Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1328 Scott Adams： The Argument For and Against Vaccine Passports, The Everstuck Ship, And Trump Fun Too

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00:00:43.760 the thing that makes everything better except apparently that big ship that's stuck in the Suez Canal.

00:00:49.400 But let's see if we can get that out.

00:00:51.220 Yeah, I think the simultaneous ship has the power to dislodge shipping vessels from canals.

00:00:59.280 Go! 0.95

00:01:03.640 I feel it wiggling right now.

00:01:06.080 Yep. Whoa, whoa, hold on.

00:01:08.380 I feel it coming loose.

00:01:10.640 It's coming loose.

00:01:11.500 Well, let's talk about all the stories.

00:01:18.200 Yes, let's talk about that big old ship.

00:01:21.140 So the name of the ship, humorously, is the Evergreen.

00:01:26.280 Isn't that kind of perfect?

00:01:28.240 Because the story became an evergreen.

00:01:30.940 An evergreen is like it never goes away. 0.99

00:01:32.880 Every day you wake up and there's still a ship stuck in the Suez Canal and you're not going to be able to wipe your ass if it stays there much longer. 0.98

00:01:45.380 So this morning the news was that at least one part of it got free. 0.98

00:01:52.200 And everybody's thinking, yay, if one part of it is free, it's not going to take long to get the other part free, is it?

00:01:59.440 Except they let the wind blow it back into its stuck position.

00:02:05.720 And I ask you this.

00:02:08.360 Is the wind around the Suez Canal sort of a special kind of wind?

00:02:14.040 Is it the kind of wind that targets specific ships?

00:02:18.360 Because it seems to me that a Suez Canal that is filled with shipping, ships, shipping,

00:02:27.660 that's why they call them ships,

00:02:29.960 they probably figured out the whole wind thing by now.

00:02:34.740 Right?

00:02:35.920 But yet I'm not hearing that the wind has disrupted shipping all over the world.

00:02:41.260 Seems to be just this little evergreen ship gets a little extra wind, I feel.

00:02:46.780 And that's not right.

00:02:48.880 So I won't make any other jokes.

00:02:51.500 I had some good ones, but they're not for the public.

00:02:54.380 But that ship is not quite out yet.

00:02:58.200 The wind blew it back into a stuck position.

00:03:02.160 And I do love the simplicity of the story.

00:03:05.100 As somebody said on Twitter,

00:03:06.760 all of our other stories are too complicated.

00:03:10.080 They have lots of variables.

00:03:12.060 But this one's great.

00:03:13.820 You can sum it up easily.

00:03:15.980 Ship.

00:03:16.900 Stuck.

00:03:18.700 Needed unstuck.

00:03:21.480 That's it.

00:03:22.260 All right, Trump made news again.

00:03:25.960 A couple ways.

00:03:27.680 He attended, I guess he crashed a wedding at Mar-a-Lago.

00:03:31.480 And there's a video of him sort of talking about himself and talking about the government.

00:03:38.260 And it wasn't until the very end that he says something to the bride and groom.

00:03:42.780 You can tell he got a big applause.

00:03:44.660 It was a friendly Trump crowd, as you might imagine.

00:03:48.000 They had a wedding at Mar-a-Lago.

00:03:49.560 Oh, they were probably pro-Trump.

00:03:51.820 But the way it's being portrayed out of context is that he was rude and boorish and crashed a wedding and talked about himself and forgot about the bride and groom and then left.

00:04:03.500 Nothing like that happened.

00:04:07.640 Exactly the opposite.

00:04:09.660 He showed up at a wedding, thrilled the wedding people.

00:04:13.500 They had the wedding of all time, the most memorable wedding you could possibly have, because Trump showed up and gave a speech unexpectedly.

00:04:21.220 All right, so the bride and groom probably had, like, the best story ever.

00:04:27.140 But it, yeah, exactly.

00:04:28.800 It got Rupard.

00:04:29.900 So that story got totally Rupard.

00:04:32.080 If you cut off the last part, it looks like he never even addressed the bride and groom.

00:04:38.660 All right, Trump is also saying he's going to visit the border.

00:04:41.680 This is why he was the fun president.

00:04:47.240 Visiting the border is just the best thing you could possibly do when the sitting president is not visiting the border during a crisis.

00:04:57.780 So if the ex-president visits the border before the sitting president, it sort of makes the sitting president look not so strong on that issue, if you know what I mean.

00:05:07.680 So that's a good play by Trump.

00:05:09.940 Persuasion-wise, good play.

00:05:14.220 So the George Floyd trial is starting today, I guess.

00:05:19.780 And have you noticed how one story ends and then there's always another one that just backfills it perfectly?

00:05:28.440 Why isn't there ever a day, I guess there were a few without Trump in the winter, in which it seemed like there wasn't much news.

00:05:36.440 But it's kind of weird how the news always has a big story in the pipeline.

00:05:43.900 The timing of it is a little suspicious.

00:05:46.780 You know, sometimes they're two at a time.

00:05:48.820 But they really make sure that pipeline is filled.

00:05:51.920 Which sort of suggests to me that if we had a time when there wasn't much happening, that the news would make something out of nothing.

00:05:59.680 Huh.

00:06:00.020 They wouldn't do that, would they?

00:06:03.280 Make something out of nothing just to make news?

00:06:06.260 Maybe they would.

00:06:07.260 And how would we know?

00:06:08.680 How would we know if there was a real issue and we were just reading the news and seeing a real issue?

00:06:14.640 Or the news business had created an issue that otherwise you wouldn't have even cared about or known about or had any impact, you know, whatever.

00:06:25.680 So you start to see the pattern, that the news is pretty much artificial, at least in terms of how you feel about it.

00:06:36.660 So the things you feel about the strongest aren't necessarily the important things that are happening.

00:06:43.360 So the news no longer reports what's important, per se.

00:06:47.460 They report what's going to get the best audience.

00:06:49.540 Well, there's a publication called Real Clear Investigations.

00:06:56.580 They're reporting about this little county in Montana, Missoula.

00:07:01.180 Only 120,000 people in the whole area.

00:07:06.180 And they did a full audit of the mail-in ballots.

00:07:11.900 Now, apparently other audits have been sample audits.

00:07:15.880 I wasn't aware of that.

00:07:16.880 So when larger places are audited, they can't count them all because there would be too many.

00:07:22.820 So they pick a sample and just count those.

00:07:25.360 Now, I have questions.

00:07:28.860 Did you know that, first of all, that the other mail-in ballot audits were samples and not actually just counting all the ballots?

00:07:37.260 I didn't know that.

00:07:38.700 So that's interesting.

00:07:40.080 But here's my second question.

00:07:42.420 What do we know about how they picked the sample?

00:07:46.880 Who exactly gave them the sample?

00:07:51.040 Did the auditors go into a big room, you know, full of ballots and say, all right, we're just going to randomly, you know, well, and how would you do it?

00:08:00.700 How would you randomly select ballots?

00:08:03.800 Because even if you went and said, oh, I'll just randomly pick them out of this pile and this pile, probably it wouldn't be random, would it?

00:08:10.500 Because that's not even close to random, right?

00:08:14.700 I mean, mathematically, statistically, even if you weren't trying to take them from the same place, you couldn't guarantee it was random.

00:08:22.820 It wouldn't be possible.

00:08:23.900 So, I ask you this question.

00:08:27.240 Were the people who audited the ballots the same ones who decided which ones to audit?

00:08:34.400 In other words, did they do the randomness?

00:08:37.580 Or, I'm just going to put that out there because I don't know the answer,

00:08:41.540 and let me tell you that no court has found any widespread fraud.

00:08:48.400 No court has a ruling of any widespread fraud in the election, right?

00:08:55.140 It's a big lie.

00:08:56.900 It's a big lie.

00:08:58.200 I'm saying that so I can stay on social media.

00:09:00.540 Now, on with the story.

00:09:01.580 So, the question is, do the people who have done sample representative audits of big places,

00:09:09.900 was the sample given to them by the same people who organized the election?

00:09:16.640 Or did they somehow get to pick it?

00:09:19.280 And if they picked it, how in the world did they know it was representative?

00:09:23.380 And do you want a representative sample?

00:09:26.260 Because I don't think you want a representative sample, do you?

00:09:28.960 Yeah, don't you assume that if there's a problem, it's probably not going to be evenly spread.

00:09:36.880 So, wouldn't a representative sample of ballots eliminate the possibility of finding fraud?

00:09:44.280 Because you could find some, but you'd say, ah, it's hardly anything.

00:09:47.940 This one sample that we got from this one town, yeah, it had a problem, but it's just one.

00:09:54.820 But it's also the only one you checked in that town,

00:09:57.280 because it was a representative sample.

00:10:00.460 So, if you do a representative sample,

00:10:03.700 doesn't that guarantee, or almost guarantee, just math-wise and statistically,

00:10:10.280 that you wouldn't find any fraud?

00:10:13.000 Am I wrong about that?

00:10:15.780 It sort of calls into question

00:10:17.840 whether any audits have been done at all

00:10:20.480 in any way that would matter.

00:10:22.380 So, I'll just put it as a question.

00:10:26.180 It's not an accusation, because that would get me kicked off of social media.

00:10:30.360 So, I have no reason to believe that any audits were insufficient.

00:10:34.040 I simply have a gap in my understanding

00:10:36.500 of how they could possibly pick a random, you know,

00:10:40.280 some representative sample that actually meant something.

00:10:43.600 But anyway, back to this little Missoula place.

00:10:46.400 So, they did an audit in which, because it was a smaller place,

00:10:50.620 and there were volunteers, and they got approval to do it,

00:10:54.200 they could look at every single one.

00:10:56.660 So, I believe this might be the only place

00:10:59.460 that every ballot was checked.

00:11:01.760 Maybe.

00:11:02.640 You know, fact-check me on that.

00:11:04.780 And here's what they found.

00:11:05.820 There were enough irregularities

00:11:09.240 that could have changed the election. 0.56

00:11:11.420 Like, easily.

00:11:13.140 There were so many

00:11:14.100 in a place where elections were often close

00:11:17.400 that it was way beyond

00:11:19.420 the point.

00:11:23.040 Let me see.

00:11:23.920 I'm seeing some answers about the samples.

00:11:30.160 I'm seeing...

00:11:31.160 Okay, I don't see an answer I want to read.

00:11:33.560 But some people are addressing the sample size question.

00:11:37.320 So, again, I put that out there as a question,

00:11:39.780 not an accusation.

00:11:41.040 I don't know how it could be representative,

00:11:43.200 but maybe it is.

00:11:45.500 So, what they found is that out of 72,000 mail-in votes,

00:11:50.880 4,600 of them were without envelopes.

00:11:57.080 6.3% of all votes.

00:12:00.720 Of the mail-in votes, not of all votes.

00:12:02.620 But 6% of the mail-in votes

00:12:04.880 didn't have envelopes.

00:12:08.260 Which means that legally

00:12:09.780 they should not have been counted.

00:12:11.920 But they were.

00:12:18.280 And what's more,

00:12:19.660 according to...

00:12:20.260 This is from the article.

00:12:21.740 According to auditors,

00:12:22.780 county employees claimed

00:12:23.820 that during the post-election audit,

00:12:26.460 some of the envelopes

00:12:27.580 may have been double-counted.

00:12:28.760 So, it might even be a higher number of missing envelopes,

00:12:33.040 but they don't know that for sure.

00:12:35.500 And apparently there were some postmark issues as well.

00:12:39.980 So, fact-check me on this, will you?

00:12:44.600 Just fact-check me.

00:12:45.620 Number one,

00:12:46.880 is the story even true?

00:12:48.780 Right?

00:12:49.460 Like, I don't trust anything.

00:12:51.740 Like, maybe this story didn't even happen.

00:12:54.080 Maybe there's no place called Missoula.

00:12:56.540 Right?

00:12:57.040 I mean, anything's possible in 2021.

00:12:59.620 So, first of all,

00:13:00.680 is the story even true?

00:13:02.420 I don't know.

00:13:03.740 I don't know.

00:13:04.460 I don't even know how to know.

00:13:07.100 But if it were true,

00:13:09.260 is it the only place they've ever checked?

00:13:14.060 And it's also

00:13:15.120 completely problematic.

00:13:19.660 I hate using that word.

00:13:20.700 I'm going to erase that word and back up

00:13:23.400 like I never used it before.

00:13:27.340 The only place you checked,

00:13:29.360 there was a problem?

00:13:31.440 Is that true?

00:13:34.880 So, there is a Missoula in Montana.

00:13:37.240 At least that's...

00:13:38.700 Well, that part I was pretty confident about.

00:13:41.640 But...

00:13:42.260 Was there really an election?

00:13:45.960 Somebody says,

00:13:46.740 Yeah, you know,

00:13:48.340 I gotta say.

00:13:50.220 I gotta say,

00:13:51.200 this certainly raises some questions.

00:13:53.440 But, like I said,

00:13:54.540 the courts have shown no proof

00:13:56.280 of widespread fraud.

00:13:59.040 Jack Posobiec had the...

00:14:01.060 a great prank tweet this morning.

00:14:05.320 And, uh,

00:14:06.240 here's the setup.

00:14:07.420 Um,

00:14:07.960 as you know,

00:14:08.740 there are a bunch of Antifa people

00:14:10.340 who are counter-protesting

00:14:11.960 some, uh,

00:14:13.740 I guess,

00:14:14.360 uh,

00:14:15.780 some Republican types,

00:14:17.160 some conservative types

00:14:18.180 who are protesting something.

00:14:19.840 Anyway,

00:14:20.300 so the Antifa people

00:14:21.420 were throwing rocks

00:14:22.400 through the cars

00:14:23.240 of anything that had a flag on it

00:14:24.920 or the trucks, usually.

00:14:26.880 And so there was some,

00:14:28.260 some of that kind of violence

00:14:29.740 and destruction.

00:14:31.660 And, uh,

00:14:33.160 uh,

00:14:33.460 and Jack tweeted,

00:14:35.840 tongue-in-cheek,

00:14:37.120 armed Antifa,

00:14:38.040 Antifa insurrectionists

00:14:39.880 attempted to overthrow

00:14:41.100 the Oregon state capitol today.

00:14:43.280 Now, of course,

00:14:43.880 that's a joke

00:14:44.960 on the capitol riots

00:14:47.600 where anything that looks

00:14:49.160 like a protest,

00:14:50.260 you know,

00:14:50.680 could be construed

00:14:51.620 by the fake media

00:14:53.000 as a,

00:14:53.560 as an insurrection.

00:14:56.160 Mike Baker

00:14:57.080 corresponded to

00:14:58.000 the New York Times,

00:14:59.440 not understanding

00:15:00.380 that this was a joke,

00:15:01.560 tweets about it.

00:15:03.960 The tweet below

00:15:04.720 is getting a lot of traction,

00:15:06.400 but isn't even close

00:15:07.600 to being true.

00:15:09.320 Yeah,

00:15:09.580 which is often the case

00:15:11.180 with jokes.

00:15:12.040 They're not that close

00:15:13.000 to being true.

00:15:14.460 Um,

00:15:15.060 the crowd of anti-fascist,

00:15:17.320 uh,

00:15:17.660 activists

00:15:18.140 gathering in front

00:15:19.260 of the capitol

00:15:19.720 to protest

00:15:20.320 a planned right-wing event.

00:15:22.740 There was no

00:15:23.280 attempted overthrow.

00:15:24.980 Yes,

00:15:25.440 there was no

00:15:26.360 attempted overthrow.

00:15:28.820 Good to know.

00:15:29.940 So we have that clarification

00:15:31.180 of a prank.

00:15:33.420 Um,

00:15:34.860 breaking news,

00:15:35.840 I don't know

00:15:36.200 if you knew this,

00:15:36.800 but 25% of people

00:15:38.600 polled

00:15:39.140 on any topic 1.00

00:15:40.860 are idiots. 1.00

00:15:42.660 Have you ever 1.00

00:15:43.040 noticed that?

00:15:44.200 It doesn't matter

00:15:44.840 what the question is,

00:15:45.980 if it's on politics anyway.

00:15:47.900 Any question

00:15:48.640 on politics,

00:15:50.360 25% of the country

00:15:51.780 is going to be 0.99

00:15:52.440 on the dumb side. 0.98

00:15:54.460 It doesn't even matter 0.99

00:15:55.140 what the question is.

00:15:56.480 And I,

00:15:56.720 and I wonder,

00:15:57.980 is it the same people

00:15:59.000 every time?

00:16:01.180 Or is it just

00:16:02.240 always a coincidence

00:16:03.080 that about 25%

00:16:05.180 of the people

00:16:05.700 will disagree

00:16:06.380 on things

00:16:07.540 no matter

00:16:08.780 what they are?

00:16:10.420 Or is it always

00:16:11.460 the same 25% 0.56

00:16:12.920 who just don't

00:16:13.540 understand anything?

00:16:15.420 Makes you wonder.

00:16:16.420 I imagine it's

00:16:17.040 different people,

00:16:18.000 but it's a funny question.

00:16:20.140 So here's,

00:16:21.020 in case in point,

00:16:22.520 Rasmussen is,

00:16:23.520 uh,

00:16:24.440 reporting about

00:16:25.240 the support

00:16:25.900 for voter ID laws.

00:16:27.380 So apparently

00:16:28.700 back in 2018,

00:16:30.060 so not that long ago,

00:16:32.140 the support

00:16:33.040 for voter ID laws

00:16:34.420 among white people

00:16:36.040 was 67% to 74%.

00:16:38.980 Among blacks,

00:16:41.240 it was 55% to 69%.

00:16:43.660 And other non-whites, 0.98

00:16:46.100 oh, that's interesting,

00:16:47.020 it's much higher,

00:16:47.660 76% to 82%.

00:16:48.920 Uh,

00:16:50.340 and so among all voters,

00:16:53.160 the range was 67% to 75%.

00:16:55.380 But the current average

00:16:57.960 is 75%.

00:17:00.060 So in other words,

00:17:01.200 the support

00:17:01.760 for voter ID laws

00:17:03.020 has climbed substantially.

00:17:05.300 A lot more people

00:17:06.020 are in favor of it.

00:17:07.200 But I go back

00:17:08.280 to my question.

00:17:10.020 25% of the country

00:17:11.900 is not in favor

00:17:13.580 of knowing who voted.

00:17:16.260 What's wrong with them?

00:17:18.760 What's wrong with them?

00:17:20.760 So,

00:17:21.820 um,

00:17:22.940 so I see somebody

00:17:24.400 saying that Scott

00:17:25.300 believes polls again.

00:17:26.900 Uh,

00:17:27.080 well,

00:17:27.300 I'm reading the Rasmussen polls.

00:17:29.480 The Rasmussen polls,

00:17:31.040 at least on the presidential stuff

00:17:32.480 that I follow,

00:17:33.300 I don't know about anything else,

00:17:34.720 but on the presidential stuff,

00:17:36.240 they've been one of the closest

00:17:37.380 pollsters,

00:17:38.360 uh,

00:17:39.200 consistently.

00:17:40.680 So,

00:17:41.320 following a pollster

00:17:42.540 that is consistently

00:17:43.660 one of the best

00:17:44.880 is not exactly,

00:17:47.180 uh, 1.00

00:17:47.900 being too stupid. 1.00

00:17:49.560 Following the polls 1.00

00:17:50.560 that come out

00:17:51.140 prior to an election,

00:17:52.080 which you know

00:17:52.860 are fake polls, 0.99

00:17:54.600 would be sort of dumb. 0.99

00:17:56.520 All right? 0.99

00:17:56.860 So you can't say

00:17:57.660 polls are polls.

00:17:59.180 Some of them

00:17:59.760 are just obviously

00:18:00.400 fake all the time.

00:18:02.340 Um,

00:18:02.880 now,

00:18:03.540 as I've been telling you lately,

00:18:04.780 I've decided to

00:18:05.720 self-identify

00:18:06.560 as black.

00:18:07.760 And I decided

00:18:08.900 I haven't explained

00:18:09.800 that well enough.

00:18:10.720 Because some people

00:18:11.500 still think it's a joke.

00:18:12.900 But it's not.

00:18:14.300 Um,

00:18:15.400 number one,

00:18:16.640 I agree,

00:18:17.980 literally,

00:18:18.820 no joke,

00:18:19.760 being completely serious.

00:18:22.460 I agree with the concept

00:18:23.760 that people can

00:18:24.680 self-identify.

00:18:26.900 Let me give you

00:18:27.600 an example.

00:18:28.780 Let's say somebody

00:18:29.680 is technically bisexual.

00:18:32.320 At least,

00:18:32.880 in their own mind,

00:18:34.440 they would consider

00:18:35.540 themselves bisexual.

00:18:37.020 But let's say

00:18:37.660 they just have

00:18:38.300 more of an affinity

00:18:39.320 for the gay lifestyle,

00:18:41.400 spend more time there, 0.85

00:18:42.800 have more gay friends

00:18:43.720 than straight friends,

00:18:44.580 and just decide

00:18:46.020 to identify as gay.

00:18:48.280 But maybe technically

00:18:50.020 in their mind

00:18:50.800 they know that

00:18:51.420 they could go

00:18:52.000 the other way

00:18:52.460 if they wanted to.

00:18:54.120 So,

00:18:54.520 should they be allowed

00:18:55.460 to identify as gay

00:18:57.420 when sort of technically

00:18:59.280 maybe they're not

00:19:00.180 so much completely gay 1.00

00:19:01.600 as bi,

00:19:02.660 but they have an affinity

00:19:03.880 for that lifestyle?

00:19:05.600 I say yes.

00:19:07.280 I say yes.

00:19:08.240 Because they would 0.91

00:19:08.820 certainly be treated as gay.

00:19:10.840 They would be living 0.94

00:19:11.560 the life,

00:19:12.400 you know,

00:19:12.640 etc.

00:19:13.200 So I say yes.

00:19:15.100 Likewise,

00:19:15.880 as you know,

00:19:16.600 I've been pro-transgender

00:19:18.940 everything.

00:19:20.420 And should those folks

00:19:21.740 be allowed

00:19:22.580 to live the life

00:19:23.840 and identify

00:19:25.720 with the group

00:19:26.400 that they want

00:19:27.140 because of an affinity

00:19:28.600 for it?

00:19:30.040 Technically,

00:19:30.960 if you looked

00:19:31.540 at their DNA,

00:19:33.260 right,

00:19:33.720 you'd say,

00:19:34.180 well,

00:19:34.340 technically,

00:19:35.100 this isn't the group

00:19:36.860 that we would

00:19:37.360 put you in.

00:19:38.360 But if you have

00:19:39.000 an affinity

00:19:39.560 for that group,

00:19:40.720 it's where you feel

00:19:42.680 you live

00:19:43.280 and belong

00:19:43.920 and how you're

00:19:44.700 going to be treated

00:19:45.340 in life,

00:19:46.880 I'm okay with that.

00:19:48.040 I feel that's

00:19:48.740 a reasonable thing.

00:19:51.880 And so,

00:19:52.460 based on that

00:19:53.180 same standard,

00:19:54.000 which I've accepted

00:19:54.920 as reasonable,

00:19:56.140 and likewise,

00:19:56.840 I accept

00:19:57.260 that if somebody

00:19:58.500 is, say,

00:19:59.080 25%

00:20:00.340 genetically black,

00:20:03.620 that if they 0.74

00:20:04.260 identify as

00:20:05.380 just black,

00:20:06.980 we accept that,

00:20:09.280 right?

00:20:09.980 Because same reason.

00:20:11.500 You know,

00:20:11.740 their lifestyle,

00:20:13.040 their interests,

00:20:13.740 their interests,

00:20:14.620 the way they're

00:20:15.040 treated might be

00:20:15.880 more in one group.

00:20:16.960 So, yeah,

00:20:17.580 identify that way,

00:20:18.640 even if technically

00:20:20.180 somebody else

00:20:20.920 might argue

00:20:21.480 you shouldn't be.

00:20:22.820 So here's why

00:20:23.700 I've decided

00:20:24.160 to self-identify

00:20:25.400 as black. 0.69

00:20:26.000 Number one, 0.95

00:20:26.480 I like to be

00:20:26.980 on a winning team.

00:20:29.000 I like to be

00:20:29.680 on the winning team.

00:20:31.120 Who's winning?

00:20:32.440 Well,

00:20:32.700 I would say

00:20:33.060 black Americans

00:20:33.840 are starting to,

00:20:35.040 finally,

00:20:35.960 like really getting

00:20:36.780 a little bit

00:20:37.800 of purchase,

00:20:38.440 right?

00:20:39.200 Finally,

00:20:39.840 after hundreds

00:20:40.600 of years,

00:20:41.480 it does look

00:20:42.320 like the,

00:20:43.860 you know,

00:20:44.080 black situation

00:20:44.840 is doing pretty

00:20:45.720 well,

00:20:46.580 largely because

00:20:48.100 of activism,

00:20:50.360 whereas the

00:20:51.120 white situation

00:20:52.120 is sort of

00:20:52.700 decreasing.

00:20:54.460 Wouldn't you say?

00:20:55.840 Now,

00:20:56.300 I'm not putting

00:20:57.040 a value judgment

00:20:57.880 on that.

00:20:58.440 I'm just saying

00:20:59.000 if you observe it,

00:20:59.900 it looks like that.

00:21:01.320 So I like being

00:21:02.060 on the winning team.

00:21:03.880 Number two,

00:21:05.260 I'm told by science

00:21:06.840 that all of us

00:21:08.760 have African roots.

00:21:11.320 Now,

00:21:11.660 if it's truly

00:21:12.160 we all have

00:21:12.640 African roots,

00:21:13.640 if you looked

00:21:14.160 at the full arc

00:21:15.260 of human evolution,

00:21:17.940 most of the time

00:21:19.140 I've been African.

00:21:20.640 In other words,

00:21:21.320 my family ancestry

00:21:23.740 probably spent

00:21:24.900 more time African 0.89

00:21:25.840 than they did

00:21:26.420 in Europe.

00:21:28.100 So,

00:21:29.080 I say,

00:21:29.480 I say genetically

00:21:30.900 I've got an argument

00:21:31.960 there.

00:21:32.940 I've also lost

00:21:33.820 two careers

00:21:34.600 for my race.

00:21:35.920 I've told you

00:21:36.420 that too many times.

00:21:37.680 I lost my banking

00:21:38.460 career because

00:21:39.140 I was white

00:21:39.720 and was told

00:21:40.520 that directly,

00:21:41.160 by the way.

00:21:41.700 I'm not reading

00:21:43.400 between the lines.

00:21:44.480 Boss told me that.

00:21:45.880 I lost my telecom

00:21:47.140 career because

00:21:47.720 I was white.

00:21:48.340 Again,

00:21:48.680 my boss told me

00:21:49.380 directly,

00:21:50.420 you're white, 0.99

00:21:51.000 we can't promote you.

00:21:52.840 And I would say

00:21:53.560 that my current career

00:21:54.540 as a cartoonist

00:21:56.460 and now public commentator

00:21:57.900 probably lost,

00:21:59.660 I'd say,

00:22:00.260 a third

00:22:01.120 to a half

00:22:02.480 of my potential

00:22:03.280 income to race.

00:22:04.660 because if I talk

00:22:06.660 about Trump

00:22:08.040 in any positive way,

00:22:09.860 that made me look

00:22:10.680 like a white supremacist,

00:22:12.060 people don't buy 0.95

00:22:13.000 my books,

00:22:14.140 etc.

00:22:14.660 So,

00:22:15.120 I've lost

00:22:15.620 two careers

00:22:16.980 completely

00:22:17.600 because of my race

00:22:19.260 and my current one

00:22:20.900 is probably down

00:22:21.480 by a third or so

00:22:22.560 because of my race.

00:22:24.560 Now,

00:22:25.080 you tell me,

00:22:25.700 who do I have

00:22:26.800 more affinity with?

00:22:28.560 People who are

00:22:29.780 discriminated against

00:22:32.320 for race

00:22:32.980 or people who are not.

00:22:36.340 I have way more affinity

00:22:38.220 with people who have

00:22:39.020 been discriminated against

00:22:40.140 for race.

00:22:41.660 And by the way,

00:22:42.260 that's not a joke.

00:22:44.000 That's literally true.

00:22:45.680 I do have more affinity

00:22:46.960 for anybody

00:22:47.640 discriminated against

00:22:48.720 by race.

00:22:49.600 That's how it works.

00:22:50.800 If something happens

00:22:51.640 to you that happened

00:22:52.440 to somebody else,

00:22:53.300 you have some appreciation

00:22:55.360 for it.

00:22:56.380 That's how it works.

00:22:58.100 And then,

00:22:59.520 and I've also done

00:23:01.940 more work

00:23:02.540 to benefit

00:23:04.000 the black community

00:23:05.020 than any other.

00:23:06.140 So,

00:23:06.440 I would say

00:23:06.780 that's my affinity group

00:23:08.240 and that's what I choose.

00:23:11.400 All right.

00:23:12.520 Here's a little issue

00:23:13.580 that I saw in a cartoon

00:23:14.720 but it's actually

00:23:15.940 a pretty good point.

00:23:17.580 We're making a big deal

00:23:19.000 and should

00:23:19.700 about Asian American violence

00:23:21.460 because we don't want

00:23:22.440 any of that.

00:23:23.240 We don't want any of that

00:23:24.060 bias and discrimination

00:23:25.200 in our country.

00:23:26.720 So,

00:23:27.200 we started out

00:23:27.860 with Black Lives Matter,

00:23:30.600 you know,

00:23:31.040 my group,

00:23:32.140 but now we're

00:23:33.080 sort of talking

00:23:33.900 about Asian Americans

00:23:35.080 being discriminated

00:23:36.480 and we're very close,

00:23:38.480 very close,

00:23:40.040 to saying

00:23:40.560 Asian American lives matter.

00:23:43.820 We're going to get

00:23:44.740 to the point

00:23:45.180 where they all matter

00:23:46.040 except for 0.98

00:23:47.180 these white supremacist lives. 0.90

00:23:49.100 So, 0.71

00:23:50.740 it'll be interesting

00:23:51.420 to see how

00:23:51.980 the Asian American thing

00:23:53.440 has an influence

00:23:54.720 on the Black Lives Matter thing

00:23:56.420 or if they just

00:23:57.280 always live separately.

00:23:58.640 But it seems like

00:23:59.280 one would influence

00:24:00.080 the other.

00:24:02.060 I told you

00:24:02.840 that the news

00:24:03.480 is all artificial

00:24:04.840 and what you consider

00:24:06.800 the biggest story

00:24:07.720 is often

00:24:08.280 completely irrelevant

00:24:09.400 and what you consider

00:24:10.980 no story at all

00:24:11.960 is often

00:24:12.400 the biggest thing

00:24:13.180 happening.

00:24:13.960 Here's a good example.

00:24:14.820 I would argue

00:24:16.420 that the biggest thing

00:24:18.440 that's going to come

00:24:19.100 out of the coronavirus thing

00:24:20.360 is the death

00:24:21.420 of public schools

00:24:22.680 because the teachers' unions

00:24:24.760 have overreached.

00:24:26.400 Right?

00:24:27.180 The teachers' unions

00:24:28.220 have overreached.

00:24:29.860 And

00:24:29.960 if you're not following

00:24:32.000 let's see

00:24:34.020 you should be following

00:24:36.560 Corey DeAngelis

00:24:37.540 on Twitter

00:24:38.020 because

00:24:38.560 he's sort of

00:24:39.820 the only one

00:24:40.300 who seems to be

00:24:40.940 consistently reporting

00:24:42.020 all the changes

00:24:43.720 that are happening.

00:24:44.880 But today

00:24:45.440 we're hearing

00:24:45.820 that West Virginia

00:24:46.560 Governor Jim Justice

00:24:47.720 just signed

00:24:48.260 this year's

00:24:48.720 most expansive bill

00:24:49.860 to fund students

00:24:51.680 instead of systems.

00:24:52.840 Now that's happening

00:24:53.460 all over the place.

00:24:54.800 A bunch of different states

00:24:56.160 especially where they

00:24:57.760 have Republican control

00:24:59.040 are giving

00:25:00.160 deciding that

00:25:01.540 the funding

00:25:02.180 will follow

00:25:03.020 the student

00:25:03.660 so the student

00:25:04.740 can go to

00:25:05.240 whatever school

00:25:05.820 they want

00:25:06.340 private or public

00:25:07.240 and it won't

00:25:08.580 just go to

00:25:09.040 the school

00:25:09.580 instead.

00:25:11.620 I think

00:25:12.380 the teachers' unions

00:25:13.600 have destroyed

00:25:14.400 public education

00:25:16.200 as a monopoly.

00:25:18.660 It looks like

00:25:19.280 they overreached

00:25:19.960 and destroyed it.

00:25:21.520 Now as you know

00:25:22.580 the teachers' unions

00:25:24.420 are the biggest

00:25:25.240 source of

00:25:27.140 systemic racism.

00:25:30.780 And I don't think

00:25:31.480 enough of my people

00:25:32.360 are talking about this

00:25:33.520 but

00:25:33.940 it's the biggest source

00:25:35.340 and it might be

00:25:36.420 on the way

00:25:36.840 to self-solving.

00:25:38.280 In other words

00:25:38.740 the pandemic

00:25:39.380 may have solved

00:25:40.400 the biggest

00:25:41.740 form of

00:25:42.760 systemic racism

00:25:43.640 in the country.

00:25:44.660 I don't think

00:25:45.200 there's a bigger

00:25:45.680 story than that.

00:25:47.600 I propose to you

00:25:49.860 that this is

00:25:51.440 the biggest story

00:25:52.280 in the country

00:25:52.840 and it's basically

00:25:55.580 you know

00:25:56.460 one guy

00:25:57.340 who's tweeting

00:25:58.420 about it.

00:25:59.440 It's the biggest

00:26:00.600 story.

00:26:01.640 Like this is the one

00:26:02.460 that moves the planet.

00:26:04.200 This one moves

00:26:05.000 civilization.

00:26:06.060 The entire

00:26:07.440 future of the

00:26:09.080 United States

00:26:09.960 compared to

00:26:11.260 let's say

00:26:11.620 our competition

00:26:12.380 with China

00:26:13.020 is really

00:26:14.740 really dependent

00:26:16.020 on this.

00:26:17.520 Biggest story

00:26:18.300 in the country.

00:26:19.660 Completely ignored.

00:26:21.200 It's not even

00:26:21.720 you won't find it

00:26:22.800 on any website.

00:26:24.480 You'd have to

00:26:25.140 follow somebody

00:26:25.780 on Twitter

00:26:26.120 to even know

00:26:26.580 it's happening.

00:26:31.500 Also from

00:26:32.380 Rasmussen

00:26:33.000 76%

00:26:34.280 of folks

00:26:35.860 say that

00:26:36.320 gun ownership

00:26:37.600 is a

00:26:38.300 constitutional

00:26:38.960 right.

00:26:41.700 76%

00:26:42.960 say gun 0.89

00:26:43.680 ownership

00:26:44.040 is a

00:26:44.520 constitutional

00:26:45.120 right.

00:26:47.580 That makes

00:26:48.540 about 25%,

00:26:50.340 24,

00:26:51.740 25% 1.00

00:26:52.860 idiots. 1.00

00:26:55.300 Right? 1.00

00:26:56.300 Because you

00:26:56.900 could argue

00:26:57.380 that something

00:26:57.920 shouldn't be

00:26:58.680 in the Constitution

00:26:59.520 but it's hard

00:27:00.860 to argue

00:27:01.240 it's not there.

00:27:02.080 it's another

00:27:04.000 one of those

00:27:04.460 examples where

00:27:05.260 25%,

00:27:06.340 you can always

00:27:06.900 count on them

00:27:07.500 to be wrong

00:27:08.560 on everything.

00:27:09.900 Alright,

00:27:10.260 here's my new

00:27:10.840 section which

00:27:11.660 will cause you

00:27:12.460 all to get

00:27:13.000 worked up.

00:27:13.540 Are you ready?

00:27:14.600 Are you ready

00:27:15.140 for some

00:27:15.700 fighting?

00:27:18.820 Ready for some

00:27:19.780 intellectual fighting?

00:27:21.660 Come on,

00:27:22.140 here it comes.

00:27:22.820 Here it comes.

00:27:23.680 Rawr.

00:27:24.440 Here's the red meat

00:27:25.280 coming out.

00:27:27.480 Alright,

00:27:28.900 I call this

00:27:29.440 section

00:27:29.800 Am I

00:27:30.320 Wrong

00:27:30.800 or Are You

00:27:32.280 Frightened?

00:27:33.960 Am I

00:27:34.780 Wrong

00:27:35.320 or Are You

00:27:36.340 Frightened?

00:27:37.340 And here's the

00:27:38.140 concept behind it.

00:27:40.100 An ordinary

00:27:40.780 intelligent person

00:27:41.800 will make

00:27:42.760 ordinary,

00:27:43.520 intelligent,

00:27:44.100 and reasonable

00:27:44.720 decisions

00:27:45.400 when

00:27:46.020 their emotions

00:27:48.740 are not

00:27:49.200 involved.

00:27:51.020 If you take

00:27:52.060 that same

00:27:52.620 reasonable person

00:27:53.900 who's got

00:27:54.460 perfectly

00:27:55.900 average

00:27:57.220 abilities

00:27:58.160 and common

00:27:58.960 sense

00:27:59.320 and reasoning

00:27:59.820 and you put

00:28:01.080 that person

00:28:01.560 in a stressful

00:28:02.460 scary situation,

00:28:05.180 how good

00:28:05.800 is their

00:28:06.180 reasoning now?

00:28:08.300 Not good,

00:28:09.580 right?

00:28:10.160 So your

00:28:10.760 ability to

00:28:11.420 reason

00:28:11.720 gets switched

00:28:13.180 off as

00:28:14.100 your emotions

00:28:14.680 go higher.

00:28:15.580 As you get

00:28:16.320 angrier,

00:28:17.260 as you get

00:28:17.720 more frightened,

00:28:18.940 as you're

00:28:19.400 worried,

00:28:20.140 as you're

00:28:20.440 more anxious,

00:28:21.840 your sense

00:28:22.660 of reason

00:28:23.860 just switches

00:28:24.480 off.

00:28:25.400 Does anybody

00:28:25.880 doubt that?

00:28:27.180 We all

00:28:27.960 agree with

00:28:28.360 that,

00:28:28.560 right?

00:28:29.960 So if you

00:28:30.700 have a

00:28:30.960 situation,

00:28:32.720 let's say

00:28:33.180 hypothetically,

00:28:33.980 there was a

00:28:34.360 situation where

00:28:35.020 there was

00:28:35.280 somebody you

00:28:35.840 knew who

00:28:36.740 had a

00:28:36.980 really good

00:28:37.480 track record

00:28:38.300 of being

00:28:39.080 reasonable

00:28:40.360 and often

00:28:41.400 right,

00:28:42.620 a very

00:28:43.040 reasonable

00:28:43.480 person,

00:28:44.540 and then

00:28:45.380 you're comparing

00:28:46.080 that to

00:28:46.640 that reasonable

00:28:47.380 person to

00:28:47.940 another one

00:28:48.440 who's just

00:28:49.080 as reasonable.

00:28:50.400 Two very

00:28:51.400 reasonable

00:28:51.820 people.

00:28:52.300 They're

00:28:53.200 often

00:28:53.580 right,

00:28:54.400 see things

00:28:55.100 clearly.

00:28:56.080 Now,

00:28:56.760 we're going

00:28:57.160 to make

00:28:57.340 one tweak.

00:28:58.600 They're both

00:28:59.060 reasonable,

00:28:59.780 they're both

00:29:00.200 usually right,

00:29:01.760 but one of

00:29:02.740 them is now

00:29:03.500 really scared.

00:29:05.500 One's really

00:29:06.080 frightened.

00:29:07.840 Now,

00:29:08.240 they start to

00:29:08.780 disagree on

00:29:09.400 a topic.

00:29:10.740 One is not

00:29:11.500 frightened,

00:29:12.560 and is

00:29:12.940 reasonable most

00:29:13.700 of the time.

00:29:14.760 One is pretty

00:29:15.520 scared,

00:29:16.980 and they have

00:29:17.680 different opinions

00:29:18.280 now.

00:29:18.520 Who's right?

00:29:18.980 Which one

00:29:20.920 of them

00:29:21.200 is more

00:29:21.660 likely

00:29:22.240 to have

00:29:23.340 the right

00:29:23.660 opinion?

00:29:25.320 Because remember,

00:29:26.120 same intelligence,

00:29:27.460 same information,

00:29:29.140 but one of

00:29:29.840 them is scared,

00:29:31.100 and one of

00:29:31.420 them isn't.

00:29:33.020 Yeah,

00:29:33.320 the calm

00:29:33.640 person.

00:29:34.740 Statistically,

00:29:36.100 you should

00:29:36.600 expect that

00:29:37.180 the calm

00:29:37.640 person has

00:29:38.440 the advantage.

00:29:39.940 Now,

00:29:40.260 let's talk

00:29:40.640 about vaccine

00:29:42.060 passports.

00:29:44.840 I'm not

00:29:45.680 afraid of

00:29:46.540 vaccine

00:29:47.060 passports.

00:29:47.840 Now,

00:29:49.220 you might

00:29:49.940 argue that

00:29:50.500 I should

00:29:50.900 be,

00:29:51.320 and we'll

00:29:51.560 talk about

00:29:52.000 that in a

00:29:52.340 minute,

00:29:52.760 but as a

00:29:53.740 statement of

00:29:54.200 fact,

00:29:54.820 I'm not

00:29:55.400 even a

00:29:55.800 little bit

00:29:56.180 concerned

00:29:56.560 about them.

00:29:58.160 But the

00:29:58.760 people who

00:29:59.440 disagree with

00:30:00.660 my opinion,

00:30:01.320 which I'll

00:30:01.640 state in a

00:30:02.200 minute,

00:30:03.480 those people

00:30:04.080 are really,

00:30:04.800 really concerned,

00:30:05.940 like they're

00:30:06.360 really scared.

00:30:08.100 Now,

00:30:08.960 a lot of

00:30:10.020 people are

00:30:10.360 saying the

00:30:10.720 following comment,

00:30:11.660 Scott,

00:30:12.080 I like your

00:30:12.560 opinions in

00:30:13.140 general,

00:30:13.560 but wow,

00:30:14.780 you're all

00:30:15.220 over the

00:30:15.540 place on

00:30:15.980 these vaccine

00:30:17.100 passports,

00:30:18.020 because you

00:30:18.440 think maybe

00:30:19.000 it should be

00:30:19.380 a good

00:30:19.640 idea.

00:30:21.480 And you're

00:30:22.220 way off on

00:30:22.880 this one.

00:30:24.260 You've got a

00:30:25.020 lot of stuff

00:30:25.420 right,

00:30:25.840 but you're

00:30:26.200 way off on

00:30:27.060 this vaccine

00:30:27.700 passport thing.

00:30:29.140 So I ask you

00:30:30.100 this,

00:30:30.540 step back for a

00:30:31.440 moment.

00:30:33.160 I have no fear

00:30:34.360 of it whatsoever,

00:30:35.440 which doesn't

00:30:36.020 mean I'm right,

00:30:36.800 right?

00:30:37.320 That doesn't

00:30:37.820 mean I'm right.

00:30:39.040 I'm just saying

00:30:39.560 I have no fear,

00:30:40.920 and you've watched

00:30:41.680 me for however long

00:30:42.700 you've watched me,

00:30:43.660 and you thought that

00:30:44.560 I was reasonable

00:30:45.340 until now.

00:30:47.020 But here's an

00:30:47.800 object where you

00:30:48.480 have a topic where

00:30:49.760 you have a lot of

00:30:50.520 fear, and now

00:30:52.300 where our opinions

00:30:53.020 are different.

00:30:54.320 What do you

00:30:54.860 think is going

00:30:55.280 on?

00:30:56.720 What do you

00:30:57.340 think is going

00:30:57.900 on here?

00:30:59.480 Is the problem

00:31:00.360 that you're afraid

00:31:01.240 and it's affecting

00:31:02.700 your judgment,

00:31:04.060 or is this one

00:31:06.160 of those times

00:31:06.800 when,

00:31:07.840 different from

00:31:08.360 my pattern,

00:31:09.400 I'm just way

00:31:10.380 off, I'm way

00:31:11.460 off in a bad

00:31:12.080 opinion?

00:31:12.600 Which of those

00:31:13.120 is more likely?

00:31:14.560 All right,

00:31:16.960 I'm going to

00:31:17.260 read some of

00:31:17.680 the comments

00:31:18.160 to my tweet

00:31:19.260 this morning,

00:31:19.900 and I'm going

00:31:20.440 to tell you

00:31:20.980 what I think

00:31:21.620 of their

00:31:22.180 reasoning.

00:31:23.200 Okay?

00:31:23.800 So here are

00:31:24.260 the people

00:31:24.580 who are

00:31:24.780 disagreeing

00:31:25.260 with me.

00:31:25.780 So I've

00:31:26.260 said that

00:31:26.800 vaccine passports

00:31:28.280 will be fine.

00:31:29.980 Now, it doesn't

00:31:30.700 mean it'll make

00:31:31.500 anything better.

00:31:32.880 I'm just not

00:31:33.440 afraid of them.

00:31:35.180 And here's my

00:31:35.780 argument.

00:31:37.320 We already have

00:31:38.160 driver's licenses,

00:31:39.200 right?

00:31:40.800 Did the,

00:31:41.680 putting your

00:31:42.900 name into a

00:31:43.540 database and

00:31:44.240 giving you a

00:31:44.720 driver's license,

00:31:46.280 did that ruin

00:31:47.900 your life somehow

00:31:48.600 or did it just

00:31:50.040 make it safer

00:31:50.640 to drive?

00:31:52.480 It didn't

00:31:52.980 really hurt much.

00:31:53.800 If you get a

00:31:54.400 mortgage, you

00:31:55.880 have to show

00:31:56.320 your taxes.

00:31:58.040 Was that a

00:31:58.720 slippery slope

00:31:59.480 to losing your

00:32:00.460 health care

00:32:01.100 information?

00:32:02.960 No.

00:32:04.260 No.

00:32:05.420 And how about

00:32:06.220 your health care

00:32:06.840 information?

00:32:07.440 Has anybody

00:32:08.000 gotten access

00:32:08.860 to that?

00:32:09.520 We have laws

00:32:10.160 that keep your

00:32:11.480 health care stuff

00:32:12.260 private.

00:32:12.820 Has anybody

00:32:13.180 gotten access

00:32:13.840 to most of

00:32:15.600 it?

00:32:15.740 We're talking

00:32:16.080 about just

00:32:16.420 the vaccination

00:32:16.920 part.

00:32:17.960 But has anybody

00:32:18.480 gotten access

00:32:19.200 to the whole

00:32:19.720 database yet?

00:32:21.100 Not yet.

00:32:22.220 Not yet.

00:32:23.300 I mean, I

00:32:23.740 suppose it's a

00:32:24.340 risk, but not

00:32:25.680 yet.

00:32:26.860 So we live in a

00:32:27.900 world in which

00:32:28.420 the government

00:32:28.900 has often put

00:32:30.020 these restrictions

00:32:31.000 on us to put

00:32:32.260 us in a database

00:32:33.020 and know

00:32:34.100 something about

00:32:34.800 us.

00:32:35.920 Right?

00:32:36.460 Now, the big

00:32:37.280 argument that I've

00:32:38.040 heard from, I

00:32:38.740 guess this is

00:32:39.260 from Naomi

00:32:39.880 Wolfe.

00:32:41.220 So she's

00:32:42.020 quite famous

00:32:42.700 for being a

00:32:44.160 skeptic on some

00:32:45.060 of the coronavirus

00:32:45.820 stuff.

00:32:46.840 And the first

00:32:47.280 thing I would

00:32:47.600 say is beware

00:32:48.620 of skeptics.

00:32:50.500 Skeptics are

00:32:51.400 valuable.

00:32:53.280 Got to have

00:32:53.820 them.

00:32:54.140 I am one.

00:32:55.660 But there's a

00:32:56.520 skeptic trap.

00:32:58.540 And you should

00:32:59.240 be aware of it.

00:33:00.140 The skeptic trap

00:33:01.360 goes like this.

00:33:02.580 Once you become

00:33:03.380 the skeptic,

00:33:04.780 it's hard not to

00:33:05.740 be the skeptic.

00:33:06.480 And you're going

00:33:06.820 to want to have

00:33:07.220 at least a win

00:33:07.960 in your

00:33:09.180 skeptical thing.

00:33:11.060 So there's a

00:33:12.660 bias that would

00:33:13.360 affect the

00:33:14.140 Ivor Cummins

00:33:15.260 of the world,

00:33:16.080 skeptic.

00:33:17.320 Alex Berenson,

00:33:19.180 skeptic about

00:33:20.280 some aspects of

00:33:21.440 the coronavirus

00:33:21.980 in both cases.

00:33:23.660 And Dr.

00:33:25.200 Naomi Wolfe,

00:33:26.000 also a skeptic.

00:33:27.540 Now, here's my

00:33:28.120 problem with

00:33:28.600 skeptics.

00:33:29.920 Once you're

00:33:30.700 known as the

00:33:31.620 famous skeptic

00:33:32.660 and you're

00:33:33.220 getting a lot

00:33:33.700 of attention

00:33:34.220 and reward

00:33:35.980 for being that

00:33:36.960 famous skeptic,

00:33:38.020 you kind of

00:33:38.700 need to be

00:33:39.160 right.

00:33:40.600 Meaning that

00:33:41.340 even if you're

00:33:41.900 wrong, you need

00:33:42.460 to be right.

00:33:43.720 Whereas somebody

00:33:44.500 who hasn't

00:33:44.960 committed that

00:33:45.920 forcefully to

00:33:47.140 the position,

00:33:48.140 and I would

00:33:48.560 argue that I

00:33:49.100 haven't.

00:33:49.560 I've been all

00:33:50.120 over the place

00:33:50.720 on different

00:33:51.140 coronavirus stuff,

00:33:52.340 so I don't

00:33:52.720 feel like I

00:33:53.260 would be labeled

00:33:53.920 as a skeptic

00:33:54.860 or labeled as

00:33:56.200 a believer.

00:33:57.020 I'm somewhere

00:33:57.480 in the middle.

00:33:58.660 So I would

00:33:59.280 argue that if

00:34:00.120 you're somewhere

00:34:00.580 in the middle,

00:34:01.820 you're less

00:34:02.380 likely to be

00:34:03.260 influenced by

00:34:04.120 the bias of

00:34:05.060 needing to be

00:34:05.960 right about

00:34:06.560 something big.

00:34:08.220 But if you're

00:34:08.940 out there all

00:34:09.480 the time being

00:34:10.020 the skeptic,

00:34:10.860 you kind of

00:34:11.440 have that

00:34:11.740 really big

00:34:12.360 bias.

00:34:13.760 And just be

00:34:14.400 aware of that.

00:34:15.440 Now, does that

00:34:15.960 mean that any

00:34:16.480 of them are

00:34:16.940 wrong?

00:34:18.440 No.

00:34:19.500 No.

00:34:20.160 I'm not telling

00:34:20.940 you that any

00:34:21.480 of them are

00:34:21.880 wrong on

00:34:22.460 anything.

00:34:23.700 I'm not sure

00:34:24.300 I would know.

00:34:25.900 But just have

00:34:27.620 that little bit

00:34:28.240 of knowledge in

00:34:29.820 the back of

00:34:30.200 your head that

00:34:30.740 once you're

00:34:31.180 the skeptic

00:34:31.880 person, you've

00:34:33.180 got a little

00:34:33.660 extra bias there.

00:34:34.700 All right.

00:34:36.060 So just be

00:34:36.500 careful about

00:34:36.980 that.

00:34:37.680 And I'm

00:34:38.180 sure that

00:34:38.560 that same

00:34:39.740 concept would

00:34:40.500 apply to me

00:34:41.160 whenever I've

00:34:42.720 committed to a

00:34:43.380 position.

00:34:44.020 So be aware

00:34:44.480 of it.

00:34:45.300 Here are some

00:34:45.780 comments about

00:34:46.540 people who are

00:34:47.420 against the

00:34:48.220 vaccine passport.

00:34:49.620 I won't read

00:34:50.100 their names.

00:34:51.060 I'll just talk

00:34:51.820 about the

00:34:52.500 comment itself.

00:34:54.040 All right.

00:34:55.240 It's discrimination

00:34:56.280 against the free

00:34:57.420 will of the

00:34:57.960 people who do

00:34:58.500 not want to

00:34:59.120 get vaccinated.

00:35:00.520 Is that true?

00:35:01.640 Would it be

00:35:02.100 discriminating against,

00:35:03.420 we'll say that

00:35:04.660 the freedom I

00:35:05.560 think is the

00:35:06.160 point, the

00:35:06.660 freedom of the

00:35:07.280 people who do

00:35:07.740 not want to

00:35:08.220 get vaccinated.

00:35:09.000 That's true.

00:35:10.400 It definitely

00:35:11.140 discriminates against

00:35:12.440 their freedom.

00:35:14.080 But isn't that

00:35:14.860 true of a

00:35:15.440 driver's license?

00:35:17.080 Isn't that

00:35:17.560 true of getting

00:35:18.420 a loan?

00:35:19.840 People who

00:35:20.320 don't have tax

00:35:20.920 returns, can't

00:35:21.720 go on.

00:35:22.680 Is it true of

00:35:23.380 travel?

00:35:24.460 You can't travel

00:35:25.260 anywhere unless

00:35:25.820 you have a

00:35:26.180 passport.

00:35:27.180 So this is a

00:35:28.060 true statement.

00:35:28.880 It discriminates

00:35:29.760 against your

00:35:30.280 freedom.

00:35:30.620 freedom, but

00:35:31.500 that's not a

00:35:32.020 reason, because

00:35:34.140 we do it all

00:35:34.640 the time.

00:35:35.900 The society, all

00:35:37.880 of civilization, the

00:35:40.220 entire civilization

00:35:41.220 is built on

00:35:42.080 restricting your

00:35:42.920 freedom.

00:35:44.220 That's what it

00:35:45.020 is.

00:35:46.140 You don't build a

00:35:47.180 civilization to

00:35:48.080 give people

00:35:48.800 freedom.

00:35:49.760 All of

00:35:50.420 civilization is a

00:35:51.420 restriction of

00:35:52.060 freedom.

00:35:53.600 But it's designed

00:35:55.020 to be a wise

00:35:55.940 restriction.

00:35:57.040 It restricts the

00:35:57.820 things that you'd

00:35:58.480 want to restrict.

00:35:59.080 This is just

00:36:00.240 another one of

00:36:00.900 them.

00:36:02.040 So I don't

00:36:02.560 think it is

00:36:04.720 reasonable to

00:36:06.500 disagree with it

00:36:07.500 in concept as

00:36:09.460 a reduction of

00:36:10.440 freedom, because

00:36:11.540 all of civilization

00:36:12.640 is a reduction of

00:36:13.900 freedom.

00:36:14.580 You can't drive

00:36:15.360 your car on the

00:36:15.980 sidewalk.

00:36:17.360 They built a

00:36:17.940 road to restrict

00:36:19.400 where you drive

00:36:20.060 the car.

00:36:20.860 It's all

00:36:21.380 restrictions.

00:36:23.380 All right, let's

00:36:24.220 do some more

00:36:24.980 reasons.

00:36:25.260 The U.S.

00:36:30.240 government couldn't

00:36:30.960 execute this in a

00:36:32.100 way that, so

00:36:33.480 there's a practical

00:36:34.280 element to it.

00:36:35.460 So somebody says it

00:36:36.360 might be impractical.

00:36:37.580 That's a good point.

00:36:38.820 If your argument is

00:36:40.060 that we can't get it

00:36:41.660 up in time, somebody

00:36:42.600 else argued that a

00:36:43.900 lot of people got

00:36:44.520 vaccinated without

00:36:45.620 showing ID.

00:36:47.160 So what do those

00:36:48.200 people do?

00:36:49.540 If you got

00:36:50.240 vaccinated, but you

00:36:51.940 didn't show ID at

00:36:52.840 the time, but your

00:36:54.900 name is still in

00:36:55.580 the system, right?

00:36:56.940 If you got

00:36:57.400 vaccinated or not.

00:36:59.120 So there might be

00:37:00.240 some practical

00:37:00.980 limitations to it,

00:37:02.380 which are perfectly,

00:37:03.280 that would be a

00:37:03.960 good skeptical

00:37:04.940 comment.

00:37:05.980 If you just can't

00:37:06.860 do it, that's a

00:37:08.820 reason not to do

00:37:09.480 it.

00:37:10.020 It just can't be

00:37:10.620 done.

00:37:11.560 So if it's not

00:37:12.640 accurate, then

00:37:14.300 yeah, of course

00:37:15.220 it's a problem.

00:37:16.560 But I don't know

00:37:17.240 that for sure, and

00:37:18.080 the argument about

00:37:18.940 it is usually not

00:37:20.120 on the practical

00:37:21.500 level.

00:37:22.020 There are some

00:37:22.360 more arguments.

00:37:22.800 Once a system

00:37:25.680 and the precedent

00:37:26.940 exists, factions

00:37:28.900 within the

00:37:29.500 government can

00:37:30.300 take them and

00:37:31.020 bend them in

00:37:31.680 their own

00:37:32.020 purposes.

00:37:32.800 Ah, now we're

00:37:33.520 getting to the

00:37:33.940 real good stuff.

00:37:35.040 So the problem

00:37:35.760 is that once you

00:37:36.500 have a platform,

00:37:37.900 and this is Dr.

00:37:38.980 Naomi Wolf's

00:37:39.740 argument, that

00:37:40.940 once you have a

00:37:41.580 platform where

00:37:43.480 there's something

00:37:44.120 about you, in

00:37:44.900 this case the

00:37:45.540 vaccination or not,

00:37:46.800 is in the

00:37:47.320 database, and

00:37:48.400 that's going to

00:37:48.860 restrict you from,

00:37:50.060 let's say,

00:37:50.260 businesses or

00:37:51.300 travel or

00:37:52.280 government things,

00:37:54.400 once you have

00:37:55.000 that system, they 0.53

00:37:56.560 can add anything

00:37:57.560 to that system,

00:37:58.440 can't they?

00:37:59.860 They can add

00:38:00.420 anything to that.

00:38:02.180 Next thing you

00:38:02.940 know, maybe the

00:38:04.020 next thing they

00:38:04.600 add to it, you

00:38:05.480 don't like so

00:38:06.140 much, even if you

00:38:07.500 think the

00:38:07.820 vaccination thing is

00:38:08.700 a good idea.

00:38:10.100 Slippery slope,

00:38:11.660 isn't it?

00:38:13.580 Do you know

00:38:14.200 what else is a

00:38:14.840 slippery slope?

00:38:17.260 Computers.

00:38:17.740 If we allow

00:38:19.720 ourselves to have

00:38:20.580 computers, somebody

00:38:22.840 is going to put

00:38:23.440 some information

00:38:24.180 in those

00:38:24.720 databases, and

00:38:26.260 we're not going

00:38:26.780 to like it.

00:38:28.040 Or how about

00:38:28.960 driver's licenses?

00:38:31.740 There's a

00:38:32.540 database of your

00:38:33.480 driver's license

00:38:34.240 that has your

00:38:34.820 weight, your

00:38:36.440 address, your

00:38:37.700 height, your

00:38:39.340 eye color, your

00:38:41.360 hair color, I

00:38:42.240 think.

00:38:45.000 Couldn't they

00:38:45.660 use, and then

00:38:46.800 it's also used

00:38:47.660 to restrict what

00:38:48.480 you can and

00:38:48.980 cannot do?

00:38:50.280 So if you don't

00:38:51.020 have ID of some

00:38:52.140 sort, you can't

00:38:52.740 fly, you can't

00:38:53.640 do a lot of

00:38:54.060 stuff.

00:38:54.680 So couldn't

00:38:55.440 they take the

00:38:56.040 driver's license

00:38:57.060 platform, because

00:38:59.480 it's just a

00:39:00.100 database, and

00:39:01.700 add stuff to

00:39:02.780 it?

00:39:03.840 See where I'm

00:39:04.500 going?

00:39:05.140 I don't think we

00:39:06.120 should have

00:39:06.400 driver's licenses,

00:39:07.600 because that

00:39:08.480 database could be

00:39:09.360 expanded into a

00:39:10.420 social credit

00:39:11.240 system.

00:39:12.920 Couldn't it?

00:39:14.280 Do you know

00:39:14.800 what else could

00:39:15.320 be expanded into a

00:39:16.720 social credit

00:39:17.460 system?

00:39:19.400 Any database?

00:39:22.160 It's just a

00:39:23.000 database.

00:39:24.820 Yes, you can

00:39:25.740 put bad things in

00:39:26.760 the database.

00:39:28.000 You could put

00:39:28.960 good things in

00:39:29.740 the database.

00:39:31.040 But you don't

00:39:31.660 get rid of

00:39:32.140 databases, because

00:39:33.680 somebody could

00:39:34.260 misuse it.

00:39:35.540 So could

00:39:36.180 somebody misuse

00:39:37.380 this system?

00:39:38.720 Yes.

00:39:40.480 They could

00:39:41.180 misuse every

00:39:42.180 system.

00:39:43.540 That's not a

00:39:44.260 reason not to

00:39:44.800 do it.

00:39:45.660 You have to

00:39:46.180 weigh the

00:39:46.680 risk against

00:39:47.740 the benefits.

00:39:50.580 So here's

00:39:52.020 my best

00:39:53.560 argument of

00:39:54.920 why I'm not

00:39:55.620 worried.

00:39:57.140 Number one, it

00:39:58.060 might be

00:39:58.400 impractical, like

00:39:59.560 once they roll

00:40:00.220 it out, the

00:40:00.700 odds of it

00:40:01.180 working, I

00:40:01.840 don't know,

00:40:02.480 might be

00:40:02.820 impractical.

00:40:03.640 So it might

00:40:04.000 never even be

00:40:04.920 a problem.

00:40:06.160 Number two,

00:40:07.780 I believe that

00:40:09.500 transparency and

00:40:11.320 market competition

00:40:12.880 is all you

00:40:13.760 need to make

00:40:15.620 sure that it

00:40:16.140 doesn't go too

00:40:16.760 far.

00:40:17.380 Now, everything

00:40:17.920 goes too far

00:40:18.700 before it gets

00:40:19.440 pulled back,

00:40:20.060 right?

00:40:20.340 So things do

00:40:21.020 go too far

00:40:21.720 and then get

00:40:22.140 pulled back.

00:40:23.240 So we might

00:40:24.180 find that this

00:40:26.680 will go too

00:40:27.260 far and get

00:40:27.640 pulled back,

00:40:28.840 but as long

00:40:30.100 as, let's

00:40:31.340 work it through.

00:40:33.060 Let's say the

00:40:33.580 government says

00:40:34.240 you can't travel

00:40:35.340 unless you have

00:40:36.560 a vaccination.

00:40:39.320 Same as now.

00:40:40.180 I traveled

00:40:42.860 recently and I

00:40:43.640 couldn't do it

00:40:44.100 without getting

00:40:44.560 a test that

00:40:46.300 goes in the

00:40:46.840 database that

00:40:47.820 the airline can

00:40:48.560 see that says

00:40:49.760 I got a

00:40:50.260 negative COVID

00:40:50.960 test.

00:40:51.840 What's the

00:40:52.360 difference between

00:40:53.020 that, the

00:40:54.340 current situation

00:40:55.320 that I'm in a

00:40:57.000 database saying

00:40:57.740 I got a COVID

00:40:58.380 test, or one

00:40:59.380 that says I got

00:40:59.960 a vaccination?

00:41:01.440 It's the same 1.00

00:41:01.940 damn test. 1.00

00:41:03.040 I mean, it's 1.00

00:41:03.420 the same process,

00:41:04.920 right?

00:41:05.520 Once you're in

00:41:06.120 the system.

00:41:07.560 So were people

00:41:08.420 complaining that

00:41:09.480 the airlines

00:41:10.840 required you

00:41:11.500 to get a

00:41:11.880 test?

00:41:12.900 Because once

00:41:13.560 you have that

00:41:14.000 platform that

00:41:15.500 allows the

00:41:16.200 airlines to

00:41:17.300 know if you

00:41:18.480 got a test,

00:41:19.340 they could add

00:41:20.100 things to the

00:41:20.640 platform.

00:41:21.640 So when you're

00:41:22.360 talking about the

00:41:22.960 vaccination platform,

00:41:24.540 you already have

00:41:25.240 one.

00:41:25.920 The platform

00:41:26.460 already was built.

00:41:27.400 It was for the

00:41:28.000 tests, whether

00:41:29.080 you got tested

00:41:29.760 or not.

00:41:30.660 So I don't

00:41:31.280 think the

00:41:31.940 flight thing is

00:41:34.160 anything, because

00:41:35.260 it's just the

00:41:35.700 current situation

00:41:36.520 that seems to

00:41:37.360 be no big

00:41:38.080 deal.

00:41:38.320 What about

00:41:39.900 individual

00:41:40.500 businesses?

00:41:41.380 Let's say you

00:41:41.880 need a

00:41:42.180 vaccination to

00:41:42.940 go to a

00:41:43.660 basketball game

00:41:44.700 where the

00:41:45.920 seats are

00:41:46.480 filled.

00:41:47.400 Let's say

00:41:47.800 that's the

00:41:48.200 case.

00:41:49.400 And let's

00:41:49.820 say that the

00:41:50.320 public says,

00:41:51.520 hey, I'm

00:41:52.840 going to

00:41:53.100 boycott your

00:41:53.780 basketball game

00:41:54.660 because of

00:41:55.160 this rule.

00:41:57.000 If enough

00:41:57.840 people boycott

00:41:58.600 it, what's

00:41:59.600 going to

00:41:59.820 happen?

00:42:01.120 Well, they

00:42:01.480 either won't

00:42:01.880 have the

00:42:02.200 game or

00:42:02.680 they'll change

00:42:03.320 the rule or

00:42:04.280 some time

00:42:04.980 will pass and

00:42:05.660 we don't need

00:42:06.100 the vaccinations.

00:42:06.720 So the

00:42:08.240 public response

00:42:10.040 and market

00:42:10.980 competition is

00:42:12.680 going to kind

00:42:13.220 of take care

00:42:13.780 of this, I

00:42:14.220 think, as

00:42:15.000 long as you

00:42:15.400 have lots of

00:42:16.180 visibility.

00:42:17.140 The problem, I

00:42:18.260 think, would be a

00:42:18.780 lack of visibility.

00:42:20.840 Now, in

00:42:21.640 America, do you

00:42:22.600 think that we

00:42:23.240 could take this

00:42:23.940 to the next

00:42:24.500 level of

00:42:25.320 social, what

00:42:27.840 is it that

00:42:28.400 China has, the 0.98

00:42:29.280 social credit

00:42:30.260 system, where

00:42:31.660 you have to do

00:42:32.360 a whole bunch

00:42:32.860 of things right

00:42:33.560 or else you

00:42:34.300 get in their

00:42:34.740 database as a

00:42:35.600 bad person?

00:42:37.200 We're not too

00:42:38.320 far from that

00:42:38.960 now, are we?

00:42:40.780 We have a

00:42:41.960 social credit

00:42:42.660 database.

00:42:45.220 Did you know

00:42:46.020 that?

00:42:46.920 Did you know

00:42:47.740 you're already

00:42:48.460 in a social

00:42:49.200 credit database

00:42:50.040 in the United

00:42:50.560 States?

00:42:51.940 Well, one of

00:42:52.780 them is your

00:42:53.340 credit score,

00:42:54.680 literally your

00:42:55.340 credit score,

00:42:56.340 right?

00:42:57.240 That is a

00:42:58.140 social credit.

00:42:59.000 How trustworthy

00:42:59.880 are you?

00:43:00.960 Do you pay

00:43:01.420 back your

00:43:01.900 debts?

00:43:03.120 We have that.

00:43:04.360 It already

00:43:04.700 exists.

00:43:05.920 That's just

00:43:06.500 one form of

00:43:07.100 it.

00:43:07.780 We also have

00:43:08.600 this thing

00:43:09.000 called the

00:43:09.440 internet, which

00:43:10.180 you've probably

00:43:10.620 heard of.

00:43:11.700 You can go on

00:43:12.560 the internet, on

00:43:13.260 social media, and

00:43:14.220 you can find out

00:43:15.080 quite a bit about

00:43:16.460 people, and you

00:43:17.940 can find out how

00:43:18.740 good or bad they

00:43:19.460 are fairly reliably

00:43:21.320 by looking at their

00:43:22.920 social media

00:43:23.700 background.

00:43:25.500 So I would

00:43:26.220 argue that the

00:43:27.880 wokeism is a

00:43:29.500 social credit

00:43:30.360 system.

00:43:30.880 I don't even

00:43:33.840 know if it

00:43:34.340 would be worse

00:43:35.020 if we turned

00:43:35.600 it into a

00:43:36.120 database.

00:43:37.380 Now, I'm

00:43:38.000 not in favor

00:43:38.520 of that, turning

00:43:39.240 it into a

00:43:39.640 database, but

00:43:40.520 the current

00:43:41.040 system is 0.97

00:43:42.280 pretty damn

00:43:43.220 bad. 0.61

00:43:44.900 The wokeness

00:43:45.860 stuff is

00:43:46.460 pretty, pretty

00:43:47.480 bad.

00:43:48.660 I would say we

00:43:49.540 do have a

00:43:50.000 social credit

00:43:50.580 system.

00:43:51.520 So you're

00:43:52.080 worried about

00:43:52.520 the thing

00:43:52.860 that's already

00:43:53.240 here.

00:43:53.580 I suppose it

00:43:55.900 could get

00:43:56.200 worse, but

00:43:57.760 it's here.

00:44:00.040 You already

00:44:00.600 have it.

00:44:02.000 All right, so

00:44:02.680 let me read a

00:44:03.920 couple more

00:44:04.320 reasons here.

00:44:07.320 Just to show

00:44:08.900 you the types

00:44:09.960 of objections.

00:44:15.520 All right,

00:44:16.320 I want to see

00:44:17.520 some good

00:44:17.980 comments here.

00:44:21.040 It's from

00:44:21.760 David Reboy.

00:44:23.580 So here's

00:44:24.960 somebody I

00:44:25.920 know to be

00:44:26.400 a higher

00:44:27.080 level thinker

00:44:28.120 and commentator

00:44:29.060 on Twitter.

00:44:29.940 So this would

00:44:30.340 be a better

00:44:30.780 quality of

00:44:32.580 objection.

00:44:33.240 It says,

00:44:33.440 my objection

00:44:33.920 isn't even

00:44:35.520 really related

00:44:36.360 to the

00:44:36.680 vaccine.

00:44:37.940 The passport

00:44:38.440 infrastructure

00:44:39.060 will encourage

00:44:39.700 private companies

00:44:40.520 of every kind

00:44:41.200 to engage in

00:44:42.120 an emerging

00:44:42.580 social credit

00:44:43.420 system.

00:44:44.580 Now, again,

00:44:48.260 that could 0.68

00:44:48.840 be, I

00:44:50.560 suppose you

00:44:51.380 could see it

00:44:52.060 going that way,

00:44:52.780 but what would

00:44:53.240 be the next

00:44:53.760 thing that

00:44:54.140 got added?

00:44:55.660 What exactly

00:44:56.580 would be the

00:44:57.140 next thing

00:44:58.340 in the

00:44:58.960 progression?

00:45:03.080 Somebody says,

00:45:04.000 poison is bad

00:45:04.780 for your

00:45:05.100 health.

00:45:05.580 Thank you.

00:45:10.020 Somebody is

00:45:10.620 saying, I'm

00:45:11.360 framing travel

00:45:12.480 by international

00:45:13.940 standards, not

00:45:14.940 domestic.

00:45:15.560 That's right.

00:45:16.360 But the point

00:45:17.160 stays the same,

00:45:18.900 because international

00:45:20.120 travel is a big

00:45:21.240 enough thing, but

00:45:22.600 that's a fair

00:45:23.240 example.

00:45:25.340 How long is

00:45:26.200 immunity?

00:45:26.800 Yeah, somebody's

00:45:27.460 asking a good

00:45:28.000 question.

00:45:28.400 How long does

00:45:28.960 immunity last?

00:45:30.220 So if you got

00:45:30.820 vaccinated, does

00:45:31.680 that really mean

00:45:32.260 anything?

00:45:32.860 I suppose there

00:45:33.400 would be a date

00:45:33.880 on there.

00:45:34.980 So here's what

00:45:37.760 I feel like.

00:45:39.140 A lot of people

00:45:39.740 are saying that

00:45:40.560 this feels like a

00:45:41.840 slippery slope, and

00:45:43.240 it reminds you of

00:45:44.660 Nazi Germany.

00:45:46.120 Every time you see

00:45:47.260 yourself saying,

00:45:48.140 wait a minute,

00:45:48.520 that reminds me

00:45:49.600 of Nazi 0.56

00:45:50.060 Germany, there

00:45:51.080 should be a

00:45:51.480 flag that goes

00:45:52.160 off in your

00:45:52.600 head.

00:45:54.500 Wait a minute,

00:45:55.400 why am I always

00:45:56.160 reminded of Nazi

00:45:57.260 Germany every time 1.00

00:45:58.240 there's a political

00:45:58.900 conversation?

00:46:00.620 It's because it's

00:46:01.860 the weird extreme

00:46:02.880 that's in all of

00:46:03.720 our minds.

00:46:04.240 It's not because

00:46:04.780 everything is like

00:46:05.580 that.

00:46:06.740 So just being

00:46:07.700 reminded of

00:46:08.840 something else is

00:46:09.720 not a reason.

00:46:11.340 If you are

00:46:12.140 reminded of Nazi

00:46:13.300 Germany, you are 0.99

00:46:14.300 probably looking at

00:46:15.660 this with fright,

00:46:16.840 right, as

00:46:17.720 opposed to

00:46:18.340 reason.

00:46:20.180 Now, let me say

00:46:21.140 as carefully as

00:46:21.900 I can, you

00:46:23.200 could all be

00:46:23.720 right, and I

00:46:24.820 could be wrong.

00:46:26.540 Nothing rules

00:46:27.260 that out, right?

00:46:28.140 So if you're

00:46:28.780 hearing me say,

00:46:29.540 I'm right, right,

00:46:30.320 right, and you're

00:46:30.880 all wrong, you

00:46:31.720 shouldn't be

00:46:32.040 hearing that.

00:46:33.440 What I'm saying

00:46:34.180 is that I'm not

00:46:35.600 seeing any reason

00:46:36.480 to be afraid,

00:46:37.340 because it looks

00:46:37.920 like normal

00:46:38.500 business to me.

00:46:39.520 It just doesn't

00:46:40.120 seem that extreme.

00:46:41.200 As long as you

00:46:41.940 have market

00:46:42.360 competition, as

00:46:43.480 long as you

00:46:43.840 have visibility,

00:46:45.200 as long as the

00:46:46.080 public can get

00:46:47.060 its way, and

00:46:48.200 it can, if it

00:46:49.380 pushes hard

00:46:50.020 enough.

00:46:50.740 I'm not especially

00:46:51.820 afraid of it.

00:46:53.400 So, yes, I

00:46:54.540 wouldn't worry

00:46:55.000 about Nuremberg

00:46:56.260 and Nazis and

00:46:57.800 Hitler. 0.57

00:46:58.280 Every time you

00:46:59.320 look around a

00:47:00.060 corner, Hitler 0.92

00:47:01.300 is not under

00:47:02.120 the bed.

00:47:03.300 Hitler is not

00:47:04.260 under the bed.

00:47:05.640 Do you remember

00:47:06.240 when the

00:47:07.080 coronavirus was

00:47:08.920 first hitting,

00:47:09.700 and a lot of

00:47:10.120 people thought

00:47:10.700 that it would

00:47:11.100 be the end of

00:47:11.920 our supply chains

00:47:13.020 and civilization

00:47:13.860 would crumble?

00:47:14.600 And I was

00:47:15.700 telling you,

00:47:17.040 no, no, no,

00:47:17.780 don't be

00:47:18.240 operating on

00:47:18.880 fear.

00:47:20.480 Logically, we

00:47:21.360 will adjust and

00:47:22.360 we'll figure out

00:47:22.980 how to get you

00:47:23.480 food.

00:47:24.180 And then we

00:47:24.660 did just that.

00:47:25.600 We figured out

00:47:26.460 how to adjust.

00:47:27.500 We took the

00:47:28.000 risks we needed

00:47:28.760 to take.

00:47:29.340 We got everybody

00:47:30.140 fed for the

00:47:31.320 most part.

00:47:32.320 So just keep in

00:47:33.220 mind that when

00:47:34.580 you've been the

00:47:35.280 most frightened is

00:47:36.780 when you've made

00:47:37.340 the worst decisions.

00:47:39.340 So if there's

00:47:40.180 somebody that you

00:47:40.840 think has been

00:47:41.480 right before,

00:47:42.220 and they're

00:47:43.220 not frightened

00:47:43.920 by the current

00:47:44.680 topic, maybe

00:47:46.160 you should give

00:47:46.780 them a little

00:47:47.500 bit more

00:47:47.900 credibility than

00:47:49.480 you should even

00:47:50.280 give yourself

00:47:51.160 if you're

00:47:52.400 operating from

00:47:53.300 fear.

00:47:54.740 Doesn't mean

00:47:55.380 you're wrong,

00:47:55.880 by the way.

00:47:56.260 Fear is a good 0.98

00:47:56.780 thing.

00:47:57.520 But just play

00:47:58.240 the statistics.

00:47:59.980 All right.

00:48:02.660 The ex-CDC

00:48:04.320 chief says he

00:48:05.640 does think that

00:48:06.440 the COVID-19

00:48:08.440 came, or the

00:48:09.280 coronavirus,

00:48:09.720 came from

00:48:11.300 some lab.

00:48:13.460 Now, his

00:48:15.020 argument, I

00:48:15.720 hadn't heard

00:48:16.100 before, and it

00:48:16.680 goes like this,

00:48:17.640 that it's actually

00:48:18.180 hard to get

00:48:19.900 an animal virus

00:48:22.260 to be compatible

00:48:23.520 with a human.

00:48:25.040 And even if it

00:48:25.960 gets to a

00:48:27.740 human, it

00:48:28.980 tends not to

00:48:29.640 be very viral

00:48:31.300 because it's

00:48:32.580 not a very

00:48:33.060 effective virus.

00:48:34.700 But I guess

00:48:35.560 the way that

00:48:36.120 you can make

00:48:36.560 an animal virus

00:48:37.600 really, really

00:48:38.740 bad for humans

00:48:39.700 is to expose

00:48:41.220 it to human

00:48:42.080 cells in a

00:48:43.280 lab, and

00:48:44.620 you get the

00:48:45.140 virus basically

00:48:45.960 trained, or

00:48:47.800 to evolve, if

00:48:48.700 you will, or

00:48:49.480 to mutate, I

00:48:50.280 guess, until it

00:48:51.520 is really, really

00:48:52.220 bad for humans.

00:48:54.100 And the

00:48:55.140 speculation here,

00:48:56.140 and I think

00:48:56.500 you'd have to

00:48:56.900 call it sort

00:48:58.060 of educated

00:48:59.080 statistical

00:49:00.060 reasoning, is

00:49:01.620 that it's

00:49:02.240 unlikely that

00:49:03.080 this thing

00:49:03.520 could have as

00:49:04.920 quickly become

00:49:05.880 so viral,

00:49:06.660 unless there

00:49:07.780 was some

00:49:08.260 weaponization

00:49:09.740 happened.

00:49:10.720 Now, the

00:49:10.980 weaponization

00:49:11.560 doesn't mean

00:49:12.460 that they

00:49:12.800 intended anything

00:49:13.780 to get out,

00:49:14.600 so that's a

00:49:15.020 separate question.

00:49:16.480 But the

00:49:17.360 statistics of

00:49:18.380 it, according

00:49:19.080 to Dr.

00:49:20.540 Redfield,

00:49:21.380 ex-CDC head,

00:49:23.240 is that it's

00:49:24.180 unlikely that

00:49:25.080 in the time

00:49:25.660 frames we're

00:49:26.260 talking about,

00:49:27.180 a natural

00:49:27.840 thing could 0.56

00:49:28.420 have become

00:49:28.880 this viral.

00:49:29.860 It would

00:49:30.180 have had to

00:49:30.640 be stepped

00:49:31.140 up, they 0.53

00:49:31.620 say, and

00:49:32.680 added a

00:49:33.360 little bit

00:49:33.680 of zing in

00:49:34.780 a human

00:49:35.260 way, but

00:49:38.340 I would

00:49:38.680 add to

00:49:39.000 that, that

00:49:40.140 doesn't make

00:49:40.660 it impossible.

00:49:42.060 It just

00:49:42.400 makes it

00:49:42.760 unlikely.

00:49:44.300 So just

00:49:45.060 know that

00:49:45.580 we live in

00:49:46.000 a world

00:49:46.340 where unlikely

00:49:47.180 things do

00:49:47.960 happen fairly

00:49:48.740 regularly, more

00:49:49.780 than you'd

00:49:50.160 expect.

00:49:51.260 But that's a

00:49:52.120 good argument.

00:49:53.200 I'm going to

00:49:53.860 say that's a

00:49:54.440 solid argument.

00:49:57.120 I love this

00:49:58.040 story about

00:49:58.460 Ted Cruz going

00:49:59.280 to visit the

00:50:00.140 Biden cages

00:50:01.800 and all the

00:50:03.320 kids that are

00:50:03.960 in there, and

00:50:05.260 there's the

00:50:06.740 video of the

00:50:07.560 worker who's

00:50:08.800 trying to stop

00:50:09.540 him from

00:50:09.940 filming.

00:50:10.680 I think that's

00:50:11.520 sort of a

00:50:11.960 Rupar video,

00:50:14.120 and here's

00:50:14.840 why.

00:50:15.680 What you're

00:50:16.220 watching is,

00:50:17.080 you know, I

00:50:17.940 think Ted Cruz

00:50:18.620 is probably

00:50:19.080 using his

00:50:20.180 phone camera.

00:50:21.260 He's talking

00:50:22.000 to somebody

00:50:22.580 who's trying

00:50:23.660 to stand in

00:50:24.280 front of him

00:50:24.780 and stop him

00:50:25.560 from filming

00:50:26.120 the people

00:50:26.520 who are in

00:50:26.760 the cages,

00:50:27.700 or the

00:50:28.580 boxes, the

00:50:29.200 Biden boxes.

00:50:30.400 And the

00:50:32.720 part that's

00:50:33.280 left out is

00:50:34.880 the reason

00:50:35.540 that she's

00:50:36.080 trying to

00:50:36.600 stop it.

00:50:38.680 Right?

00:50:39.540 And I feel

00:50:40.840 like there

00:50:41.780 should have

00:50:42.120 been two

00:50:42.460 reasons.

00:50:43.580 One of the

00:50:44.380 reasons I

00:50:44.920 believe is

00:50:45.380 valid, which

00:50:46.460 is there's a

00:50:47.120 privacy reason.

00:50:48.660 And I believe

00:50:49.240 that if you're

00:50:49.920 just filming

00:50:50.440 people and

00:50:52.380 you can see

00:50:52.880 their faces in

00:50:54.400 a world of

00:50:55.180 facial recognition,

00:50:56.820 that does

00:50:57.720 sort of put

00:50:58.660 those people

00:50:59.300 in, let's

00:51:00.860 say, a more

00:51:01.320 vulnerable spot

00:51:02.480 if their

00:51:04.100 faces get

00:51:04.720 into a

00:51:05.060 database because

00:51:06.000 somebody took

00:51:06.800 a picture of

00:51:07.340 it.

00:51:07.980 So I'm

00:51:08.580 going to say

00:51:08.920 that that

00:51:09.340 part was

00:51:09.760 actually

00:51:10.220 reasonably

00:51:13.080 responsible.

00:51:16.500 But then

00:51:16.960 the other

00:51:17.220 part is,

00:51:17.880 are they

00:51:18.160 just trying

00:51:18.520 to stop

00:51:19.340 embarrassment?

00:51:20.440 And that's

00:51:20.840 not valid.

00:51:21.920 Because we

00:51:22.600 do get to

00:51:23.080 see this,

00:51:23.820 right?

00:51:24.280 We should

00:51:24.980 be able to

00:51:25.640 see this.

00:51:26.600 We can't

00:51:27.180 fix it unless 0.88

00:51:27.760 the public

00:51:28.140 gets excited

00:51:28.860 about it.

00:51:30.160 So A-plus

00:51:31.840 to Senator

00:51:33.140 Cruz for

00:51:34.140 excellent

00:51:34.720 theatrics and

00:51:35.880 politics as

00:51:36.640 well.

00:51:37.680 I think that

00:51:38.420 was exactly

00:51:39.060 the right

00:51:39.560 thing to

00:51:39.880 do.

00:51:40.100 What he

00:51:40.300 did, bring

00:51:40.820 a bunch

00:51:41.440 of senators

00:51:41.920 in, elbow

00:51:43.280 your way in

00:51:44.020 there, don't

00:51:44.600 take no for

00:51:45.940 an answer,

00:51:47.180 don't let

00:51:48.320 anybody stop

00:51:49.260 you if you

00:51:49.820 have a moral

00:51:50.600 authority to

00:51:51.440 do what you're

00:51:52.020 doing, and

00:51:52.440 he did.

00:51:53.320 He had moral

00:51:54.000 authority, which

00:51:54.760 is greater than

00:51:55.460 their authority,

00:51:56.160 and he took

00:51:56.540 it.

00:51:56.720 He basically

00:51:59.080 just expressed

00:52:00.880 moral authority

00:52:02.060 and got away

00:52:03.020 with it.

00:52:03.640 Very good.

00:52:04.600 Very, very

00:52:05.260 good work, I

00:52:06.020 would say.

00:52:06.620 And good for

00:52:07.120 the country.

00:52:08.320 We wanted to

00:52:09.020 see that.

00:52:12.400 All right,

00:52:13.340 that is pretty

00:52:14.580 much what I

00:52:15.000 wanted to talk

00:52:15.480 about.

00:52:16.920 Somebody says

00:52:17.660 the faces are

00:52:18.380 blurred before

00:52:19.020 broadcast.

00:52:19.680 Yeah, if

00:52:20.160 you're being

00:52:20.760 responsible, and

00:52:21.680 the pictures

00:52:22.160 that I did

00:52:22.800 see, they

00:52:23.340 were blurred,

00:52:24.740 but what the

00:52:25.940 worker could

00:52:26.700 not know is

00:52:28.020 whether Ted

00:52:28.660 Cruz would

00:52:29.240 do that.

00:52:30.720 And that's

00:52:31.140 fair, right?

00:52:32.500 Now, if it

00:52:33.160 had been, let's

00:52:34.240 say, a

00:52:34.480 professional news

00:52:35.420 crew, you

00:52:36.780 might have

00:52:37.140 had a little

00:52:37.600 more certainty

00:52:38.340 that they

00:52:38.860 would agree

00:52:40.360 to and

00:52:40.980 actually blur

00:52:41.640 out the

00:52:41.980 faces.

00:52:42.720 But was

00:52:43.160 Ted Cruz

00:52:44.020 going to go

00:52:44.440 through all

00:52:44.880 the editing,

00:52:45.620 the blurring

00:52:46.020 out dozens

00:52:47.000 of faces?

00:52:48.940 Probably

00:52:49.420 not.

00:52:50.580 Probably

00:52:50.880 not.

00:52:54.100 Somebody

00:52:54.580 says, do

00:52:55.120 illegals get 1.00

00:52:55.860 a right to

00:52:56.320 privacy.

00:52:58.000 Here, I

00:52:58.600 would question

00:52:59.180 the use of

00:53:00.200 the word

00:53:00.560 right.

00:53:02.000 And my

00:53:02.940 answer is

00:53:03.400 probably not.

00:53:04.540 I mean, I

00:53:04.980 assume that if

00:53:05.720 you're not a

00:53:06.980 legal citizen, you

00:53:07.820 don't have all

00:53:08.280 the same

00:53:08.580 protections.

00:53:09.240 Maybe you

00:53:09.520 do.

00:53:10.280 Actually, maybe

00:53:10.880 you do.

00:53:12.020 I guess I'm

00:53:12.660 not enough of a

00:53:13.380 lawyer to know

00:53:13.960 the answer to

00:53:14.600 that.

00:53:15.280 Maybe you

00:53:15.620 do.

00:53:15.800 But I don't

00:53:16.120 think it's

00:53:16.460 the right

00:53:16.720 question.

00:53:18.080 The reason

00:53:18.860 that privacy

00:53:19.540 is even an

00:53:21.620 expectation is

00:53:23.340 because all

00:53:24.140 of us

00:53:24.460 think it's

00:53:24.900 something that

00:53:25.540 people should

00:53:26.740 have.

00:53:27.760 Regardless of

00:53:28.560 what the

00:53:28.880 law is, we

00:53:30.640 all kind of

00:53:31.320 think people

00:53:31.940 should get

00:53:32.820 some privacy.

00:53:34.020 So I

00:53:34.280 don't think

00:53:34.640 that whatever

00:53:35.300 the law is

00:53:36.160 or the

00:53:36.440 Constitution

00:53:36.800 should be

00:53:37.580 the guiding

00:53:38.100 principle in

00:53:38.820 this case.

00:53:39.880 Because there's

00:53:40.900 a moral law

00:53:41.700 on top of

00:53:42.260 that.

00:53:42.520 That's just

00:53:42.820 bigger.

00:53:44.080 That's just

00:53:44.620 bigger.

00:53:53.040 Once they're

00:53:53.720 on U.S.

00:53:54.220 soil, then

00:53:55.040 they do.

00:53:55.800 Somebody says

00:53:56.580 we should all

00:54:00.380 have privacy

00:54:01.020 and also

00:54:01.800 vaccine

00:54:02.400 passports.

00:54:03.780 Okay.

00:54:04.640 Well, the

00:54:05.120 thing with

00:54:05.440 privacy and

00:54:07.100 the thing with

00:54:08.200 all of my

00:54:08.700 arguments is

00:54:09.820 that if you

00:54:10.340 ever see any

00:54:10.900 of them as

00:54:11.320 absolutes, the 0.77

00:54:12.760 problem is on

00:54:13.280 your end.

00:54:13.720 Because I

00:54:14.700 don't present

00:54:15.160 anything as

00:54:15.760 an absolute.

00:54:17.180 Privacy is

00:54:17.920 good, but

00:54:20.200 also restricting

00:54:21.400 what people

00:54:22.140 can do so

00:54:23.480 that you can

00:54:23.880 have a

00:54:24.240 functioning

00:54:24.660 civilization is

00:54:26.300 also good.

00:54:27.660 They can both

00:54:28.240 be good.

00:54:29.740 You could have

00:54:30.820 times when

00:54:31.420 you're trading

00:54:31.920 one for the

00:54:32.540 other.

00:54:33.160 There's nothing

00:54:33.580 wrong with

00:54:33.900 that.

00:54:36.460 Somebody says

00:54:37.260 moral laws

00:54:38.080 have no place

00:54:38.740 outside of

00:54:39.300 religion.

00:54:40.420 Well, moral

00:54:41.300 laws don't. 0.99

00:54:42.420 maybe, but

00:54:44.740 acting in a

00:54:46.340 moral way, you

00:54:47.540 could take

00:54:47.900 away the

00:54:48.240 word law

00:54:48.680 if you

00:54:48.920 like, but

00:54:49.860 acting in a

00:54:50.580 moral way is

00:54:51.720 just something

00:54:52.480 we should

00:54:53.260 expect of

00:54:53.960 each other.

00:54:55.160 It doesn't

00:54:55.540 have to be

00:54:55.900 on the

00:54:56.180 books.

00:55:00.080 Privacy is

00:55:00.760 a form of

00:55:01.280 public

00:55:01.560 restriction.

00:55:02.200 That's

00:55:02.400 correct.

00:55:02.960 Good point.

00:55:04.100 That's right.

00:55:04.920 If you have

00:55:05.740 privacy, you're

00:55:06.740 restricting me

00:55:07.680 from that

00:55:08.140 information.

00:55:09.540 Now, I'm not

00:55:10.020 saying that's

00:55:10.500 wrong.

00:55:11.480 I'm just

00:55:11.900 saying that

00:55:12.340 there is no

00:55:12.940 such thing

00:55:13.580 as just

00:55:15.500 freedom.

00:55:17.620 To have a

00:55:18.420 civilization, it's

00:55:19.640 all about

00:55:20.460 restriction.

00:55:21.640 That's what

00:55:22.080 makes it a

00:55:22.560 civilization, is

00:55:23.360 restriction.

00:55:28.260 Mind your

00:55:28.980 own business,

00:55:29.820 somebody says.

00:55:31.760 That's a

00:55:32.820 perfectly

00:55:33.280 reasonable

00:55:35.460 statement.

00:55:36.560 So, if

00:55:37.020 somebody says,

00:55:38.020 you know, our

00:55:38.640 philosophy or

00:55:39.940 our point of

00:55:40.420 view should

00:55:40.760 be, everybody

00:55:41.240 just mind

00:55:41.840 your own

00:55:42.200 business.

00:55:43.080 If you

00:55:43.640 could be

00:55:44.040 consistent on

00:55:44.980 that, you'd

00:55:46.200 have something.

00:55:47.380 The trouble

00:55:47.920 is, it's not

00:55:48.700 one of those

00:55:49.160 things you can

00:55:49.680 be consistent

00:55:50.360 on, because

00:55:51.460 we really

00:55:51.940 can't mind

00:55:52.800 our own

00:55:53.200 business and

00:55:54.200 live in the

00:55:55.420 same physical

00:55:56.100 place.

00:55:57.460 You could

00:55:57.840 try, but

00:55:58.860 it couldn't

00:55:59.380 possibly work.

00:56:00.180 Oh, so

00:56:04.380 there's a

00:56:04.940 great fake

00:56:06.080 news story

00:56:06.940 about, I

00:56:07.680 guess, a

00:56:07.940 couple of

00:56:08.460 rappers or

00:56:10.140 hip-hoppers or

00:56:10.940 whatever is the

00:56:11.700 best word,

00:56:12.460 musical lax,

00:56:14.260 are creating a

00:56:15.120 Satan-based

00:56:16.440 sneaker with a

00:56:17.480 drop of human

00:56:18.200 blood in each

00:56:18.960 sneaker, to

00:56:20.540 which somebody on

00:56:21.540 Twitter asked,

00:56:22.960 do you really

00:56:23.520 think there's a

00:56:24.160 drop of human

00:56:24.860 blood in each of

00:56:25.700 those sneakers?

00:56:26.280 I'm going to

00:56:28.340 go out on a

00:56:28.980 limb and say

00:56:29.640 that it's one of

00:56:30.820 the best marketing

00:56:31.680 schemes you'll

00:56:32.480 ever see, because

00:56:33.140 we're all talking

00:56:33.720 about it, but I

00:56:35.120 don't think there's

00:56:35.820 a drop of blood

00:56:36.540 in every sneaker.

00:56:38.020 I mean, anything's

00:56:39.040 possible, but I'm

00:56:40.560 just going to say,

00:56:41.680 I don't really

00:56:42.280 think there's a

00:56:42.800 drop of blood in

00:56:43.420 those sneakers. 0.89

00:56:47.360 Yeah, weirdos.

00:56:51.420 All right, I

00:56:53.160 don't know how

00:56:53.580 many of those

00:56:54.280 Satanic sneakers

00:56:55.540 are going to

00:56:56.100 sell, but they

00:56:57.900 certainly did a

00:56:58.580 good job in

00:56:59.200 letting us know

00:56:59.720 they're out there.

00:57:05.440 All right, I'm

00:57:06.060 just looking at

00:57:06.540 some of your

00:57:06.860 comments.

00:57:07.600 All right, that's

00:57:07.920 all I've got for

00:57:08.340 now.

00:57:09.080 Today I'm going

00:57:09.760 to start recording

00:57:11.780 the audio book,

00:57:13.000 which is actually

00:57:13.700 a re-recording,

00:57:14.700 because another

00:57:15.200 artist did the

00:57:15.880 original.

00:57:16.760 So this will be

00:57:17.420 the first time I'll

00:57:18.100 be recording my

00:57:18.840 own book, How to

00:57:19.860 Fail at Almost

00:57:20.340 Everything, and

00:57:20.960 Still Win Big.

00:57:21.840 It'll take months

00:57:22.520 before you can

00:57:23.120 actually buy it,

00:57:24.300 but next three

00:57:25.100 days I'm going

00:57:26.200 to be leaving

00:57:26.960 here and recording

00:57:28.260 all day in the

00:57:28.820 studio, and I

00:57:31.200 hope that you

00:57:31.820 like the audio

00:57:32.400 book when it's

00:57:33.420 done, and I

00:57:34.700 will talk to you

00:57:35.460 later.

00:57:40.080 All right,

00:57:41.440 pre-sale, not

00:57:44.840 for the audio

00:57:45.380 book yet.

00:57:46.180 I'll tell you

00:57:46.740 when it's

00:57:47.100 available.

00:57:47.480 all right, that's

00:57:51.200 all for now, and

00:57:51.840 I'll talk to you

00:57:52.780 later.

00:57:54.140 Thank you.

00:58:02.180 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 29, 2021

Episode 1328 Scott Adams： The Argument For and Against Vaccine Passports, The Everstuck Ship, And Trump Fun Too

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