Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 25, 2021


Episode 1448 Scott Adams： Trump Flips ＂The Big Lie＂, Olympics Still Suck, Delta Variant Looks Fishy, More


Episode Stats

Length

49 minutes

Words per Minute

143.54387

Word Count

7,077

Sentence Count

482

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

20


Summary

Scott Adams talks about a leopard being spotted at the San Diego Zoo, Team USA not winning a medal on opening day of the Olympic Games, and why we don t care as much about our athletes as we used to.


Transcript

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00:01:18.560 So, there's lots of big news.
00:01:23.040 Let's talk about some of it.
00:01:25.540 How about that?
00:01:27.060 Good idea, I think.
00:01:29.020 All right.
00:01:29.360 Number one, there's some breaking news from the San Diego Zoo.
00:01:35.500 There's, as you know, COVID can sometimes infect animals.
00:01:40.560 And it turns out that a leopard at the San Diego Zoo, with COVID, has been spotted.
00:01:52.320 I'll just leave that there.
00:01:54.100 It's just a leopard has been spotted.
00:01:57.360 Moving on.
00:01:58.240 It turns out that Team USA won no medals on opening day for the first time in 49 years.
00:02:07.180 So, the Olympic team, not too impressive, no wins on the first day.
00:02:13.460 Now, if you're looking for a reason why that happened, it's also the first Olympics that our
00:02:23.160 athletes have ever been kneeling.
00:02:24.880 I don't know, do you think that there's a correlation?
00:02:29.080 That when your athletes who are trying to be in a winning head get on their knees before
00:02:34.560 the competition, that maybe that doesn't put them in the right frame of mind.
00:02:39.940 Could it be that the athletes don't have the support, sort of the moral, psychological support
00:02:48.200 of their country?
00:02:52.420 Because they kind of don't.
00:02:54.880 I mean, not like they used to.
00:02:57.560 Think about the last few years and what athletes as a class have done for their brand.
00:03:06.460 You got your LeBron being a big old idiot, you know, destroying the brand.
00:03:12.780 You've got your Tiger Woods doing some dumbass stuff.
00:03:17.420 You know, pick an example.
00:03:18.880 You've got your Colin Kaepernick's, who I support in terms of his protests, et cetera.
00:03:25.560 But he's not very popular with a lot of the country, so he's not helping the brand too much.
00:03:31.620 How about Megan Ripon now?
00:03:33.320 How about Alex Rodriguez?
00:03:34.860 I mean, he's retired, but we still hear about him.
00:03:37.400 Doesn't it seem to you that when there's news about an athlete, it's that they're kneeling
00:03:45.920 and disrespecting the country, saying something dumb about politics, driving their car into
00:03:51.160 the woods?
00:03:51.680 Or what?
00:03:55.700 You know, the entire relationship that America has with its athletes has changed from, oh,
00:04:02.960 these are our special people, look how awesome they are, to what the hell's wrong with these
00:04:08.160 people?
00:04:08.460 So you've got a bunch of athletes that we simply don't care about the same way we did
00:04:14.420 even a year ago.
00:04:15.860 It's just a fact, isn't it?
00:04:18.120 Well, I don't have any science to back that up.
00:04:21.340 But don't you feel like we don't respect our athletes anymore?
00:04:25.940 And I feel it's because they stopped respecting the country, at least the same way.
00:04:32.840 And so, should we be surprised that our athletes that are not fully supported by the public they
00:04:39.300 represent are not exceeding?
00:04:41.980 You know, they're not excelling?
00:04:43.600 I don't know.
00:04:44.020 I think there's a psychological element to this that can't be ignored.
00:04:50.520 And, you know, today we're more likely to think of athletes as just assholes.
00:04:55.820 You know, it wasn't long ago that if you said, oh, this famous athlete, you would just
00:04:59.740 automatically have a good opinion of them.
00:05:02.840 But if you say a professional athlete did whatever in 2021, at least part of your brain
00:05:09.200 is thinking, eh, it's probably an asshole.
00:05:11.840 There's so many assholes now that are athletes.
00:05:14.720 Eh, probably just an asshole.
00:05:16.900 So, Olympics aren't what they used to be.
00:05:23.480 But they might be funnier.
00:05:26.400 Here's the funniest thing from the Olympics.
00:05:28.120 The South Korean, I guess they're broadcasting in South Korea like they are around the world,
00:05:34.680 the Olympics are.
00:05:38.800 The South Korean TV was putting an image up for each of the countries as they were being
00:05:46.440 introduced.
00:05:47.060 But let's just say they didn't think that through as completely as they could have.
00:05:54.300 So some of the images that they put in the air for the different countries is when Italy
00:06:01.560 came up, they put an image of pizza up.
00:06:05.780 That's it.
00:06:06.880 That's all you need to know about Italy.
00:06:09.360 Pizza.
00:06:09.720 But that's not the funny one.
00:06:14.040 When Romanian athletes came out, they put out a picture of Dracula.
00:06:23.860 So the South Koreans decided that the one image that sums up Romania is Count Dracula.
00:06:33.640 And the one image that sums up Italy is just pizza.
00:06:40.760 That's it.
00:06:41.360 It's just pizza.
00:06:43.180 I think Sweden was a filleted fish or something.
00:06:46.980 So I guess they had to apologize.
00:06:53.000 That's funny.
00:06:55.160 All right.
00:06:56.360 Here's the other loser story from the Olympics.
00:06:59.540 I think I'm watching the Olympics for all the wrong reasons.
00:07:04.260 I'm just looking for all the funny shit.
00:07:06.820 So here's another one.
00:07:10.020 Okay.
00:07:10.420 This is tragic for the person it happened to.
00:07:14.980 If it seems that I'm laughing at somebody else's tragedy, well, you're not wrong.
00:07:20.440 Because I will be laughing at somebody's tragedy in a moment.
00:07:23.120 But, so Dutch cyclist, Annemiek van Vluten, threw her arms up in the air.
00:07:36.600 I think this might have been, was it on CNN?
00:07:40.720 She was very happy when she crossed the finish line first in her cycling competition.
00:07:45.700 And she threw her arms up in the air and celebrated her first place win.
00:07:50.120 Imagine that.
00:07:50.960 You're not practicing all your life, all that hard work.
00:07:54.640 You get to the Olympics.
00:07:55.680 You cross the finish line first.
00:07:58.300 Throw up your arms.
00:07:59.700 Greatest moment of your life.
00:08:03.340 Except that wasn't the finish line.
00:08:05.860 And when she paused to celebrate what wasn't the finish line,
00:08:09.680 apparently some other cyclists kind of went past her.
00:08:14.620 And she lost.
00:08:16.820 And the only reason she lost is because she celebrated winning before she got to the finish line.
00:08:23.940 Otherwise she would have won.
00:08:25.300 She got the gold medal.
00:08:27.240 Now, I believe that it is pure cruelty to have an Olympic event that people practice for all their life,
00:08:37.300 put all of their future, their hopes, and their dreams into it.
00:08:41.620 And it just happens once, and only one person can get the gold.
00:08:45.160 Basically, you're creating a situation where everybody turns into a disappointed loser,
00:08:53.740 except for one person, and in this case it was by luck.
00:08:57.400 The person who won the gold just got lucky because the other person messed up and celebrated too early.
00:09:02.280 So we're celebrating, we're making people work their entire early lives to get ready for this event that has no meaning.
00:09:10.700 We don't really care about it.
00:09:12.560 And if something like this happens, they've wasted their whole life.
00:09:16.480 If you got coronavirus right before the Olympics and you had trained your whole life for it,
00:09:21.860 it was just a waste of time.
00:09:23.560 You got nothing.
00:09:24.160 And to me, teaching children to prepare all their life for something where you've got exactly one shot,
00:09:33.700 usually, sometimes you can come back for another Olympic,
00:09:36.640 but in lots of cases you've got one shot.
00:09:38.380 You can practice all your life for that, and then it doesn't work out.
00:09:42.340 It's a terrible strategy.
00:09:44.080 Now, it does make sense to practice for, let's say, a professional sport,
00:09:47.820 because you can lose lots of games and still win the championship.
00:09:51.320 So it's not like one situation is your whole deal,
00:09:56.140 but Olympics, just a terrible model for something.
00:09:59.880 Well, here's another story that, this is literally the headline on Fox News.
00:10:04.880 Duncan Robinson disappointed that he wasn't chosen as token white guy replacement
00:10:09.180 for the NBA, not NBA, but the Olympics basketball team, the American team.
00:10:15.280 That's the actual headline.
00:10:16.680 Duncan Robinson disappointed that he wasn't chosen as token white guy replacement,
00:10:22.780 because the one white guy on the team, I guess, couldn't make it or something.
00:10:28.580 Now, they do link to the story in which the context is given
00:10:32.220 that he was called a token white guy by, I believe, a black sports commentator.
00:10:39.380 Jalen Ross, was it?
00:10:40.560 I don't, Rose?
00:10:41.060 I don't watch sports, so I don't really know all the characters.
00:10:45.660 And they just report it.
00:10:49.460 They literally just report it like it's just a fact.
00:10:52.020 He's just the token white guy we sent to the Olympics.
00:10:54.680 How more ridiculous can the Olympics be
00:10:57.180 that we're even talking about a headline about the token white guy we sent?
00:11:03.340 All right, that's ridiculous on many levels.
00:11:05.740 All right, oh, another one.
00:11:13.600 Oh, I'm sorry.
00:11:15.500 Some of my notes are out of order.
00:11:17.580 But the other thing that the South Korean announcers did
00:11:20.080 is when they showed the Marshall Islands,
00:11:23.920 they described it as once a nuclear test site for the U.S.
00:11:28.460 And when Ukraine's athletes entered,
00:11:30.320 the South Korean announcers showed an image of the Chernobyl disaster.
00:11:35.740 So Ukraine just gets a picture of the Chernobyl disaster.
00:11:42.340 That's their Olympic glory.
00:11:45.300 All right.
00:11:47.660 In what I'd call the what-took-so-long news,
00:11:52.320 apparently Trump at his rally yesterday did his trick,
00:11:57.000 which I thought you knew was going to come, right?
00:11:59.160 Remember when he flipped around the term fake news?
00:12:04.300 It was used against him.
00:12:05.740 And against Fox News.
00:12:07.560 By CNN and MSNBC and all the lefty sites.
00:12:11.380 And then Trump basically owned it and made it his
00:12:14.000 and turned fake news into what his enemies were doing.
00:12:17.880 And that's the way we think of it today.
00:12:19.800 It doesn't even mean anything except
00:12:21.540 what Trump's enemies are saying about him.
00:12:25.620 And then there was his same enemies used this great branding
00:12:30.660 of calling it the big lie that Trump said that the election was fraudulent.
00:12:36.620 Now, didn't you know that eventually Trump would turn that around?
00:12:42.900 As soon as the big lie became a universal term?
00:12:46.700 Sure enough, here we go.
00:12:48.360 He said yesterday at the rally, quote,
00:12:53.080 the big lie, they call it.
00:12:54.720 You know what is the big lie?
00:12:56.400 The opposite was the big lie.
00:12:58.520 The election was the big lie.
00:13:01.260 Here we go.
00:13:02.540 Now, I'm pretty sure he's going to hammer that again.
00:13:08.820 It seems unlikely that he's going to do a one and done on that.
00:13:12.200 Because it works.
00:13:14.000 It's exactly the right strategy.
00:13:15.960 It's exactly the right.
00:13:16.840 And I would tweak it a little bit
00:13:19.420 because I'm not comfortable with it the way it is.
00:13:22.340 I was very comfortable with saying that CNN was fake news.
00:13:25.640 So when Trump turned that one around, I could fully embrace it.
00:13:29.780 But certainly I don't have, personally,
00:13:32.560 I don't have access to any proof that the election was fraudulent.
00:13:36.860 But it certainly is a big lie that we know it was fair.
00:13:41.280 Wouldn't you say?
00:13:42.320 It's definitely the big lie that we know for sure it was fair.
00:13:47.180 Because we don't know that.
00:13:48.520 The software part of it is unauditable,
00:13:51.440 and therefore you can't possibly know.
00:13:53.760 So I think this is the right way to go,
00:13:56.580 although I would have tweaked it and said that what we don't know
00:13:59.100 and the big lie is that we know it was fair.
00:14:02.180 That's a little bit cleaner than knowing it was fraudulent.
00:14:05.100 But, you know, Trump's always going to go
00:14:06.920 for the most provocative form of the message,
00:14:09.460 so I'd expect him to stay where he's at.
00:14:13.100 And I didn't even know that Trump did this
00:14:15.220 until I saw CNN trying to inoculate against it.
00:14:19.240 So they sent their official troll,
00:14:23.060 Stephen Collinson, who's the...
00:14:25.180 He's the one they hired, I think,
00:14:27.180 specifically to say bad things about Trump every day.
00:14:30.140 And he does a lot of opinion pieces.
00:14:32.380 And here's what Collinson said.
00:14:34.040 He said,
00:14:34.320 The fact that lies in conspiracy theories
00:14:36.640 now represents sincerely held views
00:14:39.340 of a large minority of the electorate,
00:14:41.700 thanks to Trump's mastery of demagoguery
00:14:43.900 and the endless flattery
00:14:45.720 of a compliant right-wing propaganda machine.
00:14:49.860 Now, I think what he's trying to say,
00:14:53.420 Stephen Collinson,
00:14:54.700 is that Trump is really, really persuasive.
00:14:58.280 Now, in this context,
00:14:59.920 he thinks that he would be persuading,
00:15:01.500 Trump would be persuading people
00:15:02.960 to believe something that's not true,
00:15:05.140 according to Collinson.
00:15:06.800 But do you remember,
00:15:09.140 oh, back in 2016 or so,
00:15:12.460 when I was telling the world
00:15:14.060 that Trump is the most persuasive person
00:15:16.420 I've ever seen?
00:15:18.820 And what did people say?
00:15:20.880 They said,
00:15:21.880 He's not persuasive.
00:15:24.300 He's just, you know, whatever,
00:15:26.100 and people just like him.
00:15:27.060 That's all.
00:15:27.740 And he gets a lot of attention.
00:15:29.280 That's all.
00:15:31.060 And one by one,
00:15:33.240 you would see Trump doing
00:15:34.220 all of these persuasive things.
00:15:36.300 You would see it completely working.
00:15:38.740 And now we're at the point
00:15:39.820 where he is so persuasive
00:15:41.640 that CNN is concerned
00:15:44.180 that they will take, once again,
00:15:46.720 take their fake framing of the big lie
00:15:49.280 and turn it around on him.
00:15:51.060 So they're worried that he's so persuasive
00:15:53.280 he could do
00:15:54.060 what really almost nobody could do.
00:15:56.820 Could you name anybody else
00:15:59.140 who could do that?
00:16:00.460 Take this big lie thing
00:16:01.800 that's already out there
00:16:02.640 and it's big
00:16:03.260 and it already has a meaning.
00:16:05.180 Can he take that
00:16:06.060 already a fully formed meme
00:16:08.820 or thought in the world
00:16:10.160 and flip it around
00:16:12.020 like he did with fake news?
00:16:16.400 Yes.
00:16:17.840 Yes, he has the ability to do that.
00:16:20.540 Name one other person
00:16:21.860 on the whole fucking planet
00:16:24.360 who you would say,
00:16:26.380 yeah, that's,
00:16:27.260 he could do that
00:16:28.000 or she could do that.
00:16:29.700 Nobody.
00:16:30.860 Nobody.
00:16:31.720 There's not one other person
00:16:33.000 on the whole planet
00:16:34.120 who could pull that off.
00:16:37.960 I'm seeing Scott
00:16:39.760 in the comments saying
00:16:41.540 Elon Musk maybe.
00:16:43.980 He's good.
00:16:44.900 That's a pretty good comment.
00:16:50.220 But, no,
00:16:51.740 I don't think anybody
00:16:52.460 but Trump could pull that off.
00:16:53.800 And he probably will.
00:16:54.780 He probably will pull it off.
00:16:58.380 In the fake poll business,
00:17:00.840 CNN also reports
00:17:02.320 that there's a Reuters,
00:17:04.500 Ipsos poll
00:17:05.260 that says 53% of Americans
00:17:08.360 are approving of Biden
00:17:09.500 compared to Trump's 38% rating
00:17:12.080 at the same time
00:17:12.820 in his presidency.
00:17:14.780 Didn't I just tell you
00:17:16.140 that there was a Rasmussen poll
00:17:17.680 like maybe the other day?
00:17:19.960 A Rasmussen poll said
00:17:21.200 that Biden's approval
00:17:24.540 was roughly comparable
00:17:26.260 to where Trump's was
00:17:27.280 at the same time?
00:17:28.000 What the hell good are polls?
00:17:31.840 Like, what's the point of a poll?
00:17:33.900 It just looks like
00:17:34.780 they're making shit up, right?
00:17:36.760 And you and I can't tell
00:17:38.320 which poll is right.
00:17:39.180 But we do know
00:17:42.180 that Rasmussen
00:17:42.820 has been consistently
00:17:43.980 closer than the competitors.
00:17:46.860 So it looks like
00:17:47.800 CNN is just
00:17:48.860 quoting a fake poll.
00:17:52.460 I don't know if that's true,
00:17:53.640 but it looks like it.
00:17:54.560 It's just what it looks like.
00:17:56.760 All right,
00:17:56.960 here's another piece of news.
00:17:58.000 Soros handed out
00:17:58.860 a million dollars
00:17:59.840 to a group
00:18:00.520 attempting to defund police.
00:18:02.180 I used to say
00:18:07.140 that he couldn't possibly
00:18:09.440 be doing,
00:18:10.060 Soros,
00:18:10.860 could not possibly
00:18:11.700 be doing the things
00:18:12.660 that people say he's doing
00:18:13.860 because they just sound
00:18:15.260 too on the nose.
00:18:16.880 Like, it just sounds
00:18:17.820 too much like
00:18:18.680 somebody just made up
00:18:20.420 a boogeyman
00:18:21.140 and it's going to be him
00:18:22.220 and, you know,
00:18:23.060 you worry about the fact
00:18:23.980 that he's Jewish
00:18:24.860 and you say,
00:18:25.620 is that why?
00:18:27.040 Is that why people
00:18:27.820 are demonizing him?
00:18:29.080 Is it really just
00:18:29.720 anti-Semitism
00:18:30.600 in disguise?
00:18:32.180 Or not even disguised.
00:18:34.900 So I've always been
00:18:36.120 a Soros skeptic.
00:18:38.860 But is this true?
00:18:40.440 Did he really give
00:18:41.160 a million dollars
00:18:41.840 to a group
00:18:42.460 that is very vehemently
00:18:44.200 against police
00:18:45.380 being funded?
00:18:46.460 Is that really true?
00:18:48.860 I mean,
00:18:49.100 it's reported in the news.
00:18:50.840 It's on Fox News.
00:18:52.800 But, really?
00:18:54.960 Like, really?
00:18:56.580 Because in the past
00:18:57.720 when people would say
00:18:58.800 Soros funded something,
00:19:01.020 it always felt
00:19:01.680 a little indirect.
00:19:03.660 You know,
00:19:03.900 okay,
00:19:04.380 Soros funded
00:19:05.320 Black Lives Matter.
00:19:07.220 But,
00:19:08.120 a lot of well-meaning people
00:19:09.420 who just like the,
00:19:10.760 you know,
00:19:11.220 like the message
00:19:11.980 have did that.
00:19:13.280 So that didn't make him
00:19:14.420 a devil.
00:19:14.880 You know,
00:19:15.860 even if you don't like
00:19:17.180 some of the things
00:19:17.700 Black Lives Matter does.
00:19:19.580 But,
00:19:20.240 this one seems
00:19:21.120 super direct.
00:19:22.740 if somebody
00:19:25.120 is giving a million dollars
00:19:26.240 to an American,
00:19:27.060 somebody outside the country
00:19:28.300 is giving a million dollars
00:19:29.940 to a group
00:19:30.640 trying to defund police,
00:19:32.580 they're an enemy.
00:19:34.540 They are basically
00:19:36.140 a terrorist.
00:19:38.560 Because it looks like,
00:19:40.100 I mean,
00:19:40.380 if this is true,
00:19:41.480 and I don't know
00:19:41.920 if it's true,
00:19:42.800 but if it's true
00:19:43.560 that a non-American
00:19:44.700 gave a million dollars
00:19:45.760 to an American entity
00:19:47.220 fighting against the police
00:19:49.440 to defund them,
00:19:51.440 that's an act of terrorism.
00:19:54.240 Isn't it?
00:19:56.100 Could,
00:19:56.660 could Russia or China
00:19:58.320 donate a whole bunch
00:20:00.340 of money
00:20:00.760 to a group
00:20:02.180 that wants to do something
00:20:03.380 that's clearly bad
00:20:04.360 for the United States?
00:20:05.780 Could they do that?
00:20:07.420 And what would happen
00:20:08.340 if they did?
00:20:09.800 I mean,
00:20:10.280 suppose they just
00:20:10.940 did it openly.
00:20:12.600 Suppose China said,
00:20:13.660 look,
00:20:13.840 we're going to give
00:20:14.340 a,
00:20:15.140 you know,
00:20:16.000 100 million dollars
00:20:16.980 to the groups
00:20:17.800 that want to defund
00:20:18.780 police in the United States.
00:20:19.440 Could they do that?
00:20:22.360 I'm seeing in the comment
00:20:23.420 China has already,
00:20:24.580 but I don't think
00:20:25.320 that's confirmed.
00:20:28.340 I mean,
00:20:28.940 it seems like
00:20:29.520 it would have been news.
00:20:32.120 Yeah.
00:20:33.280 So,
00:20:33.880 I'm going to say
00:20:34.680 that I'm,
00:20:35.500 I've now moved
00:20:36.420 from total skepticism
00:20:37.960 that Soros
00:20:38.780 was anything
00:20:39.360 except some anti-Semitic
00:20:41.100 or,
00:20:42.320 you know,
00:20:42.680 maybe even,
00:20:44.260 you know,
00:20:45.000 subconsciously
00:20:45.720 could have been anti-Semitic.
00:20:47.420 But to me,
00:20:48.100 it always looked like that.
00:20:49.440 But if this story
00:20:50.900 is true,
00:20:51.420 and I still don't
00:20:52.060 believe it's true,
00:20:53.580 I'm still skeptical
00:20:54.620 about the story
00:20:55.380 being true at all.
00:20:56.660 But if it's true,
00:20:58.060 it's terrorism.
00:21:01.220 Am I wrong?
00:21:03.220 Isn't this an act
00:21:04.240 of financial terrorism?
00:21:07.040 It seems obvious to me.
00:21:09.140 Defunding the police
00:21:09.960 doesn't have
00:21:10.460 any potential upside.
00:21:12.580 It just looks
00:21:13.720 like terrorism.
00:21:15.300 Well,
00:21:15.480 that's my opinion.
00:21:16.080 All right.
00:21:18.320 The best joke
00:21:19.680 I saw on Twitter
00:21:21.260 you're not going
00:21:21.840 to like.
00:21:22.880 But I,
00:21:23.700 I'm still
00:21:25.620 strongly in the camp.
00:21:28.500 I'm strongly
00:21:29.460 in the camp
00:21:30.080 that funny
00:21:31.280 is funny
00:21:31.780 even if you're
00:21:32.680 on the receiving
00:21:33.660 end of it.
00:21:34.720 When somebody
00:21:35.380 makes a terribly
00:21:36.180 cutting remark
00:21:37.240 about me,
00:21:37.960 which happens
00:21:39.080 fairly frequently
00:21:39.820 as you may have
00:21:40.680 noticed,
00:21:40.960 if it's funny
00:21:43.900 enough,
00:21:45.480 I'll like it.
00:21:47.160 You know,
00:21:47.400 it just has to be funny.
00:21:48.440 I don't care
00:21:48.760 what people say
00:21:49.360 about me.
00:21:49.780 As long as it's
00:21:50.280 good and funny,
00:21:51.420 I'm all,
00:21:52.160 I'm all in favor
00:21:53.000 of it.
00:21:53.860 And so,
00:21:54.620 with that in mind,
00:21:56.500 Chad Booter
00:21:57.460 on Twitter,
00:21:58.420 I don't know
00:21:58.860 who he is,
00:21:59.360 but he said
00:21:59.860 that the Trump
00:22:00.540 rally in Arizona
00:22:01.460 appears to be
00:22:02.960 indoors and
00:22:03.480 without masks
00:22:04.280 for most
00:22:05.220 every attendant.
00:22:07.080 And then
00:22:07.440 Chad goes on,
00:22:08.340 is the arena
00:22:08.920 where it's
00:22:09.320 taking place
00:22:09.960 actually called
00:22:10.760 the Delta Center,
00:22:11.900 or is that
00:22:12.680 just what it
00:22:13.200 will be referred
00:22:13.880 to as in
00:22:15.200 about a week?
00:22:19.320 Okay,
00:22:19.800 that's pretty
00:22:20.200 funny.
00:22:21.440 The Delta Center.
00:22:22.420 Now,
00:22:22.720 it wasn't the
00:22:23.340 Delta Center.
00:22:24.040 The Delta Center
00:22:24.680 is somewhere else,
00:22:25.800 but it's still
00:22:26.200 a good joke.
00:22:27.820 All right.
00:22:29.720 I was alerted
00:22:30.940 to a small
00:22:32.340 article of interest
00:22:33.880 in which a
00:22:35.680 character you
00:22:36.360 may have heard
00:22:36.800 of called
00:22:37.260 Code Monkey Z,
00:22:38.480 real name
00:22:39.180 Ronald Watkins.
00:22:40.640 People on
00:22:41.240 Twitter probably
00:22:41.880 know him.
00:22:43.660 I guess he's
00:22:44.500 a data expert,
00:22:46.580 or what would
00:22:47.500 you call it,
00:22:48.100 a cybersecurity
00:22:48.900 expert.
00:22:50.320 And he was
00:22:50.960 talking about
00:22:51.480 the fact that
00:22:52.160 Mike Lindell
00:22:52.720 apparently has
00:22:53.840 captured a
00:22:54.800 bunch of
00:22:55.280 packets,
00:22:55.900 or all of
00:22:56.520 them,
00:22:56.880 or some of
00:22:57.620 them,
00:22:57.840 or something
00:22:58.220 from the
00:22:58.660 election.
00:22:59.700 And he has
00:23:00.180 the packets,
00:23:01.660 and he claims
00:23:02.480 that there might
00:23:03.440 be something
00:23:03.900 that you can
00:23:04.700 see in the
00:23:05.100 packets that
00:23:05.720 suggests there's
00:23:06.400 some fraud.
00:23:06.800 Now here's
00:23:08.080 what Ron
00:23:09.180 Watkins says,
00:23:10.280 who's an
00:23:10.660 expert in
00:23:11.220 these things.
00:23:12.820 And I don't
00:23:13.580 know what to
00:23:13.920 believe yet,
00:23:14.740 right?
00:23:15.620 So,
00:23:16.900 yeah,
00:23:17.580 somebody says
00:23:18.200 he hosted
00:23:18.860 the Q
00:23:19.300 board.
00:23:20.300 So there
00:23:21.320 is a
00:23:22.500 internet rumor
00:23:25.780 that he has
00:23:26.360 something to do
00:23:26.980 with Q,
00:23:28.180 but that's a
00:23:29.020 separate story,
00:23:29.700 right?
00:23:30.000 I'm just going
00:23:30.480 to tell you
00:23:30.720 what he has
00:23:31.060 to say.
00:23:31.420 the fact
00:23:33.040 that his
00:23:33.440 background is,
00:23:35.340 let's say,
00:23:36.000 something we
00:23:36.860 would like to
00:23:37.360 know more
00:23:37.760 about is
00:23:39.740 not relevant
00:23:40.980 to his
00:23:41.580 claim,
00:23:42.200 okay?
00:23:42.920 So your
00:23:43.600 comments about
00:23:44.480 who he is
00:23:44.940 personally,
00:23:46.160 and whether
00:23:46.540 he can be
00:23:47.020 trusted,
00:23:47.540 are valid
00:23:47.960 comments,
00:23:49.480 but what he
00:23:51.200 says is either
00:23:51.860 true or false.
00:23:52.840 So let's just
00:23:53.380 look at the
00:23:53.740 comment.
00:23:54.840 And what he
00:23:55.260 says is that,
00:23:56.580 and I don't
00:23:56.960 know how much
00:23:57.380 of this to
00:23:57.860 buy into,
00:23:58.560 because it's
00:23:58.840 not my
00:23:59.240 field,
00:23:59.460 but he
00:24:00.800 says that,
00:24:02.160 and I hope
00:24:02.760 I'm summarizing
00:24:03.400 this right,
00:24:04.300 I may not
00:24:04.720 be,
00:24:05.640 but if
00:24:06.300 Lindell has
00:24:07.060 unencrypted
00:24:08.000 packet data,
00:24:09.980 there's something
00:24:10.820 that needs to
00:24:11.360 be explained.
00:24:13.100 Number one,
00:24:14.340 how would he
00:24:14.940 have unencrypted
00:24:16.240 data?
00:24:17.400 Because packets
00:24:18.140 are typically
00:24:18.820 encrypted when
00:24:19.640 they're set
00:24:19.960 across the
00:24:20.420 internet.
00:24:21.360 So if he
00:24:21.840 somehow got
00:24:22.600 them, you
00:24:23.720 know, in
00:24:24.440 the middle,
00:24:25.900 they would
00:24:26.600 be encrypted.
00:24:27.340 So he
00:24:27.640 couldn't have
00:24:28.040 them, and
00:24:28.320 he wouldn't
00:24:28.800 be able to
00:24:29.180 unencrypt
00:24:29.620 them.
00:24:31.100 But if
00:24:32.520 he has
00:24:32.980 them, and
00:24:33.860 they're
00:24:34.060 unencrypted,
00:24:35.380 where'd he
00:24:36.060 get them?
00:24:37.460 Where'd
00:24:38.020 they come
00:24:38.280 from?
00:24:38.920 Because there's
00:24:39.680 no source
00:24:40.220 of unencrypted
00:24:40.960 data.
00:24:42.600 And if
00:24:43.940 the election
00:24:44.480 system was,
00:24:46.760 for whatever
00:24:47.200 reason, did
00:24:48.840 something very
00:24:49.560 non-standard,
00:24:50.800 which is,
00:24:51.320 you know,
00:24:52.100 flip the
00:24:52.660 bit to
00:24:53.420 not encrypt
00:24:54.140 them, if
00:24:55.620 the software
00:24:56.300 was intentionally
00:24:57.660 set to
00:24:58.580 not encrypt,
00:25:00.340 that's a
00:25:00.800 big problem.
00:25:01.880 And I'm
00:25:02.180 not saying
00:25:02.520 that's the
00:25:02.900 case.
00:25:03.220 I'm saying
00:25:03.560 that if we
00:25:04.000 look at
00:25:04.260 all the
00:25:04.500 possibilities
00:25:05.100 to explain
00:25:06.660 how Mike
00:25:07.200 Lindell could
00:25:07.740 have any
00:25:08.160 unencrypted
00:25:08.760 packets at
00:25:09.380 all,
00:25:09.680 where'd they
00:25:11.440 come from?
00:25:12.860 Where'd they
00:25:13.240 come from?
00:25:13.600 imagine being
00:25:18.540 seeing some
00:25:23.960 people lost
00:25:26.160 audio on
00:25:27.180 Locals.
00:25:28.660 If you
00:25:29.120 lost audio,
00:25:29.860 just reboot,
00:25:31.160 refresh your
00:25:31.760 browser,
00:25:33.100 upgrade your
00:25:33.680 app,
00:25:34.260 something like
00:25:34.640 that.
00:25:35.120 It'll work.
00:25:37.720 Anyway, so
00:25:38.600 I'll just put
00:25:39.000 that out there.
00:25:39.700 If anybody
00:25:40.060 knows more
00:25:40.500 about this
00:25:40.880 field than I
00:25:41.420 do, let me
00:25:42.500 know, but is
00:25:43.380 there a reason
00:25:43.840 to believe
00:25:44.300 that Lindell's
00:25:45.760 packets are
00:25:46.320 even real?
00:25:47.820 Did somebody
00:25:48.440 give them to
00:25:49.080 him and maybe
00:25:49.820 they're not
00:25:50.260 exactly real?
00:25:51.940 I don't know.
00:25:52.820 But there's a
00:25:53.460 question there.
00:25:55.000 We heard that
00:25:55.800 the news says
00:25:57.120 that the
00:25:57.460 Department of
00:25:57.920 Justice has
00:25:58.520 declined to
00:25:59.540 investigate
00:26:00.260 Cuomo,
00:26:01.800 Governor Cuomo's
00:26:02.760 handling of the
00:26:03.500 COVID-19 in
00:26:04.440 nursing homes.
00:26:05.400 What do you
00:26:05.700 think of that?
00:26:06.180 Do you
00:26:07.540 think that
00:26:08.940 the Department
00:26:09.540 of Justice
00:26:09.940 should have
00:26:10.580 investigated
00:26:11.200 Cuomo's
00:26:11.800 handling of
00:26:12.580 the nursing
00:26:13.680 homes and
00:26:14.520 all the deaths
00:26:15.720 that happened
00:26:16.120 because he
00:26:16.600 sent the
00:26:17.040 infected people
00:26:17.740 back?
00:26:19.180 Well, why
00:26:21.160 should they?
00:26:22.640 There's no
00:26:23.380 reason given.
00:26:25.040 We have a
00:26:26.580 report of a
00:26:27.700 terrible mistake
00:26:28.800 where a
00:26:29.760 governor did
00:26:30.300 something that
00:26:30.860 almost certainly
00:26:31.600 led to people
00:26:32.500 dying.
00:26:32.840 But that's
00:26:34.520 not a crime.
00:26:36.060 Governors can
00:26:36.740 make mistakes.
00:26:38.380 So why do
00:26:39.760 you think the
00:26:40.280 Department of
00:26:40.780 Justice should
00:26:41.440 have investigated
00:26:42.360 this?
00:26:43.460 There's not even
00:26:44.080 an allegation of
00:26:44.940 a crime.
00:26:45.980 There's an
00:26:46.600 allegation of a
00:26:47.320 mistake.
00:26:48.360 That's not a
00:26:48.880 crime.
00:26:50.120 And as far as
00:26:50.880 we know, it's
00:26:51.420 fairly transparent.
00:26:53.660 They did.
00:26:54.560 They thought they
00:26:55.460 were following the
00:26:56.180 rules, but it
00:26:57.660 wasn't a good
00:26:58.200 decision.
00:26:59.640 That's it.
00:27:01.720 Criminal
00:27:02.220 negligence is a
00:27:03.200 crime.
00:27:03.640 I don't think
00:27:04.100 there's any
00:27:04.480 negligence there
00:27:05.280 because I
00:27:06.260 believe that
00:27:06.720 they were
00:27:07.020 within the
00:27:07.580 guidelines of
00:27:08.620 some regulations.
00:27:11.100 So I think
00:27:11.720 that they thought
00:27:12.320 they were doing
00:27:12.780 the right thing.
00:27:14.360 Being wrong
00:27:15.360 while you're
00:27:16.280 trying hard is
00:27:17.280 just not a
00:27:17.760 crime.
00:27:18.920 And I
00:27:19.320 think I
00:27:20.920 would, not
00:27:22.340 I think, I'll
00:27:23.060 just say I
00:27:24.120 favor this
00:27:24.840 decision.
00:27:25.880 I'm not in
00:27:26.680 favor of
00:27:27.620 sending to
00:27:29.920 jail or doing
00:27:30.780 an investigation
00:27:31.400 every time one
00:27:32.200 of our leaders
00:27:32.740 messes up, no
00:27:34.220 matter how bad
00:27:34.780 it is, right?
00:27:35.800 If you kind of
00:27:36.520 know the
00:27:36.880 situation, it's
00:27:38.460 just a mistake.
00:27:39.660 It's a bad
00:27:40.220 one, one of the
00:27:41.320 worst we've ever
00:27:42.260 seen.
00:27:43.160 But it's not a
00:27:44.060 crime, I don't
00:27:45.400 think.
00:27:46.720 Here's a question
00:27:47.540 for you.
00:27:47.960 I was reading in
00:27:48.840 the Daily Mail,
00:27:50.320 so that's a
00:27:50.940 British publication,
00:27:52.040 so things might be
00:27:52.840 different over there.
00:27:54.180 But they refer to
00:27:55.500 the Delta variant
00:27:56.600 of the coronavirus.
00:27:57.960 they refer to it
00:27:59.560 as the Indian
00:28:00.520 Delta variant.
00:28:04.120 Can we say that
00:28:05.240 in this country?
00:28:06.380 This country being
00:28:07.420 America.
00:28:08.660 You might be
00:28:09.580 somewhere else at
00:28:10.220 the moment.
00:28:11.440 But can the
00:28:12.740 Daily Mail call
00:28:13.560 it the Delta
00:28:14.840 variant, an
00:28:16.580 Indian Delta
00:28:17.920 variant?
00:28:19.780 Hmm.
00:28:21.580 But then later,
00:28:22.760 in the very same
00:28:23.600 article, they do
00:28:25.620 not refer to the
00:28:26.780 virus that came
00:28:27.660 out of China as
00:28:28.560 the China virus or
00:28:29.800 the Chinese virus.
00:28:32.060 If you were going
00:28:33.000 to refer to the
00:28:34.300 quote Indian
00:28:35.820 Delta variant,
00:28:38.140 shouldn't it be
00:28:38.740 called the India
00:28:39.860 Delta variant?
00:28:42.240 Because it has
00:28:43.120 nothing to do with
00:28:43.940 the people of
00:28:45.400 India.
00:28:46.120 Although I guess
00:28:46.960 if that's where
00:28:47.540 it mutated, you
00:28:50.440 could argue yes.
00:28:52.140 But it came from
00:28:54.140 India.
00:28:54.540 Delta, don't we
00:28:55.700 say the country?
00:28:56.940 We don't say the
00:28:57.500 people, right?
00:28:58.220 So you don't say
00:28:58.820 Indian Delta
00:28:59.860 variant.
00:29:00.260 You say India
00:29:01.160 Delta variable.
00:29:04.200 But you should
00:29:04.960 also be able to
00:29:05.960 say the China
00:29:07.400 virus, if we're
00:29:09.480 confident that's
00:29:10.300 where it originated,
00:29:11.360 just like other
00:29:11.940 viruses that we
00:29:13.380 give a name.
00:29:15.080 So what's up
00:29:16.620 with that?
00:29:17.380 Is China banned
00:29:18.720 because China has
00:29:19.840 enough power to do
00:29:20.600 that, but India
00:29:21.400 doesn't try to ban
00:29:22.320 things in Britain or
00:29:24.280 the United States.
00:29:25.720 Just a question.
00:29:27.260 Why are they being
00:29:27.980 treated differently?
00:29:30.440 Here's another
00:29:31.180 question.
00:29:33.140 What happened to
00:29:34.560 seasonality?
00:29:37.320 Do you remember
00:29:38.160 that?
00:29:38.720 Do you remember
00:29:39.200 all coronaviruses go
00:29:41.220 away in the summer?
00:29:42.920 That used to be a
00:29:44.000 thing, right?
00:29:45.120 Even the COVID-19
00:29:48.600 last year went way,
00:29:50.740 way, way down, but
00:29:51.660 it didn't go away,
00:29:53.360 and then when, you
00:29:54.420 know, the holidays
00:29:56.420 came and it ramped
00:29:57.640 back up just like
00:29:58.620 you'd expect.
00:29:59.780 But the Delta
00:30:00.580 variant is
00:30:02.360 increasing in the
00:30:05.120 warm months.
00:30:07.440 How does that
00:30:08.140 happen?
00:30:09.280 How do you get a
00:30:10.080 virus that's
00:30:10.720 increasing in
00:30:11.800 strength in the
00:30:12.640 warm months?
00:30:13.120 Now, I get it's
00:30:13.700 200% more
00:30:14.900 spreading.
00:30:16.380 But isn't that a
00:30:17.520 weird variation?
00:30:18.600 Of all the things
00:30:20.860 that could be
00:30:21.420 variant in a
00:30:23.040 virus, and I
00:30:23.600 imagine there
00:30:24.040 could be quite a
00:30:24.600 few, you know,
00:30:26.240 you would vary how
00:30:26.900 deadly it is, I
00:30:27.640 suppose, but you
00:30:29.260 would also vary how
00:30:30.260 much you could
00:30:31.140 catch it.
00:30:32.400 What are the odds
00:30:33.560 that this one
00:30:35.280 little virus is the
00:30:36.520 first one where
00:30:38.180 its variant makes
00:30:40.000 it extra spready in
00:30:41.380 the summer?
00:30:43.600 Really?
00:30:44.080 So I'm just going
00:30:46.500 to put out a
00:30:47.340 hypothesis here, or
00:30:49.260 at least, no, it's
00:30:50.360 not even a
00:30:50.760 hypothesis, it's
00:30:51.640 less than that.
00:30:53.160 It's a possibility.
00:30:57.400 Do you believe that
00:30:58.520 this is a variant
00:30:59.400 versus a new
00:31:00.800 virus?
00:31:02.920 Could you not
00:31:04.000 engineer two
00:31:06.580 viruses when you
00:31:08.340 were engineering the
00:31:09.200 one that got out of
00:31:10.260 the lab?
00:31:11.600 Why do we think
00:31:12.680 that we know
00:31:14.200 for sure that
00:31:15.820 this variation
00:31:16.760 happened out in
00:31:18.060 the population, as
00:31:19.860 opposed to a
00:31:21.160 second virus from
00:31:23.440 the same fucking
00:31:24.260 lab?
00:31:25.940 Do you think that
00:31:27.160 they only did one
00:31:28.280 variation of COVID
00:31:29.660 when they were
00:31:30.600 testing?
00:31:31.480 So just that one
00:31:32.400 variation is the
00:31:33.220 one that got out?
00:31:34.620 You don't think
00:31:35.140 they tested more
00:31:35.860 than one variation?
00:31:38.140 I feel like it's
00:31:40.720 obvious that they
00:31:41.400 tested more than
00:31:42.000 one.
00:31:42.680 Could somebody who
00:31:44.420 knows viruses tell
00:31:46.960 me if we can
00:31:47.900 confirm, is that
00:31:48.900 even a thing, that
00:31:50.320 we can confirm that
00:31:51.340 the Delta virus was
00:31:52.440 natural versus came
00:31:54.880 out of the same
00:31:55.380 lab?
00:31:56.440 If, in fact, the
00:31:57.440 first one came out
00:31:58.100 of a lab, we don't
00:31:59.320 know yet, do we?
00:32:01.060 And what is it about
00:32:03.360 the Delta variant
00:32:04.340 that's the dog not
00:32:05.500 barking?
00:32:06.800 Listen for it.
00:32:08.700 Do you hear the dog
00:32:09.540 not barking?
00:32:11.000 It's a virus that's
00:32:12.360 200% more spready, and
00:32:15.660 even that can't
00:32:18.020 penetrate China.
00:32:21.980 Yeah.
00:32:22.960 A lot of other
00:32:23.780 countries having a
00:32:24.520 real big problem with
00:32:26.360 this extra spready virus.
00:32:29.360 But coincidentally, where it
00:32:33.340 seems to have started, the
00:32:34.600 so-called Indian Delta
00:32:36.260 variant, isn't it funny that
00:32:38.800 it started with China's, one
00:32:42.560 of China's, or if not the
00:32:44.160 biggest rival?
00:32:46.100 So China's biggest rival is
00:32:48.800 where the Delta variant began.
00:32:51.260 Huh.
00:32:55.100 If you were China, and I'm
00:32:58.340 not saying that this
00:32:59.060 happened, I'm just saying
00:33:00.500 hypothetically, if you're
00:33:01.420 looking at all the
00:33:02.060 possibilities to explain how
00:33:03.500 we got here, could you say
00:33:05.840 that if China had weaponized
00:33:07.360 the first one, and it
00:33:09.100 worked, it took down pretty
00:33:10.820 much the whole world except
00:33:12.420 China, and you had a second
00:33:15.080 one, that you could make it
00:33:17.260 look like it was India's
00:33:18.340 fault?
00:33:18.580 Would you release it in
00:33:21.000 India?
00:33:22.460 If you knew that the Delta
00:33:24.120 variant didn't have much
00:33:25.580 impact on ethnic Chinese
00:33:27.380 people, would you release
00:33:29.980 it?
00:33:32.740 Because if you say to
00:33:34.200 yourself, my God, Scott, my
00:33:36.580 God, you can blame China for
00:33:38.700 a lot of things, but one
00:33:40.500 thing they definitely
00:33:41.160 wouldn't do, they're not
00:33:42.920 going to release a deadly
00:33:44.100 pandemic virus, even if they
00:33:46.940 know it can't affect their
00:33:48.320 local people, they're not
00:33:50.420 going to, I mean, that would
00:33:51.480 just be so evil, it would be
00:33:53.520 beyond anything we can
00:33:54.620 imagine, it would be so
00:33:55.620 evil.
00:33:57.600 Is that outside the realm of
00:33:59.040 things they're doing right
00:33:59.860 now?
00:34:01.260 Because they are credibly
00:34:02.580 accused of taking organs from
00:34:05.340 dissidents who are alive to
00:34:08.540 sell them and give them to
00:34:10.360 people who need transplants.
00:34:11.440 There is credible evidence that
00:34:14.260 that's happening.
00:34:15.340 What about the Uyghurs?
00:34:17.400 The Uyghur concentration camps,
00:34:19.740 that's right now.
00:34:21.240 What about all the spyware, the
00:34:22.860 IP theft, the, you know, the
00:34:24.920 jailing of people for reasons
00:34:26.880 that we're not sure are good?
00:34:28.600 What about Hong Kong?
00:34:30.940 What about the South China Sea?
00:34:33.320 Yeah.
00:34:33.940 What about fentanyl?
00:34:36.440 Fentanyl is the perfect analogy
00:34:38.400 to the Delta variant.
00:34:40.720 If we know that China, and I
00:34:42.200 think we do, China is shipping
00:34:44.140 fentanyl to the cartels to ship
00:34:47.400 to the United States to kill
00:34:48.400 Americans, tens of thousands
00:34:49.660 every year, is that worse?
00:34:52.600 Is that worse than intentionally
00:34:55.340 putting a virus in the world that
00:34:58.160 doesn't affect people who are
00:35:00.460 ethnically Chinese?
00:35:02.140 If that's what happens.
00:35:04.820 You know, again, we're
00:35:06.160 speculating here.
00:35:06.920 But, to me, it looks like the
00:35:12.320 obvious, the obvious
00:35:14.680 possibility is that the Delta
00:35:16.180 variant is not actually a
00:35:17.640 variant.
00:35:18.620 Now, I would like to be fact
00:35:20.600 checked on that.
00:35:21.360 So if anybody can find an
00:35:22.520 actual doctor, scientist, who
00:35:25.200 can tell me how they determine
00:35:26.420 a variant is a variant, and how
00:35:28.700 they know that it happened in the
00:35:29.760 wild.
00:35:31.240 Maybe I'm wrong.
00:35:33.020 But China is very bad for
00:35:35.140 business.
00:35:35.600 Speaking of that, there's a
00:35:38.320 hashtag, China Unsafe
00:35:40.400 number four, B-I-Z.
00:35:43.620 China Unsafe for biz.
00:35:46.080 And I think Adam Dopamine came up
00:35:48.300 with this, because you had to
00:35:50.080 shorten it to make it fit.
00:35:52.000 And I started to use it today, and I
00:35:55.200 couldn't remember the exact form of
00:35:56.920 it.
00:35:57.480 But I thought, well, I'll just start
00:35:58.600 typing it, and it'll auto-fill.
00:36:00.620 Because I've seen Adam use it a bunch
00:36:02.540 of times on Twitter.
00:36:03.260 So obviously, the hashtag is out
00:36:05.100 there.
00:36:05.760 I'll just make it auto-fill.
00:36:07.880 But it didn't auto-fill.
00:36:10.060 You can type, actually, the entire
00:36:12.020 hashtag, and it won't auto-fill.
00:36:16.140 Now, can somebody tell me, is that
00:36:19.200 common?
00:36:20.720 Are there other hashtags that are in
00:36:22.480 use, but maybe they're not used that
00:36:24.160 much, that also don't auto-fill?
00:36:26.920 Because there might be a threshold.
00:36:28.080 Like, if only one person ever used it,
00:36:31.000 you know, maybe it doesn't auto-fill.
00:36:33.760 So it's just a question.
00:36:35.760 And will it ever auto-fill if we use it
00:36:38.480 enough?
00:36:39.380 You know, if I use it every day and
00:36:40.940 other people use it, will it start to
00:36:43.140 auto-fill or auto-complete?
00:36:45.800 I don't know.
00:36:47.040 Somebody says, yes, it happens to me a
00:36:48.760 lot.
00:36:49.500 So it looks like it might be just
00:36:51.200 algorithmic.
00:36:52.160 It could be that it just isn't used
00:36:53.920 enough to auto-fill.
00:36:55.860 That could be.
00:36:57.800 But how hard would it be to make it
00:36:59.660 auto-fill if it's the only one?
00:37:02.760 I mean, there wasn't one that was
00:37:04.020 sort of like it.
00:37:05.640 It sort of stands alone.
00:37:07.480 Well, who knows?
00:37:10.400 As the Delta variant is ripping through
00:37:12.620 the public again, you know, we're
00:37:14.460 going to be talking about masks and
00:37:15.800 lockdowns and all that.
00:37:17.940 And I think we should just say that
00:37:20.900 lockdowns are immoral at this point.
00:37:22.800 Because everybody who wants a
00:37:25.960 vaccination can get it.
00:37:28.180 And if everybody's getting what they
00:37:29.920 want, the problem's kind of over.
00:37:33.900 And I do believe in the theory that we
00:37:37.120 don't have any way to vaccinate against
00:37:39.480 the virus.
00:37:41.420 We have vaccinations, but they don't
00:37:43.100 vaccinate against spreading.
00:37:45.260 They're just therapeutics in vaccine
00:37:47.760 form.
00:37:48.120 So since we're all going to get the
00:37:50.580 virus, that just seems obvious at this
00:37:53.160 point.
00:37:53.820 Does anybody disagree with the
00:37:55.220 with the notion that everybody's going
00:37:58.100 to get the virus?
00:38:00.560 Now, I don't know if it's 100% of the
00:38:02.720 vaccinated people who get it, but it
00:38:04.200 looks like we would because we're not
00:38:06.760 immune and it's 200% more spready than
00:38:09.880 the one that was very spready.
00:38:12.080 So there's nothing that would stop us all
00:38:13.860 from getting it.
00:38:14.480 So shouldn't the strategy at this point
00:38:17.720 be to operate at maximum hospital
00:38:21.060 capacity?
00:38:24.640 Think about it.
00:38:26.140 Do you want your hospitals to be empty?
00:38:31.340 Not if you want to get to the end of it.
00:38:33.440 If you want to get to the end of this
00:38:34.960 thing, you want your hospitals to be
00:38:36.460 packed to capacity, but not over.
00:38:39.960 So you want to operate as close to as
00:38:42.120 many sick people as you can get into the
00:38:43.900 hospital.
00:38:45.060 That's your maximum best strategy.
00:38:48.760 Seems counterintuitive, right?
00:38:50.480 Because we've been we've been managing to
00:38:52.640 get the lowest number of people in the
00:38:54.060 hospital.
00:38:55.080 And now we know that that was the wrong
00:38:57.200 strategy.
00:38:58.360 Now, it would have been a mistake, I think,
00:39:01.140 to let everybody get infected before the
00:39:03.660 vaccinations were out there because it's
00:39:05.880 the vaccinations that take the take the
00:39:07.780 edge off it.
00:39:08.980 Right.
00:39:09.120 But as of today, now that we know that the
00:39:12.460 vaccination doesn't stop the spread.
00:39:15.360 And we know that nothing will because the
00:39:17.940 summer doesn't stop it.
00:39:19.100 The variants are going to be going through
00:39:21.600 like crazy.
00:39:22.980 Shouldn't we be looking to get as infected as
00:39:25.140 possible?
00:39:25.520 And then the people who are vaccinated get what
00:39:29.760 they want, which is they get full immunity because
00:39:32.520 they'd have vaccine plus exposure and they
00:39:36.660 wouldn't get that sick.
00:39:37.660 They'd have a few days off from work with a
00:39:39.240 sniffle.
00:39:39.580 So the people with vaccines would largely get
00:39:42.200 what they wanted.
00:39:43.180 Now, of course, some people are going to have
00:39:44.420 bad outcomes no matter what.
00:39:45.920 So that's baked into the system.
00:39:47.380 Every every path you take.
00:39:51.800 Sorry.
00:39:52.960 Every path you take.
00:39:54.960 Bunch of people die.
00:39:56.600 So you can't avoid people dying.
00:40:00.680 I'm seeing some people saying that tests are
00:40:02.960 not infections.
00:40:03.700 That's a separate story.
00:40:05.180 But can somebody just just disagree or agree
00:40:09.380 with the strategy that now we have all the
00:40:13.180 vaccines that anybody wants so that whether
00:40:15.720 you're vaccinated or not is only your own
00:40:17.620 choice.
00:40:18.120 That's the only thing right now.
00:40:20.760 In that condition, and when the vaccine, the
00:40:23.780 virus can't be stopped.
00:40:26.140 Don't you want as many vaccines and as many
00:40:28.660 people to get infected as possible right up to
00:40:31.940 the point where your hospitals are.
00:40:35.180 Operating at full capacity, but not over.
00:40:38.360 That's where you want to be, right?
00:40:43.260 Now, I'm looking for some pushback on that.
00:40:47.660 Because I feel like it couldn't be that obvious
00:40:49.660 where we'd be doing it.
00:40:51.020 Or maybe it's just something you can't say out
00:40:52.700 loud.
00:40:53.560 Maybe if you're a leader, you can't say out
00:40:55.460 loud what I just said.
00:40:57.560 Now, I am seeing people saying that the PCR
00:40:59.640 testing is fraudulent and it's picking up people
00:41:02.140 who maybe are not infectious and blah, blah, blah,
00:41:05.260 blah.
00:41:06.100 But I'll ask again, whatever happened to rapid
00:41:09.060 testing?
00:41:10.600 Remember the idea that you would have these less
00:41:13.480 sensitive but very cheap available tests and
00:41:18.940 everybody could just test as much as they want?
00:41:20.700 Wouldn't catch them all, but it would get so many that
00:41:23.180 it would take care of the pandemic?
00:41:25.540 I don't know.
00:41:26.240 Now that we know that you can get the virus when
00:41:29.960 you're vaccinated, I think you just have to,
00:41:32.820 all bets are off.
00:41:34.040 We're just all going to get this damn thing.
00:41:38.020 Yeah, the FDA just confirmed that PCR is flawed,
00:41:40.940 but we always knew that.
00:41:42.160 That's not really new news.
00:41:43.620 We knew that some of the tests were not telling us
00:41:45.760 what we wanted them to take.
00:41:46.920 All right, well, weirdly, I got exactly zero pushback
00:41:50.500 on that, so.
00:41:53.860 And I'm still, it's still weird to me that the Delta
00:41:56.680 variant is not crushed by seasonality.
00:42:01.100 The first virus ever, it gets stronger in the summer.
00:42:05.920 What the hell is that going to do in the winter?
00:42:07.920 By winter, we're all going to have COVID, right?
00:42:10.020 If it's this strong in the summer, it's going to just rip
00:42:14.020 through us in the winter.
00:42:14.860 And I think that by next year, this time,
00:42:17.840 enough people will be infected that it's really going
00:42:20.660 to slow things down.
00:42:21.940 But I don't think we have any choice at this point.
00:42:24.480 All right.
00:42:26.740 I did a tweet that I want to read you some of the responses
00:42:34.440 to them.
00:42:35.520 So let me do that.
00:42:37.000 So I asked people to predict a headline in one year.
00:42:41.600 All right, so predict what a headline will be in one year.
00:42:44.140 And I seeded it with my own offering here.
00:42:48.660 This headline you'll see one year from now.
00:42:51.400 Infrastructure bill still stalled.
00:42:54.960 So that's mine.
00:42:55.760 One year from now, we'll still be talking about an
00:42:57.700 infrastructure bill.
00:42:59.340 But here's some of what other people suggested.
00:43:04.720 School choice is the new white flight.
00:43:07.120 The newest iteration of white people trying to separate
00:43:09.440 from people of color.
00:43:11.480 Or a year from now, it might be states ponder lockdowns
00:43:15.620 as new X variant emerges.
00:43:18.700 Yep.
00:43:21.460 Pelosi's 1-6 committee demands Department of Justice
00:43:24.080 charge Trump with treason.
00:43:25.860 Yeah.
00:43:27.160 Trump's still in control of GOP heading into midterm elections.
00:43:30.500 Yeah.
00:43:31.980 These are pretty good.
00:43:36.940 Massive fraud uncovered as local governments squander
00:43:39.980 and misspend COVID relief funds.
00:43:42.940 Yeah.
00:43:48.000 After Fed prints another $4 trillion out of thin air,
00:43:52.300 Bitcoin surges to $250,000, Jeffrey Miller says.
00:43:56.540 Maybe.
00:43:58.460 Maybe.
00:43:59.840 Tensions escalate in the Middle East.
00:44:02.880 Fair enough.
00:44:07.200 Let's see.
00:44:08.300 A lot of stuff about variants.
00:44:11.520 Gas climbs to $8 a gallon.
00:44:14.160 Terrorism sparks in Iran.
00:44:16.700 North Korean nuclear treaty invites Dennis Rodman.
00:44:19.840 Well, I don't know about that one.
00:44:20.920 How about President Harris gives awe-inspiring speech
00:44:28.300 promising to tackle inflation head-on.
00:44:34.120 There's one about Joe Rogan I'm not going to read.
00:44:39.560 Cubs statistically out of pennant race.
00:44:44.960 Gas price averages $5 a gallon.
00:44:47.580 Somebody is predicting that a year from now,
00:44:50.600 gas will be $5 a gallon.
00:44:52.980 It's $5 a gallon now.
00:44:56.240 In California, and I think it's higher here,
00:44:59.780 but my, I was just, I just commented yesterday,
00:45:03.720 my current gas price is $5 a gallon.
00:45:06.480 That's what it costs right now, where I live.
00:45:12.000 Sparky says, people would rather be fooled
00:45:14.000 than admit they've been fooled.
00:45:15.340 Oh, the Xi variant, Xi variant.
00:45:20.920 Clever.
00:45:22.200 Clever you are.
00:45:26.740 China admits massive nuclear radiation leak.
00:45:29.780 Maybe.
00:45:32.840 All right.
00:45:34.380 So, it looks like maybe comments
00:45:36.760 paused on locals.
00:45:39.360 That might be a bug.
00:45:40.060 All right.
00:45:43.200 So, I was streaming this on both platforms,
00:45:46.920 and I opened up the paywall on locals just for today,
00:45:52.000 in case YouTube decides to hide this one.
00:45:57.880 Ryan says, a year from now,
00:45:59.960 the headline will be,
00:46:01.400 Scott Adams still saying the golden age is coming.
00:46:04.740 You know we're in it.
00:46:06.440 This is the golden age.
00:46:07.900 Think about the problems that we talked about.
00:46:11.680 Our athletes are kneeling.
00:46:15.840 That's like a big problem.
00:46:17.800 The people who have the vaccination
00:46:19.560 and wanted to avoid COVID successfully did it.
00:46:24.320 The people who didn't want vaccination
00:46:25.960 and were happier getting the virus itself,
00:46:28.860 they're getting it.
00:46:29.480 Who's losing?
00:46:32.860 The economy's doing great.
00:46:35.300 North Korea looks calm.
00:46:37.180 I don't think we're going to get into any nuclear fights
00:46:39.640 with anybody at the moment.
00:46:41.800 China is in decline.
00:46:43.480 They don't know it yet, but they are.
00:46:45.460 Compared to the United States,
00:46:47.980 nuclear energy is getting way more attention
00:46:50.900 and credit than it ever got before.
00:46:53.020 We do have a massive inflation problem,
00:46:56.800 but I think we'll probably work through it.
00:46:59.060 Probably work through it.
00:47:00.980 Yeah, I mean, there are certainly items that are worse,
00:47:04.840 like gas prices,
00:47:06.240 but I would say that we're in pretty good shape.
00:47:09.840 We're in pretty good shape.
00:47:11.720 I think...
00:47:13.080 I don't know that things have ever been better
00:47:16.020 than they are right now, weirdly.
00:47:17.340 Yeah, inflation is the one thing to worry about,
00:47:20.760 but I do think that we'll figure that out.
00:47:23.240 We'll get a handle on it.
00:47:29.280 What are the chances that China's food diet
00:47:32.100 has to do with infections?
00:47:33.940 Well, there was the theory that green tea
00:47:35.980 helps you avoid COVID.
00:47:40.560 So if you've got two things going for you,
00:47:42.640 your genetic situation tells you how bad it will be,
00:47:46.380 but the green tea might help it too.
00:47:48.860 That would be two reasons
00:47:50.100 that China might be having less of a problem.
00:47:52.320 The other reason would be
00:47:53.160 that they're locking down so well.
00:47:55.180 I just don't believe it.
00:47:57.220 I just don't believe that...
00:47:59.900 Well, let me ask you this.
00:48:03.120 Do you think that there's no intelligence agency anywhere
00:48:06.680 that doesn't want to infect China with the coronavirus?
00:48:12.060 You know, so let's say that China
00:48:13.400 has actually done such a great job of lockdown
00:48:16.300 that they just don't have it.
00:48:18.980 You don't think that there's one country in the world
00:48:21.440 whose intelligence agents would say,
00:48:25.300 you know, maybe put a little bit of virus
00:48:29.040 over on the other side of the border on China,
00:48:31.120 just a little bit of infection,
00:48:33.400 because they need to enjoy the same thing
00:48:35.100 that the rest of the world is enjoying,
00:48:37.340 which is pandemic.
00:48:38.540 You don't think that there's one country
00:48:41.160 anywhere on Earth
00:48:42.800 who is mad enough at China to actually do that?
00:48:47.160 Because that's the thing that's sort of bothering me.
00:48:50.820 I feel as if somebody would have
00:48:53.060 intentionally reinfected China,
00:48:55.860 just out of revenge.
00:48:57.000 But it's not happening.
00:49:01.120 So does that mean that they can't be infected?
00:49:03.940 Because it seems like it would have happened by now.
00:49:06.200 I don't think America would do it, necessarily.
00:49:10.300 All right.
00:49:12.220 Did they have the antidote?
00:49:13.460 We'd know if they had the antidote.
00:49:15.040 All right, that's all for now,
00:49:16.000 and I'll talk to you tomorrow.
00:49:17.980 Wow.