Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1281 Scott Adams： Forced Patriotism, Fake Coups and Analogies That Can Get You Fired From Your Mandalorian Gig

00:00:00.000 hey oh whoa everybody's here good to see you well this is going to be oh you know it it's

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00:00:51.860 i feel the normality returning to the country wait no no it's gone again it's gone again

00:01:04.820 we were almost normal there for a moment but no not at all let's talk about the news you all saw

00:01:15.020 the big news that two masks are better than one according to the cdc they did a little test and

00:01:21.100 they found out that two masks will reduce the the infectious particles by 92.5 percent 92.5 percent

00:01:32.800 now what they were talking about specifically is the people who wear a regular cloth covering like a

00:01:39.220 bandana kind of thing if you put a real mask beneath the bandana the two of those things would give you

00:01:48.080 92.5 percent uh protection uh protection now how do you interpret that how do you interpret this

00:01:58.380 information i saw on twitter that somebody interpreted the fact that two masks block 92 percent let's round

00:02:06.920 it up to 93 percent if two masks block 93 percent of the infectious particles that means that one mask

00:02:14.620 doesn't work that one mask doesn't work is that how you read it would your conclusion from this fact

00:02:22.700 be that math that one mask doesn't work if two masks block 93 percent of the infectious particles

00:02:30.160 don't you think one mask blocks a little bit and given that the second mask in this example

00:02:38.740 was the least useful kind of covering which would be just a cloth covering like a bandana given that we know that's the

00:02:48.760 least protective wouldn't we be able to say without actually doing a randomized controlled trial would it be

00:02:58.060 reasonable to say that the real mask might be doing some work maybe not 92.5 percent work

00:03:06.940 but isn't it doing something now many of you know that the the amount of the viral load makes a big

00:03:16.500 difference in outcomes so if you could reduce it by let's say 50 percent let's be conservative and say

00:03:23.760 that the first mask only reduced it by 50 percent two masks gets you to something bigger would that be worth

00:03:33.060 would the would the scientists be right if they had been telling us to wear one mask and one mask would

00:03:41.480 only reduce let's say we don't know this is true but i'm just working through a a citizen trying to

00:03:49.660 figure out what science is trying to tell us because there's science and then there's citizens and then

00:03:56.900 there's this giant uh confusing area between what science is really saying and what we're understanding

00:04:04.120 right so that whole communicating science part is the real problem area science is great except that

00:04:12.200 it's described to us by people so if you hear your science described to you by a person are you hearing

00:04:22.300 science no you're hearing just a person if you don't if you didn't directly do the science yourself

00:04:30.640 if you're not the one who performed the experiments you're not really hearing science you're hearing

00:04:37.940 somebody else describing science so you're really hearing a person so when you say do you trust science

00:04:45.800 i translate that in my mind into would i trust a stranger whose incentives i do not understand

00:04:54.260 never never if you're ever in a situation where you're asked to trust a stranger when you don't know

00:05:05.400 the stranger's motivations or intentions don't do that don't do that so when we hear about science we are being

00:05:15.320 told that we're hearing real science but we're not we're just hearing somebody's interpretation

00:05:19.600 so the best we can do as citizens since we don't have access to science we have access only to people

00:05:27.080 talking about it is to use whatever a little bit of sense and judgment we can to do the best we can

00:05:33.660 because science is just not available to us in an everyday decision-making way you just have to do

00:05:41.000 without it if we had it it'd be great i don't i only have people talking about it so my common sense

00:05:52.960 judgment is that if the cdc studied this carefully and found out that two masks block 93 percent of your

00:06:00.520 infectious particles and we know that the amount of viral load does matter it does seem to me that they

00:06:07.280 have come close to proving not technically in a real scientific randomized controlled trial way but

00:06:15.480 pretty close to a common sense clearly obvious benefit of masks now if the cdc's uh the way they studied it

00:06:27.820 was all done wrong then of course none of the supplies and we don't know if they did it right

00:06:33.940 do we were you there were you in the laboratory did you did you watch them set up the test and are you

00:06:41.960 an infectious uh disease specialist and a mass specialist and a scientist well if you were all

00:06:49.460 of those things and you were there you maybe have a pretty good idea of what was happening but we weren't

00:06:56.980 there and of course we know the news is mostly fake so we don't know anything but i would say this is

00:07:03.280 an indication that one mask probably does something useful uh it is not proof it is not proof but it's

00:07:11.740 another good indication uh there's some chatter on the internet because fox news apparently cut off

00:07:18.400 the impeachment manager in mid-sentence so he was talking about you know he was showing how bad the

00:07:26.320 attack on the capital was and fox news decided to go to the five and and and just you know have

00:07:34.580 entertainment instead now what do you think of that did fox news cut off news was that news

00:07:45.700 were we watching news when the impeachment managers were making a show uh you know specific video of the

00:07:56.020 the capital assault so that we could really feel the pain and the fear of the members of congress

00:08:05.260 um was that news was it news about how the members of congress felt about the assault well i already knew

00:08:16.260 it didn't you was there anybody here who was unaware that the politicians and really everybody who was at the

00:08:24.440 capital when the assault happened is there anybody who didn't know given the people who were literally

00:08:29.760 being killed is there anybody who didn't know that everybody there was afraid for their lives

00:08:36.400 i feel like i knew that did any of you not know that did you not know that they were afraid for their lives

00:08:44.400 and there was an attack and there was real violence to anybody is there anybody in the country

00:08:50.100 who did not already know that so is it news the fact that somebody is making you feel an attenuated

00:08:58.960 feeling about it is that news well i guess it's news in the sense that it's part of the story and

00:09:07.080 whatever any of the players of the stories do i guess that's news but once you'd seen a little bit of it

00:09:13.560 and you say to yourself scott now your name might be different let's say your name isn't scott you

00:09:20.140 would you would think it differently you would fill in your name here but scott um watching more of

00:09:28.480 this footage is not making me smarter is not making me know more facts it is not giving me reason or

00:09:37.400 detail well it's giving me detail but that i don't need but what is it what is it conveying to me

00:09:45.040 what is the purpose of the communication that the impeachment managers are making by showing more

00:09:52.180 details of the uh of the assault well could it have any reason other than to make you emotionally

00:10:02.100 weakened is there any other reason now i always i counsel you that if you can't think of another

00:10:10.660 reason for why something's happening that doesn't mean there isn't another reason it just means you

00:10:15.320 can't think of one so is this one of those cases where i just can't think of a reason that they need

00:10:21.260 to show us this extra video because remember the the trump's own lawyers have stipulated that what

00:10:30.500 happened at the the capital was a horrible event so you've got one side arguing hey this was horrible

00:10:38.920 you've got the other side saying yeah it was totally agree we will stipulate stipulate being the legal term

00:10:46.780 that says we agree with what you're saying yes it was a horrible event people were scared there was real

00:10:53.240 real danger real violence so if both sides agree that those are the facts both sides agree that anybody

00:11:04.240 involved in anything that was illegal needs to be punished what exactly are we looking at and why are we

00:11:11.640 looking at it the reason is obvious it's propaganda it's pure propaganda it's supposed to make you feel

00:11:19.260 a bad feeling about a certain set of people in america do you need that is that news is it news when your

00:11:30.000 politicians are making it number one all about themselves that's right your congress decided that the biggest

00:11:40.280 story in the whole fucking country is how they feel how they feel not it wasn't really a 0.85

00:11:49.140 question about the government being overthrown anybody who thinks it was a real coup or an

00:11:54.800 insurrection in any serious way that they would have controlled the government and change the nature of

00:12:00.140 the country or anything like that that's just stupid because nothing like that even remotely like that

00:12:04.880 happened they were the most armed country in the world and nobody used a gun except the only person who

00:12:13.520 used a gun was the police officer who shot the protester coming through the window which i've called a good

00:12:20.780 not good in the sense that we don't wish it happened but correct law enforcement action in my opinion

00:12:28.040 based on what we saw he probably stopped some amount of more violence as tragic as it was

00:12:35.100 so given that there's no information being conveyed which was is what i would call news

00:12:42.100 is fox news really to blame for cutting away i don't think so i think that cutting away was the right

00:12:50.380 news decision because otherwise they're just exposing us to propaganda to make us feel a certain way

00:12:58.220 and i don't really need the news to make me feel i like them to tell me the information i'll figure out

00:13:04.560 how to feel about it but i don't need you to tell me how to feel that's not news so i'm gonna back

00:13:13.600 fox news on pulling away from that um there's another story that doesn't make any sense to me

00:13:22.020 except that we're in this weird world where you could just say anything and and the two sides would

00:13:29.140 interpret it to agree with themselves i mean i could go in public and just say

00:13:33.280 and everybody who heard me the democrats would say there he goes again saying racist stuff

00:13:44.800 and the republicans would say well i think he made perfect sense i think he made sense i don't know

00:13:51.620 what you're talking about so we're in a world in which you can say anything just just any fucking 0.95

00:13:58.440 thing and people will argue that you were right and others will argue that you're wrong even if it

00:14:05.860 doesn't make any sense here's an example there's a headline that says donald trump knew that mike pence

00:14:13.080 had been evacuated from the maga mob before he tweeted that the vp quote didn't have courage to overturn the

00:14:20.580 election meaning what meaning what if you're a democrat you take that statement to say that

00:14:31.060 trump didn't care that mike pence was in danger and endangered him further and endangered him further

00:14:38.800 that's one interpretation here's the other interpretation

00:14:44.100 that once trump heard that mike pence had been evacuated which means to safety right when you

00:14:52.700 evacuate somebody do you evacuate them toward the danger or do you evacuate them away from the danger

00:15:01.100 because the president heard that his vice president was not in danger he had been evacuated and then

00:15:08.600 after that he said something about his courage now should he have said that i don't think so that's my

00:15:16.080 opinion i think the president was not handling it right i think i think he needs to you know answer to

00:15:23.240 that but you know the question of whether he was encouraging an insurrection or a coup is just sort of stupid

00:15:29.800 but the separate question of whether he acted uh in a way that reduced reduced the risk of violence

00:15:37.480 that's that's a separate question and i don't think he acted in a way that reduced the chance of violence

00:15:43.260 um so you know what do you make of that story it's a headline story and you could you could interpret

00:15:51.760 it both ways we're just at a point in the world in which it doesn't matter what the facts are

00:15:57.740 we're just going to interpret it the way we want um the panda tribune who you should be following

00:16:05.200 if you're not following the panda tribune on twitter you should be because it's funny and a good

00:16:11.960 account notice this the nbc news uh said the following now just listen to what nbc news said

00:16:21.200 and see if you can pick up anything that's wrong with us see if you can find out is there anything in

00:16:29.120 this list that i'm about to read you is there anything that doesn't fit with the rest of the

00:16:35.000 list see if you can detect it because the panda tribune did see if you can here's what nbc says

00:16:42.640 in his first weeks in office president biden has made a flurry of international phone calls

00:16:48.220 to american allies including the leaders of canada britain france japan and china

00:16:55.560 which of those doesn't belong in the list of american allies is it canada no we we have we have our

00:17:08.740 little dramas with canada but i feel like they're allies i feel like canada is a canada is a good

00:17:15.220 country we like canadians even when we disagree with them on issues how about uh let's see look for

00:17:23.060 britain france well we argue with britain and france now and then but they're allies wouldn't

00:17:30.440 you say pretty good pretty good countries you know we can have our differences but we're solid allies

00:17:37.500 with britain and france how about japan well world war ii was a little tough but since then

00:17:42.800 since world war ii i'd say quite good allies quite good allies what's the other one in this in this

00:17:49.760 sentence uh oh china china according to nbc china which is killing uh 50 to 100 000 u.s citizens a year

00:18:00.360 with fentanyl intentionally the country that probably lied to us about coronavirus and is stealing our 0.86

00:18:09.120 intellectual property is giving us bad trade deals and selling propaganda into our markets and is

00:18:16.160 closed closed closed closed to our investors in many ways they're our ally apparently they're our ally

00:18:23.680 according to nbc news now do you see how how this works nbc news is allegedly uh a vehicle of the cia

00:18:33.620 did you know that now i'm saying allegedly because people smarter than i am claim that this is uh obvious

00:18:42.500 unknown um so you should you should look to the other people to get a confirmation of that i'll

00:18:49.120 just say it's the allegation the allegation is that nbc news is the most the most captured of our media

00:18:57.080 captured i mean by uh intelligent services uh because ultimately any any kind of media that makes a

00:19:06.020 difference is going to get captured by intelligent services it's just a matter of time sooner or later

00:19:11.140 your intelligence services should if they're doing their job i guess you could say if they're doing

00:19:18.340 their job they should eventually capture all of the media services in their own country and capture as

00:19:24.660 many as they can in other countries too so um the only question about whether uh whether the

00:19:33.540 intelligence services manage our news the question is timing is it happening already or is it in our

00:19:41.060 future but it's guaranteed there there's no future in which it doesn't happen there's a matter it might be

00:19:47.620 a question of when but of course it has to happen the intelligence services will always control the

00:19:53.700 media uh and now you can see something that looks exactly like china controlling our controlling nbc news

00:20:03.460 because would an american loyal to the united states who was aware of the news ever put china in a list of

00:20:10.740 our allies and just try to just slip it in there at the end of the list and if you didn't notice china

00:20:17.140 it's sort of like our american allies including canada britain france japan and china china just kind of

00:20:26.740 slip it in there right when you see it happening right in front of your eyes you know the the propaganda

00:20:34.100 the you know maybe maybe foreign influence i mean it looks like it it looks like foreign influence

00:20:40.340 but you can't know for sure all right uh brett weinstein made the uh made a funny comment about

00:20:49.060 the double mask situation he says why not make masks doubled in the first place

00:20:56.980 to which i say oh pretty good question if if a double mask works why wouldn't you make the

00:21:04.580 single mask twice as thick i don't know the answer to that question i assume it has something to do

00:21:12.020 with you wouldn't be able to breathe i don't know is that the reason i really don't know um it's not

00:21:19.780 like air isn't going someplace so anyway it's a funny question i don't think he means it seriously but it's

00:21:27.140 a or maybe he does i don't know but it's a funny question but it removed it reminded me of an old joke

00:21:33.220 about you know how when an airplane crashes they'll they'll usually find the black box and it'll be

00:21:38.580 intact the whole airplane will be destroyed but the black box will just be intact and then they'll

00:21:44.420 figure out what happened to which i say to myself this is an old joke why don't they make the whole

00:21:50.660 airplane out of that block black box material all right now it's just a joke obviously you couldn't

00:21:57.860 do that but it reminded me of that uh matt walsh it has a very interesting string of tweets about

00:22:07.620 lebron james and the use of the word karen so i guess lebron tweeted that there was a karen as lebron

00:22:14.900 said in the audience and he mocked her and as matt walsh points out karen is a racial slur

00:22:24.500 and he as matt points out if i used a stereotypical name in a pejorative way to refer to a black woman

00:22:30.260 everyone would agree it's a slur i would agree i would agree with that if he used a stereotypical 1.00

00:22:37.300 pejorative you know word to describe a black woman i wouldn't be comfortable with that would you 0.93

00:22:44.580 i i would consider that very offensive to have some like special word that that's like a a bad word for

00:22:51.620 a black woman are you kidding me that would be completely unacceptable but apparently it's okay for 1.00

00:22:57.620 a white woman or at least some people think so and matt walsh is pushing pushing back

00:23:01.540 um and he says that uh using the karen word is no different than other racial slurs and that lebron

00:23:11.620 is therefore a bigot do you agree with that do you agree uh and by the way there's if you research karen

00:23:20.180 you'll see reference to it as specifically a white woman i know that other people have used it to mean 1.00

00:23:25.300 just a generic uh thing so i would like to suggest the following standard so that we just treat things

00:23:33.940 the same as i said as as i've often said that i am in complete agreement that any group can ban

00:23:42.740 certain words about their own group when i say ban i mean they get to say what is offensive to them

00:23:48.900 and if it's offensive to them that should mean something to us why do you want to offend anybody

00:23:56.980 what would be the purpose you know what what would you gain by just offending people nothing so why

00:24:04.020 you know why why wouldn't we as just a polite society that's trying to get along why wouldn't we

00:24:11.140 allow people to say hey this is a bad name for the people in my group use any other name but just don't

00:24:17.700 use this one right this is just the bad one it's why of course the n-word is universally banned does

00:24:24.580 anybody disagree with that i hope not i feel like that's a really ugly ugly super ugly word has no

00:24:32.820 place has no place in polite society but i would argue that the karen word although it does not have

00:24:40.180 that kind of historical weight or significance as the n-word nowhere near it i think that uh

00:24:47.460 if white women wanted it banned i would back them on that now if i were to use the that word karen 1.00

00:25:00.340 at least i would be a white person saying something that sounds like bad toward white people so i think

00:25:06.260 that would be allowed except except i'm male so if i said somebody's a karen i would be sexist

00:25:15.860 but not racist if you're lebron and you say somebody's a karen you're sexist and you're racist

00:25:25.780 so i'm only sexist because i'm white lebron is sexist and racist if he uses the karen word 0.75

00:25:34.340 so i guess we'll have to uh figure out how much we care about that

00:25:37.620 not very much as it turns out the k word yeah so one of the biggest stories on the internet is that

00:25:45.460 uh actress gina carano i hope i'm pronouncing it right who is a former mma fighter and uh until

00:25:53.860 recently she just got fired from her job but she was one of the stars of the disney plus um series the

00:26:01.140 the mandalorian which is based in a star wars universe and it's a the main character is this

00:26:06.900 masked helmeted you know fighter mandalorian he's called and uh gina was one of the other stars and 0.97

00:26:15.060 she played a badass you know uh just a badass mercenary i guess and she got fired for saying 1.00

00:26:23.860 some things that would be somewhat typical of a republican to say on twitter right so basically

00:26:31.220 you could pick any standard republican who uses twitter and say all right what did you say standard

00:26:37.620 republican and that's kind of what she has said in the past standard republican stuff and there was a

00:26:45.460 call for her to be fired for it and the biggest complaint they had is that she made a holocaust

00:26:55.060 or nazi reference to the fact that republicans are being uh you know identified and discriminated

00:27:01.940 against now what happened to her when she said that republicans are being treated like uh the holocaust

00:27:12.260 like the jews were in the holocaust uh at the moment the the public ganged up on her and got her fired

00:27:22.260 so did she prove her point yes she did yes her point was that having conservative oriented

00:27:31.780 views would put you in a discriminated situation and then she was proven right by being fired for 0.97

00:27:41.060 having those very same views which her point was if you have these views you could get fired or

00:27:46.980 discriminated against right so she proved her point the uh the funniest part of this story

00:27:53.460 is that the left is saying that she um basically minimized the holocaust because the holocaust was 0.76

00:28:02.420 about literally exterminating and killing six million jews how could you compare that to some people losing

00:28:10.020 their job in the united states right different you know one is gigantic the other one's pretty bad

00:28:16.900 bad but they're not you know these don't weigh the same right is that point good no that's not a good

00:28:26.020 point it's true it's true that they don't have the same weight that's true nobody's going to argue that

00:28:33.300 but the way nazi analogies are used in this country is as an analogy to uh you know make some hyperbole to

00:28:43.540 make your point when the republicans had been called nazis from 2015 to 2021 did anybody who was calling

00:28:55.300 trump a nazi think that he was really going to exterminate six million people no no it doesn't

00:29:02.740 work that way they used it with hyperbole they used it exactly the same way she did and she backed up

00:29:11.620 she backed it up right when she said that a certain class of people would be treated harshly that would 1.00

00:29:18.820 that being the whole point and then she was treated harshly for being one of those people

00:29:24.820 her point completely proven by by the fact that she got fired um that said of course we don't want

00:29:34.260 to minimize the holocaust and that's one of the complaints i've had from the beginning when trump's

00:29:39.060 supporters were being called nazis etc is that it minimized the real things um so either pick a

00:29:46.900 standard and i think it's hilarious that the left doesn't understand that they've been doing that to

00:29:51.540 the right for decades now so um and then somebody complained on twitter somebody on the left complained

00:30:00.100 that every time one of these uh right-leaning characters gets cancelled that they end up making more money

00:30:07.300 money to which i tweeted i hope so that that would be my goal my goal is that everybody who gets cancelled

00:30:15.940 for let's say ordinary speech it would be one thing to get cancelled for actually using the n-word and

00:30:23.620 you know actually saying racist stuff or actually inciting violence yeah i mean if you get cancelled for

00:30:30.100 that stuff that's your own damn fault but if you get cancelled for what is absolutely routine even if

00:30:36.500 you disagree with it it's routine language yeah i think i'd like to see those people get rich so i would

00:30:43.220 like to see um what's her name gina carano actress and ex-mma fighter do well so if anybody wants to make 0.59

00:30:53.620 her a job offer or something go ahead let's make her rich um in a new segment that i'm going to call 0.96

00:31:00.500 eating their own eating their own this is what the left is doing to themselves now that their common

00:31:08.500 enemy trump is is at least mostly off the stage so these are the examples in just today's news just

00:31:16.820 today so the ap has an article in which it looks like they've turned on the lincoln project remember

00:31:23.780 the lincoln project where the alleged republicans who had turned on trumpism and you basically joined

00:31:30.980 the left in attacking trump now the ap is basically accusing that of being sort of a grifter scam i'm

00:31:41.140 using my own words to characterize their story but the essence of it is they collected 90 million

00:31:48.100 and set up a structure where you couldn't exactly tell where it went meaning that out of that 90

00:31:54.580 million dollars some amount of that went to the people who organized the lincoln project for all of

00:32:01.860 their good work organizing the lincoln project how much of the 90 million do you suppose went to the

00:32:09.300 organizing members we don't know the only thing that the ap reports is that maybe a third of it was

00:32:17.780 used on ads a third and of 90 million only 30 million was used on the thing which the group was trying to

00:32:27.300 do the rest of it was consulting now i suppose they were trying to consult as well but how much of that

00:32:36.020 went to the consultants what was the word that rick wilson used the most when talking about trump

00:32:44.820 grifter a grifter somebody who's making making money off a situation somewhat disingenuously

00:32:55.060 i don't know uh but the ap which you would associate with the left or at least if you're

00:32:59.940 in the right you would say they are associated with the left uh have turned on the on the lincoln project

00:33:06.580 that's story number one number two instagram has banned robert f kennedy

00:33:15.700 instagram just banned robert f kennedy and why do they do it because he repeatedly they say shared

00:33:24.500 false claims about coven 19 and he apparently is an anti-vaxxer and he was banned for quote

00:33:31.540 repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus vaccines so he's a member of the

00:33:38.740 left this happens to be one of the areas in which some members of the left and some members of the

00:33:45.140 right agree now i'm not on that team i i suspect the vaccinations are probably more good than bad

00:33:52.580 but it's interesting that a member of the left just got banned on instagram now remember there's no trump

00:34:00.660 so if they need to create i don't know action and controversy and all this they're going to end up

00:34:10.340 end up acting against themselves so that's example two number three jeep the the company that makes jeep

00:34:18.900 they pulled bruce springsteen's super bowl ad after it was revealed he was arrested for a dwi

00:34:25.860 and reckless driving in november on jersey shore so bruce springsteen associated with the left

00:34:32.260 uh has been pulled from his commercial now that they found out he had some dwi however the dwi appears

00:34:42.180 to be fake news which makes it even better so he got he got pulled off uh his commercial got pulled

00:34:52.100 probably for fake news now the part that's real is he was arrested for a dwi the part that might not be

00:35:00.740 real is that he was drunk because even the uh apparently the breathalyzer actually showed he

00:35:07.700 wasn't not even close he did have a shot so i guess a police officer he pulled over in his motorcycle to

00:35:15.300 take some pictures with some fans somebody offered him a shot he took it a police officer saw it they

00:35:20.420 pulled him over they tested him and his alcohol level was way below the the drunk level so he didn't do

00:35:27.460 anything illegal except i don't know took a shot in front of a cop i guess while he before he got on

00:35:35.060 his motorcycle so it's probably fake news and he's gonna get semi-canceled for that that's example number

00:35:43.140 three number four i told you the story about uh how uh mark cuban owner of the dallas mavericks had

00:35:52.420 cleverly decided just to not play the national anthem and just get rid of the whole problem just

00:35:58.340 don't play the national anthem well the nba having once it was discovered that they'd gone uh over a

00:36:04.500 dozen games without playing it somebody said hey where was that national anthem which is hilarious that

00:36:11.700 it took 12 games to figure it out i have a feeling mark cuban is laughing about that that it took 12 games

00:36:18.660 before anybody even noticed it's like this big issue it's such a big issue that they played 12 games

00:36:26.820 nobody even noticed and yet we act like it's a big issue didn't even notice when it wasn't happening

00:36:34.500 uh but here's the the fun part of this story the nba decided that they would force the mavericks to play

00:36:42.100 the national anthem and indeed they did i get i think it was last night against the hawks uh so mark cuban

00:36:49.300 relented and decided to go with the nba now here's my take on this i like patriotism i think it's a

00:37:00.020 necessary glue to hold society together i think it's more good than bad you know you could imagine it

00:37:06.980 turns into jingoism and you know whatever but i think patriotism is far more good than bad and i'm

00:37:13.860 in favor of brainwashing our children to make them patriots because it keeps the country together

00:37:20.500 but what about forced patriotism because it seems to me that mark cuban was sort of forced

00:37:29.780 to play the national anthem do you know what i feel like when you show me the flag and say would

00:37:38.100 you like to stand and show respect for the flag i feel proud i feel good about it like i i feel

00:37:46.420 everything about that just feels good to me i like our flag i really like our country you know even if i

00:37:54.740 complain about it i really like it so patriotism 100 i'm all on board with patriotism but what about

00:38:05.300 forced patriotism let me tell you what i think about forced patriotism fuck you the moment it's forced 0.84

00:38:16.340 fuck you you're not gonna force me to do it that's for sure if i want to do it i'd love to but if you're 0.98

00:38:27.700 gonna force me fuck you and we don't work that way the country it doesn't work that way now i know 1.00

00:38:35.620 what you're gonna say it's the nba is a private organization they can have their own rules just like

00:38:40.900 a platform could have terms of service and they're just enforcing their own internal rules why is that

00:38:47.380 my issue to which i say it's not really if internally they want to do this it's good for

00:38:53.060 their business that's fine but there's this other part of the story where apparently the texas governor

00:38:59.540 threatened uh the dallas mavericks that they would pull their tax benefits they got some kind of tax

00:39:05.860 benefits that they would pull their tax benefits if they didn't play the national anthem now i've got

00:39:13.540 a big problem it's one thing when your private organization says hey our organization would do

00:39:22.660 better if we play this national anthem fine that's fine private organization mark cuban can be in the

00:39:30.500 organization or he can sell his team you know it's that's okay but the governor of texas is the

00:39:37.220 government he's the government and the government just twisted the mavericks arm now we don't know if

00:39:45.300 mark cuban cared about what the governor was saying you know we don't have any information that says

00:39:50.980 that mark cuban made a decision based on what the government said but they did put pressure on

00:39:56.260 real pressure like real money pressure that is is unacceptable as anything could ever be so let me

00:40:06.180 say this to the governor of texas fuck you fuck you for trying to make the nba play the national anthem

00:40:16.660 if the nba wants to play the national anthem great great but if the government any form of government

00:40:26.100 is pressuring them to play the national anthem is pressuring them to play the national anthem

00:40:28.980 fuck you fuck you hard that's that's over the line that's way over the line that is way way way 1.00

00:40:37.540 over the line all right that doesn't work in this country now i'd like to think that mark cuban's

00:40:44.020 decision was based on the nba's preference not on the government's preference but if it was

00:40:49.780 if any part of this decision was because of the government's influence uh you should lose your

00:40:56.100 job for that the governor of texas should lose his job for this he should be impeached in fact i i think

00:41:03.860 that's an impeachable offense to try to force somebody to be patriotic and to show it in a specific way

00:41:10.420 i think that's impeachable or or should be i doubt it is but um that

00:41:21.380 is my show for today um yeah it's like forcing religion it's exactly like that 0.75

00:41:28.740 not exactly like that but you know you know the point all right is there anything i forgot today

00:41:34.980 uh somebody says no that's my governor and my tax dollars government tax dollars texans tax dollars

00:41:47.620 so you're saying that the governor was just representing the people of texas and so it was

00:41:53.700 the people of texas who would like the mavericks to play it well i see what you're saying i see what

00:42:01.140 you're saying that the governor was representing the will of the people that doesn't make any

00:42:06.500 difference you get that that doesn't make any difference right if the if the people were directly

00:42:12.900 in charge i might be persuaded but they elected the government and the government can't do that

00:42:19.860 at least i think it should be impeachable if they do it it doesn't matter if the people want it

00:42:25.300 that that is completely irrelevant suppose the people wanted the government to suppress your freedom

00:42:30.740 of speech is that okay a bunch of people want it yeah we really want our government to suppress

00:42:39.140 freedom of speech so that it's okay because the people want it no no it's not okay the government

00:42:45.540 can't do those things there are things that the people can do the things that individual uh private

00:42:51.220 companies can do but there are things that your government just can't do if if you're doing it right

00:43:00.740 uh why does capitalism need tax money it's a it's a fair question you know why do why does uh your

00:43:08.580 local communities support athletic teams and i would say that at least part of that is the national anthem

00:43:17.380 weirdly part of the reason that a government would put tax money toward a sport which you could say well

00:43:25.700 it's just entertainment why is my government spending my money on somebody else's entertainment

00:43:31.940 if you don't watch sports and i think the reason is that sports are a big unifying element of society

00:43:40.180 and because you do the pledge of allegiance it actually creates more patriots gives you something to

00:43:47.380 fight about that's symbolic instead of real fighting and i do think that having a sports identity

00:43:53.220 is a real part of a brand for a city i do think that the intangibles are pretty big now how do you

00:44:01.220 measure the intangible benefits compared to the tax dollars which you could measure more easily well

00:44:07.460 it's a judgment call it's a judgment call you can't know how much benefit you'll get because it's all

00:44:14.420 these weird patriotism is better community has a better brand the city has more of a reputation

00:44:20.820 none of that you can put a dollar amount on but it's not irrational for the city to want to get

00:44:27.140 those benefits somebody says because it generates a tax revenue yeah so some of it comes back that's

00:44:34.100 correct i don't believe that governments see that as a profit investment i think it's still a loss

00:44:40.500 but it's nonetheless true that some of the money comes back in different ways

00:44:43.860 uh sports are modern versions of romans bread and circuses i think that's true anything that gets

00:44:52.180 the public entertained and diverted is probably good for society because all that energy needs to go

00:44:59.060 somewhere it basically siphons off a lot of aggression in a way now i don't know if there's any science

00:45:06.100 to suggest that's a good thing but it looks like that's what's happening anyway um scott yearly

00:45:14.180 subscription options on locals anytime soon i haven't heard anything about that um maybe that will be

00:45:19.780 an option but we are looking into changing the uh the fee structure so you could follow more people at

00:45:26.180 a reasonable fee uh andrea mitchell has egg interface i don't know what that story is is that something

00:45:33.300 breaking breaking breaking news um all right so that's all i got for today and i will talk to

00:45:42.180 you oh yeah one one other piece of news uh so a press release from fox news saying that the greg

00:45:49.540 guffeld show which you're used to watching on saturday nights um is going to be uh every night

00:45:57.140 or five nights a week i think so greg guffeld great job not only and i assume he's still doing

00:46:05.940 going to do the five at the same time so he will have probably two of the biggest shows on on fox now

00:46:12.660 why does greg guffeld succeed where others in his business have not well one reason is he's not committed

00:46:21.060 to you know being crazy about one team he's willing to say this team did this good this team did this

00:46:28.020 well so he is more uh certainly uh as far away as you can get from the let's say the hannity side of

00:46:37.940 the world and a lot closer to the hey let's look at the facts and try to figure out what makes sense and

00:46:43.140 what doesn't make sense part of the world and that apparently is working so uh congratulations to him

00:46:50.180 on that all right um and that's all i got for now and i will talk to you tomorrow

00:47:02.500 all right periscope is down uh google felon fox why should i do that about transgender athletes and

00:47:11.220 women's sports now when i talk about the transgenders everybody hears it wrong so everybody who thinks

00:47:18.740 they disagree with me on transgender sports they probably don't because they don't quite understand 0.98

00:47:25.380 what i'm saying it's like you can say a and people hear b and then they just want to talk to

00:47:30.660 me about why i'm wrong about b i never said b i only said a what i mean by that is that

00:47:37.460 um if you reorganize sports so it doesn't just have a women's group and a men's group

00:47:44.100 then everybody can just play with the level of talent that that is appropriate and men and women

00:47:49.700 would be matched on teams normally it wouldn't just be transgender uh and then you'd have the same 0.98

00:47:56.180 amount of winners and losers but it would be distributed differently if your issue is a few college athletes

00:48:02.420 let's say women who would not get uh scholarships why do you care there are so few scholarships 1.00

00:48:10.980 and it only goes to people who were born genetically gifted and also were lucky enough

00:48:15.700 to have a parental situation that could support their sport why should they get any awards what why do they

00:48:23.220 get a scholarship why does that even make sense so if some women don't get scholarships 1.00

00:48:28.900 do you care why why do schools even do sports i'm not even sure it's useful so um the fact that

00:48:39.220 let me put it another way no matter how many women or men get trophies for sports i won't get any 0.77

00:48:48.820 how many did you get how many trophies did you get probably none i mean recently maybe you got some

00:48:55.940 in high school but how many trophies did you get this year did you get any i didn't get any this

00:49:03.060 whole trophy thing affects this tiny tiny tiny little group of people it's not you it's not me

00:49:12.180 and why are we even caring about it just reorganize the sports so everybody can play at the level that

00:49:18.020 they play at forget about these stupid scholarships if colleges want to give them well who cares

00:49:23.940 i mean they're private if they're private universities and they want to give a scholarship

00:49:28.500 they can do it for any any reason they want and i i don't see any reason why uh you need to have

00:49:36.340 sports winners who get the trophy and get the scholarship it just society doesn't need that has no value at all

00:49:44.100 so my point is not that if you kept sports exactly as they are transgender athletes wouldn't distort

00:49:54.340 things in a way that people don't like well that's clearly true it's clearly true that the transgender 1.00

00:50:00.340 athlete in some situations would dominate you know women's sports that's just true but how much you care 1.00

00:50:08.260 about it is the crazy part it can be true and not important but uh i don't i don't support keeping

00:50:16.900 sports exactly the way they are i think that they should change to simply let people play with the

00:50:22.980 level of talent that is equal to their skill that's it forget about the whole gender thing entirely all

00:50:30.420 right um and that's all i got for now i'll talk to you

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 11, 2021

Episode 1281 Scott Adams： Forced Patriotism, Fake Coups and Analogies That Can Get You Fired From Your Mandalorian Gig

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