Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1424 Scott Adams： Good Stories About Dumb People. Also Known as Politics and Social Media

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00:00:48.320 that's good so welcome to another day of my critics completely misinterpreting things i've said

00:01:02.980 and then shredding me for their imaginary imaginations uh there was probably a better word to finish that

00:01:11.700 sentence but i didn't have it at the moment so put a tack in that all right uh let's talk about the

00:01:18.620 news um every now and then somebody does something right

00:01:23.840 yes my mic is not already right now how many times have i told you that the secret to success

00:01:34.220 is simplicity and that if you add if you add even one element of extra variable to the live stream

00:01:43.200 the failure rate gets to it's like 30 percent and you're logically that doesn't make any sense right

00:01:50.740 logically you say to yourself oh wait a minute just adding one variable just one thing you have to push

00:01:57.760 another button to push that's it just one variable and you have a 30 failure rate trust me one variable

00:02:07.220 will give you a 30 failure rate uh that's my experience so i'm i'm now streaming on two platforms and

00:02:15.640 had only one microphone on uh other times i forget to turn on i don't know the power here plug this in

00:02:23.160 whatever so i guess i need a checklist all right but that's enough of that so here's some good news

00:02:30.000 britney's britney spears as you know she is subject to a conservatorship so she can't make all of her own

00:02:37.040 decisions her father plus a professional company that signed on to be sort of a control for her father

00:02:44.580 so that there would be two entities not not just her father they just resigned so the professionals

00:02:51.580 who were going to be the balance to sort of balance out her father the courts that allowed that 0.74

00:02:56.780 they just said no we just listened to britney say she doesn't want to be in a conservatorship

00:03:02.100 so they freaking resigned and i'm thinking to myself that was exactly what you needed to do

00:03:09.080 that was exactly the right thing rarely do you see a company act perfectly right and this is so clean

00:03:17.200 because this is a company that if if your whole job is to do conservatorships the last thing in the

00:03:25.280 world that you want is to have this kind of publicity where you're doing a conservatorship

00:03:30.220 and a famous person says we don't want it you know i don't want this at all so this was very smart of

00:03:38.040 them to to bow out and and to give their reasons and their reasons were very clear that the subject of

00:03:46.040 the conservatorship didn't want it and that's all they needed oh you don't want it okay so i i have

00:03:53.360 a suggestion for britney well it looks like she won't be able to get rid of her conservatorship

00:04:00.860 entirely so her dad's in charge and it looks like this trust didn't want to do it because

00:04:06.740 she was not in favor of it britney i would like to make you an offer so britney spears i i know you

00:04:13.960 always watch my live streams okay probably not but somebody might tell you about it and that's just

00:04:20.520 as good and britney here's my offer i will be your conservator i will be a very lenient conservatorship 0.99

00:04:31.160 meaning that all you have to do is tell me what you want i'll give it to you it's your damn money 0.90

00:04:36.320 i'm not going to keep your own money from you but i do have a degree in economics i have an mba 0.97

00:04:43.580 and i have some appreciation for the celebrity lifestyle you know in a little bit my tiny little

00:04:51.060 corner compared to britney's but i would be an excellent choice to be your conservator either in

00:05:00.000 place of your dad or even working with him i could work with him i'm very persuasive so if you

00:05:06.380 need your dad persuaded i think i would be a good choice for that very uh i'm very uh let's say

00:05:13.540 independent and uh would only want what's best for you so britney if you can get your lawyers to 1.00

00:05:20.640 appoint you a new conservator uh keep me in mind i'll do that job for you like crazy

00:05:28.500 all right uh the economy is doing great the economy added 850 000 jobs in june

00:05:35.920 uh it was more than what people forecast the smart people uh and even though the unemployment rate

00:05:42.900 ticked up um we'd you know we'd rather have more people going to work 0.55

00:05:47.400 and the employment rate is based on who says they're looking for work etc so it's a little

00:05:53.040 bit disconnected so let's uh check some of our predictions shall we i'll talk about one of my

00:06:00.840 predictions that's getting a little controversy in the last 24 hours but let's let's go with this

00:06:06.500 one i take you back to um a time a year ago when it looked like maybe the entire economy was going

00:06:14.800 to melt down and i told you it's not going to happen all right so i was one of the stronger

00:06:21.840 voices saying that the pandemic wasn't going to take down the economy it wasn't going to take down

00:06:27.420 the food supply and that we would pull out of it um strongly and actually in an impressive fashion

00:06:35.560 how close was i would you say that the economy did pull out of it we did not run out of food 0.96

00:06:42.920 we fed everybody we took care of people we we developed vaccines and damn it we're pulling out

00:06:49.560 pretty impressive now that was my prediction my prediction is that the united states would be

00:06:55.700 the united states you know the rest of the world is still struggling and i'm not minimizing that

00:07:01.080 but betting against the united states in a crisis who does that seriously if you have a crisis who are

00:07:12.420 going to call the united states right it turns out that there's some things the united states

00:07:19.060 is bad at of course there's some things the united states is really good at we're really good at this

00:07:27.140 we are really really good at crises i guess we've had a lot of practice but if you're going to bet

00:07:34.820 against the united states in a crisis you're taking a bad bet just remember that so there's interesting

00:07:41.220 news about vaccinations and i have a question so apparently germany is i guess the first country

00:07:49.460 to say you should mix the vaccinations so for example if you first got the astrazeneca the oxford

00:07:56.740 astrazeneca they're now suggesting that your second dose be a different vaccine so you'd get one dose of

00:08:04.340 the oxford astrazeneca maybe a second dose of the moderna or the pfizer and i'm not sure if all of

00:08:12.500 them could be mixed but the basic idea is that some of them can be now here's my question according to

00:08:20.420 rasmussen um i believe of the people who are not vaccinated 50 of them don't trust that the experts are

00:08:32.020 telling them the truth about the risks 50 of the unvaccinated people believe that the experts

00:08:40.500 are lying about the risks that's a big problem well it's a big problem if what you want is to get

00:08:46.740 people vaccinated and it's a big benefit if you think you want them not to i suppose but

00:08:54.500 here's the thing suppose you were one of those people who said i think there are risks of the

00:09:01.620 vaccination but i also understand and i think most people would agree with this that there are probably

00:09:08.260 some protective values and you would have to weigh the protection from the virus against the risk

00:09:15.700 that you took a vaccine of vaccination and the vaccination had a problem now

00:09:24.340 some people have decided that the completely unmeasurable risk of the virus because you don't

00:09:31.380 know exactly what your personal risk is is maybe not as high as the impossible to measure risk for you

00:09:39.380 personally of taking any vaccination so so the first thing you need to know is that we don't know either

00:09:47.380 of those two things you might have some general idea about what the risk is from the virus because there's

00:09:54.740 lots of data we don't believe it all but there's lots of data but do you know your risk because you're not

00:10:01.860 the average right so if you're trying to calculate you specifically what is your risk it's uncalculable

00:10:09.220 nobody really knows their risk i mean you could say some general things like you have comorbidities

00:10:14.100 or not but you don't know if you're going to get it and you don't know if your genetics are the kind

00:10:19.060 that will have a good outcome or bad so you could you could say if you're a kid you're going to be safe

00:10:23.940 probably you know below a certain age but still for most of us who are in that should you or should 0.96

00:10:30.100 you not get vaccinated you don't really know your risk so you don't know the risk that you're

00:10:35.220 protecting against but you also don't really know the long-term risk of any vaccination right so you

00:10:42.820 have two risks that you can't possibly measure and you're trying to compare them comparing two

00:10:51.060 blobs that you can't measure how do you do that well i don't know but i would submit the following

00:10:57.940 and i'll put it in the form of a question because if i make it as a statement i think

00:11:01.940 i get kicked off of social media so i'll put it in the form of a question

00:11:07.780 the protection you get from mixing the two vaccinations seems to be an improvement from maybe

00:11:13.940 you know 70 something percent to you know maybe 90 something percent something in that range right

00:11:20.660 something like 80s to 90s something like that that's the extra protection so so that that feels like a

00:11:27.860 number that you can you make a decision with but do you double the risk of a side effect in other

00:11:36.420 words are the people who would have a certain reaction to one vaccination exactly the same people

00:11:43.460 who would have exactly the same reaction to any of the vaccinations because that doesn't seem likely

00:11:49.860 does it it feels to me that if you had two different vaccinations

00:11:56.420 without being a doctor and without being you know a medical professional i'll put it in the form of a

00:12:03.700 question wouldn't that double your risk so i don't know how big the risk is of a problem if you actually

00:12:11.780 get the vaccination it's really i imagine it's pretty small but doesn't two shots double it and

00:12:20.100 if we're trying to be informed citizens making up our own minds about our own bodies etc shouldn't they

00:12:26.740 say that shouldn't somebody tell us directly so look it'll double your odds of a complication but

00:12:34.500 and here i imagine this is what they would say the odds of a complication are so small

00:12:38.980 the doubling it hardly makes a difference now i don't know if that's true but that would be a

00:12:45.940 thing you'd expect them to say if they were being you know if the officials were being legitimate at all

00:12:52.900 i hear some people say it's gene therapy not vaccination i don't think that that is a

00:12:59.380 an accepted description of what's going on i don't believe that the experts would agree with you that

00:13:05.860 is gene therapy but i'm not the experts i just don't think that you're on the same page with the

00:13:11.540 people who know what they're talking about uh just follow the science right yeah which is impossible

00:13:21.540 all right so we got that going on uh so there's an american uh sprinter who probably would have been

00:13:28.020 in the olympics and maybe even won a medal but it looks like she's in trouble her name is shah

00:13:34.420 carrie richardson and she was born a woman i think so that's something you have to have to add to these

00:13:43.140 stories i'm pretty sure she was born a woman and is still a woman and she was going to do well

00:13:51.700 but she tested positive for cannabis so she had some marijuana and she might be banned at least for 0.99

00:13:59.860 a month or whatever so she won't be able to be in the olympics now does that seem right to you

00:14:07.220 is there anybody here who thinks that an olympic athlete who smoked a joint should be banned from the

00:14:14.260 olympics because remember she probably smoked a joint legally right didn't break any laws 1.00

00:14:20.900 and would she be banned from the olympics if she had had a drink recently can you drink alcohol which 0.97

00:14:30.420 is legal and still be in the olympics i think you can but you can't have marijuana which is probably

00:14:38.420 legal wherever she did it and you get banned where is where's joe biden on this right this is something

00:14:48.100 that um if trump were president you know he wasn't he wasn't pro-legalizing marijuana as far as i know

00:14:55.380 because he never did anything about it which i consider a failure by the way a big failure of the

00:15:00.100 trump administration a really big one um and i've criticized that forever but i feel as though

00:15:07.060 i joe biden or if it had been trump need to do something about this because it doesn't seem right to

00:15:15.940 anybody right right so i think you need a presidential level person to say look can you just change this

00:15:23.860 rule let's just change this rule and let it let everybody you know compete because it's not like

00:15:29.860 marijuana is uh you're going to be a performance enhancer uh at least not directly i suppose you

00:15:36.180 could help your workouts but i don't think that they think of it that way all right so that's deeply

00:15:41.300 unfair and i would like to see either the olympics canceled because they're a big old waste of time

00:15:46.980 or if you're going to do them don't let this you know african-american woman who worked all her life 1.00

00:15:53.140 to get to this point don't let that tiniest of mistakes derail her that we don't want that nobody wants

00:16:00.980 that all right um so biden is uh following up on trump's lead of getting out of afghanistan and i guess

00:16:10.340 part of the reason is that trump had made some agreements that biden was trying to follow which

00:16:15.700 i think is actually a reasonable thing to do and so once again we see biden doing nothing but

00:16:22.820 following what trump would have done

00:16:26.980 so are you happy you got a different president if he just keeps doing all the things that

00:16:32.580 that trump would have done but at least we're getting out of afghanistan it looks like 0.99

00:16:36.580 the taliban will take over fairly quickly and we'll just go back to where it was now one of the

00:16:43.220 arguments for getting out is that uh the moment we get out it looks like the taliban will take over 0.98

00:16:50.740 after 19 years of training people in the government to run a proper government 19 years and all those

00:16:58.180 billions and the government can't stand for more than a few months if we pull out well that means we

00:17:04.260 shouldn't have been there because we were the only reason for the government existing so that can't be

00:17:09.060 a long-term solution so there's a different topic there's some stories about kamala harris's

00:17:16.100 office environment being abusive and people are impolite and abusive

00:17:23.060 now who do you think started that rumor do you think that rumor was started by the republicans

00:17:28.740 maybe right it's possible but i have a feeling that there might be a democrat who wants to run for

00:17:36.660 president who may have started that rumor or somebody associated with a democrat it feels like

00:17:42.980 an insider thing because i don't think there was a republican in the office right so it's probably you know

00:17:49.860 democrats um gossiping etc so it looks like there might be some democrats who are trying to take out

00:17:57.460 kamala harris by starting these rumors by the way it's one of those rumors that you kind of believe

00:18:02.820 because you're prejudiced you know you see kamala harris and you say to yourself she looks exactly like

00:18:08.420 the kind of person who would be mean doesn't she now now of course that could be sexist because if it 0.97

00:18:16.500 were a man would i be saying oh that man looks tough so get over it you know it's like trump oh yeah trump's

00:18:24.740 tough you should have known that when you took the job get over it of course it's a harsh office

00:18:30.340 environment but when it's kamala uh because she has a certain personality that you imagine 0.80

00:18:37.220 all that laughing like a hyena doesn't happen in private so much and that maybe she's kind of mean

00:18:44.100 but i feel like i might be just being sexist check me on that is that do you have the same feeling and

00:18:50.900 are you being sexist when you say it would you judge a man the same way i don't know but you know at

00:18:57.860 least i'm asking the question so i get points for that i give myself points uh so as i told you

00:19:06.420 before rasmussen is going to report that 30 32 of the people they polled uh believe health officials are

00:19:15.060 lying about the safety of coven 19 keep in mind that the way this is worded is that they're lying

00:19:24.020 not that they're wrong not that they're mistaken 32 of the people polled by rasmussen think the public

00:19:32.740 health officials are intentionally lying

00:19:36.100 wow and and it's half of the people who are unvaccinated think that so how much how many

00:19:45.700 people are being killed by the fake news how many people are being killed by the way the public is

00:19:52.900 informed because the public has lost all faith in our professionals the professional class

00:20:00.020 and whose fault is that is that trump's fault for calling everything fake news and for you know not

00:20:08.660 passing the the fact check or is it the news's fault for being fake news or is it the the science's

00:20:16.980 fault for having somebody uh missteps that people stop trusting it's somebody's fault but uh that's a

00:20:25.300 shocking number of people who think they're being lied to let's talk about me for a second um you may

00:20:32.980 have seen something on social media in which yes it's all my fault you may have seen something on social

00:20:41.220 media uh there's a couple stories on raw story and bongo bongo or boing boing or something like that

00:20:49.300 so one year ago or so i predicted that if biden is elected there's a good chance you'll be dead in a

00:20:57.220 year so that's what i said a year ago if biden gets elected there's a good chance you'll be dead

00:21:04.820 in a year let's talk more about republicans here and then separately i said that republicans will be hunted

00:21:11.300 now uh my critics are shredding me today that's their word they're shredding me because of my bad

00:21:22.180 prediction but like most things like most things they don't really understand what's going on here

00:21:30.500 so let me explain to my critics number one if you say there's a good chance of something

00:21:36.660 what does that mean let me give you an example um if you go into a crime ridden neighborhood

00:21:45.780 there's a good chance you'll be mugged okay if i said that if you go into this crime riddled

00:21:53.220 neighborhood there's a good chance you'll be mugged what would that feel like percentage-wise

00:21:59.060 would a good chance of getting mugged feel like more than 50 chance 90 chance chance or would you

00:22:08.340 say to yourself well wait a minute people don't generally get mugged even in criminal neighborhoods

00:22:13.620 probably 10 right so subjectively you could put a pretty wide range on that based on the situation

00:22:23.300 you'd say to yourself well most people don't get robbed even if it's a dangerous neighborhood most

00:22:29.460 people don't get robbed so a good chance of getting robbed would look like 10 right if i said uh if you

00:22:38.260 get a motorcycle there's a good chance you'll die on it what would you translate that to in your head

00:22:44.660 there's a good chance you'll die if you get a motorcycle two percent five percent you wouldn't say

00:22:51.860 it's over 50 right you would you would put it in the context of motorcycle riders and you'd say to

00:22:57.860 yourself well how many of them die one percent i don't know so maybe you're saying it would be two

00:23:03.220 percent but my critics have decided that when i said there's a good chance you'll be dead in a year

00:23:11.300 that instead of putting that in context of perhaps it increases the chances of violence against

00:23:17.860 republicans republicans let's say uh they've decided that that really meant there definitely will be a

00:23:23.220 slaughter and that i personally will be dead in a year now that's not even close to what i said but it

00:23:30.740 was enough for the raw story a an alleged uh publication to write a story about how wrong i am

00:23:38.020 but how can you be wrong with statistics if i were to say there's a 30 chance of something happening and

00:23:50.660 then it doesn't happen was i wrong it doesn't work that way if i said there was a 75 chance of something

00:24:00.340 happening and then it doesn't happen am i wrong because 75 is a pretty big number right no no i'm

00:24:08.420 not wrong if i said something is going to happen such as i did say with trump's election i didn't say

00:24:16.660 the odds of him get elected i said it's my prediction he'll get elected now if i get that wrong i'm just

00:24:24.260 wrong but if i tell you there's a percentage chance of something happening and it's not 100 and then

00:24:31.540 that thing doesn't happen i'm not really wrong so my critics uh demonstrate this weird thing that

00:24:40.660 people on social media especially exhibit which is a a binary mindset these are the same people who

00:24:49.060 look at building a fence on the border and say well wait a minute if one person could conceivably

00:24:55.220 climb over the fence in the right situation fences don't work to which i say ah no fences aren't

00:25:04.180 supposed to stop every person they're supposed to make it harder stop a lot of people put a little

00:25:10.100 friction on it right so it's the people who don't understand friction or percentages or risk management

00:25:16.260 they're sure that i made a crazy suggestion and there are at least two articles on it uh but uh

00:25:26.020 there you go now now let's let's take it down another level when i made that prediction

00:25:33.140 what do you think was my purpose those of you who have known me a while what do you think was my purpose

00:25:39.860 in saying that if biden is elected elected there's a good chance you'll be dead in a year

00:25:44.500 what why did i tweet that was it to make a good prediction somebody says publicity

00:25:54.420 yes and no i mean everything i do publicly you could argue is for publicity

00:26:00.020 to deter it from happening thank you yes the purpose of it is to make it less likely

00:26:07.540 because if you put it out there people have to wrestle with it in their heads

00:26:10.660 and then take it seriously and then maybe adjust in some way so putting it out there was sort of a way

00:26:18.740 to warn people that there was something brewing to maybe take the edge off it under that context

00:26:27.380 am i wrong no i got exactly what i wanted out of it and uh some would argue that republicans have been

00:26:34.580 hunted but not in the not in the violent way so far so one of the the benefits of having a bad memory

00:26:44.900 is that i can be uh surprised by things that i already knew about

00:26:50.900 this morning i got up pretty early and started work i guess i got up around

00:26:55.700 2 30 this morning i hate sleep if i ever mentioned i don't like sleeping so i got up and uh i was

00:27:03.220 watching uh a video called the accidental president have you all seen it the accidental president

00:27:11.940 um it's a documentary about uh trump's election and i'm watching this thing and you know doing some

00:27:18.260 work at the same time and i hear this voice that sounds really familiar and it's me

00:27:24.500 so it turns out i'm one of the stars of this movie the documentary so i'm one of the people that they

00:27:30.260 interviewed and i had a number of clips on it um i'd recommend it it's really good actually it's a

00:27:37.780 it's a it's a it's a fun romp through you know that time and what people were thinking at the time

00:27:44.660 so check it out called the accidental president um all right here here's my my funniest story for

00:27:53.380 today all right i've been laughing about this for a while so i was alerted to a video there was a

00:28:02.260 zoom meeting so a number of people were on the zoom call and one of the people was ceo of bishop ranch which

00:28:09.700 is a a big uh corporate building uh complex here out in san hermone in california now that's where i

00:28:18.980 used to work so my old cubicle when i worked for the phone company was in this complex that is owned

00:28:26.660 by this alex moran that's his name uh sunset development company and so here's a little

00:28:34.660 background so some time ago i guess it was last year i was asked if i could work with the property

00:28:42.900 managers in this building to build a display of dilbert comics to sort of call out the fact that

00:28:50.020 dilbert was born in that building in the sense that that's where i was working when i got syndicated

00:28:55.140 and that it was sort of a you know historical point of interest that my cubicle had been in that

00:29:03.060 building so they'd asked for permission to build a display in a hallway in which there would be a

00:29:08.580 whole bunch of dilbert comics blown up and maybe some biographical stuff about me etc so i was called

00:29:15.460 and they said would you like to work on this with us to which i said no nope and they said but it's you

00:29:25.380 know it's an honor to you it would be you know good publicity and all that to which i said no not

00:29:32.580 interested now is that my fault am i a bad person because i wasn't interested in putting in work

00:29:42.340 to build a monument to myself did that sound like did anything about that seem inappropriate or even

00:29:50.500 unprofessional i would say a person not wanting to work for free to build a monument to himself

00:29:59.540 for the benefit of a corporation you don't care about would be fairly reasonable because what

00:30:07.380 they were asking me to do is a good deal of work for a corporation i have no no financial interest in

00:30:16.260 about something i didn't want to happen in the first place i didn't want it there i would prefer it 0.88

00:30:20.660 not be there but because i didn't want to be a total jerk i said i'll tell you what if you can make me not

00:30:28.420 do any work you can deal with my syndication company who have the the rights to stuff and 0.76

00:30:34.900 if they approve the comics just go ahead and do what you want and i'll it's fine with me so whatever

00:30:40.020 you want to do it's fine with me so time passes and i see photographs that the property manager sends

00:30:48.100 me and it looks great it's like this this hallway they've blown up these dilbert comics and they've got

00:30:53.220 some you know words about it and everything it was a great thing well time goes by and i'm alerted to

00:31:00.980 this zoom call as i said with alex moran who's the head of the sunset development company and he tells

00:31:07.940 the following story about that event number one he described me as quote hard to work with

00:31:14.820 is that fair am i hard to work with because i didn't want to work for free for the benefit

00:31:25.220 of corporation that i don't care about and have no interest in to build a monument to myself

00:31:32.980 that was considered unreasonable hard to work with but wait it gets better are you ready for the good

00:31:39.140 part after they'd installed it and done a ton of work somebody told alex moran that i was a racist

00:31:51.140 and so they took it all down

00:31:55.940 they had to remove the entire hallway exhibit that they'd done all that work for for months

00:32:02.660 because somebody told them that i was a giant racist which alex moran repeated

00:32:08.740 on this zoom call that i that i saw now

00:32:14.260 is anybody aware of me ever being accused of doing anything racist can you think of even

00:32:21.380 an example and i'm talking about an example even that i would maybe disagree with but even an accusation

00:32:28.740 have you seen any accusation in public in private anything so it's not as if there's even a story out there

00:32:40.340 that's fake news i've never even been accused

00:32:43.780 not even close can anybody think of any example where i've even been confused with a well i've been

00:32:52.420 confused with but i'm not even a republican

00:32:55.220 i'm not even conservative i i consistently say that i identify as black i've worked on reparations i've

00:33:06.260 backed uh um what's his name for kneeling uh i've i've worked with black lives matter

00:33:13.460 i'm working on the single most important systemic racism problem there is which is

00:33:18.820 school choice and the and the teachers unions i don't think you could have much of a better record

00:33:25.940 of not being racist than i have it'd be hard no matter whether you're a democrat or republican

00:33:32.180 it would be really hard to have a better public record of not being a racist so 0.96

00:33:39.380 this poor bastard alex moran spent all of this money and they built this whole exhibit and then because 1.00

00:33:45.060 he's a gullible fucking idiot he had to rip it all down 1.00

00:33:51.940 somebody's saying i should sue him now it's funnier that he wasted his money and sooner or later somebody 1.00

00:33:58.900 will point him to this video and alex let me let me talk to you personally because you'll probably see 1.00

00:34:05.700 this this clip you're a fucking idiot alex whoever told you that i'm a racist do do a little bit of 1.00

00:34:13.780 research just a little bit you wasted your fucking money you idiot all right so that's that um 1.00

00:34:21.860 um so the trump organization's legal problems seem to be ratcheting up as the uh the cfo alan weaselberg 1.00

00:34:31.620 actually got handcuffed and taken to court how do you feel when you see the cfo of the trump organization

00:34:42.580 handcuffed and taken to court number one did they really need to handcuff that guy i mean i'm sure it's

00:34:50.900 just some kind of a rule that they always have to do it or whatever but seriously seriously that

00:34:57.060 guy needed to be handcuffed i that's just wrong that's just wrong um next apparently they're going

00:35:06.740 to plead uh not guilty and uh i don't think he's going to jail and maybe but i'll doubt it so we'll see

00:35:15.460 apparently uh arizona uh voting strength well depending on your point of view the arizona had

00:35:24.820 some rules to they call it strengthen their election security but of course the critics call it

00:35:30.420 racist and it's just a way to keep poor and black people from voting and the supreme court ruled in

00:35:39.620 favor of the republicans and basically i guess the idea is as long as you're doing something that has a

00:35:45.140 legitimate value to tightening up security it's not going to matter that much if it has a racial 0.71

00:35:53.780 impact because pretty much everything does everything he does has a racial impact one way or another

00:35:59.460 but as long as you're doing what you're supposed to do which is strengthen the security of the system

00:36:04.420 i guess you can get away with that according to the supreme court and where do we get to the point

00:36:11.060 where voters actually make a difference have you noticed that the actual voters don't seem to have

00:36:17.460 any role anymore because as long as the presidential elections are kind of close and it looks like

00:36:22.740 that's going to be that way for a while it's all about the rules well that's it it's about the rules you

00:36:30.660 know who who gets to decide what the rules are of who votes and how that's the only thing that changes the

00:36:36.740 election now now the democrats did a great job of you know maximizing the pandemic crisis and getting

00:36:44.340 rules changes that work for democrats but now the republicans are on to that trick so it looks like

00:36:50.500 they're tightening up in those states that they can do that and it's not about the voters at all

00:36:57.860 the voters are irrelevant to this process it looks like the republicans will just use the court system

00:37:03.860 to create a situation in which probably republicans will win the next election somebody says matt says

00:37:12.100 not true give me more matt give me more than not true um they've been cheating for years somebody says

00:37:22.580 well how many of you let me ask you in the comments we're still waiting for the results of the maricopa county

00:37:28.100 audit how many of you believe that the maricopa county audit will show massive voter fraud such that

00:37:38.500 you could easily imagine it changed the election outcome how many of you at this point are predicting

00:37:44.580 that that will happen right in the comments the maricopa thing will it change your mind about anything

00:37:52.180 um so i'm seeing lots of people saying yes 50 50 um well most of you say yes

00:38:05.220 what will you feel like if you're wrong because i think you know that um yeah some of you say no and no

00:38:13.060 chance so my prediction is that if they had the goods we would know about it for sure already at least in

00:38:21.300 concept we'd know about it but the fact that we haven't heard about anything yet i don't think so

00:38:28.820 now i have two things to say about that number one i don't think that they're going to find anything

00:38:33.620 with the way they audited but number two has anybody ever audited the software or the databases

00:38:41.380 is that even a thing it is the biggest place that you could potentially have a problem which is within

00:38:48.580 the context of the technology has anybody audited that and how do you audit that is it even doable in

00:38:56.660 other words do the do the records exist in a way that they could be audited um

00:39:07.380 i'm just looking at your answers

00:39:09.300 all right matt says in 2042 the maricopa audit will be continuing

00:39:18.580 yeah so maybe the audit will just go forever or we'll never hear about it

00:39:23.460 uh so matt brainard said to expect something big you know i uh made the mistake

00:39:30.820 of thinking that when rudy giuliani said that they had the goods that they had the goods

00:39:38.180 because i thought to myself rudy giuliani he's got you know reputation and lots of credentials

00:39:45.140 he's not going to make a claim that's ridiculous in public but it looks like he did the same with

00:39:53.380 sydney powell i said to myself well she's got you know a reputation to protect and she's very 0.83

00:39:59.220 high level smart person etc she's not going to make a claim in public

00:40:04.500 that she can't back up just a ridiculous claim but it looks like maybe she did so when you say to me

00:40:12.740 matt brainard says we're going to see something big my impression of matt brainard is that he's very

00:40:20.660 capable and very credible but i also thought that about rudy giuliani

00:40:28.020 and i also thought that about sydney powell

00:40:34.020 so do i learn you know can i learn from my mistakes because um somebody said you'll be dead 1.00

00:40:44.980 rlb did you miss the part where i called people like you really stupid 0.99

00:40:47.780 you did i you probably came in late but the people who can't read well believe that i predicted 0.99

00:40:55.460 that we'll all be dead the people who know how to read see the words good chance and understand that

00:41:02.820 there was a chance of it that might have been greater so uh stop reading the raw story and boingo

00:41:10.020 boingo or whatever the hell you're reading

00:41:14.580 the new grift is something big is coming

00:41:16.740 why did rudy and sydney do it good question i'll give you a hypothesis but i don't know what

00:41:26.180 percentage of of confidence i would put on it my hypothesis is that both uh giuliani and

00:41:34.340 sydney powell uh believed that there was something defined so that's number one so if you believe

00:41:40.420 there's something there you're more likely to imagine you saw so cognitive dissonance probably

00:41:45.700 was at work but not the whole story i'm guessing that they were fed a fake some fake data there's

00:41:55.380 somebody who wanted to embarrass them told them some stories especially the ones about venezuela

00:42:00.500 controlling the machines or some damn thing and i think you remember that when i heard those stories

00:42:07.620 i said okay those stories are definitely not true and at least up to this point it looks like they 0.93

00:42:14.500 were not true but i did think that given all the different pieces of evidence they claimed to have

00:42:22.740 i figured they had something i mean that was a reasonable assumption given the people involved

00:42:28.500 but uh there's still a little bit of a mystery as to why they why they were so strongly sure that

00:42:36.180 they had the goods and we have not seen that yet um so robert barnes stated that they were fed bs yeah

00:42:46.260 that's what it looks like that's what it looks like because that's a real thing i mean there is

00:42:51.860 precedent for feeding people bad information to make them seem less credible when they get good information

00:42:57.940 um all right some of you think the arizona audit will rip the fabric of reality maybe maybe i'm gonna bet

00:43:10.820 against that all right um

00:43:18.100 the evidence that they were focusing on was too on the nose

00:43:21.620 i hear the locals clicks through scott's mic what does that mean

00:43:31.380 uh okay but that's all i got for now and i will talk to you on youtube tomorrow and i'll spend a few

00:43:39.620 more minutes with the locals people before i go talk to you tomorrow

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 02, 2021

Episode 1424 Scott Adams： Good Stories About Dumb People. Also Known as Politics and Social Media

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