he got elected
00:37:35.960 and then executed.
00:37:38.680 Biden was
00:37:39.600 very carefully
00:37:40.600 distinguishing
00:37:41.480 between things
00:37:42.800 that can be
00:37:43.480 executive orders
00:37:44.340 just like Trump did
00:37:45.480 and things
00:37:47.120 which you can't do
00:37:47.880 by executive order
00:37:48.840 because the Constitution
00:37:50.380 doesn't give you
00:37:51.420 that power.
00:37:53.000 And if you were
00:37:53.600 to violate
00:37:54.120 the Constitution
00:37:54.980 by doing
00:37:55.960 an executive order
00:37:57.040 on something
00:37:57.640 that you shouldn't
00:37:58.280 do an executive order on
00:37:59.520 that would be
00:38:00.600 like being a dictator.
00:38:02.080 Now
00:38:02.520 I watched the video
00:38:03.720 from beginning
00:38:04.980 to end
00:38:05.420 and I saw that
00:38:06.200 just as clear as day.
00:38:07.780 It could not be
00:38:08.680 more clear.
00:38:09.960 He said
00:38:10.500 executive orders
00:38:12.280 in these cases
00:38:13.160 not in these cases
00:38:14.960 and if you overuse
00:38:16.080 your executive order
00:38:16.960 you'd be a dictator.
00:38:18.040 So he's not going
00:38:18.860 to do it
00:38:19.300 and he didn't.
00:38:22.100 All right?
00:38:23.100 Now
00:38:23.540 how many of you
00:38:24.340 still believe
00:38:25.120 your original
00:38:27.740 go watch the video
00:38:29.980 again.
00:38:30.800 Go watch the video
00:38:31.940 again and you can
00:38:32.800 see very clearly
00:38:33.760 once I've primed
00:38:34.900 you for it,
00:38:35.480 right?
00:38:35.860 If you're not
00:38:36.540 primed for it
00:38:37.300 and you've been
00:38:37.800 primed for the
00:38:38.560 opposite,
00:38:39.440 if you had just
00:38:40.480 watched Hannity
00:38:41.380 telling you that
00:38:42.980 Biden says
00:38:43.800 executive orders
00:38:44.820 are for dictators,
00:38:46.160 if Hannity had just
00:38:47.280 told you that's
00:38:47.980 what happened
00:38:48.500 and then he showed
00:38:49.660 you that clip,
00:38:50.960 what would you see?
00:38:52.480 You'd see what Hannity
00:38:53.580 told you you were
00:38:54.400 going to see
00:38:54.880 because you would
00:38:55.720 be primed
00:38:56.500 to see it that way.
00:38:58.200 Suppose there
00:38:58.920 had never been
00:38:59.500 a Hannity
00:38:59.960 or anybody else
00:39:01.280 suggesting that
00:39:03.160 Biden said
00:39:05.020 something about
00:39:05.620 executive orders
00:39:06.360 and dictators.
00:39:07.400 And suppose you
00:39:07.900 had just seen
00:39:08.420 the clip
00:39:08.880 just without
00:39:10.780 any priming
00:39:11.560 or let's say
00:39:13.280 I had primed
00:39:13.960 you and said
00:39:14.820 what you're going
00:39:16.320 to see is that
00:39:17.140 Biden is talking
00:39:18.180 about things you
00:39:19.020 can and cannot
00:39:19.660 do with executive
00:39:20.480 orders.
00:39:21.360 Here's the clip.
00:39:22.700 If I had primed
00:39:24.000 you that way,
00:39:25.080 you wouldn't
00:39:26.260 have seen
00:39:26.580 anything.
00:39:27.560 You just would
00:39:28.120 have seen Biden
00:39:28.720 saying sometimes
00:39:29.480 you can use
00:39:30.080 them,
00:39:30.300 sometimes you
00:39:30.740 can't.
00:39:31.340 That's it.
00:39:31.960 That was the
00:39:32.300 whole thing.
00:39:34.680 Now,
00:39:35.540 you got real
00:39:37.400 quiet in the
00:39:38.020 comments.
00:39:39.020 I'm not seeing
00:39:39.460 a lot of
00:39:39.840 pushbacks,
00:39:40.740 right?
00:39:41.540 So,
00:39:43.060 be aware
00:39:43.820 that if you
00:39:45.540 were,
00:39:45.920 let's say,
00:39:46.500 pro-Trump,
00:39:47.420 that you are
00:39:48.260 now in a
00:39:49.060 world in which
00:39:49.740 your own team
00:39:50.780 will be selling
00:39:51.500 you a lot of
00:39:52.160 fake news.
00:39:53.780 That's going
00:39:54.360 to happen.
00:39:55.340 Here's an
00:39:55.760 example.
00:39:56.480 That's just
00:39:56.860 fake news.
00:39:57.360 A lot of
00:40:02.920 people online
00:40:03.620 say,
00:40:04.480 on Twitter
00:40:05.000 anyway,
00:40:05.660 that the
00:40:06.240 mask mandates
00:40:07.320 are part of
00:40:08.580 some kind of
00:40:09.080 secret government
00:40:10.360 plan to
00:40:12.000 train the
00:40:12.780 public to
00:40:13.480 be compliant
00:40:14.300 so that when
00:40:15.560 they have
00:40:15.960 future orders
00:40:17.300 for the
00:40:17.820 public,
00:40:18.640 the public
00:40:19.100 will be so
00:40:19.880 well trained
00:40:20.640 by this
00:40:21.640 mask mandate
00:40:22.720 and the
00:40:23.940 lockdowns and
00:40:24.600 such that
00:40:25.400 they'll be
00:40:25.760 ready and
00:40:26.420 primed for
00:40:27.140 whatever is
00:40:27.680 the next
00:40:28.060 thing they're
00:40:28.520 asked to
00:40:28.920 do.
00:40:30.620 That's not
00:40:31.420 a thing.
00:40:33.320 That is
00:40:34.220 weird conspiracy
00:40:35.520 theory thinking
00:40:36.660 because governments
00:40:38.300 are not that
00:40:39.200 coordinated and
00:40:40.280 not that
00:40:40.780 competent.
00:40:42.040 They don't
00:40:42.400 see that far
00:40:43.120 in the future.
00:40:45.240 The least
00:40:46.280 likely thing
00:40:47.260 that's going
00:40:47.780 on is that
00:40:48.980 there's a
00:40:49.380 government plot
00:40:50.340 to train
00:40:51.720 the citizens
00:40:52.460 to be
00:40:53.080 compliant.
00:40:53.640 now you
00:40:55.200 could argue
00:40:55.640 that the
00:40:56.080 effect of
00:40:56.740 it is
00:40:58.020 that the
00:40:58.400 public gets
00:40:58.940 used to
00:40:59.360 anything and
00:41:00.220 that's a
00:41:00.800 good argument
00:41:01.220 that if you
00:41:02.500 get the
00:41:02.900 public used
00:41:03.500 to doing
00:41:03.920 anything it
00:41:05.260 might have
00:41:05.660 an effect on
00:41:06.280 the next
00:41:06.620 thing that
00:41:06.960 you want
00:41:07.260 them to
00:41:07.500 do.
00:41:07.680 That's
00:41:07.840 true.
00:41:08.360 But to
00:41:08.800 imagine it's
00:41:09.480 some kind
00:41:09.900 of intentional
00:41:10.720 plan like
00:41:12.200 a giant
00:41:12.640 government
00:41:13.120 plot to
00:41:13.820 make the
00:41:14.280 public more
00:41:15.100 compliant,
00:41:16.140 that's not
00:41:17.180 happening.
00:41:17.660 things.
00:41:18.780 That's
00:41:19.400 Bigfoot
00:41:19.880 talk.
00:41:21.540 So I
00:41:23.680 would be
00:41:24.240 embarrassed to
00:41:26.100 say that in
00:41:26.660 public if I
00:41:27.420 were you.
00:41:28.480 That is
00:41:29.100 just crazy
00:41:30.320 talk.
00:41:31.960 There's no
00:41:32.500 government that's
00:41:33.960 that coordinated
00:41:34.840 and evil and
00:41:36.120 planning on this
00:41:37.620 mental takeover
00:41:38.720 of the people.
00:41:39.540 That's not
00:41:39.960 happening.
00:41:40.480 There's no
00:41:40.820 room where
00:41:42.300 that's being
00:41:42.780 discussed.
00:41:45.100 That's just
00:41:45.920 crazy talk.
00:41:47.660 So yesterday
00:41:48.880 I made some
00:41:49.360 of you mad
00:41:49.840 about I was
00:41:51.360 talking about
00:41:51.900 masks and
00:41:53.060 why the
00:41:53.640 risk-reward
00:41:54.820 cost-benefit
00:41:56.300 is that you
00:41:56.960 should wear
00:41:57.340 them.
00:41:57.900 Even if it
00:41:58.680 turned out
00:41:59.080 later we
00:41:59.540 found out
00:41:59.980 it didn't
00:42:00.360 work,
00:42:01.220 based on
00:42:01.980 what we
00:42:02.280 know today,
00:42:03.340 it would
00:42:04.500 be the
00:42:04.840 smart decision
00:42:05.500 to wear
00:42:06.340 them.
00:42:07.000 So I
00:42:07.420 was saying
00:42:07.740 that yesterday
00:42:08.280 and I
00:42:09.260 was pointing
00:42:09.700 out that
00:42:11.140 if somebody
00:42:11.840 just says
00:42:12.300 masks don't
00:42:12.940 work or
00:42:13.400 they say
00:42:13.780 masks do
00:42:14.320 work,
00:42:14.700 just ignore
00:42:15.200 those people
00:42:15.780 because nobody
00:42:16.900 knows if
00:42:17.380 they do
00:42:17.680 work and
00:42:18.200 nobody
00:42:18.420 knows if
00:42:18.860 they don't.
00:42:19.740 You don't
00:42:20.200 know.
00:42:21.360 You could
00:42:21.800 have a
00:42:22.180 hunch,
00:42:23.240 you could
00:42:23.680 have a
00:42:24.300 reasonable
00:42:24.960 opinion,
00:42:25.820 but you
00:42:26.340 don't know.
00:42:27.340 So it's
00:42:27.580 a how do
00:42:29.880 you make
00:42:30.100 decisions in
00:42:31.660 the face
00:42:32.040 of the
00:42:32.320 unknown.
00:42:33.200 Now in
00:42:33.560 my case,
00:42:34.200 I say,
00:42:34.920 as somebody
00:42:35.680 pointed out
00:42:36.240 on Twitter
00:42:36.740 yesterday,
00:42:37.760 if viruses
00:42:38.700 travel on
00:42:39.520 moisture and
00:42:40.760 breathing into
00:42:41.420 your mask
00:42:42.000 makes it
00:42:42.520 moist on
00:42:43.020 the inside,
00:42:44.100 well there
00:42:44.520 must be
00:42:45.020 some virus
00:42:45.780 that's getting
00:42:46.280 stuck to
00:42:46.760 your mask.
00:42:47.380 Because the
00:42:47.840 moisture is.
00:42:49.140 So is that
00:42:50.660 enough to
00:42:51.100 change the
00:42:51.900 nature of
00:42:52.600 the infection
00:42:53.500 curve?
00:42:54.280 Well that's
00:42:54.860 still unknown.
00:42:56.240 But something's
00:42:57.560 happening with
00:42:58.280 those masks
00:42:58.980 because it is
00:42:59.600 stopping some
00:43:00.940 moisture from
00:43:01.600 getting out.
00:43:02.760 Now a lot of
00:43:03.400 you disagreed
00:43:04.520 with me.
00:43:06.200 And the
00:43:06.920 strongest argument
00:43:08.600 against masks,
00:43:10.700 I feel it's
00:43:11.940 fair to share
00:43:12.900 that with you.
00:43:13.860 So here's the
00:43:14.520 strongest argument,
00:43:15.460 you'll see this
00:43:16.100 on Twitter
00:43:16.480 quite a bit,
00:43:17.160 and it goes
00:43:17.500 like this.
00:43:18.560 Masks don't
00:43:19.080 work.
00:43:21.420 That's the
00:43:22.020 argument.
00:43:23.360 Now you
00:43:23.780 might say,
00:43:24.560 is there
00:43:25.220 something missing
00:43:25.860 from the
00:43:26.240 argument,
00:43:26.820 such as
00:43:27.920 reasons and
00:43:30.280 something like
00:43:32.020 that,
00:43:32.440 facts,
00:43:33.180 anything?
00:43:34.140 To which I
00:43:34.700 say,
00:43:35.240 I believe the
00:43:35.800 argument is
00:43:36.460 that since
00:43:37.480 masks are
00:43:38.100 not proven
00:43:38.920 to work in
00:43:40.560 coronavirus,
00:43:41.260 in a
00:43:42.400 randomized
00:43:42.760 controlled
00:43:43.380 study,
00:43:44.620 that that's
00:43:45.100 allowing people
00:43:45.840 to say,
00:43:46.660 masks don't
00:43:47.080 work,
00:43:48.560 which is
00:43:49.320 crazy.
00:43:50.500 Because the
00:43:51.260 only thing we
00:43:51.680 know is that
00:43:52.140 it can't be
00:43:52.720 tested because
00:43:53.380 there's no
00:43:53.780 ethical way to
00:43:54.780 send a bunch
00:43:55.800 of people into
00:43:56.360 a virus zone
00:43:57.220 without masks
00:43:58.100 just to see if
00:43:59.400 they get
00:43:59.640 infected.
00:44:00.480 So you can't
00:44:01.000 do human
00:44:01.660 tests.
00:44:02.640 You can't
00:44:03.440 test people
00:44:04.040 in that way.
00:44:05.600 If you're,
00:44:06.220 well, you can't
00:44:06.720 do it under
00:44:07.220 the condition
00:44:07.880 that you have
00:44:09.240 a strong
00:44:09.820 feeling that
00:44:10.680 the masks
00:44:11.400 are more
00:44:12.300 good than
00:44:12.780 bad.
00:44:13.240 In that case,
00:44:13.740 it's unethical
00:44:14.380 to test it.
00:44:16.120 If you didn't
00:44:16.820 know anything
00:44:17.380 and you didn't
00:44:18.560 suspect one way
00:44:19.460 or the other,
00:44:19.940 then maybe it
00:44:20.460 would be ethical.
00:44:22.640 So the only
00:44:23.520 reason I bring
00:44:24.040 this up is
00:44:24.680 because Dr.
00:44:26.340 Nicole Sapphire,
00:44:27.880 who you
00:44:28.280 recognize as a
00:44:29.340 regular medical
00:44:30.740 professional on
00:44:31.820 Fox News,
00:44:33.560 backed me up
00:44:34.760 on that
00:44:35.860 opinion on
00:44:36.560 Twitter.
00:44:37.460 So I just
00:44:38.180 want you to
00:44:38.600 know that
00:44:39.040 there's one
00:44:39.580 person that
00:44:40.520 Fox News
00:44:41.420 uses as
00:44:43.680 their go-to
00:44:44.560 professional for
00:44:45.540 medical stuff
00:44:46.320 who agrees
00:44:47.700 with me that
00:44:48.560 masks are
00:44:49.880 the right
00:44:50.380 risk-reward
00:44:51.480 decision.
00:44:53.800 All right?
00:44:54.240 So I only
00:44:54.960 say that so
00:44:56.120 that you've
00:44:56.520 heard somebody
00:44:57.200 associated with
00:44:58.340 Trump and
00:45:00.220 the right,
00:45:00.860 I won't say
00:45:01.560 Trump, but
00:45:02.100 let's say
00:45:02.460 associated with
00:45:03.520 Fox News
00:45:04.180 and is a
00:45:06.400 medical professional
00:45:07.260 and is following
00:45:08.380 this closely
00:45:09.160 agrees exactly
00:45:11.620 with me.
00:45:12.940 So that
00:45:13.660 doesn't mean
00:45:14.120 either of us
00:45:14.960 are right,
00:45:15.700 but you should
00:45:16.700 know that for
00:45:17.280 context.
00:45:20.920 When was the
00:45:21.820 last time you
00:45:22.520 knew what was
00:45:23.220 in a piece of
00:45:24.080 legislation or
00:45:25.460 an executive
00:45:26.000 order?
00:45:27.120 Sometimes an
00:45:27.960 executive order is
00:45:28.800 kind of simple.
00:45:29.640 You know, when
00:45:29.940 Trump did them,
00:45:30.660 they were kind
00:45:30.980 of simple, and
00:45:31.860 I guess some
00:45:32.680 of Bidens are
00:45:33.920 simple because
00:45:34.520 they're reversing
00:45:35.180 things, but we
00:45:37.180 don't have any
00:45:38.020 conversation about
00:45:38.980 what the actual
00:45:39.840 policies are,
00:45:40.660 do we?
00:45:41.820 When was the
00:45:42.380 last time you
00:45:42.880 turned on the
00:45:43.480 news and here
00:45:45.320 was a list of
00:45:46.280 the executive
00:45:46.940 orders that
00:45:47.840 Biden or
00:45:48.760 Trump had
00:45:49.280 signed, and
00:45:50.600 here's the
00:45:51.120 analysis of
00:45:52.100 why that's
00:45:52.540 good or bad
00:45:53.220 based on
00:45:53.940 experts?
00:45:55.520 I feel like
00:45:56.620 the news
00:45:58.020 business isn't
00:45:59.260 even trying to
00:46:00.620 be news.
00:46:02.000 Because we
00:46:02.540 have a
00:46:02.800 government making
00:46:03.520 all these
00:46:04.060 executive orders
00:46:05.640 and laws, we
00:46:07.640 don't even know
00:46:08.160 what they are.
00:46:09.380 It's not even
00:46:09.980 being reported
00:46:10.540 to us except
00:46:11.100 like the
00:46:11.500 headline.
00:46:12.640 It's a
00:46:13.920 coronavirus
00:46:14.420 bill.
00:46:15.720 Don't ask
00:46:16.300 any more
00:46:16.660 questions.
00:46:17.660 It's just a
00:46:18.340 coronavirus bill.
00:46:21.640 Maybe we
00:46:22.340 should have
00:46:22.640 some kind of
00:46:23.300 facility in
00:46:24.180 this country,
00:46:25.120 since the
00:46:25.760 fake news
00:46:26.320 industry isn't
00:46:27.160 interested, to
00:46:28.320 tell us what
00:46:29.040 the decisions
00:46:29.940 are all about
00:46:30.600 and maybe
00:46:32.160 get some
00:46:33.280 opinions about
00:46:34.020 whether it's
00:46:34.400 a good idea
00:46:34.980 or a bad
00:46:35.420 idea.
00:46:36.320 That would
00:46:36.920 be nice.
00:46:39.520 In the
00:46:40.180 news, singer
00:46:41.880 Marilyn Manson
00:46:43.020 is being
00:46:44.640 accused of a
00:46:45.880 variety of
00:46:47.000 abusive things,
00:46:50.480 sexual abuse,
00:46:52.500 some kind of
00:46:52.960 thing like that,
00:46:53.680 and there are a
00:46:54.340 number of women
00:46:54.860 who have come
00:46:55.320 forward with
00:46:56.020 similar stories.
00:46:57.040 women.
00:46:58.040 Now, the
00:46:58.320 most tragic
00:46:58.940 thing about
00:46:59.600 this is that
00:47:01.280 these are
00:47:02.460 women who
00:47:03.020 thought they
00:47:04.960 were getting
00:47:05.260 into a
00:47:06.020 healthy
00:47:06.300 relationship
00:47:06.900 with Marilyn
00:47:09.160 Manson,
00:47:11.460 who, by the
00:47:12.580 way, that is
00:47:13.160 not Marilyn
00:47:13.780 Manson's
00:47:14.360 original name.
00:47:16.460 This is
00:47:17.240 somebody who
00:47:17.760 changed their
00:47:18.320 name to
00:47:19.280 make it more
00:47:20.000 compatible with
00:47:21.040 a known
00:47:22.300 mass murderer,
00:47:23.820 Charles Manson.
00:47:24.460 And the
00:47:26.140 women who
00:47:26.580 got involved
00:47:27.260 with Marilyn
00:47:27.960 Manson
00:47:28.440 didn't see
00:47:30.280 any red
00:47:30.800 flags that
00:47:32.380 maybe this
00:47:33.260 was an
00:47:33.700 unhealthy
00:47:34.200 situation to
00:47:35.180 get into.
00:47:36.920 And I
00:47:37.760 think to
00:47:38.080 myself,
00:47:39.360 you didn't
00:47:40.980 see any
00:47:41.500 red flags
00:47:42.300 at all.
00:47:43.820 There was
00:47:44.160 nothing that
00:47:45.340 Marilyn
00:47:45.900 Manson had
00:47:47.140 perhaps sung
00:47:49.700 or performed,
00:47:51.460 nothing about
00:47:53.160 his choice
00:47:53.960 of last
00:47:54.620 name,
00:47:56.620 anything
00:47:57.100 about the
00:47:59.740 situation.
00:48:01.320 It was like
00:48:01.660 a little red
00:48:02.100 flag,
00:48:03.020 nothing.
00:48:04.480 Looked
00:48:05.080 pretty safe
00:48:05.920 to everybody.
00:48:07.920 I guess
00:48:08.600 that's the
00:48:09.000 tragedy,
00:48:09.720 that these
00:48:10.140 things can
00:48:10.620 look so
00:48:11.320 safe and
00:48:12.620 yet be so
00:48:13.220 dangerous.
00:48:16.540 And when
00:48:17.260 I talk about
00:48:18.360 stories like
00:48:18.940 this, I
00:48:19.360 would like to
00:48:19.820 invite the
00:48:21.820 what about
00:48:22.360 the victims
00:48:22.920 guy.
00:48:24.400 I don't
00:48:25.100 know who
00:48:25.380 would like
00:48:25.680 to play
00:48:26.000 that role
00:48:26.420 today.
00:48:26.920 It's a
00:48:27.220 rotating role.
00:48:29.040 But somebody
00:48:29.940 needs to
00:48:30.420 step in and
00:48:31.920 get over on
00:48:32.640 Twitter and
00:48:33.380 say something
00:48:34.120 to me along
00:48:35.000 the lines
00:48:35.600 of,
00:48:36.680 Scott,
00:48:37.620 Scott,
00:48:39.180 what about
00:48:39.940 the victims?
00:48:41.460 What about
00:48:42.260 the victims?
00:48:43.880 You monster!
00:48:45.820 What about
00:48:46.540 the victims?
00:48:46.960 Now, I
00:48:49.680 know this is
00:48:50.200 hard to
00:48:50.540 believe, but
00:48:52.480 I actually
00:48:53.120 care about
00:48:53.800 victims.
00:48:54.840 I know,
00:48:55.460 hard to
00:48:55.900 believe.
00:48:56.540 I actually
00:48:57.120 feel bad,
00:48:58.780 I have
00:48:59.060 empathy for
00:49:00.540 other humans
00:49:01.380 who are
00:49:01.680 suffering in
00:49:02.340 tragedy.
00:49:03.360 And this
00:49:04.040 will even
00:49:04.360 surprise you
00:49:04.900 more.
00:49:05.660 If a
00:49:06.140 tragedy
00:49:06.520 happens,
00:49:07.720 I don't
00:49:08.760 want it to
00:49:09.200 happen again.
00:49:10.660 I know,
00:49:11.400 surprising,
00:49:12.060 right?
00:49:13.180 You listen
00:49:14.000 to me and
00:49:14.460 you're thinking,
00:49:15.200 I think that
00:49:15.660 guy likes
00:49:16.180 tragedies.
00:49:17.720 I think he
00:49:18.200 likes it when
00:49:18.740 bad things
00:49:19.220 happen to
00:49:19.640 people, but
00:49:20.000 no, no,
00:49:21.000 I actually
00:49:21.360 don't.
00:49:22.080 And if I
00:49:22.480 had it my
00:49:22.980 way, there
00:49:24.060 would be no
00:49:24.740 extra tragedies.
00:49:27.060 And if I
00:49:27.480 were magic,
00:49:29.120 I would even
00:49:29.740 go back in
00:49:30.420 time and
00:49:31.400 reverse some
00:49:32.420 of the
00:49:32.660 tragedies that
00:49:33.420 had already
00:49:33.780 happened.
00:49:34.920 That's the
00:49:35.400 kind of guy
00:49:35.900 I am.
00:49:36.600 I know it
00:49:37.100 seems like
00:49:38.360 I'm pro
00:49:39.820 tragedy.
00:49:41.720 And that's
00:49:42.140 why it's
00:49:44.080 such a good
00:49:44.500 public service
00:49:45.300 when the
00:49:46.420 what-about-the-victims
00:49:47.520 guy comes
00:49:48.280 onto Twitter
00:49:48.900 pretty much
00:49:49.980 every day
00:49:50.460 and says,
00:49:51.940 you monster.
00:49:54.540 What about
00:49:55.400 the victims?
00:49:56.800 What about
00:49:57.660 the victims,
00:49:58.560 you freaking
00:49:59.340 monster?
00:50:00.960 Thank goodness
00:50:01.840 for that
00:50:02.280 person.
00:50:03.180 Because otherwise
00:50:04.000 you'd be thinking
00:50:04.840 to yourself,
00:50:05.960 hey, I think
00:50:06.600 Scott, he
00:50:08.040 likes tragedies.
00:50:09.880 I feel like he
00:50:10.840 wants more of
00:50:11.740 them.
00:50:13.220 But no,
00:50:14.620 no, I
00:50:15.140 don't.
00:50:16.140 Surprise.
00:50:19.300 Here's a story
00:50:20.140 that surprised
00:50:20.900 me a little,
00:50:21.600 but maybe
00:50:22.000 shouldn't have.
00:50:23.100 You all know
00:50:23.580 the story of
00:50:24.220 Ashley Babbitt,
00:50:25.220 who was one
00:50:25.760 of the
00:50:26.660 assaulters on
00:50:28.120 the Capitol.
00:50:29.020 I'll call it
00:50:29.580 an assault.
00:50:31.240 And she
00:50:32.380 was the
00:50:33.320 one going
00:50:34.040 through the
00:50:34.540 broken window
00:50:35.380 on the top
00:50:36.160 of a door,
00:50:36.720 and she
00:50:37.840 was shot
00:50:38.480 dead by
00:50:40.340 somebody in
00:50:41.480 law enforcement
00:50:42.080 who basically
00:50:45.760 ended that
00:50:46.580 part of the
00:50:47.060 assault by
00:50:47.900 shooting the
00:50:48.540 first person
00:50:49.100 through the
00:50:49.480 door.
00:50:50.780 There is a
00:50:51.900 decision by
00:50:52.660 investigators,
00:50:53.500 it's not a
00:50:54.000 final decision,
00:50:54.880 but it's a
00:50:55.240 recommendation,
00:50:56.440 by investigators
00:50:57.300 to decline
00:51:00.440 to bring
00:51:00.860 charges.
00:51:03.260 Now, if
00:51:04.660 you remember
00:51:05.180 my take on
00:51:06.100 this,
00:51:06.720 I said,
00:51:07.820 from what I
00:51:08.660 can see,
00:51:09.240 that's a
00:51:10.720 clean,
00:51:11.660 unfortunate,
00:51:13.760 but clean
00:51:14.700 shooting,
00:51:16.520 meaning that
00:51:17.340 it was
00:51:17.920 absolutely the
00:51:19.080 right decision
00:51:19.700 to take the
00:51:20.360 shot,
00:51:21.380 even with
00:51:24.560 the tragic
00:51:25.000 ending that
00:51:25.620 somebody was
00:51:26.180 killed,
00:51:26.960 who I don't
00:51:27.580 believe should
00:51:28.180 have been
00:51:28.440 killed,
00:51:29.280 meaning that
00:51:29.940 in a world
00:51:30.840 that works
00:51:31.360 properly,
00:51:32.480 she'd still
00:51:32.920 be alive.
00:51:34.140 So it's a
00:51:34.980 mistake in
00:51:35.460 that sense.
00:51:35.940 But in
00:51:37.200 terms of
00:51:37.720 a defense
00:51:39.320 strategy,
00:51:41.200 in terms
00:51:41.840 of preventing
00:51:43.560 more bloodshed
00:51:46.480 maybe than
00:51:47.720 there might
00:51:48.120 have been,
00:51:49.140 I said from
00:51:50.160 the start it
00:51:50.680 looked like a
00:51:51.200 good shot,
00:51:53.320 as tragic
00:51:54.400 as it is.
00:51:55.900 What?
00:51:57.080 I'm getting
00:51:57.940 a message?
00:51:58.400 what about
00:52:00.880 the victim?
00:52:03.060 Do I,
00:52:03.560 oh no,
00:52:04.080 I should
00:52:04.320 clarify.
00:52:05.540 I actually
00:52:06.160 do feel
00:52:06.660 bad for
00:52:07.120 the victim.
00:52:09.000 And it's
00:52:10.280 a tragedy.
00:52:11.940 I know,
00:52:12.740 surprising.
00:52:14.000 I actually
00:52:14.440 feel bad for
00:52:15.160 people who
00:52:15.680 are hurt.
00:52:16.840 You didn't
00:52:17.260 see that
00:52:17.620 coming,
00:52:18.220 I know.
00:52:19.240 But having
00:52:19.680 said that,
00:52:20.560 and certainly
00:52:21.320 with all
00:52:21.740 respect to
00:52:22.300 the family,
00:52:22.820 and friends
00:52:24.640 of the
00:52:25.780 woman who
00:52:26.100 was killed,
00:52:26.760 Ashley
00:52:27.140 Babbitt,
00:52:28.380 wish it
00:52:29.040 hadn't
00:52:29.280 happened,
00:52:29.740 of course.
00:52:32.040 Deeply wish
00:52:32.860 it hadn't
00:52:33.220 happened.
00:52:34.640 But the
00:52:36.380 officer who
00:52:37.080 took the
00:52:37.500 shot made
00:52:39.100 the right
00:52:39.440 decision,
00:52:40.200 in my opinion.
00:52:41.820 Not being a
00:52:42.760 law enforcement
00:52:43.400 professional,
00:52:44.740 I'm open to
00:52:45.620 having that
00:52:46.140 opinion revised
00:52:47.160 by somebody who
00:52:47.920 knows more
00:52:48.300 than I do.
00:52:49.700 If Dan
00:52:50.760 Bongino
00:52:51.260 disagrees with
00:52:52.120 me this
00:52:52.500 afternoon,
00:52:53.360 I'm going to
00:52:53.960 listen to what
00:52:54.420 he has to
00:52:54.820 say.
00:52:56.580 But that's
00:52:57.280 my take.
00:52:57.840 I think this
00:52:58.260 was the
00:52:58.620 right decision.
00:52:59.820 I will,
00:53:00.480 however,
00:53:01.020 put this
00:53:01.900 turd in the
00:53:02.600 punch bowl
00:53:03.060 for you.
00:53:05.100 I don't
00:53:05.740 think there's
00:53:06.200 the slightest
00:53:06.760 chance that
00:53:08.580 this would be
00:53:09.280 called a
00:53:09.880 justified
00:53:10.340 shooting had
00:53:11.260 she not
00:53:11.720 been white.
00:53:14.260 Sorry.
00:53:15.780 I don't
00:53:16.440 think we
00:53:16.800 live in a
00:53:17.280 world in
00:53:18.100 which
00:53:18.420 this
00:53:19.540 shooting
00:53:19.920 could have
00:53:20.380 gone
00:53:20.640 unpunished
00:53:21.620 except
00:53:23.300 that the
00:53:24.620 person who
00:53:24.980 got shot
00:53:25.360 was white.
00:53:27.160 You know
00:53:27.860 that's true,
00:53:28.500 right?
00:53:29.160 You know
00:53:29.560 that's true.
00:53:31.580 And the
00:53:33.420 reason is
00:53:33.840 obvious.
00:53:34.500 Because if
00:53:35.140 it had gone
00:53:35.520 the other
00:53:35.900 way, if
00:53:37.080 it had been
00:53:37.640 a different
00:53:38.160 kind of
00:53:38.680 assault, I
00:53:39.200 think in
00:53:39.480 this particular
00:53:40.040 case, maybe
00:53:41.140 it wouldn't
00:53:41.460 have mattered
00:53:41.840 so much
00:53:42.300 because the
00:53:43.040 assault on
00:53:43.540 the Capitol
00:53:44.000 was such
00:53:45.120 a big issue.
00:53:46.220 But in
00:53:46.740 general,
00:53:47.140 the race
00:53:50.620 of the
00:53:50.820 person
00:53:51.020 getting
00:53:51.240 shot
00:53:51.540 probably
00:53:52.040 made a
00:53:52.440 big
00:53:52.620 difference.
00:53:53.520 Probably
00:53:53.760 made a
00:53:54.140 big
00:53:54.320 difference.
00:53:56.640 But it
00:53:57.240 was the
00:53:57.440 right
00:53:57.560 decision.
00:53:59.700 All right.
00:54:00.900 That is
00:54:02.500 my provocative
00:54:03.240 live stream
00:54:05.800 for today.
00:54:07.280 How many
00:54:07.980 of you
00:54:08.320 have I
00:54:08.680 made
00:54:08.880 angry?
00:54:09.200 let me
00:54:13.560 see in
00:54:13.900 the
00:54:14.020 comments.
00:54:15.900 Tell me
00:54:16.520 what you
00:54:16.880 think about
00:54:17.560 it when
00:54:17.920 I disagree
00:54:18.540 with you.
00:54:19.980 Because I
00:54:20.600 know it
00:54:20.880 goes both
00:54:21.340 ways.
00:54:22.020 One of the
00:54:22.600 most common
00:54:23.440 positive things
00:54:25.140 that people
00:54:25.540 say about my
00:54:26.240 live streams
00:54:26.760 is that they
00:54:28.180 like it when
00:54:28.720 I disagree
00:54:29.220 with them.
00:54:29.760 Because those
00:54:30.480 are the
00:54:30.760 points where
00:54:32.220 the friction
00:54:32.940 and the
00:54:33.280 entertainment
00:54:33.640 happens.
00:54:34.120 somebody
00:54:39.880 says the
00:54:40.480 right
00:54:40.660 decision?
00:54:41.620 Jesus.
00:54:42.780 Yeah the
00:54:43.120 right decision
00:54:43.660 to take
00:54:44.100 the shot
00:54:44.680 because the
00:54:46.700 alternative
00:54:47.420 would have
00:54:47.920 been worse.
00:54:49.180 So when I
00:54:49.560 say it's
00:54:49.920 the right
00:54:50.200 decision it's
00:54:51.160 not obviously
00:54:52.300 nobody wants
00:54:53.160 anybody to
00:54:54.020 get killed
00:54:54.460 but it was
00:54:55.840 the right
00:54:56.160 decision in
00:54:56.840 terms of
00:54:57.320 reducing the
00:54:58.420 amount of
00:54:58.980 potential
00:54:59.520 bloodshed.
00:55:01.000 Because if
00:55:01.360 they had
00:55:01.580 gotten through
00:55:02.060 it could
00:55:02.380 have gotten
00:55:02.700 a lot
00:55:03.300 worse.
00:55:04.120 Don't
00:55:04.640 know but
00:55:06.360 the police
00:55:07.400 officer didn't
00:55:08.080 know either
00:55:08.580 and was
00:55:09.340 defending the
00:55:10.000 capital and
00:55:11.020 defending our
00:55:11.760 government.
00:55:12.980 And under
00:55:13.220 those conditions
00:55:13.920 yeah that was
00:55:14.500 the right
00:55:14.800 shot.
00:55:17.320 I only
00:55:18.040 disagree with
00:55:18.640 you about
00:55:19.000 education
00:55:19.720 somebody says.
00:55:20.720 I don't know
00:55:21.060 what I say
00:55:21.540 about education
00:55:22.300 that you would
00:55:22.880 disagree about.
00:55:25.780 Somebody says
00:55:26.560 only when you're
00:55:27.200 anti-Trump.
00:55:28.160 I've never
00:55:28.740 been anti-Trump.
00:55:31.100 I've always
00:55:31.820 been the same.
00:55:33.180 Some things
00:55:33.780 did that I
00:55:34.460 liked.
00:55:35.100 Some things
00:55:35.580 I didn't.
00:55:36.440 It's the same
00:55:37.240 thing I say
00:55:37.700 about AOC.
00:55:38.960 There's no
00:55:39.340 difference.
00:55:40.320 Why can't
00:55:40.760 you be
00:55:41.180 why can't
00:55:43.220 you just
00:55:43.520 be for
00:55:44.100 things that
00:55:44.660 are good
00:55:45.000 and against
00:55:45.480 things that
00:55:45.900 are bad?
00:55:46.780 Why do
00:55:47.120 you have to
00:55:47.480 be for
00:55:47.980 Trump or
00:55:48.440 against
00:55:48.700 Trump?
00:55:49.340 That doesn't
00:55:49.880 even make
00:55:50.160 sense.
00:55:53.700 The only
00:55:54.320 thing that
00:55:54.700 really bothers
00:55:55.280 me is when
00:55:55.780 you say the
00:55:56.340 flu doesn't
00:55:57.240 kill people.
00:55:58.260 What I say
00:55:58.900 is that the
00:55:59.580 regular seasonal
00:56:00.840 flu probably
00:56:03.880 doesn't kill
00:56:04.680 anywhere near
00:56:06.740 the number
00:56:07.140 that they
00:56:07.500 report.
00:56:08.460 Now obviously
00:56:09.020 if you're
00:56:09.500 weak enough
00:56:10.140 pretty much
00:56:11.040 anything can
00:56:11.600 kill you.
00:56:12.260 It doesn't
00:56:12.680 take much
00:56:13.100 if you're
00:56:13.400 weak enough.
00:56:14.340 So I'm
00:56:14.740 not going to
00:56:15.080 say that
00:56:15.400 nobody has
00:56:16.000 ever died
00:56:16.460 from a
00:56:16.900 seasonal flu
00:56:17.500 but the
00:56:18.400 numbers that
00:56:18.860 we got from
00:56:19.580 30,000 to
00:56:20.400 80,000 people
00:56:21.260 a year dying
00:56:21.920 from the
00:56:22.300 regular flu
00:56:23.020 I would
00:56:24.160 bet every
00:56:25.840 penny I have
00:56:26.780 that that's
00:56:27.540 exaggerated and
00:56:28.520 a lot.
00:56:28.940 And I base
00:56:29.920 it on the
00:56:30.220 fact that we
00:56:31.520 don't know
00:56:31.860 anybody who
00:56:32.340 dies from
00:56:32.720 the regular
00:56:33.140 flu.
00:56:34.420 But as soon
00:56:35.360 as we got
00:56:35.860 that same
00:56:36.380 number of
00:56:36.800 people dying
00:56:37.320 from coronavirus
00:56:38.080 everybody knew
00:56:39.660 somebody.
00:56:41.000 At around 50,000
00:56:43.060 80,000 deaths
00:56:44.720 from coronavirus
00:56:45.500 we all knew
00:56:47.340 somebody who
00:56:48.020 at least knew
00:56:48.580 somebody who
00:56:49.080 died of it.
00:56:50.080 But still I
00:56:50.960 don't know
00:56:51.220 anybody who
00:56:51.640 died of
00:56:51.980 regular flu
00:56:52.580 my whole
00:56:53.640 life.
00:56:54.400 Never heard
00:56:54.820 of it.
00:56:56.020 So you know
00:56:56.860 that number's
00:56:57.360 made up but
00:56:58.140 it doesn't mean
00:56:58.700 that nobody
00:56:59.260 died of
00:56:59.860 the flu.
00:57:00.720 Now let
00:57:01.780 me to this
00:57:02.360 point.
00:57:02.960 One of the
00:57:03.360 problems that
00:57:03.820 I have in
00:57:04.440 communication
00:57:05.080 quite often
00:57:06.920 is that I
00:57:08.260 speak in
00:57:08.900 absolutes
00:57:09.820 when I
00:57:11.260 believe that
00:57:11.880 people understand
00:57:12.780 it's not an
00:57:13.460 absolute.
00:57:14.940 And that
00:57:15.580 confuses X
00:57:16.620 percentage of
00:57:17.320 the population
00:57:17.920 and I'm
00:57:18.520 always amazed
00:57:20.120 when it
00:57:20.460 happens because
00:57:21.020 people don't
00:57:21.660 have the
00:57:22.000 same let's
00:57:23.340 say reading
00:57:24.300 or hearing
00:57:25.120 comprehension.
00:57:25.780 so let
00:57:27.160 me say
00:57:27.440 let me
00:57:27.860 make a
00:57:28.220 general
00:57:28.580 statement.
00:57:29.840 When I
00:57:30.040 say things
00:57:31.320 like nobody
00:57:33.160 dies of
00:57:34.140 the regular
00:57:35.200 seasonal
00:57:35.760 flu how
00:57:37.180 do you
00:57:37.420 hear that?
00:57:38.560 Do you
00:57:38.860 hear that
00:57:39.300 as literally
00:57:40.200 not one
00:57:40.840 person dies?
00:57:42.280 Because you
00:57:43.000 shouldn't.
00:57:44.400 If I say
00:57:45.300 something that's
00:57:45.900 an absolute
00:57:46.500 of that
00:57:47.320 nature you
00:57:48.400 should be
00:57:48.760 translating that
00:57:49.540 in your mind
00:57:50.100 to oh he
00:57:51.480 means it
00:57:52.940 would be
00:57:53.260 rare or
00:57:54.000 not many
00:57:54.560 people or
00:57:55.320 mostly.
00:57:57.380 That's how
00:57:57.920 your brain
00:57:58.300 should interpret
00:57:58.860 that.
00:57:59.640 But I
00:58:00.120 think that
00:58:00.540 maybe I
00:58:01.200 more than
00:58:01.680 other people
00:58:02.340 speak in
00:58:03.720 accidental
00:58:04.520 absolutes
00:58:05.440 because I
00:58:06.020 assume that
00:58:06.640 you know
00:58:06.940 it's not
00:58:07.320 an absolute
00:58:07.820 but people
00:58:08.860 will still
00:58:09.300 call me out
00:58:09.860 and say
00:58:10.080 it's not
00:58:10.460 an absolute
00:58:10.980 to which I
00:58:12.480 say I
00:58:13.860 didn't even
00:58:14.320 think that
00:58:14.700 was a
00:58:14.980 possibility
00:58:15.480 that you
00:58:15.880 would take
00:58:16.220 it that
00:58:16.500 way.
00:58:17.300 So I
00:58:17.560 do have
00:58:17.820 that problem
00:58:18.380 communication
00:58:19.060 wise and
00:58:19.580 I speak in
00:58:20.140 absolutes
00:58:20.900 more than I
00:58:22.380 should.
00:58:22.940 Will I
00:58:25.780 take calls
00:58:26.640 again?
00:58:27.760 Yeah probably
00:58:28.540 at some
00:58:29.380 point but
00:58:30.400 I would
00:58:31.460 want to
00:58:31.740 use different
00:58:32.480 technology for
00:58:34.440 that.
00:58:36.480 We should
00:58:36.980 take you
00:58:37.340 seriously but
00:58:38.160 not literally
00:58:38.860 on the
00:58:40.400 absolutes
00:58:40.980 yes that's
00:58:42.040 how you
00:58:42.240 should take
00:58:42.480 me.
00:58:43.820 Be precise
00:58:44.400 in your
00:58:44.800 speech says
00:58:46.100 Peterson.
00:58:48.920 Yes you
00:58:49.320 should.
00:58:50.000 You should
00:58:50.400 be precise.
00:58:51.200 Yeah the
00:58:54.440 absolutes are
00:58:55.340 hyperbole in
00:58:56.360 a sense that
00:58:56.980 would be
00:58:57.400 a reasonable
00:58:58.400 thing to
00:58:58.840 say.
00:59:01.120 Somebody says
00:59:02.000 they die
00:59:02.420 from secondary
00:59:03.180 causes like
00:59:04.120 pneumonia.
00:59:05.800 Yeah I
00:59:06.580 suppose that's
00:59:07.500 the way it
00:59:07.820 happens.
00:59:10.940 And I
00:59:12.200 should say
00:59:12.580 few people
00:59:13.240 die of it
00:59:13.840 and it's
00:59:14.540 using.
00:59:15.360 Yeah I
00:59:15.760 think it
00:59:16.020 is lazy.
00:59:16.980 I think
00:59:17.320 that's a
00:59:17.720 fair statement.
00:59:18.320 It is
00:59:18.720 lazy to
00:59:19.660 speak in
00:59:20.080 absolutes
00:59:20.800 and assume
00:59:22.120 that the
00:59:22.760 audience
00:59:23.680 understands it
00:59:24.700 that way.
00:59:25.240 That would
00:59:25.620 be fair to
00:59:26.100 say.
00:59:31.200 And
00:59:31.680 pneumonia is
00:59:32.260 always the
00:59:32.640 fall guy
00:59:33.140 somebody says.
00:59:35.260 Poor
00:59:35.700 pneumonia.
00:59:36.380 It gets
00:59:36.620 blamed for
00:59:37.080 everything.
00:59:40.600 All
00:59:40.820 right.
00:59:41.000 if this
00:59:44.220 is a
00:59:44.480 health issue
00:59:45.440 then why
00:59:46.000 no one
00:59:46.420 says to
00:59:46.980 get some
00:59:47.340 sun and
00:59:48.600 get a
00:59:48.960 walk and
00:59:49.700 lose some
00:59:50.100 weight.
00:59:50.680 Well I
00:59:51.140 said that.
00:59:52.420 Wasn't I
00:59:52.920 the first
00:59:53.280 person who
00:59:53.780 told you
00:59:54.160 when the
00:59:54.540 pandemic
00:59:54.900 started that
00:59:56.160 you should
00:59:56.680 walk every
00:59:57.440 day and
00:59:58.440 that you
00:59:58.800 should get
00:59:59.200 some sun
00:59:59.640 and get
01:00:00.060 your vitamin
01:00:00.480 D.
01:00:01.380 I hear
01:00:02.160 people say
01:00:03.040 it all the
01:00:03.380 time.
01:00:04.080 So if
01:00:04.340 you're saying
01:00:04.700 that we're
01:00:05.540 not being
01:00:06.000 told that
01:00:06.760 the government
01:00:07.980 isn't you
01:00:08.880 know they're
01:00:09.740 not all over
01:00:10.540 it that's
01:00:11.000 for sure.
01:00:12.000 But they
01:00:12.360 have said
01:00:12.680 that.
01:00:13.240 I mean I
01:00:13.500 think Fauci
01:00:14.180 and Birx
01:00:15.200 have probably
01:00:15.640 said vitamin
01:00:16.260 D is good
01:00:16.760 for you
01:00:17.160 probably more
01:00:17.900 than once.
01:00:23.400 Said people
01:00:24.120 who die
01:00:24.400 from the
01:00:24.760 flu are
01:00:25.220 listed as
01:00:25.980 dying from
01:00:26.640 something else.
01:00:30.420 Yeah for
01:00:31.180 the very
01:00:31.580 old I'm
01:00:32.100 sure that's
01:00:32.500 true.
01:00:32.920 But I
01:00:33.260 don't think
01:00:33.600 there are
01:00:33.880 50 year
01:00:34.440 olds who
01:00:34.740 are dying
01:00:35.040 from the
01:00:35.440 flu.
01:00:37.240 Or should
01:00:38.140 I say
01:00:38.620 very few
01:00:39.980 of them.
01:00:40.540 see how
01:00:42.380 easily it
01:00:42.940 is for
01:00:43.420 me to
01:00:43.680 get into
01:00:44.540 absolutes.
01:00:46.520 All right.
01:00:48.260 That is
01:00:48.880 all I've
01:00:49.200 got to
01:00:49.680 say for
01:00:50.900 today.
01:00:52.400 Somebody
01:00:52.740 says 80,000
01:00:53.620 people died
01:00:54.200 from the
01:00:54.600 seasonal
01:00:54.920 flu in
01:00:55.500 2018.
01:00:56.520 Well what
01:00:56.920 I'm telling
01:00:57.300 you is
01:00:57.700 they don't
01:00:58.100 count those.
01:00:59.580 Do you
01:00:59.840 know where
01:01:00.020 the 80,000
01:01:00.680 comes from?
01:01:01.880 It's an
01:01:02.560 estimate based
01:01:03.360 on how many
01:01:03.980 people died
01:01:04.880 compared to
01:01:05.680 how many
01:01:05.980 they think
01:01:06.500 usually die.
01:01:07.860 And then
01:01:08.060 they say
01:01:08.380 well that
01:01:09.460 difference
01:01:09.860 must be
01:01:10.280 the flu.
01:01:11.300 I'm
01:01:11.540 oversimplifying
01:01:12.320 it a little
01:01:12.680 bit but
01:01:13.020 it's like
01:01:13.600 that.
01:01:14.440 Nobody
01:01:14.820 counts them.
01:01:16.360 So nobody
01:01:16.740 counted and
01:01:17.440 got 80,000.
01:01:18.540 They just
01:01:19.060 looked at a
01:01:19.520 bunch of
01:01:19.840 statistics and
01:01:20.680 said well
01:01:21.300 looks like it
01:01:22.480 could have
01:01:22.700 been 80,000.
01:01:25.300 All right.
01:01:26.180 That's it for
01:01:26.700 now.
01:01:27.240 I'll talk to
01:01:27.580 you tomorrow.
01:01:29.300 Bye.
01:01:29.700 All right
01:01:32.700 YouTubers have
01:01:34.900 anything
01:01:35.240 fascinating to
01:01:36.280 ask me?
01:01:38.020 Somebody says
01:01:39.300 55% of
01:01:40.460 COVID deaths
01:01:41.220 have the
01:01:41.660 flu.
01:01:42.220 I don't
01:01:42.560 know what
01:01:42.800 that means.
01:01:48.360 Who killed
01:01:49.300 Ashley Babbitt?
01:01:50.420 It was one of
01:01:51.080 the police
01:01:51.480 officers.
01:01:53.000 I don't
01:01:53.320 think that
01:01:53.660 matters.
01:01:54.000 Scott, if
01:01:59.020 Bigfoot to
01:01:59.800 believe China
01:02:00.440 has a
01:02:00.780 100-year
01:02:01.140 plan.
01:02:02.460 No, China
01:02:03.000 has a plan
01:02:03.900 for dominating
01:02:04.760 the world.
01:02:05.780 They say
01:02:06.320 it.
01:02:07.220 A number
01:02:07.780 of Chinese
01:02:08.900 officials have
01:02:09.620 said it in
01:02:10.140 public directly.
01:02:12.520 So it's
01:02:13.080 definitely not a
01:02:13.900 conspiracy to
01:02:14.780 imagine that
01:02:15.360 China wants to
01:02:16.080 dominate the
01:02:16.580 world.
01:02:17.380 I would say
01:02:17.780 that's as
01:02:18.200 true as
01:02:18.600 anything could
01:02:19.040 be.
01:02:22.580 Somebody
01:02:23.100 says you
01:02:23.580 assume zero
01:02:24.400 cost of
01:02:25.100 wearing masks.
01:02:26.200 No, I
01:02:26.500 don't.
01:02:27.280 A lot of
01:02:27.880 people have
01:02:28.640 been saying
01:02:28.980 that.
01:02:29.300 But why
01:02:29.900 would I
01:02:30.220 assume
01:02:30.520 something
01:02:30.880 dumb?
01:02:32.220 Why would
01:02:32.740 I assume
01:02:33.060 that?
01:02:35.460 The people
01:02:36.500 who say
01:02:36.880 you have
01:02:37.440 not considered
01:02:38.120 the negative
01:02:38.820 impacts of
01:02:39.620 wearing masks
01:02:40.380 to which I
01:02:41.320 say everybody
01:02:42.640 is considered
01:02:43.260 that.
01:02:43.860 There's nobody
01:02:44.300 in the world
01:02:44.760 who hasn't
01:02:45.200 considered
01:02:45.620 that.
01:02:46.520 Every single
01:02:47.400 person who
01:02:47.940 put on a
01:02:48.420 mask thinks
01:02:49.760 while they're
01:02:50.160 doing it,
01:02:51.120 man, there's
01:02:51.760 a downside to
01:02:52.460 this.
01:02:53.580 It's probably
01:02:55.280 got a big
01:02:55.660 downside too.
01:02:56.500 Everybody
01:02:56.820 considers that.
01:02:58.620 So don't
01:02:59.980 imagine I
01:03:01.320 haven't
01:03:01.660 considered the
01:03:02.380 obvious.
01:03:03.580 It would be
01:03:04.180 one thing to
01:03:04.780 imagine I
01:03:05.360 hadn't
01:03:05.720 considered
01:03:06.140 something that's
01:03:06.820 not obvious.
01:03:08.560 That would
01:03:09.280 be a reasonable
01:03:09.820 statement.
01:03:10.640 But when you
01:03:11.240 say somebody
01:03:11.820 hasn't considered
01:03:12.840 the most
01:03:13.440 obvious part of
01:03:14.460 the whole
01:03:14.840 question,
01:03:16.700 you're not
01:03:17.280 really a
01:03:18.140 serious player.
01:03:19.960 We all
01:03:20.820 consider all
01:03:21.660 the big
01:03:22.140 stuff.
01:03:22.640 It may
01:03:23.080 be some
01:03:23.420 weird thing
01:03:23.980 I don't
01:03:24.340 consider.
01:03:24.860 That would
01:03:25.140 be worth
01:03:25.460 bringing up.
01:03:26.500 But don't
01:03:26.960 say I
01:03:27.720 haven't
01:03:28.000 considered the
01:03:28.760 most essential
01:03:30.160 part of the
01:03:30.860 entire
01:03:31.180 conversation.
01:03:36.260 All right.
01:03:38.340 Let's play
01:03:39.140 chess.
01:03:39.680 I'm just
01:03:39.940 looking at
01:03:40.240 your comments
01:03:40.760 now.
01:03:42.300 If you're
01:03:42.860 listening to
01:03:43.360 this on
01:03:44.000 audio, it
01:03:44.600 must be
01:03:44.920 painful because
01:03:45.880 you can't
01:03:46.240 see the
01:03:46.500 comments.
01:03:46.900 How is
01:03:49.380 the education
01:03:49.920 system affecting
01:03:51.220 U.S.
01:03:51.740 politics?
01:03:52.740 Well, in a
01:03:54.300 dangerous way.
01:03:55.740 We're letting
01:03:56.380 our least
01:03:58.100 capable citizens
01:03:59.300 train our
01:04:00.160 children, which
01:04:00.780 are our
01:04:01.080 teachers.
01:04:03.180 I'll just
01:04:03.980 leave that
01:04:04.380 statement there.
01:04:06.380 Our least
01:04:07.380 capable
01:04:08.060 citizens are
01:04:09.540 training our
01:04:10.120 children how
01:04:11.500 to be good
01:04:12.340 citizens.
01:04:12.760 exception would
01:04:16.680 be, of
01:04:17.060 course, my
01:04:17.460 sister, in
01:04:20.000 case you're
01:04:20.300 listening.
01:04:22.620 So there
01:04:23.840 again is one
01:04:24.460 of my
01:04:24.900 absolute
01:04:27.120 statements.
01:04:28.220 It, of
01:04:28.640 course, is
01:04:29.100 not true that
01:04:30.700 every teacher
01:04:31.480 is somehow
01:04:33.060 less good than
01:04:34.160 every other
01:04:34.660 citizen.
01:04:35.340 So you should
01:04:35.860 recognize that as
01:04:36.800 obvious hyperbole.
01:04:38.280 But my point
01:04:38.880 is, what
01:04:39.500 makes teachers
01:04:40.680 the moral
01:04:42.580 standard, they
01:04:44.140 might be very
01:04:44.760 good at
01:04:45.200 teaching the
01:04:46.320 elements of
01:04:47.340 education.
01:04:48.580 But if they're
01:04:49.220 also teaching
01:04:50.300 you how to
01:04:51.320 be a good
01:04:51.880 moral, ethical
01:04:53.040 citizen, do
01:04:55.520 they take
01:04:55.960 classes in
01:04:56.640 that?
01:04:57.560 What exactly
01:04:58.560 is their
01:04:59.080 qualification to
01:05:01.000 teach your
01:05:01.500 children how to
01:05:02.140 be people, as
01:05:03.580 opposed to
01:05:04.040 teaching them
01:05:04.520 how to read,
01:05:05.200 which would be
01:05:05.660 fine.
01:05:07.760 So when I
01:05:08.540 say they're the
01:05:09.080 least capable,
01:05:10.580 I mean that
01:05:11.560 they don't
01:05:12.820 have any
01:05:13.220 training that
01:05:13.800 I'm aware
01:05:14.220 of on what
01:05:15.900 it takes to
01:05:16.400 be a good
01:05:16.800 citizen.
01:05:20.160 All right,
01:05:20.880 where's your
01:05:21.380 check?
01:05:22.120 All right,
01:05:22.440 that's all for
01:05:22.900 today.
01:05:23.380 I'll talk to
01:05:23.880 you tomorrow.
01:05:24.520 channel.
01:05:24.860 Bye.
01:05:25.500 Bye.
01:05:28.160 Bye.
01:05:31.960 Bye.
01:05:36.400 Bye.
01:05:37.040 Bye.
01:05:37.820 Bye.
01:05:38.020 Bye.
01:05:38.040 Bye.
01:05:38.340 Bye.
01:05:40.760 Bye.
01:05:44.120 Bye.
01:05:49.020 Bye.
01:05:49.360 Bye.
01:05:49.700 Bye.
01:05:50.880 Bye.
01:05:51.620 Bye.
01:05:51.720 Bye.
01:05:51.800 Bye.
01:05:53.440 Bye.