Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1356 Scott Adams： Turkey Gets Stuffed, Propaganda Updates, Mandatory Kneeling, and More Outrages

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00:00:49.280 Ah, that's what I call good stuff. Well, let's see what's going on today.

00:01:03.920 So according to Fox News, Biden's catch and release program for migrants, so these are the ones who 0.99

00:01:10.500 authorities are processing, and then they're released without court dates. So more than 15,000

00:01:19.260 have been released into the wild. But here's my question. I'm not sure that releasing people

00:01:26.520 after they've been processed in 2021 is exactly the same as it used to be. Because you know,

00:01:33.660 there's one technology that's a little different now. I assume that part of the process of processing

00:01:40.060 these folks involves taking a photograph. Is that fair to say? Does a photograph get into the

00:01:48.640 government system every time we process somebody? I assume so, right? Now, once you have a photograph

00:01:55.160 of somebody who is undocumented, and we have facial recognition, which is rolling out everywhere,

00:02:03.400 is the ability to just blend into the economy and disappear without being a legal citizen?

00:02:11.020 I don't know if that exists anymore. I feel as if our electronic, let's say, requirements of life

00:02:21.120 now will follow you. I mean, if they take your picture, you're effectively tagged. You know,

00:02:27.140 it's just like tagging an animal and releasing. Because anywhere there's a camera, you can find them.

00:02:32.600 So I would imagine that although we don't have all the assets in place to immediately track every

00:02:39.880 citizen everywhere, you know it's coming. So I'm not so sure that it matters as much as it used to

00:02:47.140 if you release people into the country. Now, I know you don't like it. I just I'm just saying that

00:02:52.900 compared to the risk of the past, the technology might be coming to its own. And maybe you don't like

00:03:01.240 that either because of privacy, etc. But just stating it as a fact, facial recognition is

00:03:07.200 going to make it really hard to disappear. Right? So immigration and facial technology are

00:03:16.740 going to bump into each other. And that's going to be a big story coming up. New York Times is

00:03:24.420 reporting that the death rate for 2020 was the highest above normal ever recorded in the country.

00:03:31.240 surpassing even the 1918 flu pandemic. Now, I put that out there, you know, New York Times reported

00:03:40.080 it and I tweeted it. And and I asked if the skeptics, the pandemic skeptics, have they been convinced?

00:03:50.200 You know, is this enough to finally convince the skeptics that there was a real pandemic,

00:03:56.620 pandemic? And it really killed a lot of people. And the answer is, nope, not even close.

00:04:04.260 Not even close. So I'm always amused at what level of information it would take to change anybody's

00:04:13.100 mind. And let me tell you the the pushback number. And by the way, the pushback is valid.

00:04:19.880 All right. So even though, you know, it came from the New York Times, it looked like it would be a,

00:04:26.320 you know, a pretty big claim to make if they couldn't back it up. But we have questions.

00:04:35.160 If you look at the 1918 pandemic, the Spanish flu, you see that they too had a gigantic spike in deaths

00:04:42.760 over the baseline. No surprise, right? But the following year, after the gigantic Spanish flu 1.00

00:04:51.500 spike in deaths, it was way under the death rate. So the amount of the next year that it was below the

00:04:58.920 average largely compensated for the amount that was above the average the year before.

00:05:05.460 So what do we know about the death rate from coronavirus so far? Nothing. We don't know anything.

00:05:17.060 Because until we have another full year, we don't know if we're going to have that same situation where

00:05:22.620 there's a spike and then a gigantic below average year. If that happens, we're going to be close to

00:05:29.820 break even. And it's going to look like, what is the theory? The dried tinder theory? That the people 0.88

00:05:37.940 who died of coronavirus are the people who are very, very likely going to die in the next 12 months

00:05:44.280 from whatever comorbidity they had. Now, maybe they didn't know it, but the data might actually show

00:05:52.460 that that's what's happening. So can we look at this data and say, my God, it's clear that this virus

00:06:00.220 was extra, extra deadly? Nope. Because we don't know how the numbers come out. And importantly,

00:06:09.600 we don't know how many of those deaths are because of the lockdown, right? That's what you want me to

00:06:14.580 say. How many of you were just saying, Scott, say there are also deaths because of the lockdown.

00:06:20.980 Say it. Say it, Scott. Okay, I said it. I think everybody agrees that there is some number of extra

00:06:28.820 deaths attributed directly to the pandemic lockdown and extra suicides, extra, you know, doses of

00:06:37.280 everything. And then here's another question I ask about the Spanish flu pandemic. In 1918,

00:06:46.140 how well were we counting deaths? Because I feel as if a lot of people probably just died at home,

00:06:55.060 didn't they? In 1918. And if you have a pandemic, maybe people end up in the hospital because it

00:07:03.500 takes a little while for them to die. And maybe they get counted. See where I'm going? In 1918, 0.77

00:07:09.960 maybe all that happened was they were good at counting COVID deaths, but they were bad at

00:07:15.960 counting every other kind of death. Because maybe just people died at home and didn't get recorded

00:07:21.000 somehow. I'm just speculating. So I don't know if the 1918 deaths tell us anything. And I don't know

00:07:27.980 if the 2020 deaths tell us anything. And they're also not done because I think they cut off in September

00:07:34.020 of 2020. So every time I think I'm going to learn something, because data came out. Have you noticed

00:07:41.960 it doesn't work? No matter what you do? Oh, we got this new fresh data. Now we know. No, we don't. We

00:07:50.080 don't know anything. How did you feel about data? Five years ago? Think about it. What was your belief

00:08:01.860 about any kind of data that you saw in the news about a big issue? Five years ago? Didn't you think

00:08:09.380 it's probably true? Right? You know, not always, because there were lots of things that weren't

00:08:16.800 true always. But five years ago, you probably said to yourself, well, it's probably true. It's in the

00:08:23.100 news. What do you say now? Don't you say it's probably not true? I feel like that's a big shift,

00:08:31.360 right? You know, there's almost nothing I could see in the news in terms of new data that I would

00:08:37.980 actually just believe the first time I saw it. I would say maybe I might talk about it like it's

00:08:44.620 true. But in the back of my mind, I'd be thinking maybe, maybe not. So that's a that's a big change

00:08:52.640 in society that we've moved from believing data that our officials give to us versus assuming it's not

00:08:59.880 true. And I believe there's some extra freedom in that. Meaning that maybe it's a good thing.

00:09:06.960 Maybe it's a really good thing that we don't believe official data. Maybe that's a big improvement.

00:09:13.980 There's something going on in India. And like everything else in the world, we don't understand 1.00

00:09:19.180 it. So India, we thought was doing unusually well and couldn't explain it. But now India is doing 0.96

00:09:27.000 unusually not well. And I'm still not sure we can explain it. I think they may have changed some

00:09:32.680 social distancing standards. But I don't know if that's the reason, because we never know.

00:09:39.660 But we do know that their hospitals are overrun. So we know something's happening,

00:09:45.680 because the hospitals are, you know, overfilled. And they're running out of oxygen and stuff.

00:09:51.600 And there's a big question about whether the United States is doing enough to help in terms of

00:09:56.980 vaccine materials, etc. Now, I don't know the details of that. It could be that it's just not

00:10:04.360 easy to help and we can't do it. But I got to think that for the long run, I can't think of anything

00:10:12.100 that would be better for American homeland security than making a really good try to help India.

00:10:19.580 Because the only thing that's keeping China from dominating the world is that there are other 0.99

00:10:26.220 big countries that ideally can band together. The United States and India are natural allies,

00:10:33.140 because they both have concern about China, they're both democracies. And, you know, we get along great,

00:10:40.960 India and the United States. So I don't feel that we should be treating India like a normal ally. 0.99

00:10:46.760 I don't think we should treat India like France. And we're good to France. France is a, you know,

00:10:54.620 long term ally. I feel like we should be a little extra good to India, because they're a little extra 1.00

00:11:00.800 important to our long term future, just as we are to theirs. We're sort of, we're sort of, you know,

00:11:06.380 bound together by the common threat of China, I believe. So whatever we can do there to make sure that 1.00

00:11:15.280 the population of India goes away saying that the United States did what it could, you know, 0.94

00:11:21.540 people understand that countries will take care of their own population first. But still,

00:11:26.920 it's probably a little bit we could do that we're not doing. And I feel like I'd like the Indian public

00:11:32.160 to know that the United States was squarely on their side, like unambiguously, just on their side.

00:11:38.860 So if we could get that done, that would be, that would be good.

00:11:45.300 Well, I finally crossed 100,000 subscribers on YouTube. Yay.

00:11:52.800 And I thought I'd give you a little update on shadow banning, allegedly. Now, the weird thing about

00:12:01.020 any of this social media shadow banning, or whatever it is, is that you can never really be sure.

00:12:09.900 Right? There are all kinds of things that look like, maybe, was this shadow banning? I really can't

00:12:16.160 tell. But I'll just sort of tell you what's happening. As you know, a number of my videos get

00:12:22.260 demonetized, sometimes taken down, more rarely taken down. But YouTube does watch me pretty

00:12:29.660 carefully. And apparently, I've been close enough to the line of getting canceled that,

00:12:34.680 you know, I get demonetized on a regular basis. And that's that sort of their warning,

00:12:39.760 that there's something you're doing that's not quite 100% cool with with the rules. Now, almost all,

00:12:46.400 I don't know the ratio, 95%, maybe, of the things they demonetize, get reversed on appeal,

00:12:54.940 meaning that they shouldn't have been demonetized. Is it intentional? Do you think that getting

00:13:01.580 demonetized 95% of the time is just the organ, is nothing but the algorithm looking for keywords,

00:13:10.300 and there's no human intervention in that? Could be, because I talk about a lot of controversial

00:13:15.380 issues. So, you know, the keyword alone could make some advertisers anxious. So it could be just that,

00:13:23.600 I wouldn't rule that out. But I was looking at my traffic over the last year. And you can see that

00:13:29.440 my traffic built and built and built through the end of 2020. But just about the time when the big

00:13:37.060 conversation was the big lie. Do you remember the big lie? That's what the mainstream media decided was

00:13:43.600 the term for anybody who is talking about the election integrity in the non-approved way.

00:13:49.860 So if you had any non-approved thoughts about election integrity, you were in trouble on social

00:13:56.960 media. So my traffic was up, up, up, up, and roughly my hand is about where the chart was. It was a pretty

00:14:03.680 good climb. Up, up, up, up, up, until all the conversation was about the integrity of the election.

00:14:09.500 And then straight downhill for several months. And then as soon as nobody was really talking about

00:14:17.620 the election integrity anymore, up, up, up, up, up, up, right back up. So I can't tell if there was any

00:14:27.220 human involvement or algorithmic involvement in what was straight up, straight down, and then back up

00:14:35.120 again. But it does coincide with the time that the powers that be were trying to suppress competing

00:14:44.880 opinions about the credibility of the election. Was that a coincidence? Was it just because the Trump

00:14:55.720 conversation fell off? But then I would expect my traffic just to go down forever, right? If the only

00:15:03.460 thing that changed was that Trump is out of office, so people who wanted to listen to me for that

00:15:09.520 purpose didn't need to. But that would just mean it would go down forever, or flatten. But it took off

00:15:18.280 again. You just have to wonder, right? And the fact that we don't know if this is natural or

00:15:26.800 manipulated is really concerning. I feel as if I should know if there are human beings suppressing

00:15:36.660 what I'm doing, or just the algorithm, or just life in general. I have no idea. In fact, I don't even

00:15:44.060 have a good guess of which one of those things is causing the change. So there's a story about a young

00:15:51.520 woman, Kirsten Henning. She was on a soccer team for some college, and she refused to kneel as part of 1.00

00:15:59.540 the Black Lives Matter stuff. She was very much in favor of the concept that, you know, the Black Lives

00:16:07.140 Matter as a concept, but did not like the organization and didn't think that she wanted to participate.

00:16:13.820 So she didn't kneel, and she got kicked off the team for not kneeling. Since when is kneeling

00:16:23.580 mandatory in the United States? Seriously? You know, lots of times when I look at people's behavior,

00:16:32.320 I ask myself, would I do that? If I were in that situation, would I be the one person who got kicked

00:16:39.200 off the team? And the answer is, yeah. Yeah, I would have been her. So there is a really, really big

00:16:47.700 difference between, hey, we'd like you to kneel. We're mad at you that you didn't, and you have to.

00:16:55.520 The moment it becomes required, required to kneel to an organization or, really? In the United States,

00:17:05.900 you're required to get on your knees to an idea? I don't care how good the idea is. That's not

00:17:13.420 happening. So let me say as full-throatedly as I can that I support this Kirsten Heening, I guess,

00:17:24.780 Henning or Heening. So yeah, and I would hire her in a heartbeat if I were hiring whatever it is that 1.00

00:17:32.820 she's going to look for a job, because that's the person you want. You want the person who is going 1.00

00:17:39.840 to say, yeah, now you've gone too far. I'm with you on the concept, but I'm not going to get on my

00:17:47.040 knees because you're going to make me. It's just not going to happen. So yeah, I would have walked

00:17:52.660 down to the team as well. You know, Twitter has become this weird alternate reality where a number

00:18:01.220 of people that I follow and follow me are in the skeptical camp. And it is amazing to see the data

00:18:09.940 that the skeptics, you know, put on Twitter versus everybody else. It's just completely different

00:18:16.380 worlds. And the data, if you didn't know any better, if you weren't good at sort of recognizing BS,

00:18:22.180 it looks just as good. They're opposites. You know, one will say that the sky is blue.

00:18:28.560 The other says the sky is orange. And they'll just be at the same time about the same data as if

00:18:35.440 we can't tell the difference. And we can't. I actually don't know sometimes what's true.

00:18:43.300 But I've started to block the skeptics who have been so wrong for so long.

00:18:50.760 You know, I say this often, but the people who are doubting the official narrative are,

00:18:58.740 you know, patriots and heroes, and you need them, even when they're wrong. You need the skeptics,

00:19:05.440 even when they're completely wrong. You just have to have that tension. But we've reached a point

00:19:10.820 where some of the skeptics, I'm not going to name names, but some of them have been so wrong for so long

00:19:17.840 that I just can't, I can't see them anymore. I just have to block them into my life. So you may disappear

00:19:25.520 if you're following me, if you've gone too far, right? I'm still okay with the people doubting mask

00:19:34.060 effectiveness, if you want. That's fine. But, you know, there are some things that are just so beyond

00:19:44.320 proven now that I don't think skepticism is warranted. But it's a judgment call. Here's an update

00:19:51.500 on propaganda. Some people call it news. Huffington Post ran this headline. People are tweeting it

00:19:59.520 around. Cops kill six people in 24 hours after the Chauvin conviction. Don't you feel that headline

00:20:07.440 needed a little context? That the police kill six people in 24 hours after the Chauvin conviction

00:20:14.260 sort of makes you feel as if the police were just going wild and shooting black people. 0.68

00:20:25.460 Nothing like that actually is, you know, indicated. But boy, the Huffington Post doesn't even try 0.92

00:20:31.880 to be anything but propaganda. So I'm wondering if the FDA should require warning labels on news.

00:20:45.300 What do you think of that? And I'm not sure if they have that power, but let's just talk about this.

00:20:50.840 Now we've talked about the fact that science has determined that watching only the news on one side

00:20:57.040 of the political aisle gives you brain damage. That's the actual word that they use. The scientists

00:21:02.500 do. Brain damage. Because you can't discern reality from fake news if you're only watching one side.

00:21:10.920 It doesn't matter which side. Only the right or only the left. Now I've said before that the people on

00:21:16.420 the right tend to be automatically exposed to the news on the left because that's in the atmosphere.

00:21:22.620 It's just sort of around all the time. But it doesn't work the other way.

00:21:26.000 The people on the left will never watch Fox News. They'll never click on a link. They'll just never

00:21:31.860 see it. So they're not going to watch Breitbart. They're not going to watch anything on the right.

00:21:36.860 So although both sides can be silly, if you're only watching one side, you do get brain damage.

00:21:44.740 And I wonder if something like the FDA could put a warning label on the news.

00:21:48.760 And why not? If you knew that consuming only news from one source gave you brain damage,

00:21:58.620 and again, there's no hyperbole here. Literally, actually, those words coming from the scientists.

00:22:05.720 Brain damage. Shouldn't you label it? Now, I don't think the label should go too far because then you'd be

00:22:13.440 impinging on maybe freedom of speech a little bit too much. You don't want the government putting too

00:22:19.240 much pressure on freedom of speech. But truth and labeling is good. Telling us when there's a

00:22:26.620 legitimate danger, I will still watch it or not watch it. I still have a choice. You're not taking my

00:22:33.140 right to watch it away. But what if CNN and the other, I just use CNN as my example. You could apply

00:22:40.600 this to all the news stations. What if they had to run a little notice that said, consuming news

00:22:46.880 from only one source, or one cluster of sources, because you know what that means, you know, only

00:22:52.960 the left, only the right, or one cluster of similar sources can cause brain damage and make you less

00:22:59.580 capable of functioning as an adult. Wouldn't that be useful? Imagine consuming the news,

00:23:09.820 with a warning before that they just have to run that says much of this news is unlikely to be true.

00:23:18.240 Because unfortunately, much of the news turns out later to not be true. But does the public know that?

00:23:25.760 I don't think the public knows that. I think some of the public knows it. But let's put a warning

00:23:31.100 label on the news. And I would put it on all the news. I wouldn't, I wouldn't discriminate and say

00:23:36.740 it's just CNN or MSNBC. You'd have to do it on all of them. That's my take.

00:23:43.180 Um, so I guess there was some big UFC fight last night. I'm not really, I don't really follow the

00:23:50.660 sport. And the reason I don't follow it is, I'm just not a fan of any sport that guarantees brain

00:23:57.980 damage for lots of people. I guess that's my theme today, brain damage. And, um, you know, I'm,

00:24:06.380 I'm sensitive to the argument that it's a free country, and people can take whatever risks they

00:24:11.400 want. But I really don't understand this one. Like, I don't understand how you could watch

00:24:18.060 people get brain damage as entertainment. I've watched some pretty bad things as entertainment.

00:24:25.820 But I can't watch people getting brain damage as entertainment. I watched a clip yesterday,

00:24:32.620 and I don't know if this was the fight, or it was the fight before the fight. But there were two,

00:24:37.860 two female combatants. And one of them, you know, they were facing off. And one of them does this 1.00

00:24:44.000 devastating kick to the head of the other one. And you see the other one just wandering around in a

00:24:49.980 daze and can barely stand up. And, and this daze lasts, you know, a long time, in at least in those

00:24:58.380 terms, a long time. It's obvious, I think, can somebody give me a fact check here? If somebody

00:25:06.080 gets a strong blow in the face or head, and they're walking around like they're confused,

00:25:12.700 that is brain damage, right? I mean, we'll call it a concussion, or something else, but isn't it brain

00:25:20.240 damage? And, and everybody's cheering, yay, that was magnificent. Let's replay that.

00:25:26.680 All I saw was somebody get brain damage. Like forever. Forever. That shit doesn't go away,

00:25:36.720 you know. When your concussion wears off, you still have the brain damage, right? It's only a question 1.00

00:25:43.200 of how much. If you haven't looked into this whole brain damage situation, it's a big deal. It's a big

00:25:51.280 deal. And we, we act like it's not. So if you want to say it's a free country and people want to damage

00:25:58.660 their brains for your entertainment and their profit, I don't know, maybe that's okay. It's a

00:26:04.320 free country. But I don't know how you can watch it. Like I really, I don't, I don't understand it at

00:26:10.760 all. But it's, you know, personal, personal differences. So Biden has a somewhat surprisingly

00:26:20.600 recognized the Armenian genocide by the Turkish, you know, historical state. And if you don't know

00:26:30.720 about this, the, the general sense of it is that around World War II, I'm sorry, World War I,

00:26:38.540 Turkey was getting rid of Armenians and shipping them off to death camps or camps where they died,

00:26:46.200 or they're murdering them. And, and basically it was genocide. Not basically, it was genocide. 0.50

00:26:53.380 And I guess most nations agree on this, but in Turkey, they, they, in Turkey, they teach their own

00:27:01.300 students that didn't happen. So if you're a student in Turkey, you will literally be taught it didn't

00:27:07.320 happen. Now, given that Turkey is a NATO ally, right? And, you know, we don't want problems with

00:27:16.000 Turkey because we need to work with them. It was kind of ballsy for Biden to, you know, put the hammer

00:27:22.860 down on them. And I'm going to say again, you know, it, uh, you, you've watched me say good things

00:27:30.280 about Trump when he was in office and some criticisms. So I'm going to be, I'll try to be at least a little

00:27:37.300 even handed. I think this should have been done by Trump. I don't know why Trump didn't do this. This

00:27:43.820 feels like a Biden success that was not a Trump success and it should have been. Somebody said he did.

00:27:51.780 That's not true. Uh, no, uh, Trump did not do this. Um,

00:27:58.360 so, but I also have to wonder if there's anything behind it, you know, is there anything about our

00:28:05.480 relationship with Turkey or anything about the Armenian American, you know, group or anything?

00:28:13.120 I feel like there's something more to the story about why it happened because Biden's kind of cautious

00:28:19.660 and I don't think he causes trouble unless, you know, unless he's got a reason. So I feel like

00:28:25.800 there's more to know about this story, but on the surface, I would say I agree with him. Now a personal

00:28:31.980 note is that, um, I own some stock in a Turkish company that I thought was going to be a good stock

00:28:43.000 for, let's say the 20 or 30 year, the years that I thought I'd hold it, which was the Turkish cell 1.00

00:28:49.520 phone company. Now the company itself is doing great, except that the foreign exchange, you know,

00:28:55.820 the, the Turkish currency just went to hell. So anything you invest there is a loser. So it's way 1.00

00:29:01.980 underwater. But, um, at this point, I feel like now that the United States has recognized the Armenian

00:29:10.260 genocide and that Turkey is still denying it. I feel like I just don't want my money there anymore. 1.00

00:29:17.880 So I'll probably pull it out on Monday just for patriotic reasons, really. Um, I'm not sure it'll

00:29:25.440 be a bad investment in 10 years, but who knows? So that I don't make any, uh, investment advice. So

00:29:33.280 don't see any investment advice in this. I'm just telling you, I'm no longer comfortable having any

00:29:38.880 money in Turkey. It feels like a bad place to have money. Just my personal opinion. Um,

00:29:46.400 I love the few, the CNN and Fox news have where, uh, it feels like every day Fox news hosts are being

00:29:54.360 called racist by CNN and every day that Fox news or people are calling CNN as propagandists.

00:30:01.380 And I feel as, you know, they, they found a business model where they can make money off

00:30:07.680 of each other's flaws. So part of the content of each of those news networks is insulting the

00:30:14.260 other one. And it's kind of clever that they, they managed to weaponize their hatred of each

00:30:19.360 other and their, their flaws, but it's working. So good for them. Um, I would like to make a

00:30:25.360 point, which I made in my book, um, how to fail almost everything and still win big. And it's

00:30:31.000 about optimizers versus simplifiers. And I think it explains what's going on with the Tony Fauci

00:30:38.920 situation, uh, situation meaning that, uh, Anthony Fauci is of course a technical medical, not medical,

00:30:49.040 but you know, an expert on pandemics, et cetera. And he's been, um, telling us that we got to keep

00:30:57.300 our masks on, even if we're, even if we're vaccinated. Now that's an optimizer. So an optimizer

00:31:04.700 is somebody who doesn't want to leave anything undone. If you can get everything done, do it,

00:31:10.180 even if it's more complicated. Whereas a simplifier would say, you know, we'd like to do everything,

00:31:16.820 but it's, it's going to be too hard. So let's just pick the simplest thing we can do. That's also

00:31:22.280 big and, and see if we can get at least one thing done, right. And I would say that leaders tend to

00:31:28.320 be simplifiers. I'm going to make a generality here that somebody who's a leader or a president,

00:31:33.820 for example, uh, or a governor would be a simplifier because they have to be, you can't be a good leader.

00:31:40.120 If you're complicating your messages, you just got to be a, a Trump like simplifier. Reagan was a good

00:31:46.460 simplifier, but scientists are optimizers. Scientists are optimizers. And so it's pretty

00:31:55.060 obvious why you get a difference. Tony Fauci is saying, if you wanted to optimize, you know,

00:32:02.200 a reduction of risk, you would get the vaccination, but you would also wear your mask. And part of it

00:32:08.040 is so that other people, you know, don't feel free that they could take their masks off and maybe

00:32:13.240 they're not vaccinated. And, um, I think that, uh, Dr. Nicole Sapphire said it best wrapping up this

00:32:20.940 point in a tweet. And she said this, the best strategy to overcome COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

00:32:27.840 is to assure the public that vaccines will lead to normalizing our lives.

00:32:33.220 Now that would be a simple message, right? Unfortunately, the CDC, Dr. Fauci, Biden have all

00:32:38.840 missed the mark with messaging and their lack of, uh, and their lack of liberation recommendations

00:32:44.840 adds to the hesitancy. So the point here being that if you could say to people, get your vaccinations

00:32:52.240 and you can take your mask off. Simple, right? Now, is it true that we know for sure that taking

00:33:03.760 your mask off would be okay or okay enough? The answer is there's a little bit of uncertainty,

00:33:11.100 but we do know that the risk would be smallish. And so as Dr. Sapphire says, and I agree,

00:33:20.000 if you're trying to get people to take the vaccination and that's the most important thing,

00:33:25.260 let's say from the perspective of our government, percentage of people getting vaccinated is the

00:33:30.660 most important thing. You can disagree about vaccinations, but just follow along with the

00:33:35.520 point. If it's the most important thing, you don't want to work against yourself by saying you still

00:33:41.140 have to wear masks when you're done. Even if that would be a little bit better, we think maybe not

00:33:46.800 so sure a little bit, you're way better letting people die to that tiny little risk because the greater

00:33:56.940 benefit of getting more vaccinations, according to the government, um, would be much better.

00:34:04.720 Somebody says, Matthew says, I'm, uh, spitting facts. I don't know what that means.

00:34:11.140 60% of new cases had the vaccination. I doubt that's true. Um, but there is a period between the

00:34:19.200 vaccination and when you're covered. So that might be part of any data problems there.

00:34:26.120 Uh, somebody says all the evidence shows the COVID shots are dangerous. Now this is, this is that, uh,

00:34:31.620 two worlds thing. You can live on Twitter in a certain world in which all of the information says

00:34:39.420 that the shots are more bad than good, but you can live in a different world in which it's

00:34:45.420 unambiguously true. The, the vaccinations are good for you in the world though. Those worlds are

00:34:51.940 completely, um, they're complete. You can just go into either of those worlds and live in it like

00:34:58.780 the other one doesn't even exist. So if there's somebody out here who says all of the data says

00:35:03.960 that the shots are dangerous, you're, you're in a bubble. Maybe you picked the right bubble. That

00:35:10.760 would be lucky, but just be aware that the smartest people in the world disagree with you.

00:35:16.900 Sorry. That's just a fact. The smartest, most well-informed people in the world are overwhelmingly

00:35:23.440 pro-vaccination. Overwhelmingly, not even close. So if you're living in a little Twitter social media

00:35:32.060 world in which it seems that vaccinations are a bad idea, you're not seeing the smart people.

00:35:39.660 You, you seem to have found a bubble in which there are some smart people, but they would be in

00:35:46.200 the skeptical, uh, camp. All right. It's like wearing a helmet in a car, somebody says. Yeah. So the

00:35:53.940 point is whether or not being vaccinated is a complete reduction of risk or not, you should still

00:36:00.900 simplify and act like it is because that's how to get to the, get to the finish line better. All right.

00:36:09.660 Somebody says the smartest people want to enslave us. Well, it's still optional, right? If the

00:36:17.560 smartest people say, um, you know, X has a risk so far, we still have some options about it, right? Now,

00:36:27.300 uh, shots won't prevent, so there's somebody here saying that shots won't prevent COVID-19.

00:36:37.360 You really have a data problem, right? If you believe that shots, oh, in fact, I was seeing this

00:36:43.180 morning, one of the people that I, I had to block, uh, was presenting graphs that show that the number of

00:36:50.520 infections skyrockets after the vaccines roll out. Now, I don't know of anything that is less likely

00:36:57.920 to be true than that. Now, and they have official sources, official sources that, that show a whole

00:37:05.620 different world than the rest of the world is seeing. The rest of the world sees that when the

00:37:09.820 shots roll out, the number of infections plunges, United States, Israel, et cetera. But there's a whole

00:37:17.120 other world where they're seeing exactly the opposite graphs, that as soon as you get a

00:37:21.800 vaccination, you get, you know, you get the disease and the number of infections skyrockets.

00:37:28.220 They can't both be true. And I feel very confident in saying that vaccinations are not causing more

00:37:35.220 COVID. And I feel very confident in saying that we do know by now that they work. Now, if you're worried

00:37:42.440 about long-term, um, long-term complications, that's something we don't know about, right? There's no way

00:37:49.920 to know because it's not the long-term yet, but certainly we know that they, uh, vastly reduce the

00:37:57.900 risk of getting COVID. We do know that. So if there's anybody here who still thinks that the vaccinations

00:38:04.340 just don't work, you are really lost, my friends, I mean, you're really lost because overwhelmingly the 1.00

00:38:14.620 smart people know they work. All right. Um, so I went over to MSNBC and sure enough, um,

00:38:27.160 they've got a big article there about the biggest hoax of 2020 or one of the two biggest,

00:38:34.640 and still they're saying a year later that Trump, uh, recommended drinking or ingesting,

00:38:41.740 uh, disinfectants. They're still saying that as of today, MSNBC is still telling its audience

00:38:50.640 that Trump recommended drinking disinfectants. Now that's the most debunked lie in the world.

00:38:57.140 If anybody's here who doesn't know it, just, uh, Google Heal Light, H-E-A-L-I-G-H-T. That's the

00:39:08.420 technology that is the UV light that's injected into the body via, via trachea, you know, a, uh,

00:39:16.340 what do you call it? A ventilator-like device into your trachea. And that was in the news and around

00:39:23.300 social media at the same time that Trump was talking about it. I had tweeted about it. I'd

00:39:27.120 talked about it. It was a real thing. And he talked about it as UV light. He clearly was aware

00:39:33.060 of that technology. Um, whether that becomes a good technology or not, probably not. I mean,

00:39:40.720 most things they test don't work out, but it was a real thing. And, and MSNBC said that he was talking

00:39:48.380 about bleach or disinfectant or something. Just amazing. It's amazing that this, that this can

00:39:53.600 happen like right in front of you. So that the propaganda is just over the top. And I feel like

00:39:59.680 there was something I was going to tell you that I forgot, but maybe I didn't. Oh yes, this, um, given

00:40:07.540 that I've reached a hundred thousand subscribers on YouTube, which I think was kind of a, kind of a

00:40:14.400 tightrope between getting canceled and not getting canceled. But so far I haven't been canceled.

00:40:20.820 And I was inspired by, uh, the story that I told you about the young woman who wouldn't kneel.

00:40:28.020 And she sort of inspired me a little bit, honestly, to do the following tweets. All right.

00:40:35.380 Uh, and I tweeted this. We'll see if this gets me canceled. I said, as a general rule, I tried to,

00:40:42.980 I tried to not care about anyone who acts as if they don't care about themselves. That's why I don't

00:40:48.320 care about anyone who resists arrest. It's still a tragedy, but it won't ever be a priority of mine.

00:40:56.140 Uh, I do care about ending systemic racism by teachers unions. So that's in my tweet. Now,

00:41:01.260 let me tell you the technique I had to use to keep myself from getting, uh, canceled here. If you

00:41:08.960 don't know how to do this, don't do what I did because, uh, you could so easily get canceled for

00:41:17.520 a tweet like this if you don't have enough technique. So let me tell you the technique that's in it.

00:41:23.140 Number one, I did not say that I don't care about black lives that would get you canceled because of 0.87

00:41:29.960 course I do care about black lives. Number two, I did not say all lives matter because that'll get 1.00

00:41:37.180 you canceled. So the, you know, I stayed away from the, you know, the, the third rails that are the

00:41:43.100 obvious ones, but I'm still in dangerous territory, right? Because I'm saying very clearly that I don't

00:41:47.820 care about anyone who is resisting arrest. And the theory is why should I care about someone who's

00:41:53.680 not acting as if they even care about themselves? I get that it's a tragedy. It's a tragedy for the

00:42:01.100 person. It's a tragedy for the police officer. You know, nothing good comes from a shooting

00:42:05.420 tragedy for the family. So it's definitely a tragedy, but it's not my tragedy. And if I'm going

00:42:11.380 to rank all the tragedies to care about, it's going to be close to last. You have to at least care about

00:42:18.200 yourself before you can even come to me and ask me to care about you. And although I can't read your

00:42:24.920 mind, if you're acting exactly like you don't care about your own life, I don't care about you. I

00:42:32.740 really don't. So when I watch any, you know, police shooting of somebody resisting arrest, I just don't

00:42:41.060 care. I really don't. Now I understand this tragedy. And I definitely, actually, I do care about the

00:42:48.600 family. So I care about the surviving family, because they didn't do anything, right? The family

00:42:53.780 was just minding their own business. So it's a tragedy for them. But I don't care about the

00:42:57.780 perpetrator, because they took that away. You know, if you're not going to act, just at least act like

00:43:06.840 you care about yourself, then I'll get involved. I'll care about you too. But I'm not going to help

00:43:11.960 people who can't do the smallest thing to help themselves. That's just a complete waste of time. 0.58

00:43:18.680 Has anybody here ever tried to help somebody who was a lost cause? How'd it work out?

00:43:26.400 In the comments, let me see how many of you have tried it. Have you tried to help somebody

00:43:31.320 who was just too far gone? And you just wasted your time? Just nothing good came from it. How many

00:43:39.140 of you have been in that situation? Look at the comments. Yep, yep, it never works out. Yep, you give

00:43:47.100 up. Yes, it red-pilled me. Oh, somebody says it worked out good. Every once in a while. Many times. Yes,

00:43:55.520 yes, yes, it didn't. Yes, yes, yes. Save your breath. Yeah. I would say the minimum requirement

00:44:00.900 of wasting your, not wasting your time. Let me restate that. The minimum requirement to care

00:44:07.880 about other people enough to help them out is that you have to see they're doing something for

00:44:12.300 themselves. Like that they have some intention of things working out. There are tons of people who

00:44:19.220 have no intention of success. That's very obvious. They have no intention of succeeding. No

00:44:25.120 intention of being a good citizen. And what can you do? That's interesting. The best advice you

00:44:37.400 ever gave me was on deciding. Let me restate that advice. So the user here is saying the best advice

00:44:46.280 I ever gave was about deciding. And now what that was, was the difference between wanting something and

00:44:52.820 deciding to have it. Right? The people resisting arrest and getting hurt, they want to be treated right.

00:44:59.780 And they want to be safe. And they want to probably want to live. But they haven't decided. Because if

00:45:06.720 you decide, it's got the sellout. So I can't tell you how many times over my career, somebody has called

00:45:15.440 me a sellout. Now, let me let me summarize by saying that that comment sort of labels you as a fucking 0.99

00:45:23.880 idiot. Because you understand that public people are selling things for a living, right? That we're all 1.00

00:45:31.360 selling something. What does selling out mean? Because you have my honest opinion. You know that I've

00:45:41.920 probably lost a third of my income by giving my honest opinions. So what exactly is selling out?

00:45:50.200 I'll tell you what it means. Everybody who uses that term is so low on the awareness level as a human

00:45:56.940 being, that you're somewhere between stupid and fucking asshole. All right? So try to improve your game. 1.00

00:46:05.720 Criticism's great. I don't mind it at all. You know, I've told you that a good criticism is like money in

00:46:11.000 the bank. If somebody criticizes me in a way that I can change something, improve it. I'm like, whoa,

00:46:16.600 cha-ching. That's a good criticism. I'll take it. But Scott's selling out. I tell you, it's such a low

00:46:25.020 level of criticism that I just don't know how you can wake up and keep yourself fed. I mean, really,

00:46:34.180 you're barely human at that level. So I have a suggestion for all the conservatives who are tired

00:46:43.920 of being called racists for just having an opinion on pretty much anything. And I'm going to get this.

00:46:50.840 This comes from a classmate of mine in seventh grade. Her name was Debbie. I doubt she's watching

00:46:58.300 this. Now, Debbie was one of the cute girls, you know, the attractive girls who tend to be the mean 1.00

00:47:06.500 girls because they can get away with it. You know, they're popular and they're attractive. And one of 1.00

00:47:12.120 the things that the mean girls did is, and it was especially devastating at that age, if you tried to 1.00

00:47:19.840 talk to them and you were not one of the cool, cool boys, they would mock whatever you said this way.

00:47:27.240 And I'll give you, I'll give you my impression. So if a guy, say a, you know, seventh grade boy came

00:47:35.140 up to Debbie or one of her friends and said, Hey, Debbie, would you, would you like to hang out with

00:47:41.740 me this weekend? Debbie would look at you and in front of her friends would say, Oh, you'd like to 0.98

00:47:47.480 hang out with me this weekend? And she would just say what you said, but like somebody with brain

00:47:55.140 damage. And it was devastating because there's nothing you can do to it. You just, you just like

00:48:02.860 shrink away and you're like, all right, you just, you just get out of there. It's just absolutely

00:48:09.120 devastating. And I was thinking about it because, you know, every day CNN is blaming, blaming a Fox

00:48:15.940 news host of being a racist for one thing or another. And it would just be hilarious if the way

00:48:22.160 all the conservatives handled those accusations is the way Debbie did. So that when, you know,

00:48:28.640 let's say, uh, uh, Jim, uh, whatever his name is, uh, on, uh, on CNN. So let's say he's doing an

00:48:36.500 opinion piece and he says, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Uh, that cartoonist is, uh, said this or that.

00:48:42.200 And so he's a racist. And my response would just be, uh, well, Jim, Jim had a quote today. He said,

00:48:50.680 Oh, Jim Acosta. Yes. Uh, Jim Acosta said, and just leave it there. Don't, don't even deal with

00:48:58.240 the facts. Just go, he's a racist. And just every time they say it, just do the same, uh, 0.99

00:49:08.020 Debbie mean girl, and just leave it there. Never ever deal with any of the content. 1.00

00:49:18.140 You know, you know, that mocking is powerful, right? If you haven't been mocked by a 14 year

00:49:25.760 old girl, when you're a 14 year old boy, you haven't been mocked. Let me tell you, that's like

00:49:32.220 the gold standard of mocking really good stuff. Powerful. So, uh, I'm watching some of you do it

00:49:46.720 in the, in the comments and I could tell that I could tell that this is popular. Uh, critical

00:49:53.540 race theory. President Trump was the gold standard of mocking. Yeah, you're right. He probably was

00:50:03.840 better. All right. So a lot of you are laughing about that. All right. We'll try it out. And, uh,

00:50:14.720 the next time one of my critics, uh, comes after me, I'll do a little video in which I'll respond to

00:50:21.260 my critics with just full, full, full, full, full. All right. That's all for now. I'll talk to you

00:50:29.920 tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 25, 2021

Episode 1356 Scott Adams： Turkey Gets Stuffed, Propaganda Updates, Mandatory Kneeling, and More Outrages

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