Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1550 Scott Adams： The Political Earthquake That Happened Last Night in Virginia and Elsewhere. Plus Funny Tweets

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00:01:33.940 Well, if that's not happy enough, boy, do we have some things to talk about today.

00:01:38.640 Is anything happening in the news?

00:01:40.360 Because, yeah, yeah, that's right.

00:01:44.820 Soylent green in the matrix.

00:01:46.820 And let's go, Brandon.

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00:02:06.360 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure.

00:02:09.160 The dopamine hit of the day.

00:02:10.880 The thing that makes everything better except the democratic turnout.

00:02:15.280 It's called the simultaneous sip.

00:02:18.180 It happens now.

00:02:19.980 Go.

00:02:20.160 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:02:28.200 I feel my antibodies firing up.

00:02:32.900 Mm, mm, mm.

00:02:35.440 Well, here's an observation.

00:02:37.060 I don't know if any of you realized it, but because we live in a simulated reality,

00:02:42.100 and the simulation likes to send us hints about our true nature, here's one of the hints.

00:02:46.560 Did you ever notice that Let's Go Brandon includes, of course, the name Brandon?

00:02:54.560 But have you ever thought that Brandon is Brand Don?

00:03:02.900 And that Donald Trump is the branding, the brandingest brander of all time?

00:03:09.200 He brands things.

00:03:10.120 He brands his opponents.

00:03:11.220 He brands his business.

00:03:12.120 And we're talking, we have a phrase that refers to him that's called Brand Don.

00:03:19.660 And he is actually a brand.

00:03:21.380 Trump himself is a brand.

00:03:23.360 He's Brand Don.

00:03:25.660 I don't know.

00:03:26.440 I just thought that was interesting.

00:03:29.180 Here's, I'm going to give you a warm-up joke.

00:03:32.580 Okay.

00:03:33.080 The first joke of the day, because there are a lot of them coming about the headlines.

00:03:37.680 There are a lot of them.

00:03:38.720 The first one's going to take a little bit of work, okay?

00:03:42.420 So pay attention.

00:03:43.960 Because I'll tell you the joke, but then you have to do the work of completing the joke in your brain.

00:03:49.760 Those are the best jokes.

00:03:51.300 The joke where it's not complete, your brain has to complete the joke.

00:03:54.680 Are you ready?

00:03:55.940 Here it is.

00:03:57.240 It's been a bad month for Democrats shooting themselves in the foot.

00:04:03.800 Anybody?

00:04:05.440 Anybody?

00:04:05.800 Anybody?

00:04:05.900 I don't know if you saw the story about one of the crew members on the movie Rust with Alec Baldwin.

00:04:16.280 Literally shot herself in the foot.

00:04:19.620 Like her actual foot. 0.66

00:04:21.660 She didn't just misfire a gun.

00:04:25.440 Misfiring a gun?

00:04:27.140 Plenty bad.

00:04:28.660 If you misfire a gun, that's bad.

00:04:31.140 But literally shooting yourself in the foot.

00:04:34.700 That actually happened.

00:04:36.420 Now, as luck would have it, it was blanks.

00:04:39.420 So I don't know what damage happened, but probably not as bad as a real bullet.

00:04:43.580 But, yeah, it's been a bad month for Democrats shooting themselves in the foot.

00:04:47.840 That was just my warm-up joke, people.

00:04:50.220 Don't judge the rest of this by the warm-up joke.

00:04:53.400 Can't judge by that.

00:04:54.900 All right?

00:04:55.660 Ready for another one?

00:04:59.040 Well, it turns out that in New Jersey, and I don't think this race went the way it looked,

00:05:07.400 but for a while there, it looked as though a truck driver in New Jersey was going to win the New Jersey State,

00:05:13.900 was going to beat the New Jersey State Senate President, a Democrat.

00:05:19.000 And he was right in, I think he actually lost, but it looks like he was headed toward the end of the night.

00:05:24.300 And he spent only $200 on his campaign, and he was a truck driver.

00:05:29.340 And his name is Edward Durr.

00:05:32.300 D-U-R-R. 1.00

00:05:34.680 Durr.

00:05:36.220 Come on.

00:05:37.400 This has got to be a simulation.

00:05:40.740 Because I don't know if you know this, but at least on Twitter, it's sort of a Republican meme thing.

00:05:47.700 Durr.

00:05:48.680 You know, they just go Durr at things.

00:05:52.140 How perfect is that last name?

00:05:54.360 That he almost beat the New Jersey State Senate President, who's an incumbent for years.

00:05:59.960 He was almost beat by a truck driver named Durr.

00:06:05.480 That can't be more perfect.

00:06:07.940 The simulation is winking at us.

00:06:09.460 But my comment was, is maybe we're better off than he lost, because if he'd won, it just would have made the supply chain problem worse.

00:06:19.580 We need the truck drivers in the trucks. 0.99

00:06:22.460 We don't need truck drivers running for office. 0.63

00:06:24.800 And now I'm starting to wonder, is this what caused the supply chain problem?

00:06:29.140 Did too many truckers run for office? 0.99

00:06:32.060 Because it looked like it was easier work?

00:06:34.120 It is easier work than trucking.

00:06:37.020 And apparently there's nothing to stop you from winning.

00:06:39.820 He got pretty close, but I think he lost in the end.

00:06:42.580 All right.

00:06:44.900 I told you in a prior live stream that I was not going to make jokes about the story that, first of all, I think is fake news.

00:06:54.000 I think it's fake news that President Biden had a bell movement in his pants in the Vatican while meeting the Pope.

00:07:03.000 Now, maybe, you know, it could have happened.

00:07:06.420 If it really happened, then I don't want to joke about it, because that's just a medical problem and, you know, that's not funny.

00:07:14.280 But if it didn't happen, which is my assumption, that it didn't really happen, and it's just sort of a meme idea going around, well, then I can have some fun with it.

00:07:23.960 Then I can have some fun with it.

00:07:25.740 And I think that's our situation.

00:07:28.140 Did you see the best meme of all time going around that has a picture of Biden standing next to Kamala Harris, and the caption is simply,

00:07:41.060 Shits and Giggles. 0.98

00:07:44.280 Okay.

00:07:45.480 If there were an Academy Award for memes, there's your winner.

00:07:51.920 Shits and Giggles. 0.98

00:07:53.360 Hold on.

00:07:54.700 For those of you on YouTube, if you haven't seen it, this was just posted on Locals.

00:08:02.660 So, Shits and Giggles.

00:08:07.940 Now, this is sort of good news, bad news.

00:08:13.680 If you're a humorist.

00:08:15.160 If you're a professional humorist, as I am, and you see somebody pull this off, shits and giggles, it just makes you feel terrible because you didn't think of it at first.

00:08:27.740 I look at this, and I go, oh, I do this for a living.

00:08:33.080 Did somebody really beat me to that?

00:08:35.500 And, you know, maybe an amateur?

00:08:37.120 I hope it was a professional, at least.

00:08:39.340 Because as a professional, I feel totally, totally lapped by this.

00:08:44.700 That's really good.

00:08:46.580 All right.

00:08:46.920 So, they got that going on.

00:08:54.460 Other funny stuff happening?

00:08:58.300 Here's my own contribution.

00:08:59.940 Do you know how Democrats feel this morning?

00:09:04.500 I think Democrats all over the country woke up and they felt like Biden's pants.

00:09:11.900 You're welcome.

00:09:13.320 Just put that visual in your mind.

00:09:14.960 Yep.

00:09:15.120 Every Democrat in the country feels like Biden's pants right now.

00:09:21.060 That was one of my jokes.

00:09:22.300 Here's my other joke.

00:09:24.460 And you can evaluate them for me.

00:09:27.640 Somebody was tweeting at me that Biden had soiled his pants.

00:09:33.900 And I said, you know, that's not so bad.

00:09:36.800 That's called leadership.

00:09:37.840 If it's true that Biden crapped his pants, that is leadership because today, three-quarters

00:09:45.240 of Democrats just woke up and shit themselves, too.

00:09:49.820 So, that's leadership.

00:09:51.640 Your leader goes first and three-quarters of Democrats wake up and they shit their pants,

00:09:56.120 too, when they see the news.

00:09:57.920 It's a little thing called Virginia.

00:10:01.180 We'll talk about that, of course, in detail coming up after the jokes.

00:10:05.180 Got to do the jokes first.

00:10:07.180 Jokes first.

00:10:08.140 I got priorities.

00:10:10.060 There was a tweet from The Last Refuge I saw today.

00:10:14.460 And it showed a picture of a shipping container ship in the port.

00:10:21.420 And there were lots of, you know, shipping containers on it.

00:10:23.920 And The Last Refuge tweeted with that picture,

00:10:27.820 the supply chain problems caused by McAuliffe's extra ballots from China to be delayed.

00:10:32.980 I think I paraphrased the joke.

00:10:38.060 But basically, the idea was that the only reason Biden won is that the supply chain problem

00:10:43.960 causes extra ballots from China to be delayed.

00:10:46.740 Just so I don't get cancelled, I don't believe that there were really extra ballots from China delayed on the ship.

00:10:58.180 Just to be clear, I don't think that was necessarily true.

00:11:02.400 I can't say it wasn't true.

00:11:05.380 Can't prove a negative.

00:11:07.060 But I don't think it's true.

00:11:08.780 But it's pretty damn funny.

00:11:11.700 All right.

00:11:12.340 Let's talk about the lessons that we learned from, you've all heard by now,

00:11:17.520 that the Republican has unexpectedly, at least a month ago it was unexpected,

00:11:23.140 the Republican challenger, Youngkin, has managed to e-count a victory,

00:11:28.940 actually a pretty solid victory, over what they call Democratic royalty, Terry McAuliffe,

00:11:36.560 meaning a very established Democrat, with lots of support.

00:11:41.440 Now, why did it happen?

00:11:44.960 Why did it happen?

00:11:47.420 What exactly was the problem?

00:11:50.520 Well, I'll read you Joel Pollack's tweet this morning.

00:11:54.620 He says, the lessons of Youngkin victory.

00:11:57.740 Hold on.

00:11:59.660 Hold on.

00:12:00.180 A lot of the election was about school children, wasn't it?

00:12:07.080 It was about school children.

00:12:08.700 That seemed to be the biggest issue, in my mind.

00:12:11.500 And the guy who won was called Youngkin.

00:12:15.340 People worried about their Youngkin voted for the guy named Youngkin.

00:12:25.340 People, this is actually happening.

00:12:30.180 There's a great book I read years ago called The Celestine Prophecies.

00:12:34.320 Has anybody read that?

00:12:35.100 That was sort of a new agey, kind of a fictional book.

00:12:38.840 But it talked about how you could tell there was going to be a giant shift in human perception,

00:12:45.940 because it was sort of, let's say, presaged.

00:12:50.500 Is that a word?

00:12:51.680 It was, we had a warning about it.

00:12:54.820 Insert your own perfect good word for that.

00:12:57.000 What is the perfect word foreshadowed?

00:13:00.180 Yeah, so that book says that big changes in perception are foreshadowed by coincidences,

00:13:06.560 so that the rate of coincidence ramps up right before there's a major perceptual change in the world.

00:13:13.740 Now, that's just a fictional thing.

00:13:17.040 But we're seeing an insane amount of coincidences, aren't we?

00:13:20.940 Maybe it's just, you know, just the confirmation bias,

00:13:26.980 because once you start seeing coincidences, you start seeing more of them, you know?

00:13:32.040 So it's probably just a perceptual thing, but just for fun.

00:13:35.480 Anyway, back to Joel Pollack's tweet about the lessons from the Youngkin victory.

00:13:39.640 He says, number one, Republicans can win on education.

00:13:43.620 What do you think?

00:13:44.800 Is that one of the lessons?

00:13:46.160 The Republicans can win if they focus on education.

00:13:52.580 I say true.

00:13:54.360 I say true to that, but it doesn't mean that's what happened this time, right?

00:13:59.680 So I agree with the premise.

00:14:01.480 I don't know if this proves it, because it's a one-off.

00:14:03.940 There's a lot going on with this one case.

00:14:06.280 But people are going to believe it, and I actually think it's true.

00:14:11.360 I think Republicans can win on education, even if that's not exactly what happened here.

00:14:19.720 Joel's second point is, Biden is a problem for Democrats.

00:14:23.900 True?

00:14:25.720 I think that's true.

00:14:27.420 Yeah.

00:14:27.980 How about phony accusations of racism aren't enough?

00:14:32.620 Well, obviously they weren't.

00:14:34.440 That was not enough in Virginia.

00:14:37.620 Trump derangement syndrome isn't enough.

00:14:40.740 True.

00:14:41.840 Because I think they tried the Trump card, but he isn't.

00:14:45.360 It's as if he isn't a big enough presence at the moment.

00:14:49.160 It doesn't have the same bite it would have if you were tweeting every day and still present.

00:14:55.000 And Democrats are too far left, but the left will say not far enough.

00:15:01.320 And I think that actually happened already, right?

00:15:03.500 I didn't see it, but my understanding is that MSNBC says the problem is that the Democrats didn't go far enough.

00:15:13.600 And CNN is reporting that they went too far.

00:15:16.700 Is that true?

00:15:19.000 If I characterize it correctly, the CNN is reporting Democrats went too far,

00:15:23.900 and MSNBC is saying the problem is they didn't go far enough?

00:15:26.820 Has anybody watched both of them enough to know?

00:15:33.980 Roughly?

00:15:34.940 Roughly.

00:15:36.240 All right.

00:15:39.000 So that's one take.

00:15:43.060 All right.

00:15:43.500 I'm going to give you some other possibilities, things we learned.

00:15:46.260 Number one.

00:15:49.840 Well, I feel like I have to.

00:15:51.500 I was going to save this at the end, but I feel that's unfair.

00:15:55.480 I'm going to ruin your fun a little bit, but then we'll get back to the fun.

00:15:59.000 John Harwood tweeted that Biden is now the eighth consecutive new president

00:16:04.220 to see opposition party win the Virginia governorship in his first year.

00:16:09.360 That follows Carter, Reagan, G.H.W. Bush, Clinton, G.W. Bush, Obama, and Trump.

00:16:16.780 So eight times in a row, we got the result we got last night,

00:16:21.980 which is the winner in Virginia is the opposite of the president who just got elected.

00:16:27.380 Eight times in a row.

00:16:29.420 Do you think that's a coincidence?

00:16:31.500 Because apparently it doesn't matter which party the president is.

00:16:35.520 Virginia is just going to go the opposite direction. 1.00

00:16:37.580 So, is it possible that none of the stuff we're talking about mattered at all?

00:16:47.280 Yeah.

00:16:48.320 Yeah.

00:16:49.200 Yeah.

00:16:49.960 It's not only possible, it's probable.

00:16:52.300 It's probable that literally nothing happened.

00:16:55.920 It just went the way it always goes.

00:16:58.040 And we're treating it like it's this giant earthquake tsunami,

00:17:01.480 but maybe it's just the way it always goes.

00:17:04.320 It's the way it's gone eight times in a row.

00:17:09.960 So, but I think that's too simplistic because there are obviously reasons.

00:17:15.740 There are reasons things go the way they go.

00:17:18.360 And I think that beating a Terry McAuliffe is sort of a bigger deal

00:17:22.540 than beating somebody who isn't Terry McAuliffe.

00:17:25.320 Is that a fair statement?

00:17:26.300 That beating Terry McAuliffe is probably a bigger deal than, you know, an ordinary governor race.

00:17:33.880 So, maybe this is special.

00:17:36.040 Maybe it's not.

00:17:37.020 I'll give you my take on this in a moment.

00:17:39.800 All right.

00:17:43.500 My take is I didn't spend a lot of time listening to the candidates talk,

00:17:47.280 but having heard McAuliffe talk in public, you know, just clips,

00:17:52.280 and hearing Youngkin talk in public,

00:17:54.800 which one of them is the better communicator slash persuader?

00:17:59.700 Now, again, forget politics, right?

00:18:02.440 Because I think we would agree that, say, Obama, for example,

00:18:05.760 was a great communicator and a great persuader,

00:18:08.460 even if you hated him as a president.

00:18:10.840 Bill Clinton, great communicator, great politician,

00:18:14.380 even if you didn't like his policies, right?

00:18:17.800 But, and then, you know, the opposite,

00:18:20.400 Hillary Clinton, terrible communicator, et cetera. 1.00

00:18:23.560 So, I think we can be objective about both parties, right?

00:18:28.280 If you were to just look at him objectively,

00:18:30.400 just on the skill of a communicator, who is better?

00:18:35.980 Who is better?

00:18:38.440 Having a little problem over here.

00:18:44.560 Let's do this.

00:18:47.280 Somebody's saying McAuliffe.

00:18:52.740 I thought McAuliffe is a whiny, whiny, average communicator.

00:18:58.480 Whiny and average.

00:19:00.180 I thought that Youngkin's presentation,

00:19:04.400 the, I would say, the confidence of his voice,

00:19:07.740 and how capably he shaped his message, was better.

00:19:11.300 So, I think the better candidate won.

00:19:15.200 Could that be just the whole story?

00:19:18.160 You know, if we knew it was going to be close,

00:19:20.660 and one candidate is just more capable than the other one,

00:19:24.280 is there anything else to talk about?

00:19:26.180 Because that could be the whole thing.

00:19:28.580 In my mind, he just, his voice,

00:19:32.040 and the way he presented himself was just more leaderly,

00:19:35.180 and McAuliffe seemed weak and whiny and sort of irrational.

00:19:40.600 I just didn't think it was close in terms of their personal approach.

00:19:44.820 Now, here's another thing.

00:19:48.620 Critical race theory is Democrat suicide.

00:19:50.700 Another theory is that it wouldn't matter who the candidates were.

00:19:56.940 Critical race theory had finally reached a level

00:20:00.040 where white people especially weren't going to take it anymore.

00:20:05.620 And, of course, they're not alone.

00:20:07.180 There are plenty of black people who are saying,

00:20:08.800 hold on a second, hold on a second.

00:20:11.540 We wouldn't like this if this were the other way around.

00:20:14.200 Why don't we treat everybody equally

00:20:15.740 and, you know, maybe try to get along or whatever?

00:20:17.700 So certainly there are no ethnic, you know, unified,

00:20:22.660 everybody's on the same side of this or anything else.

00:20:27.680 But I've got a feeling that an opening has been made that,

00:20:36.700 well, let's put it this way.

00:20:38.380 Permission to swear?

00:20:40.280 Anybody?

00:20:41.540 Permission to swear.

00:20:42.660 I'd like to use one well-placed curse word 1.00

00:20:48.740 to describe a specific point.

00:20:53.020 And I think, oh, I got a yes.

00:20:54.960 That's all I needed.

00:20:55.840 I only needed one yes.

00:20:57.440 For some reason, the comments have stopped on local.

00:21:01.620 So I'm going to have to restart.

00:21:04.620 Not the feed.

00:21:05.800 So the feed will be the same.

00:21:06.920 But I have to restart the comment where I was looking at there.

00:21:12.680 Hold on one second.

00:21:13.800 I know this is fascinating to watch me fuss with my technology,

00:21:17.000 but it's worth it.

00:21:19.260 Totally worth it.

00:21:20.320 Oh, shit.

00:21:22.360 All right.

00:21:23.340 I got a problem.

00:21:25.180 Okay.

00:21:25.440 So my technology just went crazy on one of my iPads.

00:21:33.100 So I'm still watching the feed for,

00:21:36.900 so I still have a feed for locals,

00:21:39.220 but the comments are delayed at the moment.

00:21:42.480 All right.

00:21:44.180 Here's what I think.

00:21:47.020 And you gave me permission to swear,

00:21:48.960 so I'm going to do it now.

00:21:52.320 I have a theory about white people. 0.87

00:21:55.440 And, of course, any theory about any group

00:21:58.780 doesn't apply to all people, right?

00:22:00.720 Could we agree that nothing applies to all members of a group?

00:22:04.700 So I think we're adult enough to say that.

00:22:07.360 Here's just an impression,

00:22:08.920 and I want to see how many people agree with me,

00:22:11.400 that there's a characteristic of white people 0.51

00:22:13.820 that is slightly different,

00:22:16.540 and this could be just a racist comment,

00:22:18.960 so maybe you'll tell me.

00:22:20.220 It seems different than the way black people 1.00

00:22:22.320 handle the same issues on average, right?

00:22:24.500 Every individual is different.

00:22:26.200 Don't have to say that every time.

00:22:28.160 And it goes like this.

00:22:30.100 If you confront a black man or woman in America 0.93

00:22:34.980 with some annoyance,

00:22:37.840 they're probably going to let you know about it.

00:22:40.140 Would you agree?

00:22:41.720 That a black man or woman, 1.00

00:22:43.240 if you do some kind of injustice or unfairness,

00:22:45.860 and they're there,

00:22:48.320 they're going to tell you about it right away, right?

00:22:52.080 Would you say that's a fair statement?

00:22:54.860 Compare that to the average white person.

00:22:58.680 I feel as though you can push white people pretty far, 0.82

00:23:01.700 and you don't know how far you've pushed them

00:23:05.380 because they don't tell you.

00:23:07.640 Oops.

00:23:08.400 Okay.

00:23:08.820 Well, I'm not going to die on that hill today.

00:23:11.560 A famous white person saying,

00:23:15.440 maybe everybody says it,

00:23:17.520 but I only hear it from white people is,

00:23:19.560 you don't want to die on that hill today.

00:23:22.840 That fight is not worth having.

00:23:25.400 That's too small.

00:23:27.160 You know, worry about other things.

00:23:29.760 But white people have this other quality, 0.86

00:23:33.100 which is they'll bend and they'll bend and they'll bend,

00:23:35.980 but when they break, get out of the fucking way. 0.97

00:23:43.180 It's just sort of a stereotype, right?

00:23:46.340 And I won't say there's any science to this.

00:23:48.340 It's just a personal observation.

00:23:50.140 It feels to me,

00:23:51.380 and I would guess that this has everything to do

00:23:53.780 with the experience and the history,

00:23:55.460 that when black people are pushed,

00:23:58.040 they push back right away.

00:24:00.840 Makes sense, right?

00:24:02.180 It would make sense from a historical,

00:24:03.820 experiential perspective

00:24:06.820 that they don't want to take anything.

00:24:09.360 Because if you push them a little,

00:24:11.040 it feels like it's going to continue, right?

00:24:13.560 So it feels like a black man or woman in America, 0.98

00:24:18.120 if you push them,

00:24:19.260 they're going to push back

00:24:20.160 pretty aggressively and right away.

00:24:23.220 Now, I'm not saying one of these

00:24:24.420 is a better approach than the other.

00:24:27.260 So hear this clearly.

00:24:28.960 I'm not saying one is a good system,

00:24:31.240 one's a bad system.

00:24:32.380 I don't know.

00:24:32.760 I don't even know which is better.

00:24:34.700 But I feel that white people, on average,

00:24:37.520 will let you push them and push them

00:24:39.400 and push them

00:24:40.140 until they become mass shooters.

00:24:45.600 Am I right?

00:24:46.720 If you look at all these mass shooters

00:24:48.480 that are white,

00:24:50.200 often they were bullied.

00:24:52.240 They didn't push back.

00:24:54.800 Didn't push back, didn't push back,

00:24:56.580 didn't push back,

00:24:57.580 and then bought a gun.

00:24:58.740 boom, boom, boom, boom.

00:25:08.260 I think, damn it.

00:25:13.540 Oh, okay.

00:25:14.300 So I'm seeing some comments now from locals.

00:25:16.300 Good.

00:25:16.440 So I'm wondering if what we saw in Virginia

00:25:21.100 was simply a lot of the white public,

00:25:25.240 and of course a lot of Democrats,

00:25:27.120 you know, must have crossed over,

00:25:28.800 probably of all types.

00:25:30.940 I'm wondering if they just reached the limit

00:25:32.780 and said,

00:25:34.860 and I'm going to use another swear word.

00:25:36.820 Are you ready?

00:25:39.000 I'm willing to take that abuse.

00:25:41.640 Okay, I'll take that one too.

00:25:43.100 All right, I'll take that too.

00:25:46.460 Oh, wait a minute.

00:25:47.540 You just fucked with my kids.

00:25:50.160 Now we're done.

00:25:52.000 That feels like what happened.

00:25:54.200 I'm willing to take some higher taxes.

00:25:56.460 Yeah, I don't want to die on that hill.

00:25:58.720 I'm willing to wear a mask for a while.

00:26:01.720 I hope it's temporary.

00:26:03.800 I don't want to die on that hill.

00:26:05.900 Oh, you know, they're calling me a racist.

00:26:08.580 God, I hate that.

00:26:09.580 But, you know, I don't want to die on that hill.

00:26:11.920 Oh, they're making me get a vaccination.

00:26:14.820 Damn it.

00:26:15.500 Damn it.

00:26:15.900 I really, maybe I'll make a stand.

00:26:17.760 No.

00:26:18.800 No, it might be temporary.

00:26:20.200 I don't want to die on that hill.

00:26:22.340 Now we're going to ruin your children. 0.59

00:26:25.820 Okay, we're done now.

00:26:28.900 You pushed too far.

00:26:31.060 And I think what I see

00:26:31.880 the critical race theory stuff is,

00:26:34.360 is that a lot of people say,

00:26:35.960 wait a minute,

00:26:37.200 you're ruining my kid.

00:26:38.940 You're breaking my kid.

00:26:40.300 You just reached the limit.

00:26:44.440 They're fucking with your kids.

00:26:45.980 Are you going to die on that hill?

00:26:48.140 Yup.

00:26:49.860 If they fuck with your kids,

00:26:51.940 you're going to die on the hill.

00:26:54.740 No question about it.

00:26:56.380 I think that's what happened.

00:26:57.740 And I think that all that happened,

00:26:59.220 mainly,

00:26:59.780 is that enough people became informed

00:27:01.860 what was actually happening to their kids.

00:27:05.160 Am I right?

00:27:05.660 I think as soon as white Virginians, 1.00

00:27:10.040 and probably, you know,

00:27:11.680 of course,

00:27:12.220 there's no generalizations

00:27:13.300 that hold.

00:27:14.980 Lots of other people, too.

00:27:16.740 Probably said,

00:27:18.200 probably people of every ethnicity said,

00:27:21.300 wait a minute, wait a minute.

00:27:22.360 Now you're fucking with our kids?

00:27:24.480 We're done here.

00:27:26.340 Could be just that.

00:27:27.760 And maybe nothing else mattered.

00:27:29.700 Don't know.

00:27:30.440 All right.

00:27:33.420 I believe that Democrats

00:27:34.860 have chosen a strategy

00:27:35.980 of self-immolation,

00:27:37.420 but the hard part is,

00:27:39.320 I don't think they can get back.

00:27:41.780 Do you?

00:27:42.900 Now, of course,

00:27:43.620 any time you say this,

00:27:44.960 the pendulum just swings back.

00:27:47.140 You know,

00:27:47.280 a few months ago,

00:27:48.040 we were saying,

00:27:48.620 oh, Republicans are dead forever,

00:27:50.460 and they'll never have a good time again.

00:27:53.280 That might have been true

00:27:54.340 if Biden did a good job,

00:27:56.080 or if things just in the world

00:27:58.440 in general had gone his way,

00:27:59.720 maybe just got lucky,

00:28:01.520 maybe Republicans would be in trouble.

00:28:03.900 But as it turns out,

00:28:05.160 literally everything in the world

00:28:06.420 turned bad

00:28:07.120 as soon as Trump got out of the office.

00:28:09.100 I mean,

00:28:09.420 the pandemic started

00:28:10.340 when he was in office.

00:28:11.700 But it seems like

00:28:12.620 from the economy

00:28:14.100 to immigration

00:28:14.840 to, you know,

00:28:16.600 relations with China

00:28:17.680 to everything,

00:28:18.780 it just seems worse.

00:28:20.040 Energy,

00:28:21.260 you know,

00:28:21.580 it's hard to think of something

00:28:22.520 that got better.

00:28:23.820 So under that context,

00:28:25.960 I don't see how the Democrats

00:28:28.500 can recover.

00:28:29.720 Do you?

00:28:31.640 I think that the Republicans

00:28:33.520 just discovered

00:28:34.540 their soft underbelly.

00:28:37.060 The children.

00:28:38.560 And by the way,

00:28:39.300 this is not a political strategy.

00:28:42.360 It's actually trying

00:28:43.800 to save the children.

00:28:45.380 Like, literally.

00:28:46.740 There's nothing political about it.

00:28:48.900 Like,

00:28:49.160 when the children

00:28:50.000 become the topic,

00:28:51.640 politics just goes out the door.

00:28:54.300 It's like,

00:28:54.640 yeah, yeah, yeah,

00:28:55.100 I'm a Democrat,

00:28:56.160 but don't fuck with my children. 0.99

00:28:57.500 You know,

00:28:59.080 that's just too,

00:28:59.780 that's too far.

00:29:01.420 Went too far.

00:29:03.480 I see Senior Rood

00:29:05.240 says,

00:29:05.680 I think you're wrong.

00:29:06.840 Yeah, you know,

00:29:07.320 if you were to bet on it,

00:29:08.900 what would be the smart bet?

00:29:10.620 The pendulum?

00:29:12.200 Or that the Democrats

00:29:13.740 have just really

00:29:14.920 ended themselves?

00:29:16.740 Which would be

00:29:17.260 the smarter bet?

00:29:19.540 Always the pendulum.

00:29:21.320 It's always the pendulum, yeah.

00:29:22.600 So if you want to bet on it,

00:29:24.060 bet on the pendulum.

00:29:24.960 Likewise,

00:29:25.620 if you were going to bet

00:29:26.400 on this race,

00:29:27.840 had I known

00:29:28.680 that seven times in a row

00:29:30.540 the governorship

00:29:31.820 goes in a predictable way,

00:29:34.160 opposite of the president

00:29:35.260 in the first term,

00:29:36.600 if I'd known that,

00:29:38.420 which I didn't,

00:29:39.800 I probably would have put

00:29:40.740 a sizable bet

00:29:41.700 on Youngkin

00:29:42.320 without even knowing

00:29:43.160 anything about the race.

00:29:44.680 Because it looks like

00:29:45.860 it's pretty predictive.

00:29:47.620 Now,

00:29:48.000 I think the public

00:29:48.760 quite rightfully likes

00:29:50.040 divided government.

00:29:52.320 That might be

00:29:54.360 the smartest thing

00:29:55.380 that Americans do,

00:29:57.540 if you think about it.

00:29:59.280 You know,

00:29:59.640 we complain about it

00:30:00.740 nonstop,

00:30:01.720 about our,

00:30:02.260 you know,

00:30:03.280 our constipated government,

00:30:06.340 but it's pretty clear

00:30:07.620 we like it.

00:30:08.880 Because the alternative

00:30:10.060 has lots of problems,

00:30:11.620 and worse problems

00:30:12.400 than divided government.

00:30:14.980 So,

00:30:15.860 but take a look at

00:30:17.440 how far Democrats

00:30:19.460 have jumped the shark.

00:30:20.780 And you tell me

00:30:21.420 if they can find

00:30:22.280 their way back

00:30:22.820 from this.

00:30:24.660 Jamel Hill

00:30:25.580 tweeted today,

00:30:27.240 it's not the messaging,

00:30:28.380 folks.

00:30:29.140 This country

00:30:29.740 simply loves

00:30:30.560 white supremacy.

00:30:33.540 Doesn't that feel

00:30:34.440 too far?

00:30:36.800 It's a little too far,

00:30:37.980 isn't it?

00:30:39.160 You know,

00:30:40.160 you can take

00:30:41.300 a lot of ridiculousness,

00:30:43.060 but then there's

00:30:43.760 some point

00:30:44.140 where it just

00:30:44.600 simply jumps the shark,

00:30:46.260 as they like to say.

00:30:47.660 Now,

00:30:47.920 jumping the shark,

00:30:48.620 shark,

00:30:48.820 if you're

00:30:49.400 from another country,

00:30:50.980 you're not used

00:30:51.480 to that saying.

00:30:52.780 It just refers to

00:30:53.940 something that goes

00:30:55.240 so far,

00:30:55.820 it's changed

00:30:56.360 its basic nature

00:30:57.600 into something

00:30:58.180 you don't want.

00:30:59.500 So when a TV show

00:31:00.680 starts introducing,

00:31:02.520 you know,

00:31:03.520 crazy things,

00:31:04.860 you say,

00:31:05.360 oh,

00:31:05.500 jump the shark. 0.95

00:31:06.180 It's based on

00:31:07.120 an old

00:31:07.440 Happy Days TV show

00:31:09.000 thing where

00:31:10.420 Fonzie literally

00:31:11.400 went water skiing

00:31:12.780 and jumped over

00:31:13.620 a shark

00:31:14.120 that was in the water.

00:31:16.100 It was just ridiculous.

00:31:17.200 It had nothing to do

00:31:17.920 with the way

00:31:18.240 the show used to be,

00:31:19.420 so that was called

00:31:20.060 jumping the shark.

00:31:21.080 Anyway,

00:31:22.360 when you see somebody

00:31:25.020 literally saying

00:31:26.700 that white supremacy

00:31:27.600 is what caused

00:31:28.680 the election

00:31:30.760 to go the way it did,

00:31:32.060 when there are

00:31:32.720 so many other reasons,

00:31:34.160 so many other reasons.

00:31:37.480 This is probably

00:31:38.040 the smallest

00:31:38.700 of the reasons,

00:31:40.400 and I think

00:31:42.220 they have trapped

00:31:43.580 themselves.

00:31:44.820 Because here's the thing,

00:31:45.620 in order to find

00:31:46.420 their way back,

00:31:47.460 and we'll talk about

00:31:48.460 Van Jones here

00:31:50.120 in a minute,

00:31:51.740 in order to find

00:31:53.080 your way back

00:31:53.680 from how badly

00:31:55.180 things are looking

00:31:56.000 at this point

00:31:56.480 for Democrats,

00:31:57.440 they would have to admit

00:31:58.420 they were wrong.

00:32:00.360 About a lot,

00:32:02.020 right?

00:32:03.060 How in the world

00:32:04.140 do you admit

00:32:07.160 you were wrong

00:32:07.740 about such basic things?

00:32:10.460 You know,

00:32:10.720 about how to tax,

00:32:13.340 how to do everything.

00:32:14.720 How do you admit

00:32:15.240 you're wrong about it?

00:32:16.260 And if they don't

00:32:16.960 admit they're wrong,

00:32:17.760 I don't know

00:32:18.180 if they can ever

00:32:18.700 win again.

00:32:20.080 Because what are

00:32:20.740 they going to do?

00:32:21.300 Say, you know,

00:32:22.720 we like all the

00:32:24.800 socialism stuff,

00:32:25.820 but yeah,

00:32:26.760 we have to admit

00:32:27.640 you're right

00:32:28.120 about the school

00:32:28.820 choice stuff.

00:32:30.260 So I guess

00:32:30.960 we'll change our mind

00:32:32.600 on some of the

00:32:33.440 school stuff

00:32:34.060 and the critical

00:32:34.660 race theory.

00:32:35.400 Do you think

00:32:35.720 that's going to

00:32:36.160 happen?

00:32:37.240 I don't see it

00:32:38.040 happening.

00:32:39.100 I think they're

00:32:39.880 sort of an all

00:32:40.640 or none category.

00:32:41.660 They've decided

00:32:42.180 this is their

00:32:42.800 set of issues.

00:32:43.920 I don't think

00:32:44.420 it's going to

00:32:44.760 change.

00:32:45.740 Not within

00:32:46.520 the next few

00:32:47.620 election cycles.

00:32:49.460 Right?

00:32:50.000 It'll change

00:32:50.560 in the long run.

00:32:51.260 In the long run

00:32:51.840 you can always

00:32:52.400 bet on the

00:32:53.040 pendulum.

00:32:54.280 In the long run.

00:32:55.120 But I think

00:32:55.840 you can't move

00:32:56.800 a ship this big

00:32:58.360 that's moving

00:32:58.920 this fast

00:32:59.520 this long.

00:33:00.500 You can't move

00:33:01.360 it in the next

00:33:01.820 few years.

00:33:03.120 So I think

00:33:03.460 for the next

00:33:03.860 few years

00:33:04.600 it's going to

00:33:06.140 be all

00:33:06.440 Republicans.

00:33:07.660 It looks like.

00:33:09.200 Now the

00:33:10.540 wild card of

00:33:11.240 course is

00:33:11.600 Trump himself

00:33:12.260 coming back

00:33:12.920 into the mix.

00:33:14.300 Have you

00:33:14.600 noticed that

00:33:15.200 Trump without

00:33:16.000 the without

00:33:17.920 Trump as the

00:33:19.380 one who's

00:33:19.760 drawing all

00:33:20.300 the provocation?

00:33:21.980 If you just

00:33:22.680 take Trumpism

00:33:23.640 let's say just

00:33:25.360 the policy part

00:33:26.260 of it or the

00:33:26.840 philosophical part

00:33:27.800 of it.

00:33:28.700 It plays pretty

00:33:29.660 well doesn't it?

00:33:30.600 Because if you

00:33:31.200 take sort of

00:33:31.700 a Trump

00:33:32.300 approach to

00:33:33.500 the world

00:33:33.920 and you just

00:33:34.440 put it into

00:33:35.020 a Ron DeSantis

00:33:36.120 people just

00:33:37.600 say well that

00:33:38.420 looks good.

00:33:39.540 If you put it

00:33:40.300 into a Trump

00:33:40.880 then it becomes

00:33:41.420 about Trump.

00:33:42.780 And then

00:33:43.100 everything's

00:33:44.020 wacky after that.

00:33:45.720 So I think

00:33:46.860 one of the

00:33:47.160 things that

00:33:47.460 happened is

00:33:47.920 that Trump

00:33:48.940 wins.

00:33:50.940 Wins I mean

00:33:51.820 not just the

00:33:52.420 election.

00:33:53.400 But I think

00:33:53.860 Trump wins

00:33:54.480 in that he's

00:33:55.200 sort of

00:33:55.720 demonstrated

00:33:56.260 his approach

00:33:57.240 was more

00:33:57.960 right.

00:33:58.280 And the

00:34:01.140 country seems

00:34:01.680 to be shifting

00:34:02.240 his way

00:34:02.760 quite strongly.

00:34:05.420 So from

00:34:06.620 the perspective

00:34:08.160 of election

00:34:09.640 planning and

00:34:10.400 strategy I

00:34:11.520 think the

00:34:11.960 Democrats just

00:34:12.720 learned that

00:34:13.940 child abuse

00:34:14.560 is not as

00:34:15.420 popular as

00:34:16.580 they had

00:34:16.860 hoped.

00:34:19.700 Rasmussen

00:34:20.260 has a poll

00:34:21.660 they said

00:34:22.040 has cancel

00:34:22.700 culture gotten

00:34:23.480 out of control?

00:34:24.700 72% of

00:34:26.180 likely voters

00:34:26.960 say yes.

00:34:29.240 That's all

00:34:30.120 voters.

00:34:30.980 That's Democrats

00:34:31.700 Republicans

00:34:32.300 and Independents.

00:34:33.560 72% say

00:34:34.900 cancel culture

00:34:35.700 has gotten

00:34:36.180 out of control.

00:34:37.920 That's what

00:34:38.800 jumping the

00:34:39.340 shark is.

00:34:40.900 It's this.

00:34:41.960 This number

00:34:42.900 says they

00:34:43.500 jumped the

00:34:43.900 shark.

00:34:44.720 Because you

00:34:45.480 would expect

00:34:45.860 something closer

00:34:46.480 to 50-50 for

00:34:47.740 everything really

00:34:48.660 if it's

00:34:49.220 Democrats versus

00:34:50.080 Republicans.

00:34:53.300 All right.

00:34:54.040 here's a

00:34:57.760 perceptual

00:34:58.460 shift.

00:35:00.020 You can

00:35:00.380 also see

00:35:00.860 the shark

00:35:01.600 jumping in

00:35:02.260 this following

00:35:02.940 story.

00:35:05.220 For how

00:35:06.740 many years?

00:35:08.260 25 years

00:35:09.380 or so I've

00:35:10.700 been telling a

00:35:11.280 story in public

00:35:12.080 about how in

00:35:13.480 my two corporate

00:35:14.280 careers I was

00:35:15.460 a banker and

00:35:16.120 then I worked

00:35:16.520 for a local

00:35:17.140 phone company.

00:35:18.320 Then both of

00:35:19.080 those careers I

00:35:20.300 had to leave

00:35:20.980 the jobs

00:35:21.880 because my

00:35:22.900 bosses told

00:35:23.620 me directly

00:35:24.500 we can't

00:35:25.540 promote you

00:35:26.000 because you're

00:35:26.500 white and

00:35:27.060 male.

00:35:28.280 Now I've

00:35:28.660 been telling

00:35:28.960 that for

00:35:29.480 25 years and

00:35:30.520 whenever I say

00:35:31.420 it what

00:35:32.400 response have

00:35:33.220 I gotten

00:35:33.660 until this

00:35:34.800 year?

00:35:36.020 Until this

00:35:36.700 year the

00:35:37.180 response changed.

00:35:38.740 For 24 of

00:35:39.900 those years

00:35:40.540 immediately if I

00:35:42.880 said it on

00:35:43.260 Twitter for

00:35:43.720 example or no

00:35:44.540 matter where I

00:35:45.040 said it the

00:35:45.960 comments would

00:35:46.700 fill up with

00:35:47.360 well that's a

00:35:47.940 lie.

00:35:49.340 That's a

00:35:49.840 lie.

00:35:50.980 That did

00:35:51.460 not happen.

00:35:52.580 You did

00:35:53.020 not lose

00:35:54.180 your job or

00:35:55.360 your career

00:35:55.900 because somebody

00:35:57.080 told you they

00:35:57.760 can't promote

00:35:58.360 white male

00:35:59.160 people.

00:35:59.540 That never

00:35:59.940 happened.

00:36:01.720 Do you know

00:36:02.400 what happens

00:36:02.780 when I tell

00:36:03.220 that story

00:36:03.660 today?

00:36:06.800 Nothing.

00:36:08.840 Nothing.

00:36:10.160 It just

00:36:10.640 happened this

00:36:11.120 year.

00:36:11.980 In the

00:36:12.380 following year

00:36:13.120 people stopped

00:36:14.840 doubting the

00:36:15.900 truth of that

00:36:16.460 story.

00:36:18.800 That's a

00:36:19.440 pretty big

00:36:19.840 perceptual shift.

00:36:20.980 Now I

00:36:21.860 don't think

00:36:22.180 it's because

00:36:22.580 they believe

00:36:23.020 me more.

00:36:24.340 Like I

00:36:24.700 don't think

00:36:25.020 I became

00:36:25.460 more credible

00:36:26.120 this year.

00:36:27.340 You know

00:36:27.600 certainly not.

00:36:29.660 I think that

00:36:30.520 people understand

00:36:31.360 it is true

00:36:32.120 because they've

00:36:33.060 seen enough

00:36:33.680 other things

00:36:34.800 that this is

00:36:35.880 just right in

00:36:36.380 the sweet spot

00:36:37.040 of all those

00:36:37.520 things they

00:36:37.880 know to be

00:36:38.320 true.

00:36:38.940 So why

00:36:39.460 wouldn't it

00:36:39.760 be true?

00:36:40.660 Why would I

00:36:41.120 lie about it?

00:36:41.680 I mean I

00:36:42.060 don't really

00:36:42.440 have an

00:36:42.720 incentive to

00:36:43.260 do that.

00:36:44.520 So to me

00:36:45.920 that's a big

00:36:46.440 shift that

00:36:47.340 people will

00:36:47.800 accept that

00:36:48.400 as well it

00:36:49.160 could be

00:36:49.460 true.

00:36:49.720 I have a

00:36:52.700 theory for

00:36:53.120 you that

00:36:55.080 did you know

00:36:56.480 there are two

00:36:56.840 kinds of

00:36:57.240 narcissists?

00:36:58.600 There are

00:36:58.820 vulnerable

00:36:59.240 narcissists and

00:37:00.440 then there are

00:37:00.900 grandiose

00:37:01.520 narcissists and

00:37:02.980 they have very

00:37:03.540 very different

00:37:04.160 qualities.

00:37:05.500 One of them

00:37:06.120 isn't even

00:37:06.540 bad.

00:37:07.960 If you're a 0.88

00:37:08.460 grandiose

00:37:08.960 narcissist you

00:37:10.320 try to get

00:37:10.960 credit from

00:37:11.720 other people.

00:37:12.540 You know you

00:37:12.780 want to be

00:37:13.180 loved because

00:37:14.360 you did good

00:37:14.980 things for the

00:37:15.540 public.

00:37:15.840 Is that

00:37:17.360 bad?

00:37:18.240 You can say

00:37:18.940 it's a

00:37:19.200 personality

00:37:19.620 disorder but

00:37:21.280 it's people

00:37:21.700 doing good

00:37:22.380 things for the

00:37:22.900 public and

00:37:23.840 they want to

00:37:24.460 be recognized

00:37:25.000 for it like

00:37:26.260 me.

00:37:27.300 So I label

00:37:28.520 myself a

00:37:30.040 grandiose

00:37:31.380 narcissist

00:37:31.900 because I

00:37:33.760 fit the

00:37:34.180 description.

00:37:35.200 It's not a

00:37:35.780 medical

00:37:36.260 diagnosis but

00:37:37.840 I certainly

00:37:38.200 fit the

00:37:38.580 checklist.

00:37:39.860 I do

00:37:40.280 things in

00:37:40.720 public like

00:37:41.340 I'm doing

00:37:41.620 right now

00:37:42.140 because I

00:37:43.240 think it

00:37:43.540 will help

00:37:43.840 the public

00:37:44.340 and then

00:37:45.140 the public

00:37:45.540 will say

00:37:45.940 hey good

00:37:46.380 job Scott

00:37:46.960 and they'll

00:37:47.880 feel good.

00:37:48.920 They'll make

00:37:49.240 me feel

00:37:49.620 oh okay

00:37:50.380 thanks I

00:37:51.580 appreciate your

00:37:52.280 you know I

00:37:53.740 appreciate your

00:37:54.340 appreciation of

00:37:55.040 me.

00:37:55.980 Now is

00:37:58.100 that bad?

00:37:59.940 You know if

00:38:00.420 I could cure

00:38:01.000 myself of this

00:38:01.880 problem should

00:38:02.700 I?

00:38:03.460 Do you want

00:38:04.120 me to?

00:38:05.400 I realize

00:38:06.220 this and of

00:38:07.380 course I am

00:38:07.880 aware that it's

00:38:09.180 obnoxious.

00:38:10.400 You know if I

00:38:10.740 claim credit for

00:38:11.540 things etc it's

00:38:12.640 obnoxious.

00:38:13.840 I know

00:38:14.240 that but it

00:38:15.800 has a utility

00:38:16.680 to it so I

00:38:17.300 do it anyway.

00:38:18.620 But the other

00:38:19.360 kind is called

00:38:19.920 a vulnerable

00:38:20.460 narcissist.

00:38:21.560 I'm going to

00:38:21.980 describe some

00:38:22.660 of the qualities

00:38:23.240 that are typical

00:38:24.060 of a vulnerable

00:38:24.800 narcissist and

00:38:27.080 you tell me

00:38:27.740 does this sound

00:38:28.820 more like a

00:38:29.920 democrat or

00:38:32.300 a republican?

00:38:34.920 Okay?

00:38:35.740 So a

00:38:36.260 vulnerable

00:38:36.700 narcissist they 0.98

00:38:38.000 like to

00:38:38.440 project.

00:38:40.440 So an

00:38:41.380 example of

00:38:42.000 projection would

00:38:42.780 be if

00:38:43.220 somebody is

00:38:43.820 a racist and 0.80

00:38:45.500 they call you

00:38:46.080 a racist when

00:38:47.300 you're not.

00:38:48.720 That's called

00:38:49.160 projecting.

00:38:50.280 Do you see

00:38:50.640 the democrats

00:38:51.300 acting like

00:38:52.260 obvious racists

00:38:53.980 and accusing

00:38:55.500 people who are

00:38:56.140 clearly not of

00:38:57.700 being racist?

00:38:58.760 Fair?

00:38:59.720 Do you see

00:39:00.120 that happening?

00:39:02.140 I think so.

00:39:03.600 Right?

00:39:04.000 I think that's

00:39:05.420 the main

00:39:05.800 characteristic of

00:39:06.740 the democrats

00:39:07.340 is being racist

00:39:08.980 and accusing

00:39:10.160 people who are

00:39:10.980 not in any

00:39:12.040 practical way.

00:39:12.860 They might be

00:39:13.280 in their heads

00:39:13.820 but not in

00:39:14.760 any real world

00:39:15.660 way that they're

00:39:16.820 trying to change

00:39:17.400 policy or something.

00:39:19.720 So that's one.

00:39:21.060 They are

00:39:21.600 vulnerable

00:39:22.620 narcissists are

00:39:23.440 always cheaters.

00:39:25.980 Vulnerable

00:39:26.560 narcissists are

00:39:27.540 always cheaters.

00:39:28.680 have the democrats

00:39:30.960 demonstrated any

00:39:32.200 cheating?

00:39:32.600 Have you seen

00:39:34.440 any cheating?

00:39:37.440 Depends who you

00:39:38.200 ask.

00:39:39.080 Now I think

00:39:39.700 the shenanigans

00:39:41.000 with the

00:39:41.700 elections,

00:39:43.040 the ones we know

00:39:44.060 about,

00:39:44.620 the ones that are

00:39:45.520 confirmed,

00:39:46.520 were all legal.

00:39:47.800 It was legal 0.95

00:39:48.600 shenanigans.

00:39:50.380 But it feels like

00:39:51.380 cheating,

00:39:51.760 doesn't it?

00:39:53.100 Doesn't it feel like

00:39:53.940 cheating?

00:39:54.340 It was all

00:39:54.720 legal.

00:39:55.780 But it feels

00:39:56.460 like cheating.

00:39:58.780 Here's another

00:39:59.460 quality of

00:40:00.200 vulnerable

00:40:00.560 narcissists.

00:40:02.120 They attack

00:40:02.600 the messenger

00:40:03.300 instead of

00:40:04.020 the message.

00:40:05.740 Do you see

00:40:06.240 the democrats

00:40:08.580 attacking the

00:40:10.160 person or

00:40:11.080 the policy?

00:40:12.940 It's always

00:40:13.620 the person,

00:40:14.180 isn't it?

00:40:14.960 They attack

00:40:15.460 Trump.

00:40:16.420 They attack

00:40:17.220 Trump's supporters

00:40:17.940 for being

00:40:19.100 racist.

00:40:21.040 Where's the

00:40:21.620 policy discussion?

00:40:22.460 Attacking the

00:40:24.240 messenger is

00:40:24.960 a vulnerable

00:40:25.400 narcissist.

00:40:26.800 Attacking the

00:40:27.460 message would

00:40:28.780 be somebody

00:40:29.260 maybe who

00:40:29.960 has an

00:40:30.580 argument.

00:40:32.200 So I would

00:40:33.700 encourage you

00:40:34.260 to learn what

00:40:34.780 a vulnerable

00:40:35.200 narcissist is

00:40:36.260 and look at

00:40:37.700 how democrats

00:40:38.700 collectively act

00:40:39.840 and ask

00:40:40.760 yourself if

00:40:41.420 you're looking

00:40:41.800 at a political

00:40:42.680 movement or

00:40:44.000 a personality

00:40:44.680 disorder in

00:40:46.160 which all the

00:40:46.600 people who

00:40:47.000 have a similar

00:40:47.600 personality disorder

00:40:48.880 have banded

00:40:50.020 together and

00:40:50.560 called themselves

00:40:51.080 democrats.

00:40:52.460 Right.

00:40:55.300 As Bradley

00:40:55.920 says, it's

00:40:56.620 always personal.

00:40:58.100 It looks like

00:40:58.820 it's political

00:40:59.280 but it's

00:41:00.020 always personal.

00:41:02.680 Am I

00:41:04.540 off base?

00:41:05.560 It's just a

00:41:06.080 hypothesis, right?

00:41:06.980 I'm just putting

00:41:07.440 it out there.

00:41:08.280 But does

00:41:08.600 anybody else

00:41:09.080 see this?

00:41:10.620 Now take

00:41:11.080 the republicans.

00:41:13.080 I think

00:41:13.620 republicans are

00:41:14.420 more likely to

00:41:15.300 lean toward the

00:41:16.040 grandiose

00:41:16.740 narcissism.

00:41:18.460 Trump.

00:41:19.780 Does Trump

00:41:20.500 look like

00:41:21.500 somebody who

00:41:22.060 wants to

00:41:22.460 get credit

00:41:23.020 for saving

00:41:23.720 the world?

00:41:24.960 Yeah.

00:41:26.060 Yeah.

00:41:27.160 Do you think

00:41:28.040 he doesn't

00:41:28.420 want credit

00:41:28.980 for it?

00:41:29.640 Like to be

00:41:30.100 appreciated if

00:41:31.000 he succeeds?

00:41:32.500 Hell yeah.

00:41:34.100 Anything wrong

00:41:34.680 with that?

00:41:36.920 I don't know.

00:41:37.400 It's considered

00:41:37.940 some kind of a

00:41:38.600 personality flaw

00:41:39.440 but are you

00:41:40.660 okay with it?

00:41:42.860 Oh, somebody

00:41:43.320 says Michael

00:41:43.860 Savage has a

00:41:44.560 book about this

00:41:45.100 very topic.

00:41:45.660 Well, he's

00:41:46.480 a lot

00:41:46.800 smarter than

00:41:48.220 I am

00:41:48.640 academically

00:41:49.800 so if he

00:41:50.980 noticed the

00:41:52.280 same thing

00:41:52.780 then I would

00:41:53.360 give that

00:41:53.640 some weight.

00:41:57.300 All right.

00:41:59.820 Let's see

00:42:00.340 what else

00:42:00.620 is going

00:42:00.920 on.

00:42:03.020 Oh, and

00:42:03.340 also

00:42:03.740 narcissists

00:42:05.800 think they're

00:42:06.200 smarter than

00:42:06.760 you, right?

00:42:07.300 And better

00:42:07.640 than you?

00:42:08.980 Does

00:42:09.420 Trump act

00:42:10.280 like he's

00:42:10.860 smarter and

00:42:11.880 better than

00:42:13.000 Democrats?

00:42:15.660 Does

00:42:16.460 Trump ever

00:42:16.940 say I'm

00:42:17.520 a better

00:42:17.960 person than

00:42:18.860 you are,

00:42:19.520 you Democrats

00:42:20.500 in general?

00:42:21.160 He does of

00:42:21.740 course go after

00:42:22.220 the leaders.

00:42:23.840 But does he

00:42:24.300 go after the 1.00

00:42:24.720 people?

00:42:26.160 No.

00:42:26.480 Does he go

00:42:26.820 after the

00:42:27.160 people?

00:42:29.800 Or does he

00:42:30.520 go after the 1.00

00:42:31.120 ideas and

00:42:32.160 the leaders?

00:42:33.340 I don't think

00:42:34.040 he goes after

00:42:34.520 the public.

00:42:36.000 I don't think

00:42:36.340 he does that.

00:42:37.380 But Democrats

00:42:38.660 do.

00:42:39.380 Democrats go

00:42:39.980 after the

00:42:40.320 public.

00:42:41.420 All right.

00:42:43.400 Do Democrats

00:42:44.440 think that

00:42:45.520 they're smarter

00:42:46.120 than you?

00:42:47.840 Do Democrats

00:42:48.500 think that

00:42:48.920 they're superior

00:42:49.560 to you morally

00:42:50.420 and intellectually?

00:42:52.620 Let's say you

00:42:53.320 being a

00:42:54.360 Republican.

00:42:55.800 Yes.

00:42:57.040 Yes.

00:42:57.540 Their main

00:42:58.580 theme is that

00:42:59.860 they're smarter

00:43:00.340 than you.

00:43:01.560 They're more

00:43:02.040 moral, more

00:43:03.560 fair, more

00:43:05.200 open-minded,

00:43:05.880 more woke.

00:43:07.340 They're better

00:43:07.720 than you.

00:43:08.600 That is a

00:43:09.260 personality

00:43:09.700 disorder.

00:43:12.480 I'm sorry.

00:43:13.380 That's what it

00:43:13.820 is.

00:43:14.000 It's a

00:43:14.260 personality

00:43:14.660 disorder.

00:43:15.520 I don't

00:43:16.500 see Republicans

00:43:17.760 doing that.

00:43:19.060 Republicans

00:43:19.520 tend to say

00:43:20.440 everybody's equal

00:43:21.740 under God.

00:43:22.480 Let's see if we

00:43:22.960 can make the

00:43:23.440 system work

00:43:23.960 that way.

00:43:25.240 We fail.

00:43:26.760 We being

00:43:27.360 anybody who

00:43:28.100 tries to make

00:43:28.540 the system

00:43:28.940 fair, we

00:43:29.540 fail.

00:43:30.840 But I'm

00:43:31.500 pretty sure

00:43:31.920 they're trying.

00:43:32.920 I'm pretty

00:43:33.540 sure they

00:43:33.840 want it to

00:43:34.300 work that

00:43:34.640 way.

00:43:36.980 All right.

00:43:39.240 So that's

00:43:40.280 my case for

00:43:40.780 that.

00:43:41.320 Now, Van

00:43:41.820 Jones, he's

00:43:42.960 all over

00:43:43.600 Twitter today,

00:43:44.860 clips of

00:43:45.460 him, because

00:43:46.440 he seems to

00:43:47.120 be the, let's

00:43:49.320 say, the most

00:43:49.780 reasonable of

00:43:51.100 the Democrats.

00:43:52.140 One of the

00:43:52.740 people who I

00:43:53.460 would say can

00:43:54.080 see the other

00:43:54.800 side, even if

00:43:56.060 he doesn't

00:43:56.460 agree.

00:43:57.760 Now, of

00:43:58.240 course, he

00:43:58.700 plays a role

00:44:00.400 on CNN, and

00:44:01.860 he plays his

00:44:02.940 biased partisan

00:44:04.280 role.

00:44:04.980 But it's pretty

00:44:05.720 clear when he

00:44:06.360 talks about what

00:44:07.160 works and what

00:44:07.840 doesn't.

00:44:08.760 It's obvious

00:44:09.320 he can see

00:44:09.940 the whole

00:44:10.260 field.

00:44:11.620 And that's

00:44:12.260 different.

00:44:13.460 Because I

00:44:13.900 don't think

00:44:14.340 that most of

00:44:15.080 the pundits

00:44:15.840 actually can

00:44:16.460 even see the

00:44:17.240 whole field.

00:44:18.300 They can see

00:44:18.740 their side and

00:44:19.500 their argument,

00:44:20.220 but they're

00:44:20.560 blind to the

00:44:21.840 other argument.

00:44:22.960 Van Jones is

00:44:23.660 making the same

00:44:24.180 point.

00:44:24.600 He thinks the

00:44:26.360 Democrats might

00:44:27.040 be blind to,

00:44:29.920 he says they

00:44:30.560 have to look in

00:44:31.040 the mirror, and

00:44:32.360 says their

00:44:32.800 message might be

00:44:33.600 annoying, offensive,

00:44:34.580 and out of

00:44:34.940 touch, and 0.53

00:44:36.400 coming across in

00:44:37.200 ways we,

00:44:37.840 meaning Democrats

00:44:38.700 don't realize

00:44:39.460 or recognize.

00:44:42.440 What do you

00:44:42.960 think?

00:44:43.780 Do you think

00:44:44.300 the Democrats

00:44:45.200 are oblivious to

00:44:47.340 how they're being

00:44:48.000 received?

00:44:49.960 I think so.

00:44:51.560 They're either

00:44:52.060 oblivious or they

00:44:52.980 don't care, which

00:44:54.540 is the same

00:44:55.680 kind of problem.

00:44:59.380 So Van says

00:45:00.140 that Trumpism is

00:45:01.180 like the Delta

00:45:02.080 variant.

00:45:03.380 Or no, he

00:45:03.680 called Youngkin

00:45:04.260 the Delta

00:45:04.760 variant of

00:45:05.360 Trumpism.

00:45:06.220 It's the same 0.53

00:45:06.820 disease but

00:45:07.500 spreads faster.

00:45:08.960 Now, of

00:45:09.380 course, that

00:45:09.700 sounds negative

00:45:11.120 for Trump and

00:45:12.380 Trumpism, of

00:45:13.000 course, and he

00:45:13.380 means it that

00:45:13.840 way.

00:45:14.720 But I wouldn't

00:45:15.700 take it too

00:45:16.200 much.

00:45:16.920 Somebody said

00:45:17.600 he's calling us

00:45:19.140 a disease or

00:45:19.860 something.

00:45:20.300 I don't think

00:45:20.680 that's happening.

00:45:21.300 I think it's

00:45:21.640 just a funny

00:45:22.500 analogy.

00:45:25.860 But he's

00:45:27.260 getting a lot

00:45:27.820 of play on

00:45:28.340 CNN and

00:45:29.240 should because

00:45:30.560 he's got the

00:45:31.260 best, I think

00:45:32.080 he has the

00:45:32.360 best take on

00:45:33.100 everything that

00:45:34.040 happened.

00:45:35.860 And I think

00:45:36.420 Jake Tapper,

00:45:37.940 et cetera, I

00:45:39.060 think he's

00:45:39.480 seeing it too.

00:45:40.260 I think Jake

00:45:40.760 can see the

00:45:41.440 whole field as

00:45:42.080 well.

00:45:45.340 So that's

00:45:45.960 what's going

00:45:46.300 on.

00:45:46.620 And, of

00:45:48.060 course, you

00:45:48.380 want me to

00:45:48.820 mention that

00:45:49.440 the lieutenant

00:45:50.000 governor-elect,

00:45:51.360 who is a

00:45:51.900 black woman, 0.99

00:45:53.100 ex-marine,

00:45:53.920 and immigrant,

00:45:54.880 or child of

00:45:56.020 immigrants, I

00:45:56.800 can't remember,

00:45:58.220 but she won,

00:45:59.620 and her name

00:46:00.100 is Winsome.

00:46:03.120 Winsome

00:46:03.600 Spears.

00:46:05.560 Spears is

00:46:06.280 awesome to

00:46:06.800 begin with.

00:46:08.360 Spear sounds

00:46:09.120 like an

00:46:09.680 offensive weapon,

00:46:10.720 so that's

00:46:11.000 awesome to

00:46:11.840 begin with.

00:46:12.800 And their

00:46:13.160 first name is

00:46:13.740 Winsome.

00:46:14.920 Winsome.

00:46:16.620 Eh, how

00:46:18.920 awesome is

00:46:19.420 that?

00:46:21.020 It's almost

00:46:21.700 as good as

00:46:22.360 starting a

00:46:23.580 casino in

00:46:24.980 Vegas, and

00:46:25.620 your last

00:46:26.040 name is

00:46:26.400 Wynn, W-Y-N-N. 1.00

00:46:28.380 That happened

00:46:28.840 too.

00:46:30.020 And that

00:46:30.380 worked out

00:46:30.720 pretty well

00:46:31.160 for Steve

00:46:31.780 Wynn.

00:46:32.780 So, yeah,

00:46:33.340 her name is

00:46:33.680 Winsome.

00:46:34.560 And, of

00:46:34.980 course, a

00:46:36.140 number of

00:46:36.460 the people

00:46:36.740 who were

00:46:37.020 elected in

00:46:37.440 Virginia were

00:46:38.100 not white

00:46:39.140 men, and

00:46:40.160 so all the

00:46:41.140 claims of

00:46:41.600 racism just

00:46:42.480 look ridiculous

00:46:43.220 today.

00:46:43.600 All right,

00:46:47.020 I don't

00:46:48.180 think that

00:46:48.760 Democrats

00:46:49.240 quite realize

00:46:50.160 that Trump

00:46:52.500 is the

00:46:52.980 result of

00:46:53.700 their policies.

00:46:56.020 Here's a

00:46:56.820 lesson that

00:46:58.260 I teach

00:46:58.780 people all

00:46:59.440 the time.

00:47:00.720 We as

00:47:01.360 human beings

00:47:01.980 are really

00:47:02.440 bad at

00:47:03.080 recognizing

00:47:03.580 where power

00:47:04.580 lies and

00:47:06.040 how to

00:47:06.440 use it.

00:47:07.540 People like

00:47:08.160 Trump, who

00:47:09.480 is an energy

00:47:10.080 monster, can

00:47:10.980 see energy,

00:47:11.900 can see power,

00:47:12.580 and he

00:47:12.860 knows how

00:47:13.180 to use

00:47:13.460 it.

00:47:13.980 And in

00:47:14.540 some ways

00:47:14.940 that's what

00:47:15.300 makes him

00:47:15.660 scary, is

00:47:16.880 that he's

00:47:17.220 so good at

00:47:17.800 that.

00:47:19.820 But, and

00:47:21.020 here's an

00:47:21.640 example I

00:47:22.080 like to use

00:47:22.540 a lot.

00:47:23.300 We often

00:47:23.820 think that

00:47:24.220 the boss

00:47:24.620 has power

00:47:25.160 and the

00:47:25.500 employee

00:47:25.740 doesn't,

00:47:26.800 but you

00:47:27.120 forget how

00:47:27.700 much the

00:47:28.040 boss needs

00:47:28.560 good employees

00:47:29.200 and how

00:47:30.060 hard it

00:47:30.540 is to

00:47:30.860 find them.

00:47:31.920 So,

00:47:32.240 employees have

00:47:32.840 tons of

00:47:33.180 power, they

00:47:34.100 just don't

00:47:34.460 know it.

00:47:36.480 Same with

00:47:37.200 kids.

00:47:38.220 You say to

00:47:38.680 yourself,

00:47:39.080 well, kids

00:47:39.440 don't have

00:47:39.740 any power.

00:47:41.500 But if

00:47:42.020 kids

00:47:42.240 collectively

00:47:42.840 walked down

00:47:44.500 to the

00:47:44.660 school and

00:47:45.100 said, you

00:47:45.440 know, we're

00:47:46.000 not going

00:47:46.280 to do

00:47:46.540 critical race

00:47:47.240 training, they

00:47:49.160 could make

00:47:49.500 it happen.

00:47:50.480 You don't

00:47:50.720 think kids, if

00:47:51.880 they acted

00:47:52.260 collectively, they

00:47:53.520 just say, look,

00:47:54.660 I know we're

00:47:55.320 just kids, but

00:47:56.500 we're just going

00:47:57.140 to walk out of

00:47:57.660 this class every

00:47:59.300 time.

00:48:00.240 They would

00:48:00.760 change the

00:48:01.140 class immediately.

00:48:02.540 So the kids

00:48:03.240 have as much

00:48:03.780 power as they

00:48:04.280 want.

00:48:04.760 And you don't

00:48:05.140 recognize it

00:48:05.740 because they

00:48:05.980 don't use it.

00:48:06.540 But if they

00:48:07.280 did, they'd

00:48:08.300 have all they

00:48:08.740 wanted.

00:48:09.420 It's just they

00:48:10.000 don't agree on

00:48:11.500 what to do or

00:48:12.400 maybe don't

00:48:13.320 care.

00:48:14.020 But if they

00:48:14.560 wanted it, they

00:48:16.060 could have it.

00:48:17.220 So power is

00:48:18.500 often sort of

00:48:19.880 mistakenly

00:48:21.640 attributed to

00:48:22.860 the wrong

00:48:23.220 place.

00:48:25.020 And I would

00:48:27.900 say in this

00:48:28.280 case, the

00:48:28.800 people, the

00:48:29.600 Democrats look

00:48:30.280 at Trump and

00:48:31.480 say Trump is

00:48:32.360 the reason for

00:48:33.480 the attitudes

00:48:34.640 and the

00:48:35.660 approaches and

00:48:36.380 stuff of the

00:48:36.860 Democrats.

00:48:37.580 He's not.

00:48:39.220 He's the

00:48:39.760 outcome.

00:48:40.960 He's the

00:48:41.600 outcome of all

00:48:42.440 this.

00:48:43.160 He's the

00:48:43.500 result.

00:48:44.700 Now, he

00:48:45.080 becomes the

00:48:45.660 active player

00:48:46.400 once he's in

00:48:47.200 power.

00:48:48.040 But it's the

00:48:49.540 Democrats'

00:48:50.120 policies that

00:48:50.820 made Trump

00:48:51.240 possible.

00:48:52.160 If Democrats

00:48:52.980 managed

00:48:54.040 differently, you

00:48:55.680 couldn't even

00:48:56.100 have a Trump.

00:48:57.780 The Democrats

00:48:58.520 have the power

00:48:59.480 to make or

00:49:00.980 break Trump.

00:49:03.480 But they

00:49:03.920 don't know

00:49:04.240 how to do

00:49:04.680 it.

00:49:05.220 The way to

00:49:05.740 do it is to

00:49:06.240 change their

00:49:06.720 policies.

00:49:08.680 But I think

00:49:10.160 that's invisible.

00:49:11.480 They don't

00:49:11.900 understand that

00:49:12.640 they make

00:49:13.320 Trump powerful

00:49:14.140 by how they

00:49:15.560 act.

00:49:16.460 If they acted

00:49:17.140 differently, all

00:49:17.920 of his power

00:49:18.380 would go away

00:49:18.980 tomorrow.

00:49:20.800 In fact, if

00:49:21.580 Democrats just

00:49:22.320 said, and this

00:49:23.520 will never

00:49:23.860 happen, but

00:49:24.880 imagine if

00:49:25.560 Van Jones

00:49:26.520 became the

00:49:27.780 advisor to the

00:49:28.620 Democrats and

00:49:29.760 they listened

00:49:30.380 to him.

00:49:31.900 It's not

00:49:32.600 going to

00:49:32.800 happen.

00:49:33.480 But just

00:49:34.320 imagine, and

00:49:35.320 they say,

00:49:35.660 okay, just

00:49:36.000 tell us what

00:49:36.480 to do, Van.

00:49:37.320 You're the

00:49:37.800 only one who's

00:49:38.300 figured this

00:49:38.700 out.

00:49:38.860 Just tell us

00:49:39.240 what to do.

00:49:39.920 I think he'd

00:49:40.740 say, stop 1.00

00:49:42.080 talking about

00:49:42.680 race and 0.82

00:49:43.920 just watch

00:49:44.320 what happens.

00:49:45.760 Just stop

00:49:46.240 talking about

00:49:46.720 race, take

00:49:47.880 it out of

00:49:48.140 the schools,

00:49:48.680 just see what

00:49:49.080 happens.

00:49:50.040 And then the

00:49:50.540 Democrats would 0.89

00:49:51.120 sweep.

00:49:52.280 That's what

00:49:52.660 would happen.

00:49:53.720 They would

00:49:54.060 sweep.

00:49:55.120 But they

00:49:55.640 can't do it

00:49:56.300 because whatever

00:49:57.060 is driving

00:49:57.660 them is either

00:49:58.680 this vulnerable

00:50:00.420 narcissism or

00:50:01.540 something.

00:50:02.060 I don't know,

00:50:02.480 fake news,

00:50:03.060 who knows.

00:50:03.920 Some mad

00:50:05.200 soup of

00:50:05.940 awfulness.

00:50:08.100 But they

00:50:09.340 have the

00:50:09.720 power to

00:50:10.140 win easily.

00:50:11.740 And then once

00:50:12.500 they're in

00:50:12.760 power, they

00:50:13.220 can make

00:50:13.680 some policies

00:50:15.080 that they

00:50:15.540 think can

00:50:15.860 prove things.

00:50:16.640 But they

00:50:17.040 don't realize

00:50:17.620 they're in

00:50:17.900 power.

00:50:18.640 I think that's

00:50:19.200 part of the

00:50:19.500 problem.

00:50:21.320 All right,

00:50:22.320 let me make

00:50:22.800 one point

00:50:23.340 that, oh,

00:50:25.580 and apparently

00:50:26.080 China just 0.96

00:50:26.780 announced they're

00:50:27.280 going to make

00:50:27.580 150 new

00:50:28.540 nuclear power

00:50:29.220 plants,

00:50:29.760 reactors, in

00:50:31.100 the next

00:50:31.500 15 years.

00:50:35.680 Let me say

00:50:36.440 that again.

00:50:37.580 Do you know

00:50:37.860 how long it

00:50:38.320 takes to build

00:50:38.860 a new nuclear

00:50:39.640 power plant in

00:50:40.520 the United

00:50:40.880 States?

00:50:43.220 20 years?

00:50:44.580 Because of all

00:50:45.280 the regulations

00:50:46.100 and approvals

00:50:46.920 and stuff.

00:50:47.400 About 20

00:50:47.880 years.

00:50:48.200 China's going 1.00

00:50:50.080 to build

00:50:50.580 150 of

00:50:51.960 them in

00:50:52.260 15.

00:50:55.320 And I

00:50:55.960 think they

00:50:56.320 might do

00:50:56.720 it.

00:50:57.400 Like, this

00:50:57.760 seems within

00:50:58.600 the realm of

00:50:59.700 something they

00:51:00.140 could do.

00:51:01.160 It's pretty

00:51:01.780 aggressive.

00:51:02.920 And how

00:51:03.340 about the

00:51:03.600 United States?

00:51:05.780 We're going

00:51:06.680 to decommission.

00:51:08.920 We are so

00:51:09.840 wrong on this.

00:51:11.120 So wrong.

00:51:12.360 And by the

00:51:12.780 way, Trump

00:51:13.800 wasn't that much

00:51:14.740 better on this.

00:51:15.920 Both Biden

00:51:16.500 and Trump

00:51:16.920 are pro-nuclear

00:51:17.860 and the

00:51:18.340 Department of

00:51:18.820 Energy, it

00:51:19.280 looks like

00:51:19.600 they've done

00:51:19.940 good work

00:51:20.720 promoting it.

00:51:23.460 But not

00:51:24.080 even close

00:51:24.800 to what they

00:51:25.620 should be

00:51:25.920 doing.

00:51:26.820 Neither

00:51:27.220 Biden nor

00:51:27.840 Trump are

00:51:28.420 anywhere near

00:51:29.180 the right

00:51:29.580 answer on

00:51:30.120 this.

00:51:30.600 They have

00:51:30.940 the right

00:51:31.200 answer, but

00:51:31.680 they're not

00:51:31.940 pushing it

00:51:32.520 in their

00:51:33.940 productive

00:51:34.400 enough way.

00:51:35.960 So that's

00:51:37.320 a criticism

00:51:37.780 of both

00:51:38.680 presidents.

00:51:40.200 All right,

00:51:40.700 on a different

00:51:41.060 topic.

00:51:42.260 Are we done

00:51:42.960 talking about

00:51:43.660 Virginia?

00:51:46.260 Well, here's

00:51:47.580 a comment on

00:51:48.160 the locals

00:51:48.560 platform.

00:51:49.420 Every time I

00:51:50.020 fill up with

00:51:50.680 gas, I hate

00:51:51.380 Biden.

00:51:52.720 Does anybody

00:51:53.160 have that same

00:51:53.840 reaction?

00:51:55.540 Because that's a

00:51:56.460 pretty insightful

00:51:57.160 comment.

00:51:58.780 Do you feel

00:51:59.620 every time you

00:52:00.300 fill up the gas

00:52:01.160 tank that you

00:52:02.420 hate Biden?

00:52:03.600 Because he's the

00:52:04.220 reason you're

00:52:04.640 paying double.

00:52:06.000 Right?

00:52:06.520 And you know

00:52:07.040 that.

00:52:07.800 It's his

00:52:08.200 policies.

00:52:10.620 Yeah.

00:52:11.100 Yeah, that,

00:52:12.960 you know, we look

00:52:13.440 at all these

00:52:13.940 big causes.

00:52:16.040 It might be as

00:52:16.760 simple as people

00:52:17.440 fill up their

00:52:18.020 gas once a

00:52:18.900 week, and

00:52:19.640 once a week

00:52:20.140 they curse at

00:52:21.260 the president

00:52:21.680 for making

00:52:22.300 them spend

00:52:22.680 double.

00:52:23.460 And that's

00:52:23.840 the thing that

00:52:24.560 touches their

00:52:25.220 life most

00:52:26.460 directly, besides

00:52:27.420 CRT, depending

00:52:28.560 on where you

00:52:29.000 are.

00:52:31.000 Could be

00:52:31.600 that.

00:52:32.980 I would like

00:52:33.800 to add this

00:52:34.840 contrarian idea

00:52:37.660 to the mix.

00:52:41.980 Now, I'm

00:52:42.660 going to

00:52:42.800 change topics

00:52:43.420 and a

00:52:44.400 politics for

00:52:45.000 just a

00:52:45.400 moment.

00:52:48.280 Everybody

00:52:48.720 says we

00:52:49.220 should trust

00:52:49.680 the experts.

00:52:50.900 Do you

00:52:51.180 agree?

00:52:54.260 You should

00:52:54.860 trust the

00:52:55.300 experts.

00:52:55.900 Now, we

00:52:56.260 know that

00:52:56.640 experts have

00:52:57.180 gotten a lot

00:52:57.640 of things

00:52:57.920 wrong, so

00:52:59.720 you have to

00:53:00.400 be skeptical,

00:53:01.800 but would

00:53:04.340 you trust an

00:53:04.940 expert versus

00:53:05.840 someone who

00:53:06.420 is not an

00:53:06.960 expert in

00:53:07.420 the field?

00:53:08.420 Let's say

00:53:08.840 there was a

00:53:09.280 debate between

00:53:10.720 a bona fide

00:53:11.840 expert and

00:53:12.740 somebody who

00:53:13.080 is not an

00:53:13.620 expert in

00:53:14.140 the field.

00:53:14.540 Who's better

00:53:15.340 in that

00:53:15.680 debate?

00:53:16.460 The expert

00:53:17.020 or the

00:53:17.460 non-expert?

00:53:21.640 The answer

00:53:22.360 is it

00:53:22.660 depends.

00:53:24.080 The answer

00:53:24.440 is it

00:53:24.880 depends.

00:53:26.920 That's right.

00:53:28.160 Some experts

00:53:29.080 are so bad

00:53:29.820 that an

00:53:30.320 amateur can

00:53:30.960 be better.

00:53:32.300 It has

00:53:32.600 been my

00:53:33.000 experience

00:53:33.580 that I

00:53:34.840 have

00:53:35.040 encountered

00:53:35.560 a number

00:53:36.120 of experts

00:53:36.780 who simply

00:53:37.960 because I'm

00:53:38.660 reasonably smart

00:53:39.700 and well-informed

00:53:40.640 are not as

00:53:42.100 capable as

00:53:42.700 I am

00:53:43.100 in their

00:53:43.680 expertise.

00:53:45.820 I hate to

00:53:46.640 say it,

00:53:47.560 but can I

00:53:48.520 get a

00:53:48.780 confirmation

00:53:49.140 from those

00:53:49.880 of you who

00:53:50.300 are unusually

00:53:50.900 smart?

00:53:52.180 How many

00:53:52.600 of you,

00:53:53.440 you don't

00:53:54.160 have to be

00:53:54.640 humble,

00:53:55.400 if you're

00:53:55.780 unusually

00:53:56.260 smart,

00:53:56.900 and that

00:53:57.220 would apply

00:53:57.640 to a lot

00:53:58.960 of people

00:53:59.240 watching this

00:53:59.860 live stream,

00:54:01.960 if you're

00:54:02.380 unusually

00:54:02.840 smart,

00:54:03.380 have you

00:54:03.540 ever had

00:54:03.840 the experience

00:54:04.820 of knowing

00:54:05.720 more than

00:54:06.140 an expert

00:54:06.600 and you

00:54:07.000 knew it?

00:54:08.380 At least

00:54:08.900 on the

00:54:09.220 topic you

00:54:09.720 were dealing

00:54:10.400 with,

00:54:10.660 not on

00:54:11.040 everything.

00:54:12.160 So maybe

00:54:12.500 not an

00:54:12.940 expert on

00:54:14.360 everything,

00:54:15.400 but your

00:54:16.120 little slice.

00:54:17.840 So here's

00:54:18.340 what I'm

00:54:18.680 going to

00:54:18.960 propose,

00:54:19.860 because I

00:54:20.360 think everybody

00:54:20.920 gets this

00:54:21.400 wrong when

00:54:22.320 looking at

00:54:22.920 people's

00:54:23.840 opinions.

00:54:25.540 You ready

00:54:26.020 for this?

00:54:26.560 This is

00:54:27.040 going to

00:54:27.340 hurt those

00:54:28.700 of you who

00:54:29.300 had not

00:54:30.140 thought in

00:54:30.620 this way

00:54:30.960 before.

00:54:31.440 This is

00:54:31.760 going to

00:54:32.000 hurt a

00:54:32.300 little bit.

00:54:33.300 Here's my

00:54:33.740 claim.

00:54:34.840 A smart

00:54:35.320 engineer,

00:54:36.080 and I'll

00:54:36.300 just use an

00:54:37.000 engineer as my

00:54:37.660 example,

00:54:38.200 because they're

00:54:38.480 good at

00:54:38.760 analyzing stuff.

00:54:39.560 A smart

00:54:40.440 engineer can

00:54:41.300 do a deep

00:54:41.740 dive on 0.88

00:54:42.200 one slice

00:54:43.160 of a

00:54:44.060 medical

00:54:44.420 expert's

00:54:45.060 larger field

00:54:46.020 and come

00:54:46.920 up with a

00:54:47.380 more credible

00:54:48.000 opinion on

00:54:48.700 that one

00:54:49.140 slice than

00:54:50.900 most experts

00:54:51.940 in the same

00:54:52.820 space.

00:54:54.160 True or

00:54:54.820 false?

00:54:55.760 Let me give

00:54:56.360 you an 0.64

00:54:56.520 example.

00:54:57.220 I remember

00:54:57.600 a case where

00:54:58.720 who was one

00:54:59.600 of the

00:54:59.800 founders of

00:55:00.420 Intel?

00:55:01.600 Andy Grove.

00:55:02.260 Andy Grove

00:55:03.280 came down

00:55:03.820 with prostate

00:55:06.080 cancer.

00:55:07.580 And the

00:55:08.800 medical opinions

00:55:09.760 about prostate

00:55:10.460 cancer were

00:55:11.180 all over the

00:55:11.660 board, and

00:55:12.340 different experts

00:55:13.100 were saying

00:55:14.480 surgery, no

00:55:16.060 surgery, all

00:55:16.760 kinds of

00:55:17.040 stuff.

00:55:17.760 So he was a

00:55:18.400 very smart

00:55:18.860 engineer, so

00:55:19.640 he decided to

00:55:20.320 become an

00:55:20.720 expert on

00:55:21.320 this one

00:55:21.660 little slice,

00:55:23.200 which is how

00:55:24.080 do you treat

00:55:24.780 this specific

00:55:27.020 prostate cancer?

00:55:28.420 And so he

00:55:29.100 wrote a large

00:55:30.060 article about it

00:55:30.860 in Forbes or

00:55:31.580 Fortune or

00:55:31.960 something, and

00:55:32.880 it was probably

00:55:33.980 the best, most

00:55:35.840 informative and

00:55:36.780 useful analysis

00:55:37.820 of what to do

00:55:38.700 if you have

00:55:39.160 prostate cancer

00:55:39.940 that has ever

00:55:40.960 been created.

00:55:42.660 And I

00:55:43.620 believe that he

00:55:44.600 would have been

00:55:45.140 more of an

00:55:45.700 expert than

00:55:47.060 all of the

00:55:47.720 experts on his

00:55:48.720 narrow question.

00:55:50.600 Right?

00:55:50.900 On the narrow

00:55:51.400 question.

00:55:51.820 Now you say to

00:55:52.260 yourself, Scott,

00:55:53.420 the trouble is,

00:55:54.900 if he's just

00:55:55.420 trying to be an

00:55:55.980 expert on the

00:55:56.640 narrow slice,

00:55:58.060 he's going to

00:55:58.720 forget maybe

00:55:59.240 some variables

00:56:00.040 from related

00:56:01.260 stuff that

00:56:01.900 actually make

00:56:02.480 a difference.

00:56:03.420 To which I

00:56:04.120 say, no, he

00:56:04.780 checked that.

00:56:05.980 Because he

00:56:06.380 checked everything

00:56:07.040 with the

00:56:07.360 experts.

00:56:08.500 He said, am I

00:56:09.240 missing anything?

00:56:10.540 Did I leave

00:56:11.200 anything out?

00:56:12.440 And if they

00:56:12.860 say no, that

00:56:13.540 looks pretty good,

00:56:14.280 then he doesn't

00:56:14.940 have to worry

00:56:15.300 about that.

00:56:15.700 So, let me say

00:56:18.420 it again.

00:56:19.500 A smart, non-expert

00:56:22.560 can come to

00:56:24.660 understand much

00:56:25.620 better than the

00:56:26.480 experts can if

00:56:27.920 it's a narrow

00:56:28.440 slice and they

00:56:30.280 do their homework.

00:56:31.700 And we see

00:56:32.260 that.

00:56:33.460 We do see

00:56:34.060 people doing a

00:56:34.780 deep dive on a

00:56:35.640 narrow slice.

00:56:36.980 Here's my own

00:56:37.780 example of it.

00:56:39.620 And then I've

00:56:40.020 got to go.

00:56:40.900 I had an exotic

00:56:42.280 problem called a

00:56:43.080 spasmodic dysphonia.

00:56:44.140 I couldn't speak

00:56:45.400 for three and a

00:56:47.300 half years.

00:56:48.360 And I went to

00:56:48.860 my doctor, had no

00:56:49.760 idea what it was.

00:56:50.840 Went to my other

00:56:51.420 doctor, had no

00:56:52.140 idea what it was.

00:56:53.260 Went to my ENT.

00:56:54.840 Now I've gone to

00:56:55.500 the expert of the

00:56:56.440 experts, the ear,

00:56:57.440 nose, throat

00:56:57.940 expert.

00:56:58.880 Didn't know what

00:56:59.360 it was.

00:57:00.740 I googled it.

00:57:03.060 And finally I

00:57:04.000 guessed the right

00:57:04.880 search term and I

00:57:05.800 found it.

00:57:06.600 Found out it was

00:57:07.240 something called

00:57:07.700 spasmodic dysphonia.

00:57:09.000 And then I taught

00:57:10.580 my doctors what it

00:57:11.540 was.

00:57:12.920 Is that uncommon?

00:57:15.140 Nope.

00:57:16.700 I was a smart

00:57:18.040 amateur who did

00:57:19.600 a deep dive on the

00:57:20.660 narrowest of

00:57:21.440 narrowness.

00:57:22.540 Something that even

00:57:23.420 an ear, nose,

00:57:24.200 throat person had

00:57:25.500 never even heard the

00:57:26.260 words before.

00:57:28.000 And that's how

00:57:29.000 narrow it was.

00:57:30.120 And did I know

00:57:30.780 more than them when

00:57:31.600 I was done?

00:57:32.700 Absolutely.

00:57:33.820 Yeah.

00:57:34.340 When I was done,

00:57:35.480 I knew more than,

00:57:36.900 I would say,

00:57:38.640 conservatively,

00:57:39.920 99% of all

00:57:41.340 doctors.

00:57:41.760 doctors about

00:57:42.940 just that one,

00:57:44.000 one little thing.

00:57:45.220 And how did I

00:57:45.820 know it?

00:57:46.160 I talked to the

00:57:46.840 one doctor who

00:57:47.560 knew the most.

00:57:49.220 Now, if I'd met

00:57:49.880 that one doctor,

00:57:51.600 that one doctor

00:57:52.400 would have known

00:57:53.080 more than me.

00:57:54.640 But all the rest

00:57:56.360 of the doctors,

00:57:57.220 I knew more than

00:57:58.220 them.

00:57:58.860 Because I talked

00:57:59.720 in person to the

00:58:00.480 one person in the

00:58:01.100 world who knew

00:58:01.900 more about it than

00:58:02.660 anything and cured

00:58:03.860 me.

00:58:04.660 Because every other

00:58:05.660 doctor said it was

00:58:06.520 incurable.

00:58:07.060 One said it

00:58:09.880 wasn't.

00:58:11.500 I took his opinion

00:58:12.640 and now I can

00:58:13.900 talk to you.

00:58:15.220 That's the only

00:58:15.720 reason I can talk

00:58:16.460 to you right now,

00:58:17.260 is that I did a

00:58:18.440 deep dive and the 0.66

00:58:20.200 experts couldn't

00:58:21.020 find the thing I

00:58:21.900 found.

00:58:22.620 Very common.

00:58:23.420 All right.

00:58:23.860 Got to go.

00:58:24.840 Hope today was fun.

00:58:26.180 Hope you enjoyed it.

00:58:27.360 And I can't stay.

00:58:28.600 Got to do something

00:58:29.780 else.

00:58:30.240 But I would love to

00:58:31.000 stay another hour

00:58:31.800 because today was a

00:58:32.560 fun day.

00:58:33.660 Bye for now.

00:58:34.180 Bye for now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 03, 2021

Episode 1550 Scott Adams： The Political Earthquake That Happened Last Night in Virginia and Elsewhere. Plus Funny Tweets

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