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


Episode Stats

Length

48 minutes

Words per Minute

151.91559

Word Count

7,415

Sentence Count

537

Misogynist Sentences

25

Hate Speech Sentences

30


Summary

Scott Adams is back with another episode of Coffee with Scott Adams. This morning's episode features: - Greg Gutfeld's new show on Fox News, which is killing the late night game. - A woman who staged a small protest in Kabul, Afghanistan. - California Gov. Gavin Newsom gets a new endorsement in the recall election. - And a new song from Akira the Don.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Good morning everybody and welcome to the best time in the universe.
00:00:04.960 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams and those of you who have enjoyed it before
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00:00:18.320 We don't know that for sure but my speculation is that it's the best thing on their planet too.
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00:00:26.680 But how can we take it up a notch?
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00:00:37.720 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day,
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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.
00:01:51.800 And by that, I mean Akira the Don's next single,
00:01:54.600 in which there are samples of my voice from the podcast used in it.
00:01:59.160 Now, if you haven't seen this genre of music,
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.
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.
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
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,
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
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,
00:06:32.620 and I think that women will, in fact, get power, slowly,
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.
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.
00:07:13.560 So, I think the Taliban is going to have to actually get right with women,
00:07:18.400 and eventually women will change it from the inside.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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
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
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
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
00:26:09.280 called it
00:26:09.720 out.
00:26:11.220 She just
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
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
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.
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
00:26:54.940 Lives Matter
00:26:55.380 is racist.
00:26:56.360 She probably,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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'
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
00:36:19.620 announced that
00:36:20.280 China will
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
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
00:36:52.840 come to
00:36:53.420 regret it.
00:36:55.460 Now, China
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
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
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
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
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
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.