Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1285 Scott Adams： Trump Wins the Impeachment Doubleheader While the Press Hides Stories

00:00:00.000 Hey. Hey, everybody. Hey, Jack. Good to see you. Come on in. Come on in. It's an incredible

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00:01:45.860 Ah. Oh, I can't put my cup back. All right. I'm going to have to fix this. Hold on. Hold

00:01:51.760 on. There we go. All better. All right. Let's talk about all the things. First of all, happy

00:02:00.940 Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day. My denture's working. I don't have dentures. Just kidding.

00:02:11.240 Happy Valentine. Why can't I say that word? Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day. Special

00:02:19.660 shout out to my incredible wife, Christina. Happy Valentine's Day to you if you're watching. 1.00

00:02:26.060 And I hope you're up early so you can. So the U.S. is reporting the lowest number of weekly

00:02:32.780 COVID cases since October. All right. All right. Is the vaccine working? Maybe. Because I would

00:02:43.540 think we would have the highest infections now, right? Right in the middle of February.

00:02:48.860 February. Wouldn't February be one of your bad virus months automatically? Well, let's keep

00:03:02.020 that going. So that's some good news. You know, you've been hearing about this allegation that

00:03:07.980 the COVID virus, coronavirus, came from a lab in Wuhan. We do not have proof of that. That 0.57

00:03:17.160 is an allegation. But one of the things you're hearing about is whether or not the so-called

00:03:22.780 gain of function could be detected. In other words, if somebody had tried to take regular natural

00:03:32.240 viruses, and if someone, let's say a major military power with a biological lab, if they tried to

00:03:40.880 weaponize that by tweaking it to make it extra deadly or to have some special gain of function

00:03:47.580 to make it more of a weapon, would we be able to spot that by looking at the virus? In other words,

00:03:55.260 could you look at the virus and say, well, look, yeah, there's a little man-made thing in there,

00:03:59.520 that virus. And when this first, when the pandemic first came out, and people were, I heard experts

00:04:09.720 say on television, the experts said, no, you know, we looked at it and you could tell, I mean, you could

00:04:17.600 tell if it were modified and it's just a regular virus, blah, blah, blah. To which I said to myself,

00:04:25.040 can you? Can you tell? Because it seemed to me that there would be at least two ways that you

00:04:33.600 could modify a virus. And this is without knowing anything, right? My complete zero knowledge of

00:04:40.500 science is going to be fully applied here. One way, it seems to me, would be directly. If you could

00:04:47.840 literally directly somehow add a, add a thing or subtract a thing from a virus, I don't know. Can

00:04:55.080 we do that? Is there some lab that can add or subtract something from a virus? Is that even a

00:05:01.740 thing? I don't know. If you could, I suppose if that existed, maybe you could detect it. You'd say,

00:05:08.240 ah, that can't happen naturally. That must have been some human did that. But the second way

00:05:15.580 that you can create gain of function, somebody says a CRISPR can. So you can change the DNA in

00:05:24.280 a virus? Is it DNA? I don't even know what a virus isn't even alive, right? The virus is technically

00:05:32.180 not alive. So I don't know exactly what kind of stuff is inside a virus. We're well beyond my

00:05:39.440 scientific knowledge. Somebody says genes. I don't know if that's right either. So let me not try to

00:05:45.560 guess on the science. I'm going to make my major point, which is there must be at least two ways

00:05:51.220 you can modify them. One would be directly, if we can do that. But the other way would be to just

00:05:57.820 breed it naturally. How can you breed a virus? Well, apparently the way you do it is you put one

00:06:05.780 animal who has the virus. Let's say a penguin or whatever, pangolin or whatever those things are.

00:06:14.540 You put it somewhere where it can infect another animal. Let's say a different kind of mammal or

00:06:20.960 bird or a pig. And then maybe the pig infects yet another animal. So I need a fact check on this,

00:06:30.440 but my understanding is that if you create these artificial infection scenarios where the virus

00:06:37.700 will jump from, and this is the key, one species to another, that during the jump from species,

00:06:46.120 the virus changes. Some of those changes will be nothing. Some will make it less deadly. Some might

00:06:52.760 make it more deadly. So you could experiment just by reinfecting different types of animals

00:06:59.280 animals until you ended up with a virus that had some extra good stuff just by accident that you

00:07:05.600 wanted. And that would be a gain of function. Now let me ask you this. If scientists looked at a virus

00:07:11.500 that had gone through, hypothetically, the transition from multiple species to give it a gain of function,

00:07:19.000 could you identify that? I mean, really? Do we have any science that could identify that a human

00:07:28.520 put these animals together as opposed to there was something in the wild in which they just got

00:07:33.980 infected? I don't think so. Somebody says probabilistically. Maybe. Maybe. But I don't think you could be

00:07:46.840 sure. Right? So I'll just put that out there. And by the way, the first person I asked this

00:07:56.400 question to privately, just without, you know, something I didn't do on Twitter or didn't do

00:08:01.920 publicly, but just privately, I asked the smartest person I knew in this kind of area, could you put a

00:08:09.660 gain of function on there that nobody could detect? What did the smartest people say? Yeah, obviously you

00:08:16.040 could. Of course you could. Yeah. Now I don't know if they're right, but I'm telling you the smartest

00:08:21.740 people I know say, yeah, obviously you could do that. So maybe, maybe not. The Daily Mail is reporting

00:08:32.900 today something that I just had to keep reading and rereading to see if it, I didn't even think I was

00:08:38.780 really reading it. All right. Tell me if you've heard this. So the Daily Mail is reporting this like

00:08:45.740 it's just a fact. Is this a fact? Here's what they report. The Pentagon admits, admits being the key

00:08:54.920 word here, Pentagon admits that it has been testing wreckage from UFO crashes, including a possible

00:09:02.620 quote, memory metal that experts claim may have been recovered during the 1947 Roswell crash.

00:09:10.500 What? They're reporting this like it's a fact. Now, they're not quite saying that it's an alien spaceship

00:09:21.280 piece of metal. They're not quite saying that. But they are saying we found some metal that doesn't appear

00:09:28.440 to come from human beings. And they're calling this, they're reporting it like it's a fact. Somebody says, yes,

00:09:37.320 it's called nitinol. Now, is this story real? Right. So when they say UFOs, they just mean

00:09:48.980 unidentified. So it could have been an unidentified, let's say, Russian technology that we don't

00:09:54.980 recognize. So it's just unidentified. They don't say it's from outer space. But they do kind of say

00:10:02.400 it's a metal we don't make here on Earth. And it wasn't something that came off an asteroid.

00:10:08.880 It was something that somebody made. And it doesn't look like it came from Earth.

00:10:16.820 What do you think? What do you think about this story? I am going to call bullshit on this story.

00:10:23.380 I do not believe that there are that there is life on other planets, because I think we're a 0.99

00:10:31.080 simulation. And it was just never built out because we didn't need it. So there's just no

00:10:36.340 reason for life to be on other planets, because we're a simulation. And if we can't get to those

00:10:41.100 other planets easily, well, we just didn't need to put anything there. So I don't believe it. But

00:10:48.180 it's a fun story. It's a fun story. And so therefore, I like it, because it's fun. So here's

00:10:54.640 my take on the illegitimate press that we have in this country. You're seeing a lot of the anti-Trumpers

00:11:03.460 use a phrase called the big lie. So they're using this label, the big lie, to talk about Trump's claim

00:11:14.040 that the election had been fraudulent. Now, you may be familiar that the phrase big lie comes from

00:11:21.800 Nazi propaganda. And the idea is that the Nazis said, if you tell a small lie, you know, such as

00:11:29.840 somebody stole some loaf of bread or something, people are inclined, you know, maybe believe it,

00:11:35.560 maybe not. But if you tell a lie that's so big, if it's big enough, people will believe it because

00:11:43.820 they will say to themselves, well, nobody could tell a lie that big. You know, like if you heard

00:11:49.280 tomorrow that an actual alien spaceship landed in the middle of the Capitol, and all of the news

00:11:55.400 reported it was true, that's so big, that's probably true. Right? Your brain just says that can't be not

00:12:04.560 true. How could that be not true? Everybody is reporting it. How could that not be true? Right?

00:12:12.280 So if the lie is big enough, it makes it look more credible. And that is literally a Nazi 0.84

00:12:18.540 propaganda trick. That's where we get the phrase the big lie. Now, when your press in the United States

00:12:26.420 refers to Trump and by extension his followers, as spreading the quote, big lie, what is that doing

00:12:36.700 to public discourse? Well, number one, it conflates Trump supporters by association with Trump. And

00:12:45.940 many of them agreed with him on this point. It equates them to Nazis. That's what it does. The reason 0.97

00:12:54.760 they choose that is to equate Trump and his followers with Nazis. Fuck you. Let me say this to any press 1.00

00:13:04.540 person who uses the phrase the big lie, and tries to paint Trump supporters as Nazis, just in this clever

00:13:12.340 little way. It's racist. It's racist. I regard that like the n-word, but used against me. Right? To me, that is 0.58

00:13:22.940 as offensive. That's as offensive as the n-word is to anybody else. Now, can I compare

00:13:30.420 offensiveness? No. I mean, it's subjective. But it's a 10. You know, I would say that if you said

00:13:37.120 to any black American, how bad is the use of the n-word if it's, you know, if you're not black when 0.64

00:13:44.020 you're using it, how bad is that? I think they say that's a 10 out of 10. I would agree. That's a 10

00:13:50.380 out of 10, my personal opinion. You can't get any worse than using the n-word, you know, if you're not

00:13:56.760 black. Likewise, this is a 10 out of fucking 10. When you're using literally Nazi imagery to paint 1.00

00:14:06.680 your enemies just because they weren't sure that the election had transparency, that's fucking 1.00

00:14:12.720 racism. That's a 10 out of fucking 10. And if you, if you use it, as I just read in the Washington 1.00

00:14:19.800 Post, somebody using that, that phrase, you're a fucking racist. You're a fucking racist. Live 1.00

00:14:28.080 with it. You fucking racist. Now you might be a white person being racist against other white 1.00

00:14:33.800 people, but it's still the same fucking thing. You're a fucking racist. Right? And I believe 1.00

00:14:40.840 that my anger about that phrase is going to keep increasing until people understand this

00:14:51.120 is unacceptable behavior. Now there is a second problem with using this big lie. Do you know

00:14:57.480 what it is? From a persuasion propaganda perspective. Anybody? Anybody? Tell me what is the propaganda

00:15:04.880 of brainwashing quality of using the phrase? The big lie. In the comments, you're going to have it

00:15:11.740 in a moment. It's making you think past the sale. When they say it's the big lie, they try to make

00:15:19.940 you uncritically accept that it's a lie. We haven't determined that. It has not been determined that it's

00:15:28.260 a lie. It is simply something that the people who don't believe it think is probably not true. It's

00:15:36.320 not the big fucking lie. It's the big fucking probably not true according to you. That's what 0.99

00:15:44.300 it is. It's probably not true according to you. If you're people using the big lie phrase. It's not a

00:15:52.800 lie. That would indicate that we know it's not true. We simply know it hasn't been proven that

00:16:01.140 there is any widespread fraud in the court of law. That's what we know. We don't know it's a big

00:16:08.020 fucking lie. And when you tell us it's a big fucking lie, that's a big fucking lie. That's the big lie. 1.00

00:16:16.080 Now remember I keep telling you, I hate it, I hate it when Tucker Carlson keeps being right about this.

00:16:24.840 He just keeps being right. That whatever they're doing, whatever they're doing themselves, they'll

00:16:30.860 accuse you of. And I swear to God I don't want that to be true. Because I just don't know why it's true.

00:16:37.900 Like I can't figure out why. Why does this keep being true? But this is exactly what they're doing

00:16:44.040 with this big lie thing. The big lie is to make it look like the thing they're doing, they're doing.

00:16:51.100 Which is lying about the credibility of the election. We don't know it was honest. We don't

00:16:57.400 know that it wasn't honest. We simply don't fucking know. And nobody's fixing it. Nobody's fucking 0.98

00:17:06.400 fixing it. There is no effort by anybody that I'm aware of, fact check me on this, to fix the 0.98

00:17:14.560 fucking system. Because it's going to be just as non-transparent next time. So here again the 0.98

00:17:22.880 illegitimate press is accusing the right of their own crime. Spreading the big lie.

00:17:30.600 Somebody asked me if this phrase, the big lie, is so good persuasively that maybe it came

00:17:38.760 from Cialdini, Robert Cialdini. Now if you know my history, I've talked about him as possibly

00:17:46.940 being, or probably, being an advisor to the Clinton campaign. There's no indication that

00:17:53.900 he was involved with the Biden campaign. I don't know one way or the other. But somebody

00:17:59.660 asked me, do you think he was behind this phrase, the big lie? I'm going to give you

00:18:06.480 just an opinion. No. And here's why I don't think he was behind the big lie. Because it's

00:18:14.420 a racist, fucking, brainwashing, piece of shit thing to do. And I have no reason to believe 1.00

00:18:21.500 that Robert Cialdini is a fucking piece of shit. No indication of that. In fact, I believe 1.00

00:18:27.360 he's actually taught courses on ethically using persuasion. He would be exactly the

00:18:34.020 opposite of somebody who would give you advice to compare people to fucking Nazis. He didn't 0.99

00:18:40.800 do that. Now, I suppose anything's possible, right? I could be wrong. I'm only just speculating.

00:18:47.360 But it's kind of fucking crazy to imagine that a normal person would do this. This isn't what 0.96

00:18:53.220 normal people who are good people do. And as far as I know, Cialdini is a normal, good

00:18:58.940 person. This is fucking evil. I have no reason to think he's fucking evil. I think he just 1.00

00:19:06.620 likes Democrats more than Republicans. Fine. No problem with that.

00:19:14.380 All right. Different topic. Jonathan Haidt. H-A-I-D-T. If I'm Haidt. Haidt. How do you pronounce

00:19:24.640 his last name? A well-known author. He tweeted around a study that says that kids who get help

00:19:34.200 from adults to solve a puzzle become helpless on the next puzzle. And you can see it in real

00:19:42.740 time. It happens instantly. So if you have a puzzle and kids are trying to solve it, you have half of

00:19:50.160 the kids just work as long as they can without any help. And then another half, you have a parent jump

00:19:56.360 in and say, ah, here's the solution and solve it for them. Then you wait a little bit and you give

00:20:02.960 those same two groups of people a new challenge, a new puzzle. The ones who had no help charge right

00:20:10.960 through and do the same thing they did on the first one. They try as hard as they can to solve it

00:20:15.400 and succeed to some extent. The ones who got help can't solve the second one because they can't try

00:20:23.320 hard enough. They've been ruined, actually broken by giving them too much help. Now, I have often said

00:20:33.580 this about my own parenting experience. My parents were maybe typical of the time, I'm not sure, but they

00:20:43.380 were fairly hands-off, I would say. I don't know if my siblings are watching this, but I would look for

00:20:51.320 a second opinion on this. My belief or memory of my childhood is that we had almost unprecedented

00:21:03.620 ability to make our own decisions about stuff and to manage our own day. I don't believe, listen to

00:21:12.100 this and then compare this to 2021. If you have kids in school right now, just hear this story and just

00:21:20.040 try to imagine this today. My parents didn't really show an interest in my schoolwork at all. Now, they told me

00:21:31.440 they expected me to get A's and they expected me to go to college. And it was just an expectation which they

00:21:37.140 drilled, my mother especially, drilled into us from birth. You're going to college, you're getting A's. But how I did that

00:21:47.920 was entirely up to me. Not once did my mother or father offer to help on my homework. I don't remember

00:21:55.960 even asking. And yeah, I'm seeing in the comments, same here, same here. So when I graduated college,

00:22:05.160 just try to imagine this experience in 2021. So I graduated college with a little bit of money I got

00:22:12.020 from graduation and some I'd saved up. I had about $2,000, I guess, in savings from mowing lawns plus

00:22:20.860 graduation gifts. And I took two suitcases and the one suit I owned, I think I got from Sears.

00:22:29.780 I bought a suit from Sears. And I wore my suit on an airplane, took my two pieces of luggage and moved

00:22:35.900 to California. And with no plan, figured it out. That's it. I actually flew across the country

00:22:44.860 to spend the rest of my life without a plan. The plan was to sleep on my brother's couch

00:22:52.220 and look for a job, if you can call that a plan. Second part of the plan was to find the first job

00:23:00.520 I could get at the best company in the field that I wanted, which was finance. I was an economics

00:23:06.280 major. So I took a job as a bank teller for the fastest moving technologically superior company

00:23:18.000 called Crocker Bank. Later, they were bought by Wells Fargo. So I took the worst job I could at the best

00:23:23.820 company. I signed up for every training course they can. Later, in later years, I got my MBA at

00:23:30.440 night. And I basically built a talent stack that gave me a lot of options that got me all the way

00:23:37.680 to here. Now, I had zero help from my parents on the details. I had 100% help from my parents on the

00:23:49.260 mission. And the mission was always the same. You're going to do well in school. You're going to go to

00:23:55.960 college. You're going to be rich. Now, I'd have to ask my siblings if they were also told they were

00:24:03.200 going to be rich. But my parents told me that. And sure enough, I had an expectation. I had all the

00:24:13.880 support I needed. I didn't need anymore. I didn't want anymore. And I'm pretty sure that the fact I had

00:24:21.920 to figure out so much on my own is like a superpower. I never encounter a situation where

00:24:30.260 I don't know what to do. I mean, that's an exaggeration. I'm sure I do. But I go through

00:24:35.680 my life thinking I can conquer just about anything because that's my experience. Nobody jumped in to

00:24:41.980 save me. So I either failed. You know, I either sank or swam. And so far, I'm swimming. So I believe we

00:24:52.040 may be destroying an entire generation by being helpful. We might be destroying them by being

00:24:59.180 helpful. It's scary. This Governor Cuomo story and the nursing homes deaths is just getting worse.

00:25:09.480 Oh, my God. You know, I've been telling you that as a standard of behavior, I didn't want to be the

00:25:19.260 one who was tough on any of our leaders if they got anything wrong during the coronavirus. And I've

00:25:25.480 been applying that to Cuomo, trying to be consistent and saying, yes, it's true that very bad things

00:25:31.160 happened. But I feel like we would need to know the details of exactly what caused him to sign off on

00:25:38.340 the decision to send 9,000 infected people back into the worst place they could be sent.

00:25:44.320 I feel as if... It seems to me that I saw him saying in an interview that he was following federal

00:25:51.600 guidelines at the time. Can somebody confirm that? Is that his actual explanation that they

00:25:58.200 were the federal guidelines and he just followed them? Give me a fact check on that. Anyway,

00:26:04.200 the news I follow tends to consistently leave out whatever it is that Cuomo says as his response

00:26:13.300 to why all these people died. I'm looking in the comments. Yes, I'm saying yes. Now, if you watch

00:26:20.260 Fox News, they'll just never mention that. They will just never mention that according to Cuomo,

00:26:26.620 and I'm not saying it's true, I'm just saying according to Cuomo, that he has a pretty good

00:26:31.020 explanation. On paper, whether you buy it or not, but on paper, that's a pretty good explanation.

00:26:39.860 Now, somebody says he had a hospital ship and he had the Javits Center. That's true. But I put myself

00:26:46.220 in his situation and I ask you this. Would you have sent infected people to those assets if you thought

00:26:54.560 you didn't need to use them and you might be able to close them down and save a ton of money later?

00:27:00.920 Now, it might be the federal government's money, but still, who wants to waste a bunch of money?

00:27:05.460 So, I put myself in this situation and I tell you this. I'm not positive I would have acted differently

00:27:13.120 than Cuomo in that situation. Are you? Be honest. Are you positive that if you were in that situation,

00:27:22.720 you would have acted differently? I'm not. I'm not positive of that, which is why I've been soft

00:27:30.560 on this topic. Because if you put me in that situation and I'm making a decision a minute

00:27:36.920 because it's the pandemic, plus I'm still the governor, right? I've got a whole pandemic

00:27:41.340 on top of my job, which is a full-time job. A million decisions, somebody comes and says,

00:27:48.460 what do we do with the seniors? The federal guideline says, send them back to the nursing home. 1.00

00:27:54.340 Just make sure that they're separated or whatever. So, you're making a million decisions.

00:28:00.360 The federal government tells you what to do in this exact situation. And you know that they've

00:28:06.560 looked into it. You're not supposed to be the expert. You're not the CDC. So, the federal government

00:28:12.500 says, send them back. And you're making a million decisions. And you go, yeah, here, send them

00:28:17.660 back. And then you go on to your other million decisions.

00:28:24.420 If you can tell me that you say you would not have done the same thing Cuomo did, and I don't

00:28:31.100 know if I'm describing it correctly, right? So, I'm seeing a little pushback. I might not

00:28:35.060 be describing the situation correctly. But my point is, if you weren't there, if you weren't

00:28:41.340 there, I don't think you know what happened. And that's why I'm still putting a little bit

00:28:47.460 of reservation on a complete blame of Cuomo for a bad decision that killed thousands of

00:28:54.500 people who didn't need to die. But the story got way worse. Way worse.

00:29:03.500 I reached the limit of where I can give somebody the benefit of a doubt. Yeah, I see it in the

00:29:11.140 comments. Apparently, his staff, and he must have known about it, lied to cover up the number

00:29:18.460 of deaths. And they lied because it would look bad if they said the real number. And they've

00:29:26.280 admitted that. That's now in fact that they lied about the number because they didn't want

00:29:33.200 to look so bad. That's grounds for removal from office, right? There is nothing I can say

00:29:43.660 to soften that, right? I mean, I've been pretty, pretty generous, wouldn't you say? I'm trying

00:29:52.320 to apply the same standard that I applied to Trump and any other leader, trying to apply

00:29:57.620 the same standard to Cuomo, trying to be fair. But when I heard that they lied about the number

00:30:03.540 of deaths, and it looks reliably like that's true. You always have to be careful. We're still

00:30:09.080 in the fog of war. It's a new story. Might not be true, but it looks true. That's unforgivable.

00:30:17.360 That's a crime, isn't it? I mean, I think it's a crime. That's unforgivable. So if it turns

00:30:23.620 out that the facts are correct, I don't think Cuomo can remain in office. I just don't see

00:30:30.700 how that's possible. I mean, he might remain in office, but I don't see how that could make

00:30:35.360 sense for the public. All right, here's an observation which I make a lot, and every time

00:30:41.560 I do, there's some new evidence to support it. And it goes like this. Democrats think in

00:30:49.520 terms of goals. A goal, for example, would be everybody is out of poverty. Pretty good,

00:30:58.540 right? That'd be a good goal, get everybody out of poverty. Another goal would be something

00:31:02.820 for the environment and climate change, etc. So the Democrats are good on goals. In fact,

00:31:11.600 I like a lot of their goals, because they're social good kinds of goals. Everybody treated

00:31:17.760 nice. Everybody's got equal opportunities. Those are good goals. Very good goals. Republicans

00:31:25.680 have a slightly different take on things, and this is just an observation. It doesn't mean

00:31:31.140 everyone, right? It's sort of a general observation. And Republicans tend to be systems-oriented.

00:31:39.420 That is to say, we don't know what the final outcome will be, and we don't know how long it

00:31:44.220 will take to get there, and we don't even know if we can get there. We'd like a world

00:31:49.200 where there's nobody in poverty, but we can't make that a goal. But we can make a system that

00:31:55.160 does the best job of getting us there. And if you design your systems right, let's say

00:32:00.000 your capitalism systems and your democratic systems, your government systems, your legal system,

00:32:07.740 if you get all those systems working right, then the goals take care of themselves as

00:32:13.440 much as can be, right? You maybe can't get to the ultimate end point, but it's the best

00:32:19.040 you can do. Now look at Mitch McConnell's statement many of you saw, in which he talked about the

00:32:26.680 impeachment outcome in which the president was acquitted. Mitch McConnell voted to acquit.

00:32:32.220 The reason was systemic. McConnell said, I don't think that the Senate has jurisdiction over

00:32:43.040 someone who's not in politics anymore. Now, the Democrats would say, wait a minute, we've

00:32:50.720 got this precedent. We've got this legal precedent. We've got this history where we've got this

00:32:57.540 case where you really can do that. But here's the thing. Suppose you really could do that.

00:33:04.020 Let's say the Democrats were right. Let's say the law was on their side. Let's say they could

00:33:10.000 impeach somebody who's out of office. Should they? Should they? Is that a system that you would want

00:33:20.000 going forward? Do you want that to be your system that applies forever?

00:33:28.680 I very much agreed with Mitch McConnell. Now, he may have been inconsistent with case law,

00:33:35.480 but he's not inconsistent with what makes a good system. And a good system is, why the fuck does 0.99

00:33:43.780 the Senate have any control over a private citizen after they're out of office? Now, obviously, in the 0.97

00:33:50.940 sense of making laws, that's their job. But in terms of impeachment, what the fuck do you have to do with 0.97

00:33:57.580 that? I don't care what the case law is. Doesn't matter what the case law is. It's obvious that's a bad 0.98

00:34:05.420 system to punish somebody after they're out of office. Now, as McConnell says, and others say,

00:34:12.540 we do have a legal system. If Trump did something that the legal system needs to deal with, there's

00:34:18.300 no restriction on that. Right? But Mitch McConnell, I completely back his decision exactly the way he

00:34:26.680 did it. I like the entire thing he did. Now, he was very hard on Trump for his responsibility for the

00:34:36.100 Capitol attack. Do you feel the same as McConnell does about the Capitol attack? Do you feel like McConnell was

00:34:45.240 maybe a little too hard on the president? I don't care. I don't care at all. Here's why. We have this dumb fuck

00:34:56.460 system where the victims of the crime, in this case, the politicians who are actually at the Capitol, they're the 1.00

00:35:04.020 victims of the crime. They're the ones with PTSD. They're the ones who are being hunted. They're the

00:35:09.860 ones who are afraid for their lives. McConnell is a fucking victim of the crime that he was on the jury 1.00

00:35:16.740 to judge. What kind of a fucking system puts the victim or the victim's family on the fucking jury? 1.00

00:35:26.680 What kind of a system is that? If you put the victim on the fucking jury? Don't expect them to say nice 1.00

00:35:36.200 things about the perpetrator of the crime. Mitch McConnell should have gone. I won't use the word

00:35:43.920 should. I hate that word. It seems entirely appropriate to me that the victim of the crime

00:35:50.900 is a little bit pissed off. Put yourself in Mitch McConnell's place. You are in the Capitol and you

00:35:59.720 don't think your president did enough to save your fucking life. I probably would have voted to impeach. 1.00

00:36:08.260 Just leave that hanging there. If I had been in the Senate and I or even just my colleagues

00:36:18.040 had been in the Capitol building and I didn't think the president did enough to stop it, I wouldn't even

00:36:25.260 care what the charges were. I wouldn't even care what the impeachment articles were. I wouldn't even

00:36:33.040 care about any of it. I would fucking vote to impeach that guy if I were the victim. Now, I'm not the 0.99

00:36:40.240 victim, so I get, you know, I get the advantage of, you know, being outside the system a little bit.

00:36:46.320 So I've got a little bit more objectivity. But in my opinion, anybody who was in the building,

00:36:54.560 Ted Cruz, anybody else, could have voted to impeach. I would have done it just as a victim.

00:37:03.040 Forget my responsibility to the public. I wouldn't even care. So maybe you shouldn't

00:37:10.940 make me a senator. Because I would have ignored the law. I would have ignored the facts. Except

00:37:17.080 the one fact that I didn't think the president did enough to save my fucking life. I'd care about 0.99

00:37:22.880 that. And I wouldn't care about one fucking thing else. So I back Mitch McConnell's take on this 100%. 0.99

00:37:30.040 And I actually respect him for using a technical argument that I agree with, that the Senate

00:37:39.800 should not have jurisdiction, even though maybe technically they do. So a standing ovation for

00:37:48.180 Mitch McConnell for the way he handled this as a victim. As a victim. Right? If that's the system,

00:37:56.360 putting victims on the jury, this is what you're going to get. So good for him. All right.

00:38:07.920 So I think that going forward,

00:38:14.360 I'm going to always say that Trump was acquitted of two impeachments and therefore was essentially

00:38:21.700 not impeached. Now I know that impeachment is sort of like just a stain that's supposed to be on the

00:38:30.100 record. It's not exactly like indicting somebody. But you know, in the criminal system, if you indict

00:38:36.500 somebody for a crime, and then they go to trial, and the jury finds them not guilty, what do we say to that

00:38:45.460 person? Do we say, well, there was an indicted person? No, we don't talk of it that way, because

00:38:50.740 that wouldn't be fair. We talk about it as, as a person who's been found not guilty. That's how we

00:38:58.880 talk about it. But if you get impeached, which is a little bit like indictment, and then you get acquitted,

00:39:05.680 we still say you were impeached. Is that fair? It seems to me, if the impeachment doesn't go all

00:39:14.320 the way to the point of impeachment, the point is removal from office. If it doesn't go to that

00:39:19.920 point, can you say an impeachment succeeded? I would say it's two failed impeachments.

00:39:27.560 You can say they were impeachments, but they were failed impeachments. It was two attempts to

00:39:36.820 impeach them that failed. And then people can say, but there was an impeachment. And then you can say,

00:39:44.200 yes, there totally was. There was a failed impeachment. There was an unsuccessful one.

00:39:49.980 And then they'll say, no, no, it was successful, because the impeachment part is separate from the

00:39:54.560 trial part, to which you say, what's the point of the first part? Well, what's the purpose of the

00:40:01.840 first part without the second part? Would you even do that? Because it's just a censure. If it doesn't

00:40:10.180 go to removing from office, it's just a censure. It's not really an impeachment. So just to be

00:40:17.120 annoying to Democrats, because I know they'll hate it, I'm going to say that there were two impeachment

00:40:21.200 attempts, but neither of them succeeded. Trump wins the doubleheader. I saw a tweet from Don

00:40:29.080 Jr. this morning talking about what a bad week the Democrats have had. Everything from the impeachment

00:40:36.260 results to the self-immolation of the Lincoln Project to Governor Cuomo's problems. It's a really

00:40:48.260 bad week. And that's not even counting what Biden has done or not done. So here's the weirdest dumb

00:41:00.900 story. Somebody named T.J. Ducklow. It's spelled just like a duck, and then with an L-O on the end. 0.99

00:41:10.660 So he was Biden's deputy press secretary, and I guess Politico was going to do an article about him.

00:41:20.220 No, somebody was going to do an article about him, about a relationship he had with some other

00:41:25.320 reporter. Axios was going to do an article about Ducklow's alleged relationship with a reporter for

00:41:33.560 Politico. Now, is that a fair story? Yes. It is fair to report that somebody is in a romantic

00:41:41.880 situation if one is a reporter and one works for the press corps. That's fair, right? Or one works for

00:41:50.880 the White House press corps, or not the White House communications group. So it's perfectly fair

00:41:59.700 that they were going to do the story. Now, what's reported is that T.J. Ducklow threatened the

00:42:07.560 reporter when he found out she was going to do the story, and his threat was that he would destroy her.

00:42:15.060 And he was, at first they were going to give him a week off without pay or something,

00:42:19.800 but then he quit, which means basically he got fired. So I'm going to throw you a,

00:42:27.400 going to throw you a curve here, and I'm going to defend T.J. Ducklow. Bet you didn't see that

00:42:36.880 coming. And here's my defense. The phrase, I'm going to destroy you, is number one, typical political

00:42:47.600 speech. It's not typical where you work, but it's typical political speech. That thing is

00:42:57.400 threat is probably the most common threat that anybody's ever used. And it's better. Here's the

00:43:04.560 second part. Totally justified and legal. Legal and justified. Just as the reporter doing a story

00:43:15.920 about this, which would end up, you know, ruining this guy's career, etc. Totally justified.

00:43:20.600 The reporter is completely within her rights to do the story. And it's a legitimate story.

00:43:28.040 Completely within her rights to do the story. But Ducklow is completely within his rights to destroy

00:43:35.540 her life. I mean, meaning her career. When he says, I'll destroy you, that should be interpreted as

00:43:41.500 career-wise. It should not be interpreted the dumb way, which is some kind of violence or anything like 0.99

00:43:48.060 that. I feel like that. I feel like that's fair. And, you know, it seems worse because one's male and 0.90

00:43:57.000 one's female. So it takes on that extra dimension. But telling people that you'll destroy them if they

00:44:04.400 destroy you, if it's all legal, everybody's acting legally. I don't know. I don't know. I feel like this is

00:44:16.840 kind of normal behavior. It became a story. So, you know, Biden had to deal with it. He probably did the right

00:44:23.460 thing. But I'm not sure this was so bad. I'm looking at your comments. Somebody says, I'm okay with this.

00:44:35.460 You can defend that, but it was Joe's promise to not tolerate bad behavior. Joe kept his promise.

00:44:41.180 Joe kept his promise. Because he's gone now. I'm going to give Joe a pass on that. Now, it looked

00:44:48.000 like he was going to get a week off, but as soon as there was some pushback from the public,

00:44:52.420 probably that's when Biden got involved. My guess is that Biden really wasn't involved in a lower

00:44:59.300 level decision like that. But I think he probably said, when somebody said, hey, Biden, you said you'd

00:45:04.820 get rid of people who acted this way. I think he kept his promise and got rid of them. You know,

00:45:10.740 now it's reported that he resigned, but I imagine it's the same thing. All right. So you don't have

00:45:17.600 to agree with me on that, but that's my take. Biden said he, in talking about the impeachment,

00:45:28.260 Biden said that he denounced violence and extremism and said Americans have a duty to defend the truth

00:45:35.140 and defeat the lies. This is the man who ran and based his campaign on the fine people hoax,

00:45:41.980 which was debunked in front of the entire world, in front of Congress, on every network. The biggest

00:45:49.640 lie ever told, the most damaging one by far. And he's coming out in favor of truth and defeating the lies.

00:46:00.440 Now, his entire campaign was built on a lie that has just been debunked.

00:46:07.780 But will the press call him on that? They will not. Here's a question for you. The biggest complaint

00:46:16.680 about Trump was that he had to know his words would cause the kind of violence that we saw at the Capitol.

00:46:24.280 That Trump had to know it. Because common sense says if you keep talking about the election being stolen

00:46:32.240 and then you talk the way you talked, that any reasonable person in that situation would have known

00:46:39.280 that those words would lead to violence. But here's the question. Why didn't the security

00:46:46.500 people know that? The people who were in charge of security for the Capitol? Why didn't they know

00:46:52.460 that? Because they didn't have enough security? If Trump was supposed to know that, but all the

00:46:59.400 people who listened to him talk didn't know it, why wouldn't they know it? What about the press?

00:47:06.700 The press is pretty clear when they say that anybody should have known that these words would lead to

00:47:13.080 violence. Was the press telling you that the Capitol was going to be attacked yesterday, before it

00:47:18.060 happened? Did the press warn you? Did the press say, hey, why isn't there enough security? We can all see

00:47:27.500 that this will lead to violence. Did they? I don't think they did. So what you're seeing here is a

00:47:35.460 hindsight persuasion. They're trying to make you believe that what is obvious today was also obvious

00:47:45.220 before the Capitol attack. Now, I watch a lot of politics and I listen to most of what the president

00:47:52.540 says. I had no idea that the Capitol would actually be penetrated. No idea. Did you? How many

00:48:05.360 of you listening to everything that Trump said, watching the news, how many of you knew that the

00:48:12.880 Capitol would be breached? I kind of assumed that they would have security, right? Now, I knew that

00:48:22.660 there would be protests no matter which way things went. Protests were guaranteed. But I also thought

00:48:30.500 that the protests in cities would look just the way they always do. Too many things get destroyed.

00:48:36.640 But I figured that any kind of protest in the Capitol would not penetrate the actual Capitol.

00:48:45.880 How many of you, with all of your common sense and judgment and watching the news, how many of you

00:48:53.580 knew that the Capitol was going to be attacked? Right? Fucking zero. We didn't know that. You know,

00:49:02.580 you can make the same argument about a million different statements by a million different

00:49:08.820 politicians. Sometimes people say things and then sometime after that, a bad thing will happen

00:49:14.860 related to the thing they said. Does that mean they caused it? I think it's just sometimes bad things

00:49:21.960 happen. And sometimes people were talking about them before they happened. That's probably all that's

00:49:27.500 going on here. All right. So that's another thing that the press, which is completely illegitimate,

00:49:36.640 as you know, both the left and the right at this point, they don't tell you what I just told you, 0.97

00:49:43.680 which is that fucking nobody knew it was going to happen. And they imagine that Trump is suddenly 0.95

00:49:48.840 the smartest person in the world. Their entire case depends on the fact that you will believe

00:49:54.700 they've been lying for five years, that they were lying about how insightful and smart Trump is,

00:50:01.920 because the entire case depends on him being smarter than all of us, because somehow he knew the Capitol

00:50:07.900 would get penetrated or that violence would happen in some way. But you didn't. You didn't know it.

00:50:14.980 I mean, I didn't know it. But I guess he's the smartest person in the world now, because he should

00:50:20.460 have known it. Have you heard the story about there was some angry phone call with McCarthy and Trump

00:50:30.940 during the Capitol assault, where people were breaking through McCarthy's windows and Trump allegedly was

00:50:38.400 not too concerned about it? Now, I don't know what did or did not happen in that phone call.

00:50:44.340 But I would say of all the news this week that you should not trust to be accurate,

00:50:49.780 it would be this story. These stories are never accurate. The ones where somebody's reporting with

00:50:56.800 somebody else said to somebody else, they're never accurate. Never. Like actually zero times,

00:51:04.180 you could depend on this to be true. Zero times. So, yeah, they just don't believe any of it.

00:51:13.500 You should discount that.

00:51:17.420 The Democrats, when they got their final closing argument, amazingly, did not address the fact that

00:51:25.840 the Trump's lawyers had pointed out that they had manufactured evidence in a number of cases,

00:51:32.160 in a number of instances, manufactured evidence, faked evidence and showed it to the world in public.

00:51:41.160 That actually happened. And it got called out, not just the find people hoax video they showed,

00:51:48.040 but also there was the fake tweet that they took out of context and added a blue check.

00:51:53.820 And I saw Van Der Veen being interviewed by one of the CBS local stations, I think.

00:52:01.660 And, well, I tweeted it this morning. You have to see Van Der Veen answering the press

00:52:09.300 and just eviscerating the press. You have to see this.

00:52:15.960 But, as he pointed out, the Democrats didn't even address it.

00:52:23.920 They simply ignored the fact that the evidence had been manufactured by their own team.

00:52:31.020 Now, if the Democrats had even just an iota of, let's say,

00:52:37.120 usefulness or morality or ethics, the managers would have said,

00:52:46.040 oh my God, it looks like the evidence we presented wasn't even real.

00:52:50.760 And they should have just dropped the case and said, all right, you're right.

00:52:54.200 We quit. And we resign right now.

00:52:57.240 If they had ethics. But they don't.

00:52:59.020 So, what do you make of the fact that they didn't even address the fact

00:53:06.300 that there was manufactured evidence?

00:53:09.040 Now, as Van Der Veen points out, if this had been a criminal trial,

00:53:12.800 that would be the end of the trial.

00:53:14.780 If you know that the prosecution makes up evidence,

00:53:18.600 that's the end of the trial.

00:53:20.160 You don't need to hear the other stuff.

00:53:23.840 That's a pretty good standard.

00:53:26.580 And it gets worse.

00:53:30.900 So, by far, the biggest story of the week, by far, there's nothing even close.

00:53:36.500 The impeachment itself is nowhere near how big this story is.

00:53:41.620 That the biggest hoax in this country that actually determined who's the president,

00:53:47.160 Biden is probably president because of the fine people hoax.

00:53:51.800 Now, not by itself, but it's so important that if you took that out,

00:53:56.100 I don't think he would have won.

00:53:57.700 I don't think so.

00:53:58.820 It was so important to the misunderstanding of who this president is

00:54:03.360 that I think it determined the fate of the country.

00:54:07.140 And this was a lie perpetrated by Democrats and the press

00:54:12.180 right in front of the country.

00:54:15.100 Super damaging.

00:54:16.100 Obviously, incited death and destruction.

00:54:20.740 I mean, I'm sure a lot more people died from that hoax

00:54:23.600 if you put all the activity together

00:54:27.540 than the capital assault, as tragic as that was.

00:54:32.060 I don't think they're even close.

00:54:33.680 I think the fine people hoax is way more damaging,

00:54:37.320 even in death and destruction terms.

00:54:38.980 So, that's the biggest story in the country.

00:54:45.100 Now, do a Google search on this term.

00:54:50.260 Impeachment, fine people hoax.

00:54:53.420 Because remember, Van Der Veen actually used the phrase,

00:54:56.400 fine people hoax, which is the first time I've heard it

00:54:58.860 not from people like me on social media.

00:55:01.660 Oh, I'm sure it's been in the news somewhere,

00:55:06.260 but hearing him say, actually, fine people hoax made my day.

00:55:11.920 But go ahead and Google that.

00:55:14.920 Google the biggest story in the country, fine people hoax.

00:55:18.700 Put it in quotes so you get the same results.

00:55:21.520 So, quotes around fine people hoax, the whole thing.

00:55:26.000 Will it come up with a CNN story

00:55:28.880 about how the biggest hoax in the country

00:55:31.240 has been debunked?

00:55:34.540 Nope.

00:55:35.560 Oh, I'm being corrected.

00:55:36.840 Somebody says that Van Der Veen called it

00:55:38.580 the fine people lie.

00:55:40.660 Incorrect.

00:55:41.400 He called it the fine people lie

00:55:43.000 when he gave his case.

00:55:45.220 When he was doing the summary,

00:55:47.140 he called it the fine people hoax.

00:55:49.600 So, he used both terms,

00:55:50.920 but the last one he used was hoax.

00:55:55.660 So, you will see if you search that on Google

00:55:58.640 that the top publication, I think,

00:56:02.500 would be Breitbart.

00:56:04.020 And Breitbart is largely hidden by Google,

00:56:06.780 intentionally.

00:56:07.440 Their algorithm actually hides Breitbart.

00:56:10.520 Now, the other entities are right-leading publications

00:56:14.100 that most people had not heard of.

00:56:16.460 If you had Googled this and you were a Democrat,

00:56:19.640 and you saw that the top result was Breitbart,

00:56:21.820 which you had incorrectly been told

00:56:24.480 gives you fake news compared to other outlets,

00:56:27.400 not true.

00:56:29.500 Not true.

00:56:30.880 All the outlets have had problems.

00:56:33.480 Breitbart is probably more accurate than any of them.

00:56:36.360 That's just observationally.

00:56:38.420 They seem more accurate than any of them.

00:56:39.980 And you wouldn't read it.

00:56:46.000 You wouldn't read it.

00:56:47.340 And if you did, you wouldn't believe it

00:56:48.780 because you'd been told not to.

00:56:51.060 So, Google is actually hiding

00:56:53.740 where the algorithm is.

00:56:57.000 It looks intentional.

00:56:58.280 If I had to guess,

00:56:59.560 without knowing,

00:57:00.700 I'd have to guess a person,

00:57:02.500 an actual human being,

00:57:04.760 did direct actions to hide the story.

00:57:07.320 Because I'll bet if they had not directly tried to hide it,

00:57:11.220 I'll bet it would come up.

00:57:12.720 Now, it could be that it doesn't come up

00:57:14.700 because the major networks didn't cover it.

00:57:18.360 The biggest story in the country,

00:57:20.280 by far.

00:57:20.960 There's nothing even close.

00:57:23.060 Didn't even cover it

00:57:24.780 on the other networks.

00:57:27.880 Did Fox?

00:57:29.200 What about Fox?

00:57:31.020 Fox News should pop right up on the top, right?

00:57:33.660 You know it got covered there.

00:57:35.580 Well, it got covered on the opinion shows.

00:57:38.060 Did it get covered on the news?

00:57:41.940 I'm not sure it did.

00:57:44.300 I don't know it did.

00:57:45.380 The opinion people, of course, talked about it.

00:57:47.960 But,

00:57:49.040 when you watch this happening

00:57:51.900 right in front of you,

00:57:54.440 this is happening,

00:57:55.480 this is happening in real time,

00:57:58.480 right now.

00:57:59.960 The news and social media

00:58:01.660 are suppressing

00:58:02.760 the biggest story in the country.

00:58:05.600 Right now.

00:58:06.960 Right now.

00:58:09.360 While you watch it.

00:58:11.220 This is happening to you.

00:58:13.640 What do you make of that?

00:58:17.200 Stop calling it news, Scott,

00:58:19.340 as somebody says.

00:58:20.400 Yeah, it's not really news, is it?

00:58:22.600 I mean, fake news is

00:58:24.080 part of it.

00:58:25.780 All right.

00:58:29.480 So,

00:58:30.080 I don't know which other networks

00:58:32.020 are covering it,

00:58:32.720 Newsmax,

00:58:33.560 OAN,

00:58:34.620 probably will be on there,

00:58:36.720 but I'll bet if you do a Google search,

00:58:38.380 it won't come up.

00:58:39.440 Now, how do the fact-checking organizations

00:58:41.640 cover it?

00:58:42.320 PolitiFact

00:58:43.820 covers the

00:58:45.760 find people

00:58:47.320 hoax

00:58:47.960 issue

00:58:49.100 and then

00:58:50.760 do they conclude

00:58:51.780 that the find people thing

00:58:53.220 was true

00:58:53.980 or do they conclude

00:58:56.160 that it was

00:58:56.840 false,

00:58:59.740 meaning it's a hoax?

00:59:01.920 What do you think

00:59:02.480 Politico

00:59:03.140 concluded

00:59:04.340 after

00:59:05.660 watching it being

00:59:07.200 completely debunked

00:59:08.660 simply by showing

00:59:09.840 the whole video?

00:59:10.480 That's it.

00:59:11.440 The whole debunk

00:59:12.260 is just showing

00:59:12.820 the whole video.

00:59:14.020 You don't even have to

00:59:14.820 add any opinion to it.

00:59:16.540 So,

00:59:16.800 Politico now,

00:59:17.700 of course,

00:59:18.100 has seen the whole video

00:59:19.020 because everybody has

00:59:20.080 if they watch the impeachment.

00:59:22.520 And what did they say?

00:59:23.480 Was it true

00:59:24.520 or was it false?

00:59:28.780 Here's the

00:59:29.420 PolitiFact

00:59:30.560 final analysis.

00:59:32.120 Quote,

00:59:33.040 more context

00:59:34.100 is needed. 1.00

00:59:35.580 Fuck you, 1.00

00:59:36.640 PolitiFact. 1.00

00:59:37.400 Fuck you. 1.00

00:59:38.280 You don't need 1.00

00:59:38.760 any more context.

00:59:40.480 It's false.

00:59:44.340 Amazing.

00:59:45.360 This is happening

00:59:45.940 right in front of us.

00:59:47.840 Right in front of us

00:59:49.000 this is happening.

00:59:53.320 So,

00:59:54.340 here's some

00:59:54.880 red lines

00:59:56.020 that I've drawn.

00:59:59.220 If the Republicans

01:00:00.820 don't try to

01:00:03.560 impeach

01:00:04.400 Swalwell

01:00:05.180 for manufacturing

01:00:06.120 evidence

01:00:06.680 during the trial,

01:00:07.500 and if they

01:00:08.760 don't try

01:00:09.560 to impeach

01:00:10.220 Biden

01:00:10.700 for spreading

01:00:11.460 the fine people

01:00:12.440 hoax

01:00:12.960 as the basis

01:00:13.960 of his campaign,

01:00:15.860 I can't support them.

01:00:18.300 I don't think

01:00:18.820 I can support

01:00:19.560 any Republican

01:00:20.580 for president

01:00:21.340 who won't

01:00:22.800 try to

01:00:23.900 at least

01:00:24.360 raise the issue.

01:00:25.320 Obviously,

01:00:25.700 they would be

01:00:26.140 unsuccessful

01:00:26.760 because of

01:00:27.380 how many Democrats

01:00:28.920 there are in Congress.

01:00:29.640 but

01:00:30.500 if they just

01:00:31.840 let that

01:00:32.400 lay there,

01:00:33.160 they're just

01:00:33.620 letting you

01:00:34.460 take an arrow 1.00

01:00:36.220 in the back. 0.97

01:00:38.000 Right?

01:00:38.320 If Republicans

01:00:39.320 let this go

01:00:40.620 after it's been

01:00:42.420 debunked

01:00:43.320 and it's the

01:00:44.340 biggest story

01:00:44.860 in the country

01:00:45.360 and they don't

01:00:46.860 try to impeach

01:00:47.620 Biden over it, 0.93

01:00:48.680 they're worthless. 1.00

01:00:53.180 They're worthless. 0.99

01:00:54.380 I just can't

01:00:55.300 support anybody

01:00:56.060 who won't

01:00:57.200 take this on.

01:00:58.440 It's the biggest 1.00

01:00:58.940 fucking country. 1.00

01:00:59.820 It's the biggest 1.00

01:01:00.480 thing in the country.

01:01:02.160 Biggest story.

01:01:04.200 And you're just

01:01:04.580 going to ignore it?

01:01:07.060 All right.

01:01:07.660 So,

01:01:08.260 and I'll

01:01:09.060 go further.

01:01:10.320 If there's

01:01:11.020 somebody who's

01:01:11.700 planning to run

01:01:12.560 in 2024

01:01:13.280 and they would

01:01:14.740 like my support

01:01:15.660 early,

01:01:17.440 here's how

01:01:17.920 to get it.

01:01:19.120 Here's how

01:01:19.540 to get it.

01:01:20.260 Now,

01:01:20.460 I don't know,

01:01:21.020 maybe if it's

01:01:21.620 somebody I don't

01:01:22.320 like for some

01:01:22.900 other reason,

01:01:23.380 I'd have a

01:01:23.780 problem.

01:01:24.680 But you'd

01:01:25.960 have a big

01:01:26.400 leg up on

01:01:27.500 winning the

01:01:28.000 presidency if

01:01:29.040 you try to

01:01:29.680 impeach Biden

01:01:30.480 for the

01:01:31.480 fine people

01:01:32.040 hoax.

01:01:32.660 You won't

01:01:33.080 succeed,

01:01:34.460 but you

01:01:35.220 need to

01:01:35.680 try.

01:01:37.080 All right?

01:01:37.520 You need

01:01:38.000 to try.

01:01:39.640 You need

01:01:40.220 to try.

01:01:41.860 It's not

01:01:42.640 optional.

01:01:44.160 How can I 0.99

01:01:44.720 fucking support 1.00

01:01:45.560 a Republican 1.00

01:01:46.220 who won't

01:01:46.780 try to do

01:01:47.320 this?

01:01:47.980 For us.

01:01:49.180 Do it for

01:01:49.620 me,

01:01:50.460 a citizen.

01:01:51.600 Right?

01:01:51.960 Do it for

01:01:52.480 the people

01:01:53.140 who are

01:01:53.360 watching.

01:01:54.320 Do it for

01:01:54.860 the country.

01:01:55.980 Do it to

01:01:56.540 show people

01:01:57.260 what the

01:01:57.980 fake news

01:01:58.620 has done

01:01:59.040 to them

01:01:59.440 for the

01:01:59.800 last five

01:02:00.320 years.

01:02:00.620 you've got

01:02:02.340 to do

01:02:02.700 this.

01:02:03.420 Somebody.

01:02:04.860 Ted

01:02:05.060 Cruz,

01:02:05.840 you've got 1.00

01:02:07.080 the balls. 1.00

01:02:08.600 All right? 0.99

01:02:09.360 I'll use 0.96

01:02:09.800 balls in a 0.99

01:02:10.580 non-sexual

01:02:11.460 way so

01:02:12.460 that,

01:02:12.900 you know,

01:02:13.140 in this

01:02:13.520 context,

01:02:14.560 women can 1.00

01:02:15.400 have

01:02:15.680 ovaries or 1.00

01:02:16.480 balls or 0.99

01:02:16.920 whatever you

01:02:17.320 want.

01:02:18.000 I'll make

01:02:18.340 it non-sexist.

01:02:19.760 But Ted

01:02:21.800 Cruz has the 1.00

01:02:22.460 balls. 1.00

01:02:23.300 I don't know

01:02:23.920 if he'll do

01:02:24.340 it, but he 0.99

01:02:25.480 has the balls, 1.00

01:02:26.340 at least. 1.00

01:02:26.760 I don't

01:02:27.060 know if

01:02:27.240 anybody else

01:02:27.720 will.

01:02:32.160 And I

01:02:33.480 would look

01:02:33.960 to the

01:02:34.480 principle of

01:02:35.420 reciprocity

01:02:36.260 here.

01:02:37.000 If there's

01:02:37.540 no Republican

01:02:38.260 who can

01:02:39.280 bail out the

01:02:40.460 citizens on

01:02:41.280 this fine

01:02:41.780 people hoax

01:02:42.620 thing, if

01:02:43.600 he can't

01:02:44.000 bail us

01:02:44.380 out, don't

01:02:44.820 expect help.

01:02:46.400 Because we

01:02:47.120 don't ask for

01:02:47.800 much, right?

01:02:49.240 I suppose we

01:02:50.220 do ask for a

01:02:50.860 lot, citizens.

01:02:52.680 But I

01:02:53.260 don't.

01:02:54.740 There's not

01:02:55.360 much I'm

01:02:55.800 demanding.

01:02:56.760 You haven't

01:02:57.700 heard me

01:02:58.020 demanding

01:02:58.460 things.

01:02:59.560 But I

01:02:59.960 do demand

01:03:00.480 this.

01:03:01.120 I demand

01:03:01.600 this.

01:03:02.740 I demand

01:03:03.420 this.

01:03:04.800 You gotta

01:03:05.540 stop leaving

01:03:06.560 us out here

01:03:07.200 exposed.

01:03:08.620 You can't

01:03:09.240 let the

01:03:10.680 fake news

01:03:11.420 and the

01:03:12.320 platforms do

01:03:13.200 this to

01:03:13.620 us.

01:03:14.740 They're

01:03:15.060 doing it

01:03:15.460 to us.

01:03:18.100 Right

01:03:18.500 now, as

01:03:20.100 I sit

01:03:20.480 here, they're

01:03:20.920 doing it

01:03:21.300 to us.

01:03:23.360 Give us 1.00

01:03:24.020 some fucking 1.00

01:03:24.460 help. 1.00

01:03:24.860 Rasmussen

01:03:26.600 reports.

01:03:27.720 Rasmussen

01:03:28.240 did a

01:03:28.700 poll and

01:03:29.140 found out

01:03:29.780 I don't

01:03:32.900 even know

01:03:33.200 how to

01:03:33.440 deal with

01:03:33.860 this result.

01:03:37.460 But the

01:03:37.740 question was,

01:03:38.700 should public

01:03:39.140 figures be

01:03:39.780 punished for

01:03:41.220 saying they

01:03:41.820 believe the

01:03:42.400 2020 election

01:03:43.440 was stolen?

01:03:45.640 Democrats,

01:03:46.520 54% of

01:03:48.080 them, said

01:03:49.180 public figures

01:03:50.180 should be

01:03:50.780 punished for

01:03:54.240 an opinion

01:03:54.900 about

01:03:57.040 something that

01:03:57.760 can't be

01:03:58.220 proven either

01:03:59.000 way and

01:04:02.100 is important

01:04:02.760 and that

01:04:05.360 54% of

01:04:06.520 Democrats

01:04:06.900 think they

01:04:07.480 should be

01:04:08.140 punished for

01:04:10.320 that opinion.

01:04:12.400 Just chew

01:04:13.600 on that.

01:04:15.040 Just chew on

01:04:15.800 that for a

01:04:16.260 second.

01:04:17.240 You want to

01:04:17.900 be even

01:04:18.300 more angry?

01:04:19.860 You think

01:04:20.240 that made

01:04:20.660 you angry?

01:04:21.240 I'm not

01:04:21.520 done.

01:04:23.920 Feel how

01:04:24.680 angry you

01:04:25.320 are now and

01:04:25.940 watch me take

01:04:26.520 it up a

01:04:26.880 level.

01:04:27.820 54% of

01:04:29.240 Democrats,

01:04:30.060 as I said,

01:04:31.060 think public

01:04:31.760 figures should

01:04:32.380 be punished

01:04:32.940 for saying

01:04:33.460 they believe

01:04:33.960 the 2020

01:04:34.560 election was

01:04:35.240 stolen.

01:04:35.900 Are you

01:04:36.160 mad enough?

01:04:37.560 You're going

01:04:37.880 to get a

01:04:38.140 little madder

01:04:38.620 in a

01:04:38.820 moment.

01:04:41.120 21% of

01:04:42.240 Republicans

01:04:42.720 agree.

01:04:43.200 21% of

01:04:47.760 Republicans

01:04:48.460 think that

01:04:50.340 a public

01:04:51.860 figure should

01:04:52.560 be punished

01:04:53.240 for saying

01:04:54.600 they believe

01:04:55.100 the 2020

01:04:55.700 election was

01:04:56.400 stolen.

01:04:58.160 Punished.

01:04:59.760 Republicans.

01:05:03.840 Among all

01:05:05.000 voters,

01:05:05.900 35%,

01:05:07.240 more than

01:05:08.800 a third,

01:05:10.380 think a

01:05:10.900 public figure,

01:05:11.620 now keep

01:05:12.200 in mind,

01:05:13.460 what does

01:05:14.060 public figure

01:05:14.960 mean?

01:05:16.080 Public figure

01:05:16.920 doesn't just

01:05:17.720 mean elected.

01:05:20.460 I'm a

01:05:21.200 public figure.

01:05:23.240 I'm a

01:05:24.080 public figure.

01:05:26.400 It looks

01:05:26.880 like YouTube

01:05:27.640 just turned

01:05:31.280 me off.

01:05:33.800 Do you

01:05:34.460 think that's

01:05:34.860 a coincidence?

01:05:36.040 So I'm

01:05:36.360 still live

01:05:36.860 streaming here

01:05:37.440 on Periscope,

01:05:38.460 but I'm

01:05:39.020 watching the

01:05:39.560 YouTube feed

01:05:40.280 and it

01:05:40.640 just froze.

01:05:43.920 So if

01:05:44.500 you're on

01:05:44.980 YouTube,

01:05:47.280 do you

01:05:47.620 think this

01:05:48.020 is a

01:05:48.320 coincidence?

01:05:49.640 Given the

01:05:50.660 topic that

01:05:51.280 I've just

01:05:51.640 been discussing,

01:05:53.260 did you

01:05:53.700 just watch

01:05:54.360 YouTube

01:05:54.900 turn me

01:05:55.640 off?

01:05:56.900 Did that

01:05:57.260 just happen?

01:05:58.780 Now it

01:05:59.240 could be a

01:06:00.360 glitch,

01:06:01.540 but do you

01:06:02.060 think the

01:06:02.420 glitch always

01:06:03.180 happens when

01:06:03.940 you're talking

01:06:04.380 about YouTube

01:06:05.340 hiding the

01:06:06.080 news?

01:06:07.320 Or about

01:06:07.920 YouTube,

01:06:08.620 I'm sorry,

01:06:09.280 about Google,

01:06:09.780 the parent

01:06:10.280 company of

01:06:10.740 YouTube,

01:06:11.420 hiding the

01:06:11.940 news?

01:06:13.320 Is this a

01:06:14.060 coincidence?

01:06:15.520 Now, if we

01:06:17.560 were not in

01:06:18.140 this situation

01:06:18.820 where right

01:06:19.700 now the

01:06:21.220 news is

01:06:21.660 being suppressed,

01:06:23.040 right now,

01:06:24.360 like right

01:06:24.940 now it's

01:06:25.480 being suppressed,

01:06:26.860 then I

01:06:27.640 wouldn't think

01:06:28.080 this was

01:06:28.440 anything but

01:06:28.960 a bug.

01:06:31.440 But in

01:06:32.220 the context

01:06:33.160 where you

01:06:33.540 know that

01:06:34.420 this same

01:06:35.080 entity is

01:06:36.380 suppressing

01:06:36.920 the news

01:06:37.600 that I'm

01:06:38.920 telling you

01:06:39.500 and then

01:06:40.540 you watch

01:06:41.020 them suppress

01:06:41.660 it,

01:06:42.560 is it a

01:06:43.740 bug?

01:06:45.280 Is it a

01:06:45.800 bug?

01:06:48.080 I don't

01:06:50.180 know.

01:06:51.260 Could be.

01:06:52.700 You can't

01:06:53.140 rule out

01:06:53.520 coincidence.

01:06:54.500 Coincidence is

01:06:55.180 pretty strong.

01:06:56.880 But I

01:06:58.200 guess there's

01:06:58.920 your freedom

01:06:59.360 of speech.

01:07:00.000 So, I'm

01:07:03.880 still seeing

01:07:04.480 comments on

01:07:06.640 YouTube.

01:07:07.520 Somebody on

01:07:08.200 YouTube, tell

01:07:08.860 me if you

01:07:09.520 can hear me.

01:07:11.140 I know you

01:07:11.680 can see your

01:07:12.260 own comments

01:07:13.080 that are going

01:07:13.500 through, but

01:07:13.940 the video is

01:07:14.700 frozen.

01:07:17.240 Can anybody

01:07:17.900 hear me on

01:07:18.400 YouTube?

01:07:20.940 Somebody said

01:07:21.620 no.

01:07:24.380 No, it's

01:07:25.080 frozen.

01:07:25.680 So I guess

01:07:26.060 it's just the

01:07:26.580 comments.

01:07:28.640 Isn't this

01:07:29.240 amazing?

01:07:30.500 I mean, think

01:07:30.980 about this.

01:07:32.060 Are you not a

01:07:32.900 little bit blown

01:07:33.500 away by what's

01:07:34.380 happening right

01:07:34.980 now?

01:07:35.580 Like, you're

01:07:36.200 watching it in

01:07:36.880 real time.

01:07:41.040 Let me...

01:07:42.380 God, I'm so

01:07:45.140 close to being

01:07:45.720 canceled right

01:07:46.340 now.

01:07:46.860 You have no

01:07:47.480 idea what's

01:07:48.200 about to come

01:07:48.760 out of my

01:07:49.140 mouth, but it

01:07:50.960 would definitely

01:07:51.440 change my life,

01:07:52.440 so I'm going to

01:07:52.840 hold it in a

01:07:53.400 little bit longer.

01:07:55.060 Somebody says

01:07:55.780 I'm still up on

01:07:56.600 YouTube, but the

01:07:57.920 picture is frozen,

01:07:58.840 and I don't think

01:07:59.520 they can hear

01:08:00.300 me.

01:08:01.100 All right, I'm

01:08:01.500 going to turn

01:08:01.820 off YouTube,

01:08:05.340 and that's

01:08:09.080 disturbing.

01:08:13.140 This should be

01:08:14.240 a headline

01:08:15.580 today.

01:08:17.860 Somebody says

01:08:18.700 your account will

01:08:19.500 be suspended.

01:08:20.360 Maybe so.

01:08:22.580 Maybe so.

01:08:24.040 Well, we'll see

01:08:24.840 what happens.

01:08:25.380 Maybe I'm on the

01:08:26.420 verge of getting

01:08:27.000 canceled, but we'll

01:08:28.580 find out soon, and I

01:08:30.080 will talk to you...

01:08:31.340 Well, I think I'll

01:08:32.860 talk to you tomorrow.

01:08:35.040 I think I'll talk to

01:08:36.240 you tomorrow.

01:08:37.500 Maybe not.

01:08:38.840 Bye for now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 14, 2021

Episode 1285 Scott Adams： Trump Wins the Impeachment Doubleheader While the Press Hides Stories

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