Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1317 Scott Adams： Introducing the Anti-Violent-Idiot Party. If you Don't Support it, Well, Look at You

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, I forgot to tweet this morning about this live stream, so we may not have as many people on here for a while.

00:00:12.140 Come on in, come on in. It's just us for now.

00:00:15.620 If you'd like to make this a special time, and I'm talking about more special than it already is, and it's pretty darn special, I think you'd agree.

00:00:24.560 All you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank of chalice, a stein, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid, I like coffee.

00:00:35.180 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, even when you've got a collar on your shirt.

00:00:44.700 It's called the Simultaneous Sip, and it's about to happen now all over the world at the same time.

00:00:50.900 Go! 0.95

00:00:54.560 All right, don't make fun of me about my collared shirt.

00:01:03.840 There's a reason. It doesn't matter.

00:01:06.860 All right, here's the news.

00:01:09.520 So, now our experts are telling us that six feet of social distance may be overkill, and that maybe, just maybe, three feet is good enough.

00:01:20.440 And a lot of people are quite reasonably saying, uh, no, I'm not wearing shoes, and I'm still wearing pajamas.

00:01:28.160 The bottom half is all pajamas and bare feet.

00:01:34.900 But it turns out that there was no data for the six-foot guidance we originally had.

00:01:40.600 Do you think, therefore, that the experts did a bad job because they said six feet of distance when three feet was good enough?

00:01:48.940 Probably. Or at least there's no data to say six is better.

00:01:53.680 To which I say, no.

00:01:56.440 Remember, in the beginning of the pandemic, everybody was guessing.

00:02:01.840 Everybody.

00:02:02.400 The experts were guessing.

00:02:05.120 The leaders were guessing.

00:02:07.020 The public was guessing.

00:02:08.540 Everybody was guessing.

00:02:10.140 So, I don't hold the experts responsible for guessing that six feet was safer than three.

00:02:17.040 If you don't know, it's pretty reasonable.

00:02:21.260 Isn't that pretty reasonable?

00:02:22.220 Doesn't your common sense say, how far does your spittle go?

00:02:27.840 It definitely goes three feet.

00:02:30.620 I don't know if my spittle goes six feet, but it definitely goes three. 0.89

00:02:35.600 I can hit you right here. 0.98

00:02:37.900 Stand there and see if you can feel my spray. 0.98

00:02:41.820 So, I think that was a reasonable, six feet, I think, was totally reasonably good sense

00:02:45.840 that the entire six feet didn't make much difference.

00:02:49.080 Dan Bongino got picked to fill in for the spot that Rush Limbaugh left with his passing.

00:02:59.580 And a person who, if you looked at any one of his individuals, how much discrimination?

00:03:07.800 I mean, I don't know how you measure such things, but I don't think anybody thinks they not only overcome it,

00:03:15.660 but they crush it.

00:03:18.180 Right?

00:03:19.080 I think I can say that.

00:03:20.360 Isn't that a fair statement?

00:03:21.980 That the Asian American communities have been unusually successful,

00:03:26.360 despite unusually high discrimination.

00:03:30.580 So, they kind of ruined the whole hard work doesn't work theory.

00:03:39.320 So, let's talk more about this, because there's a larger picture that's coming together.

00:03:43.800 So, I'm going to give you a bunch of individual stories, but then we're going to tie them together into this beautiful quilt.

00:03:51.800 So, wait for the beautiful quilt part.

00:03:54.800 I'm looking at the comments, and people are obsessed by me finally wearing a nice shirt.

00:03:58.600 Let me ask you this.

00:04:00.640 Should I wear a nice shirt every day?

00:04:04.120 Because I'm genuinely curious about this.

00:04:07.020 I feel as if wearing the actual shirt I woke up in, you know, my pajamas, is more casual.

00:04:15.260 Oh, a lot of no's.

00:04:19.060 I got one yes, a lot of no.

00:04:22.080 Sure, yes, sure, no, be comfy.

00:04:25.720 No.

00:04:26.480 Well, okay, the no's win. 0.93

00:04:29.080 There you go.

00:04:29.680 Well, the decision is made.

00:04:31.880 The audience has spoken.

00:04:33.820 We're going to go back to maximum comfort, because that's how the simultaneous sip was meant to be.

00:04:43.380 All right, you got it.

00:04:44.840 Casual it is tomorrow.

00:04:46.360 All right.

00:04:47.320 So, I'll go through a number of anecdotes, and then we'll tie them together into a tapestry.

00:04:51.700 So, WikiLeaks is reporting that the reason Trump won, or at least one of them, is that Clinton used media contacts.

00:05:01.120 In other words, she used the news, to which she had close ties, to elevate Trump during the primary.

00:05:11.300 And it even had a name.

00:05:12.540 It was called the Pied Piper Strategy.

00:05:14.520 And now there's actually documents where you can read the Democrats' actual strategy.

00:05:19.800 And it's funny to actually read it.

00:05:21.700 Because it's stuff you suspect.

00:05:23.600 Maybe they were thinking that way.

00:05:26.660 But then you read it, and it's detailed.

00:05:29.440 And it says directly that their strategy was to, in the primaries anyway, in 2016, to promote these three candidates, Cruz, Trump, and Carson.

00:05:40.900 Because they would be seen as too extreme.

00:05:43.780 They would drive all the other candidates to the left, which would ruin the Republican Party.

00:05:48.020 And that ultimately, they would end up electing somebody for the general, who could not get elected.

00:05:54.280 But what they didn't count on, what they didn't count on, is the last thing you want to do is give Trump extra energy.

00:06:04.480 Because Trump, as I've often said, is an energy monster.

00:06:10.260 You could call it anti-fragile, maybe.

00:06:13.980 I don't know if that really fits.

00:06:15.680 But if you give Ben Carson lots of attention, does he become a better candidate?

00:06:23.200 Or does it start to highlight maybe some suboptimal things about his policies or whatever?

00:06:30.560 I don't know that Carson was an energy monster.

00:06:34.120 How about Ted Cruz?

00:06:37.380 Very capable.

00:06:38.980 One of my favorite politicians, just in terms of pure talent, Ted Cruz is among the top.

00:06:47.380 But he's not an energy monster.

00:06:50.200 Meaning that if you give Ted Cruz more attention, does he become more popular?

00:06:54.960 You know, to some extent, everybody does, but it's got to be a matter of degree, right?

00:07:00.940 But then look at Trump.

00:07:02.820 What happens when you send more energy toward Trump?

00:07:07.140 He uses it.

00:07:08.880 Trump actually, it's like he's an energy monster.

00:07:12.340 Meaning that he takes the energy that you're sending him.

00:07:15.280 You know, he reforms it.

00:07:17.060 And then he sends it out in another direction that benefits him.

00:07:22.300 Who else does that?

00:07:24.960 Let me name some names.

00:07:27.980 Mike Cernovich.

00:07:29.960 Mike Cernovich is an energy monster.

00:07:33.000 The more energy you send to Mike Cernovich, the more he will reform it, send it out the way he wants to, and get stronger.

00:07:41.320 Who else is an energy monster?

00:07:44.800 Me.

00:07:46.200 Me.

00:07:46.640 By technique.

00:07:47.640 I don't know if it's something you're born with or if it's technique.

00:07:50.460 It looks more like technique, actually.

00:07:51.940 But the more energy people send my way, you've watched it right in front of you, right?

00:07:58.480 You've seen it with your own eyes.

00:08:00.480 I reform the energy into the form I want, and then I send it out the way I want it.

00:08:05.000 Not everybody is an energy monster.

00:08:06.840 It's kind of rare.

00:08:07.480 AOC, somebody's saying in the comments.

00:08:09.200 Yeah.

00:08:09.300 AOC is an energy monster.

00:08:11.820 Every time somebody says, watch this great criticism we have about AOC, this will take her down.

00:08:18.580 And they send that energy toward her.

00:08:20.800 She reforms it, sends it out the way she wants it.

00:08:24.100 She's an energy monster. 1.00

00:08:25.200 Never use the Pied Piper strategy on an energy monster.

00:08:32.520 Big mistake, right?

00:08:34.600 Somebody says Jordan Peterson.

00:08:36.920 In a way, I think I'll accept that one.

00:08:39.760 He's a different kind of character.

00:08:41.600 Bill Burr.

00:08:42.560 Good example.

00:08:43.940 Bill Burr is an energy monster.

00:08:45.660 He causes controversy.

00:08:47.420 People say, we're going to cancel this guy.

00:08:49.200 They send all this energy toward Bill Burr, and Bill Burr says, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop, reform.

00:08:55.780 Here you go.

00:08:57.120 Who made me a little bit richer?

00:08:59.200 Candace Owens, perfect example.

00:09:01.560 Yeah.

00:09:02.100 So you start to recognize the energy monsters, right?

00:09:05.420 How about this one?

00:09:07.760 Pierce Morgan.

00:09:10.280 Right?

00:09:11.680 Pierce Morgan not only walked off his show, and it dropped by 30%,

00:09:16.320 but as of today, the news says it went down another 100,000 viewers.

00:09:21.460 He took 40% off of the profits and, well, 40% off of the traffic for his network just by walking off.

00:09:33.900 He's an energy monster.

00:09:36.060 All that energy and hate went toward Pierce Morgan, and he said, boom, there you go.

00:09:43.860 40% of your audience just walked off.

00:09:47.260 How many job offers did Pierce Morgan get in the last week?

00:09:51.860 Well, I don't know, but I'll bet they're pretty profitable looking.

00:09:56.620 Because if you can make 40% of your audience disappear just by walking off,

00:10:02.960 you can get a very big offer for your next job, because it means you have, obviously, a following.

00:10:09.000 So that's the first story.

00:10:10.680 The first story is that WikiLeaks says that the Clinton strategy was definitely to promote these characters

00:10:16.800 and also then to promote their extremism, making them look like racists.

00:10:21.460 So here's the first part of the story.

00:10:23.460 We know, it's documented, that the Clinton strategy was to use their media,

00:10:29.920 their friendly media, to paint the Republicans as extremists, which really means racists, right?

00:10:36.560 That's part one.

00:10:38.040 Now let's get to current news.

00:10:40.880 These will seem like separate stories until I tie them together.

00:10:44.960 There's, anecdotally, we're seeing lots of stories of specific anti, what looks like anti-Asian racism.

00:10:52.820 And there's a video today of some gym fitness guy who was yelling at a woman in traffic.

00:11:00.660 You know, they were in their cars, and at one point he gets out of his car,

00:11:04.280 and he's yelling stuff and blaming her for the Wuhan virus, etc.

00:11:10.240 So he was saying racist stuff.

00:11:12.200 And she's recording him with her camera.

00:11:15.460 And then you see the fitness guy who's threatening her and saying racist stuff.

00:11:20.600 You see him say, you know, recording doesn't do anything.

00:11:26.760 Recording doesn't do anything.

00:11:30.720 And I said to myself, I don't think racism is the problem here.

00:11:36.940 Because she recorded him in 2021.

00:11:42.120 What happens when you record somebody saying racist things in 2021? 0.87

00:11:47.940 She killed him. 0.99

00:11:50.600 She used her phone and killed him. 1.00

00:11:57.060 Right?

00:11:57.780 Because we knew his name within minutes.

00:12:01.260 I mean, that thing shows up on a viral video.

00:12:04.120 We know his name.

00:12:05.780 He's canceled.

00:12:07.340 Right?

00:12:08.060 Her phone was as powerful as a gun.

00:12:12.060 Not in the death kind, but in his, let's say, his social and economic life.

00:12:18.260 She just killed him. 0.99

00:12:19.780 And I don't give a fuck at all. 1.00

00:12:21.580 Do you? 0.99

00:12:22.480 I don't care that she killed him.

00:12:24.200 He had it coming.

00:12:25.820 He started it.

00:12:27.300 He started the fight.

00:12:28.460 She just ended it. 0.99

00:12:30.000 She frickin' killed him. 1.00

00:12:31.180 With a phone. 0.99

00:12:32.000 2021.

00:12:33.300 2021.

00:12:34.320 Here you go.

00:12:35.960 So, what do you think about that guy?

00:12:40.560 Do you say to yourself, well, there's an example of a racist?

00:12:45.000 Well, yes.

00:12:45.920 Yes.

00:12:46.560 There's no doubt that you could label him a racist based on what we saw in the video.

00:12:49.920 He was saying unambiguously racist stuff.

00:12:54.180 But isn't there a sort of a larger story that's sort of peeking out?

00:13:00.380 That maybe he was, I'm going to do a little cursing.

00:13:03.680 Do you mind?

00:13:04.880 Does anybody mind if I do a little cursing?

00:13:07.260 Because there's an F word that needs to flavor this story.

00:13:12.760 And it just needs a little flavoring.

00:13:14.700 Okay?

00:13:16.420 When this guy said, you know, recording doesn't do anything.

00:13:20.900 He revealed that in addition to being a racist, and I don't think anybody can doubt this, 1.00

00:13:26.320 he's a fucking idiot. 1.00

00:13:28.460 Because recording him saying racist stuff ended his life, basically. 1.00

00:13:35.680 So, here's a guy who somehow in 2021 didn't realize that being recorded saying racist stuff in public

00:13:44.300 was going to work against his self-interest.

00:13:46.740 That's not a racist just. 0.81

00:13:51.120 I mean, he's also racist. 1.00

00:13:52.400 It's kind of a fucking idiot problem, isn't it? 1.00

00:13:55.280 The guy was a fucking idiot. 1.00

00:13:57.340 Now, he happened to be white. 1.00

00:13:58.880 Are, this might be provocative, but, and I'm not sure if you know the answer to this, 1.00

00:14:05.580 but are all fucking idiots white? 1.00

00:14:08.800 I don't know. 1.00

00:14:11.660 I mean, I read the news, and it sounds like they are, but I don't think it's true. 1.00

00:14:16.120 I would like to think that the population of fucking idiots is somewhat distributed. 1.00

00:14:22.520 I would like to think it's not concentrated in one ethnicity. 1.00

00:14:25.900 I mean, I haven't noticed that it is.

00:14:28.220 The news says it is, but I don't think so.

00:14:31.220 So, hold that story.

00:14:35.920 Now, put together the following things.

00:14:38.260 So, you've got the Pied Piper strategy, where the Democrats work with the press

00:14:42.820 to make Republicans look like racists.

00:14:46.100 That's now documented, right?

00:14:48.100 And it's documented as a strategy as opposed to a truth.

00:14:53.240 It's documented as manipulation and propaganda by definition.

00:14:59.500 Then remember the fine people hoax, where you had these people who, again,

00:15:04.240 appeared on camera carrying torches and saying racist stuff.

00:15:10.080 But when the president talked about it, I mean, the racists were real,

00:15:14.460 but when the president talked about it, if there's anybody new to my live stream,

00:15:18.100 I hope all of you know by now that the fine people thing was a hoax, right?

00:15:22.260 The president never said there were fine people on the racist side.

00:15:26.200 He clarified, I'm not talking about the racists.

00:15:29.240 They should be disowned.

00:15:30.840 But the hoax is created by cutting out that part where he says,

00:15:33.900 I'm not talking about the racists.

00:15:35.600 They just cut that part out, and then it looks like he is talking about the racists.

00:15:38.920 So, that's how the hoax was perpetuated.

00:15:41.720 So, that fits into the Pied Piper strategy, doesn't it?

00:15:45.120 So, once you see that the Democrats working with the press had an actual strategy,

00:15:52.160 the fine people hoax fits right into it, doesn't it?

00:15:55.540 Now you can start seeing, now that you've seen the strategy,

00:15:58.900 I'll start filling in the parts, and you can see how well it worked.

00:16:01.860 Fine people hoax worked very well.

00:16:04.100 Now you see the CNN is trying to cancel Abraham Lincoln.

00:16:08.060 And they're running stories and writing articles about how his racial opinions were,

00:16:15.340 let's say, complicated.

00:16:17.480 And they're trying to make him out that maybe he was a little bit racist.

00:16:22.100 A little bit racist.

00:16:23.620 Now, I would think that by modern standards, that's true.

00:16:26.860 He probably was, I think that would just be an obvious thing to say,

00:16:30.680 that you could pick really anybody from that era, just anybody.

00:16:35.840 Even somebody who was famous for being an abolitionist,

00:16:39.400 probably they were racist compared to modern standards.

00:16:45.200 So, canceling Lincoln, what do you think is the point of that?

00:16:49.080 Do you think that they're running this because it's interesting?

00:16:52.620 Is that why?

00:16:53.700 CNN said, what's the most interesting thing we can do that's not current?

00:16:58.980 So, it's a historical thing that our audience would be interested in,

00:17:04.000 of all the things that we could talk about in all of history.

00:17:07.460 And by the way, CNN does really good historical shows.

00:17:10.860 They do a great job on those.

00:17:12.020 I really enjoy them.

00:17:13.740 But why was it they picked Lincoln, do you think?

00:17:17.500 Now, part of it is because the statues were coming down,

00:17:20.520 and then some places were being renamed that had Lincoln in the name.

00:17:24.780 So, he was a little bit in the news.

00:17:26.140 But it seems to me that there's a bigger play here,

00:17:30.160 which is that Lincoln is the escape valve for accusations of white racism.

00:17:44.200 Lincoln is sort of the get-out-of-jail card. 0.99

00:17:47.040 So, if you say, hey, you white people are all racists. 0.98

00:17:52.020 You did slavery. 0.99

00:17:53.260 You did, you know, however many decades of racial discrimination. 1.00

00:17:58.700 White people are bad. 1.00

00:18:00.340 But then there was Lincoln. 1.00

00:18:02.240 And Lincoln was a white person who was revered,

00:18:05.460 who is most famous for freeing the slaves. 0.77

00:18:09.680 So, he's kind of like a problem white guy, right?

00:18:12.260 Because he doesn't fit the narrative.

00:18:13.520 Do you know who else doesn't fit the narrative?

00:18:17.460 Successful Asian Americans.

00:18:19.860 Do you start...

00:18:20.500 Now, watch the patterns start to come together.

00:18:22.880 So, here are just two points.

00:18:24.480 Now, two points can draw a line,

00:18:26.580 but it doesn't really mean it's a pattern.

00:18:28.260 You can easily see false patterns.

00:18:30.880 So, two things that look like kind of similar,

00:18:34.220 taking out the counter-arguments, right?

00:18:38.320 Asian Americans being successful is a counter-argument 1.00

00:18:41.200 to the narrative that everything is about race.

00:18:44.100 And Abe Lincoln is a counter-argument

00:18:45.960 to all white people are racists

00:18:48.680 because he freed the slaves. 0.61

00:18:51.180 So, if you take out the hero

00:18:52.720 and you take out the Asian American counter-example,

00:18:57.240 you'll start to...

00:18:58.340 I'm not done yet.

00:19:00.020 Then you add the fine people hoax,

00:19:02.480 start to see it come together,

00:19:05.020 the Pied Piper strategy.

00:19:06.360 And now we see that the...

00:19:10.240 especially the New York Times leading the call,

00:19:14.340 trying to make these anecdotal situations

00:19:17.200 where there is a white person

00:19:18.900 who did do real damage and violence to Asian Americans

00:19:23.280 to make it sort of a white supremacist narrative.

00:19:27.700 And so now we have this situation

00:19:29.800 where the young white guy 0.97

00:19:32.560 killed a bunch of people in massage parlors. 0.82

00:19:36.260 Most of them were Asian American or Asian... 0.99

00:19:39.160 I don't know if they were American,

00:19:40.660 but I think they were Asian American.

00:19:42.700 And...

00:19:43.300 And the narrative

00:19:45.760 is that it's racist.

00:19:49.320 Except when they talk to the guy,

00:19:51.440 he doesn't have any racial motivation. 0.97

00:19:54.540 He said that he was a sex addict, basically. 0.93

00:19:57.540 He had a sexual obsession. 0.96

00:19:59.940 And he thought that the massage parlors

00:20:01.500 were making it too easy for his addiction. 0.99

00:20:04.640 Now, basically, he's just a crazy guy, right? 1.00

00:20:07.460 Just a crazy guy. 0.87

00:20:09.100 But they're going to make it... 0.98

00:20:10.400 They're going to try to turn it into...

00:20:11.980 It's got to fit into the narrative 0.93

00:20:13.200 as part of the all-white people are bad 1.00

00:20:15.980 and are hating Asian Americans just like Trump 1.00

00:20:20.500 because of calling that a China virus 0.99

00:20:23.420 instead of just a virus.

00:20:24.560 And then it goes to the extra-absurd level

00:20:31.020 because the sheriff who was talking about this case,

00:20:35.080 a Georgia sheriff,

00:20:38.100 they found that he once made a China virus joke

00:20:41.320 in social media.

00:20:43.100 So this is the cop who's handling it

00:20:45.020 and talking about it.

00:20:46.300 So now he's cancelled

00:20:47.300 because he once made a China virus joke online.

00:20:51.140 Now, he didn't say Chinese virus

00:20:55.860 because Chinese would be the people. 0.70

00:20:59.660 He said China the country,

00:21:02.060 which is literally the starting point.

00:21:06.620 Like other viruses that were named after places,

00:21:10.600 doesn't look racist to me, right?

00:21:13.680 It looks Republican, but it doesn't look racist.

00:21:16.820 So they throw that in there

00:21:18.720 because they've got to smear this guy 0.95

00:21:20.120 because he's white. 0.55

00:21:21.760 And then they go after him for what he said.

00:21:25.640 So he was talking about this,

00:21:27.340 the perpetrator having essentially mental illness.

00:21:31.160 Not essentially. 0.96

00:21:31.920 He has mental illness, obviously.

00:21:34.760 And that on the day of the shooting, 0.98

00:21:36.940 he was having a, quote, bad day.

00:21:39.840 Now, the context was,

00:21:41.740 this was somebody who was on the edge mentally.

00:21:45.040 And then there was one day

00:21:46.400 that pushed him over the edge.

00:21:47.660 Does that sound racist?

00:21:50.460 What I just said?

00:21:52.180 There was a person with mental illness,

00:21:54.440 and then one day he got pushed over the edge.

00:21:58.220 Not at all, right?

00:21:59.360 It's not even a little bit racist.

00:22:01.360 But I'll just word it the way this guy worded it.

00:22:04.640 That he said, you know,

00:22:06.640 things had been going poorly for him,

00:22:08.300 and then he had a bad day.

00:22:09.540 All the sheriff is talking about

00:22:13.820 is that he was pushed over the edge that day.

00:22:15.960 That's all.

00:22:17.200 That turned racist

00:22:18.460 because saying it was a bad day

00:22:20.820 minimizes the fact that he slaughtered

00:22:23.640 six Asian or Asian-American women.

00:22:26.340 I don't know if they were Asian or Asian-American.

00:22:29.160 But that's not there.

00:22:34.340 This is just making some stuff up.

00:22:36.400 I've been eating some China food.

00:22:39.840 Somebody says, stop lying, Scott.

00:22:42.900 Well, let me solve your problem.

00:22:46.780 Look at that.

00:22:47.620 I blocked you,

00:22:48.260 and you won't hear even one more lie.

00:22:50.880 Good for you.

00:22:52.880 All right.

00:22:55.100 And then, of course,

00:22:56.000 the Capitol protests

00:22:57.140 have been hammered into the narrative

00:23:01.080 that it has a white supremacist element to it.

00:23:03.960 And what exactly was that?

00:23:07.120 What exactly was the white supremacist element

00:23:09.940 of the Capitol riot?

00:23:13.360 There were probably some people there

00:23:15.720 who were white supremacists.

00:23:17.580 Do you think that any group of protesters

00:23:20.800 does not have some criminals in it 0.96

00:23:24.020 and some pedophiles 0.99

00:23:25.680 and some rapists 0.95

00:23:27.280 and some murderers sometimes?

00:23:29.000 I would guess that any large group of Americans

00:23:32.480 has a good smattering

00:23:34.200 of pretty bad people in it.

00:23:36.840 All right.

00:23:37.320 So here's my take.

00:23:39.420 Putting it all together,

00:23:40.680 you can see that there's a tapestry here

00:23:42.840 in which the media

00:23:44.680 is creating a story

00:23:46.880 of white supremacy

00:23:47.840 as the problem in the United States. 0.52

00:23:50.400 And they're forcing

00:23:51.280 all these anecdotal things in there.

00:23:53.320 And the way human brains are organized,

00:23:55.500 we will easily see this pattern

00:23:58.040 if they keep telling us it's there.

00:24:00.780 And so, of course, people are.

00:24:03.060 So largely the concern

00:24:07.380 about anti-Asian racism

00:24:09.860 is real, of course.

00:24:12.100 Very real.

00:24:14.200 But it's now part of the narrative

00:24:16.020 to make white people diminished. 0.52

00:24:19.580 And the Republicans

00:24:21.820 who are in that category

00:24:24.600 to diminish them as well.

00:24:28.240 All right.

00:24:30.680 And it's amazing to watch this develop.

00:24:34.780 So here's what I'm feeling

00:24:36.940 as a targeted person.

00:24:39.720 So I would say that I'm in the target group,

00:24:42.100 meaning that as a successful older white male,

00:24:46.420 I'm kind of the enemy now.

00:24:47.780 You know, I must be the cause of all problems.

00:24:50.940 And just being in my demographic group

00:24:53.520 makes me a problem.

00:24:56.300 And I would like to not be seen as a problem.

00:24:58.900 So I would suggest the following.

00:25:01.320 I'm going to start a new political party.

00:25:04.020 We're not going to do any paperwork.

00:25:06.620 So we're just...

00:25:07.520 It's a conceptual party.

00:25:09.140 Sort of like...

00:25:10.420 Have you noticed the genius of Antifa?

00:25:13.080 We've talked about this before.

00:25:14.720 They say we're Antifa.

00:25:16.020 We're anti-fascists.

00:25:18.520 So if you're against us,

00:25:20.300 what are you?

00:25:22.040 Huh?

00:25:22.720 Huh? 0.90

00:25:23.600 A fascist.

00:25:25.160 So cleverly, Antifa came up with a name

00:25:27.960 that makes everybody who attacks them

00:25:30.660 a bad person,

00:25:31.780 which was pretty brilliant.

00:25:33.640 Now take Black Lives Matter.

00:25:34.980 If you don't agree with the statement

00:25:40.160 Black Lives Matter

00:25:41.220 and you say anything that sounds racist

00:25:44.020 to the people who get to define you as racist,

00:25:46.580 like, hey, all lives matter. 0.98

00:25:48.340 Whoa, ho, ho, ho, you racist. 0.99

00:25:50.940 Don't come in here with your 0.99

00:25:52.200 all lives matter stuff.

00:25:53.980 That's pretty bad.

00:25:55.620 Now, from a persuasion perspective,

00:25:58.540 both Antifa and Black Lives Matter

00:26:00.860 really did a good job.

00:26:02.200 You might not like it,

00:26:05.020 but they really did a good job

00:26:06.740 with coming up with names and slogans

00:26:08.540 because their names and slogans

00:26:10.440 are weaponized.

00:26:12.300 Pretty darn good.

00:26:13.660 And they both did it,

00:26:14.540 and it both worked.

00:26:16.040 So here's the party that I'm going to start.

00:26:18.480 It's called the 1.00

00:26:19.260 Anti-Violent Idiot Party 1.00

00:26:22.900 because there are a lot of violent idiots 1.00

00:26:26.240 in the world. 1.00

00:26:27.800 Many of them are white.

00:26:28.960 And so am I.

00:26:31.800 Have you noticed that? 1.00

00:26:33.100 There are many violent idiots in the world, 1.00

00:26:35.940 and a lot of them are white. 1.00

00:26:39.680 Got to say. 0.98

00:26:41.400 A lot of them are black.

00:26:43.540 A lot of them are Hispanic American. 0.73

00:26:46.400 A lot of them are Europeans. 1.00

00:26:49.620 There are a lot of violent idiots in the world. 1.00

00:26:52.660 But I'm Anti-Violent Idiot. 1.00

00:26:56.660 And I would say that when I look at, say, 0.99

00:26:58.700 CNN's framing of white people as the problem,

00:27:03.920 I would say they're promoting violence, 0.91

00:27:06.380 ultimately.

00:27:07.820 And that they're...

00:27:09.660 Yeah, it's the AVI party. 1.00

00:27:13.000 Anti-Violent Idiot. 1.00

00:27:14.020 So every time somebody takes one of these anecdotes, 1.00

00:27:18.260 like this guy who shot up the massage parlors,

00:27:21.000 and tries to turn it into a racial story,

00:27:24.220 you say,

00:27:24.660 oh, I'm against you guys

00:27:25.800 because you guys are trying to start a race war.

00:27:29.220 And if starting a race war 1.00

00:27:30.560 would be an idiot thing to do. 0.99

00:27:33.860 Because all the people who are the citizens 1.00

00:27:36.380 don't know that their opinions have been assigned to them.

00:27:39.080 And they've been assigned the opinion

00:27:43.360 that white people are white supremacists 1.00

00:27:46.220 and must be stopped. 1.00

00:27:48.820 So anybody who has that opinion is an idiot. 1.00

00:27:54.360 And they're a little bit violent, in my opinion. 1.00

00:27:57.080 Because even if they're not doing the violence,

00:27:59.720 I think we all agree that speech can be violence

00:28:02.740 if the speech sort of promotes violence, right?

00:28:05.900 Sort of a continuum.

00:28:06.800 You know, if the speech is what directly causes the violence,

00:28:11.620 well, then the speech is part of that violence, right?

00:28:15.900 So I would say that the main narrative

00:28:18.820 that the press is spreading,

00:28:22.720 which is that white supremacy is the problem

00:28:25.160 for the anti-Asian racism, 1.00

00:28:28.760 is a violent idiot problem. 1.00

00:28:32.060 Not only are the press 1.00

00:28:35.600 violent idiots, 1.00

00:28:38.320 because they're framing this 1.00

00:28:39.940 in the most unproductive way

00:28:41.940 to cause a race war, 0.99

00:28:43.560 what could be dumber 0.98

00:28:44.900 than intentionally causing a race war 0.99

00:28:47.780 in the United States?

00:28:50.000 Like, raise your hand 1.00

00:28:51.000 and can you think of anything dumber? 0.99

00:28:54.340 I mean, 0.99

00:28:56.080 I don't know, 0.93

00:28:56.580 raising taxes 200% might be dumber, 0.86

00:28:58.920 but we're not really talking about it.

00:29:00.340 Of the things we're actually considering, 0.93

00:29:04.100 what would be dumber than that? 0.83

00:29:06.680 Can you think of anything? 1.00

00:29:08.360 What would be dumber or more violent, 0.99

00:29:11.160 in the way that words are violent, 0.99

00:29:14.120 than framing everything as a racial problem?

00:29:19.080 Nothing. 0.99

00:29:19.860 There's actually nothing dumber than that. 1.00

00:29:22.320 So I'm anti-violent idiots. 1.00

00:29:25.140 So, 1.00

00:29:27.200 stop calling me white.

00:29:30.100 Because you know what I don't do? 0.92

00:29:32.740 When I see a story about some white people 0.97

00:29:35.280 who, let's say,

00:29:36.460 invented something,

00:29:37.800 or were successful,

00:29:40.000 here's what I don't do.

00:29:42.100 Wow.

00:29:43.020 Look at those white people go. 0.97

00:29:45.960 Never once. 0.92

00:29:47.480 Never once have I said,

00:29:49.220 man, I'm feeling proud now,

00:29:50.900 because I'm white

00:29:52.720 and complete strangers

00:29:54.960 who have nothing to do with me

00:29:56.460 who are also white

00:29:58.480 did something cool

00:30:00.760 on the other side of the country.

00:30:03.280 Yay me.

00:30:04.680 I've never done that.

00:30:06.580 They just look like different people.

00:30:09.500 So,

00:30:10.760 I choose not to be

00:30:12.860 labeled by my group.

00:30:15.440 And if you label me my group

00:30:18.500 and throw me in there

00:30:19.920 and say I'm part of systemic racism, 1.00

00:30:23.300 you're a violent idiot. 1.00

00:30:27.240 You're not a racist. 1.00

00:30:28.820 You're actually just an idiot. 1.00

00:30:31.260 Because a racist 1.00

00:30:32.260 would have a little more thinking. 0.78

00:30:35.840 At least the racist is being selfish, right?

00:30:39.300 The racist actually has

00:30:40.960 a philosophy

00:30:42.800 of selfishness.

00:30:44.880 I want everything for me

00:30:46.360 and bad for them.

00:30:47.620 Or they might have a belief

00:30:48.940 that they're superior or something.

00:30:50.220 But it would be

00:30:50.680 at least a philosophy. 1.00

00:30:52.840 The violent idiots 1.00

00:30:53.600 don't have anything. 1.00

00:30:55.100 They're just violent 1.00

00:30:56.020 and idiots. 1.00

00:30:58.580 So, I'm anti-violent idiot. 1.00

00:31:01.320 You can be on my party 1.00

00:31:03.100 no matter your ethnicity,

00:31:06.060 no matter anything.

00:31:08.100 There's no restriction.

00:31:09.460 You just have to be 1.00

00:31:10.460 not a violent idiot. 1.00

00:31:12.520 So, anybody who wants 1.00

00:31:13.780 to make everything

00:31:14.480 look like a racial problem 1.00

00:31:15.820 is a violent idiot. 1.00

00:31:18.020 Because you're leading 1.00

00:31:18.940 to violence

00:31:19.560 and you're very, 1.00

00:31:20.980 very dumb. 1.00

00:31:22.640 And, let me say this 1.00

00:31:24.020 as clearly as possible. 1.00

00:31:25.160 The violent idiots 1.00

00:31:26.020 for the most part 1.00

00:31:26.940 are not people

00:31:28.000 who made up

00:31:28.460 their own minds.

00:31:30.020 They're not.

00:31:31.160 They're people

00:31:31.640 whose opinions

00:31:32.420 have been assigned to them

00:31:33.680 and their brains

00:31:34.900 and their brains 1.00

00:31:34.920 are so weak 1.00

00:31:35.820 because they're idiots 1.00

00:31:37.720 that they just accept 1.00

00:31:40.300 the narrative

00:31:41.320 and run with it.

00:31:43.220 All right.

00:31:51.560 Antiva.

00:31:52.600 Somebody says.

00:31:54.100 AVI.

00:31:55.660 All right.

00:31:56.020 That's my take on that.

00:31:57.560 Let's see.

00:31:57.840 What else is going on?

00:31:59.280 There's a 3D printed community

00:32:02.000 being built

00:32:02.880 in Rancho Mirage.

00:32:04.560 So, they're building

00:32:05.360 an upscale community.

00:32:06.560 This won't be for, like,

00:32:07.960 cheap little 3D printed homes.

00:32:09.900 So, they're building

00:32:11.220 1,450 square foot

00:32:13.140 single-story homes

00:32:14.140 made from stone

00:32:16.000 composite materials

00:32:17.380 that's strong

00:32:19.020 and fire-resistant

00:32:19.840 and water-resistant

00:32:20.840 and termite-proof

00:32:21.840 and all that.

00:32:23.680 And it's, let's see,

00:32:24.680 the Polari group

00:32:25.720 is doing it.

00:32:27.240 Now, here's what's

00:32:27.920 interesting about this.

00:32:29.600 They say they can make

00:32:30.800 these homes far cheaper.

00:32:33.580 And instead of the...

00:32:35.520 You've seen the 3D printer

00:32:36.860 that's like a giant arm

00:32:38.140 and it's just printing

00:32:39.760 the entire house.

00:32:41.740 I always thought

00:32:42.460 that was a bad idea

00:32:43.580 because if you wanted

00:32:45.240 to change the house,

00:32:46.220 and you always do,

00:32:47.060 eventually,

00:32:47.820 it's like this 3D printed thing.

00:32:49.900 Like, how are you going

00:32:50.740 to add a new window?

00:32:52.300 What, carve it?

00:32:53.900 I mean, it just didn't seem

00:32:55.480 like a good model.

00:32:56.680 But this company

00:32:57.640 is using 3D,

00:32:58.800 but it looks like

00:32:59.500 what they're doing

00:33:00.020 is off-site

00:33:01.620 or maybe on-site.

00:33:02.740 I don't know.

00:33:03.400 They're making panels.

00:33:04.620 So instead of just

00:33:06.640 3D-ing the entire thing,

00:33:09.100 they're 3D-ing the parts.

00:33:11.140 And then the parts

00:33:11.860 are assembled

00:33:12.380 more or less

00:33:13.680 in a traditional way.

00:33:15.660 So if you needed

00:33:16.400 to change it later,

00:33:18.240 you just remove a part.

00:33:20.740 So that would be different.

00:33:21.960 So I think that they

00:33:22.960 have a better model.

00:33:24.060 And I think they're

00:33:24.540 3D printing even

00:33:25.820 cabinetry and,

00:33:27.720 I don't know,

00:33:28.240 maybe faucets.

00:33:30.460 Who knows?

00:33:31.760 But let's keep an eye

00:33:33.200 on this.

00:33:33.780 So it looks like

00:33:34.420 it would only bring

00:33:35.080 down the price

00:33:35.780 maybe 25%,

00:33:37.340 which is good enough

00:33:39.320 for a really good business.

00:33:41.560 But I think that

00:33:43.180 ultimately housing

00:33:44.200 could be reduced

00:33:45.060 by 90%.

00:33:46.240 So there's my prediction.

00:33:50.200 Housing costs could be,

00:33:53.020 almost,

00:33:54.160 with our current technology,

00:33:55.540 but maybe with a little

00:33:56.520 extra technology,

00:33:58.440 I think housing costs

00:33:59.460 could be reduced

00:34:00.120 by 90%.

00:34:01.080 And that we will need to

00:34:03.180 because there's no way

00:34:04.540 we can survive

00:34:05.480 as a civilization

00:34:07.220 unless we do.

00:34:09.000 You can't survive

00:34:10.120 as a civilization

00:34:11.080 when 80% of your people

00:34:13.340 can't afford a home.

00:34:15.080 Right?

00:34:15.300 That's just not going to work.

00:34:18.740 So the border crisis continues.

00:34:22.400 I saw something

00:34:23.520 that Tucker Carlson said,

00:34:27.180 and he was referring

00:34:27.960 to the people

00:34:28.860 who make the dangerous

00:34:31.340 and arduous trip

00:34:33.180 across the border,

00:34:34.360 the migrants 0.88

00:34:35.220 or the immigrants.

00:34:37.120 Eddie,

00:34:37.740 I think you referred to them,

00:34:38.940 if I remember the words,

00:34:40.180 like the boldest

00:34:41.940 and most ambitious.

00:34:44.320 And I thought to myself,

00:34:45.720 we've accidentally

00:34:46.760 created a filter

00:34:49.660 with immigration

00:34:51.980 that is surprisingly good.

00:34:55.220 Accidentally.

00:34:56.800 Surprisingly good.

00:34:58.420 I've always said this

00:34:59.520 about the United States,

00:35:01.220 that one of our biggest advantages

00:35:03.680 is that the people

00:35:04.780 who came here first,

00:35:06.060 the original founders

00:35:07.140 and pilgrims

00:35:08.820 and all that,

00:35:10.480 were self-filtered.

00:35:14.340 There were people

00:35:14.920 who said to themselves,

00:35:16.080 I'm going to sail

00:35:17.800 across this ocean,

00:35:18.900 very dangerous,

00:35:19.480 to a whole new place,

00:35:21.240 very dangerous,

00:35:22.580 that's already owned

00:35:23.560 by the Native Americans,

00:35:26.040 very dangerous.

00:35:27.460 We don't have any homes there.

00:35:29.500 There's nothing there.

00:35:30.220 It's just going to be land.

00:35:31.900 And we're going to figure it out.

00:35:34.720 Right?

00:35:35.040 If all the people

00:35:36.300 who were willing

00:35:36.960 to take that risk

00:35:38.100 and were capable enough,

00:35:40.280 healthy enough to survive it,

00:35:42.220 smart enough to make it work,

00:35:44.880 haven't you sort of

00:35:46.040 self-selected,

00:35:47.960 really capable people?

00:35:49.880 Who are likely

00:35:50.760 to be entrepreneurial?

00:35:52.240 Because whatever it is

00:35:53.240 that causes you

00:35:53.900 to leave your country

00:35:54.700 and go across an ocean

00:35:55.820 to a new world,

00:35:57.740 it's got to be close

00:35:59.460 in type

00:36:00.860 to whatever makes you

00:36:01.700 an entrepreneur.

00:36:03.180 So don't you end up

00:36:04.280 with a whole bunch

00:36:04.940 of people who are

00:36:05.700 self-selected

00:36:06.540 to be bold

00:36:07.460 and entrepreneurial?

00:36:09.520 And didn't the United States

00:36:10.980 grow up with that DNA?

00:36:13.540 I mean,

00:36:13.880 no matter what the ethnicity was

00:36:15.800 or where they came from,

00:36:16.780 we were skimming off

00:36:18.680 the boldest,

00:36:20.540 most capable.

00:36:22.660 Now,

00:36:23.020 they didn't have to necessarily

00:36:23.960 be the highest IQ,

00:36:25.680 but that's not everything

00:36:26.860 about success, right?

00:36:28.540 Success is also about

00:36:29.880 risk-taking,

00:36:31.500 your mental approach,

00:36:34.280 your optimism,

00:36:35.860 and all those things.

00:36:37.280 And how do you feel?

00:36:37.880 No,

00:36:38.120 obviously bad people

00:36:39.120 get into, right?

00:36:40.900 I'm not going to minimize

00:36:42.200 the fact that bad people

00:36:43.520 get into the country. 0.50

00:36:44.900 So can we stipulate?

00:36:47.260 Will everybody be happy

00:36:48.540 if I stipulate

00:36:49.500 that open immigration

00:36:51.060 lets lots of bad people

00:36:52.280 into the country?

00:36:53.400 If you will also accept

00:36:55.100 my other point,

00:36:57.060 which is that

00:36:57.780 the vast majority of people

00:36:59.260 have this weird characteristic,

00:37:01.760 which is they're pretty brave.

00:37:03.940 Pretty brave.

00:37:05.300 They're also resourceful.

00:37:07.500 They're also ambitious.

00:37:08.820 They're also looking

00:37:10.620 for a better life,

00:37:11.900 and they're also willing

00:37:13.240 to work hard.

00:37:15.420 What's that say

00:37:16.220 about the future

00:37:16.920 of the United States?

00:37:19.520 Now,

00:37:20.020 I know the people

00:37:20.600 who are racist

00:37:22.700 are saying,

00:37:23.240 wait a minute,

00:37:24.260 you're bringing in

00:37:26.520 the lower-quality,

00:37:27.740 uneducated people.

00:37:28.800 How could that be good?

00:37:31.100 First generation,

00:37:32.760 there's something

00:37:33.980 to be said to that, right?

00:37:35.180 Because they might be

00:37:36.140 bringing in

00:37:36.840 less education

00:37:38.300 than is the average,

00:37:40.080 so on average,

00:37:40.980 it would look like

00:37:41.520 it's lowering the average.

00:37:43.060 But wait a generation.

00:37:46.040 We are filtering

00:37:47.360 the boldest,

00:37:49.800 the most ambitious,

00:37:52.460 the most hard-working people

00:37:54.320 are all coming here.

00:37:57.180 If you don't think

00:37:58.080 that's going to pay off,

00:37:59.800 I don't know how well

00:38:01.320 you understand economics.

00:38:02.520 And so my main point

00:38:04.860 here is this.

00:38:06.120 Where are the economists

00:38:07.380 in this discussion?

00:38:09.440 I feel like the entire

00:38:10.520 profession of economists

00:38:11.860 just took a vacation

00:38:13.000 when it's the very thing

00:38:15.500 they should be dealing with,

00:38:16.920 which is how much

00:38:18.180 and what kind of immigration

00:38:19.600 is the healthiest.

00:38:21.820 Because,

00:38:22.860 I'm watching a comment,

00:38:25.460 somebody says,

00:38:26.420 oh my God, 0.94

00:38:26.920 this guy is brainwashed, 1.00

00:38:28.260 I'll bet he has an Asian wife. 1.00

00:38:29.640 I don't.

00:38:34.260 Let me say this.

00:38:36.560 If your sense of me

00:38:38.260 is that I'm brainwashed 0.88

00:38:39.460 and crazy, 0.98

00:38:40.860 you're experiencing

00:38:41.940 cognitive dissonance.

00:38:44.100 Which is,

00:38:45.040 the things I'm saying

00:38:45.880 do make sense,

00:38:48.160 but it disagrees with you

00:38:49.800 and it's causing you

00:38:50.880 some distress.

00:38:52.620 And you're trying

00:38:53.460 to explain your world

00:38:54.840 that no longer makes sense.

00:38:57.380 And there are two ways

00:38:59.540 you can explain it.

00:39:00.720 One,

00:39:01.620 is that there was

00:39:02.240 something wrong

00:39:03.120 with the way

00:39:03.600 you were thinking before.

00:39:05.680 Or two,

00:39:07.080 there's something wrong

00:39:08.000 with me.

00:39:11.660 One of those

00:39:12.560 is more likely

00:39:13.420 to be true.

00:39:14.220 They could both be true.

00:39:15.700 But one of them

00:39:16.360 is more likely

00:39:17.280 to be true.

00:39:18.640 And if you're

00:39:19.640 having this feeling

00:39:20.520 that's sort of like

00:39:21.180 this generic bad feeling,

00:39:23.220 that's like, 0.99

00:39:23.720 this guy is crazy. 0.98

00:39:25.100 Or this guy 1.00

00:39:25.720 must be lying.

00:39:26.520 Or this guy

00:39:27.580 must be paid

00:39:28.280 by Russia.

00:39:29.000 Or anything like that.

00:39:30.580 Then you're experiencing

00:39:31.700 cognitive dissonance.

00:39:33.700 And that's how you know.

00:39:35.100 Because your objection

00:39:36.600 doesn't have

00:39:37.260 a specific reason

00:39:38.460 that just stands right out.

00:39:40.160 You just feel like,

00:39:41.520 I must have

00:39:42.640 an Asian wife

00:39:43.420 or something.

00:39:44.640 Or maybe

00:39:45.940 somebody's paying me.

00:39:48.260 If you're having

00:39:49.040 any of those thoughts,

00:39:49.920 that is cognitive dissonance.

00:39:52.360 And good luck

00:39:53.880 with that.

00:39:54.180 So,

00:39:56.920 the economists

00:39:57.860 should be weighing in

00:39:58.920 and the economists

00:39:59.620 should be telling us this.

00:40:01.500 They should say,

00:40:02.260 under our current conditions,

00:40:04.240 which is,

00:40:04.740 you know,

00:40:04.940 still recovering

00:40:05.600 from a pandemic,

00:40:07.300 current employment rates,

00:40:09.300 current everything,

00:40:10.040 current GDP,

00:40:11.220 take that all into account.

00:40:13.160 How much employment

00:40:14.120 do we need?

00:40:15.420 Etc.

00:40:16.560 Consider our demographic

00:40:18.040 trajectory,

00:40:19.340 which is too many

00:40:20.120 old people. 0.53

00:40:21.240 But younger people

00:40:22.020 are coming into the country,

00:40:23.120 so backfilling

00:40:25.280 the older people 0.58

00:40:26.120 with youth is good.

00:40:27.760 Where is that not happening?

00:40:29.600 Japan.

00:40:31.220 Not happening, right?

00:40:32.500 So,

00:40:33.120 there are countries

00:40:33.760 that have a real big problem

00:40:35.460 because they have

00:40:36.140 more old people 0.93

00:40:36.980 than young people.

00:40:38.380 The United States

00:40:39.160 would have that problem too,

00:40:41.260 but we're accidentally

00:40:42.360 solving it

00:40:43.060 by bringing in

00:40:43.620 a lot of young people

00:40:44.340 over the border.

00:40:45.620 Now,

00:40:45.920 where is the economist,

00:40:48.060 Republican or Democrat,

00:40:49.860 or both,

00:40:50.960 ideally,

00:40:51.340 who get together

00:40:52.820 and say,

00:40:53.200 look,

00:40:53.800 given all this,

00:40:54.980 the right amount

00:40:55.720 of immigration

00:40:56.440 from,

00:40:57.100 let's say,

00:40:57.440 the southern border

00:40:58.180 is X people per year.

00:41:00.940 Because I'll tell you

00:41:01.780 what the right number

00:41:02.520 is not.

00:41:04.080 The right number

00:41:04.880 is not zero.

00:41:06.620 Is it?

00:41:07.880 And I don't think

00:41:08.800 the right number

00:41:09.380 is 10 million a year.

00:41:11.400 Is it?

00:41:12.940 But if it's not

00:41:13.840 10 million a year

00:41:14.780 and it's not

00:41:15.480 zero people a year,

00:41:16.880 who gets to decide

00:41:18.140 what it is?

00:41:19.640 Shouldn't the economist

00:41:20.620 weigh in on this?

00:41:22.260 Shouldn't an economist

00:41:23.460 say,

00:41:24.680 look,

00:41:25.420 for example,

00:41:26.480 shouldn't the economist

00:41:27.520 be telling us,

00:41:28.640 I think we can handle,

00:41:30.240 I'll just put a number on it,

00:41:31.400 100,000 per year.

00:41:33.000 I think it's a lot bigger,

00:41:34.340 but let's say 100,000.

00:41:36.020 Now,

00:41:36.400 let's bump it up.

00:41:37.760 Our economy,

00:41:38.960 given the size

00:41:39.680 of the country,

00:41:41.120 probably need

00:41:42.320 a minimum of,

00:41:45.120 I'll just throw in

00:41:46.100 a number,

00:41:46.780 just top of my head,

00:41:47.640 400,000 a year.

00:41:49.780 We probably need

00:41:50.980 something like

00:41:51.760 400,000 immigrants a year.

00:41:53.980 Maybe it's a million.

00:41:55.120 Maybe it's more.

00:41:55.820 I don't know.

00:41:56.740 Could be more than

00:41:57.380 a million, actually.

00:41:58.440 That would be

00:41:59.260 an optimal

00:42:00.580 economic situation.

00:42:03.480 I see somebody going,

00:42:04.980 no.

00:42:06.200 Now,

00:42:06.840 who would be against,

00:42:08.440 let me just ask

00:42:09.140 the question,

00:42:09.940 who would be opposed,

00:42:12.420 let's say the economists

00:42:13.620 were right,

00:42:14.380 I don't know how likely

00:42:15.280 that would be,

00:42:16.140 but let's say the economists

00:42:17.100 were right

00:42:17.660 and that the number

00:42:19.660 of people they said

00:42:20.420 should come in

00:42:21.520 doesn't have to be

00:42:22.740 a million,

00:42:23.240 whatever that number is,

00:42:25.080 and we let in

00:42:26.780 that number of people.

00:42:27.820 Are you worse off?

00:42:29.520 Do you feel that

00:42:30.460 you would be worse off

00:42:31.760 if we let in

00:42:33.340 exactly the number

00:42:34.280 of people the economists

00:42:35.260 say will make us stronger?

00:42:38.580 How would you be worse off?

00:42:41.120 Somebody says,

00:42:41.840 too many people,

00:42:42.940 traffic.

00:42:43.220 You know,

00:42:44.220 I think the too many

00:42:45.060 people traffic problem

00:42:46.180 may be working itself out

00:42:47.540 because the cities

00:42:49.020 are getting depopulated

00:42:50.220 and if you take away

00:42:52.020 rush hour,

00:42:53.100 you don't have

00:42:55.080 the traffic problem,

00:42:55.960 right?

00:42:56.760 Because non-rush hour

00:42:58.280 traffic,

00:42:59.240 except for L.A.,

00:43:00.240 is not that bad.

00:43:02.720 All right.

00:43:04.780 So I think the economists

00:43:06.200 have something to

00:43:07.160 explain about why

00:43:08.940 they're missing

00:43:09.420 from this conversation.

00:43:10.520 because you and I

00:43:11.700 don't know how many

00:43:12.440 people should come over.

00:43:14.260 If you and I

00:43:15.140 are arguing about

00:43:16.120 that we have

00:43:17.040 too many people coming

00:43:18.140 or too few,

00:43:19.880 based on what?

00:43:21.580 Based on what?

00:43:24.020 How could you say

00:43:25.040 that there are

00:43:25.440 too many people coming?

00:43:27.200 It feels like

00:43:28.160 too many, right?

00:43:29.840 Like,

00:43:30.440 just your common sense,

00:43:31.820 you see the pictures

00:43:32.600 and you see all

00:43:33.960 these people coming over

00:43:34.920 and then you look

00:43:35.460 at our unemployment rate

00:43:36.680 and you say,

00:43:37.720 wait a minute,

00:43:38.980 there's no way

00:43:39.620 this is good.

00:43:40.360 All those people

00:43:41.180 still have unemployment

00:43:42.940 plus, you know,

00:43:44.600 the coronavirus

00:43:45.080 makes everything worse.

00:43:48.260 You and I

00:43:48.920 don't have the information

00:43:49.840 to know whether

00:43:50.400 this is good or bad

00:43:51.440 or what level

00:43:52.420 would be good or bad.

00:43:53.540 I would agree with your...

00:43:55.600 And here's where I say,

00:43:56.940 by the way,

00:43:57.600 if it sounded like

00:43:58.460 I'm for open immigration,

00:44:02.800 I'm not.

00:44:04.400 I'm for data.

00:44:06.260 I'm for knowing

00:44:07.260 how much is the right amount.

00:44:08.900 And I'm definitely

00:44:10.440 for having a strong border

00:44:11.960 because the stronger

00:44:13.960 your border is,

00:44:14.940 the more control you have

00:44:16.800 over what is the right amount.

00:44:18.860 You know,

00:44:19.080 open the door bigger

00:44:20.520 when you need more,

00:44:21.660 close a little bit

00:44:22.440 when you need less.

00:44:23.560 So we should be treating

00:44:25.140 the border like a valve

00:44:27.940 that sometimes we open,

00:44:30.040 sometimes we close,

00:44:31.020 just depends on the economics,

00:44:32.620 right?

00:44:32.840 And why is there no leader

00:44:36.240 explaining it to you

00:44:37.220 like I just did?

00:44:39.400 Imagine, if you will,

00:44:41.000 Democrat or Republican.

00:44:42.960 All right,

00:44:43.140 so if I run for president,

00:44:44.480 this is how I'll do it.

00:44:45.940 I'm going to say,

00:44:46.820 this isn't a Republican-Democrat question.

00:44:49.800 It's an economic question.

00:44:51.900 The economic health

00:44:53.200 of the United States

00:44:53.960 requires some amount

00:44:55.240 of immigration of some type.

00:44:57.320 Let's figure out

00:44:58.260 what is the right amount,

00:44:59.880 build a strong border,

00:45:01.320 and then only let in

00:45:03.100 that amount.

00:45:04.140 And as we need more,

00:45:05.520 open it up.

00:45:06.200 As we need fewer,

00:45:07.340 close it down.

00:45:08.860 That's how I'd handle it.

00:45:11.200 That's called

00:45:12.120 the high ground approach

00:45:13.160 and would make anybody president

00:45:15.200 if they ever used that approach.

00:45:17.120 Nobody will.

00:45:18.540 Putin is interesting.

00:45:20.960 So I guess Joe Biden

00:45:22.140 had said that 0.99

00:45:23.280 Putin was a killer 1.00

00:45:25.620 with no soul. 1.00

00:45:28.560 And Putin responded

00:45:30.260 by wishing Joe Biden

00:45:31.500 good health.

00:45:33.680 I wish you good health,

00:45:35.280 Russian president said.

00:45:38.920 Now,

00:45:40.140 what could be scarier

00:45:41.820 than Vladimir Putin

00:45:44.080 wishing you good health?

00:45:46.160 I don't know

00:45:48.160 if I've heard

00:45:48.720 a scarier threat

00:45:49.820 in my whole life.

00:45:52.580 Because Putin 0.98

00:45:53.500 actually kills people 0.96

00:45:55.880 right in front of you

00:45:56.900 with poisoning.

00:45:58.100 he has his

00:46:00.180 critics poisoned

00:46:01.600 right in front of the world.

00:46:03.440 So he is literally

00:46:04.360 a mass murderer 0.92

00:46:06.660 in public. 0.88

00:46:09.760 He's like 0.99

00:46:10.440 smiling mass murderer. 0.97

00:46:12.340 And Biden called him out,

00:46:13.800 which is fair.

00:46:16.720 And then the biggest

00:46:18.020 mass murderer

00:46:18.840 who is also 0.96

00:46:19.760 the head of a country

00:46:21.320 says,

00:46:22.800 I wish you good health.

00:46:24.640 Take care.

00:46:28.300 Be well.

00:46:30.240 That's the scariest thing

00:46:31.800 I've ever heard

00:46:32.360 in my life.

00:46:33.480 Oh my God.

00:46:35.000 I mean,

00:46:35.420 it almost sounds like

00:46:36.220 Putin is getting ready

00:46:37.320 to like poison Biden

00:46:39.080 or something.

00:46:40.180 Hey,

00:46:40.860 I wish you good health.

00:46:43.480 Enjoy your beverages.

00:46:45.520 When you're eating

00:46:46.480 your dinner tonight,

00:46:47.960 don't think about

00:46:48.780 all the people

00:46:49.300 I've poisoned

00:46:49.940 for being my critic.

00:46:51.880 Oh,

00:46:53.300 no.

00:46:54.340 Enjoy your food tonight.

00:46:56.340 Mmm.

00:46:57.460 Mmm.

00:46:59.140 That's what it sounded

00:47:00.020 like to me.

00:47:02.160 Canada.

00:47:04.360 I love Canada.

00:47:07.540 Not only do I like Canada

00:47:09.180 because Canadians

00:47:10.140 are so damn nice,

00:47:11.980 which is just true,

00:47:13.000 by the way.

00:47:13.980 Like there,

00:47:14.340 there's some,

00:47:14.920 you know,

00:47:16.300 there's some

00:47:16.800 like generalizations

00:47:18.920 that just don't seem fair.

00:47:20.620 But one of the generalizations

00:47:22.560 that's just always fair

00:47:23.680 is that Canadians

00:47:24.440 are nice.

00:47:25.780 They're nice.

00:47:26.880 But this move

00:47:27.600 had me laughing.

00:47:29.020 So as you know

00:47:29.780 in the news,

00:47:30.460 the AstraZeneca Oxford

00:47:31.960 coronavirus vaccine

00:47:33.860 is being rejected

00:47:35.440 by a number

00:47:36.020 of European countries

00:47:37.040 because they have

00:47:37.760 anecdotal stories

00:47:38.860 of people who had

00:47:39.600 blood clots.

00:47:41.400 Now,

00:47:41.720 the data says

00:47:42.500 that there are

00:47:43.240 no more blood clots

00:47:44.320 with the vaccine

00:47:46.120 than without.

00:47:47.200 So there's literally

00:47:48.320 zero data

00:47:50.100 to suggest

00:47:51.760 that this vaccine,

00:47:53.120 this specific

00:47:53.680 vaccination type

00:47:54.680 is dangerous.

00:47:55.940 And yet European countries

00:47:57.020 are banning it.

00:47:58.740 Canada

00:47:59.120 is sitting over there

00:48:00.880 saying,

00:48:02.260 what?

00:48:04.900 What?

00:48:06.760 Yes, Canada.

00:48:08.380 There's a shortage

00:48:09.580 of vaccines

00:48:10.560 and any country

00:48:12.580 that could get

00:48:13.160 more of the vaccines

00:48:15.040 would be in good shape.

00:48:16.920 But there's a serious

00:48:18.580 shortage.

00:48:20.680 However,

00:48:21.760 there's not as much

00:48:24.480 of a shortage

00:48:25.180 on the one

00:48:26.540 that the violent 1.00

00:48:28.600 idiots in Europe, 1.00

00:48:29.620 I'll just call them 1.00

00:48:30.540 violent idiots 1.00

00:48:31.220 for fun, 1.00

00:48:32.460 believe is going 1.00

00:48:33.780 to kill them

00:48:34.300 with blood clots. 1.00

00:48:36.980 So the Canadians 0.80

00:48:37.780 are over here,

00:48:39.000 seriously?

00:48:39.780 Is Europe really 1.00

00:48:40.620 being that stupid? 1.00

00:48:41.880 They're going to give us 1.00

00:48:42.760 all these vaccines

00:48:43.820 because basically

00:48:44.500 that frees up

00:48:45.840 a lot of supply,

00:48:46.580 right?

00:48:47.220 And the Canadians

00:48:48.080 are like,

00:48:49.340 let's just play this

00:48:50.640 kind of quietly

00:48:51.620 and we're not

00:48:53.820 going to make

00:48:54.220 a big deal

00:48:54.880 about it.

00:48:55.940 We don't want

00:48:57.060 to say unkind

00:48:57.840 things,

00:48:58.700 but I'm just

00:49:00.380 saying that over

00:49:01.060 here,

00:49:01.780 maybe we're

00:49:02.760 going to use

00:49:03.820 this vaccine.

00:49:06.280 So thumbs up

00:49:07.880 to Canada

00:49:08.520 for seeing

00:49:09.860 an opening

00:49:10.360 and driving

00:49:11.200 a truck

00:49:11.700 through it.

00:49:12.540 That was funny.

00:49:13.460 And why

00:49:14.580 didn't we do

00:49:15.480 this?

00:49:16.320 Was there

00:49:16.680 some reason

00:49:17.200 that the

00:49:17.940 United States

00:49:18.660 can't have

00:49:19.180 this vaccine

00:49:20.660 as well?

00:49:21.940 Where is Biden

00:49:22.760 saying,

00:49:23.300 oh yeah,

00:49:23.580 give us

00:49:23.900 some of that

00:49:24.280 too.

00:49:24.720 If you've got

00:49:25.140 some extra

00:49:25.640 left over

00:49:26.240 because Europe

00:49:27.580 doesn't want it,

00:49:28.280 send it our way.

00:49:29.780 So I think

00:49:30.280 Biden's asleep

00:49:31.020 on the switch

00:49:31.580 on this.

00:49:32.620 So Canada,

00:49:34.300 I mean,

00:49:34.580 it's just so funny.

00:49:35.760 This is such

00:49:36.300 a Canada move.

00:49:37.240 I would say

00:49:40.660 the signature

00:49:41.380 move of

00:49:42.160 Canada

00:49:42.600 is that

00:49:44.180 they find

00:49:45.260 an advantage

00:49:46.120 that doesn't

00:49:47.500 seem to hurt

00:49:48.100 anybody else.

00:49:50.800 It's just

00:49:51.440 so Canadian.

00:49:52.700 It's just

00:49:53.080 hilarious.

00:49:55.400 All right.

00:49:56.440 Biden got

00:49:57.220 fact-checked

00:49:57.880 by CNN's

00:49:58.740 Daniel Dale.

00:50:00.000 I guess he

00:50:00.360 had several

00:50:01.020 statistical facts

00:50:03.180 that were

00:50:03.620 way off,

00:50:04.660 but none of

00:50:05.300 them are really

00:50:05.720 fun.

00:50:06.020 He likes

00:50:06.780 to confuse

00:50:07.320 millions and

00:50:07.980 billions,

00:50:08.840 which should

00:50:09.420 worry you,

00:50:10.940 because Biden

00:50:11.900 often says,

00:50:12.900 he said

00:50:13.220 something about

00:50:13.760 was 700,

00:50:14.980 he said

00:50:15.360 something was

00:50:15.820 almost 800

00:50:16.500 billion,

00:50:17.280 but it turns

00:50:18.000 out it was

00:50:18.380 750 million.

00:50:22.120 So Biden

00:50:23.500 is all confused

00:50:24.300 in his numbers.

00:50:25.120 I can't wait

00:50:25.620 for his first

00:50:26.640 press conference.

00:50:29.320 So we all

00:50:30.360 talked about

00:50:30.820 the deepfake

00:50:31.600 Biden video

00:50:32.360 that is

00:50:34.720 allegedly not

00:50:35.480 a deepfake.

00:50:36.160 It's actually

00:50:36.620 him.

00:50:37.300 And you

00:50:37.640 know the

00:50:37.880 one I'm

00:50:38.120 talking about

00:50:38.600 where his

00:50:38.980 hand seems

00:50:39.660 to cut the

00:50:40.600 plane of a

00:50:41.280 microphone that

00:50:42.300 seems impossible.

00:50:44.520 It's on both

00:50:45.320 sides of the

00:50:45.780 microphone and

00:50:46.600 just can't

00:50:47.180 happen.

00:50:48.020 And I saw

00:50:48.640 a fact-check

00:50:49.220 on that saying

00:50:50.320 that it's not

00:50:51.900 a deepfake,

00:50:52.760 and the way

00:50:53.280 you can tell

00:50:53.920 is that the

00:50:55.480 angle from

00:50:56.500 other cameras

00:50:57.520 shows the

00:50:58.820 microphones and

00:50:59.840 the hand,

00:51:01.160 and so

00:51:01.420 therefore you

00:51:02.100 can tell it's

00:51:02.740 that it's

00:51:03.060 not a

00:51:03.400 deepfake.

00:51:04.820 But that

00:51:07.240 doesn't quite

00:51:08.060 explain what

00:51:08.820 we're seeing

00:51:09.240 on the video,

00:51:09.900 does it?

00:51:11.620 Now I get

00:51:12.500 the fact that

00:51:13.140 other camera

00:51:13.740 angles show

00:51:14.860 there's nothing

00:51:15.440 weird going

00:51:16.020 on.

00:51:17.500 But why does

00:51:18.420 the one

00:51:18.780 camera angle

00:51:19.420 show the

00:51:19.840 weird thing?

00:51:20.860 Because that's

00:51:21.600 not explained.

00:51:23.440 The only

00:51:24.080 explanation is

00:51:24.860 that the

00:51:25.080 other cameras

00:51:25.660 don't show

00:51:26.120 something.

00:51:26.980 But it

00:51:27.340 doesn't explain

00:51:28.040 why this

00:51:28.460 one camera

00:51:29.060 does.

00:51:29.460 So I

00:51:33.260 don't think

00:51:33.600 it's a

00:51:33.880 green screen,

00:51:34.780 but it's

00:51:35.700 a fun

00:51:36.040 story.

00:51:39.020 Rasmussen

00:51:39.500 is reporting

00:51:40.060 that 64% 0.73

00:51:41.420 of, in a

00:51:43.500 poll, I

00:51:43.820 guess they

00:51:44.080 found out

00:51:44.400 that 64% 0.73

00:51:45.480 of likely

00:51:46.660 U.S.

00:51:46.980 voters say

00:51:47.560 they oppose

00:51:48.100 tax increases,

00:51:49.560 to which I

00:51:50.420 say to

00:51:50.780 myself,

00:51:51.760 who answers

00:51:53.300 a poll

00:51:53.780 saying they

00:51:54.320 like tax

00:51:55.240 increases?

00:51:58.540 Isn't this

00:51:59.260 one of those

00:51:59.920 questions where

00:52:00.480 it kind of

00:52:00.820 depends how

00:52:01.280 you ask

00:52:01.700 it?

00:52:02.560 Because if

00:52:03.920 you ask me

00:52:04.420 do I like

00:52:04.940 a tax

00:52:05.400 increase, I

00:52:06.840 think the

00:52:07.320 answer has

00:52:07.840 to be no

00:52:08.400 every time.

00:52:10.100 Now if you

00:52:10.680 said to me,

00:52:11.380 would you

00:52:12.060 like a tax

00:52:12.840 increase if

00:52:14.540 what we were

00:52:15.160 going to do

00:52:15.640 with that

00:52:16.040 money was

00:52:17.240 X, Y,

00:52:17.900 and Z,

00:52:19.120 then I

00:52:19.580 would say

00:52:19.880 to you,

00:52:20.200 oh, okay,

00:52:21.460 there's some

00:52:22.080 costs, there's

00:52:23.120 some benefits,

00:52:23.840 I'll weigh

00:52:24.220 them, and

00:52:24.780 I'll decide

00:52:25.440 which one is

00:52:25.980 more.

00:52:27.220 But if

00:52:27.780 your question

00:52:28.260 is, what

00:52:29.240 do you

00:52:29.420 think about

00:52:29.860 a tax

00:52:30.280 increase?

00:52:31.780 Sort of

00:52:32.160 open-ended.

00:52:33.220 I don't

00:52:33.840 like a tax

00:52:34.440 increase, if

00:52:35.580 I'm only

00:52:36.060 looking at

00:52:36.520 the cost.

00:52:38.800 How would

00:52:39.420 you like

00:52:39.720 to give

00:52:40.600 me $1,000

00:52:41.200 for nothing?

00:52:42.580 I don't

00:52:43.220 like that.

00:52:44.100 I don't

00:52:44.440 like that

00:52:44.840 at all.

00:52:45.760 Oh, I

00:52:46.160 left out

00:52:46.600 the part

00:52:47.020 where I'm

00:52:48.220 going to

00:52:48.440 sell you

00:52:48.740 my car.

00:52:50.160 Oh, oh,

00:52:51.520 if you

00:52:51.960 took $1,000

00:52:52.620 from me and

00:52:53.680 you gave

00:52:54.080 me your

00:52:54.420 used car,

00:52:55.440 that might

00:52:55.840 be okay.

00:52:56.900 But if

00:52:57.500 it's just

00:52:57.960 the $1,000,

00:52:58.580 I don't

00:52:59.500 like that

00:52:59.900 at all.

00:53:00.860 So I

00:53:01.340 don't think

00:53:01.720 that people

00:53:02.100 can answer

00:53:02.680 a question

00:53:03.160 about how

00:53:03.800 they like

00:53:04.220 tax increases

00:53:05.040 because they

00:53:06.000 don't know

00:53:06.300 the details.

00:53:06.800 They don't

00:53:07.000 know what

00:53:07.200 they're agreeing

00:53:07.620 to,

00:53:07.880 basically.

00:53:10.840 But it

00:53:11.440 is worth

00:53:11.920 noting that

00:53:12.900 now we

00:53:13.280 have Biden

00:53:14.820 is on the

00:53:15.460 other side

00:53:16.120 of immigration

00:53:17.120 from the

00:53:17.840 public,

00:53:18.600 and he's

00:53:19.580 on the

00:53:19.960 other side

00:53:20.760 of tax

00:53:21.340 increases

00:53:21.760 from the

00:53:22.260 public,

00:53:22.680 and way

00:53:23.240 on the

00:53:23.520 other side

00:53:24.000 on both

00:53:24.860 issues.

00:53:27.460 So,

00:53:28.980 how long

00:53:30.900 can Biden

00:53:31.520 do things

00:53:33.280 which three

00:53:34.100 quarters or

00:53:34.840 two thirds

00:53:35.360 of the

00:53:35.660 country

00:53:36.000 oppose?

00:53:38.420 I've got a

00:53:39.200 feeling that

00:53:39.600 Biden might

00:53:40.180 end up being

00:53:40.800 one of the

00:53:41.220 least popular

00:53:42.020 presidents of

00:53:42.780 all time,

00:53:43.500 except for

00:53:44.280 his clever

00:53:44.880 trick of

00:53:45.540 not appearing

00:53:46.120 much in

00:53:46.580 public.

00:53:47.820 What has

00:53:48.540 happened,

00:53:48.960 do you think,

00:53:49.400 to Trump's

00:53:50.240 popularity by

00:53:52.080 staying out

00:53:52.840 of the

00:53:53.060 news?

00:53:54.740 I'll bet

00:53:55.140 it's improving.

00:53:56.920 I'll bet

00:53:57.220 it's improving.

00:53:58.400 What's

00:53:58.880 happening to

00:53:59.300 Biden's

00:53:59.720 popularity by

00:54:00.560 staying out

00:54:01.280 of the

00:54:01.500 news?

00:54:02.960 It's

00:54:03.440 improving.

00:54:04.140 I mean,

00:54:04.360 it's staying

00:54:04.640 high.

00:54:05.160 It's sky

00:54:05.540 high.

00:54:06.820 So,

00:54:07.480 there may

00:54:08.660 be something

00:54:09.140 to the fact

00:54:09.780 that the

00:54:10.180 less people

00:54:10.860 see of you,

00:54:11.620 or let me

00:54:12.060 put it this

00:54:12.800 way,

00:54:13.740 I think

00:54:14.240 the optimal

00:54:15.240 situation is

00:54:16.320 the highest

00:54:16.900 level of

00:54:17.520 name recognition

00:54:18.440 with the

00:54:20.120 lowest level

00:54:20.980 of current

00:54:21.780 exposure.

00:54:23.540 So,

00:54:24.180 I'm working

00:54:24.500 on this

00:54:24.920 hypothesis,

00:54:26.040 that to

00:54:26.540 become

00:54:26.820 president,

00:54:27.500 that's your

00:54:27.840 perfect

00:54:28.220 situation.

00:54:29.620 The most

00:54:30.460 name recognition

00:54:31.640 with the

00:54:32.860 least

00:54:33.240 daily

00:54:35.440 attention.

00:54:36.880 Because

00:54:37.420 the

00:54:38.180 nature of

00:54:40.400 the news

00:54:40.820 is criticism.

00:54:42.540 If things

00:54:43.200 are going

00:54:43.540 well,

00:54:43.980 there's no

00:54:44.300 news to

00:54:44.740 that.

00:54:45.420 So,

00:54:45.720 the more

00:54:46.060 you're in

00:54:46.460 the news,

00:54:46.900 the more

00:54:47.160 you're being

00:54:47.500 criticized.

00:54:48.680 If you're

00:54:49.320 already famous,

00:54:50.360 you're not

00:54:52.020 getting more

00:54:52.540 famous,

00:54:53.360 so there's

00:54:53.800 no benefit

00:54:54.300 from the

00:54:54.720 extra

00:54:55.100 attention,

00:54:56.060 it's only

00:54:56.480 extra

00:54:56.840 criticisms.

00:54:57.920 So,

00:54:58.140 I think

00:54:58.400 that might

00:54:58.860 be the

00:54:59.160 only way

00:54:59.560 to become

00:55:01.260 president.

00:55:01.780 So,

00:55:01.980 if I ran

00:55:02.320 for president,

00:55:03.700 the strategy

00:55:04.840 would be the

00:55:05.440 same,

00:55:06.820 which would

00:55:07.320 be,

00:55:07.700 I have

00:55:08.160 reasonably

00:55:08.940 high name

00:55:09.560 recognition.

00:55:10.380 Most people

00:55:10.820 have heard

00:55:11.080 of the

00:55:11.540 comic strip,

00:55:12.620 at least.

00:55:12.860 so I

00:55:13.700 would have

00:55:13.980 high name

00:55:14.460 recognition,

00:55:15.640 and I

00:55:16.360 would barely

00:55:17.040 ever appear

00:55:17.760 in public.

00:55:19.060 I wouldn't

00:55:19.480 even do

00:55:19.880 campaigning.

00:55:20.960 I wouldn't

00:55:21.580 do a

00:55:22.740 stump speech.

00:55:24.140 I would

00:55:24.700 do maybe

00:55:26.060 one interview

00:55:26.920 a week.

00:55:28.060 I would

00:55:28.660 take questions

00:55:29.480 from the

00:55:29.920 public and

00:55:30.420 the press.

00:55:31.400 I would

00:55:31.860 do a

00:55:32.160 real thorough

00:55:33.100 press conference

00:55:35.080 kind of thing,

00:55:36.240 and that's

00:55:36.780 it.

00:55:37.580 And then you

00:55:37.980 wouldn't see

00:55:38.340 me again for

00:55:38.820 six days.

00:55:40.160 And everybody

00:55:40.860 would say, 0.99

00:55:41.400 damn it, 1.00

00:55:41.720 he's running 1.00

00:55:42.080 for president,

00:55:42.580 where is he?

00:55:43.280 And I'd

00:55:43.480 say,

00:55:43.760 I'm home.

00:55:45.000 Well,

00:55:45.220 what are

00:55:45.400 you doing?

00:55:46.140 I don't

00:55:46.420 know,

00:55:46.780 what I

00:55:47.360 do usually.

00:55:49.160 Nothing

00:55:49.600 different.

00:55:50.560 But one

00:55:51.060 day a week,

00:55:52.080 you're going

00:55:52.420 to get to

00:55:52.760 see me.

00:55:53.840 I feel

00:55:54.560 like that's

00:55:55.000 the formula

00:55:55.480 that works

00:55:56.000 now because

00:55:56.580 of the

00:55:57.000 nature of

00:55:57.520 the news.

00:55:58.500 You want

00:55:59.180 to be

00:55:59.420 famous,

00:56:00.100 but not

00:56:00.420 in the

00:56:00.680 news.

00:56:02.140 So, yeah,

00:56:05.320 and you're

00:56:05.540 seeing Kamala

00:56:06.480 Harris is

00:56:06.980 following the

00:56:07.500 same pattern.

00:56:08.860 Kamala

00:56:09.100 Harris is

00:56:09.600 basically just

00:56:10.360 invisible.

00:56:10.880 And that

00:56:12.980 definitely

00:56:13.460 works in

00:56:13.960 her favor 0.97

00:56:14.460 because she's

00:56:15.580 got the

00:56:15.900 weird cackle

00:56:16.780 and anything

00:56:17.540 she does

00:56:18.100 is going to

00:56:18.580 invite criticism.

00:56:20.720 So she's

00:56:21.600 just going to

00:56:21.940 be that name

00:56:22.800 that gets

00:56:23.200 mentioned a

00:56:23.840 lot,

00:56:24.400 but not in

00:56:24.840 any important

00:56:25.920 way.

00:56:30.300 Will the

00:56:31.020 stock market

00:56:31.780 crash if he

00:56:32.820 quits?

00:56:34.080 You mean

00:56:34.440 Biden?

00:56:35.100 No,

00:56:35.360 I don't

00:56:35.580 think the

00:56:35.960 stock market

00:56:36.480 would crash.

00:56:42.760 That's how

00:56:43.360 Led Zeppelin

00:56:43.980 developed its

00:56:44.720 aura of

00:56:45.100 mystery and

00:56:45.540 vague menace

00:56:46.240 in the

00:56:46.540 70s,

00:56:46.980 by avoiding

00:56:47.540 the press.

00:56:49.700 Somebody

00:56:50.140 says this

00:56:50.700 is all so 0.96

00:56:51.200 damn 1.00

00:56:51.500 ridiculous. 1.00

00:56:52.840 It is. 1.00

00:56:56.200 You know,

00:56:56.780 I would be

00:56:57.160 the only

00:56:57.500 person who

00:56:58.100 ran for

00:56:58.700 president

00:56:59.180 by

00:57:00.820 telling you

00:57:03.680 all of my

00:57:04.100 personal

00:57:04.500 faults.

00:57:06.580 I think

00:57:07.220 the most

00:57:08.280 politicians

00:57:08.780 run for

00:57:09.340 president by

00:57:10.320 hiding and

00:57:11.220 minimizing their

00:57:12.000 faults.

00:57:13.140 I don't think

00:57:13.600 I would do

00:57:13.960 that.

00:57:15.040 Because that

00:57:15.380 feels like

00:57:16.020 that's just

00:57:17.960 going to

00:57:18.180 cause trouble

00:57:18.660 later.

00:57:19.760 I would

00:57:20.360 rather run

00:57:20.920 for president

00:57:21.460 telling you

00:57:22.020 all my

00:57:22.480 faults.

00:57:23.020 And if

00:57:23.240 somebody has

00:57:23.720 some extra

00:57:24.200 ones,

00:57:24.540 throw them

00:57:24.840 on too.

00:57:25.840 If I

00:57:26.440 can't win

00:57:26.900 the presidency

00:57:27.560 with all

00:57:29.680 of my

00:57:30.060 faults,

00:57:31.080 you know,

00:57:31.300 my personal

00:57:31.960 mistakes or

00:57:32.980 anything I've

00:57:34.000 done in

00:57:34.300 the past,

00:57:35.160 if I

00:57:35.800 can't win

00:57:36.200 anyway,

00:57:37.020 then I

00:57:37.440 shouldn't

00:57:37.620 be president.

00:57:38.640 So I'm

00:57:39.100 not even

00:57:39.360 going to

00:57:39.520 fight that

00:57:39.920 stuff.

00:57:40.720 I'm going

00:57:41.160 to let

00:57:41.380 you know.

00:57:44.080 I'm just

00:57:44.580 going to

00:57:44.820 let you

00:57:45.760 know all

00:57:46.160 the bad

00:57:46.560 stuff,

00:57:47.440 and then

00:57:47.800 I'll tell

00:57:48.100 you how

00:57:48.480 I would

00:57:48.720 handle the

00:57:49.240 job.

00:57:50.020 I would

00:57:50.260 tell you

00:57:50.520 the systems

00:57:51.160 I would

00:57:51.500 use,

00:57:52.100 the transparency

00:57:53.740 I would

00:57:54.380 bring,

00:57:54.860 how I would

00:57:55.300 do public

00:57:55.800 debates that

00:57:56.540 I managed

00:57:57.100 in front of

00:57:57.540 the public,

00:57:58.380 and I would

00:57:59.320 just tell you

00:57:59.680 the system

00:58:00.120 I'd use.

00:58:00.820 And that's

00:58:01.160 it.

00:58:02.980 Somebody

00:58:05.840 says too

00:58:06.260 many voters

00:58:06.780 wouldn't get

00:58:07.460 it, and

00:58:07.940 you'd lose.

00:58:09.140 Well, I

00:58:12.740 would say

00:58:13.080 that falls

00:58:13.580 into the

00:58:13.960 category of

00:58:14.720 how well

00:58:15.080 you execute.

00:58:16.720 There are

00:58:17.240 lots of

00:58:17.600 things that

00:58:18.040 look like

00:58:18.460 bad ideas

00:58:19.660 or good

00:58:20.100 ideas, and

00:58:20.760 all that

00:58:21.080 matters is

00:58:21.560 how well

00:58:21.840 you executed.

00:58:23.160 So I

00:58:24.160 don't believe

00:58:24.620 there are

00:58:24.900 too many

00:58:25.360 people who 0.65

00:58:25.900 could execute

00:58:26.660 the strategy

00:58:27.580 that I just

00:58:28.460 described.

00:58:29.580 But I'm

00:58:30.020 one of them.

00:58:30.380 There are

00:58:31.580 some specific

00:58:32.800 people who

00:58:33.380 could pull

00:58:33.720 that off,

00:58:35.080 and I'm

00:58:35.640 one of

00:58:35.880 them.

00:58:41.040 Location

00:58:41.520 value, can

00:58:42.160 I explain

00:58:42.660 it to you?

00:58:43.120 I don't

00:58:43.380 understand

00:58:43.760 that.

00:58:45.420 Some of

00:58:45.760 your comments

00:58:46.280 seem so

00:58:46.920 off target.

00:58:49.680 A high

00:58:50.020 percentage of

00:58:50.500 voters vote

00:58:51.060 purely on

00:58:51.880 party lines.

00:58:52.900 Exactly.

00:58:53.740 Do you know

00:58:54.040 that I would

00:58:55.140 do that?

00:58:55.840 I would run

00:58:56.620 as a

00:58:56.940 Democrat.

00:58:57.240 Democrat.

00:58:57.420 I would

00:59:01.240 run as

00:59:01.740 a Democrat

00:59:02.320 because

00:59:03.960 my greatest

00:59:06.260 base of

00:59:06.760 support is

00:59:07.320 Republican.

00:59:09.220 Right?

00:59:10.800 So that

00:59:11.460 would be the

00:59:11.820 right strategy.

00:59:12.660 Because I've

00:59:13.240 said from the

00:59:13.800 beginning, I'm

00:59:14.460 left to

00:59:14.900 Bernie, just

00:59:15.800 better at

00:59:16.200 math, meaning

00:59:16.900 that I like

00:59:17.440 the systems

00:59:18.220 that Republicans

00:59:18.960 favor, but I

00:59:20.520 like the

00:59:20.860 goals of

00:59:22.300 having a

00:59:23.200 fair, good

00:59:24.180 life for

00:59:24.620 everybody, that

00:59:26.220 the Democrats

00:59:26.700 are much

00:59:27.140 better at

00:59:27.560 expressing.

00:59:28.660 They're far

00:59:29.360 better at

00:59:29.740 expressing where

00:59:30.400 we want to

00:59:30.860 be, but

00:59:31.880 they're way

00:59:32.360 worse at

00:59:32.960 expressing how

00:59:33.640 to get

00:59:33.900 there.

00:59:34.980 And I

00:59:35.220 would just

00:59:35.480 take the

00:59:35.940 best things

00:59:36.540 from the

00:59:36.860 two parties,

00:59:38.100 put them

00:59:38.440 together.

00:59:39.300 The public

00:59:39.800 would be

00:59:40.220 arguing all

00:59:40.880 day long if

00:59:41.500 I'm a

00:59:41.800 Democrat or

00:59:42.360 a Republican.

00:59:43.280 They would

00:59:43.740 be arguing

00:59:44.240 all day,

00:59:44.960 is he really

00:59:45.520 a Democrat?

00:59:46.980 Why was he

00:59:47.920 so pro-Trump?

00:59:49.080 That can't

00:59:49.480 be.

00:59:49.860 And then the

00:59:50.240 Republicans would

00:59:51.040 be, well, I

00:59:52.260 thought he was

00:59:52.840 sort of on our

00:59:53.520 side, but then

00:59:54.340 he's running as

00:59:54.920 a Democrat, and

00:59:55.780 that doesn't make

00:59:56.420 any sense.

00:59:57.140 But why are

00:59:57.980 his policies not

00:59:58.920 so Democrat?

00:59:59.780 How could he be

01:00:00.360 a Democrat if

01:00:01.760 he doesn't have

01:00:02.320 Democrat policies,

01:00:03.400 but he's not

01:00:03.940 really a Republican,

01:00:04.760 but he was

01:00:05.640 pro-Trump, we

01:00:06.340 don't get it.

01:00:08.060 Right?

01:00:09.640 Do you know

01:00:10.220 what the

01:00:10.440 strategy there

01:00:11.140 is?

01:00:12.840 The strategy is

01:00:14.180 you let people

01:00:15.680 make up their

01:00:16.280 mind what I

01:00:16.940 am.

01:00:17.920 If I tell

01:00:18.720 them what I

01:00:19.220 am, the

01:00:19.640 other side

01:00:20.920 decides not to

01:00:22.020 vote for me.

01:00:23.380 The day you

01:00:23.960 say you're

01:00:24.280 Republican, you've

01:00:25.100 lost all the

01:00:25.640 Democrats.

01:00:26.320 The day you

01:00:27.280 say you're a

01:00:27.580 Democrat, you've

01:00:28.160 lost all the

01:00:28.600 Republicans.

01:00:29.820 But if you

01:00:30.460 say, I don't

01:00:31.420 know what I

01:00:32.000 am, I'm

01:00:32.560 going to run

01:00:32.900 as this one,

01:00:33.480 but I'm sort

01:00:34.480 of all over

01:00:34.960 the map, people

01:00:38.000 won't know what

01:00:38.540 you are.

01:00:39.100 And so they'll

01:00:39.540 make it up in

01:00:40.160 their mind, and

01:00:42.060 that's where you

01:00:42.560 want to be.

01:00:45.300 We live in a

01:00:46.820 feelings over

01:00:47.660 logic world.

01:00:48.420 That's right.

01:00:49.180 So I'm not

01:00:49.940 suggesting that I

01:00:50.860 would use logic

01:00:51.780 alone.

01:00:52.520 You'd have to be

01:00:53.280 persuasive, and

01:00:54.740 I have those

01:00:56.140 skills.

01:01:01.660 Yeah, Trump,

01:01:02.780 years ago in a

01:01:03.520 Playboy interview,

01:01:04.300 somebody saying in

01:01:04.980 the comments, he

01:01:05.880 said if he ran

01:01:06.780 for president, this

01:01:07.580 was many years

01:01:08.180 ago, that he

01:01:08.720 would run as a

01:01:09.360 Democrat.

01:01:09.940 He was a

01:01:10.420 Democrat at the

01:01:10.980 time, I think.

01:01:12.300 And I've always

01:01:13.220 said that Trump

01:01:14.860 having been a

01:01:15.880 Democrat helped 0.50

01:01:18.080 him win the

01:01:19.100 election.

01:01:20.200 Because I think

01:01:20.780 that if you can

01:01:21.560 say, I used to

01:01:22.460 be the other, and

01:01:23.380 then I became

01:01:23.980 this, you at

01:01:25.080 least have an

01:01:25.580 appreciation for

01:01:26.520 both sides.

01:01:29.120 Could an

01:01:29.700 independent win?

01:01:30.580 I don't think so.

01:01:31.620 I don't think so.

01:01:32.320 You'd have to have

01:01:32.780 a party behind

01:01:33.440 you.

01:01:35.940 Trump was to

01:01:36.700 the left of

01:01:37.240 everyone at the

01:01:37.920 primaries.

01:01:38.480 Well, it depends

01:01:38.940 on the topic.

01:01:40.340 Probably not on

01:01:41.340 immigration, maybe.

01:01:43.340 But, you know,

01:01:44.580 gay marriage, yes,

01:01:45.800 probably.

01:01:48.080 Oh, somebody

01:01:48.640 said Reagan the

01:01:49.380 same.

01:01:49.840 Now, is that

01:01:50.180 true?

01:01:51.060 Remind me of my

01:01:51.900 history.

01:01:53.360 Was Reagan a

01:01:54.300 Democrat that

01:01:54.960 turned Republican?

01:01:57.300 Yeah, I think he

01:01:58.080 was, right?

01:01:59.140 See, I think that

01:01:59.860 formula works.

01:02:01.520 I think it worked

01:02:02.160 for both of them.

01:02:03.280 As soon as you

01:02:04.120 can introduce any

01:02:05.120 kind of ambiguity

01:02:06.140 about what your

01:02:07.860 political affiliation

01:02:08.960 is, I think that

01:02:09.660 works.

01:02:12.260 Yes?

01:02:12.720 People are

01:02:13.060 saying yes.

01:02:13.540 Okay.

01:02:14.480 All right, that's

01:02:14.920 all for now.

01:02:15.480 Oh, yes, somebody

01:02:16.920 was saying in the

01:02:17.420 comments that

01:02:17.980 Reagan was an

01:02:18.700 energy monster. 0.90

01:02:19.620 You are absolutely

01:02:20.320 correct.

01:02:21.500 Reagan was an

01:02:22.200 energy monster.

01:02:23.620 Yeah, good point.

01:02:25.040 That's all for now.

01:02:25.720 I'll talk to you

01:02:26.140 tomorrow.

01:02:28.740 Okay, YouTubers,

01:02:30.080 thanks for joining

01:02:31.040 me today, and I'll

01:02:33.940 see you tomorrow.

01:02:34.600 Bye.

01:02:36.540 Bye.

01:02:39.260 Bye.

01:02:39.280 Bye.

01:02:39.520 Bye.

01:02:40.000 Bye.

01:02:40.520 Bye.

01:02:42.720 Bye.

01:02:42.820 Bye.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 18, 2021

Episode 1317 Scott Adams： Introducing the Anti-Violent-Idiot Party. If you Don't Support it, Well, Look at You

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