Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1630 Scott Adams： There Is Lots of Juicy News Today. Come Enjoy it With a Beverage

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00:00:45.200 Dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better.

00:00:47.380 It's called the simultaneous sip.

00:00:49.760 It's going to happen now.

00:00:55.180 Ah.

00:00:57.840 Yeah, that was as good as I thought it would be.

00:01:02.220 I'm already getting spam calls.

00:01:05.100 What the hell?

00:01:06.440 God.

00:01:07.860 All right, so Rasmussen has a poll

00:01:09.720 asking people to rate the importance of various topics.

00:01:15.180 Now, it's not every topic, but they did five.

00:01:17.160 And here is what the public rated as their top issues of the five.

00:01:25.000 Inflation was number one.

00:01:28.040 62% thought that was very important.

00:01:31.880 Violent crime was number two.

00:01:34.880 So inflation and violent crime.

00:01:37.620 So far, two things that have been caused by Democrats.

00:01:41.400 The third thing is illegal immigration, 52%.

00:01:46.720 Caused by Democrats.

00:01:50.780 Then COVID-19, of course, 39%.

00:01:54.000 You would expect that one.

00:01:55.740 And then climate change at the bottom with 33%.

00:01:58.500 Now, how does this compare with the Democrats' own top priorities?

00:02:04.240 Are the priorities of the country in line with the priorities of the Democrats?

00:02:10.420 Well, Democrats' top priorities, if you simply look at how they act and what they say,

00:02:19.640 would be voting rights, wouldn't you say?

00:02:23.880 Voting rights.

00:02:25.220 Making a big deal about that.

00:02:26.980 Climate change, of course.

00:02:28.200 So, their top priorities would be low priorities for the public.

00:02:35.000 And the things the public does care about are the things that the Democrats largely caused.

00:02:42.720 So the Democrats are completely out of line with the American public.

00:02:47.880 I mean, just absurdly so out of line.

00:02:50.600 And I saw a montage of MSNBC guests saying that they thought 2022 was going to be,

00:03:01.160 if the Republicans sweep it like everybody expects,

00:03:05.020 that it'll be, fascism will be sweeping the country.

00:03:09.480 And fascism will take over in 2022.

00:03:12.240 Well, I mean, you still have, you know, Democrat presidents.

00:03:15.440 So, I don't know how much fascism you can get when you still have a split situation.

00:03:21.800 But I suppose whatever president came in in 2024 could change that.

00:03:28.660 Here's one of the absurdities.

00:03:32.160 Carol Roth tweeted this.

00:03:34.880 She said, so, talking about the Democrats,

00:03:37.420 so, they are really going with the, quote,

00:03:40.000 2020 elections were fair, and to even question it is not democratic.

00:03:44.240 Also, we need to enact voting changes to make sure elections are fair.

00:03:51.840 The Democrat proposal of what they can do for the country,

00:03:57.400 it doesn't even make sense.

00:04:00.340 It's not even something you could agree with or disagree,

00:04:03.140 because they can't even tell you if there's a problem.

00:04:06.940 Their top priority is something that the public doesn't seem to care about,

00:04:12.360 at least in the way they care about it.

00:04:14.240 And, it doesn't even make sense.

00:04:18.260 Like, it's not even something you could agree with or not agree with.

00:04:21.560 You just look at it and go, well, what?

00:04:24.340 Like, that's new, right?

00:04:25.720 Yeah, it's not even wrong.

00:04:27.320 It's neither right nor wrong.

00:04:28.820 It's just, wait, what?

00:04:31.600 The elections are perfectly good and also perfectly flawed.

00:04:34.960 So, if you don't fix the flawed part of the perfect election,

00:04:40.880 what?

00:04:42.020 What?

00:04:43.600 That's their top priority.

00:04:46.260 Top priority, right there.

00:04:48.380 Doesn't even make a fucking bit of sense.

00:04:51.700 All right.

00:04:51.980 And then, they've got the critical race theory, of course.

00:04:56.660 Where do you think that would show up on the list of the public's priorities?

00:05:02.440 Pretty low.

00:05:03.880 Pretty low.

00:05:05.100 Again, that's top priority.

00:05:06.720 Unbelievable.

00:05:10.600 Unbelievable.

00:05:11.760 All right.

00:05:11.960 Here's another thing that Trump fixed and the Democrats are breaking.

00:05:17.140 So, Kim Jong-un is thinking about doing some ICBM testing,

00:05:21.040 and maybe that would open up nuclear testing, etc.

00:05:24.060 To which I say, why?

00:05:28.240 What happened?

00:05:30.340 What happened to, we don't care about North Korea, 0.94

00:05:34.400 so it doesn't matter what you do?

00:05:37.280 I guess maybe it's just a, I'm going to get rid of Andrew for just being Andrew.

00:05:46.760 So, why do we care about North Korea?

00:05:51.120 It's always been a mystery to me.

00:05:52.360 But here's the weirder part.

00:05:55.460 Apparently, both Russia and China opposed any sanctions on North Korea.

00:06:00.360 I guess Biden was considering some new sanctions.

00:06:03.480 And, you know, I get why they might not want sanctions,

00:06:06.300 but do you think that Russia and China would be better off,

00:06:10.560 in their own opinion,

00:06:11.920 would they be better off if North Korea had nukes and ICBMs? 0.93

00:06:16.380 In what way does that make Russia and China safer?

00:06:19.120 Can somebody connect those dots?

00:06:24.460 Why is it that we're on a different side than Russia and China about North Korea?

00:06:30.860 Isn't the one thing that all of us would want is for them to leave us alone?

00:06:35.440 Is there anything else the big countries want?

00:06:39.620 Right?

00:06:40.960 They don't really have a, I don't think they really have a strategic importance.

00:06:45.560 You know, they're on the border there,

00:06:46.860 but it's not like we're going to mass an army on the border of China.

00:06:50.820 So what's the difference where they are?

00:06:52.340 Their geolocation doesn't seem to make any difference in, you know, the modern world.

00:06:57.900 It did at one point.

00:06:59.660 So why are we even having a disagreement about something we don't disagree about?

00:07:04.420 I don't think there's any fundamental reason we should be on a different side.

00:07:07.280 Why don't China, Russia, and the United States all just say,

00:07:13.440 you know what?

00:07:14.040 You know what would be great?

00:07:15.360 If we just all ignored North Korea, and then we say to North Korea, 0.97

00:07:19.280 if we do that, do you think you'd be cool with the nukes?

00:07:24.200 Probably.

00:07:25.220 I mean, I feel like you could work that out.

00:07:26.960 It seems like the easiest problem in the world to solve,

00:07:31.740 that somehow we're just making it worse.

00:07:34.020 You know, Trump fixed it, basically.

00:07:36.820 Nothing's ever fixed forever, but he fixed it temporarily.

00:07:40.420 And it looks like Democrats are breaking it.

00:07:42.900 Good job there.

00:07:45.760 Here's some dogs not barking.

00:07:49.380 Don't you think it's puzzling that nobody has ever produced a number,

00:07:54.960 even if it would be a debatable number, of course,

00:07:57.980 but a number for the monetary value of one immigrant

00:08:03.760 coming across the border undocumented?

00:08:07.980 Is the economics of that minus one or plus one?

00:08:11.740 Or is it minus one, the first generation,

00:08:14.880 and plus one by the second or third?

00:08:17.300 Sometimes it depends where the immigration is coming from.

00:08:20.560 But don't you think that we could come up with

00:08:22.720 at least a southern border calculation?

00:08:26.020 They would say what each person who comes across

00:08:29.560 either adds or subtracts on average.

00:08:32.840 Right?

00:08:33.020 Each person would be different.

00:08:34.600 But on average, wouldn't you love to hear,

00:08:37.740 well, we let, I don't know what the numbers are,

00:08:40.660 1,000 immigrants in today.

00:08:42.280 So that's a million dollars we added to the GDP.

00:08:48.420 You know, there are downsides as well, of course.

00:08:51.360 But we added a million dollars to the GDP.

00:08:53.940 Or, or, we let in 1,000 people on the southern border,

00:08:59.880 and our GDP went down by a million dollars.

00:09:04.420 It's one of those things.

00:09:06.740 Do you tell me we can't calculate that?

00:09:08.500 Or, you know, at least an estimate or range or something?

00:09:11.680 Because one of the problems with issues

00:09:14.100 that are not measured correctly

00:09:16.180 is that you can't manage them.

00:09:18.280 You can't manage something you don't measure.

00:09:22.820 And the way we're measuring it

00:09:23.960 is just number of bodies that came across the border.

00:09:27.540 Does that make sense?

00:09:29.500 Right?

00:09:30.080 We're just counting number of people coming across.

00:09:31.880 That's the only metric.

00:09:33.260 How in the world can you manage a situation

00:09:35.320 when your metric is the wrong metric?

00:09:39.000 Because we don't even agree what the number is

00:09:41.120 that would be the right number.

00:09:42.940 So if we're counting the number of people

00:09:44.680 who come across,

00:09:46.260 and that number doesn't relate to anything

00:09:48.960 in the real world,

00:09:50.780 did that cost me money or make me money?

00:09:53.700 I mean, that matters.

00:09:55.240 If you tell me this will cost me money,

00:09:57.580 then I have an opinion.

00:09:59.140 If you say this will make me money,

00:10:01.220 then I have an opinion.

00:10:02.060 If you tell me 1,000 people came over the border,

00:10:05.100 I say, and?

00:10:08.240 And?

00:10:09.940 That's really big?

00:10:12.220 Is it really small?

00:10:14.240 Do I make money?

00:10:15.340 Do I lose money?

00:10:16.400 You know, is there more crime, less crime?

00:10:18.860 I have no idea.

00:10:20.880 I have no idea.

00:10:22.040 You know what else I don't know?

00:10:23.940 I don't know if illegal immigration

00:10:25.720 lowers or raises crime rates.

00:10:29.160 It increases crime

00:10:31.340 because there are more humans.

00:10:33.580 You know, wherever there are more humans,

00:10:34.700 there's more crime.

00:10:35.820 But is the average crime rate

00:10:37.920 of an immigrant coming across the southern border

00:10:41.760 similar to the average crime rate

00:10:44.560 of the citizens?

00:10:47.380 I don't know.

00:10:47.960 If you take out the things

00:10:49.100 that are sort of victimless,

00:10:51.240 such as, you know,

00:10:52.500 well, you could argue what's victimless,

00:10:54.300 but the ones that don't have, like,

00:10:55.560 somebody dying at the moment,

00:10:56.860 such as crossing the border illegally,

00:10:59.360 if you took out the illegal component

00:11:02.920 of the actual immigration,

00:11:06.060 would they do less stealing

00:11:09.140 than the average person who's already here?

00:11:11.460 Or more?

00:11:13.060 How many of you even know

00:11:13.940 the answer to that question?

00:11:15.800 Here's the reason I ask.

00:11:18.640 The people that I trust the most in my house

00:11:21.560 are usually people who are immigrants at one point.

00:11:24.900 And especially the ones

00:11:28.740 who came from South America.

00:11:31.960 And the reason is that

00:11:33.400 they're really, really trying to stay in this country.

00:11:38.320 And to me, just observationally,

00:11:41.840 this is just anecdotal.

00:11:43.420 So it's anecdotal,

00:11:44.340 and it's limited to my little bubble here.

00:11:46.680 But anecdotally,

00:11:47.800 they have a lower crime rate.

00:11:50.760 Does anybody else have that experience?

00:11:52.600 I don't know if you live

00:11:54.100 where there are a lot of illegal aliens.

00:11:56.540 But I assume it matters

00:11:57.800 if you're in the inner city

00:11:58.860 versus a nice suburb where I am.

00:12:01.180 But where I am,

00:12:01.980 let's say a low crime area,

00:12:05.480 where it used to be.

00:12:07.140 In a low crime area,

00:12:08.560 do the people who came in to work

00:12:10.240 have a higher or lower crime rate

00:12:13.660 once they get here?

00:12:17.180 I'm looking at your answers.

00:12:18.560 I'm seeing some people say lower.

00:12:19.760 Yeah, they lay low

00:12:23.840 because they try to stay out of trouble.

00:12:26.840 Right?

00:12:27.360 I don't even think they drive as fast.

00:12:30.740 Do you know what's the worst thing

00:12:31.820 that could happen to you

00:12:32.700 if you're an illegal immigrant in America?

00:12:36.640 Get pulled over for a traffic infraction.

00:12:40.040 Because it's goodbye.

00:12:42.640 Right?

00:12:43.220 So I don't know this for sure,

00:12:45.800 but I'll bet the safest drivers on the road

00:12:47.660 are illegal immigrants.

00:12:48.640 Because if I crash,

00:12:51.220 I've just got a problem with the crash.

00:12:53.120 But if they crash,

00:12:54.360 their whole life changes.

00:12:56.120 There's no way that's the same.

00:12:58.660 So,

00:12:59.780 do they have insurance?

00:13:03.160 Oh, that's a good question.

00:13:04.800 So all of those things should be put in.

00:13:06.340 Yeah, do they have insurance?

00:13:08.080 If they had an accident,

00:13:09.660 you know,

00:13:10.120 that is a cost to society in some way.

00:13:12.860 Anyway,

00:13:15.860 I just wonder why we don't have

00:13:17.080 an economic calculation on that.

00:13:19.100 It's probably not an accident.

00:13:22.080 Here's another one that says,

00:13:23.580 dog not barking.

00:13:24.600 Have we yet found that one person

00:13:26.280 who couldn't figure out how to vote? 0.77

00:13:29.760 Or who was stymied

00:13:31.060 by the hours that things were opened

00:13:33.640 or the way people had to vote?

00:13:36.160 Have we yet found the one person?

00:13:39.120 Do you know why you can't find that person?

00:13:41.820 Because the moment you found them,

00:13:44.640 their problem would be solved.

00:13:47.660 In other words,

00:13:48.800 finding the person who doesn't know how to vote

00:13:51.040 turns them immediately into a person

00:13:53.800 who does know how to vote.

00:13:54.820 Because if they wanted to,

00:13:56.920 they'd just say,

00:13:57.500 you know,

00:13:57.700 I don't know how to vote.

00:13:58.480 How do I do it?

00:13:59.100 And you'd say,

00:13:59.500 oh, let me show you.

00:14:00.680 Here, you're registered.

00:14:01.760 Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.

00:14:02.800 I just did it on my phone for you.

00:14:06.500 So everybody who doesn't know how to vote

00:14:10.480 could solve their problem

00:14:12.200 just by asking somebody who does.

00:14:14.860 That would solve their entire problem.

00:14:16.720 How would you like a huge national problem

00:14:20.400 that could be solved this way?

00:14:23.300 Oh, we've got this big problem

00:14:24.580 various parts of our society

00:14:27.600 and especially we think minorities

00:14:29.740 may not be able to vote

00:14:31.420 because of various obstacles.

00:14:34.080 Let me suggest a solution.

00:14:36.820 Why don't you talk to somebody

00:14:38.020 who knows how to vote?

00:14:39.920 Just ask them.

00:14:41.620 You don't think they can answer

00:14:42.480 that question for you?

00:14:44.380 100% of the people who know how to vote

00:14:46.420 can answer the question,

00:14:48.040 how do you vote?

00:14:49.420 Pretty easily.

00:14:51.060 That would probably even help you.

00:14:53.040 Could you imagine if somebody,

00:14:54.160 they wanted to vote

00:14:55.560 and you knew how

00:14:57.940 and they asked you,

00:15:00.000 would you not offer help?

00:15:02.760 I mean, seriously.

00:15:05.320 You would, of course.

00:15:06.860 Because it's not even hard.

00:15:08.960 You know, I assume it's harder

00:15:10.140 if they don't have access

00:15:11.740 to technology or something.

00:15:13.400 But you could even do that for them.

00:15:15.520 You could just say, you know,

00:15:16.600 here, let me Google this.

00:15:17.580 Oh, if you don't have a smartphone,

00:15:19.540 you could just go down to the post office.

00:15:21.000 I don't even know how you do it.

00:15:22.380 I don't know how you do it

00:15:23.280 if you don't have electronics.

00:15:24.600 But I'm pretty sure I could Google it

00:15:26.060 in about a minute.

00:15:27.100 Oh, here it is.

00:15:27.660 Just go down to the post office

00:15:28.740 or whatever.

00:15:29.800 Mail this or maybe go to a website.

00:15:32.320 You just do it for them.

00:15:33.180 It's literally the world's easiest problem

00:15:37.160 to solve.

00:15:38.760 Imagine if you could solve climate change

00:15:41.400 this way.

00:15:43.340 Hey, Bob,

00:15:44.640 I don't know how to solve climate change.

00:15:46.820 Do you?

00:15:47.100 Could you tell me how?

00:15:48.240 Oh, it's that easy?

00:15:49.940 Oh, okay, I'll just do that.

00:15:52.740 Climate change solved.

00:15:55.160 Fentanyl?

00:15:56.320 Oh, I just have to ask a friend

00:15:58.160 how to stop the fentanyl problem?

00:16:00.120 I mean, just any friend?

00:16:03.640 Literally, I could just stop somebody

00:16:05.120 on the highway or on the street

00:16:07.940 and I could say,

00:16:09.340 hey, how do you solve this fentanyl problem?

00:16:11.240 And they would just tell me

00:16:11.920 and then the problem would be solved.

00:16:14.200 The only problem in the world

00:16:15.800 that you could solve

00:16:16.540 just by talking to anybody.

00:16:20.200 Anybody.

00:16:21.240 You could walk into a crowd,

00:16:23.380 close your eyes,

00:16:25.280 and just go like this

00:16:26.560 until you touch somebody on the shoulder

00:16:27.940 and say, oh, hey, excuse me?

00:16:31.440 Could you help me?

00:16:32.180 I don't know how to vote.

00:16:34.200 Do you think that person

00:16:35.140 would be able to help them?

00:16:36.900 Probably.

00:16:37.980 The world's easiest problem to solve.

00:16:42.920 And we don't really need our republic

00:16:45.240 to have more people

00:16:46.160 who can't figure out

00:16:47.020 how to solve that problem

00:16:48.040 to be adding to our decision-making,

00:16:51.940 if I may be so impolite.

00:16:54.600 Well, let's talk about February 1.

00:17:00.700 So, Feb 1, the public is done.

00:17:02.720 We're trying to get behind this hashtag

00:17:04.380 so that we can, let's see,

00:17:07.020 assist our government

00:17:08.000 in making the decision it needs to make.

00:17:10.720 Now, some of you are from other places

00:17:12.980 with other governments,

00:17:14.120 and I'm hoping you can get in on this as well.

00:17:16.940 But there are things working in our favor.

00:17:19.180 However, deaths are still declining, I think.

00:17:22.520 Give me a confirmation.

00:17:23.980 COVID deaths are declining, right?

00:17:25.860 Pretty much everywhere.

00:17:27.980 So that's good.

00:17:28.680 Even though infections are up,

00:17:32.540 deaths are declining, I think.

00:17:33.880 We've got the COVID pills coming, right?

00:17:36.800 We've got the rapid tests coming.

00:17:39.160 These are all, like, in the next few days, right?

00:17:41.540 I don't know how...

00:17:42.900 Can somebody give me a fact check

00:17:44.500 on when the first day

00:17:46.780 you could get a COVID pill,

00:17:48.380 you know, one of the approved

00:17:49.440 COVID treatment pills?

00:17:52.380 Does anybody know when that's going to happen?

00:17:53.880 I haven't seen a date for that.

00:17:55.980 Now?

00:17:57.080 Is that right?

00:17:57.800 Somebody says March?

00:18:00.280 Other people are saying right now.

00:18:01.760 I'm a little skeptical about right now.

00:18:04.820 Oh, actually, enough people are saying right now

00:18:06.680 that maybe that's convincing me.

00:18:09.360 Okay.

00:18:10.060 So you're going to have your rapid tests pretty soon.

00:18:12.140 I've already ordered mine

00:18:13.180 from the free government website.

00:18:16.260 Thank you, Omar, for the link.

00:18:20.040 And WHO, the WHO,

00:18:24.340 I saw a clip saying

00:18:25.380 they can think of no reason to boost kids.

00:18:27.800 So we're thinking we don't need boosters for kids,

00:18:31.080 or at least, who says that?

00:18:33.720 The French, following the UK's lead, 0.95

00:18:37.580 the UK lifted a lot of restrictions.

00:18:40.560 I think they lifted them all.

00:18:42.720 Did the UK lift all the restrictions?

00:18:44.840 I need a fact check on that.

00:18:46.320 France did not lift all the restrictions,

00:18:48.140 but they're opening up quite a bit,

00:18:51.200 but they're still requiring masks indoors.

00:18:53.180 So France, good move. 0.96

00:18:56.740 You're in the right direction.

00:18:58.860 It's the right timing.

00:18:59.840 It's the right direction.

00:19:01.100 But think about the masks.

00:19:03.480 It's time.

00:19:04.980 Now, what did I tell you?

00:19:06.680 Does anybody remember me telling you

00:19:09.020 that after UK went,

00:19:10.580 who I wanted next?

00:19:12.300 Does anybody remember that?

00:19:13.260 Yeah.

00:19:16.260 After the UK made their announcement,

00:19:18.280 and I was saying France.

00:19:20.140 Come on, France. 0.85

00:19:21.700 Because you always root for France 1.00

00:19:23.880 when it's a question of freedom, right?

00:19:26.380 Because France is sort of synonymous with freedom,

00:19:28.840 historically,

00:19:30.420 as well as tied with our own freedom.

00:19:33.420 And it's weird,

00:19:34.220 we have this weird,

00:19:35.260 in the United States,

00:19:36.100 we have this weird French connection,

00:19:37.760 if you know what I mean.

00:19:38.900 It's like this weird historical connection

00:19:41.120 that seems permanent.

00:19:44.160 I don't know if anything's permanent.

00:19:45.860 But it seems permanent.

00:19:46.960 Like we're somehow connected

00:19:48.460 in this whole freedom thing.

00:19:51.400 Not so much connected in the other ways.

00:19:54.560 But France and the United States

00:19:57.100 do have this unspoken,

00:19:59.780 well, maybe it's spoken,

00:20:01.220 you know, Statue of Liberty.

00:20:02.100 I guess that's pretty spoken.

00:20:04.160 I was going to say it's an unspoken understanding,

00:20:06.440 but it's pretty spoken.

00:20:08.440 And it meant a lot to me

00:20:10.640 to see France making a move.

00:20:12.900 Not enough.

00:20:14.760 Not enough.

00:20:15.640 Got to get rid of those masks.

00:20:21.080 So, and the other thing is that Omicron

00:20:23.060 is basically the primary virus now.

00:20:26.900 I guess there's a D.C. march.

00:20:29.260 How many of you know about that?

00:20:31.360 Do you know that there's,

00:20:32.320 I think it's Sunday?

00:20:33.900 There's a march in D.C. to drop mandates.

00:20:36.220 How many of you are aware of that?

00:20:37.620 I don't even know if I have the details right

00:20:39.120 because I haven't seen,

00:20:40.380 I've only seen references to it.

00:20:42.160 I haven't seen like a flyer or something.

00:20:45.420 All right.

00:20:45.700 Well, before you go,

00:20:46.520 make sure it's not organized by neo-Nazis.

00:20:49.520 And that's just good,

00:20:50.440 that's just good form.

00:20:52.520 Anytime you're going to a political demonstration,

00:20:54.080 make sure you look at the flyer.

00:21:00.540 Don't make the mistake that a lot of people did

00:21:02.440 in Charlottesville in 2018.

00:21:05.420 I talked to one of them

00:21:06.720 who hadn't seen the flyer.

00:21:09.020 He went to the event

00:21:09.880 and then later he saw the flyer.

00:21:12.280 He's like, oh, shit.

00:21:13.020 I went to a neo-Nazi march accidentally.

00:21:18.520 That actually happened.

00:21:20.120 I actually talked to somebody who did that.

00:21:23.460 So before you go to any political things,

00:21:26.080 just make sure you see the flyer.

00:21:28.240 All right.

00:21:28.520 Thomas Massey is, you know,

00:21:35.660 one of the leaders, I think,

00:21:37.480 in the government

00:21:38.080 for getting rid of the mandates.

00:21:40.380 He also tested positive for COVID,

00:21:42.860 possibly for the second time.

00:21:44.680 He thinks he might have had it once before,

00:21:46.580 but he just got some sniffles for a day

00:21:48.340 and he was fine.

00:21:50.320 But he is,

00:21:52.540 and I guess the DC vaccine mandates kicked in

00:21:55.700 and Thomas Massey said

00:21:58.780 that my office will not comply.

00:22:01.220 We will not show papers,

00:22:02.620 meaning to eat at a restaurant, I guess.

00:22:05.560 We will not order takeout from restaurants

00:22:07.500 that require papers for dine-in.

00:22:09.660 We will get our food from Virginia

00:22:11.540 or we will bring it to work.

00:22:14.280 Shame has befallen our nation's capital.

00:22:18.360 So you've got, you know,

00:22:20.240 correct me if I'm wrong,

00:22:23.520 but the movement is in one direction.

00:22:25.700 Can I say that?

00:22:28.860 Is the movement pretty much

00:22:30.780 all in one direction at this point?

00:22:33.200 It looks like it.

00:22:34.280 Now, there's not enough.

00:22:35.780 I mean, I think you're just seeing,

00:22:37.380 like, the first domino.

00:22:38.800 You're now seeing, like, dominoes a little bit.

00:22:42.520 Yeah, that is old news,

00:22:44.080 but I'm looking at just the trend line

00:22:46.080 of things that are moving in that direction.

00:22:47.360 Yeah, J.P. Sears apparently is one of the hosts

00:22:54.360 of this D.C. thing.

00:22:56.660 And if you don't know, J.P. Sears is a very gifted,

00:23:01.320 would you call him comedian?

00:23:02.860 He does videos that are parodies,

00:23:04.940 and they're really well done.

00:23:07.880 You should follow him.

00:23:09.800 Here's my take on, you know,

00:23:12.460 if I had to pick one thing about the mandates,

00:23:15.840 it would be masks on kids.

00:23:18.440 Would you agree?

00:23:20.300 Now, I suppose if you're in a situation

00:23:22.160 where the vaccines are mandated,

00:23:24.080 that's worse.

00:23:25.820 Well, maybe.

00:23:26.820 I guess that's worse.

00:23:28.580 I'm not in that situation.

00:23:30.100 I don't have any mandates for vaccines.

00:23:32.400 But would we agree that masks on kids

00:23:34.820 would be the first thing you would target

00:23:36.560 if you wanted to change one thing?

00:23:39.160 Like, I'm sort of ambivalent

00:23:41.240 about masks in grocery stores, honestly,

00:23:45.140 because I don't spend much time there,

00:23:46.900 you know, half an hour a week or something.

00:23:49.120 And, you know, I could deal with that.

00:23:51.300 But watching kids put masks on

00:23:53.480 to go to school is torture.

00:23:56.320 Do you have that?

00:23:57.480 Do you have that feeling?

00:23:58.860 It's just torture

00:23:59.640 to watch kids put masks on and go to school.

00:24:03.100 And my brain can't even hold that.

00:24:07.680 So, here's a question I've got.

00:24:13.860 When do the kids start leading?

00:24:16.960 And are they capable of doing that anymore?

00:24:21.120 Do you have this same feeling that I had

00:24:23.880 that being 16 when I was a kid

00:24:27.200 is just not the same as 16 today?

00:24:31.520 In lots of ways.

00:24:33.060 In lots of ways.

00:24:34.200 But they're really different, right?

00:24:36.960 When I was 16,

00:24:38.520 it would have been normal

00:24:40.000 for us to already be organizing

00:24:42.900 a protest against masks.

00:24:44.620 Is there anybody in my age range

00:24:47.340 who could confirm that?

00:24:49.820 Let me say it a different way.

00:24:52.660 My generation would have already

00:24:54.160 been done with this

00:24:55.200 because the kids would have revolted.

00:24:59.120 Right?

00:25:00.200 Now, or is this just old man talking?

00:25:02.600 Am I just old man yelling at the clouds?

00:25:05.480 Because it could be, right?

00:25:06.740 You have to always guard against

00:25:08.360 you just became old

00:25:09.320 and now you're just saying

00:25:10.140 old people and stuff.

00:25:11.240 But it does look different to me.

00:25:14.680 When I look at the teens in my town,

00:25:20.260 I don't see any fight.

00:25:23.600 I don't see any fight in them.

00:25:26.000 They just march to school.

00:25:28.320 I can't even imagine that.

00:25:29.760 Because, you know,

00:25:30.120 I grew up in the Vietnam War protest era,

00:25:34.620 hippies, you know, Woodstock,

00:25:36.220 all that stuff.

00:25:37.020 I just can't imagine

00:25:38.120 that we would have put up with that

00:25:39.340 for this long.

00:25:40.680 I mean, we might have done it temporarily.

00:25:43.380 But I've got a super racist question to ask.

00:25:50.780 But I'm going to try to make this

00:25:52.360 like the opposite of that.

00:25:54.420 Somebody's going to take it as racist,

00:25:55.740 so it'll get taken out of context.

00:25:57.720 But I guess it is racist.

00:26:00.480 I think it is racist.

00:26:02.220 All right, so let me self-identify

00:26:03.940 as saying something racist.

00:26:06.060 The only reason I can say this

00:26:07.320 is because I identify as black.

00:26:10.620 Now, if you're new to me,

00:26:12.380 I've been identifying as black

00:26:13.680 for at least a year

00:26:15.060 because I have an affinity for that

00:26:18.120 because I've lost several jobs

00:26:19.560 to racial discrimination.

00:26:22.000 True story.

00:26:23.200 If you don't know about it,

00:26:24.960 just accept that the other people

00:26:27.380 watching this do know the story.

00:26:28.860 So I have lost three jobs

00:26:31.180 for being a white guy.

00:26:32.640 That's a true story.

00:26:34.020 So I have an affinity for anybody

00:26:35.900 who is suffering racial discrimination

00:26:37.660 because it's one of the biggest

00:26:39.460 influences in my life.

00:26:41.980 So I'm going to say something

00:26:43.820 super racist right now.

00:26:46.340 You may never see me again.

00:26:49.320 Here it is.

00:26:50.100 I want a photograph,

00:26:54.420 not a posed photograph,

00:26:56.960 but a spontaneously taken photograph

00:26:58.920 with a smartphone

00:26:59.860 of a mostly black class.

00:27:05.140 So the students are,

00:27:06.140 let's say, mostly black.

00:27:07.800 And then let's say an inner city place

00:27:09.440 where masks are required.

00:27:14.140 Do you think

00:27:15.260 that a mostly black classroom

00:27:18.340 in an inner city,

00:27:19.620 you can get a picture

00:27:21.240 of them sitting quietly

00:27:23.360 at their desks

00:27:24.260 with all their masks on

00:27:25.740 and worn properly?

00:27:28.720 Because here's the racist part.

00:27:31.400 Black people still have some fight.

00:27:34.080 Am I wrong?

00:27:35.560 I mean, it's super racist,

00:27:37.000 so I'm just going to say it.

00:27:39.360 Black people in this country

00:27:40.640 still have lots of fight.

00:27:43.260 I'm not wrong about that.

00:27:45.180 You know I'm not wrong about that.

00:27:47.180 It's racist.

00:27:48.340 It's totally racist.

00:27:50.140 But I'm not wrong.

00:27:52.000 They still have fight.

00:27:53.660 I want to see a picture

00:27:55.180 of one mostly black classroom,

00:28:00.680 let's say age 16.

00:28:04.620 Just one.

00:28:05.660 Just show me one actual natural picture,

00:28:07.980 they're not posed,

00:28:09.440 where they're wearing their masks

00:28:10.980 in the class.

00:28:12.180 I don't think you can find one.

00:28:15.240 And I don't think anybody

00:28:16.240 will tell you that.

00:28:17.000 Am I wrong?

00:28:20.220 It's sort of the dog

00:28:21.460 that's not barking.

00:28:23.380 I want to see one picture

00:28:25.120 of black kids

00:28:26.540 with masks in school

00:28:27.900 because I don't think

00:28:28.520 they would put up with it.

00:28:29.660 They still have fight.

00:28:31.340 Kids in my town,

00:28:33.480 no fight.

00:28:34.920 No fight at all.

00:28:36.100 They'll just do what they're told.

00:28:37.780 There's got to be somebody

00:28:39.420 in this whole fucking country

00:28:41.180 who can put up a little fight.

00:28:43.120 And I'm going to hope

00:28:45.100 that it's going to be led

00:28:48.000 by the kids.

00:28:49.580 And if it's going to be led

00:28:50.680 by the kids,

00:28:51.520 I don't know if the white kids

00:28:52.720 have any fight left in them.

00:28:54.400 I really don't.

00:28:55.880 I just don't know.

00:28:57.560 So maybe the black students 0.95

00:29:00.160 are going to have to lead us

00:29:01.180 out of this,

00:29:02.040 which would be terrific,

00:29:03.200 by the way.

00:29:05.440 Take some leadership.

00:29:06.280 You know,

00:29:07.820 it's kind of interesting

00:29:08.520 because,

00:29:09.320 you know,

00:29:11.680 the Republicans

00:29:12.920 and a lot of the black population

00:29:14.540 are agreeing

00:29:15.040 on a lot of the COVID stuff.

00:29:17.280 And if you ever wanted

00:29:19.240 to make yourself

00:29:21.760 beloved by Republicans

00:29:23.520 while getting

00:29:24.700 what you want for yourself,

00:29:26.840 do this.

00:29:28.880 If you want Republicans

00:29:30.480 to respect you

00:29:31.540 more than whatever

00:29:33.420 you imagine

00:29:34.020 you're already respected,

00:29:34.980 and who wouldn't want that?

00:29:36.280 Just show us how to fight.

00:29:40.480 Please.

00:29:41.600 Please.

00:29:42.240 Just show us how to fight

00:29:43.260 because we don't know how anymore.

00:29:45.860 All right.

00:29:46.200 I'm exaggerating a little bit,

00:29:47.360 but you get the point.

00:29:48.500 Let's talk about Russia and Ukraine.

00:29:51.140 We're not going to have

00:29:52.000 a war with Russia.

00:29:54.800 Do any of you think

00:29:55.860 that we're on the cusp

00:29:58.580 of the United States

00:30:00.360 and Russia

00:30:01.500 having a shooting war?

00:30:02.480 Who in the world

00:30:04.560 thinks that's possible?

00:30:06.960 Do you know why

00:30:07.620 it's not possible?

00:30:09.240 Because of Putin.

00:30:10.600 You know,

00:30:11.580 there may be some country

00:30:12.560 that's dumb enough

00:30:13.320 to take a shot at him,

00:30:14.860 but he's not dumb enough

00:30:16.100 to shoot back.

00:30:17.500 Is he?

00:30:18.700 I mean,

00:30:19.340 I don't think so.

00:30:20.820 And now,

00:30:21.200 you could imagine that,

00:30:22.320 you know,

00:30:22.520 there would be mistakes, right?

00:30:24.360 Things would

00:30:25.040 spin out of control,

00:30:26.800 whatever.

00:30:26.940 No,

00:30:27.540 that's not going to happen

00:30:28.340 because literally

00:30:29.300 100% of the people

00:30:30.460 over there

00:30:30.840 don't want anybody

00:30:31.560 to be shot.

00:30:32.720 The minimum requirement

00:30:34.020 for a war

00:30:34.640 is that somebody

00:30:35.220 wants one.

00:30:37.520 Who wants it?

00:30:39.400 I don't think

00:30:40.160 Putin wants it.

00:30:41.080 I think he wants

00:30:41.560 to push as hard

00:30:42.280 as he can

00:30:42.780 to get whatever

00:30:43.360 he can with that war.

00:30:45.260 Now,

00:30:45.520 if it looked like,

00:30:46.660 you know,

00:30:47.160 we would tolerate

00:30:48.840 a minor incursion

00:30:49.980 or something,

00:30:50.920 you know,

00:30:51.100 he might try to push

00:30:51.960 everywhere he can push,

00:30:53.680 but everybody does that.

00:30:55.860 Everybody's going to push

00:30:56.640 every door that's open

00:30:57.520 if they're a leader.

00:31:00.300 So,

00:31:00.940 I don't want to get

00:31:02.120 totally gaslighted

00:31:05.220 or brainwashed

00:31:06.220 or whatever's happening

00:31:07.080 into thinking

00:31:08.280 that there's even

00:31:09.040 a possibility

00:31:09.720 of war with Russia.

00:31:11.500 And by the way,

00:31:12.820 if we find ourselves

00:31:13.900 in a war with Russia,

00:31:15.080 it's time to overthrow

00:31:15.920 our government.

00:31:19.500 I mean,

00:31:20.260 I assume every situation

00:31:21.380 would be unique,

00:31:22.400 you know,

00:31:22.780 but it's hard to imagine.

00:31:24.540 But if we blunder

00:31:25.520 into a shooting war

00:31:26.820 with Russia,

00:31:27.360 you just have to get rid

00:31:28.180 of the whole government.

00:31:29.580 Like,

00:31:29.760 that's the point

00:31:30.380 where you would march

00:31:31.240 onto your capital,

00:31:32.500 right?

00:31:33.000 Except that would be

00:31:33.740 the real one,

00:31:34.900 you know,

00:31:35.080 not the protest one.

00:31:38.180 If Biden brings us

00:31:39.820 into a shooting war

00:31:40.820 with Russia,

00:31:41.800 we need to go

00:31:42.680 to the capital

00:31:43.200 and get rid of Biden. 0.85

00:31:45.480 So it's just

00:31:46.160 not going to happen,

00:31:47.360 right?

00:31:47.880 Now,

00:31:48.400 I can talk tough

00:31:49.520 because it's never

00:31:50.480 going to happen,

00:31:51.020 right?

00:31:51.160 He's not going to go

00:31:51.760 to war with Russia.

00:31:53.860 So,

00:31:54.460 Tucker Carlson

00:31:55.820 has been asking

00:31:56.560 exactly the right question.

00:31:58.060 Why are we pushing

00:31:58.800 Putin

00:31:59.280 into getting closer

00:32:00.900 to China?

00:32:02.180 Because that's

00:32:03.180 sort of the default,

00:32:04.160 right?

00:32:04.940 Putin is probably

00:32:05.860 going to need

00:32:06.280 one of the two

00:32:06.940 superpowers

00:32:07.540 on his side.

00:32:08.860 Or he could play

00:32:09.660 us both,

00:32:10.080 I suppose.

00:32:11.220 But why don't

00:32:13.800 we get him

00:32:14.220 on our side?

00:32:16.820 Here's what's

00:32:17.520 missing and what

00:32:18.380 Trump could have

00:32:19.100 done,

00:32:19.600 maybe.

00:32:20.820 Well,

00:32:21.100 no,

00:32:21.300 even Trump

00:32:21.680 could have

00:32:21.960 done this

00:32:22.320 because Trump

00:32:23.620 was too tarred

00:32:24.500 with the pro-Russia

00:32:26.100 brush,

00:32:26.840 so he couldn't

00:32:27.500 have done this.

00:32:28.860 But if the Democrats

00:32:30.040 had not ruined

00:32:30.920 his Russia-dealing

00:32:33.300 reputation

00:32:34.080 by making Russia 0.51

00:32:35.760 collusion

00:32:36.220 a fake story

00:32:37.040 for years,

00:32:38.400 Trump could have

00:32:39.100 easily said

00:32:39.780 this.

00:32:42.280 Why is Russia 0.58

00:32:43.900 and the United States

00:32:44.640 at odds at all?

00:32:46.140 We have no

00:32:46.780 strategic,

00:32:47.800 long-term

00:32:49.560 disagreements.

00:32:51.960 I think the

00:32:52.940 question should be

00:32:53.800 how to fold

00:32:54.680 Russia into NATO.

00:32:56.560 I mean,

00:32:57.040 not literally,

00:32:58.200 but how to make

00:32:58.780 Russia part of

00:32:59.640 our security

00:33:00.760 apparatus,

00:33:03.100 not NATO.

00:33:03.800 but why

00:33:05.620 aren't we

00:33:05.940 saying instead

00:33:06.580 of how do

00:33:07.280 we defend

00:33:07.800 against you,

00:33:09.300 why aren't

00:33:09.720 we saying

00:33:10.220 why aren't

00:33:10.640 you on the

00:33:11.000 same team?

00:33:12.640 Somebody said

00:33:13.160 he said that.

00:33:13.820 Who said that?

00:33:16.160 Who's he?

00:33:17.580 Trump did

00:33:18.200 say that?

00:33:19.380 When did he

00:33:19.840 say that?

00:33:20.260 After the

00:33:20.800 presidency or

00:33:21.380 during?

00:33:24.920 During.

00:33:25.860 Interesting.

00:33:26.660 So he

00:33:26.960 actually said

00:33:27.560 out loud

00:33:28.040 that we

00:33:28.820 should be

00:33:29.100 on the

00:33:29.300 same team

00:33:29.860 as Russia

00:33:30.500 for security

00:33:31.180 reasons?

00:33:33.800 The CIA

00:33:35.700 saw Trump's

00:33:37.160 intentions

00:33:37.580 and then

00:33:38.000 took him

00:33:38.280 out with

00:33:38.580 a Russia 0.89

00:33:38.960 hoax.

00:33:39.820 Well,

00:33:40.040 I'll be

00:33:40.220 damned.

00:33:41.240 Well,

00:33:41.460 that was

00:33:41.700 exactly the

00:33:42.240 right thing

00:33:42.540 to say.

00:33:43.280 And then

00:33:43.640 the suggestion

00:33:44.700 here is

00:33:45.500 that the

00:33:45.800 CIA couldn't

00:33:46.560 handle being

00:33:47.960 friends with

00:33:48.420 Russia,

00:33:49.680 so they

00:33:50.160 took Trump

00:33:50.800 out or

00:33:51.560 tried to

00:33:51.960 with a

00:33:52.200 Russia

00:33:52.400 collusion

00:33:52.820 hoax.

00:33:53.980 I don't

00:33:54.500 know that

00:33:54.800 that's

00:33:55.060 true,

00:33:56.040 but at

00:33:57.140 least the

00:33:57.860 parts fit.

00:33:59.640 At least

00:34:00.280 there's a

00:34:01.840 logical way

00:34:02.520 that that

00:34:02.860 could be

00:34:03.320 true.

00:34:04.760 It's

00:34:05.260 believable.

00:34:06.660 I'm not

00:34:07.220 at

00:34:08.180 believing.

00:34:09.680 I suspect

00:34:11.220 that the

00:34:11.660 Russia

00:34:11.860 collusion

00:34:12.240 thing was

00:34:12.720 maybe more

00:34:13.460 connected

00:34:13.980 to just

00:34:15.540 politics

00:34:16.160 than

00:34:16.620 really

00:34:17.260 Russia.

00:34:26.800 Russia

00:34:27.400 is

00:34:27.640 Christian

00:34:28.180 orthodox.

00:34:28.960 They don't

00:34:29.200 trust our

00:34:29.660 third world

00:34:30.280 democratic

00:34:30.860 utopia.

00:34:31.520 They don't

00:34:31.820 have to

00:34:32.080 trust us.

00:34:32.760 do you

00:34:34.260 think they

00:34:34.560 trust

00:34:34.860 China? 0.73

00:34:36.220 A lot

00:34:36.980 of these

00:34:37.240 alliances

00:34:37.620 are not

00:34:38.040 really

00:34:38.500 trust-based.

00:34:39.480 They're

00:34:39.580 just

00:34:39.740 self-interest

00:34:40.220 based.

00:34:41.020 That's

00:34:41.580 the thing,

00:34:42.520 is that

00:34:42.800 Russia's 0.70

00:34:43.720 self-interest

00:34:44.260 and the

00:34:44.760 United States'

00:34:45.380 self-interest,

00:34:46.720 it would be

00:34:47.420 so easy to

00:34:48.140 make them

00:34:48.460 identical.

00:34:49.720 Wouldn't

00:34:50.260 it?

00:34:51.400 I mean,

00:34:51.940 we'd have a

00:34:52.460 little bit of

00:34:52.900 competition for

00:34:53.800 energy, but

00:34:54.960 that's just

00:34:55.340 competition.

00:34:56.100 That's okay.

00:34:56.540 How many

00:35:00.300 of you

00:35:00.560 are watching

00:35:01.040 the saga

00:35:01.780 of Matt

00:35:02.660 Walsh

00:35:03.220 appearing on

00:35:04.520 Dr. Phil?

00:35:06.420 That turned

00:35:07.100 out to be a

00:35:07.700 way better

00:35:08.060 story than

00:35:08.580 I thought

00:35:08.880 it was

00:35:09.080 going to

00:35:09.280 be.

00:35:10.460 If you're

00:35:11.160 not following

00:35:11.920 the clips

00:35:12.520 and the

00:35:13.420 back and

00:35:13.840 forth on

00:35:14.280 that,

00:35:15.280 and I'm

00:35:15.960 not even

00:35:16.260 going to

00:35:16.600 get into

00:35:17.100 the politics

00:35:17.660 of it,

00:35:18.300 that's

00:35:18.780 separate,

00:35:20.200 but watching

00:35:22.020 that back

00:35:22.600 and forth

00:35:23.160 was just

00:35:23.780 really

00:35:24.260 interesting.

00:35:25.200 And I'm

00:35:25.480 not going

00:35:25.740 to tell

00:35:26.420 you that

00:35:26.680 I agree

00:35:27.280 with Matt

00:35:28.600 Walsh on

00:35:29.180 all of

00:35:29.520 this.

00:35:32.180 Here's

00:35:32.620 where we

00:35:32.940 disagree.

00:35:35.320 He's one

00:35:35.940 of the few

00:35:36.340 people,

00:35:36.740 based on

00:35:37.100 the opinion

00:35:37.760 he said

00:35:38.480 in public,

00:35:39.280 he is one

00:35:39.680 of the few

00:35:40.020 people that

00:35:40.560 I think

00:35:40.860 you actually

00:35:41.320 could call

00:35:41.780 transphobe,

00:35:42.920 transphobic.

00:35:44.160 The phobic

00:35:44.760 meaning afraid

00:35:45.940 of,

00:35:47.460 because he

00:35:48.180 does talk

00:35:48.660 about the

00:35:49.620 risk of

00:35:50.280 rape if

00:35:51.280 there's a

00:35:52.380 man in

00:35:52.740 a bathroom

00:35:53.180 with

00:35:53.580 blah,

00:35:54.020 blah.

00:35:54.760 So he

00:35:55.300 does talk

00:35:55.700 about it

00:35:56.000 in terms

00:35:56.360 of,

00:35:56.640 like,

00:35:57.360 rape.

00:35:58.280 So I

00:35:58.680 think that

00:35:59.060 would be

00:35:59.320 transphobe,

00:36:00.140 wouldn't it?

00:36:02.860 Does that

00:36:03.480 fit the

00:36:03.860 definition

00:36:04.340 without any

00:36:05.420 ambiguity

00:36:05.940 whatsoever?

00:36:06.780 If, for

00:36:07.300 example,

00:36:07.760 he were

00:36:08.000 saying we

00:36:08.420 don't want

00:36:08.820 black people

00:36:09.400 to use the

00:36:09.900 same bathrooms

00:36:10.440 as white

00:36:10.860 people,

00:36:11.200 let's say it

00:36:11.540 was decades

00:36:12.120 ago,

00:36:12.920 and he

00:36:13.440 might have

00:36:13.700 said,

00:36:13.960 well,

00:36:14.260 because it

00:36:14.720 might be

00:36:15.140 dangerous,

00:36:16.400 you would

00:36:16.740 say,

00:36:17.000 oh,

00:36:17.260 that's

00:36:18.200 blackphobic

00:36:19.880 or something.

00:36:21.180 But you

00:36:21.680 would definitely

00:36:22.020 say that's

00:36:22.520 fear.

00:36:23.580 Right?

00:36:24.360 Because the

00:36:25.160 let's not

00:36:26.120 get raped 0.97

00:36:26.640 is a

00:36:27.100 fear-based

00:36:27.800 thing.

00:36:29.440 So while I

00:36:30.360 don't think

00:36:30.780 that most

00:36:31.240 of his

00:36:31.540 argument has

00:36:32.080 anything to

00:36:32.640 do with

00:36:32.900 transphobia,

00:36:34.560 it's more

00:36:34.980 about its

00:36:35.800 impact on

00:36:36.740 him and

00:36:37.480 us,

00:36:38.760 I think

00:36:40.040 that he

00:36:40.300 weakens his

00:36:40.900 argument when

00:36:41.560 he throws in

00:36:42.180 the rape

00:36:42.920 thing.

00:36:44.580 So just

00:36:44.920 from a

00:36:45.400 persuasion

00:36:46.080 perspective,

00:36:46.760 forget about

00:36:47.160 the politics.

00:36:48.740 This is not

00:36:49.400 a political

00:36:49.840 opinion.

00:36:50.260 This is a

00:36:51.540 persuasion

00:36:52.200 opinion only.

00:36:53.600 If I

00:36:54.140 were Matt

00:36:54.520 Walsh and

00:36:54.980 I wanted

00:36:55.280 my opinion

00:36:55.980 to have

00:36:56.540 extra

00:36:57.220 persuasiveness,

00:36:58.780 I would

00:36:59.020 drop the

00:36:59.720 afraid of

00:37:01.360 people getting

00:37:02.380 raped by 0.99

00:37:02.940 trans in

00:37:03.700 the bathroom.

00:37:04.980 Because it's

00:37:05.540 first of all

00:37:06.540 gross,

00:37:07.060 second of

00:37:07.440 all not

00:37:08.040 the biggest

00:37:08.400 problem in

00:37:08.900 the world,

00:37:09.780 and it

00:37:10.240 detracts from

00:37:10.940 his better

00:37:11.320 point.

00:37:12.420 Here's the

00:37:13.060 better point.

00:37:13.660 why are

00:37:15.700 your problems

00:37:16.220 affecting me?

00:37:18.100 Now, I

00:37:18.620 don't know if

00:37:18.980 I'm characterizing

00:37:20.180 it right, but

00:37:20.740 why do I

00:37:21.780 have to use a

00:37:22.360 different pronoun?

00:37:24.060 Like, why do

00:37:24.720 you get a

00:37:25.060 special pronoun?

00:37:26.240 Because that

00:37:26.780 affects me.

00:37:28.240 Now, that's

00:37:28.600 fair.

00:37:29.520 Everybody gets

00:37:30.220 to complain

00:37:30.760 about how

00:37:31.260 anything affects

00:37:32.000 them, right?

00:37:33.260 The most

00:37:33.880 reasonable

00:37:35.500 complaint in

00:37:36.340 the world is,

00:37:37.340 well, hey,

00:37:37.680 that affects

00:37:38.100 me.

00:37:39.280 So, therefore,

00:37:40.040 in my opinion,

00:37:40.640 you're going to

00:37:40.900 have to listen

00:37:41.360 to it.

00:37:42.380 I love the

00:37:43.320 fact that

00:37:44.360 Matt Walsh is

00:37:45.040 taking this

00:37:45.580 on as

00:37:46.200 directly as

00:37:46.840 he is.

00:37:47.220 I don't like

00:37:47.600 the bathroom

00:37:48.780 rape thing. 1.00

00:37:49.540 I think you

00:37:50.140 should get

00:37:50.420 rid of that.

00:37:51.340 But the

00:37:52.060 argument about

00:37:52.900 how do you

00:37:53.500 handle sports,

00:37:54.440 how do you

00:37:54.700 handle bathroom 0.78

00:37:55.400 assignments,

00:37:56.420 how do you

00:37:56.760 handle pronouns,

00:37:58.180 these are all

00:37:58.860 things that

00:37:59.300 affect him,

00:38:00.200 or us,

00:38:01.100 just other

00:38:01.860 people.

00:38:02.820 So, yeah,

00:38:03.280 those are

00:38:03.620 absolutely fair

00:38:04.600 things to

00:38:05.080 say.

00:38:05.720 Which is not

00:38:06.460 to say,

00:38:07.680 not to say,

00:38:08.760 that I agree

00:38:09.320 with his

00:38:09.640 opinion, right?

00:38:12.200 All I'm

00:38:12.740 saying is,

00:38:13.120 that's a

00:38:13.460 very valid

00:38:14.040 opinion,

00:38:14.840 that what

00:38:15.220 you're doing

00:38:15.680 is affecting

00:38:16.220 me,

00:38:16.760 so you're

00:38:17.380 going to

00:38:17.440 have to

00:38:17.680 listen to

00:38:18.000 my opinion

00:38:18.440 about that.

00:38:19.760 Perfectly

00:38:20.200 okay.

00:38:23.240 I'm not

00:38:24.560 as extreme

00:38:25.220 as he is

00:38:25.760 on the

00:38:26.280 pronouns,

00:38:27.220 and here's

00:38:27.680 why.

00:38:30.740 That sort

00:38:31.340 of,

00:38:31.620 I've said

00:38:32.000 this before,

00:38:32.500 that sort

00:38:33.040 of gets

00:38:34.260 into just

00:38:35.000 manners.

00:38:36.960 And I

00:38:37.280 tend to be

00:38:37.720 in favor

00:38:38.280 of good

00:38:38.740 manners,

00:38:39.520 even if

00:38:40.440 they're new

00:38:40.820 ones that

00:38:41.400 come into

00:38:42.460 the mix.

00:38:43.280 So I'm

00:38:43.660 generally in

00:38:44.300 favor of

00:38:44.620 anything that's

00:38:45.100 just respect

00:38:46.840 or good

00:38:47.560 manners.

00:38:49.360 Unless it's

00:38:50.020 like really

00:38:50.460 inconvenient.

00:38:52.120 But you

00:38:52.420 know what is

00:38:52.740 really convenient

00:38:53.460 for me?

00:38:54.400 I'm going to

00:38:54.900 give you a

00:38:55.220 little secret

00:38:55.740 here.

00:38:56.660 The best

00:38:57.380 part about

00:38:57.840 the whole

00:38:58.260 trans,

00:38:59.440 you know,

00:39:00.620 non-binary

00:39:01.080 thing,

00:39:01.860 is the use

00:39:02.580 of the word

00:39:03.120 they.

00:39:05.620 Now,

00:39:06.060 hold on,

00:39:06.500 hold on,

00:39:06.800 let me complete

00:39:07.360 what I thought

00:39:07.780 about the

00:39:08.120 pronouns.

00:39:09.440 I'm okay

00:39:10.240 with the

00:39:10.620 pronouns

00:39:11.100 with one

00:39:12.540 must-have.

00:39:16.500 If you're

00:39:17.940 asking me

00:39:18.480 to use

00:39:18.840 your proper

00:39:19.400 pronoun,

00:39:20.640 the thing

00:39:21.060 I must-have

00:39:21.920 is a

00:39:23.560 future,

00:39:25.000 let's say,

00:39:26.040 absolved

00:39:26.680 of all

00:39:27.020 mistakes.

00:39:29.140 I will

00:39:29.860 agree to

00:39:30.320 try to use

00:39:30.840 your pronoun

00:39:31.300 if you

00:39:32.280 will agree

00:39:32.760 that if I

00:39:33.660 use the

00:39:34.040 wrong pronoun 0.94

00:39:35.360 that you

00:39:36.720 will shut

00:39:37.620 the fuck

00:39:38.040 up.

00:39:40.460 Now,

00:39:40.980 this is just

00:39:41.380 personal,

00:39:41.840 right?

00:39:42.540 I make no

00:39:43.480 recommendation

00:39:44.020 about how

00:39:44.540 you handle

00:39:45.060 it.

00:39:46.000 You should

00:39:46.420 handle it

00:39:46.800 any way

00:39:47.160 that you're

00:39:47.520 comfortable

00:39:47.800 with,

00:39:48.240 and I'm

00:39:48.880 good with

00:39:49.180 that.

00:39:50.120 But just

00:39:50.640 personally,

00:39:51.640 I will try

00:39:52.700 to use

00:39:53.160 whatever words

00:39:53.900 you think

00:39:54.280 are respectful,

00:39:55.340 but if I

00:39:56.000 get one

00:39:56.400 wrong,

00:39:57.080 fuck you. 0.97

00:39:58.700 That's got

00:39:59.140 to be the

00:39:59.460 deal.

00:40:00.320 That's got

00:40:00.740 to be the

00:40:01.080 deal.

00:40:01.980 Because you've

00:40:02.580 got to give

00:40:02.840 me the same

00:40:03.260 thing you're

00:40:03.640 asking of

00:40:04.160 me,

00:40:04.580 which is

00:40:05.080 consideration.

00:40:07.260 Right?

00:40:07.620 If somebody

00:40:08.200 is asking

00:40:08.520 you to

00:40:08.760 use a

00:40:09.120 certain

00:40:09.300 term,

00:40:10.160 they're

00:40:10.380 asking you

00:40:10.780 to show

00:40:11.080 respect in

00:40:11.680 the way

00:40:11.900 that they

00:40:12.200 recognize

00:40:12.680 they're

00:40:12.840 showing

00:40:13.040 respect.

00:40:13.920 Well,

00:40:14.260 the way I

00:40:14.760 recognize you

00:40:15.440 showing respect

00:40:16.040 to me is

00:40:17.020 don't get on

00:40:17.600 my shit if

00:40:18.480 I use the

00:40:18.940 wrong word.

00:40:21.300 I want that

00:40:22.180 level of

00:40:22.640 respect in

00:40:23.220 return.

00:40:24.420 So I

00:40:25.360 could try,

00:40:26.420 try to get

00:40:26.860 it right.

00:40:27.440 If I get

00:40:27.860 it wrong,

00:40:28.420 just fuck

00:40:29.060 off if I

00:40:29.820 get it

00:40:30.020 wrong.

00:40:31.160 That's my

00:40:31.780 stand.

00:40:32.340 And by the

00:40:32.660 way, I

00:40:33.020 don't promote

00:40:33.960 that stand for

00:40:34.860 any of you.

00:40:35.300 you can all

00:40:37.100 do your

00:40:37.320 own thing.

00:40:40.560 Wouldn't it

00:40:41.200 be easier to

00:40:41.780 arrange

00:40:42.240 bathrooms by

00:40:43.600 penis versus 0.97

00:40:45.280 vagina? 1.00

00:40:47.200 Why are we

00:40:48.000 even talking

00:40:48.420 about gender

00:40:49.060 versus sex 0.85

00:40:49.960 or anything

00:40:50.560 about bathrooms?

00:40:52.680 Because

00:40:53.000 bathrooms are

00:40:53.620 literally designed

00:40:54.760 to accommodate

00:40:55.860 a penis or 0.91

00:40:57.680 a vagina in 1.00

00:40:58.560 terms of the

00:40:59.720 percentage of

00:41:00.520 different types

00:41:01.340 of facilities

00:41:01.960 that are in

00:41:02.320 there.

00:41:02.460 So doesn't

00:41:03.400 it just make

00:41:03.840 more sense

00:41:04.380 that if you

00:41:04.740 have a

00:41:05.020 penis, you 1.00

00:41:05.480 use the

00:41:05.860 penis bathroom 0.96

00:41:06.540 as urinals?

00:41:08.900 If you don't

00:41:09.480 have a penis, 0.99

00:41:10.200 you use the

00:41:10.500 bathroom that

00:41:10.960 has no

00:41:11.460 urinals because 1.00

00:41:12.140 you have more

00:41:12.660 capacity.

00:41:14.520 Like, who

00:41:15.120 would have a

00:41:15.460 problem with

00:41:15.780 that?

00:41:16.860 Doesn't it

00:41:17.300 just take the

00:41:17.760 whole argument

00:41:18.220 away?

00:41:19.820 You either,

00:41:21.220 your bathroom

00:41:22.020 is either built

00:41:22.640 for penises or

00:41:23.500 vaginas, and 1.00

00:41:25.380 if it's built

00:41:26.400 for both, it

00:41:28.080 usually has a

00:41:28.620 lock on the

00:41:29.100 door and it's

00:41:29.480 for one person.

00:41:31.020 So why is

00:41:31.480 this even a

00:41:31.920 problem?

00:41:32.460 I want a

00:41:33.660 penis bathroom. 1.00

00:41:35.520 That's it.

00:41:37.740 Would you, how

00:41:39.740 offended would

00:41:40.420 you be if

00:41:42.060 someone who

00:41:43.520 had an

00:41:44.000 outward appearance

00:41:44.860 of female

00:41:45.960 walked into

00:41:47.820 the male

00:41:48.280 restroom and

00:41:49.540 walked up to

00:41:50.140 a urinal and

00:41:50.840 just started

00:41:51.260 using it?

00:41:52.180 Would you

00:41:52.540 say to

00:41:52.800 yourself, my

00:41:53.320 God, I'm

00:41:53.820 so uncomfortable

00:41:54.520 because there's

00:41:55.100 a woman in

00:41:55.600 here?

00:41:57.000 Now, that

00:41:58.380 individual might

00:41:59.180 identify as a

00:41:59.960 woman, but why 0.99

00:42:00.840 the hell would

00:42:01.220 you care?

00:42:02.460 You're both in

00:42:04.700 the penis 0.94

00:42:05.060 bathroom.

00:42:06.460 It's the

00:42:07.060 penis bathroom. 1.00

00:42:07.940 That's it.

00:42:10.680 Here's some

00:42:11.240 fake news, a

00:42:12.000 couple of

00:42:12.260 fake news

00:42:12.700 stories.

00:42:13.500 How many of

00:42:13.860 you saw a

00:42:14.320 clip featuring

00:42:15.320 MSNBC's

00:42:16.700 Melissa Harris

00:42:17.440 Perry in which

00:42:18.940 this sentence is

00:42:19.840 in it?

00:42:20.120 She said, we

00:42:21.020 have to break

00:42:21.620 through the

00:42:21.980 idea that kids

00:42:22.860 belong to their

00:42:23.640 parents or kids

00:42:25.080 belong to their

00:42:25.780 families.

00:42:26.220 How many of

00:42:28.140 you saw that?

00:42:30.240 And how many

00:42:30.960 of you said, my

00:42:31.820 God, these

00:42:32.540 communists or

00:42:33.340 socialists, they've

00:42:35.620 gone too far

00:42:36.260 now.

00:42:36.640 They want to

00:42:37.200 have control of

00:42:38.060 our kids, and

00:42:39.680 parents do not 0.94

00:42:41.060 have control of

00:42:41.740 Marxists.

00:42:42.680 Marxists.

00:42:43.500 How many of you

00:42:44.120 know it's fake

00:42:44.660 news?

00:42:47.000 How many of you

00:42:47.720 know it's fake

00:42:48.200 news?

00:42:48.760 It isn't real.

00:42:50.440 This never

00:42:51.120 happened.

00:42:52.400 Now, the quote

00:42:53.000 happened.

00:42:53.960 The quote

00:42:54.460 happened, exactly

00:42:55.360 as I read it.

00:42:56.840 But do you

00:42:57.480 know why it's

00:42:57.920 fake news?

00:42:59.540 Here's the

00:43:00.160 context.

00:43:01.860 We should fund

00:43:02.920 schools more

00:43:03.760 because when

00:43:05.220 kids get better

00:43:05.940 educations, it's

00:43:07.000 good for

00:43:07.340 everybody.

00:43:08.840 That's the

00:43:09.460 entire context.

00:43:11.240 The entire

00:43:12.020 context is, yes,

00:43:14.620 you know, you

00:43:15.020 have a family, and

00:43:15.900 that's important,

00:43:16.900 but you know

00:43:17.440 what's also

00:43:17.840 important?

00:43:18.660 Is that society

00:43:19.660 itself needs your

00:43:20.660 kids to be well

00:43:21.400 educated.

00:43:22.260 So why won't

00:43:22.920 we should give

00:43:23.840 more money to

00:43:24.440 your parents, or

00:43:25.960 for the benefit of

00:43:27.000 your parents, I

00:43:27.600 guess, so that

00:43:28.640 your kids can get

00:43:29.380 a good education.

00:43:30.680 So somehow this

00:43:31.520 turned into some

00:43:32.180 Marxist thing where

00:43:33.020 the socialists want

00:43:33.820 to control your

00:43:34.440 kids, when it was

00:43:36.160 exactly the

00:43:36.900 opposite.

00:43:37.960 She wanted to

00:43:38.560 give more money

00:43:39.260 so that your kids

00:43:40.480 can get a good

00:43:41.060 education.

00:43:42.780 That's it.

00:43:44.820 All right, fake

00:43:45.540 news.

00:43:46.820 Here's another

00:43:47.420 one.

00:43:48.360 MSN has an

00:43:49.180 article today in

00:43:50.140 which, once again,

00:43:51.620 they have

00:43:51.980 resurrected the

00:43:52.860 fake news, and

00:43:54.140 this is their

00:43:54.600 exact sentence.

00:43:56.660 Donald Trump

00:43:57.220 infamously urged to

00:43:59.460 fabricate, talking

00:44:01.140 about his call with

00:44:02.400 Ukraine, and they

00:44:04.060 said that he asked

00:44:05.360 Ukraine to

00:44:06.920 fabricate, no, I'm

00:44:08.620 sorry, I have the

00:44:09.300 whole wrong story

00:44:10.180 here.

00:44:10.420 Well, all of his

00:44:11.480 phone calls, I get

00:44:12.520 mixed up.

00:44:13.240 This was his call to

00:44:14.280 the Georgia head of

00:44:18.060 the elections.

00:44:18.580 Who was it?

00:44:20.420 I forget who it was.

00:44:22.840 But he never said, I

00:44:24.180 want you to fabricate

00:44:25.100 anything.

00:44:25.700 He said, I want you to

00:44:26.600 find those votes, meaning

00:44:27.780 that he thought the

00:44:28.520 election was rigged, and

00:44:30.000 when he said,

00:44:30.540 Rauschenberger, yeah.

00:44:31.540 And when he said, I

00:44:32.320 want you to find them,

00:44:33.420 the context was in a

00:44:35.440 totally legal way by

00:44:36.640 doing an audit and

00:44:37.720 finding out that he

00:44:38.760 really won.

00:44:39.960 And MSN has changed

00:44:41.260 that to fabricate, that

00:44:42.540 he asked Georgia to 0.94

00:44:44.740 fabricate 11,000 votes

00:44:46.460 for him, literally 100%

00:44:49.620 opposite of the news.

00:44:52.820 And it's on MSN.

00:44:54.680 How many people would

00:44:55.560 read MSN as their main

00:44:57.480 source of news and

00:44:59.000 say, oh my God, Trump

00:45:00.180 asked somebody to

00:45:00.920 fabricate votes?

00:45:03.640 Everything they say

00:45:04.540 about him is true.

00:45:06.240 But they just literally

00:45:07.200 just made up a number

00:45:08.180 or made up a word and

00:45:09.980 inserted fabricate.

00:45:12.160 Anyway.

00:45:14.040 So I hear Jack

00:45:15.860 Posobiec had a breaking

00:45:17.620 news item yesterday.

00:45:19.800 The ESPN will not send

00:45:21.460 reporters to the Beijing

00:45:22.760 Olympics.

00:45:24.700 Wow.

00:45:25.480 So now NBC is having

00:45:26.600 trouble selling ads, we

00:45:27.980 hear.

00:45:29.160 ESPN will not be sending

00:45:30.420 reporters, we hear.

00:45:32.200 And as I tweeted today, if

00:45:35.540 your moral compass allows

00:45:36.760 you to watch the

00:45:37.720 Omicron Olympics, like if

00:45:40.320 you feel okay with that,

00:45:42.340 that spending time

00:45:44.220 watching an Olympics in

00:45:46.820 China, if you want to 0.97

00:45:49.400 spend time in that, of

00:45:51.420 course you have that, you

00:45:52.760 perfectly have that right,

00:45:54.020 of course.

00:45:55.000 But don't talk to me about

00:45:56.840 it.

00:45:58.460 Like if you start to tell

00:45:59.940 me what you saw in the

00:46:01.000 Olympics, I'm going to turn

00:46:02.080 and walk away.

00:46:03.880 Because your personal

00:46:06.140 shame is not something I

00:46:07.600 want to share.

00:46:09.020 If your moral compass

00:46:10.440 allowed you to watch the

00:46:14.320 most disruptible, just a

00:46:16.900 horrible country, that

00:46:19.700 largely murdered my

00:46:21.160 stepson.

00:46:21.880 So I have a personal

00:46:23.600 stake in that.

00:46:25.060 If you can do that, go

00:46:26.600 ahead.

00:46:26.940 But just keep it to

00:46:27.940 yourself.

00:46:28.900 Because that's your

00:46:29.600 private shame, right?

00:46:31.440 Just don't expose me to

00:46:33.180 it, please.

00:46:36.400 Now, let me check my

00:46:38.980 notes and see if I missed

00:46:39.900 any important things.

00:46:42.280 I don't think I did.

00:46:47.120 MSNBC actually thinks that

00:46:48.880 fascism is going to be the

00:46:50.760 top thing taking over. 0.55

00:46:51.780 So, if you look at the

00:46:55.340 news now, and I think I

00:46:58.020 don't have to travel

00:47:00.460 today.

00:47:02.200 Oh, okay.

00:47:02.740 Yeah, I'm good for another

00:47:03.500 few minutes.

00:47:04.680 So, yeah, Meatloaf

00:47:06.700 died.

00:47:07.180 I usually don't cover the

00:47:08.320 people died.

00:47:09.580 Oh, I forgot the best story

00:47:10.740 of the day.

00:47:12.100 The best story of the day

00:47:13.320 was, were you aware that

00:47:15.160 Martha Stewart was dating

00:47:17.720 Anthony Hopkins?

00:47:18.620 You do that, right?

00:47:25.140 I didn't know until

00:47:25.920 recently.

00:47:26.460 They're both in their

00:47:27.080 80s.

00:47:27.620 But apparently Martha

00:47:28.360 Stewart broke up with

00:47:29.320 Anthony Hopkins, and the

00:47:31.580 reason was that she

00:47:33.140 couldn't separate him from

00:47:34.920 his famous movie role.

00:47:37.340 And when asked if she was

00:47:39.900 afraid he would eat her,

00:47:41.080 she said yes.

00:47:41.820 So, this is, I don't

00:47:49.500 know how, no, I don't

00:47:51.160 think she, she didn't

00:47:52.480 mean literally afraid

00:47:53.540 that she, but she 0.99

00:47:54.860 couldn't get the thought

00:47:55.960 out of her mind.

00:47:57.180 And she even said that

00:47:58.120 she wouldn't bring him

00:47:58.960 to, I guess she has a big 0.66

00:48:00.640 scary home somewhere, and

00:48:02.720 she wouldn't even bring

00:48:03.460 him to be in her big

00:48:05.160 scary home because she

00:48:06.200 didn't want to, you

00:48:06.880 know, walk around the

00:48:07.500 corner in her big scary

00:48:08.520 home and run into Anthony

00:48:10.180 Hopkins' Silence of the

00:48:11.800 Lambs.

00:48:12.720 That is the funniest

00:48:13.760 breakup of all time.

00:48:16.100 Now, like I said, she

00:48:17.560 wasn't actually afraid

00:48:18.780 that he would eat her, but

00:48:20.280 she couldn't get the

00:48:21.140 feeling out of her mind.

00:48:23.580 All right, here's

00:48:24.200 something that's new.

00:48:25.800 I think we all know that

00:48:27.080 by keeping Biden away

00:48:29.620 from the public, that

00:48:31.620 probably is what won him

00:48:32.740 the presidency.

00:48:33.520 Would you agree?

00:48:34.780 That the less we saw

00:48:36.520 Biden, the more likely he

00:48:38.260 would win the election,

00:48:39.080 and that's what happened.

00:48:40.360 And now that Trump has

00:48:41.460 kicked off his social

00:48:42.320 media, and he's not

00:48:43.820 president, we're seeing

00:48:45.860 way, way, way, way, way,

00:48:47.240 way, way less of Trump.

00:48:49.380 And Trump wins every

00:48:52.000 matchup against every

00:48:53.460 Democrat candidate for

00:48:54.920 president, hypothetical

00:48:55.960 matchup.

00:48:57.500 So didn't it used to be

00:49:00.340 that all publicity was

00:49:01.440 good?

00:49:03.340 Right?

00:49:04.580 Didn't we used to think

00:49:05.580 that all publicity was

00:49:06.620 good publicity?

00:49:07.180 And now we're getting

00:49:08.740 some real indications

00:49:10.020 that in some cases, the

00:49:12.240 less we hear from you,

00:49:13.300 the better.

00:49:14.660 Now, part of that has to

00:49:16.020 do with what the media

00:49:17.440 landscape is.

00:49:18.760 Because anybody who

00:49:19.900 raises their head in this

00:49:21.220 landscape just gets it

00:49:22.440 chopped off.

00:49:23.700 So if you do anything,

00:49:25.960 you look bad.

00:49:27.960 The only thing that

00:49:29.000 doesn't look bad is doing

00:49:30.100 nothing.

00:49:31.140 Because then people can

00:49:32.220 just sort of, you know,

00:49:33.400 imagine that you could have

00:49:34.600 done something or, you

00:49:36.080 know, they'll forget the

00:49:37.160 bad things over time.

00:49:38.920 Remember the good things

00:49:39.840 maybe.

00:49:40.800 So this is really a whole

00:49:42.160 new world.

00:49:43.360 This was one of the most

00:49:44.480 basic truths that all

00:49:45.760 publicity is good publicity.

00:49:47.460 And now it's clearly not.

00:49:49.140 The less we see of these

00:49:50.200 two people, the more

00:49:50.980 popular they are.

00:49:52.220 Now, it might have

00:49:53.040 something to do with

00:49:54.400 their specific personalities

00:49:55.740 and or age or whatever.

00:49:57.080 But I keep an eye on it.

00:49:59.000 So, and that is all I

00:50:05.960 wanted to talk about

00:50:06.740 today.

00:50:09.500 DeSantis.

00:50:13.340 All right.

00:50:17.760 So I've got to go do some

00:50:18.780 other things.

00:50:19.720 Was there any story I

00:50:20.460 missed?

00:50:22.740 Any story I missed?

00:50:23.660 Anything big?

00:50:24.920 DeSantis.

00:50:25.480 Yeah, DeSantis will get

00:50:26.820 targeted.

00:50:27.200 Do you have any idea how

00:50:31.340 beat up DeSantis is going

00:50:34.520 to get?

00:50:36.280 Yeah, when is Ray Epps

00:50:37.440 going to testify?

00:50:38.380 Is that coming up?

00:50:48.360 What is the D-I-E?

00:50:51.800 Is the E for equity?

00:50:55.020 Inclusion?

00:50:55.460 What is D-I-E?

00:50:57.200 Diversity, inclusion, and

00:50:59.000 equity.

00:51:01.160 Yeah.

00:51:01.820 Die.

00:51:03.680 It's funny that it's die.

00:51:07.720 What about fascism?

00:51:10.360 Yeah, so it looks like the

00:51:11.560 Democrat play will be that

00:51:13.600 all Republicans are fascists

00:51:15.400 and they steal elections.

00:51:17.860 check out, it's my language, huh?

00:51:26.540 Oh, Washington posted a Rupar on

00:51:28.660 DeSantis, I'll bet they did.

00:51:35.340 All right, here's a, here's a

00:51:36.500 question for you.

00:51:37.100 I saw from, I think it was, was

00:51:39.340 it, forget who I saw from, but do

00:51:43.580 you think that long COVID is real

00:51:45.200 or fake?

00:51:47.300 Long COVID, real or fake?

00:51:53.760 Oh, you're all over the place. 0.98

00:51:55.420 Some real, some fake.

00:51:57.520 All right, here's my, here's my

00:51:59.120 current take on long COVID.

00:52:02.100 Are you ready for this?

00:52:02.720 If you were to do a natural

00:52:05.280 distribution of pretty much

00:52:07.380 anything, it would be, you know,

00:52:09.480 a few people on the left and then

00:52:11.140 there would be a big hump where

00:52:12.300 most of the people are and then

00:52:14.000 it would be a trail on the end,

00:52:15.560 right?

00:52:16.520 If you have any kind of a

00:52:18.460 illness that kicks your ass, 0.99

00:52:21.860 some people will get over it really

00:52:25.020 quickly, like way faster than other

00:52:27.240 people, even though it kicked their

00:52:28.880 ass. 0.70

00:52:29.200 Most people would have an average

00:52:31.760 experience and then an average

00:52:33.960 recovery time.

00:52:35.480 Some people on the far end would

00:52:38.280 take much longer just to get over an

00:52:40.560 illness, but just normally, because

00:52:43.080 everything's a normal distribution,

00:52:44.680 right?

00:52:45.220 People get over colds, different rates,

00:52:47.620 they, they heal at different rates.

00:52:49.720 They, they're bleeding clots at

00:52:51.960 different rates, right?

00:52:53.280 So wouldn't you expect that no matter

00:52:56.160 what the disease was or the illness,

00:52:59.200 if it, if it kicked your ass for a 0.99

00:53:01.160 little while, wouldn't you expect

00:53:02.660 that there's some people would take

00:53:04.020 longer to get rid of all the

00:53:06.320 symptoms?

00:53:07.080 Some people would be right away, but

00:53:09.940 most people would just, you know, pass

00:53:11.980 through it in the normal way.

00:53:13.680 So I'm not sure that long COVID

00:53:16.020 means anything more than long flu or

00:53:23.540 long heart attack.

00:53:25.820 Is there a long heart attack?

00:53:28.060 Because there must be people who get

00:53:29.440 over heart attacks relatively quick, a

00:53:32.700 bunch of them that have an average

00:53:33.980 experience, and then some of them, some

00:53:37.160 of them, takes them like a really long

00:53:39.260 time to get rid of it.

00:53:40.340 Do they have long heart attack?

00:53:42.260 Well, I gave this example before, that I had

00:53:50.200 minor surgery for some sinus stuff.

00:53:52.440 So not a big deal, the surgery, you know,

00:53:54.440 you're up and walking right after.

00:53:56.380 But it kicked my ass.

00:53:58.980 And it kicked my ass for months.

00:54:01.580 I mean, months.

00:54:02.960 I was, I was not good physically.

00:54:05.940 But now I am.

00:54:07.340 You know, it just took me longer to recover

00:54:09.400 from that specific trauma.

00:54:11.580 Don't you think that somebody could have

00:54:13.040 had my exact surgery and gotten over it

00:54:16.040 in like a couple days like it was

00:54:17.460 nothing?

00:54:18.180 Most people just had an average experience.

00:54:20.860 But some of us had long sinus.

00:54:25.440 Did I, did I have long sinus?

00:54:28.080 Because it's going to be months to get

00:54:29.620 back to normal.

00:54:30.980 I don't know.

00:54:32.460 So here, here's my speculation.

00:54:35.480 So I'm not, I'm not ready to say this is

00:54:38.440 an opinion yet.

00:54:39.740 But I want to put it out there.

00:54:41.300 That if every single thing that kicks your ass

00:54:43.660 has a different length of recovery for everybody,

00:54:47.040 wouldn't it always look like there is long COVID?

00:54:51.520 And would it really be something that deserves a name?

00:54:54.400 Or is it just telling you that people recover

00:54:56.300 at different rates?

00:54:58.460 Right?

00:54:59.900 So how far away are we from just saying

00:55:02.620 it's not a thing?

00:55:03.340 Right?

00:55:07.080 Because if we said it's not a thing,

00:55:09.060 then we would take it out of the calculation.

00:55:11.680 And then you'd have the risk of the vaccine,

00:55:13.740 vaccination,

00:55:14.920 not balanced by the risk of long COVID.

00:55:20.460 Right now, my decision making is,

00:55:23.120 well, I don't know about long COVID,

00:55:24.900 but I also don't know about long vaccination.

00:55:28.840 Right?

00:55:29.420 I don't know about long anything.

00:55:31.420 Because it's not, we're not there yet.

00:55:33.340 But if you took that balance and said,

00:55:36.600 all right, we're just going to remove one side of the scale

00:55:38.640 and say, yeah, we figured out that the long COVID

00:55:42.380 is really just people take longer to recover sometimes.

00:55:44.940 It's nothing.

00:55:46.640 Then suddenly the risk of the vaccination looks pretty bad.

00:55:50.040 And you'd have to weigh that against the risk

00:55:51.680 of dying from the COVID,

00:55:53.200 which is less now under Omicron.

00:55:55.260 So I think the argument for boosters is pretty, pretty gone.

00:56:00.540 All right.

00:56:03.440 The media has long Trump.

00:56:05.480 Yeah.

00:56:07.220 Trying to prolong emergency for midterm elections?

00:56:09.980 I don't think so.

00:56:11.240 I think everybody on Democrat and Republican side

00:56:14.480 wants this over.

00:56:17.340 No, nobody wants this issue, I don't think.

00:56:19.720 I think they want to talk about everything else.

00:56:21.420 Because nobody looks good on COVID, right?

00:56:25.580 COVID doesn't make anybody look good.

00:56:27.820 Maybe DeSantis.

00:56:29.140 But even that's only for Republicans.

00:56:36.420 The Democrats need, yeah,

00:56:37.960 they need the January 6th thing.

00:56:40.220 So everything that, the,

00:56:42.840 God, I just realized this.

00:56:44.120 Is this true?

00:56:48.180 This can't be true.

00:56:52.100 But it might be true.

00:56:55.300 Is everything that the Republicans do

00:56:57.440 aimed at solving problems

00:56:59.000 and everything that the Democrats do

00:57:00.920 aimed at creating a narrative?

00:57:04.460 Am I wrong about that?

00:57:06.400 Because the critical race theory seems like a narrative.

00:57:09.840 January 6th seems like a narrative.

00:57:11.480 COVID was more of an inherited problem,

00:57:17.840 so it's different.

00:57:19.740 Russia seems like a narrative.

00:57:22.820 Right?

00:57:25.820 Now, it's not a 100% thing.

00:57:27.820 Because, you know, on the Republican side,

00:57:30.540 you know, the war on Christmas

00:57:32.500 and burning flags

00:57:34.060 and trans stuff and stuff,

00:57:36.100 they're all narratives.

00:57:37.260 Well, even, I guess, the trans thing. 0.67

00:57:38.860 Is the trans thing a narrative?

00:57:39.920 I guess it's a narrative

00:57:41.600 to make Republicans look bad

00:57:44.900 because they're on the other side of it.

00:57:48.680 The Great Narrative.

00:57:50.000 That's a book.

00:57:51.840 Yeah, you know,

00:57:52.800 I feel as if everything from voting rights

00:57:56.140 to January 6th

00:57:57.880 to critical race theory,

00:57:59.660 I think it's all narrative, isn't it?

00:58:04.780 Scott disproved his theory.

00:58:07.060 Which one?

00:58:07.420 Which one?

00:58:09.920 Scott disproved his theory.

00:58:16.480 I'm only,

00:58:17.180 this is like a brand new idea

00:58:18.340 that I'm only thinking about at the moment.

00:58:22.000 But what would be,

00:58:22.700 it does seem like there's a,

00:58:27.600 yeah, the Russia narrative.

00:58:30.400 It just blew your mind

00:58:31.920 down the back of your head.

00:58:33.240 That's what happened to me

00:58:34.260 when I thought of it.

00:58:35.100 Because I thought of it live

00:58:36.620 while you were watching it.

00:58:37.600 I was just sort of going

00:58:38.560 through the examples

00:58:39.160 and I thought,

00:58:40.540 wait a minute.

00:58:41.600 Is there a pattern here?

00:58:43.620 Yeah, the fine people hoax

00:58:45.000 was a narrative.

00:58:47.940 That the Democrats

00:58:49.300 have completely left

00:58:50.460 the problem-solving field

00:58:51.900 and they're only

00:58:52.580 on the narrative side.

00:58:54.400 Because even look

00:58:55.420 at the COVID stuff.

00:58:57.400 DeSantis is clearly

00:58:58.520 trying to solve a problem,

00:58:59.820 wouldn't you say?

00:59:00.320 Whereas it's not entirely clear

00:59:03.220 what the Democrats

00:59:03.840 are trying to do.

00:59:05.700 Like they would say

00:59:06.600 they're trying to solve a problem,

00:59:07.780 but it doesn't look like that.

00:59:08.820 It's like,

00:59:09.500 make us all safe,

00:59:11.440 win an election,

00:59:12.560 be better than Trump

00:59:13.480 or something.

00:59:13.960 It feels like that's

00:59:14.660 a narrative too.

00:59:16.420 If you're trying

00:59:17.140 to solve a problem,

00:59:18.180 it's going to look

00:59:18.680 more like Texas

00:59:19.560 or Florida, right?

00:59:23.960 If you're trying

00:59:24.680 to create a narrative,

00:59:26.940 I don't know,

00:59:27.340 maybe it looks all mixed up

00:59:28.460 like it is now

00:59:29.080 because it's part real problem

00:59:30.180 and part narrative.

00:59:38.340 California is a different case

00:59:40.680 because we do have

00:59:42.320 a crazy amount

00:59:43.360 of infections in California.

00:59:46.580 So, you know,

00:59:48.300 maybe immigration

00:59:49.440 is part of that.

00:59:50.100 I don't know.

00:59:53.540 Am I starting

00:59:54.240 to recognize your username?

00:59:56.020 Yes, GU2.

00:59:59.040 What percentage

00:59:59.780 of the population

01:00:00.440 is trans?

01:00:02.060 Pretty small.

01:00:05.640 Is fascism narrative

01:00:07.360 also the projection thing?

01:00:08.980 Yes.

01:00:10.140 Yeah.

01:00:11.640 The weirdest thing

01:00:12.800 about narcissists

01:00:14.680 is projection,

01:00:16.500 but the problem is

01:00:17.580 if you tell a narcissist

01:00:18.560 they're projecting,

01:00:19.500 what do they tell you?

01:00:20.200 What does a narcissist

01:00:22.080 say if you say,

01:00:24.160 hey, you're projecting?

01:00:25.520 What do they say

01:00:26.140 every time?

01:00:28.540 What do they say?

01:00:29.260 They say you are, right?

01:00:31.000 Every time.

01:00:32.300 They'll say,

01:00:32.700 I'm not projecting.

01:00:33.740 You are.

01:00:34.900 Because they wouldn't project

01:00:36.160 if they knew

01:00:36.880 they were doing it, really.

01:00:37.980 I mean,

01:00:38.140 it's not a conscious thing.

01:00:40.200 So they think you are,

01:00:41.160 and I don't even know.

01:00:42.720 Maybe they believe it.

01:00:43.600 I don't know.

01:00:51.100 Let's see.

01:00:51.760 What about correlation

01:00:52.640 between...

01:00:56.820 COVID deaths...

01:01:00.160 Somebody said

01:01:01.780 COVID deaths

01:01:02.440 match baby boomers 0.99

01:01:04.120 reaching mortality.

01:01:06.320 That's not all of it.

01:01:07.360 You think it is conscious?

01:01:15.600 Rules for radicals.

01:01:18.160 I was tortured

01:01:19.120 for 12 years

01:01:19.940 by a psychopath.

01:01:20.700 You know,

01:01:22.440 a psychopath

01:01:22.800 and a vulnerable narcissist

01:01:25.540 are like 60%

01:01:28.700 the same thing.

01:01:30.380 I think you have to look

01:01:31.320 at the vulnerable narcissist

01:01:32.440 as just dangerous.

01:01:35.920 That's really the only word

01:01:37.080 you should put on them.

01:01:38.420 All right.

01:01:38.860 That's all for now,

01:01:39.740 and I will talk to you all later.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 21, 2022

Episode 1630 Scott Adams： There Is Lots of Juicy News Today. Come Enjoy it With a Beverage

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