Episode 788 Scott Adams： The Whitest Democrats Running For President, Ukraine Confusion
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Summary
Flynn withdraws his plea deal, and now the government wants to charge him with a crime. Does this mean the president will pardon him? Or will he fight it the old-fashioned way, in court? And what about the debates?
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Number one, Michael Schellenberger will be on C-SPAN testifying very soon, any minute now,
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to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
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And he'll be talking about the, quote, green nuclear deal.
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So, in other words, our Congress and the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology,
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which I imagine is exactly the right place, will be hearing a positive message about the
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So, they'll be hearing it from the right guy at the right time and the right place.
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Now, will that message break through and change anything?
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But it's definitely the right person talking to the right people.
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So, apparently, there's some disagreement on whether General Flynn did everything he was
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supposed to do and whether the government did everything they promised to do, which is
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But, apparently, now they're talking about putting him in jail because they don't think
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Suddenly, it's starting to make sense why he hasn't already been pardoned.
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Because I thought the end of the year would be sort of a perfect time to pardon Flynn.
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It's entirely possible that General Flynn is going to win this thing flat.
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And, you know, I say this a lot, but if you ever get in a dispute that becomes sort of
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a chess match, which is what this legal proceedings against Flynn are kind of a chess match, the
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last person you want to be in on a sort of a strategy chess match, the last person you
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want to compete against is a general, literally somebody who learned how to do stuff like
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In other words, somebody who knows how to play a chess game.
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So, it could be that Flynn is trying to win it outright and get just cleared in the normal
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way, because if he got pardoned, or whatever the word is, if you haven't been convicted,
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it would always look like he was guilty, wouldn't it?
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It would always look a little like he was guilty if the president had to bail him out.
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But it looks like he's going to fight it the old-fashioned way.
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And I think the president, probably not directly, but I think because it seems likely the president
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would pardon him if things went the wrong way, it changes his risk assessment.
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If you thought you had no help and no hope of any help from the outside, you might play it a little
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cautiously, say, well, I don't want to go to jail, but I'd better take this six months because it's better
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I've got, let's say, a one-in-three chance of winning it outright.
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But if I don't, I'm no worse off because I've always got the pardon option.
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And I'm assuming, I'm making a gigantic assumption here, that the pardon is in the bag, which I
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think it is because I think the public that supports the president seems pretty firmly on
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Did anybody, is anybody enough of a masochist that you watch the debates?
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I mean, actually blacked out and fell asleep about halfway through the debates.
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So I had to catch up with them by looking at the coverage.
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Now, I think looking at the coverage of the debates is sort of everything you need to do
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because any impact that the debates are going to have are going to be because of those few moments that
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percolated up and the press decided that those moments are the ones that are going to emphasize.
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So you can just look at the press coverage and you know what matters, because if the press doesn't report on a particular answer, well, it kind of didn't matter because not many of the public are watching the debates, but a lot of them might watch the reaction to the debates.
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Van Jones said, quote, there was nothing I saw tonight that would be able to take Donald Trump out.
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There wasn't one person on the stage that Van Jones thinks would not be absolutely obliterated by Trump.
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And then he said, Van Jones said, none of them are prepared for, quote, what Donald Trump will do to us.
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I love the fact, first of all, I'm a big fan of Van Jones.
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So you may disagree because he's a Democrat and you don't like that.
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Now, the most interesting thing about hearing Van Jones say that nobody on the stage looked ready for running for president
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is that if Van Jones were running, he'd be the top guy.
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If Van Jones had been part of this mix and he were on stage, wouldn't he be the nominee?
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I mean, seriously, is there anybody on the stage who could last against Van Jones?
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Now, I don't think he's shown any interest in being president, but he's stronger as a candidate than every one of those people,
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in part because he's not a partisan, meaning that, well, he clearly prefers Democrats and says that directly,
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but he's willing to look at issues on both the pro and the con side, which you don't see that often.
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So he would absolutely be the front runner if he were running.
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But it looks like the Democrats have set themselves an impossible task.
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So here are the expectations from the Democrats' own supporters.
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So in order to win, the Democratic candidate who wins has to do two things at the same time.
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Be really nice to the other candidates because they're the nice party and they've made a big deal about being civil and nice to each other.
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So whoever wins has to be civil and nice to the other Democrats.
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At the same time, that person is tearing the other ones apart.
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In other words, to show enough toughness to be qualified to run against Trump, you're going to have to show your toughness.
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But the only way you can do it at this stage is by showing it on other Democrats.
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Well, it's an impossible that they can both happen at the same time.
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So you see the Democrats setting themselves up with a no-win situation.
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We have to be kind and also rip apart our other people in our party.
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There's actually no space for them to do the thing they know they have to do.
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I mean, maybe there was some Republican who said, well, we should be nicer to each other.
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But did anybody really try to talk Trump out of being Trump?
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I mean, a lot of people said it was a bad idea to be so caustic and stuff.
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But I feel as though the Republicans let their candidates be their candidates.
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And the Democrats are just absolutely killing themselves.
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You know, the circular firing squad reference seems to fit.
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Now, I turned on the debates primarily to watch – I felt like I was watching the Democrats doing everything they could to lose the black vote.
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All I could see was a whole bunch of white faces losing the black vote in real time.
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Because if you're flipping through the station, let's say you haven't paid too much attention.
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You know, you're one of those voters who – you'll get serious closer to election day, but right now you're just letting the noise play out.
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You're flipping through the channels and you come to the debates.
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You say, oh, I haven't been paying too much attention.
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Let's see who's running for a candidate to be our next president.
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White person, white person, white person, white person, white person, white person.
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I don't see how the Democrats can possibly compete with not a single minority face on there.
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Well, you could say that – actually, women are no longer a minority since the last woman who ran got most of the popular vote.
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And as Elizabeth Warren said, the two women on the stage are the only ones who have won every one of their elections, which was a great line, by the way.
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And while the Democrats are up there losing the black vote by being as white as they can possibly be and standing in the same place,
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while being hypocrites because where's your diversity?
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Trump said this, quote, in his speech last night,
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Republicans are fighting for citizens from every background and from every race, religion, color, and creed.
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We are a movement for all Americans who believe in fairness and justice, equality and dignity, opportunity and safety.
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We are a big tent and a big party with big ideas for the future.
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So President Trump is saying directly and forcefully that the Republican Party is the place for everyone.
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Now, I've said this before, but it's one of those things that gets smarter over time.
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If you just wait for this, it'll just keep getting smarter.
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When I first said it, it sounded kind of stupid, but just watch.
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It's going to morph over time from, well, that's stupid, Scott.
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To, well, that's starting to make a little bit of sense now.
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Now, wait for six months from now when people say, that makes total sense now.
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The most natural fit for black voters is the Republican Party.
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And black people are only one of the identities.
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So they're scrambling and fighting for a place at the table in their own party.
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Who has to fight for a place at the party, a place at the table in their own party?
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Why are black people fighting for representation in their own party?
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Meanwhile, Republicans have one overriding characteristic, which I say all the time,
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And if you can find an exception to this, good luck.
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That if you're a typical Republican, you know, there are always weird exceptions to things,
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but if you're a typical Republican, are you okay with anyone who is a legal citizen,
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who respects the Constitution, who respects the Constitution, and follows the law, A+.
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If that person also is religious, a Christian, for example, well, extra credit for Republicans.
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If you're black, and you only have to do those things to be completely accepted, completely,
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no, there's absolutely no, there's no wiggle room there.
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The Republican view is if you follow the Constitution, follow the laws, great, you're A+.
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So if you want to be respected for who you are, instead of who you look like, Republicans are the best game.
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Because if you hang around with Democrats, you know that they are going to judge you by strangers.
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Democrats are going to judge you by other black people who are not you,
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because they've decided you're a group, you're an identity.
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There's no Republican who says you can't rise to any level you want.
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A Republican is going to, you know, help you with advice and mentoring.
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If you want to get ahead, make some Republican friends.
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They're the ones who are going to say, hey, try this, do this.
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If you want to get ahead, make a Republican friend.
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That's one of the best advices you'll ever see.
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You know, good luck finding better advice than that.
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So over time, in six months, you're going to hear people saying, wait a minute.
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Isn't it the most natural place for black voters to be in the Republican Party where everybody can be exactly equal?
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Because if you're a citizen and you're following the Constitution, you're exactly equal.
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That's exactly equal, especially, you know, if you're a Bible-loving Republican, extra equal.
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You're going to have to figure out if your little group of Democrats is liked or respected as much as the other little group of Democrats.
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That's a whole different game, and I don't know how you win that one.
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So the natural place for the black voters, as Candace Owen has been telling people for three years now, is the Republican Party.
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I'm just saying that's where the fit makes sense to me.
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And also you would have the most leverage in the Republican Party because there are fewer members, there are fewer black people in the Republican Party.
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And anybody who's got a good idea, then again, is compatible with Republicans and the Constitution and everything.
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You have a much better chance of being a notable, important voice in the Republican Party if you're black, just because of scarcity.
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Apparently, Elizabeth Warren, I couldn't tell if she refused to shake Bertie's hand at the end or it was just an awkward moment where when Bertie put out his hand to shake hands, she was still several steps away.
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And I think it just seemed awkward to maybe walk with her hand out.
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So it's not entirely clear to me that she made a decision to not shake hands with him.
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It might have been an oversight, just an awkward situation.
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So to the public, all that matters is it looked like it.
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And I think that's how people will interpret it.
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Now, as by now most of you know, that the weirdest thing happened when Bernie was asked about his statement that a woman couldn't win the presidency, which, of course, he never said.
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So he was asked by, let's see, Abby Phillips, I think one.
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And Bernie said, well, as a matter of fact, I didn't say it.
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And Bernie is very credible, love him or hate him.
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I don't even count it as a possibility because he has earned that.
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Sanders has earned the credibility which I am assigning to him in my mind, you know, my own personal view.
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And Warren has absolutely not earned our trust on this disagreement.
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So after Bernie says, well, as a matter of fact, I didn't say it, then she asked, are you unequivocally denying it happened?
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And then Phillips ignores the fact that he's categorically denied it happened.
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And she goes to Warren, quote, what did you think when Senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?
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After the guy who was in the room, 50% of all the people who were in the room just told her it didn't happen.
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And he's far more credible than Warren is on this question.
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Now, let me tell you what almost certainly did happen.
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So if CNN is trying to act as though they're not actively trying to kill Sanders this time, too, they're not doing a good job of acting because it's sort of looking like CNN doesn't want Sanders to be president.
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They're the ones who they reported that he said this about women.
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And then the way this question was asked, like, he's just a liar, which is not the case, I'm sure.
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So we have this weird situation that whoever wins the nomination is going to have a whole bunch of other angry Democrats.
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Will they just say, well, similar policies will just move to Warren after Warren said what she said about Bernie?
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And most of them, if not all of them, believe it's not true.
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I don't know if Bernie supporters will leave the most credible, whether you like his policies or not, a separate question, but as a human being, as a politician, he's the most authentic, credible person the Democrats have.
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If you support that, authentic and credible, how do you switch parties, or not switch parties, but switch candidates to Warren if she won the nomination?
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I think Trump picks up a lot of those votes, just like last time.
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And no matter which way it goes, I think somebody's going to be angry at whoever.
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Oh, so here's what I think happened with that Sanders-Warren conversation.
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And see if this doesn't sound like your experience all the time.
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Imagine instead of Warren and Sanders, it's a married couple.
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Imagine that instead of being politicians, Warren and Sanders are just a married couple.
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And then when they talk about it later, they have two versions.
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And Elizabeth Warren says, you did say a woman can't be president.
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Warren and Sanders were talking because Warren was, I believe, fact-checking on this,
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I think Warren was telling Bernie she was going to run against him or thinking about it or probably,
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What was Bernie going to say to Elizabeth Warren when he found out that she was going to run
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Well, if he's smart, which he is, if he's persuasive, which apparently he is,
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he would say something that didn't sound like women can't win,
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So it does seem to me that what Bernie was trying to do was talk her out of running.
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If you're trying to talk somebody out of running against Trump and the person you're talking to is a woman,
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one of the good ways to do it is to say, you know,
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you're going to be drawing attacks for your gender that I would not be drawing.
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So you're going to have a harder time because Bernie believes
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that being a woman will attract more kinds of heat that Bernie would not attract,
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which would be sort of suggesting indirectly that maybe she couldn't win.
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It's only a statement that she has an extra burden because she's running against Trump,
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and it might not be an extra burden if it were somebody else.
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As a woman, you've got extra, you know, extra obstacles.
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What would be the way the wife, and this analogy, Elizabeth Warren,
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how would she characterize that same conversation?
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Well, if she's like everybody else in the world, she'd say,
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my husband just said I can't win because I'm a woman.
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He would have been talking about the extra obstacle,
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which is completely different from woman can't win.
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As Bernie rightly says, you know, Hillary got three million more votes.
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He's been saying for 30 years or 40 years that a woman could be president.
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It's the most inconsistent thing anybody could ever say.
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There's no way in the world he said that to somebody who could tell somebody else.
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But like every other personal conversation in the world,
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and the other person doesn't like that you're saying there's a problem with something,
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They will characterize it as an absurd absolute.
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The absurd absolute is where you take somebody's assessment of the risks.
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And then you turn it illegitimately into, he says it can't happen.
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It happens in all of your personal conversations.
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It's the most common misinterpretation that a probable gets turned into a can't.
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Now let's talk about the first question that I think Wolf Blitzer asked was why they thought they could be commander in chief.
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And I got to tell you, that was the weakest bunch of potential commanders in chief I've ever seen.
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So wrong that even I could have done it better.
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Honestly, with no practice, I could have gotten on that debate stage and answered that question better.
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And I'm saying that because many of you could have done better.
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Now, of course, they're talking to their base because it's the primary, so they're not trying to win the general.
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But if you say, why are you qualified to be commander in chief?
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What did they just tell every foreign country that might want to get a little adventurous?
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They basically just said, if Russia takes over Ukraine, that they're going to negotiate with them.
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But my point is, my point is not even whether it's smart to be thinking negotiate first.
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But the way they presented it to the world is as surrenderers in chief.
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It seemed like they were competing to see who would be the least threatening to the people we want to threaten.
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Because they believe that President Trump would launch the missiles?
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I mean, to me, it looks like President Trump's continuous, credible threat of violence looks like it makes a difference to me.
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How would Iran be acting if the only thing they had to worry about is that the commander-in-chief of the United States would negotiate a little bit harder?
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You better stop funding those proxies or watch me negotiate you.
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I'm not even going to cyber attack because that's like a weapon too.
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But I will negotiate you like a surrenderer-in-chief negotiates.
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When you see them, they all look weak, particularly for a job which one of the greatest assets of the job that you could bring to the job was the impression of strength.
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Trump brought to the job the impression of strength.
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They're all offering to bring the impression of weakness.
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You're running for president to be the commander-in-chief and you're telling the world I'd like to bring weakness to the job?
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I mean, not with those words, but when you say, you know, negotiate, negotiate, don't want to use that military, it just sounds like you're going to let anybody do anything they want.
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So even Democrats are angry about why the Democrats are not fighting with each other, but of course they can't.
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Now, I didn't see the whole debate, but it seemed to me I'm having trouble understanding why climate change wasn't pretty much the only thing they wanted to talk about.
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Because it seems to me that climate change, if it's the big problem that they claim, it feels like that should have been the central point of all of their presentations.
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They should have, you know, worked it back to that.
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And they all mentioned it, but it just seemed weak because I, it just felt like a tack on or I have to throw this in because it sounds good.
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I'm not sure I believed any of them were serious about it.
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None of them looked, yeah, Steyer, Steyer did make, as somebody said in the comments, Steyer did make climate change more of a central thing.
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But since Steyer himself is not too important to the race at this point, he's sort of a sideshow.
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It just felt like it wasn't getting the level of importance that their own team believes it should have.
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When Biden was asked about his qualifications for commander-in-chief, he was asked to defend his record on Iraq, which he says, to his credit, was a mistake.
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So the front runner for the Democrats is running for, to be commander-in-chief, and he's claiming that the most important decision he's ever made that was in that realm of, you know, foreign defense things, he got wrong.
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And that's the only thing I remember about his answer, because there were other things he was sort of on the team, right?
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There were other situations where Obama did something and Biden was just sort of, he's on the team.
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So he took credit for some things which he wasn't too directly involved in.
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If you're familiar with the Dilbert comic strip, Wally is the lazy, the lazy one in the office.
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And one of his tricks is he always joins a project that is going to succeed, whether he does good work or not.
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And then he can always get credit for being on the project.
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So I think Biden is pursuing the Wally approach.
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Well, I was on the, I was on the Obama team when something good happened.
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When he, when he killed Osama bin Laden, even though I told him not to.
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So the two most famous things, the famous things were the war in Iraq that he says he got wrong and telling Obama not to try to kill bin Laden that day until he had more information.
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And I'm thinking, those are the only things I remember.
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I don't remember, I don't remember anything else about Joe Biden's record.
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Quick, mention all of his accomplishments in that area.
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I can't think of any, but I can think of two really big high profile things.
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They, one he admits he got wrong and the other one he just got wrong.
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Uh, Democrat Scott, somebody who talked about the, uh, the Democrats being in a quote pitiful crouch,
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which was a great, uh, a great, uh, play on words.
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Um, he's one of the regular Democrat pundits on CNN anyway.
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And somebody is, um, prompting me in the comments.
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A lot of the Democrats, I believe have said that the, uh, that the Iran nuclear deal was working.
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What does it mean that the Iran nuclear deal was working?
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Wasn't Iran killing Americans and, you know, funding proxies to do terror attacks?
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What about the fact that after the Iran nuclear deal timed out, they would have done all the
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research and been, been ready to just become a nuclear force.
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And there were only how many years left and they have a long, long timeframe.
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If you don't mention the fact that Iran was definitely going to get a nuclear weapon in
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a few years, you're not really qualified for commander in chief.
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It would be one thing to say the Iran nuclear deal would keep them from getting a nuclear bomb
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That might actually be a pretty, um, defensible statement, but to say, but to say that the deal
00:36:15.320
prevents them from getting a nuclear weapon is exactly wrong.
00:36:19.780
It guarantees them a nuclear weapon after the end of the deal.
00:36:23.220
It guarantees it because they'll have all this time to do research, which they're allowed
00:36:34.660
Um, so let's talk about, uh, uh, the, the bottom line on the debates is that it didn't
00:36:45.500
Um, I thought Buttigieg has by far the most clever and, uh, I can say this because Buttigieg
00:36:54.680
is, is a white male, so I can call him articulate.
00:36:59.000
If you don't know this, you don't want to use the word articulate about anybody who's
00:37:07.680
You're allowed to say it in that case, but it's, it becomes like a backhanded insult.
00:37:11.760
If you say, you know, if you said a black candidate was articulate, it would be considered
00:37:16.360
an insult because, well, why are you even bringing it up?
00:37:20.180
You know, why do you even have to mention that unless you think it's some kind of weird
00:37:23.220
Um, but that said, Pete Buttigieg is articulate as heck and man, can that guy put a sentence
00:37:36.540
I think also what we're seeing is the benefit of youth.
00:37:40.440
When you see Pete Buttigieg handle a question, you're seeing somebody operating at, um, I would
00:37:49.960
I mean, yeah, he could even get better and smarter and more experienced, but man, is he
00:37:56.800
The, the, the complexity and the level of his answers was actually really impressive.
00:38:10.240
He was the smartest, most articulate, complicated speaker.
00:38:22.420
You know, as a mayor, he would have been better as a city manager.
00:38:28.920
Um, I think Buttigieg is looking like a really good senator.
00:38:32.880
If Buttigieg, um, let's say he doesn't make it to the nomination, but someday decides to
00:38:39.560
run for the Senate, he, he looks like exactly the kind of guy you want as a senator, you know,
00:38:46.560
assuming that you're a Democrat, because I like the guy who's really in the details, can
00:38:54.900
Clearly, he's going to understand things at deeper levels, but man, you see him standing
00:38:59.860
next to Trump and Trump is going to make him look like a professor duty.
00:39:06.000
Um, he's going to, he's going to look like this wonky professor who can't communicate
00:39:15.120
Pete Buttigieg did a great job of communicating with people who watch democratic debates because
00:39:22.720
they're probably above average and, you know, intelligence and knowledge about things.
00:39:27.640
And so it was probably pretty impressive if you're a CNN watcher of debates, but if you're
00:39:33.780
just a voter, I don't think you want somebody that smart, if you know what I mean.
00:39:43.920
They want you to be smart in a streetwise way, smart in a political way, smart in a leader
00:39:49.840
way, but they don't really want you that smart.
00:39:54.260
That smart is off-putting because people don't relate to it at all.
00:40:01.540
I thought Klobuchar, there's something about the way she talks that sounds weak.
00:40:15.080
So what I'm going to say now has nothing to do with her gender at all.
00:40:21.120
But there's something when she's, she sounds, she talks with some kind of urgency that makes
00:40:31.100
There's something about the confidence of her voice that's missing, which again would make
00:40:37.640
you're a great senator, but president, you just need that little bit of extra gravitas,
00:40:57.140
Now, by the way, I think Klobuchar is a really strong candidate.
00:41:16.960
You know, experience-wise and skill-wise, she got this far.
00:41:22.140
And I would say that my opinion of her has gone up every time I see her because she's
00:41:32.180
But the voters are not, for whatever reason, the voters in the Democratic Party are not
00:41:43.260
So I think she lacks the inspirational element.
00:41:53.620
And Biden, I thought Biden, it seemed like he was barely avoiding a gaffe.
00:42:02.960
The entire time he was talking, it felt like an old man driving without his glasses.
00:42:29.200
It felt like he was right on the edge of gaffing because he would stop and he'd correct what
00:42:43.780
You know, he spoke in generality, so there wasn't much there to grab onto.
00:42:55.960
So there's new evidence, new evidence and documents and texts and messages and stuff
00:43:06.280
And if you haven't been following it, let me explain the new evidence.
00:43:12.080
And I'll try to give this in the simplest way because it's a complicated story.
00:43:20.220
Marie Yovanovitch, Yudi Giuliani, Robert Hyde, President Zelensky, Lev Parnes, Joe and Hunter
00:43:26.160
Biden, General Yuri Lutsenko, and Victoria Tenzing.
00:43:37.580
Now, there's some details to the story, but here's the rule.
00:43:43.820
If there are more than three people in the story, it doesn't matter.
00:43:54.020
But I used to be in a relationship in which I had a girlfriend who would tell stories that
00:44:03.940
And I realized that when you got to the fourth character in the story, I couldn't follow it
00:44:11.860
So her stories were all, okay, so then, you know, Bob was over there and he was with Janice
00:44:17.480
and Janice's brother came in and he was saying that her sister, and I'd be, well, hold on,
00:44:31.100
If you can get that down to three, I'm going to follow along.
00:44:37.240
But here they have a one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
00:44:41.680
At minimum, it's an eight-character story, and that's not even counting the president.
00:44:50.320
How many people in the public are going to follow a story about Ukraine on something that
00:44:57.920
feels like old news that involves eight characters operating in a way that corresponds to and
00:45:06.560
connects to a story with 10 more players about something with impeachment and Ukraine and
00:45:13.580
something about the letter, and it was the perfect letter, but maybe it wasn't perfect.
00:45:18.300
And who did Trump talk to, and what were the dates of that, and who exactly has information
00:45:23.240
about the stuff that was, and does it even matter?
00:45:28.240
The most complicated story you've ever seen, and watching CNN wrestle with this is hilarious
00:45:40.620
I mean, you could write it down in an accurate way, which all the details are there, but nobody's
00:45:47.060
going to understand it if they bother to read it.
00:45:55.060
It's all starting to conflate into the same stuff.
00:46:05.260
Find an article about these new shocking bombshell revelations that involve Lev Parnas, some kind
00:46:14.280
of a loose associate of Rudy Giuliani with this Ukraine stuff.
00:46:20.720
And then see how far you have to read into the article before you can find what the point
00:46:29.880
So I read a very long article on CNN.com, and I was trying to figure out, okay, it's a bombshell,
00:46:39.540
And I kept reading and reading, looking for the part where they say, and here's the important
00:46:51.320
And I kept reading and reading, and then I ran on a text, and I don't know what it was.
00:47:01.420
I keep reading stories and seeing stories, and I don't even know.
00:47:11.780
I tried to understand the story, and I couldn't.
00:47:21.380
Here's the funniest comment from Representative Val Demings, a Florida Democrat in the House
00:47:29.060
And this is what she told CNN when asked about the Parnas documents, which is what I've been
00:47:36.200
She said, quote, I think it's something we can't ignore.
00:47:44.380
This is something you can really, you can really ignore.
00:47:50.440
So Bella is out, too, says, I'm very disingenuous, and I'm not that stupid.
00:48:11.560
YouTube continues to demonetize me for no reason, and so I do a commercial a day, which
00:48:18.080
So my content is also mirrored on Bitshoot, B-I-T-C-H-U-T-E, and Rockfin.
00:48:26.480
You have to be a subscriber to see it on Rockfin, R-O-K-F-I-N.
00:48:31.040
If you Google either Bitshoot or Rockfin, you'll find their sites, and just Google me to find
00:48:36.300
And let me tell you that my YouTube channel is this content.
00:48:45.620
Do you think there's anything about this content that an advertiser should be afraid of compared
00:48:51.780
to other content where they swear and they do just about everything?
00:48:57.640
So there's somebody at YouTube who is demonetizing me.
00:49:01.620
It's probably one individual whose actual job it is, who sees my content and says, ha, ha,
00:49:12.380
I'm watching this story about the law enforcement and Bill Barr wants Apple to help them break
00:49:19.000
into an Apple device that this terrorist had, and Apple either can't or won't, or there's
00:49:26.980
some disagreement about whether they're helping or not.
00:49:31.700
They probably are helping, but there's nothing they can do.
00:49:37.600
And I'm kind of torn on this, because on one hand, I do want law enforcement to be able
00:49:49.200
On the other hand, I kind of like the fact that nobody can get into my phone unless they
00:50:01.720
But I definitely respect Apple for having privacy on their phone.
00:50:09.720
That's a completely supportable position, even if that privacy is working against the
00:50:21.300
It's about Project Veritas has a video in which a Bernie, one of Bernie's, what would
00:50:35.100
We're saying that if Bernie doesn't win, Wisconsin would burn and that the police would
00:50:48.940
Because if that guy's still on the campaign, I think Bernie's going to have some questions
00:51:00.920
Anyway, if he's not fired by the end of the day, I think you have to worry about Bernie.
00:51:09.280
A lot of people think that Bernie, at his current age, he's not too old to be president.
00:51:16.600
Would you want a president who is too old to drive?
00:51:25.640
I just saw a video of him pulling out of his driveway.
00:51:29.280
Anyway, and it seems to me, somebody's saying that the name of the Bernie campaign guy was
00:51:40.100
But it seems to me that if you think a guy or a woman would not be qualified to drive an
00:51:48.540
automobile because they're too old, and I'd be real worried about getting in the car with
00:51:53.840
I mean, seriously, if Bernie is driving, do you want to be in the passenger seat?
00:52:04.120
And if you don't, well, maybe you should find some meaning in that.
00:52:10.200
One of Rupert Murdoch's sons is mad at Fox News, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's parent
00:52:23.020
company, because Fox News is blaming, or at least some of the pundits are, not the news
00:52:29.540
people, but some of the pundits or opinion people on Fox News are blaming the fires that
00:52:38.060
are just devastating Australia, blaming it on arson instead of climate change, to which
00:52:50.720
If there are two reasons for a thing, and you're only willing to say there's one reason for a
00:52:59.640
If you're saying that the problem with Australia is only arson, or you're saying that it's only
00:53:11.740
Wouldn't that be the more likely thing, that it's climate change that you wouldn't have to
00:53:19.620
If you didn't have 200 arsons, would you care that there was a climate change?
00:53:27.300
I mean, and if it was, it would be limited compared to 200 fires.
00:53:31.780
So the same way I criticized Hillary Clinton for saying a new reason why she lost every
00:53:43.340
A thousand things had to happen just the way they happened for the result to be just what
00:53:48.680
So this whole climate change versus fire thing is just dumb people arguing with each other.
00:53:56.480
If you can't say it might be both, you don't belong in a public conversation about it.
00:54:01.720
Now, I would respect people who say there is no climate change element at all, but I think
00:54:11.200
you have to say that if there is some climate change, you need both the climate change and the
00:54:20.160
If you take any one of those away, you might have a different outcome, although the climate
00:54:28.340
I saw a very convincing graphic that showed that, showing the earth warming.
00:54:35.720
And I would say at this point that the earth is warming probably is as close to a fact as
00:54:49.620
We don't know how much, you know, that, that part's a little harder, but I think that's
00:54:55.260
The part, the only part that I think deserves serious questioning is the economic projections
00:55:06.320
And if I had to predict, if there were any kind of a betting market, I would say this.
00:55:15.220
If there were a betting market, I would bet that we'll be fine and that fewer people will
00:55:21.380
die in the future from major disasters than in the past, because that's the way it's always
00:55:27.880
So I don't think there's going to be an earth killing event, but it's worth worrying
00:55:48.500
If global, if global warming changes the weather patterns, you would expect some places to get
00:55:55.000
warmer, some places to get cooler, some places to rain more than the usual, some places to
00:56:03.960
It's not some general continuous warming that affects everybody the same way.
00:56:09.300
You're talking about disruptions, which make everything different than it was.
00:56:14.520
And if you've built a society around a certain temperature and climate and it changes, well,
00:56:19.920
your society is going to have to adjust to that.
00:56:31.780
Yeah, I've said before, and I'll say again, the worst take on climate change is that it's
00:56:38.940
Now, even if you're right, it's the worst take, because it assumes that the scientists haven't
00:56:52.000
That's like right on the, that's in the top five of things you look into if you're a climate
00:56:56.880
scientist, because the sun creates some warmth.
00:57:01.120
So everybody who says the climate scientists forgot to look at the sun or they got it wrong,
00:57:08.300
Even if you're right, you could actually accidentally be right about that.
00:57:12.880
And amazingly, all the scientists got the sun wrong or they forgot to look at it.
00:57:17.780
I mean, it's possible, but it's not a good take.
00:57:40.340
But it's also true that when CO2 was high, a number of other variables, including the
00:57:47.460
So looking at what CO2 was in the past is irrelevant if you go into the far past, because there
00:57:56.580
were too many other things different about the earth.
00:58:07.240
Sorry, Scott, the IPCC is adding the sun to the next report.
00:58:17.700
I'm saying that the scientists have looked at the sun, and that's not what they consider
00:58:27.500
So if it's included in the IPCC report, it won't be included as, oh, we found out it's
00:58:44.760
In early Earth life, when CO2 was much higher, the brightness and the warmth of the sun was
00:58:56.980
That is one of the big variables that was different in the past.
00:59:05.640
Somebody says, why are scientists automatically beyond reproach?
00:59:10.500
Now, the Australia thing is confusing me because even if it's climate change, why are they blaming
00:59:27.780
The Australians seem to be blaming their own government for climate change.
00:59:32.660
What is the total percentage of climate change that Australia is responsible for?
00:59:43.040
There's nothing that Australia can do by itself that would make any difference to climate
00:59:50.020
So I don't even understand what the protesters are complaining about.
00:59:56.780
Never hear them talk about solar cycles because it's not too relevant, apparently.
01:00:09.340
It would take a lot to convert me, somebody says.
01:00:16.060
Somebody's saying that the CO2, one of the bad informations on the internet you'll find
01:00:22.440
is that CO2 follows temperatures instead of the other way around.
01:00:27.980
Or no, you'll see on the internet, the skeptics will say, no, the warmth happens first and then
01:00:40.400
If you don't know that's been debunked, just Google it and you'll see the debunking.
01:01:05.540
Well, there are experts saying it was once higher.
01:01:23.040
I just told you, if you Google it, that has been debunked.
01:01:27.480
So it's one of the common things that skeptics say, but it's debunked.
01:01:32.000
You know, the scientists have looked at it and they know that that's just not the case.
01:01:38.040
So, and I remember I've read the debunking and it has something to do with the way the
01:01:50.600
There was cooling during the Industrial Revolution.
01:02:00.020
So basically, everything that you believe is a debunking scientific fact has been debunked
01:02:12.680
If you think that you have one that has not been debunked, just Google it.
01:02:18.460
Google what you think is true that hasn't been debunked along with the word debunked.
01:02:30.840
Now, I want to say carefully that none of this means that science is right because often there
01:02:42.960
I'm just saying that the people who know how to debunk this stuff have debunked all of
01:02:50.320
If you haven't seen the debunk, you shouldn't be believing the people who make these claims.