Episode 2032 Scott Adams： Dilbert Is Fully Canceled, Wuhan Virus Leak, Katie Hobbs, Lab Leak & More
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Summary
Dilbert has been canceled, and Elon Musk has been accused of lying to Congress. Also, the Chinese government admits that COID came from a leak in a lab in Wuhan, and Scott Adams tries to figure out who leaked it.
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All right, well, I know some of you here are here to hear about the fireworks of Dilbert being
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canceled. I'll give you the headline, but then I'll talk about it in detail after I do some other
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stories. So the headline is that the way comics are distributed, there's a syndication company,
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and then they distribute to the newspapers that buy it. So a number of newspapers individually
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canceled Dilbert, but there was a lot of pressure on the syndication company. So the syndication
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company decided to part ways with me completely, immediately. And that means that there is no
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syndication vehicle to get Dilbert to any customers. So I don't personally have any contracts
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with newspapers. That goes through the syndication company. Now, just to be clear, the syndication
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company didn't really have any choice because their clients were hopping mad. And I think the artists,
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the other cartoonists, the other cartoonists were mad, and their staff was mad, and basically
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everybody was mad. So they made a business decision, which I don't consider anything like censorship
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or anything like that. So I like my syndication company. No, no, no, they are not cowards.
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You could blame the newspapers for being a little skittish, but the syndication company didn't have
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any choice. They were just forced into it. So don't give them a hard time, okay? It's actually a great
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company. I've been very happy with them for a very long time. Mark Dice just did something? Well, that's
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nice. All right, we'll get to more of that and the whiteboard and all, but let's talk about the
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headlines. So apparently, there's now a general government agreement that the COVID came from a
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lab leak in Wuhan. Do I have that story right? That the government is now saying it's like the
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Department of, was it Defense or something? Or Energy? I don't know why I said it. But anyway,
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the government's saying, yeah, probably. Are they saying probably or definitely? It was a little
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ambiguous. Is it probably or definitely from the Wuhan lab? Probably, right? Yeah, we're only a probably.
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Here's the strangest thing about that story. I thought we already knew that.
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We keep getting news about things that I thought had already happened. Am I the only one who thinks
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the news keeps telling me things that's already happened? Like, sooner or later, there'll be a
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celebrity who dies, and you're going to say, I thought that celebrity died a long time ago.
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It's like news of things you're pretty sure already happened, but it really didn't.
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All right, does it make any difference that it escaped from the Wuhan lab?
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Well, it does say that Anthony Fauci has some explaining, doesn't it? Now, as Elon Musk pointed
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out in the tweet, when Fauci said that he did not fund or was not involved in funding, gain
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of, what is it, gain of function in Wuhan? Apparently, it went through EcoHealth and then
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went there. So, basically, it was like, no, I didn't fund the lab. I funded this third
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party. Who funded the lab? So, I don't know if that's going to be his escape plan for not
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lying to Congress, because it certainly looked like he lied to Congress, didn't it? But maybe
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he's got some technical out where he can say, well, technically, I only funded this other
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thing. Yeah, I don't know that he lied. He may have been technically correct because he
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chose his words carefully, which is nothing to celebrate, but maybe. I hear choosing your
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words poorly can get you in trouble. I hear that's a thing. All right. So, I don't know
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what to say about that, because it doesn't change anything, because what is not in evidence
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is that anybody was doing something intentional, meaning they were doing gain of function, which
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is dangerous enough, but it doesn't mean they were necessarily trying to create a weapon.
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Don't know about that. Maybe they were trying to defend against a weapon. I don't know. Maybe.
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But as Michael Schellenberger points out, that the theory that is now essentially backed by the
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government, the mass media condemned the lab leak theory as a, quote, debunked conspiracy theory,
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and Facebook censored people who dared suggest it. You know, it's so easy to forget what happened,
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you know, just two years ago. But, oh my God, did the government abuse us. In every possible way
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they could abuse us, they abused us, you know, in hindsight. Also, Michael Schellenberger in a tweet
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points out, it's clear that the scientists who claimed in Landsat, you know, that's a respected
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publication, on February 19th, 2020, quote, we stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy
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theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin. So, as Michael Schellenberger
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says, they were misrepresenting their unfounded opinion as a scientific fact. Does that sound
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familiar? Doesn't it sound just like the 50 intel officials who signed a document about Hunter's
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laptop? And they were all lying, but not technically? They weren't lying because they said, well, it has
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all the hallmarks of, all right. So, do you think these scientists were lying, and they knew it, when
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they said, oh, it's a conspiracy theory? Yeah, I don't know. I think it depends on the wording.
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So, they said it was a conspiracy theory suggesting that it came from, oh, suggesting it didn't have
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natural origins, but that was just because there wasn't enough evidence yet.
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So, I'm not sure it's, you know, evidence of a lie.
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All right. Well, it looks like the locals' audience is pretty big today.
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All right. Is China collapsing? I just, you know, I read a long thread, and who knows? I think it's
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impossible to know what's happening in China. But there was a long thread talking about the
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demographic collapse, and some are saying that the, you know, the population of China is going to start
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decreasing really, really fast. Like, by 2050, there could be, you know, half as many people living
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there. Like, I don't think that's, that doesn't sound right. But they're in real trouble. They don't
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have enough young people. And I didn't realize how many, maybe you could do a fact check on this.
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You know those ghost cities that are, that are in China? There are a whole bunch of, like,
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skyscrapers that are just empty. And one of the things I learned, and I don't know if it's true,
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but it might be true. Did you know that they were all purchased? And why? So, I am private.
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Oh, okay. Now I'm private. So, the reason that real estate is all purchased, even if people don't
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want to live in it, is it's one of the few stores of value that the Chinese citizens trust. So,
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they're not trusting their regular investments, maybe not even trusting their banks. But if you buy
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real estate, and apparently, you don't even furnish it, or even finish the construction,
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because it's worth more, if you can sell it, and somebody can customize it themselves.
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So, apparently, the Chinese built all these cities, sold all the apartments, but nobody wanted to move
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in, because they were just investments. And they didn't want people living in their apartment,
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because it would make their investment worth less. Talk about a problem. So, I've seen the videos of
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the skyscrapers being destroyed, but then I saw a reference to hundreds of these cities across China.
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Can anybody fact check that? I always assumed it was, you know, one or two. I just thought,
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oh, there's this one or two cities that are ghost cities, but there are hundreds of them. People are
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saying that's true. Hundreds of them. Hundreds of, like, instant cities that are empty, and they're
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just owned, I guess. Wow. Oh, you're in China? All right. Buildings are made of chalk, and so the
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building... Oh, are they also building them so they're unsafe, because they know they can sell
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them anyway? Oh, interesting. Yeah, they overbuilt, but did they overbuild? Because people bought them.
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Yeah, overbuilt in some sense, yes. All right, well, I'm suspicious about whether China's population
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will collapse, but all the signs are pointing to it. Wouldn't that become one of the biggest problems
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in the world? I don't know. Or maybe it would solve a problem for China. I don't know.
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There was a Rasmussen poll. This one probably won't get me in trouble.
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In which the EPA is saying that the tests in that Ohio, East Palestine town where the train
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derailed, they're saying that the drinking water quality, there's no quality concerns.
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But Rasmussen asked people if they'd be willing to drink the water. Only 23% of voters say that they
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would feel safe drinking the water if they lived near the site where the train derailed. 23%.
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That's roughly a quarter. Roughly a quarter. Yeah. So a quarter of the people would feel comfortable
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drinking the water around a toxic cesspool. Well, good for them. You know, I applaud their confidence.
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I don't know. How about you? How many of you would feel comfortable because the science says the water's
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good? Science says it's good. Trust it. Would you feel comfortable? I might drink it, but I would never
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feel comfortable. The water doesn't come from there. Oh, is that true? Is it true that the water doesn't
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come from anywhere near there? It's like pumped in from somewhere else? I'm seeing some no's, but I think
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that's no's to the other question. Still better than Flint. Yeah, maybe. All right. Well, let's talk about
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Katie Hobbs. So apparently there's some kind of hearing or investigation by some private lawyer.
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I assume they were working for somebody. I don't know. But there are all these allegations of the
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Sinaloa cartel funneling money to politicians in Arizona, including Governor Katie Hobbs. Now,
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I googled again to see this story. Correct me if I'm wrong. There's no major media covering it.
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Am I right? No major media is covering this. But the hearing is happening, right? There's an actual
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hearing? Yeah. So it's not a rumor. There's an actual hearing with these specific allegations.
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And correct me if I'm wrong. Some of the allegations were about the company that handles
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their elections. Is that true? Now, does that sound like it's likely to be true? Do you think
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these allegations are likely to play out as true? Here's my problem with it. It's a little too
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on the nose. Yeah, it's too on the nose. It's a little too much like what you expected it would
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be. And that, I'd never trust that. It's like, yeah, that's exactly what you would make up if you
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were going to make it up. It would sound just like that. So the real world is messier. So whenever
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you see something... Have you listened to the information presented? I have not. But I also
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don't trust it. So if I listen to it, I don't know if that would be helping me. So here's what I'm
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going to do. I'm going to kind of wait to see if the major media picks it up. Because even Fox News
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is not reporting on it, as far as I know. Is that right? So if you can't get even the
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right-leaning media to bite on it, I would hold off on my confidence. So I'm going to do,
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for Katie Hobbs, the innocent until proven guilty. I mean, it's a disturbing allegation.
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How does it... Somebody asked me, how does it feel to lose all of my money? Do you think
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I lost all of my money? There's almost nothing about this story about me that's true. It's
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like, it's almost entirely... It's now devolved into, like, a fantasy story. All right. Mississippi
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Mississippi is the state is looking to appoint justices in an area where normally they would
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be elected. And the reason they're doing that is that they think the elected ones must be
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corrupt. So there's nothing good happening. Where is it? It's one area of one community.
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Where is it? Why in the world is that not the first thing that I say? No, it's a district
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within Jackson, which CNN reports is a majority black city. So here's my question. If the state
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has decided that Jackson, Mississippi, is so lost that they need to appoint judges... And by the
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way, it's being resisted by the locals who think it's white supremacy. But would you recommend
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a young black man move to Jackson? Would you recommend that? If you were giving advice, hey,
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young black man, would you move to Jackson? Now, right, one says yes. One says yes. Now, is this
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a racial comment or an income or a class comment? How do you interpret it? Well, here's how it would
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be racist. It would be racist if you said, don't go there because there are black people. That would
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be clearly racist. I don't know how it could be anything else. But if you said, don't go there
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because there are poor people and that breeds crime and you don't want to be around that. Would
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that be fair? Could you say, don't go to a place with a lot of poor people and high crime?
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You wouldn't be canceled for that, would you? So what if you said what I said?
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That because of systemic racism, things are so bad in the black community that they're
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disproportionately likely to be in poor neighborhoods. And it's such, it's so correlated,
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unfortunately, nobody wants this to be true, that you could use it as a proxy of where there's
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problems. In the inner cities, we're not talking about, you know, some rural suburban place. Now,
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using it as a proxy, is that racist? I need an opinion here. If you use it as a proxy, it's just one way to
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know where there's going to be a lot of crime for systemic racism reasons. So if you make that
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correlation, but you're very carefully saying, I'm not saying anything about black people.
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I'm just saying that there's a proxy situation where, so in terms of information, it would be one
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rule of thumb. Now, could that prevent you from going and living in a place that's majority black
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and also high income and no crime? Well, it would. It would. Does it sound like I'm apologizing?
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There are so many hallucinations that people are having about me. You should look into, well, never
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mind. So let's talk about Dilbert. Dilbert's now fully canceled. You probably heard the news that
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hundreds of newspapers or some big ones were canceling. But as of yesterday, $100. Wow. Thanks,
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Greg. That's nice of you. Just a compliment there. And an overly large tip. Appreciate it.
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So Dilbert is now fully canceled in all newspapers, calendars, books, because my syndication company,
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who does the newspaper syndication, they sell it to the newspapers. And they also provide it to,
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they also provide it to all the, they also do the calendars in the books. So they decided they
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couldn't take the heat. By the way, I don't blame them. It's not a terrible decision, by the way. I don't
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blame them at all. And I expect them to be professional about it, and I will be professional too. So it's a very
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long relationship that's ending. But don't give them a hard time. It's the newspapers who pressure
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them, and they have a business model. They have a responsibility to their, you know, to the people
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who work there. So there were a lot of complaints from other artists. Have you ever heard that artists
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say bad things about me? Have you ever heard that? It's the most consistent thing. Artists say bad
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things about me. Anyway, so Dilbert, whenever that winds down, I don't know how instant it is,
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it will not be available at Dilbert.com, I don't think, because I'm not going to manage it.
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And it won't be available in any form, except whatever's already in stores, I guess,
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or already in the pipeline. So the media has untethered me. I'm untethered. I'm not sure
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if they want that, but that's what happened. Anyway, Dilbert will be available still every
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day on the Locals platform for subscribers, along with lots of other content, including
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these live streams. So if you'd like to support, let's say, I don't know if it's supporting me,
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or it's putting a thumb in the eye of the newspapers who canceled me, one or the other. If you'd like
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to be part of that, the Locals community, five bucks a month if you buy an annual membership.
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All right. Well, let's talk about this issue. So the canceling, if you look at all the newspapers
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and also my syndicate, I would characterize them this way. It was a bunch of rich white people,
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you know, the leaders of newspapers and head of the syndicate. So it's a bunch of well-off
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white people who do not live around black people. And they decided to cancel me because I thought
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that what they're doing is a good strategy. So I agreed with their strategy and then they canceled
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me because nobody wants to ask them where they live or why. Now, again, I'm not saying that any of
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these people are racist. I'm saying that they probably used a proxy and said, well, you know,
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that's one of the ways you know where to live. And you want to avoid crime, not avoiding black people.
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That would be racist, but just avoiding, you know, low-income crime areas. So they've all done that
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as I've recommended, but they canceled me for recommending it.
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And now there are a bunch of made-up reasons because the actual thing that people are mad at
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me about, they all agree with. So nobody disagrees with my two main claims that you should treat all
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individuals as individuals, no discrimination. Everybody agrees with that, except racists, I guess,
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which I disavow. And then the second point that you should avoid anything that statistically looks
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like a bad idea for you personally. Nobody's disagreed with that. Have you noticed? The actual
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claim, nobody's disagreed with. Not black people. In fact, the main supporters I've seen lately were
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black. And they were saying, yeah, if you listen to it in context, it makes perfect sense. And a number
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of black people are telling me they did the same thing. You know, they looked at their neighborhood
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and said, you know, I think I'll live over here. It looks safer. So I'm getting agreement from black
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pundits, from white pundits. And then when I asked the people who were mad at me, and mostly it's name
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calling, I asked them, what is it you're actually mad at? I'll give you an example. When the, my
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syndicate canceled me, they did a press release, I guess, on social media. And they said that they
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oppose hate and discrimination. Do they know that was my point? My point was to try to avoid hate and
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discrimination. That was my entire point. Is if somebody, if you believe that there's a group of
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people who have a statistical likelihood to discriminate against you, not any individual,
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but just collectively, there's a, there's an impulse there, then you should get away from that.
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And I would call that, I specifically called the people I wanted to get away from,
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but this was hyperbole. This is overstating it. Everybody who understands hyperbole knows this was
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hyperbole, meaning an exaggeration. When I said that black people were like a hate group.
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And that was based on, oh, I'll talk about that in a moment. But it wasn't because I hated anybody.
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In fact, hate wasn't even part of the conversation, was it? Has hate been any part of the conversation?
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I don't think so. Because I don't hate anybody. But I was concerned that somebody hated me.
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Nobody specific. So I'm not even sure that hate was right, right thing. How about, yeah,
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and discrimination is the other thing I was trying to avoid. So if you avoid discrimination,
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you are discriminating. Is that true? If you avoid discrimination, you're discriminating. It is
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true. It's definitely true. All right. Here's some other things people said. They know what's in my
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racist heart because of all of my years of racist tweeting, which is zero. There is zero any other
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thing that you will find anywhere in my Twitter that would suggest any racist anything, right?
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There's nothing there. And believe me, believe me, if there were anything there, you don't think
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you'd be seeing it on social media by now. It's the first thing they do. They go through your old
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tweets, and then they show that your new tweet is part of the pattern. Have you noticed that that
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doesn't exist? Have you noticed that where they go and they find part of my pattern is not there?
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So there are people who think that I went my entire career and just like snapped or something.
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So no, there are not years of racist tweets. There are zero of them. Other people say my big problem
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is that I conflated class and race. They said that after I tweeted, everybody knows that class and race
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are not the same thing and I treat them differently. Who doesn't know that? In fact, that's one of my
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biggest, yeah, one of my biggest public statements is agreeing with Dave Chappelle, basically, that
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we're treating race as the primary variable, but it's always been economics. Every time we treat race
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as the way to understand anything, it doesn't work. I've said that forever. But class does. If you look
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at class, it explains everything. So there's a PhD fellow who I'm going to talk to, a black gentleman,
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who wants to talk to me. And his complaint was, what? That's not true.
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Somebody is sending me that my Twitter account was suspended. That can't be true.
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No, it's still there. All right. That was a good prank, though, but it's still there. Still
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there. All right. Now, so I have never conflated race and class. And people imagining that I
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did, nobody does that, do they? Or if they do, that's pretty dumb.
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Um, I'm also accused of, uh, they know that I'm a racist, they say, because of my right-wing
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politics. Would any of you who have watched me consider me right-wing? What's your opinion?
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Do I, do I present as right-wing to you? Yeah. Everybody, everybody who knows me knows the
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answer is no. I'm not right-wing. Left to Bernie. All right. The other thing they say is,
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uh, uh, uh, I called black Americans a hate group, as I said, but that was hyperbole and
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within, within context, everybody knows what that means, but it's hyperbole. Um,
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and that I espoused racism. Did I espouse racism or did I say you should try to get away from
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it? I said, you should try to get away from it, which apparently is racism itself.
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But what do you do if you, if you can't discriminate, how do you get away from it?
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Or do you just accept it? Is that a requirement?
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All right. Here's my big question to you. Um, are there, let, let me see if there, uh, any
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black Americans watching right now. I have a question for you. I did, could you identify
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yourself? Any black Americans who are watching the live stream right now, just if you're willing,
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identify yourself, because I have a question for you.
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Uh, all right, we got a few. Here's the question. If you were looking for a home, let's say you
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were shopping for a new home or an apartment, and the place that you were looking at had, uh,
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uh, Republican political signs around it. And let's say you saw the neighbors wearing,
00:30:19.820
you know, MAGA hats or something. Would you feel comfortable living there? Go. Would you feel
00:30:27.160
comfortable in a neighborhood of red hat wearing, uh, Republicans? I'm saying no. Okay. So
00:30:40.000
there's some yeses and there's some no's, some yeses and there's some no's. Now, suppose,
00:30:48.980
and you know, I know, I know why there's a difference. Let me tell you why there's a difference.
00:30:54.300
The difference is that conservative blacks already understand, um, conservatives. So if you're actually
00:31:03.600
a conservative yourself, you understand that they're not judging you by your color.
00:31:07.060
If you're not a conservative, you think they are. Am I right? But, but black conservatives know that's
00:31:15.720
not happening. In fact, it's the opposite. They know that in the Republican side, Republicans are
00:31:22.040
really, really strict about, it's not about anything but your, you know, your contribution. You know,
00:31:29.540
what are you doing? It's about your activities. Now, that's not to say that there aren't a bunch of
00:31:34.100
racist, uh, Republicans. You know, they're racist in all groups. But you saw that in the comments,
00:31:43.160
there were a number of people who said, uh, I wouldn't feel comfortable. I'm going to make, uh,
00:31:49.520
Teddy, the, the, uh, let me talk about the victim narrative in a minute because that's,
00:31:55.060
that's the NPC comment. There are two NPC comments. I'll just say this now. Uh, one,
00:32:00.880
tried to explain the difference between the first amendment and private companies deciding to cancel
00:32:07.040
me. And a lot of people tried to explain that to me this week because they think I don't understand
00:32:13.340
that. Now, only an NPC, like a non-person, uh, you know, non-player character would believe that I don't
00:32:23.280
understand that. And that when I say that free speech is expensive, that somehow I've lost the
00:32:29.660
distinction between private companies acting and a government rule that says what you can say and
00:32:34.920
what you can't say. I do understand that. I do. Secondly, the other NPC comment, like the, the lowest
00:32:43.520
level of analysis is, uh, that I'm playing the victim, playing the victim. How could I describe
00:32:53.400
this situation without you saying that? How in the world could I simply objectively describe what
00:33:02.120
happened without it sounding like you think I'm, you know, I'm a victim? Have you heard me say,
00:33:09.960
oh, now I won't be able to eat? No, no. I'm kind of the opposite of playing the victim, but I am
00:33:19.740
describing what happened. For example, I incorrectly tweeted today that I lost three careers by being
00:33:28.960
white. And somebody corrected me. I was like, shoot, I was pretty sure I had that right. The first one was
00:33:38.080
Crocker National Bank, where my boss told me, uh, that white men could not be promoted directly.
00:33:47.140
Now, some people questioned whether that ever happened. And you just have to ask anybody who
00:33:52.360
lived in San Francisco in the eighties or nineties. It happened to everybody. Like it was more like a
00:33:58.300
universal thing than some weird thing that happened to one guy. So Crocker Bank said I couldn't be
00:34:04.960
promoted. And then I went to Pacific Belt. And after a few years, they called me in and my boss
00:34:11.680
told me directly, you can't be promoted because you're white and you're male. So I left to become
00:34:20.420
a cartoonist where it wouldn't matter what color I was. How'd that work out? Do you think I would be
00:34:28.520
canceled if I were not white? I know the answer, but just answer. Do you think if I were not white
00:34:36.640
that I would be canceled for saying exactly what I said, saying exactly the same words?
00:34:43.040
No, there's not even, there's not even a small chance. There isn't the slightest chance.
00:34:48.080
No, this is purely racial. This is purely racial. You all know it. There's not a single yes going by.
00:34:55.560
There's not a single person who believes I would have been canceled for, if I had not been white.
00:35:02.000
Nobody. Yeah. Somebody says yes if Asian, I suppose. Yeah. Turn on MSNBC. Are they talking about me?
00:35:13.080
All right. So I think we got agreement that it makes sense to not live with near, don't live near a
00:35:24.180
population of people who have been primed to have a bad opinion of you.
00:35:32.540
Does anybody disagree with the statement that it's good personal, let's say strategy,
00:35:40.020
to go where you don't think people are going to have a bad attitude about you?
00:35:44.860
Kurt says no agreement. Let me explain one dissenter. I had one dissenter who said, yes, I would go to an area
00:35:58.700
where I was skeptical of the people there. Did anything I said sounded like skepticism or a little bit of
00:36:10.460
questioning about him? Is that really what we were talking about? Because it's a matter of degree.
00:36:16.820
And the people who can't understand it's a matter of degree are really missing the whole story.
00:36:24.380
Now, there are plenty of neighborhoods where I might be skeptical or suspicious, but they don't rise to the
00:36:31.020
level where it would matter. But then there are other neighborhoods where you're not just skeptical,
00:36:36.300
you're scared to death. So if you replace skeptical with scared for your life, then you might get a
00:36:43.220
closer answer. But the trolls on YouTube are pretty active and pretty funny today.
00:36:58.380
You all go to Chicago and tell them you're colorblind, somebody says.
00:37:01.980
Yeah. Anyway, so I'll go to the whiteboard in a second. I asked on social media if people are
00:37:16.500
considering canceling their newspaper subscription because Dilbert got canceled. You want to know a
00:37:22.820
fun economic fact? It would only take about three people to cancel their newspaper subscriptions
00:37:29.440
for the newspaper to lose money. Because the amount that they paid for Dilbert is so small per newspaper
00:37:40.240
that it would only take a handful of people canceling that they would, you know, lose more money than
00:37:47.460
they gained by canceling it. I also wonder if newspapers are so close to being completely done that it
00:37:57.060
wouldn't take much to push them over the edge. If, for example, by the way, this is a possibility.
00:38:03.000
This is an actual possibility. If, for example, newspaper income went down 10%, because let's say
00:38:10.660
there was a big cancellation. I don't recommend that, by the way. I'm not in favor of boycotts.
00:38:14.840
I don't like boycotts. I don't like it when it happens to me. So I don't like it when it happens to
00:38:19.060
anybody. But if, hypothetically, newspapers lost 10% of their audience because of this, that would push
00:38:28.760
most of them into the negative, because their margins have shrunk and shrunk and shrunk. The
00:38:33.560
only reason they're still in business, I don't know if you know this, the reason that newspapers
00:38:37.520
are still in business is they used to have gigantic margins, and they've shrunk to almost nothing, but
00:38:44.000
there's still a little bit there for some newspapers. Other newspapers, especially the chains, are
00:38:50.040
running at a loss. And it's because some hedge fund owns them, they don't mind the loss, or whatever
00:38:56.460
it is. But a 10% drop in newspaper subscriptions might put half of the industry out of business.
00:39:06.300
It's a possibility. So it's possible that Dilbert canceled the entire newspaper industry, but not
00:39:13.420
a high chance. Not a high chance. Maybe a 20% risk. All right. So I gave an NPC assignment, as I
00:39:25.860
mentioned. On Twitter, I said, write a tweet explaining how the First Amendment doesn't apply
00:39:32.140
to private companies. And I actually labeled it NPC assignment. And then in the comments, you
00:39:39.860
have to see how many people sincerely tried to explain to me that the First Amendment doesn't
00:39:45.900
apply to private companies. After I'd give them an NPC assignment to do it, they did it.
00:39:52.020
And not ironically. They thought I needed to know. All right. And then this is my favorite
00:40:04.680
critic. Some individual who thinks he's going to... Kyle Parrish, who's running for Congress,
00:40:10.760
I guess North Carolina 5th District. And I don't like his chances. Based on his tweet, I don't
00:40:17.680
like his chances of getting elected. So he said, how long before Scott Adams posts a rant
00:40:24.720
about men needing to separate from women because they all hate him? And I thought to myself,
00:40:33.520
well, I've sort of already done that. You know, not the hate part, but I've already endorsed
00:40:41.140
the Mike Pence. Don't have, you know, a meal with somebody who's not your wife unless your wife is
00:40:46.660
there. And it's for the same reason. It's exactly the same thinking. The thinking is, while any
00:40:54.140
individual woman is fine, but the class of the category of people called women have been very much,
00:41:04.060
let's say, programmed by the Me Too narrative, which is, you know, a healthy, a healthy thing for
00:41:11.620
society to have that. But if you're trying to avoid a class of people who have been programmed by
00:41:17.320
society, women would be one of the groups. So I do recommend that you stay away from women,
00:41:24.800
certainly in a work environment where you're alone. So I wouldn't spend a time alone with women
00:41:34.820
because women have been radicalized by the narrative to look for Me Too-ing, and they're
00:41:42.000
going to find it where a man won't. If you spent the same amount of time with men, your odds of being
00:41:47.880
Me Too-ed would be practically zero. If you spend a lot of time with women in the workplace, what are
00:41:54.020
your odds? Actually, I'll ask you this. If you have a job where you personally spend a lot of time
00:41:58.620
with women, what are the odds you'd be accused of misogyny or sexism? I think it's close to 100%,
00:42:08.140
isn't it? Yeah. If you're surrounded by women in a work environment for an extended period of time,
00:42:15.540
I would say the odds go to 100%. So would it be good advice to ignore that? Or would it be good advice
00:42:23.420
to do what Mike Pence does and make sure everybody has equal opportunity? Don't treat any woman as
00:42:30.460
there's something wrong with her. That's not fair. But just treat it like a statistical fact.
00:42:36.380
How about that? So that's bad critiquing if I agree with you. All right, let's go to the whiteboard.
00:42:49.100
I was reading CNN's takedown of me today, and I think so far the press has done the same trick.
00:42:57.760
And the trick is to use just my quote and to ignore the context, which I helpfully added afterwards.
00:43:06.400
So if you only concentrate on the quote, you can make it mean anything you want. But if you look at
00:43:11.760
the context, it's harder. So I don't believe... Let me tell you what the Washington Post did.
00:43:17.960
All right. I don't encourage you to do gigantic super chats, but Ryan, I appreciate it.
00:43:34.200
All right. Here's what the Washington Post did. If you heard my comments in context,
00:43:41.880
they're much easier to go down, right? That's why a number of black
00:43:45.960
pundits have looked at my comments in context and then concluded, oh, that's fine.
00:43:52.520
I don't know if you know that, but black people who are looking at it in context are fine with it.
00:43:59.400
And they're telling me every day, privately and also on Twitter, right? Now, the ones who haven't
00:44:04.360
looked into the context, they're pretty worked up. They're pretty worked up. So here's what the
00:44:12.440
Washington Post does. They start with the story of what I said, which is the thing that gets
00:44:16.840
everybody riled up. They do add a little context, but it's at the end. If you add it at the end,
00:44:24.280
that's a hit piece, right? Because they could have added it at the front. All you'd have to do is cut
00:44:30.040
and paste. Just cut the end, put it up at the top. Here's how the story could have read.
00:44:36.440
Adams made the following comments, then just show the comments. People interpreted it to be racist.
00:44:47.080
Adams addressed those comments the following way. And then people who saw the comments addressed
00:44:54.840
decided it was actually helpful. Did I lie? Is any of that a lie? It's not. If you just said,
00:45:06.760
here's the context. Here's his additional explanations. People have looked at it are happy
00:45:13.400
that it wasn't racist, or not what they thought it was anyway. And that's the end of it. But there's
00:45:20.200
still an outrage. Would any of that be untrue? It wouldn't be. Now, the way they wrote it was also
00:45:27.720
completely true. But it was written to mislead intentionally. So look at the stories today.
00:45:35.720
Story number one, the media, and social media especially, lied to you about the source of the
00:45:42.760
Wuhan virus. Right? That's the media. And now they're lying to you about me, but they're doing it in this
00:45:52.200
clever way where they just arrange the information so it's presented as a lie. But there are no lies in it.
00:45:59.880
There are no lies in it anywhere. But it's organized to present a lie.
00:46:04.040
All right. So here's the thing. And you can check this yourself. Check any of the major media coverage
00:46:14.280
of me and see if you can find them describing my explanation of why the Rasmussen poll wasn't the
00:46:22.600
important part of the thing. So, by the way, a number of people have said, hey, that's just one poll.
00:46:27.720
He can't rely on one poll. And they're right. And I should have been more clear that I was using the
00:46:35.080
poll as a, let's say, an introduction to the topic. But the bigger reason is not the poll.
00:46:42.040
You could take the poll out of the story and my point would be the same, but my messaging would
00:46:49.560
probably be better. So here's the real messaging, which I didn't do a good job of, you know, in my
00:46:55.640
off-the-cuff stuff. We know we have a situation in this country in which there are indications of
00:47:04.760
racial discontent. So there's the Rasmussen poll, which we all agree cannot be relied on just by
00:47:11.160
itself. But suppose the Rasmussen poll was off by 100%. That'd be pretty big, wouldn't it? A poll that's
00:47:20.520
off by 100%. So let's say that instead of, you know, nearly half of black respondents not being
00:47:27.240
willing to say that being white is okay. That was the poll. Suppose it was only half of that.
00:47:34.680
Or the part, or let's say I take out the part of people who are just unwilling to answer it
00:47:40.600
and just say, well, that's something different.
00:47:42.280
So suppose it's half that size. Suppose it's a quarter of black Americans thought about it and
00:47:51.560
said, yeah, I'm not willing to say being white's okay. Would that change my point? You know,
00:47:57.240
would the larger point be different if the Rasmussen poll was off a lot, like just way off? It wouldn't
00:48:04.920
be any different at all. But it also is very much in agreement with the Gallup poll from a few years ago
00:48:10.920
that shows that race relations took a dive, I think around the time of Trayvon Martin,
00:48:17.800
when the media found that they could get a lot of money by ginning up racial hatred.
00:48:23.720
So if you look at the Gallup poll of race relations, it sort of is flat for years, just years, flat,
00:48:32.120
flat, flat. Trayvon Martin, and then it stays low after that. Why did it stay low? Was it just because
00:48:39.800
of one story? No. It's because the media decided that that kind of story was the kind that really
00:48:47.080
gets people going. So the media decides that to feed us, you know, nonstop white people are racist
00:48:55.480
stories because it's really good content. Then you add to that the EIS and the DEI and the training that
00:49:05.000
is now the major narrative. The thing that schools are teaching the kids and the things that
00:49:09.880
corporations are talking about. And they're creating a narrative collectively. And then
00:49:17.400
social media is a big part of this, of course. So if you add the media, I should have said media,
00:49:21.480
not social media. But if you add all of these forces, they create a narrative. And I won't say what the
00:49:27.320
percentage is. But there is some amount of the black population that's poisoned. They're just
00:49:34.440
poisoned by the narrative. They are victims. They are literally victims. Now, the white population is
00:49:43.080
just as much victims, you know, in a different way. Because the media is not telling us anything like
00:49:48.360
the truth. They didn't tell us about the Wuhan virus, right? Pretty much. Wasn't there another
00:49:54.760
story? Oh, the Katie Hobbs story. I'm not sure that that's even true. We'll find out. Don't know if the
00:50:03.160
collapsing China is true. We don't know if the Ukraine war stuff is true. Basically, the media is
00:50:07.800
unreliable. I guess you know that. So no matter what this populate, what percentage of the black
00:50:12.920
population has been poisoned by this narrative, would you agree with the following statement?
00:50:19.720
That all of these forces are pushing it into more. Like whatever it is now, there's going to be more
00:50:26.760
of it. Because the forces that caused it are all in play. Agreed? All right. So if you imagine that
00:50:36.280
the black population is victim, which I believe they are victims, of programming that is not in their
00:50:46.600
best interest. It looks like it's in their best interest, because, you know, the equity and the
00:50:51.480
fairness and stuff. And there's a lot of good. There's probably a lot of good in there. I'm not going to
00:50:55.560
say it's all bad, right? I'm just saying if you haven't accounted for the cost of it, then you're not done with
00:51:02.680
the analysis. The benefits are obvious. Hey, we'll treat everybody better. I like that.
00:51:09.480
The cost is that there's a cost on the white population, because they're demonized by the,
00:51:16.840
you know, the collective forces here, and that there is a predictable response.
00:51:24.120
The predictable response, at least one of them should be, to put some distance between people who have been
00:51:30.680
victimized and are therefore weaponized. Here's another word for it. I would say that the media
00:51:38.040
and our education system are weaponizing part of the black population. And not necessarily
00:51:47.000
physical weapons. I'm talking about intellectually weaponized. To have an immediate
00:51:54.040
racial frame on things that maybe you don't need a racial frame on. Okay. So that's the story.
00:52:03.400
So everybody who says, Scott, you relied on Rasmussen, they're correct in their criticism that the way
00:52:10.840
I presented it looked like I was relying on that. That's a good criticism. But it's not,
00:52:16.040
I wouldn't have brought it up, except for this, right? This is the reason I'm talking about it.
00:52:21.320
But the Rasmussen was, you know, just a sideshow. It was just an introduction to the topic.
00:52:32.600
So here's what happened. See if this sounds familiar
00:52:39.160
to anything else you've ever seen happen in public. Here was the initial crime. I advised,
00:52:47.000
I gave some advice that everybody agrees with. I gave some advice that everyone agrees with. Black
00:52:56.280
people, white people, poor people, rich people. Everyone. Literally everyone. And was it useful?
00:53:05.640
Was it useful? Is it useful to know the costs and the benefits of your policies? Or do you only
00:53:13.160
want to know the benefits? It's useful, right? Well, actually, let me say it, maybe it didn't turn
00:53:22.840
useful. But the intention, the intention of everything I do on live stream is to allow people to think more
00:53:30.920
productively so that their lives are better. Does anybody doubt that? Is there anybody here who thinks
00:53:38.760
that I'm doing any of this for money? Like this stuff? It would be the worst way to make money. Do you know
00:53:48.440
how I make money? Or I used to. Keep my mouth shut and make Dilbert comics. That's how you make money.
00:53:56.520
That was a really good way to make money. I mean, it ended, it ended yesterday. But,
00:54:01.560
so I'm unemployed at the moment. I guess this is monetized, so sort of a little bit. Ego.
00:54:23.800
No, you're too kind. The answer is yes. But as I've told you many times, I never do anything for one
00:54:30.760
reason. I never do anything for one reason. I mean, there might be some exceptions. But I wouldn't do
00:54:36.440
this for one reason. So people are saying, hey, ego. To which I say, yes, if I do good work that
00:54:43.640
people appreciate, my ego will be satisfied. See, that's looking at all the variables. So I'm trying
00:54:51.960
to be consistent and look at all the variables. All right. So I gave some advice that everyone agrees
00:54:59.960
with that if there's a population of people that has a, has been programmed, this is the important
00:55:06.040
part, has been programmed to have a feeling about you. This would include women in the Me Too era.
00:55:14.760
So in the Mike Pence sense, you should avoid them. It would include people who have Trump signs and
00:55:21.800
MAGA hats if you're black. I would say maybe avoid that neighborhood.
00:55:26.600
Is that bad advice? Now, I know most of you who are, if you're Trump supporters, you say, but wait,
00:55:34.280
we're not racist. Don't do that. And I agree. Virtually, I don't know. You don't meet many racist
00:55:41.480
conservatives. You just don't. At least not in the sort of public sphere. But is there anybody who would say
00:55:51.240
that there are no racists in the Republican world? Would anybody say that? There are no racist Republicans?
00:56:02.760
Now, remember, one, now they're racist in every group. They're clearly racist in every group.
00:56:10.600
So if you're black, should you take into consideration that your neighbors have Republican signs in the yard?
00:56:22.040
Should you take that into consideration? Well, if you're a black conservative, it's a plus,
00:56:28.040
is you actually probably would be treated better than most people. If you're black and left-leaning,
00:56:34.120
you might have some, some hesitance, wouldn't you? Now, in all of these questions, it's got to be a matter of degree, doesn't it?
00:56:46.040
If your problem with another group was just, was somebody said skepticism, I wouldn't, I wouldn't change where I live
00:56:52.920
because of some vague skepticism. And likewise, I would say that Republicans are actually a pretty good group to live around.
00:57:01.880
So if you used your, you know, for most people, it would be a good place to live. But you might have feelings
00:57:10.760
that that group had been, let's say, weaponized by the media. There's a little bit of that is happening.
00:57:18.680
There's so many videos going around of black people beating up non-black people. If you were black, does that worry you?
00:57:26.760
Oh, let me ask that question. This is a good question. The videos that get viral, they seem to be,
00:57:34.440
there's one going around of a black student beating a teacher nearly to death. It's all over the place.
00:57:40.840
Wouldn't you agree, those of you who are black who are watching this, wouldn't you agree that's bad for you?
00:57:47.160
That it's like programming white people to have a view that's not representative?
00:57:51.720
Right. So wouldn't you say that the problem is people being programmed with bad thoughts?
00:58:02.200
Now, if you saw more and more, just hypothetically, let's say you're black and you saw more and more of
00:58:08.200
these videos and every one of them, it seems like, oh my God, it's like they're really going after us now.
00:58:15.160
Wouldn't you think twice before you moved into a neighborhood that you thought
00:58:24.520
I mean, it seems like a reasonable thing to do. And yet that would say nothing about all Republicans, would it?
00:58:30.680
It would say nothing about all Republicans. It would just say that this is a group of people who have been programmed,
00:58:36.200
and especially lately, and they've been programmed to have a, let's say, a reflexive bad feeling about me.
00:58:46.840
So wherever there are groups of people who have been programmed by the media to have a reflexive bad feeling about you,
00:58:54.840
I would avoid them. Does anybody think that's a bad idea? Anybody?
00:59:01.720
No matter what color you are, and no matter what is the, you know, characteristic of the group you're talking about,
00:59:12.040
if they have been programmed to not like you by the media, is that a factor you should consider?
00:59:20.920
Right. So here's what happened. So now you can see how the media works. So I said something that
00:59:27.640
literally everyone agrees with, once they see it in context. I will accept the criticism that I was not as
00:59:34.920
clear as I could have been. Does everybody agree with that? I'm accepting that criticism, that I gave too
00:59:42.520
much attention to one poll. Didn't change the message, but I gave too much attention to it. And I wasn't clear.
00:59:50.680
Yeah. Those things I can just be guilty of. That's fine. But once you saw the context,
00:59:57.800
and especially people who know me personally, they were, they were pretty sure that it was just
01:00:02.360
good advice. All right. So I got canceled everywhere. Uh, there will be no more Dilbert except on the
01:00:07.640
locals, uh, subscription platform. And then what happened? Then the coverup starts because little by
01:00:15.720
little more voices are saying, wait a minute, what did you cancel him for? Okay. I feel like I'm not
01:00:23.480
getting the whole context here. So I'll just tell you that a prominent member of the media, somebody
01:00:30.680
whose name you would know, who is black, uh, contacted me today and said, okay, there's something going on
01:00:39.240
here because my interactions with you suggest that what you said in public doesn't make sense.
01:00:45.480
Like I, like it was somebody who thought that the person that they had interacted with me was
01:00:51.640
inconsistent with the story that's in the media. That's a media expert. Somebody who literally lives
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and breathes the media every day and looked at it and said, this doesn't look right. Right. Now,
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as I told him, his instinct was good. There's something wrong here. Here's what's happening.
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So the, the papers and everybody who's canceled me, they canceled me from their first impression,
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which I admit was awkward and it could have been done better.
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Once they realized that within context, I was simply giving advice that anybody would agree with,
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black or white, the cover, the coverup begins because they're not going to change the minds.
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So you know, they're not going to change the minds. That would be too dangerous.
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So now they're saying that he said, all black people are haters. Did anybody hear me say that?
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Because that's what the news is saying now. Or, or the people who believe they've seen the news
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and are true. So now they've turned it into all. Is there any scenario where I've ever said that all
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members of a group have some one thing in common? Ever? Who would say that besides stupid people?
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Like this isn't, this isn't even racist. That would be just stupid. Wouldn't it? Like, wouldn't that be
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literally just dumb? If you believed all of the members of a group are thinking the same. In fact, how
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many times have I said out loud or tweeted that all black people are not the same? All, uh, we've talked
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about all Hispanic voters completely varied, white voters all over the place. But do you believe that
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I would imagine the Hispanic voters are diverse and white voters are diverse, but black people are not?
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I mean, who would have that opinion? Nobody, right? So if you believe that I had said this, something about
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all black people about all black people, you really need to check your reading comprehension
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and your news source, right? Uh, because nobody would say this. You know, the, the imagine, if you can
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imagine there's somebody in 2023 would have this point of view that there's something about all black
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people that's negative, like all of them. Nobody, literally nobody has that point of view. Nobody,
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right? But yet people have imagined that I could have and said it out loud.
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Um, the one poll is unreliable, but it doesn't really relate to my point. So they have to make this
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poll, uh, they have to artificially make it seem as if the poll is the only thing I was keying off of,
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which it wasn't, but I didn't clarify. So that's, that's a good point. Uh, and then here's their best
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trick. They introduced the topic by calling it a racist rant or a racist tirade. If the title of
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the article says racist rant or racist tirade, is the media telling you the news? Nope. That's not the
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news. That's a narrative. That's, that's, that's an interpretation is what that is. And so the
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Washington Post went, you know, full, not fake news, but intentionally misleading news. I don't
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know what you would call that. Is it fake if the facts are true, but they leave out context to reverse
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the meaning. It's kind of a fake, fake news situation, but not exactly. All right. So this
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is a, this is what's my week will look like. So all week, nobody will disagree with me. I predict
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is nobody's going to disagree with this in private. Nobody disagrees, black or white, nobody. It's
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completely agreed, but they're going to turn it into something I didn't say or something I didn't rely
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on entirely, or they're going to label it. So nobody does any thinking. That's how it works.
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So if you're wondering how the media cancellation machine works, that's how
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Anthony, you're not wrong. Explain how that's a hate group isn't referring to all. Do you know
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what hyperbole is, sir? So I was asked the question, explain how it's a hate group does not refer to
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all of them. It would be the same way that I believe that whites have been called a hate group.
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Am I wrong? Have, have, have whites been called a hate group because there are allegedly so many
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white supremacists. Can anybody find, uh, do you think if you looked on social media,
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do you see anybody referring to white people as a hate group?
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Now, if they did, how would I interpret that? Let's say, theoretically, somebody said white people
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are a hate group. What is the reasonable way to interpret that? Is the reasonable way that
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it means everybody? Is that reasonable? Is that good reading comprehension? I think it means every
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person. Or would you recognize hyperbole and say, oh, he's making a point that there are too many people
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in that group who have negative views. I don't know what the percentage is, but it's too many.
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Right? So does anybody else have a question on that? Is that unclear? That hyperbole is an exaggeration
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that people are supposed to recognize. In other words, when you use hyperbole, you're saying something
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that's technically not true, but you assume that everybody's a good enough reader that they know what
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you mean. Right? So let's say I say, uh, uh, Republicans like God. Does that sound like all
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Republicans to you? That Republicans, oh, let's say Republicans are religious.
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If I said that in public, would you take that as all of them? That's an actual question. Would you
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take that as all of them? It's the way people talk. It's just a shorthand, hyperbolic way to talk
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about a group to make a point. Now, um, it sounds like you do.
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Yeah. Exaggeration is nearly 100% of political discourse. That's true.
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Yep. It's the way people think. I don't think anybody thinks in 100% anything. So generally,
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the thing I get in trouble for is, um, 47% context, yeah.
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Jet Magazine. I would ask, do you mean most Republicans? Yeah. But would you even need to ask?
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Would you need to ask me if I meant most Republicans? So that's my point.
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It's completely clear, hyperbole, or exaggeration in this case. It's very clear what it is. So you
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shouldn't have to explain something that is ordinary conversation hyperbole. But I do, I do understand
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that people, um, can be fooled by it. No, my, uh, my art director is still employed.
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Uh, so Dilber will still be created. I'll just be putting it on the, um, locals platform. So you can
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find that at scottadams.scottadams, one word, .locals.com. It's a subscription platform.
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Uh, Ba says, admit you felt like that your whole life. Uh, felt like what my whole life? I never felt
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like the narrative was poisoning black Americans. And that's, that's really the catalyst for the
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entire opinion. So it's more like what things have become and where they're heading.
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All right. 47 is too high. Do you know that there is no, apparently there's no research on that.
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Did you know that? Apparently there's no research on the actual black attitudes of white people,
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except the Rasmussen poll, which I agree. You know, one poll doesn't tell you everything you need to
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know. Uh, five minutes to post it on Twitter. Yeah. So here's why there's going to be a little, uh,
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time lag in what's happening. Uh, has anybody noticed that the, the punditry is starting to turn my way?
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Has anybody noticed that yet? Day one, it's all negative. But if you notice that people are
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starting to deal with the, the actual question. Yeah. Yeah. The, the punditry, at least on the right,
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is turning my way. Uh, but also both black and white. So, and honestly, uh, if, uh, this is going to sound
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super racist, but I'm going to say it anyway, cause you know, why not? Uh, the, the black men
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who have looked at this situation have been the closest to understanding it. The black men, for
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some reason, the black women who are weighing in a very different opinions from the black men,
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you know, maybe sort of generally in the same direction, but the way they express is totally
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different. And the black men are mostly saying, I want to hear more, but they're actually interested
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in the content. They'd actually like to know. And then when they hear it, they're like, oh,
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that's a good point. That's the way it's going. So I guess that's racist because the, the black men
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have been generally the, the quickest to figure out what's going on here.
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And I have a theory for that, which is that black women fear, fear have more risk than black men in
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terms of just physical social risk. And so if it sounds like, you know, you're in a group that's
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getting some bad press, if you're a woman, I think you'd be more concerned just because you have
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physical safety as well as everything else. And I think if you're a man, you just worry a little
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less about physical safety. So you're, you can engage with the content a little bit better.
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Just a theory. Yeah. It might be a misogynistic theory. Remember, it's just a hypothesis. So
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if it were, if it were a statement of fact, I would have no grounding for it.
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Putting his own interests first and that, what? I said out loud that I'd be putting my own interests
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first. Oh, no, I said everybody should. I said everybody should put, is that wrong?
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That everybody should take care of their own business and their family?
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Disney just removed the TV series. Disney didn't have the TV series, did they?
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Are you saying that Disney had the TV series? Hulu? Might have been on Hulu.
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But here's a little fun fact. The Dilbert TV show didn't make me money. I mean, after the initial,
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some initial money. But all of the, uh, the reruns, uh, that, that money gets Hollywood stolen.
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And when I mean Hollywood stolen, they calculate that their expenses were greater than their revenue
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and they give you nothing. But everybody knows that's going to happen.
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Yeah, it's not on Disney+. Maybe you meant Hulu. Might have been there.
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Yeah. And he backed under Dilberito. Yeah, Disney owns Hulu.
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Did you see some commenters slam you for quoting Don Lemon? Uh, what way, what way were they slamming
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me? Because they don't like Don Lemon? Uh, yeah, we'll get past all this business pretty soon.
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Let's see. Jackson says, you're basing this off of liberal polls and viral videos. Uh, we mostly get
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along. Someone who's believing woke stuff can get to know them and challenge them instead of running.
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You're basing, so, so you're missing everything I just said. Jackson, you spent $20, but you missed
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everything I just said. You're saying this, you're basing it off a liberal poll. No. That was like the
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last 10 minutes saying I wasn't doing that. Uh, and viral videos. And I'm saying that the viral videos
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are misleading, which is what you're saying. So, so here's, here's the pattern. The pattern of the
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people who think they're disagreeing are imagining something to disagree with. And they're generally
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just agreeing with me. Did I watch Greg and Bill? No. Uh, oh my God. Oh yeah, we got a lot of viewers
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today. Good for that. All right. Is there anything else going on that I haven't talked about? Oh,
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you're tired of talking about me? Uh, you are free. Now bring down the entire establishment.
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How many hours of sleep do I get? Usually four-ish, four hours or so. Uh,
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yeah. Well, you know, the media picked up Elon Musk's comment and, you know, associated that with my
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story. But I saw his comment as more opportunity to comment about the media and, you know, less about
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my specific comments or my situation. But I, you know, I appreciate that he made a comment that,
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you know, enhances the conversation, so to speak.
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Yeah. So my Twitter users are, uh, going crazy.
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So I might reach a million users maybe in a few months. We'll see.
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All right. Um, I think that's all for you on YouTube. I'm going to go talk to the, uh,
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locals people for a little bit. And that's all for now. Bye for now.