Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1271 Scott Adams： Kids in Overflow Facilities, Coronavirus Testing and California Schiffs the Bed

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00:00:52.180 Mmm, yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. That's the good stuff.

00:01:02.540 Let's talk about the news. Some stuff happening.

00:01:05.580 There's a rumor that Representative Adam Schiff of California, where I live, is trying to get a job as the California's Attorney General.

00:01:20.480 That's the news, anyway.

00:01:22.340 Now, I ask you, what would be the perfect job for the man who's famous, famous, for being the biggest liar in the United States,

00:01:36.340 if you don't count President Trump's fact-checking?

00:01:40.940 If you count that, I guess that's tough to beat.

00:01:45.520 But if you don't count that, the biggest liar in the country, isn't he, Adam Schiff?

00:01:52.620 Can you think of anybody who would be worse as an Attorney General in terms of credibility and who you would trust to decide who goes to jail?

00:02:01.920 So here I am sitting in California, a somewhat well-known Trump supporter.

00:02:12.720 And it's possible that the biggest enemy of all Trump supporters and the biggest liar and most obviously dishonest person that you've ever known of in all of life

00:02:26.560 might be being considered to be the Attorney General in my state.

00:02:31.920 Now, I have not gotten involved in any California politics, other than tweeting some things.

00:02:40.940 I have not been involved in the Gavin Newsom recall, which apparently is picking up a lot of steam.

00:02:48.780 I have not been involved in really any way in California politics.

00:02:53.760 But I've got to tell you, if Governor Newsom actually did this and nominated Adam Schiff as my Attorney General in my state,

00:03:06.700 I don't think I could ignore California anymore.

00:03:10.560 I feel as though that would activate me, at which point I would have to do everything I could to change that situation.

00:03:18.620 So, would you like to hear the scariest threat that I've ever thought of?

00:03:25.940 I may have told you this before.

00:03:28.300 But if you ever want to really scare somebody, and they're worried about maybe what you will or will not do,

00:03:34.680 and I don't mean just in a physical fight situation, but in a business situation or a legal situation,

00:03:44.320 the best threat that I've ever given is this.

00:03:51.340 Don't get me interested.

00:03:54.180 That's it.

00:03:55.180 Don't get me interested.

00:03:56.340 You don't want me to be interested in this fight.

00:04:00.520 Just don't get me interested.

00:04:04.800 Try it.

00:04:05.940 It's scary as hell.

00:04:08.800 Because if what you're talking, it's basically it's thinking past the sale.

00:04:13.900 If you didn't think past the sale, you'd say, oh, I might get into this fight.

00:04:19.240 Right?

00:04:20.620 But don't get me interested is thinking past the outcome, which is you've made a big mistake if you get me interested.

00:04:28.520 Just don't get me interested, and you'll be okay.

00:04:33.900 Try it at home.

00:04:34.820 It works.

00:04:36.800 So, I would like to, I'm going to have to call in Dale.

00:04:42.820 Dale?

00:04:44.180 You all know Dale.

00:04:45.140 Dale, he's the, he used to be the anti-Trumper, but now he's just the anti-Republican, I guess.

00:04:52.440 Dale, for this next item I'm going to be talking about, can you set the stage?

00:04:58.620 Set the stage for us.

00:05:00.520 Yes, I can.

00:05:01.860 Why don't you talk about the victims?

00:05:05.320 There's nothing funny about this.

00:05:07.780 There are victims.

00:05:09.500 Children.

00:05:10.820 Talk about the victims.

00:05:12.380 You monster.

00:05:13.040 Okay, Dale, I will stipulate that in the following semi-humorous presentation, that there are real live victims, real ones, no joke, and they should be subject of all of our empathy, and we should not make light of anybody's bad situation.

00:05:37.280 Dale, do you accept that stipulation?

00:05:41.040 I'm not so sure.

00:05:43.760 I'm going to have to hear what you say.

00:05:45.960 Then I will decide.

00:05:49.140 All right.

00:05:50.040 With that said, the Biden administration is reopening what they call overflow facilities at the border.

00:06:01.160 Some overflow facilities are being opened.

00:06:03.860 What would they use these overflow facilities for?

00:06:08.040 You might put unaccompanied migrant children that you had apprehended in these overflow facilities.

00:06:22.760 Come on.

00:06:25.040 In the comments, people are calling them cages.

00:06:28.980 They're not cages.

00:06:31.860 Cages is what the Trump administration did.

00:06:35.900 Awful.

00:06:36.380 Ugh.

00:06:37.920 Cages.

00:06:39.080 Nobody likes kids in cages.

00:06:41.340 These are not cages.

00:06:43.640 Because cages give you airflow and visibility.

00:06:49.040 More of a view situation through the cage.

00:06:52.060 These are overflow facilities.

00:06:54.660 That means less of a view, but the same amount of containment.

00:07:01.120 I'm guessing.

00:07:01.960 Now, I would like to think that the overflow facilities included schools that were bilingual, full educational and exercise facilities, as well as medical care.

00:07:16.440 And I hope that I hope that I hope that I hope that I hope that that is the case.

00:07:19.700 But it's going to be a little cage like in people's minds.

00:07:25.560 So watch the mainstream media turn the overflow facilities into wonderful first-class hotels for anybody who is fleeing a bad situation.

00:07:40.340 But don't call them cages.

00:07:43.800 No, no, no, no, no.

00:07:45.640 They are not cages.

00:07:46.560 So I think all of you have been wondering what will happen when Biden gets the same problems that Trump had.

00:07:58.060 How is he going to respond that it's going to be different?

00:08:00.920 Well, I'll tell you what he's not doing is immediately freeing children.

00:08:06.500 They're not going free, are they?

00:08:09.780 So I'm waiting to see, oh, by now, let's see, this news came out yesterday.

00:08:16.040 How long does it take to travel?

00:08:18.500 Speed of light for digital things, calculating, calculating.

00:08:22.780 Yes, by today, there will be pictures of the overflow facilities.

00:08:27.620 Because it's big news, right?

00:08:28.980 Wouldn't you like to see a picture of the overflow facilities?

00:08:32.780 Checking, checking.

00:08:34.200 No, no.

00:08:35.340 No photographs of the overflow facilities.

00:08:38.200 I wonder why that is.

00:08:40.080 It seems like it's the big news.

00:08:42.020 You'd think there'd be a photograph.

00:08:44.080 I'm pretty sure I've seen photographs of kids in cages.

00:08:47.520 But let's see the overflow facilities, if you will.

00:08:51.000 Now, I would not be surprised if the overflow facilities are a much more inviting situation than the cages.

00:09:00.780 But do you see any problem that the Biden administration has maybe not considered?

00:09:05.760 That it doesn't matter how many overflow facilities you build.

00:09:10.680 If you make them kind and, let's say, kind and useful and comfortable.

00:09:20.160 Will you get more refugees?

00:09:23.140 Or will you get fewer?

00:09:24.960 Because it seems to me that if you make it easier to immigrate and you reduce friction, you'll get more of them. 0.98

00:09:33.640 So should we not see the Biden administration very quickly in the situation where they either have to release unaccompanied children,

00:09:41.020 which is going to be a child trafficking problem of immense proportions, or do what?

00:09:50.500 Put them in temporary holding facilities with chain link walls?

00:09:59.000 I don't see how Biden is ever going to avoid just the same situation that Trump was so criticized for.

00:10:05.980 How do you avoid it?

00:10:07.280 If he does, I'm going to give him credit.

00:10:11.700 If a year from now, there are no kids being kept in inhumane cages, but rather they're at good facilities,

00:10:19.860 and we can afford it, and it doesn't cause a spike in immigration that becomes a new problem,

00:10:26.820 I'm going to say, hey, that's a pretty good job.

00:10:29.820 Pretty good job.

00:10:30.940 Took care of the kids, did not create a big problem for the country, that's a good job.

00:10:36.880 Do you think it's going to go that way?

00:10:38.620 In what world does removing friction not create more of the thing?

00:10:45.400 In no world.

00:10:46.440 It's never happened in the historical record.

00:10:52.300 Has it ever happened that if you make something easier to do that people want, that they will do more of it?

00:10:58.640 Has it ever not happened?

00:10:59.780 So we'll see if Biden has a genius plan or if it was all just stupid the whole time.

00:11:08.160 But in any event, you could do better for the kids.

00:11:12.960 All right.

00:11:15.300 There's a study out saying that the reason Trump lost the election is that the late deciding people,

00:11:21.200 the people who hadn't decided a year ago, who they were going to vote for,

00:11:25.160 that they broke for Biden, and the reason, according to one research study,

00:11:30.220 is that Trump's handling of the coronavirus was not good, according to the public.

00:11:37.780 Now, if that's true, and I think that's a pretty big if, that the coronavirus was the thing that changed the election result,

00:11:47.780 I don't know.

00:11:48.380 But let's say it's true.

00:11:51.580 What role would you assign to the widespread news hoax that Trump said drinking bleach was a good idea?

00:12:01.960 Which didn't happen, but it was widely reported that Trump was a scientific idiot for suggesting drinking bleach,

00:12:10.760 but it never happened.

00:12:12.760 You know, he was talking about light as a disinfectant,

00:12:16.460 including inserting it into the body,

00:12:18.900 which was a real thing that was being tested at the time, if you didn't know that.

00:12:22.460 So, and what about the way hydroxychloroquine was treated?

00:12:28.000 When the president came out in favor of it,

00:12:30.820 there was no solid scientific proof that it worked.

00:12:36.820 There were lesser types of studies that did indicate it worked,

00:12:41.040 but they were not the robust kind.

00:12:43.400 And I guess there were no robust studies that ever proved it worked, as far as I know.

00:12:49.040 By now we would know.

00:12:51.060 And so, what did the mainstream media do in treating Trump's suggestion that he thought it would work?

00:13:00.520 Well, I think that they were correct in saying that it had not been proven in the right kind of test.

00:13:08.460 So, to the extent that they were saying he was being a little too optimistic,

00:13:12.480 I think they were on point.

00:13:14.640 If he was saying, I think this will work,

00:13:17.080 and they were saying the science isn't quite there,

00:13:20.520 time has proven that the science is not quite there.

00:13:23.960 By now you would know, right?

00:13:25.300 So, if you've watched my predictions about hydroxychloroquine,

00:13:29.840 I told you early on

00:13:30.940 that each month that we go by without proving it works

00:13:34.640 really should lower your confidence that it will ever be proven.

00:13:39.620 And I kept lowering it from,

00:13:41.120 maybe it's a 50-50 or whatever I started with,

00:13:43.680 it might have been higher,

00:13:44.900 down to like 30 and then 20.

00:13:47.860 Today, less than 10%,

00:13:49.920 I would say,

00:13:51.220 that it makes any difference,

00:13:52.520 because we would know by now.

00:13:54.020 But, is that therefore a problem for the president,

00:13:59.560 that he's being anti-scientific?

00:14:02.760 That's the way the news spun it.

00:14:05.700 But I would say that the president was making a risk management decision,

00:14:10.540 which, if it had been wrong,

00:14:13.360 we would have learned about it in a few months,

00:14:15.380 because nobody would be getting any good success with the drug.

00:14:19.640 But it probably wouldn't hurt anybody.

00:14:21.400 You know, the number of people who would be hurt by that decision

00:14:24.380 would be minimal or none.

00:14:26.660 And it would have been a good thing to try,

00:14:30.520 given the number of non-perfect studies that indicated it might work.

00:14:35.620 So, I think the president did a smart thing,

00:14:38.920 but not executed quite the right way,

00:14:41.660 because the way he talked about it was a little bit too optimistic.

00:14:44.660 And, but the way the media treated it was completely wrong.

00:14:51.020 They treated it like it was a yes-no,

00:14:53.880 and that the experts had said no,

00:14:57.160 and Trump was saying yes,

00:14:59.000 and therefore he was wrong.

00:15:00.940 But that's not exactly what was happening.

00:15:03.100 It was more like,

00:15:04.320 we don't know if it works.

00:15:06.600 There's not really a downside.

00:15:08.680 It's an emergency situation.

00:15:10.520 Why not give it a try?

00:15:13.180 And then later find out it doesn't work,

00:15:15.200 if that's in fact the outcome.

00:15:18.160 But it was still a good try.

00:15:19.920 If we had done it,

00:15:21.660 and gone big with it,

00:15:22.720 and it didn't work,

00:15:24.560 it still would have been the right decision in retrospect.

00:15:27.280 If you could look back at it from today's perspective,

00:15:30.300 it still would have been the right thing to try,

00:15:32.580 even though it looks like at this point

00:15:34.680 it probably would not have worked.

00:15:36.100 So, I feel as though the news has pulled off the perfect crime,

00:15:44.820 which is they painted Trump as a massive incompetent on coronavirus.

00:15:51.380 And by the way,

00:15:51.980 my personal opinion is he could have done a lot better on coronavirus.

00:15:55.620 I'll give you some examples of that.

00:15:57.780 But they do have the power to frame Trump for something,

00:16:03.860 cost him the election,

00:16:05.040 according to this study.

00:16:06.920 I don't know how reliable that is.

00:16:09.040 But was voting important?

00:16:13.820 It seems like voting didn't matter this time,

00:16:16.480 because the media told you what to think

00:16:18.580 on the only subject that apparently mattered to the election outcome.

00:16:23.160 The media told you what to think.

00:16:25.040 And then people went and voted based on that.

00:16:27.780 And it wasn't a good view of what to think,

00:16:31.380 but it worked.

00:16:32.700 So, we do live in a...

00:16:34.500 It's more like a propagandocracy or something,

00:16:39.100 where our political system doesn't depend on voters.

00:16:42.820 It depends on the manipulation of the voters,

00:16:46.140 so that whoever does the best propaganda

00:16:48.080 gets to have the next president.

00:16:50.440 So, that's the system we work in,

00:16:54.420 a propagandocracy.

00:16:56.480 A word I just made up, I think.

00:17:00.660 Speaking of Trump's performance,

00:17:04.120 the FDA has apparently recently said

00:17:06.220 that they're considering dropping

00:17:08.040 the reporting requirement for home testing.

00:17:11.900 Apparently, if you had a home test,

00:17:13.640 you were required to report it.

00:17:15.120 If you had a positive result,

00:17:16.920 and of course, that would be a problem,

00:17:18.680 because if you're just testing a home,

00:17:20.320 you're probably not going to report.

00:17:22.520 So...

00:17:23.080 But now they're considering,

00:17:24.900 under Biden,

00:17:25.680 they're considering dropping that requirement,

00:17:27.880 which would allow for cheap home testing,

00:17:30.440 which would allow for the end of the pandemic.

00:17:33.140 How many times did you hear me say,

00:17:35.940 during the Trump administration,

00:17:37.740 why the hell is the Trump administration

00:17:41.360 not dropping this requirement

00:17:43.040 and making these rapid tests available?

00:17:46.880 Now, I don't know.

00:17:48.440 It's too early to say that

00:17:50.080 the Biden administration will pull this off.

00:17:52.840 But the fact that, under Biden,

00:17:54.780 the FDA is now talking

00:17:56.380 about getting rid of this requirement,

00:17:58.620 which may have killed

00:17:59.640 hundreds of thousands of people,

00:18:01.220 in my opinion.

00:18:02.360 Just my opinion.

00:18:03.600 And the reason I say that

00:18:04.700 is if we had rapid testing earlier,

00:18:08.360 in other words,

00:18:08.980 if the FDA had earlier dropped that restriction

00:18:11.760 so we could have rapid testing now,

00:18:14.340 we might actually already be done

00:18:16.300 with the pandemic.

00:18:17.760 So whoever died between now

00:18:19.560 and, let's see, last summer,

00:18:22.540 probably didn't need to,

00:18:24.760 because we did have the technology

00:18:26.500 to stop the pandemic

00:18:28.160 through rapid testing at home.

00:18:31.220 Now, maybe Biden

00:18:32.360 will make that a possibility.

00:18:33.920 And I'm going to say

00:18:35.260 that if Trump didn't get it done,

00:18:38.100 and Biden does,

00:18:39.820 and it makes a big difference,

00:18:41.580 then I would say that the voters got it right.

00:18:44.880 And Trump was not the right leader

00:18:47.200 for the coronavirus

00:18:47.920 if this happens.

00:18:49.520 My guess is that Biden won't pull this off.

00:18:53.720 But if he does,

00:18:55.640 I'm going to give him full credit,

00:18:57.520 because I said from the start

00:18:58.920 it was Trump's biggest mistake,

00:19:01.080 and I'm not going to change that opinion.

00:19:02.700 There's a new study

00:19:05.700 claiming that when conservatives say

00:19:10.880 that conservatives are being more banned

00:19:13.420 on social media,

00:19:14.300 that it's a false accusation.

00:19:15.660 It's false.

00:19:16.660 It is not true

00:19:17.860 that conservatives are more banned

00:19:20.080 on social media.

00:19:21.240 Did you know that?

00:19:22.440 There's a study,

00:19:23.400 I think it was funded by

00:19:24.640 Craig Newmark

00:19:26.440 of Craigslist,

00:19:27.900 and they found out

00:19:31.260 that sure enough

00:19:31.980 Twitter is just following

00:19:34.000 its own rules

00:19:34.880 and that anybody

00:19:35.880 who breaks the rules

00:19:37.040 gets banned,

00:19:38.200 but that doesn't have anything

00:19:39.800 to do with being conservative

00:19:40.920 or being not conservative.

00:19:43.660 It has only to do

00:19:44.740 with who broke rules.

00:19:46.760 So we're good now, right?

00:19:49.140 Everybody happy now?

00:19:51.780 We're all good.

00:19:53.580 It seems fair to me, right?

00:19:55.820 Only the people

00:19:57.060 who broke the rules

00:19:57.800 got kicked off of Twitter,

00:19:59.520 for example.

00:20:00.660 So no problem, right?

00:20:03.660 Pretty happy, are you?

00:20:06.560 So one question you might ask

00:20:08.440 is a follow-up,

00:20:09.520 and Tucker Carlson was doing this.

00:20:13.400 So I'm drafting off of Tucker's comments

00:20:16.720 on this topic.

00:20:19.880 So you've got this claim

00:20:24.280 that conservatives were not,

00:20:26.460 in fact,

00:20:27.080 in fact,

00:20:27.180 being targeted.

00:20:28.920 So the question you ask is,

00:20:30.720 well,

00:20:31.860 follow-up question.

00:20:33.380 I'd like a little context.

00:20:35.320 Can you tell me

00:20:35.920 how many conservatives

00:20:37.120 were banned from the platform?

00:20:39.620 And then how many

00:20:41.020 non-conservatives?

00:20:43.280 Because if people

00:20:44.540 are being banned

00:20:45.160 for behavior,

00:20:47.260 you'd probably expect

00:20:48.320 that behavior 0.86

00:20:48.940 to be at least

00:20:49.920 partly spread,

00:20:51.980 you know,

00:20:52.240 not evenly,

00:20:53.060 maybe.

00:20:53.280 perhaps not evenly,

00:20:55.160 but you'd expect

00:20:55.980 a good amount

00:20:57.060 of left-leaning bands

00:20:59.100 along with a healthy dose

00:21:01.220 of right-leaning bands,

00:21:03.120 right?

00:21:04.060 So in this study,

00:21:05.520 obviously,

00:21:06.740 it's going to tell you

00:21:07.620 how many people

00:21:08.520 were banned,

00:21:10.000 except that it doesn't.

00:21:13.440 The only number

00:21:14.880 you would want to hear

00:21:15.860 from a study

00:21:17.440 of this nature is,

00:21:18.420 well,

00:21:18.560 just tell us how many.

00:21:20.380 About the same number

00:21:22.040 on the left

00:21:22.520 and the right?

00:21:23.620 Because if that's true,

00:21:24.820 I'd say,

00:21:25.320 oh, okay,

00:21:25.840 that's a pretty good point.

00:21:27.380 About the same number

00:21:28.220 on the left

00:21:28.680 as the right?

00:21:29.500 Doesn't look like

00:21:30.260 a problem to me.

00:21:32.140 But what happens

00:21:33.000 when you don't

00:21:33.800 try to produce

00:21:35.540 that number?

00:21:37.060 It's a study

00:21:37.740 about conservatives

00:21:39.520 not being banned

00:21:40.640 too much,

00:21:41.600 and you don't include

00:21:42.840 the number of them

00:21:43.680 that have been banned?

00:21:44.500 A little bit suspicious,

00:21:48.400 isn't it?

00:21:49.340 A little bit suspicious.

00:21:51.560 So this is more

00:21:54.080 like the study

00:21:55.660 that proved

00:21:56.180 the opposite

00:21:56.720 of the study.

00:22:00.060 The person

00:22:01.300 who funded this,

00:22:02.020 Craig Newmark,

00:22:03.280 founder of

00:22:04.400 Craigslist,

00:22:06.920 I've met him

00:22:07.880 a few times,

00:22:08.780 actually,

00:22:09.480 and he's a cool dude.

00:22:11.820 I like Craig.

00:22:15.980 He is very pro-troops.

00:22:18.820 He does a lot of things

00:22:19.580 for veterans

00:22:20.140 and works mostly

00:22:22.340 for charitable things.

00:22:25.160 So he's getting

00:22:27.740 a little pushback

00:22:29.260 for having funded

00:22:30.160 this study,

00:22:30.920 and I do think

00:22:31.800 the study falls short,

00:22:34.400 but I would say

00:22:35.140 that Craig himself

00:22:37.220 is a solid citizen.

00:22:38.880 He's a good guy.

00:22:39.700 And you should be

00:22:41.720 happy that

00:22:42.940 Craig Newmark

00:22:44.380 exists.

00:22:45.540 He's a positive force.

00:22:47.420 All right.

00:22:48.820 But here's the problem.

00:22:51.920 Who at Twitter

00:22:53.140 gets to decide

00:22:54.000 when a rule

00:22:54.740 has been violated?

00:22:57.420 Would it be hate speech

00:22:58.680 to say

00:22:59.440 something against

00:23:01.660 the trans community?

00:23:04.720 Yes.

00:23:05.920 Right?

00:23:06.340 That probably

00:23:07.440 gets,

00:23:08.660 you know,

00:23:08.980 tweaks some kind

00:23:09.960 of rule.

00:23:11.060 So if you're saying

00:23:11.680 anything about

00:23:12.700 people from their,

00:23:14.760 based on their gender

00:23:15.900 or sexuality

00:23:17.160 or any of that,

00:23:18.460 that's probably

00:23:19.060 hate speech.

00:23:20.320 Probably hate speech.

00:23:21.620 And I would bet

00:23:22.580 that people

00:23:23.660 on the left

00:23:24.380 and the right

00:23:25.160 would equally

00:23:26.780 be banned

00:23:27.640 for that kind

00:23:28.800 of speech.

00:23:29.680 If somebody

00:23:30.260 on the left

00:23:30.780 said something

00:23:31.440 bad about

00:23:32.200 trans people,

00:23:34.180 I imagine

00:23:34.600 they'd get banned.

00:23:35.920 But probably don't,

00:23:37.120 because left-leaning

00:23:38.900 people aren't going

00:23:39.540 to be saying

00:23:39.880 that kind of stuff.

00:23:41.100 But what about

00:23:42.200 somebody on the left

00:23:43.480 who paints all

00:23:44.380 Trump supporters

00:23:45.120 as a white supremacist?

00:23:47.460 What about them?

00:23:48.960 What about

00:23:49.760 Maxine Waters

00:23:50.780 calling for

00:23:51.600 harassing

00:23:52.400 Trump supporters?

00:23:55.140 Now,

00:23:55.400 I don't think

00:23:55.840 she tweeted that

00:23:56.620 necessarily,

00:23:57.400 but think about

00:23:58.680 that sort of thing.

00:24:00.780 Isn't that

00:24:01.420 a judgment call?

00:24:02.220 it's a pure

00:24:03.620 judgment call

00:24:04.360 to say that

00:24:05.660 one of them

00:24:06.120 is hate, 0.51

00:24:07.260 but it's okay

00:24:08.240 to call

00:24:08.580 Trump supporters

00:24:09.300 white supremacists.

00:24:10.520 Why?

00:24:11.280 Because it's true.

00:24:12.600 Right?

00:24:13.540 That that would

00:24:14.400 be the argument.

00:24:15.600 Well,

00:24:16.420 it's not true

00:24:17.260 that all trans people

00:24:18.520 or whatever

00:24:19.080 was claimed,

00:24:20.360 but it's certainly

00:24:21.180 true that all

00:24:22.240 Trump supporters

00:24:23.100 are white supremacists.

00:24:24.720 So you can see

00:24:25.540 that it's ridiculous

00:24:26.880 to have a standard

00:24:28.760 that is subjective.

00:24:30.520 That's the most

00:24:32.080 subjective standard

00:24:33.000 you could possibly have.

00:24:34.560 In my opinion,

00:24:35.880 every reference

00:24:36.640 to white supremacists

00:24:37.980 used in the general sense

00:24:39.660 as, you know,

00:24:40.820 against Republicans

00:24:41.660 or conservatives,

00:24:43.000 if you're not talking

00:24:43.920 about somebody

00:24:44.360 who actually labels

00:24:45.140 themselves that way,

00:24:47.200 if you're talking

00:24:47.700 about other people

00:24:48.500 just because they

00:24:49.220 share some kind

00:24:50.060 of a, you know,

00:24:51.140 genetic or political

00:24:53.040 outlook,

00:24:54.740 that's hate.

00:24:56.140 I don't know

00:24:56.580 what else it is.

00:24:57.540 Looks like hate

00:24:58.160 to me.

00:24:59.100 What about

00:24:59.600 all the tweets

00:25:00.720 for the people

00:25:01.500 saying we need

00:25:02.180 a list of all

00:25:03.080 the people

00:25:03.460 who are pro-Trump?

00:25:05.260 I think creating

00:25:06.460 a list of people

00:25:08.500 who are pro-Trump

00:25:09.440 is hate.

00:25:11.160 That's how I see it.

00:25:13.180 So do I get

00:25:14.400 to decide

00:25:14.960 what is hate speech?

00:25:16.000 Apparently I don't

00:25:16.880 because it's some

00:25:18.340 group within Twitter,

00:25:19.840 I guess,

00:25:20.480 and other social media.

00:25:22.440 So it's a ridiculous

00:25:24.020 standard

00:25:24.980 because it's just

00:25:26.120 purely subjective.

00:25:26.980 The media

00:25:31.620 is saying

00:25:32.160 that

00:25:32.520 the FISA

00:25:35.580 abuse

00:25:36.220 that we now

00:25:37.140 know took place

00:25:38.040 with Carter Page

00:25:39.960 and the whole

00:25:40.800 Russia collusion

00:25:42.240 hoax,

00:25:42.960 they're saying

00:25:43.460 that

00:25:43.840 while apparently

00:25:46.160 nobody's going

00:25:47.100 to go to jail

00:25:47.720 for it,

00:25:48.600 it looks like,

00:25:49.840 that it was

00:25:50.260 pretty bad,

00:25:51.080 but that that

00:25:51.960 stuff was

00:25:53.100 not a coup.

00:25:53.760 So the Russia 0.77

00:25:55.580 collusion hoax,

00:25:57.000 which was

00:25:57.640 our own

00:25:59.460 intelligence agencies

00:26:00.760 working against

00:26:01.900 the elected

00:26:02.940 president of the

00:26:03.720 United States,

00:26:04.940 not a coup.

00:26:06.520 And we know

00:26:07.380 this for a fact,

00:26:08.560 that these people

00:26:09.820 were working

00:26:10.420 against the

00:26:11.040 elected president,

00:26:12.480 trying to remove

00:26:13.300 him from office

00:26:14.080 based on what

00:26:15.640 they knew

00:26:16.120 to be not true.

00:26:17.680 That actually

00:26:18.620 happened.

00:26:19.900 Now,

00:26:20.580 we're not calling

00:26:22.020 that a coup,

00:26:22.720 okay?

00:26:26.180 Likewise,

00:26:27.420 the military

00:26:28.280 in Myanmar,

00:26:29.620 or you could

00:26:30.140 call it Burma, 0.97

00:26:31.440 has taken

00:26:33.180 control of

00:26:33.940 the government,

00:26:34.900 but the Biden

00:26:36.080 administration,

00:26:37.040 not so sure

00:26:37.640 that's a coup.

00:26:39.140 Military takeover

00:26:40.280 of the civilian

00:26:41.180 government,

00:26:41.820 not so sure.

00:26:43.260 Don't want to go

00:26:43.960 so far as to

00:26:44.620 call that a coup.

00:26:46.260 But the

00:26:47.460 Viking hat guy

00:26:48.540 and his selfie

00:26:49.740 army going into

00:26:50.580 the capital,

00:26:51.460 totally a coup.

00:26:52.720 Because if you

00:26:53.960 bring the Viking

00:26:54.640 hat and some

00:26:55.440 zip ties,

00:26:56.280 that's how you

00:26:56.980 conquer a major

00:26:58.340 military power.

00:26:59.880 With a Viking

00:27:00.540 hat,

00:27:01.220 selfies,

00:27:02.080 and some

00:27:02.820 zip ties,

00:27:03.580 you got yourself

00:27:04.360 a coup.

00:27:05.480 So that's what

00:27:06.260 we're actually

00:27:06.860 being sold

00:27:07.680 by the

00:27:08.520 propagandist

00:27:09.400 in charge

00:27:09.960 of your life.

00:27:12.040 Amazing.

00:27:14.280 Here's a little

00:27:15.160 study.

00:27:15.640 so this

00:27:18.700 was on Fox

00:27:19.600 News report

00:27:20.360 that there's

00:27:21.420 a new

00:27:21.920 analysis

00:27:22.340 coming out

00:27:23.680 of some

00:27:24.000 non-partisan

00:27:24.760 group,

00:27:25.260 allegedly,

00:27:26.400 from

00:27:26.840 Wharton

00:27:27.360 School,

00:27:28.160 which found

00:27:28.640 that Biden's

00:27:29.800 proposal for

00:27:30.880 the stimulus

00:27:31.380 package would

00:27:32.920 stimulate in

00:27:34.920 the short run,

00:27:35.760 but in the long

00:27:36.520 run,

00:27:36.800 because it would

00:27:37.260 add debt,

00:27:38.640 they say that

00:27:39.620 you would

00:27:41.140 reduce the

00:27:41.740 GDP by

00:27:44.140 0.3%

00:27:45.620 in 2040.

00:27:47.980 Does that

00:27:48.740 sound credible

00:27:50.340 to you?

00:27:51.340 Do you think

00:27:51.920 that the Wharton

00:27:52.640 School,

00:27:53.280 or people from

00:27:54.080 it,

00:27:54.760 could actually

00:27:55.500 calculate that

00:27:56.620 by 2040,

00:27:58.320 the effect of

00:27:59.080 this specific

00:28:00.520 stimulus via

00:28:02.040 debt would

00:28:03.320 have a 0.3%

00:28:04.520 impact in

00:28:05.880 2040?

00:28:08.820 No.

00:28:10.420 That's not a

00:28:11.420 thing.

00:28:12.340 You can't

00:28:13.120 model that.

00:28:14.680 I'm not going

00:28:15.540 to say you

00:28:15.920 can model

00:28:16.400 this when I've

00:28:18.020 been saying

00:28:18.420 forever that

00:28:19.160 the climate

00:28:20.320 change economic

00:28:21.580 projections that

00:28:23.000 go through

00:28:23.340 2080 are 0.98

00:28:24.180 ridiculous.

00:28:25.120 You can't

00:28:25.760 model this

00:28:26.280 stuff.

00:28:27.060 This is

00:28:27.500 completely

00:28:28.200 resistant to

00:28:29.860 any attempt

00:28:30.500 to predict

00:28:31.220 it.

00:28:31.980 Now, how

00:28:33.080 should you

00:28:33.520 look at

00:28:33.920 something that

00:28:34.820 is an

00:28:36.120 analysis of

00:28:36.940 something that

00:28:37.440 can't be

00:28:37.900 analyzed,

00:28:38.540 basically?

00:28:39.360 Well, it

00:28:39.620 can be

00:28:39.860 analyzed, but

00:28:40.400 it can't be

00:28:40.880 predicted with

00:28:41.400 any kind of

00:28:41.940 confidence.

00:28:43.080 The way to

00:28:43.820 look at this

00:28:44.320 is not that

00:28:44.920 this will

00:28:45.360 happen.

00:28:47.080 The way to

00:28:47.840 look at it

00:28:48.300 is to

00:28:48.720 simply understand

00:28:49.700 that there

00:28:50.140 is an

00:28:51.360 interplay

00:28:52.000 between the

00:28:53.500 amount of

00:28:53.900 debt we

00:28:54.340 take on

00:28:54.900 and the

00:28:56.440 GDP.

00:28:57.900 Now, it's

00:28:58.520 good to

00:28:58.840 know that,

00:29:00.080 and it's

00:29:00.420 good to

00:29:00.720 know that

00:29:01.100 too much

00:29:01.500 debt should,

00:29:03.740 all things

00:29:04.640 being equal,

00:29:05.220 it should

00:29:05.440 cause a

00:29:05.920 drag on

00:29:06.700 your GDP.

00:29:07.880 But when

00:29:08.280 you're

00:29:08.420 talking about

00:29:08.980 0.3%

00:29:10.200 in 2040,

00:29:11.480 we don't

00:29:12.280 have that

00:29:12.760 kind of

00:29:13.180 precision.

00:29:14.280 There will

00:29:14.720 be so

00:29:15.300 many surprises

00:29:16.320 between now

00:29:17.940 and 2040

00:29:18.740 that it is

00:29:20.240 absurd to

00:29:21.320 imagine that

00:29:21.900 you can

00:29:22.240 predict this

00:29:22.880 little difference

00:29:24.240 in the GDP,

00:29:25.440 although 0.3%

00:29:26.240 would be not

00:29:27.680 such a small

00:29:28.400 number when

00:29:29.000 you're talking

00:29:29.320 about GDP.

00:29:29.920 So, while

00:29:35.000 I'm not

00:29:35.440 going to

00:29:35.680 tell you

00:29:36.100 that the

00:29:36.420 stimulus package

00:29:37.120 is good

00:29:37.600 or bad

00:29:38.100 or what

00:29:38.500 amount it

00:29:39.480 should be,

00:29:40.320 it is

00:29:40.760 ridiculous to

00:29:41.580 imagine that

00:29:42.100 you can

00:29:42.380 predict with

00:29:43.720 that kind

00:29:44.160 of accuracy.

00:29:46.720 Here's my

00:29:47.440 big question

00:29:47.940 of the day.

00:29:49.320 Would you

00:29:49.580 like a

00:29:50.000 conspiracy

00:29:50.420 theory?

00:29:51.440 I know

00:29:52.180 you would.

00:29:53.480 I know

00:29:54.020 you would.

00:29:55.400 I give

00:29:55.900 you now

00:29:56.500 my

00:29:57.520 conspiracy

00:29:58.020 theory.

00:29:58.480 I feel

00:30:00.260 like I

00:30:00.620 won't be

00:30:01.000 kicked off

00:30:01.500 of social

00:30:01.940 media if

00:30:02.520 I call

00:30:02.920 it a

00:30:03.180 conspiracy

00:30:03.600 theory,

00:30:04.300 because it

00:30:04.980 is.

00:30:05.800 So, what

00:30:06.200 follows should

00:30:07.780 not be

00:30:08.300 accepted as

00:30:09.420 true.

00:30:11.140 What follows

00:30:11.840 is speculation,

00:30:13.180 speculation

00:30:13.660 alone, fun

00:30:15.340 speculation, but

00:30:16.900 speculation alone.

00:30:18.240 Don't go all

00:30:18.920 QAnon on me,

00:30:19.900 okay?

00:30:20.980 It goes like

00:30:21.800 this.

00:30:23.640 Why is

00:30:24.400 China doing 0.98

00:30:25.300 so well on

00:30:26.160 the coronavirus?

00:30:26.880 Is it

00:30:29.180 because they

00:30:30.800 do more

00:30:31.300 aggressive

00:30:31.700 lockdowns?

00:30:33.480 It could

00:30:33.900 be.

00:30:34.720 Could be.

00:30:35.800 I don't

00:30:36.420 believe it.

00:30:38.020 I mean,

00:30:38.280 I hate to

00:30:40.840 call it

00:30:41.160 common sense

00:30:41.860 because common

00:30:42.540 sense is an

00:30:43.200 illusion, but

00:30:44.440 my judgment

00:30:45.660 based on what

00:30:47.520 I'm watching

00:30:48.000 is there

00:30:49.100 are a lot

00:30:49.480 of people

00:30:49.820 in China

00:30:50.400 and they

00:30:50.960 had a

00:30:51.300 pretty big

00:30:51.920 infection at

00:30:52.640 one point

00:30:53.260 and the

00:30:53.740 people do

00:30:54.200 move around

00:30:55.000 and I

00:30:56.540 don't

00:30:57.040 understand

00:30:57.560 why they're

00:30:58.100 not deeply

00:30:58.880 infected.

00:31:00.260 And I

00:31:00.480 don't believe

00:31:01.260 that the

00:31:02.380 lockdown

00:31:02.820 quarantine

00:31:03.680 aggressiveness

00:31:04.740 is really

00:31:05.580 what's going

00:31:06.140 on there.

00:31:07.200 Feels like

00:31:08.240 something else

00:31:09.040 is going

00:31:09.500 on, doesn't

00:31:10.220 it?

00:31:11.140 It feels

00:31:11.800 like it.

00:31:12.680 Now, you

00:31:13.180 have to be

00:31:13.580 careful that

00:31:14.860 your feelings

00:31:15.720 don't actually

00:31:17.640 tell you

00:31:18.040 anything useful.

00:31:19.640 It feels

00:31:20.740 like there's

00:31:21.220 something going

00:31:21.780 on, but I

00:31:23.220 don't know

00:31:23.720 that there

00:31:24.080 is.

00:31:25.620 And I

00:31:27.080 was asking,

00:31:27.660 what is it

00:31:28.100 that China 0.93

00:31:28.640 uses for

00:31:29.400 their early

00:31:30.420 symptoms?

00:31:31.300 The people

00:31:32.660 who have

00:31:33.200 mild cases

00:31:34.520 but might

00:31:35.140 turn into

00:31:35.600 worse cases.

00:31:36.840 Is there

00:31:37.100 some way

00:31:37.980 that they

00:31:38.320 treat them

00:31:38.840 differently

00:31:39.300 than the

00:31:40.500 United States?

00:31:41.640 And because

00:31:42.240 I have lots

00:31:42.820 of smart,

00:31:43.780 well-informed

00:31:44.380 people following

00:31:45.620 me on

00:31:45.980 Twitter, it

00:31:47.820 took all

00:31:48.200 of about a

00:31:48.700 minute for

00:31:49.680 somebody to

00:31:50.260 produce the

00:31:51.060 official document

00:31:52.080 that keeps

00:31:52.800 getting updated

00:31:53.500 that tells

00:31:54.420 you what

00:31:54.780 China knows 0.92

00:31:55.440 about it,

00:31:56.080 the virus so

00:31:56.740 far, and

00:31:57.700 what their

00:31:58.080 protocols are

00:31:58.840 for treating

00:31:59.360 it.

00:32:00.460 So there

00:32:00.840 you go,

00:32:01.220 right?

00:32:01.980 There's the

00:32:02.420 official Chinese

00:32:03.300 document.

00:32:04.060 They update it

00:32:04.820 regularly.

00:32:05.780 There's a

00:32:06.260 section there

00:32:06.800 about what

00:32:07.280 they use to

00:32:08.160 treat it.

00:32:08.940 It said

00:32:09.220 something about

00:32:09.980 antivirals

00:32:11.280 being used

00:32:13.160 early, maybe a

00:32:13.940 little bit more

00:32:14.440 in China,

00:32:14.960 something like

00:32:15.420 that.

00:32:16.140 So there

00:32:16.600 you go.

00:32:17.580 We're good,

00:32:18.260 right?

00:32:19.040 Maybe they

00:32:19.540 use a little

00:32:19.980 more antivirals.

00:32:21.080 But if that

00:32:22.460 worked, and

00:32:24.240 that made a

00:32:24.740 big difference,

00:32:26.000 it's right

00:32:26.940 there in the

00:32:27.380 document, so

00:32:28.860 wouldn't we

00:32:29.540 also be using

00:32:30.540 it and

00:32:31.520 getting the

00:32:31.980 same outcomes?

00:32:33.080 So it

00:32:33.520 can't be,

00:32:34.940 that can't

00:32:35.540 be the

00:32:35.800 answer.

00:32:36.220 The answer

00:32:36.860 can't be that

00:32:37.660 the things

00:32:38.460 they're using

00:32:38.900 for early

00:32:39.660 mild symptoms

00:32:41.880 is so different

00:32:42.800 than what we're

00:32:43.400 doing that

00:32:43.940 they're getting

00:32:44.340 a whole

00:32:44.840 different outcome,

00:32:45.860 like wildly

00:32:46.460 different outcome.

00:32:48.140 Nah, I don't

00:32:48.840 think it's that.

00:32:49.440 But there

00:32:50.900 was one

00:32:51.280 sentence in

00:32:52.040 there that

00:32:53.020 caught my

00:32:53.460 attention.

00:32:55.260 It was a

00:32:56.200 specific sentence

00:32:57.180 in this

00:32:57.940 China-made 0.99

00:32:59.500 document saying

00:33:01.340 that hydroxychloroquine

00:33:03.040 is not

00:33:03.780 recommended.

00:33:05.420 Not

00:33:05.920 recommended.

00:33:06.640 A direct

00:33:07.180 sentence.

00:33:08.680 Hydroxychloroquine

00:33:09.360 is not

00:33:10.020 recommended with

00:33:12.060 or without

00:33:12.680 azithromycin.

00:33:14.800 So they

00:33:15.300 threw that

00:33:15.900 into the

00:33:16.280 sentence.

00:33:17.260 So that's

00:33:17.560 pretty

00:33:17.820 clear.

00:33:19.960 If you

00:33:20.200 were thinking

00:33:20.600 to yourself,

00:33:21.940 hey, I

00:33:22.480 think China

00:33:23.080 is secretly

00:33:23.760 using hydroxychloroquine

00:33:25.360 and not

00:33:25.740 telling anybody,

00:33:27.100 well, you

00:33:27.480 don't have to

00:33:27.940 worry about

00:33:28.320 that now.

00:33:29.460 Because their

00:33:30.200 official document

00:33:31.280 says they

00:33:32.740 recommend against

00:33:33.660 it.

00:33:35.120 So that

00:33:36.580 must be

00:33:36.960 true, that

00:33:38.240 they don't

00:33:38.560 use it in

00:33:39.020 China.

00:33:40.320 Right?

00:33:43.720 Do you

00:33:44.380 believe that?

00:33:44.820 here's my

00:33:46.700 conspiracy

00:33:49.020 theory.

00:33:50.100 Again, don't

00:33:51.040 go all

00:33:51.460 Q on me

00:33:52.100 and believe

00:33:52.640 this.

00:33:53.680 I'm just

00:33:54.400 saying we

00:33:55.040 live in a

00:33:55.600 world in

00:33:56.400 which you

00:33:56.760 can't rule

00:33:57.640 things out

00:33:58.820 that you

00:33:59.740 would like to

00:34:00.400 rule out.

00:34:01.420 You know

00:34:01.920 what I would

00:34:02.320 like to

00:34:02.840 rule out?

00:34:04.060 I would

00:34:04.680 like to

00:34:05.040 think I

00:34:05.480 lived in a

00:34:05.920 world where

00:34:06.280 I could

00:34:06.500 say,

00:34:07.040 no, China

00:34:07.960 is going

00:34:08.260 to tell us

00:34:08.720 the truth

00:34:09.180 about this

00:34:09.740 virus thing.

00:34:11.220 They're not

00:34:11.660 going to lie

00:34:12.340 about the

00:34:12.840 virus.

00:34:15.080 That's not

00:34:15.800 going to

00:34:16.060 happen.

00:34:16.800 Except we

00:34:17.520 don't live

00:34:17.900 in that

00:34:18.160 world.

00:34:18.820 We actually

00:34:19.600 live in a

00:34:20.180 world in

00:34:20.740 which the

00:34:21.220 following

00:34:21.560 conspiracy

00:34:22.220 theory I'm

00:34:22.960 going to

00:34:23.320 describe could

00:34:25.200 happen.

00:34:26.820 Completely

00:34:27.340 could happen.

00:34:29.620 I don't

00:34:30.200 have any

00:34:30.520 evidence that

00:34:31.100 it has,

00:34:31.760 so I'm not

00:34:32.300 claiming it

00:34:32.740 as a

00:34:33.040 fact.

00:34:34.120 But here's

00:34:34.600 what it

00:34:34.800 would look

00:34:35.100 like.

00:34:37.460 Suppose

00:34:38.020 you created

00:34:39.360 a gain

00:34:41.120 of function

00:34:41.840 virus

00:34:42.740 enhancement.

00:34:44.560 In other

00:34:44.820 words,

00:34:45.260 human beings

00:34:46.920 in a

00:34:47.240 laboratory,

00:34:48.040 hypothetically,

00:34:49.200 created a

00:34:50.060 change in

00:34:50.720 an existing

00:34:51.300 virus to

00:34:51.960 make it

00:34:52.280 even more

00:34:53.140 deadly.

00:34:54.520 Now,

00:34:54.900 we hear

00:34:55.540 that such

00:34:56.200 types of

00:34:57.440 research is

00:34:58.360 going on

00:34:58.960 in labs

00:34:59.880 and various

00:35:00.720 places,

00:35:01.440 so we

00:35:02.180 should not

00:35:02.600 be surprised

00:35:03.360 if it's

00:35:04.580 happening.

00:35:05.880 So step

00:35:06.680 number one,

00:35:07.380 do you

00:35:07.660 believe that

00:35:08.380 gain of

00:35:09.500 function

00:35:09.860 research is

00:35:10.900 being done

00:35:11.480 in major

00:35:12.320 labs?

00:35:13.840 I feel

00:35:14.420 like I

00:35:14.800 do believe

00:35:15.260 that.

00:35:15.900 Even if

00:35:16.460 we don't

00:35:16.880 intend to

00:35:17.400 use it,

00:35:18.800 I would

00:35:19.200 imagine that

00:35:19.820 for defensive

00:35:20.460 reasons alone,

00:35:21.560 we would be

00:35:22.020 doing that

00:35:22.440 research to

00:35:23.580 find out what

00:35:24.140 can and

00:35:24.620 cannot be

00:35:25.120 done.

00:35:26.140 Because if

00:35:26.780 we find out

00:35:27.320 there's

00:35:27.560 nothing you

00:35:28.020 can do to

00:35:28.660 add function

00:35:29.320 to a

00:35:29.680 virus,

00:35:30.500 well,

00:35:30.840 then we

00:35:31.120 feel safer.

00:35:31.800 We don't

00:35:32.080 need a

00:35:32.380 defense against

00:35:33.040 that.

00:35:33.680 But if

00:35:34.020 our own

00:35:34.540 laboratories

00:35:35.100 found out,

00:35:35.920 oh,

00:35:36.440 gee,

00:35:36.740 this is

00:35:37.040 kind of

00:35:37.340 easy to

00:35:37.860 do,

00:35:38.600 because we

00:35:39.000 just did

00:35:39.440 it,

00:35:39.640 I mean,

00:35:40.480 we just

00:35:40.860 did it,

00:35:41.540 so we'd

00:35:42.220 have to

00:35:42.460 worry about

00:35:42.840 our enemies

00:35:43.200 doing it,

00:35:43.740 because we

00:35:44.320 can do

00:35:44.620 it.

00:35:45.800 So the

00:35:46.960 question of

00:35:47.520 whether such

00:35:48.280 research happens

00:35:49.440 in laboratories,

00:35:50.380 I would say,

00:35:52.540 wouldn't your

00:35:53.120 judgment say

00:35:53.940 yes?

00:35:55.520 Like guaranteed

00:35:56.480 yes?

00:35:57.500 You don't know

00:35:58.160 how much of it,

00:35:58.860 you don't know

00:35:59.260 where it's

00:35:59.580 happening,

00:36:00.000 but that's

00:36:00.940 got to be

00:36:01.400 happening

00:36:01.720 somewhere,

00:36:02.360 right?

00:36:02.560 number two,

00:36:05.760 if, let's

00:36:06.820 say, some

00:36:07.420 country came

00:36:08.300 up with a

00:36:08.820 virus that

00:36:09.800 had a

00:36:11.300 cheap solution,

00:36:13.860 a drug that

00:36:14.840 could be

00:36:15.340 made, let's

00:36:16.140 say, easily

00:36:17.240 in the country

00:36:18.020 that made

00:36:18.560 the virus

00:36:19.420 gain a

00:36:20.020 function,

00:36:20.800 but could

00:36:22.040 not be as

00:36:22.820 easily available

00:36:23.640 to their

00:36:24.460 enemies,

00:36:26.020 that'd be a

00:36:27.000 good virus,

00:36:27.820 wouldn't it?

00:36:28.680 The ultimate

00:36:29.520 virus is one

00:36:30.420 where you

00:36:30.940 have the

00:36:31.440 antidote,

00:36:32.560 or something

00:36:33.120 like it,

00:36:34.040 and your

00:36:34.640 enemies do

00:36:35.200 not.

00:36:37.280 But suppose

00:36:38.040 they could

00:36:38.420 also get

00:36:39.080 it.

00:36:39.960 Suppose your

00:36:40.600 enemies had

00:36:41.640 a way to

00:36:42.140 get it,

00:36:42.600 maybe not

00:36:43.100 as easily

00:36:43.620 as you,

00:36:44.300 because you

00:36:45.060 make this

00:36:45.860 in your

00:36:46.160 own country,

00:36:47.100 and maybe

00:36:47.620 we don't

00:36:48.000 make any

00:36:48.440 of it in

00:36:48.740 our country.

00:36:50.440 Well, we

00:36:50.900 could still

00:36:51.240 get it

00:36:51.680 through,

00:36:52.120 let's say,

00:36:52.620 third-party

00:36:53.260 countries that

00:36:54.180 have a little

00:36:55.280 extra or

00:36:55.780 whatever,

00:36:56.920 so we

00:36:57.300 could still

00:36:57.600 get some.

00:36:58.720 What would

00:36:59.280 you do,

00:37:00.340 and again,

00:37:00.880 I'm not saying

00:37:01.340 this is happening,

00:37:01.960 but what

00:37:02.540 would you

00:37:02.860 do if

00:37:03.340 you were,

00:37:03.800 say,

00:37:04.020 this country

00:37:04.580 who had

00:37:05.060 hypothetically

00:37:05.680 made a

00:37:06.200 gain-of-function

00:37:06.720 virus,

00:37:07.760 hypothetically

00:37:08.380 had a

00:37:09.060 solution that

00:37:09.780 you could

00:37:10.120 make as

00:37:10.540 much of

00:37:10.940 as you

00:37:11.280 wanted in

00:37:11.820 your own

00:37:12.260 country,

00:37:13.240 of a

00:37:13.680 cheap

00:37:14.040 therapeutic,

00:37:15.200 let's say,

00:37:15.840 but you

00:37:16.300 wanted to

00:37:16.720 keep other

00:37:17.180 countries,

00:37:17.740 let's say

00:37:18.080 your rivals,

00:37:19.240 from using

00:37:19.940 it to the

00:37:21.080 extent that

00:37:21.540 they can

00:37:21.840 even get

00:37:22.300 it.

00:37:23.080 What would

00:37:23.780 you do?

00:37:24.080 Well, if

00:37:25.640 you had

00:37:25.980 control over

00:37:27.640 the major

00:37:28.260 media in

00:37:29.400 other countries

00:37:30.180 and you

00:37:30.940 could insert

00:37:31.600 things about

00:37:33.380 what to

00:37:34.500 believe and

00:37:35.920 do mind

00:37:38.420 control of

00:37:39.240 your rival,

00:37:40.740 well, you

00:37:41.080 would tell

00:37:41.380 them that

00:37:41.780 the drug

00:37:42.340 that's working

00:37:43.000 fine in

00:37:43.620 your country

00:37:44.140 is dangerous

00:37:45.580 and it

00:37:46.040 doesn't work

00:37:46.500 at all.

00:37:48.180 Now, could

00:37:49.100 China really 0.83

00:37:51.160 do that?

00:37:52.340 I mean, if

00:37:53.360 they had a

00:37:53.980 drug that

00:37:54.640 was working

00:37:56.640 in China,

00:37:57.580 could they

00:37:58.060 really convince

00:37:59.040 Western media

00:38:00.040 that it

00:38:01.100 doesn't exist

00:38:02.000 and that it's

00:38:03.120 dangerous?

00:38:03.940 It doesn't

00:38:04.640 exist in terms

00:38:05.300 of it doesn't

00:38:05.740 really work

00:38:06.280 and that it's

00:38:07.600 dangerous?

00:38:08.540 Would they

00:38:09.160 have that

00:38:09.800 kind of

00:38:10.340 power to

00:38:10.880 actually just

00:38:11.400 brainwash the

00:38:12.460 United States?

00:38:15.000 Yes.

00:38:16.980 It's not even

00:38:17.720 a close call.

00:38:18.440 Yes, yes,

00:38:19.000 they have that

00:38:19.400 power.

00:38:20.320 How do I

00:38:20.800 know?

00:38:21.160 Well, we

00:38:22.100 have a little

00:38:22.520 story today

00:38:23.680 in the news

00:38:24.320 about a

00:38:24.860 woman, I 1.00

00:38:25.340 think it was

00:38:25.780 CNN covered

00:38:26.400 it, a

00:38:27.480 woman who 0.99

00:38:28.080 had been

00:38:28.720 drawn into

00:38:29.660 the QAnon

00:38:30.600 conspiracy

00:38:31.780 thing and

00:38:33.060 what was it

00:38:33.700 that programmed

00:38:34.380 her to 0.94

00:38:35.540 believe in

00:38:36.240 Q after

00:38:37.360 the election?

00:38:38.560 This is

00:38:38.920 someone who

00:38:39.300 didn't even

00:38:39.780 follow Q

00:38:40.920 before the

00:38:41.500 election but

00:38:42.460 got quickly

00:38:43.240 brainwashed

00:38:44.260 into believing

00:38:44.860 it and now

00:38:45.480 has unbrainwashed

00:38:46.580 herself and

00:38:47.600 realized she

00:38:48.200 was brainwashed.

00:38:49.300 What was it

00:38:49.940 that brainwashed

00:38:50.700 her?

00:38:50.840 Well, according

00:38:51.800 to her story,

00:38:52.720 it was she

00:38:54.340 must have

00:38:54.800 clicked on

00:38:55.400 something,

00:38:56.520 a Q content

00:38:57.560 on TikTok.

00:39:00.640 And then

00:39:01.480 TikTok, having

00:39:02.540 seen her click

00:39:03.380 on some Q

00:39:04.800 content, started

00:39:06.340 feeding her more

00:39:07.580 new content.

00:39:09.700 And she saw

00:39:10.460 more of it and

00:39:11.080 she clicked more

00:39:11.780 and she consumed

00:39:12.460 more and then

00:39:13.060 the algorithm

00:39:14.040 fed her a little

00:39:14.800 bit more.

00:39:15.240 the algorithm

00:39:17.200 of TikTok,

00:39:18.360 according to

00:39:18.940 this person

00:39:20.040 who tells

00:39:20.480 the first

00:39:21.020 person's

00:39:21.540 story,

00:39:22.880 hypnotized

00:39:23.500 her into 0.58

00:39:24.880 believing in

00:39:25.680 Q.

00:39:27.460 Hypnotized

00:39:28.140 her.

00:39:28.980 Now, you

00:39:29.480 could say

00:39:29.780 brainwashed or

00:39:30.680 mind-controlled,

00:39:31.440 it's all the

00:39:31.800 same thing.

00:39:32.960 But TikTok

00:39:34.360 is owned by

00:39:35.860 a Chinese

00:39:36.740 company,

00:39:37.520 which is

00:39:39.540 controlled by

00:39:40.540 the government.

00:39:41.180 And so

00:39:42.880 a Chinese

00:39:44.060 government

00:39:44.680 app,

00:39:45.700 according to

00:39:46.320 this one

00:39:46.780 anecdotal

00:39:47.380 study,

00:39:48.000 you have to

00:39:48.900 be careful,

00:39:49.440 it's one

00:39:49.900 example,

00:39:50.840 it doesn't

00:39:51.220 prove the

00:39:52.380 general statement,

00:39:53.420 but I feel

00:39:54.680 like the

00:39:55.060 generality of

00:39:55.900 this is

00:39:56.320 pretty obvious.

00:39:57.640 If you can

00:39:58.600 program one

00:39:59.660 person just

00:40:00.920 by the

00:40:01.500 algorithm

00:40:01.980 feeding them

00:40:02.660 more Q

00:40:03.220 content

00:40:03.800 with a

00:40:05.120 Chinese app,

00:40:06.480 and then

00:40:07.000 she takes

00:40:07.440 what she

00:40:07.740 learned on

00:40:08.180 TikTok and

00:40:08.860 she takes

00:40:09.260 it to

00:40:09.480 other social

00:40:10.000 media,

00:40:10.720 looks for

00:40:11.160 more Q

00:40:11.720 stuff,

00:40:12.640 their

00:40:12.960 algorithms

00:40:13.540 probably do

00:40:14.240 the same,

00:40:15.300 feed them

00:40:15.700 more Q

00:40:16.100 stuff.

00:40:16.980 In this

00:40:17.320 case,

00:40:17.920 in an

00:40:18.520 American

00:40:18.800 company

00:40:19.200 case,

00:40:19.980 probably

00:40:20.360 not as

00:40:21.040 part of

00:40:21.340 some

00:40:21.520 plot,

00:40:22.500 but the

00:40:23.080 algorithm

00:40:23.460 just gives

00:40:23.900 you more

00:40:24.180 of what

00:40:24.400 you want.

00:40:26.300 So yes,

00:40:27.820 the following

00:40:28.580 scenario,

00:40:29.360 I have no

00:40:29.840 reason to

00:40:30.360 believe it

00:40:30.800 happened.

00:40:32.460 And you

00:40:32.900 shouldn't

00:40:33.180 either.

00:40:34.180 So don't

00:40:34.960 believe that

00:40:35.940 what I say

00:40:36.520 next is some

00:40:37.240 kind of a

00:40:37.820 truth or

00:40:38.260 fact.

00:40:39.220 I'm just

00:40:39.800 saying we

00:40:40.520 live in a

00:40:41.020 world where

00:40:41.480 the following

00:40:41.960 thing could 0.56

00:40:42.740 have happened

00:40:43.160 easily.

00:40:44.720 China could

00:40:45.500 have created

00:40:45.980 a gain-of-function

00:40:46.820 virus.

00:40:47.880 They could

00:40:48.340 have found

00:40:48.980 a cheap

00:40:50.220 available

00:40:50.740 therapeutic,

00:40:51.640 let's say

00:40:52.040 hydroxychloroquine,

00:40:53.620 just as an

00:40:54.300 example.

00:40:54.840 I'm not saying

00:40:55.340 that it works.

00:40:56.300 The evidence

00:40:56.660 is against it

00:40:57.440 actually.

00:40:59.620 But suppose

00:41:00.460 they had that,

00:41:01.300 suppose their

00:41:01.740 country had a

00:41:02.520 not quite a

00:41:03.260 monopoly,

00:41:03.860 but they could

00:41:04.260 make as much

00:41:04.780 as they wanted

00:41:05.380 for themselves,

00:41:06.560 they could

00:41:07.860 restrict it

00:41:08.480 from other

00:41:08.900 people.

00:41:10.240 And could

00:41:10.660 they then

00:41:11.160 also control

00:41:12.020 the media

00:41:12.540 to tell you

00:41:13.360 that the

00:41:13.820 secret drug

00:41:14.600 that they

00:41:14.980 use doesn't

00:41:16.440 work?

00:41:18.520 They could

00:41:19.240 do that

00:41:19.760 easily.

00:41:21.520 Every part

00:41:22.120 of this

00:41:22.520 is actually

00:41:24.100 completely

00:41:25.200 doable,

00:41:26.020 as far as

00:41:26.440 I can tell.

00:41:27.760 Now,

00:41:28.400 does that

00:41:28.800 mean that

00:41:29.200 they did

00:41:29.600 that as

00:41:30.160 part of

00:41:30.520 an intentional

00:41:31.400 plot to

00:41:32.540 release a

00:41:33.040 virus and

00:41:33.700 get this

00:41:34.180 outcome?

00:41:34.680 I would

00:41:35.140 say probably

00:41:35.800 not.

00:41:37.800 Probably

00:41:38.400 not.

00:41:39.280 I don't

00:41:39.960 see China

00:41:40.700 being dumb

00:41:41.340 enough to

00:41:42.020 intentionally

00:41:42.780 release a

00:41:43.900 virus to

00:41:44.960 try and

00:41:45.280 get some

00:41:45.660 long-term

00:41:46.460 geopolitical

00:41:47.880 gain.

00:41:49.240 Far more

00:41:49.920 likely,

00:41:51.140 they were

00:41:51.600 researching and

00:41:52.540 maybe seeing

00:41:53.200 what they

00:41:53.560 could and

00:41:53.900 could not

00:41:54.280 do,

00:41:54.900 and it

00:41:55.380 just got

00:41:55.800 out.

00:41:57.520 Once it

00:41:58.240 got out,

00:41:59.140 then they

00:42:00.020 would scramble

00:42:00.660 to figure out

00:42:01.440 what to do

00:42:02.220 about it,

00:42:02.760 which might

00:42:03.300 include

00:42:03.740 the

00:42:05.160 conspiracy

00:42:05.640 theory that

00:42:06.320 I explained,

00:42:07.340 but again,

00:42:07.880 there's no

00:42:08.180 evidence of

00:42:08.760 that,

00:42:09.080 no evidence

00:42:09.800 whatsoever.

00:42:12.480 But if you

00:42:13.300 heard what

00:42:14.120 actual Chinese

00:42:15.100 doctors prescribe,

00:42:18.240 do you

00:42:19.200 know?

00:42:19.880 I mean,

00:42:20.180 we have this

00:42:20.680 document put

00:42:21.520 out by the

00:42:22.000 government that

00:42:22.800 says what

00:42:23.280 Chinese doctors

00:42:24.080 are supposed

00:42:24.620 to do,

00:42:25.460 but do you

00:42:25.880 think Chinese 0.72

00:42:26.500 doctors are

00:42:27.420 doing that?

00:42:29.320 Do you think

00:42:29.960 that's how

00:42:30.500 they're handling

00:42:30.960 it?

00:42:31.260 I don't

00:42:33.400 know that we

00:42:33.860 have any

00:42:34.340 visibility about

00:42:35.160 what Chinese

00:42:35.720 doctors are

00:42:36.360 actually

00:42:36.860 prescribing.

00:42:38.380 Do we?

00:42:39.540 I'll bet

00:42:39.900 not.

00:42:41.520 So,

00:42:42.260 again,

00:42:44.300 I don't

00:42:45.260 make the

00:42:45.880 claim that

00:42:46.660 the virus

00:42:47.700 was intentionally

00:42:48.640 engineered or

00:42:50.320 that it was

00:42:50.760 intentionally

00:42:51.140 released or

00:42:51.920 that hydroxychloroquine

00:42:53.140 works.

00:42:53.820 The evidence

00:42:54.360 suggests it

00:42:55.060 does not.

00:42:56.400 I'm just

00:42:57.100 saying we

00:42:57.460 live in a

00:42:57.820 world where

00:42:58.160 all that

00:42:58.580 could have

00:42:58.880 happened

00:42:59.180 easily.

00:42:59.860 amazing,

00:43:01.420 isn't it?

00:43:02.220 All of

00:43:02.720 that could 0.68

00:43:03.300 have

00:43:03.460 happened

00:43:03.840 easily.

00:43:06.200 And maybe

00:43:06.620 it did.

00:43:07.360 I just

00:43:07.760 don't have

00:43:08.100 any proof

00:43:08.500 of it.

00:43:10.280 All right.

00:43:14.360 Let's see

00:43:14.940 what else we

00:43:15.420 got here

00:43:15.940 going on.

00:43:20.000 I like

00:43:20.920 that on

00:43:21.240 CNN,

00:43:22.160 with the

00:43:22.920 opinion people,

00:43:23.840 that they

00:43:24.280 refer to,

00:43:25.000 quote,

00:43:25.520 Trump's

00:43:26.120 assault on

00:43:26.860 democracy.

00:43:27.480 That is

00:43:30.420 such an

00:43:31.040 opinion-y

00:43:31.680 way to

00:43:32.140 describe

00:43:32.760 the current

00:43:33.460 events as

00:43:34.120 an assault

00:43:34.620 on democracy.

00:43:38.580 Amazing.

00:43:40.360 There's a

00:43:41.140 Capitol

00:43:41.700 rioter,

00:43:43.360 let's call

00:43:43.860 it a

00:43:44.080 rioter and

00:43:44.640 not a

00:43:45.320 coup

00:43:45.540 plotter,

00:43:46.800 a woman 0.57

00:43:47.440 who was

00:43:47.880 in the

00:43:48.160 Capitol

00:43:48.460 apparently

00:43:48.940 during the

00:43:50.580 attack on

00:43:51.080 the Capitol,

00:43:52.160 and she

00:43:52.960 asked to

00:43:53.700 get her 0.89

00:43:54.720 vacation in

00:43:55.460 Mexico

00:43:55.820 approved by

00:43:56.520 the court.

00:43:57.480 And the

00:43:57.920 court said

00:43:58.340 yes.

00:43:59.560 So she

00:44:00.340 gets to

00:44:00.740 go to

00:44:01.180 vacation in

00:44:01.840 Mexico,

00:44:02.780 presumably has

00:44:03.560 to come

00:44:03.860 back for

00:44:04.240 her court

00:44:04.580 case.

00:44:05.280 Now,

00:44:05.520 she was

00:44:05.740 only charged

00:44:06.220 with a

00:44:06.520 misdemeanor.

00:44:08.620 Do you

00:44:09.180 think it's

00:44:09.520 reasonable that

00:44:10.780 somebody charged

00:44:11.600 with a

00:44:11.960 misdemeanor would

00:44:13.540 be allowed to

00:44:14.240 take a

00:44:14.640 vacation that

00:44:15.540 they planned

00:44:16.100 and maybe

00:44:16.600 even put

00:44:17.100 some money

00:44:17.500 toward?

00:44:18.620 I think

00:44:19.320 it's completely

00:44:19.940 reasonable.

00:44:20.780 It's a

00:44:21.060 misdemeanor.

00:44:22.000 Is she going

00:44:22.400 to leave the

00:44:22.780 country for a

00:44:23.400 misdemeanor?

00:44:24.580 I don't think

00:44:25.140 so.

00:44:25.420 But how

00:44:26.540 did the

00:44:27.040 social media

00:44:27.660 treat it?

00:44:29.140 White

00:44:29.660 privilege.

00:44:31.060 White

00:44:31.660 privilege.

00:44:32.720 So the

00:44:33.180 idea here is

00:44:33.880 that she

00:44:35.100 gets this

00:44:35.860 special treatment

00:44:36.560 for being

00:44:37.580 white.

00:44:38.540 I don't

00:44:38.960 think that's

00:44:39.460 what's going

00:44:39.840 on.

00:44:41.120 I'd like to

00:44:41.780 think I live

00:44:42.180 in a country

00:44:42.660 where a

00:44:43.760 black person

00:44:45.340 who had a

00:44:46.280 misdemeanor

00:44:46.840 charge and

00:44:47.540 nothing else,

00:44:48.860 just one

00:44:49.520 misdemeanor

00:44:50.240 charge,

00:44:51.280 could go

00:44:51.780 on vacation.

00:44:52.340 I would

00:44:53.620 hope we

00:44:54.120 live in a

00:44:54.540 country where

00:44:55.060 that could 0.68

00:44:55.420 happen.

00:44:55.840 I think it

00:44:56.380 would.

00:44:57.740 But if

00:44:58.780 people are

00:44:59.160 concerned about

00:44:59.800 that, it's

00:45:00.520 worth calling

00:45:01.100 it out.

00:45:01.680 Keep an

00:45:02.000 eye on it.

00:45:02.780 Let's keep 0.77

00:45:03.220 an eye on

00:45:03.660 that.

00:45:04.740 That's what I

00:45:05.320 like to say.

00:45:05.960 It's like,

00:45:06.380 we'll circle

00:45:06.880 back.

00:45:08.300 The only thing

00:45:08.980 as good as

00:45:09.440 I'll circle

00:45:09.880 back on that

00:45:10.560 is, let's

00:45:11.400 keep an eye

00:45:11.840 on that.

00:45:12.560 It means

00:45:12.900 absolutely

00:45:13.260 nothing.

00:45:17.000 There's

00:45:17.520 talk about

00:45:18.260 a space

00:45:18.740 war coming,

00:45:20.180 China and

00:45:20.880 Russia and

00:45:21.420 the US.

00:45:22.340 fighting for

00:45:23.020 control of

00:45:23.680 space resources,

00:45:24.940 especially

00:45:25.420 mining in

00:45:26.160 space.

00:45:27.360 And let

00:45:28.100 me tell

00:45:28.380 you, if

00:45:29.080 you don't

00:45:29.460 think this

00:45:30.020 is the

00:45:30.360 biggest problem

00:45:31.000 in the

00:45:31.320 world, you

00:45:32.940 don't understand

00:45:33.760 anything.

00:45:35.400 The biggest

00:45:36.540 risk to

00:45:37.740 the world

00:45:38.200 is the

00:45:38.820 space.

00:45:39.800 Because

00:45:40.260 whoever

00:45:40.580 controls

00:45:41.140 space,

00:45:42.160 controls the

00:45:43.460 future.

00:45:44.620 There's no

00:45:45.080 way around

00:45:45.480 that.

00:45:46.520 And if

00:45:47.800 we're not

00:45:48.260 putting

00:45:48.680 everything we

00:45:49.500 can into

00:45:50.200 space,

00:45:50.820 space, we're

00:45:52.740 not really

00:45:53.140 planning ahead

00:45:53.720 very well

00:45:54.200 because whoever

00:45:54.800 owns space

00:45:55.680 owns the

00:45:56.500 world.

00:45:57.460 It's going

00:45:57.840 that way.

00:45:58.980 All right.

00:46:01.020 Have you

00:46:01.600 seen any of

00:46:02.280 Joe Biden's

00:46:03.940 executive orders?

00:46:05.420 I was

00:46:05.740 complaining the

00:46:06.420 other day that

00:46:07.680 we don't see

00:46:08.320 what his

00:46:08.660 executive orders

00:46:09.480 are.

00:46:10.120 We just hear

00:46:10.720 he's got tons

00:46:11.420 of executive

00:46:11.960 orders.

00:46:13.160 So CNN did

00:46:14.000 actually have

00:46:14.500 some good

00:46:14.920 reporting on

00:46:15.580 this.

00:46:16.440 Credit to

00:46:17.220 CNN.

00:46:17.500 It was

00:46:18.600 just a

00:46:18.900 little blurb.

00:46:19.600 It was

00:46:19.740 hard to

00:46:20.060 find, but

00:46:20.660 it was a

00:46:21.040 list of

00:46:21.460 his executive

00:46:22.500 orders.

00:46:23.600 And you

00:46:24.340 should read

00:46:24.740 them.

00:46:25.880 You should

00:46:26.260 read his

00:46:26.760 executive

00:46:27.160 orders.

00:46:28.120 Because the

00:46:28.580 first thing

00:46:29.000 you learn is

00:46:29.540 that a lot

00:46:29.900 of them are

00:46:30.260 just total

00:46:30.680 bullshit.

00:46:32.260 A lot

00:46:32.820 of them are

00:46:33.260 we will

00:46:34.160 form a

00:46:34.860 committee to

00:46:35.700 make

00:46:35.960 recommendations

00:46:36.820 on the

00:46:37.560 following

00:46:37.880 topic.

00:46:39.420 Which is

00:46:39.980 sort of like

00:46:40.480 nothing.

00:46:41.040 Did you

00:46:41.300 really need

00:46:41.700 an executive

00:46:42.260 order to

00:46:42.900 form a

00:46:43.380 committee to

00:46:44.320 give you

00:46:44.600 some

00:46:44.800 recommendations?

00:46:45.740 I don't

00:46:45.960 know.

00:46:46.200 Maybe that's

00:46:46.640 the way you

00:46:46.980 do it.

00:46:47.780 But I

00:46:47.980 wouldn't be

00:46:48.300 worried about

00:46:48.780 the, you

00:46:49.640 know, he's

00:46:49.860 not turning

00:46:50.280 into a

00:46:50.700 dictator by

00:46:52.360 forming a

00:46:53.720 committee to

00:46:54.580 make a

00:46:54.920 recommendation

00:46:55.480 on a

00:46:56.180 topic.

00:46:57.760 So a

00:46:58.520 whole bunch

00:46:59.040 of them

00:46:59.420 fall into

00:47:00.060 that category

00:47:00.780 of they're

00:47:01.280 not really

00:47:01.720 anything.

00:47:02.460 It's the

00:47:02.760 stuff you

00:47:03.160 do.

00:47:03.700 If you're

00:47:04.120 a big

00:47:04.360 company and

00:47:06.020 you know

00:47:06.440 there's

00:47:06.660 something you're

00:47:07.120 supposed to

00:47:07.640 address, but

00:47:09.120 you don't

00:47:09.420 want to do

00:47:09.860 anything about

00:47:10.500 it, you

00:47:11.100 just form an

00:47:11.860 exploration

00:47:12.480 committee.

00:47:13.600 So you

00:47:13.920 can say,

00:47:14.320 yeah, we're

00:47:14.600 exploring it.

00:47:15.100 I got a

00:47:15.400 committee and

00:47:15.820 everything.

00:47:16.080 But you're

00:47:16.720 not planning

00:47:17.100 to actually

00:47:17.480 do anything.

00:47:19.400 So a lot

00:47:20.140 of the

00:47:20.460 executive

00:47:20.840 orders are

00:47:21.440 a bunch of

00:47:21.900 nothing.

00:47:22.800 And then

00:47:23.020 there's some

00:47:23.740 of them that

00:47:24.180 look like

00:47:24.680 something but

00:47:25.360 might be

00:47:25.720 nothing.

00:47:26.760 For example,

00:47:27.420 one of the

00:47:27.860 Biden executive

00:47:29.080 orders halts

00:47:30.080 construction of

00:47:30.900 the border

00:47:31.280 wall by

00:47:33.880 terminating the

00:47:34.620 national emergency

00:47:35.440 declaration used

00:47:36.920 to fund it.

00:47:37.780 Now, if you

00:47:39.620 read that

00:47:40.100 without any

00:47:40.700 context, you'd

00:47:41.420 say, oh,

00:47:42.580 Trump was

00:47:43.180 building a

00:47:43.720 border wall,

00:47:45.040 Biden just

00:47:45.560 stopped it.

00:47:47.740 But weren't

00:47:49.680 we told the

00:47:50.360 entire time

00:47:50.960 that Trump

00:47:51.920 was building

00:47:52.540 his wall

00:47:53.380 that really

00:47:54.540 he wasn't

00:47:55.040 building much

00:47:55.660 extra wall

00:47:56.400 at all,

00:47:57.320 that all he

00:47:57.740 was doing

00:47:58.120 was repairing

00:47:58.860 or upgrading

00:47:59.660 wall where

00:48:00.800 it already

00:48:01.140 existed, and

00:48:02.580 even Democrats

00:48:03.440 would agree it

00:48:04.140 should be

00:48:04.420 there.

00:48:05.020 There's some

00:48:05.440 places where

00:48:06.000 you just need

00:48:06.660 a wall, and

00:48:08.500 if all they

00:48:10.140 did was stop

00:48:11.400 funding the

00:48:12.960 upgrade of

00:48:14.060 existing walls,

00:48:15.940 could it be

00:48:16.700 said that they

00:48:17.380 terminated the

00:48:18.280 wall that

00:48:18.680 wasn't being

00:48:19.160 built?

00:48:21.060 So some of

00:48:21.940 these you

00:48:22.220 really have to

00:48:22.680 sort of get

00:48:23.100 under the

00:48:23.480 hood a little

00:48:23.920 bit to find

00:48:25.040 out that

00:48:25.400 nothing is

00:48:25.840 happening.

00:48:26.560 Because I

00:48:27.160 don't believe

00:48:28.080 that in the

00:48:29.000 long run that

00:48:30.880 the Biden

00:48:31.740 administration

00:48:32.380 will halt

00:48:33.080 fixing existing

00:48:35.000 walls.

00:48:35.520 walls, because

00:48:36.520 that was the

00:48:37.080 thing that even

00:48:37.660 Democrats said,

00:48:38.520 yeah, well, you

00:48:38.940 have to fix the

00:48:40.160 bad walls.

00:48:41.660 You'd like good

00:48:42.460 walls in the few

00:48:43.260 places you want a

00:48:44.140 wall.

00:48:45.300 So I feel as if

00:48:46.600 that's like a big

00:48:48.800 fake out, and

00:48:50.640 that it's true

00:48:52.040 that maybe he

00:48:52.780 won't build a new

00:48:53.780 wall, but I'll

00:48:55.240 bet he'll repair

00:48:56.000 the old ones.

00:48:57.740 Why wouldn't

00:48:58.240 you?

00:48:58.980 We'll see.

00:49:00.440 I could be wrong

00:49:01.380 about that.

00:49:02.360 Then there's also

00:49:03.000 the thing about

00:49:03.660 Trump is reversing

00:49:04.880 the Trump

00:49:05.360 administration's

00:49:06.220 restrictions on

00:49:07.240 U.S.

00:49:07.720 entry for

00:49:08.900 passport holders,

00:49:10.400 key phrase there,

00:49:12.180 for passport

00:49:12.980 holders from

00:49:13.820 seven Muslim

00:49:15.140 majority countries.

00:49:17.400 Now, let's put

00:49:19.380 some context on

00:49:20.380 that.

00:49:21.580 Does it sound

00:49:22.500 as if the

00:49:23.740 Trump administration

00:49:24.460 was restricting

00:49:25.680 who could come

00:49:27.180 in from these

00:49:27.920 seven Muslim

00:49:29.600 majority countries,

00:49:30.840 and that Biden

00:49:31.720 just changed

00:49:32.900 that?

00:49:33.180 Is that what

00:49:34.580 you think when

00:49:35.180 you read that?

00:49:36.520 Because I don't

00:49:37.300 think anything

00:49:38.080 changed.

00:49:39.540 Because by

00:49:40.440 inserting passport

00:49:42.440 holders into

00:49:43.740 the executive

00:49:44.480 order, don't

00:49:46.000 you end up with

00:49:46.740 exactly what the

00:49:47.600 Trump administration

00:49:48.240 was doing?

00:49:49.540 Because the

00:49:50.260 Trump administration

00:49:50.880 said the problem

00:49:52.720 with these certain

00:49:53.940 countries is that

00:49:54.960 they didn't have

00:49:55.680 proper documentation.

00:49:57.560 You didn't

00:49:58.120 actually know who

00:49:58.820 you were letting

00:49:59.340 in.

00:49:59.620 But if there's

00:50:00.960 somebody in one

00:50:01.620 of those

00:50:01.880 countries who

00:50:02.500 has a proper

00:50:04.800 passport, wouldn't

00:50:07.460 we let them in

00:50:08.340 under a normal

00:50:10.260 situation?

00:50:11.220 Is it that much

00:50:12.240 of a difference?

00:50:13.180 Because remember,

00:50:13.840 a number of years

00:50:14.580 have gone by.

00:50:16.160 By now, are you

00:50:18.280 telling me that by

00:50:18.980 now there are no

00:50:19.960 actual well-vetted

00:50:22.380 passport holders?

00:50:23.540 Because I think

00:50:25.440 that all that

00:50:25.900 happened was some

00:50:27.500 of those countries

00:50:28.140 got their act

00:50:28.900 together a little

00:50:29.580 bit better in

00:50:30.200 terms of paperwork.

00:50:32.380 So that's all we

00:50:33.780 required.

00:50:35.100 The only thing the

00:50:35.880 Trump administration

00:50:36.680 asked for was,

00:50:38.240 do you have good

00:50:38.780 paperwork to prove

00:50:40.300 who you are?

00:50:41.940 If the Biden

00:50:42.620 administration is

00:50:43.460 just saying,

00:50:44.240 okay, we're going

00:50:44.780 to reverse everything,

00:50:45.780 but you also have

00:50:46.780 to have good

00:50:47.200 paperwork, how

00:50:49.780 different is it?

00:50:51.620 I mean, it might

00:50:52.160 be different in the

00:50:52.820 sense that the

00:50:53.400 Trump administration

00:50:54.240 presumably might

00:50:55.820 not have allowed

00:50:56.780 even those people

00:50:57.920 within the Muslim

00:50:58.920 majority countries

00:50:59.720 to come in.

00:51:00.700 I'd say it's not

00:51:04.060 much of a change.

00:51:05.520 We probably won't

00:51:06.080 notice a difference.

00:51:09.760 Biden is extending

00:51:11.120 the moratorium,

00:51:12.200 national moratorium

00:51:13.020 on evictions and

00:51:14.140 foreclosures.

00:51:15.700 I think Trump

00:51:16.760 might have done

00:51:17.360 that, right?

00:51:19.380 I think Trump

00:51:20.220 might have done

00:51:20.700 the same thing,

00:51:21.420 extend the moratorium

00:51:22.440 on evictions and

00:51:23.480 foreclosures.

00:51:26.040 Does that scare you?

00:51:27.500 Not so much.

00:51:29.860 Directs the

00:51:30.520 attorney general

00:51:31.200 not to renew

00:51:33.600 federal contracts

00:51:34.640 with private prisons.

00:51:37.020 Had you heard

00:51:37.840 about that one?

00:51:39.360 So Biden

00:51:40.260 EO

00:51:40.920 says that

00:51:41.780 we're not going

00:51:43.040 to renew

00:51:43.460 federal contracts

00:51:44.480 with private prisons.

00:51:46.020 that on the surface

00:51:48.780 without knowing

00:51:49.480 the details

00:51:50.100 sounds like

00:51:51.980 that might be

00:51:52.440 a good idea

00:51:53.060 because I think

00:51:53.740 private prisons

00:51:54.840 may be not

00:51:56.860 the right

00:51:57.440 set of incentives

00:51:58.660 because they want

00:51:59.880 more prisoners

00:52:00.580 not fewer

00:52:01.340 because they're

00:52:02.680 a business, right?

00:52:03.900 So I don't know.

00:52:04.860 Is that a good idea

00:52:05.740 or a bad idea?

00:52:06.720 I could easily

00:52:07.520 imagine Trump

00:52:08.280 doing the same thing.

00:52:09.340 I don't know

00:52:09.760 the details

00:52:10.260 so I don't know

00:52:10.760 if it's a good idea.

00:52:14.720 Here's one.

00:52:16.300 The Biden

00:52:16.980 executive order

00:52:18.100 charges the

00:52:18.980 director of the

00:52:19.840 Office of Science

00:52:20.760 and Technology

00:52:21.500 Policy

00:52:22.040 with making sure

00:52:23.720 that there's

00:52:24.500 scientific integrity

00:52:25.660 across federal

00:52:26.860 agencies.

00:52:28.120 So in other words

00:52:28.820 we already have

00:52:30.600 an Office of Science

00:52:32.220 and Technology

00:52:32.900 so it already exists

00:52:34.180 and they're

00:52:35.280 given the

00:52:35.880 objective

00:52:38.660 of making sure

00:52:39.420 the rest of the

00:52:40.140 government

00:52:40.440 is compatible

00:52:41.920 with scientific

00:52:42.900 current

00:52:44.740 scientific thinking.

00:52:46.200 Is that a bad thing?

00:52:48.540 Is anybody

00:52:49.400 concerned

00:52:50.200 that the government

00:52:51.560 is going to make sure

00:52:52.440 that all of its

00:52:53.120 departments are

00:52:53.880 compatible with science?

00:52:56.500 I don't know.

00:52:56.920 That seems pretty safe.

00:52:58.640 Seems pretty safe

00:52:59.660 to me.

00:53:00.900 So of course

00:53:01.740 you're going to get

00:53:02.240 a Green New Deal

00:53:04.200 out of that

00:53:04.820 so there's

00:53:06.520 some subjectivity

00:53:07.780 about what it is

00:53:08.860 that science

00:53:09.620 agrees with

00:53:10.760 at this point

00:53:11.320 but it's not

00:53:13.480 the biggest problem

00:53:14.340 in the world

00:53:14.800 so here's my

00:53:15.820 take on this.

00:53:16.500 If you're worried

00:53:17.080 about all these

00:53:17.840 executive orders

00:53:18.760 from Biden

00:53:19.460 there's a reason

00:53:20.740 you're not seeing

00:53:21.380 much reporting

00:53:22.160 about it

00:53:22.700 is that most

00:53:23.480 of them are

00:53:23.920 sort of empty

00:53:24.900 or don't have

00:53:25.740 that much effect

00:53:26.600 or Trump

00:53:27.840 would have done it

00:53:28.780 or you're

00:53:30.160 just studying

00:53:30.720 something.

00:53:34.580 All right.

00:53:36.460 That

00:53:36.940 might be

00:53:38.300 all I wanted

00:53:40.020 to talk about

00:53:40.560 today.

00:53:41.920 Are landlords

00:53:42.840 going to get

00:53:43.320 bailed out?

00:53:43.920 I don't know

00:53:44.820 about that

00:53:45.320 because I have

00:53:47.040 the same question.

00:53:48.080 If you let

00:53:48.740 people not be

00:53:50.240 evicted

00:53:50.660 and skip

00:53:51.480 rent

00:53:51.800 what happens

00:53:53.660 to the landlords?

00:53:54.920 Do the landlords

00:53:55.740 just eat it?

00:53:57.080 What if they

00:53:57.680 have mortgages

00:53:58.980 and they can't

00:53:59.500 pay their mortgage?

00:54:00.720 Does the bank

00:54:01.560 then eat it?

00:54:04.120 Because that's

00:54:04.880 probably where

00:54:05.740 things need to go.

00:54:07.100 I would say

00:54:07.540 that the place

00:54:08.260 we should cause 0.99

00:54:10.320 the most pain

00:54:11.160 would be at the banks

00:54:12.260 so long as they

00:54:13.160 don't go out of business.

00:54:14.380 You'd have to

00:54:14.920 backstop them

00:54:15.600 so they don't

00:54:16.080 go out of business

00:54:16.640 but I don't think

00:54:18.020 you want to push

00:54:18.500 the pain

00:54:18.880 onto the renter.

00:54:20.380 I don't think

00:54:20.860 you want to push

00:54:21.440 it onto the

00:54:22.240 building owner

00:54:24.040 unless they don't

00:54:24.840 have a mortgage.

00:54:26.260 So maybe the banks

00:54:27.260 are the place

00:54:27.720 to push the pain.

00:54:32.980 Name three

00:54:33.860 victimless crimes

00:54:35.080 people are

00:54:35.740 in prison for.

00:54:37.260 Someone asks.

00:54:38.660 I don't know why.

00:54:40.180 Why would I do that?

00:54:42.360 You'll never test

00:54:43.420 your way in

00:54:43.960 of COVID

00:54:44.460 with 360 million people.

00:54:46.860 Yes, you could.

00:54:48.560 And here's how.

00:54:49.880 If you do

00:54:50.540 regular testing

00:54:51.520 you cannot

00:54:52.900 because it's

00:54:53.640 too slow.

00:54:54.520 The whole point

00:54:55.300 with rapid testing

00:54:56.300 even if it's

00:54:57.000 a little bit

00:54:57.520 less accurate

00:54:58.520 is that if

00:54:59.520 everybody can

00:55:00.620 test themselves

00:55:01.280 every morning

00:55:01.960 you get on top

00:55:03.720 of it really

00:55:04.240 quickly.

00:55:05.320 You get on top

00:55:06.020 of it really

00:55:06.580 quickly.

00:55:07.200 Because what you

00:55:07.760 would do

00:55:08.140 is you would

00:55:08.800 catch the

00:55:09.680 people who are

00:55:11.560 the super spreaders

00:55:12.560 much faster.

00:55:14.240 If you caught

00:55:15.140 a super spreader

00:55:16.100 on day one

00:55:17.040 as opposed

00:55:18.700 to day seven

00:55:19.720 it's a difference

00:55:22.020 between a pandemic

00:55:22.960 and a problem.

00:55:24.240 It's a big

00:55:24.640 difference.

00:55:25.720 So yeah,

00:55:26.180 rapid testing

00:55:27.000 if you did

00:55:28.060 enough of it

00:55:28.800 could actually

00:55:30.960 probably shorten

00:55:32.580 the pandemic

00:55:33.100 by 50%

00:55:34.020 I would think.

00:55:35.940 Any comment

00:55:36.920 on the hotel

00:55:37.640 takeovers

00:55:38.260 in Washington?

00:55:39.360 So there's

00:55:39.760 some stories

00:55:40.260 about homeless

00:55:41.780 people

00:55:42.320 taking over

00:55:44.120 some hotels

00:55:44.960 in Washington

00:55:45.860 or trying to.

00:55:46.980 I don't think

00:55:47.400 they've succeeded.

00:55:48.000 but I feel

00:55:50.500 as if that

00:55:50.980 story is a

00:55:51.580 local story

00:55:52.320 and I don't

00:55:53.840 see that

00:55:54.360 as being

00:55:54.880 some kind

00:55:55.360 of trend

00:55:55.760 that's going

00:55:56.180 to spread

00:55:56.680 and it

00:55:59.500 probably has

00:55:59.900 a lot to

00:56:00.340 do with the

00:56:00.660 fact that

00:56:01.000 hotels are

00:56:01.540 empty at

00:56:02.120 the moment

00:56:02.480 because of

00:56:02.940 coronavirus.

00:56:04.280 Oh,

00:56:04.520 by the way,

00:56:05.160 many of you

00:56:06.220 know that I

00:56:07.120 went on my

00:56:08.020 delayed honeymoon

00:56:09.540 to French

00:56:11.580 Polynesia

00:56:12.140 and Bora Bora

00:56:12.780 just as we

00:56:15.200 got back.

00:56:15.920 I think it

00:56:16.320 was yesterday

00:56:16.920 they closed

00:56:18.520 French Polynesia

00:56:19.500 to travel.

00:56:20.900 So we

00:56:21.600 thought we

00:56:21.980 were beating

00:56:22.340 the system

00:56:22.860 by getting

00:56:23.340 this one

00:56:24.120 trip to

00:56:24.600 the one

00:56:24.920 place that

00:56:25.800 was going

00:56:26.440 to allow

00:56:26.760 us to

00:56:27.120 travel there

00:56:27.660 but that

00:56:28.600 just shut 0.84

00:56:29.240 down.

00:56:30.100 So I

00:56:30.680 don't see

00:56:31.120 how the

00:56:31.480 travel industry

00:56:32.140 is going

00:56:32.480 to survive.

00:56:33.320 I don't

00:56:33.580 see any

00:56:34.180 way.

00:56:35.080 I think

00:56:35.360 what will

00:56:35.600 happen with

00:56:36.080 restaurants

00:56:36.640 and the

00:56:37.160 travel industry

00:56:37.860 is that the

00:56:38.600 current owners

00:56:39.320 might have

00:56:39.800 to go

00:56:40.100 bankrupt,

00:56:41.680 maybe sell

00:56:42.520 their assets

00:56:42.980 off for

00:56:43.520 nothing to

00:56:44.580 somebody who

00:56:45.180 doesn't yet

00:56:45.820 have any

00:56:46.360 debt,

00:56:46.920 and then

00:56:48.020 somebody who

00:56:48.580 has no

00:56:48.980 debt might

00:56:50.520 have a chance

00:56:51.260 of reviving

00:56:51.960 these businesses

00:56:52.640 because they

00:56:53.160 basically get

00:56:53.880 a cheap

00:56:54.700 business and

00:56:56.080 when the

00:56:56.380 coronavirus gets

00:56:57.220 solved,

00:56:57.840 if it does,

00:56:59.680 they have a

00:57:00.360 good business.

00:57:01.020 They got it

00:57:01.360 for cheap.

00:57:03.220 So that's

00:57:03.920 one way that

00:57:04.480 these businesses

00:57:05.080 could be

00:57:05.580 revived.

00:57:06.460 But the

00:57:06.800 people who

00:57:07.180 own them at

00:57:07.660 the moment,

00:57:08.780 I just don't

00:57:09.720 know how

00:57:10.020 they're going

00:57:10.300 to pay their

00:57:10.740 debts and

00:57:11.840 also keep

00:57:12.420 owning the

00:57:12.820 businesses.

00:57:13.440 I don't know

00:57:13.780 how to do

00:57:14.120 that.

00:57:18.960 All right.

00:57:20.240 That is all

00:57:21.180 I wanted to

00:57:21.660 say for

00:57:22.000 today.

00:57:23.000 I hope that

00:57:24.540 the news gets

00:57:25.120 more interesting

00:57:25.780 because it's

00:57:28.520 hard to look

00:57:29.040 at the news

00:57:29.520 without the

00:57:30.840 Trump effect.

00:57:32.520 Every day I

00:57:33.400 open it and

00:57:33.880 like, ah,

00:57:34.420 there's going to

00:57:34.720 be some good

00:57:35.240 news here today.

00:57:36.340 But even the

00:57:37.100 things that I

00:57:37.580 can find to

00:57:38.240 talk about,

00:57:38.760 they only

00:57:40.120 make sense

00:57:40.900 by still

00:57:42.300 comparing them

00:57:43.040 to what

00:57:43.620 Trump would

00:57:44.160 have done

00:57:44.540 or did

00:57:44.920 do.

00:57:46.060 He's just

00:57:46.780 the universal

00:57:47.460 reference now.

00:57:48.380 You can't

00:57:48.680 get away

00:57:49.500 from it.

00:57:51.080 All right.

00:57:53.720 Hotels

00:57:54.200 turn over a

00:57:54.940 lot.

00:57:55.180 Yeah,

00:57:55.360 hotels

00:57:55.720 change

00:57:57.180 management

00:57:57.640 or change

00:57:58.500 ownership a

00:57:59.040 lot.

00:57:59.340 That's true.

00:58:05.160 Yeah,

00:58:05.680 Andy now

00:58:06.340 has his

00:58:07.020 new book

00:58:07.420 out,

00:58:07.860 which,

00:58:08.300 by the

00:58:08.460 way,

00:58:08.820 you should

00:58:09.260 buy because

00:58:10.840 the people

00:58:12.340 who tried

00:58:12.700 to ban

00:58:13.100 it cannot

00:58:13.700 win.

00:58:14.720 So you

00:58:15.300 see something

00:58:15.800 that's going

00:58:16.180 to be banned,

00:58:16.820 just go and

00:58:17.300 buy a copy

00:58:17.900 if you can

00:58:18.300 afford it.

00:58:19.400 That's what

00:58:19.780 I'm going

00:58:20.040 to do.

00:58:20.540 So I bought

00:58:20.940 Andy knows

00:58:21.500 his book

00:58:21.840 without knowing

00:58:24.060 anything about

00:58:24.660 it, just

00:58:25.020 because they're

00:58:26.180 trying to

00:58:26.540 cancel him.

00:58:27.880 And I

00:58:28.520 would hope

00:58:28.840 you do the

00:58:29.240 same.

00:58:32.060 All right.

00:58:32.740 That's all I

00:58:33.100 got for now,

00:58:33.700 and I will

00:58:34.120 talk to you

00:58:34.780 later.

00:58:35.820 All right,

00:58:39.120 YouTubers,

00:58:40.440 do not

00:58:43.320 buy CP.

00:58:46.700 Somebody says

00:58:47.540 I'm addictive.

00:58:48.440 I hope so.

00:58:49.880 Wouldn't that

00:58:50.300 be great?

00:58:51.460 I'd be cheaper

00:58:52.000 than drugs.

00:58:52.900 All right,

00:58:53.320 that's it for now.

00:58:54.200 Talk to you

00:58:54.660 tomorrow.

00:58:55.520 We'll

00:58:56.280 see you

00:58:57.620 tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 03, 2021

Episode 1271 Scott Adams： Kids in Overflow Facilities, Coronavirus Testing and California Schiffs the Bed

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