Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1357 Scott Adams： The Oscars Become More Useless Than Ever, Iran Secret Recording, CNN Propaganda Trick, More

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00:00:57.080 What else is happening?

00:01:00.120 I hear there was something called an Oscars last night.

00:01:04.660 I have a vague memory of something about that being relevant in the past.

00:01:09.580 But these days, movies are nothing but self-indulgent crap

00:01:13.400 that nobody should spend money on or spend hours watching.

00:01:17.540 I don't think there's any reason to watch a movie anymore.

00:01:20.880 The whole industry doesn't make any sense.

00:01:24.280 And so the Oscars had a self-congratulatory party in which they all celebrated their wokeness

00:01:30.440 and the immense shittiness of their products.

00:01:34.080 And I don't know if anybody watched.

00:01:37.180 Did anybody watch?

00:01:39.460 Is there anybody here who watched the Oscars?

00:01:42.380 Just anybody.

00:01:43.340 I remember when it used to be sort of a must-see TV, and now it's closer to must-not-see.

00:01:51.640 See, I'll tell you, you would have to pay me to watch a movie.

00:01:57.080 Like, actually, you would have to give me money to watch a two-and-a-half-hour movie

00:02:01.780 because they're not even trying to make these entertaining anymore.

00:02:05.640 They're trying to win Oscars.

00:02:07.960 And that means everybody's got to be sad and droopy and bad things happen

00:02:11.920 until you go home feeling like you want to kill yourself.

00:02:14.280 So movies don't make any sense.

00:02:17.440 They're all crap.

00:02:18.520 Don't watch them.

00:02:21.260 If I haven't told you before, there's a site called Ground News

00:02:26.600 that tracks blind spots in the news coverage.

00:02:30.900 So if somebody on the left or, let's say, all the news outlets on the left have a story,

00:02:36.140 but everybody on the right is not covering it or vice versa, you can see that.

00:02:41.720 And here's a really good example.

00:02:43.620 I tweeted it, but most of you heard the news that the newest CDC advice

00:02:52.480 or there was a study that showed that it doesn't matter if you're six feet away

00:02:56.660 or 60 feet away, it's all the same.

00:02:59.900 It's no risk at six feet.

00:03:02.800 And that seemed like good news for everybody, wasn't it?

00:03:08.400 Was that good news only for conservatives?

00:03:11.000 It seems like that would be good news for everybody.

00:03:16.420 But only the conservative media covered it.

00:03:18.700 The left completely ignored it.

00:03:22.320 Why?

00:03:23.440 Because it doesn't fit their narrative of what they want the public to do.

00:03:27.440 It was true information that was useful and relevant,

00:03:32.240 and they didn't report it because they didn't want you to know it.

00:03:36.600 I assume they wouldn't want you to know that it was that safe

00:03:40.340 because it works against the narrative that you've got to mask up and hide inside.

00:03:47.060 So when you see something like that, it's a reminder that the news is not the news.

00:03:52.460 It's a narrative.

00:03:54.080 It's about managing your actions.

00:03:56.500 It's not about what you know.

00:03:57.500 So that's why that happens.

00:04:01.340 Let me ask you, when you heard the news, and I say news with quotes,

00:04:08.540 when you heard the news that Joe Biden's climate change plan would limit Americans to one hamburger per month,

00:04:15.080 was there any point at which you believed that to be true?

00:04:22.900 Because if at any point you saw that news that said that the Biden plan would limit you to one hamburger a month,

00:04:31.240 and you thought that might be true,

00:04:33.920 you really need to examine your gullibility

00:04:37.200 because that was so obviously not true from the first moment.

00:04:41.960 You didn't really need to wait for details on that one.

00:04:46.640 I saw the headline, and I said, all right, let's see, 24 hours until that's completely debunked.

00:04:53.920 Done. Completely debunked.

00:04:56.100 The fact checker said, nope, nothing like that.

00:04:59.260 No requirement like that.

00:05:01.540 So here is my rule for that.

00:05:04.840 This is the Scott Alexander rule, not the Scott Adams rule.

00:05:09.900 And it goes like this.

00:05:11.960 If there's a story in the news that's just a little bit too on the nose

00:05:18.400 and a little bit too crazy, like you say to yourself,

00:05:22.700 my God, that couldn't possibly be true.

00:05:26.340 The next thing you should say to yourself is,

00:05:29.520 oh, it probably isn't.

00:05:31.880 Because you'll be right about 98% of the time.

00:05:35.000 If your first instinct is, I'm not sure that's true, go with it.

00:05:41.340 You'll be right 98% of the time.

00:05:44.220 So when I heard this story, my first instinct was, nope, nope, there's no chance that's true.

00:05:50.800 And sure enough, it's debunked.

00:05:52.160 I saw a question on the internet today.

00:05:57.600 Are humans evolving to be smarter?

00:06:01.260 In other words, especially with modern education and modern everything,

00:06:06.340 are we accelerating how smart people are getting?

00:06:10.140 Are we evolving to be smarter?

00:06:12.180 Because I don't think we are.

00:06:16.600 I feel like maybe it's working in the other direction a little bit.

00:06:21.100 Feels like it.

00:06:22.060 Now, it's misleading because when you look at, say, the writings of the ancients,

00:06:29.040 the only ones you're going to see are the most educated, smartest people.

00:06:32.980 So it might feel like they were smarter back then.

00:06:36.300 But I ask the question,

00:06:38.200 how is it that we can't figure out how to build a pyramid without modern tools?

00:06:45.260 Because the Egyptians figured out how to build a pyramid without modern tools.

00:06:50.120 But we don't know how to do it.

00:06:51.420 How about those big heads on Easter Island?

00:06:55.360 Not quite so sure how to do that, are we?

00:06:58.240 Well, I would just like to put that out there,

00:07:00.760 that maybe people in general are getting dumber.

00:07:04.000 And there would be a reason for that.

00:07:06.020 Because our technology is beaming stupidity right into our brains.

00:07:11.700 Probably a good third of the country believes they can't eat more than one hamburger next year.

00:07:17.960 Right?

00:07:18.400 So think about all the people who believe the hamburger story.

00:07:22.740 Did they get smarter?

00:07:25.200 Or did they get dumber?

00:07:27.660 They got dumber, right?

00:07:29.220 Because the fake news is just not true.

00:07:32.920 So to the extent that you believe any fake news,

00:07:36.300 you're getting dumber.

00:07:38.740 Now, in the old days, they didn't have as robust a 24-hour news situation.

00:07:44.300 So I imagine that they were fed less fake news.

00:07:49.020 Now, of course, they knew less.

00:07:50.840 Science was backwards, etc.

00:07:53.180 But I've got a feeling that we're actually making people stupid.

00:07:57.780 That our technology is targeting the weak and just turning them dumber and less capable.

00:08:03.060 At the same time, that would be more of an average.

00:08:08.760 But at the same time, the smartest people are more easily finding each other.

00:08:13.400 Because if you're smart, you just look for another smart person.

00:08:17.060 And technology lets you find them pretty quickly.

00:08:19.160 So if the smartest people are marrying the smartest people,

00:08:23.240 and that's largely true, because they don't want to, you know,

00:08:26.420 if you're really smart, you'll need to be smart, somebody else who's smart.

00:08:29.920 They're going to have smart kids.

00:08:32.420 And so we're going to have one segment of society

00:08:35.440 that's sort of hyper-evolving to extra smartness,

00:08:40.340 while the rest of society is consuming fake news and getting dumber.

00:08:43.940 However, the difference in, you know, IQs is going to become a problem.

00:08:51.200 I mean, you could argue it already is.

00:08:53.480 But I think the fact that in the old days,

00:08:55.720 you ended up marrying whoever was nearby,

00:08:58.960 guaranteed that smart people were usually going to marry dumb people.

00:09:03.900 Because there were more dumb people than smart people.

00:09:06.500 And you just married whoever was available and nearby.

00:09:09.740 But once you can look for another smart person,

00:09:12.080 you're going to have these ultra-smart people

00:09:14.660 who have bred ultra-smart kids,

00:09:17.500 or maybe those kids will have problems.

00:09:19.680 I don't know.

00:09:27.120 I think I'll...

00:09:28.720 I'm just going to block you, Dean,

00:09:31.300 just for being an all-caps guy.

00:09:36.860 Time out for you.

00:09:39.260 All right.

00:09:42.080 So, here's a little update on the Matt Gaetz sex scandal.

00:09:50.820 How about all those details, huh?

00:09:54.220 None.

00:09:55.480 How about all those witnesses that came forward?

00:09:59.880 None.

00:10:01.620 How about all the confirmed illegal acts that are part of this story?

00:10:08.000 None.

00:10:08.640 Three weeks.

00:10:12.080 Nothing.

00:10:13.800 Does that bother you?

00:10:15.940 Three weeks this story's been out there,

00:10:18.500 and nothing.

00:10:20.120 Nothing confirmed.

00:10:21.740 No human being who confirmed it.

00:10:25.080 Nothing.

00:10:26.340 Now, that doesn't mean that it won't happen.

00:10:29.160 I'm just saying this looks a little bit unusual, doesn't it?

00:10:32.140 So, keep an eye on this.

00:10:35.400 As David Reboi, I hope I'm saying that right, Reboi,

00:10:40.020 said in American Greatness that, indeed,

00:10:42.900 this might be the longest-running, quote,

00:10:45.100 sex scandal in the nation's history without an accuser.

00:10:50.480 There's no accuser.

00:10:51.800 I mean, publicly, that we know about.

00:10:55.660 Amazing.

00:10:56.180 More than 500 federally funded scientists in the United States

00:11:00.620 are under investigation for being compromised by China

00:11:04.560 and other foreign powers.

00:11:07.300 The NIH said 500 of our scientists

00:11:12.300 might be in the pocket or at least influenced by China.

00:11:16.020 That's pretty scary.

00:11:19.760 Don't you think we ought to do something about that?

00:11:22.780 As in, China should not be giving any money

00:11:25.800 to anybody in our universities?

00:11:29.660 I think maybe we should tighten that up a little bit.

00:11:34.940 On Face the Nation, some big news happened.

00:11:39.420 Do you know what makes big news?

00:11:41.600 It's when something happens that you think shouldn't happen.

00:11:45.600 It's not news when somebody just does something well.

00:11:50.280 That's not news.

00:11:51.900 But if something's, like, way out of the box,

00:11:54.520 you know, like a man bites a dog, that's news.

00:11:58.160 You know, dog bites man, not so much.

00:12:00.180 Ordinary.

00:12:01.620 But on Face the Nation, here's the big news.

00:12:05.000 They put a politician on TV who told the truth.

00:12:09.240 And that was national news.

00:12:12.060 I'm not joking.

00:12:13.120 A politician told the truth on television,

00:12:17.080 and it became national news.

00:12:20.560 Here's the specific truth.

00:12:23.380 Former Orlando police chief, Representative Val Demings.

00:12:27.160 So when she was asked about the shooting of Maquia Bryant,

00:12:33.700 and that was the young woman who had the knife,

00:12:36.440 who was killed by the officer who was responding,

00:12:38.520 as she was in the act of, it looked like,

00:12:41.740 in the act of stabbing the other woman.

00:12:44.580 And she said she looked at the footage

00:12:48.300 and basically said,

00:12:49.720 it appears the officer responded as he was trained to do.

00:12:55.420 What?

00:12:56.880 Are you allowed to tell the truth on TV?

00:13:00.000 I didn't know that way.

00:13:01.240 I didn't know you could do that.

00:13:03.300 So even though she's a Democrat,

00:13:06.260 she decided that,

00:13:08.100 I guess given that she's a former Orlando police chief,

00:13:11.800 she just couldn't go on television

00:13:13.820 like the other politicians

00:13:15.660 and just lie about it.

00:13:18.520 So she decided to go on television

00:13:20.580 and just tell a simple, obvious truth,

00:13:23.560 and telling the truth on television

00:13:25.620 makes it world news.

00:13:27.600 It's a headline.

00:13:28.900 Because she told the truth.

00:13:30.500 That's it.

00:13:31.700 There's no new information.

00:13:34.200 You know, you didn't learn anything.

00:13:35.560 Nothing was revealed.

00:13:39.440 She simply told the truth.

00:13:42.160 And it's national news.

00:13:44.340 I mean, just think about that.

00:13:46.160 That's what makes news.

00:13:49.980 There's more criticism of Dr. Fauci

00:13:53.840 from some circles.

00:13:55.960 It's being said that he's flip-flopping again

00:13:58.220 about whether you need masks outdoors.

00:14:00.680 But I guess the CDC will come up

00:14:03.860 with some new guidelines

00:14:04.740 that will exercise common sense.

00:14:08.940 So I think we're going to be

00:14:10.360 a little bit freer outdoors.

00:14:12.260 I don't know about where you live,

00:14:14.300 but where I live,

00:14:15.680 so it's a suburban area,

00:14:17.440 if you were to take a walk

00:14:19.060 down a typical neighborhood sidewalk,

00:14:23.280 you might run into nobody

00:14:25.600 coming the other direction,

00:14:27.400 like in your entire walk.

00:14:29.360 Maybe one person

00:14:30.640 coming the other direction.

00:14:32.300 Today, that one person

00:14:35.160 all by themselves outdoors

00:14:36.900 will usually have a mask on

00:14:39.620 where I live.

00:14:41.820 Now, I don't wear a mask

00:14:43.200 to walk outdoors.

00:14:45.300 Right?

00:14:46.560 You know, the exception is

00:14:48.400 if I go downtown

00:14:49.900 because the sidewalks are packed

00:14:51.640 with people sometimes.

00:14:52.600 And even that's more

00:14:54.920 just to be polite.

00:14:56.780 But there's a weird thing

00:14:58.220 happening, which is,

00:15:00.040 have you ever been

00:15:00.680 in this situation

00:15:01.360 where you walk up to a door

00:15:03.880 and you're with some other people

00:15:05.120 and you go to hold the door?

00:15:06.780 Let's say you're a man

00:15:07.660 and you're going to hold the door

00:15:08.540 for another man.

00:15:09.940 And the other guy says,

00:15:11.080 no, after you.

00:15:12.340 And then you go,

00:15:12.820 no, after you.

00:15:14.000 No, after you.

00:15:15.300 No, after you.

00:15:16.900 And men do this

00:15:17.960 about picking up the check

00:15:19.060 as well.

00:15:20.100 I don't know if women do it.

00:15:21.300 I don't observe that as much.

00:15:23.000 But men will be like,

00:15:24.200 oh, I'll pick up the check.

00:15:25.360 No, it's my turn.

00:15:26.460 No, it's my turn.

00:15:28.320 And masks have kind of

00:15:30.000 turned into that.

00:15:32.320 You'll see people try to

00:15:33.800 out-polite you with masks.

00:15:36.520 Because really now

00:15:37.200 it's just about politeness.

00:15:38.940 The outdoor masking,

00:15:40.220 I don't think anybody

00:15:40.940 believes it makes a difference.

00:15:42.800 But it makes you look like

00:15:44.260 you're the most polite person.

00:15:46.800 So I'll be walking

00:15:47.820 down the sidewalk

00:15:48.440 and I'll think,

00:15:49.040 oh, okay,

00:15:49.380 I'll just sort of

00:15:50.140 get off the sidewalk

00:15:50.940 when I'm passing them.

00:15:53.300 Give them, you know,

00:15:53.900 give them six feet

00:15:54.620 because I don't have

00:15:55.880 a mask on.

00:15:57.000 But in my head,

00:15:57.820 I'm thinking,

00:15:58.460 I'm just doing it

00:15:59.200 to be polite.

00:16:00.540 I'm not really doing it

00:16:01.960 because I think it's safer.

00:16:03.680 I'm doing it

00:16:04.460 because I don't know

00:16:05.220 if they're worried about it.

00:16:07.040 So it's just a courtesy.

00:16:08.700 But other people

00:16:09.740 are trying to out-courtesy me.

00:16:11.740 So they'll like

00:16:13.360 wear two masks

00:16:14.280 and run across the street

00:16:15.420 because they're extra courteous.

00:16:17.300 I don't think

00:16:18.120 it's about safety anymore.

00:16:20.120 I believe that

00:16:21.120 100% of outdoor mask wearing

00:16:24.200 is not just signaling

00:16:27.200 because that's what

00:16:28.680 I'm seeing in the comments.

00:16:30.140 Somebody says

00:16:30.500 virtue signaling.

00:16:31.540 I don't think

00:16:32.000 that's what it is.

00:16:33.220 I think it used to be maybe.

00:16:35.320 But now I think

00:16:36.180 it's just people

00:16:36.980 trying to out-polite

00:16:38.560 other people.

00:16:40.060 That's it.

00:16:40.560 I don't think

00:16:41.320 it's virtue signaling

00:16:42.180 so much as being out-polite.

00:16:44.620 I guess you could say

00:16:45.460 that's virtue.

00:16:46.300 But it's a specific guy.

00:16:48.480 All right.

00:16:49.720 There's an interesting

00:16:50.660 recording of Iran's

00:16:52.000 foreign minister.

00:16:54.720 So this was a

00:16:56.080 released recording

00:16:57.460 that he didn't know

00:16:58.580 was going to be released.

00:16:59.720 This was Zarif,

00:17:01.360 the foreign minister.

00:17:03.300 Now here's the first question

00:17:04.740 you must ask.

00:17:05.580 How do we get a recording

00:17:09.580 of the foreign minister

00:17:11.740 of Iran

00:17:12.640 talking candidly

00:17:14.460 in a private scenario?

00:17:16.840 Or at least off the record.

00:17:18.940 How do we get that?

00:17:21.320 Clearly I would say

00:17:22.480 there is somebody

00:17:23.420 or some people

00:17:24.440 within the Iranian hierarchy

00:17:27.280 who are not so

00:17:29.380 pro-Iranian hierarchy.

00:17:32.020 May want some change.

00:17:33.080 So there does seem

00:17:34.960 to be some

00:17:35.540 continuing evidence

00:17:36.760 that at least Israel

00:17:39.080 knows way too much

00:17:41.520 about the inner workings

00:17:42.760 of Iran.

00:17:44.120 So it would seem

00:17:45.780 that Iran

00:17:46.580 is completely compromised

00:17:47.920 in terms of sources

00:17:49.520 and insiders

00:17:50.640 and etc.

00:17:52.480 So that's got to worry them.

00:17:54.400 But if you recall

00:17:55.400 when President Trump

00:17:57.260 ordered the

00:17:58.120 assassination,

00:18:00.640 I guess you'd call it,

00:18:01.360 or the missile strike

00:18:03.160 with the drone

00:18:03.740 on Soleimani,

00:18:05.040 the general

00:18:06.020 who was running

00:18:06.660 things over there,

00:18:08.080 do you remember

00:18:08.620 what I said

00:18:09.380 about that situation?

00:18:11.800 Remember everybody,

00:18:13.100 a lot of smart people

00:18:14.200 were saying,

00:18:15.140 hey, this is going

00:18:16.040 to cause a big war

00:18:17.340 in Iran?

00:18:19.060 And what did I say?

00:18:20.560 Does anybody remember?

00:18:21.820 Does anybody remember

00:18:22.680 what I predicted

00:18:23.560 about that?

00:18:25.240 What I predicted

00:18:26.300 was that Soleimani

00:18:28.360 was probably

00:18:30.180 not too popular.

00:18:35.320 Carpe.

00:18:37.020 It's all about politeness.

00:18:38.580 Our church dropped

00:18:39.280 the mask suggestion

00:18:40.180 last week.

00:18:41.580 One person was wearing

00:18:42.840 one on Sunday.

00:18:43.580 Yeah, it is about politeness.

00:18:45.500 Because as soon as you

00:18:46.760 tell people

00:18:47.200 they don't have to wear it,

00:18:48.620 they take them off.

00:18:49.900 So you know

00:18:50.560 it wasn't about safety

00:18:51.580 because the moment

00:18:52.400 they have permission

00:18:53.260 and it's polite

00:18:54.700 to take off their mask,

00:18:55.800 they take them off.

00:18:56.460 Anyway, thanks for

00:18:58.780 the comment, Carpe.

00:19:00.720 And anyway,

00:19:03.580 back to this Iran thing.

00:19:04.960 So they must be

00:19:05.660 terribly compromised.

00:19:07.660 But as I predicted

00:19:09.700 when Soleimani

00:19:10.940 was taken out

00:19:11.800 by Trump,

00:19:13.180 I said,

00:19:13.900 I'm not so sure

00:19:14.800 that the Iranian

00:19:15.560 leadership is mad

00:19:16.940 about that.

00:19:19.040 Do you remember that?

00:19:20.800 Was I the only person

00:19:22.040 who said that?

00:19:23.620 As far as I know,

00:19:25.020 there wasn't anybody

00:19:25.580 else in the world

00:19:26.360 that I heard.

00:19:27.440 Did you?

00:19:28.340 I mean,

00:19:28.700 if you heard somebody

00:19:30.280 else say it,

00:19:30.840 let me know.

00:19:31.840 But I don't think

00:19:32.680 anybody else said,

00:19:34.300 hey, hold on to this.

00:19:35.420 I think Iran

00:19:36.040 is going to have

00:19:36.560 a muted response

00:19:37.640 because they might

00:19:38.580 be happy about

00:19:39.360 him being gone.

00:19:41.420 And it turns out

00:19:42.540 that when we hear

00:19:43.380 the secret tapes

00:19:44.920 from this insider,

00:19:46.260 Zarif,

00:19:48.040 they were not

00:19:49.520 too happy with him.

00:19:51.260 Apparently,

00:19:51.820 he was sort of

00:19:53.200 acquiring too much power,

00:19:55.280 making decisions

00:19:56.240 outside of the

00:19:57.020 leadership of the country,

00:19:59.540 and they didn't like it.

00:20:03.640 And so,

00:20:05.940 I think I'm the only person

00:20:07.800 who got this right,

00:20:09.340 that Iran itself,

00:20:12.240 the leadership anyway,

00:20:13.880 would have mixed feelings

00:20:15.200 about one of their top generals

00:20:16.780 being assassinated.

00:20:18.380 And sure enough,

00:20:19.620 their response was

00:20:20.760 kind of small,

00:20:22.660 right?

00:20:22.960 They had to do

00:20:24.140 a little something

00:20:24.820 and they did,

00:20:26.060 but kind of

00:20:26.580 a small response.

00:20:28.360 And now we know

00:20:28.880 from the insider

00:20:29.580 that they might have

00:20:31.680 been a little happy

00:20:32.300 about that.

00:20:33.180 The other thing

00:20:33.740 we learned

00:20:34.180 is that Russia

00:20:35.900 apparently was

00:20:37.000 trying to kill

00:20:38.000 any kind of

00:20:39.480 Iranian deal

00:20:41.580 with the United States

00:20:42.600 that would be good

00:20:43.360 for both Iran

00:20:44.160 and the United States.

00:20:46.400 Think about that.

00:20:48.800 I mean,

00:20:48.960 just think about that.

00:20:49.860 Russia actively

00:20:52.200 basically was

00:20:54.200 spoiling relations

00:20:55.400 between the United States

00:20:56.540 and Iran

00:20:57.060 because, of course,

00:20:58.340 they would like

00:20:58.820 Iran to be more

00:20:59.900 in their camp

00:21:00.620 as would China.

00:21:02.620 And Zarif was

00:21:03.540 even complaining

00:21:04.320 that the current

00:21:05.880 situation makes Iran

00:21:07.600 depend on Russia

00:21:09.180 and depend on China.

00:21:11.460 How would you like

00:21:12.900 to depend on Russia

00:21:14.080 and China?

00:21:15.120 And those are

00:21:15.660 your two options.

00:21:17.740 Turns out Iran

00:21:18.780 doesn't like that.

00:21:20.120 Do you know

00:21:20.400 what they would

00:21:20.760 really like?

00:21:22.300 To depend a little bit

00:21:23.480 more on the United States.

00:21:25.560 To have a little bit

00:21:26.500 of competition there.

00:21:27.940 So they don't have

00:21:28.780 to depend on China.

00:21:29.820 They could do

00:21:30.360 something with us.

00:21:31.520 Make a little

00:21:31.940 competitive situation.

00:21:35.160 Surprised?

00:21:36.140 No.

00:21:37.000 It turns out

00:21:37.640 that what Iran

00:21:38.340 would like

00:21:38.900 and really like

00:21:39.840 is to do more

00:21:41.060 business with

00:21:41.660 the United States.

00:21:44.300 Somebody says,

00:21:45.120 where is this recording?

00:21:46.380 Well, look on my

00:21:47.100 Twitter feed.

00:21:47.720 You'll see some links

00:21:48.720 to your stories.

00:21:50.580 And then I think,

00:21:51.880 I don't know

00:21:52.400 if you'll hear it

00:21:53.380 because it wouldn't

00:21:55.080 be in English.

00:21:55.920 So I don't know.

00:21:57.420 And if you're doubting

00:21:58.460 whether it exists

00:21:59.160 or it's accurate,

00:22:00.820 I like where you're

00:22:01.980 heading on this.

00:22:03.340 I think it's accurate,

00:22:05.340 the story.

00:22:06.740 But if there's

00:22:07.760 somebody out there

00:22:08.280 doubting whether

00:22:08.880 it's even true,

00:22:10.380 I like how you're

00:22:11.400 thinking.

00:22:12.280 Because it could be

00:22:13.160 not true.

00:22:13.980 It's possible.

00:22:14.520 I just think

00:22:15.820 it probably is.

00:22:17.560 But I'm biased.

00:22:19.780 So I feel as if

00:22:22.220 we've never been

00:22:22.960 this close

00:22:23.780 to doing something

00:22:25.140 useful with Iran.

00:22:26.940 Now, of course,

00:22:27.800 we can't let them

00:22:28.600 keep their, you know,

00:22:29.860 building nukes,

00:22:30.820 et cetera.

00:22:31.820 But I feel like

00:22:32.660 they really want

00:22:33.580 a deal.

00:22:35.020 And I don't think

00:22:36.060 that, you know,

00:22:37.380 if they were not

00:22:38.580 worried about their,

00:22:39.540 you know,

00:22:40.140 integrity of their

00:22:40.980 country,

00:22:41.340 I'm not so sure

00:22:42.700 they wouldn't want

00:22:43.300 to work with

00:22:43.740 the United States.

00:22:45.020 Maybe you have to

00:22:45.760 wait for the Ayatollah

00:22:46.600 to pass on.

00:22:48.780 But I feel like

00:22:49.940 we're this close.

00:22:51.820 You know,

00:22:52.060 I've said it before,

00:22:52.780 we're only one

00:22:53.560 Ayatollah away

00:22:54.400 from peace.

00:22:56.160 That's not

00:22:56.740 necessarily true

00:22:57.600 because the next,

00:22:58.860 you know,

00:22:59.320 the next leader

00:22:59.940 might be worse.

00:23:01.000 You never know.

00:23:02.600 But I feel like,

00:23:03.980 I feel like it's

00:23:04.720 ready to tip

00:23:05.500 in our direction.

00:23:06.840 So here's

00:23:10.380 some persuasion

00:23:11.560 updates.

00:23:13.100 In 2014,

00:23:14.980 48% of the

00:23:16.020 country believed

00:23:16.640 global warming

00:23:17.460 was caused

00:23:18.440 by human activity.

00:23:20.020 So fewer

00:23:20.520 than half.

00:23:21.780 But fast forward

00:23:22.840 from 2014

00:23:23.680 to 2020,

00:23:25.340 of course,

00:23:26.000 it's a little

00:23:26.420 dated already,

00:23:27.560 and we're up

00:23:28.460 to 57%.

00:23:29.980 So now it's

00:23:30.940 a clear majority

00:23:32.200 believe global

00:23:33.720 warming is caused

00:23:34.980 in part by

00:23:35.620 human activity.

00:23:36.840 The Biden

00:23:39.100 states are

00:23:39.740 59%

00:23:41.020 agreeing with

00:23:42.480 that,

00:23:42.800 while the

00:23:43.140 Trump states

00:23:43.720 are at 52%,

00:23:45.720 which is not

00:23:47.300 that far away.

00:23:48.800 So whether

00:23:49.300 a state went

00:23:50.540 for Trump

00:23:51.140 or Biden

00:23:51.720 in the last

00:23:52.360 election,

00:23:53.860 they're both,

00:23:54.540 more than half

00:23:55.360 of them believe

00:23:55.920 that global

00:23:56.340 warming is caused

00:23:57.120 by human activity,

00:23:58.300 some part of it.

00:24:00.240 And then

00:24:00.900 43%

00:24:01.940 believe it will

00:24:03.120 harm them

00:24:03.700 personally.

00:24:05.460 So the question

00:24:06.440 of whether

00:24:06.740 it exists

00:24:07.460 is separate

00:24:08.960 from the

00:24:09.340 question of

00:24:09.740 whether it

00:24:10.000 will harm

00:24:10.260 them personally.

00:24:11.460 So more

00:24:11.800 people think

00:24:12.420 it's a thing

00:24:13.040 than think

00:24:13.700 it will hurt

00:24:14.160 them personally.

00:24:15.640 Sounds about

00:24:16.200 right,

00:24:16.480 doesn't it?

00:24:17.620 Sounds about

00:24:18.180 right.

00:24:22.920 But here's,

00:24:24.280 now here's

00:24:24.880 the punchline

00:24:25.780 to it all.

00:24:26.620 So this was

00:24:27.200 an NBC article

00:24:28.280 I was reading.

00:24:29.260 And in the

00:24:29.680 article it says,

00:24:30.440 but the extreme

00:24:31.040 weather events

00:24:31.760 of the past

00:24:32.240 few years,

00:24:33.000 from hurricanes

00:24:33.660 and floods

00:24:34.160 to deep

00:24:34.640 droughts

00:24:35.000 and wildfires

00:24:35.700 might have

00:24:36.640 played a role.

00:24:37.700 In other words,

00:24:38.880 the speculation

00:24:39.480 is that

00:24:40.460 people saw

00:24:42.580 all these

00:24:43.040 big weather

00:24:43.680 events,

00:24:44.660 fires and

00:24:45.480 hurricanes,

00:24:46.440 they tied it

00:24:47.480 to climate

00:24:47.920 change,

00:24:48.740 and it made

00:24:49.260 more people

00:24:49.840 believe that

00:24:50.440 climate change

00:24:51.200 was a problem

00:24:51.800 and that it

00:24:53.100 was real.

00:24:55.120 But

00:24:55.720 do you see

00:24:57.040 any problem

00:24:57.760 with this?

00:24:59.260 It turns

00:25:00.000 out,

00:25:01.120 and do a

00:25:01.640 fact check

00:25:02.120 to be on

00:25:02.440 here,

00:25:03.560 but isn't

00:25:05.240 the disaster

00:25:07.140 evidence the

00:25:08.800 least reliable

00:25:10.140 of all the

00:25:11.340 evidence?

00:25:12.660 In fact,

00:25:13.580 it's sort of

00:25:14.040 in question

00:25:14.540 whether we

00:25:15.080 can see the

00:25:15.720 signal for

00:25:16.780 climate change

00:25:17.640 in any of

00:25:18.340 this,

00:25:18.580 right?

00:25:19.840 I need a

00:25:20.500 fact check

00:25:20.940 on this,

00:25:21.660 because I

00:25:22.100 think there's

00:25:22.420 some disagreement

00:25:23.140 among scientists.

00:25:25.220 My understanding

00:25:25.860 is that even

00:25:27.500 the climate

00:25:28.060 scientists don't

00:25:29.720 see a clear

00:25:30.620 signal that

00:25:31.900 these big

00:25:33.040 events are

00:25:33.600 caused by

00:25:34.000 climate change.

00:25:35.280 Can somebody

00:25:35.780 fact check me

00:25:36.440 on that?

00:25:37.520 So just that

00:25:38.300 there's some

00:25:38.760 disagreement on

00:25:39.520 that.

00:25:40.200 That's the

00:25:40.580 last I knew,

00:25:41.300 unless it's

00:25:41.680 been updated.

00:25:42.980 So in

00:25:43.460 other words,

00:25:43.980 people are

00:25:44.860 persuaded by

00:25:46.000 the thing that

00:25:46.580 is least true,

00:25:48.240 or at least

00:25:48.940 we have the

00:25:49.760 lowest confidence

00:25:50.700 that we can

00:25:51.300 see it in the

00:25:51.920 data,

00:25:53.040 but it's

00:25:53.740 visual.

00:25:55.380 It's visual.

00:25:56.060 There's

00:25:58.380 pictures of

00:25:59.040 hurricanes,

00:25:59.720 there are

00:25:59.880 pictures of

00:26:00.420 fires,

00:26:01.440 you know,

00:26:01.860 I breathe

00:26:02.860 the smoke,

00:26:04.580 people see

00:26:05.180 the cleanup.

00:26:06.420 As soon as

00:26:07.020 you turn

00:26:07.300 something visual,

00:26:08.260 the persuasion

00:26:08.840 goes through

00:26:09.300 the roof.

00:26:10.260 So I think

00:26:10.880 all we're

00:26:11.180 seeing here

00:26:11.660 is that the

00:26:12.220 disasters are

00:26:13.100 visual,

00:26:14.200 and even

00:26:14.560 though they

00:26:14.980 should be

00:26:15.300 the least

00:26:15.880 persuasive

00:26:16.560 part of the

00:26:17.060 argument,

00:26:18.000 compared to

00:26:18.660 stronger

00:26:19.200 evidence,

00:26:20.720 it's the

00:26:21.280 most persuasive.

00:26:22.740 I mean,

00:26:22.940 that's just

00:26:23.280 how crazy

00:26:23.800 people are

00:26:24.460 that the

00:26:25.300 lowest

00:26:25.760 credibility

00:26:26.320 thing is

00:26:27.200 the most

00:26:27.580 persuasive.

00:26:28.240 It probably

00:26:28.540 is,

00:26:29.200 because it's

00:26:29.580 visual.

00:26:31.140 All right.

00:26:33.440 Apparently

00:26:33.920 Europe is

00:26:34.860 talking about

00:26:35.980 letting people

00:26:36.660 visit if you're

00:26:37.440 fully vaccinated

00:26:38.240 this summer.

00:26:39.580 So I don't

00:26:41.300 know that

00:26:41.680 there will

00:26:41.880 ever be

00:26:42.360 government

00:26:43.120 requirements in

00:26:44.040 the United

00:26:44.380 States for

00:26:44.980 any vaccinations,

00:26:46.380 or for any

00:26:47.140 passports.

00:26:47.960 I tend to

00:26:48.640 think not,

00:26:49.900 but a lot of

00:26:50.600 people are

00:26:50.900 going to want

00:26:51.260 it.

00:26:51.840 A lot of

00:26:52.200 people are

00:26:52.520 going to want

00:26:52.860 to prove

00:26:53.220 that they

00:26:53.540 got their

00:26:53.880 vaccinations

00:26:54.400 just for

00:26:54.960 private

00:26:55.340 business reasons.

00:26:58.660 So here's

00:26:59.100 a big change,

00:26:59.800 speaking of

00:27:00.200 persuasion.

00:27:01.180 Fareed

00:27:01.600 Zakario on

00:27:02.800 CNN is

00:27:04.840 strongly in

00:27:05.760 favor of

00:27:06.260 nuclear power

00:27:07.040 as really

00:27:08.800 the only

00:27:09.320 hope or

00:27:10.860 something that's

00:27:11.500 necessary,

00:27:12.080 let's say,

00:27:12.920 for remediating

00:27:14.780 climate change.

00:27:16.200 So even a

00:27:17.000 major CNN

00:27:17.820 personality is

00:27:20.000 saying,

00:27:20.480 yeah,

00:27:20.700 nuclear is the

00:27:21.320 only way to

00:27:22.000 go forward

00:27:22.640 if you want

00:27:23.320 to take

00:27:24.360 care of a

00:27:24.780 host of

00:27:25.140 problems.

00:27:26.040 That feels

00:27:26.600 like a big

00:27:27.020 deal,

00:27:27.900 doesn't it?

00:27:29.140 And I've

00:27:29.960 said before

00:27:30.480 that there's

00:27:32.060 no such

00:27:32.460 thing as a

00:27:32.940 good president.

00:27:34.000 There are

00:27:34.120 only presidents

00:27:34.680 that fit

00:27:36.080 the situation

00:27:36.940 better.

00:27:38.500 And I

00:27:40.040 would say

00:27:40.340 that Biden

00:27:40.800 might be

00:27:41.420 exactly the

00:27:42.360 right president

00:27:43.000 because he

00:27:44.460 could convince

00:27:45.140 the left.

00:27:46.940 Trump would

00:27:47.680 never be able

00:27:48.320 to convince

00:27:48.820 the left to

00:27:49.780 do nuclear

00:27:50.420 because it's

00:27:51.780 Trump.

00:27:53.140 Biden is

00:27:54.160 already sort

00:27:55.480 of lukewarm

00:27:56.260 on nuclear

00:27:56.880 so he

00:27:57.720 wouldn't be

00:27:58.280 going against

00:27:59.120 anything he's

00:27:59.700 ever said

00:28:00.080 before.

00:28:01.420 And he

00:28:02.220 could convince

00:28:03.280 Democrats to

00:28:04.420 go with it,

00:28:04.940 I think.

00:28:05.440 And he could

00:28:05.940 make it a

00:28:06.520 green thing and

00:28:07.400 I think he

00:28:07.800 could make it

00:28:08.240 work.

00:28:09.020 So I think

00:28:09.480 this is one

00:28:10.040 of those cases

00:28:10.640 where Biden

00:28:11.300 is actually,

00:28:12.800 weirdly,

00:28:14.140 probably the

00:28:14.880 right person.

00:28:16.420 You know,

00:28:16.760 I said for

00:28:17.420 four years that

00:28:18.120 Trump should

00:28:18.880 have made

00:28:19.220 lots more

00:28:19.760 noise about

00:28:20.400 nuclear.

00:28:21.700 A big

00:28:22.360 mistake in

00:28:22.940 my opinion.

00:28:24.040 I think his

00:28:24.580 administration did

00:28:25.560 a lot and

00:28:26.620 really good

00:28:27.100 stuff.

00:28:27.920 So the

00:28:28.200 Department of

00:28:28.680 Energy,

00:28:29.400 A+, for

00:28:30.320 pushing nuclear

00:28:31.580 in all the

00:28:32.560 smart ways

00:28:33.180 forward.

00:28:34.300 But I didn't

00:28:34.700 see Trump

00:28:35.440 speaking at

00:28:36.060 all, really.

00:28:37.620 I don't

00:28:37.900 remember even

00:28:38.500 one time.

00:28:39.240 He might

00:28:39.520 have.

00:28:42.300 So that's,

00:28:43.440 you know,

00:28:43.600 we're seeing

00:28:43.920 the persuasion

00:28:44.500 work in the

00:28:45.000 right direction

00:28:45.460 there.

00:28:46.800 Here's an

00:28:47.380 example of

00:28:47.920 some CNN

00:28:48.480 propaganda.

00:28:49.400 And I want

00:28:49.620 to call out

00:28:51.120 the technique

00:28:51.880 because you

00:28:52.960 see this

00:28:53.400 technique a

00:28:54.060 lot.

00:28:54.780 You'll see

00:28:55.380 it more on

00:28:55.980 Fox News,

00:28:57.140 if I'm being

00:28:57.600 honest.

00:28:58.500 So you'll

00:28:59.140 see the

00:28:59.500 technique a

00:29:00.200 little bit

00:29:00.520 more on

00:29:01.020 the Fox

00:29:01.460 opinion

00:29:01.820 channels,

00:29:02.680 or the

00:29:03.000 opinion

00:29:03.400 shows.

00:29:04.560 But here's

00:29:05.640 the CNN

00:29:06.120 version of

00:29:06.720 it, just

00:29:07.140 to be fair

00:29:07.660 that they're

00:29:08.120 not the

00:29:08.420 only ones

00:29:08.780 who do

00:29:09.080 this trick.

00:29:10.380 They make

00:29:11.140 three statements

00:29:12.100 about the

00:29:13.820 2020 election,

00:29:16.160 and here's

00:29:16.780 the trick.

00:29:17.240 The first

00:29:18.020 statement you

00:29:19.220 will recognize

00:29:19.940 as true.

00:29:21.380 The second

00:29:22.420 statement you'll

00:29:23.600 say, well,

00:29:24.760 that's true-ish,

00:29:27.180 not completely

00:29:28.880 true-true,

00:29:30.720 but it's in

00:29:31.980 that direction

00:29:32.720 of true-ish.

00:29:34.180 And then the

00:29:34.920 third one is

00:29:35.580 just complete

00:29:36.080 bullshit.

00:29:37.300 Just complete

00:29:37.920 bullshit.

00:29:38.780 So that's the

00:29:39.620 technique.

00:29:40.700 One you agree

00:29:41.960 with, one

00:29:43.720 that's pushing

00:29:44.880 your credibility

00:29:45.840 a little bit,

00:29:46.660 but you

00:29:47.040 might still

00:29:47.520 agree with

00:29:47.960 it.

00:29:48.520 And then

00:29:48.880 the third

00:29:49.260 one is

00:29:49.940 the persuasion.

00:29:51.120 Complete

00:29:51.520 bullshit.

00:29:52.780 But since

00:29:53.380 the other

00:29:53.720 two felt

00:29:55.220 kind of

00:29:56.040 compatible

00:29:56.500 with your

00:29:56.980 thinking,

00:29:58.200 you go to

00:29:58.980 the third

00:29:59.640 one.

00:30:00.260 Yeah,

00:30:00.480 Hannity's

00:30:00.960 the one

00:30:01.140 who does

00:30:01.420 it the

00:30:01.660 most.

00:30:02.640 Hannity is

00:30:03.360 an expert

00:30:03.940 at this,

00:30:04.600 by the way.

00:30:05.600 And every

00:30:06.000 time you see

00:30:06.500 Hannity do

00:30:07.100 a fast-talking

00:30:09.180 list,

00:30:10.420 look for

00:30:10.900 this trick,

00:30:12.660 where he'll

00:30:13.380 start with

00:30:13.860 things that

00:30:14.280 are clearly

00:30:15.060 true,

00:30:16.100 true,

00:30:16.500 true,

00:30:16.740 true,

00:30:17.000 and then he

00:30:17.360 throws one

00:30:17.860 in that

00:30:18.280 has no

00:30:18.840 backing

00:30:19.200 whatsoever.

00:30:19.880 It's just

00:30:20.140 an opinion,

00:30:21.260 but it's

00:30:21.820 on the list

00:30:22.300 of true

00:30:22.640 things.

00:30:24.400 All right,

00:30:24.680 so let me

00:30:25.420 tell you what

00:30:25.820 the things

00:30:26.200 are that CNN

00:30:27.440 used for

00:30:28.140 their technique.

00:30:29.000 Now,

00:30:29.160 this is an

00:30:29.820 opinion piece,

00:30:31.080 and the

00:30:32.200 context is

00:30:32.900 this.

00:30:33.640 The title

00:30:34.280 of the article

00:30:36.140 is,

00:30:36.360 Trump still

00:30:37.080 constantly

00:30:38.300 lying about

00:30:39.140 2020.

00:30:40.180 So that's

00:30:40.500 how they

00:30:40.720 frame it.

00:30:41.760 And it

00:30:42.100 says,

00:30:42.400 most Trump

00:30:42.820 supporters

00:30:43.200 still believe

00:30:43.900 his lies

00:30:44.720 about 2020.

00:30:46.900 According to

00:30:47.640 recent polling,

00:30:48.420 and then they

00:30:48.900 talk about

00:30:49.840 blah,

00:30:50.100 blah,

00:30:50.240 blah,

00:30:50.480 76% of

00:30:52.560 Republicans

00:30:53.000 think there

00:30:53.680 was,

00:30:54.140 quote,

00:30:54.220 widespread

00:30:54.620 fraud in

00:30:55.300 the election.

00:30:57.480 76%.

00:30:58.080 What do I

00:30:59.400 tell you

00:30:59.720 about all

00:31:00.260 polls and

00:31:01.520 25% of

00:31:02.760 people who

00:31:03.340 answer?

00:31:05.080 25% of

00:31:06.300 people who

00:31:06.680 answer polls

00:31:07.420 will just

00:31:08.300 be whack.

00:31:09.480 It doesn't

00:31:09.860 matter what

00:31:10.180 the question

00:31:10.560 is.

00:31:11.360 You could

00:31:11.740 always depend

00:31:12.640 on 25%

00:31:13.840 of any

00:31:14.440 public just

00:31:16.360 being completely

00:31:17.160 clueless and

00:31:18.340 just being

00:31:19.340 dumb,

00:31:19.780 really.

00:31:21.320 So,

00:31:22.000 anyway,

00:31:23.320 76% believed

00:31:24.340 that there

00:31:25.060 was widespread

00:31:25.740 fraud in the

00:31:26.300 election.

00:31:27.400 So here are

00:31:28.040 the three

00:31:28.440 statements in

00:31:29.700 this list

00:31:30.440 from CNN.

00:31:31.000 number one,

00:31:32.300 there is no

00:31:32.880 proof of

00:31:34.220 massive vote

00:31:35.280 rigging.

00:31:36.440 True.

00:31:38.000 Right?

00:31:39.060 A lot of

00:31:39.800 you have

00:31:40.160 suspicions and

00:31:41.260 you've seen

00:31:41.780 statistics and

00:31:44.160 things like

00:31:44.600 that.

00:31:44.940 You've heard

00:31:45.320 stories.

00:31:46.740 But as far

00:31:47.360 as I know,

00:31:47.880 this is

00:31:48.180 completely

00:31:48.580 true.

00:31:49.260 There is

00:31:49.540 no proof

00:31:50.160 of massive

00:31:51.620 vote rigging.

00:31:53.060 Right?

00:31:54.000 Would you

00:31:54.360 agree with

00:31:54.740 that yet?

00:31:55.620 Now,

00:31:55.900 that's different

00:31:56.360 from saying it

00:31:56.940 exists or

00:31:57.480 doesn't exist.

00:31:58.800 Saying there's

00:31:59.500 no proof is

00:32:00.260 very specific

00:32:00.940 and I think

00:32:02.120 very true.

00:32:03.380 I'm going to

00:32:03.820 say I'll give

00:32:04.460 100% that

00:32:06.080 we don't have

00:32:07.600 like a publicly

00:32:08.580 acknowledged

00:32:09.740 proof of

00:32:10.980 such thing.

00:32:12.020 True.

00:32:13.280 Then the

00:32:13.720 next one,

00:32:14.400 a little bit

00:32:15.160 less true.

00:32:16.320 A little bit

00:32:16.780 less true,

00:32:17.240 maybe?

00:32:17.980 Let's see.

00:32:19.260 Audits in

00:32:19.820 key states

00:32:20.440 confirmed the

00:32:21.420 accuracy of

00:32:22.320 the results.

00:32:23.720 Huh.

00:32:24.040 Is that

00:32:25.540 true?

00:32:27.200 Did the

00:32:27.620 audits in

00:32:28.220 key states

00:32:28.840 confirm the

00:32:29.480 accuracy of

00:32:30.380 the results

00:32:30.900 or did

00:32:35.060 they only

00:32:35.620 confirm the

00:32:36.720 accuracy of

00:32:37.280 the audit?

00:32:41.840 Right?

00:32:42.460 Because an

00:32:42.820 audit is

00:32:44.400 specific to

00:32:45.120 what they're

00:32:45.440 looking at,

00:32:45.980 right?

00:32:46.760 I don't

00:32:47.440 believe there

00:32:47.940 was an

00:32:48.280 audit of

00:32:48.900 all the

00:32:49.600 election.

00:32:51.040 Now,

00:32:51.320 if somebody

00:32:51.600 did an

00:32:52.020 audit of

00:32:52.520 all parts

00:32:54.000 of the

00:32:54.280 election,

00:32:54.760 from the

00:32:55.060 electronic

00:32:55.540 part to

00:32:56.300 every part

00:32:57.440 of the

00:32:57.620 ballots,

00:32:57.940 then I

00:32:58.860 would say

00:32:59.320 that you

00:33:00.480 could say,

00:33:01.280 depending on

00:33:02.160 how the

00:33:02.480 audit came

00:33:02.880 out,

00:33:03.480 you could

00:33:03.920 say that

00:33:04.580 there was

00:33:04.840 audits

00:33:05.200 confirmed the

00:33:06.080 accuracy of

00:33:06.680 the results.

00:33:08.920 But we

00:33:10.300 didn't do

00:33:10.680 that kind

00:33:11.160 of audit,

00:33:11.640 did we?

00:33:13.080 Nope.

00:33:14.420 So this

00:33:14.880 one is like

00:33:15.560 we confirmed

00:33:18.280 the accuracy

00:33:19.120 of the

00:33:20.060 results.

00:33:21.740 The results

00:33:22.700 is sort of

00:33:23.300 where the

00:33:23.720 persuasion is

00:33:24.600 starting to

00:33:25.000 come in.

00:33:25.660 Because all

00:33:26.340 they did

00:33:26.780 is confirm

00:33:27.300 the accuracy

00:33:28.140 of the

00:33:29.800 thing they

00:33:30.220 audited.

00:33:31.700 That's not

00:33:32.300 the accuracy

00:33:32.800 of the

00:33:33.180 election,

00:33:34.300 just of the

00:33:34.860 thing they

00:33:35.180 audited.

00:33:36.620 All right?

00:33:37.480 And then

00:33:38.020 they go to

00:33:38.380 the third

00:33:38.840 one,

00:33:39.120 and here's

00:33:39.460 where it

00:33:39.760 just completely

00:33:40.480 leaves the

00:33:41.100 field of

00:33:41.740 evidence.

00:33:43.120 Number three,

00:33:43.780 and elected

00:33:44.220 officials from

00:33:45.040 both parties,

00:33:46.220 so it must

00:33:46.960 be pretty

00:33:47.340 true,

00:33:47.780 because both

00:33:48.340 parties are

00:33:48.840 saying it,

00:33:49.680 said the

00:33:50.180 vote was

00:33:50.580 free and

00:33:51.040 fair.

00:33:53.280 How do

00:33:53.860 they know?

00:33:55.000 What kind

00:33:55.920 of evidence

00:33:56.340 is that?

00:33:57.700 That the

00:33:58.320 officials from

00:33:59.660 both parties

00:34:00.360 said the

00:34:00.760 vote was

00:34:01.120 free and

00:34:01.480 fair?

00:34:02.360 Let me

00:34:03.060 explain to

00:34:04.000 you how

00:34:05.220 the world

00:34:05.700 works.

00:34:07.480 Let's say

00:34:08.140 you go to

00:34:08.780 the people

00:34:09.520 in charge

00:34:10.140 of the

00:34:11.020 voting

00:34:11.360 integrity

00:34:11.880 for a

00:34:13.200 Democrat

00:34:13.600 state,

00:34:15.020 and you

00:34:15.340 say to

00:34:15.660 them,

00:34:15.900 hey,

00:34:16.220 Democrat,

00:34:17.400 how was

00:34:18.100 the voting

00:34:18.600 integrity

00:34:19.140 of the

00:34:20.140 election

00:34:20.480 that went

00:34:20.880 the way

00:34:21.220 you would

00:34:21.520 like it

00:34:21.880 to?

00:34:22.740 What

00:34:23.000 would the

00:34:23.400 Democrat

00:34:23.860 official say

00:34:24.980 in that

00:34:25.280 situation?

00:34:27.020 Totally

00:34:27.460 fair and

00:34:28.120 free

00:34:28.360 election,

00:34:29.440 and also

00:34:30.140 it went

00:34:30.500 the way

00:34:30.760 we wanted

00:34:31.220 it to.

00:34:32.620 Could you

00:34:33.000 expect

00:34:33.360 anything

00:34:33.720 else?

00:34:34.980 I don't

00:34:35.300 think so.

00:34:36.160 Since it

00:34:36.660 was that

00:34:36.920 person's

00:34:37.400 job to

00:34:38.640 make sure

00:34:39.060 their election

00:34:39.920 was good,

00:34:40.840 you're really

00:34:41.520 asking people

00:34:42.360 to give you

00:34:43.460 their own

00:34:44.080 opinion of

00:34:44.820 how well

00:34:45.280 they did

00:34:45.680 at their

00:34:45.980 job.

00:34:47.520 Do people

00:34:48.300 often say,

00:34:49.000 you know,

00:34:49.260 now that you

00:34:49.620 mention it,

00:34:50.060 I did a

00:34:50.460 pretty bad

00:34:51.040 job at

00:34:51.620 election

00:34:52.440 integrity

00:34:52.920 and we

00:34:53.380 don't even

00:34:53.720 know who

00:34:54.060 voted.

00:34:55.440 Nobody

00:34:55.760 says that.

00:34:56.980 It's

00:34:57.340 completely

00:34:57.720 ridiculous

00:34:58.340 to ask

00:34:59.280 the people

00:34:59.740 who are

00:35:00.040 guarding

00:35:00.440 the

00:35:00.680 hen

00:35:00.860 house

00:35:01.220 if the

00:35:02.500 hen

00:35:02.680 house

00:35:02.920 was

00:35:03.160 guarded

00:35:03.560 because

00:35:05.380 they're

00:35:05.560 going to

00:35:05.820 say yes.

00:35:07.720 Now let's

00:35:08.420 say you

00:35:08.700 talk to

00:35:09.060 the

00:35:09.220 Republicans.

00:35:10.860 What

00:35:11.380 would

00:35:11.560 happen

00:35:11.860 if a

00:35:12.240 Republican

00:35:12.700 whose

00:35:13.860 job

00:35:14.420 it was

00:35:14.980 to manage

00:35:16.080 the

00:35:16.300 integrity

00:35:16.860 of the

00:35:17.260 election,

00:35:19.240 they're

00:35:19.420 asked,

00:35:19.920 how did

00:35:20.320 you do?

00:35:21.320 Did

00:35:21.560 you

00:35:21.700 manage

00:35:22.040 the

00:35:22.240 integrity

00:35:22.600 of the

00:35:22.940 election?

00:35:24.260 Even

00:35:24.660 a

00:35:24.900 Republican

00:35:25.420 is going

00:35:25.760 to say,

00:35:26.160 yes,

00:35:26.400 I did

00:35:26.920 because that

00:35:28.120 was their

00:35:28.580 job.

00:35:30.120 Of

00:35:30.560 course

00:35:31.120 they're

00:35:31.380 going to

00:35:31.560 say it

00:35:31.880 was a

00:35:32.220 good job.

00:35:33.900 It's

00:35:34.160 the job

00:35:34.620 they did.

00:35:36.140 Who

00:35:36.580 says I

00:35:37.120 did a

00:35:37.360 bad job?

00:35:38.820 So here's

00:35:41.000 the three

00:35:41.340 again just

00:35:41.760 so you

00:35:41.920 can see

00:35:42.160 it.

00:35:42.340 There's

00:35:42.500 no proof

00:35:42.960 of massive

00:35:43.460 vote

00:35:43.720 rigging.

00:35:44.300 Completely

00:35:44.680 true.

00:35:45.780 Audits

00:35:46.140 in key

00:35:46.500 states

00:35:46.820 confirmed

00:35:47.280 the

00:35:47.480 accuracy

00:35:47.920 of the

00:35:48.280 results.

00:35:49.260 The

00:35:49.780 results?

00:35:50.500 No.

00:35:51.460 Just the

00:35:51.920 accuracy of

00:35:52.700 the stuff

00:35:53.160 they audited.

00:35:54.400 And then

00:35:54.620 the last

00:35:55.340 one,

00:35:56.020 election

00:35:56.400 officials

00:35:56.800 from both

00:35:57.320 parties said

00:35:58.060 the vote

00:35:58.420 was free

00:35:58.860 and fair.

00:36:00.060 Do they

00:36:00.680 know?

00:36:02.880 Would

00:36:03.320 they know?

00:36:04.740 Of course

00:36:05.360 not.

00:36:06.740 I mean,

00:36:07.040 they could

00:36:07.320 know if

00:36:07.800 we all

00:36:08.180 knew.

00:36:08.580 I mean,

00:36:08.820 if there

00:36:09.020 was some

00:36:09.260 obvious

00:36:09.820 thing,

00:36:10.940 they would

00:36:11.480 know,

00:36:11.980 we'd

00:36:12.220 know,

00:36:12.720 the news

00:36:13.100 would

00:36:13.280 know,

00:36:13.660 if it

00:36:13.900 was some

00:36:14.160 obvious

00:36:14.520 thing.

00:36:14.840 But if

00:36:16.560 you're

00:36:16.740 asking the

00:36:17.380 wrong

00:36:17.640 people,

00:36:18.520 how are

00:36:19.580 you going

00:36:19.880 to get

00:36:20.120 the right

00:36:20.580 answer?

00:36:22.140 These

00:36:22.560 are probably

00:36:23.640 the wrong

00:36:24.120 people to

00:36:24.520 ask,

00:36:24.820 and politicians

00:36:25.820 are going

00:36:26.200 to give

00:36:26.400 you the

00:36:26.660 answer.

00:36:27.400 They get

00:36:28.000 somebody

00:36:28.260 elected,

00:36:28.840 right?

00:36:29.440 So it's

00:36:30.100 the least

00:36:30.460 credible

00:36:30.800 group you

00:36:31.260 could ever

00:36:31.620 imagine.

00:36:32.860 But if

00:36:33.140 you were

00:36:33.440 a CNN

00:36:34.080 viewer,

00:36:34.620 and you

00:36:34.900 were sort

00:36:35.360 of not

00:36:35.700 a critical

00:36:36.260 thinker,

00:36:37.060 you would

00:36:37.560 look down

00:36:37.960 here and

00:36:38.260 say,

00:36:38.520 well,

00:36:38.680 this is

00:36:39.000 pretty convincing,

00:36:41.040 that Trump's

00:36:42.480 lying,

00:36:43.220 and look

00:36:43.840 at all

00:36:44.060 this evidence

00:36:44.660 that he's

00:36:45.060 lying.

00:36:45.440 It's right

00:36:45.740 here.

00:36:46.000 There's

00:36:46.160 three good

00:36:46.700 evidences,

00:36:48.240 but in

00:36:48.560 fact,

00:36:49.560 there is

00:36:49.980 not.

00:36:50.780 All right.

00:36:52.100 Here's

00:36:52.560 another fake

00:36:53.200 news story,

00:36:53.840 except I

00:36:54.220 can't tell

00:36:54.580 which way

00:36:54.940 the fake

00:36:55.340 goes.

00:36:56.540 It's

00:36:56.700 either fake

00:36:57.180 that is

00:36:57.460 happening

00:36:57.780 or fake

00:36:58.180 that is

00:36:58.460 not.

00:36:59.760 And that

00:37:00.020 is this

00:37:00.560 conservative

00:37:01.240 representative,

00:37:02.140 Marjorie

00:37:02.500 Taylor

00:37:02.820 Green,

00:37:03.920 allegedly

00:37:04.440 was going

00:37:05.120 to launch

00:37:05.640 this

00:37:06.040 caucus

00:37:06.500 called

00:37:06.900 America

00:37:07.400 First

00:37:08.000 Caucus.

00:37:09.980 And I

00:37:10.780 guess her

00:37:11.080 office had

00:37:11.580 confirmed

00:37:12.080 that she

00:37:12.480 was working

00:37:12.960 on this,

00:37:13.740 et cetera.

00:37:14.580 And then

00:37:15.280 some kind

00:37:15.700 of a flyer

00:37:16.360 came out,

00:37:17.260 which people

00:37:18.180 are calling

00:37:18.600 a first

00:37:19.080 draft that

00:37:19.740 got released

00:37:20.320 accidentally.

00:37:21.740 And this

00:37:22.080 flyer about

00:37:23.040 this alleged

00:37:23.960 America First

00:37:26.220 Caucus,

00:37:27.100 which may or

00:37:28.000 may not be

00:37:28.440 a real thing,

00:37:29.220 it's a little

00:37:29.620 unclear now,

00:37:31.100 apparently the

00:37:32.340 first draft

00:37:33.240 had this

00:37:34.740 statement in

00:37:35.720 the flyer.

00:37:36.360 It says,

00:37:37.520 it called

00:37:37.860 for common

00:37:38.620 respect for

00:37:39.540 uniquely

00:37:40.140 Anglo-Saxon

00:37:41.560 political

00:37:43.760 traditions.

00:37:47.020 Do you

00:37:47.700 catch that?

00:37:49.520 Do you

00:37:50.280 believe that

00:37:51.800 there were

00:37:52.260 elected

00:37:53.760 officials,

00:37:54.680 even Marjorie

00:37:55.620 Taylor Greene,

00:37:57.060 who you

00:37:57.500 know to

00:37:57.900 be pretty

00:37:58.940 extreme in

00:37:59.680 terms of

00:38:00.120 what she's

00:38:00.640 willing to

00:38:01.220 do in

00:38:01.540 public and

00:38:02.120 willing to

00:38:02.580 say,

00:38:03.540 but do

00:38:03.840 you believe

00:38:04.240 that even

00:38:06.020 she would

00:38:07.980 put out a

00:38:08.560 document that

00:38:10.180 said they're

00:38:10.980 fighting for

00:38:11.600 a common

00:38:12.320 respect for

00:38:13.220 uniquely

00:38:13.900 Anglo-Saxon

00:38:15.140 political

00:38:16.040 traditions?

00:38:18.560 Who would

00:38:19.480 write that?

00:38:21.440 I mean,

00:38:22.260 really?

00:38:23.420 Who in the

00:38:24.200 world would

00:38:24.760 write that on

00:38:25.400 a document and

00:38:26.320 think that that

00:38:26.940 would be okay to

00:38:27.840 release it?

00:38:28.460 put out a

00:38:33.880 document saying

00:38:34.880 that the

00:38:35.840 accusations of

00:38:36.840 racism are

00:38:37.540 usually overblown

00:38:38.720 and it's

00:38:39.260 political and

00:38:40.160 it's not

00:38:40.460 really race,

00:38:41.880 but how in

00:38:43.260 the world

00:38:43.840 would any

00:38:45.480 elected

00:38:45.920 official think

00:38:47.160 it would be

00:38:47.620 okay to

00:38:48.840 put in a

00:38:49.280 document saying

00:38:50.080 we should

00:38:50.520 stick with

00:38:51.020 our Anglo-Saxon

00:38:52.320 traditions?

00:38:52.800 I don't

00:38:55.780 believe that

00:38:56.540 anybody

00:38:57.020 associated with

00:38:58.540 thinking about

00:38:59.260 this platform

00:39:00.700 or caucus,

00:39:02.000 I don't

00:39:02.640 believe that

00:39:03.140 they would

00:39:03.440 have written

00:39:03.820 that down.

00:39:05.680 I don't

00:39:05.980 know what

00:39:06.180 they were

00:39:06.400 thinking,

00:39:07.700 but I don't

00:39:08.260 believe that

00:39:08.820 anybody who

00:39:10.140 was an

00:39:11.040 elected official

00:39:11.880 would have

00:39:12.240 used these

00:39:12.740 terms.

00:39:14.280 Now,

00:39:15.440 somebody says

00:39:17.320 what the hell

00:39:17.760 is wrong

00:39:18.080 with that?

00:39:19.320 Really?

00:39:20.340 Is there

00:39:20.840 anybody else

00:39:21.380 who wants

00:39:21.740 to,

00:39:22.600 who needs

00:39:23.040 an answer

00:39:23.420 to what

00:39:23.760 the hell

00:39:23.980 is wrong

00:39:24.280 with it?

00:39:25.520 I want to

00:39:25.820 see in the

00:39:26.260 comments if

00:39:26.980 anybody is

00:39:27.700 on that

00:39:28.080 same side.

00:39:30.040 Define

00:39:30.440 Anglo-Saxon.

00:39:33.140 What's wrong

00:39:33.740 with that?

00:39:34.140 People are

00:39:34.540 saying that

00:39:34.880 it's British.

00:39:35.580 What's wrong

00:39:35.960 with the

00:39:36.280 British tradition?

00:39:39.920 I'm looking

00:39:40.520 at more of

00:39:40.960 your comments

00:39:41.440 and we'll see

00:39:41.820 where you're

00:39:42.520 on on this.

00:39:43.880 It's not

00:39:44.600 true,

00:39:46.260 Scott.

00:39:46.720 Yeah,

00:39:47.000 I think

00:39:47.360 that this

00:39:49.600 flyer thing

00:39:50.220 may be

00:39:51.040 not true.

00:39:55.700 It's

00:39:56.260 exclusionary,

00:39:57.260 somebody says.

00:39:59.080 It means

00:39:59.520 English common

00:40:00.240 law,

00:40:00.800 somebody says.

00:40:01.860 So a lot

00:40:02.320 of you are

00:40:03.020 sort of

00:40:03.920 okay with

00:40:04.720 this,

00:40:05.540 right?

00:40:07.500 Let me

00:40:08.160 ask you

00:40:08.500 this.

00:40:09.700 If you're

00:40:10.500 not white,

00:40:12.180 how does

00:40:12.920 this sound

00:40:13.500 to you?

00:40:15.580 Now,

00:40:16.200 I get it

00:40:16.600 that you

00:40:16.940 don't want

00:40:17.300 to be

00:40:17.580 politically

00:40:18.100 correct about

00:40:18.880 everything,

00:40:19.240 but would

00:40:20.140 you at

00:40:20.460 least agree

00:40:20.940 with me

00:40:21.380 that saying

00:40:22.400 stupid things

00:40:23.340 in public

00:40:23.780 doesn't help

00:40:24.380 anybody,

00:40:25.420 right?

00:40:26.280 Would you

00:40:26.840 agree?

00:40:27.560 That saying

00:40:28.060 stupid things,

00:40:29.220 even if you

00:40:29.840 think you want

00:40:30.900 the right,

00:40:31.640 et cetera,

00:40:32.420 it doesn't help

00:40:33.040 anybody to be

00:40:33.940 stupid in public.

00:40:35.460 This is really

00:40:36.260 stupid.

00:40:36.660 stupid.

00:40:37.740 This is like

00:40:38.240 super stupid.

00:40:40.100 I can't even

00:40:40.760 call it racist

00:40:41.380 because it

00:40:43.720 goes beyond

00:40:44.320 racism to

00:40:45.020 just stupidity,

00:40:47.180 really.

00:40:48.280 Because there

00:40:49.720 were a lot

00:40:50.220 of ways to

00:40:50.780 say this

00:40:51.320 that would

00:40:51.800 not sound

00:40:52.400 racist.

00:40:53.820 Now,

00:40:54.000 I'm going

00:40:54.140 to use the

00:40:54.920 phrase sound

00:40:55.800 racist because

00:40:58.000 if what they're

00:40:59.360 arguing is

00:41:00.040 that we have

00:41:00.700 a culture

00:41:02.120 that evolved

00:41:02.880 that's a

00:41:03.300 good one,

00:41:04.920 that's a

00:41:05.420 good argument,

00:41:05.860 but to

00:41:07.280 put this

00:41:07.980 Anglo-Saxon

00:41:09.260 label on it,

00:41:10.060 even though I

00:41:10.600 know that's

00:41:11.020 where it came

00:41:11.480 from,

00:41:11.980 even though I

00:41:12.440 know it's

00:41:13.660 accurate,

00:41:15.000 even though I

00:41:15.500 know scientifically,

00:41:17.620 data-wise,

00:41:18.640 factually,

00:41:19.580 it's just

00:41:19.980 statements of

00:41:20.520 fact,

00:41:21.660 I'll agree

00:41:22.140 with you.

00:41:23.100 But how

00:41:23.500 could you be

00:41:24.060 dumb enough

00:41:24.500 not to think

00:41:25.260 this was just

00:41:26.160 shooting yourself

00:41:27.000 in the foot?

00:41:28.660 There was no

00:41:29.580 other better way

00:41:30.240 to say this

00:41:30.960 than the one

00:41:31.960 way that sounds

00:41:32.640 like white

00:41:33.200 supremacy?

00:41:34.780 There's something

00:41:35.540 totally wrong

00:41:36.220 with this

00:41:36.540 story.

00:41:37.860 So when

00:41:38.360 Marjorie Taylor

00:41:39.580 Green called

00:41:40.200 it a first

00:41:40.700 draft,

00:41:41.780 I would

00:41:42.620 certainly find

00:41:43.280 out who

00:41:43.600 wrote that

00:41:44.040 first draft

00:41:44.760 and I

00:41:45.740 would like

00:41:46.060 to find

00:41:46.420 out if

00:41:46.820 it's somebody

00:41:47.280 who is

00:41:48.060 on her

00:41:48.520 side or

00:41:49.740 somebody who

00:41:50.300 is trying

00:41:50.620 to take

00:41:51.100 her out.

00:41:52.540 Because this

00:41:53.320 reads more

00:41:53.900 like somebody

00:41:54.540 trying to

00:41:55.100 take her

00:41:55.520 out.

00:41:56.680 Because that

00:41:57.360 would take

00:41:57.900 her out.

00:41:59.220 Right?

00:41:59.720 And maybe it

00:42:00.680 will.

00:42:01.440 Because if you

00:42:02.380 believe that she

00:42:03.300 was behind

00:42:03.800 anything that

00:42:04.480 said, you

00:42:05.680 know, we

00:42:05.960 need to

00:42:06.380 pursue our

00:42:07.080 common respect

00:42:08.100 for Anglo-Saxon

00:42:09.380 political

00:42:09.820 traditions, that

00:42:11.720 would pretty

00:42:12.220 much take

00:42:12.780 her out of

00:42:13.120 the race for

00:42:14.360 the future.

00:42:16.540 Now, remember,

00:42:18.560 I'm being very

00:42:19.500 careful here.

00:42:20.540 I'm not

00:42:21.000 criticizing the

00:42:22.800 factual accuracy

00:42:24.400 that it's an

00:42:25.740 Anglo-Saxon

00:42:26.660 tradition.

00:42:27.800 And I'm not

00:42:28.620 saying there's

00:42:29.060 anything wrong

00:42:29.720 with it, because

00:42:30.440 it seems to

00:42:30.980 have worked up

00:42:32.340 until now.

00:42:33.380 I'm just

00:42:33.900 saying that if

00:42:34.500 you're an

00:42:35.320 elected official

00:42:36.620 and you

00:42:37.760 basically go

00:42:38.800 in front of

00:42:39.180 the world, and

00:42:40.060 she didn't do

00:42:40.560 this, right?

00:42:41.440 She's disavowing

00:42:42.580 this language.

00:42:43.900 But to

00:42:45.040 imagine that

00:42:45.660 anybody would

00:42:46.220 say, yeah,

00:42:46.720 we're going to

00:42:47.140 just do white

00:42:48.240 culture, because

00:42:48.940 that's the good

00:42:49.460 one.

00:42:50.320 Yeah, we'll

00:42:50.960 call it Anglo-Saxon,

00:42:52.240 but what we

00:42:52.700 really mean is

00:42:53.940 white culture.

00:42:55.780 Who in the

00:42:56.520 world thinks

00:42:57.040 that's a good

00:42:57.540 idea?

00:42:59.480 Now, you

00:43:00.060 might like the

00:43:01.280 culture, but

00:43:02.720 would you say

00:43:03.360 it that way?

00:43:04.100 In a country

00:43:04.920 where people

00:43:05.500 are hyper

00:43:06.100 sensitive about

00:43:07.620 where things

00:43:08.180 came from, and

00:43:09.020 who gets

00:43:09.640 credit, and

00:43:10.460 racial stuff, it

00:43:11.860 would be the

00:43:12.320 dumbest thing

00:43:12.900 anybody ever

00:43:13.400 said.

00:43:14.960 And so it's

00:43:16.020 not even clear

00:43:16.620 at this point

00:43:17.140 whether they

00:43:17.740 were serious

00:43:18.600 about this

00:43:19.080 America First

00:43:19.780 Caucus or

00:43:20.860 what.

00:43:21.740 But let me

00:43:22.240 tell you,

00:43:23.180 anybody who

00:43:23.940 is so dumb

00:43:24.820 that they

00:43:25.240 would use

00:43:25.620 this phrase,

00:43:26.540 Anglo-Saxon,

00:43:27.800 even though

00:43:28.200 it's accurate,

00:43:29.580 even though

00:43:29.980 there's nothing

00:43:30.400 wrong with

00:43:30.820 it.

00:43:32.220 It just,

00:43:32.960 you might

00:43:33.740 as well,

00:43:34.640 let me say

00:43:35.220 what this

00:43:35.580 would be

00:43:35.840 equivalent

00:43:36.220 to.

00:43:37.320 Using this

00:43:38.140 term, the

00:43:39.200 Anglo-Saxon

00:43:40.140 political

00:43:40.580 traditions, would

00:43:42.140 be like

00:43:42.920 saying you

00:43:44.620 wanted to

00:43:45.140 wear a

00:43:45.680 KKK

00:43:46.200 robe and

00:43:48.360 hood, but

00:43:49.740 not because

00:43:50.380 you're making

00:43:50.820 a political

00:43:51.360 statement, rather

00:43:52.820 you like the

00:43:53.620 fashion.

00:43:55.240 And arguing

00:43:56.040 that, no,

00:43:57.000 no, no,

00:43:57.420 it's just a

00:43:57.960 fashion statement,

00:43:58.680 I'm not

00:43:59.420 even in the

00:44:00.000 Ku Klux

00:44:00.420 Klan, I

00:44:01.000 just like

00:44:01.520 this look,

00:44:02.820 and you

00:44:03.260 know, you

00:44:04.000 might misinterpret

00:44:04.800 it, and I

00:44:05.360 think that's

00:44:05.760 on you.

00:44:07.860 You know,

00:44:08.480 there's some

00:44:08.880 things that are

00:44:09.340 just so

00:44:09.760 obviously

00:44:10.440 dumb, and

00:44:12.460 that would be

00:44:12.940 one of them,

00:44:13.580 this is another

00:44:14.200 one, that you

00:44:15.240 can't really

00:44:15.600 treat it as

00:44:16.020 anything but

00:44:16.480 dumb.

00:44:17.880 So, very

00:44:18.640 dumb.

00:44:20.720 But, that

00:44:21.660 said, I do

00:44:23.300 think that we

00:44:24.100 completely

00:44:24.740 undervalue, as

00:44:26.060 a country, we

00:44:27.260 undervalue the

00:44:28.480 economic value

00:44:30.460 of culture.

00:44:33.260 I do think

00:44:34.240 that if we

00:44:36.340 don't protect

00:44:37.140 the American

00:44:38.340 culture, and

00:44:40.840 I think that

00:44:41.300 it can evolve

00:44:42.480 over time, it

00:44:43.220 doesn't have to

00:44:43.660 be stuck in

00:44:44.340 one time, but

00:44:45.880 I think we

00:44:47.080 have to treat

00:44:48.340 it differently.

00:44:49.080 Here's how I

00:44:49.700 would treat it

00:44:50.240 this same

00:44:50.660 topic.

00:44:51.920 I would make

00:44:52.520 it a rate of

00:44:53.460 change argument.

00:44:54.240 rate of

00:44:56.040 change.

00:44:56.500 The same

00:44:56.740 thing I would

00:44:57.140 say about

00:44:57.680 immigration in

00:44:58.900 general, is

00:44:59.920 that immigration

00:45:00.540 is neither

00:45:01.040 good nor

00:45:01.680 bad.

00:45:02.960 There is a

00:45:03.860 rate that's

00:45:04.540 good, and

00:45:05.800 there's a

00:45:06.220 rate of

00:45:06.620 immigration

00:45:07.040 that's bad.

00:45:08.440 But not

00:45:09.200 immigration.

00:45:10.720 Immigration

00:45:11.200 itself is not

00:45:12.060 good or bad,

00:45:13.200 it's just the

00:45:14.080 rate that makes

00:45:15.400 it good or

00:45:15.840 bad.

00:45:16.980 Likewise, with

00:45:17.860 this cultural

00:45:19.240 evolution, let's

00:45:20.580 say, because

00:45:21.080 culture always

00:45:22.060 evolves, it can

00:45:22.840 never stay the

00:45:23.400 same.

00:45:24.240 But I would

00:45:25.260 say that if

00:45:26.480 culture evolves

00:45:27.560 too quickly, you're

00:45:30.020 in real trouble.

00:45:31.600 If it evolves in a

00:45:33.380 managed way where

00:45:35.900 everybody can get

00:45:36.620 used to it,

00:45:37.960 probably fine.

00:45:39.360 It might even be a

00:45:40.120 positive.

00:45:40.900 Probably a positive,

00:45:41.960 I would say.

00:45:43.000 So every time

00:45:43.640 somebody says

00:45:44.400 Anglo-Saxon or

00:45:45.960 not, like it's

00:45:47.500 binary, that's

00:45:48.940 just a bad

00:45:49.720 argument.

00:45:50.760 And it sounds

00:45:51.280 racist.

00:45:51.640 So go with

00:45:53.480 what makes

00:45:53.960 sense, which

00:45:54.920 is you want a

00:45:55.860 functioning culture

00:45:56.780 so you don't

00:45:57.340 become China.

00:45:58.960 And with China,

00:45:59.680 I've heard, I'm

00:46:00.780 not sure this is

00:46:01.400 exactly the total

00:46:02.220 explanation, but

00:46:03.300 I've heard that in

00:46:04.180 China the fear of

00:46:05.640 failure is so high

00:46:06.660 that they can't

00:46:07.340 take good

00:46:07.820 entrepreneurial risks

00:46:09.120 because they don't

00:46:10.220 want to fail.

00:46:11.280 So that's a

00:46:12.020 cultural advantage

00:46:13.020 that the United

00:46:13.800 States has, that

00:46:15.220 you can fail all

00:46:16.100 day long, and

00:46:17.580 especially anybody

00:46:18.580 with a Christian

00:46:19.320 background will

00:46:20.100 say, hey, everybody

00:46:21.500 makes a mistake.

00:46:23.140 One of the

00:46:24.200 benefits, the

00:46:25.140 great advantages

00:46:26.580 of the Christian

00:46:27.620 tradition is the

00:46:29.080 whole forgiveness

00:46:29.700 thing.

00:46:30.380 Yeah, we're all

00:46:31.040 sinners.

00:46:32.080 Try to do

00:46:32.720 better.

00:46:34.220 That's really

00:46:35.260 powerful.

00:46:36.900 We all make

00:46:37.720 mistakes.

00:46:38.420 Try to do

00:46:38.920 better next time.

00:46:40.620 Nothing could be

00:46:41.480 better than that.

00:46:42.400 That's like the

00:46:43.100 healthiest cultural

00:46:44.980 strength you could

00:46:46.860 ever have.

00:46:47.260 So I think that

00:46:48.700 the Republicans

00:46:50.220 do just a

00:46:51.080 terrible job, a

00:46:52.760 terrible job of

00:46:54.020 making the

00:46:54.500 argument for

00:46:55.740 culture as an

00:46:56.880 asset.

00:46:58.660 They should argue

00:46:59.760 culture is an

00:47:01.100 asset.

00:47:02.060 It's our

00:47:02.480 advantage over

00:47:03.240 China.

00:47:04.320 It's probably our

00:47:04.920 advantage over most

00:47:05.800 countries because

00:47:06.940 also built into

00:47:07.940 this tradition that

00:47:09.760 I'll call the

00:47:10.240 American tradition

00:47:11.020 is a level of

00:47:13.380 trust and

00:47:14.100 commerce that is

00:47:16.720 the envy of

00:47:17.240 the world in

00:47:18.260 some ways.

00:47:19.260 Our court

00:47:19.760 systems, as

00:47:20.600 flawed as they

00:47:21.240 are, envy of

00:47:22.060 the world.

00:47:23.060 Envy of the

00:47:23.640 world.

00:47:24.320 Our ability to

00:47:25.240 make a deal with

00:47:25.920 a stranger.

00:47:27.840 It's the envy of

00:47:28.840 the world.

00:47:30.100 In the United

00:47:30.700 States, you can

00:47:31.360 make deals with

00:47:32.200 strangers and you

00:47:33.740 can feel pretty

00:47:34.640 good about it

00:47:35.440 most times.

00:47:37.180 You don't have to

00:47:38.200 do deals with

00:47:39.360 your friends just

00:47:40.060 to know you're

00:47:40.500 not going to get

00:47:41.200 screwed.

00:47:41.520 So that culture

00:47:43.120 is absolutely

00:47:45.280 the fundamental

00:47:46.420 thing that makes

00:47:47.140 the United States

00:47:48.060 a strong country

00:47:49.060 and as long as

00:47:50.200 we're arguing

00:47:50.680 about it with

00:47:51.360 just dumb

00:47:52.780 language like

00:47:53.580 Anglo-Saxon,

00:47:55.100 even though it's

00:47:55.880 true, even though

00:47:57.000 it's accurate,

00:47:58.380 even though there's

00:47:58.980 nothing wrong with

00:48:00.020 being Anglo-Saxon,

00:48:01.880 the communication and

00:48:03.060 the persuasion of

00:48:03.760 that is an F.

00:48:05.500 That's just an F.

00:48:07.640 And it's an issue

00:48:08.680 that needs an A+.

00:48:09.700 If you're even

00:48:11.060 going to deal with

00:48:11.700 culture, it's

00:48:13.220 important and you

00:48:14.960 got to do it right.

00:48:16.960 But it's treated

00:48:17.480 as, you know,

00:48:19.200 anyway, it's being

00:48:20.540 done wrong.

00:48:24.680 All right, just

00:48:25.460 looking at your,

00:48:26.640 you're so PC,

00:48:28.000 Scott.

00:48:28.820 Am I?

00:48:31.060 Am I politically

00:48:32.140 correct or am I

00:48:34.640 polite?

00:48:35.460 and more

00:48:38.000 task-oriented

00:48:39.740 than the rest of

00:48:40.540 you?

00:48:41.560 I would argue

00:48:42.520 that I'm just

00:48:43.260 task-oriented.

00:48:44.780 In other words,

00:48:45.620 I'm in favor of

00:48:46.480 whatever works.

00:48:48.120 If something

00:48:48.720 doesn't work,

00:48:50.140 I don't care how

00:48:51.360 politically correct

00:48:52.300 it is.

00:48:53.340 I'm not interested.

00:48:55.000 So I think that's

00:48:56.060 the filter you

00:48:56.660 should put on me.

00:48:57.720 Some things work

00:48:58.820 and some things

00:48:59.640 don't.

00:49:00.420 One of the things

00:49:01.140 that works is

00:49:01.900 politeness.

00:49:03.580 Treating each

00:49:04.180 other with respect

00:49:05.200 pretty much

00:49:06.940 always works,

00:49:08.240 right?

00:49:08.880 So if I'm in

00:49:09.800 favor of,

00:49:10.620 let's say,

00:49:11.340 correctly,

00:49:13.280 you could argue

00:49:14.460 with correctly,

00:49:15.140 but let's say,

00:49:16.300 use a different

00:49:16.940 word.

00:49:17.500 If I argue in

00:49:18.420 favor of treating

00:49:19.380 transgender athletes

00:49:21.100 or transgender

00:49:21.800 anybody with the

00:49:24.060 kind of language

00:49:25.280 that they would

00:49:25.880 like and the

00:49:26.700 respect that

00:49:27.560 anybody would

00:49:28.360 want,

00:49:29.240 is that politically

00:49:30.300 correct?

00:49:31.520 Or is that just

00:49:32.040 not being a dick?

00:49:32.900 I mean,

00:49:33.920 there's a big

00:49:34.320 difference between

00:49:35.180 being politically

00:49:35.960 correct and just

00:49:37.240 being polite,

00:49:38.800 treating people

00:49:39.340 with some respect.

00:49:41.780 All right.

00:49:44.560 Yeah, so there's a

00:49:46.420 good dividing line

00:49:47.220 I'm seeing in the

00:49:47.840 comments.

00:49:48.560 Somebody said that

00:49:49.240 a politically correct

00:49:50.360 person would kneel

00:49:51.640 for the Black Lives

00:49:54.000 Matter stuff.

00:49:54.600 I wouldn't do that

00:49:55.400 in a million years.

00:49:56.860 There's nothing that

00:49:57.660 could make me kneel

00:49:58.460 to somebody else's

00:49:59.920 political preference.

00:50:00.860 That would never

00:50:02.240 happen.

00:50:03.280 So if you're worried

00:50:04.200 that political

00:50:05.780 correctness is

00:50:06.560 driving me,

00:50:07.200 there's a good

00:50:07.700 example that I

00:50:09.140 would never be on

00:50:09.920 the side of

00:50:10.520 kneeling for

00:50:11.300 somebody else's

00:50:12.180 political opinion.

00:50:13.560 That's just not

00:50:14.060 going to happen.

00:50:19.480 How would you

00:50:20.240 deal with it?

00:50:21.300 You mean the

00:50:21.820 kneeling thing?

00:50:22.720 I would object,

00:50:24.900 but politely and

00:50:26.620 respectfully.

00:50:28.140 You know, if

00:50:28.640 you're going to

00:50:29.080 not kneel,

00:50:30.940 you probably

00:50:31.780 would be helpful

00:50:32.500 if you had a

00:50:33.220 little bit of

00:50:33.700 a body of work

00:50:34.800 or some tweets

00:50:35.760 or some kind

00:50:37.320 of background

00:50:37.840 that would say

00:50:38.520 you're not a

00:50:39.320 racist.

00:50:40.900 Like, and

00:50:41.340 shouldn't you

00:50:41.640 always have that

00:50:42.240 anyway?

00:50:43.360 Don't you think

00:50:44.180 if people look

00:50:46.320 into your past

00:50:47.080 words and actions,

00:50:48.760 shouldn't they

00:50:49.300 find some good

00:50:49.980 stuff there?

00:50:51.240 Like the time

00:50:51.940 you supported

00:50:52.740 Martin Luther King

00:50:54.200 or something?

00:50:55.460 I mean, that

00:50:55.840 would be about

00:50:57.460 the smallest

00:50:58.000 thing you

00:50:58.420 could do.

00:50:59.280 But there

00:50:59.820 should be

00:51:00.160 something in

00:51:00.920 your history

00:51:01.760 that says if

00:51:03.180 you don't

00:51:03.620 kneel, it's

00:51:04.200 not because

00:51:04.680 you joined

00:51:05.840 the Klan.

00:51:06.880 You're just

00:51:07.280 not buying

00:51:07.880 into that.

00:51:14.880 All right.

00:51:16.620 Wireless taser,

00:51:17.920 somebody says.

00:51:18.840 Well, that's a

00:51:19.860 different topic.

00:51:22.360 Somebody says,

00:51:23.240 MLK has been

00:51:24.220 debunked.

00:51:25.720 Well, well, let

00:51:28.720 me say this

00:51:29.340 about our

00:51:30.280 heroes.

00:51:32.060 As far as I

00:51:33.120 know, all of

00:51:34.720 our heroes are

00:51:35.580 fake.

00:51:37.420 You knew that,

00:51:38.160 right?

00:51:39.320 That it doesn't

00:51:40.460 matter if it's,

00:51:41.040 you know, George

00:51:41.540 Washington or

00:51:42.560 Martin Luther King,

00:51:43.740 so forget about

00:51:44.440 ethnicity.

00:51:45.600 Nothing about

00:51:46.320 ethnicity.

00:51:47.800 We manufacture

00:51:49.380 heroes because

00:51:51.540 the hero embodies

00:51:53.260 something that we

00:51:54.660 want to be part

00:51:55.400 of our culture.

00:51:56.820 So when you

00:51:57.600 say MLK has

00:51:58.600 been debunked,

00:51:59.800 it actually

00:52:00.300 doesn't mean

00:52:00.820 anything.

00:52:01.840 Because what

00:52:02.560 you're talking

00:52:03.020 about is the

00:52:03.860 human.

00:52:04.880 And the

00:52:05.160 human's

00:52:05.500 irrelevant.

00:52:06.940 The actual

00:52:07.640 person who

00:52:08.660 was Martin

00:52:09.680 Luther King,

00:52:10.560 you know,

00:52:10.960 with the body

00:52:13.260 of him and

00:52:13.880 the brain of

00:52:14.420 him, he's

00:52:15.440 completely

00:52:15.940 irrelevant.

00:52:17.260 What matters

00:52:17.840 now is the

00:52:18.660 packaging of

00:52:19.460 him as an

00:52:21.060 icon, as a

00:52:22.640 symbol of a

00:52:25.180 certain set of

00:52:25.960 things that you

00:52:26.620 think you want

00:52:27.660 to promote.

00:52:29.180 So you

00:52:31.080 can't debunk

00:52:31.960 that.

00:52:33.540 You could say

00:52:34.280 that the person

00:52:35.100 did not equal

00:52:36.500 the icon.

00:52:38.300 That's all of

00:52:38.920 them.

00:52:39.820 None of the

00:52:40.400 people are all

00:52:41.480 good.

00:52:42.680 There's no such

00:52:43.480 thing as a

00:52:44.300 famous person

00:52:45.460 who didn't have

00:52:45.940 some issues.

00:52:49.600 Yeah, and

00:52:50.100 even MLK

00:52:51.360 would not

00:52:51.800 have claimed

00:52:52.300 he was

00:52:52.600 perfect,

00:52:53.260 etc.

00:52:54.000 Yeah.

00:52:54.580 And of

00:52:55.180 course, that's

00:52:55.680 the tradition,

00:52:56.680 the Catholic

00:52:57.160 tradition, not

00:52:57.820 Catholic, the

00:52:58.400 Christian tradition

00:53:00.580 is that whether

00:53:02.400 or not MLK

00:53:04.300 strayed in

00:53:05.200 whatever ways

00:53:06.020 he's being

00:53:06.860 accused of,

00:53:07.900 it's still

00:53:09.100 okay, right?

00:53:10.800 You can still

00:53:11.560 sin and get

00:53:12.700 to heaven if

00:53:13.940 you turn

00:53:14.840 things around.

00:53:15.420 Alright, that's

00:53:18.920 all I got for

00:53:19.320 now, and I

00:53:20.080 will talk to

00:53:20.700 you tomorrow.

00:53:22.700 well.

00:53:25.480 Bye.

00:53:25.920 Bye.

00:53:26.420 Bye.

00:53:26.860 Bye.

00:53:43.380 Bye.

00:53:44.420 Bye.

00:53:45.920 Bye.

00:53:50.020 Bye.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 26, 2021

Episode 1357 Scott Adams： The Oscars Become More Useless Than Ever, Iran Secret Recording, CNN Propaganda Trick, More

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