Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1572 Scott Adams： Let's Put Every Story Through the Race Filter, Because We're Idiots

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00:01:37.040 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well what's new? Rasmussen did a poll and it asked first to ask people who they

00:01:53.400 voted for in 2020. 45 percent said Biden and 48 percent Trump. But don't do what I did and say

00:02:03.220 wait a minute. If this is a survey of the people who voted doesn't that mean Trump won?

00:02:12.080 Because the survey of people who voted shows Trump won.

00:02:19.040 But hold on. Hold on. Hold on. So I checked with Rasmussen before I got out of here.

00:02:25.840 And this has more to do with how they changed the weightings. So the you know the polls do a

00:02:33.060 weighting of how many people they assume are Democrats in the general public etc. And they

00:02:38.420 tweak that. So this has more to do with the tweak of the weightings than it does with who actually

00:02:45.020 won. But more interestingly Rasmussen asked likely voters who are representative of the public

00:02:55.100 at large. Who would you vote for today? So if Trump and Biden both ran, which seems deeply

00:03:02.780 unlikely to me, but if they ran against each other in 2024 or actually today. So maybe it

00:03:10.440 would change by 2024. But as of today, Biden would get 32 percent of the votes. Trump would

00:03:18.320 get 45. Start the local stream. So the local stream is started. And I'm on it live right

00:03:30.920 now. But I did have a technical difficulty. And it's possible that it shows up as two posts.

00:03:37.400 So skip the one that's not active and go to the one that is if it looks like it's not working.

00:03:46.080 And how many and but so this looks like good for Trump, right? 45 percent would vote for him

00:03:51.580 compared to 32 percent for Biden. But number one, he's not going to be running against Biden.

00:03:56.500 Right. He's not going to be running against Biden. But 56 percent of those polled in the

00:04:05.100 Rasmussen poll here said it would be a bad idea for Trump to run. Even though, according to the

00:04:11.160 poll, he would beat Biden if by if, you know, in the unlikely event that Biden were the other

00:04:15.900 candidate, he'd cream him and people still don't want him to run. Is that rational? That they would

00:04:23.860 vote for Trump over Biden, but they still don't want Trump to run. It's a little bit rational

00:04:29.720 because they would also vote for, you know, some other Republican over Biden. And then they

00:04:36.940 wouldn't have the the controversy that they might have with Trump. Jobless claims are the lowest since

00:04:43.920 1969 when the population was far less. That's a pretty big deal. So

00:04:52.800 one of the things that keeps surprising me is that our ability to hire people is pretty

00:04:59.960 strong, like really strong. Let me give you my economics lesson of the day. If you could

00:05:08.300 only measure one economic statistic and that was all you had to know if the economy was going

00:05:16.120 in the right direction or the wrong direction, what what one measure would you look at?

00:05:30.720 So if you're having trouble on locals, just restart the app. I'm seeing some people are getting some

00:05:36.040 trouble. The app is working. It's just getting a little rickety right now. I would say the most

00:05:43.460 important economic indicator, and I do have a degree in economics, so I'm not just spitballing

00:05:50.500 here, is employment. Generally speaking, when your employment looks good, everything else works.

00:05:58.900 That's a pretty good general statement. Now, of course, there could be other shocks and surprises

00:06:04.220 in your economy. You know, inflation could be high and all that stuff. But if you could just measure

00:06:10.040 one thing, it would be the employment, and that's really good. It's looking really good.

00:06:17.380 All right. So you think M3 would be the, well, that would be an interesting conversation.

00:06:24.500 Wage push? Okay. Well, there's obviously lots more to the economy than employment, but that's the big one.

00:06:30.000 So here's a question that I think a lot of you wonder about, but maybe don't ask directly.

00:06:41.020 What's it like to be rich? Does anybody ever ask that question to yourself, if you're not rich?

00:06:45.780 Some of you are. How many of you wonder what it's like? Do you ever think, is that as good as it looks?

00:06:53.820 All right. Well, some of you do. So I thought I'd give you a little flavor for what it's like.

00:07:02.300 You know, because I've had a successful career, so I've got a good deal of money right now.

00:07:09.420 And let me tell you what it's like. Number one, you can, if you're a couple, you can both have a nice car,

00:07:16.460 which is pretty good. So Christine and I both have nice automobiles. Both of them were damaged this week.

00:07:26.240 So both of them are in insurance and in the shop, which is normal. Normal. When you have nice things,

00:07:33.400 you got to take care of them. So Christina's car was damaged and my car was damaged this week.

00:07:40.740 Interestingly, neither of us were driving those cars. Both cars were damaged.

00:07:46.460 Neither she nor I were driving either car. That's the way it goes. But so we have two nice cars.

00:07:52.760 We can't use them because they're damaged. I do have a very nice house. And that's something that

00:08:01.320 a lot of people would wish they had. So my very nice house at the moment just had its, I think,

00:08:08.360 the 11th major water leak this week. The 11th. There were two this week.

00:08:16.460 One with a sprinkler system. One with the indoor, what are called the warm floors. They run warm water

00:08:24.540 piping through the floors. If you get a leak in one of those, it's a bad, it's a bad thing. So I've had

00:08:28.980 about 11 major water leaks. So I spend part of almost every day trying to fix a water leak.

00:08:35.560 I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, is there some kind of construction problem? No, they're all

00:08:41.780 completely randomly different. And they have nothing to do with anything. They're completely random.

00:08:48.400 Now again, I also get to live in a nice neighborhood. So that's something you don't all get to do. And I'm

00:08:56.620 quite aware of the benefits of that. For example, one of the benefits of living in my neighborhood is that

00:09:02.840 both of my adjacent neighbors have both been burglarized by bands of people who broke through

00:09:08.420 the windows at night. And in a small gang, took everything that they could take that looked

00:09:15.020 valuable. Now that's happened to both of my neighbors. So I assume that I'm next on the list.

00:09:21.980 In case any potential robbers are watching, my home will be a little bit harder than the neighbors.

00:09:27.520 That's all I'm saying. You just better make sure I'm not home. If you break into my house,

00:09:35.700 be pretty fucking sure I'm not home. That's my only advice. Because otherwise, it's going to get wet. 0.99

00:09:43.360 All right, here's some other advantages of, you know, being well off. A lot of people don't have

00:09:51.480 enough money even to pay for heat. But I do. And I wish I had heat today. Because if my warm floors had not

00:10:01.560 leaked, it would feel great right here, instead of cold like I am right now. But in theory, the theory would be

00:10:08.000 good. Now I can also buy nice computers. My computer wasn't working this morning, which is why I was late.

00:10:13.260 I also have a number of cool systems in the house. For example, there's a system called an Elon system,

00:10:21.140 where you can control the lighting everywhere. Now that doesn't work, obviously. So it's really just

00:10:29.300 an expensive system that puts things on the wall that tease me. Wow, if that worked. Imagine if you

00:10:35.600 could push those buttons and like the lighting would do different things. That would be cool.

00:10:40.540 So I have that and you don't have that. I mean, you turn on lights exactly the same way I do.

00:10:46.460 But in theory, I have a very complicated system that would do that for me. Now I also have,

00:10:51.760 and I'm actually a little embarrassed to say this. I have 14 televisions. I know. It's kind of a

00:11:01.260 douchebaggy thing to tell you, isn't it? I have 14 televisions. None of them work. I have zero televisions

00:11:09.660 that work because they all go through a central processor, which doesn't work and it's hard to

00:11:15.580 replace. So I have no televisions that work. Now, all those televisions have their own remote controls.

00:11:22.380 And unlike a lot of people who are struggling, my remote controls, and again, I know what a douchebag 0.70

00:11:29.840 this sounds like. Each one of them cost $1,000. That's how good the remote controls were. Each

00:11:37.300 one was $1,000 because it did a lot of stuff. It wasn't like a regular TV remote. Now, 100% of them

00:11:43.280 broke. It turns out that if you drop one of the remotes, the little thing that allows the charger to

00:11:50.960 charge falls off. And then because it was a kid who dropped it, they see that thing on the ground

00:11:58.280 and then they throw it away. So all of the $1,000 remotes became useless in about two weeks

00:12:05.700 because somebody dropped them every time and then threw away the piece that you need to charge it.

00:12:12.720 So I have no televisions and no remote controls. In theory, I have 14 televisions,

00:12:17.240 but none that actually work. Now, another advantage that you have with money is that you can take nice

00:12:24.940 vacations. And that's a really big deal. And I'm always conscious of the fact that not everybody

00:12:31.500 can do that. So when I get to take a nice vacation, I'm very, very thankful for it. For example,

00:12:38.820 just this week, Christina and my wife found out that she'd forgotten. We'd booked a luxury trip.

00:12:47.240 To a very high-end hotel. And we forgot. Actually forgot we booked it. I mean, I didn't know about

00:12:58.040 it at all, but she forgot she booked it. And so it was too late for me to go. So Christina went on her

00:13:03.100 own and enjoyed a really nice luxury vacation while I was working seven days a week. But here's another

00:13:12.260 good thing that you can do if you're well off. And this is like the ultimate luxury.

00:13:20.340 And again, it's embarrassing even to say, because if you can't afford this, it's going to make you

00:13:26.320 feel bad. But you wonder what it's like to have money, so I'll tell you. We sometimes do these things

00:13:32.620 called a couple's massage, where you'll have two massage therapists come over and do a couple's 1.00

00:13:39.080 massage. Well, Christina ordered one of those last night. And I got to tell you, it was great.

00:13:46.280 Not for me. I didn't have a massage. But Christina and her sister had a massage, and I helped set up 0.84

00:13:52.180 the tables for those. So that was great. I had some other things to do that night. I had to do some

00:13:58.780 driving, which I couldn't do because the massage therapist parked in front of the garage door.

00:14:03.380 So while Christina and her sister were getting excellent massages, I heard they were terrific,

00:14:10.220 I was swearing at my driveway and eventually drove my car over a curb, damaging it a little bit, 0.99

00:14:19.420 just to be able to get out of my own fucking driveway. Now, today, in about 10 minutes, 0.99

00:14:26.400 I'll have a worker here to look at the warm floors and maybe fix that. And then for the rest of the

00:14:35.360 day, I'll be listening to jackhammers. So jackhammers all day and all week, actually. And the jackhammers

00:14:42.340 kick up so much dust that pretty much everything else I've ever purchased has been ruined with dust

00:14:48.720 this week. So if you're wondering what it's like to have money, it's probably not nearly as good as

00:14:56.720 you think. It's way better than not having money. So let me be clear on that. If you ever have a

00:15:03.980 choice, take the money. But it is not nearly as good as you think. I promise you, it is not nearly

00:15:12.260 as good as you think it is. Now, that's just a weird week. I thought it was funny that that week

00:15:17.180 turned out this way. All right. Here's something that I fear. Are you watching the Kim Kardashian

00:15:26.720 who's dating Pete Davidson from Saturday Night Live? And they're doing it kind of, you know,

00:15:34.120 publicly. And you wonder how Kanye, who now goes by Ye, you wonder how he feels about that.

00:15:41.700 And I have to admit, I do live in continuous fear that my wife will someday leave me and date Pete

00:15:49.400 Davidson. Now, I don't know if you have any, if you've ever had this fear. But every day I look at

00:15:56.440 this and think, well, that could have been me. That could have been me. And it's somebody on

00:16:05.200 Twitter, I forget who gave me this joke. So this is not original. But somebody said of Pete

00:16:14.740 Davidson, why would you date someone who has more pathogens than the Wuhan lab?

00:16:23.540 That's pretty funny. Anyway.

00:16:29.280 Pete Buttigieg is working on putting in all those electric car charging stations as part of the

00:16:36.760 infrastructure bill. And he said that you need these charging stations in two places

00:16:43.020 that don't get mentioned much, which is in urban areas. Makes sense. But also where there's dense

00:16:49.480 housing and people don't have a garage. You know, they're in an apartment or whatever. And

00:16:55.480 I'm right on board with Pete Buttigieg because if there's one thing that poor people in dense 0.97

00:17:02.880 neighborhood housing need, it's a way to charge their Teslas. Because I don't know if you know what

00:17:11.240 the priorities are for the country. I used to think it was stuff like feeding the poor and health care

00:17:17.420 and stuff like that. But the poor also don't have places to charge their Teslas. And I don't think

00:17:22.800 we could ignore that. So maybe by the end of the Biden administration, the poor will be able to charge

00:17:29.820 their Teslas. And that's good news. All right. I'm just kidding. It's not just the poor. And it's not

00:17:36.800 just Teslas. I get it. I get it. But it's funny to imagine that they're so out of touch that they're

00:17:44.160 giving Tesla charging stations to the poor. Here's a simulation update.

00:17:51.420 One of the things I like to call the fake news industry is a rotting house. It's like a house that's

00:17:57.360 rotting, isn't it? And what are the odds that the rotting house would make up a bunch of false claims

00:18:05.520 about Kyle Rittenhouse? So it's the rotting house versus the Rittenhouse. And do you think that the

00:18:15.400 left is finally figuring out? Because I'm seeing anecdotally a number of people on Twitter saying,

00:18:20.780 well, I used to lean left and I voted for Biden. But this Rittenhouse thing has taught me that all the

00:18:26.600 news is fake and now I'm going to vote for Trump. Well, I don't think there are actually that many

00:18:30.920 people in that camp. But maybe. I mean, I believe that in 2016, everybody in the right learned that

00:18:41.520 the news was completely made up. Now, some say they learned it earlier, weapons of mass destruction,

00:18:47.640 Bush, et cetera. And I think that maybe that was... I'll tell you my own view. When the weapons of

00:18:54.200 mass destruction thing happened, I thought it was an anomaly. Did you? When we were bamboozled by the

00:19:04.100 press into thinking that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, how many of you thought that was

00:19:09.760 sort of a one-off versus the way everything works all the time? Because I'm trying to remember if I

00:19:19.920 believed there were weapons of mass destruction. I think I did. I don't remember exactly, but I probably

00:19:25.900 did. Because why wouldn't I? Yeah. And at the time, I thought to myself, well, you know, thank you, James.

00:19:35.920 At the time, I thought to myself, well, you know, I guess something happened here, but this is not the way

00:19:42.560 it normally is, right? It's not normally that the press just makes up a story. But it is. It's

00:19:51.220 completely normal. And it took a while to figure that out. And the Trump administration proved to

00:19:57.040 anybody who supported Trump that the news was completely fake. But now the left is at least

00:20:02.000 getting a taste of it. They're just getting a little taste of it. And I think that they're also

00:20:07.300 understanding that everything has been run through a race filter, and it shouldn't be. Because we're

00:20:14.060 seeing so many cases now that don't look like race at all that are being called race. The Rittenhouse

00:20:20.440 situation was being called a race thing. It wasn't. It wasn't.

00:20:25.360 So over at the Daily Beast, which is, they pretend to be journalists, but it's basically a gathering

00:20:37.420 place for trolls who think they could write. So the house of trolls, called the Daily Beast, 0.65

00:20:45.320 was getting on two people, Tim Poole and Andy Ngo, because they were identifying the Waukesha

00:20:54.340 attacker, the one who was in the car and drove over all the people in the parade. They correctly

00:21:01.440 identified that his social media showed him he was a BLM supporter. And they reported on

00:21:08.500 that. And what happens when... And also that he was anti-white, explicitly. He wasn't just

00:21:18.160 pro-BLM, which many people could be. He was actually just anti-white. And he said so, and

00:21:25.260 white people should be hurt. He basically said that directly. And of course, that is part of the 0.99

00:21:32.660 story, right? Because he ran down a bunch of white people. So if your social media says he's 0.97

00:21:39.740 recommending hurting people, white people, and then he hurts a bunch of white people, that feels

00:21:44.160 related, doesn't it? Doesn't that feel at least it should be part of the story? Well, that's what 0.96

00:21:50.480 Tim Poole and Andy Ngo said, but the Daily Beast decided that they were trying to make it racial.

00:21:58.680 What? You know who tried to make it racial? The guy who posted those social media attacks against

00:22:06.680 white people? That kind of made it racial. Now, how about this one? This is CNN trying to make the

00:22:12.960 defense for the Arbery case. They're trying to turn that racist too. So here's the report on CNN.

00:22:23.320 Here's how CNN says it. On Monday, defense attorney Laura Hogue went as far as to say during her 1.00

00:22:29.840 closing arguments in the case, quote, turning Ahmoud Arbery into a victim after the choices he made

00:22:36.520 does not reflect the reality of what brought Ahmoud Arbery to Satilla Shores in his khaki shorts

00:22:42.760 with no socks to cover his long, dirty toenails. And so she is being accused of being racist

00:22:50.860 for suggesting that this individual, Ahmoud Arbery, had khaki shorts with no socks to cover his long,

00:22:58.960 dirty toenails. And so I said to myself, wait a minute, what's the race part of that? 0.89

00:23:06.520 Like, there's a claim that that's racial, but I'm looking right at it. I don't even see race

00:23:13.320 mentioned. And so I said to myself, I said to myself, oh, it says he isn't a jogger. Well, that wasn't

00:23:23.840 the point they were trying to make on this statement. But yes, I don't think you jog in khakis and

00:23:31.120 no socks and wearing, what, sandals. No socks to cover his long, dirty, yeah, I must add sandals.

00:23:42.540 Anyway, that's a pretty good point that he wasn't there as a jogger in any traditional way that

00:23:47.520 joggers jog. But I asked on Twitter, suppose I were to describe somebody out of context and just

00:23:54.260 said that it was a person with, let's say a man, with khaki shorts and no socks to cover his long,

00:23:59.800 dirty toenails. If that's the only thing you knew, what ethnicity would you assume

00:24:04.120 was wearing the khakis with the long, dirty toenails? 0.97

00:24:11.020 You would think white, yeah. I think 71% of the people who answered it said, uh, white,

00:24:20.980 because khaki shorts and sandals. So this is CNN trying to make literally anything a racial

00:24:29.780 thing. Um, I saw a comment from a Twitter user, uh, Sierra No Regale, I don't know how to pronounce

00:24:39.900 his name, who is claiming that CNN is not nearly as bad as Fox. If you're talking about fake news,

00:24:46.800 oh my God, says this user, CNN is not as bad as Fox. And then he went on to say,

00:24:53.660 and it's so obviously probably not the same. He said, who's, you know, and he asked this rhetorically,

00:25:00.540 who's the Tucker and Graham, uh, judge, judge Neen or Goffield on CNN, right? Like where on CNN

00:25:08.840 are you going to find somebody like a, like a Tucker Carlson or a Laura Ingram or judge Neen or a

00:25:15.940 Goffield? Yeah. Show him. Where, where on Fox are you going to find somebody like that?

00:25:21.760 To which I said, look for the ones that still believe the fine people hoax was real. And the

00:25:28.560 people who still think that Trump suggested drinking bleach. Find them. That's what we're

00:25:35.600 talking about. But the trouble is that CRN probably doesn't know those are hoaxes. So if you are so

00:25:45.620 bamboozled by your press that you think that the ridiculous hoaxes that they're showing you are news

00:25:50.720 are real, you would come to the belief that CNN was giving you real news. Because how would you know?

00:25:57.900 Everybody else says it's real on the news that you watch. You'd have to watch other news to find

00:26:02.620 it's not real. All right. So it's amazing how bubblicious some people can be. Um,

00:26:11.860 so, uh, apparently there's some serious talk at Comcast, uh, about Joy Reid's future at MSNBC.

00:26:22.880 So the executors are saying, ah, should we keep Joy Reid in her current job at MSNBC? And I have some

00:26:32.080 advice for them, um, in my capacity as the creator of the Dilbert comic. Now, sometimes I comment just

00:26:38.840 as a observer of politics, but in this case, I'm going to comment, uh, as someone who has a long

00:26:46.720 history of observing corporations and how they work. And here's my recommendation for a Comcast as a

00:26:54.040 corporation. And I'll just put this out there. They can do with it what they want. Based on my

00:26:59.540 experience living in the world, I think it's a bad idea to have an overt racist as part of your brand.

00:27:08.060 Now, I know, I know it's shocking, but if somebody is clearly and obviously, and isn't not even trying

00:27:15.740 to hide it, says it right out front is a full on racist. I'm saying my advice would be don't use them

00:27:25.000 as your brand ambassador. Is that too far? Does that advice seem, seem pretty solid to you or no? I'm,

00:27:35.260 I'm basing it on all of my business experience. They're using a racist as your brand ambassador

00:27:41.000 probably doesn't help you sell product, does it? No? Well, it's good that they're talking about it.

00:27:48.520 Anyway, as you know, uh, Kyle Rittenhouse was famously photographed at one point with the Proud Boys.

00:27:55.020 Uh, apparently the story is his, uh, lawyer that he eventually fired, who was the worst lawyer in the

00:27:59.960 world except for his other lawyer, uh, the other first one that was fired, not his eventual lawyers

00:28:04.780 who got him off, uh, on all charges, who apparently was a good lawyer. And, uh, so the bad lawyer

00:28:12.800 tried to get him a meeting with the Proud Boys at some bar when Kyle didn't exactly know who the

00:28:19.420 Proud Boys were. Actually, he didn't even know they were the Proud Boys. He just thought it was a

00:28:23.520 bunch of guys who work construction. And so he posed with them. He did the okay sign, didn't know it

00:28:31.780 meant anything. Uh, and then he blamed his attorney for that. Now, does that sound convincing? Does

00:28:39.360 that sound convincing that that's, that was his entire association? And by the way, he condemns

00:28:44.660 the Proud Boys. He condemns them in direct language. Yeah, it does sound real because he was 17 and he had

00:28:52.720 a really, really bad lawyer, apparently. Like as bad as the baddest lawyer it could ever be.

00:28:57.560 All right. Um, have I told you that I'm connected to every story, even when I don't want to be?

00:29:04.380 And it's just weird. Like I have weird connections to stories, sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly.

00:29:10.720 Um, several years ago when, um, anybody who supported Trump was getting, uh, re-

00:29:19.380 Um, um, okay. Got a TV recommendation there. Sorry about that. And, uh, so anyway, I was doing

00:29:29.700 some speaking, uh, during that time and I, I wound it down because it was just too dangerous

00:29:34.640 to speak in public during the Trump administration because I just didn't feel safe. And I was contacted

00:29:40.540 by a member of the Proud Boys. And this member of the Proud Boys, who sounded like he could reasonably

00:29:47.320 speak for other Proud Boys, at least locally, said that they would be happy to provide security

00:29:53.000 for me. Um, you know, I don't know. They didn't say anything about charging me, but they said they

00:29:59.620 could, they could provide security for me if I wanted to go to Berkeley and give a speech.

00:30:05.700 Now I said to myself, well, that would be one way to make things worse.

00:30:10.200 So because I'm not 17, I said to myself, thank you. And I actually appreciated the offer and I

00:30:20.840 respectfully, uh, declined his respectful offer. Um, but that's because I'm my age, right?

00:30:30.100 If I were 17, do you think I would have known enough to, you know, smell trouble? No, no, I would,

00:30:39.260 I would have probably gone just like Kyle did. So, you know, it takes, it takes a long time before

00:30:45.520 you can see around corners, but I could kind of see around the corner on that one. I was like, yeah,

00:30:51.780 I don't, I don't have a personal problem with it, but this just looks like it's going to attract

00:30:57.280 trouble. And sure enough, it would have, I'm sure. Yeah. And Coulter used them. And by the way,

00:31:03.740 I think that they would do a good job. And I would also like to say that as far as I know,

00:31:10.500 as far as I know, either most of the proud boys or all of them, maybe are not racist. As far as I

00:31:19.420 know. Now, if somebody else has different information or if they're actually members of

00:31:24.800 the group who are actually racist, maybe every group seems to have some, but as far as I know,

00:31:30.120 they're not. But if other people think they are, obviously it's a red flag.

00:31:38.520 Yeah. Yeah. It's, it was originally a drinking club that just sort of, you know, got a momentum of

00:31:47.600 its own. Anyway, so that's all I know about them. There is a lovely takedown of people who are bad

00:31:59.320 as statistics, especially in the COVID reference by a professor, Jeffrey Morris, who is very, very

00:32:05.640 qualified at this stuff. He is listed as a data scientist, biostatistician, quantitative scientist,

00:32:12.800 biomedical researcher, and a cancer researcher. So if you want somebody to look at your COVID graphs

00:32:20.100 and tell you if they're good, he'd be one, right? He has exactly the right qualifications.

00:32:27.480 So what did he think when he saw some of these graphs that would show that, you know, more people

00:32:32.940 are dying vaccinated than not and stuff like that? What did he say? Well, he did a long thread,

00:32:40.580 a takedown of Alex Berenson and his ignorance of statistics, right? He named him in particular,

00:32:47.740 but he was talking about people and bad statistics. Let me give you an example. Just one example.

00:32:53.760 The one that he talked about was there's a famous graph going around that seems to show that

00:32:58.780 vaccinated people are dying more or getting infected more than other people. And he explains why

00:33:05.220 you're wrong about all of that. All right. Now, I won't give his argument because it's better if you

00:33:11.080 hear it from him. It's more credible. But he does do a good job of showing that the Alex Berenson kind of

00:33:18.020 things he tweets are based on ridiculously bad interpretation of data, like ridiculously bad.

00:33:26.900 Ridiculously bad. Let me give you an example, right? This is not the, this is just something else I saw in

00:33:34.140 this thread. This was not even the topic he was taking Berenson down on. You've heard of the VAERS

00:33:40.680 database and has lots of reports, an alarming number of reports of people who had, who died or had

00:33:47.520 reactions after getting vaccinated. Does anybody know how many of them there are? How many adverse reports

00:33:56.140 are in the VAERS database? Can somebody give me that number? I'll bet somebody knows it off the top of

00:34:00.540 their head. It's a low tens of thousands or something. Is it under 20,000? Something like that. 8,000,

00:34:09.240 10,000, somewhere in that range. 6,000-ish. So it's under 10,000, right? But that's a lot.

00:34:16.260 All right. Oh, yeah. I guess I didn't ask, I didn't qualify deaths versus bad reactions. 19K, 20K? All

00:34:29.080 right. But here's where I'm going with this. We don't know that exact number. But let me ask you

00:34:34.820 this. How many people in the United States do you think die every month?

00:34:42.400 How many people in the United States die every month just of anything? Give me your number. How

00:34:51.180 many die every month of any cause? I'm seeing numbers from 8,000 to 400,000. Some say a million.

00:35:04.520 Now, wouldn't your opinion of how many adverse reactions are in the VAERS database, wouldn't

00:35:10.940 that be highly influenced by how many people you think die normally? So it turns out that 250,000

00:35:18.480 people die every month. And you would expect, if the vaccinations were perfectly safe and affected

00:35:31.340 no one negatively, you would expect a quarter of a million people to die within a month of taking it.

00:35:37.160 Did you know that? If the vaccines were perfectly safe, a quarter million people would die within

00:35:44.320 four weeks of taking it. And how about within a week of taking it? 50,000 people would have died just

00:35:53.280 by coincidence within a week of taking the vaccination. If you know somebody who died within

00:36:00.160 a week of taking a vaccination, they might have been one of 50,000 people who had that experience.

00:36:07.800 It doesn't mean anything. It literally means nothing. Now, I'm not saying the vaccinations are safe or that

00:36:14.000 the numbers are accurate. I'm saying that if that's what you're looking at to determine, that's not the

00:36:19.020 place. All right. How about this? So he goes on. This is Professor Jeffrey Morris. He says,

00:36:28.700 if vaccines were given at a random time, no matter when you gave them, you would expect

00:36:33.040 about 7,000 people to die the same day that they got the vaccination. You would expect 7,000 people to die

00:36:43.460 the same day that they just got vaccinated by chance. That would be how many would happen by chance.

00:36:52.000 You see where this is going, right? The VAERS database is not telling you anything at all.

00:36:59.320 And yeah. So anyway, I would say that nearly everything you see from Alex Berenson has the same flaw,

00:37:07.880 law, which is that Alex is not as good as somebody like Professor Morris at looking at data. And so

00:37:14.240 to the layperson, it looks pretty convincing. But to somebody who knows how statistics work,

00:37:21.120 nothing like that's happening. Nothing like that is happening at all. All right. But again,

00:37:27.900 all of that could be a lie too, because everything's a lie and we don't trust anything anymore.

00:37:32.120 How many of you know what a DAO is? D-A-O. Not the Dow Jones. How many of you would know what a D-A-O is?

00:37:43.600 Which stands for a Decentralized Autonomous Organization. All right. I like to make my 0.99

00:37:50.700 viewers smarter than the average. The DAO, D-A-O, is something coming toward you maybe fast and maybe

00:38:00.440 really big. Like really big. How big? Transform the entire economy big. That's how big. All right.

00:38:11.520 Let me tell you what it is. It could turn out to be a blip and nothing, right? But let me tell you

00:38:16.320 what it is. It's people using the blockchain, which is the basis for crypto, but doesn't have to be just

00:38:22.880 crypto. You could use it for other reasons. Well, actually, I guess there's always a token involved,

00:38:28.220 isn't there? If you have a blockchain, there's always some kind of a token, isn't there?

00:38:33.200 Necessarily? I think so. But anyway, it's people who self-organize for a project, much the way

00:38:41.180 Hollywood self-organizes for a movie. Now, there's not a bunch of people who go from movie to movie and

00:38:47.920 make movies so much. There might be a director and a producer, and then they hire the people they need

00:38:52.980 just for the project. Well, the decentralized autonomous organization is a way to do that,

00:39:00.140 but without a leader. So there's no leader. So people buy tokens, you know, they buy in to have

00:39:07.940 influence. If they buy more tokens, they could get more influence. But the rules of who can vote and

00:39:14.120 what they're voting on and what the rules are for how things work are all determined by the group.

00:39:20.320 So they work it out based on voting, based on how many tokens they own. And it's a way to self-organize

00:39:26.880 a project where people have complete visibility of everything. You know, they can see other people's

00:39:36.240 work. They can see the rules. They can contribute. They can get paid for it in some cases. And so the

00:39:44.700 thinking is that if this works in a few settings, it might go big and might even be better than corporate

00:39:52.660 governance. Depending on the project, maybe a corporation is the worst place to do it. It could be that a

00:39:59.460 self-organized entity like this that organizes just to do a specific thing might be exactly the way to do it.

00:40:06.780 So there was a DAO, a DAO, that tried to buy the Constitution. There was a copy of the Constitution

00:40:13.800 that went up for sale at, was it Sotheby's, I think. And so one of these sprung up and there was no leader.

00:40:23.380 It was just a bunch of people who had a common interest. And they self-organized, created rules

00:40:28.200 for what was what, and they bid. Now, it turns out they didn't win the bid because that's, you know,

00:40:33.280 a separate issue. But if they had won the bid, it would be the most successful DAO, I think,

00:40:40.720 and could have really made things different. So keep an eye on this. This is one of those things

00:40:47.280 that this is like hearing about Bitcoin before everybody heard of Bitcoin, right? This is like

00:40:53.760 hearing about the internet before most people had ever heard the word, right? You're now way ahead of

00:41:00.600 the public, because you know what a DAO is. It's a self-organized thing where all the rules are on

00:41:05.860 the blockchain, so everybody can see it, and you buy into it, and your influence depends on how many

00:41:11.500 tokens you buy, typically. All right? So now you know that. Here's something Britt Hume said about

00:41:17.260 Biden. And the reason this is important is because it's Britt Hume, right? Not everybody has the same

00:41:23.540 level of credibility. Will you agree with me? Right? If you're listening to one of the worse than

00:41:29.100 Watergate guys, they have zero credibility. You know, the news hosts, not so much. But Britt Hume

00:41:36.180 is, I think, would be, both the left and the right would say, oh, yeah, he does play it down the middle,

00:41:43.460 like he's actually just a reasonable person. Here's what the most reason, you could argue,

00:41:49.540 he's the most reasonable and balanced voice for decades. And here's what he said about Biden.

00:41:56.140 He said, quote, in fact, I think the thing we have to watch is this question of whether

00:42:00.640 he serves on his first term. He's clearly deteriorating. He's clearly senile.

00:42:08.360 Imagine the most reasonable person in the news business just says it directly. This is different.

00:42:15.960 We're now at a level where people who are not, like, you know, screaming partisans are just

00:42:22.340 saying, oh, that's obvious. He's obviously senile.

00:42:29.580 So Angela says, Britt Hume is credible, lol. I could be wrong. Well, you are wrong. Look

00:42:36.540 into it. So if you're saying because there's an association with Fox News, well, I think you're

00:42:42.660 wrong. Just look into his background. And much like I say the same thing about Smirkanish 1.00

00:42:49.140 on CNN. Also, Sanjay Gupta. There would be two people who appear on CNN that, as far as

00:42:57.000 I can tell, try to actually just look at the facts and are not, like, screaming partisans.

00:43:02.900 And Fox News has the same. They have a number of people who are absolutely not partisan in the

00:43:07.920 way that, you know, you typically think of it. So certainly the opinion people are partisan.

00:43:13.400 But to me, this feels like an important, you know, notable thing in the Biden story, that

00:43:24.280 somebody can say this just directly. And guess what? It's not even big news. Think about

00:43:30.480 that. You know how the left likes to, they like to boost anything the right says that's

00:43:36.640 crazy. So if anybody says anything that's a little crazy sounding on the right, that's

00:43:41.880 going to be on CNN, right? Here was a top reputation news person who just called the president

00:43:51.020 of the United States clearly senile, and he wasn't speaking hyperbolically. Nobody would

00:43:56.580 have taken it that way. Nobody would have said, yeah, I know you're being partisan. You're just

00:44:00.860 saying that. Nope. Nope. That wasn't what happened. That was a matter of fact.

00:44:06.620 He made a matter of fact statement. He made a matter of fact statement about the president

00:44:10.800 of the United States being senile. And it wasn't even reported as an anomaly. It was reported as

00:44:22.380 normal. We actually normalized senility in our president. I guess you can normalize anything.

00:44:29.500 I'm seeing some pushback here because of the Sanjay Gupta talk with Joe Rogan. Keep in mind

00:44:37.360 that Sanjay did not back his network. You saw it, right? When he was asked to defend what CNN said

00:44:44.860 about the ivermectin, he didn't. He said, I don't know why they said that. He didn't say it. So he

00:44:54.180 didn't defend it either. If you don't defend it, I think you're criticizing it, right? I mean,

00:45:01.100 you know, we do have to, you have to, you do have to make some allowance for the fact that people have

00:45:08.100 a paycheck coming, right? And so if Sanjay doesn't want to savage his own network, but he makes it clear

00:45:16.020 that that wasn't his opinion, I'm okay with that. Like, I don't need him to go, uh, I don't need him

00:45:22.540 to go, you know, barbarian on his own employer. As long as he says it clearly, and he did, I don't 0.88

00:45:29.620 know why they did that. It's very clear he wouldn't have done it and didn't. So yes, Sanjay Gupta is a

00:45:36.460 credible voice on CNN. If you don't like it, go look at yourself. Gupta defended his investment. I

00:45:45.420 don't know what that story is. Does he have an investment in some kind of medical thing that he

00:45:50.200 reports on? I don't know. You're in California and wearing a jacket. This is not a jacket.

00:45:57.560 This is a shirt. It's a shirt. It's an excellent shirt. But yes, I have no heat, uh, today in my

00:46:06.980 house. I am double-shirted. It is a cool shirt, so to speak. What's that? You're more reasonable than

00:46:17.900 your fangirls, Scott. Uh, Gupta, plus a few days later, he agreed with Don Lemon, saying it was

00:46:27.440 horse to your murmur, but not in the same context, all right? So I don't have to look into that to

00:46:33.320 know that you're lying to me. Sanjay Gupta did not say that ivermectin is only horse medicine,

00:46:42.240 and don't tell me he did. If you believe that, just go back and look at it. That didn't happen.

00:46:46.840 I don't have to research that to know it didn't happen.

00:46:57.440 Well, it is also that. You're lying to yourself. Am I? Am I lying to myself? Are you reading

00:47:04.440 my mind? All right. Yeah, it's colder in Northern California. It's probably 52-ounce.

00:47:17.900 He didn't correct, uh, oh, he didn't correct? Well, I mean, that's a separate issue, isn't it?

00:47:22.040 You know, how much does Sanjay Gupta have to correct his employer or his co-workers? I don't know.

00:47:29.640 As long as his opinion is clear, I don't think he has that requirement. I honestly don't.

00:47:38.520 Well, I'll give you, let me give you an example. I've appeared on Fox News, you know, a number of

00:47:43.560 times. Is it my job to criticize everything else Fox News has ever said? Because I've worked with him in a,

00:47:51.460 you know, you know, compatible way? I don't think so. I don't really, I don't really feel that

00:47:57.140 responsibility. If I see something, I'll mention it, but I don't feel like it's my job to, you know,

00:48:02.780 explain the context of everybody I've ever talked to. You know, I think I told you early on, especially

00:48:08.520 in the Trump administration, I told you I have, I have one, well, I probably have other, but one of my

00:48:14.680 absolutes is I won't be told who I can associate with. I just won't. So I will talk to Black Lives 1.00

00:48:23.400 Matter. I'll talk to a pedophile. I'll talk to Jeffrey Epstein. I'll talk to Don Lemon. No restrictions. 1.00

00:48:31.440 No restrictions. You know, and, and by the way, I'm really firm on this one. Really firm.

00:48:43.440 You steal Gutfeld's jokes often, says John. Well, he has good jokes. Why wouldn't I steal them?

00:48:50.280 If you're stealing from people who have bad jokes, you're doing it wrong. There's no such thing as

00:48:55.820 anybody who deals with humor who doesn't steal jokes. You know, that's not a thing, right?

00:49:02.720 And usually it's not intentional. Sometimes you just see a good joke and you want to repeat it.

00:49:07.820 But I mean, it's not really, it's not a reasonable comment that people steal jokes.

00:49:14.300 Everybody steals everybody's jokes. There's nothing wrong with that.

00:49:17.060 And Greg and I are friends. So we generally agree on stuff. Often what you think is we're saying the

00:49:25.820 same things. Sometimes we've actually talked about it, the topic beforehand, and we're just on the same

00:49:31.120 page. Should we start a DAO? If you had a reason. How to open kitty friskies with your bare hands. 0.99

00:49:45.360 All right. There are only nine plots in literature. Seems like fewer. All right. I'm pretty sure I'm

00:49:54.060 going to have to go figure out what's going on right now. Greg just texted me. What do you think of

00:50:04.780 Foundation? Oh, if you want a good sci-fi show on Apple TV, I think that's the only place you can get it.

00:50:12.220 If you want a good show, Foundation. I'm really enjoying it. And the thing I like about it is the concept

00:50:23.220 level. At the concept level, it's just mind-blowingly good. And there's one scene in there, I won't

00:50:29.960 describe it, where they, let's say the bad guy, just so it's not a spoiler, where the bad guy does something so bad

00:50:37.820 that I've never even seen anything like that, even in literature. Like a level of bad that I don't know

00:50:45.060 could ever be topped by any book or, it was so bad. It's just the baddest thing I've ever heard of.

00:50:51.140 And, anyway, if you read it, you know what I mean. If Rittenhouse hadn't shot and was subsequently

00:51:06.100 beaten or killed, would they have been, would the killers be charged? I don't know. Don't know.

00:51:14.080 Will the mob robbers go for... So, you know what's happening with these flash mobs robbing

00:51:27.520 stores, right? So, in the Bay Area, it's happened a number of times already, the big group will

00:51:32.620 go in all at once and then rob the store and run away. How in the world is retail going to

00:51:39.700 survive, the upscale stuff? Because I can't see a Chanel store surviving from this point on, can you?

00:51:47.680 Wouldn't every Chanel store get robbed? I don't think that it'll even be a... I don't know. It just

00:51:55.100 seems like such a good odds for a crime. Because if they come in with, you know, 50 people, the odds of,

00:52:03.640 you know, more than 48 of them being caught, or the odds of many of them being caught are so low,

00:52:10.940 it's actually a pretty good business model. And I don't... And guns are being taken away as quickly as,

00:52:18.540 you know, stores are opening. So, I don't know that guns are going to solve it. Yeah, you could almost

00:52:25.700 imagine that Amazon was behind the flash mobs. They're not. But you could, if you wanted to take it to full

00:52:32.500 conspiracy, you'd say, hmm, maybe Amazon's behind this, because it sure is good for their business.

00:52:41.580 I certainly, if I had a high-end store, I'd probably just close it at this point. Because I don't see

00:52:48.040 anything that would change the trend, do you? Because the people doing the stealing wear masks,

00:52:53.360 so the video doesn't matter. The police are being defunded and probably don't care how many Chanel bags

00:53:00.420 get caught or grabbed. Office space had the whole hypnosis thing. I don't know about that.

00:53:13.580 Watch the money heist. There's an Amazon leak. I haven't heard about that yet.

00:53:21.500 Hire the proud boys to guard your Chanel store. Now, that would be interesting. Except, you know,

00:53:27.300 any guard would be overwhelmed. So, I think it would be very dangerous to be an armed guard if 50 looters

00:53:34.680 decided to descend on your store, because they're not going to leave you alone, right? The first thing

00:53:40.360 they're going to do is take out the guard, and it's not going to be nice. All right, I think that's all

00:53:49.120 I got for today. I've got to go do some other things, and I will talk to you tomorrow.

00:53:53.180 It's good-bye.

00:53:54.020 It's good that all you have got.

00:53:54.300 It's bad.

00:53:54.500 It's bad.

00:53:56.340 It's bad.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 24, 2021

Episode 1572 Scott Adams： Let's Put Every Story Through the Race Filter, Because We're Idiots

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