Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1429 Scott Adams： Biden's Report Card So Far, Fixing Intersectionality, and Coffee

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00:00:57.880 Did you see that?

00:00:59.560 It was like just a moment ago, everything in the world was just a little bit worse.

00:01:04.360 And then you take the sip, it's immediate.

00:01:08.840 A lot of people say to me, Scott, how long does it take to kick in?

00:01:12.400 It's immediate.

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00:01:16.120 Well, let's talk about the news.

00:01:19.040 I don't want to say that it's a slow news time, but let's just say that the excitement we used to get from the news, not as much.

00:01:32.160 Not as much.

00:01:33.040 Here's one of the big stories.

00:01:34.980 There's a robot that can make a pizza.

00:01:37.940 Yeah.

00:01:38.940 Yeah.

00:01:39.500 Talk about the golden age.

00:01:40.700 An actual robot will, you know, work up the dough and flatten it out and put it on the cooking surface and put all the stuff on it and take it away when it's done.

00:01:51.260 It can make 80 pizzas an hour.

00:01:53.960 A robot.

00:01:55.620 Now, that's the good news.

00:01:58.540 The bad news is a lot of people get jobs preparing food.

00:02:03.760 What kind of food could a robot not make?

00:02:11.160 Here's one of the big mysteries about restaurants.

00:02:15.620 And, you know, I owned a couple of restaurants for a while.

00:02:18.060 And this was always the biggest mystery.

00:02:20.900 Why is it that all the restaurants, let's say the ones that are Italian food, why is it that they don't end up all serving the same food after a while?

00:02:30.660 Because don't they all know how to make Italian food?

00:02:34.520 And isn't there a cross-pollination of employees and recipes? 0.75

00:02:39.400 And recipes are not even patentable.

00:02:41.620 You can't even protect a recipe unless it's a trade secret.

00:02:45.620 So over time, shouldn't all the restaurants be serving basically the same food?

00:02:50.680 Because everybody would figure out what is the taste profile that everybody likes, and they would make it that way.

00:02:58.840 But it doesn't happen.

00:02:59.840 It's just a weird kind of thing where you can't train your employees to make the food the same way twice.

00:03:08.960 Locally, the best restaurants are the ones that have the shortest menu.

00:03:13.340 Do you know why that is?

00:03:15.140 They have the shortest menu, so the fewest choices, and they never change the menu.

00:03:21.240 And it's because if you don't do that, the only person who can make the food is the chef.

00:03:28.000 The cooks won't know how to make the food if you keep changing it, because they're not as good at keeping up and tasting it as you go and all that stuff.

00:03:35.880 So a robot that makes food could get us to the point where all our food is good all the time.

00:03:42.940 Because if humans make your food, eh, sometimes good, sometimes not.

00:03:50.400 But if the robots start doing it, it's going to be amazing.

00:03:54.260 And then the robots get networked, and then they share information about the sales, and suddenly the robots know exactly what people buy more of.

00:04:03.080 So all the robots start immediately conforming to whatever people buy the most of.

00:04:09.400 Yeah, even the simple area of the food you're eating is likely to go from, hey, most of the time the food I eat is pretty good, all the way to robots making your food perfectly every time.

00:04:25.840 Food is going to get really, really, really good.

00:04:30.480 Like so good you almost wouldn't believe it.

00:04:33.080 If you add AI and you rapid testing, network the robots together, and make them make the same food every time, it's going to be good.

00:04:43.480 All right.

00:04:44.320 So it looks like Eric Adams is on track to win the mayoral contest in New York City.

00:04:56.340 So what do you win, the primary or something?

00:04:59.320 But they think he's going to win.

00:05:00.700 He's the favorite.

00:05:01.700 And here's the interesting part.

00:05:03.840 You're waiting for the interesting part?

00:05:05.440 Yeah, you are.

00:05:06.320 The interesting part is that he is running on an anti-crime platform.

00:05:14.080 So you're worried about the slippery slope?

00:05:18.120 Well, here's why I generally don't worry about slippery slopes.

00:05:22.540 Because when things slip far enough, there's usually, almost always, a counterforce.

00:05:28.800 And here's a perfect example.

00:05:31.860 Eric Adams is the counterforce.

00:05:34.040 The public had enough.

00:05:35.720 They said, well, you've slipped far enough in this crime direction, and now we're done.

00:05:40.820 And now we're going to fix it.

00:05:41.920 So I think that's a good sign for the country.

00:05:49.980 It seems to me that the number of protests is way down, right?

00:05:54.540 You're not seeing Black Lives Matter protesting.

00:05:57.760 What happened to Antifa?

00:05:59.780 Did Antifa disband?

00:06:02.520 Or did Antifa get everything they wanted?

00:06:06.500 What exactly happened to Antifa?

00:06:08.440 Did all of their concerns end up being addressed?

00:06:14.320 Did everything that Antifa and Black Lives Matter wanted, did it all happen so they don't need to protest this summer?

00:06:22.320 No, I don't think so.

00:06:24.040 Is this the first summer where no cops killed a black motorist who had been stopped?

00:06:33.580 Did we get lucky?

00:06:35.560 And this year, cops stopped killing people during stops?

00:06:40.400 What happened to all of that?

00:06:42.980 Was all of that real?

00:06:45.980 How much of that was organic?

00:06:49.100 Was Black Lives Matter and Antifa, were they completely divorced?

00:06:54.040 From the political process?

00:06:56.760 Because if they were divorced from the political process, in other words, they had nothing to do with who was president or who was running for president.

00:07:05.100 If they simply had demands, what happened to those demands?

00:07:11.900 Because they haven't been met, right?

00:07:15.480 And Antifa and Black Lives Matter don't even have the same demands.

00:07:20.060 So what happened?

00:07:21.660 Do you remember the Wall Street, the one-percenter protests, you know, the Occupy Wall Street stuff?

00:07:32.040 Do you remember what they were complaining about?

00:07:34.080 It was income inequality.

00:07:36.220 Did that get fixed?

00:07:39.840 Do you remember when there was all this income inequality and then it got fixed so we don't need to have any more protests?

00:07:46.200 No, it got much worse.

00:07:48.060 The income inequality got way worse.

00:07:50.940 But the protests disappeared.

00:07:53.100 So, how much of these protests are real?

00:07:59.520 If they seem to come and go independent of the issues that they are allegedly protesting,

00:08:07.400 doesn't that suggest that these are artificial groups and that their leaders, at least, are being influenced by some kind of outside force?

00:08:17.120 I would think so.

00:08:19.940 I'm not sure you could say that there's any chance that's not true.

00:08:23.920 Because things got really quiet once Biden became president.

00:08:28.960 So, CNN is reporting that, according to polls, 47% of Americans believe the country is going in the right direction.

00:08:39.980 And that's good for President Joe Biden, they say.

00:08:42.980 And it's higher than Trump at the same time.

00:08:46.620 And it's the highest since Obama.

00:08:49.400 Pretty good, right?

00:08:51.020 Wow.

00:08:51.500 Almost half of the country says that we're going in the right direction.

00:08:58.860 Now, let me ask you a question.

00:09:01.760 If you're just coming out of a pandemic, aren't you always going in the right direction?

00:09:09.180 What exactly would have had to go wrong for us to be coming out of a pandemic,

00:09:16.040 with all the economic growth that naturally comes with that,

00:09:19.600 how could you possibly not be going in the right direction?

00:09:24.040 And still, half of the country thinks we're not.

00:09:27.200 You could be brain dead as president, and we'd be going in the right direction right now.

00:09:34.080 Because you always are when you come out of the bottom. 0.98

00:09:37.180 If we were coming out of a depression, we'd be going in the right direction.

00:09:41.640 If you come out of a war, you're going in the right direction. 0.87

00:09:45.460 If you come out of a pandemic, you're probably going in the right direction.

00:09:50.860 So how hard was it for our brain dead president to lead us in the right direction?

00:09:55.580 He just had to show up. 0.91

00:09:57.800 That's it.

00:09:59.120 Whoever was in president, whoever was the president today,

00:10:03.080 was going to be going in the right direction.

00:10:05.100 It'd be pretty hard to get any worse after a pandemic.

00:10:08.420 But that's the cover, of course, that CNN gives to the left.

00:10:16.760 There are more polls, which we'll get to in a moment.

00:10:20.500 I like that CNN is now calling January 6th that protest at the Capitol.

00:10:26.240 They started calling it the insurrection.

00:10:29.320 So it would sound more illegal and more dangerous.

00:10:32.860 But now they've added a new qualifier.

00:10:35.100 Now it's a deadly insurrection.

00:10:38.420 Now it was deadly.

00:10:39.940 So that word does fit. 0.96

00:10:41.680 I'm not going to argue that the word is inappropriate.

00:10:44.060 But I love the branding job that CNN does.

00:10:47.600 It's no longer just an insurrection.

00:10:51.000 Now it's that deadly insurrection.

00:10:54.160 Do you know why the deadly insurrection happened?

00:10:56.900 Because of the big lie.

00:10:59.100 So CNN has learned from Trump how to brand things.

00:11:07.120 And they're doing it really well.

00:11:09.080 If I'm being objective, they're doing a really, really good job at this branding stuff.

00:11:14.860 That whole big lie was really good branding.

00:11:18.520 That was almost as good as low-energy Jeb and crooked Hillary. 1.00

00:11:26.120 So this is another one of Trump's lasting legacies that his enemies, if you will, CNN, they learned to use his trick, the branding.

00:11:38.540 And it works.

00:11:39.200 It's really good.

00:11:41.480 All right.

00:11:41.880 But here's a point.

00:11:45.080 There was a doctor, I think, on Fox News making this point.

00:11:48.060 If the reason that we had so many restrictions during the pandemic was primarily to keep the hospitals from being slammed,

00:11:56.940 and we know now that even if you get COVID when you're vaccinated, you're probably not going to go to the hospital.

00:12:02.440 Even if you're not vaccinated and you get COVID, you're probably going to get the really good therapeutics now that also keep you out of the hospital.

00:12:09.840 So I believe that we have solved the hospital impact problem.

00:12:17.720 Does anybody disagree with that?

00:12:20.240 Could we say with certainty, or is it too soon?

00:12:24.640 But can we say with certainty that at least the hospital overrun problem, is that part solved?

00:12:31.240 Like for sure everybody would agree with that statement, or are there still some people who think that maybe we could crush the hospitals if there's a new surge?

00:12:41.880 I think we're past that, right?

00:12:43.880 Because even the therapeutics are so good, and most of the people who would die are already vaccinated.

00:12:51.140 Right?

00:12:51.300 Yeah, and you could argue that the hospital impact was solved in the winter, because that would have been the peak, and we got past that okay.

00:13:01.040 So the biggest reason for the lockdowns and the masking and stuff no longer exists.

00:13:07.680 And the fact that we're even talking about masking up again, that that's even a question, we're done with this, right?

00:13:18.340 Everybody, everybody.

00:13:20.620 Does it matter to you what your government tells you about masks going forward?

00:13:25.040 Because I don't think we're in the mood to comply.

00:13:30.680 I was definitely in the mood to comply in the beginning of the pandemic.

00:13:34.960 Because I think reasonably, you know, strategy-wise, going with the experts and the fog of war probably is better than just guessing on your own.

00:13:44.140 So in the beginning of the pandemic, there were real reasons, and we were trying to keep the hospitals from being crushed and keep grandma alive and all that.

00:13:52.900 But we're really done with that.

00:13:55.860 We're done with that.

00:13:56.820 Even people who are relatively pro-mask, I think we're all done now.

00:14:02.300 Or enough of us are done that they couldn't possibly make this mandate stick.

00:14:07.460 I don't think.

00:14:08.080 I don't think there's any chance of masks coming back, but I could be wrong.

00:14:12.680 So I saw a tweet that I thought was fake this morning, but I'm being told it's real.

00:14:19.220 If I'm wrong about this, could you correct me?

00:14:21.780 I saw a tweet that there's a Twitter user named Tom Lykas, L-E-Y-K-I-S.

00:14:28.000 Many of you have probably seen him.

00:14:29.600 Tweets about politics, does not like Republicans, did not like Trump one bit.

00:14:34.440 I've had some unpleasant encounters with him on Twitter.

00:14:38.320 I think he blocked me finally, or I blocked him or something.

00:14:41.400 So a very, very unpleasant fellow.

00:14:44.540 But did he really tweet this?

00:14:46.660 Because I have a question.

00:14:47.640 I'm seeing people saying it's real, and it's on his timeline.

00:14:52.080 But it's hard to believe.

00:14:54.820 So he tweeted a story about a race car crashing in Georgia and killing an audience member.

00:15:01.080 A fresh story.

00:15:03.140 Right?

00:15:03.440 Just happened.

00:15:04.260 An audience member just died in Georgia.

00:15:05.960 And he tweets, one less Trump supporter.

00:15:11.440 What?

00:15:12.980 One less Trump supporter?

00:15:15.620 Somebody just died in the audience when a car hit him?

00:15:19.700 Now, didn't Georgia go Democrat?

00:15:24.100 Who exactly thinks that if you're in the crowd in Georgia that you're necessarily Republican in 2021?

00:15:30.360 So, first of all, the assumption is kind of hinky.

00:15:35.260 But second of all, this is pretty bad.

00:15:40.260 Remember, I got a lot of grief for predicting last year that if Biden got elected, Republicans would be hunted?

00:15:49.580 And people said, come on, that's too far.

00:15:53.100 And here there's a public figure who is cheering the death of a Trump supporter in public.

00:15:58.900 And as far as I know, he will not be banned on social media.

00:16:04.560 That's right.

00:16:05.780 You could say in public that you're glad for the death of a Republican, and apparently that would be okay.

00:16:14.900 Now, I also think that, you know, we shouldn't be censoring so much.

00:16:19.600 But there is a little bit of a double standard here, and this is short of Republicans being hunted.

00:16:26.880 But how many Republicans keep their head down and don't admit their political affiliation at work?

00:16:35.800 If Republicans are hiding, it's sort of like being hunted.

00:16:42.060 It's getting close to it.

00:16:43.340 All right.

00:16:43.500 So Rasmussen asked its people at polled, likely voters, he said, is Biden's immigration policy better or worse than Trump?

00:16:58.700 Now, correct me if I'm wrong.

00:17:01.000 One of the biggest reasons that Biden ran for president is to improve the immigration policy.

00:17:07.740 Wouldn't you say that would be a fair statement?

00:17:10.220 You know, very close to the top of the reasons for Biden to run was to fix immigration.

00:17:17.140 35% of those polled said that Biden's doing better.

00:17:21.000 Oh, 35%.

00:17:22.420 That's not bad.

00:17:24.240 Oh, but 49% say he's doing worse.

00:17:28.060 That's right.

00:17:28.600 49% of the country, far more than the people who say he's doing better, say he's doing worse.

00:17:36.700 Now, I tell you again, this is why he ran for president.

00:17:41.560 It was one of the top five reasons, right?

00:17:45.040 Maybe we should look at some of his other performance.

00:17:49.100 Let's find out if the reasons that Biden ran are holding up.

00:17:53.140 Now, you remember that although Trump was famous for failing the fact-checking, he had this strange quality for a politician, which was he kept his promises.

00:18:04.660 It's the strangest combination in one person.

00:18:08.300 If we ever had a president who continuously failed the fact-checking, as Trump did, you know, even if you're a supporter, I think you have to accept that his hyperbole was consistently failing the fact-checking.

00:18:22.020 But at the same time, and the same person, I don't think anybody did a better job of keeping his campaign promises.

00:18:31.180 Now, when I say keeping his promises, I mean he at least tried really hard, right?

00:18:35.740 He didn't get the wall built, but he put all the effort into it.

00:18:39.920 I mean, he definitely kept his promises like maybe nobody ever has.

00:18:45.740 So, what was the point of electing Biden?

00:18:50.260 Well, let's see.

00:18:51.720 Here's what I feel was his main selling points.

00:18:57.900 Honesty, right?

00:18:59.920 One of the main things that Biden wanted to bring was honesty.

00:19:04.800 How is that working out?

00:19:06.320 Well, the Washington Post gives Biden administration three Pinocchios for claiming that Republicans are the ones who voted to defund the police.

00:19:15.920 Republicans voted to defund the police?

00:19:22.160 Just completely made up out of nothing.

00:19:25.140 And this is coming from the Biden administration.

00:19:27.660 So, remember, one of the reasons he ran was to get more honesty.

00:19:32.880 So, that didn't work out, right?

00:19:34.560 So, even the Washington Post is saying, well, we didn't get that, right?

00:19:39.340 So, that was one reason, honesty.

00:19:41.360 Didn't get that.

00:19:43.360 Better immigration policy?

00:19:45.000 No, didn't get that because half of the country says it's worse.

00:19:48.680 How about better handling of Iran?

00:19:51.400 You know, the Iran nuclear deal especially.

00:19:53.960 Russia and China.

00:19:55.940 Would you say that Biden has done a better job than Trump handling Iran, Russia, and China?

00:20:04.160 I don't think anybody thinks that, right?

00:20:07.820 At the very least, it's not better.

00:20:11.040 So, those reasons for electing Biden don't hold.

00:20:14.720 We're probably in more danger from Iran. 1.00

00:20:17.060 They're being more aggressive, not less.

00:20:19.520 Russia seems to be more aggressive, not less.

00:20:22.500 And China is China, right?

00:20:24.460 Nothing anybody does changes anything they do.

00:20:27.580 So, that reason didn't hold up.

00:20:30.000 There was, of course, famously the fine people hoax.

00:20:33.560 He literally ran for president mentioning the fine people hoax as if it were real.

00:20:40.960 He actually ran one of his, I would say, top five reasons you could argue it's the top one.

00:20:47.800 It wasn't even real.

00:20:49.880 And the fact checkers confirmed that.

00:20:52.020 It just didn't even happen.

00:20:53.020 And that was one of his main reasons.

00:20:54.940 So, that didn't work out.

00:20:56.520 How about improving the respect for the U.S. presidency?

00:21:00.760 Because remember how bad it was when the G7 may have laughed at Trump behind his back?

00:21:05.920 And certainly, you don't want to live in a country where people are actually, you don't want to live in a country where, sorry, I just read a comment and just completely lost my thought.

00:21:22.300 Okay, the respect for the U.S. presidency.

00:21:24.780 Yeah, you don't want to live in a country where other countries don't respect your president.

00:21:28.260 So, how's that working out?

00:21:30.520 Do you think that the other leaders are looking at the videos of Joe Biden barely being sentient and saying to themselves, wow, it looks like the United States finally got themselves a competent leader, got rid of that Donald Trump guy.

00:21:47.100 And now they've got this strong Joe Biden leader that we don't laugh at at all?

00:21:52.860 Well, that didn't happen, right?

00:21:55.200 There is no way in the world that the leaders are not at least raising an eyebrow about Biden's intellectual capacity.

00:22:04.720 So, they laughed out loud at him at the G7.

00:22:11.760 Do you think they're laughing out loud at Biden behind his back?

00:22:16.260 I think they are.

00:22:18.800 I think they are.

00:22:20.880 Oh, were you talking about Biden that they laughed at out loud?

00:22:24.380 Yeah, I believe that there was a story about that.

00:22:28.300 All right, what else?

00:22:30.240 Biden also ran on following the science, right?

00:22:33.160 How is that working out?

00:22:35.580 Is the Biden administration following that science with their, let's say, their mask ideas and the, how about wearing a mask on an airplane?

00:22:47.960 Do you think that the requirements of vaccinated people having to take a COVID test before they got an airplane, is that based on science?

00:22:58.180 No.

00:22:59.400 No, of course not.

00:23:00.340 So, listen to this list.

00:23:04.060 I'll just read it to you again.

00:23:05.300 And not one of these things that Biden promised us is even close to happening.

00:23:11.660 We don't have more honesty in the presidency.

00:23:14.120 We don't have better immigration. 0.99

00:23:15.840 We don't have better handling of Iran, Russia, or China.

00:23:18.960 The fine people hoax, of course, was a hoax.

00:23:21.320 We don't have really more respect for the U.S. presidency.

00:23:24.080 You know, it's a different set of complaints, but nobody's going to respect what they're seeing out of Biden.

00:23:31.320 And we're not following the science.

00:23:33.460 And we're obviously not doing it.

00:23:36.020 So there you go.

00:23:37.960 All right.

00:23:38.580 That's the Biden report card.

00:23:40.560 Not looking good.

00:23:41.500 So here's a persuasion tip that I go to quite often.

00:23:49.640 And the persuasion tip is this.

00:23:51.180 If there's something happening, let's say a policy or a set of ideas, that you think are absurd and you're arguing against them,

00:24:00.440 have you noticed it never works, that if you just take a position against whatever somebody's for, nothing happens.

00:24:10.280 They're still for it.

00:24:11.980 You're arguing against it.

00:24:14.080 No difference. 0.96

00:24:15.720 But, as I've taught you, if an idea is genuinely absurd, like it's genuinely just bad shit crazy, 0.99

00:24:25.120 then the way to kill it is by agreeing with it. 1.00

00:24:28.940 That's how you kill it. 0.99

00:24:30.440 If an idea is fairly solid, but maybe you think you have a different way that's even better,

00:24:36.360 you can't use that approach.

00:24:38.300 Because you can't add to a solid idea to kill it.

00:24:41.620 It was a solid idea.

00:24:43.140 If you support it, it gets stronger. 0.59

00:24:45.540 But if an idea is absurd, just like batshit fucking crazy absurd, 0.99

00:24:51.440 the way you kill it is by supporting it. 0.98

00:24:55.560 Let me give you a concrete example.

00:25:00.440 You've heard of intersectionality.

00:25:02.420 It's a component of a critical race theory.

00:25:05.420 I think that's fair to say, that it's always included in that set of teachings.

00:25:10.440 And intersectionality, it took me a while to figure out what the hell that was all about.

00:25:15.100 But it has to do with the fact that you could be discriminated against for more than one thing.

00:25:22.480 So, for example, if you're black in America, you could be discriminated against for being black.

00:25:29.200 But suppose you were black and also female. 0.99

00:25:32.600 Well, that's something else to be discriminated against.

00:25:35.480 So you're black and you're female. 1.00

00:25:37.200 You've got two things to be discriminated for. 0.95

00:25:39.840 But what if you're black and female and a lesbian? 1.00

00:25:45.060 You've got three things to be discriminated about.

00:25:49.460 And if you understand intersectionality, you would be able to understand these situations in their uniqueness.

00:25:56.340 And apparently the teaching of intersectionality is considered important so people can really see the nuance of all the discrimination that's going on.

00:26:08.380 Now, suppose you didn't like that and you wanted to kill it. 0.81

00:26:15.120 How would you kill it with kindness? 0.99

00:26:18.840 In other words, how could you kill it by agreeing with it?

00:26:22.360 And the obvious answer is you add categories because they're completely valid.

00:26:26.860 If we're going to talk about all of the ways that people are discriminated against, which is the whole point of intersectionality, right?

00:26:34.300 The point of it is you're not leaving anything out.

00:26:37.140 It's like all the discrimination.

00:26:39.120 You're not just black. 0.98

00:26:40.800 You might be black and, you know, gay, right? 0.99

00:26:46.660 So that's the whole point. 0.99

00:26:48.420 So let's add some things in there.

00:26:51.240 What are some other things that people are commonly discriminated against in the United States that would be important for children to learn?

00:27:00.300 All right?

00:27:00.880 How about being a Republican?

00:27:02.960 Is there anybody who is discriminated against for being a Republican?

00:27:07.820 And the answer is yeah.

00:27:09.240 I mean, I just gave you an example, the Tom Likas example, that somebody could say in public that they're glad you died.

00:27:17.380 Could you say that about a black person in the United States on a social media platform in 2021?

00:27:24.400 If you expressed happiness that a person of any ethnic group had died, could you do that? 0.77

00:27:32.600 No, no.

00:27:33.540 But you could do it with a Republican.

00:27:35.640 Tom Likas just did it.

00:27:36.820 He's still on Twitter, right?

00:27:38.120 So I think that's fair to say that if you're a Republican, you would be the subject to great discrimination by some people.

00:27:47.140 Now, obviously, people who are like whatever group you're talking about are not going to discriminate.

00:27:52.260 Republicans are not going to discriminate against Republicans.

00:27:55.760 But, you know, gay people don't discriminate against gay people.

00:27:59.820 So that's just what we expect.

00:28:01.940 How about white people?

00:28:03.520 Are there any white people who ever experience any discrimination?

00:28:09.740 Well, yes.

00:28:10.600 Yes.

00:28:11.100 It's completely different.

00:28:13.060 And if you're going to say, Scott, Scott, Scott, these are not equal, I would say I'm not saying they're equal.

00:28:20.220 I'm saying that intersectionality is including everything.

00:28:24.400 You've got to throw everything in there.

00:28:26.040 That's the whole point.

00:28:26.700 But you're not weighing them. 0.74

00:28:29.160 I'm not saying that gay is better or worse than, you know, black or Latinx or whatever.

00:28:36.720 I'm just saying they all need to be there. 0.76

00:28:39.000 We're not comparing.

00:28:40.640 So if you say to me, white people don't get much discrimination compared to these other groups, maybe.

00:28:47.820 Maybe not.

00:28:48.900 It doesn't matter.

00:28:49.560 It's not relevant to the question of whether it should be included because there's still so much of it.

00:28:55.440 All right?

00:28:56.560 I've lost two jobs for being white and male.

00:29:01.460 If anybody doesn't know my story there, prior to becoming the Dilbert cartoonist, I worked for two big corporations, and both of them called me in on separate days, of course.

00:29:11.900 And they both told me in direct language that I couldn't be promoted because I'm white and male.

00:29:19.140 Now, when I say direct language, I mean they said it directly.

00:29:23.600 You, Scott, can't be promoted because you're white, because you're male. 0.84

00:29:30.820 I'm not reading between the lines.

00:29:33.180 They said that directly, and it was official policy.

00:29:37.280 All right?

00:29:39.300 How many people in today's world have lost a job because their company wanted more diversity?

00:29:48.820 Because that was the situation in my case.

00:29:50.680 They just wanted more diversity in senior management.

00:29:53.220 How many white people have lost a job because of that?

00:29:56.220 Look at the comments.

00:29:57.500 There are people in the comments saying that they did.

00:30:01.380 Lots and lots and lots of white people have been discriminated against.

00:30:05.880 Now, am I crying?

00:30:09.560 Do you hear any violins?

00:30:11.780 Do you?

00:30:12.600 Do you hear any violins?

00:30:15.240 And let me say this as clearly as possible. 1.00

00:30:18.160 If you're objecting to me saying that white people are discriminated against, fuck you. 1.00

00:30:24.480 Just fuck you. 1.00

00:30:26.820 That's all I have to say about that. 1.00

00:30:28.240 Because if you care about other people being discriminated against, but you don't care about the white people who are routinely discriminated against, less, I'm not comparing, I'm not saying it's like slavery, right?

00:30:43.460 I'm not saying it's like the Native Americans being kicked off their ancestral lands.

00:30:49.660 I'm not comparing.

00:30:51.220 I'm just saying it's real.

00:30:53.560 And if we're going to include all the discrimination categories, this is in the list. 1.00

00:30:59.720 Or fuck you. 1.00

00:31:01.420 Right? 1.00

00:31:01.500 Anybody who doesn't think that white people are discriminated against massively in this country, fuck you. 1.00

00:31:08.460 You're just an asshole. 1.00

00:31:10.140 Right? 1.00

00:31:10.640 But again, I will accept that if you were ranking them, you wouldn't necessarily rank them the same.

00:31:18.460 We're on the same page there.

00:31:20.640 How about short people?

00:31:22.020 We have plenty of science that says short people are discriminated against in many ways, especially economically.

00:31:29.820 How about politically?

00:31:31.900 Yeah, it matters.

00:31:33.520 So let's put short people on the list because I think our children need to learn not to discriminate against short people.

00:31:42.040 How about bald people?

00:31:44.040 Do I ever get discriminated against for being hair challenged?

00:31:49.240 Of course.

00:31:50.300 Of course.

00:31:51.220 Have I ever been insulted in public for being bald?

00:31:55.360 On here, in live stream, almost every week.

00:32:01.040 I am mocked in public for a physical element of my being that I have no control over.

00:32:09.980 Is that cool?

00:32:11.860 Are we going to let school children learn that?

00:32:14.640 I say no.

00:32:16.580 And how about gingers?

00:32:18.320 Do gingers ever get discriminated against? 1.00

00:32:20.540 Yes.

00:32:21.340 Yes.

00:32:22.360 Yes, they do.

00:32:23.680 Let's throw that on the list.

00:32:25.280 Children need to learn about that.

00:32:27.140 How about Christians? 0.84

00:32:29.340 Has anybody ever been discriminated against for being a little too religious?

00:32:35.340 Yes.

00:32:36.760 We're in the United States.

00:32:38.680 We'll discriminate against anything.

00:32:41.100 Too religious. 0.99

00:32:42.280 Not religious enough.

00:32:44.040 Wrong religion. 1.00

00:32:45.020 Don't practice your religion right. 1.00

00:32:47.380 Don't practice your religion right. 1.00

00:32:47.700 You look like a hypocrite to me. 1.00

00:32:49.840 Yeah. 1.00

00:32:50.400 All that stuff.

00:32:51.400 So throw religion in there for sure. 0.77

00:32:53.540 And Christians in particular. 1.00

00:32:55.560 How about dumb people? 1.00

00:32:57.440 Are dumb people ever discriminated against? 1.00

00:33:01.140 Yes. 1.00

00:33:02.140 Yes. 0.99

00:33:04.020 Dumb people are the one category that we all discriminate against because we're all smart, right? 0.99

00:33:11.160 You're lucky. 0.99

00:33:12.020 Lucky us.

00:33:13.360 Lucky us that everybody on this live stream are the smart ones.

00:33:18.440 Good job us. 0.99

00:33:19.420 But do we make fun of dumb people? 0.99

00:33:23.820 Yeah. 1.00

00:33:24.580 All the time.

00:33:25.860 Is that fair?

00:33:27.180 Did anybody choose to be below average in intelligence?

00:33:32.400 Nope.

00:33:33.480 Nope.

00:33:34.200 Nobody ever filled out an application and said, yes, I think I'd like to be below average in intelligence.

00:33:39.900 No.

00:33:40.760 You're just born that way.

00:33:42.500 And we mock people like that.

00:33:45.380 Let's put that on the list.

00:33:47.780 Intersectionality.

00:33:49.420 How about the rich?

00:33:51.820 Are the rich ever discriminated against for just being rich?

00:33:57.180 And the answer is yes.

00:33:59.240 Yes.

00:34:00.300 Now, again, would you rather be rich or to have some other problem?

00:34:07.400 Well, you'd rather be rich.

00:34:09.280 Being rich is way better than being poor.

00:34:11.580 No doubt about it.

00:34:12.380 So, again, we're not comparing things for which one is worse, which would be absurd in itself.

00:34:19.420 We're just saying that there is discrimination against rich people.

00:34:22.920 And let's put it on the list.

00:34:25.240 How about age?

00:34:27.140 Is there such a thing as age discrimination?

00:34:29.600 Yes.

00:34:30.600 Do you think you can, do you think at my age, if I weren't, you know, the famous Dilber guy, do you think at my age I could walk into a startup and they'd hire me just like that?

00:34:45.040 No, no.

00:34:46.040 No, age discrimination is gigantic.

00:34:49.700 So here's what you do with intersectionality.

00:34:52.900 You embrace it to death.

00:34:55.800 You say it's incomplete because it does not include enough categories of intersectionality.

00:35:01.780 It needs to be expanded, not killed, because you could expand it to the point where it disappears.

00:35:10.760 In other words, if you were to treat it seriously, it would just disappear because everybody is discriminated against one way or another.

00:35:19.040 Really, is there anybody who's not discriminated against? 0.97

00:35:21.640 If you're young, beautiful, and white, and let's say you're a female, you're young, beautiful, white, rich, and female, do you get discriminated against?

00:35:37.060 Yeah.

00:35:37.720 Yeah.

00:35:38.380 A lot.

00:35:39.760 Is it as bad as some other category of discrimination? 0.76

00:35:43.440 You know, let's say gays or black, whatever. 0.53

00:35:45.140 I don't know. 0.98

00:35:46.940 I doubt it.

00:35:48.380 But again, we're not comparing.

00:35:50.660 We're just saying that if you're discriminated against, we should teach kids not to do it.

00:35:57.480 All right.

00:36:01.620 Yeah.

00:36:02.220 Oh, and blondes. 1.00

00:36:03.160 Blondes are discriminated against. 0.85

00:36:06.000 Again, I don't think that's the biggest problem in the world, but yeah, I did lock the cat out again.

00:36:13.180 I closed the door.

00:36:13.880 Sorry, you won't see boo the cat.

00:36:16.060 Well, there was an assassination in Haiti.

00:36:20.720 I didn't think that kind of stuff happened anymore, but apparently a bunch of mercenaries, foreign mercenaries, attacked the presidential compound and assassinated the president.

00:36:33.680 Honestly, I didn't know that was something that could happen.

00:36:37.940 Like, why did the president of Haiti have such bad security that a smallish band of mercenaries could take over the capital and murder him?

00:36:47.500 I feel like there was a security issue there.

00:36:50.720 So maybe there was some insider stuff.

00:36:55.500 Well, I guess that story is developing.

00:36:57.520 So that's pretty horrible.

00:36:58.780 But we'll wait and see what's happening on that.

00:37:01.460 On vaccinations, Biden's talking about going community by community and door to door.

00:37:06.560 Do you have a problem with that?

00:37:09.760 I'm seeing the way it's being received on the right is that people are saying, you're not going to knock on my door and force me to get a vaccination.

00:37:17.940 But I don't think that's the problem, is it?

00:37:21.140 Isn't the problem that they're looking to solve a little bit more about access and maybe a little persuasion?

00:37:29.420 But nobody's going to arrest you if you didn't get a vaccination, right?

00:37:35.220 You're not going to get it.

00:37:36.720 Do you really think that the slippery slope is going to get to the point where if you don't get the vaccination, you can't participate in society or something?

00:37:45.840 I don't know.

00:37:47.660 I think there will be too many unvaccinated people for you to worry about long-term discrimination.

00:37:53.900 I think short-term there will be an advantage to being vaccinated in terms of social access.

00:38:00.740 But it's probably a few months.

00:38:05.540 Someone's going to shoot them, somebody I'm seeing in the comments.

00:38:08.920 Well, I hope not.

00:38:09.840 Because I feel as though the people who are going to be knocking on the doors are not going to be, you know, Gestapo.

00:38:17.640 When somebody knocks on the door, it's going to be, you know, a nice man and woman who say, hey, you know, in case you had trouble getting access, we have some vaccinations.

00:38:28.320 You know, can we talk you into it?

00:38:30.300 I feel like it's going to be a very pleasant encounter with people who are genuinely trying to help.

00:38:36.260 I don't feel like it's the beginning of, you know, Kristallnacht or something.

00:38:41.700 It doesn't feel like the beginning of the end to me.

00:38:44.300 Now, I understand why it would make you uncomfortable.

00:38:49.500 I can see your discomfort in the comments.

00:38:53.880 But remember, we're a very armed country.

00:38:57.420 Can you imagine them trying to do forced vaccinations door-to-door with the number of guns that we have in this country?

00:39:04.200 I don't think you have to worry about it.

00:39:06.940 I really don't.

00:39:08.200 I mean, part of being pro-gun, pro-Second Amendment, let's say, part of being pro-Second Amendment is you really kind of don't have to worry about this.

00:39:17.100 Right?

00:39:17.980 The benefit of being a massively gun-owning country is that you don't really need to worry about this.

00:39:24.500 It's just going to look like an option, and I do think that there's a worry that some people will be persuaded that maybe wouldn't have been persuaded otherwise, and you have to wonder about, you know, free will and all that.

00:39:38.780 So there is a moral and ethical line that needs to be, you know, attended to quite rigorously.

00:39:45.360 But I don't think it's going to be a big deal.

00:39:50.380 Let me tell you the way it's being handled in one business that I will not mention.

00:39:56.220 So there's a local business that has a set of COVID rules.

00:40:01.080 You're supposed to do this and that.

00:40:03.240 And they almost tell you directly that they're not going to enforce it.

00:40:07.100 So we're reaching a point where businesses are going to say masks are required or sterilizing surfaces or whatever, but we're not going to kick you out if you don't, and we're not going to say anything if you don't.

00:40:24.320 So I think that's where we're sliding into a situation where we'll have the rules but no enforcement, because the business owner will say, you know, I don't need to make enemies, and there's no science to support enforcing this rule, so I'm just not going to do it.

00:40:40.980 It's not my job.

00:40:42.560 It's just not the business owner's job to enforce the rules.

00:40:45.420 And I think that they are quite reasonably saying, we'll tell you what the rules are.

00:40:50.300 I'll tell you what the rules are.

00:40:52.460 But it's up to you.

00:40:53.420 We're not going to enforce them.

00:40:55.780 All right.

00:40:59.740 How many of your predictions have come true so far?

00:41:06.100 I was saying since the beginning that you shouldn't worry too much about your individual rights being eroded by the pandemic because everyone wants the pandemic to be temporary.

00:41:17.800 And I still feel that that's going to be the case.

00:41:20.320 There won't be any, I don't think you're going to see a permanent loss of any rights based on the pandemic.

00:41:26.180 And I think that all indications are that we'll just come out of it okay.

00:41:34.060 New rule.

00:41:35.820 Okay.

00:41:36.340 Yeah, and I've noticed that the grocery stores stopped using gloves and the grocery stores stopped using masks.

00:41:44.780 So the newest thing everybody's talking about is, the newest thing is that if you're vaccinated, you can still get coronavirus.

00:41:53.720 Now, is that being reported as bad news or good news?

00:41:58.880 You know, the famous Mark Twain quote, the Mark Twain quote is that humans can't tell the difference between good news and bad news.

00:42:09.540 And when you first hear that, you say to yourself, well, that's not true.

00:42:13.940 Everybody can tell the difference between good news and bad news.

00:42:18.280 How do you not tell the difference between that?

00:42:21.400 And then you see a million examples.

00:42:24.460 And this is one.

00:42:25.800 If you told me that vaccinated people could still get coronavirus, is that bad news?

00:42:31.120 Because the vaccinated are not going to have a hard time with it.

00:42:35.640 You know, the exception would be somebody who's so close to death with their comorbidities.

00:42:40.080 Yeah, that's bad news for them.

00:42:41.720 But for the average person, let's say me, I'm fully vaccinated.

00:42:46.520 Suppose I also get coronavirus.

00:42:49.240 I'm not going to have any symptoms.

00:42:51.600 And my immunity will increase.

00:42:56.420 Do I not want that?

00:42:57.780 Am I worse off if I have the vaccination and immunity?

00:43:03.120 Isn't the best possible situation to actually get the coronavirus while you're vaccinated?

00:43:11.220 I feel like that makes you better off now, worse off, because I'm not going to get the symptoms.

00:43:16.040 Almost certainly not going to get a long haul anything.

00:43:20.120 I'll just be more immune.

00:43:22.460 And I don't even believe I can give it to people.

00:43:24.740 You know, statistically speaking, the odds of even giving that somebody are just vanishingly small.

00:43:32.340 Now, I heard a statistic that only 15, 1-5, 15% of married people who were infected even gave the virus to a spouse.

00:43:44.980 Which means we don't understand something about this virus.

00:43:47.880 I don't know what it is.

00:43:49.320 But only 15% gave it to a spouse?

00:43:52.360 How is that possible?

00:43:55.520 Doesn't your common sense say that should be well over 50%?

00:43:59.780 But 15?

00:44:01.840 Yeah, there's something deeply mysterious about this.

00:44:05.180 But if you add in the fact that only 15% of your closest human beings even get it, and then you add the vaccination to it,

00:44:12.720 I'm not really worried about having the infection and then giving it to somebody else.

00:44:16.480 Because the amount of shedding I would have as a vaccinated person would be almost nothing.

00:44:25.000 So those were probably false positives.

00:44:27.020 Somebody says, yeah, it could be.

00:44:29.180 How many people who have a positive don't get a second test, though?

00:44:33.240 Do most people?

00:44:34.140 I don't know the answer to that.

00:44:35.660 Yes, and I'm going to double down on my attempt to get the Nobel Prize in science or medicine.

00:44:46.260 I don't care.

00:44:47.440 And I'm going to say it again.

00:44:49.120 I have a hypothesis that there are two kinds of immunity to this virus.

00:44:55.620 And maybe other viruses, too.

00:44:57.040 But let's just limit it to this.

00:44:58.860 Two kinds of immunity.

00:44:59.860 And this is just a hypothesis.

00:45:02.620 One kind of immunity is the kind that you can see and test.

00:45:06.740 So you do a test.

00:45:07.780 You test the antibodies.

00:45:09.480 And there they are.

00:45:10.460 I've got specific antibodies for this virus.

00:45:13.120 That's one kind of immunity.

00:45:14.660 My hypothesis is there's another kind that's undetectable.

00:45:19.500 And the other kind that's undetectable would be, and I'm going to use an analogy.

00:45:23.960 Instead of building a fence that maybe you could detect, because you could just look at it.

00:45:29.280 I'd say, oh, there's a fence.

00:45:30.580 There's maybe another kind of immunity that's more like getting the materials together and stockpiling them.

00:45:37.020 And just being immediately ready if you need to build a fence.

00:45:41.180 So I feel as if there's something we can't quite identify that gives you some kind of pre-immunity

00:45:48.180 safety or a little bit of safety that's not quite immunity that gives you a leg up.

00:45:55.900 And I'm seeing lots of strange comments here.

00:46:02.640 And thank you, Jack.

00:46:03.640 T-cell immunity is well-known and measurable.

00:46:08.520 I'm hearing someone say, Pittsburgh, I cannot answer this call.

00:46:14.160 Sorry, Pittsburgh.

00:46:14.760 But I'm not talking about that, because the T-cell immunity is known.

00:46:20.920 What I'm talking about is that there's literally something that can't be measured,

00:46:24.680 not in T-cells and not in anything that we've measured yet,

00:46:28.200 and that we're somehow more prepped but not immune.

00:46:34.220 So that's what I think.

00:46:35.020 And I think that, and furthermore, I'm going to say that maybe the reason that summer shows a reduction in the virus

00:46:43.860 is that so many people are getting small doses of viral load.

00:46:49.260 Enough to maybe alert their immune system, but not enough to create an immunity that can be measured.

00:46:56.200 So it could be that the very best thing for the country is tiny exposure to the virus all year round.

00:47:03.860 So our bodies are just sort of primed, but not necessarily immune.

00:47:09.440 That is my hypothesis, and I will fully expect to win the Nobel Prize in science or medicine.

00:47:16.500 I'm open to either one.

00:47:19.720 All right.

00:47:20.480 I've got to go do some other things.

00:47:23.700 But it has been a pleasure, as always.

00:47:27.020 And I hope that you will have the best day you've ever had this week.

00:47:32.880 And it starts now.

00:47:35.380 And I will talk to you, YouTube, tomorrow.

00:47:37.380 Thank you.

00:47:37.640 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 07, 2021

Episode 1429 Scott Adams： Biden's Report Card So Far, Fixing Intersectionality, and Coffee

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