Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1331 Scott Adams： How I Become President, Mind Readers Send People to Jail, Infrastructure and More

00:00:00.000 um hey everybody come on in come on in all of you uh periscope refugees hey jeff come on in 0.60

00:00:09.880 it's time for coffee with scott adams now exclusively at least today on youtube

00:00:17.100 periscope is no more i'll be looking at my options for increasing my platform uh potential

00:00:25.640 so i'll be looking at rumble and i'll i'm gonna look at something called haps h-a-p-p-s dot tv

00:00:33.780 and uh look at some other stuff and i'll let you know if i get on any other platforms but for now

00:00:41.100 it's youtube alone uh at some point the locals platform will have streaming don't know exactly

00:00:49.520 when but it shouldn't be too long but if you'd like to enjoy this live stream to the maximum and

00:00:57.460 let me tell you this one's going to be a good one i mean i say that all the time and it's true every

00:01:04.300 time this one's going to be a good one but all you need is a cup or mug or a glass a tank or chalice or

00:01:09.840 a canteen junk or flowers confess a little of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like

00:01:16.060 coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing

00:01:22.760 that makes everything better it's the simultaneous sip and it happens now go

00:01:27.480 well i hate to do a commercial for youtube but i'm going to because i saw a question there that

00:01:39.660 suggests it you don't have to see advertisements if you're a you know a paid subscriber to youtube

00:01:46.040 now why would you want to be a paid subscriber to youtube to get rid of the ads now i don't know

00:01:55.080 if anybody has discovered this yet but i find that i can't watch a movie anymore it's just impossible

00:02:02.560 because it's just people i don't know it's way too long it makes me sad intentionally it's meant to

00:02:09.700 make you sad before it makes you happy sometimes it just leaves you sad so movies don't really make any

00:02:15.260 sense as an entertainment medium anymore to me same with tv shows they just don't have the scripted tv

00:02:23.500 shows they just don't have any pop and you don't often have an hour or even a half an hour to just

00:02:29.960 sit there and do one thing but the thing that youtube has is that you can get exactly what you want

00:02:36.080 and just watch a bunch of it so i i think i've told you that i'm hooked on watching uh norm mcdonald

00:02:44.640 clips there are lots of them and you can just line them up and there's one norm mcdonald clip after

00:02:50.360 another where he's on some you know shower or other and uh saying something funny and i could watch that

00:02:56.760 all day long but there's no movie right there's no movie of individual norm mcdonald funny clips

00:03:04.520 you can only get that on youtube so given your attention span changes if it's like me your attention

00:03:12.680 span has shrunk to the point where if something's more than two to ten minutes long it just isn't interesting

00:03:20.120 anymore it's just too long so um so youtube is absolutely worth the subscription i hate to do a commercial

00:03:30.280 for him but it's one of it's one of the few things i can say with complete confidence that it is the best

00:03:36.360 entertainment option in the world if you get rid of the commercials there's there's nothing even close

00:03:43.000 at this point um so april fools everybody i hope you see my pinned tweet i won't say anything else about

00:03:52.680 that but i've got a pinned tweet you want to see today so in my ongoing series called the left eats itself

00:04:02.680 we have at least three new entries

00:04:04.840 uh the first entry is my favorite uh as you know the washington post seems to lean left as in pro

00:04:15.240 biden washington post of course owned by jeff bezos so thanks to the good work of jeff bezos and the

00:04:23.480 washington post in part uh biden is president and he's just announced that one of his top priorities

00:04:30.760 is to raise taxes on amazon.com by name he calls them out specifically to massively increase their taxes

00:04:42.840 so do you think jeff bezos is a little bit closer to being a republican today just just a little bit

00:04:49.400 closer to being a republican because uh somebody do the math for me if biden gets his way with a

00:04:56.840 what is it 21 percent of minimum corporate tax take amazon's uh profits i don't know what they are

00:05:05.560 probably a big number take their profits and multiply by 0.21 and tell me how much uh uh jeff bezos gave

00:05:15.000 away by supporting by so that's the first example of the left eats itself number two uh georgia passed some

00:05:25.880 voting laws which the left says are restrictive the right says are just ordinary common sense such as

00:05:33.560 requiring id and so hollywood is is being pressured to boycott them except hollywood really likes georgia

00:05:47.640 because they have a really good environment they have the right kind of weather i mean they're really

00:05:53.720 optimized for making movies and if you take that away hollywood spends a lot more money and has a lot

00:06:01.640 you know less of maybe a weather situation it could be worse so the left cancels georgia which turns out

00:06:09.960 to be really bad for hollywood is it bad for georgia well we'll find out could be but uh the left is eating itself

00:06:21.480 uh did i check out decentraland i did not yet just looking at your comments um

00:06:30.040 um now here's here's my latest one and the left eats itself one of the biggest issues of left and

00:06:40.920 right is whether id is required for voting right so let's just take that fact should id be required

00:06:49.720 for voting and the left says no that's racist because there's so many black americans the group

00:06:57.000 i identify with i've told you that i've i identify black now because as an affinity i have more in

00:07:04.360 common with that group so i just identify black now with respect no joke no joke at all with respect

00:07:13.000 complete respect i identify black now that's not a joke by the way everybody everybody who's going to

00:07:19.240 be laughing and say you're playing a prank it's not april fools i just identify with the group and i

00:07:26.920 have that right and i i'm going to express that right because if it were not an option we wouldn't

00:07:33.800 be talking about it but it is an option so i take it um but anyway voter id uh say the left uh is racist

00:07:45.560 because it would leave a lot of black people unable to vote which sounds pretty bad but then there's this

00:07:52.680 other question in the news about vaccine passports and here's the thing how could you have a vaccine 0.77

00:08:00.280 passport without id because wouldn't you have the same racist problem all the folks who don't have

00:08:08.840 identification it wouldn't matter if they got a vaccination or not because later they wouldn't be

00:08:15.000 able to prove it because they could prove that somebody by a certain name got a vaccination but they can't

00:08:21.320 prove that that that's them they have no id so it doesn't matter if you're on the list that says

00:08:28.040 scott adams got a vaccination when i show up at the wherever it is that i need to show id they say

00:08:35.160 prove you're that person i can't i can't prove i'm the person who got the vaccination i don't have id

00:08:42.440 so again the left is eating itself because it's created this uh this sort of weird belief that

00:08:52.760 black people should not be uh let's say compelled to get id or go without the benefits of id now

00:09:01.880 they have their argument and i won't even say it's a good or bad argument because that's not necessary

00:09:07.000 for my point my point is you do need a little consistency right you can be right you can be

00:09:14.360 wrong that's just normal we're not all we're not all so smart that we're right all the time but we kind

00:09:21.000 of there is an expectation of consistency right so if you're going to say that it's racist to require id

00:09:28.920 for voting it's definitely racist to require a vaccine passport because all the people with no id 1.00

00:09:38.040 are still left town now you might say to yourself scott how many people are we talking about

00:09:44.840 how many people who don't have an id but let's say they do get vaccinated somehow i'm sure the homeless

00:09:54.600 people without ids are getting vaccinated somehow you know not in the same places but somehow

00:10:01.080 are there a lot of people who did get vaccinated and they they need to go somewhere where where that

00:10:09.080 vaccination passport matters but they probably would have needed id anyway so it's not many people

00:10:15.880 but that doesn't change the point it doesn't matter how many are involved right nobody nobody said

00:10:22.760 nobody said that racism doesn't count if it's not a large number of people it's still racism same stuff

00:10:31.160 so there's that uh lester holt nbc news recently said that i think has become clear that fairness is

00:10:40.040 overrated the idea that we should always give two sides equal weight and merit does not reflect

00:10:47.640 the world we find ourselves in now here's the funny part about that i agree with him totally not only do

00:10:56.760 i agree with lester holt totally but so do you now you might say you don't but you do you do you know

00:11:06.040 that in order to be in the news business you have to decide what's worth being on tv or in the news

00:11:13.960 you can't you can't uh abdicate that responsibility so if uh if somebody says a volcano happened and

00:11:23.800 you know it's the natural forces and somebody else says no it's an alien volcano ray and we're under

00:11:32.280 attacked by an alien force from outer space does lester holt need to show the other side of the

00:11:39.960 argument oh some people say it's natural for a volcano but the other side says it's a space alien

00:11:48.200 volcano ray that caused it no there's not a single person in the world who says that lester holt needs

00:11:56.360 to report about the alien space ray nobody right so his statement is 100 true and i think he's talking

00:12:04.360 about stuff like q right but here's the problem how good is lester holt or let's say the news anchors

00:12:15.480 how good are they how good are they at knowing what's true or what's even worthy to report because

00:12:23.480 they reported every hoax that we've ever talked about they you know the charlottesville hoax the

00:12:30.120 drinking bleach hoax so the people who can't tell a hoax from reality and we don't that's not a

00:12:40.040 that's not a claim that's really an opinion is it is that even an opinion when i state that the the

00:12:46.360 people who are the the major news people we know for sure that they can't tell the difference between

00:12:52.680 an obvious hoax a really obvious one like the drinking bleach hoax and the charlottesville thing those

00:12:59.400 are really obvious they couldn't tell the difference so while i do accept the concept

00:13:07.160 that they do need to make these judgments it can't be ignored that they don't have the ability to

00:13:12.520 do it right it's still their job they have to try but let's be honest they can't possibly do it

00:13:20.840 because yeah the russia hoax russia collusion hoax so so rather than fairness and by the way i've

00:13:30.280 often railed against the idea of fairness because fairness is just a subjective thing right what you

00:13:37.000 think is fair is not what i think is fair fairness is not some law of physics where we can all just

00:13:44.120 observe it and say oh yeah that's fair it's just an opinion so so managing anything based on fairness

00:13:52.360 is a bad idea because it's just opinions all right so lester holt is right that it doesn't make sense

00:14:03.080 to use fairness as your standard but he's wrong to think that they can tell the difference between

00:14:09.480 what's true and what isn't they don't have any ability to do that indeed i would say they might

00:14:13.880 be among the worst um even worse than the public maybe at telling what's real and what's not and and

00:14:21.480 again that's demonstrated by facts that anybody can check in the news it's all checkable they don't know

00:14:29.320 the difference between hoaxes and reality they just don't all right so let me tell you how i become

00:14:37.640 president without trying now this would assume that i decided to run for president um i'm going to tell

00:14:43.480 you how i would do it and how i would win with 80 of the popular vote are you ready number one i would

00:14:51.640 run as a democrat all right that's the first part because if the democrats you know let's say i got

00:14:59.400 nominated and actually was the nominee uh the democrats if you believe that they cheat in elections

00:15:07.640 they wouldn't cheat against me so i'd have that going for me um i identify as black so i've got that

00:15:15.320 going for me and again you still think that's a joke but it's not it's not a joke at all um and

00:15:26.200 here's how i'd win i would make the following commitments that i would be the first systems president

00:15:34.760 systems are better than goals have i ever told you that before what's wrong with our uh with our

00:15:42.040 government is that the systems are designed wrong so i would go in and redesign our key systems all

00:15:50.520 right and here's here's some examples of how i would do it i would commit that i would never sign any

00:15:56.840 bill i would veto every bill that had more than one topic on it if it's a single topic i'll decide

00:16:04.600 if i like it or not right but if it's a bunch of things put together i will reject it and it doesn't

00:16:11.640 matter what else i don't care what the things are i don't care how important they are you either have

00:16:16.920 to send them to me as a single topic and i don't even care if my own party sends it to me

00:16:21.880 like let's say i'm a democrat and the democrats are the majority they send me something boom veto pop

00:16:29.240 i don't care about the policy i care about the system as long as you have a system where you can't

00:16:36.360 tell what's in a bill you don't have a functional government that's what we have now we have a

00:16:42.440 dysfunctional government go to uh so the biggest news in the country i would argue that has the most

00:16:49.720 impact is biden's 2.5 trillion dollar infrastructure plan go to the front page of fox news and the

00:16:59.240 front page of cnn and look for any link that's on the front page all right i'm not saying it doesn't

00:17:06.520 exist in the world or that they haven't talked about it but it's the biggest news in the world

00:17:12.280 look on their front page and see if there's anything that tells you the details in the bill

00:17:16.920 it's not there the two biggest news entities don't even have a link on the front page to

00:17:27.400 something that says what's in that bill 2.5 trillion dollars now is that because the bill is good or the

00:17:35.080 bill is bad no no it's none of that the system is broken the system doesn't even let you know what's in

00:17:44.440 the bill right that's a broken system so i just wouldn't allow that to happen i just veto everything

00:17:52.040 now they might override some vetoes they might override them if they had enough votes but uh but

00:17:58.760 i would certainly promise that to the public and then on top of that i'd make the following promise uh any

00:18:05.320 bill that is over two pages long i will veto that's it if it's over two pages i will veto it

00:18:15.320 the third rule and the reason is that anything over two pages is deliberately confusing right if you can't

00:18:23.800 put it on two pages ideally one you shouldn't have it right if it can't fit on two pages it shouldn't

00:18:34.040 be a law now i would allow that other pages could be like exhibits or you know estimates or something

00:18:40.600 like that but in terms of describing it two pages how many pages is the uh is an omnibus bill 500

00:18:49.560 nobody could read it thirdly i would veto any bill with a misleading name so you know how the government

00:19:00.520 likes to put a name on a bill that's the opposite of what the bill is like if it's a bill to kill people

00:19:06.200 it will be the saving lives bill you know right so if if the name on it because the public kind of

00:19:15.240 doesn't go much past the name right they know what the name of the bill is that's how the infrastructure

00:19:22.120 scam works so biden calls it an infrastructure bill and then they go to the public and say what

00:19:28.760 do you think about improving our infrastructure and the public says infrastructure i like roads and bridges

00:19:35.400 i'm all for it but of course the name is intentionally misleading because it includes all kinds of things

00:19:42.760 which you and i might not call infrastructure could be good things could be bad things but it's

00:19:50.760 certainly you wouldn't call it infrastructure so those are the three things i do and keep in mind

00:19:56.200 that none of that is politics right so nothing i've said so far has any political implication it has

00:20:04.280 only a system implication the next thing i do is try to fix the other thing that's broken which is the

00:20:13.240 fake news and the way i do it i've told you this before is that for every national issue i would do

00:20:20.120 exactly what i'm doing right now i would take an ipad i would sit it on the desk in the oval office

00:20:26.840 literally yeah this is literal i'd set it on the desk in the oval office and i would invite in the

00:20:33.720 two experts to argue and maybe with some subsidiary helping experts and i would make them debate with

00:20:41.400 me the pro and the con of whatever the decision is in public on live stream while you watch and i would

00:20:50.280 i would just fire it up for any meeting in the in the oval office that wasn't you know some secret

00:20:56.680 military thing right if it's a public policy discussion and it's happening in the oval office

00:21:03.560 i'm just gonna say hey you're gonna be on camera and i just turn on the ipad and say let's talk

00:21:09.000 transparency you would finally get transparency because the news business can't be counted on to tell anybody

00:21:15.800 the straight facts it's it's too opiniony right but if i were to make people argue in front of the

00:21:24.200 country and then i act as the uh let's say uh much like uh trump on the apprentice where you're asking

00:21:32.440 probing questions of both sides you're not taking a side you're challenging both sides and then once i

00:21:39.880 challenge them i would look at the public opinion and i would look at the opinions of people

00:21:45.720 only who had watched the show right so the first question would be did you watch the entire

00:21:53.080 live stream in which the topic was discussed in which the president had the live stream on if yes

00:21:59.960 what is your opinion leaving out all the people who decided to be uninformed or just weren't interested

00:22:07.320 because the only people i care about are the people who are heard both sides do you care about an

00:22:13.160 opinion or the opinion of someone who doesn't even know what the topic is or somebody who heard one

00:22:19.480 side or read a headline on cnn that's all no we don't even care about their opinions so i would only

00:22:25.720 poll opinions of american citizens got to be a citizen you don't have to be a voter just a citizen and did you

00:22:35.080 watch it which is sort of your proxy for being educated enough about the topic and then what's your

00:22:41.320 opinion and then i would look at the public and i would say all right the public the public is informed

00:22:48.360 um it's really a judgment call it's about priorities it's not it's not hard and fast one is better than

00:22:55.080 the other it's about judgment and the public has judged that by a majority they like this i'll back the

00:23:02.440 public democrat or republicans doesn't matter i would ignore the party affiliation and say all the all the

00:23:10.440 people who got informed if you got informed i'll go with majority now of course there has to be a

00:23:19.000 safety valve right that one of the best parts about our government system and this is the part you don't

00:23:24.520 want to break is that there will be times that the leader has to overrule the masses because the masses

00:23:32.200 can be looking for blood the masses might vote to discriminate against the minority so you have to 0.79

00:23:38.840 protect against you know the majority getting evil so i would do that right if if the situation just calls

00:23:45.800 for you know an override of the public's opinion i would do that but i would make that really rare it

00:23:52.920 would have to be a real obvious case um so with those changes and a few more i would work for home

00:24:01.880 work from home i'd pick a let's say an experienced senator or politician to do all the boring work

00:24:10.040 back in washington and i wouldn't even you know i wouldn't even travel there except maybe just to

00:24:15.320 live stream some meetings from the oval office but otherwise i just work from home because you don't you

00:24:20.360 don't need much more than that all right um so biden got four pinocchios from the washington post

00:24:29.880 you know or a publication you would expect to be friendly to biden but even they gave him four

00:24:35.960 pinocchios for lying about some element to the georgia voting law basically he's claiming that it shortens

00:24:43.560 the hours you can vote but it actually does the opposite so it's not even close to the truth

00:24:49.960 is literally the opposite of the truth they they they created an opportunity for the hours to be

00:24:55.080 expanded optionally but they didn't do anything to reduce the hours and he's actually going in public

00:25:01.240 and saying the opposite the opposite that they reduced hours which would be a pretty big deal if it were true 0.73

00:25:09.000 so biden ran for office because trump was a big liar that was his sales pitch

00:25:15.640 biden had two main sales pitches three i guess um you know i suppose you could you could differ on that 0.53

00:25:25.960 but one was uh he was going to fix the soul of the country uh as the fine people hoax informed him

00:25:36.120 now of course so the first the first of his three reasons for running for office was that he believed the

00:25:41.560 fine people hoax okay that's not good he literally became president one third of his main reason was 0.96

00:25:49.560 a hoax and there's no question it was a hoax two uh he said that trump was a big old liar well 0.96

00:26:00.040 now now we know for sure that biden is a big old liar now i suppose you could say you could count out the 0.97

00:26:08.200 number of you know lies but that's never never make sense because usually they just repeat the same 0.96

00:26:13.640 lies right it's usually just the same ones they repeat so it's not like they're coming up with new

00:26:18.920 ones every day so i don't think you could make the claim that he came through with the honesty thing

00:26:25.400 or anything like it really would anybody say that biden is uh telling the truth yet routinely

00:26:32.680 doesn't look like it so the second leg of his reason for running is clearly debunked even here

00:26:40.120 by the washington post now the third reason and again you could you could differ on what these reasons

00:26:48.040 are but to bring respect back to the united states because his proposition was that other countries were

00:26:56.200 just laughing at trump they were just laughing at us we lost respect but what do you think the other

00:27:03.720 countries are saying about biden do you think the other countries are saying well america's back

00:27:10.040 because look at that vibrant leader they've gotten they've got there biden's biden's got to control

00:27:16.040 the stuff i don't think so so i think we could conclude and i don't and and i would say that i feel

00:27:25.240 that this is just objectively true is there any democrat who would disagree with the following

00:27:31.720 three statements you know maybe if they were uninformed but let's say an informed democrat

00:27:38.920 somebody actually had the right information they would know about the fine people hoax

00:27:45.560 they would certainly think he's not being respected overseas i mean they see what we see right

00:27:50.600 he can barely walk upstairs um and of course the lying is is now confirmed so uh so there's that all

00:28:02.280 right let's talk about this uh matt gates story that just gets weirder and weirder we are told to believe

00:28:10.280 uh you know what this story there's so much in this story i don't even know where to start but

00:28:24.040 um apparently there's some indication that this uh bob levinson who was maybe with the cia who got

00:28:32.200 captured by iran uh so many years ago and some say he's dead and some say he's alive but for 25 million

00:28:39.560 dollars or something in that neighborhood maybe you know uh maybe he could be gotten out of iran if he's

00:28:48.040 alive and and that the only people who could do this were a couple of lawyers

00:28:54.680 what what if if there's an american citizen who is associated with our intelligence agencies who is

00:29:06.520 a captive in iran isn't that kind of a government job to get him back why would some lawyer be trying to

00:29:15.880 make this happen by getting money from uh from matt gates's rich father to bribe somebody privately

00:29:26.440 without working through the government to get these people out 0.89

00:29:33.320 sound sketchy to you

00:29:38.040 how in the world am i supposed to believe that some lawyers in the united states can get this guy out

00:29:45.480 but our government can't because our government has 25 million dollars here's what i think is happening

00:29:54.600 now i don't know this for sure but this is what i think is happening if you're just gonna

00:30:00.200 if you're gonna play the odds what would you think is happening well allow me to play the odds

00:30:08.040 this has nigerian prince written all over it am i right am i right this just says nigerian prince

00:30:20.120 all over it i don't believe there's a guy anybody i don't believe anybody can get this guy out of

00:30:30.040 iran secondly i don't believe he's alive

00:30:36.600 sorry i mean i would love him to be alive but i doubt it so it looks to me like what was going on is

00:30:44.440 some kind of a financial scam now matt gates has characterized this as extortion i don't know the

00:30:52.360 exact line where extortion is and and where is somebody doing a financial scam but i certainly

00:31:01.400 wouldn't be giving 25 million dollars or any millions of dollars to a lawyer in the united states

00:31:08.360 who said he could get somebody out of iran if our government couldn't you know what i mean

00:31:16.600 so i think what's going on here is that

00:31:20.840 there looks like it looks like something is um a scam now i have no reason to believe that the

00:31:28.120 lawyers are scanning right so i don't have any reason to believe that any americans

00:31:33.880 are involved in any any kind of a bad thing but whoever told them that they could get this guy out

00:31:39.640 of iran i feel like that guy might be scamming us you know what i mean might be a little scamming going

00:31:46.520 on there so i don't believe anything about this story i don't believe that uh levinson is necessarily

00:31:53.400 alive i don't believe anybody had any chance of getting him out and i think that uh probably profit

00:32:01.400 was the motive at the bottom of all this and profit specifically for whoever it was who said he could

00:32:07.400 get him out um but we're going to find out a lot more about that i guess so biden uh just allowed

00:32:17.160 changed the rules to allow transgender in the military and uh that coincides with international

00:32:25.160 transgender day of visibility and you know you have to ask this question um

00:32:34.280 is wokeness and killing compatible it feels like you have to do one or the other right if the military 0.77

00:32:42.840 is supposed to be a killing machine i think you want it to uh err on the side of being a good killing

00:32:49.880 machine even if it's a little unfair to some groups in america i feel like that's kind of important but 0.83

00:32:58.680 here's the real question is there any reason to believe that transgender in the military would have

00:33:04.200 any negative effect on killing potential well i don't have any information that would suggest that

00:33:11.800 i've heard people say that there's a difference in readiness because of a higher propensity for

00:33:20.040 medical treatments ongoing if you're if you've transitioned now i don't know if that's true

00:33:26.440 but i would also think that would be highly individual right for every person who might have

00:33:32.280 ongoing medical stuff well you could i would think you could keep them out of the military just for

00:33:37.800 medical reasons but there have to be plenty of transgenders who don't have any particular medical

00:33:43.000 problems so you know i think i think this was always going to happen in other words the if you look at

00:33:50.760 sort of the the arc of history this was always going to happen um i haven't heard that we are a less

00:33:59.480 lethal killing force because gays are in the military have you did anybody tell you our military is worse 1.00

00:34:05.800 because gays are in the military i i've seen no indication of that i don't expect you'll see 0.99

00:34:11.960 any difference with transgenders as long as they still make a distinction between somebody who

00:34:18.760 has some medical risk that you don't want in the military versus people who don't

00:34:25.400 so um i know that much of my audience disagrees me on with me on this issue so we'll just we'll just

00:34:32.280 let that disagreement hang all right we we seem to have these continuing situations uh mind reading

00:34:42.760 uh instead of a legal system wouldn't you like your legal system to be based on what you did

00:34:49.800 as opposed to what you thought you'd all agree with that right that you shouldn't be prosecuted for

00:34:57.080 thoughts especially if they can't be demonstrated to be true so here are a couple of examples i'm

00:35:05.880 looking at the george floyd trial and the uh the potential charges are really hard for the you know

00:35:13.960 regular person non-lawyer to understand so let me see do the best i can to run through what the charges are

00:35:20.840 and see if we understand how they would fit like even if they make sense so you've got uh and by the

00:35:27.640 way i'm open to lots of fact checking on this i'm so far out of my realm of uh of competence that it's

00:35:36.040 it's uh irresponsible but i'll do it anyway because i have no shame uh so there are three potential

00:35:44.840 charges that uh shaven could be convicted of in the george floyd thing we've got second degree

00:35:52.200 manslaughter so apparently manslaughter at least in minnesota uh manslaughter could have different

00:35:58.840 degrees so what would second degree manslaughter be and the other ones are second degree murder and

00:36:06.440 third degree murder which is a thing in minnesota but not necessarily a thing in other states

00:36:12.120 so here's what second degree manslaughter is and this is according to the minnesota statutes this

00:36:18.440 is specific to minnesota when someone quote creates an unreasonable risk and consciously takes chances of

00:36:26.680 causing death or great bodily harm to another is guilty of manslaughter in the second degree so did shaven

00:36:33.800 do this did he create an unreasonable risk and consciously take chances of causing death

00:36:42.280 now consciously so the word consciously is right in the definition meaning he had to know he was doing

00:36:48.760 it now given that the hold he was using was in the police training book i understand would he have

00:36:58.600 been expected to know that standard police procedure would kill this guy that's a pretty hard case to

00:37:06.360 bake isn't it secondly if you were trying to uh know the state of mind of the police officer which is

00:37:14.520 essential to this to this uh second degree manslaughter because you have to conclude that he's consciously

00:37:21.480 taking these chances and he knows that he's taking these chances now how does that square with the fact he did

00:37:28.120 it in front of an audience do you believe that shaven took a wild risk with his own life and his own career

00:37:38.840 by doing something that if if floyd were to be killed or badly hurt obviously this would be devastating

00:37:50.840 for officer shaven so how could you say that a guy who is operating knowingly right in front of a crowd

00:37:59.960 and it didn't happen that that quickly right i mean events were kind of quick but

00:38:04.440 minutes and minutes passed so he was making a conscious decision that what he was doing presumably if you put me

00:38:13.640 on the jury i would assume this the shaven was doing what was good for shaven would you agree would you

00:38:20.360 agree that everything we we witnessed was shaven doing something that was good for shaven

00:38:27.320 right he was trying to protect himself from you know letting this guy get up and hurt anybody he was

00:38:35.160 trying to do his job which is good for shaven he was trying to you know make sure that they got the

00:38:41.080 arrest which is good for shaven at what point do you think shaven said to himself you know uh i'll just

00:38:50.680 be a little reckless right in front of all these witnesses especially with cameras and i don't think

00:38:56.280 that'll be bad for me i don't think you could make the case that he believed he was hurting floyd

00:39:03.480 because if he believed he was doing it his own self-interest would have made him stop

00:39:10.280 because we don't see anything there that would suggest he was out of control

00:39:15.480 right if he if if shaven wasn't out of control he was you know making you know his high stress

00:39:22.200 situation but they're trained for that wasn't so far out of his realm of training that we assume his

00:39:27.960 mind stopped working so how would he in what world would shaven think it would be a good idea for himself

00:39:35.320 to put this guy in great danger it couldn't have been there's no way shaven could have imagined

00:39:43.160 it would be good for shaven to do something bad to this guy right in front of all these people

00:39:48.840 no way he could have thought that all right so i don't think second degree manslaughter fits because

00:39:53.560 of the conscious part that he did in front of an audience how about second degree murder

00:40:01.640 it's a non-premeditated killing so everybody would agree he didn't premeditate it

00:40:06.920 but it's resulting from an assault in which death of the victim was a distinct possibility do you think

00:40:14.200 that what shaven was doing he believed created a distinct possibility of death well here's the

00:40:22.520 problem it's police work isn't a lot of your police work creating a distinct possibility of of death it

00:40:34.040 feels like half of police work is that right now they're trying to avoid it but police are creating

00:40:41.160 situations where there's a high possibility of death all the time that feels like you know oh

00:40:48.040 it's resulting from an assault somebody somebody is correcting me in the comments correcting me

00:40:53.240 correctly that it should be resulting from an assault was that an assault or was that an arrest

00:41:02.520 i think if you said to the jury hey jury was this an arrest or was it an assault

00:41:08.120 the jury would just say define assault for me well if it wasn't his intention to do anything but arrest

00:41:16.280 him again don't you have to be a mind reader you would have to read shaven's mind and think that

00:41:24.440 he knew there was a distinct possibility and that he was assaulting him as opposed to arresting him

00:41:30.040 what i saw was an arrest so i don't think this one even applies how about minnesota third degree murder so

00:41:40.200 some states or most actually don't even have this category so but minnesota does um it was originally

00:41:47.400 defined as depraved uh depraved heart murder and the definition of that would be without intent so we

00:41:55.960 agree without intent to affect the death of any person the death of another by perpetrating an act

00:42:03.640 eminently dangerous to others and not caring about it so was officer shaving shaven doing something that

00:42:12.200 was eminently dangerous to floyd and he had no regard for his life

00:42:18.440 again you would have to read his mind how do we know what shaven was thinking because where's at what

00:42:28.200 part did we see on the video that he had no regard for human life because i'll tell you what regard he

00:42:34.760 did have his own life you would have to argue that shaven didn't care about his own life

00:42:42.840 because what he was doing was putting his own life in a lot of danger right i mean even if he gets

00:42:49.800 acquitted and he goes into public he's in a lot of danger so any police officer would have known

00:42:57.720 that that putting you know killing a guy right in front of a crowd is going to be really bad for the

00:43:04.360 police officer so again what what is obvious about the situation is that the police officer

00:43:11.880 couldn't possibly have known that things would have gone this way because if he knew it or suspected it

00:43:19.880 or worried about it he would have acted differently right he wouldn't have acted that way to put himself

00:43:28.600 in that much danger nobody does that i mean just that defense alone should get him off

00:43:35.400 that nobody would put themselves in that kind of danger because when the when the crowd is watching

00:43:42.040 shaven's life and floyd's life became connected there was no situation where one could die

00:43:50.040 and the other one would be have a good day it couldn't happen there's no way i mean even if there were no legal

00:43:55.480 problems even if there were no legal problems would you want to be the police officer who killed a guy

00:44:03.320 accidentally no way so i would say just on common sense alone none of these apply

00:44:14.280 and the reason is shaven was in his right mind as far as we can tell nothing nothing showed he was

00:44:20.600 crazy and he had an audience as soon as you had the audience you have to assume he didn't know what

00:44:27.400 was going on he didn't know it was that dangerous all right uh according to rasmussen 44 of likely u.s

00:44:35.720 voters say requiring proof of covid uh vaccination is a good idea and 41 percent say it's a bad idea

00:44:46.440 so how do you think this breaks out in terms of people well uh i've been saying for a long time that

00:44:53.160 black americans are natural republicans but they just haven't realized it because here's another 0.95

00:45:02.040 case and i think there are a lot of these cases in which the republican opinion and the black majority

00:45:07.720 opinion are kind of similar which is a distrust of government and a distrust of authority

00:45:15.240 if you think about it what what is like the major theme of black um i don't want to say complaints

00:45:23.560 because when you say complaints it makes it sound like maybe they're not valid let's say what would

00:45:29.080 be a better word um black criticisms of of of the system i would say black criticisms of our system are

00:45:38.440 entirely valid because they say we don't trust police part of the system you know we don't trust

00:45:46.440 anything that that the system is is so racist that the whole thing is untrustworthy what is the

00:45:54.360 dominant feeling of republicans don't give the government any more money don't let the government

00:46:00.520 do any more more plans don't let the don't let the government have any more power so if you think

00:46:07.400 about it the republican distrust of the government and black americans distrust of the government

00:46:15.320 are weirdly similar and you can see in a in a topic like this where vaccines are not traditionally a

00:46:22.440 political thing and when people just get to decide without without really thinking it's a left or right

00:46:30.440 thing it's just do i want a vaccination or not do i want a passport or not you end up with black america

00:46:38.040 and republican america largely similar largely similar and i don't think that's unusual and i and i think

00:46:46.120 that the those two opinions are so close to being the same opinion that you you can't you can't give

00:46:54.920 the government too much power you know the people need to be you know free there's probably some common

00:47:01.560 ground there it's not it's not exactly common but it's closer than you think

00:47:08.520 all right so the cnn is uh priming the public to riot uh they've got a an article on there an opinion

00:47:16.200 piece by somebody named uh pineal joseph it's an interesting name that i think the first name is

00:47:24.120 pineal p-e-n-i-e-l i like people with interesting names pineal um i'm sure he was teased in high school

00:47:36.200 if your name has most of the letters of penis in it you're gonna get teased so i feel sorry for him 0.82

00:47:43.320 but here's what he wrote among other things on a on cnn now ask yourself if this opinion piece is 0.97

00:47:52.520 designed to create a riot because it looks like it i mean i don't think that necessarily he was

00:47:58.680 thinking that but when cnn decided to run it was cnn thinking to themselves well this is just a

00:48:05.560 harmless opinion or did cnn say this will get us the riots we need this will get us that riot

00:48:13.880 here's what he said and you decide if cnn thought this was just an opinion

00:48:19.320 or perfectly what they needed to spark a riot so peniel or peniel says

00:48:26.600 collectively the harrowing accounts of witnesses and he's talking about the george floyd trial he

00:48:32.920 says the harrowing accounts of witnesses and bystanders who watched floyd die offer tragically

00:48:39.640 compelling evidence of state-sanctioned violence against black bodies

00:48:44.440 what happened to him resembled a public execution one that echoes for many anti-black for many the

00:48:53.560 anti-black lynchings that mark the jim crow era now does that opinion sound like

00:49:03.160 just an opinion that doesn't sound like just an opinion this sounds like somebody who's trying to

00:49:09.720 start a riot a race war now i'm not going to say that's what they're thinking but i'm going to say

00:49:16.360 it reads like it which is different than knowing what somebody's thinking right it reads exactly like

00:49:21.960 somebody's trying to start a riot why would you do that why wouldn't you instead if you wanted to

00:49:28.280 prevent a riot uh remind people that the legal system is very important and that if the legal system

00:49:37.560 shows that uh shaven is not guilty of let's say these three murder related things um that we should

00:49:45.640 accept it because the system is doing what the system does they could do that that would be an opinion

00:49:52.280 too where's the opinion on cnn that says you know you should get ready for the fact that shaven might

00:49:58.680 not be found guilty and there might be a good reason he's not found guilty there might be they don't

00:50:04.440 even have to say there will be they just say you should be ready just be prepared that he's not actually

00:50:11.480 guilty not that he would get off but that he's not actually guilty just be prepared that's a possibility

00:50:19.080 where's that well you're not going to see that on cnn will you and i don't even think you'll see that

00:50:25.400 on fox news because fox news too would benefit by a riot now again i don't believe there's any person

00:50:33.240 who's sitting there saying i want a riot that'll be good for profitability all i'm saying is that when

00:50:39.640 money's involved people act in a way coincidentally coincidentally my opinion happens to align

00:50:49.960 for completely moral and ethical reasons just doing my job yes by coincidence that would really help

00:50:57.160 me i suppose i would get richer if i work for the news business and there's a riot but that's not why

00:51:04.360 i'm making the decisions and in their mind they're not even lying to themselves they believe that

00:51:12.360 they're not being influenced but of course they are we're humans humans are not free of the impact of

00:51:21.720 gigantic financial incentive if we're the opposite or whatever that is all right so um

00:51:28.600 um i hope enough of you see how many oh we've got uh really 4 100 people are watching this

00:51:36.840 holy cow and so i guess the periscopers uh you must have you must have come over it looks like almost 0.80

00:51:43.720 everybody from periscope i don't think we could get to that number unless almost everybody came

00:51:48.040 over uh larry wait what'd you say yes larry we will be safe in pleasanton that's true all right um

00:52:01.800 um so that's all for today and i'll let you know if i uh open up any more platforms but uh for now

00:52:11.960 let us enjoy our april 1st and uh see if we can get back to normal as soon as possible all right bye for

00:52:19.560 now

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 01, 2021

Episode 1331 Scott Adams： How I Become President, Mind Readers Send People to Jail, Infrastructure and More

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