Episode 1345 Scott Adams: I Am Back, This Time With Audio
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Summary
On today's show, we talk about the latest in the latest Project Veritas investigation into CNN's use of a fake news story to try to delegitimize the Trump administration, and why we should be worried about it. Plus, a lot of other stuff.
Transcript
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You'll be experiencing a thing I like to call audio.
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Yes, the iPad has a little flaw built into it where you can't charge it and plug in your microphone at the same time.
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But shall we redo the simultaneous sip because you may have missed it on the first try.
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And all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice of style, a canteen jug or a flask or a vessel of any kind,
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Come on in and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dope bean hit of the day thing that makes everything better.
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Now, of course, the context of this is that trolls like to come in here and say the sound doesn't work.
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This time I knew it was true because I didn't have my microphone in.
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But I was surprised that the sound doesn't work without a microphone.
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So YouTube took down one of my videos from weeks ago and said that I had violated something.
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And so I tweeted about it saying I didn't know why I was taken down.
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And YouTube responded, some official Twitter response, and it said that I had violated one of their rules about talking about the election.
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To which I said, what did I say that was inappropriate about the election?
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Because I'm not aware of anything I said that would cross any line that YouTube or anybody else has.
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Now, apparently they said it wasn't about China.
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But I didn't say anything that was inappropriate about the election, nothing that wasn't obviously true, and some opinions that are just opinions.
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So I've got this one warning, if you will, which could turn into a strike, I assume, if I do it again.
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So the odds of doing something you didn't know you did the first time are pretty high.
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It would be one thing if I knew I was saying something over the line.
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But I'm not aware of anything that was over the line.
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So have I not been now set up that they can give me a couple of warnings, not tell me what they're about, and then just boot me off the platform?
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Well, I wouldn't have thought it was real until the Project Veritas videos about CNN.
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When you see it on CNN, you think to yourself, well, that's probably not the only place it's happening.
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And anecdotally, there's a lot of people in stores lately.
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But I love the fact that Biden is getting credit for basically doing things that Trump would have done.
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So Trump would have brought us out of Afghanistan.
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Trump would have done some kind of infrastructure plan, or at least backed one or signed one.
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But a few months later, Biden will probably get to do that.
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But Trump would have eventually given checks, stimulus checks.
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So even CNN's opinion propagandists were saying that Biden is accomplishing Trump's objectives.
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But they try to make it look like Trump couldn't get it done, which is not implied.
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All right, here's the pun of the day, best pun of the day.
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You've heard that Vox, I guess you'd call him journalist, Aaron Rupar, his name got in, is sort of in the, what would you call it?
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Let's say it's entering the common language as the word for misleading video.
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So when you take a video out of context and it changes its meaning, that's being called a Rupar, R-U-P-A-R.
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Because, allegedly, Aaron Rupar does that so often that they just named it after him.
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But there's a new one, a new Rupar about Tom Cotton.
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And if you see just the clip, he looks pretty unreasonable.
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But if you see the whole context, it looks a lot better.
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Joel Pollack tweeted about that and suggested that anybody, he said,
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victims of misleading video edits should get, wait for it, Ruparations.
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I asked this question on Twitter in a little poll.
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I said, have you cut back on your consumption of Coca-Cola products for political reasons?
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Now, of course, this is the most unscientific poll they could ever be.
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But, and, you know, my Twitter followers lean conservative, even though I'm not conservative.
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And half of them said that they're cutting back on Coca-Cola.
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In completely unrelated news, Coca-Cola has announced that maybe they should be more open-minded.
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And, you know, listen to the people on all sides of the aisle.
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So do you think that Coca-Cola is feeling it in the pocketbook?
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But if half of the people who were just following me said they cut back,
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I have to think probably anybody who was watching Fox News, which is a lot of people,
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Should a actual professional polling company ask this question?
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Have you cut back on your Coca-Cola consumption for political reasons?
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If the answer is yes, in any substantial way, it changes the world.
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Because it would be the most noticeable example of a corporation that sort of left its lane to get into politics
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Now, the other possibility is there's no difference in Coca-Cola sales.
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But if enough people in a survey say they're cutting back for political reasons,
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That's the sort of thing that gets the CEO fired.
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Getting involved in politics and having that take a bite out of your bottom line,
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Speaking of polling, Rasmussen asked how many people expected conviction in the George Floyd trial.
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So how many people thought Chauvin would be convicted?
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Interestingly, this is one of those unifying questions.
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79% of conservatives expect Chauvin to get convicted of one of the charges, at least.
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Just as many conservatives as liberals expect a conviction.
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And I've said before that this should have been the most unifying thing that's ever happened in this country.
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From the day the George Floyd thing happened, right up to today,
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I've never heard anybody who wasn't horrified by it.
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It's not like there's some conservatives who are saying,
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I mean, there are people questioning whether the officer caused the death.
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But there wasn't anybody who wasn't horrified by it.
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But we found a way to not be unified over it, even though it should have been.
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The one thing we all would have agreed on, that we don't want that, what was on the video.
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But the next question Rasmussen asked was how likely, and by the way, for the numbers I gave you,
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I added together the two likelies, you know, very likely and somewhat likelies.
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86% of conservatives think that whatever the outcome is, it'll cause riots.
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But remember I keep telling you that in these national polls, no matter what the question is,
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about 25% of the people who answer would just be whack.
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They either misinterpreted the question, or they're insane, or they're pranking.
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And it turns out that 20% of liberals say that rioting is not likely after the verdict.
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There are 20% of liberals who think it's not likely that there's going to be riots?
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These are the most wrong people in the universe.
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I mean, honestly, I can't figure out how anybody would have that opinion.
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Yeah, 25%-ish will answer anything in any poll.
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So the police officer who accidentally discharged a gun instead of her taser, and actually killed
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Because the body cam footage made it completely clear that it was an accident.
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Now, you could say, we wish the accident hadn't happened.
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You could say, if she were better trained or a better officer, it wouldn't happen.
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And it couldn't be more clear that there was no intention, and that she couldn't have known,
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because if she knew, she wouldn't have pulled the trigger.
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So obviously she didn't know, and obviously there was no intention, and obviously she was
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I get that the standard has to be higher for the police.
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You know, there's nothing she can do to bring back the deceased.
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You know, if there were some way to make that better, then I'd say do it.
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All you can do is destroy a second life more than it already is, and it's got to be pretty
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bad, because she killed a guy without meaning to.
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So there's something deeply unjust about this police officer being taken a mugshot in an orange
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jumpsuit and then being put with presumably other prisoners.
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I mean, what he did certainly made it more risky.
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What she did was obviously the thing that killed him.
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Not making light of anybody's death, of course.
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But the simulation is just offering up all these coincidences.
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Jack Posobiec warns that you might want to think about getting out of Minnesota around the time of the verdict.
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But I was warning people that getting out of Minnesota or staying out might be a good idea.
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But if you come to California, there's probably just a very short window before the forest fires start.
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Because apparently our forests are like super, super dry, like drier than they have ever been with more kindling than there's ever been.
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So in about a month, the skies here will darken, and I will not have summer like last year.
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So in the middle of the pandemic, you still couldn't go outdoors.
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Like it was the only thing you could do, and you couldn't even do that because it was just air quality was too low.
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And I'm not too optimistic about the electricity staying on either.
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Oh, there's an outcome in the Ashley Babbitt situation.
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She's the woman who was shot during the Capitol assault.
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If you're checking your predictions, what was your prediction?
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My prediction was that the person who did the shooting should not be charged, just based on what I saw.
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You don't really know all the facts in a thing just by watching it on video.
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But in my opinion, and I know this was deeply offensive to maybe most of you,
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but in my opinion, I saw somebody who should not be charged with a crime.
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Because I did think that lethal violence was called for under that very specific situation.
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Now, I hear people saying, should have done a warning shot or should have done something.
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But I just don't think that shooting somebody who's breaching a door in the Capitol surrounded by rioters
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who you don't know what kind of weapons they have or what their intentions are.
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And I agree with us not knowing who did the shot.
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And I, but I understand, completely understand if just emotionally everything about this feels wrong.
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Because she was just, she got shot trying to make the world better.
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In fact, she was in the process of legitimately and patriotically trying to make the world a better place.
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Because she thought there was some injustice, and she thought she was marching against it.
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Somebody who was in the military, trained to defend the country, probably thought she was.
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And I certainly don't think anybody deserves to get shot.
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But that's a separate question from whether the person who did the shooting did a really hard choice.
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But, yeah, I think no charge was the right decision.
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But I also respect anybody who disagrees with that, because I think that's a close call.
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And I guess there's a bill now, and even though Biden set up this advisory committee,
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which we think is just a smokescreen for figuring out a way to not do it.
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But still, Congress, finding a way to embarrass itself, has introduced a bill.
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And it's led by Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler.
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Now, the fact that Jerry Nadler is assigned to this makes me wonder if every time they talk about
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who's going to do something, if it's something you know is doomed, you look around and say,
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Jerry would like to take the lead on Russia collusion.
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Make sure you've really, you know, put your reputation on the line for Russian collusion.
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Because, you know, your career in Congress, I don't want to say it's not stellar,
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but it's a little not stellar, if you know what I mean.
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We're not going to send you out alone on this Russia collusion thing.
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We're going to give you a strong partner that people will respect.
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And when the two of you go out there, it looks like Abbott and Costello.
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Somebody gets the idea of doing a court-packing bill,
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which the public hates, the Supreme Court hates,
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we need to volunteer to lead this court-packing idea.
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we could pair you with somebody who is equally worth...
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Somebody whose reputation couldn't get any worse.
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And if you never thought of Nadler and Adam Schiff
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And it's getting to the point where it's just funny.
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And there are lots of levels to why this is funny.
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There's a CNN technical director who got caught on video
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and that they all know they're working on propaganda,
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And the funniest thing about it is that he got busted by this,
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because it took him a while to give up the goods on video.
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this is the quality of person that they hire at CNN.
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I'm not going to predict this is going to happen.