Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 805 Scott Adams： The #Unpeachment, Coronavirus, Bernie Surging, Our New Dictator

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, come on in. It's good to see you. I'm so glad you could make it this morning.

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00:00:27.580 We're going to have some fun today. Now, for those of you who are new to this, let me give you a little preview.

00:00:39.120 We're going to talk about fun stuff first, and then toward the end, I'm going to give you one of the deepest criticisms of this president's persuasion skills you've ever seen from me.

00:00:52.340 So you're going to see the biggest criticism, I think, probably the biggest criticism I've ever made, of President Trump's persuasion skills, specifically.

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00:01:31.200 You know, in all this talk about impeachment, I think we tend to look at the negative too much.

00:01:48.860 Let us just take a moment to look at the positive side of the impeachment process that we've just been watching and continue to watch.

00:01:57.780 Here's the positive side.

00:01:59.220 If you didn't have this impeachment, the only time you could enjoy Trump winning is on election days.

00:02:08.420 So Trump actually found a way to win in between elections.

00:02:13.560 Not bad.

00:02:14.960 After he wins this next election, and maybe even before that, I think he'll have a few more opportunities to win impeachments.

00:02:22.180 All the smart people are saying that they're just going to keep on going because they don't know what else to do.

00:02:29.400 They're sort of running out of attacks, wouldn't you say?

00:02:32.940 And let's give me, here's an update on one of the prediction filters I often talk about.

00:02:42.640 I told you to watch the impeachment process play out.

00:02:46.160 And one of the filters for prediction is that politics will go in the direction that would make the best movie script.

00:02:55.700 In other words, the thing that has the most mystery and twists and turns and intrigue and interest.

00:03:00.440 Now, that would have been probably calling witnesses.

00:03:05.300 But it's also entirely possible that the witnesses would have had absolutely nothing to add to the process, which would have been a boring movie.

00:03:12.940 But still, I thought that the movie filter predicted that we would get witnesses, and we did not.

00:03:19.220 So if you're keeping score, and this is a good thing to do, if you have a filter or predicting method, it's kind of useless.

00:03:28.400 Now, I'll go further.

00:03:29.640 It is useless unless you also track how well it does historically.

00:03:34.680 Because if you don't track it, you're going to forget when it doesn't work, and you're going to think it works more than it does.

00:03:40.700 So the movie filter did not predict the next step in the impeachment.

00:03:45.720 So just keep that in mind when you're keeping score.

00:03:47.560 Now, remember I told you that there was going to be this weird thing happening where the Democrats would simply misinterpret what's happening and then complain about the misinterpretation.

00:04:03.320 And that would be all we'd be watching, is them misreading what somebody said, misquoting somebody, putting words in somebody else's mouth,

00:04:13.840 and then criticizing the thing that they just literally hallucinated.

00:04:18.420 Here's one of the best examples you're ever going to see.

00:04:21.620 Now, sometimes you think to yourself, well, that's sort of a subjective thing, Scott, isn't it?

00:04:27.020 No, no.

00:04:28.600 It's not a subjective thing.

00:04:30.880 I'm going to give you an example from today.

00:04:33.060 It's fresh off the press.

00:04:35.420 You tell me if I'm being subjective, okay?

00:04:38.560 You're never going to see a better example of this.

00:04:40.860 So this is Chris Silliza, who writes for and appears on CNN, and he wrote in an opinion piece today, and it was about Marco Rubio.

00:04:51.820 And he was talking about Marco Rubio's what he would call, what Chris Silliza would call, sort of a twisted and knots explanation of why he voted the way he did to not have witnesses.

00:05:04.180 And so this is what Chris Silliza says, just picking up the part where he's mocking Rubio.

00:05:13.640 And Silliza says, and more broadly, how can anyone read, much less write?

00:05:18.560 All right, so Chris Silliza is saying, how can anybody else read this differently than I'm going to explain it?

00:05:26.320 I think you might.

00:05:28.060 But he's saying, how could you?

00:05:30.660 How could anybody read, or much less write, this sentence and think that it all makes sense?

00:05:36.980 All right, so Rubio said, and I quote,

00:05:39.600 just because actions meet a standard of impeachment does not mean it is in the best interest of the country to remove a president.

00:05:46.480 So Rubio is saying that there could be a situation where something technically meets the standard of impeachment,

00:05:54.300 but it's just not really good for the country.

00:05:56.960 That's a pretty simple concept, right?

00:05:59.380 Now, you can certainly say you should never do that.

00:06:02.900 That would be a reasonable thing to say.

00:06:05.100 You should say, I can't think of any examples where that would be true.

00:06:09.600 That would be a reasonable thing to say.

00:06:11.540 You could say, maybe, you know, maybe we should rethink that.

00:06:14.460 There are a lot of things you could say about that.

00:06:16.480 But here's what Chris Silliza says about it, right?

00:06:19.420 And you have to see Silliza's misstatement of it really close to the original to see what he's doing.

00:06:27.280 So I have to read the original again just so you see it in close proximity.

00:06:32.080 So what Marco Rubio did say was this.

00:06:35.180 Just because the actions meet a standard of impeachment does not mean it is in the best interest of the country to remove a president from office.

00:06:42.580 So Silliza's comment to this is, huh?

00:06:46.520 Question mark.

00:06:48.160 So remember what I told you about the word so?

00:06:52.080 The word so in this context almost always, very close to 100% of the time,

00:06:59.100 signals that what follows the word so is a complete misstatement of what somebody else said.

00:07:06.700 So let's see if this is a complete misstatement following the word so.

00:07:12.180 So, Trump has done things that meet the standard of impeachment.

00:07:17.420 No.

00:07:18.680 No, that wasn't in Rubio's statement.

00:07:21.520 Rubio said that it was a hypothetical.

00:07:25.300 Just because this happens doesn't mean you have to do this.

00:07:27.820 But I do think that was a reasonable inference.

00:07:31.780 So, so far, I would say Silliza is making an inference that isn't in the sentence,

00:07:37.720 but it's not unreasonable.

00:07:39.500 It's pretty reasonable.

00:07:40.400 So, so far, okay.

00:07:41.760 All right.

00:07:42.600 Good inference.

00:07:44.620 But, and this is what Silliza is putting into Rubio's mouth, 0.99

00:07:50.340 but impeaching him for committing impeachable acts would be bad for our partisan divide.

00:07:58.260 Am I reading that right?

00:08:00.660 No, Chris, you're not reading that right.

00:08:04.240 There's nothing in Rubio's statement that said anything about healing our partisan divide.

00:08:10.740 It's not there.

00:08:12.480 It's absolutely hallucinated.

00:08:15.780 Let me read Rubio's sentence again, and then, this is amazing.

00:08:20.340 That anybody could do this in public and not be aware of what they're doing.

00:08:24.100 So, Rubio did say, just because actions meet a standard for impeachment

00:08:28.160 does not mean it is in the best interest of the country to remove a president.

00:08:33.640 Silliza interprets that as,

00:08:35.960 you're saying removing him for impeachable acts would be bad for our partisan divide?

00:08:46.300 Where is partisan divide in that sentence?

00:08:48.320 This is crazy stuff.

00:08:51.520 Anyway, so, so look for how often you see a misstatement after the word so, you'll be amazed.

00:08:57.720 I wrote about that in my book, Behind Me, The So Tell.

00:09:03.260 Where is it?

00:09:03.820 This one.

00:09:04.800 Win Bigley.

00:09:05.300 All right.

00:09:07.520 Now, of course, we're waiting till Wednesday for the actual vote that everybody knows what the vote is going to be.

00:09:14.980 So, you say to yourself, why are we waiting till Wednesday?

00:09:18.960 Now, the explanation given is that it gives time for all the senators to make a statement.

00:09:24.640 Is that why?

00:09:25.440 Can senators not make statements after votes?

00:09:30.960 What's the reasoning that says the senators have to make the statement before the vote?

00:09:35.620 They can't make a statement after a vote because nobody would pay attention?

00:09:39.920 It's sort of sketchy, isn't it?

00:09:41.400 Who exactly is explaining to the public why we're waiting for something when we know what's going to happen?

00:09:47.820 There's no mystery.

00:09:48.860 Everybody was already there.

00:09:50.640 Why didn't you just get it done?

00:09:51.820 Here's a rule that I'm going to reinforce as often as I need to.

00:09:58.440 When your government does something that you don't understand on its surface,

00:10:04.160 and they know you don't understand it on its surface because it's something you can't really understand,

00:10:10.600 and they don't explain it to you in a way that makes any sense at all,

00:10:15.860 or at least is good for the country,

00:10:18.360 it's something corrupt is happening.

00:10:20.860 All right.

00:10:21.000 So something corrupt is happening.

00:10:24.480 So I've seen in the comments that somebody's saying it's to get it on the record.

00:10:28.900 Yeah, I suppose that would get the speeches on the record.

00:10:32.640 That's pretty useful, right?

00:10:34.540 Because when I go back and read the record, oh, that's right.

00:10:38.040 I'm never going to read the record.

00:10:40.100 Who reads the record?

00:10:41.840 Why does it matter if a senator said something on the record or if they tweeted about it,

00:10:48.740 which is sort of on the record?

00:10:50.240 No, you can make an argument for why they have to wait until Wednesday or why they should or could or want to,

00:10:57.620 but it doesn't pass the sniff test, does it?

00:11:01.160 Let me ask you this.

00:11:04.100 What's the argument that it's good for you?

00:11:08.000 If your argument is, well, it's good for the senators because then the senators get to go on the record

00:11:12.700 and they'll get more attention if they do it before the vote, okay, I get that.

00:11:17.440 But how's that good for you?

00:11:18.900 In this case, I'm saying you, a citizen of the United States.

00:11:24.480 I know many of you are coming in from other countries.

00:11:27.680 But if your government right in front of you is doing something that can only be good for them,

00:11:34.600 wait a minute, wait a minute.

00:11:37.380 Are the Democrats delaying this vote because it's only good for them politically

00:11:44.360 and it's not good for the interest of the country?

00:11:49.680 What is it that we do in those cases

00:11:51.940 when it's obvious that something is done for political reasons

00:11:57.960 that is bad for the country because it's delaying our ability to get something done,

00:12:04.740 good for the politicians' re-election, but it's bad for the country?

00:12:09.040 What do we call that?

00:12:10.640 Is there a name for that?

00:12:12.360 Oh, yeah, that's right, right.

00:12:13.920 Impeachable offense.

00:12:15.420 That's right.

00:12:16.740 It's an impeachable offense.

00:12:19.660 I'd like to see witnesses.

00:12:21.560 I think we should call some witnesses

00:12:23.440 to find out why the Democrats are insisting

00:12:26.540 to delay this vote and damage the country

00:12:30.900 by being more inefficient

00:12:32.680 and diverting us from real, real important stuff.

00:12:36.660 It feels impeachable to me.

00:12:38.800 Unless I miss the entire point of the Xi impeachment.

00:12:43.300 That's how it works, right?

00:12:44.500 When you do something that's only good for politics

00:12:47.060 and it's bad for the country

00:12:49.200 and it's obvious,

00:12:51.780 I mean, it's obvious, right?

00:12:53.440 Give me one argument

00:12:54.560 why waiting till Wednesday is good for the country.

00:12:57.260 Go.

00:12:58.540 None.

00:12:59.860 There are only arguments

00:13:00.960 why it's good for the politicians.

00:13:02.900 That is impeachable,

00:13:06.060 according to what we've learned.

00:13:09.060 All right, I don't mean that literally,

00:13:10.560 but you know what I mean.

00:13:13.200 So, remember,

00:13:15.220 if abuse of power is a standard for impeachment,

00:13:18.600 what in the world did we just watch?

00:13:21.440 Did we not watch a massive exercise

00:13:25.060 of the House totally abusing its power?

00:13:31.200 I mean, this is what we just watched.

00:13:33.540 Let me see if anything I say about this

00:13:35.480 strikes you as not true.

00:13:37.180 There was a sham impeachment

00:13:40.800 for purely political reasons.

00:13:42.780 We know that because they explicitly started planning

00:13:46.720 as soon as the president was elected

00:13:48.400 or sworn in, I guess.

00:13:50.300 And they didn't care what the reason was.

00:13:54.480 And I think that's, you know,

00:13:56.160 Molly Hemingway reported

00:13:57.480 that she actually overheard Madler

00:13:59.560 talking about impeachment

00:14:00.640 before they had even considered reasons.

00:14:03.500 All right, so I think it's fair to say,

00:14:06.720 since those facts are not in dispute,

00:14:09.880 I think it's fair to say

00:14:10.940 it was a sham impeachment.

00:14:13.240 So they do a sham impeachment,

00:14:14.980 but beyond that,

00:14:16.480 they do it incompetently

00:14:17.960 according to their own standards.

00:14:20.400 So the House wanted witnesses,

00:14:23.300 but did not go through

00:14:24.420 the proper process to get them.

00:14:26.720 By their own description,

00:14:28.040 I don't know how you could call that

00:14:29.960 anything but incompetent.

00:14:32.160 So it was a sham impeachment,

00:14:34.260 which they managed incompetently.

00:14:37.840 And then in order to fix

00:14:39.840 their own incompetence

00:14:41.500 of their sham,

00:14:44.820 they decided that the best way

00:14:46.560 to approach that would be

00:14:47.680 to ask the wrong part of the government

00:14:50.180 to fix their sham hoax incompetence.

00:14:54.540 That actually happened

00:14:57.360 right in front of us.

00:14:59.160 It's funnier when you say it all together.

00:15:01.960 They incompetently managed

00:15:03.960 a sham impeachment,

00:15:05.680 but they thought they could fix it

00:15:07.220 by asking the wrong part

00:15:08.520 of the government to fix it.

00:15:11.680 And surprise, surprise,

00:15:13.000 it didn't work out for them.

00:15:15.680 So if that's not abuse of power,

00:15:17.600 I don't know what is.

00:15:19.860 So it looks like the bullshit of the day,

00:15:22.260 because every day the media

00:15:25.240 and the Democrats collude,

00:15:27.620 they collude, I say,

00:15:29.440 on messaging.

00:15:31.440 And the messaging

00:15:32.120 that they're colluding on

00:15:33.460 seems pretty, pretty obvious today.

00:15:35.880 They're going to be saying

00:15:36.960 that because impeachment

00:15:40.080 did not succeed

00:15:41.060 or is about to fail on Wednesday,

00:15:43.540 they're about to say

00:15:44.400 that Trump has expanded

00:15:45.960 the power of the executive branch,

00:15:48.060 getting closer and closer

00:15:49.180 to being a dictator.

00:15:50.080 He's becoming a dictator.

00:15:54.560 Why is Trump becoming a dictator?

00:15:56.640 Let me explain it again.

00:15:57.860 Because there was a sham impeachment

00:16:00.400 that was done incompetently,

00:16:02.900 and then they asked

00:16:04.160 the wrong part of the government

00:16:05.480 to fix it.

00:16:07.140 Therefore, logically,

00:16:09.300 President Trump is a dictator.

00:16:12.260 You followed the logic, right?

00:16:13.800 That all makes sense to you?

00:16:15.620 Connect the dots?

00:16:17.740 If that didn't make sense to you,

00:16:19.000 you talk to a Democrat

00:16:19.800 because apparently

00:16:20.560 that makes sense to them.

00:16:25.060 So,

00:16:26.540 here's what I say about that.

00:16:30.720 Can you imagine

00:16:31.500 that if the media,

00:16:34.540 the messengers in the media,

00:16:36.180 if they had not packaged this idea

00:16:38.300 that the outcome of this

00:16:40.400 failed sham incompetent impeachment

00:16:43.540 was that the president

00:16:45.900 would become more like a dictator,

00:16:48.260 would anyone have thought of that

00:16:50.940 on their own?

00:16:52.860 In other words,

00:16:53.580 is there anybody

00:16:54.240 sitting down in America

00:16:56.100 watching this on TV,

00:16:58.440 and before the pundits tell them

00:17:00.360 that the natural outcome

00:17:02.520 of all this

00:17:03.100 is that Trump becomes

00:17:04.000 more like a dictator,

00:17:05.700 can you imagine?

00:17:06.600 There's a guy,

00:17:07.960 he's in the middle of the country,

00:17:09.020 sipping a beer,

00:17:10.960 watching the news,

00:17:12.400 and he's thinking to himself,

00:17:14.160 hey,

00:17:14.900 I think the incompetent

00:17:16.600 failed sham impeachment

00:17:18.120 that they tried to fix

00:17:20.440 by asking the wrong part

00:17:21.640 of the government,

00:17:22.660 I think is going to make

00:17:24.300 Trump

00:17:25.040 look, look, look, look, look,

00:17:26.480 more of a dictator.

00:17:29.300 There are

00:17:32.500 how many

00:17:34.280 hundreds of millions

00:17:35.380 of people

00:17:35.820 in the United States?

00:17:37.700 The number of them

00:17:38.940 who would have come up

00:17:39.920 with that interpretation

00:17:41.220 on their own

00:17:42.160 without being prompted

00:17:44.320 by the media messengers

00:17:45.600 and brainwashers, 0.99

00:17:47.220 I think is zero.

00:17:50.200 Zero?

00:17:51.620 Do you think

00:17:52.400 even one person

00:17:53.460 would have thought

00:17:54.020 of that on their own?

00:17:55.900 I mean,

00:17:56.260 it's batshit crazy.

00:17:58.380 Yeah,

00:17:58.520 so the 360

00:18:00.300 or 80 million

00:18:01.100 or whatever,

00:18:01.760 how many people

00:18:02.400 there are

00:18:02.820 in the United States,

00:18:04.660 you know,

00:18:05.000 men, women,

00:18:05.980 children,

00:18:06.520 old people,

00:18:09.020 do you think

00:18:09.760 there was even

00:18:10.180 one person

00:18:11.000 in the whole country

00:18:12.420 who would have come up

00:18:13.660 with that

00:18:14.160 on their own?

00:18:15.420 And yet,

00:18:16.160 that is the primary

00:18:17.440 message of the day.

00:18:18.560 They've all decided

00:18:19.980 that the message is

00:18:20.940 Trump,

00:18:22.480 he's taking it

00:18:23.460 to a new level

00:18:24.120 of dictatorship.

00:18:26.320 All right,

00:18:26.680 so pretty funny.

00:18:28.520 So Trump

00:18:30.660 tweeted an article

00:18:32.720 by Olivia Nuzzi.

00:18:35.840 Nuzzi? 1.00

00:18:36.980 So she's sort of

00:18:37.900 an anti-Trumper,

00:18:38.780 but she wrote this article

00:18:39.660 that I thought

00:18:40.220 was weirdly balanced

00:18:43.480 until it wasn't.

00:18:45.120 And she talked about

00:18:46.360 how the Trump rallies,

00:18:48.960 at least in her

00:18:50.000 subjective opinion,

00:18:51.160 I haven't been to a rally,

00:18:52.300 so I can't verify

00:18:53.920 that this is true or false.

00:18:55.400 But it was interesting

00:18:57.240 that an anti-Trumper

00:18:59.160 would say

00:18:59.640 that the Trump rallies

00:19:00.540 are like a celebration.

00:19:02.260 Everybody's happy

00:19:02.920 and dancing.

00:19:04.400 And her interpretation

00:19:06.080 was that

00:19:07.000 in the beginning,

00:19:08.480 when Trump was running

00:19:09.520 for president,

00:19:10.660 it seemed that

00:19:11.300 they were angry.

00:19:12.880 So Trump supporters,

00:19:14.280 according to her,

00:19:15.060 have changed

00:19:15.640 from this angry mob

00:19:17.060 who wanted to,

00:19:17.840 I don't know,

00:19:18.780 get revenge,

00:19:19.780 change the country,

00:19:20.860 break the government,

00:19:21.660 whatever it is

00:19:22.160 they wanted.

00:19:22.560 But now they're

00:19:24.360 getting what they want.

00:19:25.520 They have a President Trump.

00:19:27.000 The country is running

00:19:27.820 well in their opinion.

00:19:29.380 And so they're celebrating.

00:19:31.360 This is a pretty big deal

00:19:33.020 because I was talking

00:19:35.940 to somebody smart

00:19:36.740 the other day

00:19:37.340 who was saying

00:19:38.700 that there could be

00:19:40.060 a problem with motivation,

00:19:42.180 that Trump voters

00:19:43.760 might not be motivated

00:19:45.200 because they sort of

00:19:46.280 got what they wanted.

00:19:47.560 So it doesn't make you

00:19:48.980 get off the couch

00:19:49.780 unless you want

00:19:50.820 to change something.

00:19:51.600 You know,

00:19:52.380 it's easier to get up

00:19:53.380 and go to the polls

00:19:54.840 and get excited

00:19:55.820 and everything

00:19:56.260 if something is intolerable

00:19:58.140 and you've just

00:19:58.920 got to go change it.

00:20:00.360 Now,

00:20:01.100 I hear that argument.

00:20:03.580 That's not historically

00:20:06.720 that I would say

00:20:07.900 that has some validity.

00:20:09.040 But here's what's different.

00:20:11.000 Everything about Trump.

00:20:13.420 Let me just summarize.

00:20:15.000 Here's what's different

00:20:15.820 about Trump.

00:20:16.840 Everything.

00:20:17.960 Everything.

00:20:18.700 Just everything.

00:20:19.200 So every rule

00:20:20.480 that used to work

00:20:21.520 doesn't exactly

00:20:23.700 automatically work

00:20:24.840 with Trump.

00:20:26.380 And here's what's different.

00:20:28.180 Trump supporters

00:20:29.060 have turned

00:20:29.820 the whole Trump phenomenon

00:20:31.340 into a walking party.

00:20:35.680 They enjoy it

00:20:37.680 for literally

00:20:38.420 the entertainment of it.

00:20:40.240 And I don't know

00:20:41.320 if we can quite yet

00:20:43.000 measure

00:20:43.660 what impact

00:20:45.760 being entertained

00:20:47.100 has on people's motivation

00:20:49.420 to actually

00:20:50.440 get off the couch

00:20:51.260 and go vote.

00:20:53.220 I think,

00:20:54.620 especially since

00:20:55.460 the experience

00:20:56.120 of 2016

00:20:56.860 where the people

00:20:57.620 who voted for Trump

00:20:58.600 had this amazing

00:21:00.520 endorphin

00:21:01.980 dopamine hit

00:21:03.100 when he won

00:21:04.160 the election.

00:21:04.640 So imagine

00:21:05.980 this feeling.

00:21:07.360 You were a Trump supporter

00:21:08.740 in early 2016

00:21:10.120 and before maybe.

00:21:11.740 You'd been beat up.

00:21:13.100 You'd been called

00:21:13.620 a racist.

00:21:14.520 You'd been told

00:21:15.100 you're not going to win.

00:21:16.640 You're supporting

00:21:17.480 a crazy man,

00:21:18.400 a dictator.

00:21:19.100 There's no way

00:21:19.720 it's going to be Hillary. 1.00

00:21:20.800 You're all going to pay.

00:21:22.080 I mean,

00:21:22.360 really some dark,

00:21:23.640 literally,

00:21:24.580 dark thoughts

00:21:25.500 about you

00:21:26.540 and your candidate.

00:21:27.680 And then,

00:21:28.820 against all odds,

00:21:31.180 on election night,

00:21:32.080 you turn on the TV

00:21:33.760 and the unbelievable

00:21:36.020 happens.

00:21:37.540 The thing that

00:21:38.140 you wanted to happen,

00:21:39.460 some of you expected it,

00:21:41.000 a lot of you didn't.

00:21:42.820 And suddenly,

00:21:44.300 bam,

00:21:45.600 something happened.

00:21:47.220 President Trump

00:21:48.040 won Florida.

00:21:49.700 He won the election.

00:21:51.500 Bam.

00:21:52.500 How did that feel?

00:21:54.860 Think about it.

00:21:56.440 That felt

00:21:57.380 so good

00:21:59.160 for the people

00:21:59.900 who wanted him to win,

00:22:00.900 the people who voted for him,

00:22:01.780 that felt so good

00:22:03.700 that I can say

00:22:05.740 that in my lifetime,

00:22:07.900 you know,

00:22:08.260 if you don't count

00:22:09.120 like,

00:22:09.740 you know,

00:22:10.040 intimate physical relationships

00:22:11.640 and,

00:22:12.280 you know,

00:22:12.560 maybe falling in love

00:22:13.840 or something,

00:22:14.700 but outside of those things,

00:22:17.160 I don't know

00:22:17.780 if I've ever felt

00:22:18.560 a better feeling.

00:22:19.840 Really.

00:22:20.680 Now,

00:22:21.080 I was pretty deeply invested,

00:22:22.760 so I had more to win,

00:22:24.140 more to lose.

00:22:25.180 You know,

00:22:25.560 I was definitely out there

00:22:26.960 because I was so public

00:22:29.140 about my prediction

00:22:30.160 that he would win.

00:22:30.800 but

00:22:31.660 I've never felt

00:22:33.440 anything that good

00:22:34.480 outside of

00:22:35.260 close personal relationships

00:22:37.280 and I'd like to feel it again.

00:22:40.580 I have to think

00:22:41.760 that the people

00:22:42.780 who voted for him

00:22:43.680 and got that,

00:22:44.520 you know,

00:22:44.800 the dopamine hit,

00:22:46.360 want that again.

00:22:47.720 I don't know

00:22:48.560 that regular voters

00:22:49.780 who vote for regular candidates

00:22:52.260 and win,

00:22:53.600 they feel happy.

00:22:55.060 I mean,

00:22:55.260 I think people

00:22:55.820 who voted for Obama

00:22:57.020 were happy,

00:22:57.580 don't you think?

00:22:59.880 But I think

00:23:00.280 the Trump voters

00:23:01.900 got a dopamine hit

00:23:02.880 that was probably

00:23:03.560 unprecedented

00:23:04.320 because it was

00:23:05.340 more unexpected.

00:23:08.080 And I think

00:23:08.900 that that's going to

00:23:09.700 drive a lot of people

00:23:10.480 to the polls.

00:23:11.220 They're going to be,

00:23:11.720 they'll want to feel

00:23:14.000 how good it feels

00:23:15.340 again.

00:23:16.740 And some people

00:23:17.640 didn't feel it

00:23:18.220 the first time

00:23:18.760 and want to feel it.

00:23:20.160 So I think

00:23:20.840 they're going to want

00:23:21.360 to go feel that feeling.

00:23:22.340 So I'm not worried

00:23:23.960 about enthusiasm

00:23:24.660 from Republicans.

00:23:26.720 And by the way,

00:23:28.220 if we're going to make

00:23:29.380 some gross generalizations,

00:23:31.120 let me make

00:23:31.560 a gross generalization,

00:23:32.920 all right?

00:23:34.860 And this doesn't

00:23:35.700 apply to every person.

00:23:37.460 There are no gross

00:23:38.500 generalizations

00:23:39.160 that apply

00:23:39.780 to each individual.

00:23:41.180 But as a,

00:23:42.260 let's say,

00:23:44.120 a gross generalization,

00:23:45.160 I think it's true

00:23:47.080 that what you could say

00:23:48.580 about a conservative

00:23:49.720 voter

00:23:50.280 versus a liberal voter

00:23:51.780 is that the conservative

00:23:53.920 will do what feels right

00:23:56.040 even if it's hard.

00:23:59.820 See where I'm going

00:24:00.840 with this?

00:24:01.560 The conservative voter

00:24:02.840 is still going to vote

00:24:04.180 even if it's hard.

00:24:06.220 If their schedule

00:24:07.260 doesn't work,

00:24:08.120 their car broke down,

00:24:09.400 because voting

00:24:10.640 is important.

00:24:11.600 So I'm not sure

00:24:12.600 that motivation

00:24:13.260 means exactly

00:24:14.240 the same thing

00:24:15.140 to a conservative

00:24:16.380 voter

00:24:16.860 versus a liberal voter.

00:24:18.720 I think a liberal

00:24:19.880 voter needs more

00:24:20.900 of maybe

00:24:21.620 an emotional reason.

00:24:23.960 I think a conservative

00:24:24.880 voter is just

00:24:26.340 going to vote anyway

00:24:27.180 because why?

00:24:28.680 It's who they are.

00:24:29.720 It's part of their identity.

00:24:31.600 They're people

00:24:32.000 who support

00:24:32.560 the Constitution.

00:24:33.760 They vote.

00:24:35.260 So I don't think

00:24:36.360 anybody's going to

00:24:36.920 stay home

00:24:37.380 who's a conservative.

00:24:38.380 I don't see that happening.

00:24:39.880 Let's talk about Bernie.

00:24:42.960 So all the chatter

00:24:44.560 by the political

00:24:45.660 talking heads,

00:24:46.660 they're saying that

00:24:47.280 Bernie is surging

00:24:48.720 in the polls.

00:24:50.420 Depending on what poll

00:24:51.600 you look at,

00:24:52.180 he's winning everywhere

00:24:53.180 or he's at least

00:24:53.920 tied with Biden.

00:24:54.880 But all the talk

00:24:56.220 is about Bernie,

00:24:57.000 Bernie, Bernie.

00:24:58.060 And so I thought

00:24:58.840 I would run you

00:24:59.740 through a little bit

00:25:01.940 of Bernie strategy.

00:25:04.200 In other words,

00:25:05.120 how to beat Bernie

00:25:06.940 if you're President Trump.

00:25:09.380 The first thing

00:25:10.260 I would note

00:25:10.700 is that it seems to me,

00:25:13.360 and this could be

00:25:14.180 just a biased interpretation,

00:25:15.380 but it seems to me

00:25:16.500 that Bernie supporters

00:25:18.280 are disconnected

00:25:19.380 from policy.

00:25:22.120 Now, certainly

00:25:23.080 there are plenty

00:25:23.740 of Bernie supporters

00:25:24.820 who want his policies,

00:25:27.940 and they're not disconnected.

00:25:29.220 They want exactly

00:25:30.300 what he's offering.

00:25:32.060 But when I look at the,

00:25:34.020 and I'm going to use

00:25:35.060 some names without,

00:25:37.500 you know,

00:25:37.820 let me admit

00:25:38.880 I can't read minds,

00:25:40.580 but when I see people

00:25:41.600 like Bill Maher

00:25:42.360 jump in,

00:25:43.040 and I see Joe Rogan

00:25:45.380 supporting Sanders,

00:25:47.720 when I see people

00:25:48.580 like that supporting him,

00:25:50.020 I say to myself,

00:25:51.720 is it because

00:25:52.420 of the policies?

00:25:54.360 Do you think Bill Maher,

00:25:55.860 I'm just asking

00:25:56.600 because I don't know,

00:25:57.460 can't read their minds

00:25:58.240 and I won't make

00:25:58.840 an assumption,

00:26:00.320 but do you think

00:26:01.120 that they support him

00:26:01.940 for his policies?

00:26:03.840 Because that's certainly

00:26:05.300 not what Joe Rogan said

00:26:06.780 when he mentioned

00:26:08.360 that he might vote for him.

00:26:10.060 What he mentioned

00:26:10.860 was his,

00:26:11.740 I don't know,

00:26:12.300 consistency

00:26:13.000 and authenticity,

00:26:14.460 something like that.

00:26:15.600 And those are much

00:26:16.480 to be admired.

00:26:18.120 You know,

00:26:18.360 I have the same feeling

00:26:19.180 about Bernie.

00:26:20.240 There's a whole bunch

00:26:21.260 about Bernie

00:26:21.860 that's pretty good stuff,

00:26:23.960 but not his policies.

00:26:26.700 His policies

00:26:27.560 are not good stuff.

00:26:28.980 So that's the first observation,

00:26:30.840 that there's,

00:26:31.920 some people want

00:26:32.840 to beat Trump

00:26:33.580 or just be on

00:26:34.300 the winning side

00:26:35.020 or signal that they're,

00:26:37.920 you know,

00:26:38.540 part of good people,

00:26:39.680 not bad people.

00:26:40.400 Whatever it is

00:26:41.440 they're thinking,

00:26:42.400 it does seem

00:26:43.660 disconnected from policy.

00:26:46.520 So that's the first point.

00:26:49.920 Then let's look

00:26:51.180 at the matchup.

00:26:53.040 You've got,

00:26:53.520 you've got a

00:26:55.860 President Trump

00:26:56.820 who,

00:26:57.640 at least his supporters,

00:26:59.080 who would,

00:26:59.440 you'd have to peel away

00:27:00.700 some of his supporters

00:27:01.740 to Bernie

00:27:02.420 in order for Bernie

00:27:03.640 to win.

00:27:04.080 and so you want

00:27:06.380 a good matchup.

00:27:08.240 What would Republicans,

00:27:10.000 the ones that Bernie

00:27:10.700 needs to,

00:27:11.560 you know,

00:27:11.860 even the independents,

00:27:13.060 I guess,

00:27:13.620 the ones he wants

00:27:14.300 to wean away

00:27:14.900 from Trump,

00:27:15.820 what would those people

00:27:17.060 think is Trump's

00:27:18.980 biggest error,

00:27:20.740 mistake,

00:27:21.340 or flaw?

00:27:22.560 The people that Bernie

00:27:23.600 wants to convert.

00:27:25.180 I would say,

00:27:25.940 they would say

00:27:26.340 the deficit,

00:27:27.660 deficit spending,

00:27:28.680 wouldn't you?

00:27:29.440 Wouldn't you say

00:27:30.180 if you were talking

00:27:30.800 to a conservative

00:27:31.540 and you said,

00:27:32.340 okay,

00:27:32.540 I know you like Trump,

00:27:33.840 but tell me

00:27:35.000 what you don't like

00:27:35.860 about him.

00:27:37.240 Nine out of ten

00:27:38.220 are going to list

00:27:39.240 the deficit

00:27:40.220 and the top

00:27:40.980 one or two reasons.

00:27:42.940 Right?

00:27:43.780 So,

00:27:44.420 how does Bernie

00:27:45.080 line up

00:27:46.080 on the most

00:27:47.100 important point?

00:27:49.060 He's the only

00:27:50.000 candidate you could

00:27:50.920 imagine running

00:27:51.700 against Trump

00:27:52.640 who would make

00:27:53.380 the deficit worse.

00:27:55.380 He's the only one

00:27:56.540 who would make it worse.

00:27:58.140 Forget about the fact

00:27:59.100 he would probably

00:27:59.640 crash the economy

00:28:00.640 and make us weaker

00:28:02.300 internationally

00:28:03.000 and whatever else

00:28:03.800 you think about him.

00:28:05.140 On a matchup,

00:28:07.160 he's the worst person

00:28:08.420 you could run

00:28:09.300 against somebody

00:28:09.920 who only has

00:28:10.600 one measurable flaw.

00:28:15.680 President Trump

00:28:16.440 has a lot of

00:28:17.160 subjective things

00:28:19.540 you can't measure.

00:28:20.540 Hey,

00:28:20.720 his personality,

00:28:21.940 I think he's dangerous.

00:28:23.500 He might be impulsive.

00:28:25.120 So,

00:28:25.500 he's got lots of that stuff

00:28:26.640 that you can't measure.

00:28:27.960 But the one thing

00:28:28.720 you can measure

00:28:29.400 that he's

00:28:30.920 unambiguously

00:28:31.920 bad at

00:28:32.960 is the deficit.

00:28:34.860 And they're going

00:28:35.300 to run the only guy

00:28:36.200 who makes that worse

00:28:37.160 against that?

00:28:38.820 How does that make sense?

00:28:40.240 That's the worst

00:28:40.740 matchup ever.

00:28:42.340 You know,

00:28:42.600 plus you've got somebody

00:28:43.480 with a booming economy

00:28:44.600 running against somebody

00:28:46.160 who wants to

00:28:46.620 completely transition it.

00:28:48.380 What?

00:28:49.780 Now,

00:28:50.340 what is the other thing

00:28:51.380 that Trump has

00:28:52.960 as sort of

00:28:53.960 a political weakness?

00:28:55.660 And I wouldn't say

00:28:56.440 this is what

00:28:57.060 Republicans say

00:28:58.080 about him,

00:28:58.560 but it's more about

00:28:59.360 what Democrats

00:29:00.560 say about him.

00:29:01.340 Because Bernie

00:29:01.760 also has to get

00:29:02.600 Democrats

00:29:03.180 to,

00:29:04.540 you know,

00:29:05.080 be unified

00:29:06.100 against Trump.

00:29:08.100 And one of the

00:29:08.620 biggest complaints

00:29:09.380 from prior years

00:29:11.540 about Trump

00:29:12.100 is that he's

00:29:12.720 a misogynist.

00:29:14.160 You know,

00:29:14.360 he's not good

00:29:15.120 for women.

00:29:16.700 Who is the only

00:29:17.740 candidate who

00:29:18.600 also has

00:29:19.540 that issue,

00:29:21.220 at least in terms

00:29:21.920 of his supporters,

00:29:22.820 not in terms of him?

00:29:23.600 Bernie.

00:29:25.160 Bernie is weak

00:29:26.560 on women. 0.95

00:29:29.120 Now,

00:29:29.740 here's the thing.

00:29:30.560 He's not weak

00:29:31.200 on women. 0.95

00:29:32.460 There's literally

00:29:33.240 nothing that Bernie's

00:29:34.220 ever said or done

00:29:35.180 that is anything

00:29:36.720 but positive

00:29:37.500 for basically

00:29:38.240 everybody.

00:29:39.160 You know,

00:29:39.320 that's the consistency

00:29:40.680 argument that

00:29:42.220 Joe Rogan points out,

00:29:43.340 and it's true.

00:29:44.740 I think Bernie

00:29:45.520 has a 100%

00:29:46.480 solid record

00:29:47.400 of being supportive

00:29:48.260 of women,

00:29:49.400 being supportive

00:29:49.940 of, you know,

00:29:50.820 blacks,

00:29:51.400 being supportive

00:29:51.800 of everybody.

00:29:52.320 But the trouble

00:29:57.900 is that

00:29:59.000 through the

00:29:59.720 election campaign,

00:30:01.180 his supporters

00:30:02.120 are being painted

00:30:03.480 as misogynist,

00:30:05.220 and boy,

00:30:06.120 and boy,

00:30:08.120 do they act

00:30:08.520 that way,

00:30:09.100 at least online.

00:30:10.420 Now,

00:30:10.880 I don't know

00:30:11.560 what percentage

00:30:12.280 act that way.

00:30:13.040 It's probably

00:30:13.320 a low percentage,

00:30:14.480 but the active ones

00:30:15.660 that you see a lot

00:30:16.440 on social media,

00:30:18.060 they tend to be

00:30:19.460 kind of

00:30:20.860 anti-woman-ish

00:30:23.120 in their approach.

00:30:24.320 I don't know

00:30:24.620 how many there are.

00:30:25.840 So just in terms

00:30:26.660 of impressions,

00:30:27.660 well,

00:30:27.900 none of this is real,

00:30:28.900 at least in terms

00:30:29.540 of Bernie's own views,

00:30:31.280 he looks like

00:30:32.920 he's not that

00:30:33.720 strong with women.

00:30:35.820 And I think,

00:30:36.840 what is his breakdown

00:30:37.880 of men versus women 0.54

00:30:39.200 who support him?

00:30:40.680 Bernie appeals more

00:30:41.620 to men,

00:30:42.060 doesn't he?

00:30:43.180 Somebody has to

00:30:43.900 fact check me on that.

00:30:45.300 So if you've got

00:30:45.980 somebody who appeals

00:30:46.820 more to men

00:30:47.740 running against Trump,

00:30:49.220 I don't know

00:30:50.320 if that's the way

00:30:51.060 you get the woman vote.

00:30:53.540 Let me put this

00:30:54.580 in other terms.

00:30:56.860 Trump could say,

00:30:58.360 and I'll just give you

00:30:59.160 some messaging

00:31:00.080 that he could use

00:31:00.980 to run against Bernie.

00:31:02.400 Trump could say

00:31:03.180 that Bernie won't

00:31:05.200 protect you,

00:31:06.580 but Trump already is.

00:31:09.340 Suppose you're trying

00:31:10.240 to get the female vote. 1.00

00:31:13.240 Protection

00:31:13.720 is a really strong word.

00:31:16.560 because I think

00:31:17.980 there is a male-female

00:31:18.920 difference in terms

00:31:20.260 of how frightened

00:31:21.720 you would be

00:31:22.460 about certain risks.

00:31:25.100 Men tend to be 1.00

00:31:26.600 less frightened

00:31:27.620 about physical risks

00:31:30.380 because we don't

00:31:32.620 have as many.

00:31:33.480 If I go out in public,

00:31:35.080 the odds of me

00:31:35.820 being assaulted

00:31:37.100 by anybody in public

00:31:38.360 are pretty close

00:31:40.220 to zero.

00:31:41.340 For a woman,

00:31:42.240 it's a continuous,

00:31:43.500 every time you go outside,

00:31:44.520 you've got to risk.

00:31:46.080 So protection

00:31:47.180 is one of those words

00:31:48.520 that I think

00:31:49.100 just has more

00:31:50.560 deep meaning

00:31:51.540 to women

00:31:52.640 because they live

00:31:53.980 in a more dangerous world

00:31:55.200 than men do, 0.66

00:31:56.300 subjectively speaking,

00:31:58.160 and statistically speaking

00:31:59.820 as well.

00:32:00.680 So I think Trump

00:32:01.600 could say

00:32:02.040 he's already protecting us

00:32:03.480 in all these ways.

00:32:04.620 He's good on law enforcement.

00:32:06.780 He's tough on terrorists

00:32:09.240 and all that.

00:32:09.780 So that's a Trump

00:32:12.100 advantage.

00:32:17.560 And then there's

00:32:19.560 a practical question.

00:32:21.460 How would Bernie

00:32:22.100 get any of his policies

00:32:23.320 passed?

00:32:24.820 I don't think

00:32:25.720 Bernie is popular

00:32:27.100 enough

00:32:27.960 even with Democrats

00:32:29.120 because there are

00:32:29.860 enough Democrats

00:32:30.500 who know his math

00:32:31.360 doesn't work.

00:32:32.020 They're not going to

00:32:32.480 sign up for his things.

00:32:34.420 What would be the point

00:32:36.260 of electing Bernie?

00:32:38.440 Because you know

00:32:39.080 his policies

00:32:39.740 wouldn't pass, right?

00:32:40.760 The big stuff

00:32:41.400 doesn't really have

00:32:42.020 a chance, does it?

00:32:43.200 I don't think so.

00:32:44.880 I suppose they could

00:32:45.740 hope that they get

00:32:47.800 the entire Congress

00:32:48.740 but I doubt it.

00:32:50.660 All right.

00:32:50.920 So here are a few things.

00:32:53.920 Well, let me describe

00:32:55.080 an ad

00:32:57.640 or a meme

00:32:58.700 or maybe it's a

00:32:59.900 viral video

00:33:00.820 or something

00:33:01.240 that would take out

00:33:02.880 Bernie

00:33:03.740 and it would go

00:33:05.600 like this.

00:33:06.180 It's a five-second

00:33:07.640 advertisement

00:33:08.340 political ad

00:33:09.340 starts with a

00:33:10.780 black screen

00:33:11.640 and then you see

00:33:12.960 an EKG heartbeat

00:33:14.240 go

00:33:14.540 and then the voiceover

00:33:18.540 says something like

00:33:19.800 the economy

00:33:21.400 is the best

00:33:22.320 it's ever been.

00:33:24.140 Why would you

00:33:24.720 ever take a chance?

00:33:26.260 Don't take a chance.

00:33:29.240 And then the EKG

00:33:31.400 would just flatline.

00:33:33.000 So the words

00:33:33.940 would talk about

00:33:34.580 the economy.

00:33:36.660 See where I'm

00:33:37.160 going here?

00:33:38.260 So it would be

00:33:39.140 an analogy

00:33:39.800 between the heartbeat

00:33:41.360 it's fine

00:33:42.400 boom

00:33:42.780 boom

00:33:43.080 boom

00:33:43.140 boom

00:33:43.420 boom

00:33:43.740 boom

00:33:43.780 bzzz

00:33:45.360 why would you

00:33:47.000 take a chance

00:33:47.620 with an economy

00:33:48.320 that's the best

00:33:48.980 in the world?

00:33:50.540 But what would

00:33:51.640 people think?

00:33:52.880 They would immediately

00:33:53.740 be reminded

00:33:54.440 of Bernie's

00:33:55.440 recent heart attack

00:33:57.460 and it's all

00:33:59.520 anybody would

00:34:00.040 talk about

00:34:00.500 in the ad

00:34:01.140 because the ad

00:34:01.860 would be about

00:34:02.320 the economy

00:34:02.940 boop boop boop 0.53

00:34:03.920 boop

00:34:04.060 it's going great

00:34:04.840 don't do this

00:34:06.040 don't flatline

00:34:07.620 the economy

00:34:08.180 right?

00:34:10.500 Five second

00:34:11.220 commercial

00:34:11.740 black screen

00:34:13.340 heartbeat

00:34:14.540 voiceover

00:34:16.540 done

00:34:18.140 that's the end

00:34:19.100 of the election

00:34:19.600 because it's so

00:34:21.260 scary

00:34:21.760 and it's so

00:34:23.800 right

00:34:24.160 it's completely

00:34:25.420 right

00:34:25.800 people don't

00:34:26.800 like taking

00:34:27.340 chances with

00:34:28.100 an economy

00:34:28.620 that's working

00:34:29.360 if you talk

00:34:30.460 about the

00:34:30.980 risk

00:34:31.540 it's over

00:34:33.140 all right

00:34:34.860 here's an

00:34:36.040 update on me

00:34:37.000 remember I

00:34:38.040 told you that

00:34:38.820 Google

00:34:39.740 through YouTube

00:34:42.100 seemed to be

00:34:43.940 limiting my

00:34:44.980 YouTube videos

00:34:46.040 and demonetizing

00:34:47.460 them

00:34:47.680 now when they

00:34:48.200 demonetize them

00:34:49.060 it means that

00:34:49.560 they don't run

00:34:50.100 ads

00:34:50.420 the creator

00:34:51.700 doesn't get

00:34:52.340 paid for the

00:34:53.360 time that people

00:34:53.940 watch it with

00:34:54.680 no ads

00:34:55.140 but worse than

00:34:58.060 that when it's

00:34:59.280 demonetized it

00:35:00.180 doesn't get

00:35:00.620 recommended by

00:35:01.460 YouTube so it

00:35:02.660 gets much less

00:35:03.480 awareness

00:35:04.580 so I was

00:35:06.160 talking to

00:35:06.640 Google and

00:35:08.180 I actually got

00:35:09.200 a hold of

00:35:09.740 the group

00:35:10.960 very small

00:35:12.140 group and one

00:35:12.880 person in

00:35:13.380 particular who

00:35:14.600 handles these

00:35:15.380 kinds of

00:35:15.840 questions for

00:35:16.620 Google for

00:35:17.620 YouTube and

00:35:19.020 they're working

00:35:19.700 with me and

00:35:20.540 apparently they're

00:35:21.160 putting together

00:35:21.780 a beta

00:35:24.400 program if you

00:35:25.960 will that I'm

00:35:27.060 trying to get

00:35:27.860 into and it

00:35:28.640 looks like I

00:35:29.060 will in which

00:35:30.420 there'll be some

00:35:31.200 people who might

00:35:32.060 be whitelisted in 0.66

00:35:33.200 other words I

00:35:34.540 wouldn't be

00:35:35.060 automatically

00:35:35.560 demonetized

00:35:36.480 because I have a

00:35:39.260 long history of

00:35:40.620 not doing anything

00:35:41.400 that would make me

00:35:42.320 demonetized so as

00:35:43.620 long as you have a

00:35:44.160 long history of

00:35:44.940 not crossing that

00:35:46.420 line you could

00:35:47.660 potentially once

00:35:49.400 this is implemented

00:35:50.200 could potentially

00:35:51.660 not be demonetized

00:35:53.980 automatically so

00:35:54.800 we'll see how that

00:35:55.320 goes I'll keep you

00:35:56.020 informed as that

00:35:56.740 goes if it

00:35:58.080 happens it would

00:35:58.720 happen in the

00:35:59.520 spring I think so

00:36:01.400 we're talking about

00:36:01.960 a few months from

00:36:02.660 now but if you

00:36:04.040 see my YouTube

00:36:04.820 numbers jump that's

00:36:07.500 why there is a

00:36:09.940 horrible story in

00:36:12.000 the news about a

00:36:13.400 health records

00:36:14.280 company someone

00:36:15.620 who sells software

00:36:17.360 to doctors in

00:36:19.140 which the software

00:36:19.940 company worked with

00:36:20.820 an opioid producer

00:36:22.700 the news is

00:36:24.300 reporting it's

00:36:25.220 probably Purdue

00:36:26.160 but that's not

00:36:27.540 confirmed and that

00:36:29.520 the software company

00:36:30.400 accepted money from

00:36:31.620 the opioid making

00:36:34.040 company to have a

00:36:36.860 little screen pop up

00:36:37.940 to suggest more

00:36:39.440 opioids and suggest

00:36:41.080 that somebody manage

00:36:41.980 their pain with

00:36:42.520 opioids and it was

00:36:44.080 even created to

00:36:46.480 to have basically

00:36:48.600 to market opioids

00:36:50.180 more aggressively

00:36:51.060 in a sort of

00:36:53.340 clever way but

00:36:54.760 also to get people

00:36:55.560 to take prescriptions

00:36:57.000 longer

00:36:57.560 now how evil is

00:37:04.180 that yeah I'm

00:37:05.580 looking look at

00:37:06.300 look at the

00:37:06.780 comments every

00:37:08.000 other comment is

00:37:09.000 oh my god oh

00:37:11.260 my god what would

00:37:12.960 what do you think

00:37:13.800 should be the

00:37:14.520 legal penalty

00:37:15.540 for bribing a

00:37:18.560 software company

00:37:19.420 to push your

00:37:20.180 opioids which

00:37:21.020 would cause

00:37:21.600 certainly they

00:37:22.460 would know by

00:37:23.040 then would cause

00:37:24.300 people to be

00:37:24.880 addicted who

00:37:25.440 didn't need to

00:37:25.880 be addicted what

00:37:26.640 should be the

00:37:27.220 what should be the

00:37:28.440 penalty for that

00:37:29.320 at least life in

00:37:31.720 prison wouldn't

00:37:33.440 you say now I

00:37:35.460 think you could

00:37:35.940 argue for the

00:37:36.560 death penalty but

00:37:37.500 the way society is

00:37:38.840 organized at the

00:37:39.500 moment it's

00:37:39.980 unlikely you would

00:37:40.640 succeed but at

00:37:41.840 least life in

00:37:43.400 prison that's

00:37:45.780 one of the most

00:37:46.480 evil things you'll

00:37:47.160 ever see I mean

00:37:49.240 it's just shocking

00:37:50.420 did any of you

00:37:52.880 see that the the

00:37:55.200 funny video of

00:37:56.160 Chuck Schumer was

00:37:57.000 getting ready to be

00:37:57.940 somber and and

00:37:59.600 solemn and give a

00:38:00.800 little speech about

00:38:01.700 the the vote about

00:38:03.580 witnesses with

00:38:04.640 impeachment and

00:38:06.160 Kamala Harris was

00:38:07.160 standing behind him

00:38:08.300 and joking around

00:38:10.580 with Sherrod Brown

00:38:11.700 and and Schumer

00:38:14.860 turns around and

00:38:15.780 he has to like put

00:38:16.540 up the hand to

00:38:17.320 shush her like 1.00

00:38:18.360 Schumer's like 0.73

00:38:18.980 acting serious so

00:38:19.940 he has to he has

00:38:21.260 to shush her

00:38:21.940 happiness and if

00:38:23.880 you haven't seen

00:38:24.320 the video it's very

00:38:25.380 funny because

00:38:26.120 Kamala Harris makes

00:38:28.320 a face so so

00:38:30.880 Schumer looks at

00:38:31.680 her and hushes 0.96

00:38:32.360 her but as soon

00:38:33.380 as Schumer turns

00:38:34.700 back toward the

00:38:35.360 audience Kamala

00:38:36.900 makes like a

00:38:38.080 humorous face

00:38:38.780 like like a

00:38:40.200 child who's just

00:38:41.040 been scolded by

00:38:42.300 a parent but

00:38:43.140 isn't really sorry

00:38:44.160 about it it was

00:38:45.700 actually a pretty

00:38:46.320 funny reaction now

00:38:48.280 of course

00:38:49.320 conservatives are

00:38:50.760 you know floating

00:38:51.940 that around because

00:38:52.660 it's funny and it

00:38:53.300 makes Kamala Harris

00:38:54.240 look bad and it

00:38:54.940 makes her whole 0.58

00:38:55.420 impeachment look

00:38:56.080 ridiculous because

00:38:57.400 they're laughing and

00:38:58.140 joking and only

00:38:58.900 pretending to be

00:38:59.740 solemn so you know

00:39:01.560 politically it's it's

00:39:02.640 a fun little viral

00:39:03.900 video but here

00:39:05.740 here's the thing

00:39:06.820 I did not like

00:39:09.840 Kamala Harris

00:39:11.700 less because of

00:39:13.180 it and I'm

00:39:15.340 curious if anybody

00:39:16.320 had the same

00:39:16.940 reaction I feel

00:39:18.180 like I'm too

00:39:18.700 biased because I

00:39:19.640 have this prediction

00:39:20.360 that Biden will

00:39:21.680 get nominated she'll 1.00

00:39:22.680 be the vice

00:39:23.300 presidential nomination

00:39:24.560 so I know I'm I

00:39:26.140 know I'm I know

00:39:27.440 I'm biased and I'm

00:39:29.200 just asking if you

00:39:30.320 have the same

00:39:30.920 reaction I didn't

00:39:33.540 mind at all in

00:39:35.300 other words she

00:39:36.600 looked kind of

00:39:38.160 funny and

00:39:40.200 authentic it was a

00:39:45.120 very authentic

00:39:45.880 moment because she

00:39:47.880 and she did it in

00:39:48.740 public on stage and

00:39:50.940 it was a funny

00:39:51.780 spontaneous it was

00:39:54.600 just funny and I

00:39:56.480 haven't seen her

00:39:57.280 actually be funny in

00:39:58.820 a way that I thought

00:39:59.520 was funny and I

00:40:00.680 thought she played

00:40:01.400 it off in a way

00:40:03.700 that I kind of

00:40:04.760 liked did anybody

00:40:07.140 have that experience

00:40:08.060 or was it just me

00:40:09.000 and I'm I'm

00:40:09.820 certainly oh a few

00:40:11.300 other people did

00:40:11.960 yeah there's a few

00:40:13.160 other people and I

00:40:13.900 think most of the

00:40:14.440 people here would

00:40:16.360 not you know be

00:40:17.140 naturally supporters

00:40:19.020 of Kamala Harris

00:40:20.000 yeah okay a whole

00:40:22.200 bunch of you are

00:40:22.760 saying the same

00:40:23.220 thing you know if

00:40:24.460 you looked at just

00:40:25.160 the social media

00:40:26.040 comments and the

00:40:27.040 way the news was

00:40:27.720 handling it it was

00:40:28.460 sort of portrayed

00:40:29.520 as a negative but

00:40:30.840 it looks like a lot

00:40:31.500 of people are had

00:40:32.320 the same feeling I

00:40:33.080 did which was it

00:40:34.380 was kind of cute you

00:40:35.720 know in a good way

00:40:36.400 somebody's saying in

00:40:38.760 the comments she

00:40:39.920 seemed to be flirting

00:40:40.980 with that guy I was

00:40:43.160 gonna say that but I

00:40:46.220 didn't think it was

00:40:47.000 fair I'm very much

00:40:49.820 opposed to the

00:40:51.720 attacks on Kamala

00:40:52.740 Harris that are about

00:40:53.900 her past you know 0.83

00:40:55.860 her past relationships

00:40:57.020 with Willie Brown or

00:40:58.100 anything like that

00:40:58.700 I get that it's funny

00:41:00.640 and in social media

00:41:01.740 people do outrageous

00:41:02.980 things and you know

00:41:04.360 anything about sex is

00:41:05.520 gonna get more

00:41:06.080 attention I'm just not

00:41:07.780 on board with any of

00:41:08.680 that stuff I'm just

00:41:09.980 not on board with

00:41:10.740 that because it's not

00:41:11.780 a standard that I

00:41:12.720 would want any of you

00:41:13.620 to have to live to

00:41:14.440 all right I don't

00:41:15.600 want any of you to

00:41:16.980 live up to the

00:41:17.660 standard of what you

00:41:18.900 did years ago in

00:41:20.540 your sex life or in 0.61

00:41:22.020 your personal life or

00:41:22.780 anything just let it

00:41:24.600 go it's not a good

00:41:26.740 look to be hammering

00:41:28.640 on that it doesn't

00:41:29.520 it doesn't make you

00:41:30.360 look like a good

00:41:31.060 person and it doesn't

00:41:31.860 make your candidate

00:41:32.520 look like a good

00:41:33.320 person if if you're a

00:41:34.880 Trump supporter and

00:41:36.520 you're tweeting about

00:41:37.480 Kamala Harris you know 0.50

00:41:38.940 her knee pads and all

00:41:39.980 the things you see on

00:41:40.760 social media you're not

00:41:42.840 doing a good job for

00:41:43.760 Trump because none of

00:41:45.780 that stuff is making

00:41:46.600 people not want to

00:41:47.680 vote for her it just 1.00

00:41:49.240 makes you look like

00:41:50.120 you're a certain kind

00:41:50.860 of person and you're

00:41:52.880 and you're part of

00:41:53.940 Trump's brand by

00:41:55.540 talking about him

00:41:56.360 online so just think

00:41:58.120 about the look that

00:41:59.260 you're putting out

00:41:59.760 there all right so

00:42:03.900 there's that did you

00:42:05.900 see the news that it's

00:42:08.240 unconfirmed but there's

00:42:09.740 a good good reason to

00:42:10.820 believe that the Al 0.55

00:42:12.000 Qaeda leader in Yemen

00:42:13.220 was using the word

00:42:15.280 likely killed by an

00:42:16.880 airstrike here's my

00:42:19.720 first reaction to that

00:42:20.840 is Trump running out

00:42:23.220 of targets is Trump

00:42:27.480 so successful at

00:42:29.660 fighting terrorism that

00:42:31.380 we're down to the

00:42:32.340 Al Qaeda leader in

00:42:33.440 Yemen I don't know 0.99

00:42:36.080 that doesn't feel like

00:42:37.020 it feels like the all

00:42:38.780 the a targets might be

00:42:39.980 dead maybe maybe he's

00:42:41.860 going down to the

00:42:42.540 second level now I get

00:42:43.840 it I get it there's a

00:42:44.600 big war in Yemen and

00:42:45.800 it's a big hot spot for

00:42:46.880 terrorism and so even

00:42:48.360 though it's a tiny

00:42:48.940 country you know it's

00:42:50.480 important in terms of

00:42:51.400 the war on terror but

00:42:53.480 just the way it feels

00:42:55.100 if you're killing the

00:42:56.920 Al Qaeda leader in

00:42:57.800 Yemen maybe you're 1.00

00:42:59.720 running out of targets

00:43:00.600 maybe it's good news

00:43:02.080 you also the the

00:43:06.840 controversy that Mike

00:43:08.620 Bloomberg made it into

00:43:10.180 the next debate but

00:43:11.880 only because the

00:43:13.420 Democrats changed the

00:43:14.920 rules and it appears

00:43:17.020 they changed the rules

00:43:17.980 just for him but I

00:43:20.140 don't know if that's

00:43:20.740 true now that would

00:43:22.300 make sense because

00:43:23.840 Bloomberg has

00:43:24.620 essentially purchased

00:43:25.740 the Democrat Party

00:43:27.100 and when I say he's

00:43:28.700 purchased them what I

00:43:30.360 mean is that he said

00:43:31.280 that even if he doesn't

00:43:32.140 get the nomination he's

00:43:33.220 still going to be

00:43:33.700 running all these

00:43:34.320 anti-Trump campaigns

00:43:35.540 almost certainly will

00:43:37.240 support whoever the

00:43:38.160 candidate is because it's

00:43:39.720 not Trump and he's got

00:43:41.200 hundreds of millions

00:43:41.840 of dollars to push in

00:43:42.860 that direction so yeah

00:43:44.640 the Democrat Party is

00:43:46.400 going to do anything

00:43:47.340 Mike Bloomberg wants

00:43:48.700 he bought them you

00:43:50.640 know they were for

00:43:51.300 sale they had a price

00:43:53.200 he paid it he did it

00:43:55.720 in public we're watching

00:43:57.620 it happen there's no

00:43:58.460 secret here at all I'm

00:44:00.080 going to put hundreds of

00:44:00.860 millions of dollars into

00:44:01.740 the campaign but maybe I

00:44:03.720 wouldn't if he treated

00:44:04.500 me unfairly you know I

00:44:06.400 might ask for a few

00:44:07.240 things they're no big

00:44:08.120 deal a little bit of a

00:44:09.200 rule change it's not an

00:44:10.780 unfair rule and the rule

00:44:12.800 rule change was something

00:44:14.860 about oh number of

00:44:18.280 number of donors or

00:44:19.800 something so they got

00:44:21.300 rid of that in favor of

00:44:22.600 just the poll numbers and

00:44:24.060 his polls have gotten

00:44:25.720 high enough so he's on

00:44:26.520 the stage so here's the

00:44:30.520 weird thing about this in

00:44:32.860 what world does the rich

00:44:35.760 old white guy who uses his

00:44:38.360 billions of dollars to

00:44:39.900 control the big part of

00:44:41.300 the media and buy the

00:44:43.840 election how is he the

00:44:46.520 standard bearer of

00:44:47.460 Democrats like it's just

00:44:49.600 so crazy like I'm usually

00:44:51.940 not not the one who likes

00:44:53.420 to point out the easy

00:44:54.540 hypocrisy stuff you know

00:44:56.100 the easy conflicts I

00:44:57.780 always think they're just

00:44:58.460 too obvious and they're

00:44:59.920 not really fun because

00:45:01.000 everybody's going to be

00:45:01.720 talking about that but

00:45:03.300 it's kind of mind-blowing

00:45:04.400 that the person who is

00:45:06.300 literally the most

00:45:08.000 opposite you could be of

00:45:10.160 the kind of person that

00:45:11.260 the Democrats think is

00:45:12.400 their brand could be

00:45:13.900 their standard bearer

00:45:15.580 it's it's just

00:45:18.520 interesting

00:45:19.000 let's see so let's talk

00:45:26.180 about the biggest mistake

00:45:27.940 that Trump has made for

00:45:29.740 persuasion this will be the

00:45:32.080 first time you've ever

00:45:32.840 heard this so there's

00:45:33.900 nobody in the news who's

00:45:35.060 going to make the point

00:45:35.800 that I'm making unless you

00:45:37.100 heard after this it goes

00:45:38.720 like this we're going to

00:45:39.900 be talking about the

00:45:40.560 coronavirus of course but

00:45:42.580 there's there's new wrinkle

00:45:43.780 to it that I haven't

00:45:44.760 talked about first of all

00:45:46.560 there was a fake news

00:45:47.800 report fake meaning it

00:45:50.480 wasn't the news that was

00:45:51.700 the problem it was the

00:45:52.840 scientists a couple of

00:45:54.240 Indian scientists said

00:45:55.280 they found indicators in

00:45:57.520 the coronavirus that it

00:45:58.860 was a manufactured bioweapon

00:46:00.960 it wasn't I mistakenly

00:46:04.040 tweeted that because it was

00:46:06.540 a couple of scientists

00:46:07.540 and I thought well it's a

00:46:09.160 couple of scientists this

00:46:10.260 would be what are the odds

00:46:11.880 that these scientists would

00:46:14.140 see something that's so

00:46:15.620 checkable in other words

00:46:17.520 you you don't make a claim

00:46:18.700 that's false if it's easy to

00:46:20.680 check it's false and

00:46:22.160 secondly I don't know they

00:46:25.560 didn't seem to have any

00:46:26.380 self-interest they seem to be

00:46:28.840 helping and it was such a

00:46:29.740 specific claim that there

00:46:31.400 were various HIV related

00:46:34.060 pieces put into this you

00:46:36.480 know I'm being non-technical

00:46:37.880 here and then other experts

00:46:40.200 weighed in and looked at

00:46:41.300 their data and said no you're

00:46:42.640 just reading the data wrong

00:46:43.740 that's all it was turns out

00:46:46.280 they just read the data

00:46:47.300 wrong didn't have the right

00:46:49.320 context and that the things

00:46:51.380 they thought they saw was

00:46:53.360 just statistical noise so

00:46:55.100 they just weren't good as

00:46:56.000 statistics apparently so that's

00:46:58.700 the first thing it was not a

00:47:00.160 bioweapon if you saw news

00:47:01.980 yesterday that suggested it

00:47:03.420 was you can adjust that now

00:47:05.420 and here's here's the hell of

00:47:07.680 the thing I think Twitter

00:47:09.820 suspended the website zero

00:47:12.600 hedge for reporting on the

00:47:15.040 story you know incorrectly I

00:47:18.460 think that happened I need

00:47:20.140 some confirmation and I don't

00:47:21.840 know if we'll ever have it if

00:47:23.280 there was any other reason

00:47:24.260 beyond that but I think

00:47:26.580 Twitter's rules are that

00:47:28.400 they'll suspend things that

00:47:30.360 are sort of dangerously

00:47:31.860 inaccurate that news was

00:47:34.760 fake news and at the point

00:47:37.040 that Twitter understood it to

00:47:39.140 be dangerously inaccurate I

00:47:40.900 mean that's a dangerous piece

00:47:42.000 of fake news it really is they

00:47:45.040 they they deleted that site

00:47:48.260 from Twitter and I don't know

00:47:51.540 if that'll get reversed you

00:47:53.320 know maybe they would need to

00:47:54.980 delete or revise an article or

00:47:57.020 something but I hope it gets

00:47:58.920 reversed because zero hedge is

00:48:00.240 actually a pretty interesting

00:48:02.500 site it doesn't mean they're

00:48:05.300 right all the time but the

00:48:06.320 other sites are not either so

00:48:08.640 let me get to Trump's horrible

00:48:12.040 horrible mistake this is one of

00:48:15.160 the biggest mistakes you'll ever

00:48:16.300 see politically strategically and

00:48:18.600 persuasion wise so as you know I've

00:48:20.580 been complaining that the United

00:48:23.400 States has not immediately closed

00:48:25.240 down incoming flights from China

00:48:27.260 well it turns out that some of

00:48:29.100 the airlines themselves are

00:48:30.420 starting to close down traffic

00:48:33.000 Australia just banned incoming

00:48:35.140 flights Hong Kong did so other

00:48:38.060 countries are doing things and I

00:48:39.320 kept asking why are we not doing

00:48:41.760 that or at least why isn't why

00:48:44.940 isn't the government explaining why

00:48:46.540 we're not doing it yes as of an

00:48:49.760 hour ago somebody said in the

00:48:52.340 comments that did we close it down

00:48:55.460 an hour ago did that happen can

00:48:57.220 somebody somebody told me in the

00:48:59.300 comments if that happened I don't

00:49:00.560 know if that's true that might not

00:49:02.500 be true so here's here's why it's

00:49:07.400 dumb on the strategy level political

00:49:09.780 strategy level it's one of the dumbest

00:49:11.720 things I've ever seen in my life

00:49:13.100 there's no world in which Trump would

00:49:15.620 lose votes if he acted too

00:49:19.240 conservatively in other words if he

00:49:21.680 stopped incoming flights more than

00:49:24.900 people thought should have been done

00:49:26.400 even if it hurt the economy a little

00:49:29.300 bit it wouldn't hurt it that much

00:49:30.560 because it only affects travelers it

00:49:32.780 wouldn't affect trade trade with China

00:49:35.100 would be exactly the same and travel

00:49:37.760 probably wouldn't have much of a

00:49:39.180 impact because 30 days later people

00:49:41.320 would make the trips that they

00:49:42.460 postponed but so it was a as far as I

00:49:48.680 can tell unless there was corrupt

00:49:50.420 intent which you always have to

00:49:51.880 suspect in these situations the

00:49:54.380 corruption being not necessarily

00:49:55.700 Trump's but something something in

00:49:58.740 the government it is a dumb risk

00:50:02.860 management to not do the thing that's

00:50:05.540 free and then take the risk that's very

00:50:08.460 expensive because if a number of

00:50:10.920 people die and it could be a very small

00:50:12.480 number if 10 people die of the

00:50:14.600 coronavirus in the United States and

00:50:17.200 we can track it back to the fact that

00:50:18.860 the airport wasn't that the flights

00:50:21.020 weren't locked down sooner people will

00:50:23.940 assume that was the case anyway that's

00:50:26.380 really going to cost Trump so he could

00:50:28.840 lose votes by doing what he did but he

00:50:33.080 could never lose votes if he went the

00:50:34.640 other way why in the world would a

00:50:37.760 politician in an election year do the

00:50:40.500 thing that could lose him votes when he

00:50:42.240 could do the thing that wouldn't lose

00:50:43.400 him votes right it's in it's

00:50:45.140 unexplained and that's why you have to

00:50:47.140 you have to think corruption somewhere

00:50:49.800 somewhere in the government there's

00:50:52.160 something going on it doesn't mean it's

00:50:54.460 Trump himself but he's not fixing it

00:50:56.780 he's not overriding it he has the power

00:50:59.960 I think right he's a dictator now he has

00:51:02.580 the power just kidding all right but

00:51:07.060 here's so that so far everything I've

00:51:09.560 said I've said before here's the new

00:51:10.960 point I hate to even bring it up

00:51:14.840 because it's sort of devastating you

00:51:18.920 know all the all of the pushback that

00:51:21.900 Trump got with the so-called Muslim 0.97

00:51:24.080 ban right so the Muslim ban which is

00:51:28.620 what his critics called it he was

00:51:31.700 accused of just not letting people in

00:51:34.280 because they were different religion

00:51:36.240 or ethnicity or whatever religion

00:51:38.560 mostly so he was accused of being

00:51:40.420 anti-Muslim he's expanded the number of

00:51:43.480 countries and I don't think they're all

00:51:45.300 majority Muslim countries but he's 0.99

00:51:47.400 expanded them all and so he's you know

00:51:50.380 it brings up that issue again all right

00:51:52.700 so one of the big the president's biggest

00:51:55.100 problems was that it appeared that he

00:51:58.280 was blocking people from coming into the

00:52:00.380 country just because they were Muslim 1.00

00:52:02.280 that was that's what the critic said

00:52:04.740 it's not what was actually happening but

00:52:06.760 that's what the critic said he had a he

00:52:09.860 had a play with this corona coronavirus to

00:52:13.500 absolve himself and he didn't take it it's

00:52:17.980 one of the biggest miss opportunities you'll

00:52:19.840 ever see now let me connect the dots because

00:52:22.500 so far you don't know what I'm talking

00:52:23.740 about probably the corona virus is almost

00:52:29.080 perfectly analogous to radical Islamic belief

00:52:35.080 not regular Islamic mainstream ordinary

00:52:38.820 Islamic religious person I'm talking

00:52:41.460 about just the radical ones who want to

00:52:43.420 kill people because the Muslim population 1.00

00:52:46.940 mostly innocent has a little bit of a

00:52:50.500 idea of virus in it that you could call the

00:52:54.060 radical terrorist element just a little bit

00:52:57.600 of a larger population has that problem

00:52:59.680 identical to big population of Chinese

00:53:04.320 nationalists or people who've been to China

00:53:06.360 almost all of them do not have the

00:53:09.100 coronavirus virus the vast majority of

00:53:12.340 ordinary Chinese travelers have no 1.00

00:53:15.180 coronavirus but a very small amount do and

00:53:20.000 we treated we treated the the Muslim country

00:53:26.100 ban as if we would treat all the people with

00:53:30.860 the same risk level simply because we can't

00:53:33.100 determine who are the dangerous ones we

00:53:35.540 classified the whole group as potentially

00:53:38.820 dangerous just because we can't tell the

00:53:40.600 individuals within it and then the corona virus

00:53:43.400 comes it's exactly analogous I mean there are

00:53:47.280 lots of difference and you know trade

00:53:49.960 agreements and our relationship and things

00:53:52.320 with China so they're big differences but

00:53:54.000 the way the human mind processes things is

00:53:58.340 that we see why is this different why is the

00:54:03.320 why is the why is the virus being treated

00:54:06.620 differently in terms of allowing people into

00:54:08.920 the country than the Muslim ban when in fact both

00:54:13.420 of those are large communities who are

00:54:15.160 overwhelmingly innocent of anything but just

00:54:18.200 a small amount are infected the Chinese

00:54:22.000 some of them with that virus the Muslim 1.00

00:54:25.780 countries that are banned just a few of them

00:54:28.100 with terrorism here's the problem makes it

00:54:33.900 look racist makes it look racist because if

00:54:38.800 you can't explain to me why those two

00:54:40.520 situations are treated differently where's my

00:54:43.200 mind going to go so people keep saying did

00:54:46.820 it it did something happen this morning

00:54:48.960 because I did not see a news report about

00:54:53.120 banning travel I saw only that we banned

00:54:56.700 travel to China so let's let's check it in

00:55:01.600 in any event it took too long so it doesn't

00:55:04.180 really change what happened I'm just looking

00:55:12.560 down I don't see it on the headline

00:55:15.020 yeah I don't see it as a headline someone

00:55:25.940 needs to catch up well I just looked at all

00:55:28.940 the CNN headlines and there's nothing there

00:55:30.800 about restricting incoming flights so mandatory

00:55:35.840 quarantines now let's let's do a fact check

00:55:38.280 on that my my larger point remains the same

00:55:41.180 because I have assumed all along that we

00:55:44.060 would reach a point where we had to stop the

00:55:46.360 flights so the fact that he stopped them does

00:55:49.180 not make it still not a gigantic error because

00:55:53.460 the error was waiting this long you know if if if the

00:55:57.500 virus takes off in this country it's just going to

00:56:00.200 look like the greatest political mistake of all

00:56:02.140 time but on a persuasion level he had a chance to

00:56:06.540 get rid of his biggest problem I would say Trump's

00:56:09.620 biggest problem was that so-called Muslim ban that

00:56:13.280 wasn't really a Muslim ban it was about a ban about

00:56:15.980 we don't know who in that group is going to be the

00:56:18.100 dangerous ones if he had done just exactly the same

00:56:21.020 thing with the virus people would say oh okay I get

00:56:23.920 it now I get it whenever there's a big group and you

00:56:27.800 can't tell which ones are the dangerous ones you

00:56:30.300 temporarily ban them all until you can sort things out

00:56:34.320 and figure out what's safe he could have treated both these

00:56:37.700 situations the same and it would have absolutely absolved

00:56:41.740 him at least to some people it would have absolved him from

00:56:47.040 the claim that the Muslim ban was about Muslims instead it goes the

00:56:50.920 other way what biggest one of the biggest mistakes I've ever

00:56:54.080 seen him make persuasion wise because it was free money that was

00:56:58.760 free money that the president should have just looked at that table full of

00:57:03.040 free money and said I'm just going to temporarily ban things I win on the

00:57:07.620 Muslim ban I win on being rough on China I win on being cautious and 1.00

00:57:12.780 protecting the country win win win win win win and he took the losing path I

00:57:18.280 can't explain it unless there's massive corruption somewhere in

00:57:22.300 it doesn't mean that it's Trump could be whoever's advising him could be

00:57:27.040 Congress Senate I don't know could be anybody but there's something corrupt

00:57:32.280 going on there all right somebody says it's already banned so I'm

00:57:38.460 going to go check the news it could there could be a reason that CNN does not

00:57:43.140 have that in the headlines you might I have to check because there's a little

00:57:49.140 confusion about what got banned so I'm not sure that those of you who are

00:57:53.700 saying that we've banned those flights might have only banned it in one

00:57:57.340 direction but let me check on that that's a it's an open question we'll go

00:58:01.000 check on that together and that's all I got for today see you tomorrow

00:58:05.040 so

00:58:09.440 you

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 01, 2020

Episode 805 Scott Adams： The #Unpeachment, Coronavirus, Bernie Surging, Our New Dictator

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