Episode 1801 Scott Adams： More Bad News For Biden. But I Think He Reached His Floor For Disapproval
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Summary
On this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, host Scott Adams talks about his recent theft of a package from his front door by a delivery guy, and why he doesn t have a video camera on his doorbell to catch the thief.
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It's the other way around, but I have a little technical problem.
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So you're going to watch me turn on the locals platform.
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Usually they're on first watching it the other way.
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So this morning I woke up extra, extra early to make sure I wouldn't be late.
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But how would you like to reset and make this turn out just right?
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There's a part that I have to go back to and redo.
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The finest thing that's ever happened to you in your entire life.
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And all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass of Tegra Chelsea Stein, a canteen drug class,
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a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid.
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Well, how many of you saw my doorbell video of my DoorDash delivery guy stealing a package
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So, it's a package from Amazon, but it's a DoorDash guy stealing it.
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Now, the value of the package, I can tell you since I figured out what was in it, was
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A very, in fact, it was just a, you know, female product for some cosmetic beauty purpose.
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Now, how much work am I going to put into correcting this $10 loss?
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So, I've already invested like a couple hours looking through the video cameras and, you
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But I'll tell you my favorite part of the video that you haven't seen, because the video I
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posted is a view from behind, so you don't see the face of the perpetrator.
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But I have one from the other angle that's a complete video, so I can see the whole thing.
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Do you think that somebody who walks up to a house like mine expects there to be a security,
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There are probably zero houses like mine, you know, sort of in a certain neighborhood,
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So, if there's even the least suspicious car or person in the neighborhood, all of our phones
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light up, and then everybody goes to their video cameras, and all of a sudden you've got
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video of like every angle of this guy, you know, this person walking through the neighborhood.
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We've got so much video footage of anybody who comes within, you know, a mile of our community.
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He had to know, the guy who stole my package, he had to know I had a video camera there.
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So, you don't see that in the video I posted, but he backs up.
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He's got the package in his hand, and then he realizes that he still has a chance to put
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So, you see him holding the package, and he has that thought, and then he does this.
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And then he leaves because he doesn't see the cameras.
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I'm not going to have one video camera on my front door.
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I got cameras, I got cameras, even I don't know where they are.
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So, anyway, I sent it to AP, and they asked for some stuff that's hard for me to find,
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And by the way, have you ever had trouble with customer support?
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You know, you try to get them on the phone or the chat thing, and it just takes forever
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I find that if you have a certain amount of followers on Twitter, you don't need to use
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And honestly, I feel bad when I do it, because I know not everybody can do it.
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But when I tweet something like this, it takes about five minutes for the corporate office
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There's somebody who stopped what they're doing today at DoorDash.
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Somebody's schedule is a little bit different today.
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And what do you think that's, what's that about?
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They said, for experts who study misinformation, it's good to know that there are experts who
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But the experts who study misinformation and human cognition, they say the fraying of trust,
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this is the AP tweet, the fraying of trust is in part tied to the rise of the Internet
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and the way it can be exploited on contentious issues of social and economic change.
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So, the reason for the change in trust is something about the Internet and the way it can be exploited.
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What would be, can anybody, let's brainstorm a little bit.
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Can anybody think of another reason the public would not have trust in the news?
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Would it be, would it be because the news stopped even trying to report news and just
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I'm just going to throw that out as a hypothesis.
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Could it be that the public noticed that the news is not true?
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But not only did we notice that it's not true, because I think we could have been okay with
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that, because that would just look like a mistake.
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We all understand that the news gets updated, so I don't think people would have a problem
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I mean, we'd complain about it, but we'd get over that.
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But when you realize that the news is intentionally fake, intentionally fake, then the correct response
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Now, shouldn't this story be the public has finally wised up that the news is intentionally
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fake, and now they're reacting completely rationally and appropriately, and it's good news that
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Why are they reporting it like there's something wrong with the public, and there's something
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wrong with some bad characters and maybe something about the internet, when really it's just people
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Isn't it just the news literally and obviously making up shit that is the problem?
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Now, imagine if you will, I would imagine the AP and their experts would argue something
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I'm just speculating, because I don't know what they would say, but I think they would
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They would say, but we're not talking about the news reports.
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We're talking about the crap that you see on the internet.
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But we're talking about rumors on the internet that people believe.
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To which I say, do you think people would believe rumors on the internet if they had a reliable
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news source that could tell them if that stuff was true or not?
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Don't you think it matters that they can't check if it's true?
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They don't have anybody they trust, like a news organization, to say, you know, that stuff
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But imagine, imagine if the news were still credible.
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Imagine if the news was credible, or were credible.
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If the news told you that Q is all made up and it's not real, but everything else that
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the news told you sounded pretty credible, except when it was a legitimate mistake, wouldn't
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If they had a track record of telling you the truth and doing a pretty good job.
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In fact, as I was tweeting this morning, do you remember when you were so innocent that
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if the news didn't cover a story, what did you assume was true?
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If the news just ignored a story that you thought was a story, but they don't touch it, what did
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you assume was true about that, that it wasn't really a story, that they had looked into it
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So they didn't even need to report that it was false.
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In 2022, do you believe that if the news doesn't cover a story, the reason is they looked into
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No, you are just as likely to believe they looked into it and found something there and
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So here's another example of why we don't trust the press.
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CNN is now going full-throated, generation four nuclear is a good idea and there's a story
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around there about how Bill Gates and his TerraPower is building a plant in Wyoming that will
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be one of these next generation, cheaper, smaller, safer kinds of nuclear energy.
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And CNN is treating it like it's just all good news and that the problems of the past
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Did you expect that CNN would just go full-throated, hey, this is looking good.
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We're going to need some of this nuclear energy to solve climate change.
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Now, some of this may be the change in management leadership at CNN because I've been tracking
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that, sort of calling it out when they, whenever they do something that doesn't look like it's
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just complete bullshit, I call it out because I'd like to see, you, that's funny, but bigoted,
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So, I want to tell you the joke on YouTube, but I'll get kicked off, so I'm not going to,
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The reason I have a Locals, you know, community, they pay a subscription fee, is because we don't
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And it's all good people, so, you know, there's not much to worry about.
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Now, if you're trying to wonder why the public doesn't trust you, what was it that CNN learned
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about nuclear energy this month, let's say, that causes them to do a positive story about
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nuclear energy, what did CNN learn that's new compared to, let's say, two years ago or
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Well, they've got a story about this power plant, but I think it's been at least five years
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So, it's been a story in the news for, I don't know, five years.
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And the whole time, the story was, it's going to be newer, cheaper, safer, and we're pretty
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Because three years ago, they were reporting the story as the opposite of what they're reporting
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And nothing changed, except some years went by, and there's a whole lot of persuading
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Here's some new, maybe fake news, I don't know.
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But Democrats in some PAC are accusing Republican Representative Lauren Boebert of having had an
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abortion, which her spokesperson denies, and also having been a sugar baby escort, which
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So, these are two things that Democrats are saying about her that have no basis in truth
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according to her side, according to her spokesperson.
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Now, I was trying to ignore this story, but I realized I couldn't.
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I tend to reflexively defend anything that has Bert in its name.
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Whether it's Dilbert, Dogbert, Ratbert, Catbert, or in this case, Boebert.
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So, Lauren Boebert is now, I'm putting her under the umbrella of my protection.
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It's just because she has that last name of Bert.
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But, I believe her when she says that she was never on a sugar baby website.
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Because I just realized there were some implications to that joke that I hadn't thought through.
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I'll tell you on Locals after we turn off YouTube, okay?
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I love watching CNN try to spin the fact that the, that not only is Biden's approval at its lowest level, we'll talk about that, but these, the January 6th hearings, in my opinion, are failing.
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You know, the Democrats are saying, succeeding, and the Republicans are saying, it looks like a, just a big clusterfuck there.
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So, of course, we're all looking at it through our own eyes.
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But, Stephen Collinson, who is CNN's official attack dog for Trump, he does regular opinion columns in which he just mocks Trump with big sarcastic words, and sometimes reasons.
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But here's how Stephen Collinson is trying to take a win from the January 6th stuff.
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Because I think at this point, it's obvious that Trump's not going to jail.
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At this point, it's sort of obvious there's no crime that Trump will be accused of, right?
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Because we would sort of know by now if they had anything in that area, and it doesn't seem to be.
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So, Stephen Collinson is trying to create a win out of this, and here's the first sentence of his piece.
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He goes, whether or not Donald Trump ends up facing criminal charges, the House Committee probing the U.S. Capitol insurrection, so, of course, he has to use the word insurrection, has scored a critical win.
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So, the January 6th Committee has scored a critical win.
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What would be the critical win that they have so far?
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Well, the way he puts it is, the critical win over the ex-president, over Trump, is that it's thwarting his effort to cover up the true horror of that day of infamy.
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Does anybody really care about thwarting his effort to cover up a true horror on that day of infamy?
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No, I agree it would be better to know the accurate story.
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And so, therefore, it would be bad to cover up anything that the public has an interest in.
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But I'm not so sure that he isn't just saying it worked politically.
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Because I think, I feel like what he wanted to say, Stephen Colson, and this, I can't read his mind, so this would just be speculation.
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I feel like he wanted to say something different.
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I think he wanted to say that, you know, something horrible happened to Trump, and that from a political perspective, it's a disaster and will keep Trump from regaining the presidency.
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But you can't say that, because that would be admitting this is just a political process, right?
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So you can't admit it's just a political process.
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So the way he words it is that it's a critical win.
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Because if you called it a political win, the entire public would say,
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you mean you wasted all of our time and our money over something that's just politics?
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If there had been any kind of a criminal indictment, or even anything close to it, for Trump himself,
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then people would say, oh, I see why we did this.
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So now they're going to try to turn it into a critical win.
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Do you know why they call it a critical win, as opposed to a political win or a legal win?
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Here he is trying to score a win, but the only way he can describe the win is with an undefined term.
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Now, he tries to define it by saying, you know, there's thwarting his effort to cover up the true horror.
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What is critical about having a little more clarity over something?
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I think we all understood the basic idea, right?
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Was there anybody who thought all of the protesters were bad?
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Was there anybody who thought that none of the protesters were bad?
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Everybody said some bad people, most of them not.
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But to call it a critical win is clearly signaling that they didn't get what they wanted.
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Because if you got what you wanted, do you know what you say?
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We moved the poll numbers one way or the other.
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So Biden's now polling, according to the New York Times poll, a 33% approval.
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Is there anybody who's got access to Carter or...
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I read the name Carter going by in the comments.
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Now, that's not an official 20s because the other pollsters are going to be higher.
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Now, I saw the tweet by Adam, MD, that he notes that if 29% is the right number of approval for Biden, there are only 4% from the floor.
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The inside joke is, I've noted that 25% of people will, it might be a different 25%, but we'll get every question wrong.
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You can guarantee that 25% of the public will get any question wrong, no matter how simple.
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So Biden's going to be hitting the theoretical lowest number of approval that our society can produce.
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Because I don't think you can produce lower than 25.
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And the reason is that 25% will get every question wrong, just reliably.
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Is 81 million votes really 25% of the United States?
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Is 81 million, how many people are in the United States?
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So now that Biden's down in the 20s or maybe the low 30s in approval, I want to revisit something.
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So, like many of you, I lost a good friend over politics, over Trump specifically.
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And I'm wondering if this is the time to maybe reach out to him.
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Now, a number of people said, well, he can't really be a friend if he unfriended you because of politics.
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I unfriended him over politics because he couldn't leave me alone.
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Every day, it seemed like every day I'd get some lengthy message telling me that I was a monster for supporting Trump.
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You know, I caught on to his opinion fairly early on.
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But hearing it every day, it was more than I could handle.
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Because once he's, now that he's seen Biden as the alternative to Trump,
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I'm wondering if he would say, well, I'm sure glad we don't have Trump in there.
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Or would he say, well, okay, it's better than having Trump.
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I don't think I would do a told you so victory dance.
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But I think he should have developed some humility about his opinion by now.
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And I'm wondering if that would help us have a productive conversation.
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If you're thinking about reaching out to any of your friends you lost, this might be a good time.
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I think the timing is good to make your friends back.
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Do any of you live in a fake news personal life that's as bad as the fake news politics?
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Have any of you had an experience where your actual life turned out to be a fake life?
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That your actual life turned out to be a fake life.
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Well, I don't like to get too deeply into my personal life.
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But I'll just tell you one thing that happened to me that just reminded me that we don't live in the same reality.
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So most of you know, because I'm a public figure, that I'm going through completing a divorce.
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Now, it's newer news for you, but it's older news for me.
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So we've moved on about as much as you can move on.
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And I saw her the other day, and I thought to ask this question.
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And then she described a specific situation in which she thought I had been reacting to a story about us.
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And she thought that maybe that story that had been on the Internet had influenced me to want a divorce.
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In fact, when she told me, it was the first time I'd ever heard it.
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Because I didn't even know, like, even in the general ballpark of the reason.
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And I'm thinking to myself, I'm pretty sure we discussed it.
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But, now, I don't want to get into, you know, my situation, because that's not really the point.
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The point is, do you have any situations like that in which somebody who's actually that close to you in your personal life is living, at least in their mind, a completely different life?
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You know, and I think that once you see it, you can't unsee it, right?
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Once you start tuning yourself to the fact that we're living in different worlds,
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because you used to think that people were only temporarily living in different worlds.
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That if you informed them and you talked to them, you'd end up in the same world.
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I think we've gone to a higher level of awareness when we realize that we're all just living in different worlds,
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We might be those things, too, but that's not what's causing us to live in different worlds.
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It doesn't matter how smart or well-informed you are.
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Your whole life will be more stress-free when you realize that we're not creatures of reason and thought and data.
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We're nowhere in the neighborhood of being those people, but we'd like to be.
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I saw a good joke from a user on Twitter, Den Lesks.
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He says, at this point, I'd rather Hunter Biden be our president than Joe.
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So Hunter lines his blow and screws prostitutes, but Joe blows his lines and screws us.
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So you've heard my opinion that I think calling people what they would like to be called is just good manners.
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And then I also resist people forcing me to do anything because I'm willing to do it.
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But I'm not willing to do crazy things, and I'm not willing to get punished if I get one wrong, right, if I use the wrong term.
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I'm not willing to take any punishment for it because I think manners have to work both ways, right, a little bit of forgiveness both ways.
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And he says, write on, write on to Matt Walsh about whatever Matt Walsh was saying.
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He goes, Scott Adams says, Scott Adams could learn something from you, meaning Matt Walsh.
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And then this user says, he has gone full woke now, meaning me.
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In his show last week, he accepted and used the left's way of using language.
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And then you can get rid of the now because that's the context.
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So I just had to take a pause to fix your horrible sentence.
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But he says, I can't even take him seriously, serious now.
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And then he says to me, he says, he said at one point, quote, I don't want to dead names.
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So he says that he's sickened by me, basically, because I bought into the left's requirement.
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To which I said to him, the part I don't like is when, I said I like the part of wokeness in which people inform me how they prefer to be addressed.
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For example, if a woman wanted me to address her as Ms. or Miss or Mrs., would you object to that?
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Suppose somebody asked me, and this happens all the time because I'm a famous person.
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When people talk to famous people and they've gotten familiar, they'll sometimes say, may I call you Scott?
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To which I say, of course, that being my name and everything.
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So we, you know, it's a normal custom that we ask people how they'd like to be addressed, and then we do our best to use it, right?
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Maybe you have good intentions, but you do it wrong.
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I said, I like the part of wokeness in which people inform me how they prefer to be addressed.
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And then I added, the part I don't like is when people such as this guy, the guy tweeting at me, or the LGBT community tell me there would be penalties if I used the wrong word.
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Then I ended with, you can all go fuck yourself.
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So in my opinion, this guy who's criticizing me for being too woke is the LGBT community.
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He and the LGBT community are the same fucking people, because both of them are telling me what to say.
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And I am happy to use polite terms that people feel comfortable with, always.
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You tell me what you would like to be called, and I will call you that, as best I can.
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But to the LGBT community, and I've said this many times, if I get it wrong, and you give me a hard time,
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fuck you, fuck you hard, go fuck yourself with a blunt instrument, just get it out of my face.
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Because if you can't give me a little bit of manners in return, well, then you don't deserve any.
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You know, if somebody's not polite to you, you get to shoot back.
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So would I go any harder on the LGBT community if they came after me for making a mistake,
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which is what it would be, because I wouldn't do it intentionally.
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Would I be as hard as him as this guy, who thinks I shouldn't use their word?
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These are two fucking groups telling me how to talk.
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One of them is telling me that he's going to punish me in public by calling me out and never watching me,
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because I don't use the right fucking words that he wants me to use.
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If you're telling me how to talk, you're your fucking enemy,
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because they're the ones who you don't like, because they're telling you how to talk.
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Not the LGBT community, not this fucking asshole who's apparently not on board with everything the LGBT community wants.
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Do not fucking tell me how I should talk, unless you expect this response.
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You know, it's free speech, so you can tell to say anything you want.
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So, and then, here's what a comment back to me on my comment was.
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If you're using preferred pronouns instead of reality, this is somebody else's opinion, that's idiocy.
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Not good manners, not playing pretend with these psychos.
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So he doesn't want me to, like, depart reality for the purpose of manners.
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Do you think that people should depart reality just to be polite?
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Is that a good idea or a bad idea, to depart reality to be polite?
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When I go to dinner and the woman I'm with is served first, what's the reason for that?
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What would be the functional purpose of the woman gets served first at dinner?
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What is the purpose for me opening a door for another person who is perfectly able-bodied?
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Just some shit bothers you and some stuff doesn't.
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Because women eat slower so they have to get their food first.
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That was a nicer try than I would have imagined.
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Aaron Rupar got a little public conversation on Twitter.
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There's a clip of Governor Youngkin being in Virginia, being interviewed.
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And his own words that he put on the tweet, Aaron Rupar was,
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Governor Glenn Runkin on CBS indicates he'd support a full abortion ban in Virginia,
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And then I saw other people tweeting at him and saying,
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Why would you send a clip around and say it says A,
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when the other people looking at it are saying,
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This isn't one of those, you know, Yanni and Laurel things.
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He didn't even actually even answer a question like that.
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He just sort of did his political answer that was sort of a dodge.
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And so I said to myself, my God, what's happening?
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it feels like he must really believe what he's saying.
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Because sometimes you think maybe they're just taken aside
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but if they retweet it, maybe you'll think it's true.
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because he said it publicly and he doubled down
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and he didn't delete it and said it's right there, blah, blah.
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And even made fun of people for reading comprehension
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And I thought, oh, wait, I was listening to see if he said it.
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So the word indicates, suggests that Aaron Rupar's opinion
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meaning that you don't know, we don't know his inner thoughts.
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But I think it's a perfectly reasonable opinion,
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that you would say that the governor was avoiding
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but he was so obviously avoiding the direct answer
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that it did indicate that maybe he would go there.
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There are two reasons he might not want to answer the question.
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One is that he's signaling that he would, in fact,
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So the politician thing is just to not answer a question
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you don't give people reason to vote against you.
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So Aaron Rupar's, I guess I'll call it an opinion,
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is a pretty strong signal of which way he would go.
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This is one in which he said exactly what he thought,
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that was not really revealed to you about Twitter?
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It's like, I feel like there's something missing, right?
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now they wouldn't disclose the bot information.
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the discovery has to be relevant to the question, right?
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Is this really all the information we could get?
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Now, if the engineer says that we really can't,
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then I don't know if any discovery is necessary,
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Because if the person who could give us this information
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and I won't say that he had one path all along,