Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1617 Scott Adams： How to Turn The Trunk of Your Car Into a Quarantine Center, and Lots More

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00:01:13.440 Well, let's get right to it.

00:01:19.000 We've got lots of good news and interesting news today.

00:01:23.600 So Trump has announced that he's launching his social network called True.

00:01:29.240 How wonderful is it that his social network will be called True,

00:01:33.700 given that he's sort of the person who popularized the name fake news.

00:01:39.580 Now, I don't know that many people who are not Trump supporters will imagine that what is there is true.

00:01:46.080 And so the question is, does Trump have a way to beat the curse of the alternate social networks?

00:01:54.100 The curse, of course, is that they only attract conservatives.

00:01:58.280 How in the world do you get a robust Twitter-like service if you only attract one side?

00:02:05.360 I don't really know how that's going to work.

00:02:10.280 Will enough left-leaning trolls go on his social network just to cause trouble?

00:02:18.420 Because I don't feel like they would bother.

00:02:21.360 So I'm very curious what it would take to make it successful.

00:02:27.360 Because Fox News is hugely successful, but that's a media that you just watch.

00:02:35.200 But if it's supposed to be interactive, such as a Twitter model, how do you have it interactive with just people who agree with each other?

00:02:44.540 So I don't know how that works exactly.

00:02:46.840 But I'll be real curious to see if Trump has figured out a workaround for that problem that nobody else has figured out yet.

00:02:53.540 Now, the most important story of the day is that a Texas woman whose son had a positive COVID test, and she was going to get another one,

00:03:04.140 but she didn't want to be in the same car with somebody who was COVID positive.

00:03:07.220 So she put her son in the trunk of her car.

00:03:11.020 And I guess he started yelling when he got near some civilization.

00:03:14.920 And then the woman was arrested for putting a child in the, how old was he, 12 or something, 13 maybe, 13 I think, in the trunk of his car.

00:03:26.760 Now, I don't know about you, but I am just about fed up with all of these government mandates.

00:03:34.800 You know, it's not bad enough that the government's trying to make you get vaccinated and make you stay home and make you wear masks.

00:03:42.500 But now the government is telling you how to raise your children.

00:03:46.260 And apparently one of the things you can't do is put your child in the trunk of your car and start driving around.

00:03:51.980 Now, I don't want to live in a world in which the government tells me how to use the trunk of my car.

00:03:57.080 Now, I think this government mandate, if I may call it that, against putting your child in the trunk of your car is very overblown.

00:04:06.800 Now, in my experience, if you put a child in the trunk of a car, they don't like it right away.

00:04:15.940 But that's true of a lot of things, right?

00:04:18.340 Kids don't like school.

00:04:19.820 They don't like going to bed.

00:04:20.840 But you can make them get used to it.

00:04:22.120 In my experience, if you put a kid in the trunk of a car, and if you train them diligently, in about eight months, they'll start to like it.

00:04:32.480 And then you're good.

00:04:35.320 You don't even have to open the trunk of the car.

00:04:37.360 The kids will do it themselves.

00:04:38.460 They'll just walk out and say, hey, kids, we're going somewhere.

00:04:41.540 They'll just open the trunk and crawl right in there.

00:04:44.120 Now, this has many advantages, not just quarantine.

00:04:47.820 When they're in the trunk of the car, you can't hear them.

00:04:51.060 That's a bonus.

00:04:52.120 If you try to talk to them, you will never be annoyed that they're on their phone or their headphones are in.

00:04:58.500 And then you're like, hey, I'm trying to talk to you.

00:05:01.260 Hello, hello, hello back there.

00:05:03.680 Very annoying.

00:05:04.880 But if you just put them in the trunk of your car from the get-go, then you can just talk to them by texting.

00:05:10.980 Voice text only, because you're driving.

00:05:12.860 Voice text only.

00:05:13.720 So if you don't text your teens in the back of the car already, you may have different teens than I'm used to.

00:05:24.680 But if you put them in the trunk of the car, like I said, about eight months of diligent practice, and they'll start to like it.

00:05:33.480 So there's that.

00:05:38.780 Am I going to get kicked off of social media for that?

00:05:43.480 For the people who can't take a joke?

00:05:45.340 Probably.

00:05:46.820 Adam Dopamine tweeted around a story about...

00:05:50.860 This is like an uninteresting story that's the most interesting story in the world to me.

00:05:57.380 And let's see if I can sell it to you as interesting.

00:06:02.080 Apparently there's a Chinese method to make a greenhouse that can work all year round, no matter how cold it is.

00:06:10.000 So Canada has started to adopt an idea that works in China.

00:06:16.680 So in Chinese territories where it gets really cold in the winter, they can still grow all year round.

00:06:23.640 Now, are you saying to yourself, uh, I don't think we just invented the greenhouse, Scott?

00:06:30.620 I'm pretty sure the greenhouse has been here forever.

00:06:33.340 Yes, but this greenhouse uses no extra energy.

00:06:40.000 What?

00:06:41.960 They grow vegetables when it's basically below zero without adding heat.

00:06:50.820 I don't know how.

00:06:52.740 Like, it doesn't make sense to me that you could capture and store enough heat that way, but they figured it out.

00:06:58.860 So it's something that's reproducible and very provable.

00:07:02.400 Yeah, it's not geothermal.

00:07:04.120 It's literally they're just capturing the sunlight, but they're doing it so efficiently that somehow they can heat it.

00:07:09.240 Now, I also don't know how they get the right kind of light.

00:07:12.100 So that was a little unexplained, because don't you need a certain kind of light for a certain length of time?

00:07:20.380 But apparently no.

00:07:21.500 Maybe they grow different size vegetables and stuff in the winter.

00:07:24.480 But apparently they can build one of these and not add any energy ever and just keep growing stuff.

00:07:34.640 Now, the real cost is building the facility itself.

00:07:38.180 But don't you imagine if there were a lot of them, that it would, if there were a lot of these, that the price would come down.

00:07:49.000 Maybe you could get it down to a kit size so you don't even need special equipment or anything.

00:07:53.960 Just buy it and put up the frames and put on the plastic or whatever the hell it is.

00:07:59.100 Because, you know, I've got a feeling that this is a big, big thing.

00:08:02.800 I've long said that growing indoors is going to be the way it goes.

00:08:07.260 Because if you grow indoors, you don't need the pesticides.

00:08:09.740 You don't need a lot of stuff.

00:08:12.620 You don't worry about the elements destroying things, etc.

00:08:19.340 You can recycle the water.

00:08:20.960 Basically, growing indoors is all the advantages if you can pay for the structure.

00:08:27.460 That's pretty much it.

00:08:28.920 If you pay for the structure, and I think that, you know, we'll probably have a robot that can build these things pretty soon.

00:08:36.580 Imagine, if you will, you build some robots that are special purpose robots.

00:08:43.000 And all they do is build these greenhouses.

00:08:45.640 Now, if you look at it, it looks like it's just a bunch of U-shaped metal structures.

00:08:51.580 Like an upside-down letter U.

00:08:54.540 And they're just put in the ground, and then some kind of plastic covers them.

00:08:58.980 I feel like you could roboticize that, couldn't you?

00:09:03.740 A robot at each side, and just make these as long as you want.

00:09:07.340 Make it two miles long.

00:09:09.880 Just keep going.

00:09:12.040 High tunnels.

00:09:14.160 Maybe.

00:09:15.640 Could be.

00:09:16.040 Anyway.

00:09:16.640 Anyway, I think this whole indoor growing thing is gigantic, and it goes to everything from climate change to energy use to water use to even CO2.

00:09:29.220 I mean, you would want to use the CO2 and pump it into there.

00:09:32.220 So, there's just so many ways that this could go right.

00:09:37.000 It's definitely the golden age.

00:09:39.240 All right.

00:09:39.860 There's a wonderful fake news graph on Twitter that shows that Biden has created, like, a tremendous amount of jobs.

00:09:47.760 And Trump actually lost jobs during his administration.

00:09:52.240 And better than every president so far, Biden has created the most jobs.

00:09:57.580 Is that true?

00:09:58.480 Is that true?

00:10:01.620 That Biden created the most jobs by far?

00:10:05.300 Well, it's true in the way that statistics lie, because we came off a pandemic.

00:10:13.380 Of course, whoever was president when the pandemic started was going to lose jobs.

00:10:18.500 Whoever was president when the pandemic was starting to mature was going to gain a lot of jobs.

00:10:23.720 And that's really the whole story.

00:10:25.880 And I thought to myself, there must be a lot of people who don't know that the pandemic happened.

00:10:34.420 And so, for them, they need data that conforms to their point of view, that no pandemic happened.

00:10:41.280 So, apparently, somebody found a need and filled it, which is creating fake graphs on Twitter just for the people who didn't know there was a pandemic.

00:10:49.460 If you do know there was a pandemic, you look at it and say, well, this is stupid.

00:10:54.460 You can't measure that.

00:10:56.300 It's just the pandemic.

00:10:59.900 And that made me wonder, if you were to compare the number of jobs created under Biden, because there were a lot of them,

00:11:07.500 to the number of citizens that died under Biden, which would be the bigger number?

00:11:13.760 Do you know?

00:11:14.500 Do you know the number of jobs created under Biden or the number of citizens who died under Biden?

00:11:22.180 I think died.

00:11:24.140 I'm not positive, but I think died.

00:11:28.220 And I asked this further question for historians.

00:11:31.840 What president has presided over the most number of citizen deaths, citizens, citizen deaths, as opposed to military, during the first year of their reign?

00:11:48.100 What president had the most American deaths during their first year?

00:11:53.080 Not the first term, first year.

00:11:56.640 I think it's Biden.

00:11:57.760 I think he beats Lincoln, right?

00:12:02.500 Lincoln was probably two, number two.

00:12:05.760 Now, imagine running for office when your critics can say, and accurately, that more American citizens died under your reign in the first year than any other president.

00:12:17.920 Now, of course, that's lying with statistics, right?

00:12:21.300 Because the population of the United States is something like 10 times what it was when Lincoln was in office.

00:12:26.540 And, of course, again, it's the pandemic, which wasn't Biden's fault.

00:12:30.200 So you can do anything with statistics.

00:12:33.200 It would be terribly unfair to say that he killed a lot of people just because he was president.

00:12:38.920 But those are the rules.

00:12:40.620 The rules are that you get credit for the jobs and you get blamed for the deaths.

00:12:46.380 So I didn't make up the rules.

00:12:49.560 Those are just the rules.

00:12:50.540 It doesn't matter if the president had anything to do with them.

00:12:54.360 Now, I don't think Roosevelt presided over that many deaths in his first year of office.

00:13:00.240 So it's the first year question.

00:13:01.400 Have you ever noticed that it's especially irksome when people use sarcasm to answer you?

00:13:11.180 Does that bother you?

00:13:12.920 When somebody, like, you're debating somebody and they use sarcasm, you're like, ugh, God, I hate that.

00:13:19.480 Does it bother you more when they use sarcasm on something stupid?

00:13:23.880 In other words, they're saying something that's objectively stupid, but they're adding sarcasm like it's so obviously correct.

00:13:31.400 That you're an idiot for not getting it?

00:13:34.680 Well, here's an example of that.

00:13:40.020 When I tweeted that the election of 2020 has to be under the presumption of fraud, presumption, not evidence, but presumption, because it's non-transparent.

00:13:51.540 I got this reply from Ellen Kotler on Twitter.

00:13:55.100 And Ellen says sarcastically, uh, U-H-H-H, uh, 60-plus court cases, is that not transparency?

00:14:07.460 Trump started his con before the election.

00:14:10.620 It certainly has worked on you, meaning me.

00:14:14.120 Uh, uh, 60-plus court cases, that's not enough transparency for you?

00:14:20.360 Really? Really? Really?

00:14:23.660 That's not enough transparency.

00:14:26.040 Really.

00:14:27.880 60 court cases, not enough transparency for you.

00:14:34.580 That's the most annoying sarcasm in the world, when the thing they're saying is objectively stupid.

00:14:40.980 You know, the courts don't add transparency to an election, right?

00:14:45.940 Except in whatever minor way they were asked to rule on something.

00:14:50.760 If you have an election which, by its nature, isn't transparent, the courts aren't going to settle that for you.

00:14:58.920 Somebody says it's not stupid.

00:15:00.400 No, Carol, it's very stupid.

00:15:02.740 It is very stupid.

00:15:04.500 The courts are not the tool that tells you an election was fair or not.

00:15:09.140 They can only judge the things that are brought to them and are under their jurisdiction.

00:15:13.360 Do you know what kinds of things are not under their jurisdiction?

00:15:18.000 Most of the things about an election.

00:15:20.520 Because after the election is actually done, the courts say,

00:15:23.960 well, that would have been good before the election.

00:15:26.340 But after the election, we can't even look at it.

00:15:29.280 So, no, the courts are not a vehicle to find transparency.

00:15:34.020 Except they can drill down on a specific question.

00:15:37.460 But they're not going to audit the whole network.

00:15:40.060 It can't be done.

00:15:40.680 So, I saw that Chuck Grassley was talking about fentanyl and wanting to make it a Schedule 1.

00:15:48.580 And when I first read that, I thought, all right, all right.

00:15:51.960 Now, there's a member of Congress who's trying to do something about fentanyl.

00:15:56.600 That sounds pretty good.

00:15:58.620 And then I said to myself, what does Schedule 1 mean?

00:16:03.120 So, I had to go look it up.

00:16:04.520 So, apparently fentanyl is Schedule 2 right now, which means that it is allowed to be used for medical uses,

00:16:12.720 approved medical uses, but it's illegal for recreation.

00:16:17.280 Now, does that sound like exactly what fentanyl should be?

00:16:20.820 Legal for medical use, as it is now, but illegal for recreational.

00:16:27.340 That's what it is now.

00:16:30.000 Chuck Grassley wants to make it a Schedule 1, which would make it illegal for legitimate medical uses.

00:16:38.440 What?

00:16:40.680 Wait, what?

00:16:43.780 He wants to take a bad situation and do the only thing that would make it worse?

00:16:48.600 By making the people who at least can find a way to get away from pain, take that away from them?

00:16:57.900 I mean, I don't think anybody is more anti-fentanyl than somebody whose stepson died on fentanyl, meaning me.

00:17:07.600 You can't get more anti-fentanyl than I am, but why would you take it away from the medical use?

00:17:14.340 Like, maybe I don't understand what he's doing.

00:17:16.340 There must be something missing in the story.

00:17:18.600 But is our government so weak?

00:17:21.780 Just get a load of this.

00:17:24.020 Some of you know I have, I call him my buddy, Chen.

00:17:29.000 Chen is a, he gets labeled by Twitter as being affiliated with Chinese state media.

00:17:37.640 A way to interpret that would be that he's a Chinese agent who says pro-Chinese things on Twitter.

00:17:44.280 Now, of course, Chen denies that and says these are his own opinions.

00:17:48.600 But we assume that he has to stay within the CCCP's opinions.

00:17:56.780 So I'm sure they are his personal opinions within the realm of what's allowed him to say.

00:18:01.600 So he's a pro-China, I guess you could say a critic of the United States, and he even agreed with Chuck Grassley.

00:18:14.480 That's right.

00:18:15.920 China agrees with Chuck Grassley that the problem is on our end.

00:18:21.360 The problem is on our end, that we've got an administrative, you know, problem with how we deal with fentanyl.

00:18:29.780 That's right.

00:18:32.840 Instead of stopping fentanyl coming from China, Chuck Grassley came up with the only idea about fentanyl that I can imagine that would make China compliment him.

00:18:45.100 China is the drug dealer creating the precursors that go to the cartels that go into the United States.

00:18:51.840 China does it intentionally and knowingly because it kills tens of thousands of Americans per year.

00:18:58.580 That's what China does.

00:19:00.700 And Chuck Grassley just came up with an idea that China likes.

00:19:04.540 It is such a bad idea that China actually complimented it.

00:19:08.340 You can't get more pathetic as a politician than doing something that your enemies compliment because they really like it, because it's good for them.

00:19:19.480 Oh, my God, that's pathetic.

00:19:23.100 I said something really dumb yesterday I want to correct.

00:19:26.580 I was saying that there were only two people in Congress who might have the balls to try to make it illegal for pharma to advertise on network news and social media, like every other country except two, I guess.

00:19:46.820 And I said, yeah, we need somebody who's, like, got balls and they could, you know, really take on the big pharma.

00:19:52.180 And then I realized that I'm an idiot because I think Thomas Massey and Rand Paul would be, do a fact check on me, but they'd be closer to a libertarian point of view, right?

00:20:05.480 Which I think by its nature doesn't like a lot of government rules.

00:20:10.420 So they would be exactly, in terms of just philosophy, they would not be exactly compatible with any new rules.

00:20:19.640 You know, obviously they make new rules and they vote for them, but I don't know that they would be the best messengers, given that they're sort of keep the government out of our way kind of people, which I respect, by the way.

00:20:34.640 In terms of philosophy, I respect the philosophy, but sometimes there's, you have to make exceptions.

00:20:42.340 All right.

00:20:47.300 What else we got going on?

00:20:48.600 All right.

00:20:53.240 I got, I saw, I saw Thomas Massey quote speaking of him.

00:20:59.580 He said about January 6th, he said, why would a president, meaning Biden, why would a president complain about an election he won almost a year into his term?

00:21:11.100 Which is what he was doing yesterday on January 6th.

00:21:13.240 Why would he spend so much time complaining when he won?

00:21:17.040 And it was a year ago.

00:21:17.840 And then Thomas Massey went on and said, today Biden could have worked on inflation, the border crisis, or other urgent issues for Americans.

00:21:27.180 And I'm thinking, yes.

00:21:29.100 Yes, he could have been useful, and he decided not to.

00:21:31.580 That's exactly what we saw.

00:21:33.400 And instead he sounded like an angry old man after four beers, shouting at the neighbor's dog.

00:21:39.200 That's exactly what he sounded like.

00:21:44.980 By the way, this is good persuasion because it's visual.

00:21:48.480 It's visual in the sense that you could imagine him after four beers, shouting at the neighbor's dog.

00:21:54.440 So very good persuasion technique there.

00:22:00.300 Does it seem to you that the Democrats are lost?

00:22:06.500 If they're still fighting Trump, they just seem lost.

00:22:12.300 But also, it seems to me that they've handed Trump or whoever becomes the Republican nominee,

00:22:19.480 they've handed them a loaded gun and said, just shoot me with it.

00:22:24.440 And I'm going to show you how.

00:22:26.220 Now, I'm not saying that the Republicans will take this advice.

00:22:29.740 And this is advice, by the way.

00:22:31.520 But look how easily the Republicans could just win everything with January 6th as their issue.

00:22:38.280 Which seems impossible, doesn't it?

00:22:40.120 Because it seems, if the Democrats are saying January 6th is the one thing that they have going for them, Democrats,

00:22:48.140 what are the odds that that's going to be the same thing that would be good for Republicans?

00:22:51.940 Well, let me show you.

00:22:54.440 So, when you're talking about the 2020 election, as former President Trump likes to do,

00:23:03.060 he uses what I call the child frame.

00:23:06.560 The child frame was, you said, it was rigged.

00:23:09.740 It wasn't fair.

00:23:11.460 What do I say about fairness?

00:23:12.980 Fairness is a concept that was invented so idiots and children have a way to argue.

00:23:21.260 Because fairness isn't real.

00:23:23.240 There's no fairness in the world.

00:23:24.700 Everybody disagrees about what is fair.

00:23:27.200 So, arguing fairness is exactly what children and idiots do.

00:23:31.180 That's the idiot frame.

00:23:32.320 I'll call it the child frame, because that's not quite as insulting as the idiot frame.

00:23:37.320 But if you're arguing anything, if you're arguing anything is unfair, you've taken a child's point of view.

00:23:45.800 Compared to what you could have said, which I tweeted today,

00:23:49.320 a non-auditable election bears the full presumption of fraud.

00:23:52.640 Which is, I have no proof of fraud.

00:23:57.100 No proof.

00:23:58.460 No courts have proven it.

00:24:00.780 So, take the official thing that the Democrats say.

00:24:03.900 No court has proven it.

00:24:05.640 But the courts are also the wrong vehicle for it.

00:24:08.880 And since we don't have a vehicle for looking into a non-auditable situation,

00:24:14.380 then the full presumption of fraud has to be on it.

00:24:17.220 Because it's a government.

00:24:18.560 It is not an individual.

00:24:19.800 If the government were an individual, let's say a citizen,

00:24:23.740 you would never use the presumption of crime.

00:24:26.420 You would always use the assumption of innocence for individuals.

00:24:29.800 But for the government, because of their power,

00:24:33.040 if they intentionally make something non-transparent,

00:24:37.060 they intentionally hide something,

00:24:38.980 or they intentionally design a system that can't be audited,

00:24:42.760 they may have some fraud in there.

00:24:45.320 They may not.

00:24:46.880 Does it matter?

00:24:47.560 Well, it doesn't matter for the past,

00:24:50.720 because the past is already settled.

00:24:52.540 But it definitely matters for the future.

00:24:55.280 So, if you're a Republican,

00:24:56.460 and you decide to take the,

00:24:57.940 it was rigged,

00:24:59.380 or even if you don't deny it,

00:25:02.760 let's say,

00:25:03.240 even if you don't say,

00:25:04.260 yeah, the president went too far,

00:25:06.080 which is also bad,

00:25:08.200 because then you're just criticizing your own party.

00:25:10.340 So, instead of criticizing your own party,

00:25:12.560 which won't work,

00:25:13.980 and saying,

00:25:14.440 oh, yeah, it wasn't rigged,

00:25:16.060 you're not going to get elected that way,

00:25:18.560 because the Republicans won't even like you

00:25:20.880 if you say it wasn't rigged.

00:25:22.800 If you say it was rigged,

00:25:25.020 well, you don't get president that way either, probably,

00:25:27.880 because there are too many people who think,

00:25:29.640 okay, that's too far.

00:25:30.800 There's no evidence of that.

00:25:32.320 Proof.

00:25:33.060 There's no proof of it.

00:25:34.160 There is evidence.

00:25:35.460 But, you know,

00:25:35.880 evidence can either be true or false.

00:25:37.420 If you do this,

00:25:40.300 this is called the high ground move.

00:25:42.440 I have tried this out on many people.

00:25:44.640 How many people,

00:25:45.460 after hearing this,

00:25:46.780 push back?

00:25:49.000 Okay, after hearing...

00:25:50.420 All right, well,

00:25:52.040 it might be back.

00:25:53.140 We'll have to wait to see if we have any comments.

00:25:54.940 Oh, there we go.

00:25:56.280 Did you guys lose the feed there for a while?

00:26:00.980 Yeah, interesting.

00:26:01.820 So, when I told you

00:26:04.520 that the entire narrative...

00:26:08.600 When I told you the complete narrative

00:26:10.700 could be destroyed with one sentence,

00:26:15.260 and it was obviously true,

00:26:19.220 YouTube cut me.

00:26:21.080 Do you think that was a coincidence?

00:26:22.860 That at the very moment

00:26:24.220 I told you how to kneecap

00:26:25.980 the entire Democratic movement

00:26:27.580 with precision and absoluteness.

00:26:31.820 Can you agree with me...

00:26:34.120 Can you agree with me

00:26:35.640 that this message is unbeatable?

00:26:39.020 Let's just...

00:26:39.900 I say this message is un-fucking-beatable.

00:26:43.700 Like, 100% unbeatable.

00:26:47.480 Right?

00:26:51.460 This is the end of the Democrats.

00:26:55.440 On YouTube, they're saying there's no audio.

00:26:58.180 Hey, Paul, can you give me a...

00:27:00.520 There's only one person I trust on this,

00:27:02.400 on Locals.

00:27:04.140 Paul?

00:27:05.040 Are you there?

00:27:07.720 I saw you say that the audio is good.

00:27:10.040 Yeah, Paul said it's good,

00:27:11.160 but they're still saying it's not.

00:27:15.100 Okay, I was confirmed.

00:27:16.820 All right, the audio is fine,

00:27:19.140 so it's just the trolls.

00:27:20.360 We have a confirmation.

00:27:21.120 I finally worked on a system

00:27:23.640 for knowing when the trolls

00:27:25.720 are just saying the audio is bad,

00:27:27.320 and that is having a trusted person

00:27:29.920 who's watching both platforms.

00:27:31.920 So, Paul, thank you.

00:27:34.140 You are a citizen and a gentleman

00:27:36.420 and a patriot.

00:27:37.960 And a patriot.

00:27:39.460 Paul Collider, thank you very much.

00:27:42.640 So, let me just summarize.

00:27:44.480 If the Republicans leave the child frame

00:27:48.520 and stop saying it was unfair

00:27:50.040 and they go to the high ground maneuver,

00:27:52.800 that is the end of any chance

00:27:54.460 that a Democrat could be president.

00:27:57.740 I mean, you would have to do everything else wrong

00:28:00.100 to lose the election under these circumstances.

00:28:04.100 And you'd have to be really quick

00:28:06.520 about dismissing the court cases.

00:28:09.600 And you'd have to do it the way I do it.

00:28:11.220 Because somebody's going to say,

00:28:13.040 but, but, but, all those court cases.

00:28:15.300 And that's when you say,

00:28:16.580 this is also a high ground maneuver.

00:28:18.740 But you know the court can only look

00:28:20.260 at what's brought to them

00:28:21.260 and what's within their jurisdiction.

00:28:23.760 So, the court maybe could look

00:28:25.400 at 1% of an election maximum.

00:28:28.640 Now, is that accurate?

00:28:30.440 If I said to you the courts could only,

00:28:33.220 in the best case scenario,

00:28:35.000 given that they can only look

00:28:36.260 at narrow little things

00:28:37.660 within their jurisdiction

00:28:39.440 and narrow little claims,

00:28:41.220 then maybe the court could get

00:28:43.580 at 1% of the transparency.

00:28:46.500 Is that fair?

00:28:47.460 Now, I don't know if it's 10%

00:28:48.680 or 20% or 1%.

00:28:50.140 But, but claiming 1% doesn't sound wrong.

00:28:53.840 I mean, it feels like it's in the range

00:28:55.360 of the right direction.

00:28:56.840 The Epoch Times is holding

00:29:03.280 a global COVID doctor summit today.

00:29:06.880 Interesting.

00:29:08.240 All right.

00:29:09.860 Let's see if I can get kicked off

00:29:11.500 of social media again.

00:29:14.260 Do you remember something

00:29:15.400 called herd immunity?

00:29:18.080 It was all the talk there

00:29:19.700 for a while, wasn't it?

00:29:20.620 We were going to get to herd immunity

00:29:23.460 either by vaccinations

00:29:25.080 or infections.

00:29:27.440 And now, we are totally

00:29:29.800 at herd immunity,

00:29:31.180 and it doesn't seem

00:29:32.720 to make any difference at all.

00:29:35.260 Am I wrong about that?

00:29:37.780 Fact check me.

00:29:39.040 We are definitely

00:29:40.080 at herd immunity.

00:29:40.880 I mean, we reached the level

00:29:42.840 of infections plus vaccinations.

00:29:45.200 And it seems to be making

00:29:47.380 no difference in the infections.

00:29:50.240 Am I right?

00:29:51.240 Definitely, I think the official word

00:29:53.840 is still big difference

00:29:55.480 in hospitalizations and outcomes.

00:29:58.540 So from that perspective,

00:30:00.200 the vaccinations are working

00:30:01.580 of keeping people out of the hospital

00:30:03.820 and from dying.

00:30:05.580 Not entirely,

00:30:06.620 but they're doing a good job.

00:30:09.440 Right.

00:30:09.620 But have you heard

00:30:10.920 anybody in power say,

00:30:12.860 you know the whole

00:30:13.560 herd immunity thing

00:30:14.540 didn't work out?

00:30:16.500 Correct me if I'm wrong,

00:30:17.800 but 100% of our strategy

00:30:19.740 was aimed at herd immunity,

00:30:22.160 and we have,

00:30:23.000 I'd say this week,

00:30:25.260 you know, maybe last week,

00:30:26.320 but at least by this week,

00:30:28.060 can we not confirm

00:30:29.160 that that didn't work?

00:30:31.520 We can confirm that, right?

00:30:34.560 Is that too strong?

00:30:36.180 I don't think that's too strong.

00:30:37.680 Because I feel like we could get

00:30:39.580 to 100% of vaccinations

00:30:40.860 and we'd still be looking

00:30:42.840 at what we're looking at.

00:30:45.000 So while I support the government

00:30:48.780 in moving the goalposts,

00:30:50.920 somebody said they moved the goalposts,

00:30:52.700 I support them doing that.

00:30:54.100 Because in the context of an emergency

00:30:56.780 where people are just figuring it out

00:30:58.660 and they're basically just improvising,

00:31:02.940 they're going to get a lot of big stuff wrong

00:31:06.120 and then you need to improvise again

00:31:09.040 and fix it.

00:31:10.480 So, you know,

00:31:11.320 I'm going to be the most forgiving

00:31:12.960 of anybody in public

00:31:14.800 for whatever mistakes get made, right?

00:31:18.120 I will be the most forgiving

00:31:19.700 of all of you.

00:31:20.700 Because I think you just have to put it

00:31:22.200 in context that everybody was guessing.

00:31:24.120 And once you accept

00:31:27.140 that everybody was guessing,

00:31:28.420 I think you can be a little bit more generous

00:31:30.280 about...

00:31:32.460 So I guess YouTube's still freezing up

00:31:34.780 every now and then.

00:31:36.000 But I would like to build credibility.

00:31:38.680 I would like to see Anthony Fauci say,

00:31:40.700 you know,

00:31:41.460 our whole strategy was building

00:31:43.200 toward herd immunity

00:31:44.660 and that didn't work.

00:31:46.840 That didn't work.

00:31:48.400 But the good news is

00:31:49.620 we did lower the deaths

00:31:51.560 and whatever.

00:31:54.980 So that would go a long way

00:31:57.120 toward building this credibility.

00:31:59.060 You know, for me,

00:31:59.680 the experts can admit

00:32:01.620 they're wrong all day long

00:32:02.920 and I'll still be good.

00:32:04.880 Just admit you were wrong.

00:32:07.140 We sort of need that.

00:32:08.880 Don't we?

00:32:10.060 This isn't really politics as usual.

00:32:12.740 You know, with politics,

00:32:14.520 you can live with the fact

00:32:15.500 that nobody admits they're wrong.

00:32:17.380 But when it's life and death

00:32:18.620 and it's health,

00:32:19.660 I feel like the credibility

00:32:21.220 of our politicians

00:32:22.400 would be boosted

00:32:23.620 by saying,

00:32:24.540 oh, we got that one totally wrong.

00:32:26.980 Trust me.

00:32:27.980 I did the best I could,

00:32:29.100 but we got that totally wrong.

00:32:31.040 I listen to the experts.

00:32:32.380 They're not right every time.

00:32:34.240 That would help a lot.

00:32:36.460 A lot.

00:32:39.940 Well, Kamala Harris

00:32:41.340 made some news yesterday

00:32:43.900 by comparing

00:32:45.040 the fake insurrection day

00:32:47.380 to Pearl Harbor and 9-11.

00:32:49.420 Many people were offended.

00:32:52.680 The death counts

00:32:53.460 of those two things

00:32:54.280 were not the same.

00:32:55.880 But here's another way

00:32:56.800 they're not the same.

00:32:58.880 Pearl Harbor was an attack

00:33:00.460 from an outside force

00:33:03.160 trying to destroy our democracy

00:33:04.940 and our country.

00:33:07.560 9-11 was an attack

00:33:09.260 from the outside

00:33:10.060 trying to destroy

00:33:11.960 our democracy

00:33:12.840 and our country.

00:33:13.460 So I do think

00:33:15.260 you could compare

00:33:16.080 Pearl Harbor

00:33:17.260 and 9-11

00:33:18.880 because they were

00:33:20.100 attacks from the outside

00:33:21.280 that we didn't see coming

00:33:23.000 and they were

00:33:23.920 from outside forces.

00:33:25.700 But if you talk

00:33:26.640 about January 6,

00:33:28.120 this is

00:33:28.980 completely

00:33:30.200 an inside deal

00:33:31.200 like it's

00:33:32.700 Americans

00:33:33.240 and Americans.

00:33:35.100 And I would argue

00:33:36.680 that

00:33:37.120 it was an insurrection

00:33:40.200 on January 6.

00:33:41.200 Now, I don't want

00:33:43.620 to disappoint

00:33:44.040 a lot of you

00:33:44.500 but in my opinion

00:33:45.740 January 6

00:33:46.540 was an insurrection.

00:33:49.020 Does anybody

00:33:49.720 disagree with me?

00:33:53.540 I've heard a lot

00:33:54.400 of people say

00:33:54.920 that it wasn't

00:33:56.760 an insurrection

00:33:57.420 but January 6

00:33:59.100 was definitely

00:34:00.080 an insurrection.

00:34:01.640 Now here's the bad news.

00:34:03.360 The protesters

00:34:04.100 who tried to stop

00:34:05.240 that insurrection

00:34:06.000 and delay the vote

00:34:07.660 so we could know

00:34:08.340 that we had

00:34:08.880 a good vote,

00:34:09.620 the protesters failed

00:34:11.300 and so the Democrats

00:34:12.780 succeeded in their

00:34:13.880 insurrection

00:34:14.460 or at least

00:34:15.460 according to

00:34:16.100 the protesters.

00:34:17.320 Now we don't have

00:34:18.020 any court proof

00:34:19.920 that the election

00:34:21.560 was fraudulent.

00:34:22.920 We have no

00:34:24.000 court proof.

00:34:25.260 We do have

00:34:25.900 the presumption

00:34:27.860 and the full

00:34:30.020 presumption

00:34:30.560 of fraud

00:34:31.100 because it's

00:34:32.360 a non-transparent

00:34:33.200 system.

00:34:34.000 So you do assume

00:34:34.860 it was fraud

00:34:35.460 but we don't have

00:34:36.580 court proof.

00:34:37.320 Under those

00:34:41.240 conditions

00:34:41.700 I would think

00:34:42.620 that it's fair

00:34:43.120 to call it

00:34:43.620 an insurrection

00:34:44.480 by the Democrats

00:34:45.820 that the

00:34:46.940 Republican protesters

00:34:48.780 tried to stop

00:34:49.880 and failed.

00:34:51.300 And then as is

00:34:52.000 often the case

00:34:52.680 with the Democrats

00:34:53.480 one of the ways

00:34:54.440 they cover

00:34:54.960 their bad behavior

00:34:56.240 is by doing

00:34:57.600 a louder job

00:34:58.780 of blaming you

00:34:59.680 of the same behavior.

00:35:01.660 And my God

00:35:02.380 does it work.

00:35:03.940 I've said this before

00:35:05.000 Tucker Carlson

00:35:05.800 has been saying

00:35:06.340 this for years

00:35:07.020 that the Democrats

00:35:08.300 blame you

00:35:08.860 for whatever

00:35:09.320 they're doing.

00:35:10.560 And the first

00:35:11.240 20 times I heard it

00:35:13.080 I thought

00:35:13.520 that's too far.

00:35:15.020 That's too far.

00:35:16.100 That's just a coincidence.

00:35:18.200 You know

00:35:18.380 it's just politics.

00:35:19.880 Everybody blames

00:35:20.560 everybody of everything

00:35:21.500 and so it looks like

00:35:23.240 they're blaming you

00:35:24.040 for what they're doing

00:35:24.920 because everybody's

00:35:25.700 doing bad things

00:35:26.500 and everybody's

00:35:27.180 blaming people.

00:35:28.260 So it's really

00:35:28.800 just a perceptual thing.

00:35:30.740 It's not an actual

00:35:31.520 it's not an actual

00:35:32.680 effect.

00:35:34.120 It's not like

00:35:35.180 they consciously

00:35:35.940 blame you

00:35:37.200 for the thing

00:35:37.700 they're doing.

00:35:39.760 Except that

00:35:40.640 it looks like

00:35:41.760 that's exactly

00:35:42.320 what they do.

00:35:43.360 It looks like

00:35:44.120 that's how

00:35:44.480 they hide it.

00:35:45.800 For example

00:35:46.660 Russia collusion.

00:35:49.300 The truth

00:35:50.240 which we know

00:35:51.240 with no doubt

00:35:51.860 whatsoever

00:35:52.340 is that the

00:35:53.260 Clinton campaign

00:35:54.320 colluded

00:35:55.280 with another country

00:35:56.360 at least

00:35:57.040 Great Britain

00:35:57.580 and Russia

00:35:58.060 to change

00:36:00.160 the results

00:36:00.680 of the election.

00:36:01.260 But because

00:36:03.120 they made it

00:36:03.840 invisible

00:36:04.380 by making

00:36:06.060 the entire

00:36:06.640 story about

00:36:07.320 whether Trump

00:36:08.200 did or did not

00:36:09.060 collude with

00:36:09.600 Russia

00:36:09.940 we learned

00:36:11.060 he did not

00:36:11.780 that story

00:36:13.240 was so big

00:36:14.180 that it's like

00:36:15.420 the magic trick

00:36:16.240 where it diverts you.

00:36:17.940 We have guaranteed

00:36:19.140 proven connections

00:36:21.080 between the

00:36:22.120 Clinton campaign

00:36:23.420 and foreign

00:36:24.500 entities

00:36:24.960 influencing our

00:36:25.820 elections.

00:36:26.820 Nobody even

00:36:27.340 questions it.

00:36:28.680 Right?

00:36:29.240 As far as I know

00:36:30.380 there's nobody

00:36:31.580 on the left

00:36:32.140 or the right

00:36:32.840 who would

00:36:33.720 question what

00:36:34.300 I just said

00:36:34.920 that the

00:36:35.540 democratic

00:36:37.020 campaign

00:36:38.400 talked to

00:36:39.640 foreign nationals

00:36:40.740 and got their

00:36:41.980 help to try

00:36:42.940 to influence

00:36:43.820 the election.

00:36:45.060 There's no doubt

00:36:45.700 about those facts.

00:36:46.800 But we act

00:36:47.400 like it doesn't

00:36:48.060 matter

00:36:48.460 only because

00:36:50.500 our brains

00:36:51.480 have been

00:36:51.920 diverted to

00:36:52.620 the magic trick.

00:36:53.840 It's all about

00:36:54.460 Trump did he

00:36:55.400 did he not

00:36:56.000 and you just

00:36:56.760 can't even see

00:36:57.420 the other thing.

00:36:58.400 It becomes

00:36:58.800 invisible.

00:37:00.380 But it's there.

00:37:01.700 We all see it.

00:37:02.920 We see it

00:37:03.540 but it doesn't

00:37:04.580 activate.

00:37:05.800 I guess that's

00:37:06.340 the better way

00:37:06.700 to see it.

00:37:07.240 We can see it

00:37:07.920 clearly but it

00:37:09.540 doesn't activate

00:37:10.200 into motion

00:37:12.420 and anything

00:37:13.180 kinetic.

00:37:14.240 It just sits

00:37:15.040 there.

00:37:16.100 It's the

00:37:16.500 damnedest thing.

00:37:17.580 And I think

00:37:17.940 you can think

00:37:18.420 of three more

00:37:19.120 examples of it.

00:37:21.540 But it looks

00:37:22.240 like an actual

00:37:22.920 strategy that

00:37:24.140 works like

00:37:25.080 nothing I've

00:37:25.600 ever seen

00:37:25.940 work before

00:37:26.540 really well.

00:37:27.580 anyway my

00:37:32.500 mascots which

00:37:33.760 you might call

00:37:34.300 my critics

00:37:34.820 but I call

00:37:35.380 them my

00:37:35.600 mascots

00:37:36.120 they're not

00:37:39.400 going to like

00:37:39.740 that and

00:37:40.100 they'll think

00:37:40.400 I'll get

00:37:40.680 banned for

00:37:41.200 what I said

00:37:41.820 and I tweeted

00:37:42.960 this today.

00:37:43.680 I want to make

00:37:44.040 it really clear.

00:37:45.500 I said I

00:37:46.020 declare my

00:37:46.580 right as a

00:37:47.340 citizen of the

00:37:47.960 United States

00:37:48.580 to label the

00:37:50.700 2020 election

00:37:51.660 illegitimate

00:37:52.520 based on a

00:37:53.860 lack of

00:37:54.260 transparency.

00:37:54.860 An election

00:37:56.860 that can't

00:37:57.240 be fully

00:37:57.640 audited by

00:37:58.520 design must

00:38:00.400 bear the

00:38:01.000 full presumption

00:38:01.960 of fraud.

00:38:03.820 Now that

00:38:04.520 statement violates

00:38:05.520 the narrative

00:38:06.020 doesn't it?

00:38:08.380 I mean that's

00:38:08.820 I don't think

00:38:09.560 you can violate

00:38:10.220 the narrative

00:38:10.740 harder than

00:38:11.320 that.

00:38:14.280 Will I get

00:38:15.140 banned for

00:38:15.560 that?

00:38:17.080 Nope.

00:38:18.040 And by the

00:38:18.440 way my

00:38:18.860 broadcast

00:38:19.840 yesterday got

00:38:20.780 re-monetized.

00:38:21.980 It's too late

00:38:22.520 to actually make

00:38:23.080 money.

00:38:23.340 But YouTube

00:38:25.160 will sometimes

00:38:25.900 preemptively

00:38:26.980 demonetize you

00:38:28.160 which lowers

00:38:29.560 your visibility

00:38:30.260 I believe.

00:38:32.120 But then

00:38:35.460 they'll re-monetize

00:38:36.440 it if you

00:38:36.920 appeal and it

00:38:37.780 doesn't really

00:38:38.260 violate any

00:38:38.860 rules which

00:38:39.560 is what

00:38:39.820 happened.

00:38:40.700 But you've

00:38:41.320 already lost

00:38:41.760 your money

00:38:42.100 by then and

00:38:43.280 your audience.

00:38:44.860 So it's sort

00:38:45.600 of too late

00:38:46.240 by the time

00:38:46.680 they do that.

00:38:47.480 Which is a

00:38:48.140 really good

00:38:48.480 trick by the

00:38:48.960 way.

00:38:49.780 If it's a

00:38:50.500 trick it's a

00:38:51.000 good one.

00:38:51.360 So we'll

00:38:53.200 see.

00:38:53.640 I say I

00:38:54.200 will not be

00:38:54.780 banned for

00:38:55.300 saying the

00:38:55.700 truth.

00:38:57.600 What might

00:38:58.340 happen is the

00:38:59.340 connection might

00:38:59.980 go bad as

00:39:02.140 apparently it

00:39:02.740 did.

00:39:06.520 I put in

00:39:07.400 my profile on

00:39:08.600 Twitter.

00:39:09.260 I've changed

00:39:09.800 it to say

00:39:10.500 that I'm the

00:39:11.020 number one

00:39:12.280 best predictor

00:39:13.880 in the country

00:39:14.480 during the

00:39:14.980 pandemic.

00:39:16.300 Not number

00:39:17.080 two, not

00:39:17.640 one of the

00:39:18.040 best, but

00:39:19.100 the number

00:39:19.640 one best

00:39:20.320 predictor.

00:39:21.360 And then I

00:39:22.380 have a link

00:39:22.900 to my

00:39:23.420 actual full

00:39:24.420 description of

00:39:25.300 all my

00:39:25.660 predictions and

00:39:26.380 how they

00:39:26.660 did.

00:39:28.000 People are

00:39:28.660 still telling

00:39:29.180 me that I'm

00:39:29.780 going to pay

00:39:30.280 for my bad

00:39:31.180 predictions until

00:39:32.520 they look at

00:39:33.040 them and

00:39:34.100 then they get

00:39:34.700 really, really

00:39:35.320 quiet.

00:39:37.060 So my

00:39:37.760 mascots, who

00:39:39.480 you might call

00:39:40.040 my critics,

00:39:41.600 were really,

00:39:43.180 really frothy

00:39:43.940 for the last

00:39:44.560 week or so.

00:39:45.300 Did anybody

00:39:45.700 notice?

00:39:46.800 Because I was

00:39:47.580 working them up

00:39:48.220 into a lather

00:39:48.900 intentionally.

00:39:50.460 And I

00:39:51.440 wanted to see

00:39:51.840 how much of

00:39:52.340 a lather I

00:39:53.000 could get

00:39:53.260 all my

00:39:53.560 critics worked

00:39:54.140 up for.

00:39:55.000 Because they

00:39:55.420 all believed

00:39:55.840 that I had

00:39:56.280 some kind of

00:39:57.060 opinions I'd

00:39:57.680 never held.

00:39:58.800 But then once

00:39:59.480 I had them in

00:39:59.980 the highest

00:40:00.680 level of

00:40:01.360 lather, I

00:40:02.380 lost, I

00:40:03.000 don't know,

00:40:03.380 10,000 followers

00:40:06.200 or something

00:40:06.860 like that.

00:40:07.700 People were

00:40:08.200 bailing out like

00:40:08.840 crazy.

00:40:09.440 Rah, his

00:40:10.300 turn.

00:40:11.400 So I waited.

00:40:12.480 And it was

00:40:12.680 hard to wait

00:40:13.340 because I wanted

00:40:14.500 to do it earlier.

00:40:15.220 But I was

00:40:16.220 like, hold,

00:40:18.160 hold, hold.

00:40:22.460 And then I

00:40:23.460 finally released

00:40:24.200 my full list of

00:40:25.000 what my

00:40:25.340 predictions were.

00:40:26.440 And I do

00:40:27.100 think that the

00:40:27.700 list does

00:40:29.440 support my

00:40:30.000 claim.

00:40:30.320 I'm the

00:40:30.580 number one

00:40:31.020 best predictor

00:40:31.840 of the entire

00:40:32.460 pandemic.

00:40:33.920 If you see

00:40:34.380 what I actually

00:40:35.120 predicted.

00:40:36.020 Now I ran

00:40:36.440 it through the

00:40:36.860 local subscription

00:40:37.820 people because

00:40:38.420 they've watched

00:40:38.860 all my predictions

00:40:39.800 live and they're

00:40:41.120 not indexed.

00:40:41.960 So I needed

00:40:42.420 lots of

00:40:42.840 witnesses.

00:40:43.240 I needed

00:40:44.700 thousands of

00:40:45.380 witnesses to

00:40:45.980 say, yes,

00:40:46.560 these were my

00:40:47.200 actual predictions

00:40:48.040 so that you

00:40:48.620 didn't think I

00:40:49.160 made them up

00:40:49.640 after the fact.

00:40:52.600 How many

00:40:53.140 left?

00:40:53.520 Let's see.

00:40:54.500 I'll give you

00:40:54.900 an actual

00:40:55.300 number.

00:40:56.900 Because you're

00:40:57.440 right, that

00:40:57.740 was hyperbole.

00:41:00.680 So around,

00:41:02.500 I don't know,

00:41:03.240 it's hard to

00:41:03.640 say because

00:41:04.200 some get added

00:41:05.420 at the same

00:41:05.900 time, some

00:41:06.300 are subtracting.

00:41:07.040 But I was

00:41:07.980 pushing 670,000

00:41:10.380 and now it's

00:41:11.600 at 663.

00:41:14.000 So 7,000

00:41:15.440 down net at

00:41:16.580 a time I

00:41:17.120 might have

00:41:17.460 gained 3,000

00:41:18.520 so-ish.

00:41:20.320 So rounded

00:41:21.400 off to about

00:41:22.240 10,000 people

00:41:23.080 left because

00:41:25.480 of that.

00:41:26.600 But now

00:41:27.760 that I have

00:41:28.200 that little

00:41:28.980 link, every

00:41:29.960 time somebody

00:41:30.560 complains, I

00:41:31.340 just send them

00:41:31.960 that little

00:41:32.360 link.

00:41:33.060 And what

00:41:33.500 do they do

00:41:33.840 after that?

00:41:35.140 They get

00:41:35.540 really quiet.

00:41:37.360 As soon as

00:41:38.140 they see my

00:41:38.660 actual predictions,

00:41:40.200 they get

00:41:40.920 really, really

00:41:41.680 quiet.

00:41:43.000 And nobody's

00:41:43.620 come back

00:41:44.040 after that.

00:41:45.560 Zero people

00:41:46.420 have seen the

00:41:47.100 link and

00:41:47.500 then come

00:41:47.800 after me a

00:41:48.360 second time.

00:41:49.400 It just

00:41:49.800 shuts them

00:41:50.320 down totally,

00:41:51.400 which is

00:41:52.460 quite nice.

00:41:54.440 How many of

00:41:55.120 you follow a

00:41:55.840 Twitter user

00:41:56.380 named James

00:41:57.220 Lindsey?

00:41:57.740 Is that name

00:42:00.380 familiar to you?

00:42:01.140 He got a lot

00:42:01.780 of attention

00:42:02.220 during the

00:42:02.660 pandemic?

00:42:03.000 I would

00:42:06.360 recommend that

00:42:06.880 you stop

00:42:07.520 immediately.

00:42:10.920 He's turned

00:42:11.680 into, in

00:42:12.500 my opinion,

00:42:13.580 and I'll

00:42:13.840 try to just

00:42:14.360 keep to

00:42:14.700 opinion because

00:42:15.780 facts are

00:42:16.700 elusive.

00:42:17.860 In my opinion,

00:42:18.680 he's turned

00:42:19.040 into a very

00:42:19.720 negative force.

00:42:21.500 And he was

00:42:21.920 warning today,

00:42:22.860 I blocked him

00:42:23.700 today finally

00:42:24.260 because I need

00:42:24.720 him out of my

00:42:25.220 life completely.

00:42:26.560 He's been

00:42:27.200 one of my

00:42:27.960 mascots that

00:42:30.460 you might call

00:42:31.000 a critic.

00:42:31.340 And he was

00:42:33.220 quite sure

00:42:33.780 that I and

00:42:35.560 the other

00:42:35.820 people who

00:42:36.320 were, quote,

00:42:37.100 wrong are

00:42:38.380 going to have

00:42:38.800 to pay for

00:42:39.440 our wrongness.

00:42:41.260 So he's

00:42:42.000 already setting

00:42:42.600 it up that he

00:42:43.260 wants to make

00:42:43.700 sure that all

00:42:44.320 the people who

00:42:44.960 are wrong,

00:42:46.640 I guess that

00:42:47.160 would include

00:42:47.580 people like

00:42:48.060 me, will

00:42:49.340 pay for their

00:42:50.020 wrongness and

00:42:50.960 really, really

00:42:51.780 be held to

00:42:52.340 account.

00:42:54.080 To which I

00:42:54.580 say, James

00:42:55.180 Lindsey, number

00:42:55.960 one, you were

00:42:57.200 completely wrong

00:42:58.200 about all of my

00:42:59.900 predictions and

00:43:00.880 you shat upon

00:43:02.100 me for making

00:43:03.860 predictions that

00:43:04.600 were the best

00:43:05.200 in the world

00:43:05.780 while you,

00:43:07.180 completely misinformed,

00:43:08.720 treated them as

00:43:09.440 the worst.

00:43:10.520 Now, should you

00:43:11.700 be worried that

00:43:12.460 the person who

00:43:13.020 says people

00:43:13.660 should be punished

00:43:14.500 for being wrong

00:43:15.380 can't fucking

00:43:16.680 tell who was

00:43:17.460 the rightest in

00:43:18.260 the world from

00:43:19.540 who was wrong?

00:43:21.260 The guy who

00:43:22.180 wants to punish

00:43:22.900 people for being

00:43:23.880 wrong can't tell

00:43:25.440 the difference

00:43:26.040 between the

00:43:27.000 number one

00:43:27.520 rightest person

00:43:28.540 and somebody

00:43:29.540 who was wrong.

00:43:31.360 And that's

00:43:32.280 who you're

00:43:32.580 following.

00:43:33.520 You're following

00:43:34.220 somebody who

00:43:35.360 wants to punish

00:43:36.020 people without

00:43:37.160 having a fucking

00:43:38.240 clue if they

00:43:39.620 were right or

00:43:40.120 wrong.

00:43:42.320 Don't follow him.

00:43:44.460 I mean,

00:43:44.860 obviously, you're a

00:43:46.200 free person, you

00:43:46.820 can do whatever you

00:43:47.380 want.

00:43:47.960 But I would say

00:43:48.560 he turned into a

00:43:49.900 really, he's like

00:43:51.940 Smigel with the

00:43:53.160 ring.

00:43:53.380 I think he has

00:43:54.900 some views about

00:43:55.720 the pandemic

00:43:56.860 that he's too

00:43:58.000 invested in.

00:44:00.480 So he sort of

00:44:01.240 turned into,

00:44:02.100 oh, my precious.

00:44:04.320 Yeah.

00:44:05.240 There was a time

00:44:06.420 that I thought his

00:44:07.120 voice was important.

00:44:10.160 Indeed, I would

00:44:11.160 like to compliment

00:44:11.840 all of the

00:44:12.620 critics.

00:44:14.360 So I've been a

00:44:15.520 critic of Alex

00:44:16.520 Berenson for his

00:44:18.820 views because I

00:44:19.640 think he tweeted

00:44:21.160 a lot of things

00:44:21.860 that people I

00:44:23.160 trust found

00:44:24.020 inaccurate.

00:44:25.620 But also

00:44:27.660 national treasure.

00:44:29.680 I think you

00:44:30.360 could be wrong

00:44:30.860 about everything

00:44:31.400 and still be a

00:44:31.940 national treasure

00:44:32.600 if you're a

00:44:33.700 critic.

00:44:34.480 Because you

00:44:35.300 need the

00:44:35.640 critics, right?

00:44:37.660 Didn't you

00:44:38.200 feel safer

00:44:39.240 knowing there

00:44:40.680 was an Alex

00:44:41.280 Berenson, right?

00:44:43.840 Didn't you

00:44:44.600 feel safer

00:44:45.280 knowing there

00:44:45.980 was a James

00:44:46.460 Lindsay?

00:44:47.920 Didn't you

00:44:48.680 feel safer

00:44:49.440 knowing there

00:44:50.540 was a

00:44:51.280 Dr. Malone?

00:44:54.860 Yeah.

00:44:55.440 I mean, the

00:44:55.760 critics make

00:44:56.360 you feel safer

00:44:57.020 because you

00:44:57.440 feel like at

00:44:57.980 least the

00:44:58.300 other side

00:44:58.720 is getting

00:44:59.240 aspirated or

00:45:02.500 something,

00:45:03.020 whatever is the

00:45:03.560 best word for

00:45:04.060 that.

00:45:05.780 Oh, and

00:45:06.440 somebody says

00:45:07.060 James Lindsay

00:45:07.620 is a good voice

00:45:08.300 against critical

00:45:09.020 race theory.

00:45:10.160 So that would

00:45:10.640 be a different

00:45:11.020 topic.

00:45:12.440 Yeah.

00:45:12.880 Somebody says

00:45:13.340 Malone is

00:45:13.920 intel.

00:45:16.240 You mean

00:45:16.900 intelligence

00:45:17.320 services?

00:45:18.680 I'm not

00:45:19.280 seeing that.

00:45:21.280 All right.

00:45:22.340 So, yeah, I

00:45:24.740 think you

00:45:25.160 should block

00:45:27.380 anybody or

00:45:27.920 stop following

00:45:28.520 anybody who's

00:45:29.300 turned into

00:45:30.040 Smigel.

00:45:32.640 Meanwhile, the

00:45:33.400 Supreme Court

00:45:33.840 has lost all

00:45:34.540 credibility.

00:45:36.040 I've been

00:45:36.540 tweeting, even

00:45:37.240 in the last

00:45:37.760 year, I've been

00:45:38.640 tweeting that the

00:45:39.300 Supreme Court is

00:45:40.180 the jewel in

00:45:44.400 our crown.

00:45:45.320 It's like the

00:45:45.980 thing we can't

00:45:46.840 lose.

00:45:47.820 Because as long

00:45:48.400 as the Supreme

00:45:48.980 Court is

00:45:49.420 working, and

00:45:50.080 the court

00:45:50.400 system in

00:45:50.900 general, but

00:45:51.740 the Supreme

00:45:52.280 Court especially,

00:45:54.180 as long as the

00:45:55.120 Supreme Court is

00:45:55.900 functioning, we

00:45:57.460 can make

00:45:57.820 everything else

00:45:58.420 work.

00:45:59.480 Right?

00:45:59.980 That's the only

00:46:00.720 thing that can't

00:46:01.380 be broken.

00:46:02.980 As long as

00:46:03.780 that's working,

00:46:04.380 we're good.

00:46:06.960 So, how's that

00:46:08.220 working?

00:46:08.500 Well, here are

00:46:12.060 some, here are a

00:46:13.520 few things that our

00:46:14.660 justices got wrong.

00:46:15.820 And this comes

00:46:17.420 from some tweets

00:46:18.520 by Michael

00:46:19.360 Sanger.

00:46:21.220 And he says,

00:46:22.160 this is a partial

00:46:22.820 list of COVID

00:46:23.640 misinformation

00:46:24.240 repeated by the

00:46:25.240 U.S. Supreme

00:46:25.780 Court so far

00:46:26.600 today.

00:46:27.360 This is just in

00:46:28.020 one day.

00:46:29.020 So I guess they're

00:46:29.500 hearing cases about

00:46:30.400 mandates or something.

00:46:31.480 I don't even know

00:46:31.880 the details.

00:46:34.240 So this is from

00:46:35.240 Sotomayor.

00:46:36.560 She said, 100,000

00:46:37.620 children are in

00:46:38.420 critical care and

00:46:39.380 on ventilators.

00:46:41.900 No.

00:46:43.320 It's closer to

00:46:44.260 3,000.

00:46:45.820 If 100,000

00:46:47.820 children in the

00:46:49.120 U.S. were in

00:46:50.480 critical care and

00:46:51.400 on ventilators, that

00:46:53.220 would be the only

00:46:53.920 story.

00:46:55.140 There wouldn't be

00:46:55.860 any other story.

00:46:57.220 It would just be

00:46:57.940 pictures of those

00:46:58.640 kids on ventilators.

00:46:59.920 So where did she

00:47:00.540 even get this?

00:47:02.160 Like, where do you

00:47:02.760 get that statistic

00:47:04.220 from?

00:47:04.560 That's just out of

00:47:05.220 nowhere.

00:47:06.220 Here's another one.

00:47:07.420 This is from

00:47:07.900 Justice Breyer.

00:47:09.820 Vaccine mandate

00:47:10.580 would prevent 100%

00:47:12.120 of U.S.

00:47:12.800 cases.

00:47:13.220 What?

00:47:16.640 What?

00:47:18.200 What?

00:47:19.440 Is he the only

00:47:20.480 person in the

00:47:21.020 world who doesn't

00:47:21.820 know that vaccines

00:47:24.200 don't stop the

00:47:25.520 transmission of the

00:47:26.440 Omicron, especially?

00:47:28.900 He said that in

00:47:30.040 public.

00:47:31.740 These are our

00:47:32.840 smartest people.

00:47:34.540 He said that in

00:47:35.320 public.

00:47:37.200 Here's another one.

00:47:39.620 Sotomayor said that

00:47:40.860 COVID deaths are at

00:47:42.100 an all-time high, but

00:47:46.800 that probably was a

00:47:47.680 misinterpretation.

00:47:48.680 I think she means

00:47:49.540 cumulative.

00:47:51.840 If it was

00:47:52.540 interpreted to mean

00:47:53.520 per week, that

00:47:54.740 would be crazy

00:47:55.720 because it's

00:47:56.420 nowhere near it.

00:47:58.060 So I guess it

00:47:59.000 depends on the

00:47:59.480 context on that

00:48:00.180 one.

00:48:01.700 This is something

00:48:02.600 Kagan said.

00:48:04.340 So Justice Kagan

00:48:05.100 said, it's, quote,

00:48:06.340 beyond settled, the

00:48:08.020 vaccines and masks

00:48:09.340 are the best way to

00:48:10.200 stop the spread.

00:48:12.660 What?

00:48:14.180 What?

00:48:15.220 It might be true,

00:48:17.160 and it might be

00:48:17.740 untrue.

00:48:19.300 But how could you

00:48:20.920 live in America and

00:48:21.880 say that those

00:48:22.440 questions are settled?

00:48:24.520 Settled by whom?

00:48:26.740 Who believes they're

00:48:27.840 settled?

00:48:29.120 I got vaccinated, and I

00:48:30.580 don't think it's

00:48:31.020 settled.

00:48:32.280 For God's sakes.

00:48:34.320 Was it settled before

00:48:35.660 we decided we needed

00:48:36.720 infinite boosters?

00:48:37.640 What the hell does

00:48:39.160 settled mean?

00:48:40.640 This is crazy shit

00:48:41.900 from the Supreme

00:48:43.380 Court.

00:48:44.600 Here's another one

00:48:45.360 from Sotomayor.

00:48:47.780 The federal

00:48:48.180 government can

00:48:48.900 mandate vaccine

00:48:49.740 use using its

00:48:50.980 police power.

00:48:52.040 Well, that's more

00:48:52.420 of a legal thing.

00:48:53.340 I don't have an

00:48:54.760 opinion on that.

00:48:57.000 Sotomayor also

00:48:57.820 said hospitals are

00:48:58.920 nearing capacity.

00:49:00.940 Are they?

00:49:02.920 Are hospitals

00:49:03.920 nearing capacity?

00:49:05.080 My understanding

00:49:07.200 is that the

00:49:07.820 critical care are

00:49:08.920 always near capacity

00:49:10.000 because they're

00:49:10.620 designed to be near

00:49:11.440 capacity, and that

00:49:12.980 the regular hospitals

00:49:14.000 are maybe not that

00:49:15.600 busy.

00:49:17.080 Is it misleading

00:49:17.900 at least, if not

00:49:20.020 outright wrong?

00:49:21.460 And here's a wild

00:49:22.520 one from Sotomayor.

00:49:24.020 Omicron is deadlier

00:49:25.140 than Delta.

00:49:28.240 What?

00:49:29.720 What?

00:49:30.400 We have a Supreme

00:49:33.320 Court justice who

00:49:35.340 thinks that Omicron

00:49:36.600 is deadlier than

00:49:38.200 Delta?

00:49:39.200 I don't think there's

00:49:40.340 a citizen who

00:49:41.060 believes that.

00:49:42.280 Well, and we all

00:49:43.020 know it's not true.

00:49:44.840 How could she be the

00:49:46.280 only one left who

00:49:47.360 doesn't know this?

00:49:49.420 Jack Posobiec just

00:49:50.480 was tweeting around

00:49:51.440 a study out of the

00:49:52.520 UK, I think, that

00:49:54.240 suggests that Omicron

00:49:56.100 could be as much as

00:49:58.360 a hundred times

00:50:00.020 less dangerous

00:50:00.880 than Delta.

00:50:03.140 A hundred times

00:50:04.660 less dangerous.

00:50:06.320 Now, I don't think

00:50:07.520 that's true, actually.

00:50:08.880 That feels like too

00:50:10.280 much, if you know

00:50:10.920 what I mean.

00:50:11.680 It feels like too

00:50:12.380 much.

00:50:13.160 But there's no doubt

00:50:15.360 that it's less

00:50:15.900 dangerous at this

00:50:16.880 point, right?

00:50:17.880 Aren't we beyond

00:50:18.820 wondering if it's

00:50:19.780 more dangerous than

00:50:20.580 Delta?

00:50:21.300 Now, I think she may

00:50:22.600 have come to that

00:50:24.760 conclusion because

00:50:25.540 some people think

00:50:26.800 Omicron will spread

00:50:27.860 faster and then

00:50:29.300 there'll be a lot

00:50:29.780 of people who have

00:50:30.960 to stay home from

00:50:31.600 work and, you know,

00:50:32.880 that could cause

00:50:33.420 more problems in

00:50:34.220 the long run.

00:50:35.180 But she didn't

00:50:35.920 explain it that way,

00:50:36.800 I guess.

00:50:38.040 She didn't explain

00:50:38.860 it that way.

00:50:41.440 So, and then

00:50:43.560 Breyer said that

00:50:44.520 hospitals are full

00:50:45.540 of unvaccinated

00:50:46.400 people.

00:50:51.420 Oh, what?

00:50:52.540 You know, first

00:50:56.160 of all, the

00:50:56.500 hospitals aren't

00:50:57.100 full, but it's

00:50:58.520 definitely a mix of

00:50:59.480 vaccinated and

00:51:00.260 unvaccinated.

00:51:02.020 Now, I think what

00:51:03.620 he means is that the

00:51:04.760 worst outcomes, the

00:51:06.200 critical care and the

00:51:07.760 ones who die are the

00:51:08.660 unvaccinated ones, more

00:51:10.240 or less, that's true.

00:51:12.180 So some of these, I

00:51:13.080 think some of these are

00:51:14.080 less about being wrong

00:51:15.940 and more about being

00:51:16.960 unclear, but it still

00:51:18.980 is shocking.

00:51:20.160 It's shocking.

00:51:21.320 Because at the very

00:51:22.180 least, the Supreme

00:51:23.260 Court should be clear.

00:51:24.420 you know, they do

00:51:25.580 have that ability.

00:51:28.940 The unvaccinated make

00:51:30.400 up 80% in our

00:51:31.640 hospitals, somebody

00:51:32.360 says.

00:51:33.840 But 80% of the

00:51:37.500 serious cases, right?

00:51:39.380 80% of the serious

00:51:40.520 cases.

00:51:40.820 Well, so now we've

00:51:47.060 lost all faith in the

00:51:48.380 Supreme Court.

00:51:49.700 Our elections cannot be

00:51:51.120 trusted because they're

00:51:52.060 not transparent.

00:51:54.080 Our leaders are lying to

00:51:55.900 us, telling us that

00:51:58.120 January 6th was an

00:52:00.000 insurrection in the

00:52:00.980 opposite direction of

00:52:01.960 what it was.

00:52:03.900 And somehow our system

00:52:05.420 still works.

00:52:07.540 Isn't it the day of this

00:52:08.540 thing?

00:52:10.000 On one hand, everything

00:52:11.520 is broken.

00:52:13.060 Just everything.

00:52:14.680 On the other hand, I

00:52:16.340 don't know, I wake up

00:52:17.020 every day and my coffee

00:52:18.700 tastes the same and the

00:52:20.600 stock market's doing

00:52:21.440 okay.

00:52:22.800 I don't know how

00:52:23.880 everything works out.

00:52:25.220 It's kind of weird.

00:52:28.500 Let me ask you this.

00:52:29.600 At this point, do you

00:52:31.760 see any problems ahead

00:52:33.080 of us that aren't just

00:52:34.480 inflation?

00:52:36.140 Go.

00:52:36.400 Let's assume that we

00:52:38.080 work our way through

00:52:38.820 the pandemic, whether

00:52:39.760 it's February 1st or

00:52:41.040 sometime soon.

00:52:42.680 But we're in a weird

00:52:44.180 place in the world,

00:52:45.340 aren't we?

00:52:46.640 Correct me if I'm wrong,

00:52:47.900 but I feel like we've

00:52:48.820 solved almost every

00:52:50.020 problem except inflation

00:52:52.420 and that's probably

00:52:53.440 going to get solved.

00:52:59.080 Homeless.

00:53:00.660 I'm not entirely sure

00:53:02.120 the homeless are a

00:53:03.040 problem the way you

00:53:03.980 see it.

00:53:04.340 Let me give you my

00:53:06.500 newest opinion on the

00:53:07.940 homeless.

00:53:09.260 The reason the

00:53:10.240 homeless are homeless

00:53:11.080 is because they want

00:53:13.500 to take drugs and live

00:53:14.660 a free life.

00:53:16.620 And being in a home

00:53:17.380 would require them to

00:53:18.520 follow the restrictions

00:53:19.920 of living inside,

00:53:21.300 basically.

00:53:22.460 And if you have

00:53:24.160 people who are taking

00:53:25.980 agency and living as

00:53:28.320 free people, no matter

00:53:30.000 how bad it looks to

00:53:31.000 you, I don't know

00:53:34.160 that's a problem.

00:53:35.320 It's a problem for the

00:53:36.460 people who live in

00:53:37.340 those towns, but they

00:53:38.800 can move.

00:53:40.320 It's a problem that

00:53:41.040 will work itself out.

00:53:42.860 So it's a weird kind

00:53:43.860 of problem.

00:53:45.080 We're trying to solve a

00:53:46.280 problem for a group of

00:53:47.280 people who don't say

00:53:48.040 they have a problem, or

00:53:49.500 at least not that

00:53:50.380 problem.

00:53:51.180 That's the part they

00:53:51.880 want to keep.

00:53:52.840 They don't go inside.

00:53:54.000 So, the entire Western

00:54:00.000 world is under assault,

00:54:01.300 and Scott doesn't

00:54:01.960 notice.

00:54:03.080 Well, I certainly

00:54:04.120 notice all of the

00:54:05.780 devious things that

00:54:06.960 China is doing.

00:54:08.380 You know, we've got

00:54:09.000 the hacking, we've got

00:54:10.060 the public opinion

00:54:11.600 manipulation, we've

00:54:12.860 got, we don't trust

00:54:14.900 our, you know, drug

00:54:15.940 companies, and we've

00:54:18.120 got, of course, the

00:54:19.100 critical race theory,

00:54:20.540 tearing us apart, and

00:54:21.320 all those things.

00:54:22.120 But in my opinion, none

00:54:23.220 of those are really

00:54:24.200 going to get the job

00:54:25.080 done.

00:54:27.040 Let's talk about the

00:54:27.920 border.

00:54:30.360 How many of you have

00:54:31.700 had a border-related

00:54:32.820 problem if you don't

00:54:34.820 live on the border?

00:54:36.020 Obviously, it's a big

00:54:36.920 problem if you're near

00:54:37.940 the border.

00:54:39.180 But I don't live near

00:54:40.560 the border, and I

00:54:42.680 have so far zero

00:54:43.940 problems that are

00:54:44.920 caused by the stream

00:54:47.180 of maybe even infected

00:54:48.980 COVID people coming

00:54:49.960 across the border

00:54:50.600 illegally, many of

00:54:52.080 them criminals.

00:54:53.220 Well, I don't want to

00:54:53.660 say many, but too

00:54:55.080 many of them are

00:54:56.000 criminals.

00:54:56.460 I don't want to say

00:54:56.860 many are criminals.

00:54:57.780 That would be unfair

00:54:58.680 because it's the

00:55:00.040 opposite.

00:55:03.520 The weird thing about

00:55:04.600 the border is that

00:55:06.000 it's a gigantic

00:55:06.800 problem that doesn't

00:55:07.660 affect me in a way

00:55:08.620 that I can determine.

00:55:10.600 And I'm interested if

00:55:12.080 you also have any

00:55:14.220 direct effect from it.

00:55:16.580 No, I don't live in a

00:55:17.620 gated community.

00:55:19.260 People assume I'm in a

00:55:20.440 gated community, and

00:55:21.340 there's a reason I'm

00:55:22.900 not.

00:55:29.300 Yeah, gated

00:55:29.980 community, I don't

00:55:30.560 like gated

00:55:30.980 communities.

00:55:32.500 They're really a

00:55:33.180 pain in the ass.

00:55:38.020 Cheap loan, it

00:55:39.480 affects my taxes?

00:55:42.000 Okay, I'll give you

00:55:43.020 that.

00:55:44.120 Yeah, but you know,

00:55:44.760 I don't see it

00:55:45.280 directly, but that's a

00:55:46.460 good point.

00:55:46.720 So somebody said it

00:55:47.720 will affect my taxes

00:55:48.840 in California.

00:55:49.720 That's true.

00:55:51.240 That's true.

00:55:52.100 But you know the

00:55:53.300 thing that I've never

00:55:54.100 seen calculated is the

00:55:56.420 net.

00:55:59.080 I don't have my own

00:56:00.140 wall either.

00:56:01.360 If you get inside my

00:56:02.480 house, you're going to

00:56:04.220 wish you hadn't.

00:56:06.780 So my only security to

00:56:09.300 my house is if you get

00:56:10.380 on the inside, I'm

00:56:11.960 first of all going to

00:56:12.600 have a good picture of

00:56:13.540 you before you got in.

00:56:14.580 And secondly, when you

00:56:16.000 get in, good luck

00:56:17.720 getting out.

00:56:18.780 Good luck getting out.

00:56:20.900 But you can get in.

00:56:22.680 Anybody can get in the

00:56:23.720 house.

00:56:24.960 But good luck getting

00:56:25.700 out.

00:56:28.040 So, yeah.

00:56:33.540 So I agree with you

00:56:35.700 that the border is an

00:56:37.360 issue that has to be

00:56:38.320 fixed.

00:56:39.360 I agree with you that

00:56:40.600 some people, especially

00:56:42.140 if you're near the

00:56:42.760 border, it's got to be

00:56:43.740 terrible.

00:56:44.100 I mean, there's got to

00:56:45.160 be just chaos if you're

00:56:46.320 near the border.

00:56:47.480 So if you're an American

00:56:48.200 near the border, it's

00:56:49.260 definitely bad for you.

00:56:50.500 But here's the

00:56:51.000 calculation I've never

00:56:52.060 seen.

00:56:53.000 Maybe you have.

00:56:54.540 Let's take just

00:56:55.400 California as an

00:56:56.300 example.

00:56:57.900 So we have massive

00:56:58.980 illegal immigration.

00:57:00.980 And I don't know what

00:57:01.960 percentage of them stay

00:57:02.960 in California, but I

00:57:03.960 would guess most.

00:57:05.520 I don't think most

00:57:06.380 people come across the

00:57:07.280 border and then leave to

00:57:08.140 another state, do they?

00:57:09.180 Give me a fact check on

00:57:10.140 that.

00:57:10.320 But I'd guess 75%

00:57:13.480 stay.

00:57:14.700 Now, we have massive

00:57:15.900 open immigration.

00:57:18.200 Do those people add to

00:57:20.100 the economy or subtract?

00:57:22.500 And whichever one it is,

00:57:24.540 by how much?

00:57:26.460 And does it matter if it's

00:57:28.200 the first year they're

00:57:29.120 here or should you measure

00:57:30.740 it over 10 years?

00:57:31.900 Because immigration

00:57:34.800 generally adds to the

00:57:36.380 GDP, right?

00:57:39.460 If you have controlled

00:57:40.700 immigration, would you,

00:57:43.100 well, let me say, if you

00:57:44.320 have controlled

00:57:45.140 immigration, could you

00:57:46.940 say that it's always

00:57:47.940 positive to the GDP if

00:57:50.860 it's controlled?

00:57:52.120 Meaning that you only let

00:57:53.220 in the people you want at

00:57:55.580 the numbers you want.

00:57:57.280 Yeah, that would be

00:57:58.560 positive.

00:57:59.440 But what I don't know is

00:58:00.460 a crossover if you just

00:58:02.580 threw the doors open and

00:58:04.320 said, well, screw it.

00:58:05.540 Come in if you want to.

00:58:06.840 At what point does it

00:58:07.760 cross over into negative?

00:58:10.860 And, you know,

00:58:12.100 economics is my bag.

00:58:14.320 I don't know.

00:58:15.620 So I've said forever that

00:58:17.740 the way to win on

00:58:18.620 immigration, here's how

00:58:22.020 the Republicans should win

00:58:23.760 on immigration.

00:58:25.340 They should say we should

00:58:26.560 separate the question of

00:58:28.060 border security from the

00:58:30.220 question of how many

00:58:31.080 people get in.

00:58:32.820 They've never done that,

00:58:34.580 and it's stupid.

00:58:36.160 It just gives the issue

00:58:37.460 away, basically.

00:58:38.620 So they have an airtight

00:58:39.980 issue that they should win

00:58:41.100 on every time, which is

00:58:42.840 immigration control, and

00:58:44.460 they find a way to lose by

00:58:45.960 framing it wrong.

00:58:47.340 The right way to frame it

00:58:48.680 is, wait, wait, wait.

00:58:50.720 There are two issues.

00:58:52.220 One is how we control the

00:58:53.640 border, and we would want to

00:58:55.000 be able to control it as much

00:58:56.140 as possible.

00:58:57.080 But the second question

00:58:58.280 that's related is how many

00:59:00.240 people to let in.

00:59:01.980 And that should be

00:59:03.040 determined by economists.

00:59:05.020 So in other words, if the

00:59:06.660 economists, let's say every

00:59:07.980 six months they recalculate,

00:59:09.900 and if the economists say,

00:59:11.700 hey, it looks like we could

00:59:12.600 use some more immigrants

00:59:13.560 for the GDP, then you turn

00:59:17.420 the lever and you let in a

00:59:18.980 bunch more.

00:59:20.020 And then if the economists

00:59:20.940 say, hey, something special

00:59:22.140 happened like a pandemic,

00:59:23.980 we better close that border.

00:59:25.260 It's like, okay, temporarily.

00:59:27.060 Close it temporarily.

00:59:28.880 Now you tell me that you

00:59:30.460 couldn't sell that to

00:59:31.400 everybody.

00:59:33.580 Because you're saying, if

00:59:35.120 it's good for the country,

00:59:36.140 we'll let them in.

00:59:37.400 And if it's bad for the

00:59:38.580 country, we won't.

00:59:39.920 And it will be determined

00:59:40.740 not by me, not by me as

00:59:42.780 president.

00:59:43.400 I'm not in this.

00:59:44.760 It will be determined by a

00:59:46.020 bipartisan group of

00:59:47.080 economists who just have to

00:59:48.800 work it out and tell us,

00:59:50.380 hey, you need a few more

00:59:51.780 immigrants or different

00:59:53.900 kinds of immigrants or

00:59:54.920 something.

00:59:56.580 Ah, thank you.

00:59:58.160 I was waiting for somebody to

00:59:59.300 catch me so I could tell you

01:00:00.640 how I'll weasel out of it.

01:00:02.500 Somebody said in quotes, oh,

01:00:04.660 trust the experts.

01:00:06.540 Scott, have you not been

01:00:07.660 telling us for years not to

01:00:10.100 trust the experts?

01:00:11.220 But now?

01:00:11.880 But now, Scott, really?

01:00:14.500 Really?

01:00:15.980 Now you're going to trust the

01:00:17.180 experts?

01:00:17.620 Is that what you're going to do?

01:00:21.200 Nope.

01:00:22.460 Did you hear anywhere in my

01:00:24.160 idea, trust?

01:00:26.760 Nope.

01:00:27.680 Nope.

01:00:28.200 The idea requires no trust.

01:00:30.220 In fact, you could totally not

01:00:31.700 trust the economists.

01:00:33.340 It still works.

01:00:35.520 It's the same kind of effect

01:00:37.220 why capitalism works even

01:00:39.420 though it's broken completely.

01:00:41.540 It still works.

01:00:43.440 And our democratic republic,

01:00:46.100 completely broken from head to

01:00:47.620 bottom, right?

01:00:50.180 Congress is broken.

01:00:51.400 The Supreme Court doesn't even

01:00:52.660 read the news, apparently.

01:00:54.120 Completely broken.

01:00:55.980 Still works.

01:00:57.540 Still works.

01:00:59.280 So if you build this

01:01:00.380 immigration system the way I

01:01:02.860 described, and then my

01:01:05.200 critic at the moment said,

01:01:08.780 but then you'd be trusting the

01:01:10.000 experts, the economists, to know

01:01:12.200 when to tweak it.

01:01:14.020 To which I say, no, I wouldn't.

01:01:15.440 I wouldn't be trusting them at

01:01:17.120 all.

01:01:17.900 I would be relying on them.

01:01:22.280 Which is different.

01:01:24.500 In other words, I want the

01:01:25.960 country to think that the

01:01:27.200 system made sense, and then

01:01:29.900 they'll accept it.

01:01:31.300 We only need to know that

01:01:32.700 something was done rationally.

01:01:34.320 We don't need to know it was

01:01:35.200 done right.

01:01:37.820 Which is different.

01:01:39.240 Because I think that people do

01:01:40.780 actually understand that the

01:01:43.120 government is guessing on some

01:01:44.560 stuff.

01:01:45.560 You know, like, we're guessing

01:01:46.600 what to do with the economy and

01:01:48.600 taxes a little bit.

01:01:49.540 We're guessing.

01:01:50.440 So I think there is some

01:01:51.540 forgiveness for a bad guess,

01:01:53.600 but there's no forgiveness for a

01:01:55.040 bad system.

01:01:56.900 For example, I can forgive

01:01:59.140 America for electing a

01:02:00.680 president I didn't want to be

01:02:01.960 elected, but I can't forgive

01:02:03.960 them for having a system that

01:02:05.220 can't be audited.

01:02:06.560 See?

01:02:07.900 We completely can accept the

01:02:10.000 mistake of getting the wrong

01:02:11.480 president, which seems like a

01:02:13.200 big mistake, but we can accept

01:02:14.480 that, because we didn't have a

01:02:16.200 revolution.

01:02:17.020 There was no insurrection.

01:02:18.800 We accepted it.

01:02:20.040 A very broken system, and we

01:02:21.820 accepted it.

01:02:23.180 But we should not have accepted

01:02:24.800 the system that got us there,

01:02:26.360 because it was non-transparent.

01:02:28.240 Fix the system, and you have a

01:02:30.960 fighting chance of getting the

01:02:32.140 citizens to say, I don't like

01:02:33.420 where it went.

01:02:34.060 I don't like the outcome, but I

01:02:36.520 get it.

01:02:37.540 I don't like where that went, but

01:02:39.500 at least that made sense.

01:02:40.580 At least you had a process, and

01:02:43.600 I'll respect the process, even

01:02:45.280 if I don't like the answer.

01:02:47.740 I did say there was an

01:02:49.020 insurrection of the Democrats.

01:02:53.500 All right.

01:03:00.060 Degradation of California IQ is

01:03:02.460 a fact.

01:03:03.180 I think it would be caused by

01:03:04.200 porous borders.

01:03:06.500 So somebody's saying that the

01:03:07.960 IQ in California is going down

01:03:09.860 because of porous borders, that's

01:03:12.460 a figure I wouldn't trust.

01:03:15.320 How do people who don't speak

01:03:16.880 English do on English IQ tests?

01:03:19.600 Or do we even, do they even

01:03:21.220 take them?

01:03:22.320 I mean, I assume that was some

01:03:24.400 kind of a racist, racist-sounding

01:03:27.340 opinion.

01:03:30.560 But I think the history is that

01:03:32.480 immigration just works for GDP.

01:03:34.860 Now, I will tell you that the

01:03:36.860 average intelligence of people may

01:03:40.120 not matter as much as you think.

01:03:42.440 In my opinion, the, say, top 5% of

01:03:46.840 smart people matter a lot.

01:03:50.540 Like, you can't really have a good

01:03:52.460 civilization unless you're a top 5% of

01:03:55.480 smart people have the freedom to do

01:03:58.040 what they need to do and the

01:03:59.420 incentives and they can do their

01:04:01.300 thing.

01:04:01.520 It's not the bottom 90% who are

01:04:03.640 inventing anything.

01:04:05.060 Like, there was nobody in the

01:04:05.940 bottom 90% of intelligence who

01:04:08.420 worked on the iPhone.

01:04:11.080 Except, you know, maybe the

01:04:12.340 janitor or something.

01:04:15.280 The top 10% are the ones that are

01:04:17.160 doing all the things that transform

01:04:18.980 society.

01:04:20.480 And the rest, I don't know, the rest

01:04:23.680 just need to be able to do their

01:04:25.380 jobs.

01:04:26.880 That's it.

01:04:27.320 If you can raise a family well and do

01:04:30.340 your job, that's all the IQ you need.

01:04:33.520 The extra would be wasted.

01:04:36.700 Run the really check on the

01:04:38.160 Sotomayor quotes.

01:04:39.620 Would that work?

01:04:41.880 Well, it would work on some of them.

01:04:44.040 So, you really think that 100,000

01:04:45.680 children are on ventilators and

01:04:47.700 critical care and we haven't heard of

01:04:49.440 it?

01:04:49.740 Really?

01:04:50.620 Really?

01:04:51.540 100,000 kids in critical care and the

01:04:53.600 first we're hearing about it, the

01:04:55.380 first we're hearing about it is from

01:04:56.840 the Supreme Court.

01:04:58.700 Well, I think it worked, right?

01:05:00.260 In that case, it worked.

01:05:02.460 All right.

01:05:03.060 Somebody says immigration drains your

01:05:04.860 economy.

01:05:05.720 It drains it, but also it also boosts it.

01:05:09.980 So, what I'm saying is you need to

01:05:11.500 figure out the net.

01:05:12.760 We know the drain.

01:05:14.300 The drain is obvious.

01:05:15.420 But the net is, you know, the benefit

01:05:17.260 is a little less obvious because that

01:05:18.640 kicks in maybe in the second

01:05:20.660 generation.

01:05:22.020 How would you even measure the benefit

01:05:23.480 of immigration?

01:05:25.400 I'd love to see.

01:05:26.640 Here's something I'd like to see.

01:05:28.860 All right.

01:05:29.060 For those of you who are racists,

01:05:30.980 and I know there are some of you

01:05:32.000 here.

01:05:33.080 So, speaking to the racists, if you

01:05:35.640 were to measure the, you know,

01:05:37.440 immigrants who just are fresh over

01:05:39.920 the border, how would they do

01:05:42.560 compared to, say, Americans who've

01:05:44.620 been living here?

01:05:45.600 Maybe not as well because they're

01:05:47.140 starting from a low point.

01:05:49.160 But give me the second generation of

01:05:52.180 immigrants.

01:05:53.820 Give me the second generation of

01:05:55.600 immigrants.

01:05:56.560 And let me compare the second

01:05:57.880 generation of immigrants from any

01:05:59.480 country.

01:06:00.520 Doesn't matter the country.

01:06:01.720 Just second generation immigrants.

01:06:04.060 You compare them to all of you

01:06:06.540 racist assholes who have been here

01:06:08.060 for a while.

01:06:09.420 Who's going to win?

01:06:11.740 Which one of them would do better?

01:06:13.980 The second generation or the people

01:06:16.980 who've been here for a long time?

01:06:18.020 I would put my money on the second

01:06:20.400 generation of immigrants every time.

01:06:23.420 Now, I don't have data to back that

01:06:24.680 up, by the way.

01:06:25.800 So, if you have data, you can change

01:06:27.620 my mind.

01:06:28.980 But if I had to guess, and a lot of

01:06:31.660 this is observational, right?

01:06:32.940 If you live in California, you meet a

01:06:34.480 lot of first generation and second

01:06:36.480 generation.

01:06:37.500 You do not want your kid to compete

01:06:40.440 against a second generation immigrant.

01:06:43.160 Let me say that again.

01:06:44.280 If your kid's in school, you better

01:06:47.820 hope they're not competing against

01:06:49.860 too many second generation immigrants

01:06:51.660 because they're getting their asses

01:06:53.320 kicked because they're hungry.

01:06:57.240 You know, it's sort of a gross

01:06:58.740 generalization.

01:07:00.240 Of course, it's a gross generalization.

01:07:06.500 So, that's what I've got to say

01:07:07.940 about that.

01:07:11.780 I don't mean your specific kids.

01:07:13.900 They're all geniuses, I'm sure.

01:07:18.980 Depends if they got poisoned by college.

01:07:21.900 All right.

01:07:22.880 That's all I've got for now.

01:07:24.080 And thank you for joining me.

01:07:25.500 This is the best live stream you've

01:07:27.420 ever seen.

01:07:28.060 Best moment of your life.

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01:07:30.940 And I'll talk to you tomorrow.

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Episode 1617 Scott Adams： How to Turn The Trunk of Your Car Into a Quarantine Center, and Lots More

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