Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1488 Scott Adams： Let's Talk About How Well Joe Biden is Doing so Far, And Lots More

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00:00:50.560 Well, yes, I like to think of myself as the Greg Gutfeld of the morning.

00:01:03.520 That's right.

00:01:04.600 If you haven't been paying attention, Greg Gutfeld's new show on Fox News,

00:01:10.300 which he's got an evening show competing with the late night shows on other networks,

00:01:16.640 and he's killing them.

00:01:19.160 I knew that he had beaten Colbert, who had been the top, I guess, before that.

00:01:24.500 But I didn't realize how much he beat him by.

00:01:27.160 I saw the actual numbers.

00:01:28.820 It's actually shocking.

00:01:30.300 He just destroyed the next best competitor.

00:01:34.180 But I'd like to say that someday, this live stream will be the Greg Gutfeld of the morning,

00:01:42.580 except with me.

00:01:45.340 All right.

00:01:46.000 Well, good news.

00:01:48.180 My next single has dropped.

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00:01:54.600 in which there are samples of my voice from the podcast used in it.

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00:02:01.660 you need to check it out just for curiosity alone,

00:02:04.980 even if you're not a music person.

00:02:07.160 You have to see how he's combined the podcast content into a musical form

00:02:13.240 and created a new genre.

00:02:15.360 Really, it's kind of cool.

00:02:17.160 So check that out, Akira the Don.

00:02:19.140 The new one is called

00:02:20.100 Be Good at a Few Things That You Can Control,

00:02:23.440 from an earlier podcast.

00:02:27.360 You know, endorsements in the political world usually don't matter.

00:02:30.740 You know, some Hollywood person or other

00:02:34.620 makes an endorsement, and we largely don't care.

00:02:37.960 But every now and then, there's one that might make a difference.

00:02:40.060 Here's one.

00:02:40.900 In the California recall election for the governor,

00:02:45.180 there's a new endorsement for Larry Elder,

00:02:49.360 who is leading among the candidates to take over for Newsom,

00:02:53.980 if, in fact, he is recalled.

00:02:55.780 And it looks like it's going to be close.

00:02:57.340 So it might happen.

00:02:58.160 But the new endorsement is from California's Senate Majority Leader,

00:03:02.700 Gloria Romero.

00:03:05.960 And she's a Democrat.

00:03:09.060 Right?

00:03:10.120 Yeah, I think that's the story, is that she's a Democrat. 0.81

00:03:13.500 So that might be an actual pretty big one.

00:03:17.120 That could be pretty, pretty big.

00:03:19.020 And she said she was sick of, she told Tucker Carlson,

00:03:24.660 I guess, that Elder's the best option to replace Newsom

00:03:27.560 in order to eradicate the governor's, quote,

00:03:30.800 hypocritical and pompous behavior.

00:03:33.600 Hypocritical and pompous.

00:03:35.220 So in the end, that's what got her.

00:03:37.940 It wasn't the having no water.

00:03:40.180 That wasn't the problem.

00:03:41.280 So in order to get a Democrat to go against another Democrat in office,

00:03:47.360 it's not the lack of electricity.

00:03:50.020 It's not the fact that you can't go outside.

00:03:52.180 Like right now, I can't go outside.

00:03:55.140 I can't go outside.

00:03:57.640 That's how poorly managed my state is.

00:04:00.660 There's so much forest fire smoke,

00:04:03.160 I actually can't go outside,

00:04:05.700 you know, except to walk to the car or something.

00:04:07.300 So what does it take for Democrats to turn on a governor

00:04:12.440 who has made the state so unlivable?

00:04:15.480 Let me say it again.

00:04:16.880 You can't walk outside.

00:04:19.000 That's pretty unlivable.

00:04:21.620 But it wasn't any of that that made a difference.

00:04:24.060 It wasn't the homelessness, the immigration emergencies.

00:04:28.220 None of that got her.

00:04:29.900 It was that he ate at the French Laundry

00:04:31.920 when it was completely legal to eat at the French Laundry.

00:04:34.720 It was hypocritical.

00:04:37.300 But it was legal.

00:04:39.760 Now, maybe he should have worn a mask or something.

00:04:41.800 I don't know.

00:04:42.880 But this one might matter.

00:04:45.860 You ask yourself,

00:04:46.820 who is the bravest human being in the world?

00:04:50.780 Or the bravest human beings in the world?

00:04:53.500 No, not me.

00:04:55.260 Stop it, stop it. 0.83

00:04:56.500 It's not me.

00:04:57.120 No, the bravest human beings in the world might be the Afghan woman activist 0.99

00:05:03.560 who just staged a small protest in Taliban-controlled Kabul Friday.

00:05:08.960 What?

00:05:09.520 That's like the bravest thing I've ever heard of in my life.

00:05:19.000 Or stupidest, somebody says.

00:05:21.460 But apparently they got away with it.

00:05:24.260 But I don't know if they're going to get away with it for long or what.

00:05:27.280 So there's an interesting thing happening over in Afghanistan,

00:05:31.840 which is that the leadership is saying,

00:05:33.940 yes, women will be able to work and go to school and stuff, 1.00

00:05:36.540 but the individual fighters,

00:05:38.160 even the leadership admits the individual fighters in the Taliban,

00:05:42.340 may not be so on board with that plan.

00:05:44.880 And so they're having a tough time controlling their own fighters,

00:05:49.280 which, interestingly, they admit.

00:05:51.040 The Taliban, you know, obviously I'm not going to be pro-Taliban,

00:05:57.240 but there's something weirdly refreshing about the Taliban.

00:06:01.240 I hate to say it.

00:06:02.880 But here's the Taliban who have this problem 1.00

00:06:05.140 where their individual fighters are just, they can't control them,

00:06:09.420 and then they just tell you that.

00:06:11.180 Yeah, we can't control our individual fighters.

00:06:13.120 It's tough.

00:06:15.000 I don't know if an American politician would have said that.

00:06:18.600 I think an American politician would have blamed Trump.

00:06:22.340 It's just automatic.

00:06:23.880 But at least they say they have a problem and they admit it.

00:06:27.080 Here's what I think is going to happen.

00:06:28.600 I think that women have gotten too much of a taste of freedom over there, 1.00

00:06:32.620 and I think that women will, in fact, get power, slowly, 1.00

00:06:38.520 but I think they will acquire power in Afghanistan,

00:06:40.880 and they will change the Taliban,

00:06:43.300 because that's what changes anything, right?

00:06:45.400 When women get power, everything changes. 1.00

00:06:47.680 And I think they have enough, just enough of a foothold,

00:06:51.980 that if you see some more insanely brave people like the ones who protested,

00:06:56.840 and the Taliban leadership is saying that they're going to include women.

00:07:01.160 So, I mean, if the leadership gets control of its people and they mean it,

00:07:04.680 I don't know, maybe they don't mean it, but I think they have to,

00:07:07.560 because they're not going to get a foreign investment

00:07:09.260 if they don't get right with their female citizens. 1.00

00:07:13.560 So, I think the Taliban is going to have to actually get right with women, 0.99

00:07:18.400 and eventually women will change it from the inside. 1.00

00:07:21.640 It might be a 30-year process, but I think that's where it's going.

00:07:24.980 I would think that Afghanistan is far more likely to become more moderate in time

00:07:30.180 because of the women issue. 1.00

00:07:35.060 Well, here's the CDC with a provocative new update.

00:07:41.300 They say about 83% of the U.S. population, 60 and up,

00:07:45.080 have some degree of immunity to the coronavirus,

00:07:48.060 either from vaccination or prior infection.

00:07:51.080 So, they're saying now that 20% of the public have prior infection.

00:07:57.000 20%?

00:07:58.880 Does that sound right?

00:08:00.180 And apparently it's double what they thought it was.

00:08:02.440 So, if twice as many people have had an infection

00:08:06.840 than we thought before, based on new serology studies,

00:08:11.360 does that mean that the death rate,

00:08:14.960 or at least the dangerousness of the flu,

00:08:18.520 is half as much as we thought?

00:08:20.700 If twice as many people have it than we thought,

00:08:24.260 this is Tim Poole's question on Twitter,

00:08:27.700 does that mean that the danger was half as much as we thought?

00:08:30.600 Now, the danger is the danger, because we're counting bodies, right?

00:08:34.200 So, the bodies are the bodies.

00:08:36.320 But, there's something about the numbers we don't understand, right?

00:08:40.620 Now, how did we get to 83% of adults over 16

00:08:44.360 are covered with immunity,

00:08:46.780 and we don't have any herd immunity?

00:08:49.920 What?

00:08:51.420 Apparently, 83% doesn't get you to herd immunity.

00:08:54.220 Now, maybe because the vaccinations are not stopping the virus,

00:08:57.720 they're just stopping symptoms or making it less dangerous.

00:09:02.340 So, maybe you just can't stop it.

00:09:04.560 So, maybe there's no herd immunity

00:09:06.320 because vaccinations don't stop the spread.

00:09:10.140 So, whatever you thought about,

00:09:11.660 oh, if we only get to this percentage,

00:09:13.920 vaccinated, we're in good shape,

00:09:16.060 I don't think that is a thing anymore, right?

00:09:20.420 Correct me if I'm wrong.

00:09:21.760 Have our experts stopped talking about herd immunity?

00:09:27.720 Am I correct that they've entirely stopped talking about herd immunity,

00:09:32.060 and now they're only talking about getting everybody

00:09:34.860 a therapeutic dose of vaccines?

00:09:40.760 I'm right, right?

00:09:41.920 They just stopped talking about herd immunity.

00:09:44.400 So, they were wrong completely, apparently.

00:09:49.320 I mean, I don't know how much more wrong you could be.

00:09:51.360 I thought that the one thing that the experts would get right

00:09:55.640 is the herd immunity part.

00:09:58.620 Didn't you?

00:09:59.600 I mean, I would have been flexible

00:10:01.400 if the real number had been between, let's say, 60% and 85%.

00:10:06.840 I wouldn't be too critical if it was somewhere in there,

00:10:10.380 but they didn't get it exactly.

00:10:12.180 But the fact that there's literally no herd immunity,

00:10:16.640 who was guessing that?

00:10:18.260 Who was it who guessed the zero herd immunity?

00:10:21.660 Because it looks like no herd immunity to me, doesn't it?

00:10:25.140 Because it just turns into a new variant,

00:10:27.760 and then it just keeps going.

00:10:29.620 So, this is like pretty big news.

00:10:32.520 I'm not sure we know exactly the implications of this.

00:10:35.380 Meanwhile, Australia is going batshit crazy.

00:10:38.680 I guess the government of South Australia

00:10:40.540 has implemented a new policy

00:10:42.760 where you have to use an app with facial recognition

00:10:46.580 and geolocation,

00:10:47.960 and they will randomly contact you,

00:10:49.960 and you have to prove who you are and where you are.

00:10:54.340 What?

00:10:55.840 This is a real thing.

00:10:57.920 This is actually happening

00:10:59.360 in a real place on the world, right, on the planet.

00:11:03.100 You actually have to check in with the government,

00:11:07.020 and they will randomly contact you,

00:11:10.160 and you do facial recognition and geolocation,

00:11:12.760 and you better be in your quarantine location.

00:11:16.260 What?

00:11:17.740 You know, on one hand,

00:11:19.340 you can see that this would just be a handy tool,

00:11:22.720 but on the other hand,

00:11:25.180 oh, my God, this is scary.

00:11:27.500 Oh, my God.

00:11:29.520 So, we'll watch Australia,

00:11:31.600 see how that works out.

00:11:34.100 In our next segment,

00:11:35.360 which I call Perma News,

00:11:37.100 the news that is still news,

00:11:39.300 even though it never changes.

00:11:41.220 It seems like the details change,

00:11:42.680 but not in any significant way.

00:11:44.960 And today, I would like to once again,

00:11:47.100 see if I can get through talking about

00:11:49.240 the infrastructure...

00:11:50.980 Oh, oh, oh, excuse me.

00:11:53.180 The infrastructure bill...

00:11:54.700 Oh, oh, oh.

00:11:56.680 Sorry, I'm getting a little sleepy

00:11:57.920 when I talk about the topic.

00:12:00.340 But I want to see if I can give you an update

00:12:02.160 about the infrastructure bill.

00:12:04.220 I know it's the most exciting topic.

00:12:07.860 So, it turns out that Joe Manchin...

00:12:10.220 Oh, God.

00:12:13.860 Joe Manchin doesn't want to pass the...

00:12:16.780 Oh, what were we talking about?

00:12:29.880 Oh, I don't know.

00:12:31.400 Let's go on to the next topic.

00:12:32.620 So, that was the infrastructure bill.

00:12:38.900 Adam Dopamine tweeted today

00:12:40.700 that the experts had discovered...

00:12:44.620 And I didn't realize this was a risk,

00:12:47.080 but a lot of you understand

00:12:48.920 that Trump derangement syndrome, or TDS,

00:12:52.800 was a pretty big problem

00:12:54.460 during his administration,

00:12:55.700 but now the experts have discovered

00:12:57.360 that there's a long-haul TDS.

00:13:01.240 So, apparently,

00:13:04.080 Trump derangement syndrome

00:13:05.300 was not limited to his term in office.

00:13:08.280 They've discovered long-haul.

00:13:10.240 Some of the symptoms...

00:13:11.400 I'm adding this part myself,

00:13:13.120 but some of the symptoms of long-haul TDS

00:13:15.100 would be,

00:13:16.180 you still believe Trump recommended drinking bleach.

00:13:20.820 Debunked a long time ago,

00:13:22.060 but you still believe it.

00:13:23.500 That would be signs of long-haul TDS.

00:13:26.040 Or you still believe that Trump

00:13:27.400 called neo-Nazis in Charlottesville

00:13:30.260 fine people.

00:13:31.760 Totally debunked.

00:13:33.080 But if you still believe that,

00:13:34.200 that would be signs of long-haul TDS.

00:13:38.620 And as Adam points out,

00:13:40.120 it includes the onset of Biden regret syndrome.

00:13:44.080 That could be a symptom of long-haul TDS.

00:13:47.320 And a gradual decrease

00:13:48.980 in your anti-Trump smugness.

00:13:50.600 So, if you're finding any decrease

00:13:53.800 in your anti-Trump smugness over time,

00:13:56.020 that could be a sign, too.

00:13:58.680 CNN has fact-checked Joe Biden,

00:14:01.940 who talked about visiting

00:14:03.340 the Tree of Life synagogue

00:14:04.420 after that horrendous shooting.

00:14:07.000 Except that Joe Biden

00:14:08.920 never actually visited

00:14:10.860 the Tree of Life synagogue.

00:14:13.020 Oh, he has a story about it.

00:14:15.120 He seems to remember it quite correctly.

00:14:17.300 Or no, quite clearly.

00:14:18.860 Except it never happened.

00:14:20.380 So, even CNN is calling BS

00:14:23.900 on Joe Biden's made-up story.

00:14:27.600 Meanwhile, the Biden administration,

00:14:29.340 looking for every way to fail the public,

00:14:32.040 has decided to remove certain penalties

00:14:34.360 for fentanyl-related trafficking.

00:14:37.040 Why is all the news

00:14:42.060 something that you just have to pause

00:14:44.800 and then go,

00:14:46.180 what?

00:14:47.140 Am I reading this correctly?

00:14:48.920 Like, you think you're not even reading it right.

00:14:51.500 It couldn't possibly be true

00:14:52.920 that he's reading it.

00:14:55.140 Is he finding just new ways

00:14:56.800 to be a dumbass?

00:14:58.380 The correct penalty

00:14:59.780 for dealing fentanyl is death.

00:15:02.100 Because the correct penalty

00:15:04.360 for any terrorist act

00:15:05.880 is death.

00:15:07.480 The correct penalty

00:15:08.660 for being a mass murderer

00:15:10.360 is death.

00:15:13.080 And if you're a major,

00:15:14.360 I'll say a major fentanyl dealer,

00:15:16.160 I'm not talking about somebody

00:15:17.140 on the street who sold a few pills,

00:15:19.000 but if you're a major fentanyl dealer,

00:15:21.120 you've killed a lot of people

00:15:22.700 and you knew you were doing it.

00:15:24.400 If you kill a lot of people

00:15:26.480 in an illegal way,

00:15:29.480 and you,

00:15:29.780 you know, usually illegal,

00:15:31.400 and you know you're doing it,

00:15:33.100 and you know it's going to happen

00:15:34.180 before you do it,

00:15:35.700 that's the death penalty. 0.95

00:15:38.420 Oh, I know what you're going to say.

00:15:40.260 Are you saying to me, Scott,

00:15:41.500 what about personal responsibility?

00:15:43.680 What about the people

00:15:44.680 who took the drugs?

00:15:46.740 Why do we judge the dealers?

00:15:49.420 Let's just let everybody

00:15:50.380 do whatever they want

00:15:51.400 and let people take

00:15:53.140 personal responsibility.

00:15:55.160 Well, you have forced me

00:15:56.780 to go to the whiteboard.

00:15:58.540 Yeah, I didn't want to do this,

00:16:00.980 but yeah, I'm going to,

00:16:03.100 I'm going to pull

00:16:03.580 a whiteboard on you.

00:16:05.320 Sorry, sorry,

00:16:07.140 you pushed me to the limit,

00:16:08.700 and now I'm going

00:16:10.440 full whiteboard.

00:16:11.740 Never go full whiteboard,

00:16:13.980 unless you mean it.

00:16:15.720 There are two views

00:16:16.820 of the world that I see.

00:16:18.980 One of them,

00:16:20.120 regarding addiction.

00:16:21.700 One of them is that

00:16:22.560 that we have this thing

00:16:23.300 called free will,

00:16:24.260 and if you've got enough of it

00:16:25.640 and you choose to use it,

00:16:27.520 you can say,

00:16:28.680 no, fentanyl.

00:16:29.780 No, stay away.

00:16:31.580 I will use my free will

00:16:32.940 and all of my powers

00:16:34.780 to keep the fentanyl away.

00:16:38.020 What's wrong with that?

00:16:39.660 Why not use your free will

00:16:41.500 to keep the fentanyl away,

00:16:43.520 and then it doesn't matter

00:16:44.440 if anybody produces it?

00:16:46.080 You're not going to take it.

00:16:47.600 Why not?

00:16:48.140 Well, could it be

00:16:50.220 because free will

00:16:51.500 is completely imaginary?

00:16:53.740 Yeah, it is.

00:16:54.620 Free will is imaginary.

00:16:56.780 People act on their

00:16:57.780 greatest impulses.

00:16:59.840 That's it.

00:17:00.980 If I had a great hunger

00:17:03.080 for something,

00:17:04.320 I would eat it,

00:17:05.140 even if I knew

00:17:05.780 it wasn't the healthiest food.

00:17:07.880 It's not how much

00:17:08.800 willpower you have

00:17:09.740 that doesn't even exist.

00:17:11.000 It's just how much

00:17:11.740 competing interest

00:17:13.100 you have in any

00:17:13.960 given question.

00:17:15.380 Sometimes something

00:17:16.160 is more attractive

00:17:16.900 than something else.

00:17:18.120 Sometimes it isn't.

00:17:19.700 That's it.

00:17:20.920 Free will is an imaginary concept

00:17:23.080 that we get after the fact.

00:17:25.500 I say,

00:17:25.860 well, I must have used

00:17:26.660 my free will there.

00:17:28.020 Nope.

00:17:28.940 Your brain is subject

00:17:30.100 to the laws of physics.

00:17:31.920 One of your impulses

00:17:32.920 was bigger than the other,

00:17:34.300 and that's why

00:17:35.220 you made the decision

00:17:36.040 you made.

00:17:37.060 That's it.

00:17:39.700 However,

00:17:40.480 there's another concept

00:17:41.700 that must be introduced

00:17:42.720 called addiction.

00:17:43.440 If you imagine

00:17:45.260 that free will existed,

00:17:47.760 spoiler,

00:17:48.840 it doesn't.

00:17:49.800 It's only imaginary.

00:17:51.480 But if it existed,

00:17:52.960 let's say you think it did.

00:17:54.840 I got some free will.

00:17:56.500 Well, then,

00:17:57.040 if you understood

00:17:57.740 what addiction is,

00:17:59.220 addiction is the thing

00:18:00.220 that cancels your free will.

00:18:02.180 That's what it is.

00:18:04.380 An addiction

00:18:04.920 is the thing

00:18:05.980 that cancels your free will.

00:18:08.500 If you don't understand that,

00:18:10.820 then you're calling

00:18:12.280 for personal responsibility

00:18:13.740 for a person

00:18:15.160 who couldn't have any.

00:18:16.680 It wouldn't be possible.

00:18:17.860 It's not medically possible.

00:18:19.900 It's like asking a person

00:18:21.180 with no arms and no legs

00:18:23.340 to play ping pong.

00:18:24.860 Right?

00:18:25.100 You could ask,

00:18:26.520 hey,

00:18:26.800 use your personal responsibility

00:18:28.240 and go play ping pong,

00:18:29.600 you lazy bastard

00:18:30.640 with no arms and no legs.

00:18:32.920 Use your free will.

00:18:34.460 Well, they can't.

00:18:35.780 They can't,

00:18:36.560 because they've got

00:18:36.980 no arms and no legs.

00:18:38.700 Likewise,

00:18:39.340 if you're addicted,

00:18:40.040 you don't have free will.

00:18:42.360 That's not a thing.

00:18:43.760 If you don't understand

00:18:45.140 that an addict

00:18:46.140 does not have free will,

00:18:48.240 then you don't know

00:18:48.920 what an addiction is.

00:18:50.020 You don't know

00:18:50.400 what the word means

00:18:51.080 or something.

00:18:51.720 I don't know.

00:18:52.780 So,

00:18:53.360 if you think

00:18:54.880 that people can just use

00:18:55.880 their personal responsibility

00:18:57.120 to avoid fentanyl,

00:18:58.600 you have two problems

00:19:00.860 with your thinking.

00:19:02.020 One,

00:19:02.440 that you think

00:19:02.840 that free will

00:19:03.420 actually exists,

00:19:04.960 and two,

00:19:05.660 you don't know

00:19:06.340 what addiction is.

00:19:07.120 Terrible analogy.

00:19:10.640 There's no analogy here.

00:19:13.800 There's a drawing,

00:19:14.820 but not an analogy.

00:19:17.400 Not in the sense

00:19:18.220 that you're thinking of it.

00:19:19.800 All right.

00:19:20.780 Sorry I had to go

00:19:21.700 to the whiteboard for that.

00:19:23.680 Sometimes you just

00:19:24.440 got to do

00:19:24.840 what you got to do.

00:19:27.100 This is another

00:19:27.860 Adam Doakme tweet

00:19:29.140 who's on fire today.

00:19:30.540 Apparently the

00:19:33.560 British,

00:19:36.460 who is it?

00:19:37.360 The Secretary of Defense

00:19:39.540 or something?

00:19:40.060 Yeah,

00:19:40.220 the UK's Defense Secretary

00:19:41.660 suggested that the US

00:19:43.540 should no longer

00:19:44.380 be considered

00:19:44.980 a superpower.

00:19:46.800 So,

00:19:47.380 there's another

00:19:47.880 Joe Biden accomplishment.

00:19:50.080 Joe Biden

00:19:50.660 is actually

00:19:52.300 such a bad president

00:19:53.400 that the UK,

00:19:55.700 one of our

00:19:56.200 strongest allies,

00:19:57.720 doesn't think

00:19:58.340 we should be called

00:19:58.960 a superpower anymore.

00:19:59.980 Oh,

00:20:00.760 he admits

00:20:01.120 we have lots of power.

00:20:02.660 Yeah,

00:20:02.880 you have lots of power,

00:20:04.260 but the way

00:20:05.100 you got out of Afghanistan

00:20:06.240 was so lame

00:20:07.200 that it's like

00:20:08.260 you don't even

00:20:08.700 have a superpower.

00:20:09.640 If you're going

00:20:10.000 to use it that poorly,

00:20:11.340 what's the point

00:20:11.920 of having power?

00:20:13.140 It's not too super.

00:20:14.600 It's just power.

00:20:16.460 So,

00:20:16.960 thank you Joe Biden

00:20:17.720 for making us

00:20:18.560 look bad

00:20:19.280 in the international arena.

00:20:22.540 Wasn't Joe Biden

00:20:23.440 supposed to improve

00:20:25.080 our reputation

00:20:25.840 around the world?

00:20:27.360 Is it working?

00:20:28.440 I don't think so.

00:20:29.980 On the other hand,

00:20:32.240 Trump,

00:20:32.820 who is not even president,

00:20:33.960 is doing great lately.

00:20:35.160 He had a great week.

00:20:36.660 Because the WTO,

00:20:37.940 the World Trade Organization,

00:20:39.120 ruled in his favor.

00:20:40.540 So I guess

00:20:41.040 the first thing

00:20:42.240 Trump did

00:20:42.740 was slap some sanctions

00:20:44.020 on China

00:20:44.640 for their

00:20:45.160 solar panel abuse.

00:20:48.360 And that went

00:20:49.380 to the World Trade Organization

00:20:50.660 for dispute.

00:20:52.140 And they just

00:20:52.960 backed Trump

00:20:53.780 100%.

00:20:54.120 100%.

00:20:54.920 Trump's

00:20:56.380 first trade

00:20:57.940 thing,

00:20:58.560 do you remember

00:20:59.040 how much pushback

00:20:59.900 he got?

00:21:01.040 Don't start

00:21:01.840 a trade war.

00:21:03.440 No.

00:21:04.460 No,

00:21:04.940 everything will go

00:21:05.800 to hell

00:21:06.300 if you start

00:21:06.860 a trade war.

00:21:08.260 Who was it

00:21:09.780 who told you

00:21:10.300 that Trump

00:21:10.760 can start

00:21:11.420 a trade war

00:21:12.000 and will be fine?

00:21:14.280 I did.

00:21:15.260 I did.

00:21:16.540 If anybody's here

00:21:17.660 to confirm that,

00:21:19.040 can you confirm

00:21:19.860 that when Trump

00:21:21.520 started the trade war,

00:21:22.480 all the smart people

00:21:23.700 said everything's

00:21:24.640 going to go to hell, 0.99

00:21:25.420 right?

00:21:26.380 What did I tell you?

00:21:27.920 I told you,

00:21:28.540 no,

00:21:28.800 nothing's going

00:21:29.300 to go to hell. 0.98

00:21:30.360 We'll just

00:21:30.760 come out ahead.

00:21:32.060 Trump did the thing

00:21:33.020 that all the smart

00:21:34.140 people said

00:21:34.640 don't do.

00:21:36.180 Don't start

00:21:36.800 a trade war.

00:21:38.320 Here we are

00:21:38.820 a few years later,

00:21:39.740 the World Trade

00:21:40.400 Organization

00:21:40.980 just agreed

00:21:41.640 with him 100%.

00:21:42.760 And,

00:21:44.740 how's our economy

00:21:45.680 doing?

00:21:47.200 Well,

00:21:47.960 considering the

00:21:48.820 pandemic,

00:21:49.580 pretty good.

00:21:50.740 So I think

00:21:51.340 that Trump

00:21:51.760 is having

00:21:52.220 a great week.

00:21:53.440 He's not

00:21:53.760 even president

00:21:54.360 and he's

00:21:54.700 killing it.

00:21:56.180 Right?

00:21:57.080 I mean,

00:21:57.380 that is fair.

00:21:58.960 That is fair.

00:22:00.340 So anyway,

00:22:01.100 rate this as

00:22:01.720 one of my

00:22:02.140 correct predictions

00:22:03.180 against the grain.

00:22:04.820 The only ones

00:22:05.360 I care about

00:22:05.980 are the ones

00:22:06.420 where everybody

00:22:07.040 said something

00:22:07.640 else was going

00:22:08.200 to happen.

00:22:09.180 And,

00:22:09.500 you know,

00:22:09.680 I took the

00:22:10.220 contrarian view

00:22:11.080 because those

00:22:11.560 are the ones

00:22:11.840 that are fun.

00:22:13.720 All right,

00:22:14.080 let's look at

00:22:14.580 Biden's record

00:22:15.320 so far.

00:22:16.400 Immigration,

00:22:17.200 disaster,

00:22:17.920 Trump did better.

00:22:19.120 COVID,

00:22:19.720 getting worse,

00:22:20.660 probably not

00:22:21.580 Biden's fault,

00:22:23.320 right?

00:22:24.140 I don't know

00:22:24.580 that Biden

00:22:24.960 did anything

00:22:25.400 wrong with

00:22:26.120 COVID necessarily,

00:22:27.560 but it's getting

00:22:28.460 worse.

00:22:29.140 So he's president,

00:22:30.500 so it's going to

00:22:30.960 look like his

00:22:31.500 fault the same

00:22:32.160 way it looked

00:22:32.680 like Trump's

00:22:33.220 fault that we

00:22:34.240 had a bad

00:22:34.760 first wave.

00:22:36.380 Inflation is

00:22:37.100 worse.

00:22:37.540 That's bad.

00:22:38.280 China looks 0.93

00:22:39.020 like they're

00:22:39.440 unchecked.

00:22:41.160 Roe versus

00:22:41.560 Wade looks

00:22:42.160 like it probably

00:22:43.320 has been neutered

00:22:44.160 by the Texas

00:22:45.060 law on abortion.

00:22:46.600 Now, of

00:22:47.900 course, if

00:22:48.360 you're conservative,

00:22:49.660 you're saying,

00:22:50.060 well, that's

00:22:50.320 good news.

00:22:51.600 But if you

00:22:52.360 are Biden's

00:22:53.180 base, Biden

00:22:55.120 just lost

00:22:56.000 Roe versus

00:22:56.640 Wade on

00:22:57.220 his watch.

00:22:58.620 Now, was

00:22:59.220 there anything

00:22:59.580 he could do

00:23:00.080 about it?

00:23:00.560 No, not

00:23:01.180 really.

00:23:01.620 I don't think

00:23:01.980 he had any

00:23:02.300 power.

00:23:03.060 But it

00:23:03.600 happened on

00:23:04.000 his watch.

00:23:05.420 So I

00:23:06.740 don't know,

00:23:07.020 I think that

00:23:07.440 accrues to

00:23:07.960 him in the

00:23:09.020 indirect way

00:23:09.680 that we say

00:23:10.220 presidents are

00:23:11.200 responsible for

00:23:11.940 everything.

00:23:12.760 He botched the

00:23:13.360 Afghan pull-out,

00:23:14.200 obviously.

00:23:14.540 But on the

00:23:15.320 positive side,

00:23:16.060 stocks are

00:23:16.500 up, which

00:23:18.020 has more to

00:23:18.460 do with the

00:23:19.060 economy.

00:23:19.820 I would say

00:23:20.560 stocks are

00:23:21.100 up despite

00:23:21.940 Biden, wouldn't

00:23:23.840 you say?

00:23:24.580 Because the

00:23:25.040 things Biden

00:23:25.540 is doing

00:23:26.240 would be a

00:23:27.860 drag on

00:23:28.400 stocks.

00:23:29.440 If he's

00:23:29.980 going to

00:23:30.160 raise taxes,

00:23:30.860 for example,

00:23:31.440 that would

00:23:31.700 be a drag 1.00

00:23:32.220 on stocks.

00:23:33.100 But they're

00:23:33.440 up anyway.

00:23:34.200 So I don't

00:23:34.580 think you

00:23:34.840 can give

00:23:35.060 him credit

00:23:35.520 if the

00:23:36.340 only thing

00:23:36.720 he did

00:23:37.180 was a

00:23:37.640 drag on

00:23:38.120 stocks.

00:23:39.320 And the

00:23:39.980 other thing

00:23:40.360 you've got to

00:23:40.680 give Biden

00:23:41.660 credit for is

00:23:42.800 the rioting

00:23:43.660 stopped.

00:23:44.540 I guess

00:23:46.520 structural

00:23:47.020 racism, not

00:23:48.280 so much a

00:23:49.060 problem now.

00:23:50.880 So it was

00:23:51.440 an imaginary

00:23:51.960 problem, not

00:23:53.140 imaginary

00:23:53.520 problem.

00:23:54.920 Structural

00:23:55.480 racism is

00:23:56.200 real, as

00:23:57.440 is systemic

00:23:58.060 racism, the

00:23:58.720 way I define

00:23:59.300 it anyway.

00:24:00.100 It's real.

00:24:01.320 But the

00:24:01.940 riots stopped.

00:24:03.160 People stopped

00:24:03.660 complaining about

00:24:04.340 it in the

00:24:04.960 streets anyway.

00:24:07.180 So that's

00:24:08.080 good.

00:24:08.920 Anyway, so

00:24:09.480 the Biden

00:24:09.800 presidency looks

00:24:10.600 like an

00:24:10.940 unmitigated

00:24:11.580 disaster.

00:24:12.240 there's a

00:24:15.500 story in

00:24:15.900 Axios.

00:24:16.680 They've got

00:24:16.940 some kind

00:24:17.340 of a, it's

00:24:18.340 like they

00:24:18.600 had an

00:24:18.940 exclusive.

00:24:19.940 There's a

00:24:20.580 well-known

00:24:21.540 Silicon Valley

00:24:22.380 investor who

00:24:24.040 is being

00:24:25.100 accused of

00:24:25.760 dismissing

00:24:26.340 racism.

00:24:28.080 Dismissing

00:24:28.520 racism.

00:24:29.080 And when

00:24:29.260 you hear

00:24:29.440 this story,

00:24:30.760 what do

00:24:31.300 you first

00:24:31.680 think?

00:24:32.680 Oh my

00:24:33.280 God, there's

00:24:34.040 some old

00:24:34.580 white guy

00:24:35.200 who just

00:24:36.460 dismissed

00:24:36.980 racism.

00:24:37.720 This is

00:24:38.020 going to be

00:24:38.400 bad.

00:24:38.800 Because that's

00:24:39.920 what the

00:24:40.140 headline says.

00:24:41.320 It says a

00:24:42.220 Silicon Valley

00:24:42.960 investor dismissed

00:24:43.960 racism.

00:24:45.240 It's got to be

00:24:45.720 an old white

00:24:46.180 guy, right?

00:24:47.640 Because first

00:24:48.180 of all, you

00:24:49.320 know, when

00:24:49.880 you think of

00:24:50.380 Silicon Valley

00:24:51.000 investors, even

00:24:51.780 though they're

00:24:52.740 not all white,

00:24:53.660 obviously, your

00:24:55.180 brain goes there

00:24:56.060 because of the

00:24:56.640 stereotypes.

00:24:57.840 You know, the

00:24:58.080 first ones you

00:24:58.620 think of often.

00:25:01.820 But it turns

00:25:02.580 out that the

00:25:03.340 Silicon Valley

00:25:04.060 investor who

00:25:04.700 dismissed

00:25:05.060 racism was

00:25:06.040 a, was

00:25:07.980 one, what's

00:25:09.440 her name?

00:25:11.200 Her last

00:25:11.960 name is

00:25:12.320 Wu, W-U.

00:25:15.140 And so, I'm

00:25:17.180 thinking that

00:25:17.900 Ms. Wu may

00:25:20.180 not be an

00:25:20.720 old white

00:25:21.100 guy, after

00:25:22.020 all.

00:25:23.080 May not be

00:25:23.800 an old white

00:25:24.240 guy.

00:25:26.540 Somebody here

00:25:27.260 says they

00:25:27.720 automatically

00:25:28.280 think Indian

00:25:29.480 American when

00:25:30.460 they think of

00:25:30.940 venture

00:25:31.180 capitalists.

00:25:31.900 That's the

00:25:32.280 other thing

00:25:33.400 you think,

00:25:33.820 or Asian

00:25:34.300 American.

00:25:35.420 So, yeah,

00:25:36.040 if you're

00:25:36.300 going by

00:25:36.700 stereotypes

00:25:37.320 alone, that's

00:25:37.980 what you

00:25:38.240 think.

00:25:40.920 So, here's

00:25:41.900 what Ms. Wu 0.74

00:25:43.400 said, allegedly,

00:25:45.960 quote, I

00:25:46.920 don't believe in

00:25:47.680 Black Lives

00:25:48.280 Matter.

00:25:48.940 If anything, I

00:25:49.920 think they are

00:25:50.440 the true

00:25:50.820 racists, trying

00:25:51.640 to stir up

00:25:52.280 things to

00:25:52.720 make this

00:25:53.100 country going

00:25:54.440 to socialism

00:25:55.100 or even

00:25:55.640 communism,

00:25:56.260 potentially.

00:25:58.120 Now, is

00:26:00.620 that opinion

00:26:01.240 racist?

00:26:02.880 Would that

00:26:03.560 be dismissing

00:26:04.500 racism?

00:26:06.040 I don't

00:26:06.940 think she

00:26:07.320 dismissed

00:26:07.800 racism.

00:26:08.840 She just 0.65

00:26:09.280 called it

00:26:09.720 out.

00:26:11.220 She just 0.65

00:26:11.700 said, here's

00:26:13.260 an example

00:26:13.700 of racism.

00:26:14.360 She just 0.65

00:26:14.660 says it's

00:26:15.160 the Black

00:26:15.580 Lives Matter

00:26:16.060 people.

00:26:16.980 So, that

00:26:17.540 would be the

00:26:17.960 opposite of

00:26:18.580 dismissing it,

00:26:19.340 wouldn't it?

00:26:20.840 Literally, she

00:26:22.720 confirmed it.

00:26:24.140 She just 0.65

00:26:24.560 pointed to a

00:26:25.340 different place

00:26:25.840 to find it.

00:26:27.080 Now, do you

00:26:27.540 think, do you

00:26:30.460 think that Ms. 1.00

00:26:32.080 Wu, do you

00:26:33.660 think that she

00:26:34.240 believes there's

00:26:35.080 no actual

00:26:36.000 racism in the

00:26:36.820 country?

00:26:38.360 Well, she's

00:26:39.060 silent on that

00:26:39.760 question.

00:26:41.340 Well, I doubt

00:26:42.100 it, right?

00:26:43.860 Do you think

00:26:44.580 that if you

00:26:45.920 asked her, hey,

00:26:46.900 but are you

00:26:47.560 saying there's

00:26:47.960 no racism in

00:26:48.820 the country?

00:26:49.540 Is she going

00:26:49.980 to say, yeah,

00:26:50.800 I don't think

00:26:51.180 there's any

00:26:51.480 racism in the

00:26:52.080 country?

00:26:52.640 No, no.

00:26:54.100 She's saying

00:26:54.600 that Black 1.00

00:26:54.940 Lives Matter

00:26:55.380 is racist. 0.81

00:26:56.360 She probably, 0.63

00:26:57.460 now we don't

00:26:57.900 know this, so

00:26:58.580 I don't want to

00:26:59.360 be a mind

00:26:59.780 reader, but I'm

00:27:00.500 just working

00:27:01.500 with what

00:27:01.960 information we

00:27:02.580 have, and

00:27:03.440 then we

00:27:03.660 have to

00:27:03.940 sort of

00:27:04.220 fill in

00:27:04.560 what we

00:27:04.860 don't know

00:27:05.340 to have

00:27:06.000 an opinion.

00:27:07.260 I would

00:27:07.880 say that

00:27:08.280 she's not

00:27:08.700 only not

00:27:09.440 dismissing

00:27:10.120 racism, but

00:27:10.800 she's calling

00:27:11.340 out extra

00:27:11.980 racism.

00:27:13.640 To me, it

00:27:14.340 looks like she

00:27:14.920 has confirmed

00:27:15.620 more racism

00:27:17.180 than her

00:27:18.300 critics, because

00:27:19.960 she's not

00:27:20.400 dismissing

00:27:21.180 regular racism,

00:27:23.740 nothing she

00:27:24.340 says dismisses

00:27:25.180 it, but on

00:27:26.140 top of that,

00:27:27.240 she's adding

00:27:27.900 that Black 1.00

00:27:28.340 Lives Matter

00:27:28.840 is also

00:27:29.540 racist.

00:27:30.900 That's twice

00:27:31.660 as racist

00:27:32.320 as what

00:27:33.640 Black Lives

00:27:34.180 Matter believes

00:27:34.780 is happening

00:27:35.220 in the

00:27:35.500 country.

00:27:36.260 So she

00:27:36.680 believes things

00:27:37.200 are twice

00:27:37.600 as racist,

00:27:38.360 and she's

00:27:38.960 being blamed

00:27:39.560 for not

00:27:40.460 thinking racism

00:27:41.100 exists.

00:27:42.320 The opposite

00:27:42.920 of the story.

00:27:44.560 Okay.

00:27:45.380 Now, there's

00:27:46.140 also an

00:27:46.720 allegation that

00:27:47.700 one ex-employee

00:27:49.780 said that she

00:27:50.520 said something

00:27:51.120 about why

00:27:53.080 there are not

00:27:53.620 many black

00:27:54.400 people in

00:27:55.040 STEM, and

00:27:56.660 I don't

00:27:57.280 think we

00:27:57.980 should treat

00:27:58.460 that as a

00:27:59.100 credible

00:27:59.680 allegation,

00:28:01.480 because that

00:28:02.240 one, that's

00:28:02.900 too creepy.

00:28:04.020 If you have

00:28:04.540 this person

00:28:06.260 who used to

00:28:06.960 work there

00:28:07.400 who says you

00:28:08.060 said something,

00:28:09.480 and they're

00:28:10.040 allegedly quoting

00:28:11.400 you from

00:28:11.820 memory, and

00:28:13.000 they don't

00:28:13.200 have quite

00:28:13.640 exactly the

00:28:14.340 context, maybe,

00:28:15.900 I'm not even

00:28:16.680 going to repeat

00:28:17.360 that allegation.

00:28:18.380 I would say

00:28:18.680 the credibility

00:28:19.220 of that

00:28:19.720 allegation is

00:28:20.360 so low that

00:28:21.740 you should

00:28:22.000 treat it as

00:28:22.640 non-existent,

00:28:23.760 like it

00:28:24.100 didn't happen,

00:28:24.800 basically.

00:28:28.640 But, here's

00:28:30.280 what Axio

00:28:30.860 says.

00:28:32.060 So, adding

00:28:33.480 context to

00:28:34.320 their own

00:28:35.120 exclusive,

00:28:36.220 Axio said,

00:28:37.540 and they put

00:28:38.700 this in the

00:28:39.120 article like

00:28:39.680 this is a

00:28:40.180 fact, okay?

00:28:41.600 See if you

00:28:42.300 would agree

00:28:42.780 that this

00:28:43.360 could be

00:28:43.700 stated as

00:28:44.320 a fact,

00:28:45.420 and just

00:28:45.740 left there

00:28:46.240 without question,

00:28:47.400 here's some

00:28:47.880 context, here's

00:28:48.600 a fact.

00:28:49.740 Axio says,

00:28:50.580 black people

00:28:51.060 are underrepresented

00:28:51.860 in Silicon

00:28:52.440 Valley because

00:28:53.620 of systemic

00:28:54.740 barriers to

00:28:55.520 entry.

00:28:56.420 3% of

00:28:57.200 venture capital's

00:28:57.880 investment

00:28:58.360 partners'

00:28:59.020 positions were

00:28:59.600 held by blacks 0.99

00:29:00.420 in 2020,

00:29:01.900 according to a

00:29:02.500 survey by

00:29:03.060 blah, blah, blah.

00:29:04.000 And just

00:29:04.500 1.2% of all

00:29:05.700 venture funding

00:29:06.660 went to black

00:29:07.260 startup entrepreneurs

00:29:08.320 in the first

00:29:08.940 half of this

00:29:09.400 year, per

00:29:10.460 Crunchbase.

00:29:12.000 So, do you

00:29:12.880 buy that?

00:29:13.740 Is that a good

00:29:14.500 explanation of

00:29:15.240 what's happening?

00:29:15.660 Have they

00:29:16.760 proven,

00:29:18.000 Axios,

00:29:19.160 that black 1.00

00:29:20.060 people are

00:29:20.500 underrepresented

00:29:21.120 in Silicon

00:29:22.100 Valley because

00:29:23.300 of the lack

00:29:25.200 of venture

00:29:26.560 capital funding?

00:29:28.120 This is one

00:29:28.860 of the dumbest

00:29:29.480 things I've

00:29:30.120 ever seen

00:29:30.560 in my life.

00:29:32.200 Now, let's

00:29:33.120 accept that

00:29:33.880 there almost

00:29:34.820 certainly is

00:29:35.700 far less

00:29:36.780 funding for

00:29:37.380 black

00:29:37.680 entrepreneurs.

00:29:38.960 Can we all

00:29:39.440 accept that

00:29:39.880 that's almost

00:29:40.420 certainly true?

00:29:41.760 So, there's

00:29:42.400 no argument

00:29:42.840 about the

00:29:43.240 numbers.

00:29:44.560 Almost

00:29:44.860 certainly true,

00:29:45.900 I mean, who

00:29:46.600 would even

00:29:46.900 doubt it,

00:29:47.760 that black 1.00

00:29:48.340 entrepreneurs are

00:29:49.060 getting less

00:29:49.600 venture

00:29:50.260 capitalists,

00:29:50.760 for lots

00:29:51.380 of different

00:29:51.680 reasons.

00:29:52.700 But, by the

00:29:53.860 time people are

00:29:54.480 not getting

00:29:54.960 funded, the

00:29:56.620 problem already

00:29:57.260 happened.

00:29:58.420 The problem is

00:29:59.380 not the lack

00:29:59.940 of funding.

00:30:01.220 The reason

00:30:01.660 they're not

00:30:01.960 getting funding

00:30:02.520 is because the

00:30:03.480 venture

00:30:03.720 capitalists don't

00:30:04.400 think they can

00:30:04.840 make money.

00:30:06.400 That's it.

00:30:07.500 Or there aren't

00:30:08.020 many of them.

00:30:09.220 There just aren't

00:30:09.780 enough of them

00:30:10.340 asking for money.

00:30:11.580 Are you telling

00:30:12.140 me that the

00:30:12.760 major venture

00:30:13.480 capitalists don't

00:30:14.940 want to have a

00:30:15.940 successful black

00:30:17.860 entrepreneur unicorn

00:30:20.040 in their

00:30:20.620 portfolio?

00:30:22.360 Is there

00:30:23.000 anything they'd

00:30:23.900 want more than

00:30:24.560 that?

00:30:26.140 All right, this

00:30:26.800 is one of those

00:30:27.360 dumb fuck things

00:30:28.500 that people who

00:30:29.400 have never lived

00:30:29.940 in the real world

00:30:30.740 don't understand.

00:30:32.260 If you're a 0.88

00:30:33.060 bunch of white

00:30:33.720 people with a

00:30:34.440 big venture

00:30:34.940 capital firm,

00:30:36.180 there's nothing

00:30:36.800 you want more

00:30:37.720 than to fund a

00:30:38.760 black entrepreneur,

00:30:40.180 especially one that

00:30:40.980 would be successful.

00:30:42.040 You want that as

00:30:43.120 much as you want

00:30:43.920 air.

00:30:45.080 So to act as

00:30:47.000 if there's some

00:30:47.980 structural barrier

00:30:49.800 to black people

00:30:50.640 getting funded is

00:30:51.760 so fucking

00:30:52.560 backwards.

00:30:53.620 It's completely

00:30:54.600 backwards.

00:30:55.640 You show me a

00:30:56.520 black entrepreneur

00:30:57.300 who's got a

00:30:58.240 skill and a

00:30:59.720 good idea,

00:31:00.960 they're funded.

00:31:02.640 They're funded

00:31:03.720 every fucking

00:31:05.200 time.

00:31:06.280 All right?

00:31:06.560 In the real

00:31:07.240 world, people

00:31:08.660 with skill get

00:31:10.440 funded, and

00:31:11.200 people with skill

00:31:12.080 who are black

00:31:12.960 get extra funding.

00:31:14.620 Or extra

00:31:15.780 consideration.

00:31:17.160 Now, I would

00:31:17.780 do that if I

00:31:18.320 were a venture

00:31:19.140 capitalist.

00:31:20.000 If a black 0.99

00:31:20.560 entrepreneur came

00:31:21.340 with a good

00:31:21.740 idea, I would

00:31:23.200 give them

00:31:23.560 priority.

00:31:25.180 Why?

00:31:25.900 Because it's

00:31:26.380 good for me.

00:31:27.920 Just selfish.

00:31:29.480 It would be

00:31:29.860 good for me.

00:31:31.100 If I had a

00:31:31.920 bunch of

00:31:32.300 investments,

00:31:32.900 wouldn't I

00:31:33.200 love to be

00:31:34.040 an early

00:31:35.480 investor in a

00:31:36.440 black unicorn

00:31:37.200 company?

00:31:38.180 That would be

00:31:38.740 the coolest

00:31:39.320 thing you could

00:31:39.820 ever say in

00:31:40.320 your world.

00:31:41.460 It's great to

00:31:42.160 say, oh, I was

00:31:42.700 an early investor

00:31:43.400 in Facebook and

00:31:44.380 stuff.

00:31:44.620 That's pretty

00:31:44.940 good.

00:31:45.760 Early investor

00:31:46.460 in Twitter?

00:31:47.280 Good for you.

00:31:48.860 But imagine

00:31:50.180 bragging that

00:31:51.660 you were an

00:31:52.000 early investor

00:31:52.680 in whatever,

00:31:54.080 black, gigantic

00:31:55.540 unicorn startup,

00:31:57.420 and you were

00:31:57.720 one of the

00:31:58.060 early investors.

00:31:59.300 That would be

00:31:59.700 the coolest

00:32:00.160 thing you could

00:32:00.680 ever say in

00:32:01.420 American society,

00:32:03.220 that you helped

00:32:04.580 that happen.

00:32:06.020 So the

00:32:07.100 imagination that

00:32:08.300 the funding is

00:32:09.500 the problem,

00:32:09.980 it's not the

00:32:10.440 problem.

00:32:10.740 The problem

00:32:11.840 is systemic

00:32:13.420 racism, for

00:32:14.580 sure.

00:32:15.940 So let's all

00:32:16.420 agree, well, you

00:32:17.580 don't have to

00:32:17.920 agree, but it's

00:32:18.440 my opinion, that

00:32:19.620 it is systemic

00:32:20.340 racism, but it's

00:32:21.180 because of the

00:32:21.920 teachers' unions.

00:32:23.180 We're not

00:32:23.960 producing enough

00:32:24.820 entrepreneurs who

00:32:25.800 happen to be

00:32:26.340 black.

00:32:26.860 That's the

00:32:27.260 problem.

00:32:28.340 Why?

00:32:29.040 Because the

00:32:29.460 schools.

00:32:30.500 The schools are

00:32:31.220 a mess.

00:32:32.200 Black kids can't 1.00

00:32:33.020 get a decent

00:32:33.660 education on

00:32:34.520 average, right?

00:32:35.760 Everybody's

00:32:36.280 different.

00:32:36.580 But the

00:32:38.280 teachers' 0.80

00:32:38.780 unions are

00:32:39.280 the source

00:32:39.920 of all

00:32:40.320 systemic

00:32:41.240 racism, and

00:32:42.320 dumb fucks 1.00

00:32:43.140 think it's

00:32:43.620 in the

00:32:43.900 funding.

00:32:45.140 The funding's

00:32:45.720 at the end

00:32:46.260 of the

00:32:46.520 tunnel, right?

00:32:47.820 The tunnel

00:32:48.540 was all of

00:32:49.960 the other

00:32:50.220 problems that

00:32:50.940 were before

00:32:52.000 that point.

00:32:52.660 Anyway, I

00:32:53.320 guess you're

00:32:53.640 all on board

00:32:54.060 on that.

00:32:55.120 Let's talk

00:32:55.540 about Candace

00:32:56.740 Owens, who's

00:32:57.680 in the news

00:32:58.940 for a couple

00:32:59.400 of reasons.

00:33:00.440 Now, you

00:33:00.920 might know

00:33:01.320 that I'm

00:33:02.260 a big fan

00:33:02.920 of Candace

00:33:03.600 Owens, one 0.98

00:33:04.660 of the most

00:33:05.400 impressive

00:33:05.880 talent stacks

00:33:07.000 you're ever

00:33:08.000 going to

00:33:08.260 see.

00:33:09.280 By talent

00:33:09.840 stack, I

00:33:10.320 mean a set

00:33:10.920 of talents

00:33:11.520 that work

00:33:12.240 well together,

00:33:13.500 and that's

00:33:14.160 what she

00:33:14.420 has.

00:33:14.760 She has

00:33:15.040 one of the

00:33:18.020 most impressive

00:33:18.680 combinations

00:33:20.380 of talents,

00:33:21.980 everything from

00:33:22.840 being young

00:33:23.580 and good

00:33:23.920 looking and

00:33:24.580 being black

00:33:25.860 that she

00:33:26.240 uses to her

00:33:26.820 advantage, to

00:33:28.080 being a great

00:33:28.980 communicator,

00:33:29.900 thinker,

00:33:30.940 political,

00:33:32.200 she knows a

00:33:32.900 lot about

00:33:33.260 stuff.

00:33:34.460 So she

00:33:34.860 just has

00:33:35.260 tons of

00:33:36.000 skills.

00:33:36.580 I'm very

00:33:36.860 impressed by

00:33:37.400 her in

00:33:37.720 general.

00:33:40.180 But she

00:33:41.100 has also

00:33:41.620 opposed face

00:33:42.600 masks and

00:33:44.060 said some

00:33:44.840 vaccination

00:33:45.620 comments that

00:33:47.180 the experts

00:33:48.500 do not agree

00:33:49.080 with, and

00:33:49.660 so she

00:33:50.780 tried to

00:33:51.220 get a

00:33:51.680 COVID test

00:33:52.980 and was

00:33:54.220 denied.

00:33:55.880 The

00:33:56.440 laboratory

00:33:56.860 that did

00:33:57.360 the test

00:33:57.840 found out

00:33:58.400 who she

00:33:58.740 was and

00:34:00.120 denied her

00:34:00.840 service

00:34:01.420 because of

00:34:02.820 her comments 0.92

00:34:03.600 on the

00:34:04.740 pandemic.

00:34:07.980 What?

00:34:10.000 It's like

00:34:10.600 all the

00:34:10.920 news has

00:34:11.340 the same

00:34:11.740 thing.

00:34:12.320 You just

00:34:12.760 read the

00:34:13.140 news straight

00:34:13.780 and then

00:34:14.580 you pause

00:34:14.960 for a

00:34:15.260 moment and

00:34:15.740 then you

00:34:16.100 say,

00:34:16.880 what?

00:34:19.100 What?

00:34:19.940 Are you

00:34:20.680 freaking

00:34:21.120 kidding me?

00:34:22.380 Now,

00:34:22.920 I don't

00:34:24.120 agree with

00:34:24.660 Candace on

00:34:25.700 the number of

00:34:26.220 her comments 0.92

00:34:26.800 about the

00:34:27.200 pandemic,

00:34:27.560 but that

00:34:28.480 doesn't mean

00:34:28.900 I'm right,

00:34:30.040 right?

00:34:30.620 I mean,

00:34:31.040 have some

00:34:31.440 humility about

00:34:32.160 this.

00:34:32.700 I can

00:34:33.060 disagree.

00:34:33.540 It doesn't

00:34:33.780 mean I'm

00:34:34.140 right.

00:34:35.080 It could

00:34:35.260 mean she's

00:34:35.760 right.

00:34:36.280 The only

00:34:36.620 thing I know

00:34:37.000 for sure is

00:34:37.440 we disagree.

00:34:38.820 So,

00:34:40.040 this is

00:34:41.640 outrageous.

00:34:42.680 And I

00:34:42.880 guess there

00:34:43.180 was only one

00:34:43.780 other option

00:34:44.420 where she

00:34:45.340 lives or

00:34:45.920 where she

00:34:46.220 wanted to

00:34:46.560 do this.

00:34:47.480 And it

00:34:47.880 was you

00:34:48.160 have to

00:34:48.360 wait in

00:34:48.640 line and

00:34:49.280 first come

00:34:49.840 first serve

00:34:50.420 and it's

00:34:50.800 a bad

00:34:51.280 situation.

00:34:52.380 So,

00:34:52.980 this just

00:34:53.460 sucks.

00:34:54.820 But,

00:34:55.340 here's the

00:34:55.800 interesting part.

00:34:58.260 Remember

00:34:58.700 conservatives

00:34:59.660 were supporting

00:35:01.140 the bakery

00:35:01.640 that didn't

00:35:02.120 want to

00:35:02.440 bake a

00:35:03.000 gay 0.99

00:35:03.480 wedding

00:35:03.760 cake?

00:35:06.600 This feels

00:35:07.340 a little

00:35:07.700 bit like

00:35:08.160 that.

00:35:08.460 It's not,

00:35:09.240 right?

00:35:09.620 It's not

00:35:10.060 like that.

00:35:10.580 So,

00:35:10.780 it would

00:35:11.000 be bad

00:35:12.300 to use

00:35:12.620 that as

00:35:12.880 an analogy.

00:35:13.800 But it

00:35:14.020 reminds us

00:35:14.580 of it.

00:35:15.820 And then

00:35:16.320 you have to

00:35:17.000 ask yourself,

00:35:17.620 if you like

00:35:18.080 capitalism,

00:35:20.220 does the

00:35:21.080 lab just

00:35:21.600 have the

00:35:21.940 right to

00:35:22.520 refuse service

00:35:23.420 for any

00:35:23.880 reason?

00:35:25.080 Would that

00:35:25.400 be,

00:35:25.800 because they're

00:35:26.340 not discriminating

00:35:27.180 on gender

00:35:28.640 or race

00:35:30.580 or anything,

00:35:31.000 as far as

00:35:31.380 we know.

00:35:31.820 I mean,

00:35:32.020 there's no

00:35:32.300 indication of

00:35:32.940 it.

00:35:34.340 Do they

00:35:34.900 have that

00:35:35.200 right?

00:35:36.520 Somebody says

00:35:37.160 it's racist, 0.67

00:35:37.880 but there's

00:35:38.340 no indication

00:35:38.920 that that has

00:35:39.600 anything to do

00:35:40.140 with anything

00:35:40.520 in this case.

00:35:42.040 Do they

00:35:42.560 have the

00:35:42.820 right?

00:35:43.120 They do,

00:35:43.520 right?

00:35:44.500 Don't they

00:35:44.900 have a legal

00:35:45.420 right to

00:35:45.860 discriminate

00:35:46.320 in this

00:35:47.080 case?

00:35:48.320 You know,

00:35:48.520 it would be

00:35:48.840 different if it

00:35:49.380 were a

00:35:49.640 hospital.

00:35:50.380 I'd be

00:35:50.920 worried about

00:35:51.380 that.

00:35:51.680 But if

00:35:52.320 it's just

00:35:52.680 a test

00:35:53.280 facility,

00:35:54.360 but on

00:35:54.680 the other

00:35:54.940 hand,

00:35:55.240 it is a

00:35:55.640 pandemic,

00:35:57.100 so it's

00:35:57.680 pretty messed

00:35:58.500 up to

00:35:59.460 deny somebody

00:36:00.200 a test

00:36:00.600 during a

00:36:01.020 pandemic.

00:36:02.120 That's

00:36:02.540 pretty messed

00:36:03.000 up.

00:36:05.240 But she

00:36:06.020 might have

00:36:06.340 the right.

00:36:06.920 She might 0.99

00:36:07.320 have the

00:36:08.060 complete right

00:36:08.980 to do a

00:36:09.440 messed up

00:36:09.820 thing.

00:36:10.160 This would

00:36:10.420 be the

00:36:10.660 owner of

00:36:11.040 the lab

00:36:11.460 who denied

00:36:11.940 service.

00:36:13.380 Candice,

00:36:13.880 also in

00:36:14.460 the news

00:36:14.940 a little

00:36:15.220 bit,

00:36:15.420 at least

00:36:15.600 on social

00:36:16.060 media,

00:36:16.340 because I

00:36:18.400 guess the

00:36:18.980 Taliban just 1.00

00:36:19.620 announced that

00:36:20.280 China will 0.99

00:36:21.620 be their

00:36:22.060 gateway to

00:36:23.020 international

00:36:23.560 markets along

00:36:24.480 the One

00:36:24.940 Belt Road

00:36:25.500 initiative.

00:36:27.340 And Candice

00:36:28.780 was pointing

00:36:29.240 out that she

00:36:29.720 predicted that

00:36:31.260 Joe Biden

00:36:31.820 would basically

00:36:32.500 give Afghanistan

00:36:33.980 to China.

00:36:36.300 And it

00:36:37.800 looks like she

00:36:38.260 was right.

00:36:39.180 But here's

00:36:39.620 where I

00:36:39.960 disagree with

00:36:40.700 Candice.

00:36:41.740 I don't

00:36:42.460 know that

00:36:42.940 China's going 1.00

00:36:43.460 to be happy

00:36:43.920 about this

00:36:44.400 in the long

00:36:44.880 run.

00:36:46.340 Because so

00:36:48.760 far, everybody

00:36:49.940 who's been

00:36:50.380 involved with

00:36:51.880 Afghanistan has 0.90

00:36:52.840 come to

00:36:53.420 regret it.

00:36:55.460 Now, China 0.97

00:36:55.900 is different

00:36:56.400 from every

00:36:57.120 other country

00:36:57.680 in lots of

00:36:58.220 different ways,

00:36:58.980 so maybe they

00:36:59.600 won't.

00:37:00.340 Maybe they'll

00:37:00.860 be happy,

00:37:01.820 maybe they

00:37:02.180 can accept

00:37:02.720 whatever losses

00:37:03.500 or costs,

00:37:04.840 and maybe

00:37:05.120 they'll be

00:37:05.520 happy for

00:37:05.940 the strategic

00:37:06.560 advantage,

00:37:07.360 and having

00:37:08.280 their Belt

00:37:08.760 and Road

00:37:09.040 initiative,

00:37:10.000 which connects

00:37:10.840 a lot of

00:37:11.260 stuff so they

00:37:11.860 can do trade,

00:37:13.100 maybe it'll be

00:37:14.680 a mess and

00:37:15.640 still worthwhile.

00:37:16.340 Because the

00:37:17.140 economics might

00:37:17.900 be kind of

00:37:18.660 tremendous for

00:37:19.260 them.

00:37:20.740 But I think

00:37:21.980 I would disagree

00:37:23.040 with Candice that

00:37:24.100 this looks like a

00:37:24.900 good thing for

00:37:25.440 China.

00:37:26.260 I suspect China's 1.00

00:37:27.480 going to come to

00:37:28.000 regret it,

00:37:29.340 but I'm only

00:37:30.900 leaning in that

00:37:31.580 direction.

00:37:32.200 Candice could be 1.00

00:37:32.840 right on this as

00:37:33.600 well.

00:37:33.820 I don't like to

00:37:36.100 disagree too

00:37:37.060 publicly with

00:37:37.780 people I

00:37:38.220 consider smart,

00:37:40.100 because when you

00:37:41.480 disagree with

00:37:42.140 smart people,

00:37:43.760 you're taking a

00:37:44.500 chance.

00:37:46.220 Right?

00:37:47.460 So if you

00:37:48.640 disagree with

00:37:49.180 somebody like

00:37:49.700 Candice, you're

00:37:51.740 disagreeing with

00:37:52.320 a smart person,

00:37:53.300 and you're

00:37:53.700 taking your

00:37:54.060 chances.

00:37:55.520 All right.

00:37:56.320 Neil deGrasse

00:37:57.140 Tyson, he

00:37:59.360 tweeted this

00:37:59.880 provocatively.

00:38:00.720 Now, here's

00:38:01.620 some statistics

00:38:02.360 that I don't

00:38:02.980 know if are

00:38:03.400 true.

00:38:03.700 So I'm just

00:38:05.020 reporting what

00:38:05.780 Tyson says.

00:38:07.220 But, you know,

00:38:07.660 he's a science

00:38:08.600 proponent, of

00:38:09.840 course, famous

00:38:10.540 science proponent

00:38:11.520 and scientist.

00:38:14.940 Astrophysicist, I

00:38:15.600 think that's what

00:38:16.060 he is.

00:38:17.060 But he points

00:38:17.960 out that every

00:38:18.920 10 days, 8,000

00:38:21.080 unvaccinated

00:38:21.920 Republican voters

00:38:23.660 die of COVID.

00:38:25.160 Now, how smart

00:38:25.980 is he to say

00:38:26.660 voters?

00:38:28.460 Because he's

00:38:29.380 trying to

00:38:29.760 persuade.

00:38:31.080 But instead

00:38:31.860 of saying 8,000

00:38:32.880 unvaccinated

00:38:33.560 Republicans die

00:38:35.440 every 10 days,

00:38:36.480 he says 8,000

00:38:37.560 unvaccinated

00:38:38.280 Republican voters

00:38:39.580 die.

00:38:40.560 That's a little

00:38:41.040 extra.

00:38:41.680 isn't it?

00:38:42.420 Because then

00:38:43.020 you're saying,

00:38:43.440 wait a minute,

00:38:44.660 are you saying

00:38:45.200 that the next

00:38:46.060 election could

00:38:46.800 be determined

00:38:47.380 by whether we

00:38:48.240 get vaccinations?

00:38:49.980 And he is

00:38:50.760 saying that.

00:38:51.800 He's very much

00:38:52.700 saying that.

00:38:53.640 That the next

00:38:54.200 election, because

00:38:54.940 we have close

00:38:55.620 elections.

00:38:57.180 There might be

00:38:58.000 enough Republicans

00:38:59.120 who die to

00:39:00.900 change some

00:39:02.080 election results.

00:39:03.600 That could 0.68

00:39:03.940 actually happen.

00:39:05.140 I don't know

00:39:05.580 what the odds

00:39:06.120 are, but it

00:39:06.780 feels like it's

00:39:07.360 physically possible.

00:39:09.620 But for every

00:39:10.480 Republican who

00:39:12.000 dies, there are

00:39:13.820 five times as

00:39:14.560 many of them

00:39:15.120 as Democrats.

00:39:15.740 I need a fact

00:39:17.920 check on that.

00:39:19.400 Is it true,

00:39:20.540 as Tyson

00:39:21.060 claims,

00:39:22.460 Neil deGrasse

00:39:23.120 Tyson, that

00:39:24.460 there are five

00:39:25.760 times as many

00:39:26.640 Republicans dying

00:39:28.100 from COVID as

00:39:29.500 Democrats?

00:39:30.080 Democrats?

00:39:31.220 Has anybody

00:39:31.640 seen a statistic

00:39:32.660 like that?

00:39:33.700 Has anybody

00:39:34.180 even collected

00:39:36.040 that statistic?

00:39:37.400 Because, yeah,

00:39:38.180 somebody says no

00:39:39.100 way to know, and

00:39:39.820 that's where I'm

00:39:40.460 at.

00:39:40.760 I don't think we

00:39:41.640 know that, do we?

00:39:43.360 Now, I had,

00:39:46.100 maybe it's

00:39:46.960 estimated by just

00:39:48.040 what counties

00:39:48.760 they're in or

00:39:49.280 something like

00:39:49.720 that.

00:39:50.840 Yeah, nobody

00:39:51.300 tracks it.

00:39:52.120 I don't think

00:39:52.860 it's ever been

00:39:53.360 surveyed.

00:39:54.280 So I'm a little

00:39:55.080 hesitant to say

00:39:56.000 it's true.

00:39:57.000 But here's what I

00:39:58.020 like about it.

00:39:59.840 What I like about

00:40:00.700 it is that he's

00:40:01.540 taken a crack at

00:40:02.560 persuasion and

00:40:04.600 did a pretty good

00:40:05.380 job.

00:40:06.420 He did a pretty

00:40:06.940 good job.

00:40:07.860 In fact, this is

00:40:08.720 exactly what I

00:40:09.820 recommended earlier

00:40:11.820 on, recommended in

00:40:12.800 terms of if somebody

00:40:13.660 wanted to be

00:40:14.280 persuasive.

00:40:15.400 What you would do

00:40:16.260 is set up a

00:40:16.880 competition between

00:40:17.880 Republicans and

00:40:18.700 Democrats.

00:40:19.760 If you reported

00:40:20.900 every day how

00:40:22.640 many Democrats

00:40:23.360 died, vaccinated

00:40:25.020 and not, and

00:40:26.200 how many

00:40:26.540 Republicans died 0.52

00:40:27.380 every day,

00:40:28.680 vaccinated and

00:40:29.360 not, and just

00:40:29.820 put that little

00:40:30.460 data in a

00:40:33.880 sidebar, just

00:40:35.520 put it there

00:40:35.920 every day where

00:40:36.680 they used to

00:40:37.060 have all the

00:40:37.540 COVID information,

00:40:38.980 I feel like that

00:40:39.960 would make a

00:40:40.340 difference because

00:40:41.340 you would turn

00:40:42.120 Democrats and

00:40:44.620 Republicans into

00:40:45.620 competitors.

00:40:47.160 And you say,

00:40:47.620 all right, see

00:40:49.000 who can live the

00:40:50.820 best.

00:40:51.500 And just make it

00:40:51.960 a competition.

00:40:53.440 See who lives

00:40:54.260 the longest.

00:40:55.400 All right.

00:40:56.780 Should media

00:40:57.460 disinformation be

00:40:58.360 considered a

00:40:58.880 health crisis?

00:41:00.400 We now have two

00:41:02.860 parts to health

00:41:03.660 care.

00:41:04.800 One is the

00:41:06.220 stuff you actually

00:41:06.880 do, you know,

00:41:07.560 the setting your

00:41:08.680 broken bones and

00:41:09.820 taking medicine and

00:41:10.720 stuff, the actual

00:41:11.620 care.

00:41:12.120 But the other part

00:41:13.320 of health care is

00:41:14.040 the mental part.

00:41:17.940 You know, the

00:41:18.240 what do you know

00:41:19.320 and do you know

00:41:20.100 enough to get the

00:41:20.840 right care and are

00:41:21.720 you making the

00:41:22.200 right decisions, you

00:41:22.940 know, the mental

00:41:23.280 part.

00:41:23.500 And we separate

00:41:24.720 them like they're

00:41:25.320 somehow separate.

00:41:26.560 But I feel like the

00:41:28.260 punditry, at least in

00:41:29.800 the pandemic, the

00:41:31.000 punditry has become

00:41:32.340 health care, wouldn't

00:41:34.780 you say?

00:41:35.380 Because people are

00:41:36.300 definitely being

00:41:37.080 influenced by non-medical

00:41:39.080 professionals, including

00:41:40.360 me, sadly, to make

00:41:43.000 decisions on their own

00:41:44.860 health.

00:41:46.100 And I think we have

00:41:47.580 to start recognizing

00:41:48.520 that the punditry is

00:41:51.380 just part of health

00:41:52.160 care now, at least

00:41:53.300 for the big national

00:41:54.660 topics, not for your

00:41:56.000 everyday stuff.

00:41:56.940 It doesn't matter to

00:41:57.620 your gout.

00:41:58.880 But for the big stuff,

00:42:00.480 like a pandemic, the

00:42:01.420 punditry is just

00:42:02.520 health care.

00:42:03.760 It is.

00:42:04.560 Because people are

00:42:05.100 taking their medical

00:42:05.900 advice from people

00:42:07.300 like me.

00:42:08.160 And I'm telling you

00:42:08.800 not to, right?

00:42:09.600 I say it a million

00:42:10.500 times, don't, don't,

00:42:11.500 don't, don't get your

00:42:13.540 medical advice from me.

00:42:14.540 But it happens, right?

00:42:15.580 Just because people are

00:42:16.360 influenced by what they

00:42:17.240 see and hear.

00:42:18.460 So somehow we have to

00:42:19.760 deal with that.

00:42:20.440 And I wonder if there

00:42:21.580 will be a day that

00:42:23.300 we'll ever be able to

00:42:24.160 calculate how many

00:42:25.500 people each pundit

00:42:26.700 killed or saved.

00:42:29.720 Could you, at some

00:42:30.820 point in the future,

00:42:31.640 let's say, this is

00:42:32.420 hypothetical, right?

00:42:33.700 Let's say someday in

00:42:34.660 the future, science came

00:42:36.360 to a consensus about

00:42:38.080 what worked and what

00:42:39.160 didn't work in the

00:42:40.320 pandemic.

00:42:41.020 We're nowhere near that

00:42:41.980 right now.

00:42:42.760 Right now, I don't

00:42:43.540 think we know what

00:42:44.220 works, like we're

00:42:45.640 still arguing masks

00:42:47.060 and vaccinations and

00:42:48.040 all that stuff.

00:42:48.720 But let's say someday,

00:42:50.700 someday we do have a

00:42:52.200 pretty good idea what

00:42:53.500 worked and what didn't

00:42:54.380 work.

00:42:55.260 Then we could look at

00:42:56.300 the pundits of what

00:42:57.060 they said.

00:42:57.960 You could look at the

00:42:58.700 size of their platform.

00:43:00.180 You could make an

00:43:01.020 assumption about what

00:43:02.260 level of influence they

00:43:03.660 have.

00:43:04.220 Somehow you could do

00:43:04.920 that.

00:43:05.440 And I think you could

00:43:06.240 actually come up with

00:43:06.980 an estimate of how

00:43:08.620 many people each

00:43:09.600 pundit killed or saved.

00:43:11.940 Because some pundits

00:43:13.600 would have said more

00:43:14.820 of the right things and

00:43:15.720 less of the wrong

00:43:16.580 things.

00:43:17.600 I'd like to know that

00:43:18.860 maybe 10 years from

00:43:20.420 now when our emotions

00:43:24.400 have gone down a little

00:43:25.800 bit.

00:43:26.860 So I guess what I would

00:43:27.980 add to the conversation

00:43:28.820 is I'll bet you could

00:43:29.720 calculate it.

00:43:30.840 I'll bet you could

00:43:31.640 calculate how many

00:43:32.680 people each pundit

00:43:33.580 killed.

00:43:35.180 So that should keep

00:43:36.380 you honest.

00:43:39.420 Rasmussen has an

00:43:40.520 excellent red meat

00:43:42.000 kind of poll results

00:43:43.220 here.

00:43:43.940 They ask, what

00:43:44.400 percentage of people

00:43:45.180 diagnosed with COVID

00:43:46.080 do you think have

00:43:46.920 died from the disease?

00:43:48.740 So this will be

00:43:49.500 testing, among other

00:43:50.920 things, who has better

00:43:52.720 information about COVID,

00:43:54.180 Democrats or

00:43:54.980 Republicans?

00:43:55.660 What do you think?

00:43:56.720 Before I tell you the

00:43:57.740 answer, who do you

00:43:59.220 think has better

00:43:59.940 information about the

00:44:02.440 details of COVID,

00:44:04.100 Republicans or

00:44:05.160 Democrats?

00:44:05.700 specifically just the

00:44:07.320 death rate.

00:44:09.200 So, yeah, it's

00:44:11.260 Republicans double.

00:44:13.960 Republicans are twice

00:44:15.520 as likely, twice as

00:44:17.320 likely to get the

00:44:19.080 right answer to this

00:44:19.920 question.

00:44:21.020 So Democrats, only

00:44:21.980 21% think that fewer

00:44:24.540 than 2% of the

00:44:25.520 people diagnosed

00:44:27.020 died of the disease.

00:44:29.660 So let me say it in a

00:44:30.500 clearer way.

00:44:31.400 The real number of

00:44:32.260 people who died of

00:44:33.020 COVID is less than

00:44:35.120 1%, right?

00:44:36.640 But it's less than

00:44:37.260 2%.

00:44:38.500 And Democrats, only

00:44:42.020 21% of Democrats

00:44:43.580 know how few people

00:44:44.900 die of COVID.

00:44:47.440 Only 21%, one in

00:44:49.760 five Democrats, only

00:44:51.960 one in five, even

00:44:54.720 know close to what the

00:44:58.280 death rate is.

00:44:59.380 That's the biggest

00:45:00.440 factor in your decision.

00:45:02.320 The number one factor in

00:45:04.360 your decision about

00:45:05.360 what to do personally

00:45:06.400 for the pandemic, the

00:45:08.200 number one thing is how

00:45:08.980 many people are dying.

00:45:11.140 And the Democrats don't

00:45:13.260 know.

00:45:14.240 Only one in five knows.

00:45:16.960 I mean, that's crazy.

00:45:18.940 One in five gets the

00:45:21.000 right answer.

00:45:21.520 That's it.

00:45:24.480 Republicans aren't, you

00:45:25.980 know, are not exactly

00:45:27.240 killing it either.

00:45:28.100 Only 39% of Republicans

00:45:30.020 think it's less than 2%.

00:45:31.460 But it's twice as much,

00:45:33.600 you know, it's twice as

00:45:34.360 much as Democrats, so

00:45:35.820 that's good.

00:45:36.540 It's still not good.

00:45:38.160 That's pretty uninformed

00:45:39.640 for both Democrats and

00:45:41.640 Republicans.

00:45:43.400 So here's the question.

00:45:44.760 If Democrats have a

00:45:45.740 higher vaccination rate,

00:45:46.900 I think that's true,

00:45:48.260 do they have a higher

00:45:50.260 vaccination rate because

00:45:51.480 they are smarter about

00:45:54.860 science, or

00:45:58.100 dumber about data?

00:46:04.480 You can't tell.

00:46:06.360 Or is it both?

00:46:07.160 Some combination.

00:46:08.680 Because I do think the

00:46:10.720 Democrats, now, don't

00:46:12.800 hate me, but I do think

00:46:14.200 the Democrats might have

00:46:16.240 a little bit more, let's

00:46:17.460 say, trust in the

00:46:20.560 experts for the

00:46:21.360 vaccinations.

00:46:22.360 Doesn't mean they're

00:46:23.060 right, but they have

00:46:24.200 more trust.

00:46:24.780 But they certainly have

00:46:26.920 less information about

00:46:27.840 the data.

00:46:30.160 So are the Democrats

00:46:32.080 so smart that they're

00:46:33.720 believing the experts and

00:46:34.820 they're right about it,

00:46:35.820 or are they so dumb that

00:46:37.080 they think that the

00:46:39.440 virus is way deadlier than

00:46:40.820 it is, and that's why

00:46:41.680 they're getting

00:46:42.020 vaccinated?

00:46:43.300 Can't tell.

00:46:45.520 All right.

00:46:46.640 Rasmussen also asked,

00:46:47.880 do you believe health

00:46:48.520 officials are lying about

00:46:49.840 the safety of COVID

00:46:50.920 vaccines?

00:46:51.540 Well, 53% of

00:46:54.760 Republicans say yes.

00:46:56.000 They think health

00:46:56.540 officials are lying about

00:46:58.260 the safety of the

00:46:59.020 vaccines.

00:47:00.760 53% think that the

00:47:03.300 people in charge are

00:47:05.100 lying about one of the

00:47:07.000 biggest things in the

00:47:07.840 world you could ever

00:47:08.540 lie about.

00:47:09.720 I mean, what would be

00:47:10.380 bigger than this?

00:47:11.440 I mean, you could

00:47:12.620 probably think of

00:47:13.240 something, but it'd be

00:47:13.900 hard.

00:47:15.100 But only 26% of

00:47:16.860 Democrats believe that

00:47:18.740 health officials are

00:47:19.700 lying about the safety

00:47:20.780 of vaccines.

00:47:22.060 Now, keep in mind, we

00:47:23.580 just watched officials

00:47:25.040 lie about masks, right,

00:47:27.240 in 2020.

00:47:28.760 Fauci even admits he

00:47:29.940 lied about it.

00:47:30.720 He lied right to your

00:47:31.440 face about masks.

00:47:33.360 Now, you still think he

00:47:34.580 was right the first time 0.99

00:47:35.660 or whatever, but that's

00:47:36.420 a different question.

00:47:38.120 He admits he lied.

00:47:39.980 So, if the same people

00:47:41.580 who lied to you about

00:47:42.320 masks are telling you

00:47:44.080 certain things about

00:47:45.040 vaccinations, is it

00:47:47.380 unreasonable to doubt

00:47:48.480 them?

00:47:49.540 No.

00:47:49.880 Now, I would be in

00:47:53.080 the category that says

00:47:55.240 health officials are

00:47:56.240 lying about the safety

00:47:57.420 of everything, not just

00:47:59.920 vaccinations.

00:48:01.140 I just think we're in a

00:48:02.080 weird world where they're

00:48:03.080 lying about everything.

00:48:04.620 Not, you know, not

00:48:06.020 everything about

00:48:06.900 everything, but probably

00:48:08.380 every topic's got a little

00:48:09.660 bit of a lie in it.

00:48:11.080 You know, not every part

00:48:12.040 of it, though.

00:48:12.940 So I'm not saying that

00:48:14.020 vaccinations don't work.

00:48:15.280 I'm just saying that

00:48:16.700 there's probably a lot of

00:48:17.640 lying by the people who

00:48:18.680 are in charge.

00:48:21.240 All right.

00:48:21.600 I only got a minute to

00:48:22.700 go here.

00:48:24.100 And luckily, I'm ready.

00:48:30.300 So, here's the thing.

00:48:33.020 I think this was one of the

00:48:34.660 best live streams in the

00:48:36.280 history of the universe.

00:48:37.520 Not just mine, but of all

00:48:39.300 time.

00:48:39.620 If you disagree, well, I

00:48:42.060 don't want to hear about

00:48:42.700 it, because I'm turning

00:48:43.400 off YouTube right now.

00:48:44.800 But thank you for being

00:48:45.660 with me.

00:48:46.260 I appreciate you all.

00:48:47.760 And I'll see you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 03, 2021

Episode 1488 Scott Adams： Let's Talk About How Well Joe Biden is Doing so Far, And Lots More

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