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00:00:00.000 Okay, everybody. It's time. It's time for Coffee with Scott Adams, and I think you know it's the

00:00:08.880 best part of the day. Sometimes you'll say to yourself, hey, I think this part of the day is

00:00:13.420 a little bit better than... No. No. You catch yourself, don't you? You just catch yourself and

00:00:19.160 you say, no, it's not better than Coffee with Scott Adams. That doesn't even make sense. In

00:00:25.080 what world could that be true? And if you'd like to take it up a level to see what it's

00:00:30.280 all about, because a lot of you are just lurkers, and you don't do the simultaneous sip, and

00:00:35.400 you're thinking, I don't see what this is all about. I don't understand it. But if you

00:00:40.940 did the simultaneous sip, oh, you'd be plugged in. You'd get it then. And all you need is

00:00:46.220 a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a diner, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel

00:00:51.120 of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled

00:00:58.820 pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. Yeah, it's

00:01:05.740 called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen right now. Go.

00:01:07.900 Wow. So good. So good. Yes, we've got lurkers and we've got slurpers, as pointed out in the

00:01:24.780 comments. Know which one you are. Be a slurper, not a lurker. That's a bumper sticker we can

00:01:32.620 all to believe in. All right, I'm going to add a couple of flags for cognitive dissonance.

00:01:37.720 As you know, I've told you a few things that people say that they consistently say when

00:01:44.960 they're experiencing cognitive dissonance. And so, for example, I've told you before that

00:01:51.780 when somebody starts a sentence with, so, you're saying that snow is made of metal.

00:01:59.060 You probably never said snow is made of metal. It's that, so, you're saying, that's always

00:02:07.520 a tip off that somebody's starting to hallucinate. But here's another one I saw today on Twitter.

00:02:13.400 You've seen it too, in various forums in various places. And it goes like this, quote, the data

00:02:21.120 is very clear. Now, I will allow that there are situations in which the data is very clear.

00:02:29.060 Does smoking cigarettes cause lung cancer? Yes. The data is very clear. But there are some

00:02:38.740 situations in which the phrase, the data is very clear, is nothing but a big old signal

00:02:44.480 that you're having a mental breakdown. You might not know it, but you're hallucinating.

00:02:50.240 So, if you're talking about the pandemic, and you're talking about any data about anything,

00:02:57.340 the effectiveness of vaccinations, the risk of the vaccination itself, the mass, the rates

00:03:04.640 of infection, the testing, any of it, any of it at all. If you're willing to look into that big old mess

00:03:11.160 and say, the data is very clear. I'm sorry. Yes, you pedantic motherfucker. The data are very clear.

00:03:22.260 Yes, data. Data is plural. So, the data are very clear. So, all of you pedantic motherfuckers,

00:03:32.100 you're right. You're right. Yeah, you're right. But may I make a plea from those of us in the 1.00

00:03:42.100 writer-author class, which I put myself in? Do you know how things become common usage?

00:03:50.700 It's because people like me make them common usage. If you don't have a professional writer who's

00:03:56.940 willing to write something that isn't quite perfect grammar, it's never going to become

00:04:02.200 common usage. It'll just be incorrect speech until somebody like me endorses it. So, I hereby

00:04:11.720 endorse the data is. And now, it enters common usage. That's a power that you don't have because

00:04:19.920 you're not a famous author. But if you were a famous author, you could take things which are

00:04:25.020 incorrect grammar, move them into common usage, simply by using them. Let's see if that works.

00:04:34.420 All right. But anyway, if you think the data is very clear on anything in the coronavirus world,

00:04:40.960 you are experiencing cognitive dissonance. Now, here's the fun part. You could be right.

00:04:46.640 In other words, your opinion of whatever is true could be totally right. But if you think

00:04:53.260 the reason you're right is because the data is very clear, that's not even thinking. There's

00:05:03.820 something else going on. Some kind of a hallucination. You're just joining your team or something like

00:05:09.500 that. And you could be right by coincidence. But it's not because the data is very clear.

00:05:17.240 That's certainly not happening. All right. Here's a tweet I said yesterday. I said a reminder that

00:05:26.260 the courts have found no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. You all agree that's

00:05:32.240 true, right? The courts have not found that. But here's a second reminder. If an election system

00:05:38.660 is designed, intentionally designed, such that you can't complete an audit, meaning that there

00:05:47.800 would be elements that can't be audited, if you design it that way, you're designing it for

00:05:54.620 widespread fraud. Would anybody disagree with that statement? If you design a system and you know by

00:06:02.700 the nature of the nature of your design before you've even implemented it, you know that it will

00:06:07.060 be unauditable? What kind of thing have you created? Well, you've created something that has either the

00:06:16.520 intention of being fraud or the inevitable outcome. So here we have a system that apparently can't be

00:06:25.760 audited, because we're learning that as there are attempts to do it. Specifically, I'm talking about

00:06:31.340 the electronic part. You can't really audit some of the things that have been deleted. You can't audit

00:06:37.260 the software that was actually running at the time of the election. You just basically can't get into the

00:06:44.760 proprietary stuff of your own election. It's your own election. And you can't look at how it was done,

00:06:51.320 because it's proprietary. Right? If you design the system that way, you're designing widespread fraud.

00:07:00.040 You only don't, the only thing you don't know is if it hasn't happened yet. Right? Because it's going

00:07:05.840 to happen. You design the system to get that outcome. So let's always keep those two things in mind.

00:07:15.820 The courts have found no widespread, no widespread fraud in the election. None. They have found no

00:07:26.420 widespread fraud. But it is a system designed to create it, either already or fairly soon. There's no

00:07:36.900 way around it, really. Bjorn Lomborg, who is a famous name in the climate change world. I don't want to

00:07:47.900 say he's a skeptic, because he believes climate change is real and humans are causing it. But he is

00:07:56.000 skeptical of some of the doom projections. And he points out that, did you know this, that even

00:08:03.220 according to the IPCC, the most official climate change people, that even according to them, the

00:08:10.500 hurricanes are not getting stronger? Or at least they can't detect that they are. Did you know that?

00:08:17.020 That they can't really find that in the data? Because you know, the data is not very clear.

00:08:24.120 Yeah. The data is not very clear. As Bjorn points out. Now, maybe someday that'll happen. Now,

00:08:33.580 I believe that also he said somewhere that something like the death from natural disasters have decreased

00:08:41.340 something like 99%. That's right. The things we're most worried about from climate change are things

00:08:50.060 that have happened for natural reasons forever. And we're so good at mitigating the risk by building

00:08:57.740 our air conditioning and learning how to build buildings that don't fall down in earthquakes and

00:09:03.420 survive hurricanes and all that. We're at the point where we've reduced the risk by 99% from some

00:09:10.820 historical high. So keep that in mind. The data is not very clear. All right. Let's talk about Hunter's

00:09:24.420 laptop. Tucker Carlson was going after him again. And he said, so were the huge number of emails and texts

00:09:32.380 from Hunter Biden explaining how he was selling access to his father. Now, is that true? I've seen some

00:09:42.220 of the emails, but not all of them. Would you conclude that it is a true statement with no ambiguity

00:09:48.520 that Hunter Biden's emails explained how he was selling access to his father? Would you say that they say

00:09:56.820 that directly? Yeah, selling access is sort of a hyperbolic way to say he was, well, he was selling

00:10:07.620 access. And then there's something, yeah, something about 10% going to the big guy. So there are really

00:10:16.880 some things happening there that appear to be crimes. To my, you know, non-legal mind, they look like

00:10:26.700 crimes to me. But what's going on there? Like, why is it that, you know, we're in a situation where,

00:10:35.500 you know, Trump is in legal jeopardy for something that's a employee benefits tax issue that normally

00:10:43.820 would be a fine and probably not that unusual in corporate America. But Joe, Hunter Biden, not even,

00:10:51.760 not even investigated or anything. Marusha says, I often argue that people can't be that dumb when 0.99

00:11:02.260 it comes to crimes and such. But there are lots of examples where people are that dumb. All right, 1.00

00:11:07.400 I'll take that comment. So here's the thing. What would happen? Let me give you a hypothetical.

00:11:15.220 What would happen if ex-President Trump gets indicted or prosecuted for these financial crimes,

00:11:27.740 alleged financial crimes that normally would just be a fine or something like that? What if he got

00:11:31.980 jail time? And what if Hunter Biden was never even indicted or investigated? Like, what would that do to

00:11:40.140 the country? I feel as if the legal system just can't give us that result? Because it would be

00:11:46.480 too destabilizing. So I don't feel as if the legal system has anything to do with these two cases.

00:11:53.940 Do you? Do you think the legal system will be who decides if Trump gets prosecuted? Not really. I mean,

00:12:03.140 it's going to be a political process. Even if there's a jury, they're going to be just acting

00:12:08.640 politically. And then the Hunter Biden thing is just purely political. So we have these two high

00:12:13.900 profile cases that may or may not be any crimes involved in either one. So let me give the

00:12:20.280 let me give the presumption of innocence to both entities. Presumption of innocence to President

00:12:27.040 Trump. Same extended to Hunter Biden, because we want to live in a country where the presumption of

00:12:32.960 innocence is still meaningful. But I don't see that the legal system is going to make any of these

00:12:38.940 decisions. It just looks like the political system will decide who gets investigated and who goes to

00:12:44.220 jail. So there's your country right there. All right, let's talk about vaccine misinformation,

00:12:51.720 as it's called. Jen Psaki, talking for the White House, said, and you've heard this story,

00:12:58.040 of course. There's about 12 people, she says, that are producing 65 percent of anti-vaccine

00:13:04.480 information. And they remain active on Facebook. Who are the 12 people? And I'm very curious,

00:13:14.300 is Alex Berenson one of the 12? Or are his takes not considered the crazy ones? Because I think,

00:13:23.820 for example, the claim that the vaccination could make you unable to have children or something.

00:13:31.460 I don't know that somebody like Alex Berenson's ever said anything like that. Because I don't think

00:13:36.840 the data suggests that. But, so I know he's still on, he's still on Twitter. But what would it take

00:13:46.200 to get into that category of the 12 people who, who the White House thinks should be banned from

00:13:52.680 Facebook? Oh, I am on Facebook, but I don't really use it. I just use it to look at some family

00:14:02.420 pictures and stuff. I think Twitter suspended it. I think Alex Berenson got maybe temporarily

00:14:11.500 suspended, but he's there today. And I'm just wondering where they're going to draw the line.

00:14:16.980 Because I think we would all agree that there are people spreading misinformation about vaccines,

00:14:23.680 right? Would anybody disagree that that exists? That it's a thing? And that no matter what you think

00:14:30.740 to be true about vaccinations, would you also agree that there are people spreading misinformation?

00:14:37.540 Does anybody disagree with that? I mean, that's just basic, right? It's the internet,

00:14:41.300 so people are spreading misinformation. But we really need a list of those 12 people. Has anybody

00:14:48.120 produced that? Yeah, who are the 12? Because we're talking about it in the abstract, and we

00:14:54.580 shouldn't be doing that. I mean, it's okay to talk about the abstract, but we have, you know, 12-ish

00:15:01.420 specific names. Somebody says it has been published. The list was published on local, oh, here we go.

00:15:09.120 I'm seeing somebody post the list on, okay, here we go. YouTube, I'm going to be reading this from a

00:15:18.780 comment over on the locals platform, subscription platform where you can follow me and other people

00:15:24.680 for a subscription. They can post images in the comments, which is a big advantage over YouTube.

00:15:33.240 So I'm looking at one of the images. It looks like the names are Joseph Mercola, Robert F.

00:15:43.060 Kennedy Jr., Democrat, okay. Ty and Charlene Bollinger, Sherry Tenpenny, Riza Islam, Rashid Botar,

00:15:54.420 Erin Elizabeth Sayer J.I., Kelly Brogan, I've heard of her, Christian Northrup, Ben Tapper,

00:16:04.400 and Kevin Jenkins. All right. Ben Tapper, that's interesting. No relation to anybody we know,

00:16:16.920 I'm sure. So Emma says, nope, it's all truths. So I've only heard of a few of those names,

00:16:27.120 and I don't know how much of their information I've seen. I feel like none. I don't feel like

00:16:32.800 I've seen any of their tweets or anything. Have you? All right. So thank you for pasting that in

00:16:41.980 there. That was really helpful. All right. So those are the 12 people. I'd love to see what

00:16:45.920 they're saying or what their specific misinformation is, but I don't know that the internet is going to

00:16:51.740 miss any of them, right? Now, as I've often said, critics are a national asset, right? So I talk about

00:17:01.760 Alex Berenson fairly often because I feel like I disagree with him a lot more than I agree.

00:17:08.680 And yet, you need him, right? You need somebody to do what he's doing, which is to be super skeptical

00:17:19.040 about everything, because you just need that. Somebody has to occupy that space, right? And

00:17:25.260 he does that. So I'm glad he's not on the list, even though I find myself disagreeing with him more

00:17:31.280 than agreeing. All right. Let's talk about persuasion and how the Biden administration is doing on the

00:17:40.320 vaccinations. Are you ready to be deeply offended? Because that's coming up. There are some things

00:17:48.220 I do which I know in advance aren't going to go down well with my audience. But on the other hand,

00:17:54.860 it is why you come here. All right? If it hurts a little bit, it's probably, you know, what you signed

00:18:03.560 up for, okay? And here's what's going to hurt. I'm going to disagree with what the Biden administration

00:18:10.820 is doing, but I'm going to compliment them for the leadership and the technique.

00:18:18.600 Can you handle that? Can you handle that? I don't like what they're doing, but the mechanism they're

00:18:26.160 using, the skill that they're using, it's pretty good. Let's talk about that. So CDC Director Walensky

00:18:34.540 said, and apparently this is going to be sort of their branding message, that this is becoming a

00:18:40.780 pandemic of the unvaccinated. Does that sound familiar? Do you ever wonder if the Democrats ever watch the

00:18:52.280 communicators that are more associated with the right? And I would say I'm in that category, even 0.53

00:18:58.600 though I don't associate myself with the right, but in terms of my audience, yes. Do you remember I got in

00:19:06.820 trouble for a tweet saying that if you're vaccinated, or if you're unvaccinated, you're in a pandemic,

00:19:11.720 but if you're vaccinated, it's just Wednesday? Do you remember I did that tweet and it got a lot of

00:19:17.640 attention? And I did hear from some people at, let's say, senior levels, not Democrats, that that tweet got

00:19:27.260 a lot of attention. And today, I'm saying that the main message coming out of the Biden administration

00:19:33.600 is basically a rewording of that idea, that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.

00:19:41.120 So I didn't do that intentionally. And as I've told you, and I mean this, by the way,

00:19:47.680 I'm deadly serious about this. I am not trying to persuade anybody on vaccinations. That would be

00:19:56.800 completely unethical. I'm not a doctor. But I certainly can talk about it. Can't I? Is it

00:20:05.460 unethical for me to simply give you my opinion, or to tell you that I'm vaccinated? Or what set of

00:20:12.240 risks and risks and benefits I considered? Because my risks and rewards are not yours.

00:20:19.620 So I can say, well, I thought it made sense from my psychology and all things considered. But that's

00:20:27.000 not a recommendation for you. If you're 20 years old and healthy, your situation isn't mine. You're

00:20:34.620 in a different state. Your situation isn't mine. So don't take my example as persuasion. But I am

00:20:42.240 also aware of the fact that it has that effect. But it's not intentional. Seriously, it's not

00:20:47.460 intentional. I would consider it deeply unethical and inappropriate on every level if I were trying

00:20:55.060 to influence you on a medical decision that's way beyond my expertise. So you can look at my decisions

00:21:05.400 and you can say what you like about them, et cetera, and make your own decisions. But we can also talk about

00:21:10.160 what's true and try to figure that out. Now, I'm not going to get it right every time, right? I'm not your

00:21:17.200 live streaming host who gets everything right. But wrestling with it, I think, has some value.

00:21:24.220 You know, I would, I feel that. But I am aware that I influence accidentally. So here's the question.

00:21:31.600 Do you think I influence this? Do you think that the Democrats are smart enough to at least

00:21:38.180 watch the messaging coming from people who are trained to do this stuff?

00:21:42.540 Because if they're not watching me by now, they're sort of missing a big opportunity.

00:21:50.680 Because I at least explain things in a way that would help them create better strategies. You know,

00:21:56.000 even if they disagreed with me on everything, it would still be useful for them to see how I frame

00:22:00.580 stuff. So probably an accident. I'm going to say it's more likely to be an accident than an influence.

00:22:07.520 But I compliment it. It's really good framing. All right. So can you handle this? Can you handle

00:22:14.860 me complimenting technique, but still thinking maybe, maybe they shouldn't be forcing people to

00:22:22.360 get vaccinated? Are you all good with that? Can we do that? I'm sure we can handle that. All right.

00:22:29.600 And this is really going to kill you. Joe Biden is showing impressive leadership

00:22:39.660 on the vaccination stuff. Oh, don't sign off yet. There's more to say. It's just true. Now,

00:22:50.940 do you want to be led to get the vaccination? Oh, that's a separate question. The question of whether

00:22:57.060 you should be vaccinated, or anybody individually should be, that's a separate question. Just hold

00:23:03.440 that for a second, right? We'll talk about that separately. But is he is he showing leadership?

00:23:11.480 The answer is yes. Right? I'm not not the big Joe Biden fan. I don't think his capabilities are

00:23:18.780 anywhere near what we need for a president. But let's define leadership. Is leadership telling

00:23:26.700 people to eat cookies when they were already hungry and they love cookies? No. No. Telling

00:23:35.440 people to eat cookies when they're hungry and they really enjoy eating cookies is not leadership

00:23:40.220 because they're just doing what they want to do. How about telling people to go to war when you know

00:23:49.040 that some of those people, specifically the people in the battles, will get killed. But it's bad for

00:23:56.000 those people who get killed and wounded and the families, etc. But the idea is that it might be good

00:24:01.520 for the greater, you know, national interest. Is that leadership? Yes. Yes. Leadership is telling

00:24:09.760 individuals, I've decided you're going to get killed for the greater good. That's leadership. Right?

00:24:18.500 Otherwise, you're just telling people what they want to hear. And that's, you know, that could be lots

00:24:22.940 of other things. But it's not leadership. Leadership is getting you to do something you really don't want

00:24:29.160 to fucking do. Because you think it's good for the whole. Now, is that true? Is it good for the whole? 0.99

00:24:37.260 Is it good for the whole if everybody got vaccinated? Reasonable people could disagree. Right? I'm not even

00:24:46.140 going to have that conversation today. Reasonable people can disagree on that. And so that's why you

00:24:54.120 need leadership. Right? Leadership is the tiebreaker. Leadership is the one who says, yeah, that's a reasonable

00:25:00.860 view. And the other side is a reasonable view. We're going to do one of those two things. And at least the people

00:25:07.800 with the other reasonable view, well, you're screwed. I'm going to push this through. That's leadership. So you 0.99

00:25:15.180 could certainly argue, and I won't give you any pushback to this, that he's leading us in the wrong

00:25:20.700 direction. Right? And certainly you could argue, and I'm not saying that. I'm just saying you could

00:25:27.400 argue that very easily. And secondly, it could be terrible for you individually. Right? Very much

00:25:36.340 like being drafted and being sent off to a war, maybe a war you don't even agree with. Maybe it's

00:25:41.640 Vietnam. Wouldn't that be terrible for the individual, you know, patriot who went over there, joined the

00:25:48.100 military, who was trying to do something good, and you end up in Vietnam doing maybe nothing that's

00:25:53.360 useful? That's leadership. What have I often said about leadership? Does anybody know what I've

00:26:02.980 often said about leadership? It's evil. It's evil. Leadership, even if you need it, and even if it's good

00:26:15.060 for the country in general, it's evil. It's evil. Because it makes you do something you don't want

00:26:20.860 to do. It makes some people go off and die who weren't going to die otherwise. It's pure evil. It's

00:26:28.120 also why I can't do it. A lot of people ask, you know, why don't you run for office? Scott, you're such

00:26:34.720 a critic. Why don't you run for office? And the reason that I'm not a CEO, and the reason that,

00:26:41.900 or it wouldn't be a good one, well, I am a CEO of my own corporation, I guess. But I don't, you know,

00:26:47.880 manage a large group of people. And I don't want to run for office because I can't do evil things.

00:26:55.400 It's just hard for me to do evil things. And leadership is evil. Because you're choosing who

00:27:00.860 dies. For the greater good. You know, there's an argument for it. But you're still choosing who

00:27:06.960 dies. And I don't like signing up for that personally. So I would say that Biden, when he

00:27:14.400 said that Facebook, about Facebook, they're killing people. I'm sorry. I like it. For technique.

00:27:23.500 Only for technique. Doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean you should take a vaccination. Just technique.

00:27:29.560 He says it directly. He says it simply. And he says it with authority. It's really good,

00:27:39.620 persuasion-wise. But again, make your own decision of whether he should be persuading that at all.

00:27:47.840 All right. This won't be the first time that the U.S. government has brainwashed the public

00:27:54.440 on an issue of safety. Is it? In the comments, I want to see how many examples you can come up with

00:28:04.880 where the U.S. government, we'll just limit it to U.S. to keep it simple, where the U.S. government

00:28:11.580 brainwashed its citizens for something it said was good for them. I see the war on drugs. I see

00:28:22.140 helmets, Patriot Act, war on terror, Japanese internment camps. I'm just reading what's going

00:28:28.280 on. The food pyramid, swine flu, gun control, low-fat stuff, sugar, drinking water quality,

00:28:38.960 fluoride, MSG, seatbelts, littering, electric cars, war on terror, Iraq, Haiti twice, fluoride

00:28:47.020 water. Now, I'm not agreeing with all of your comments, meaning that I don't think these are

00:28:53.660 all examples of that. But there certainly is some indication here that your government

00:29:01.380 routinely brainwashes you, wouldn't you say? Could we all agree on the following statement?

00:29:09.480 Some of the examples I don't agree with. But could we agree with the general statement that

00:29:14.360 your government routinely, routinely brainwashes the public? What do you think the Pledge of

00:29:23.840 Allegiance is? It's just brainwashing. Now, it happens to be productive brainwashing that

00:29:29.620 I completely agree with. We should definitely have the Pledge of Allegiance. It's good for

00:29:34.500 the country. It gives us some cohesive unity, et cetera. But it's brainwashing. Your country

00:29:41.040 brainwashes you all the time for your own good, in their opinion. Now, some of the stuff like

00:29:49.000 weapons of mass destruction, et cetera, were not in your best interest. But there are plenty

00:29:55.060 of examples where they do brainwash you for your own best interest. So the problem, I think,

00:30:00.940 is whether they get it right, much less so than the problem of whether they're doing it.

00:30:08.160 All right. Meanwhile, Washington Examiner is reporting that YouTube was fined €100,000, which

00:30:25.380 would be about $118,000, by a German court for removing a video of a coronavirus lockdown

00:30:32.460 protest in Switzerland. It's the highest on record in Germany. So Germany's laws and U.S. 0.51

00:30:39.640 laws are pretty different. But interesting, there's at least one country's courts fighting

00:30:46.740 back against, I suppose, what they would call censorship.

00:30:49.860 And my notes are a mess here. I'll get back to the coronavirus stuff. I just have to inject

00:31:02.780 this. Did you see Joe Biden's statements when he was with Merkel? Laura Engram's show had

00:31:11.180 some clips that were just hilarious. One of the clips was Biden trying to form a sentence,

00:31:17.460 and he just kept going and adding words, but it wasn't making any sense, and he finally

00:31:22.140 just sort of gave up. It was just a bunch of babble words in the end. I feel like maybe

00:31:29.680 you could tease out some meaning from it. But what I wondered was, how did the translator

00:31:36.980 handle it? And on Laura Engram's show, they asked the same question. And I thought, that's

00:31:42.860 a really good question. Literally, it's a good question. If you're an interpreter, and you're

00:31:49.240 trying to translate Biden, and he goes into one of his nonsense babble sentences, what do

00:31:54.920 you do? Do you wait and see if you can figure out what the main concept was? Or do you keep

00:32:02.120 or do you translate as it goes? Because if you translate as it goes, people are going

00:32:08.660 to think you're a bad translator. Right? Because they hear you translating, and they say, well,

00:32:14.180 that translation doesn't make any sense. So we get a bad translator here. Clearly, nobody

00:32:20.440 would say those words, because they're a bunch of nonsense. It's just words put together. 0.82

00:32:25.580 It's babble. But that's actually what he was doing. He was actually babbling. Now, and that's

00:32:33.280 a serious question. Is anybody a translator? Has anybody done that job? What would you do?

00:32:39.660 Like, literally a serious question. Do you translate it? Or just wait, and then try to summarize it

00:32:46.460 if he ever gets to a point, or do you just skip it? What the hell do you do with that? Anyway,

00:32:51.700 my favorite part was he misstated something about Angela Merkel and said that she was the largest

00:33:06.060 chancellor since Helmut Kohl. Helmut Kohl was not a thin man. Helmut Kohl was sort of a large

00:33:16.020 man. Angela Merkel, nobody has called her svelte in a few years. The words that, the words she

00:33:29.040 never hears is, well, you're looking svelte today. And Joe Biden goes up there, calls her

00:33:36.060 the largest chancellor since Helmut Kohl. Now, he did notice, he realized what he said, and

00:33:42.100 he corrected quickly. So, but it's still funny. So apparently, the L.A. is going to reinstitute

00:33:52.860 a mask requirement, because there are more infections, I guess. And the L.A. County Sheriff

00:33:58.740 just said, well, this is the funniest statement from an L.A. County Sheriff or any Sheriff. He

00:34:04.620 said, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, blah, blah, has authority to enforce

00:34:09.640 the order, but the underfunded slash defunded Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department will

00:34:16.340 not expend our limited resources and instead ask for voluntary compliance. He's basically

00:34:24.540 telling you to go ahead and violate the law or whatever this is. Is it a law? Or is it a

00:34:31.860 guideline? What the hell is it? It's an order. So it's called an order. I don't know. Do you

00:34:38.160 have to obey an order? How does that work? Do you have to obey an order from the government

00:34:45.000 if it's not a law? What does it even mean, an order? Who the fuck gives me an order? I'll

00:34:55.400 obey a rule. I might even obey a law. But an order? An order, really? You're going to give

00:35:04.960 me a fucking order to wear a mask. I don't think so. Maybe a suggestion. I'll listen to 1.00

00:35:12.720 a suggestion. And if it's a law, I'll probably obey it. But an order? No. No, thank you.

00:35:21.960 So then he said, we encourage the DPH to work with the Board of Supervisors to come up with

00:35:33.260 some mandates that are, quote, both achievable and supportable by science. Because he pointed

00:35:39.360 out that the CDC says it's not science. So best LA County Sheriff ever. His response to this

00:35:48.700 is just brilliant. It's just brilliant. It's just the best response ever. And so it turns

00:35:55.740 out that my county is one of the idiot counties that is going to require masks again. Will 1.00

00:36:02.800 I be wearing masks in stores? Well, I think I'm going to go into the, what would you call

00:36:13.140 it a, what do you call it when you deny, you don't follow the rules? You're a conscientious

00:36:21.520 subjector. That's what it is. I believe I will be a conscientious objector. And by that

00:36:27.340 I mean, if a store in my local area is requiring a mask for vaccinated people, which I am, I'm

00:36:35.580 going to enter the store without my mask and I'm going to make them ask me to leave. If

00:36:41.920 they do ask me to leave, I will very obediently leave, but also point out that the CDC disagrees

00:36:50.860 that there is any reason for me to leave. Now they won't get the benefit of my money and

00:36:57.260 I'll be very polite about it because the store owner is not my enemy, right? Remember the store

00:37:03.080 owner is a victim just like you. Store owner is not your enemy. So don't be an asshole to

00:37:10.420 the store owner if they try to enforce it to try to keep staying in trouble. The store 1.00

00:37:15.220 owner is not the asshole, right? So just be polite to them. But my personal decision is 0.99

00:37:24.280 that I will be a conscientious objector and I will enter without a mask and I will politely

00:37:31.420 explain why. And if there are enough of me, it's over because we can't let the government

00:37:37.960 make this decision for us. In the beginning, of course, because it's, you know, emergency

00:37:43.760 and it's better to listen to the government in an emergency than probably not. You know,

00:37:49.760 most cases there could be exceptions, but we're past that part. Remember, what did the White 0.99

00:37:56.400 House just tell me? The White House just said it's only a pandemic for unvaccinated people.

00:38:04.940 What am I? Vaccinated. I'm not in a pandemic. The White House told me I'm personally not in

00:38:14.180 a pandemic. So I'm going to act like it, right? Somebody says, I just pretend I'm deaf and keep

00:38:22.200 walking. Yeah, I don't know what kind of enforcement there is. So what would happen if you

00:38:28.760 just ignore it? That would be my recommendation for those who are so inclined. Here's a sign I'd

00:38:35.380 like to see in a California store window. I don't think this will happen, but it's what I'd like to

00:38:40.660 see. And it sort of borrows the LA County Sheriff's concept here. Let's say it's Alameda County where I

00:38:48.540 live. I'd like to see a sign that says, the County of Alameda has reinstated mask requirements.

00:38:54.160 We welcome them to help us enforce that requirement. This store is not staffed for that function.

00:39:01.720 Do you know why stores don't have enough staff? The government. Because the government is paying

00:39:08.500 people not to work. So how can the store have enough staff to deal with masks and also deal with

00:39:16.320 the business of the store when they can't even hire enough people because the government is paying

00:39:21.400 people not to work? So I think it would be perfectly fair for a store to say, I fully support your mask

00:39:30.200 requirement. And I sure wish I could hire enough people to help you with that. But I can't. So I'm not

00:39:36.860 going to. We don't have anybody in that position. The mask, the position of mask, what would you call it?

00:39:46.000 Proctor or something? The mask Proctor position is open. You can even put a help wanted sign.

00:39:54.920 Mask mandate enforcer wanted. And just show that it's an open position. Enforcers, yes.

00:40:04.800 All right. People are asking, there's a hashtag, Hey Tucker now, for people asking Tucker Carlson

00:40:11.440 to tell the public if he has been vaccinated himself. What do you think of that? Do you think

00:40:19.120 that Tucker Carlson, a private citizen with a public job, do you think that he should violate

00:40:26.920 his, you know, HIPAA privacy rights and tell you if he's personally vaccinated? What do you think

00:40:35.500 that? I would say he should not, if he doesn't want to. Meaning that, you know, it needs to

00:40:51.900 be up to him, of course, as it should be up to all of us. You saw me make my decision,

00:40:56.520 right? So my decision was that I'm a public figure. And I talk about this topic all the time.

00:41:02.060 And it would be, in my view, it would be unethical not to tell you my own decision.

00:41:09.780 But that's a very personal kind of a thing. I don't think it would be unethical for anybody else.

00:41:15.760 You know, that's just personally how I feel about it. Anybody else, that's fine.

00:41:20.840 Somebody says, you are older. Exactly. Exactly. This is why talking about it, I think, is fair.

00:41:26.440 I'm being begged to get off of this live stream right now for something important. And I'll go

00:41:41.620 in a moment. Yeah, I can tell you what my situation is, my comorbidities, and then tell

00:41:48.940 you what I did. But that doesn't mean that's your situation. It doesn't mean you should

00:41:53.280 follow my lead. All right. France has apparently found a workaround where they got, apparently,

00:42:00.420 Macron got pushed through something that says that you've got to have some kind of a passport

00:42:06.460 or vaccination to do some public stuff. And it pushed up their vaccination rate like crazy.

00:42:13.560 So a lot of people are getting vaccinated in France. So let me reiterate. Information is good.

00:42:21.340 If somebody wants to tell you they got vaccinated. Great. But coercion and persuasion on this

00:42:28.900 topic, I feel is inappropriate and unethical. And I would avoid doing it. Although I realize

00:42:35.280 I do it accidentally. All right. I do have to go. And so I do have to go. And thank you for

00:42:49.300 putting up with me again. And I'll talk to you again soon.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 17, 2021

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