Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2245 Scott Adams： Debate Opinions, Where I Can Seek Asylum, Lots Of Coffee And Whatnot

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00:00:50.340 Well, Joe Biden has completely solved the problem of police officers

00:00:55.800 abusing black motorists. 0.81

00:00:58.720 We have had no more George Floyds since Biden has been elected.

00:01:03.940 Now, I think he should count that as one of his biggest accomplishments

00:01:07.820 because we went from a massive problem,

00:01:10.860 indeed, maybe the biggest problem in the black community, 1.00

00:01:14.080 according to the coverage,

00:01:15.580 and it went from the biggest problem in the world to basically nothing.

00:01:21.040 That was pretty good.

00:01:22.980 I think we can solve climate change the same way.

00:01:27.260 And just elect Republicans and stop watching the news.

00:01:31.860 You'd never know there was a problem.

00:01:34.060 Like, literally, you would never know.

00:01:36.200 You'd just think the weather was bad if there was a problem.

00:01:38.620 All right.

00:01:41.600 Here's a prediction I made that is today in the Wall Street Journal.

00:01:47.720 Now, I bragged about this before,

00:01:49.760 but the fact that it's a major article in the Wall Street Journal today.

00:01:55.500 Now, give me a fact check.

00:01:56.640 When did the Ukraine war start?

00:01:58.980 About 18 months ago?

00:02:00.600 Was it a year ago?

00:02:07.280 So 18, 19 months ago.

00:02:09.300 All right.

00:02:10.460 So when that started, my prediction was, if you remember,

00:02:15.240 do you remember my prediction?

00:02:16.780 That the Russian army would not be successful because of drones

00:02:21.800 and that they wouldn't be prepared for a drone defense.

00:02:28.340 And the Wall Street Journal is reporting today that,

00:02:32.580 huh, it turns out that traditional military operations don't work so well

00:02:37.960 if the other side has a lot of drones.

00:02:41.520 So the Wall Street Journal pretty much saying

00:02:43.900 that Ukraine's success is drone-related.

00:02:48.860 Now, how many times have I been mocked for not being a military expert?

00:02:55.540 Which, of course, I'm not.

00:02:57.080 But did nobody else realize that this was going to be a drone war?

00:03:03.500 I was the person who had to bring this up,

00:03:05.940 and everybody mocked me and said,

00:03:07.900 Scott, I don't think you understand how strong the Russian army is

00:03:12.100 compared to Ukraine.

00:03:13.560 They're just going to march in and take everything.

00:03:16.400 And I said, I don't know.

00:03:19.060 I think I'd keep an eye on the sky.

00:03:21.420 Might be some surprises up there.

00:03:23.360 And that's exactly where we are.

00:03:26.140 The drone advantage turns out to be maybe the biggest variable in the war.

00:03:32.460 Maybe not the biggest, but one of the biggest.

00:03:34.860 So my advice to you is if you have a military question,

00:03:42.540 you should ignore the generals because you're going to be listening to somebody like Mark Milley.

00:03:49.280 Let me ask you this question.

00:03:50.920 I just want to give you an example of how bad things are in the world.

00:04:00.200 This is an honest question,

00:04:02.480 and only my viewers would answer it the way I think you're going to answer it.

00:04:06.260 If you had a choice of listening to my military opinions versus General Milley,

00:04:14.520 which ones are more credible, me or General Milley?

00:04:23.540 It is me.

00:04:25.800 It's me because you can't trust that guy, and he doesn't look too smart.

00:04:29.480 And if you look at who's predicted better so far, well, well.

00:04:38.000 Now, my point is not my brilliance, although I like to talk about that too.

00:04:43.800 My point is that experts have no value anymore.

00:04:47.420 There are no experts who can predict anything at all.

00:04:51.100 It's a coin flip.

00:04:54.040 Well, Carrie Lake is running, going to announce that she'll run for Senate in Arizona.

00:04:59.480 Which will be interesting.

00:05:01.220 It'll be a three-way race, because you'll have Kirsten Sinema as independent. 1.00

00:05:08.140 Ruben Gallego as the likely Democrat.

00:05:12.120 And so you'd have a three-way race.

00:05:14.800 Do you think that Carrie Lake would win a three-way race? 1.00

00:05:20.180 I feel like she might.

00:05:22.460 Seems like she'd have a good chance of that.

00:05:25.060 I don't know.

00:05:25.380 Do you think an independent could win if you had a strong Republican?

00:05:32.980 I don't know.

00:05:34.400 I think she's got a good shot at that. 0.97

00:05:36.160 So Mitch McConnell, they propped him up in public and stuck a hand up his ass and moved his lips in a puppet fashion, I assume.

00:05:50.380 I mean, I don't know for sure, but I'm just making a logical assumption based on what he said.

00:05:56.380 And he said that, and I quote, providing assistance for the Ukrainians to defeat the Russians is our number one priority.

00:06:08.340 The number one priority for the United States is funding the Ukrainians to defeat the Russians. 0.77

00:06:15.560 It's your number one priority.

00:06:18.080 So does that sound like he's operating independently?

00:06:27.540 Well, we'll talk about the Republican debate, but give me a fact check.

00:06:33.720 Were there two or three?

00:06:36.900 How many of the Republicans debating, another seven, would agree with Mitch that not necessarily the number one priority,

00:06:45.580 but that we have to do Ukraine funding, because if we don't fund Ukraine, as Mike Pence said,

00:06:52.960 if we don't fund Ukraine, China will try to attack and take Taiwan. 0.52

00:07:00.180 Does that connect in your mind?

00:07:03.240 Does those things make sense?

00:07:05.100 That China is just watching us and like, if they make one slip in Ukraine, we're going to take Taiwan. 0.96

00:07:11.700 Does anybody think that China thinks that way?

00:07:17.820 To me, that sounded like the dumbest ass thing I've ever heard in my life.

00:07:22.220 It sounds exactly like the thing you say.

00:07:25.780 Here's what it sounds like.

00:07:27.300 You know how in high school or college, sometimes they'll do a fake debate and they'll assign you your position?

00:07:35.660 And you might be assigned a position you don't believe, but you've got to do the best you can.

00:07:39.940 You're like, well, you're funding Ukraine because of vital national interest.

00:07:46.600 No.

00:07:47.440 We've got to fund Ukraine because they'll win. 0.98

00:07:51.780 No.

00:07:52.640 We've got to fund Ukraine because... 0.93

00:07:54.940 Got it.

00:07:57.440 Fund Ukraine because the minds of the Chinese leaders that we don't have access to

00:08:03.120 are clearly thinking that one little slip up in Ukraine and boom, Taiwan's gone.

00:08:10.720 Can't argue against that because you can't read minds, can you?

00:08:13.800 I can read minds, so I know that's what China's planning, but you can't.

00:08:18.860 Oh, no, don't even try.

00:08:20.320 Don't try.

00:08:21.200 Don't try.

00:08:21.860 That's just one of my talents.

00:08:23.680 I can read minds, but the rest of you cannot.

00:08:26.780 Don't even try.

00:08:27.820 Don't even try.

00:08:28.440 That felt like that was Pence's argument, that he could read the minds of the Chinese leaders.

00:08:38.520 That looks like somebody who's bought, doesn't it?

00:08:42.200 Does that look like somebody who's thought out their own opinion?

00:08:46.280 Or does it look like somebody who needs to satisfy their master?

00:08:50.140 And maybe they want you to know that they're just satisfying their master because they're

00:08:55.620 too embarrassed to act like it's their own opinion.

00:09:01.200 I mean, that reason is so weak.

00:09:04.040 It's almost like he said, please, I'm under duress.

00:09:08.320 I'm being forced to say these things, but I want you to know I'm being forced.

00:09:12.840 You know, I'm going to give you a little signal that this is under duress.

00:09:16.600 Yes, I'll say the dumbest thing anybody could ever say in public, oh, we think we'll lose

00:09:21.220 Taiwan.

00:09:23.480 Yeah.

00:09:24.100 And then the other Republicans say stuff like, well, this is how we degrade Russia because

00:09:32.180 Russia is our biggest threat and all the bad things Russia has done. 0.99

00:09:39.120 Have we not told you of all the bad things Putin has done?

00:09:42.460 Well, I don't think anybody doubts Putin does bad things.

00:09:45.360 It feels like we get that.

00:09:49.160 But that does not necessarily mean you fund a war forever.

00:09:53.560 I'm not sure that the logic connects it.

00:09:57.480 Putin is bad.

00:09:58.920 Therefore, we fund Ukraine forever. 0.91

00:10:02.940 OK.

00:10:05.660 And China might take Taiwan if something happens in Ukraine.

00:10:13.360 I'm not getting it.

00:10:15.360 I'm not getting it.

00:10:17.160 Compare those reasons to we're going broke.

00:10:22.520 The going broke part is more like we know that's happening.

00:10:26.140 Money that we, at the very least, we should be spending it on ourselves if we have it.

00:10:30.740 If we don't have it, we shouldn't be spending it.

00:10:32.800 So, yeah.

00:10:37.700 That looks like a lot of weirdness.

00:10:40.600 But Elon Musk saw a little video of Mitch McConnell saying funding Ukraine is our number

00:10:48.040 one priority.

00:10:49.960 And Musk tweets, Mitch lost his marbles.

00:10:54.580 And then he follows up with a post, let's call it a post, in which he says, in all seriousness,

00:11:07.040 why are we letting somebody who's having aneurysms in public make decisions for the country?

00:11:11.640 I'm paraphrasing, but that's what he said.

00:11:16.060 Now, I love the fact that Musk is in this privileged position where nobody's going to kick him off of his own platform.

00:11:24.580 He's the only person who has something close to free speech.

00:11:30.040 And it's because he owns the platform that does the speaking.

00:11:33.560 If you don't own it, you're not really guaranteed any free speech, are you?

00:11:37.900 But he has it.

00:11:39.540 So, apparently, the cost of free speech is $22 billion.

00:11:43.360 So, that's what it takes to buy free speech, $22 billion.

00:11:49.740 And what will happen if you have your free speech?

00:11:52.760 Well, apparently, the government will target you and try to destroy your businesses,

00:11:57.680 because that's what's happening.

00:11:59.340 The government is trying to destroy him because he spent $22 billion to have free speech for himself.

00:12:06.080 You know, ideally for us, too, but it works better for him.

00:12:09.120 Because I can still get kicked off of the platform, but he can't.

00:12:13.680 That's not going to happen.

00:12:17.580 So, that's happening.

00:12:20.500 All right.

00:12:22.640 Governor Newsom is still making news, even though there was a Republican debate.

00:12:27.620 I guess he got in the mix there to cause some trouble and get some news.

00:12:34.360 But he was asked a question by Joel Pollack for Breitbart News.

00:12:40.440 And let me read how this exchange went.

00:12:43.360 Now, in case you wondered if Newsom was, A, a good politician, he is.

00:12:51.160 He's very capable.

00:12:52.820 And, B, the slimiest, slipperiest human you've ever seen in your life.

00:12:57.740 I believe that he can actually grease his own hair with the things that come out of his mouth.

00:13:06.760 I imagine him in the morning, he wakes up, and his hair is all, you know, cattywampus.

00:13:11.240 It's like this.

00:13:12.260 And then he stands in front of a mirror, and he says just Democrat stuff.

00:13:16.860 Uh, uh, uh, President Trump is basically like Hitler.

00:13:27.220 Uh, mega, mega, a whole bunch of white supremacists.

00:13:30.980 Looking good.

00:13:37.520 Looking good.

00:13:39.880 Yeah, that's how I imagine.

00:13:41.400 I imagine he actually slicks back his own hair with the bullshit coming out of his mouth.

00:13:48.560 It's my best guess.

00:13:50.380 I don't know for sure.

00:13:51.640 I'm just guessing, but it feels like it.

00:13:54.180 Now, you judge for yourself.

00:13:56.120 So, as, uh, as, uh, Joel Pollack was talking to him, uh, um, so this is Breitbart News.

00:14:03.340 Says, uh, why should parents not know if their kids are transitioning at school?

00:14:08.540 Is that a good question?

00:14:10.720 Or is that a gotcha question?

00:14:12.820 Is that a gotcha question?

00:14:14.860 No.

00:14:15.680 No, it's not a gotcha question.

00:14:17.540 It's like directly on point to what a whole bunch of people care about.

00:14:22.320 How does, uh, Newsom answer that?

00:14:26.120 Uh, it's a, it's a hell of a thing.

00:14:28.520 You're, you're talking about 1% of the population.

00:14:31.960 Climate change.

00:14:32.840 That's gonna, that's gonna impact 100% of the population.

00:14:36.140 Wasn't even brought up.

00:14:37.520 Meaning, at the debate.

00:14:38.720 Wasn't even brought up.

00:14:40.000 And we're talking about trans issues?

00:14:42.780 Breitbart News.

00:14:44.140 Here in California, this is an issue.

00:14:46.940 You know, his own state, California.

00:14:48.640 And some other reporter chimed in and said, it's a big issue for parents.

00:14:54.500 Newsom says, uh, this is a front and center issue to America?

00:14:59.620 Breitbart News.

00:15:02.320 Instead of going for his question, uh, cleverly just restates the question.

00:15:07.440 Uh, why should parents not know?

00:15:10.260 Which is getting back to the basic question.

00:15:12.780 Why should parents not know about, uh, their kids transitioning?

00:15:16.960 Newsom says, uh, it's the great, uh, uh, it's the great distraction.

00:15:21.920 Uh, this is one of the greatest distractions, and it's classic.

00:15:25.740 1% of the population of the United States.

00:15:28.320 These kids just want to live.

00:15:30.760 And he sold that, the last part, that's why I'm selling it.

00:15:33.720 These kids just want to live.

00:15:36.860 Now, who, who else said that?

00:15:39.860 They just want to live.

00:15:41.480 Live, Dr. Frankenstein, yeah, or Dr. Frankenstein, depending which movie you watched.

00:15:49.560 Live, live.

00:15:51.780 It's very similar.

00:15:55.180 And then, uh, Ray Barnu says, again, restating the question that he avoided,

00:16:02.580 why can't parents know?

00:16:05.880 Newsom, the kids just want to live.

00:16:09.000 And we're having a debate about trans issues at the Reagan Library.

00:16:16.700 You ought to be ashamed.

00:16:20.400 And so, once he delivered his kill shot,

00:16:25.240 that you cannot say political things at the Reagan Library,

00:16:29.420 because that would be the worst place to say political stuff

00:16:32.480 during a political debate.

00:16:34.400 Uh, it was a political debate, and a lot of it was on topics like this.

00:16:41.640 But, uh, yeah.

00:16:43.020 At the Reagan Library, you should be ashamed.

00:16:46.960 Now, I like to look at successful politicians

00:16:50.420 and try to pick up techniques that I can incorporate into my own life.

00:16:56.400 And this one's a good one.

00:16:57.720 Um, so, at the Reagan Library, you ought to be ashamed.

00:17:02.520 And I think you could use this technique

00:17:04.360 whether you're at the Reagan Library or anywhere else.

00:17:08.640 So, let's say you go to, uh, Costco,

00:17:12.320 and you want to, you know, you want to get some goods,

00:17:15.940 and you start walking past the cash register without paying,

00:17:19.100 and the cashier says,

00:17:21.620 hey, hey, you know, you need to pay for that.

00:17:25.020 And you turn around, and you look at them,

00:17:26.840 and you say,

00:17:28.500 at Costco,

00:17:29.740 you should be ashamed of yourself.

00:17:32.600 The kids just want to live!

00:17:34.420 They want to live!

00:17:36.060 And then just walk right out.

00:17:38.320 That's how I'd play it.

00:17:41.960 Well, there was a Republican debate.

00:17:43.820 I'm sure you all watched every minute of it.

00:17:46.580 Um, what exactly happened at the Republican debate?

00:17:51.140 Well, lots of various and miscellaneous things.

00:17:55.480 So, we're looking for the breakout moments.

00:17:58.820 Breakout moments.

00:18:00.520 Chris Christie gave a long answer,

00:18:03.460 which apparently was intended for one purpose only,

00:18:06.700 that the closing line could be his Trump kill shot.

00:18:11.900 Oh, he went hard.

00:18:13.220 He went hard.

00:18:13.940 He actually said that if Trump keeps avoiding debating,

00:18:20.840 wait for it, wait for it.

00:18:22.280 This is devastating.

00:18:23.720 Wait for it.

00:18:24.600 If Trump continues to avoid debating,

00:18:29.560 then he won't be called Donald Trump anymore.

00:18:33.140 Wait for it.

00:18:34.080 He'll be called Donald Duck.

00:18:36.540 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. 0.57

00:18:45.220 Dagger.

00:18:46.640 He stuck the dagger into Donald Trump.

00:18:49.420 So, I haven't heard the news if Trump has dropped down in the race yet,

00:18:53.700 but one can predict that with that kind of a devastating labeling,

00:18:58.520 I don't know how he's going to survive.

00:18:59.880 Well, where did Chris Christie get this clever, clever idea?

00:19:08.400 Was it because Hillary Clinton first invented the nickname

00:19:12.300 during the 2016 election?

00:19:15.480 Or was it because when I wrote about her

00:19:19.620 coming up with the terrible nickname in my book,

00:19:22.820 Winn Bigley, I mocked it for half a chapter?

00:19:25.560 Could it be that it was so well mocked

00:19:29.020 that he thought, well, this would be the time to whip that out

00:19:32.300 because it worked so well for Hillary Clinton? 0.99

00:19:35.300 I think he'll do that.

00:19:37.040 But the worst part about it was the look on his face

00:19:39.740 when he delivered it.

00:19:42.160 The look like he was pretty sure he really made a moment.

00:19:48.280 So you have to play it back and watch the look on his face

00:19:51.520 when he delivers it.

00:19:52.540 They'll call you Donald Duck.

00:19:54.780 And he was waiting for the giant applause

00:19:59.540 that was like, ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha.

00:20:05.920 So not really the moment he was expecting.

00:20:09.560 But did the news pick it up and report it

00:20:12.200 like it was a moment?

00:20:14.060 Yes.

00:20:15.900 Yeah.

00:20:17.120 That's how boring the debate was.

00:20:18.940 The debate was so boring that that actually made the news

00:20:22.880 just like he planned.

00:20:25.940 Now, unfortunately, it made the news for being a stupid thing.

00:20:30.360 But at least you made the news.

00:20:34.080 All right, we'll talk about all the players.

00:20:37.640 Vivek.

00:20:40.940 Yeah.

00:20:42.220 So Vivek.

00:20:44.160 Let me give you my overall,

00:20:45.840 and then we'll talk about some specific things.

00:20:48.100 I thought he disappeared a little bit.

00:20:50.680 Did anybody else have that impression?

00:20:53.300 Vivek disappeared a little bit.

00:20:56.280 He didn't seem like the big winner.

00:21:00.420 And that was just sort of a feeling, right?

00:21:03.200 It has nothing to do with how the final outcome will be

00:21:05.960 because I don't think the debate settled anything.

00:21:08.820 But I thought he pulled back a little bit.

00:21:12.500 Still, it's worth noting he made the biggest news.

00:21:16.540 I think he made the biggest news, of real news.

00:21:20.200 You know, not the gotcha stuff.

00:21:22.540 So here are some of the things that he said.

00:21:26.820 He said,

00:21:27.740 transgenderism, especially in kids,

00:21:29.960 is a mental health disorder.

00:21:34.240 Has anybody said that directly who was running for president?

00:21:38.620 Has anybody ever said that directly?

00:21:40.700 I don't remember if anybody has.

00:21:45.100 Can you give me a fact check?

00:21:50.380 Now, I am not a doctor.

00:21:54.320 I'm not an expert on this topic.

00:21:56.160 So, I feel like it's a little bit of word thinking,

00:22:00.560 a little bit of trying to win by a definition.

00:22:04.180 Because I don't know.

00:22:05.120 What makes something a mental health disorder

00:22:09.300 versus something you're just thinking?

00:22:12.560 What would be the dividing line

00:22:14.540 between thinking differently

00:22:16.920 and having a mental health disorder?

00:22:20.480 Would it be how much it affects your life?

00:22:24.120 Isn't that the standard?

00:22:26.020 The standard would be how much it affects your life, right?

00:22:28.400 So, if everyone who is in the same situation,

00:22:36.740 their life is affected,

00:22:39.540 is that a mental disorder?

00:22:43.220 And would it be fair to say

00:22:45.280 that it's a mental disorder

00:22:47.440 if your body and your brain are just not matched?

00:22:52.700 What if your body and your brain are just not matched?

00:22:55.700 Is that a disorder?

00:22:56.600 Or is that just bad luck?

00:23:01.400 I feel like as soon as you put a word on it,

00:23:04.020 you're changing how people think about it,

00:23:06.040 and that doesn't seem fair.

00:23:07.700 So, I'm going to defend the

00:23:09.320 transgender community a little bit

00:23:12.760 by saying,

00:23:13.620 I don't think every situation is the same.

00:23:17.260 I feel like that's too far.

00:23:19.740 A little too far.

00:23:21.460 But if you said,

00:23:22.780 do you think anybody

00:23:23.840 who says they are transgender

00:23:26.100 is primarily working off of a mental disorder,

00:23:29.880 I would say, yeah, obviously.

00:23:31.720 To me, it's obvious

00:23:32.680 there's some percentage

00:23:34.240 of transgender...

00:23:36.700 I'll talk about the adults.

00:23:38.340 Children are a whole different topic.

00:23:40.140 But if you talk about the adults,

00:23:42.060 some percentage of them

00:23:43.040 are clearly just having a mental disorder.

00:23:45.460 I just don't know what percentage.

00:23:47.680 If it's 99%,

00:23:49.200 then Vivek is basically right.

00:23:51.220 But if it's 50%,

00:23:53.820 then I think that's a little harsh.

00:23:57.260 And I don't know.

00:23:58.440 I know.

00:23:58.900 I'm a little uncomfortable

00:24:00.020 with a political figure

00:24:03.260 having a medical opinion.

00:24:06.600 A little uncomfortable with that.

00:24:09.220 But he made news,

00:24:10.640 and he probably delighted his base.

00:24:13.300 So from a political perspective,

00:24:15.060 was it wrong?

00:24:15.880 I don't know.

00:24:17.600 I don't know.

00:24:18.760 I think the...

00:24:21.260 If you say to yourself,

00:24:22.860 well, Scott,

00:24:23.300 he only lost the transgenders, 0.98

00:24:25.660 and there are not enough of them,

00:24:26.980 and they weren't going to vote for him anyway,

00:24:29.220 I would say you're wrong,

00:24:30.940 because there are so many people

00:24:31.940 who would support that community

00:24:34.140 and might, in fact,

00:24:35.900 change their vote based on that.

00:24:38.000 Because certainly there are Republicans

00:24:40.080 who have transgender family members.

00:24:42.340 So I feel like...

00:24:44.240 I feel like that might have been something

00:24:46.400 that lost him more votes than it gained.

00:24:49.120 No way to know.

00:24:50.320 He has good instincts,

00:24:51.360 and he could be entirely right about this.

00:24:53.440 Right in terms of it working politically.

00:24:55.860 I'm not talking about his medical opinion.

00:24:58.580 But this one's tough.

00:25:00.360 But I do like the fact that it was bold.

00:25:03.220 I do like the fact that he was clear about it.

00:25:06.180 And I do like the fact that, you know,

00:25:08.600 he separates the children policy

00:25:11.760 from the adult policy.

00:25:13.200 And he's still, you know,

00:25:14.360 adults let adults do what they want to do

00:25:16.220 if it's not bothering you.

00:25:17.940 So I do like the boldness.

00:25:21.820 I like the boldness.

00:25:23.240 Not sure it's where I would have been bold,

00:25:25.600 but I like the fact he's bold.

00:25:29.660 When questioned about his...

00:25:31.500 This is the weirdest thing about the night.

00:25:33.040 If you didn't notice,

00:25:34.920 the debate was sponsored by TikTok.

00:25:37.480 Did you notice that?

00:25:39.420 Now, I don't know how many other sponsors

00:25:42.880 there were commercials,

00:25:44.340 but at least some of the commercials

00:25:45.880 were TikTok commercials.

00:25:48.780 So in that context,

00:25:51.300 I think Nikki Haley was mocking him,

00:25:55.780 Vivek, for using TikTok

00:25:57.740 for his political message.

00:26:00.240 And Vivek has a good line.

00:26:03.480 He says he wants to try something,

00:26:05.800 you know, unique for Republicans,

00:26:07.600 which is winning elections.

00:26:10.300 It's a good line.

00:26:11.880 He says exactly what he wants it to say,

00:26:14.140 and, you know, you understand it immediately.

00:26:16.560 So I get it.

00:26:17.660 He's being strategic.

00:26:19.540 And then he does say that TikTok

00:26:21.240 and other addictive platforms

00:26:24.240 should not be available before age 16.

00:26:26.580 Would that include video games?

00:26:30.860 Because video games are all addictive

00:26:32.640 and they're not good for you, are they?

00:26:35.540 Would he ban all video games before 16?

00:26:37.920 I don't know.

00:26:40.620 If your standard is that it's addictive,

00:26:43.000 you've got a problem.

00:26:44.200 If your standard is that it's addictive

00:26:46.220 and another country controls it,

00:26:49.700 then I'm all on board with that.

00:26:51.160 You don't want your nemesis

00:26:53.060 to have control of your minds.

00:26:55.700 But if some video game made in America

00:26:57.700 has control of your mind

00:26:59.120 by wasting your time,

00:27:01.320 that might be different.

00:27:02.540 But they're both addictive.

00:27:04.880 So maybe that needs an extra clarification

00:27:07.700 on who's banned before 16.

00:27:10.500 He's in the right direction on that.

00:27:11.760 However, I should say that Nikki Haley says directly

00:27:17.440 TikTok should be banned in the United States.

00:27:20.520 And I prefer that view over fakes.

00:27:23.340 Like, a lot.

00:27:24.600 I prefer it a lot.

00:27:26.200 And she says it directly

00:27:27.340 and without any hesitation.

00:27:29.540 Just ban it. 0.91

00:27:30.560 That's the clearest, rightest statement about TikTok.

00:27:35.060 However, when Nikki Haley says

00:27:37.720 why you should ban it,

00:27:38.820 she uses the bullshit propaganda reason 1.00

00:27:42.460 that it's because data is security.

00:27:45.380 So even though she wants to ban it,

00:27:47.180 she can't tell you why in an accurate way,

00:27:50.380 which is very distressing.

00:27:53.640 That you could be running for president

00:27:55.140 and not know that the risk of TikTok

00:27:57.380 is the influence way more than the data.

00:28:01.980 I mean, the data isn't an issue,

00:28:04.080 but it's maybe on a scale of 1 to 10,

00:28:06.580 the data is like a 1.

00:28:07.860 Most of that data you can buy in the free market.

00:28:11.200 And the risk of persuasion is a 10.

00:28:13.980 It's actually, you know,

00:28:15.360 the persuasion could eliminate reproduction

00:28:17.480 in the United States

00:28:18.600 and get it below the survival level,

00:28:22.000 which it looks like it's doing, by the way.

00:28:23.940 That looks like exactly what's happening.

00:28:26.560 So everybody lost on TikTok.

00:28:30.320 So I'd say everybody was a loser on that topic.

00:28:32.880 And then Vivek also called for an end

00:28:37.800 of birthright citizenship.

00:28:39.800 So that's the thing where if somebody is not a citizen,

00:28:42.980 but they can get to the United States illegally,

00:28:45.380 and their kid is born here,

00:28:47.000 the kid is a citizen even when the parents are not.

00:28:50.940 Now, he didn't specify,

00:28:53.600 but I assume that would not be retroactive.

00:28:56.080 Because I would not be on board

00:28:58.440 with somebody who's a 25-year-old citizen

00:29:01.880 of the United States

00:29:02.900 being told suddenly that they're not.

00:29:06.380 Right?

00:29:06.580 Now, he didn't specify.

00:29:08.220 So I'm sure he doesn't mean retroactively.

00:29:11.420 Because that would be evil on a level

00:29:13.420 that I couldn't even imagine.

00:29:15.860 I mean, that would just be pure evil.

00:29:17.380 To take somebody's decision away from them

00:29:19.700 after they already have it?

00:29:21.300 Now, that is pure evil.

00:29:23.360 So I don't think that's what he has in mind.

00:29:25.500 He should specify.

00:29:27.240 Because if he said going forward from this point on,

00:29:31.300 strong argument.

00:29:32.520 Strong argument.

00:29:33.600 Because the argument for it

00:29:35.360 was based on trying to do something

00:29:38.380 that made sense for slaves, freed slaves,

00:29:41.120 so that they would be citizens for sure,

00:29:44.040 especially if they were born here.

00:29:45.240 And it doesn't really apply to illegal immigration.

00:29:50.500 It was never meant for that.

00:29:51.680 And so it probably wouldn't be that hard

00:29:53.280 to do an executive order and change it.

00:29:56.840 Maybe it would survive the Supreme Court.

00:29:59.980 I think it might.

00:30:02.780 So that's another bold thing from Vivek.

00:30:06.060 So he's got two bold things.

00:30:09.600 And boldness usually is a good play.

00:30:12.900 So he has a lot of good instincts.

00:30:15.780 All right, let's talk about Nikki Haley.

00:30:17.320 In my opinion, she won the debate.

00:30:21.420 Anybody want to tell me who they think won?

00:30:23.620 I think Nikki Haley won.

00:30:25.520 I'll tell you why in a moment.

00:30:27.420 But let me see your takes.

00:30:31.320 Yeah, we could say Trump won.

00:30:36.180 Yeah, we get it.

00:30:37.100 We get it.

00:30:37.520 Trump won.

00:30:38.120 Got it, got it.

00:30:38.760 Like Tim Scott, No Winners, DeSantis, Vivek.

00:30:45.260 Yeah, I think everybody liked their favorites.

00:30:48.320 But let me tell you what I did like.

00:30:51.980 I thought Nikki Haley's presentation was really sharp,

00:30:56.860 meaning that she looked powerful and presidential.

00:31:00.660 And oh my God, whoever dressed her, whoever dressed her, like I don't know if she had help 0.99

00:31:09.220 picking her, I guess it looked like a dress, but you only saw the top. 0.99

00:31:14.160 Perfect.

00:31:15.820 She looked really, really good and presidential at the same time, which is tough.

00:31:20.780 I mean, Hillary Clinton never once pulled off looking presidential and also stylish. 0.61

00:31:27.700 Never once.

00:31:28.800 Not a single time did she pull that off.

00:31:31.740 But Nikki Haley did.

00:31:33.400 She looked female presidential, sold it. 0.76

00:31:37.140 Totally sold the look.

00:31:38.840 Now, if you think the look doesn't matter, of course it does.

00:31:44.100 Yeah.

00:31:44.600 We're totally influenced by the look.

00:31:47.020 In fact, I might be influenced by the look right now.

00:31:49.540 She just looked really professional.

00:31:52.900 Nailed it.

00:31:54.400 All right.

00:31:54.980 But things I liked were her TikTok ban.

00:31:58.040 I liked it, even though she doesn't understand why.

00:32:00.600 She said she'd use special forces to take out the cartels. 0.99

00:32:05.460 I think that's the cleanest answer on the cartels.

00:32:09.600 Both DeSantis.

00:32:11.340 DeSantis says he would militarize the border, which is the wrong answer,

00:32:15.480 because it still puts the military on our side of the border.

00:32:21.220 Vivek says he would use the military against the cartels,

00:32:24.200 but when people hear that, they imagine a proper military invasion of Mexico.

00:32:29.760 That's not what he has in mind.

00:32:31.840 We're not talking about marching the army across the border, necessarily.

00:32:36.220 When Nikki Haley talks about it, she says,

00:32:39.980 I'll use special forces to go after the cartels.

00:32:43.580 Now, when you say that, I have a perfect picture in my head.

00:32:46.740 Oh, I get it.

00:32:48.100 You're not necessarily going to ask for permission,

00:32:51.080 because it's special forces.

00:32:52.860 They work in secret.

00:32:53.800 And you're going to go directly after the leadership of the cartels

00:32:58.060 and try to have the least amount of, you know, innocent deaths.

00:33:03.100 And you're going to put the same pressure on the cartels

00:33:05.600 as they're putting on the country.

00:33:07.580 I like it.

00:33:08.920 Yeah.

00:33:09.280 Saying you're going to send special forces in

00:33:11.500 is a clean, clear, smart way to say it.

00:33:17.240 I think Vivek's way might actually be what he has in mind,

00:33:20.960 you know, more of a general military, I don't know.

00:33:23.160 But he needs to clarify.

00:33:25.380 Are you really talking about moving the army across the border?

00:33:30.060 If he is, just say so.

00:33:31.700 Because I don't mind the boldness at all.

00:33:34.300 But say so.

00:33:36.620 All right.

00:33:37.940 Maybe he has, and I've never heard it.

00:33:39.660 So I'm sure he's been asked that question.

00:33:42.240 So there might be a clarification out there that I'm not aware of.

00:33:45.900 One of the things that Nikki Haley said to Vivek

00:33:49.580 was, I think it might have been on the discussion

00:33:52.660 about the TikTok.

00:33:54.800 She said, every time I hear you, I feel a little bit dumber.

00:34:02.740 Wow.

00:34:04.240 Now, I think it was because his TikTok answer

00:34:07.180 didn't seem coherent.

00:34:09.060 Or at least that's how she was going to frame it as incoherent.

00:34:14.820 It's coherent.

00:34:16.360 It is coherent.

00:34:17.420 But you could make the case that he's being inconsistent.

00:34:23.280 I thought that was a memorable line.

00:34:26.940 It did seem rude and a little too much.

00:34:30.300 Maybe somebody said, oh, you know,

00:34:32.880 women shouldn't be so nasty because you're sexist. 1.00

00:34:36.900 I don't know.

00:34:39.300 Yeah.

00:34:41.300 So maybe our prejudices are guiding us on that one.

00:34:44.640 I thought DeSantis was totally solid.

00:34:51.320 Would you agree with that answer?

00:34:53.860 DeSantis was solid.

00:34:57.520 He didn't hurt himself.

00:34:59.780 May have helped himself.

00:35:01.580 He might have.

00:35:01.900 I thought he was better than the first one.

00:35:04.980 But he had a few high points.

00:35:06.520 One was, I couldn't even believe this happened.

00:35:10.640 But Dana Perino, one of the three hosts,

00:35:14.100 asked the group to write down on a piece of paper

00:35:17.940 and then show it at the same time

00:35:19.800 who they think should be voted off the stage.

00:35:25.340 Now, that might be the worst cringy thing

00:35:28.260 I've ever seen in a debate.

00:35:29.640 Now, I'm going to go out on a limb here

00:35:32.300 and say there's no way in the world

00:35:35.040 that Dana Perino came up with that idea on her own.

00:35:39.460 I will go further and say

00:35:40.840 there's no way in the world she didn't push back

00:35:44.160 to not do it.

00:35:47.280 I will go further.

00:35:48.260 I'm not a mind reader, but common sense.

00:35:51.480 I will go further and say she must have been forced.

00:35:54.740 She must have been forced by producers or bosses 0.99

00:35:58.280 because it would make a moment.

00:36:00.680 It would make a TV moment that's good for replay.

00:36:06.460 You know, it would make a good viral clip.

00:36:08.580 We'd talk about it all day long.

00:36:11.480 Do you think that Dana Perino was in favor of that?

00:36:15.180 If you've watched her, I don't think so.

00:36:18.480 I think she was under duress.

00:36:20.140 And how did it go?

00:36:23.840 Well, it went the way it should have gone.

00:36:26.560 The first adult in the room said no.

00:36:29.980 And that was DeSantis.

00:36:31.540 This is the second time DeSantis

00:36:33.560 has immediately stopped stupidity at a debate. 0.52

00:36:38.340 Second time in a row.

00:36:39.740 He says, nope, nope.

00:36:41.180 I'm not going to do the thing where we all raise our hands.

00:36:44.080 Why don't we just answer the question

00:36:45.420 instead of fall into the gotcha?

00:36:48.080 Perfect.

00:36:49.120 And I called him out the first time he did it.

00:36:51.360 The second time he does it

00:36:52.780 makes me want to be in a meeting with him.

00:36:57.600 Can you imagine being in the room with him?

00:37:00.440 Somebody starts talking their bullshit

00:37:02.060 and you just let them go normally.

00:37:04.580 Oh, God, is this ever going to stop?

00:37:06.340 Stop it.

00:37:07.700 Stop your talking.

00:37:08.880 I want to talk.

00:37:10.160 Yo.

00:37:10.460 But I feel like DeSantis would just say,

00:37:13.040 nope, you're done.

00:37:14.560 He looks like he doesn't take bullshit.

00:37:18.980 Like, if there's one thing he's presenting best of all,

00:37:23.260 that what he did in Florida was not take the bullshit.

00:37:27.840 And then he gets on stage and there's some more bullshit.

00:37:31.840 Who stopped it first?

00:37:33.780 DeSantis.

00:37:34.860 He stopped it first.

00:37:35.860 The other is just sort of, oh, yeah, we agree with that.

00:37:38.380 Both times.

00:37:39.900 Twice in a row, he stopped the bullshit

00:37:42.360 as soon as he smelled it.

00:37:44.240 He didn't wait to see it.

00:37:46.860 He just smelled it.

00:37:47.960 He's like, nope, nope.

00:37:49.220 That's bullshit.

00:37:50.820 So A+++, for DeSantis being the one,

00:37:56.620 to me, that was the moment.

00:37:58.520 To me, that was the only moment I learned something.

00:38:01.400 Right?

00:38:01.920 The other gotcha moments are about,

00:38:03.800 oh, Chris Christie had somebody write him a joke

00:38:07.900 that they stole from the Democrats.

00:38:09.620 It's not really a moment.

00:38:10.560 But DeSantis showed you who he is.

00:38:14.500 That was what you were tuning in for.

00:38:16.640 You didn't want to hear their clever answers.

00:38:19.120 You wanted to know, who are these people?

00:38:20.980 Like, you know, under the hood.

00:38:23.140 The rapidity, you know, the speed

00:38:25.820 with which DeSantis shut that shit down,

00:38:29.280 that tells you, number one, he's the boss in the room,

00:38:32.600 even when he's not the boss in the room.

00:38:34.420 This is one of the reframes in my book, by the way.

00:38:38.060 One of the reframes in my book,

00:38:40.460 Reframe Your Brain, is exactly that.

00:38:44.640 That sometimes we think we're not in charge

00:38:47.560 because there's somebody in charge.

00:38:49.600 There's a host.

00:38:50.620 Well, the host is in charge.

00:38:51.940 Or there's a boss.

00:38:53.320 Well, the boss is in charge.

00:38:54.960 You always think somebody's in charge,

00:38:56.740 but not DeSantis.

00:38:58.040 And I teach you this in Reframe Your Brain.

00:39:00.300 The best idea is always in charge.

00:39:04.260 Let me say it again.

00:39:06.140 The person with the best idea is always in charge,

00:39:10.140 no matter what the structure is.

00:39:12.780 Because if other people recognize it as the best idea,

00:39:16.340 they will do that.

00:39:18.180 So when Dana Perino mentioned, you know,

00:39:21.860 doing this thing,

00:39:22.600 who should you vote off the island,

00:39:24.440 the best idea came from DeSantis.

00:39:27.680 The idea of doing it in the first place,

00:39:30.900 bad idea.

00:39:32.060 The idea of going along with it,

00:39:34.060 bad idea.

00:39:35.360 The idea of shutting that shit down right away

00:39:37.660 and showing some respect for the people.

00:39:40.700 And by the way,

00:39:41.800 and then he sold it by saying

00:39:43.100 it would be disrespectful,

00:39:45.280 perfect.

00:39:46.860 Perfect.

00:39:48.080 To me, this was the only useful part

00:39:50.340 of the entire event,

00:39:52.100 was to watch him shut that shit down. 0.63

00:39:54.400 Now, I'm not saying that the others wouldn't have,

00:39:59.200 but he beat them.

00:40:00.920 He got there first,

00:40:02.320 and it's the second time.

00:40:04.580 The second time, you've got to pay attention.

00:40:06.780 The first time, maybe you got lucky.

00:40:08.920 You know, maybe it was just instinct,

00:40:10.360 you got lucky.

00:40:11.280 The second time,

00:40:12.820 yeah,

00:40:14.820 the second time you saw some character.

00:40:17.600 So I'm very,

00:40:18.880 I'm quite impressed

00:40:22.140 by DeSantis' performance.

00:40:25.900 All right.

00:40:26.760 Let's see what else happened.

00:40:29.600 The way CNN covered it

00:40:31.680 was,

00:40:32.680 have you ever seen on YouTube,

00:40:34.340 they have reaction videos.

00:40:36.940 There'll be somebody,

00:40:37.940 often one of the most common forms

00:40:40.020 is it will be a young person,

00:40:41.980 might be a young black person,

00:40:44.160 who's listening to some old white music

00:40:46.800 from the 70s

00:40:48.160 that was awesome.

00:40:49.420 Let's say Led Zeppelin or something.

00:40:50.700 And it's the first time they've heard it.

00:40:53.300 And then you watch,

00:40:54.380 you watch it not for the music,

00:40:56.580 you're watching it to watch the face

00:40:58.260 of the person who's,

00:41:00.320 you know,

00:41:00.980 experiencing something amazing.

00:41:02.740 And they're like,

00:41:03.520 you know,

00:41:04.460 and it's just fun to watch the reaction.

00:41:07.260 CNN has become a reaction video.

00:41:10.800 So I would like to model

00:41:12.480 how they covered Mike Pence

00:41:14.940 saying they had been sleeping

00:41:16.800 with a teacher for 30 years.

00:41:18.260 What he meant was

00:41:19.640 his wife is a teacher.

00:41:21.060 Now,

00:41:21.580 I think everybody got that.

00:41:23.760 But this was the,

00:41:25.140 they cut to the CNN host,

00:41:27.320 I forget who she was,

00:41:28.780 and she's just like,

00:41:30.200 oh.

00:41:33.260 And if you watch Jake Tapper,

00:41:35.920 you know,

00:41:36.160 interviewing anybody he doesn't like,

00:41:37.740 he does the Tapper tilt.

00:41:39.900 You know,

00:41:44.880 to show you

00:41:45.860 that the news is the reaction.

00:41:49.400 So once you,

00:41:50.380 once you realize that CNN

00:41:51.620 is not about the news,

00:41:52.920 it's just reaction video,

00:41:54.560 they'll just show you a video

00:41:55.620 that everybody has access to.

00:41:57.280 It's not even,

00:41:58.080 it's not even CNN's own video

00:41:59.760 most of the time.

00:42:00.820 It's just something

00:42:01.500 everybody has access to,

00:42:02.820 like YouTube.

00:42:03.760 And then they'll just show

00:42:05.020 what the faces of the people

00:42:07.000 will look like.

00:42:07.620 you know,

00:42:09.140 around the table.

00:42:14.460 Now,

00:42:23.060 you're going to enjoy CNN

00:42:24.660 so much more

00:42:26.180 when you start to think of it

00:42:28.420 as a reaction video.

00:42:30.600 Just watch.

00:42:31.820 Next time you see it,

00:42:33.300 you're going to laugh out loud.

00:42:35.280 You're going to go,

00:42:35.640 there it is,

00:42:36.200 that's a reaction video.

00:42:37.620 The news is their reaction.

00:42:40.560 Am I right?

00:42:41.920 If you watch CNN,

00:42:43.500 they try to make the news

00:42:45.200 how they react,

00:42:46.340 not the news.

00:42:47.940 It's true.

00:42:49.700 Once you see it,

00:42:50.600 you can't unsee it.

00:42:53.400 All right.

00:42:54.120 Well,

00:42:54.660 if you're looking at the,

00:42:56.520 we'll talk about

00:42:57.120 Trump's legal problems again.

00:42:58.640 So the judge

00:43:00.460 has ruled

00:43:02.440 that Mar-a-Lago

00:43:05.360 might be worth

00:43:06.420 closer to $18 million,

00:43:08.400 and that's

00:43:09.020 one of the main pieces

00:43:11.040 of evidence

00:43:11.640 to show that Trump

00:43:13.080 is a big old liar

00:43:14.180 because he had apparently

00:43:15.820 told banks,

00:43:17.200 I guess,

00:43:17.980 that it was worth

00:43:18.700 a lot more.

00:43:20.440 And

00:43:20.900 what is the actual estimate?

00:43:23.580 Well,

00:43:23.900 the news is finally

00:43:24.800 doing something

00:43:25.460 that the news should do,

00:43:26.660 which is tell you

00:43:27.760 what the actual worth

00:43:29.020 of Mar-a-Lago is.

00:43:30.420 Now,

00:43:30.700 it's highly subjective,

00:43:31.940 but if you just look

00:43:33.060 at other properties

00:43:34.040 right along the same area,

00:43:36.340 smaller ones

00:43:37.180 could be worth

00:43:38.420 well over $100 million.

00:43:39.940 Smaller ones

00:43:40.640 worth way less.

00:43:42.920 So

00:43:43.440 one estimate

00:43:44.260 is $300 million

00:43:45.220 from somebody

00:43:46.740 who actually

00:43:47.140 knows real estate.

00:43:49.300 The lowest

00:43:50.060 would be like $150,

00:43:51.260 but $300

00:43:51.880 is probably

00:43:52.400 reasonably good.

00:43:54.240 Now,

00:43:55.820 what do you make

00:43:57.120 of a judge

00:43:57.720 who rules

00:43:58.840 that the thing

00:43:59.600 that Mar-a-Lago

00:44:00.600 is worth

00:44:01.740 maybe $18 million

00:44:03.220 when it couldn't

00:44:05.020 possibly be true?

00:44:06.920 And you know

00:44:07.800 that the judge

00:44:08.900 has to know that

00:44:10.080 because nobody

00:44:11.140 would be so dumb

00:44:11.940 that they don't know that.

00:44:12.980 I mean,

00:44:13.160 I don't know real estate,

00:44:14.580 but I immediately

00:44:15.200 looked at that number

00:44:16.040 and said,

00:44:16.460 well,

00:44:17.280 I've seen photographs

00:44:18.500 of Mar-a-Lago

00:44:19.220 from the air,

00:44:21.200 and there's no fucking way 0.86

00:44:22.340 that's $18 million.

00:44:23.220 There's just no way.

00:44:25.840 You don't have to be

00:44:26.500 an expert in anything

00:44:27.440 to know that they

00:44:28.500 missed it by a factor

00:44:29.440 of $10 or $20

00:44:30.440 or $30 or something.

00:44:33.300 So

00:44:33.820 as Mike Cernovich

00:44:36.540 points out,

00:44:37.560 we might expect

00:44:39.880 that judges

00:44:40.580 from now on

00:44:41.900 will simply lie

00:44:43.880 to convict people

00:44:45.500 that are their

00:44:46.060 political enemies

00:44:46.840 and that they will

00:44:48.040 do it in public

00:44:49.020 or right in front of you

00:44:50.680 like they are

00:44:51.540 with Trump.

00:44:52.040 This is in public.

00:44:54.480 We all watched

00:44:55.380 the judge

00:44:57.340 effectively lie.

00:45:00.160 Now,

00:45:00.460 I can't read his mind,

00:45:02.020 so there's still

00:45:02.780 the possibility

00:45:03.400 he's stupid

00:45:04.100 or had been misled

00:45:06.800 in some weird way.

00:45:09.120 But it sure

00:45:10.260 looks like he lied.

00:45:12.000 It looks like

00:45:12.840 he had always

00:45:13.520 meant to get Trump

00:45:14.640 and then did.

00:45:16.320 And I believe

00:45:16.760 there's some history

00:45:17.520 of anti-Trump statements

00:45:19.000 before this

00:45:19.700 from the judge.

00:45:20.860 So

00:45:22.200 I'm going to

00:45:26.300 add on to

00:45:27.200 Mike Cernovich's view

00:45:28.280 that the rule of law

00:45:29.760 basically doesn't exist

00:45:31.220 for Republicans.

00:45:32.500 If you have a Democrat

00:45:33.700 judge

00:45:34.260 and prosecutor,

00:45:35.400 it really isn't

00:45:36.260 going to matter

00:45:36.640 what the facts are.

00:45:37.920 And I think

00:45:38.340 January 6th

00:45:39.400 proved that.

00:45:41.680 You want a little

00:45:42.160 more evidence?

00:45:44.680 Do you remember

00:45:45.380 the lectern guy?

00:45:48.020 The guy who stole

00:45:48.940 the lectern?

00:45:49.520 Well,

00:45:54.520 so here,

00:45:55.440 the lectern guy

00:45:56.360 who was wandering

00:45:58.000 around on January 6th

00:45:59.180 and stole the lectern,

00:46:01.120 he got,

00:46:03.720 he had to wear

00:46:05.140 an ankle monitor,

00:46:06.540 he was drug tested

00:46:07.500 at random,

00:46:08.760 he had to surrender

00:46:09.420 his passports,

00:46:11.020 and he was restricted

00:46:12.260 to Middle District

00:46:13.200 Florida and given

00:46:14.780 a nightly curfew.

00:46:16.940 A nightly curfew?

00:46:19.540 What?

00:46:21.060 How does a nightly curfew

00:46:22.700 have anything to do

00:46:24.820 with anything?

00:46:26.540 All right.

00:46:26.980 However,

00:46:29.460 the person who

00:46:30.120 prosecuted him,

00:46:31.100 the prosecutor,

00:46:32.440 recently was arrested

00:46:33.760 himself for

00:46:35.260 stabbing a man

00:46:36.280 repeatedly in public.

00:46:39.260 That's right.

00:46:40.800 The guy who

00:46:41.760 wandered around

00:46:42.760 got a pretty

00:46:43.420 weird and strange

00:46:45.760 sentence

00:46:46.320 because he took

00:46:47.440 a lectern,

00:46:47.880 and the guy

00:46:49.600 who prosecuted him

00:46:50.720 stabbed somebody,

00:46:52.020 allegedly,

00:46:53.000 stabbed somebody

00:46:53.760 repeatedly in public.

00:46:56.700 So,

00:46:57.640 do you think

00:46:58.260 the guy who

00:46:58.800 stabbed somebody

00:46:59.780 repeatedly in public,

00:47:02.040 if he gets

00:47:02.580 a Democrat judge,

00:47:04.580 is he going to

00:47:06.020 get a hard sentence

00:47:07.100 or will he be

00:47:08.700 released?

00:47:10.700 I don't know.

00:47:12.100 Makes you wonder,

00:47:12.820 doesn't it?

00:47:13.800 But let's get back

00:47:14.580 to this rule of law

00:47:15.520 situation.

00:47:16.060 As I've said

00:47:17.980 before,

00:47:18.600 and I think

00:47:18.980 it bears repeating,

00:47:21.900 if the entire

00:47:22.800 national media,

00:47:24.000 with the exception

00:47:24.540 of Fox News

00:47:25.700 and Breitbart

00:47:26.620 and a few people,

00:47:28.400 if the main

00:47:29.240 major media

00:47:30.080 is saying

00:47:30.640 that Trump

00:47:31.040 is Hitler, 0.81

00:47:32.600 what do you

00:47:33.940 expect to happen?

00:47:35.660 There's only one

00:47:36.380 way that can go,

00:47:37.880 which is that

00:47:38.780 Trump and his

00:47:40.180 supporters

00:47:40.600 will be abused

00:47:42.560 in every way

00:47:43.260 that you can

00:47:43.800 abuse somebody,

00:47:45.100 whether it's

00:47:45.760 legal or not.

00:47:47.420 Because when it

00:47:48.100 comes to killing

00:47:48.720 Hitler,

00:47:49.240 there are no

00:47:49.640 rules.

00:47:50.860 There's no law

00:47:51.700 that stops you

00:47:52.340 from killing

00:47:52.900 Hitler. 0.57

00:47:54.500 You're not going

00:47:55.260 to let the law

00:47:56.040 stop you from

00:47:56.800 doing something

00:47:57.340 that would damage 0.76

00:47:58.180 Hitler. 0.57

00:47:59.680 So the law

00:48:00.880 simply doesn't

00:48:01.840 matter if it's

00:48:03.580 a Republican

00:48:04.260 who is Trump

00:48:05.840 or supports

00:48:06.420 Trump.

00:48:07.140 And you can

00:48:07.880 see that very

00:48:08.580 clearly,

00:48:09.680 that there's

00:48:10.260 no will to

00:48:12.420 obey the law

00:48:13.220 where Trump

00:48:14.300 is involved

00:48:14.980 and that

00:48:15.720 makes sense.

00:48:16.980 I'd love to

00:48:17.620 tell you it's

00:48:18.100 nonsensical,

00:48:19.440 but it's not.

00:48:21.660 If you had

00:48:22.440 been brainwashed

00:48:23.200 to believe

00:48:23.820 that you're

00:48:24.880 a threat

00:48:25.500 to the country

00:48:26.080 and you're

00:48:26.440 all going

00:48:26.700 to be in

00:48:27.140 camps or

00:48:28.920 something,

00:48:29.600 of course you

00:48:30.420 would act

00:48:30.740 violently.

00:48:32.200 Wouldn't

00:48:32.640 you?

00:48:34.080 And you

00:48:34.740 would do

00:48:35.000 everything you

00:48:35.700 could to

00:48:36.280 thwart

00:48:36.740 this evil.

00:48:39.300 So I

00:48:41.460 would not

00:48:41.840 expect that

00:48:42.460 we have

00:48:42.860 anything that

00:48:43.540 I would

00:48:43.800 call a

00:48:44.520 legitimate

00:48:45.020 legal system

00:48:47.000 when it

00:48:47.460 comes to

00:48:48.740 Trump's

00:48:49.300 supporters.

00:48:50.400 Would you

00:48:51.040 agree?

00:48:52.140 That we

00:48:52.520 literally,

00:48:53.180 in this

00:48:53.480 country,

00:48:53.900 we don't

00:48:54.440 have a

00:48:55.160 credible

00:48:55.580 legal system

00:48:56.440 at the

00:48:56.980 moment for

00:48:58.200 this group

00:48:58.680 of people.

00:48:59.460 Now it's

00:48:59.860 not the

00:49:00.180 first time,

00:49:00.740 is it?

00:49:01.700 You could

00:49:02.100 go back

00:49:02.500 in history

00:49:03.080 however many

00:49:04.680 years you

00:49:05.060 want to do

00:49:05.420 it,

00:49:05.900 and wouldn't

00:49:06.440 you say,

00:49:07.680 and you

00:49:08.040 would be

00:49:08.280 right,

00:49:09.300 that if

00:49:10.300 you were

00:49:10.620 black and

00:49:12.260 the legal

00:49:12.680 system got

00:49:13.320 a hold of

00:49:13.680 you,

00:49:14.400 you were

00:49:14.780 fucked, 0.99

00:49:15.860 right?

00:49:17.520 And wasn't

00:49:18.780 it because

00:49:19.300 people had

00:49:20.020 an idea in

00:49:20.920 their mind

00:49:21.420 about black

00:49:23.460 people,

00:49:24.200 and it was

00:49:25.100 the idea in

00:49:25.700 their mind

00:49:26.180 that made

00:49:26.680 them completely

00:49:27.520 ignore the

00:49:28.780 basic standards

00:49:29.640 of justice.

00:49:31.580 And they

00:49:32.300 probably thought

00:49:32.820 they weren't

00:49:33.160 even doing

00:49:33.540 anything bad

00:49:34.260 because they

00:49:35.340 had been

00:49:35.720 socialized,

00:49:37.320 I guess,

00:49:38.300 to think that

00:49:39.040 this was

00:49:39.440 somehow good

00:49:40.220 for the

00:49:40.560 world or

00:49:41.020 something,

00:49:41.460 I suppose.

00:49:42.500 But we

00:49:43.200 just now have

00:49:43.980 a different

00:49:44.340 victim class

00:49:45.340 in which

00:49:46.520 the general

00:49:47.680 public thinks

00:49:48.540 that ignoring

00:49:50.080 the law

00:49:50.780 to get these

00:49:51.960 guys would

00:49:53.400 be a reasonable

00:49:54.020 choice,

00:49:55.140 just like

00:49:56.060 they might

00:49:56.840 have thought

00:49:57.240 about black

00:49:58.020 Americans

00:49:58.540 100 years

00:49:59.180 ago,

00:50:00.460 or fewer,

00:50:01.960 fewer years

00:50:02.820 years ago.

00:50:05.840 So I

00:50:07.180 started looking

00:50:08.080 around for

00:50:08.800 a country

00:50:09.600 that I

00:50:09.940 could move

00:50:10.280 to for

00:50:10.720 asylum,

00:50:11.820 and no,

00:50:12.920 I'm not

00:50:13.200 joking.

00:50:13.980 I want to

00:50:14.420 make clear

00:50:14.760 this is not

00:50:15.300 a joke.

00:50:16.300 I think I'm

00:50:17.280 close to the

00:50:17.920 point where I

00:50:18.780 need a backup

00:50:19.400 plan, as in

00:50:21.240 a country where

00:50:22.020 I won't be

00:50:22.460 arrested for

00:50:23.100 bullshit,

00:50:24.060 because I feel

00:50:24.820 like I'm at

00:50:25.380 risk of getting

00:50:26.080 arrested for

00:50:26.900 anything.

00:50:28.760 It doesn't,

00:50:29.240 for anything.

00:50:29.700 nothing real,

00:50:31.720 but anything.

00:50:34.380 Now, it

00:50:35.400 would be a

00:50:36.020 last resort,

00:50:38.080 right?

00:50:38.940 So we're not

00:50:39.800 quite there,

00:50:40.700 but you can

00:50:41.140 see all the

00:50:41.940 elements starting

00:50:43.700 to come

00:50:44.080 together,

00:50:45.380 where a

00:50:46.160 normal American

00:50:47.180 would think

00:50:48.080 that I should

00:50:48.600 go to jail

00:50:49.280 for my

00:50:50.840 opinions.

00:50:52.240 We're very

00:50:53.200 close to

00:50:54.520 where somebody

00:50:55.100 would want me

00:50:55.720 literally in

00:50:56.680 jail for my

00:50:58.540 opinions.

00:50:59.700 I think

00:51:00.420 we're right

00:51:01.380 on the edge

00:51:01.820 of that.

00:51:02.700 Now, I

00:51:03.380 very much

00:51:03.880 want to live

00:51:04.620 in the

00:51:04.840 United States.

00:51:06.280 It's my

00:51:06.960 first choice.

00:51:08.200 I am

00:51:08.680 American

00:51:09.160 above all,

00:51:10.440 right?

00:51:11.140 But there

00:51:12.080 is a

00:51:12.580 self-defense

00:51:13.320 element to

00:51:14.080 this that's

00:51:14.840 real.

00:51:16.440 And

00:51:16.940 situational

00:51:18.060 awareness

00:51:18.740 requires that

00:51:20.260 you have a

00:51:20.800 backup plan

00:51:21.600 every time

00:51:22.160 you walk

00:51:22.540 into a

00:51:22.920 room.

00:51:23.700 We've

00:51:24.200 talked about

00:51:24.660 this,

00:51:25.180 have we not?

00:51:26.060 If you're

00:51:26.600 male,

00:51:27.720 every new

00:51:28.420 room you

00:51:28.820 walk into,

00:51:29.480 you evaluate

00:51:30.040 for entry

00:51:31.440 and exits

00:51:31.940 and threats.

00:51:33.540 But I'm

00:51:34.140 doing that

00:51:34.540 with the

00:51:35.840 United States.

00:51:37.620 And so

00:51:38.060 people recommended,

00:51:39.980 let's see,

00:51:40.940 Iceland,

00:51:41.900 Hungary,

00:51:42.780 Switzerland,

00:51:43.680 Portugal,

00:51:44.360 Sweden,

00:51:44.800 or Poland.

00:51:46.760 Or Costa

00:51:47.720 Rica, too.

00:51:49.440 But it's

00:51:49.940 really tough to

00:51:50.620 figure out a

00:51:51.200 new country to

00:51:51.860 go to,

00:51:52.620 because here

00:51:52.980 are the

00:51:53.200 things that

00:51:53.740 are positive

00:51:54.840 about the

00:51:55.300 United States.

00:51:56.000 number one,

00:51:57.920 at least in

00:51:58.480 my state,

00:51:59.440 weed is

00:51:59.820 legal.

00:52:01.540 Kind of

00:52:02.080 matters to

00:52:02.480 me.

00:52:04.360 I don't

00:52:04.900 want to

00:52:05.100 have to

00:52:05.340 change my

00:52:05.800 lifestyle that

00:52:06.480 much.

00:52:07.440 And I

00:52:08.000 don't want

00:52:08.280 to be doing

00:52:08.640 something illegal

00:52:09.420 in another

00:52:09.940 country.

00:52:10.440 That's just

00:52:10.840 a bad

00:52:11.160 play.

00:52:13.300 Number two,

00:52:14.660 I like

00:52:15.100 living in a

00:52:15.700 country that

00:52:16.180 has the

00:52:16.460 strongest

00:52:16.800 military,

00:52:18.500 because I

00:52:18.900 think there's

00:52:19.460 the smallest

00:52:20.420 chance of

00:52:21.060 invasion.

00:52:21.480 There is

00:52:22.840 some chance

00:52:23.360 of a

00:52:23.600 nuclear war,

00:52:24.780 but everybody's

00:52:25.700 dead if that

00:52:26.180 happens.

00:52:27.260 So I like

00:52:28.060 being in the

00:52:28.900 country that's

00:52:29.340 got the most

00:52:30.280 badass military,

00:52:31.440 even when we

00:52:32.060 misuse them.

00:52:33.680 Even if we

00:52:34.480 do it wrong,

00:52:35.600 I'd still

00:52:35.920 rather be here.

00:52:37.160 And the

00:52:37.460 other thing

00:52:37.880 is susceptibility

00:52:40.220 to and

00:52:41.100 recovery from

00:52:41.920 natural

00:52:42.420 disasters.

00:52:43.860 I think the

00:52:44.680 United States

00:52:45.260 is probably

00:52:45.940 still the

00:52:46.940 top.

00:52:47.800 Maybe Japan's 0.97

00:52:48.600 pretty awesome,

00:52:49.240 too.

00:52:49.940 But among

00:52:50.760 the top in

00:52:51.540 disaster

00:52:52.060 recovery.

00:52:53.760 I think we'd

00:52:54.280 be among

00:52:54.680 the top.

00:52:55.820 And there

00:52:56.420 are always

00:52:56.780 disasters.

00:52:58.440 There's always

00:52:59.060 a rogue

00:53:00.200 hurricane or

00:53:01.180 earthquake or

00:53:02.200 something.

00:53:02.800 So I do

00:53:03.280 like living

00:53:03.900 where there's

00:53:05.440 a better

00:53:05.740 chance of

00:53:06.280 surviving a

00:53:07.140 major calamity.

00:53:09.540 And I

00:53:10.460 like the

00:53:10.800 weather.

00:53:12.900 One of the

00:53:13.640 reasons I

00:53:14.120 live where I

00:53:14.640 live is that

00:53:16.120 I very

00:53:16.860 carefully

00:53:17.380 determined

00:53:17.960 where you

00:53:18.780 would most

00:53:19.220 likely die

00:53:20.040 from reasons

00:53:21.680 that were

00:53:21.980 not your

00:53:22.340 own.

00:53:23.680 Things you

00:53:24.200 didn't cause

00:53:24.740 on your

00:53:25.020 own.

00:53:25.820 So the

00:53:26.220 reason I

00:53:26.560 live where

00:53:26.860 I live

00:53:27.340 is that

00:53:27.900 it would

00:53:28.140 be almost

00:53:29.420 impossible to

00:53:30.240 die from

00:53:30.760 being too

00:53:31.360 cold or

00:53:32.400 too hot.

00:53:34.560 Because if it's

00:53:36.000 too hot I

00:53:36.680 could go take

00:53:37.520 a nap in

00:53:37.980 the shade,

00:53:39.020 I'd probably

00:53:39.420 be fine.

00:53:40.280 Drink a lot

00:53:41.000 of water.

00:53:41.780 On the

00:53:42.220 hottest day.

00:53:43.500 On the

00:53:43.980 coldest day,

00:53:45.340 I could

00:53:45.660 probably start

00:53:46.180 a fire and

00:53:47.680 keep myself

00:53:48.220 warm until I

00:53:48.860 figured it

00:53:49.240 out, put

00:53:49.800 it on a

00:53:50.100 jacket.

00:53:50.880 You're not

00:53:51.380 going to die

00:53:52.000 in Northern

00:53:52.440 California on

00:53:53.180 a cold

00:53:53.480 day.

00:53:54.740 So I

00:53:55.680 don't want

00:53:55.960 to go

00:53:56.220 somewhere where

00:53:56.900 if the

00:53:57.360 heat goes

00:53:57.820 out, I'll

00:53:58.560 just die.

00:54:00.440 The scariest

00:54:01.360 thing in the

00:54:01.820 world to me

00:54:02.640 is to be in

00:54:03.720 a winter

00:54:04.320 zone and

00:54:06.180 you've got

00:54:06.600 this one

00:54:07.020 little electrical

00:54:07.960 line that

00:54:08.580 runs to your

00:54:09.160 cabin or

00:54:09.720 wherever you

00:54:10.180 are.

00:54:11.000 And if that

00:54:11.500 one little

00:54:11.940 electrical line

00:54:13.020 goes down,

00:54:14.240 well, you

00:54:15.000 might die.

00:54:16.480 To me,

00:54:17.020 that's scary.

00:54:17.480 So I

00:54:18.500 picked a

00:54:18.840 place that

00:54:19.300 has almost

00:54:20.380 no chance

00:54:21.180 of earthquake

00:54:23.120 because I'm

00:54:24.140 not near any

00:54:25.020 earthquake zones.

00:54:26.040 I built a

00:54:26.620 house that

00:54:27.580 is specifically

00:54:28.540 the highest

00:54:29.820 earthquake standard

00:54:30.840 and I've

00:54:31.780 literally never

00:54:32.280 even felt

00:54:32.700 one.

00:54:33.600 I mean,

00:54:33.780 there have

00:54:33.920 been a

00:54:34.540 whole bunch

00:54:34.920 of earthquakes

00:54:35.480 in the

00:54:36.200 general area

00:54:36.780 I live.

00:54:37.540 I haven't

00:54:37.840 felt a

00:54:38.240 single one.

00:54:38.780 House

00:54:38.940 doesn't

00:54:39.220 move.

00:54:39.460 I built

00:54:40.860 a house

00:54:41.320 with a

00:54:41.980 Spanish

00:54:42.640 architecture

00:54:43.400 because it

00:54:44.640 would be

00:54:44.920 the least

00:54:45.820 burnable.

00:54:48.220 I've got

00:54:48.920 tiles in

00:54:49.600 the house

00:54:50.040 and I've

00:54:51.340 got a lot

00:54:51.980 of things

00:54:52.280 set up

00:54:52.660 that would

00:54:52.900 be hard

00:54:53.240 to even

00:54:53.560 get an

00:54:54.180 ember

00:54:54.520 to get

00:54:54.920 inside.

00:54:56.220 Now,

00:54:56.820 nothing's

00:54:57.380 completely

00:54:58.280 fireproof,

00:54:59.340 so I

00:54:59.680 can't say

00:55:00.040 it's

00:55:00.200 fireproof,

00:55:01.360 but it

00:55:01.920 was built

00:55:02.320 from the

00:55:02.740 ground up

00:55:03.380 to survive

00:55:04.380 a fire

00:55:04.920 if the

00:55:05.780 entire

00:55:06.060 neighborhood

00:55:06.460 burned

00:55:06.800 down.

00:55:07.680 It was

00:55:07.880 built that

00:55:08.220 way.

00:55:08.380 It was

00:55:10.160 also

00:55:10.460 built

00:55:10.900 so it

00:55:13.780 would run

00:55:14.260 itself

00:55:14.820 even if

00:55:16.880 I ran

00:55:17.220 out of

00:55:17.500 money.

00:55:19.160 It doesn't

00:55:19.760 really require

00:55:20.480 too much

00:55:20.880 in maintenance.

00:55:22.440 I wouldn't

00:55:23.100 need

00:55:23.560 heating and

00:55:25.240 cooling if

00:55:25.980 I had to

00:55:27.540 live there

00:55:27.820 without it.

00:55:28.380 I could

00:55:28.700 for an

00:55:29.440 extended

00:55:29.760 period of

00:55:30.260 time.

00:55:31.060 I also

00:55:31.720 have a

00:55:32.020 swimming

00:55:32.300 pool,

00:55:33.540 so I'm

00:55:34.540 not going

00:55:34.820 to run

00:55:34.980 out of

00:55:35.220 water

00:55:35.500 right

00:55:35.940 away.

00:55:36.240 everything

00:55:39.200 about my

00:55:39.780 house,

00:55:40.300 I'd have

00:55:40.840 to boil

00:55:41.240 it or

00:55:41.540 something,

00:55:42.060 but I

00:55:42.680 wouldn't

00:55:42.840 run out.

00:55:45.360 Everything

00:55:46.040 about my

00:55:46.700 house is

00:55:47.780 sort of

00:55:49.160 planning for

00:55:50.700 big problems.

00:55:52.020 I'm also

00:55:52.540 at high

00:55:52.940 ground,

00:55:53.960 so I

00:55:54.560 have no

00:55:54.920 risk of

00:55:55.340 floods.

00:55:56.540 No flood

00:55:57.220 could get

00:55:57.580 me where

00:55:57.860 I am.

00:56:00.220 There's

00:56:01.220 typically no

00:56:02.540 hurricanes.

00:56:03.000 So I

00:56:04.380 did pick

00:56:04.820 what I

00:56:05.640 think is

00:56:06.040 the safest

00:56:06.520 part of

00:56:06.960 the country

00:56:07.400 for my

00:56:08.440 lifestyle as

00:56:09.200 well as

00:56:09.600 disasters.

00:56:13.240 It's one

00:56:13.900 reason I

00:56:14.260 have a

00:56:14.480 swimming pool.

00:56:15.620 It

00:56:15.800 legitimately

00:56:16.320 is one

00:56:16.900 reason.

00:56:18.020 That is

00:56:18.560 not a

00:56:20.400 joke.

00:56:20.820 I might

00:56:21.460 have one

00:56:21.900 just because

00:56:22.260 I like

00:56:22.560 swimming or

00:56:23.160 I like

00:56:23.440 how it

00:56:23.680 looks,

00:56:24.180 so that

00:56:24.480 might be

00:56:24.800 a full

00:56:25.440 reason,

00:56:26.300 but I

00:56:26.780 absolutely

00:56:27.380 was thinking

00:56:27.980 about it

00:56:28.400 in the

00:56:28.720 emergency

00:56:29.160 sense,

00:56:29.840 very much

00:56:30.380 so.

00:56:30.580 So we

00:56:38.900 are at

00:56:39.300 a lawless

00:56:40.300 situation.

00:56:42.800 I've

00:56:43.260 talked about

00:56:43.640 the national

00:56:44.220 incompetence

00:56:44.920 crisis,

00:56:46.320 and do

00:56:47.040 you all

00:56:47.360 agree that

00:56:47.840 there is a

00:56:48.320 national

00:56:48.680 incompetence

00:56:49.560 crisis that

00:56:50.880 you can't

00:56:51.440 really even

00:56:51.820 get as

00:56:52.140 simple things

00:56:52.760 done?

00:56:54.420 You've all

00:56:55.000 seen it,

00:56:55.360 right?

00:56:55.860 Now,

00:56:56.280 I'm kind

00:56:57.140 of fascinated

00:56:57.740 about the

00:56:58.180 cause of

00:56:58.720 it.

00:57:00.580 One cause

00:57:02.960 is that

00:57:03.280 everything's

00:57:03.760 too

00:57:03.920 complicated.

00:57:05.160 If you

00:57:05.540 call for

00:57:06.020 any kind

00:57:06.460 of technical

00:57:06.980 support,

00:57:08.000 you're probably

00:57:08.600 calling with

00:57:09.180 a problem

00:57:09.660 they've never

00:57:10.260 even heard

00:57:10.720 of before,

00:57:11.780 because everything's

00:57:12.440 just complicated.

00:57:13.400 So that's a

00:57:13.860 big part of it,

00:57:14.780 just everything's

00:57:15.460 complicated.

00:57:16.580 But the other

00:57:17.400 part of it is

00:57:18.080 the story we

00:57:18.940 heard the

00:57:20.460 other day.

00:57:21.480 Now,

00:57:21.900 before I tell

00:57:22.540 you this

00:57:22.840 story,

00:57:23.960 let me say

00:57:24.980 as clearly

00:57:25.980 as possible,

00:57:27.260 this has

00:57:27.700 nothing to do

00:57:28.340 with anybody's

00:57:29.020 genes or

00:57:30.180 their chromosomes

00:57:30.840 or even

00:57:32.180 their culture.

00:57:33.700 So there's

00:57:34.040 nothing about

00:57:34.600 genes,

00:57:35.240 chromosomes,

00:57:35.580 or culture

00:57:36.480 in what I'm

00:57:37.420 going to say.

00:57:39.400 After George

00:57:40.460 Floyd,

00:57:41.560 we know now

00:57:42.420 from Bloomberg

00:57:43.140 that only

00:57:45.340 6% of new

00:57:46.800 jobs at the

00:57:47.760 Fortune 100

00:57:48.600 went to

00:57:49.640 white people.

00:57:51.760 94% went

00:57:53.580 to non-white

00:57:54.640 people.

00:57:56.320 Now,

00:57:56.680 of course,

00:57:57.000 they were

00:57:57.160 trying to boost

00:57:57.860 their diversity

00:57:58.620 to try to

00:57:59.700 correct for

00:58:00.460 a lack of

00:58:01.040 diversity up

00:58:01.620 to that

00:58:01.860 point.

00:58:03.060 Now,

00:58:03.480 I'm going

00:58:04.660 to say

00:58:05.080 that that

00:58:06.760 probably caused

00:58:07.760 a wave of

00:58:08.440 incompetence

00:58:09.280 like we've

00:58:09.980 never seen

00:58:10.440 before,

00:58:11.140 and it has

00:58:11.860 nothing to

00:58:12.420 do with

00:58:12.860 anybody's

00:58:13.360 color,

00:58:14.420 has nothing

00:58:15.080 to do with

00:58:15.540 anybody's

00:58:15.920 genes,

00:58:17.220 has nothing

00:58:17.720 to do with

00:58:18.160 their culture,

00:58:19.440 has nothing

00:58:20.400 to do with

00:58:20.700 that.

00:58:21.000 It's just

00:58:21.320 math.

00:58:22.240 If you said

00:58:23.120 from this

00:58:24.200 day on,

00:58:25.320 the only

00:58:25.720 place you

00:58:26.160 can hire

00:58:26.620 people from

00:58:27.540 is the

00:58:28.340 state of

00:58:28.780 Delaware.

00:58:31.140 How good

00:58:31.940 would your

00:58:32.320 workforce be

00:58:33.220 if you

00:58:34.160 could no

00:58:34.540 longer pick

00:58:35.080 from the

00:58:35.420 entire country,

00:58:36.840 but you

00:58:37.240 had to get

00:58:37.580 all your

00:58:38.060 people from

00:58:38.560 Delaware?

00:58:39.740 And by

00:58:40.040 the way,

00:58:40.860 everybody else

00:58:41.580 wanted those 0.61

00:58:42.100 people from

00:58:42.600 Delaware,

00:58:43.160 too.

00:58:43.960 So there's

00:58:45.000 not even

00:58:45.420 enough.

00:58:46.340 You're not

00:58:46.740 even going

00:58:47.120 to get the

00:58:47.540 good Delaware

00:58:48.140 people.

00:58:48.900 You're going

00:58:49.240 to have to

00:58:49.480 go down

00:58:49.900 the list

00:58:50.400 quite far

00:58:51.460 before you

00:58:52.600 find a

00:58:53.060 Delaware

00:58:53.460 person is

00:58:54.080 available

00:58:54.460 because

00:58:55.620 everybody

00:58:56.080 wants them.

00:58:57.860 So logically,

00:58:59.820 it wouldn't

00:59:00.320 matter what

00:59:01.320 the mix of

00:59:03.240 people was.

00:59:04.800 As soon as

00:59:05.560 the Fortune

00:59:06.020 100 decided

00:59:07.680 that they

00:59:08.100 had to

00:59:08.440 select in

00:59:09.180 the least

00:59:09.820 optimal way,

00:59:11.720 which is

00:59:12.160 by demographic

00:59:13.260 instead of

00:59:13.960 talent,

00:59:15.500 then you

00:59:16.160 were guaranteed

00:59:16.840 to have a

00:59:17.800 gigantic wave

00:59:18.540 of incompetence.

00:59:20.200 Am I

00:59:20.500 wrong?

00:59:21.700 And would

00:59:22.300 you agree

00:59:22.700 with the

00:59:22.980 statement?

00:59:23.340 It has

00:59:23.520 nothing to

00:59:23.880 do with

00:59:24.080 anybody's

00:59:24.400 race.

00:59:25.480 This is

00:59:25.880 irrelevant to

00:59:26.600 the math.

00:59:27.580 The math

00:59:28.140 of restricting

00:59:29.140 your own

00:59:29.760 choices

00:59:30.280 artificially

00:59:30.980 should give

00:59:32.240 you a worse

00:59:32.960 outcome because

00:59:33.740 you have

00:59:34.000 just fewer

00:59:35.300 choices to

00:59:36.360 pick from.

00:59:37.140 That alone

00:59:37.860 explains everything.

00:59:40.320 Right?

00:59:43.840 I don't see

00:59:44.700 anybody disagree.

00:59:47.880 All right.

00:59:49.020 The ones who

00:59:49.600 say I do not

00:59:50.260 agree, I

00:59:50.880 understand what

00:59:51.460 you're thinking.

00:59:57.240 There's more

00:59:57.900 evidence that

00:59:58.560 Fauci's bad.

01:00:03.060 I feel like

01:00:03.880 every day

01:00:04.300 there's a

01:00:04.680 news story

01:00:05.240 that suggests

01:00:06.460 that Fauci's

01:00:07.140 bad.

01:00:08.820 Are you

01:00:09.180 tired of

01:00:09.940 them all?

01:00:11.340 Facts,

01:00:11.920 facts,

01:00:12.420 allegations,

01:00:13.460 Fauci's bad.

01:00:14.460 They all

01:00:14.900 sound the

01:00:15.240 same now.

01:00:16.680 The one

01:00:18.480 thing we're

01:00:18.840 all sure

01:00:19.240 of is

01:00:20.200 there's

01:00:20.420 something

01:00:20.680 that was

01:00:20.920 going on

01:00:21.340 with that

01:00:21.660 Fauci guy.

01:00:23.280 I'll steal

01:00:23.860 a Norm

01:00:24.340 McDonald joke.

01:00:26.120 Here's a

01:00:26.560 Norm

01:00:26.840 McDonald joke.

01:00:27.500 You'll

01:00:27.680 recognize the

01:00:28.200 joke.

01:00:28.720 I'm

01:00:29.500 repurposing

01:00:30.100 it for

01:00:30.400 Fauci.

01:00:31.460 It goes

01:00:31.740 like this.

01:00:33.300 You know,

01:00:33.700 the more I

01:00:34.220 learn about

01:00:34.740 this Fauci

01:00:35.420 guy,

01:00:36.460 the more I

01:00:37.200 think he

01:00:37.600 might be a

01:00:38.260 bad dude.

01:00:40.280 Yeah.

01:00:41.660 Norm.

01:00:42.180 All right.

01:00:43.340 Well,

01:00:44.200 Fauci allegedly

01:00:45.900 went to

01:00:47.500 CIA headquarters

01:00:48.560 to, quote,

01:00:49.560 influence its

01:00:51.480 reporting on

01:00:52.380 the origins

01:00:53.500 of COVID.

01:00:54.900 And there's

01:00:55.740 reporting that

01:00:56.740 whistleblowers 1.00

01:00:57.740 say that six

01:00:58.840 analysts were

01:00:59.480 offered a

01:01:00.020 significant

01:01:00.540 financial incentive

01:01:01.720 to basically

01:01:03.500 lie about

01:01:05.120 their opinions

01:01:05.740 about where

01:01:06.400 the virus

01:01:07.320 came from.

01:01:08.600 So is

01:01:09.100 any of that

01:01:09.460 true?

01:01:10.940 Well,

01:01:11.300 it's in

01:01:12.040 the news,

01:01:13.160 so probably

01:01:14.740 not,

01:01:16.340 because nothing

01:01:16.860 in the news

01:01:17.360 is really

01:01:17.800 true.

01:01:18.600 So we're

01:01:18.980 still in the

01:01:19.380 fog of war

01:01:20.100 on this.

01:01:22.160 Base

01:01:22.360 squirrel says

01:01:23.000 Scott liked

01:01:23.660 Fauci in

01:01:24.240 2020.

01:01:25.220 No.

01:01:26.300 No,

01:01:26.700 you're

01:01:26.960 hallucinating.

01:01:29.240 Yeah.

01:01:29.700 Yeah,

01:01:29.980 go find

01:01:30.720 where I

01:01:31.040 liked Fauci.

01:01:32.940 I didn't

01:01:33.780 dislike him

01:01:34.620 because I

01:01:35.820 didn't know

01:01:36.160 much about

01:01:36.620 him.

01:01:38.520 But base

01:01:39.340 squirrel is

01:01:39.880 screaming in

01:01:40.460 caps.

01:01:41.300 Scott liked

01:01:42.020 Fauci.

01:01:42.700 No,

01:01:43.080 that didn't

01:01:43.440 happen.

01:01:44.200 Poor

01:01:44.400 squirrel.

01:01:45.420 Goodbye.

01:01:47.360 You are

01:01:48.000 disappearing

01:01:48.480 now.

01:01:51.120 The 4GN

01:01:51.960 hoax got a

01:01:52.580 lot of

01:01:52.760 people.

01:01:54.000 All right.

01:01:56.260 Newsom

01:01:56.740 versus

01:01:57.180 DeSantis.

01:01:58.000 So as you

01:01:58.640 know,

01:01:58.840 Governor

01:01:59.080 Newsom is

01:01:59.640 going to

01:01:59.980 debate

01:02:00.280 DeSantis.

01:02:00.740 And now

01:02:01.880 he's mocking

01:02:02.460 DeSantis for

01:02:03.340 accepting the

01:02:04.060 debate.

01:02:05.980 This is so

01:02:06.900 slimy.

01:02:07.420 But he's

01:02:08.600 so good at

01:02:09.160 being slimy

01:02:09.840 that I

01:02:10.780 have mixed

01:02:11.260 feelings about

01:02:11.900 him.

01:02:12.580 Newsom is

01:02:13.440 a great

01:02:13.960 politician

01:02:14.580 because he's

01:02:16.380 so slimy.

01:02:18.200 Here's what he

01:02:18.780 says.

01:02:19.840 Talking about

01:02:20.500 DeSantis,

01:02:21.640 Newsom says,

01:02:22.600 the fact that

01:02:23.140 he took the

01:02:23.680 bait,

01:02:24.260 meaning that

01:02:24.840 he accepted

01:02:25.300 the debate,

01:02:28.200 the fact that

01:02:28.760 he took the

01:02:29.200 bait shows

01:02:30.140 he's completely

01:02:30.800 unqualified to

01:02:31.760 be president.

01:02:32.280 And then

01:02:33.920 Newsom says,

01:02:34.740 why is he

01:02:35.280 debating a

01:02:35.880 guy who's

01:02:36.380 not even

01:02:36.780 running for

01:02:37.240 president?

01:02:38.760 Come on.

01:02:40.420 I feel like I

01:02:41.120 should work for

01:02:41.640 CNN.

01:02:42.400 Reaction.

01:02:43.120 Come on.

01:02:44.760 Come on.

01:02:46.560 Seriously?

01:02:48.420 Seriously?

01:02:49.140 Do you say

01:02:49.600 these things in

01:02:50.320 public?

01:02:51.900 And do some

01:02:52.540 people say,

01:02:53.080 yeah, that

01:02:53.340 makes sense.

01:02:54.440 Good point.

01:02:55.700 Does anybody

01:02:56.360 have that

01:02:56.800 reaction to

01:02:57.380 it?

01:02:58.040 Ah, yeah.

01:02:59.320 That's a good

01:02:59.980 point.

01:03:00.300 You tricked

01:03:00.780 him into

01:03:01.200 debating you.

01:03:01.820 Because you're

01:03:02.580 not running

01:03:03.100 for president.

01:03:04.120 Oh, you're

01:03:04.620 totally not.

01:03:06.160 No, no.

01:03:07.620 I'm not running

01:03:08.540 for president.

01:03:09.540 Just because the

01:03:10.440 person ahead of

01:03:11.160 me who is

01:03:11.680 running for

01:03:12.100 president is

01:03:13.280 experiencing

01:03:14.000 rigor mortis

01:03:14.840 while he's

01:03:15.880 alive.

01:03:16.920 No, I'm not

01:03:18.200 even thinking

01:03:18.820 about it.

01:03:19.380 So, so

01:03:20.240 unlikely.

01:03:21.320 So terribly

01:03:22.200 unlikely that

01:03:23.140 I'd ever be

01:03:23.660 running for,

01:03:24.380 what was the

01:03:24.800 name of it?

01:03:25.640 President, did

01:03:26.400 you say?

01:03:27.260 Yeah, no.

01:03:27.740 I, yeah.

01:03:28.740 It's just so

01:03:31.900 funny to watch

01:03:32.580 him weasel

01:03:33.920 through it.

01:03:35.420 Or, as I'd

01:03:36.540 like to say,

01:03:38.040 the fact that

01:03:38.620 he took

01:03:38.900 debate shows

01:03:39.740 he's completely

01:03:40.540 unqualified to

01:03:41.480 be president.

01:03:43.940 Why is he

01:03:44.740 debating the

01:03:45.240 guy who's not

01:03:45.800 even running

01:03:46.200 for president?

01:03:50.740 Yeah, that's

01:03:51.580 viral.

01:03:52.840 There's your

01:03:53.240 viral moment

01:03:54.280 right there.

01:03:57.180 All right.

01:03:57.900 That's all I

01:03:58.480 got for today.

01:04:00.080 Anything else

01:04:00.780 happen?

01:04:09.040 So, I think,

01:04:11.000 I think DeSantis

01:04:12.000 will show up

01:04:12.780 early for that

01:04:13.500 debate.

01:04:14.980 But how will

01:04:15.860 Newsom show up?

01:04:17.860 It's a dad

01:04:18.400 joke.

01:04:19.040 Dad joke.

01:04:22.000 All right.

01:04:22.400 DeSantis will

01:04:23.160 show up on

01:04:25.080 time, but

01:04:28.040 Newsom will

01:04:28.640 show up

01:04:29.500 oily, oily.

01:04:32.180 He'll show

01:04:32.540 up oily.

01:04:33.760 Yeah, DeSantis

01:04:34.440 is on time

01:04:35.300 and Newsom's

01:04:36.520 oily.

01:04:38.600 Dad joke.

01:04:42.220 Oh, did I

01:04:44.480 forget to talk

01:04:45.180 about Doug

01:04:45.680 Bergham?

01:04:46.100 I'm pretty

01:04:50.980 sure they

01:04:51.400 turned off

01:04:51.940 his microphone,

01:04:53.180 didn't they?

01:04:54.220 Didn't his

01:04:54.660 microphone get

01:04:55.320 turned off

01:04:55.780 because he

01:04:56.120 kept trying

01:04:56.520 to say

01:04:57.280 stuff?

01:04:58.040 He kept

01:04:58.540 yelling that

01:04:59.140 his state

01:04:59.880 produces

01:05:05.880 energy, so

01:05:07.640 therefore he

01:05:09.140 must respond

01:05:09.940 to anybody

01:05:10.420 who talks

01:05:10.860 about energy.

01:05:12.500 And I

01:05:12.740 thought,

01:05:13.140 Doug, no,

01:05:14.900 Doug, no

01:05:16.720 Doug, sorry.

01:05:18.160 The fact that

01:05:18.900 his name is

01:05:19.380 Doug and

01:05:20.600 he's being

01:05:21.060 ignored is

01:05:22.000 just funnier.

01:05:23.520 Isn't it?

01:05:25.000 There's just

01:05:25.580 something about

01:05:26.020 the word

01:05:26.320 Doug that

01:05:28.500 doesn't, you

01:05:29.160 can't take him

01:05:29.780 seriously.

01:05:31.640 It's like,

01:05:32.880 well, who's

01:05:33.400 running for

01:05:33.800 president?

01:05:34.320 Well, we've

01:05:34.720 got Mike

01:05:35.480 Pence, we've

01:05:36.020 got Vivek

01:05:36.520 Ramaswamy,

01:05:37.240 we've got

01:05:37.780 DeSantis and

01:05:38.900 Doug.

01:05:41.820 I think Doug

01:05:42.480 will be

01:05:42.800 there.

01:05:46.360 There's

01:05:46.840 something about

01:05:47.360 Doug that

01:05:47.820 doesn't look

01:05:48.300 real to me.

01:05:50.020 Does anybody

01:05:50.420 have that?

01:05:51.560 Like, he

01:05:51.960 looks like

01:05:52.440 he's

01:05:52.640 animatronics,

01:05:53.700 but a

01:05:54.080 really good

01:05:54.740 one.

01:05:56.780 There's

01:05:57.260 something that

01:05:57.800 doesn't register

01:05:58.460 as human

01:05:58.940 about him,

01:05:59.460 but I don't

01:05:59.720 know what

01:05:59.960 it is.

01:06:01.140 It's his

01:06:01.740 eyebrows.

01:06:03.620 Yeah.

01:06:05.880 I'm sure he's

01:06:06.760 a wonderful

01:06:07.160 guy.

01:06:07.620 I don't want

01:06:08.240 to say bad

01:06:08.720 things about

01:06:09.220 him, but

01:06:10.200 there's

01:06:10.560 something

01:06:10.880 about him

01:06:11.620 that registers

01:06:12.920 a little

01:06:13.320 different from

01:06:14.080 the way the

01:06:14.500 other people

01:06:14.980 register.

01:06:15.560 I don't

01:06:15.740 know exactly

01:06:16.300 what it

01:06:16.680 is, but

01:06:17.880 you see

01:06:18.240 it, right?

01:06:19.760 He's

01:06:20.240 different in

01:06:22.140 a way that

01:06:22.940 has nothing

01:06:23.560 to do with

01:06:24.020 his policies,

01:06:25.620 right?

01:06:26.880 Yeah.

01:06:27.440 A little

01:06:27.740 uncanny

01:06:28.260 valley thing

01:06:28.980 happening.

01:06:29.460 I don't

01:06:29.620 know what

01:06:29.880 it is.

01:06:31.080 It's data.

01:06:33.620 All right.

01:06:34.360 Uncanny

01:06:34.880 Dougie.

01:06:36.460 All right.

01:06:37.760 Nikki Haley

01:06:38.180 had a pleading

01:06:38.980 voice in the

01:06:39.860 debate.

01:06:41.280 You know,

01:06:41.800 I didn't hear

01:06:42.300 it this time.

01:06:43.660 I usually

01:06:44.200 talk about

01:06:44.800 when people

01:06:45.400 have a

01:06:46.060 pleading voice

01:06:46.660 like,

01:06:47.180 raise the

01:06:47.800 taxes too

01:06:48.500 high.

01:06:48.960 What are we

01:06:49.340 doing in

01:06:49.680 Ukraine?

01:06:50.160 You know,

01:06:50.300 that's a

01:06:50.620 pleading

01:06:51.000 voice.

01:06:52.460 But I

01:06:52.820 thought she

01:06:53.340 was,

01:06:56.120 maybe she 0.99

01:06:57.240 even went

01:06:57.640 too far

01:06:58.120 into full

01:06:58.780 Karen,

01:06:59.800 but to

01:07:00.880 me it

01:07:01.160 looked a

01:07:01.700 command

01:07:02.000 voice.

01:07:03.000 I thought

01:07:03.400 I heard

01:07:03.700 command

01:07:04.080 voice.

01:07:05.520 But maybe

01:07:05.900 I didn't

01:07:06.180 hear every

01:07:06.580 moment,

01:07:07.080 so you

01:07:07.520 may have

01:07:08.040 heard an

01:07:09.100 answer I

01:07:09.480 didn't hear.

01:07:10.560 All right,

01:07:12.100 that's all I

01:07:12.460 got for now

01:07:12.900 for you.

01:07:14.020 Oh,

01:07:14.340 Tim Scott.

01:07:16.720 Tim Scott

01:07:17.580 barely registers

01:07:18.600 to me,

01:07:19.880 because for

01:07:20.340 some reason

01:07:20.900 I just

01:07:21.300 don't think

01:07:23.200 he's being

01:07:23.600 taken seriously

01:07:24.520 by the rest

01:07:25.340 of the country.

01:07:25.880 country.

01:07:26.920 Now,

01:07:27.340 on one

01:07:28.320 hand,

01:07:28.680 he's

01:07:28.880 completely

01:07:29.300 solid.

01:07:31.060 You know,

01:07:31.260 he might

01:07:31.740 like Ukraine 0.92

01:07:32.400 too much.

01:07:33.560 I don't

01:07:33.880 think you

01:07:34.240 could put

01:07:34.620 someone who

01:07:35.140 wants Ukraine 0.88

01:07:36.220 to be

01:07:37.900 funded on

01:07:38.800 the ticket

01:07:39.220 with Trump,

01:07:39.900 right?

01:07:40.860 Wouldn't it

01:07:41.320 be impossible

01:07:41.920 to put a

01:07:42.780 real pro,

01:07:44.940 let's keep

01:07:45.440 beating Russia 0.95

01:07:46.300 person as

01:07:47.640 vice president

01:07:48.240 for Trump?

01:07:49.420 So I

01:07:49.880 think Tim

01:07:50.340 Scott is

01:07:52.140 taking him

01:07:53.220 out of the

01:07:53.540 possibility as a

01:07:54.380 vice president

01:07:54.980 pick.

01:07:56.200 Would anybody

01:07:56.760 agree with

01:07:57.180 that?

01:07:58.000 Do you

01:07:58.260 think he's

01:07:58.880 no longer

01:07:59.580 a possibility

01:08:00.260 for vice

01:08:00.780 president

01:08:01.100 because of

01:08:01.560 the Ukraine

01:08:01.960 thing?

01:08:04.780 I think

01:08:05.680 that's too

01:08:06.420 far.

01:08:07.160 Now,

01:08:07.340 I think

01:08:07.620 Vivek still

01:08:08.800 has policies

01:08:09.860 that would

01:08:11.600 at least

01:08:12.060 fold into

01:08:13.020 Trump,

01:08:14.040 because it's

01:08:14.580 easier to

01:08:15.160 moderate your

01:08:15.900 opinion than

01:08:16.780 it is to

01:08:17.220 flip it.

01:08:18.820 So Vivek

01:08:19.560 might have to

01:08:20.100 just tweak

01:08:21.140 a little bit

01:08:21.820 and then he

01:08:22.440 fits right in.

01:08:23.680 I'm not sure

01:08:24.460 he would even

01:08:24.940 want the job.

01:08:25.860 He says no,

01:08:26.620 he doesn't

01:08:26.980 want it,

01:08:27.920 which is the

01:08:28.460 right thing to

01:08:28.900 say at this

01:08:29.320 point.

01:08:30.320 But yeah,

01:08:31.880 I don't see

01:08:32.380 Tim Scott

01:08:32.940 having a

01:08:33.920 future in the

01:08:35.560 Trump administration

01:08:36.500 that way.

01:08:37.640 Maybe some

01:08:38.100 other job.

01:08:40.960 All right.

01:08:42.540 That's all for

01:08:43.220 now.

01:08:44.460 I'll talk to

01:08:45.180 you later.

01:08:46.360 .

01:08:46.700 .

01:08:48.360 .

01:09:01.120 .

01:09:01.380 .

01:09:01.920 .

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 28, 2023

Episode 2245 Scott Adams： Debate Opinions, Where I Can Seek Asylum, Lots Of Coffee And Whatnot

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