Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1393 Scott Adams： The Public Revolt Against Mask Mandates Starts Now, Biden's China Policy, Mike Flynn Controversy

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody. Yes, it's time again for the best time of the whole day.

00:00:09.880 We call it Coffee with Scott Adams, and I think you'd like to enjoy it to the max.

00:00:16.180 Some of you are thinking, oh no, I don't need it. I'll be fine without the simultaneous sip.

00:00:23.700 Will you? Will you really? Well, I wouldn't want to try it if I were you,

00:00:28.800 but hey, it's your life. It's a free country.

00:00:32.160 But for the rest of you who would like to maximize your experience,

00:00:35.300 connecting with people all over the world simultaneously,

00:00:38.600 all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank of gels, a stye,

00:00:41.680 and a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind, and happy birthday.

00:00:48.320 Also, it's time for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day,

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00:00:54.980 That's right. It's a simultaneous sip, and it's coming at you right now. Go.

00:01:06.180 If this is the first time you've caught one of these live, congratulations.

00:01:11.720 You are on it, and I think that should be commended.

00:01:16.320 Well, there's some new research into LSD, and the research says there's a hypothesis

00:01:23.520 that suggests that psychedelics will unwind the influence one's prior beliefs have on the brain,

00:01:32.680 allowing thoughts to flow more freely, unimpeded by past assumptions.

00:01:37.160 There were two ways to discover this to be true.

00:01:41.860 One way was to do science and research it.

00:01:46.480 The other way is to do a psychedelic,

00:01:50.680 because you know who could have told you the answer of this research question?

00:01:56.100 Everybody who took a psychedelic.

00:01:57.840 Everybody who took a psychedelic will tell you that their previous assumptions

00:02:05.720 and the frame that they had for reality just gets blown up.

00:02:10.900 And that's the weird thing.

00:02:13.060 The big thing that you take away is that you can view the world completely differently,

00:02:18.820 and here's the important part.

00:02:20.000 You can view the world completely differently, and it still works.

00:02:26.580 That's the thing that you'll never forget.

00:02:29.700 Because if you see the world looking differently, and it all doesn't work,

00:02:33.240 more like a dream.

00:02:34.820 If you have a dream, things don't sort of make sense, and it doesn't work.

00:02:39.740 So a dream would be a view of the world that's just random, and it's not built to work.

00:02:45.740 But you could be tripping your balls off and still order an Uber and go to the beach.

00:02:52.340 It still works.

00:02:54.720 Reality still works, even when it's completely different.

00:02:58.380 And once you realize the subjective nature of reality,

00:03:02.220 then a lot of those things you thought were problems that were going to end you,

00:03:06.760 such as even depression, even neuroticism, or anxiety, I think, more so.

00:03:13.400 So there's lots of evidence to show that psychedelics can just wipe out a whole number of mental problems

00:03:22.920 that are more acquired problems as opposed to organic, I think.

00:03:27.600 I think that would be the difference, but I'm not positive about that.

00:03:31.100 So when I talk about the golden age coming, this is one of the biggest parts.

00:03:35.760 The fact that psychedelics, mushrooms in particular, I think,

00:03:41.200 are moving solidly into the mainstream, no doubt about it.

00:03:46.940 And that happens, of course, because there's a certain age of people,

00:03:50.360 and when they get in power, suddenly they're people who have done psychedelics,

00:03:55.120 and suddenly it doesn't seem too bad to them now that they're in power.

00:03:58.080 So I think maybe the next one to three years,

00:04:03.480 something gigantic is going to happen with psychedelics.

00:04:07.860 And it won't just change how you feel about stuff.

00:04:11.500 It will change the world.

00:04:14.280 Because how you feel about stuff depends how you act,

00:04:17.540 and how you act changes the world.

00:04:19.780 So there's something really, really big coming in this domain,

00:04:24.280 and I don't know exactly how it's going to turn out,

00:04:27.420 but I think mostly positive.

00:04:29.660 And maybe not even mostly.

00:04:32.180 It could be something like one of the greatest things that's happened to civilization.

00:04:36.980 It could be that big.

00:04:38.380 And that's not an exaggeration, by the way.

00:04:40.580 Anybody who's experienced psychedelics,

00:04:44.480 I think 80% of you would agree with that statement,

00:04:47.200 that it's going to transform civilization.

00:04:51.460 It won't just be a thing that's happening.

00:04:54.280 Zirinovich says, I'm seeing the comments,

00:04:58.940 Mike Zirinovich says that calling it plant medicine is a better frame.

00:05:03.440 Maybe.

00:05:04.500 Yeah, it might go down better with the public.

00:05:07.520 There's a story about Naomi Osaka,

00:05:09.980 one of the best female tennis players in the world,

00:05:13.040 who just pulled out of the French Open.

00:05:15.240 She was getting a lot of heat because she was refusing to do media interviews,

00:05:19.280 which, of course, is an essential part of the job of being a top athlete.

00:05:23.520 You don't really get to not do the interview because that's part of the show, right?

00:05:28.480 And people are paying you a lot of money to put on a show.

00:05:31.940 You can't just skip an important part of it.

00:05:34.840 But she decided to pull out of the French Open entirely.

00:05:38.420 And she said she didn't want to do these interviews to protect her mental health.

00:05:44.020 What the hell does that mean?

00:05:46.620 I mean, it's probably important.

00:05:47.960 I'm not going to minimize it because when somebody says they need to do something for their mental health,

00:05:52.420 I feel as if we should, you know, our first impression should be to believe them, right?

00:05:59.240 Because the last thing you want to do is to minimize somebody's mental health issues.

00:06:03.620 So I believe there's a real issue,

00:06:05.820 but it's confusing because this is somebody who can handle playing at the highest level of a sport

00:06:12.860 in front of a stadium full of people televised to the world.

00:06:17.640 And somehow she pulls that off.

00:06:19.600 So I'm not sure how talking to the media would give you a mental health problem.

00:06:24.360 So there's something missing in the story.

00:06:26.560 What is the connection between the media and mental health?

00:06:29.960 But it's interesting.

00:06:31.500 Maybe we'll find out more about that.

00:06:33.780 I don't want to dump on her.

00:06:35.200 It would be easy to do that.

00:06:36.240 But I feel like we don't know enough about this.

00:06:38.340 And when somebody makes a claim that's a health-related claim,

00:06:42.260 I think you give them the benefit of the doubt first.

00:06:47.380 Well, something interesting happening in Israel.

00:06:51.120 Apparently Israel had been considering some kind of a green pass system

00:06:56.200 so that if you were vaccinated, you could do things.

00:06:59.520 But if you weren't vaccinated, you couldn't.

00:07:01.820 But apparently Israel has done so well at vaccinating so many of their citizens 0.86

00:07:07.100 that they're going to drop plans for it.

00:07:10.540 So remember I told you not to worry about vaccination passports

00:07:14.880 because if they happened, they would be temporary.

00:07:19.160 And this is a perfect example.

00:07:21.720 Not only in Israel does it look like they'll be less than temporary, 0.66

00:07:26.640 they will be strongly considered and then not even used

00:07:29.540 because vaccinations made them unnecessary.

00:07:32.140 So that's the same direction we're going.

00:07:34.360 You know, there will be lots of edge questions about cruise ships.

00:07:39.740 You know, there will be special cases

00:07:40.960 where people are genuinely in close contact

00:07:44.640 and maybe it's not quite ready yet.

00:07:47.540 You know, you could argue that.

00:07:49.160 But for all the easy stuff, such as the workplace,

00:07:52.960 you're not going to need any kind of a pass.

00:07:56.000 Speaking of mask mandates at work,

00:08:01.580 it looks like the Occupational Safety and Health Organization,

00:08:06.400 so this is a U.S. group called OSHA,

00:08:09.980 they may still issue a workplace mask mandate

00:08:12.500 consistent with Biden's orders, executive orders.

00:08:16.660 But that would be at odds with the CDC's guidelines

00:08:21.420 that vaccinated people don't need to wear masks indoors.

00:08:24.660 So, you're an American citizen

00:08:28.560 and you know that the CDC says

00:08:31.400 you don't need the masks indoors if you're vaccinated.

00:08:35.440 But OSHA, who is also, you know,

00:08:38.600 looking out for your safety in the workplace,

00:08:41.020 might say that you do.

00:08:43.320 So I think this is undetermined yet,

00:08:45.740 but they might say that you do.

00:08:48.880 Here's my take on this, and I've told you before.

00:08:51.460 However, the public is in charge, all right?

00:08:57.640 If you think the government's in charge

00:08:59.820 with this mask mandate stuff,

00:09:02.020 there's something about the world

00:09:04.320 that you don't understand.

00:09:06.020 The government's not in charge.

00:09:08.740 The people will decide

00:09:10.580 when they're done with masks and where.

00:09:13.960 And they'll decide by just doing it.

00:09:16.020 Because if enough people do it,

00:09:18.860 it's unarrestable, right?

00:09:21.380 There's no recourse.

00:09:24.380 It's just how many people do it.

00:09:26.460 If one person violates a rule,

00:09:28.380 well, they're in trouble.

00:09:29.660 Two people, probably in trouble.

00:09:31.560 Three people, they're in trouble.

00:09:33.100 Four people, they're probably in trouble.

00:09:35.900 A thousand people, nobody's in trouble.

00:09:39.480 If a thousand people decide,

00:09:41.180 well, today's the day, no mask.

00:09:42.660 And I think that in the workplace,

00:09:45.400 specifically the workplace,

00:09:47.100 I can't imagine any workplace

00:09:49.380 that I've been in

00:09:50.640 where we wouldn't walk into the workplace

00:09:53.200 and say, hey, everybody,

00:09:54.840 let's have a meeting.

00:09:56.940 The OSHA says this.

00:09:58.740 CDC says this.

00:10:00.380 What do you say?

00:10:01.780 And the meeting would say,

00:10:02.920 if you're vaccinated, take your mask off.

00:10:05.400 And that would be it.

00:10:06.980 And that office,

00:10:08.980 at least that floor of that office,

00:10:10.760 would be mask-free.

00:10:12.720 And then other people

00:10:13.540 would hear about that floor

00:10:14.680 and they'd say,

00:10:15.420 did you get away with it?

00:10:16.980 So far, no penalty?

00:10:18.660 And then they would do it too.

00:10:20.380 So the next 30 days,

00:10:22.040 the public will completely

00:10:23.160 take control of this issue.

00:10:24.840 Again, not counting stuff

00:10:26.420 like cruise ships, right?

00:10:28.220 There will be special cases.

00:10:29.820 I don't think the public

00:10:30.760 is quite qualified for those.

00:10:33.060 But when you talk about

00:10:33.940 something like the workplace

00:10:35.560 and the CDC has already

00:10:37.400 weighed in about the risks,

00:10:38.600 I do think the public

00:10:40.380 is qualified

00:10:41.240 to make a decision

00:10:42.920 about their risk-reward

00:10:44.200 and the public

00:10:45.300 will make that decision.

00:10:47.120 So don't ever believe

00:10:48.600 that the government's in charge.

00:10:51.180 You know,

00:10:51.480 they're in charge

00:10:52.100 in an emergency.

00:10:53.940 They're in charge

00:10:54.600 in some specific situations.

00:10:56.820 But they're not in charge.

00:10:59.020 The public is always in charge.

00:11:01.660 They just have to

00:11:02.880 choose to use their authority

00:11:04.520 or not.

00:11:05.180 That's the only decision.

00:11:09.360 It may be that

00:11:10.400 if OSHA gets away with this,

00:11:11.960 you'll see more remote work

00:11:13.980 and maybe that's good.

00:11:15.860 You know,

00:11:16.280 there's an argument

00:11:17.280 to be made

00:11:18.340 that the best thing

00:11:19.640 that could happen

00:11:20.280 is for OSHA

00:11:21.200 to require masks

00:11:22.540 at work

00:11:23.240 in the workplace

00:11:23.980 and that will cause people

00:11:25.980 to say,

00:11:26.420 okay, I'm not going to work.

00:11:27.920 I'll just work from home.

00:11:30.160 And if it's a little bit

00:11:32.120 more pressure

00:11:33.560 on making that happen,

00:11:35.300 maybe that would be good.

00:11:36.720 I don't want to see masks

00:11:37.960 in the workplace

00:11:38.740 if you're vaccinated.

00:11:40.380 But, you know,

00:11:41.540 anything could happen.

00:11:43.840 I've got a warning for you.

00:11:46.320 And maybe you're already aware of this.

00:11:49.360 This is a big,

00:11:50.640 big warning.

00:11:54.160 And I don't know

00:11:55.420 if there'll be anything

00:11:56.120 more important than this

00:11:57.300 that'll happen

00:11:57.940 in the next several months.

00:11:59.960 You know,

00:12:00.180 short of a war breaking out.

00:12:02.200 And it goes like this.

00:12:03.460 The end of the pandemic

00:12:06.040 is going to cause

00:12:08.400 a mental health crisis

00:12:09.820 bigger

00:12:11.240 than the pandemic itself.

00:12:15.440 Now,

00:12:16.000 how many of you know

00:12:16.940 why that is?

00:12:18.220 In the comments,

00:12:19.300 let's see if you can tell me why.

00:12:21.280 So this is the statement.

00:12:22.900 We do know

00:12:23.560 that the pandemic

00:12:24.620 almost certainly

00:12:25.580 has caused

00:12:26.620 more mental health problems.

00:12:28.000 Definitely,

00:12:28.460 wouldn't you say?

00:12:28.880 My prediction is

00:12:30.680 that the end of it,

00:12:32.320 you know,

00:12:32.500 the period where

00:12:33.140 you're transitioning

00:12:33.920 from pandemic

00:12:35.460 to non-pandemic

00:12:36.520 will be way worse

00:12:38.360 for mental health.

00:12:40.080 Like, way worse.

00:12:41.200 Like, by a factor of three.

00:12:43.840 Something like that.

00:12:45.140 Won't even be close.

00:12:46.980 And let me tell you why.

00:12:50.560 You're not used

00:12:51.520 to seeing people.

00:12:53.420 You're also not used

00:12:54.780 to your old routine.

00:12:55.900 You don't know

00:12:57.800 who you are anymore.

00:12:59.720 We have to figure out

00:13:00.980 who we are.

00:13:02.560 I was reading an article

00:13:03.680 that a lot of relationships

00:13:04.980 maybe stayed together

00:13:06.240 during the pandemic,

00:13:07.600 but will probably

00:13:08.620 be ripped apart

00:13:09.800 as soon as your

00:13:10.720 requirements

00:13:11.860 for what you need to do

00:13:13.060 and not do

00:13:13.880 change.

00:13:14.820 So I would expect

00:13:16.020 massive divorce,

00:13:18.500 massive mental illness,

00:13:20.540 and probably violence,

00:13:22.840 you know,

00:13:23.240 that comes with it.

00:13:24.420 And I've noted,

00:13:26.300 by the way,

00:13:26.820 that mental health

00:13:27.480 is usually the worst

00:13:28.740 in June.

00:13:31.440 Now, in a normal year,

00:13:33.340 mental health

00:13:33.840 is definitely

00:13:34.400 the worst in June

00:13:35.320 in my observed opinion.

00:13:38.140 I don't know

00:13:38.600 if there's any science

00:13:39.340 to it.

00:13:40.080 But observationally,

00:13:41.560 when kids get out

00:13:43.020 of school in June,

00:13:45.200 at least in the United States,

00:13:47.200 all of your routines change

00:13:49.200 and you just flip out.

00:13:51.680 Like, the family

00:13:52.400 can't figure out

00:13:53.120 who's doing what, when.

00:13:54.420 And the stress

00:13:55.220 goes through the roof

00:13:56.000 and easy things

00:13:56.920 become hard things.

00:13:58.660 And so anytime

00:13:59.420 you have a massive

00:14:00.720 civilization change

00:14:04.300 of schedule,

00:14:05.520 people flip out.

00:14:07.860 So the end

00:14:08.640 of the pandemic

00:14:09.240 is going to be

00:14:09.780 one of the biggest

00:14:10.600 mental shifts

00:14:12.140 we've ever had to have.

00:14:13.740 And I've got to tell you,

00:14:15.660 I'm already feeling it.

00:14:19.060 Yesterday, for example,

00:14:20.160 I was insanely bored.

00:14:22.580 Like, really, really bored.

00:14:24.720 And I thought to myself,

00:14:25.920 well, I'm bored,

00:14:27.480 but realistically,

00:14:28.860 where I live,

00:14:29.820 I can kind of do

00:14:30.780 most things.

00:14:32.180 Right?

00:14:32.420 I can now go to a restaurant.

00:14:34.660 Don't even need my mask.

00:14:36.340 I can ride a bike.

00:14:37.680 I can even join my gym again.

00:14:39.180 I'd need a mask in the gym.

00:14:40.460 But I can join the gym again.

00:14:42.300 I can go to the gym.

00:14:43.520 So I can do

00:14:44.440 almost anything.

00:14:45.700 I can travel.

00:14:47.520 And I didn't like it.

00:14:50.760 I didn't like it at all.

00:14:52.840 So, in other words,

00:14:54.300 freedom

00:14:55.120 caused a mental illness.

00:14:58.620 And I think that

00:14:59.500 that's actually normal.

00:15:01.620 As soon as you get

00:15:02.480 more freedom

00:15:03.120 and you can't just

00:15:04.520 follow your routine,

00:15:06.080 you're going to flip out.

00:15:07.940 Now, not all of you.

00:15:08.700 Some of you will just

00:15:09.380 be much happier

00:15:10.100 and that's the end

00:15:10.700 of the story.

00:15:11.760 Everybody's different, right?

00:15:13.100 But it's a warning.

00:15:15.040 If everything I know

00:15:16.340 about the human mind

00:15:17.860 and the way we think

00:15:19.080 is true,

00:15:20.480 and I'm pretty confident

00:15:21.720 it is,

00:15:22.880 there's going to be

00:15:23.480 a massive mental health

00:15:24.820 problem over the summer

00:15:25.920 and probably lasting

00:15:27.540 into the fall.

00:15:29.180 But be ready for that

00:15:30.560 and when it happens

00:15:31.420 to you,

00:15:32.640 you'll expect it.

00:15:33.860 Maybe you can handle it better.

00:15:35.500 Rasmussen has

00:15:36.340 an interesting poll today

00:15:38.200 about race relations.

00:15:41.040 Asking the question,

00:15:41.880 are race relations

00:15:43.040 better in the United States

00:15:44.300 since the election

00:15:45.920 of Joe Biden?

00:15:48.140 And what do you think

00:15:49.300 people said?

00:15:50.000 Are race relations

00:15:51.040 better or worse

00:15:51.900 under Biden?

00:15:53.600 What do you think?

00:15:54.900 Well, the answer is

00:15:56.100 28% said it's better.

00:15:58.400 But more people,

00:15:59.760 39% said it's worse.

00:16:02.080 As you might imagine,

00:16:03.820 more conservatives

00:16:05.080 said it's worse

00:16:05.880 than liberals.

00:16:07.460 So people basically

00:16:09.000 support their team.

00:16:11.320 So conservatives

00:16:12.400 said only 12%

00:16:14.500 said it's better,

00:16:15.520 but liberals

00:16:16.240 said 54%

00:16:17.520 said it's better.

00:16:19.260 Then the follow-up question,

00:16:20.800 has life for black Americans

00:16:22.060 gotten better or worse

00:16:23.180 since Biden was elected?

00:16:25.440 22% said it's gotten better.

00:16:28.100 29% said it got worse.

00:16:29.800 So how do you explain

00:16:32.540 that Biden gets into office,

00:16:36.040 presumably,

00:16:37.100 according to

00:16:37.820 a lot of people

00:16:39.240 on the left,

00:16:40.500 replacing the worst person

00:16:42.120 who ever lived,

00:16:43.420 Donald Trump?

00:16:44.520 A racist,

00:16:45.440 they say.

00:16:46.540 So if you get rid of Trump

00:16:48.240 and you bring in Biden,

00:16:51.900 you know,

00:16:52.200 Obama's ex-vice president,

00:16:54.960 he's got a bunch of plans now

00:16:57.200 for a whole bunch

00:16:57.880 of racist policies

00:16:58.860 I'll talk about in a minute,

00:17:00.240 but they're racist

00:17:01.260 in a way that would

00:17:02.140 help black Americans,

00:17:03.820 and yet they feel

00:17:05.200 it's getting worse.

00:17:06.800 What's going on?

00:17:08.480 It's the news,

00:17:09.680 right?

00:17:10.820 The news

00:17:11.680 makes us think

00:17:13.220 things are getting worse

00:17:14.400 no matter what

00:17:15.660 is actually happening

00:17:16.480 because the news

00:17:17.920 needs you to think

00:17:19.400 that race relations

00:17:20.280 are getting worse.

00:17:21.960 It's just the news.

00:17:23.740 Do you think

00:17:24.280 race relations

00:17:24.980 are getting worse?

00:17:27.200 Well, yes,

00:17:28.820 because of the news.

00:17:30.600 So the news

00:17:31.700 has this ability

00:17:32.980 to make things worse

00:17:34.200 and then assign the blame

00:17:35.400 to other people,

00:17:36.540 which is the world

00:17:37.740 we live in.

00:17:39.020 Speaking of messed up things,

00:17:41.480 Twitter user

00:17:42.560 Alan McLeod,

00:17:44.240 McLeod,

00:17:45.060 I think,

00:17:45.640 McLeod,

00:17:46.840 points out that

00:17:47.780 the Washington Post

00:17:48.720 lets somebody

00:17:50.200 who's on the board

00:17:51.400 of directors

00:17:51.900 of a military drone company,

00:17:54.020 they make military drones,

00:17:55.700 writes an opinion piece

00:17:57.280 in the Washington Post

00:17:58.340 saying that

00:17:59.600 to avoid wider war,

00:18:01.820 Iran must be deterred 1.00

00:18:03.100 with limited

00:18:04.120 U.S. military strikes.

00:18:06.480 Do you know

00:18:07.240 how you do

00:18:07.760 a limited

00:18:08.540 U.S. military strike?

00:18:10.980 What would make it

00:18:12.220 limited?

00:18:14.020 Hmm.

00:18:15.080 What kind of military assets

00:18:17.200 would you likely employ

00:18:18.780 if you wanted

00:18:20.060 your military action

00:18:21.440 to be limited?

00:18:22.740 could it be

00:18:24.660 drones?

00:18:27.400 Maybe?

00:18:28.880 Drones?

00:18:30.000 Yeah.

00:18:31.120 So the Washington Post

00:18:32.620 runs

00:18:34.100 an opinion piece

00:18:35.700 from a drone

00:18:36.600 maker guy,

00:18:38.400 a guy who's on the board

00:18:39.200 of directors

00:18:39.680 of a drone maker,

00:18:41.060 saying we should do

00:18:42.120 some more war

00:18:43.060 that just happens

00:18:44.540 to use some drones.

00:18:46.680 He might own

00:18:47.440 some stock

00:18:48.320 in that company.

00:18:49.020 What do you think?

00:18:49.960 Do you think

00:18:50.380 somebody on the board

00:18:51.140 of directors

00:18:51.580 owns some stock?

00:18:52.740 And the company?

00:18:54.960 Yeah.

00:18:56.080 Yeah.

00:18:56.960 And did the Washington Post

00:18:58.420 say,

00:18:59.680 beware of this opinion

00:19:00.940 because it's coming

00:19:01.660 from somebody

00:19:02.220 who would make

00:19:02.640 a lot of money

00:19:03.240 if you bought

00:19:04.580 into this opinion?

00:19:05.860 I don't believe

00:19:06.740 that they did.

00:19:08.280 I think that

00:19:09.080 Alan happened

00:19:10.800 to look into

00:19:11.440 the person

00:19:12.120 who wrote the article

00:19:12.900 and made that discovery,

00:19:14.180 or somebody did.

00:19:15.680 So,

00:19:16.580 how about that

00:19:17.660 for your news business?

00:19:20.020 Michael Flynn

00:19:20.840 raised some eyebrows

00:19:22.440 was it yesterday?

00:19:25.540 He made the comments

00:19:26.680 at some event

00:19:27.480 in Dallas,

00:19:28.620 which is reported

00:19:32.120 to be a QAnon

00:19:33.560 conspiracy event.

00:19:34.760 I don't know

00:19:35.100 if it was.

00:19:36.540 But,

00:19:37.100 Flynn was asked

00:19:39.400 this question

00:19:39.880 on stage.

00:19:41.460 Somebody said,

00:19:41.920 I want to know

00:19:42.660 what happened

00:19:43.520 I want to know

00:19:45.080 why

00:19:45.440 what happened

00:19:46.100 in Myanmar

00:19:47.420 can't happen here.

00:19:51.200 Meaning

00:19:51.760 a military coup.

00:19:54.620 And so,

00:19:54.980 this is a member

00:19:55.480 of the audience

00:19:56.020 asked Michael Flynn

00:19:57.580 when Flynn was on stage.

00:19:59.100 And here was Flynn's answer.

00:20:01.100 No reason,

00:20:02.040 I mean.

00:20:03.040 It should happen here.

00:20:04.760 No reason.

00:20:05.760 That's right.

00:20:06.360 What?

00:20:08.080 What?

00:20:09.780 What?

00:20:11.220 Wait,

00:20:11.760 did Michael Flynn

00:20:12.640 just say

00:20:14.060 that there should be

00:20:15.160 a military coup

00:20:16.820 in the United States?

00:20:18.520 Now,

00:20:19.040 that's how the news

00:20:19.760 is handling it.

00:20:21.800 Is that what he said?

00:20:23.600 Now,

00:20:24.140 this is all we know.

00:20:25.500 And as far as I know,

00:20:26.460 this is not a Rupar video.

00:20:28.640 Meaning,

00:20:29.180 I don't think

00:20:29.680 it's selectively edited.

00:20:31.220 It looks like

00:20:31.960 he actually said that.

00:20:33.360 If I'm wrong about that,

00:20:34.620 it's selectively edited.

00:20:35.700 Did somebody let me know

00:20:36.520 in the comments?

00:20:37.580 But I don't think it was.

00:20:39.180 So,

00:20:39.940 what do you make of that?

00:20:41.180 A military

00:20:42.100 person from this country,

00:20:44.260 retired,

00:20:44.860 but a general

00:20:45.500 who had lots of access

00:20:47.080 at the highest levels

00:20:48.360 of intel,

00:20:49.940 at least at one point.

00:20:51.580 And he says

00:20:52.200 that there's no reason

00:20:53.820 we shouldn't go

00:20:54.580 the way of Myanmar.

00:20:56.940 I can't pronounce.

00:20:58.280 It should happen here.

00:21:00.100 What do you make of that?

00:21:03.420 All right,

00:21:03.980 here's what I make of it.

00:21:06.500 First of all,

00:21:07.300 I don't think too many people

00:21:08.280 are taking this seriously.

00:21:09.820 And I don't,

00:21:10.680 I'm not worried

00:21:11.300 that this will form

00:21:12.500 some kind of violent revolution.

00:21:15.400 But,

00:21:16.600 if you were to take,

00:21:18.560 let's say,

00:21:19.060 all of the

00:21:19.920 370 million people

00:21:22.280 in America,

00:21:22.980 whatever the number is,

00:21:24.200 if you round up

00:21:25.040 all the Americans

00:21:26.220 that there are,

00:21:27.720 and then I ask you

00:21:28.540 this question.

00:21:29.100 and of all

00:21:30.600 the Americans,

00:21:32.020 is there one,

00:21:34.400 is there one,

00:21:34.420 is there one American

00:21:38.500 who has a right

00:21:39.700 to call for a violent

00:21:42.500 revolution

00:21:43.120 in the United States?

00:21:44.780 And of all of them,

00:21:45.940 and of all the Americans,

00:21:47.180 who's the one person

00:21:48.120 you'd say to yourself,

00:21:50.080 okay,

00:21:50.400 if he said it,

00:21:52.040 all right,

00:21:52.340 I can get that.

00:21:53.840 Michael Flynn.

00:21:55.940 Now,

00:21:56.640 I'm not going to say

00:21:57.440 that he said something

00:22:00.640 that was good

00:22:02.560 or smart

00:22:03.360 or beneficial

00:22:04.680 to the country.

00:22:06.160 So,

00:22:06.880 I'm not going to back him

00:22:08.040 in his opinion.

00:22:09.700 I rebuke

00:22:10.760 his opinion.

00:22:12.300 We do not need

00:22:13.420 violence

00:22:14.700 in this country.

00:22:16.660 We certainly don't need

00:22:17.900 a violent revolution.

00:22:19.760 But,

00:22:20.560 this is just me,

00:22:22.800 and I don't ask you

00:22:23.880 to do the same thing,

00:22:24.940 all right?

00:22:25.660 This is just me.

00:22:27.080 You make your own decisions.

00:22:29.720 Michael Flynn

00:22:30.520 gets a pass.

00:22:33.620 Do you know

00:22:34.260 who else I would give

00:22:35.120 a pass

00:22:35.700 out of all the people

00:22:36.680 in the country?

00:22:37.680 Do you know

00:22:38.040 who else would get

00:22:38.800 a pass

00:22:39.320 for saying something

00:22:40.160 as provocative

00:22:41.780 as this?

00:22:43.600 Nobody.

00:22:44.820 Nobody else.

00:22:46.480 Nope.

00:22:47.460 Michael Flynn

00:22:48.120 was a victim

00:22:48.980 of our government.

00:22:51.180 He was a victim

00:22:51.760 of our government.

00:22:52.800 like a big victim.

00:22:55.220 A big,

00:22:56.180 conspicuous

00:22:57.120 victim

00:22:58.320 of the government.

00:23:00.840 He wasn't a victim

00:23:01.800 of a crime.

00:23:04.020 He wasn't a victim

00:23:05.300 of bad luck.

00:23:07.020 He wasn't a victim

00:23:08.080 of natural disasters.

00:23:11.140 He was a victim

00:23:12.360 targeted specifically

00:23:14.080 by the government

00:23:15.640 of the United States.

00:23:17.560 If Michael Flynn

00:23:18.720 says

00:23:19.160 they should all

00:23:20.540 be shot, 0.63

00:23:22.300 I would disagree

00:23:23.600 with that vigorously

00:23:24.600 and I would support

00:23:26.400 his right to say it.

00:23:28.660 I support his right

00:23:29.820 to say it.

00:23:30.580 He earned it.

00:23:32.340 Right?

00:23:32.560 If there's one person

00:23:33.380 in the country

00:23:33.820 who can say that

00:23:34.620 without me bothering

00:23:36.460 to, you know,

00:23:37.400 make a deal about it,

00:23:38.300 it's him.

00:23:38.720 He's the only one.

00:23:40.120 You know,

00:23:40.400 maybe I can think

00:23:41.120 of somebody else.

00:23:42.260 But if your government

00:23:43.200 targets you

00:23:44.000 for destruction,

00:23:45.280 for political purposes,

00:23:47.400 and you call

00:23:48.180 for a violent overthrow

00:23:49.440 of that government,

00:23:51.600 you're within your rights.

00:23:54.140 You're within the rights

00:23:55.780 of free speech

00:23:56.600 and you're not crazy.

00:23:59.220 You're not crazy.

00:24:00.660 And

00:24:01.100 you've got

00:24:03.300 a perfectly good case.

00:24:06.060 My preference

00:24:08.520 is we don't do that.

00:24:10.520 Right?

00:24:10.640 So I'm not promoting it.

00:24:13.300 I'm not apologizing for it.

00:24:14.620 I'm not supporting

00:24:15.280 anything he said.

00:24:16.280 I disavow it completely.

00:24:18.660 But I give him a pass

00:24:19.880 at the same time.

00:24:20.640 He's the only one

00:24:21.220 who can say that.

00:24:23.420 All right.

00:24:27.880 So CNN

00:24:28.680 has described

00:24:29.620 the blocking

00:24:30.980 by the Republicans

00:24:31.920 of the so-called

00:24:32.860 January 6th Commission

00:24:34.160 to look into it.

00:24:37.820 So CNN

00:24:38.660 is calling

00:24:39.120 the blocking

00:24:39.680 of that commission

00:24:40.360 a gut punch

00:24:41.280 to democracy.

00:24:43.260 So

00:24:43.820 I did a little poll

00:24:44.820 and I asked

00:24:45.300 what is a bigger

00:24:45.920 gut punch

00:24:46.700 to democracy?

00:24:47.880 The blocking

00:24:48.480 of the January 6th commission

00:24:49.740 or

00:24:50.220 CNN?

00:24:52.220 Which is the bigger

00:24:53.280 gut punch

00:24:54.020 to democracy?

00:24:55.520 The results

00:24:56.300 the last I looked

00:24:57.160 were

00:24:57.480 5% of respondents

00:24:59.280 said that

00:24:59.920 blocking the January 6th commission

00:25:01.600 is a

00:25:02.140 gut punch

00:25:03.700 to democracy

00:25:04.400 and 95%

00:25:05.960 say CNN

00:25:06.760 is a

00:25:07.380 gut punch

00:25:08.540 to democracy.

00:25:09.860 And if you think

00:25:10.820 I like saying

00:25:11.560 gut punch

00:25:12.680 to democracy

00:25:13.340 well

00:25:14.680 you're right.

00:25:17.140 I do like saying it.

00:25:19.360 Looks like

00:25:20.320 Joe Biden

00:25:20.980 has introduced

00:25:21.700 a number of

00:25:22.420 overt

00:25:22.940 racist policies

00:25:24.300 to quote

00:25:25.760 close the racial 0.53

00:25:26.960 wealth gap.

00:25:28.320 You fucking

00:25:28.960 racist.

00:25:30.280 You fucking

00:25:31.480 piece of shit.

00:25:32.480 You've taken

00:25:34.240 the best part

00:25:35.080 about this country

00:25:35.880 and you just

00:25:36.720 pissed on it.

00:25:38.080 You fucking

00:25:38.700 piece of shit

00:25:39.480 Joe Biden.

00:25:40.720 You racist

00:25:41.260 piece of shit.

00:25:43.520 Alright,

00:25:44.040 that's my opinion.

00:25:44.880 Now let's talk

00:25:45.340 about it.

00:25:48.400 As you know

00:25:49.320 I have been

00:25:50.880 in favor of

00:25:51.840 a creative

00:25:53.100 approach

00:25:53.620 to

00:25:54.080 reparations.

00:25:56.140 So

00:25:56.600 out of all

00:25:57.980 the people

00:25:58.320 watching this

00:25:58.980 I might be

00:25:59.600 in the very

00:26:00.160 small percentage

00:26:00.960 of people

00:26:01.380 who say

00:26:01.780 you know

00:26:02.460 we should

00:26:03.360 look at

00:26:03.660 this

00:26:03.840 reparations

00:26:04.480 thing.

00:26:05.500 At least

00:26:05.960 you know

00:26:06.660 suss out

00:26:07.600 all the

00:26:07.960 possibilities

00:26:08.600 see what

00:26:09.960 we could

00:26:10.280 do

00:26:10.660 what works

00:26:11.520 what's

00:26:12.000 politically

00:26:12.440 and socially

00:26:13.880 acceptable

00:26:14.480 that might

00:26:15.160 make a

00:26:15.520 difference

00:26:16.020 etc.

00:26:17.120 I've argued

00:26:18.000 that you

00:26:18.400 can't get

00:26:18.900 there

00:26:19.220 unless you

00:26:19.920 help all

00:26:20.460 poor people

00:26:21.040 but

00:26:21.940 helping all

00:26:23.320 poor people

00:26:23.920 with an

00:26:24.540 express interest

00:26:25.420 and making

00:26:25.980 sure that we

00:26:26.520 also close

00:26:27.380 you know

00:26:28.200 the wealth

00:26:28.840 gap

00:26:29.220 I'm fine

00:26:30.260 with that.

00:26:30.600 let's

00:26:31.400 close

00:26:31.760 the wealth

00:26:32.380 gap

00:26:32.760 does

00:26:34.480 anybody

00:26:34.720 have a

00:26:35.640 problem

00:26:36.000 with poor

00:26:37.340 people

00:26:37.660 doing better?

00:26:38.540 No.

00:26:39.080 It's just

00:26:39.440 how you

00:26:39.740 do it

00:26:40.060 right?

00:26:40.680 It's the

00:26:41.100 mechanism

00:26:41.540 to make

00:26:41.940 that happen

00:26:42.380 that's the

00:26:42.920 controversy.

00:26:44.640 And so

00:26:45.040 Joe Biden

00:26:46.300 is going to

00:26:47.360 use government

00:26:47.900 funding to

00:26:48.860 directly benefit

00:26:50.540 black businesses

00:26:52.200 and there are a

00:26:52.960 number of other

00:26:53.960 things he's

00:26:54.440 looking to

00:26:54.900 but they all

00:26:55.640 have the same

00:26:56.280 element

00:26:56.800 that instead

00:26:58.320 of saying

00:26:58.820 we're going

00:26:59.540 to close

00:27:00.020 the income

00:27:00.800 gap

00:27:01.220 which a lot

00:27:03.140 of people

00:27:03.480 would say

00:27:04.000 is a good

00:27:04.460 idea

00:27:04.860 as long as

00:27:06.000 you're not

00:27:06.300 just taking

00:27:06.940 it from the

00:27:07.420 rich and

00:27:07.860 transferring it

00:27:08.660 then it's a

00:27:09.480 different issue

00:27:09.920 but if you

00:27:10.640 can make

00:27:11.000 poor people

00:27:11.840 richer

00:27:12.520 I feel like

00:27:14.340 everybody likes

00:27:15.060 that if you

00:27:15.780 can figure out

00:27:16.280 how to do

00:27:16.640 it.

00:27:19.400 But so

00:27:20.520 Biden has

00:27:21.020 figured out

00:27:21.460 how to do

00:27:22.180 reparations

00:27:22.860 so instead

00:27:23.940 of asking

00:27:24.480 people to

00:27:25.020 write a

00:27:25.400 check to

00:27:26.640 individual

00:27:27.340 black Americans

00:27:28.680 who are

00:27:29.060 descended from

00:27:29.720 slavery

00:27:30.060 which would

00:27:31.100 be almost

00:27:31.600 impossible to

00:27:32.420 figure out

00:27:32.840 how to do

00:27:33.260 it, how

00:27:33.740 much, who

00:27:34.320 pays, who

00:27:34.920 doesn't pay,

00:27:35.860 who gets it,

00:27:36.480 who doesn't

00:27:36.800 get it, that

00:27:37.300 would be

00:27:37.560 impossible.

00:27:38.700 But Biden

00:27:39.140 actually found

00:27:39.700 a workaround.

00:27:41.100 So let me

00:27:41.700 start by saying

00:27:42.540 good job.

00:27:47.340 You know

00:27:47.940 the most

00:27:48.540 annoying thing 0.95

00:27:49.300 that I'll

00:27:49.640 ever do

00:27:50.120 is compliment

00:27:51.920 people's

00:27:52.580 effectiveness

00:27:53.240 even if I

00:27:55.280 hate what

00:27:55.640 they're doing.

00:27:56.740 Now I did

00:27:57.340 it consistently

00:27:58.800 with Trump.

00:27:59.980 I would talk

00:28:00.520 about his

00:28:00.940 technique

00:28:01.680 separate from

00:28:03.080 whether I

00:28:03.680 liked it or

00:28:04.200 not, or

00:28:04.940 whether I

00:28:05.440 liked the

00:28:05.760 policy or

00:28:06.220 not.

00:28:06.420 That's a

00:28:06.620 separate

00:28:06.780 question.

00:28:07.880 And I'm

00:28:09.440 going to

00:28:09.660 say that

00:28:10.560 Joe Biden

00:28:11.120 was in a

00:28:11.600 tough spot

00:28:12.240 because people

00:28:13.660 wanted

00:28:14.100 reparations,

00:28:15.100 but he

00:28:15.440 really couldn't

00:28:16.080 do that.

00:28:17.300 There wasn't

00:28:17.720 any way he

00:28:18.300 could just

00:28:18.680 figure out a

00:28:20.040 way for the

00:28:20.960 government to

00:28:21.580 cut checks.

00:28:22.580 And just

00:28:23.300 give them to

00:28:23.940 black Americans.

00:28:24.720 That wasn't

00:28:25.200 going to

00:28:25.420 happen.

00:28:26.160 But he

00:28:26.680 found a

00:28:27.020 workaround.

00:28:28.140 He will

00:28:28.520 increase our

00:28:29.160 taxes and

00:28:30.000 or increase

00:28:30.800 our debt and

00:28:32.240 funnel a lot

00:28:33.140 of that money.

00:28:34.280 Most of it

00:28:35.020 comes from rich

00:28:35.580 people because

00:28:36.180 that's who

00:28:36.500 pays taxes

00:28:37.160 mostly.

00:28:38.400 And he'll

00:28:39.300 give it to

00:28:39.660 black businesses

00:28:40.380 specifically and

00:28:41.680 other things that

00:28:42.520 are targeted for

00:28:43.400 black Americans.

00:28:45.180 Now that of

00:28:45.880 course is just

00:28:46.500 pure racism.

00:28:47.820 And fuck

00:28:48.580 you.

00:28:49.740 It's pure

00:28:50.280 racism.

00:28:50.660 So I

00:28:51.700 don't support

00:28:52.340 racism in

00:28:53.260 any direction

00:28:54.020 because that's

00:28:55.320 not the country

00:28:55.980 I want to

00:28:56.440 live in.

00:28:57.380 And indeed I

00:28:58.000 would move

00:28:58.340 out of the

00:28:58.700 country if

00:28:59.820 this becomes

00:29:00.540 more of a

00:29:01.320 norm than it

00:29:01.860 is.

00:29:02.080 It's already

00:29:02.400 pretty bad.

00:29:03.380 Now I'm

00:29:03.940 speaking as

00:29:04.380 somebody who's

00:29:04.860 lost a couple

00:29:05.500 of jobs.

00:29:07.000 Some of you

00:29:07.680 know my story.

00:29:08.520 I've written

00:29:08.820 about it a lot.

00:29:10.080 Because I'm

00:29:10.760 white.

00:29:12.040 Specifically

00:29:12.440 because I'm

00:29:13.120 white and

00:29:13.840 male.

00:29:14.100 In other

00:29:15.000 words my

00:29:15.340 bosses told

00:29:16.000 me directly

00:29:17.280 we can't

00:29:18.640 promote you

00:29:19.240 because you're

00:29:20.180 white and

00:29:20.660 male and

00:29:21.220 it doesn't

00:29:21.560 look like

00:29:21.900 that's going

00:29:22.280 to change

00:29:22.820 anytime soon.

00:29:24.120 Two different

00:29:24.520 jobs.

00:29:25.460 Which is why

00:29:26.160 I'm a

00:29:26.400 cartoonist.

00:29:27.200 I had to

00:29:27.480 go work for 0.98

00:29:27.960 myself because

00:29:29.320 having a boss

00:29:30.020 didn't work.

00:29:33.160 Maybe you've

00:29:33.840 seen a cartoon

00:29:34.360 about that.

00:29:35.020 Bosses that

00:29:35.600 are not good

00:29:36.680 for you.

00:29:37.880 So I hate

00:29:39.340 Joe Biden.

00:29:39.920 He's a

00:29:40.360 fucking racist

00:29:41.100 and he's

00:29:42.240 introducing racist

00:29:43.280 policies and

00:29:44.480 he should be

00:29:45.340 completely

00:29:45.960 disavowed.

00:29:47.560 But if I'm

00:29:48.780 looking at the

00:29:49.420 quality of his

00:29:50.160 technique it's

00:29:51.480 pretty good.

00:29:52.900 It's pretty good.

00:29:54.200 If he pulls

00:29:54.940 this off I

00:29:57.380 think he's got a

00:29:58.080 good argument

00:29:58.580 that he helped

00:29:59.320 black Americans

00:30:00.240 and they might

00:30:00.980 reward him or

00:30:01.860 the Democrats

00:30:02.500 in elections.

00:30:04.140 So politically

00:30:05.140 it's probably

00:30:06.260 pretty good.

00:30:08.060 He's just a

00:30:08.680 fucking racist.

00:30:10.040 All right.

00:30:10.540 Biden has a

00:30:11.500 China problem.

00:30:12.300 I think Liz

00:30:13.400 Peek was

00:30:13.800 writing about

00:30:14.260 this on Fox

00:30:14.980 News website.

00:30:16.880 And the

00:30:17.420 problem goes

00:30:17.860 like this.

00:30:18.680 We have all

00:30:19.160 these things we

00:30:19.680 need to

00:30:19.980 negotiate with

00:30:20.640 China but 0.74

00:30:21.960 here's my

00:30:22.600 question.

00:30:24.240 Do you

00:30:24.740 personally know

00:30:26.360 how much China

00:30:27.460 knows about

00:30:28.480 Hunter Biden?

00:30:30.500 Do you?

00:30:31.920 I mean you

00:30:32.680 know what the

00:30:33.840 news has reported

00:30:34.780 that Hunter Biden

00:30:35.620 did or

00:30:36.980 allegedly did or

00:30:38.220 did not,

00:30:38.880 right?

00:30:39.040 Michael says

00:30:43.020 if they can do

00:30:43.560 it to Michael

00:30:44.580 Flynn they can

00:30:45.180 do it to

00:30:45.520 anybody and

00:30:45.960 get away with

00:30:46.420 it.

00:30:46.520 Yeah, that's

00:30:46.800 true.

00:30:47.580 That's true.

00:30:49.740 But Biden

00:30:50.380 has a problem

00:30:51.060 which is

00:30:52.220 you've probably

00:30:52.760 heard this

00:30:53.240 standard before

00:30:54.320 that if

00:30:55.360 somebody has

00:30:56.100 a conflict of

00:30:57.000 interest they

00:30:58.420 should call it

00:30:59.060 out.

00:30:59.300 and yeah

00:31:05.280 that's a good

00:31:05.980 point.

00:31:06.300 Joe Biden

00:31:06.680 was responsible

00:31:07.420 for the

00:31:07.900 destruction of

00:31:08.640 General Flynn

00:31:09.260 by calling out

00:31:10.580 the Logan

00:31:10.960 Act and

00:31:12.000 Biden's the

00:31:12.640 government.

00:31:14.440 If you were

00:31:15.300 Michael Flynn

00:31:15.960 and the very

00:31:17.340 guy who was

00:31:18.600 like at the

00:31:19.140 center of

00:31:19.940 your targeting

00:31:21.160 was running

00:31:22.280 the government

00:31:22.820 would you be

00:31:23.800 in favor of a

00:31:24.640 violent overthrow

00:31:25.700 of the government?

00:31:27.880 Maybe.

00:31:29.300 Maybe you

00:31:29.860 would be.

00:31:31.060 Yeah.

00:31:31.440 All right.

00:31:32.620 So anyway

00:31:33.120 Biden has a

00:31:34.000 China problem 0.99

00:31:34.500 which is

00:31:35.040 you've heard

00:31:35.420 the saying

00:31:35.800 that you

00:31:36.380 should avoid

00:31:36.960 even the

00:31:37.600 appearance of

00:31:39.120 conflict of

00:31:39.800 interest.

00:31:40.620 Correct?

00:31:41.600 Not only

00:31:42.220 do I have

00:31:42.760 something on

00:31:43.100 my shirt?

00:31:44.060 You should

00:31:44.500 not only

00:31:45.520 avoid actual

00:31:46.460 conflict of

00:31:47.240 interest but

00:31:48.700 you want to

00:31:49.160 avoid the

00:31:50.200 appearance of

00:31:51.160 it because

00:31:52.080 the effectiveness

00:31:53.980 of our

00:31:54.560 government is

00:31:55.560 partly if not

00:31:56.740 largely based on

00:31:58.240 their credibility.

00:31:59.300 If the

00:31:59.900 government is

00:32:00.400 doing good

00:32:00.980 things or

00:32:01.920 at least

00:32:02.160 trying to

00:32:02.640 do good

00:32:02.980 things you'll

00:32:03.400 say all

00:32:03.720 right you

00:32:04.660 know you

00:32:04.920 can you

00:32:05.500 can still

00:32:05.860 be in

00:32:06.180 charge.

00:32:07.420 But what

00:32:07.720 if you

00:32:09.420 don't know

00:32:10.220 if Joe

00:32:11.140 Biden's

00:32:11.640 decisions are

00:32:12.480 based on

00:32:13.140 maybe concern

00:32:14.860 about what

00:32:15.380 China knows 0.92

00:32:16.020 about his

00:32:16.720 son?

00:32:17.840 Do you

00:32:18.280 know?

00:32:19.180 You don't

00:32:19.540 know what

00:32:19.860 China knows 0.92

00:32:20.400 do you?

00:32:21.220 You don't

00:32:21.580 know what

00:32:21.960 Joe Biden

00:32:23.360 knows about

00:32:24.100 Hunter?

00:32:24.620 You don't

00:32:24.880 know what

00:32:25.140 Hunter Biden

00:32:25.640 knows about

00:32:26.100 himself?

00:32:26.440 You don't

00:32:27.380 know.

00:32:28.920 So how

00:32:30.360 can Joe

00:32:31.360 Biden be

00:32:32.100 our credible

00:32:33.960 leader against

00:32:34.920 the number

00:32:35.580 one important

00:32:36.560 topic to

00:32:37.860 this country

00:32:38.440 which is

00:32:39.060 the future

00:32:40.080 of the

00:32:40.460 United States

00:32:41.040 vis-a-vis

00:32:41.820 China? 0.73

00:32:43.920 It's one of

00:32:44.700 our biggest

00:32:45.040 questions, if

00:32:45.580 not the

00:32:45.940 biggest question,

00:32:46.620 it's probably

00:32:46.920 the biggest

00:32:47.420 question.

00:32:48.840 And our

00:32:49.320 leader is

00:32:50.680 the only

00:32:51.340 person I

00:32:51.920 know of,

00:32:53.020 there must

00:32:53.440 be more,

00:32:53.860 but the

00:32:54.200 only one

00:32:54.500 I know

00:32:54.840 of, who

00:32:56.620 I can't

00:32:57.140 trust, right?

00:32:59.880 Now I'm not

00:33:00.600 saying I can't

00:33:01.180 trust him because

00:33:01.700 he's a

00:33:02.020 Democrat, and

00:33:03.240 I'm not saying

00:33:03.760 I can't trust

00:33:04.380 him because

00:33:04.720 he's Joe

00:33:05.180 Biden.

00:33:05.840 I actually

00:33:06.660 do think a

00:33:07.400 Democrat and

00:33:08.860 a Joe

00:33:09.580 Biden without

00:33:10.180 any, you

00:33:11.200 know, conflict

00:33:11.760 would be

00:33:13.060 perfectly capable

00:33:13.920 of, you

00:33:15.060 know, dealing

00:33:15.420 with China.

00:33:16.920 But, somebody

00:33:18.760 whose son

00:33:19.800 might be a

00:33:20.380 risk, I

00:33:22.660 don't think

00:33:23.040 so.

00:33:24.640 I don't

00:33:25.160 think we

00:33:25.940 can trust

00:33:26.380 Biden on

00:33:26.940 any China

00:33:27.680 question.

00:33:28.560 So what

00:33:28.900 do you do

00:33:29.200 about that?

00:33:30.400 Well, I

00:33:31.000 almost think

00:33:31.580 that Biden

00:33:32.020 should recuse

00:33:32.940 himself.

00:33:34.040 Except if

00:33:34.720 he did, it

00:33:35.680 would sort

00:33:36.260 of indicate

00:33:36.980 that Biden's

00:33:37.600 guilty.

00:33:38.780 So he

00:33:39.360 can't even

00:33:39.740 recuse

00:33:40.160 himself.

00:33:41.340 Now, how

00:33:41.860 would a

00:33:42.120 president

00:33:42.440 recuse

00:33:42.920 himself?

00:33:43.420 Because there's

00:33:43.740 nobody to

00:33:44.180 take the

00:33:44.840 president's

00:33:45.280 job, right?

00:33:45.980 Like, who

00:33:46.340 steps in?

00:33:47.480 And the

00:33:49.700 only way I

00:33:50.180 could imagine

00:33:50.720 would be to

00:33:51.820 set up some

00:33:52.420 kind of a

00:33:52.840 commission of

00:33:53.740 people who

00:33:54.160 are not

00:33:54.560 Joe Biden,

00:33:55.260 and they

00:33:55.580 could be

00:33:55.820 just Democrats

00:33:56.420 because they

00:33:56.900 would report

00:33:57.320 to him,

00:33:57.980 and have

00:33:58.440 that commission

00:33:58.960 come up with

00:33:59.600 recommendations,

00:34:01.000 and the

00:34:01.500 commission would

00:34:02.100 not have a

00:34:02.880 bias, and

00:34:03.340 then you

00:34:04.040 would see if

00:34:04.660 Biden uses

00:34:06.200 what they

00:34:06.840 come up with,

00:34:07.460 but you'd be

00:34:08.000 concerned that

00:34:08.580 they would be

00:34:09.340 co-opted to do

00:34:10.420 whatever Biden

00:34:10.980 wanted, so

00:34:11.780 maybe that

00:34:12.740 wouldn't work

00:34:13.160 either.

00:34:13.400 Ken Davis

00:34:17.960 says, this

00:34:18.540 marks five

00:34:19.320 episodes where

00:34:20.120 you haven't

00:34:20.480 made me

00:34:20.840 mad.

00:34:21.420 Try harder.

00:34:22.580 Well, Ken,

00:34:23.820 I think

00:34:24.840 transgender

00:34:25.900 athletes should 0.62

00:34:27.140 have every

00:34:27.820 right to

00:34:28.300 compete

00:34:28.660 anywhere they

00:34:29.380 want.

00:34:32.140 Actually, I

00:34:32.860 don't believe

00:34:33.320 that.

00:34:34.100 What I do

00:34:34.580 believe is that

00:34:35.240 all athletes

00:34:35.920 should be

00:34:36.500 competing against

00:34:37.840 people who

00:34:38.420 are of similar

00:34:39.300 capabilities.

00:34:40.000 I don't

00:34:41.540 think that

00:34:42.440 their genders

00:34:43.000 should matter,

00:34:44.200 so I don't

00:34:44.980 think that we

00:34:45.920 should be

00:34:46.300 having men's 0.84

00:34:47.900 teams and

00:34:48.540 women's teams

00:34:49.420 only.

00:34:50.680 I think we

00:34:51.540 should also

00:34:51.920 have co-ed

00:34:52.440 teams, and

00:34:54.000 then people

00:34:54.440 can just

00:34:55.020 play with

00:34:55.420 whatever level

00:34:56.880 that they're

00:34:58.100 capable to

00:34:58.640 play with.

00:34:59.740 So I don't

00:35:00.760 believe that we

00:35:01.280 should keep

00:35:01.620 the teams

00:35:02.100 the way they

00:35:02.680 are, with

00:35:03.660 just women 0.99

00:35:04.320 and just

00:35:04.960 men, and

00:35:05.500 then throw

00:35:05.900 some transgender

00:35:06.940 athletes into

00:35:08.460 the mix and

00:35:09.000 hope it works

00:35:09.520 out.

00:35:10.000 Because it

00:35:10.620 won't.

00:35:11.620 Obviously it

00:35:12.300 won't.

00:35:13.260 So my point

00:35:14.320 on the

00:35:14.640 transgender thing,

00:35:15.580 which I don't

00:35:15.940 know if I

00:35:16.260 ever said it

00:35:16.760 clearly, is

00:35:18.160 people are

00:35:20.000 not broken.

00:35:21.720 The system

00:35:22.680 of how we

00:35:23.940 organize and

00:35:24.980 do sports is

00:35:26.260 completely broken.

00:35:28.100 And if you

00:35:28.600 think that the

00:35:29.140 problem is with

00:35:29.700 the people, I

00:35:31.300 don't think that's

00:35:31.860 a good way to

00:35:32.360 organize society.

00:35:33.900 I think we

00:35:34.440 should always

00:35:34.840 say, okay,

00:35:35.500 people, you're

00:35:36.460 all really

00:35:36.940 different, but

00:35:38.600 none of you

00:35:39.080 are broken.

00:35:40.580 For our

00:35:41.060 purposes, you're

00:35:42.340 all just

00:35:42.700 different.

00:35:43.480 We're not

00:35:43.840 going to judge

00:35:44.400 you.

00:35:44.940 You're just

00:35:45.340 different.

00:35:46.460 And if you

00:35:46.860 have a system

00:35:47.540 that can't

00:35:48.920 handle the

00:35:49.420 differences among

00:35:50.280 people without 0.96

00:35:51.020 breaking, well,

00:35:52.120 your system's

00:35:52.660 broken.

00:35:53.540 It's not a

00:35:54.120 problem with

00:35:54.380 the people.

00:35:55.560 People are

00:35:56.000 fine.

00:35:56.800 We're all

00:35:57.160 different.

00:35:58.320 Get over it.

00:35:59.100 make a system

00:36:01.380 that works when

00:36:03.440 you know people

00:36:04.000 are all

00:36:04.300 different.

00:36:04.980 If you can't

00:36:05.480 make that

00:36:05.800 system, don't

00:36:06.440 complain about

00:36:07.080 the people.

00:36:09.100 And it would

00:36:09.540 be easy to

00:36:10.020 make that

00:36:10.340 system.

00:36:10.900 I've been in

00:36:11.680 such a system.

00:36:12.820 I've been on

00:36:13.480 co-ed teams in

00:36:15.320 which the gender

00:36:16.220 didn't matter at

00:36:16.840 all.

00:36:17.400 It only mattered

00:36:18.040 if you could

00:36:18.540 play at the

00:36:19.100 level of the

00:36:19.640 other players.

00:36:20.800 That's all.

00:36:21.640 It didn't matter

00:36:22.220 anything else.

00:36:26.780 And I'm

00:36:28.260 seeing in the

00:36:28.660 comments the

00:36:29.320 issue of

00:36:29.800 transgender on

00:36:31.060 minors.

00:36:32.660 I don't approve

00:36:33.720 of transgender

00:36:34.720 surgery on

00:36:36.460 minors.

00:36:37.600 Let me say

00:36:38.040 that clearly.

00:36:39.080 I don't

00:36:39.900 approve of

00:36:41.080 that.

00:36:43.640 Unfortunately,

00:36:44.840 it's also not

00:36:45.720 my decision

00:36:46.380 because I do

00:36:47.760 approve of

00:36:49.640 the parents

00:36:50.160 being able to

00:36:50.920 control the

00:36:51.800 fate of their

00:36:52.560 family.

00:36:54.240 That's not

00:36:54.880 always going to

00:36:55.320 be good.

00:36:56.360 Sometimes they're

00:36:57.120 going to make

00:36:57.400 bad decisions,

00:36:58.200 sometimes tragic

00:36:59.000 decisions.

00:37:00.200 But I don't

00:37:01.020 think I should

00:37:01.680 be making that

00:37:02.260 decision for

00:37:02.840 some other

00:37:03.220 family.

00:37:04.100 I just think

00:37:04.660 it's a mistake

00:37:05.360 and unambiguously

00:37:06.400 a mistake.

00:37:07.700 If those kids

00:37:08.480 want to make

00:37:08.940 those decisions

00:37:09.660 later in life,

00:37:10.700 that's different.

00:37:12.540 All right.

00:37:16.520 Forget that

00:37:18.280 one.

00:37:19.440 You know,

00:37:19.940 I can't get

00:37:20.520 over this fact

00:37:21.140 that the

00:37:22.400 survey showed

00:37:23.060 that people

00:37:24.120 who are very

00:37:24.800 liberal,

00:37:25.740 especially the

00:37:26.700 white women, 0.97

00:37:27.960 have way more

00:37:29.020 mental illness

00:37:29.780 than other

00:37:30.540 people.

00:37:32.000 And here's

00:37:33.000 a question I

00:37:34.080 don't really

00:37:34.780 know has been

00:37:35.420 answered.

00:37:38.720 Scott's silly

00:37:39.860 argument.

00:37:40.960 Well, I

00:37:41.520 will hide

00:37:44.420 you so you

00:37:45.500 disappeared.

00:37:47.040 You can tell

00:37:47.740 me what's wrong

00:37:48.300 with my arguments.

00:37:49.300 That's always

00:37:50.160 acceptable.

00:37:51.620 But if you

00:37:52.620 write in all

00:37:53.320 caps,

00:37:54.220 Scott's silly

00:37:55.160 argument,

00:37:56.820 then I

00:37:58.480 got to deal

00:37:58.900 with you.

00:37:59.700 I got to

00:38:00.400 take care of

00:38:00.800 that.

00:38:02.140 All right.

00:38:02.860 So what do

00:38:03.580 you think?

00:38:04.040 Do you think

00:38:04.420 having a mental

00:38:05.100 disorder makes

00:38:05.920 you more likely

00:38:06.660 to say you're

00:38:07.520 very liberal?

00:38:08.560 Or does being

00:38:09.840 very liberal

00:38:10.480 cause a mental

00:38:11.640 illness?

00:38:12.600 Which one

00:38:13.120 causes the

00:38:13.780 other?

00:38:14.880 Or is there

00:38:15.620 any causation?

00:38:16.360 Maybe it's

00:38:16.800 just a

00:38:17.520 correlation that

00:38:18.300 has nothing

00:38:18.740 to do with

00:38:19.120 any causation.

00:38:20.300 What do you

00:38:20.680 think?

00:38:22.200 Because I

00:38:23.340 feel like it

00:38:23.900 might be both.

00:38:25.440 It might be

00:38:26.100 that having a

00:38:26.720 mental illness

00:38:27.380 causes you to

00:38:28.480 be very liberal

00:38:29.220 because there's

00:38:30.640 a lot you have

00:38:31.400 to accept that

00:38:32.320 doesn't quite

00:38:32.940 fit the

00:38:33.740 rational model.

00:38:35.940 But it could

00:38:36.840 also be that

00:38:38.580 buying into a

00:38:39.420 certain set of

00:38:40.240 fears and a

00:38:42.460 certain frame of

00:38:43.480 how the world

00:38:44.040 works and whether

00:38:44.900 you're a victim

00:38:45.500 or not could

00:38:46.780 cause you

00:38:47.200 mental illness.

00:38:48.700 Yeah, I think

00:38:49.240 it's bi-directional

00:38:49.900 like a lot of

00:38:51.020 things are.

00:38:51.940 In fact, if

00:38:52.640 you had a new

00:38:54.380 situation and

00:38:55.340 you said, oh,

00:38:55.820 there's some

00:38:56.160 cause and

00:38:56.620 there's some

00:38:56.920 effect and

00:38:57.940 you don't know

00:38:58.520 anything about

00:38:59.040 anything, your

00:39:00.180 best guess is

00:39:01.320 that it's

00:39:01.620 bi-directional

00:39:02.300 because a lot

00:39:03.360 of things are.

00:39:07.040 All right, so

00:39:08.880 here are some

00:39:09.540 taboo topics.

00:39:11.540 We can't talk

00:39:12.440 too much about

00:39:13.060 whether your

00:39:13.500 phone causes

00:39:14.200 mental illness

00:39:14.980 because nobody

00:39:16.660 wants to get

00:39:17.140 rid of their

00:39:17.460 phone and the

00:39:18.880 companies that

00:39:19.920 make them make

00:39:20.500 a lot of

00:39:20.820 money and we

00:39:22.400 just don't want

00:39:22.920 to talk about

00:39:23.380 that too much

00:39:23.980 even though we

00:39:24.460 know it's a

00:39:24.820 giant problem.

00:39:26.260 We don't want

00:39:26.640 to talk about

00:39:27.120 whether fake

00:39:27.720 news causes

00:39:28.400 mental illness

00:39:29.220 because of

00:39:30.400 course it does.

00:39:31.660 Of course it

00:39:32.220 does.

00:39:33.040 And I would

00:39:33.520 think that

00:39:34.080 watching CNN

00:39:35.140 would cause

00:39:35.840 mental illness.

00:39:37.360 Not a joke.

00:39:39.620 Not a joke.

00:39:40.540 It seems to

00:39:41.940 me obvious

00:39:42.800 that if you

00:39:44.180 watched CNN

00:39:45.040 and MSNBC 0.81

00:39:46.180 you would get

00:39:46.960 mental illness.

00:39:48.800 And I'm not

00:39:49.520 joking about

00:39:50.000 that.

00:39:50.420 That's just

00:39:51.000 dead serious.

00:39:52.320 And it's not

00:39:53.120 partisan.

00:39:54.340 It's just

00:39:54.760 observational.

00:39:56.000 I look at the

00:39:56.640 things they say.

00:39:58.300 Imagine for

00:39:59.060 example you

00:39:59.660 thought you

00:40:00.120 really lived in

00:40:00.940 a country in

00:40:02.280 which the

00:40:02.720 president had

00:40:04.020 really said

00:40:05.400 that neo-Nazis

00:40:06.420 were very fine

00:40:07.360 people.

00:40:07.700 Now most

00:40:09.180 of you watching

00:40:09.680 this know

00:40:10.160 that that

00:40:10.520 didn't happen.

00:40:11.280 It was a

00:40:11.600 fake edit

00:40:12.100 and that he

00:40:13.480 said exactly

00:40:14.120 the opposite

00:40:14.660 strongly.

00:40:16.200 But maybe

00:40:17.660 three quarters

00:40:18.300 of the country

00:40:18.820 believed that

00:40:19.340 actually happened.

00:40:20.700 Imagine if you

00:40:21.380 thought that

00:40:21.820 happened.

00:40:23.240 I mean

00:40:23.440 seriously.

00:40:24.460 Imagine if you

00:40:25.360 believed that

00:40:26.600 actually happened.

00:40:28.180 That you were

00:40:28.640 living in a

00:40:29.240 country where

00:40:30.180 the president

00:40:31.060 praised white

00:40:32.560 supremacists

00:40:33.460 right on TV.

00:40:35.540 How would that

00:40:36.340 make you feel?

00:40:37.700 Well I feel

00:40:38.360 like I'd have

00:40:38.860 some mental

00:40:39.320 illness.

00:40:39.960 I'd have a

00:40:40.800 little bit of

00:40:41.280 anxiety.

00:40:42.120 I'd get a

00:40:42.820 little bit

00:40:43.140 depressed.

00:40:44.060 I'd feel like

00:40:44.760 we're doomed.

00:40:46.220 So yes CNN

00:40:47.600 causes mental

00:40:48.720 illness.

00:40:49.160 There's no doubt

00:40:49.660 in my mind.

00:40:50.900 I mean obviously

00:40:52.100 you have to wait

00:40:52.680 for a scientific

00:40:53.620 well controlled

00:40:55.200 study to know

00:40:56.060 for sure.

00:40:57.360 But do you?

00:40:58.560 Do you really

00:40:59.280 need to wait

00:40:59.720 for the study?

00:41:01.020 Sometimes things

00:41:02.020 are a little too

00:41:02.640 obvious.

00:41:03.420 You don't have

00:41:03.840 to wait for the

00:41:04.360 study.

00:41:05.100 But I could be

00:41:06.000 wrong.

00:41:06.300 I always try

00:41:08.800 to keep that

00:41:09.320 recording going.

00:41:10.320 By the way

00:41:10.620 this is a trick

00:41:11.940 that I teach

00:41:12.680 you in my

00:41:13.880 book Loser

00:41:14.500 Think.

00:41:15.900 That it's good

00:41:16.600 to when you

00:41:17.440 have a strong

00:41:18.100 opinion about

00:41:18.740 something.

00:41:19.280 Especially if

00:41:19.860 you're really

00:41:20.400 certain.

00:41:22.460 Sometimes when

00:41:23.400 you state your

00:41:24.200 opinion with

00:41:24.860 certainty just

00:41:26.240 cap it off

00:41:26.980 with but I

00:41:28.060 could be

00:41:28.300 wrong.

00:41:29.480 It's just a

00:41:30.020 good hygiene

00:41:30.740 for your brain.

00:41:32.240 You should

00:41:32.480 always remind

00:41:33.180 yourself especially

00:41:34.180 when you're

00:41:34.660 certain but I

00:41:36.140 could be

00:41:36.360 wrong.

00:41:37.460 It gives

00:41:37.800 you a little

00:41:38.220 mental out.

00:41:39.600 I don't know

00:41:40.700 this for sure but

00:41:41.360 I think it gives

00:41:41.920 you a little

00:41:42.320 protection against

00:41:43.400 cognitive dissonance.

00:41:45.660 Compare these

00:41:46.280 two things.

00:41:47.460 I'm definitely

00:41:48.140 right versus

00:41:49.720 I'm very

00:41:51.920 confident about

00:41:52.640 this but I

00:41:53.380 could be

00:41:53.640 wrong.

00:41:55.400 And then what

00:41:55.880 happens if you

00:41:56.460 find out you

00:41:57.080 are wrong?

00:41:58.600 Well the person

00:41:59.200 who says I'm

00:41:59.920 definitely right

00:42:00.840 will be triggered

00:42:02.700 into cognitive

00:42:03.560 dissonance because

00:42:04.800 they don't want

00:42:05.220 to be wrong.

00:42:06.520 That's what

00:42:07.180 causes cognitive

00:42:07.940 dissonance.

00:42:08.960 So saying you're

00:42:09.680 positive and

00:42:10.740 sticking with it

00:42:11.600 is a trap

00:42:13.300 because if it

00:42:14.420 turns out you're

00:42:15.120 wrong or there's

00:42:16.360 counter evidence

00:42:17.040 you won't even

00:42:17.480 be able to see

00:42:18.020 it.

00:42:18.620 It'll be like it

00:42:19.240 will be invisible

00:42:19.980 to you.

00:42:20.740 It's like causing

00:42:21.380 yourself mental

00:42:22.220 illness.

00:42:23.260 You blind

00:42:23.980 yourself by being

00:42:25.720 certain.

00:42:27.060 But if you just

00:42:28.020 have this little

00:42:28.660 bit of technique

00:42:29.540 you say I'm

00:42:30.960 quite confident

00:42:32.380 this is true

00:42:33.100 but I could

00:42:34.340 be wrong.

00:42:36.780 That's your

00:42:37.480 escape.

00:42:38.620 Because let's

00:42:39.140 say you discover

00:42:39.920 that you are

00:42:40.420 wrong.

00:42:41.180 Now you've

00:42:41.700 said I'm

00:42:42.580 very confident

00:42:43.220 but I could

00:42:44.020 be wrong.

00:42:45.000 Are you

00:42:45.400 triggered into

00:42:46.040 cognitive

00:42:46.560 dissonance?

00:42:48.100 Maybe.

00:42:49.220 But I would

00:42:49.780 think you're a

00:42:50.340 little bit safer

00:42:51.040 because you have

00:42:52.060 two opinions.

00:42:53.260 One is I'm

00:42:53.920 confident and

00:42:55.280 two is that I

00:42:56.140 could be wrong.

00:42:57.300 And then when

00:42:57.640 it turns out

00:42:58.060 you're wrong

00:42:58.620 you say well I

00:42:59.560 told you I

00:42:59.940 could be wrong.

00:43:01.060 So at least you

00:43:01.580 have an out.

00:43:02.380 You have an out

00:43:03.400 that protects

00:43:04.020 your ego which

00:43:05.440 in theory should

00:43:07.100 protect you from

00:43:08.040 being triggered

00:43:08.740 into cognitive

00:43:09.480 dissonance.

00:43:10.460 But if you've

00:43:11.160 never given

00:43:11.600 yourself that

00:43:12.200 out I think

00:43:13.700 you're more

00:43:14.040 likely to get

00:43:14.620 triggered into

00:43:15.200 cognitive dissonance.

00:43:17.180 Alright.

00:43:18.580 Here's a story

00:43:19.440 you'll never see.

00:43:20.920 See if you can

00:43:21.820 Google because I

00:43:22.980 couldn't find it.

00:43:24.140 See if you can

00:43:24.680 find a credible

00:43:25.540 study that tracks

00:43:27.080 happiness over time

00:43:28.300 in the United

00:43:29.480 States by

00:43:31.020 ethnicity.

00:43:32.380 so that if you

00:43:33.880 could tell for

00:43:34.360 example let's

00:43:35.620 say Asian 0.54

00:43:36.140 Americans their

00:43:36.940 happiness line

00:43:37.800 went like this

00:43:38.780 versus you know

00:43:40.160 white Americans

00:43:40.940 versus black 0.99

00:43:41.780 Americans you

00:43:42.800 could actually see

00:43:43.460 over time you

00:43:44.860 know that how

00:43:45.440 their arc of

00:43:46.240 their happiness

00:43:47.840 changed.

00:43:49.480 Why doesn't that

00:43:50.120 exist?

00:43:51.880 Seems like

00:43:52.620 seems like just

00:43:55.060 the most important

00:43:55.880 thing you'd ever

00:43:57.980 want to do

00:43:58.440 doesn't it?

00:43:58.900 why doesn't that

00:44:00.520 exist?

00:44:02.140 You know why

00:44:03.180 right?

00:44:04.360 Now the

00:44:05.420 science tells us

00:44:06.400 that baseline

00:44:07.160 happiness doesn't

00:44:08.140 change much

00:44:08.800 and it doesn't

00:44:09.760 even change much

00:44:10.500 based on your

00:44:11.200 circumstances

00:44:11.900 at least until

00:44:13.660 you get a certain

00:44:14.220 amount of money

00:44:14.780 right?

00:44:15.880 Like 75,000 a

00:44:17.040 year or something

00:44:17.400 like that.

00:44:18.060 So certainly you

00:44:19.140 can be in such a

00:44:19.980 bad situation that

00:44:20.840 you're unhappy

00:44:21.420 no matter what.

00:44:22.480 but for people

00:44:24.000 who are eating

00:44:25.040 you know they

00:44:25.960 can take care of

00:44:26.880 their basics

00:44:27.400 happiness is pretty

00:44:29.060 similar I think.

00:44:30.640 So what would

00:44:31.100 happen to the

00:44:32.640 call for reparations

00:44:33.840 if you found out

00:44:34.640 that black Americans

00:44:35.480 were on average

00:44:36.600 just as happy

00:44:38.080 as white Americans?

00:44:40.380 What problem

00:44:41.440 are you solving?

00:44:43.320 Right?

00:44:44.140 It becomes

00:44:44.800 complicated

00:44:45.400 because if you're

00:44:46.720 trying to solve

00:44:47.860 the problem of

00:44:48.640 giving everybody

00:44:49.400 an equal life

00:44:51.420 or at least

00:44:52.760 equal opportunity

00:44:53.880 for a good life

00:44:54.740 what happens

00:44:55.800 if they're all

00:44:56.240 equally happy

00:44:56.960 already?

00:44:59.000 If everybody's

00:44:59.920 just as happy

00:45:00.800 you don't need

00:45:04.500 to do anything

00:45:05.060 or at least you

00:45:05.800 don't need to

00:45:06.240 transfer resources.

00:45:07.940 But I think

00:45:08.700 there's a reason

00:45:09.280 that we'll never

00:45:09.840 see that study

00:45:10.720 unless you can

00:45:12.040 find it.

00:45:12.540 If you can find

00:45:13.080 it tweet it at me.

00:45:15.700 And then lastly

00:45:16.520 I would say that

00:45:17.360 we should stop

00:45:17.980 calling the

00:45:19.340 question of

00:45:20.500 nuclear energy

00:45:21.420 a debate

00:45:22.320 because I don't

00:45:24.080 believe there are

00:45:24.680 any smart

00:45:25.340 well-informed

00:45:26.160 people who are

00:45:27.400 opposed to

00:45:28.380 nuclear energy.

00:45:29.360 I don't believe

00:45:30.200 there are any

00:45:30.560 on the right

00:45:31.120 and I don't

00:45:32.140 believe there are

00:45:32.580 any on the left.

00:45:33.980 I don't believe

00:45:34.620 anybody who is

00:45:36.020 well-informed

00:45:36.760 about nuclear

00:45:37.660 energy opposes

00:45:38.620 it in 2021.

00:45:40.700 Now of course

00:45:41.180 you can find

00:45:41.820 an exception.

00:45:42.960 Watch me use

00:45:43.640 the technique again.

00:45:45.060 But of course

00:45:45.520 I could be wrong.

00:45:47.380 There could be

00:45:47.880 some people

00:45:48.460 who are well-informed

00:45:49.760 and against it

00:45:50.420 but they'd be

00:45:50.920 very few.

00:45:52.480 So you don't

00:45:52.980 need to show me

00:45:53.560 the one person

00:45:54.200 who's against it.

00:45:55.620 Science as a body

00:45:57.660 is pro-nuclear

00:45:59.480 energy unambiguously.

00:46:01.560 If you're pro-science

00:46:02.880 but you're

00:46:03.980 anti-nuclear energy

00:46:05.540 well you have

00:46:06.480 some explaining

00:46:07.100 to do

00:46:07.540 because that

00:46:08.600 doesn't make sense.

00:46:10.740 Take a side

00:46:11.980 and stick with it.

00:46:13.140 I'm pro-science

00:46:14.080 and so I'm

00:46:14.860 pro-nuclear

00:46:15.780 energy

00:46:16.700 and anybody

00:46:17.680 who's well-informed

00:46:18.560 knows the same

00:46:19.780 and maybe we should

00:46:21.040 just treat it that way

00:46:21.960 because there are

00:46:22.940 some things we treat

00:46:23.800 as a difference

00:46:24.380 in opinion

00:46:24.900 and it really isn't.

00:46:26.040 It's just a difference

00:46:27.540 in knowledge.

00:46:29.660 And so

00:46:30.060 I would like to see

00:46:31.220 polling

00:46:32.220 separated by

00:46:33.900 what demographic

00:46:35.060 groups have

00:46:35.700 more mental illness 0.72

00:46:36.700 and by

00:46:38.160 let's say

00:46:38.700 how well-informed

00:46:39.560 people are

00:46:40.240 on a topic.

00:46:41.640 Wouldn't you like

00:46:42.240 to see a poll

00:46:42.860 that only showed

00:46:43.840 what the opinion

00:46:44.520 of well-informed

00:46:45.540 people think?

00:46:47.580 Right?

00:46:48.200 How hard would it be?

00:46:49.900 Answer these six

00:46:50.800 questions about

00:46:51.560 nuclear power.

00:46:52.940 If you get all six

00:46:54.100 right you're a

00:46:54.780 well-informed person

00:46:55.760 and now let's see

00:46:56.980 what your opinion is

00:46:58.080 and now let's weight it

00:46:59.580 so that the smart people

00:47:01.200 get more weight

00:47:02.020 on their opinion

00:47:03.120 and then show me

00:47:04.160 the result.

00:47:05.020 That's what I want to see.

00:47:06.400 Why do I want to see

00:47:07.320 a poll

00:47:07.800 that averages

00:47:08.960 well-informed

00:47:09.900 people's opinions

00:47:10.900 with

00:47:12.020 furniture

00:47:12.920 pets

00:47:13.720 and imaginary

00:47:15.060 people?

00:47:16.080 Right?

00:47:16.980 I don't need

00:47:17.840 an average

00:47:18.520 of crap.

00:47:20.600 I'd love to see

00:47:21.580 an average

00:47:22.000 of well-informed

00:47:22.760 people.

00:47:24.200 Wouldn't you?

00:47:25.140 It would be

00:47:25.460 interesting to see

00:47:26.220 an average

00:47:26.560 of uninformed

00:47:27.280 people

00:47:27.640 just to see

00:47:28.580 how different

00:47:28.940 they are.

00:47:29.700 But I don't

00:47:30.180 want to add

00:47:30.740 the well-informed

00:47:31.480 people to

00:47:32.060 the uninformed

00:47:32.680 people

00:47:33.060 and get an

00:47:34.200 average.

00:47:35.540 What the hell

00:47:36.140 is that?

00:47:37.360 It's nothing.

00:47:38.620 All right?

00:47:39.480 It's nothing.

00:47:40.640 Now there are

00:47:41.060 lots of topics

00:47:41.760 like

00:47:42.160 should you

00:47:43.220 stand for

00:47:43.720 the flag?

00:47:44.560 Whatever.

00:47:45.220 That everybody

00:47:46.160 is just as

00:47:46.940 well-informed.

00:47:48.260 Right?

00:47:48.480 There's no lack

00:47:49.360 of information

00:47:49.980 that matters.

00:47:50.960 But on nuclear

00:47:51.640 energy,

00:47:52.280 it's just

00:47:52.900 how informed

00:47:53.900 you are.

00:47:54.840 That's all

00:47:55.740 that matters

00:47:56.340 to your opinion.

00:47:57.540 Almost.

00:47:58.220 Right?

00:47:59.860 All right.

00:48:00.460 I've got to go

00:48:00.860 run and do

00:48:01.440 something else

00:48:01.980 right now

00:48:02.360 and I'll talk

00:48:02.940 to you

00:48:03.300 tomorrow.

00:48:04.340 to you

00:48:11.900 and I'll talk

00:48:12.240 to you

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 01, 2021

Episode 1393 Scott Adams： The Public Revolt Against Mask Mandates Starts Now, Biden's China Policy, Mike Flynn Controversy

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