Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1343 Scott Adams： Vaccinations Paused, UFOs Confirmed, Another Ruparred Video, and Lots More

00:00:00.000 hey everybody come on in come on in it's time for coffee with scott adams the best part of the day

00:00:11.520 every single time and today will be no exception well unless it's better than usual that's possible

00:00:20.280 and all you need is a cup or mug or glass of tanker chelsea stein a kinteen jug or flask of

00:00:25.240 vessel of any kind then you need to fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me

00:00:31.220 now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine here the day thing that makes everything better

00:00:35.500 except those blurry ufo photographs it's called the simultaneous sip and i think you'll like it go

00:00:42.680 ah yeah oh yeah oh yeah i feel my body healing in a variety of ways the covid can't touch me now

00:00:57.320 say you need a vaccination but maybe you just need coffee that's my medical advice so rasmussen is

00:01:05.400 reporting on some results of their polls some interesting stuff uh sir rasmussen says most

00:01:12.820 voters say it's more important to prevent cheating in elections than to make it easier to vote by two

00:01:20.440 to one so twice as many people think it's better to prevent cheating than to make it a little easier

00:01:27.280 for people to vote um they also say that uh just 29 percent of likely voters say the laws requiring photo id

00:01:38.460 discriminates against some voters while 62 percent say photo id laws don't discriminate

00:01:46.280 now it seems really really clear what the public wants the public wants voter id laws

00:01:55.100 but how much can we allow our politicians to ignore the will of the people when it's this much

00:02:08.820 see i'm very much in favor of our politicians overriding the public if the public is trying to

00:02:15.880 discriminate for example is that what's happening because it feels like there are an awful lot of

00:02:22.120 people who are on the same page they must be from the left and the right to be this many

00:02:26.720 majority a majority this big has to have lots of people crossing over and i'll tell you again if i ran

00:02:35.360 for president this is what i would do i would say i'm just going to agree with the public

00:02:42.340 that's it i'll just agree with the public unless i have secret you know military information they don't

00:02:51.460 have because this is really just sort of a public confidence question and the public is very clear

00:02:58.820 you rarely can get a poll on anything important in which you would get a two-to-one result

00:03:05.120 on politics when do you get a two-to-one result

00:03:08.540 if i were president i would just say i don't even think it matters what my opinion is

00:03:14.280 two-to-one is just done that's just done you know i don't think you can you know unless unless

00:03:22.680 the leaders come up with you know well we have secret information or something like that i just feel

00:03:29.380 like when the public wants something by two to one you just kind of got to do it all right you better

00:03:34.720 have a pretty pretty good reason not to and they don't obviously it's just politics

00:03:40.380 um here's a little question for you i would like to see your answers in the comments and i'm going

00:03:47.820 to offer this because i think when you read stories about famous people who get accused of various

00:03:53.980 improprieties that you might not have the right context and so i was thinking to myself how many times

00:04:02.140 have i personally just me been accused falsely of a felony how many times do you think just just me

00:04:12.380 just one person i'm a public figure how many times have i been falsely accused of a felony now keep in

00:04:20.040 mind i would know if it's falsely right you maybe you don't know but i would know i mean you know if you

00:04:27.480 did or did not commit a felony how many times uh i can't tell if you're saying for yourself or me

00:04:38.100 so your answers are confusing i can think of five times right off the right off the top of my head

00:04:44.600 five times that real people have made real accusations about felonies like really serious stuff

00:04:54.920 i'll just give you one example you know one crazy person who believes i traveled to canada to rifle

00:05:01.180 through her house and sexually molest her never met her she lives in another country have no no contact

00:05:08.500 ever even once that's that's normal for famous people if you're in the public eye being falsely

00:05:16.720 accused five separate times of felonies like i'm talking about some serious stuff it happens all the

00:05:24.840 time you just don't hear about it you know it's just privately handled etc so when i hear a story

00:05:31.040 about whoever it is is accused of some crime or impropriety i say to myself well they're a famous

00:05:39.600 person five to one it's not true it's like i right out the right out the shoot i say well it's five to

00:05:46.280 one not true just based on experience um recently i got rupard uh you know rupard is where somebody

00:05:57.380 takes something out of context usually referring to a video but today somebody came at me uh insisting

00:06:03.880 that i have a history of being uh a men's rights advocate and saying terrible things about other

00:06:11.880 people none of that ever happened i once wrote a blog post in which i made fun of men men's rights

00:06:21.600 advocates that's it and because i once made fun of them it got taken out of context by somebody who

00:06:29.040 didn't understand what i was saying and turned into i'm a men's rights activist and i apparently hate

00:06:35.740 adult women and stuff like that who is that so remember i told you that most news stories

00:06:43.000 involve at least one person who doesn't exist and once you see the pattern you can't unsee it

00:06:50.020 it's just all the big stories have a person who doesn't exist as an integral part of the story

00:06:56.300 in this story about me apparently there's an imaginary person who once wrote something supportive of men's

00:07:04.900 rights groups that person doesn't exist is literally an imaginary person who is central to my story

00:07:12.620 how about the president who uh was colluding with russia to win the election uh called uh nazis fine

00:07:22.540 people in charlottesville and suggested drinking bleach that person doesn't exist there's no such person

00:07:31.000 and yet most of the stories for the last four years were about that person who is imaginary

00:07:39.060 that that person doesn't exist never has so once you start seeing the non-existent person in each story

00:07:47.400 it's hard to unsee it uh neil digress digress digress or is it digress digress tyson who uh i think does a

00:07:57.540 great job of popularizing science and because he happens to be black i think he adds a little extra

00:08:04.820 you know for the popularizing science so i think he's a real good force in the world uh that doesn't

00:08:12.260 mean i agree with everything he says for example uh he tweeted that the good thing about science is that

00:08:18.620 it's true whether or not you believe in it for what he's trying to say i would say that's a fair

00:08:26.440 statement that science if you do it right and you've repeated it and peer-reviewed and you know

00:08:33.980 you've waited long enough yeah science is about what's true uh but here's my problem here's my problem

00:08:41.580 you and i we have no direct contact with science do you know how many times i touched

00:08:50.560 some science this week never even got my hands on it do you know how much science i'm holding in my

00:08:58.600 hand nothing do you know how much science i've got in my pocket uh none i don't have any contact with

00:09:08.460 science i don't do any science i don't even talk to a scientist so the only thing you and i know about

00:09:15.860 science is what a human told us now let me tell you about humans there is no less credible biological

00:09:26.480 entity than human being let's do a little test uh let's say my little remote control here how many

00:09:35.480 times has it lied to me never never how about uh my my pen how many lies has my pen told me none

00:09:46.900 but how about human beings well human beings have a little bit less of a good track record if you know

00:09:55.300 what i mean and the only science i'm ever seeing is from one of those so yeah science is probably true

00:10:03.880 unfortunately it gets filtered through the most non-credible biological entities ever known to

00:10:12.500 humanity people people so let me say it as clearly as possible believing in science is a stupid thing

00:10:21.480 because you're really believing in people and trusting people is stupid really believing in people

00:10:27.380 and trusting people is stupid can i just say that so that's my opinion all right here's another rupar

00:10:36.360 alert uh if you don't know being rupard usually usually means that somebody took a video and

00:10:43.660 clipped down parts that reversed it really means that somebody took a video and clipped down parts

00:10:49.160 that reversed its meaning and that happened again yesterday how many of you saw the video of uh

00:10:57.220 the military uh the service member who got pulled over by two police police people and uh they got into a

00:11:06.760 little uh war of words and the next thing you know he wasn't getting out of the car and he got um pepper

00:11:13.420 sprayed and etc how many of you saw that video if you saw the one that's on the news

00:11:21.340 you got rupard you should see the whole video it reverses the whole situation if you watch the clip

00:11:31.360 you'll see a guy who's saying sort of reasonable things you know what's this all about uh my hands

00:11:39.480 my hands are showing can you explain what this stop is all about and he's a he's a member of the

00:11:45.260 service and the police look a little irrational if you see the clips that are on the news it's a real

00:11:52.800 clear case of bad police working that's all bad policing but if you happen to see the whole video

00:12:02.400 it starts where he sets up the the person who was stopped sets up his camera his phone before the

00:12:10.160 police even come up to the car and you can tell how happy he is unfortunately you can tell that he's

00:12:17.000 kind of happy about the situation he's going to create so long story short if you watch the whole

00:12:24.040 video you can see him creating a situation for an altercation very clearly i mean you couldn't

00:12:31.360 possibly watch the whole video and not believe that he wasn't intentionally creating a conflict

00:12:36.620 the police thought to themselves hey this guy looks like he's intentionally creating a conflict

00:12:43.500 and they were right now do they handle it right nope i think i think probably one of the police

00:12:51.120 has already been fired uh i said when i saw it i think he needs to get fired

00:12:56.500 um all the all the people saying check your sound uh the problem said you're in so just reboot

00:13:08.020 um i'm not going to do anything so just just know that when you ask me to fix the sound i'm never going

00:13:16.760 to do it i'm just never going to do it i will sometimes end end the broadcast but if you ask me to fix the

00:13:25.600 sound i'm never going to do it okay just know that i'm never going to do it i won't change

00:13:31.340 anything to fix the sound once the broadcast is started okay so you can stop saying it um

00:13:38.980 so yeah so we got rupard on that um then we've got this other tragic situation

00:13:47.620 with uh duane duane right i'm sorry not duane uh duante right and he was shot by a police officer

00:13:59.740 who believed that she was uh using her uh she believed she had her taser in her hand but she

00:14:07.680 actually had her handgun and you could tell from the video that it's very obvious and i'm glad they

00:14:14.680 released the video as soon as they did if you watch the video it's obvious she mixed up the taser

00:14:19.940 and the gun and apparently that's a thing i didn't realize that that's happened a number of times

00:14:25.060 so it's exactly what it looked like it was a mistake a bad one somebody died but

00:14:34.140 i feel like we always dance around the following thing i've not yet seen one of these police shootings

00:14:43.540 that would have happened i know they exist there's there's some of that type but the ones that always

00:14:49.400 are in the news seem to have the same characteristic which is nobody would have been dead unless at least

00:14:57.180 two people were stupid one of them being the person who died and the other being at least one police

00:15:04.780 officer doing something stupid we don't really have any deaths that seem to be the you know the ones

00:15:11.060 that are in the news in which even only one person was stupid it's a double stupid the cause of death

00:15:19.080 is stupidity because none of it would happen without a double stupidity happening in the same place at

00:15:26.560 the same time at the same time somebody had some deadly force because you can imagine any one of

00:15:32.220 these cases could have been different if either the person stopped and acted differently or the police

00:15:38.320 officers had been a little smarter i don't think i've seen an exception to that there are exceptions

00:15:44.140 so let me be clear there are exceptions where just one person did something stupid in that case usually

00:15:50.760 a police officer unfortunately um but mostly it's the other kind it's the double stupid and we're just

00:15:58.440 when the person when a person dies it's our natural instinct to be respectful and and never say well

00:16:06.980 i think they sort of contributed by being stupid now that doesn't mean they're stupid in general

00:16:12.900 everybody's stupid sometimes right i'm stupid sometimes more than i like

00:16:19.080 so we're all stupid in pockets but you have to have two pockets of stupidity hitting at the same time

00:16:25.000 to end up with somebody dead most of these times um i asked the following question because

00:16:32.280 it just feels like this should be a thing uh so there's a quote from back in 2000 and i think it's real

00:16:41.120 and it goes like this the it is from a former cia director um william colby and he is quoted by

00:16:51.680 david mcgowan who wrote a book called derailing democracy in 2000 so so there's a quote reported by

00:16:58.420 somebody so you don't know you can't be 100 sure it was really said but it's reported that this former

00:17:06.000 cia director said and i quote the central intelligence agency owns everyone of any

00:17:11.760 significance in the major media first of all do you think he really said that maybe but do you think

00:17:21.200 it's true do you think that the cia owns every major person in every major media

00:17:28.960 in 2021 well here's how to figure that out uh to answer your question yes the tasers do have a trigger

00:17:40.000 some of the tasers are have the form factor of exactly a pistol with the safety in the same place and

00:17:46.960 the trigger in the same place uh there's a little weight difference especially in the trigger i'm told but

00:17:53.440 you wouldn't detect that in a you know in a moment of uh chaos so yeah it's a thing other people have

00:18:00.240 have pulled the trigger on the taser when thinking it's a gun so that's that's actually something that

00:18:04.800 happens so much so that there's training to avoid it if you have training to avoid it it's a thing

00:18:12.800 all right so anyway if this if it's true that the cia has basically owns every major media figure

00:18:20.960 meaning news figure i assume um wouldn't that extend because this was back in 2000

00:18:29.280 would that not have extended to social media by now so that people who have large blue check

00:18:35.440 accounts on twitter let's say would they also not be owned by the cia by now or worse a foreign entity

00:18:45.120 it's only a matter of time right and so i asked the question of any blue checks out there

00:18:50.960 for the ones who talk about politics and have lots of followers i asked how many of them have

00:18:55.840 ever been approached by a domestic or foreign intelligence agency as you might imagine nobody said yes

00:19:07.440 nope now that doesn't mean it's not happening but it's not something somebody's going to say in the

00:19:13.200 tweet now people ask scott why are you asking this is it because you are approached well i'll tell you

00:19:20.720 i wouldn't have a way to know which is the the sort of fascinating part about it um yeah the fascinating

00:19:30.160 part is that it wouldn't necessarily be somebody who's on the payroll of an intelligence agency it would

00:19:35.680 be somebody maybe associated with or you know working in coordination with or something like that

00:19:43.280 so um i wouldn't know all i would know is that people have contacted me they've sent me links that

00:19:51.440 they want me to retweet which happens every day how would i know

00:19:56.000 so yeah i mean as far as i know i've never been aware of anybody who had you know who got their

00:20:05.280 paycheck from an intelligence agency i'm not aware of anything like that but you have to assume that

00:20:10.720 you're being influenced you just don't exactly know how um yeah he he drowned mysteriously didn't he

00:20:19.360 uh am i somebody says am i a double agent what would that be in this case a double agent

00:20:29.200 uh conspiracy theory much oh paul let me speak to that so it would be a conspiracy theory if i said

00:20:37.520 it definitely is happening because i don't have evidence but here's my my point and i've said this

00:20:44.080 in different contexts whenever you have a situation where something can be corrupted

00:20:50.080 and doing so would be a major gain to somebody and you have lots of people involved that thing will

00:20:56.720 always be corrupted not sometimes always a hundred percent of the time because you just have to wait

00:21:05.520 it doesn't mean you're corrupted on day one it means you'll eventually get there if you keep that

00:21:09.840 situation because always somebody is going to take the chance but they might fail somebody else will take

00:21:16.960 a chance they might fail the point is people are going to keep trying until they get away with

00:21:22.800 something you always you always have enough um where do you get the full video uh i don't have a link

00:21:33.120 on candy but it's out there um all right um that's just a question i put out there because you know most

00:21:43.360 of your opinions are assigned to you by the media but one one wonders how many of those opinions were

00:21:49.200 assigned to the media by an intelligence agency it's not zero i mean i feel like i can say that

00:21:57.520 some of your opinions came directly from the cia some of your opinions probably came directly from

00:22:03.760 foreign intelligence agencies it just got it just got uh laundered through the media

00:22:11.680 but you think it's your opinion now all right i guess the johnson and johnson vaccinations were paused

00:22:18.160 because they had just a handful of um some problems as nate silver who again you have to follow nate

00:22:26.400 silver they're just they're a handful of people that are just sort of must follows if you're going to be a

00:22:33.200 an informed person in the world and nate silver is one of them you know even if you don't like

00:22:37.600 anything about his politics or whatever you got to follow him just for the math right because people

00:22:44.000 can't do math they can't do statistics they can't do risk management but he can so follow follow nate

00:22:52.480 all right he says uh in the tweet six cases out of seven million people what a disaster this is going

00:22:59.840 to get people killed it's going to create more vaccine hesitancy oh yeah well these people don't

00:23:06.720 understand cost benefit analysis there it is so nate is saying that this

00:23:14.240 is just an obvious case of people who can't do math i'm saying math but you know it's risk management

00:23:20.800 and how do you argue with that it's six people out of seven million

00:23:26.400 i just don't see the argument for what they're doing or at least the way they're presenting it

00:23:32.000 but i guess the public uh once they hear there's a problem they're going to want to get an answer to

00:23:36.560 it so i have still not taken my vaccination it's just still too hard to get it where i live

00:23:44.400 and we don't really have much of a hot spot here so i'm just sort of waiting to get more information

00:23:49.760 than certainly waiting until it's available locally and i'll make a decision then remember i told you

00:23:55.920 about court packing and i said that biden putting that to a committee was probably a clever way to kill

00:24:02.560 it and it turns out that uh harry reid prominent democrat believes the same thing that the committee

00:24:13.360 is not going to recommend the change in in packing the court and so it's just a way for biden to

00:24:19.360 cleverly get past the question without insulting anybody who wanted it so pretty good i mean i gotta say

00:24:27.200 that if you were if you're even a little bit objective evaluating biden there are things he said

00:24:34.880 he would do that he is absolutely doing you know and i used to give uh i used to give trump a lot of

00:24:43.120 credit for doing what he said he'd do even if he didn't like it at least he tried as hard as he could

00:24:48.800 to keep his his promises he definitely tried um and you see biden trying too and i i give him credit for that

00:24:57.200 he's trying to do the things but in those cases where he would be trying to do the wrong thing

00:25:03.440 such as packing the court the way he's finessing this and sort of pacing them oh yeah yeah we should

00:25:11.440 do something we should do something i'm with you all the way let's do something hey let's give it to

00:25:16.880 this committee and then they'll come up with some good ideas because we want to get something done we

00:25:21.680 want to do something oh the committee said don't do anything you know i was with you i was with you

00:25:28.640 all the way team but new information this committee is not so hot on it and listen to their arguments i

00:25:38.160 i didn't hear it at first but now i hear it it's just a it's pretty elegant way to handle it i think

00:25:44.400 reparations is going to go the same way it'll get thrown off to a committee the committee will say we

00:25:50.080 can't think of any way to do it that would work and then biden will look like the guy who took it

00:25:55.280 seriously it's pretty good it's a pretty good technique i mean it's weaselly but it works

00:26:03.520 um apparently uh biden administration has reached the deal with mexico honduras and guatemala to

00:26:12.800 increase border enforcement so that the migrants don't leave the country that they're in in the first

00:26:18.320 place does that sound familiar does it sound like exactly trump's solution it does doesn't it because

00:26:30.480 it's exactly trump's solution did i tell you that uh biden would be forced to do what trump has already

00:26:37.920 done in a variety of ways and that trump will just look better and better every year that goes by well

00:26:43.360 another example here's another example um biden is basically just recreating both the policies and

00:26:51.840 the problems that trump had at the border

00:26:57.360 uh why not use plausibility instead of conspiracy theory yeah it's a plausibility theory it could be true

00:27:04.960 that's a that's a good adjustment the problem with conspiracy theories is that people believe them

00:27:11.600 whereas the the proper approach would be what are the odds it's plausible it could be yeah that that's

00:27:20.160 worth saying well once again the headline is that uh uh the u.s government or the military have confirmed

00:27:29.680 ufo pictures that sounds way better than what it really is

00:27:34.480 and how clear do you think these pictures are pretty clear like you can see the license plate

00:27:41.600 on the ufos no no not not so clear uh more like a blurry smudge a blurry smudge that looks like a plastic

00:27:51.680 bag that just blew up in the air with the wind that's what it looks like but the news reports it as

00:27:58.000 ufos confirmed yeah they're unidentified that's confirmed but no there are no pictures of alien spaceships

00:28:08.400 there are some pictures of smudges that apparently fly

00:28:12.560 all right uh uh there's a great article on breitbart today from uh nolte n-o-l-t-e and it says rural

00:28:27.920 trumpers already live in tolerant utopia that leftists want and he makes a good argument that

00:28:35.440 everything that would be on the list of what the people on the left want you know low racism

00:28:44.080 everybody gets long no no crime everything's clean

00:28:50.560 that that already exists the place that exists is wherever trump supporters live

00:28:57.600 the place that those things don't exist is wherever there are lots of democrats

00:29:01.360 and is run by democrats and this matches my experience precisely in fact it matches my

00:29:10.640 experience at this moment how many times have i told you i'm left to bernie

00:29:16.400 how many times have i disagreed with you on um transgender sports how many times have

00:29:22.480 disagreed with you on uh you know everything from universal education ubi uh health care all right

00:29:32.000 whole bunch of stuff that i disagree with you on politics but i've never felt more um accepted

00:29:41.840 or comfortable than i am with you group of people who are almost entirely

00:29:47.120 politically politically different from me complete acceptance yeah i'm kind of like

00:29:54.160 an outsider in a sense now of course we we did come together on support of trump but for sometimes

00:30:01.520 different reasons right you know what i liked about him might have been completely different than what

00:30:05.920 you liked i liked you know he was tough on china and a few other things but i don't i don't identify

00:30:12.560 that as left or right and and why is it why is it that we can get along completely while we have

00:30:21.920 different opinions and i think it's easy i show you respect and then you show it back

00:30:31.840 am i wrong that's the whole thing and when i was reading nolte's uh article which is pretty good

00:30:38.000 good by the way you should read it um i was thinking well that's like the whole magic sauce

00:30:44.480 the magic sauce is treating everybody respectfully just having good manners

00:30:51.680 that's it it solves so many problems just treating people with respect because most you know i was

00:30:58.400 telling you that most of their news stories are about people who don't exist well the person who doesn't

00:31:03.360 exist is usually a caricature of a person who does and then they just somebody just gives it bad

00:31:10.640 intentions right the bad intentions are what make you hate each other it's not even what you're doing

00:31:18.720 it's what you think people are thinking so if you get the thinking part right and people understand

00:31:24.960 your intentions you're you can get along with anybody it's only when they imagine your intentions and

00:31:31.840 they're evil they just can't get along so i make it very clear that you all understand my intentions

00:31:41.040 and then we don't have any problem and certainly i'm completely respectful for right-leaning opinions and

00:31:49.760 quite respectful of two left-leaning opinions so but i can tell you that the left the left hates my guts

00:31:57.280 and i and i've probably helped them as much as anybody's ever helped them but the right as long as i

00:32:06.480 treat their opinions with respect as i do i get respect back it's just that easy and it's like a it's like

00:32:15.680 a magic thing all right i'm gonna speaking of respect i would like to further my um trend of defending the

00:32:24.800 hard to defend so if there's anybody in the news who has been accused of things um and they don't

00:32:32.480 really have the platform to defend themselves for whatever reason i like to help defend them now

00:32:38.720 that doesn't mean i'm right so i'm going to be acting more like a defense attorney here now you heard

00:32:43.840 me do it in the uh you heard me do it lots of times with trump you've heard me do it with um

00:32:49.120 matt gates talking about the system not about any anything he may or may not have done that that's up

00:32:56.240 to him to to to handle right but just talking about making sure that the system treats him right

00:33:03.040 the same way you would want to be treated i'm going to use the same thing for the

00:33:07.200 story about the black lives matter co-founder who apparently owns four pieces of real estate totaling

00:33:14.560 3.2 million dollars now the story is that she is a trained marxist um and that black lives matter

00:33:24.560 gets lots of donations that there's not enough transparency about where that money is going

00:33:29.840 and suddenly this blm blm co-founder has four pieces of real estate worth 3.2 million dollars

00:33:36.640 and people are saying um one of the people saying that is hawk newsom so hawk newsom um who's uh part of

00:33:47.360 the new york uh chapter of black lives matter is is criticizing this co-founder now and saying a little

00:33:54.880 more a little more transparency about where this money is going please now here's a little insider news

00:34:02.320 this is not a new thing that hawk newsom just started worrying about all right i never told you

00:34:09.760 this when i was uh having conversations with hawk a few years ago um i never told you that privately

00:34:18.560 and i can say it now because he's saying it publicly privately he was always concerned about

00:34:23.680 the lack of transparency that money was coming into the organization but he wasn't seeing any and when

00:34:30.880 i say he wasn't i mean his organization so when tons of money were going into the you know the the

00:34:37.600 black lives matter national or whatever new york city obviously one of the most important black lives

00:34:44.720 matter franchises if you can call it that he got none of it right now he probably wanted to you know

00:34:53.760 not make a thing about that until this news story broke and it gave him a it gave him an opening and he

00:34:59.600 took it quite smartly and so i would back hawk 100 on this like like i would back it in the elections

00:35:08.720 like i back it everywhere you need full transparency to trust anything the only kind of trust we have in

00:35:15.040 this world is transparency everything else you don't trust so hawk is right on target but let me defend

00:35:22.240 the blm blm co-founder she is a successful author with a best-selling book

00:35:26.800 she's probably the kind of author that publishers want to give in advance and say we'd like your next

00:35:34.400 three books that would be very typical the amount that you know just being involved as an author the

00:35:41.600 amount that she would have been paid for a best-selling book in the assumption that maybe she even got more

00:35:48.000 money or some is coming for future books is pretty significant and certainly enough to pay for all this

00:35:55.120 real estate because i doubt she paid cash you know she probably has loans on it or whatever so there is

00:36:01.760 no evidence let me say this as clearly as possible there is no evidence that this blm co-founder did

00:36:08.880 anything wrong none similar the same argument i made for the uh the matt gates situation we don't know

00:36:18.880 what information might come up in the future but at the moment i'm not aware of any evidence that matt

00:36:26.160 gates did a crime i hear people talking from sources that we don't trust but that's not really evidence

00:36:33.600 right that we don't trust unnamed sources say they know something right um same thing here there's

00:36:41.680 literally no evidence of of uh crime now there is evidence that as a trained marxist people are saying

00:36:48.880 this doesn't seem very marxist shouldn't you be giving your money away instead of keeping it for

00:36:54.480 yourself to which i say i do not think that is a fair criticism it's a fair statement

00:37:01.760 that she's not acting like a marxist that's that's a true statement but i don't think it's a criticism

00:37:08.720 and here's why and i and i'm going to be really consistent about this next statement on all

00:37:14.320 situations it's within the rules she lives in the system that she didn't create that has a set of

00:37:22.800 rules that say you can buy things and keep it and so she bought things and she kept it i'd never blame

00:37:29.520 anybody who is within the rules likewise as much as i've been critical of governor newsom

00:37:37.440 the one thing i did not criticize him for is going to a restaurant that was open

00:37:45.360 if it's open he can go there now he was maskless with too many people and he's apologized for that

00:37:52.480 blah blah blah but as long as it was legal to go out to eat still he had every right to do it just

00:37:58.960 like everybody else right i just i just don't think that just seems so small to say that the

00:38:04.800 person who wants the system to change can't use it until it changes that's just too small of a

00:38:11.760 criticism for me so anyway we might find out that the co-founder has done any number of terrible things

00:38:18.960 but there's no evidence of it and i support her uh presumption of no crime unless something changes

00:38:29.440 all right uh let's see uh there's a fake news about this uh uh the shooting of uh duante right

00:38:41.920 apparently some people think it's because he had an air freshener

00:38:45.280 it took me about five seconds from the moment i first heard that the air freshener was the cause

00:38:52.560 of the confusion for me to tweet i would like to see this air freshener because that was the least

00:38:59.600 believable news story you've heard in a long time the moment you heard it was something about an air

00:39:05.520 freshener what did your brain do nope all right how many of you heard that said ah i can't wait to

00:39:13.200 hear the details because i'm i'm sure this air freshener had something to do with it

00:39:20.720 question

00:39:23.440 uh for jay foreman i see you're using the word sophistry if you're referring to me could you

00:39:30.000 let me know so i could block you because anybody who uses that criticism is too stupid to be on my

00:39:35.920 live stream um but if you're talking about somebody else i don't care so we got that fake news about

00:39:45.360 the air freshener we know that's fake now uh apparently he had a arrest warrant and he resisted arrest and

00:39:52.480 you know i'm going to be honest i just i can't generate sympathy for people who resist arrest

00:40:01.760 you know as a human being i have you know empathy that's just sort of natural and certainly empathy

00:40:08.880 for the family and empathy for the person who died but sympathy is different like you have a natural

00:40:15.680 reaction just as a human but i can't get my my rational brain to see an injustice it's just people

00:40:25.200 acting stupid the police as well as somebody who took some chances they shouldn't have taken

00:40:32.960 all right uh so let's talk about the uh chauvin trial so the uh the prosecution was going most of

00:40:41.280 yesterday and i thought did a a really good job the prosecution did now it doesn't mean anything

00:40:50.640 until the defense does their case because if i've told you anything too many times it's that each lawyer

00:40:58.400 is completely convincing until you hear the other one who is then completely convincing until the other

00:41:06.480 one talks again so you should not be influenced by how persuaded you were by either of the

00:41:14.000 attorneys you just sort of have to wait till they're done because you're you know if you're

00:41:18.240 experiencing what i'm feeling the the sense of whether he'll get convicted is just going

00:41:23.600 seesawing back and forth as it normally would as each lawyer gets involved but let me pull out a few

00:41:30.400 key things number one george floyd's uh brother i didn't get the spelling but it sounded like felonis

00:41:38.320 felonis floyd uh was really good his testimony was really really good and what i mean by that is that

00:41:47.840 he was likable he was in pain uh and he painted a very favorable picture of his brother as a loving

00:41:55.440 brother supportive like sports etc um so effectiveness of that was extreme very good

00:42:04.880 but no facts were presented does it matter when i listened to his brother talking i said to myself

00:42:11.520 we're not even pretending that the facts will matter are we and and why was uh and why was

00:42:19.040 why was it even allowed i mean i guess it's normal right but why are why is a purely emotional uh

00:42:30.240 presentation allowed i don't really understand that uh could be because if you don't understand who

00:42:36.560 floyd is you wouldn't have as much insight as to why he acted the way he acted maybe but it feels

00:42:44.880 like a blatant attempt to make the facts go away and to replace them with an emotion um as somebody in

00:42:53.040 the comments pointed out if your brother is going to testify on your behalf you hope that your brother

00:42:59.920 does not have a name that reminds you of felony now i didn't like i said i didn't see the spelling of

00:43:05.760 the name but it's something like felonis or felonious or something like that and it's an excellent name

00:43:11.360 i mean as names go it's kind of cool but it reminded me of felony and so that wasn't ideal but what can

00:43:18.640 you do that's his name um so the the use of force expert that the prosecution had uh i don't know if

00:43:28.080 you caught this or if or if i'm imagining it but i felt as though he said something that the prosecution

00:43:34.080 didn't want him to say and it went like this uh the expert said that um the position alone

00:43:44.080 with the knee and the neck and being on his uh on his stomach and the pressure on his back etc would

00:43:50.400 be enough to kill him uh but that expert also said that if there were other issues that he should have

00:43:57.680 taken him into account and the prosecution very quickly tried to cover up but he failed he tried

00:44:05.600 to cover that by saying oh other issues such as the knee on the back that wasn't what his expert was

00:44:15.120 going for the knee on the back was another variable but it wasn't quite what the expert was going to

00:44:21.920 talk about and the expert to his credit you know to his credit the expert did not just take the cue from

00:44:30.000 the uh from the prosecutor he actually finished his thought and said that since it was reported that

00:44:37.120 that floyd was inebriated that would affect his breathing and so the officer chauvin should have known

00:44:44.880 that a person who was inebriated would be at extra risk put in that situation so i don't think the

00:44:53.360 prosecution wanted anybody to say that something that floyd did i.e taking drugs could have contributed

00:45:01.520 to the outcome but the prosecution's own witness said that and he tried to save it by like moving it

00:45:08.960 over to the knee on the back but the expert again to his credit he this was a you know a little bit of

00:45:16.080 honesty that i appreciated see and he just said no the inebriation now the thing that uh chauvin couldn't

00:45:24.240 have known is that floyd also had a heart issue and what he would have seen is a big strapping athlete

00:45:31.920 now when the brother testified he talked about how much they liked to play sports

00:45:38.880 and apparently floyd was quite athletic and successful played college actually college

00:45:43.440 basketball and that makes you think that floyd looked like a big strapping healthy guy

00:45:51.760 which is sort of supportive for chauvin isn't it because we have a testimony that he was on drugs and

00:45:59.920 that would have affected his breathing now this is the prosecution's case saying this and and that he

00:46:06.720 was a big strapping athletic guy which would have would have doubly made you think he would not be in

00:46:12.720 danger you know if a 140 pound guy was on top of him so uh i feel like maybe even though the prosecution's

00:46:23.680 case was emotionally excellent factually i think they hurt themselves but i'm not a lawyer so you know

00:46:31.920 maybe that's just how it looks to me um i'm trying to understand manslaughter in this case

00:46:39.360 but i think the the a simple definition is killing somebody because you're stupid meaning so it's manslaughter if

00:46:48.320 you had no intention of killing somebody and you are also unaware that it was going to happen but

00:46:56.320 the reason you're unaware is that you're just kind of stupid you just weren't thinking or you didn't

00:47:03.440 connect a and b an example given of one type of manslaughter and the specifics are different by state

00:47:10.400 but one kind is a drunk driver you know that if you drink and get in your car you're putting other people

00:47:16.960 in danger and if somebody actually dies you were stupid you weren't trying to kill anybody and you

00:47:24.320 didn't you know you weren't immediately in a situation that was dangerous but you were heading toward one

00:47:30.800 manslaughter so i'm not sure that um that chauvin can get away without at least a manslaughter

00:47:39.680 because the case that he acted uh less than smartly is looking pretty strong

00:47:47.760 but he does have a good defense which we'll see and i think you will be surprised how how well it is

00:47:52.960 how good it is and uh the defense is that he was distracted by the crowd that he didn't show any any

00:47:59.920 knowledge that he knew what was happening etc so we'll we'll see if there's some lower degree

00:48:05.600 charge that sticks it feels like it will at this point i think i would agree with uh dershowitz that

00:48:12.960 i don't see him getting away with no conviction but i don't see him getting third degree or second

00:48:19.760 at this point we'll wait wait to see now given that the prosecution i believe also introduced and

00:48:26.560 the jury has seen it a few times by now that floyd was complaining about breathing long before he got

00:48:32.400 on the ground now somebody's complaining about breathing credibly because when they let him out

00:48:40.480 of the car the first time he thanked them and it looked like his breathing problem had been

00:48:46.560 at least a little bit remediated there's a real question of when they got him out of the car he

00:48:52.400 was on his knees handcuffed why they put him on his stomach and if if it turns out that they don't have

00:48:58.320 a good reason for that looks like manslaughter to me we'll see what the jury says but let's wait for

00:49:05.840 the defense because the defense may say yeah we had to put him down and here's the reason and you know

00:49:12.960 maybe it'll make sense we'll see but i don't know of a reason so as long as he had breathing problems

00:49:18.880 before he was put down i think that and we also know that he lied to the officers by saying he did not

00:49:24.400 take any drugs which would have been an obvious lie to a police officer if they know he's lying about

00:49:30.800 not taking drugs why would chauvin believe him when he said he couldn't breathe in a situation that

00:49:38.000 didn't look like it had anything to do with breathing he said it was he said it was uh claustrophobic but

00:49:43.840 i'm not sure that looked quite credible because he was in a car you know he was stopped being in a car

00:49:51.360 so i'm not sure being in the back seat of a squad car is that much worse um

00:50:01.520 and it's illegal to lie to a police officer is it i don't know is it is that right is it illegal to

00:50:09.120 lie to a police officer i didn't know that uh it's not a good idea but so yeah we don't know if he would

00:50:18.560 have died anyway i don't think that that's can ever be in evidence but we can certainly know that

00:50:24.240 here's here's where i think the case is going to have to go to i think you're gonna have to show that

00:50:28.720 a reasonable person and that's the phrase being used that a reasonable person could have been just

00:50:36.640 as confused or made the wrong decisions just as chauvin did if they were wrong so i think that the

00:50:43.040 reasonable person defense still has some life we'll see if we'll see how far that gets them

00:50:48.000 um i hear that science the national academies said we must study the technology of blocking out the sun

00:50:57.360 with some kind of uh you know special dust we would put in the atmosphere

00:51:03.440 or some kind of chemical spray to literally reduce the impact of the sun

00:51:08.960 and people have said quite reasonably that sounds like a bad idea because it seems like you go too

00:51:17.440 far and you destroy the earth i'm not as worried about it as you are here's why

00:51:25.520 i'm not worried because it would be easy to test as small you know you just put a little up there and

00:51:31.280 say all right did anything change and if it didn't put a little more up there see if that makes any

00:51:39.360 difference and it would be nice to simply have the technology available so that let's say 20 years from

00:51:47.680 now things are getting really dire if it goes that way temperatures have increased we're getting more

00:51:53.360 bad impacts well then maybe you use it then because at some point your risk reward changes right

00:52:01.120 it blocking out the sun today probably a bad idea blocking out the sun in 25 years

00:52:11.280 you know taking a little edge off it in 25 years is that still a bad idea if it if it gets into an

00:52:18.000 emergency situation in 25 years i think it changes and it might take us you know a decade to

00:52:25.440 to test anything and even know if we have something there so i'm not worried about us over doing it

00:52:30.480 we're not going to do it right away but we definitely ought to know our emergency

00:52:36.320 options it doesn't mean that happens just because we studied it but i'm not as scared of it as you are

00:52:43.280 because i think we could look at it small see what happens what about farmers losing sun for crops the

00:52:50.960 whole point is you would not lower it below the point where you couldn't grow crops nobody's talking

00:52:57.920 about that we're only talking about getting rid of the the hellacious heat apparently new news came out

00:53:07.840 that uh california is more likely to burn this year than any year in the past meaning that even

00:53:15.440 though this the sky was darkened in california all summer last year it looks like this is going to be

00:53:21.680 worse it has to do with the dryness of the forest they they reach some kind of extra dry state uh that's

00:53:29.360 pretty ugly so california is going to burn again we know that and i don't know how we can keep our

00:53:36.640 governor i just i just don't know how we can keep him if california catches on fire again

00:53:44.080 it's not like we didn't know it was coming it's not like we lack you know human power

00:53:49.600 to go i don't know whatever they do clear out the underbrush or whatever it is we got plenty of labor

00:53:57.360 uh indeed i would like to see an option where um prisoners don't go to prison but go to some

00:54:05.520 geography where they just can't interact with non-prisoners you know much like the australia

00:54:10.800 model but i feel like the the most the most humane solution that is in prison is to just have all the

00:54:20.000 people who can't be with regular society because they're too dangerous maybe just the dangerous ones

00:54:25.440 and just give them their own island or give them their own zip code with a wall around it

00:54:30.640 just something like that and let them work it out somebody says alaska yeah maybe all right

00:54:38.800 that's all i got for now and i'll talk to you tomorrow

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 13, 2021

Episode 1343 Scott Adams： Vaccinations Paused, UFOs Confirmed, Another Ruparred Video, and Lots More

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