Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1323 Scott Adams： Senate Goes Full Racist, Legacy Media Gets Competition, Gun Control Laws, and More

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00:00:56.900 Oh, yeah. Never disappoints.

00:01:06.360 I just saw a tweet by Richard Grinnell. He says that the border to Mexico was opened up before

00:01:14.540 California was reopened. And if that doesn't bother you, you haven't been paying attention.

00:01:19.540 Well, that does bother me. I got to say, that's a good point. So how many of you have Neanderthal 0.60

00:01:28.100 genes? Have you ever had your DNA tested? Well, I have. And I got a little Neanderthal genes in me.

00:01:35.820 And it turns out that that can have a big impact on your coronavirus outcomes.

00:01:42.180 Now, who told you really early in the pandemic that we would probably find out that the biggest

00:01:51.800 difference in outcomes was genetic? And it looks like the biggest difference in outcomes is genetic.

00:02:00.140 Now, that's on top of comorbidities. So the comorbidities are still bigger. But within the

00:02:06.060 comorbidities, there are plenty of people who don't have bad outcomes. So there are people

00:02:13.160 who are, you know, overweight, and they're older and whatever, and they just do fine. And apparently

00:02:18.520 it's genetic. So the genes can protect you, even if you've not protected yourself with your lifestyle.

00:02:26.040 And I think that we will find out more and more about this now. Raises an interesting question,

00:02:34.660 doesn't it? Suppose, just brainstorm here, suppose the United States had a national registry of DNA.

00:02:45.680 Oh, you don't like that, do you? You don't want the government having your DNA, do you?

00:02:50.740 But what if they did? Let's just walk it through. If they had your DNA, and if a pandemic came through,

00:02:58.760 and they could fairly quickly determine, which wouldn't take long, that some genetic situations

00:03:06.440 are dangerous, and some are not. Given that the biggest challenge with the vaccinations is to get

00:03:14.020 them to the people who are in most danger, what would happen if you could take the people you know

00:03:20.560 are in most danger, the comorbidity people, and that you could further divide them by which ones are

00:03:27.440 really in danger because of genetics. Suddenly, you're giving your vaccines to exactly the right

00:03:34.820 people. At the moment, we're giving vaccines to sort of generally the population that we think

00:03:41.900 statistically has the biggest problem. But once you have their genetics, you can give it to exactly

00:03:50.020 the people who need it. You know, you're getting really close to knowing exactly what a person

00:03:55.560 needs. Now, of course, there are all kinds of, you know, privacy questions and whatnot about

00:04:02.620 anybody having your genes. But here's the thing you need to know. China is already collecting your

00:04:09.100 genetic material. So the question you have is, do you want to live in a future where China 0.85

00:04:16.500 has your genetic material has your genetic material, but the United States does not? Because that's

00:04:23.520 where we're heading, and we're heading there fast. One of the stories that didn't get much play

00:04:27.300 is that there were a number of lab resources that people were using that were Chinese-based

00:04:35.520 companies. Do you want your blood and your DNA to be analyzed by an American company that's owned by

00:04:43.580 China? Do you? Because everybody they test, they're going to have your DNA. So I think the world is 0.97

00:04:54.520 heading in a direction where governments will have your DNA. So do you want your own government to have

00:05:00.400 it? Because China's going to. China will have your DNA. Now, to the question of whether China had 0.54

00:05:08.100 developed this virus to be, let's say, work on some people less than others, well, there's no evidence

00:05:20.300 of that, by the way. So that was just a conspiracy theory. But apparently there's more Neanderthal genes

00:05:27.900 in Eastern Asia than there is in most places. So China actually has a high percentage of Neanderthal 1.00

00:05:35.920 DNA. But apparently there are two kinds, you know, just having Neanderthal DNA doesn't mean you're good

00:05:43.920 or bad. Some people with some subsets of that situation can do worse than others. So it's a little

00:05:51.440 more complicated than that. But it doesn't seem to be true that the virus is less effective against

00:06:01.280 Chinese ethnic people. One of the most fun stories of the day is that a writer for Vox, Aaron Rupar,

00:06:12.120 became so famous for tweeting misleading videos that he got in the dictionary. So the Urban Dictionary

00:06:20.940 now calls Rupar, his last name, they turned it into a verb, and it means to purposely mislead,

00:06:28.280 mischaracterize a video. So the video of Trump at the, you know, let the Charlottesville

00:06:38.480 find people hoax, that's a Rupar. Because it's a misleading video, they always cut out the end where

00:06:45.420 he says he disavows the racist completely. So you just take that part out.

00:06:50.940 And it looks the opposite. It looks like he didn't. Same with the drinking bleach hoax. It's

00:06:55.500 just an edit. You take out the part where he's specifying light, which he did before he talked

00:07:00.280 about it. So you knew he was talking about light. And then when he was done, he brought it back to

00:07:05.840 light. So you knew he was talking about light the whole time, which is a real thing.

00:07:10.200 But it got Rupar'd. It got Rupar'd by taking off the end and the beginning. So you didn't see the 0.62

00:07:17.700 reference to light. And then they Rupar it and say it's bleach. And then that's the story. It just

00:07:23.460 got Rupar'd. Now, there's nothing that makes me happier. And by the way, Rupar has come after me

00:07:32.100 personally. So we've had some exchanges online. So I can't say he's my natural enemy on Twitter. But

00:07:40.200 you know what I mean. He sort of is. But he made it into the dictionary before I did. So I call that

00:07:48.800 winning. So here's an interesting thing. Rasmussen is going to be reporting today in a poll that says

00:08:01.620 47% of Democrats think that border security is not a vital national security concern.

00:08:08.980 What? What? 47% of Democrats don't think that protecting your border is a national security

00:08:21.940 concern. Now, remember what I was telling you about how consuming news from one source doesn't

00:08:30.520 matter if it's just the left or just the right. Science has shown that it causes brain damage.

00:08:36.140 Now, if you're looking at this story and you're saying to yourself, wait a minute,

00:08:40.380 nearly half of Democrats think that protecting the border doesn't have a national security element

00:08:45.560 to it? And this is a perfect example. If you were trying to explain this, how would you explain that?

00:08:55.020 Right? Would you say to yourself, huh, it looks like 47% of Democrats are really stupid.

00:09:00.620 But you know that's not true. You know that's not true. Half of all Democrats are stupid. I mean,

00:09:09.060 not more stupid than anybody else, right? So it's not their intelligence, right? But is there some kind

00:09:18.960 bias in play? Well, I'm not sure it's exactly a bias. It looks like brain damage, doesn't it? Because

00:09:28.400 this is the kind of opinion that you could only have if your brain wasn't working. Because there's

00:09:35.460 no argument. It's not like there are two arguments and they're pretty good. And you know, well, I can see

00:09:41.340 the other side, but I prefer this one. There's no argument in favor of opening the border. There's none.

00:09:50.660 And, you know, there's certainly arguments about how many people you let through, but there's certainly

00:09:56.840 not an argument that is a vital security concern. Anyway, so once you realize and you reframe your

00:10:03.800 understanding of the world to say that these people are probably literally, so this is not,

00:10:10.780 I'm not giving an analogy, I'm not speaking, you know, figuratively, literally and scientifically brain

00:10:16.820 damaged. And almost certainly, you can tell the source of the brain damage consuming too much news on

00:10:24.980 one side. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. Because it explains everything, right? It just explains

00:10:32.700 everything. Why doesn't this make any sense when you're talking to these people? This doesn't make

00:10:37.140 any sense. It's like you're talking to somebody with brain damage. And it turns out that's literally

00:10:44.980 exactly what's happening. Exactly what's happening. So sometimes things are just the way they look.

00:10:56.160 Here's a story that is sort of teasing us about becoming a big story. And boy, is it going to be a big

00:11:02.560 story? So you know, that Taiwan? It's a little island country that sits just off of China. And you

00:11:09.920 know that China has for decades claimed them as their own, even though they're officially a separate

00:11:16.580 country. And the United States is sort of, you know, back to Taiwan and giving them weapons and stuff

00:11:25.020 so they can protect themselves. But here's the thing you need to know. Probably in the next 10 years,

00:11:31.500 say the experts, China will take Taiwan. And it's going to be easy. It's going to be easy. 0.96

00:11:40.680 And the things I know about this, apparently it's been, you know, war game. And every time the United

00:11:47.640 States does a war game on this, to figure out what would happen if China tried to capture Taiwan.

00:11:55.000 And the answer is, China captures Taiwan. Every time. It's not even close. Because of proximity.

00:12:05.660 Now what China is doing is quite clever for a long-term plan. If they were to just start a fight, 0.94

00:12:11.920 it's going to get pretty bloody and it's going to hurt them in international relationships forever, etc.

00:12:17.020 But as China builds up more and more capability around Taiwan, the number of hours it would take

00:12:25.360 to conquer all of Taiwan starts shrinking. So we're at the point now where China could conquer Taiwan

00:12:33.260 in about a day. It's about a one-day process currently with their current military situation.

00:12:40.200 Nobody believes that Taiwan could defend itself against a legitimate attack. Nobody thinks

00:12:47.700 that. And that timing will probably get down to an hour because they'll just keep adding assets.

00:12:54.460 You know, more missiles, more ships, more capability. And once Taiwan is completely surrounded and the 0.80

00:13:01.540 time it will take to conquer it gets down to about an hour,

00:13:05.040 they'll just negotiate to become part of China. Because it'll be their only choice. 0.67

00:13:12.100 So I don't see there's any way that Taiwan could go any other direction, really, in long run.

00:13:17.100 And I think our military is starting to...

00:13:21.240 Well, not starting to. They're warning the same thing.

00:13:24.340 But the United States has this, you know...

00:13:26.900 I assume there's some kind of military pact where we would have some responsibility

00:13:31.660 or moral authority to help defend Taiwan.

00:13:37.300 But what do you do when it's impossible?

00:13:41.760 It's just impossible.

00:13:43.740 You couldn't possibly militarily defend it. It's just not a thing.

00:13:48.100 So here's what you should expect.

00:13:50.360 I would expect sometime in the next 10 years,

00:13:53.000 China will just take Taiwan. 0.64

00:13:54.660 And it will become a jaya issue for a few years, like Hong Kong. 0.95

00:14:03.780 And then we'll get over it.

00:14:05.660 And they will just own Taiwan. 0.99

00:14:07.100 I don't see any other future.

00:14:09.060 I just can't imagine it would happen any other way.

00:14:12.380 Bernie Sanders continues to be interesting.

00:14:15.720 And he said he was very uncomfortable about Twitter banning Trump.

00:14:20.160 Now, you know, he's no lover of Trump, of course.

00:14:23.660 But he says, but if you're asking me, do I feel particularly comfortable

00:14:27.400 that the then president of the United States could not express his views on Twitter?

00:14:32.580 And Bernie says, I don't feel comfortable about that.

00:14:36.040 So thank you.

00:14:37.380 Thank you, Bernie Sanders, for being a voice of reason on this.

00:14:44.480 But there's an interesting trend developing.

00:14:47.140 And if you're not sort of in the writer's world, you haven't seen it.

00:14:54.840 And it goes like this.

00:14:55.860 Right now, we, the public, are at the mercy of the big platforms.

00:15:02.580 So if you're on a big platform, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, whatever,

00:15:07.420 you pretty much have to do what they will allow you to do,

00:15:11.600 or else you're going to get booted off like the president.

00:15:13.920 So that gives the platforms narrative control.

00:15:19.340 So if you're saying something that's against the narrative,

00:15:22.260 you just get shut down.

00:15:24.120 You either booted off or your traffic is depressed.

00:15:28.160 But there's something happening that you might not be aware of.

00:15:32.320 You've heard of, I've talked about Locals, which is a subscription service.

00:15:36.220 So you could be free of the platform control because the individuals on Locals

00:15:42.460 just charge you a small subscription fee.

00:15:45.440 And you can just see them directly, and you don't have to get filtered by any platforms

00:15:49.140 because Locals doesn't do that.

00:15:51.840 Each of the creators own their own content there.

00:15:54.940 So it's a different situation.

00:15:57.140 But even bigger than that is Substack.

00:15:59.780 Are you all familiar with Substack?

00:16:01.440 Now, it's essentially a, I guess I'd call it a platform for writers

00:16:06.860 who want to escape the narrative machines,

00:16:11.920 and they get paid a lot, a lot.

00:16:17.120 In fact, some of them are being paid in advance

00:16:19.640 so they can get a very large paycheck just for joining Substack,

00:16:24.540 more than they would make in legacy media.

00:16:26.780 And suddenly, they have full access to lots of people.

00:16:32.320 You have to subscribe, but they have lots of reach.

00:16:35.700 And suddenly, no platform tells them what to say.

00:16:39.100 So Glenn Greenwald is on Substack and making quite a lot of noise.

00:16:45.300 And he's become even more interesting than he was,

00:16:48.280 and he's always been interesting.

00:16:49.220 So to watch somebody of his talent level suddenly completely free,

00:16:57.900 it's really kind of fun to watch.

00:17:00.080 Matt Taibbi, I believe, is also over there.

00:17:02.460 Another perfect example.

00:17:04.180 Somebody's saying Barry Weiss.

00:17:06.060 I think she is over there as well.

00:17:08.760 So Substack and Locals are both sort of recruiting, if you will,

00:17:13.780 getting the interesting voices,

00:17:15.180 the people who don't quite fit in the official narrative platforms.

00:17:21.360 And here's the shift that's happening.

00:17:25.160 The shift is moving away from the platform controlling the narrative

00:17:29.020 back to individual stars.

00:17:33.960 Andrew Sullivan's another one who's on Substack.

00:17:36.580 That's right.

00:17:38.180 And Locals is pulling in lots of people.

00:17:40.880 Greg Gottfeld's on there.

00:17:42.080 I'm on there, et cetera.

00:17:43.080 So this is a big thing because as the number of people

00:17:51.360 who escape the narrative machines, the big platforms,

00:17:56.120 they will become the new opinion makers.

00:18:01.220 And there is a trend toward taking the mainstream media

00:18:05.300 a little bit out of the power structure.

00:18:08.880 So just keep looking at this and see if there's any threat

00:18:13.000 to this subscription model.

00:18:15.120 Now, what I think will happen eventually,

00:18:17.520 and it might require some new company to do this,

00:18:20.360 but I think eventually you will be able to choose your voices

00:18:23.720 and then some service will stitch them together into a channel

00:18:28.240 so that you can say,

00:18:30.980 well, rather than watching who CNN thinks should be on TV

00:18:34.060 or who Fox News wants to interview,

00:18:37.060 I'll just pick my individual writers.

00:18:39.160 I'll take one Glenn Greenwald.

00:18:41.620 I'll take Scott Adams.

00:18:44.020 I'll take a Barry Weiss.

00:18:45.260 And I'll just make a channel

00:18:46.420 that's just the people that I know are not big fucking liars.

00:18:52.900 Basically, it would be a channel of people who are not liars.

00:18:56.340 They could be wrong, right?

00:18:58.940 I could be wrong about a lot of stuff,

00:19:01.160 but I'm pretty sure I haven't lied to you.

00:19:04.920 I mean, I can't think of any reason I need to.

00:19:07.460 What would be the reason to lie to you?

00:19:08.960 I don't have any reason.

00:19:10.400 So the people who don't have a reason to lie,

00:19:13.460 I'm not part of, you know,

00:19:15.080 I've got enough money that if I get canceled, I get canceled.

00:19:18.600 And same with Greenwald and Taibbi, et cetera.

00:19:23.840 Their voices are unleashed now,

00:19:25.740 and that's a really good thing to watch for.

00:19:29.580 I told you yesterday

00:19:31.740 that I thought Sidney Powell had an airtight defense.

00:19:35.600 Not airtight in the sense that she'll definitely win, 0.92

00:19:38.220 but solid defense.

00:19:39.940 Let's just say it's solid.

00:19:40.980 It doesn't mean she'll win.

00:19:42.740 And then I watched CNN's Eli Honig,

00:19:46.300 who apparently is a brilliant lawyer, according to CNN,

00:19:49.540 and he disagrees with my completely uneducated legal opinion.

00:19:55.500 So let's talk about that.

00:19:59.420 So according to Eli,

00:20:02.540 in order for Dominion to prevail over Sidney Powell,

00:20:06.920 if you don't know the issue,

00:20:08.600 Sidney Powell had made claims about Dominion election systems being,

00:20:13.080 I don't want to use the word,

00:20:16.540 because I'll get banned from social media,

00:20:18.700 but she said there were some problems with Dominion.

00:20:22.960 Dominion is suing her for making these claims.

00:20:27.140 And Eli Honig says that Dominion only has to prove

00:20:32.860 that Sidney Powell knew what she was saying was false

00:20:37.220 and that she's basically admitted it in her filing.

00:20:41.060 Because in her filing, she says,

00:20:43.660 you shouldn't have believed me, basically, I'm paraphrasing,

00:20:46.480 you shouldn't have taken it as fact,

00:20:48.820 you should have taken it as my opinion

00:20:50.500 that would need to be verified.

00:20:54.260 So do you take the Scott Adams legal opinion

00:20:58.540 or the Eli Honig legal opinion?

00:21:01.140 So my opinion is that I'm a reasonable person,

00:21:08.400 and when I heard Sidney Powell talk,

00:21:10.760 I believed exactly what she said,

00:21:13.840 that she had an opinion, like a hunch.

00:21:18.480 It was based on stuff, but it was basically a strong opinion,

00:21:21.900 and that she was advocating that we find out.

00:21:27.680 In other words, her whole thing was that she doesn't now.

00:21:31.140 She believes it to be true, and we need to find out.

00:21:35.340 Now, if she said we know it to be true

00:21:37.440 and we don't need to do any research

00:21:40.020 because we already have the information,

00:21:42.020 we know it to be true, well, that would be liable, right?

00:21:46.580 If she knew it was not true and she said it was true,

00:21:49.300 that's pretty bad.

00:21:50.920 But I think her case is solid.

00:21:54.000 So now I've heard the opposite.

00:21:56.560 And how do you prove somebody knew something

00:21:59.200 that they were saying was false?

00:22:02.120 How do you do that?

00:22:04.300 How do you prove somebody knew what they were saying was false?

00:22:09.220 Especially if somebody's job is an advocate.

00:22:12.900 If you're an advocate,

00:22:15.420 you're saying some stuff that, you know,

00:22:17.980 certainly could be questionable.

00:22:20.940 But it's her job to be an advocate.

00:22:23.520 Of course lawyers say things that might not be exactly true.

00:22:27.320 It's sort of the job they're in.

00:22:29.060 So I'm going to say again that I think Sidney Powell will win this,

00:22:32.600 will prevail,

00:22:35.000 because it was clearly an opinion.

00:22:37.820 Clearly an opinion.

00:22:39.160 In my opinion,

00:22:41.520 it's obviously an opinion.

00:22:42.980 Because how could somebody know something that can't be known?

00:22:45.760 The whole problem with Dominion is that it was non-transparent.

00:22:51.560 Nobody looked at the code

00:22:52.840 and nobody looked at the whole process from beginning to end.

00:22:57.020 It hasn't been audited in that fashion.

00:23:00.720 So I think she wins.

00:23:02.920 Gun sales are up, of course.

00:23:05.540 Of course.

00:23:06.200 People are going to buy more guns

00:23:07.340 because there's mass shootings

00:23:08.400 and because the Democrats are talking about more gun control.

00:23:12.400 So good luck.

00:23:14.740 Good work on that, Democrats.

00:23:17.900 More guns coming.

00:23:22.200 So let's see.

00:23:23.760 Let's talk about the mass shooter.

00:23:25.280 Everybody's talking about the guy.

00:23:27.140 I guess he was an immigrant from Syria.

00:23:29.980 He had mental problems.

00:23:31.620 Seems pretty clear.

00:23:32.800 He was anti-Trump.

00:23:35.720 And he was against Islamophobes.

00:23:39.180 But beyond that,

00:23:40.920 there's not any specific motivation for it.

00:23:45.660 So we don't know the immediate cause of why he did this.

00:23:50.160 We just sort of know he might have some mental problems.

00:23:52.620 It looks likely he does.

00:23:56.280 I'm going to make his statement.

00:23:57.580 You're not going to like it all.

00:24:00.220 I hate to do this to you.

00:24:01.640 But I have to do this

00:24:02.520 because otherwise you won't believe I'm telling you the truth

00:24:07.140 unless I occasionally tell you something you don't like.

00:24:11.380 Otherwise you'll just think I'm telling you all you want to hear.

00:24:14.260 And here it is.

00:24:15.060 You're going to freaking hate this.

00:24:17.820 In my opinion,

00:24:20.440 and it's just an opinion,

00:24:22.040 and this opinion is informed by my experience with hypnosis,

00:24:25.760 my experience with just the way the brain works.

00:24:30.800 And it goes like this.

00:24:31.820 If you banned the cool-looking weapons,

00:24:38.060 you would have far fewer mass shootings.

00:24:43.880 I hate to say it.

00:24:45.640 Now, when I say the cool-looking weapons,

00:24:48.400 I'm talking about the coolness.

00:24:50.660 I'm not talking about the killing power.

00:24:54.220 Because as we discussed yesterday,

00:24:56.260 somebody with a handgun can do a lot of killing,

00:24:58.620 and it's going to be almost no difference, right,

00:25:01.420 if they're good at it.

00:25:04.860 But imagine kids playing video games

00:25:07.280 and watching war things,

00:25:08.640 and then they're imagining their last moments.

00:25:11.380 Because anybody who goes into this mass shooting thing,

00:25:13.960 they certainly have to imagine it before they do it.

00:25:17.700 Imagine yourself going in

00:25:19.320 with this really cool,

00:25:21.940 somewhat military-ish-looking gun

00:25:24.260 that you just love holding in your hand.

00:25:26.780 I mean, you just love it.

00:25:30.440 Now, if you're a female, 0.99

00:25:32.900 or if you don't have an affinity for,

00:25:35.320 let's say, cool objects,

00:25:39.540 you don't understand what I'm saying.

00:25:41.800 This may be harder for women to understand. 0.99

00:25:44.380 And I'm going to be a little over-sexist here

00:25:48.680 to make the point.

00:25:49.560 Obviously, some women like guns. 1.00

00:25:52.280 We're all adults, right?

00:25:53.460 When I make a generalization about gender

00:25:56.360 in your head,

00:25:57.740 you should always say,

00:25:58.420 well, that's not everybody.

00:26:00.040 Obviously.

00:26:01.040 It's not everybody.

00:26:02.680 Plenty of women, I'm sure, 1.00

00:26:05.400 like the look and feel of a cool gun.

00:26:08.840 That's the thing.

00:26:10.040 But I would say, in general,

00:26:11.740 guys are more likely to like

00:26:13.720 just the physicality of it,

00:26:16.500 just the coolness of it.

00:26:17.760 What happens if you take that away?

00:26:21.980 It doesn't end all mass shootings, of course.

00:26:25.000 Like I said, somebody who's crazy

00:26:27.200 or has a motivation is just going to get a handgun

00:26:29.420 or some other weapon.

00:26:31.580 But I do think that people like this guy,

00:26:34.660 this particular guy who had some mental problems,

00:26:37.360 if you took away the coolness factor,

00:26:40.440 does it look the same?

00:26:42.760 I just don't know if it looks the same.

00:26:45.380 You've heard that if all you have is a hammer,

00:26:48.460 everything looks like a nail.

00:26:50.400 If you build up a big military,

00:26:53.780 don't you think you're more likely to use it

00:26:55.760 than if you hadn't?

00:26:58.200 Of course.

00:26:59.080 You tend to use a tool just because you have it.

00:27:02.860 So if you have, you know,

00:27:04.740 a awesome, somewhat military-ish looking gun,

00:27:08.700 not really military,

00:27:10.180 it's going to feel like you need to use it.

00:27:14.700 Because you have it.

00:27:16.960 And if you're not a hunter,

00:27:19.040 and you have a bad day,

00:27:21.140 and you've got this cool thing,

00:27:23.960 one plus one,

00:27:25.900 and you've got a bad situation.

00:27:27.460 Now, I don't imagine that this would have an effect

00:27:29.660 on most mass shootings,

00:27:32.120 because they're either, you know,

00:27:33.360 ideological or somebody's crazy or whatever.

00:27:35.700 But this guy probably wasn't so crazy

00:27:39.720 that he wouldn't be influenced by the,

00:27:43.620 let's say, the vibe of the whole situation

00:27:46.100 that makes him look kind of awesome

00:27:48.100 in his diseased mind. 0.53

00:27:51.360 Now, somebody says,

00:27:52.440 nice mind reading.

00:27:53.440 So it's not mind reading

00:27:54.500 if you're talking about people in general.

00:27:57.020 Mind reading would be

00:27:58.140 if you're talking about an individual.

00:28:00.480 But if you're making a general statement

00:28:02.220 about how people act,

00:28:03.980 you can be pretty safe about that

00:28:05.580 relative to guessing

00:28:06.800 what one person thinks.

00:28:10.340 Now, of course,

00:28:11.680 I'm watching your comments.

00:28:13.700 A lot of people are going crazy on this.

00:28:15.640 No, the numbers don't show that.

00:28:19.500 I'm not aware of any numbers

00:28:21.080 that would suggest one way or the other.

00:28:24.220 I'm telling you that there's no way

00:28:26.220 the coolness of it has no effect.

00:28:29.220 I just don't know how much.

00:28:31.620 Could it be 5%?

00:28:34.320 10%?

00:28:35.380 I would say that it's at least 10%.

00:28:37.960 I don't think it's 80%.

00:28:40.380 Is it 50%?

00:28:43.460 Could be.

00:28:45.160 Could be.

00:28:46.140 I think it's less than 50%,

00:28:48.100 but it could be.

00:28:49.840 Now, I'll add one other factor,

00:28:52.120 the news.

00:28:52.760 What would it look like

00:28:55.060 if the news did not report these

00:28:58.760 and almost always report

00:29:00.480 that it's the same kind of weapon?

00:29:03.280 Do you think that this guy

00:29:05.160 would have had this idea

00:29:07.100 to be a mass shooter

00:29:08.940 at this grocery store?

00:29:10.820 Do you think he would have even thought of it

00:29:12.760 except for the news?

00:29:16.300 Probably not.

00:29:17.780 Probably not.

00:29:19.040 No.

00:29:19.500 So you need two things.

00:29:20.620 You need a news that can't shut up about it.

00:29:24.340 And you need a really cool weapon.

00:29:27.740 And then you need somebody

00:29:29.160 whose life is not going well.

00:29:31.520 Apparently he couldn't get a girlfriend.

00:29:33.860 He had some mental problems.

00:29:35.260 I don't think his life was going to go that well.

00:29:39.760 So, anyway.

00:29:41.660 Now, this is all separate from

00:29:43.600 whether there should be gun control.

00:29:45.900 I want you to hear this clearly.

00:29:48.000 The question of whether

00:29:49.180 there should be gun control 0.94

00:29:50.560 opens up all kinds of other questions.

00:29:53.760 So the question is not just

00:29:55.700 if you made this change,

00:29:57.540 would it reduce the number of shootings?

00:29:59.840 You have to weigh that against freedom

00:30:01.440 and protecting the country, etc.

00:30:04.600 Now, one of the things that I often say

00:30:06.560 about gun control,

00:30:07.540 and the reason that I'm in favor of guns,

00:30:09.860 is that there's at least a small chance

00:30:12.520 that you have to protect yourself

00:30:15.040 from the government itself.

00:30:16.220 And somebody said to me,

00:30:18.340 what are the odds of that?

00:30:19.900 We've been around 300 years or whatever,

00:30:22.440 and the country hasn't

00:30:24.800 fallen apart yet.

00:30:26.600 Do you really need those guns

00:30:28.180 to protect yourself against

00:30:29.400 the government of the United States?

00:30:32.600 Really?

00:30:33.600 To which I say,

00:30:34.740 I don't think it's a big chance.

00:30:37.440 2%.

00:30:38.000 I would say the odds are 2%.

00:30:41.380 Now, if you say it's zero,

00:30:44.520 I think you're not in

00:30:45.660 intellectually secure territory.

00:30:48.980 So I think it's closer to 100%

00:30:51.880 if you wait long enough.

00:30:53.540 It's just how long you wait.

00:30:55.080 Because there are no dynasties

00:30:57.160 that lasted forever.

00:30:59.240 They all have an upheaval.

00:31:01.720 So the odds of the United States

00:31:04.100 someday not being the United States

00:31:06.880 is 100%.

00:31:08.060 It's just how long you wait.

00:31:10.240 Is it 1,000 years or 50 years?

00:31:13.060 So there is some chance.

00:31:15.240 I would put the odds at,

00:31:16.820 just for discussion purposes,

00:31:19.260 2%.

00:31:19.920 2%.

00:31:21.460 This is just to do some math, right?

00:31:23.780 You don't have to agree with that number.

00:31:25.000 Now, how would you look at the risk

00:31:28.560 of a 2% chance of this big problem?

00:31:33.640 You know, like the government

00:31:35.120 turning on the citizens.

00:31:37.120 2%.

00:31:37.600 How would you rate that

00:31:39.480 compared to the deaths by guns?

00:31:41.500 Well, the deaths by guns you can count.

00:31:44.000 And you can say,

00:31:44.740 all right, we get this many thousand people per year

00:31:46.900 die from guns.

00:31:49.280 What is a 2% risk

00:31:51.260 that the entire United States

00:31:53.880 would be devastated

00:31:55.860 by some civil war

00:31:57.580 or the government

00:31:58.640 would turn on the people?

00:31:59.900 Well, you multiply

00:32:00.660 370 million people

00:32:02.360 times 2%,

00:32:04.080 you get

00:32:04.660 7 million people

00:32:07.380 at risk.

00:32:08.880 Now, that would be

00:32:09.580 if the whole country

00:32:10.440 was fighting each other

00:32:11.380 with weapons,

00:32:11.980 which wouldn't happen.

00:32:13.220 But you very quickly,

00:32:15.440 you very quickly,

00:32:16.420 this,

00:32:16.880 by the way,

00:32:17.560 this type of analysis

00:32:18.940 is called

00:32:20.120 an expected value.

00:32:22.120 You multiply the odds

00:32:23.360 of something happening

00:32:24.320 times the cost

00:32:26.060 if it did happen.

00:32:27.100 Now, both of these are guesses,

00:32:28.800 but it allows you to

00:32:29.860 at least

00:32:30.420 have some kind of

00:32:32.180 rational comparison

00:32:33.160 to an alternative.

00:32:34.880 So the alternative

00:32:35.600 is, what,

00:32:37.080 30,000 people a year

00:32:38.700 die from guns

00:32:39.460 in the United States?

00:32:40.880 But you've got a 2% chance

00:32:42.580 of preventing

00:32:43.280 millions

00:32:44.700 from dying.

00:32:46.560 Millions.

00:32:47.680 So I would say

00:32:48.520 that that's worth it.

00:32:49.720 To me,

00:32:50.980 as an insurance policy,

00:32:53.020 against that 2% 0.65

00:32:54.340 in the short term,

00:32:56.500 but really 100%

00:32:57.640 in the long term,

00:32:59.060 I'd say that's

00:33:00.460 a good

00:33:01.360 insurance policy.

00:33:07.180 Yeah,

00:33:07.780 so 100% chance

00:33:08.880 doesn't mean

00:33:09.420 that everybody dies,

00:33:11.200 right?

00:33:11.580 And I didn't say that.

00:33:13.080 100% chance

00:33:14.240 is that there would be

00:33:15.140 a lot of upheaval.

00:33:16.160 So let's say

00:33:19.780 a million people died

00:33:21.780 in the Civil War.

00:33:23.680 Let's say you did

00:33:24.640 2% of a million.

00:33:27.980 All right?

00:33:28.860 So 10% would be

00:33:30.880 100,000.

00:33:32.880 Do the math.

00:33:34.180 All right.

00:33:37.300 Yeah,

00:33:37.860 I think the news

00:33:38.720 plus the coolness

00:33:40.100 of the weapons

00:33:40.720 are the two variables

00:33:41.760 that we won't talk about,

00:33:43.720 but are at least

00:33:44.500 a big part of it.

00:33:45.760 It's not the whole story.

00:33:49.480 I guess Biden

00:33:50.520 is talking about

00:33:51.460 maybe using

00:33:53.620 his power

00:33:55.940 of executive orders

00:33:57.400 to do something

00:33:58.580 with

00:33:58.900 these weapons.

00:34:02.000 And I'm thinking,

00:34:02.700 what kind of executive order

00:34:03.940 can you do about that?

00:34:07.220 I'm still confused

00:34:08.540 about the

00:34:09.220 scope of executive orders.

00:34:13.200 Like,

00:34:13.300 when can you use them?

00:34:14.600 How could you use

00:34:16.280 an executive order

00:34:17.300 to make a constitutional

00:34:19.560 right

00:34:20.020 less available?

00:34:22.220 That feels like

00:34:22.980 a questionable

00:34:24.300 thing to do.

00:34:25.780 But maybe he can.

00:34:26.720 I don't know.

00:34:29.500 So he hasn't ruled out

00:34:30.700 the executive orders.

00:34:32.240 And I guess

00:34:32.680 what they mostly want

00:34:33.700 or they're asking for

00:34:34.560 is

00:34:34.940 background check

00:34:36.720 improvements.

00:34:37.240 I don't know

00:34:39.660 why anybody

00:34:40.300 disagrees

00:34:40.920 with background

00:34:41.540 checks.

00:34:44.000 And I don't know

00:34:44.860 if this guy

00:34:45.380 could have been

00:34:45.940 stopped

00:34:47.120 with a background

00:34:47.820 check.

00:34:48.940 But

00:34:49.320 here's the scariest

00:34:51.000 thing you'll hear

00:34:51.620 today.

00:34:52.620 Do you believe

00:34:53.800 that you could

00:34:54.480 write an algorithm

00:34:55.980 that would

00:34:57.500 detect

00:34:57.940 somebody

00:34:58.720 who is a

00:34:59.240 potential

00:34:59.680 mass shooter

00:35:00.420 before they

00:35:00.980 did the shooting?

00:35:02.900 Here's the things

00:35:03.800 that could have

00:35:04.360 been detected

00:35:04.960 about this

00:35:05.740 shooter in Denver.

00:35:07.860 He's

00:35:08.380 concerned about

00:35:10.300 Islamophobia.

00:35:13.320 He doesn't

00:35:14.280 like Trump.

00:35:15.440 Couldn't get a

00:35:16.220 girlfriend.

00:35:17.440 And there's some

00:35:17.940 indication of

00:35:18.640 mental illness.

00:35:20.780 Now, if they

00:35:21.520 also had access

00:35:22.340 to the fact that

00:35:23.040 he'd recently

00:35:23.640 bought a weapon,

00:35:25.500 could there be

00:35:26.200 any kind of

00:35:26.800 algorithm that

00:35:27.520 could see all

00:35:28.220 of those things?

00:35:29.680 Say a government

00:35:30.500 algorithm that

00:35:31.280 could look into

00:35:31.820 your financial

00:35:32.540 stuff and also

00:35:34.480 look into your

00:35:35.320 postings and

00:35:36.680 say, wait a

00:35:37.180 minute, wait a

00:35:37.520 minute, we've

00:35:37.920 got a bad

00:35:38.580 match here.

00:35:39.800 Here's a guy

00:35:40.380 who's got sort

00:35:41.280 of the

00:35:41.540 characteristics that

00:35:43.360 doesn't look

00:35:43.860 safe.

00:35:45.240 He doesn't have

00:35:45.820 a happy life,

00:35:46.780 little mental

00:35:47.340 problems, and

00:35:48.600 he's got a

00:35:49.200 political motive.

00:35:51.820 That's bad.

00:35:53.340 And then he

00:35:53.700 just bought this

00:35:54.980 particular type

00:35:56.260 of weapon.

00:35:57.500 And there's

00:35:58.160 nothing on his

00:35:58.780 social media to

00:36:00.140 suggest he's a

00:36:00.960 hunter.

00:36:01.960 And there's

00:36:02.500 nothing on his

00:36:03.100 social media to

00:36:03.860 suggest he's

00:36:05.040 just a Second

00:36:05.680 Amendment guy.

00:36:07.620 Right?

00:36:08.840 Do you think you

00:36:09.800 couldn't write an

00:36:10.600 algorithm that

00:36:11.260 would find the

00:36:11.880 shooters before

00:36:12.540 they shot?

00:36:13.460 Now, you would

00:36:14.040 find too many

00:36:14.720 people.

00:36:15.120 That's the

00:36:15.400 problem, right?

00:36:16.420 You'd find way

00:36:17.240 more people than

00:36:18.060 actual people who

00:36:19.020 commit crimes.

00:36:21.260 But I feel like

00:36:22.320 we're heading in

00:36:22.840 that direction.

00:36:29.020 Hello?

00:36:29.460 Hello?

00:36:29.540 Hello, Adam.

00:36:34.280 Yes?

00:36:36.400 Good morning.

00:36:37.400 This is Jack with

00:36:38.400 Today Capital.

00:36:39.420 How are you doing

00:36:39.920 today?

00:36:40.600 Oh, I'm great.

00:36:42.280 But, you know, I

00:36:43.080 don't need any

00:36:43.600 capital.

00:36:45.380 I understand that.

00:36:46.860 Actually, as a

00:36:47.680 direct lender, we

00:36:48.580 have 15-plus loan

00:36:49.820 programs where we

00:36:51.340 don't need any

00:36:51.860 guarantee, no

00:36:52.780 personal use.

00:36:54.480 So do you need

00:36:55.500 any additional

00:36:56.020 capital for your

00:36:56.880 business?

00:36:57.140 Yeah, if you

00:36:57.880 could send me a

00:36:58.440 check, that'd be

00:36:58.940 great.

00:37:01.880 Probably had more

00:37:02.600 to say about that,

00:37:03.460 but I think he's

00:37:04.620 going to send me a

00:37:05.240 check.

00:37:06.840 All right, let's

00:37:07.460 say...

00:37:08.460 So everybody's

00:37:13.300 talking about the

00:37:13.940 ethnicity of the

00:37:15.240 shooter.

00:37:16.340 And in the

00:37:17.600 beginning, people

00:37:19.300 like me and

00:37:20.480 people like

00:37:22.320 Kamala Harris'

00:37:25.080 niece, I think it

00:37:26.020 was.

00:37:26.260 Was it her

00:37:27.120 niece?

00:37:27.500 Yeah.

00:37:28.140 Her niece said,

00:37:29.680 well, it's probably

00:37:30.820 a white guy with

00:37:31.840 a big weapon.

00:37:34.600 You may recall

00:37:35.520 that I said the

00:37:36.360 same thing.

00:37:37.720 I think it's

00:37:38.360 probably a white

00:37:39.860 guy.

00:37:40.920 How's that feeling

00:37:42.540 about it?

00:37:43.560 Turns out it

00:37:44.120 wasn't.

00:37:45.320 And yesterday, I

00:37:46.320 had also raised

00:37:47.680 the question about

00:37:48.560 what his ethnicity

00:37:50.600 might be because it

00:37:52.200 hasn't been

00:37:52.660 released.

00:37:53.220 the longer it

00:37:54.680 takes them to

00:37:55.200 release the

00:37:55.900 ethnicity, the

00:37:56.720 more you suspect

00:37:57.480 it wasn't a

00:37:58.180 white guy.

00:37:59.920 I feel like if

00:38:00.840 it's a white guy,

00:38:01.540 you know right

00:38:01.960 away what the

00:38:02.480 race is.

00:38:03.320 But people were

00:38:03.920 saying that since

00:38:04.660 they took him

00:38:05.260 alive, he must

00:38:07.000 have been a

00:38:07.360 white guy.

00:38:10.680 But that

00:38:11.580 turned out to be

00:38:12.420 the case.

00:38:13.120 So everybody got

00:38:13.920 to have their

00:38:14.680 biases tested by

00:38:16.800 this situation.

00:38:17.560 I got my

00:38:19.020 biases tested.

00:38:22.280 Now the bias

00:38:23.260 is just, in my

00:38:24.320 case, it was

00:38:24.780 statistical.

00:38:26.180 I just thought

00:38:26.760 statistically, the

00:38:27.980 odds are good it

00:38:28.940 was a white guy.

00:38:30.400 But it wasn't.

00:38:33.500 I saw a quote

00:38:34.540 from, I think, a

00:38:36.220 gentleman who

00:38:37.080 lives in India, if

00:38:38.160 I'm correctly

00:38:39.240 seeing that.

00:38:41.560 And he tweeted

00:38:42.400 this.

00:38:42.700 He said, this is

00:38:43.220 very brazen, he

00:38:48.260 just said it was

00:38:49.140 brazen that they're

00:38:50.140 just openly

00:38:50.760 discriminating against

00:38:52.000 white people now 0.62

00:38:52.880 in the Senate.

00:38:53.940 You probably heard

00:38:54.620 that Tammy Duckworth

00:38:55.660 and Maisie

00:38:57.980 Hirona said 1.00

00:38:59.120 they'll vote

00:38:59.640 against all Biden

00:39:00.540 nominees who

00:39:01.360 are not racial

00:39:03.000 minorities.

00:39:04.900 So these stories

00:39:06.240 end up becoming

00:39:06.940 the same story.

00:39:08.040 Because every story

00:39:09.020 just turns into a

00:39:10.180 racial filter.

00:39:12.120 Oh, the shooter,

00:39:13.220 it's racial.

00:39:14.920 Yeah, in the

00:39:15.720 comments, somebody

00:39:16.280 is saying the

00:39:16.720 shooter was already

00:39:17.540 on FBI radar.

00:39:18.860 Which means they

00:39:19.760 already do have an

00:39:20.860 algorithm.

00:39:22.440 Apparently, they do

00:39:23.480 have an algorithm

00:39:24.280 that can put you

00:39:25.560 on their radar

00:39:26.360 just by your

00:39:27.540 social media traffic.

00:39:29.480 And if they

00:39:30.120 haven't yet bashed

00:39:31.180 that against

00:39:31.800 firearm purchases,

00:39:34.140 why haven't they?

00:39:35.820 That seems like

00:39:36.380 the obvious thing

00:39:36.980 to do.

00:39:40.180 So, amazingly,

00:39:41.560 two Democratic

00:39:42.180 senators said that

00:39:43.140 you can't,

00:39:44.000 that they won't

00:39:44.540 vote for white 0.86

00:39:45.220 people to fill

00:39:46.580 these cabinet

00:39:47.500 positions.

00:39:48.800 And I almost

00:39:53.680 don't know what

00:39:54.360 to say about

00:39:55.000 that.

00:39:56.920 They literally

00:39:57.900 won't vote for

00:39:59.860 white people.

00:40:00.840 And they said

00:40:01.500 that out loud.

00:40:02.720 Now, I think it

00:40:03.340 was Duckworth who

00:40:04.240 may have pulled

00:40:05.420 that back a little

00:40:06.160 bit.

00:40:06.420 but they would

00:40:09.740 only make an

00:40:10.260 exception if

00:40:11.000 you're LGBTQ.

00:40:13.980 Which is an

00:40:14.780 interesting exception

00:40:15.660 because if I were

00:40:16.960 a nominee

00:40:17.480 and I were

00:40:19.920 an adult white

00:40:21.580 guy who was

00:40:22.240 qualified for the

00:40:23.140 office, and I

00:40:24.540 knew that Tammy

00:40:25.260 Duckworth and

00:40:25.980 Maisie Hirona would

00:40:26.820 not vote for me

00:40:27.640 unless I were

00:40:29.700 LGBTQ, I would

00:40:32.160 become LGBTQ

00:40:33.420 within minutes.

00:40:36.960 Because you just

00:40:37.760 have to say you

00:40:38.440 are, right?

00:40:39.780 I'm not wrong

00:40:40.680 about that.

00:40:42.700 And if you

00:40:44.160 think I'm

00:40:44.560 joking, no.

00:40:46.820 No.

00:40:47.280 If I were a

00:40:48.580 nominee and I

00:40:49.480 were a white

00:40:49.880 guy, and I

00:40:50.880 thought I couldn't

00:40:51.440 get the job

00:40:52.020 because of my

00:40:52.820 race, unless I

00:40:54.520 were LGBTQ, I

00:40:56.480 would stand in

00:40:57.200 front of the

00:40:57.600 public and say,

00:40:59.200 you know, I

00:41:01.600 maybe am not

00:41:02.720 naturally leading

00:41:03.720 that way, but as

00:41:05.680 a lifestyle choice

00:41:06.680 it is my right to

00:41:07.700 make it.

00:41:08.920 And I declare

00:41:09.760 myself to be

00:41:10.660 gay for the 0.97

00:41:12.480 purposes of

00:41:13.120 employment, and

00:41:15.240 I understand I

00:41:16.640 don't have to

00:41:17.080 actually have sex 0.62

00:41:17.860 with anybody.

00:41:19.340 Because you can

00:41:20.460 be gay without 1.00

00:41:21.380 the actual sexual

00:41:22.340 act, obviously.

00:41:24.020 You know,

00:41:24.200 heterosexuals who

00:41:25.080 are not having

00:41:25.780 sex are still

00:41:26.440 heterosexual. 0.76

00:41:26.940 So I don't

00:41:28.260 have to prove

00:41:29.060 I'm gay.

00:41:30.500 I just have to

00:41:31.600 be gay in my

00:41:33.840 personal preferences.

00:41:36.640 And I would

00:41:38.360 play it completely,

00:41:40.340 ironically, I

00:41:40.980 would play it

00:41:41.420 straight.

00:41:42.540 I wouldn't joke,

00:41:44.140 and I wouldn't

00:41:44.780 say I was kidding,

00:41:45.720 no matter how

00:41:46.420 many people asked.

00:41:47.840 I would look you

00:41:48.840 right in the eye

00:41:49.580 and say, yes,

00:41:52.360 totally honest,

00:41:54.240 I'm as gay as

00:41:55.380 you can get.

00:41:56.940 For the job.

00:41:58.260 I'm doing it for

00:41:59.140 the job.

00:42:00.180 But I'm

00:42:00.500 definitely gay.

00:42:02.260 For the job.

00:42:05.860 Now, this is

00:42:06.780 one of my

00:42:09.600 perma-trolls,

00:42:10.860 somebody on

00:42:11.460 Twitter called

00:42:11.940 Hampton Stevens.

00:42:13.660 He saw me

00:42:14.400 tweeting about

00:42:14.940 these issues.

00:42:16.640 And replying to

00:42:18.680 somebody else,

00:42:19.260 he goes,

00:42:19.680 right, Adams is

00:42:20.960 going full-on

00:42:21.980 white grievance.

00:42:24.260 To which I

00:42:25.060 tweeted in reply,

00:42:26.020 yes, I am.

00:42:29.660 Our system works

00:42:30.720 best with guard

00:42:31.640 rails in every

00:42:32.380 direction, and

00:42:33.540 only the people

00:42:34.200 who can survive

00:42:35.020 the blowback

00:42:35.820 have the ability

00:42:37.280 to perform that

00:42:38.320 public task.

00:42:40.280 You can sit it

00:42:41.300 down if you're

00:42:41.820 frightened, I

00:42:43.040 understand.

00:42:44.420 So I told my

00:42:45.800 critic that if

00:42:49.440 he's frightened to

00:42:51.000 be part of this

00:42:51.620 conversation, I

00:42:52.360 understand.

00:42:52.700 he has every

00:42:54.160 right to be

00:42:54.640 frightened.

00:42:56.200 It's a scary

00:42:57.140 thing.

00:42:57.880 And the only

00:42:58.680 people who can

00:42:59.160 even talk about

00:42:59.840 this topic in

00:43:00.660 public are

00:43:01.840 people who are

00:43:02.420 bulletproof.

00:43:03.780 And I'm kind of

00:43:05.040 bulletproof.

00:43:06.220 So it's almost

00:43:07.520 like this Spider-Man

00:43:08.420 problem, which is,

00:43:09.840 I don't really want

00:43:10.760 to talk about this.

00:43:12.400 I really don't.

00:43:13.560 I'm just not

00:43:14.160 interested.

00:43:15.320 But I'm the only

00:43:16.160 one who can.

00:43:17.200 I mean, not the

00:43:17.680 only one.

00:43:18.100 But there's a

00:43:19.140 small number of

00:43:19.920 people who can

00:43:21.080 even talk about

00:43:21.800 this in public and

00:43:22.760 not have their

00:43:23.660 life ruined.

00:43:25.120 So I guess I'm

00:43:27.580 one of them now

00:43:28.240 because I can.

00:43:30.780 And it's

00:43:31.400 important.

00:43:33.060 Full-out racism

00:43:34.180 in the Senate.

00:43:35.380 Tom Cotton

00:43:36.100 called it down as

00:43:37.460 well on Twitter.

00:43:38.660 And I feel as if

00:43:39.940 they should be

00:43:40.460 removed from the

00:43:41.240 Senate.

00:43:43.420 Like they should

00:43:44.400 really be removed

00:43:45.280 from the Senate.

00:43:45.880 As in, all of

00:43:49.500 the white people

00:43:50.480 in the Senate

00:43:51.240 should walk out

00:43:52.120 until they are.

00:43:53.760 If I were a

00:43:55.040 white, straight

00:43:57.340 Republican, I

00:43:59.500 would refuse to

00:44:00.660 do service.

00:44:01.720 I would refuse to

00:44:02.620 do the work of

00:44:03.180 the people until

00:44:04.200 they're gone.

00:44:06.020 I wouldn't do

00:44:06.820 any work of the

00:44:07.720 public.

00:44:08.140 I wouldn't do

00:44:08.540 anything in the

00:44:09.220 Senate.

00:44:09.820 I wouldn't look

00:44:10.520 at a nomination.

00:44:13.440 I wouldn't even

00:44:14.360 look at the

00:44:15.280 nomination.

00:44:15.880 I wouldn't even

00:44:17.200 show up until

00:44:19.580 they get rid of

00:44:20.200 these two people.

00:44:21.940 Because if you

00:44:22.720 think there's

00:44:23.140 something more

00:44:23.700 important than

00:44:24.280 this that they're

00:44:24.840 working on,

00:44:25.960 well, you're

00:44:26.480 wrong.

00:44:27.640 This is the

00:44:28.480 most important

00:44:29.100 thing that

00:44:29.520 happened in

00:44:30.560 the country

00:44:31.040 that has to

00:44:32.160 get fixed.

00:44:33.160 That people

00:44:33.900 were openly

00:44:34.740 racist in the

00:44:36.080 Senate and

00:44:38.040 don't think

00:44:38.520 there'll be

00:44:38.800 repercussions for

00:44:39.720 that.

00:44:41.020 So you need

00:44:41.820 to play by

00:44:42.360 their own game,

00:44:43.400 which is, if

00:44:44.160 it's racist, 0.67

00:44:44.880 it's racist.

00:44:45.340 And you

00:44:45.660 have to

00:44:45.900 deal with

00:44:46.240 it.

00:44:46.380 It's the

00:44:46.680 biggest issue.

00:44:47.700 And this

00:44:48.060 is really

00:44:48.680 racist.

00:44:49.780 This is

00:44:50.240 like super

00:44:50.880 racist.

00:44:52.060 This is

00:44:52.380 as racist

00:44:52.800 as you

00:44:53.200 can be.

00:44:55.820 Does

00:44:56.260 anybody feel

00:44:56.840 sorry for

00:44:57.380 the white

00:44:57.960 people who

00:44:58.440 will be

00:44:58.720 victimized by

00:44:59.420 this?

00:45:00.000 No.

00:45:00.760 But you

00:45:01.140 still can't

00:45:01.760 be racist. 0.78

00:45:03.040 It doesn't

00:45:03.320 work in the

00:45:03.740 long run.

00:45:04.720 Now, I've

00:45:05.280 told you

00:45:05.540 before the

00:45:05.940 only way to

00:45:06.440 stop the

00:45:07.360 crazy brain

00:45:08.580 damaged part of

00:45:09.720 the left

00:45:10.240 from the

00:45:12.520 slippery slope

00:45:13.340 that just

00:45:14.360 goes forever

00:45:14.980 into madness

00:45:15.660 is

00:45:18.280 aggressively

00:45:20.940 agreeing with

00:45:21.780 them.

00:45:23.700 Disagreeing

00:45:24.180 with somebody

00:45:24.860 who has

00:45:25.120 brain damage

00:45:25.720 doesn't work.

00:45:27.480 Do you

00:45:27.740 know why?

00:45:28.980 It's sort

00:45:29.960 of in the

00:45:30.360 setup.

00:45:31.020 It's the

00:45:31.380 brain damage

00:45:31.920 part.

00:45:32.880 If they

00:45:33.520 didn't have

00:45:33.980 brain damage,

00:45:34.680 well, you

00:45:34.980 could probably

00:45:35.280 reason for them.

00:45:35.900 But they

00:45:36.660 do.

00:45:37.680 So you

00:45:38.040 can't.

00:45:39.140 So you

00:45:39.420 have to use

00:45:39.880 persuasion,

00:45:40.620 not reason.

00:45:42.420 And I

00:45:43.760 would say

00:45:44.060 the way to

00:45:44.460 do that

00:45:44.920 would be

00:45:45.760 to embrace

00:45:47.920 their policies

00:45:48.760 and watch

00:45:49.500 the break.

00:45:50.680 So that's

00:45:51.360 happened with

00:45:52.020 immigration,

00:45:52.960 right?

00:45:53.740 So the

00:45:54.380 Democrats got

00:45:55.140 to try their

00:45:55.880 immigration plan

00:45:56.800 and got to

00:45:58.140 see it didn't

00:45:58.560 work.

00:45:59.860 And that

00:46:00.540 would be true

00:46:00.980 of a lot of

00:46:01.420 stuff they're

00:46:02.040 doing.

00:46:02.360 If they

00:46:02.640 got their

00:46:03.140 way, if

00:46:04.360 the dog

00:46:04.820 caught the

00:46:05.320 car,

00:46:05.900 it wouldn't

00:46:06.760 know what

00:46:07.040 to do

00:46:07.280 with it.

00:46:08.160 So sometimes

00:46:08.860 you have to

00:46:09.260 let the dog 1.00

00:46:09.760 catch the

00:46:10.160 car and

00:46:10.520 say,

00:46:10.740 all right,

00:46:11.100 dumbass. 0.87

00:46:12.280 Now what

00:46:12.560 are you going

00:46:12.800 to do

00:46:12.980 with it?

00:46:13.920 Chew on

00:46:14.320 the bumper?

00:46:15.380 How's it

00:46:15.760 taste?

00:46:17.120 Sometimes you

00:46:17.740 have to let

00:46:18.180 them get

00:46:18.560 their way

00:46:19.140 because they're

00:46:20.140 brain damaged

00:46:20.800 and just see

00:46:21.940 what happens

00:46:22.420 and then talk

00:46:23.260 themselves out

00:46:23.980 of it.

00:46:24.300 They can

00:46:24.520 talk themselves

00:46:25.080 out of it

00:46:25.420 that way.

00:46:26.740 So that's

00:46:28.800 why I think

00:46:29.340 the GOP

00:46:29.980 should just

00:46:30.420 shut down

00:46:30.780 the Senate

00:46:31.140 because that's

00:46:33.380 what the

00:46:33.640 Democrats would 0.89

00:46:34.300 do.

00:46:34.500 if there

00:46:36.280 had been

00:46:36.760 let's say

00:46:38.240 a GOP

00:46:38.960 member who

00:46:39.520 had said

00:46:39.840 something that

00:46:40.380 was not

00:46:41.520 just maybe

00:46:42.640 a little

00:46:43.040 racist, 0.77

00:46:44.360 not just

00:46:44.920 a dog

00:46:45.320 whistle,

00:46:46.480 but direct.

00:46:47.620 if some

00:46:49.540 white adult

00:46:51.180 Republican

00:46:52.220 had made

00:46:52.740 a direct

00:46:53.700 racist

00:46:54.780 statement

00:46:55.420 like this,

00:46:58.020 I think

00:46:58.920 the Democrats

00:46:59.420 would just

00:46:59.840 stop the

00:47:00.260 Senate,

00:47:00.680 wouldn't they?

00:47:01.440 They would

00:47:01.740 just stop

00:47:02.160 everything and

00:47:02.620 say,

00:47:02.780 oh,

00:47:03.060 wait a minute,

00:47:04.300 this is the

00:47:04.960 biggest problem.

00:47:07.740 Nothing else

00:47:08.580 is as big a

00:47:09.400 problem as

00:47:10.080 this is.

00:47:10.560 These two

00:47:10.960 people have

00:47:12.120 to be gone

00:47:12.900 or we're not

00:47:14.760 going to do

00:47:15.060 any other

00:47:15.500 business.

00:47:17.620 somebody's

00:47:18.860 using the

00:47:19.340 example of

00:47:19.980 Representative

00:47:20.520 King.

00:47:21.760 King is an

00:47:22.620 example of

00:47:23.360 the dog

00:47:24.300 whistle type.

00:47:25.720 Some people

00:47:26.180 thought they

00:47:26.680 heard it in

00:47:27.300 his words,

00:47:28.080 other people

00:47:28.680 said he's

00:47:29.520 just bad at

00:47:30.260 talking in

00:47:30.780 public.

00:47:31.860 It's not

00:47:32.360 really there,

00:47:32.960 but you can

00:47:33.280 imagine it if

00:47:34.060 you want to.

00:47:34.900 That's different.

00:47:36.460 The dog

00:47:36.920 whistle stuff is

00:47:37.800 a little bit

00:47:38.240 mind reading and

00:47:39.160 you have to

00:47:39.500 assume you know

00:47:40.200 what they're

00:47:40.480 thinking and

00:47:41.300 you can't.

00:47:41.880 But if

00:47:42.820 somebody says

00:47:43.320 it directly,

00:47:44.920 as Duckworth

00:47:45.940 and Hirona

00:47:46.700 did, you

00:47:48.720 have to stop

00:47:49.500 the Senate

00:47:50.020 and fix

00:47:51.320 that.

00:47:52.580 Nothing else

00:47:53.520 matters today.

00:47:54.900 You gotta

00:47:55.540 fix it.

00:47:57.700 So,

00:47:59.180 the other

00:48:02.160 way to go

00:48:02.720 would be for

00:48:04.420 the GOP to

00:48:05.540 embrace it

00:48:06.480 and use the

00:48:08.240 aggressive

00:48:08.740 agreeing idea.

00:48:09.940 Imagine, if

00:48:12.100 you will,

00:48:12.560 that the GOP

00:48:13.400 introduced some

00:48:14.180 legislation to

00:48:15.640 ban white men 0.81

00:48:16.940 from serving in

00:48:18.120 the Senate from

00:48:19.200 that point on,

00:48:20.700 or serving in

00:48:21.600 a cabinet

00:48:21.980 position from

00:48:23.720 that point on.

00:48:25.360 What would

00:48:26.080 you do?

00:48:27.600 What would

00:48:28.000 happen if the

00:48:28.840 GOP said,

00:48:29.860 well, let's

00:48:30.720 take your

00:48:31.260 lead, Duckworth

00:48:33.220 and Ronnie.

00:48:33.860 We're going to

00:48:34.360 put together a

00:48:35.100 bill that says

00:48:35.900 that white people 0.52

00:48:36.620 can't serve in

00:48:37.440 government.

00:48:37.780 what would

00:48:40.000 happen?

00:48:41.540 Because if they

00:48:42.300 disagree with

00:48:43.260 the idea, it's

00:48:44.080 just another

00:48:44.700 disagreement, it

00:48:45.640 means nothing.

00:48:46.480 But what would

00:48:46.960 happen if they

00:48:47.600 said, yeah, let's

00:48:48.700 take this to

00:48:49.700 where you want

00:48:50.240 it to be.

00:48:51.320 Let's put it

00:48:52.200 into law.

00:48:53.400 And then put

00:48:54.060 all the

00:48:54.360 Democrats on

00:48:55.060 record to

00:48:56.380 see if they'd

00:48:56.840 vote for it.

00:48:58.640 See if they'll

00:48:59.320 vote for it.

00:49:00.580 Put them on

00:49:01.000 record.

00:49:01.840 See how many

00:49:02.340 Democrats will 0.92

00:49:03.020 vote that no

00:49:04.220 white people can

00:49:05.020 serve in the

00:49:05.480 government.

00:49:05.760 you like it,

00:49:08.640 don't you?

00:49:11.000 So this is why I

00:49:12.620 could never be in

00:49:13.220 the Senate, because

00:49:14.380 I would just be

00:49:14.980 trolling the other

00:49:15.740 side nonstop.

00:49:20.320 All right.

00:49:25.940 Purge the

00:49:26.540 whites.

00:49:30.140 Yeah, Schumer

00:49:31.020 wouldn't put it on

00:49:31.720 the calendar.

00:49:33.280 Well, it

00:49:33.560 doesn't matter.

00:49:34.020 It doesn't

00:49:34.760 matter if it

00:49:35.260 gets voted

00:49:35.720 on.

00:49:36.380 It matters if

00:49:37.200 they would do

00:49:37.740 it, because it

00:49:38.820 would be a news

00:49:40.540 attractor.

00:49:47.520 That makes you

00:49:48.300 overqualified for

00:49:49.220 the Senate.

00:49:50.300 Yeah, you

00:49:50.640 definitely wouldn't

00:49:51.200 want me in the

00:49:51.800 Senate.

00:49:53.360 Although that

00:49:53.940 would be fun.

00:49:54.820 Maybe the

00:49:55.200 Senate would be

00:49:55.680 better than being

00:49:56.280 president, because

00:49:57.240 I could cause more

00:49:58.400 trouble in the

00:49:58.920 Senate.

00:50:02.220 They're so brain

00:50:03.060 damaged, they

00:50:03.580 would probably

00:50:03.920 vote for it.

00:50:04.940 Yeah, but you

00:50:05.360 were really going

00:50:05.960 for the other

00:50:06.460 half of the

00:50:06.980 Democrats who

00:50:07.620 are not brain

00:50:08.260 damaged.

00:50:08.940 They just have

00:50:09.440 different policy

00:50:10.280 preferences.

00:50:15.300 All right.

00:50:16.560 That's all I got

00:50:17.320 for now.

00:50:18.660 And follow me on

00:50:19.920 Locals.

00:50:20.380 I'm doing lots of

00:50:21.140 stuff on reframing.

00:50:23.440 So I've discovered

00:50:24.420 that people like

00:50:25.620 best my lessons on

00:50:27.860 reframing.

00:50:28.740 How to look at the

00:50:29.400 stuff you're already

00:50:30.080 looking at in a

00:50:31.480 different way, so

00:50:32.580 that you can deal

00:50:33.600 with it more

00:50:34.060 productively.

00:50:35.220 So I'm putting up

00:50:36.040 more reframing

00:50:36.800 lessons on there.

00:50:38.240 And I've been

00:50:41.220 asked a number of

00:50:41.980 times lately by my

00:50:43.560 critics to explain

00:50:45.440 how I was so sure

00:50:47.240 that Trump would

00:50:51.020 win the election

00:50:52.140 even after the

00:50:54.060 election, because I

00:50:55.220 was suggesting that

00:50:57.500 there might be some

00:50:58.260 improprieties

00:50:59.100 discovered.

00:50:59.860 people say, well, I

00:51:01.880 guess you're wrong.

00:51:03.120 To which I say, am

00:51:05.280 I?

00:51:06.720 Am I wrong?

00:51:08.720 We only know that it

00:51:10.000 hasn't been checked.

00:51:12.080 How do you know I'm

00:51:16.640 wrong on the thing you

00:51:18.460 haven't checked?

00:51:19.660 Because that's the whole

00:51:20.680 point, isn't it?

00:51:21.800 Now, we know that the

00:51:22.620 courts did not overrule

00:51:23.820 anything.

00:51:24.300 We know that Biden's in

00:51:25.300 office.

00:51:25.740 I'm not arguing any of

00:51:26.760 that.

00:51:27.560 I'm just saying, you

00:51:29.160 don't know if I'm

00:51:29.900 wrong.

00:51:31.000 You just know we

00:51:31.800 didn't check.

00:51:34.620 So I tweeted the

00:51:35.620 other day that

00:51:36.180 sometimes you think I'm

00:51:37.360 wrong, but really you

00:51:38.360 just haven't waited

00:51:39.140 long enough.

00:51:41.700 That's one of these.

00:51:46.340 I cannot.

00:51:50.340 Can we get a

00:51:51.180 simultaneous sip every

00:51:52.260 time you speak

00:51:53.080 publicly?

00:51:53.600 Well, I don't know

00:51:54.940 if you've noticed, but

00:51:55.680 I've stopped speaking

00:51:57.860 publicly.

00:51:58.820 Has anybody noticed?

00:52:00.340 I just stopped taking

00:52:01.680 interviews.

00:52:03.980 I'm going to be doing,

00:52:06.460 unless it gets,

00:52:07.640 unless it gets postponed,

00:52:10.540 I'm going to be doing a

00:52:11.520 clubhouse event a little

00:52:13.900 later this morning.

00:52:15.040 And I haven't been on

00:52:16.040 clubhouse yet.

00:52:16.940 I just signed up, just

00:52:18.260 playing with it this

00:52:19.000 morning.

00:52:19.780 And I'm going to be, if

00:52:21.480 this happens, I think it's

00:52:22.740 going to happen, I'm

00:52:23.760 going to be defending

00:52:24.840 the indefensible.

00:52:27.080 So I'm going to be

00:52:28.780 picking a topic which

00:52:29.980 can't be defended, and

00:52:32.300 then I'm going to defend

00:52:33.060 it anyway.

00:52:33.800 And I'm going to have a

00:52:34.360 guest, a controversial

00:52:36.260 guest.

00:52:38.060 Controversial.

00:52:39.020 Oh yeah, really

00:52:40.480 controversial.

00:52:41.900 So look for that,

00:52:43.780 unless it gets postponed.

00:52:45.080 And I will talk to you

00:52:47.600 tomorrow.

00:52:48.900 I just saw a comment go

00:52:59.400 by that says, the

00:53:00.100 Beatles are the best

00:53:00.840 band ever.

00:53:01.920 I am totally obsessed at

00:53:03.760 looking at old Beatles

00:53:05.260 videos and stories, and

00:53:07.420 learning about how they

00:53:08.560 succeeded.

00:53:10.240 Because that's really

00:53:11.260 interesting.

00:53:12.280 And when you see that

00:53:14.120 they had systems, so the

00:53:17.640 Beatles had systems, they

00:53:19.400 didn't have goals.

00:53:20.500 And when you look at

00:53:21.240 their systems, it

00:53:22.720 becomes somewhat, almost

00:53:26.660 obvious why they

00:53:27.600 succeeded.

00:53:28.280 They just had better

00:53:28.980 systems.

00:53:30.140 And I'll give you one

00:53:31.340 example.

00:53:31.960 One example would be when

00:53:33.380 they were writing a song,

00:53:35.380 different band members

00:53:36.400 would have like little

00:53:37.320 bits of ideas of things

00:53:39.260 that are completely

00:53:40.720 different.

00:53:41.740 And the Beatles would

00:53:42.540 say, well if your little

00:53:44.200 bit is awesome, but you

00:53:46.440 couldn't build a whole

00:53:47.360 song around it.

00:53:48.580 And then, you know, if

00:53:49.840 George has a little bit

00:53:51.180 that's awesome, why

00:53:52.740 don't we just put the

00:53:53.480 bits together and we'll

00:53:54.500 make a song of all the

00:53:56.400 random bits.

00:53:57.960 And then you think, well

00:53:58.980 what about the vocals?

00:54:01.960 And the vocals, well

00:54:03.180 we'll just do random

00:54:04.120 sentences.

00:54:05.900 What?

00:54:07.480 You're going to make

00:54:08.200 music that has random

00:54:09.540 vocals, that literally

00:54:10.760 don't mean anything, and

00:54:12.720 your song will be a

00:54:14.220 hodgepodge of different

00:54:15.500 things that you just

00:54:16.420 like that just were put

00:54:17.440 together.

00:54:19.780 And that's what they

00:54:20.600 did.

00:54:21.420 And it turns out that

00:54:22.320 that's a better system.

00:54:24.320 Because people like music

00:54:25.940 where they like all the

00:54:26.840 good parts.

00:54:27.720 You've noticed that a lot

00:54:28.700 of modern music has the,

00:54:30.440 you might have the hip-hop

00:54:31.360 artist with maybe, you

00:54:32.920 know, Rihanna or

00:54:33.900 somebody, Rihanna,

00:54:35.160 somebody who can sing.

00:54:37.200 And then you get a little

00:54:38.000 bit of, you know, rap and

00:54:39.120 a little bit of singing and

00:54:41.100 you kind of like it.

00:54:42.880 Because it's, oh I like a

00:54:44.000 little bit of that, a

00:54:44.620 little bit of that.

00:54:45.680 So the Beatles sort of

00:54:46.760 pioneered putting things

00:54:48.320 together that shouldn't be

00:54:49.380 together.

00:54:49.920 Sort of the pineapple on

00:54:51.120 the pizza sort of thing.

00:54:52.480 And they did tons of

00:54:54.300 experimenting and tons of

00:54:56.980 practice.

00:54:58.020 And they took it from the,

00:55:00.860 they were stifled doing

00:55:02.480 live performances because

00:55:03.820 they couldn't hear

00:55:04.340 themselves, the crowds

00:55:05.300 were too loud.

00:55:06.680 And so they changed their

00:55:08.520 system.

00:55:09.060 And they moved to the

00:55:09.840 studio and started making

00:55:12.240 sounds that you'd never

00:55:13.560 heard before.

00:55:14.660 So another part of their

00:55:15.420 system is they would

00:55:17.100 mic their equipment

00:55:18.420 differently than other

00:55:19.320 people.

00:55:19.780 I think in one case a

00:55:21.640 piano was microphoned

00:55:22.920 underneath it.

00:55:24.460 They would, they would

00:55:25.800 have different devices

00:55:26.880 that nobody else used,

00:55:28.320 different sounds.

00:55:29.440 And they would just make

00:55:32.040 music out of sounds.

00:55:34.500 So once you dig into what

00:55:37.080 the Beatles did, systems

00:55:38.960 wise, it's pretty

00:55:40.960 impressive.

00:55:41.840 So it's not exactly an

00:55:43.480 accident that they

00:55:44.280 succeeded.

00:55:44.840 I mean, their talent was

00:55:45.840 off the charts and they

00:55:47.280 had exactly the right

00:55:48.140 people, but their systems

00:55:49.840 were amazing.

00:55:51.360 That's the real story of

00:55:52.520 it.

00:55:52.820 All right.

00:55:53.300 That's all for now.

00:55:54.240 Talk to you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 24, 2021

Episode 1323 Scott Adams： Senate Goes Full Racist, Legacy Media Gets Competition, Gun Control Laws, and More

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