Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 842 Scott Adams： Biden, Coronavirus, MSNBC Trying to do Math and Other Disasters

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00:01:12.860 We'll be talking about the coronavirus, but first, some politics, some fun stuff.

00:01:19.440 Here's the least important news you'll ever hear.

00:01:23.320 The jobs numbers are really good.

00:01:28.980 It's such a tragedy that we're getting job numbers that are just crazy good.

00:01:35.720 Like, you know, trashing expectations that are so good.

00:01:39.120 But they're for the last month.

00:01:43.280 So we're going to see a little dip in the economy.

00:01:46.600 There's no question about that.

00:01:48.480 Might not be as big as people think.

00:01:50.420 I don't think it's going to be toward the worst case or anywhere near it.

00:01:53.860 I think it'll be a blip.

00:01:55.200 I think in a year we'll be back at 100%.

00:01:58.420 But those job numbers are a good reminder of this concept.

00:02:07.580 That you need to be strong to get ready for surprises.

00:02:11.960 You know, the black swan event.

00:02:14.580 The thing you didn't see coming.

00:02:17.040 And this is really relevant to the question of climate change, isn't it?

00:02:21.520 Because if you use all of your ammunition on one emergency, how much do you have left for the next emergency?

00:02:31.380 And how many emergencies are there that have global economic disaster potential?

00:02:36.900 Well, you know, I've been saying for years that if we were to spend, you know, whatever is we consider our excess financial ability, if we move it to climate change, that could be a great thing for saving the world from climate change, if that risk turns out to be what the scientists say.

00:02:57.260 But what about the other stuff?

00:03:00.820 People always say you should definitely, you know, even if you don't believe climate change is going to kill us because there's a risk and it's so big and it would destroy the entire planet, you should put all of your resources there to drive that risk to zero.

00:03:15.300 And I've been saying since the beginning, hello, that doesn't make sense.

00:03:20.500 That only makes sense in a world with one risk.

00:03:23.620 In a world with multiple risks that could all take you out, you need to be ready for all of them.

00:03:30.580 And sometimes the best thing you can do is to keep your economy and your people as healthy as possible so that when they take the punch, they can get up.

00:03:41.020 And that's where President Trump has brought us.

00:03:44.700 And I give credit to Obama.

00:03:46.680 I'm not the guy who says Trump did everything right, Obama did everything wrong.

00:03:49.940 I think it took two presidents in two different times with two different personalities, and they were both well fitted for their time, I think.

00:03:57.760 I'm alone in that opinion.

00:03:59.760 But we got to this point where the United States is very strong.

00:04:05.120 And we got here at a point when we needed to be strong.

00:04:08.080 So that might be one of President Trump's greatest accomplishments is to toughen us up and, you know, make the border a big question and make the economy a big question.

00:04:22.980 And we're probably in stronger shape than we could have been without toughening up.

00:04:28.700 So that's good.

00:04:29.200 But I wouldn't make anything from the jobs numbers, except it's better than if it were bad.

00:04:36.580 So the news from Afghanistan and Syria, without getting into the details, are everybody smart is pretty sure that if we leave, or at least not paying attention to either of those places, Afghanistan is more about leaving.

00:04:52.980 Syria is more about should we be more involved in Idlib or not.

00:04:56.580 And the president's made the adult decision.

00:05:00.860 He's made the parent decision that when we leave, those people, those poor people in those regions are going to get slaughtered.

00:05:11.900 But if we stayed, it kind of doesn't make sense because we would just be postponing the inevitable because they were going to get slaughtered anyway.

00:05:21.320 It happens slower.

00:05:22.780 It will happen when we leave eventually.

00:05:24.200 So there wasn't any path to success.

00:05:27.840 And it's a real tough decision, but it's the right one, to get out when there's no path to success.

00:05:34.500 And the president's taken that choice.

00:05:37.080 I applaud it.

00:05:38.880 But you have to have, you know, sympathy, empathy for the people who we are leaving behind.

00:05:44.840 They will be slaughtered.

00:05:45.940 But to keep it in context, there are lots of places in the world that we could put the same amount of effort to save the same amount of lives.

00:05:53.940 It's not the one place.

00:05:56.080 It's just not the one place that needs help where people are dying unnecessarily.

00:06:00.580 We could help all of them if we had enough money, but we don't.

00:06:04.900 So we've got to call our shots.

00:06:07.440 I look at, you know, everything from the coronavirus to the wars to the economy as part of a big system.

00:06:14.800 And you want the system to be as strong as possible.

00:06:19.120 And it's an ugly truth that the system is probably strongest when the biggest player is the strongest.

00:06:30.040 Now, I can't prove that.

00:06:32.660 So I'll put it out there and you can wrestle with it.

00:06:35.380 But let me say it again.

00:06:36.400 I think the world is strongest when its most important player is strongest.

00:06:42.660 Now, that assumes that the most important player is a benevolent kind of force.

00:06:47.980 And I think the United States is.

00:06:49.340 I'm not talking about, you know, Hitler or Putin being the strongest in the world.

00:06:53.600 But if the United States, the most, I would say, most productive, well-intentioned player,

00:07:00.620 the stronger we are, the better the whole world is.

00:07:04.440 Because we're the ones who are going to be able to dole out help.

00:07:08.280 And, you know, we're sort of an anchor that could give the rest of the world some optimism that things can improve.

00:07:18.160 If you let the United States have the same amount of problems that the other countries had,

00:07:24.000 we would be brought down to their problems.

00:07:26.220 And you would have the international relations equivalent of socialism.

00:07:30.680 We have sort of, just by analogy, not in actuality, but by analogy,

00:07:38.640 the way the United States operates, which is staying selfish to a point.

00:07:43.720 We give some international aid, but it's really trivial.

00:07:46.820 Where the United States remains selfish,

00:07:49.760 but I would argue that's what makes the entire system work best.

00:07:53.120 In the same way that, in capitalism, looking out for your own profits kind of makes everybody better off,

00:08:00.040 even if it doesn't sound like you should, even if it doesn't sound kind.

00:08:04.940 So I think the United States is likely to be one of the most, well, probably the most productive player,

00:08:13.040 just by being healthy.

00:08:15.440 All right.

00:08:15.700 You're all laughing, I know, this morning about the amazing math errors that we're watching in the media.

00:08:23.800 It started with a tweet from one Rivas Mikitas, or possibly Mikita Rivas.

00:08:35.640 It's one of those names, I don't know which is the first name.

00:08:38.400 I think it's Mikita Rivas.

00:08:39.680 So she tweeted, and I'll paraphrase, but she tweeted that Bloomberg spent $500 million on his campaign,

00:08:48.820 and all he got was some delegates out of American Samoa,

00:08:52.840 which most of you didn't know even existed until this week.

00:08:57.200 So congratulations.

00:08:58.720 There's something called in America Samoa, and now you all know it exists.

00:09:03.280 I'm not sure I knew it existed last week.

00:09:05.980 So I'm certainly not calling you uninformed.

00:09:10.520 You know, when we're talking about it, I think to myself, oh yeah, I've heard of that.

00:09:14.420 I've heard of America Samoa.

00:09:16.400 Now tell me where it is.

00:09:19.020 And I don't feel guilty one bit that I've not spent much time understanding where America Samoa is.

00:09:28.800 Anyway, back to the tweet.

00:09:29.860 So this presumably left-leaning person, I assume, tweets that Bloomberg spent $500 million

00:09:40.460 just to get a couple of delegates at America Samoa,

00:09:44.400 and then goes on to say that instead of spending that $500 million,

00:09:51.160 given that there are only 327 million people in the United States,

00:09:55.060 that Bloomberg could have given a million dollars to each citizen of the United States,

00:09:58.780 and wouldn't that make everybody's life better?

00:10:03.880 What?

00:10:07.240 So you're probably doing the math in your head, and you just said to yourself,

00:10:11.560 Scott, isn't that math off by a million?

00:10:19.060 Yes, it is.

00:10:20.380 It is off by a million.

00:10:22.820 So, but that's not bad enough.

00:10:28.560 You know, somebody making a dumb math mistake, or a typo, or using a word wrong, or something,

00:10:34.360 a spelling error, in a tweet, I'm the first one to tell you it doesn't mean anything.

00:10:40.820 Right?

00:10:41.080 I've made a lot of tweet mistakes, some of them pretty bad.

00:10:46.160 So I'm not the one who's going to jump on somebody for having a brain flaw on a tweet.

00:10:55.120 But it didn't end there.

00:10:58.340 It got better.

00:11:00.060 Yeah, it got better.

00:11:00.680 MSNBC, Brian Williams, does a segment in which he's talking to Mara Gray,

00:11:06.400 who's on the New York Times editorial board.

00:11:09.440 And they bring up this tweet, and they show the graphic.

00:11:13.580 Now, showing the graphic indicates that this was planned,

00:11:17.420 went through producers and editors, probably a number of people saw it.

00:11:21.360 And they put it on the air, and then they discussed it.

00:11:25.520 And between Brian Williams and Mara Gray of the New York Times editorial board,

00:11:30.440 they also laughed, but not at the tweet.

00:11:35.360 They weren't laughing because the math was wrong by a million.

00:11:42.000 No.

00:11:43.380 They were laughing because they thought it was accurate.

00:11:46.240 And they thought it was a good point.

00:11:48.220 That Bloomberg should have spent a million dollars

00:11:53.100 and just given it to every citizen in the United States,

00:11:57.900 and we'd all be rich.

00:11:59.520 Pretty good idea, right?

00:12:01.780 And nobody stopped the game.

00:12:05.700 There were no refs to say,

00:12:07.780 whoop, tweet, tweet, Brian Williams, Mara Gray, foul.

00:12:14.200 You can't put that on the air.

00:12:15.640 Because people are going to believe that that's actually real math.

00:12:20.640 It's going to be kind of embarrassing.

00:12:23.100 But no whistle was sounded, and so that went on.

00:12:26.280 And they are getting absolutely pilloried today.

00:12:31.260 I do not envy Brian Williams and Mara Gray's week,

00:12:36.420 maybe their month.

00:12:38.320 I don't know if you can ever recover from this.

00:12:40.800 Now, again, let's be fair.

00:12:46.300 Do you think that Mara Gray and Brian Williams

00:12:49.640 can do math well enough to know that this is wrong?

00:12:53.960 And the answer is yes.

00:12:55.500 Yes, of course.

00:12:57.200 Neither of them are so dumb

00:12:58.540 that they don't know this math is wrong.

00:13:01.680 But why did they act like they didn't know?

00:13:04.580 Why did they put it on the air?

00:13:06.160 And the answer is it's an optical illusion.

00:13:10.200 And I'm using that in a figurative sense.

00:13:13.380 It's not actually optical.

00:13:15.220 So there's something about this little tweet

00:13:17.560 that is weirdly, cleverly misleading.

00:13:23.460 Because if you just read it fast,

00:13:26.560 hey, he gave $500 million to the campaign,

00:13:31.880 327 million people, that's a million dollars a piece.

00:13:34.500 We could have all had a million dollars.

00:13:36.000 If you just say it fast,

00:13:38.120 you actually think it does make sense.

00:13:41.480 But I think the reason you make sense

00:13:43.820 is because it made sense to other people.

00:13:47.280 See where I'm going with this?

00:13:49.000 This has been studied quite a bit.

00:13:51.320 If you put a bunch of people in the room,

00:13:53.200 and let's say nine of them are working for the researcher,

00:13:56.760 so they're in on the joke,

00:13:59.560 and one of them is not

00:14:00.560 and doesn't know that he's the only one in the room

00:14:03.140 who's not in on it,

00:14:04.500 if nine people give an opinion that's ridiculous,

00:14:08.960 you can test this.

00:14:10.040 It's very well tested.

00:14:13.020 The tenth person will be positive

00:14:15.880 those nine people are wrong

00:14:17.440 and still agree with them.

00:14:20.460 Very easily just say,

00:14:21.800 okay, it must be me.

00:14:23.820 If nine people are all on this crazy opinion,

00:14:26.920 yeah, I'll go there too.

00:14:30.900 So peer pressure overcomes math

00:14:34.900 and common sense and your own judgment

00:14:37.360 all the time.

00:14:38.180 It's easily proven.

00:14:39.620 So if you're laughing at Brian Williams

00:14:41.900 and Mara Gray for being bad at math, 0.99

00:14:45.220 that's probably not exactly what's happening.

00:14:49.300 You should feel sorry for them

00:14:51.440 because they got in a little cognitive trap.

00:14:55.120 And I'm going to say this.

00:14:56.980 You're not going to like it.

00:14:59.600 It could have happened to a lot of people.

00:15:01.820 I'm not going to say it could have happened to everybody

00:15:03.720 because I don't think it would have happened to me.

00:15:06.760 And I'd like to think that most of you

00:15:08.900 it would not have happened to.

00:15:11.700 But if you took a hundred people in the media

00:15:14.360 and you put them in Brian Williams' chair

00:15:18.060 for that exact situation,

00:15:19.840 how many out of a hundred

00:15:21.400 would have caught that?

00:15:25.100 Half?

00:15:26.600 Maybe half?

00:15:27.980 Because, you know,

00:15:29.020 illusions don't fool everybody all the time.

00:15:32.220 But I'm going to show him some empathy

00:15:35.580 for this being a cognitive illusion,

00:15:38.880 not a math problem,

00:15:40.180 which would look just stupid.

00:15:41.740 Now, I do say all the time that

00:15:43.020 one of the problems with the media

00:15:45.660 is that they're not trained in economics

00:15:47.580 and science and engineering

00:15:49.740 and other things that would be useful

00:15:51.100 for them to give the public

00:15:53.100 a good idea of what's going on.

00:15:55.760 But I don't know if that's the case here.

00:16:01.160 I do think that if they had been economists,

00:16:03.420 they would be more alert to the problem.

00:16:06.800 So probably the fact that there were no economists

00:16:09.560 or engineers or scientists

00:16:11.060 who looked at this graphic

00:16:12.500 before it went on air

00:16:13.960 probably does mean something.

00:16:16.100 I would like to guess

00:16:16.980 that if you had a hundred engineers

00:16:18.560 and you tried to pull this cognitive trick on them,

00:16:22.700 that almost 100% of them

00:16:25.460 would not fall for it.

00:16:27.520 So they're not innocent

00:16:29.240 for having fallen for a trick

00:16:31.160 because there are other people

00:16:32.920 with wider exposure to things

00:16:35.640 I think would have caught it right away.

00:16:37.160 I'm pretty sure I would have.

00:16:39.920 So, does that mean liberals are dumb

00:16:42.080 and can't do math?

00:16:43.220 Well, as it turns out,

00:16:45.720 we have a very interesting case

00:16:47.280 with a Matt Gaetz tweet

00:16:51.000 about the same time.

00:16:52.900 Matt Gaetz, of course,

00:16:53.800 associated with the right.

00:16:54.760 And what he said was

00:16:56.320 and again, I'll paraphrase,

00:17:00.540 he said that Bloomberg spent $500 million

00:17:03.780 to get those two delegates

00:17:05.500 in America's Samoa

00:17:07.220 and the entire GDP of America's Samoa

00:17:10.600 is only $700 million.

00:17:12.480 So he spent $500 million

00:17:13.740 just to get two delegates

00:17:14.860 and Matt Gaetz says

00:17:16.580 you could have bought

00:17:17.440 you could have bought

00:17:18.580 the entire America's Samoa

00:17:20.420 for $700 million.

00:17:23.620 Do you see anything wrong with that?

00:17:28.200 Because we're laughing about those,

00:17:30.220 we're laughing about Brian Williams

00:17:31.680 and Mara Gray, right?

00:17:33.240 Oh, how dumb they are

00:17:34.560 with that math error,

00:17:36.560 which was really a cognitive trick.

00:17:41.060 But when Matt Gaetz says

00:17:42.560 he should have bought

00:17:43.960 America's Samoa

00:17:45.000 for $700 million

00:17:47.520 because that's

00:17:48.240 their entire GDP.

00:17:50.680 Does that make sense?

00:17:52.560 Now, I'm not talking about

00:17:53.520 the question of whether

00:17:54.360 or not it's for sale

00:17:55.440 because obviously

00:17:56.200 he's speaking in the Twitter way

00:17:59.340 of hyperbole

00:18:01.000 and just having fun.

00:18:02.500 It's not as serious

00:18:03.380 in any way.

00:18:04.600 But let me explain

00:18:05.660 something about the GDP.

00:18:08.740 That's not what makes

00:18:10.100 the price tag of your state

00:18:11.980 or your country

00:18:12.560 or your region

00:18:13.340 or your whatever the hell 0.62

00:18:14.620 America's Samoa is.

00:18:16.860 That's not what does that.

00:18:19.820 I'm going to help you,

00:18:21.800 Mark or Richard.

00:18:23.580 Richard says this is boring,

00:18:24.980 so we're going to make him

00:18:25.700 go away. 0.82

00:18:27.280 Goodbye.

00:18:32.420 Here's the thing.

00:18:33.740 The price or the value

00:18:35.080 that you would pay

00:18:35.920 for a country or a state,

00:18:37.560 should it be for sale,

00:18:39.080 be it Greenland

00:18:40.080 or America's Samoa

00:18:41.080 or anywhere else,

00:18:42.240 is not the GDP.

00:18:44.700 Because the GDP

00:18:45.780 is just how much

00:18:48.080 they do per year

00:18:48.960 in economic activity.

00:18:50.240 It has nothing to do

00:18:51.280 with what you would pay

00:18:52.160 for the country.

00:18:53.380 So,

00:18:54.620 now,

00:18:55.700 does Matt Gaetz

00:18:56.580 know what I just said?

00:18:58.060 Does he know

00:18:58.780 that the GDP

00:18:59.540 is not telling you

00:19:00.900 the price tag

00:19:01.920 of a region?

00:19:02.940 Yeah,

00:19:03.360 he knows that.

00:19:04.460 Of course he knows that.

00:19:06.160 But when I saw the tweet,

00:19:07.340 I said to myself,

00:19:08.240 oh,

00:19:08.600 here it comes.

00:19:10.160 All the nitpickers

00:19:10.960 are going to say,

00:19:13.200 Matt Gaetz,

00:19:13.960 what don't you understand

00:19:15.100 about economics?

00:19:17.040 The GDP

00:19:17.800 doesn't tell you

00:19:18.580 the price of the country.

00:19:19.560 I mean,

00:19:19.760 it's related.

00:19:20.840 It can tell you

00:19:21.740 a sizing

00:19:22.840 relative to others,

00:19:24.180 so it's useful for that.

00:19:25.440 But it's not

00:19:25.820 the price tag

00:19:26.420 of the country.

00:19:26.880 So I looked

00:19:30.100 in the comments

00:19:31.340 to see how many people

00:19:33.160 would say,

00:19:34.080 Matt,

00:19:34.320 you got this all wrong.

00:19:36.400 And there weren't any.

00:19:38.060 So apparently,

00:19:39.500 apparently nobody noticed

00:19:42.160 when Matt Gaetz

00:19:43.660 said that Bloomberg

00:19:44.880 could have bought

00:19:45.400 America's Samoa

00:19:46.180 for the value

00:19:47.100 of their GDP,

00:19:47.780 which makes no sense

00:19:48.800 at all.

00:19:49.960 And nobody nitpicked him.

00:19:51.420 And I thought,

00:19:52.120 did they not nitpick him

00:19:53.280 because they know

00:19:54.000 he's not being serious

00:19:55.000 and he knows

00:19:56.320 that you don't

00:19:57.180 pay the GDP

00:19:58.240 as the price tag?

00:20:00.040 Or do they not know?

00:20:02.460 It's an open question.

00:20:03.760 All right,

00:20:03.960 let's talk about

00:20:04.460 something else.

00:20:06.620 Bill Clinton

00:20:07.520 found a way

00:20:08.980 to make things worse

00:20:10.980 for Monica Lewinsky.

00:20:13.700 So,

00:20:14.820 decades after

00:20:16.080 poor Monica Lewinsky 1.00

00:20:18.360 goes through this ordeal,

00:20:20.060 something that,

00:20:20.800 you know,

00:20:21.020 lives with her forever,

00:20:23.000 and you think,

00:20:23.920 well,

00:20:24.180 maybe she's finally

00:20:24.900 getting used to it.

00:20:25.820 You know,

00:20:26.600 you can get used

00:20:27.240 to anything

00:20:27.640 after a while.

00:20:28.900 And then there's

00:20:29.800 this Netflix documentary,

00:20:31.780 which is not kind

00:20:34.940 to Monica Lewinsky,

00:20:37.320 but accidentally.

00:20:39.220 And so Bill Clinton

00:20:40.120 was talking about

00:20:40.920 essentially what was

00:20:42.040 his motivation

00:20:42.760 or why did he have

00:20:44.140 this extramarital affair

00:20:45.980 with Monica Lewinsky.

00:20:47.400 And he said it was,

00:20:49.020 quote,

00:20:49.220 that there was a lot

00:20:49.920 of stress on the job.

00:20:51.960 Being the president

00:20:52.740 was giving him

00:20:54.000 a lot of anxiety

00:20:54.900 and he thought

00:20:56.260 that having this affair

00:20:57.560 with Monica Lewinsky

00:20:58.540 would be a way

00:20:59.500 of managing my anxieties.

00:21:03.760 Now,

00:21:06.080 first choice,

00:21:09.360 just don't talk

00:21:10.200 about it anymore.

00:21:11.700 That's first choice.

00:21:12.760 if you want

00:21:14.720 to be kind

00:21:15.400 to Monica Lewinsky,

00:21:18.380 don't do the documentary.

00:21:19.960 And if you do,

00:21:20.600 don't talk about it.

00:21:21.760 And if you talk about it,

00:21:22.820 don't say anything new.

00:21:24.100 Don't say anything new.

00:21:25.820 Don't surprise us.

00:21:28.080 Bill Clinton

00:21:28.740 comes up

00:21:29.640 with saying

00:21:30.260 that Monica Lewinsky

00:21:31.240 was nothing

00:21:32.080 but a way

00:21:32.640 of managing

00:21:33.340 his anxieties.

00:21:34.380 That is one

00:21:35.860 of the most

00:21:36.300 insulting things

00:21:37.440 I have ever heard

00:21:38.520 in my entire life.

00:21:40.680 Am I wrong?

00:21:42.240 Imagine you're

00:21:42.940 Monica Lewinsky

00:21:43.660 and you're reading

00:21:44.920 that Bill Clinton

00:21:45.840 only had a relationship

00:21:47.200 with you

00:21:47.780 to manage

00:21:49.080 his anxiety.

00:21:51.220 Ouch.

00:21:52.480 That's like

00:21:53.220 the biggest

00:21:53.760 dickhead move 0.89

00:21:55.440 I've ever seen

00:21:56.360 in my life.

00:21:58.240 Seriously,

00:21:59.060 that's horrible.

00:22:00.540 So,

00:22:01.160 you know,

00:22:01.620 I apologize

00:22:02.500 on behalf

00:22:03.780 of the United States

00:22:04.920 for electing

00:22:05.640 Bill Clinton

00:22:06.220 who would say that

00:22:07.920 decades after

00:22:09.560 the wound

00:22:10.800 is healing.

00:22:12.560 I mean,

00:22:12.840 that's messed up.

00:22:14.080 Isn't it?

00:22:14.880 That's messed up.

00:22:16.200 To me,

00:22:16.620 that looks like

00:22:17.280 taking a wound

00:22:18.660 that had closed

00:22:19.360 and just opening it up

00:22:20.580 for no reason at all

00:22:21.960 except,

00:22:22.920 I don't know,

00:22:23.420 what,

00:22:23.680 to feel good about yourself?

00:22:25.380 Bill Clinton?

00:22:26.240 Don't be proud of that.

00:22:28.240 All right.

00:22:31.400 I tweeted

00:22:32.240 one of the worst

00:22:34.660 tweets of my life

00:22:36.560 in which I called

00:22:37.740 something

00:22:38.180 a fatal kill shot.

00:22:40.240 Well,

00:22:40.560 you might imagine

00:22:41.180 that people on Twitter

00:22:42.200 said,

00:22:42.720 a fatal kill shot

00:22:44.620 is a little redundant,

00:22:46.060 Scott.

00:22:46.660 A little redundant.

00:22:47.440 And you're right.

00:22:48.860 But it was on this.

00:22:50.740 So,

00:22:51.500 President Trump

00:22:52.200 tweeted

00:22:52.920 a quote,

00:22:54.420 I guess it came from

00:22:55.260 Lisa Marie Booth,

00:22:56.460 probably on Fox,

00:22:57.840 probably on

00:22:58.420 Ed Henry's show

00:22:59.180 based on

00:22:59.660 who he tagged.

00:23:00.860 And the quote

00:23:03.120 that the president

00:23:04.220 thought was worthy

00:23:05.160 of retweeting

00:23:05.840 to his 73 million

00:23:07.180 followers

00:23:07.680 was,

00:23:08.880 Joe Biden

00:23:09.540 represents the past.

00:23:11.580 President Trump

00:23:12.220 represents the future.

00:23:15.140 That's really strong.

00:23:17.360 Because

00:23:17.880 even if you like

00:23:19.220 everything that

00:23:20.340 Biden

00:23:21.320 is offering,

00:23:23.780 it is

00:23:24.200 unambiguously

00:23:25.320 more like,

00:23:27.100 and he's selling it

00:23:28.060 this way,

00:23:28.420 more like,

00:23:28.980 going back

00:23:30.120 to the

00:23:30.440 Obama world.

00:23:31.960 Now,

00:23:32.440 even if you think

00:23:33.180 that was a good idea,

00:23:35.340 and a lot of people do,

00:23:36.480 if I just explained it

00:23:37.640 to you that way,

00:23:38.360 if I said,

00:23:39.340 do you want to stay

00:23:40.040 in this

00:23:40.480 Trump-like

00:23:41.960 administration world

00:23:43.660 that has

00:23:44.760 this set of

00:23:46.280 problems,

00:23:46.960 according to you,

00:23:48.060 or would you like

00:23:48.980 to be in more

00:23:49.760 of an Obama-like

00:23:50.900 world

00:23:51.400 where we're not

00:23:52.520 like that?

00:23:53.600 Now,

00:23:53.820 if you put the

00:23:54.240 question that way,

00:23:55.000 people say,

00:23:56.100 well,

00:23:56.400 at least a lot of people,

00:23:57.160 Democrats would say,

00:23:58.660 I like that

00:23:59.380 Obama world.

00:24:00.740 Yeah.

00:24:01.440 Yeah,

00:24:01.640 let's do that again.

00:24:03.000 That worked out

00:24:03.460 pretty well.

00:24:04.940 Doing something again,

00:24:06.780 that doesn't sound bad,

00:24:08.140 does it?

00:24:08.980 Doesn't sound bad.

00:24:10.300 Doing something again

00:24:11.400 that was good.

00:24:13.100 But the moment

00:24:13.840 the president,

00:24:14.720 in this case,

00:24:15.880 he picked it up

00:24:16.660 from Lisa Marie Booth,

00:24:18.160 but the moment

00:24:18.820 you see this

00:24:19.600 as you reframe it

00:24:21.240 as Biden's going

00:24:22.980 to take you

00:24:23.520 to the past

00:24:24.340 and Trump

00:24:25.800 is going

00:24:26.100 to take you

00:24:26.480 to the future,

00:24:28.120 the election's over.

00:24:30.860 That's it.

00:24:31.680 That's the election's over.

00:24:32.740 Because everybody

00:24:33.400 who also thinks

00:24:34.620 that the Obama-like style

00:24:36.120 or whatever

00:24:37.080 that they liked

00:24:37.680 about him

00:24:38.000 was good

00:24:38.940 and that we should

00:24:39.600 do it,

00:24:40.240 the moment you tell

00:24:41.500 them that's the past,

00:24:43.840 they'll walk away

00:24:44.520 from it.

00:24:45.420 I mean,

00:24:45.800 mentally walk away

00:24:46.600 from it.

00:24:46.940 They'll still say it,

00:24:47.800 but mentally

00:24:48.400 you don't want

00:24:49.780 to go backwards.

00:24:50.380 We are really,

00:24:52.640 really well,

00:24:54.540 not well designed,

00:24:55.860 we're designed

00:24:56.600 by evolution

00:24:58.060 or whatever you want

00:24:59.060 to,

00:25:01.100 now,

00:25:01.700 I know I have

00:25:02.500 the coronavirus,

00:25:03.780 I don't think,

00:25:06.160 we're very designed

00:25:07.440 to not want

00:25:08.120 to walk backwards,

00:25:09.660 to not want

00:25:10.200 to go backwards,

00:25:11.060 to not want

00:25:11.480 to revisit the past.

00:25:12.680 We're pretty much

00:25:14.140 future-oriented creatures.

00:25:16.020 I think we evolved

00:25:17.560 to care more

00:25:18.760 about the future

00:25:19.360 than the past,

00:25:20.380 that's how

00:25:21.040 you survive.

00:25:24.400 And then I saw

00:25:25.700 Representative McCarthy

00:25:28.500 talking about

00:25:31.040 how Biden

00:25:33.520 would take us

00:25:34.240 backwards.

00:25:35.120 It's the same 0.53

00:25:35.700 thought.

00:25:37.160 So if you see

00:25:38.560 the administration

00:25:39.300 pick up on this,

00:25:40.600 the idea that

00:25:41.380 Biden is taking

00:25:42.480 us backwards,

00:25:43.380 Biden is bringing

00:25:44.120 us back to the past,

00:25:45.400 you don't even have

00:25:46.340 to talk about

00:25:46.840 what that means.

00:25:48.440 You don't even

00:25:48.980 have to address

00:25:49.760 the details

00:25:50.920 of what the past

00:25:51.880 looks like

00:25:52.380 versus what

00:25:53.000 the future

00:25:53.400 looks like.

00:25:54.820 Just that frame

00:25:55.740 alone is the

00:25:56.280 end of the story.

00:25:57.140 It's a devastating

00:25:58.300 frame.

00:25:59.160 If you ever have

00:25:59.760 a chance to do

00:26:00.460 that to a nemesis,

00:26:02.740 watch how well

00:26:03.560 it works.

00:26:03.980 You can use this

00:26:04.560 in the corporate

00:26:05.100 world.

00:26:06.160 If you say

00:26:06.640 somebody comes in

00:26:07.520 and they're in

00:26:07.880 the meeting

00:26:08.220 and they say,

00:26:08.700 hey, let's do

00:26:09.340 this because it

00:26:09.880 worked before.

00:26:11.240 If you're the one

00:26:12.080 who says,

00:26:12.580 you know,

00:26:13.340 let's just not

00:26:14.240 go back to the

00:26:14.960 past,

00:26:15.340 you'd need

00:26:17.380 more of a reason

00:26:18.060 than that.

00:26:18.720 If it worked

00:26:19.320 well in the

00:26:19.760 past,

00:26:20.180 that's a pretty

00:26:20.700 good argument

00:26:21.800 for doing it

00:26:22.420 again.

00:26:23.300 But that's if

00:26:24.260 it's a specific

00:26:25.060 plan.

00:26:26.340 When you're

00:26:26.960 talking about

00:26:27.480 Biden,

00:26:28.000 you're talking

00:26:28.340 about a

00:26:28.800 concept of

00:26:29.600 the past

00:26:30.140 that has

00:26:30.580 some Obama-like

00:26:31.960 quality to it.

00:26:33.500 If you're

00:26:33.940 talking about

00:26:34.380 only concepts,

00:26:36.260 nobody wants

00:26:37.160 to go backwards.

00:26:38.820 All right.

00:26:41.000 Here's another

00:26:41.780 dog that won't

00:26:42.860 be barking.

00:26:43.380 What was one

00:26:44.840 of the biggest

00:26:45.420 complaints about

00:26:46.160 the president

00:26:46.640 for the last

00:26:47.180 four years?

00:26:47.820 Let me tell

00:26:48.180 you.

00:26:49.100 In the top

00:26:50.200 five,

00:26:51.220 maybe in the

00:26:51.760 top three,

00:26:52.740 is that he's

00:26:53.380 mentally incapable.

00:26:56.200 Mentally

00:26:56.700 incapable,

00:26:57.460 meaning that

00:26:57.940 he's losing

00:26:58.400 it,

00:26:58.840 he's got

00:26:59.380 dementia,

00:27:00.460 etc.

00:27:01.880 Have you

00:27:02.340 heard that

00:27:03.260 recently?

00:27:05.540 Is anybody

00:27:06.340 talking about

00:27:07.060 President Trump

00:27:08.320 not having

00:27:10.140 good mental

00:27:11.480 acuity?

00:27:12.180 Well,

00:27:13.720 sometimes you

00:27:14.460 see a little

00:27:14.880 pushback when

00:27:15.780 people are

00:27:16.160 making fun

00:27:16.660 of Joe

00:27:17.000 Biden,

00:27:17.580 but it's

00:27:18.200 only in

00:27:18.600 the pushback

00:27:19.380 way.

00:27:21.160 Because one

00:27:22.180 of the most

00:27:22.540 important things

00:27:23.200 you'll ever

00:27:23.540 learn about

00:27:24.240 the world

00:27:25.180 is that

00:27:26.240 everything is

00:27:27.040 contrast.

00:27:28.860 You should

00:27:29.600 just have

00:27:29.940 that mantra.

00:27:31.020 Just repeat

00:27:32.260 it in your

00:27:32.760 head for the

00:27:33.300 rest of your

00:27:33.740 life.

00:27:34.200 Everything is

00:27:34.840 contrast.

00:27:36.200 Because the

00:27:36.900 moment that

00:27:37.460 Biden became

00:27:38.260 the,

00:27:39.000 people are

00:27:39.640 presuming he's

00:27:40.360 going to be

00:27:40.620 the nominee.

00:27:41.780 I don't

00:27:41.960 think it's

00:27:42.260 done yet,

00:27:43.320 but people

00:27:44.360 are presuming

00:27:44.920 it.

00:27:45.720 He's so

00:27:46.400 obviously

00:27:47.100 mentally

00:27:47.760 more frail

00:27:50.000 that that

00:27:51.560 causes a

00:27:52.120 new contrast

00:27:52.640 with President

00:27:53.480 Trump and

00:27:54.040 it will

00:27:54.320 eliminate,

00:27:55.440 it will

00:27:55.920 eliminate the

00:27:57.480 Democrats

00:27:58.040 one of their

00:27:59.140 top five

00:27:59.860 attacks,

00:28:03.360 which is that

00:28:03.980 President Trump

00:28:04.860 can't put a

00:28:05.900 sentence together.

00:28:06.660 But if you're

00:28:07.960 comparing him

00:28:08.440 to Biden,

00:28:09.040 that argument's

00:28:09.680 gone.

00:28:10.300 It's all

00:28:10.660 gone.

00:28:14.580 I tweeted

00:28:15.420 yesterday that

00:28:16.020 you can't

00:28:16.560 realize how

00:28:17.400 good President

00:28:18.200 Trump is at

00:28:19.560 tweeting and

00:28:20.180 communicating and

00:28:21.040 memes until you

00:28:21.780 see somebody

00:28:22.280 else try it.

00:28:23.580 So Mike

00:28:24.220 Bloomberg tweeted

00:28:25.540 the Star Wars

00:28:26.720 meme in which

00:28:27.540 he was fighting

00:28:28.600 Trump with a

00:28:30.340 lightsaber,

00:28:31.600 and it took

00:28:32.280 about ten

00:28:32.740 minutes for the

00:28:33.460 Trump team to

00:28:34.340 create a brand

00:28:35.100 new response

00:28:36.660 to that from

00:28:37.780 the movie

00:28:38.200 Spaceballs,

00:28:39.080 which itself

00:28:39.640 made fun of

00:28:40.260 the Star Wars

00:28:40.900 franchise,

00:28:42.200 showing a

00:28:42.840 large person

00:28:43.780 holding the

00:28:44.360 head of a

00:28:44.840 small person,

00:28:46.440 and they put

00:28:47.240 the head of

00:28:47.640 the small

00:28:47.960 person,

00:28:48.600 Mike Bloomberg's

00:28:49.320 head on it,

00:28:49.980 and Trump's

00:28:50.400 head on the

00:28:50.760 big person.

00:28:51.580 He's just

00:28:51.980 holding the

00:28:52.440 small one by

00:28:52.980 the head,

00:28:53.700 while the

00:28:54.000 little one's

00:28:54.440 flailing around

00:28:55.080 with the

00:28:55.380 lightsaber and

00:28:58.120 can't reach

00:28:58.500 him.

00:28:59.000 And I

00:28:59.340 thought,

00:29:00.160 oh my

00:29:00.660 God,

00:29:00.960 it's just

00:29:01.300 a slaughter.

00:29:03.020 The Trump

00:29:04.180 team is

00:29:04.700 just so

00:29:05.520 good at

00:29:05.920 this that

00:29:07.020 I don't

00:29:07.560 even see,

00:29:09.160 do you

00:29:09.540 remember there

00:29:10.160 was one

00:29:10.500 point where

00:29:11.100 when Trump

00:29:12.480 was running,

00:29:13.740 there was a

00:29:14.280 lot of

00:29:14.620 criticism about

00:29:15.680 the quality

00:29:16.560 of his

00:29:17.240 campaign and

00:29:18.460 whatever?

00:29:19.440 You don't

00:29:19.880 see that

00:29:20.200 now, do

00:29:20.560 you?

00:29:21.120 Is anybody

00:29:21.840 making fun

00:29:22.640 of the

00:29:23.720 quality of

00:29:24.600 the Trump

00:29:25.180 re-election

00:29:26.160 campaign?

00:29:27.700 How about

00:29:28.460 no?

00:29:30.540 There's a

00:29:31.260 dog that's

00:29:31.700 not barking.

00:29:32.940 Do you

00:29:33.360 hear that

00:29:33.700 dog barking?

00:29:34.700 Oh, the

00:29:35.340 Trump

00:29:35.560 campaign,

00:29:36.160 it can't

00:29:36.540 raise money.

00:29:37.400 Okay, it

00:29:37.960 can raise

00:29:38.320 money.

00:29:38.760 It can

00:29:38.960 raise a

00:29:39.220 lot of

00:29:39.420 money.

00:29:39.660 Oh my

00:29:39.920 God, look

00:29:40.460 how much

00:29:40.740 money it's

00:29:41.100 raising.

00:29:41.900 But the

00:29:42.220 Trump

00:29:42.460 campaign is

00:29:43.600 not good

00:29:44.020 at

00:29:44.180 communicating.

00:29:45.760 Okay, look

00:29:46.320 at that

00:29:46.580 meme.

00:29:47.180 Oh my

00:29:47.560 God, that's

00:29:48.160 a good

00:29:48.400 meme.

00:29:49.120 Look at

00:29:49.420 that ad.

00:29:50.340 Oh my

00:29:51.080 God, that's

00:29:51.660 such a good

00:29:52.200 ad.

00:29:53.680 All right.

00:29:55.340 Ukraine

00:29:55.860 fired its

00:29:56.460 top prosecutor.

00:29:57.940 What the

00:29:58.600 hell?

00:29:58.880 the

00:30:00.300 simulation is

00:30:01.280 just

00:30:01.480 entertaining

00:30:01.940 us like

00:30:02.400 crazy because

00:30:04.100 I don't

00:30:05.640 know how

00:30:05.920 important it

00:30:06.460 is, probably

00:30:06.920 not too

00:30:07.280 important, but

00:30:08.420 Ukraine firing

00:30:09.460 its top

00:30:09.900 prosecutor while

00:30:11.160 Biden is in

00:30:12.780 the news and

00:30:13.700 Trump is in

00:30:14.420 the news.

00:30:15.020 It's just the

00:30:15.980 simulation and

00:30:16.780 code reuse.

00:30:17.640 have you

00:30:20.840 tried talking

00:30:21.480 to anybody

00:30:22.020 who doesn't

00:30:22.720 follow the

00:30:23.260 news about

00:30:24.600 the coronavirus?

00:30:26.300 Has anybody

00:30:26.740 had that

00:30:27.100 experience?

00:30:28.420 Because I've

00:30:28.920 tried to

00:30:30.000 help some

00:30:30.720 people who

00:30:31.340 are not

00:30:31.780 watching the

00:30:32.340 news to

00:30:33.960 be prepared.

00:30:35.320 You know,

00:30:35.500 just to be

00:30:36.020 careful, be

00:30:36.620 prepared.

00:30:38.340 Let me see

00:30:39.620 if you've had

00:30:40.120 this conversation

00:30:40.980 because it's

00:30:41.800 easy for us

00:30:42.420 to think that

00:30:43.660 other people

00:30:44.260 are watching

00:30:44.700 the news.

00:30:45.860 They're not.

00:30:47.640 Most people

00:30:48.500 are not

00:30:49.080 watching the

00:30:49.620 news.

00:30:51.180 And if

00:30:52.800 they're not

00:30:53.140 watching the

00:30:53.660 news, their

00:30:54.480 fear has not

00:30:56.300 been amped up

00:30:57.100 to the level

00:30:57.740 that yours and

00:30:58.480 mine are.

00:30:59.080 If you're

00:30:59.460 watching me

00:30:59.940 right now,

00:31:00.360 you probably

00:31:00.700 watch the

00:31:01.140 news.

00:31:02.220 And it's

00:31:04.520 a mind-boggling

00:31:05.800 experience.

00:31:07.080 Let me give

00:31:07.540 you an example

00:31:08.120 of that

00:31:08.580 conversation.

00:31:10.480 Hey, Bob,

00:31:11.240 did you know

00:31:11.820 the coronavirus

00:31:12.560 is coming and

00:31:13.680 scientists say

00:31:14.740 it's going to

00:31:15.060 be really bad?

00:31:15.860 It's not like

00:31:16.300 the regular

00:31:16.700 flu.

00:31:17.060 A lot of

00:31:17.960 people could

00:31:18.320 die.

00:31:18.740 It could

00:31:18.880 disrupt our

00:31:19.620 economy.

00:31:20.640 Maybe you

00:31:20.980 should, you

00:31:21.740 know, just

00:31:22.340 to be careful,

00:31:23.960 get in a

00:31:24.420 little extra

00:31:24.860 food, just

00:31:26.380 to be careful.

00:31:27.420 Do you know

00:31:27.700 what Bob

00:31:28.080 will say?

00:31:29.180 If he's not

00:31:30.020 watching the

00:31:30.520 news, Bob

00:31:31.740 will say,

00:31:32.820 eh, I'm not

00:31:33.180 worried about

00:31:33.560 it.

00:31:34.720 Then you

00:31:35.420 say, okay,

00:31:36.700 Bob, I hear

00:31:37.980 you when you

00:31:38.400 say you're not

00:31:38.840 worried about

00:31:39.280 it.

00:31:39.820 But what I'm

00:31:40.280 telling you is

00:31:40.880 every expert in

00:31:42.560 the world is

00:31:43.820 pretty sure they

00:31:45.560 should be worried

00:31:46.320 about it.

00:31:47.440 So I hear you

00:31:48.160 that you're not.

00:31:48.940 I'm telling you

00:31:49.600 you should be.

00:31:50.580 And you should

00:31:51.100 get some food

00:31:51.820 in, probably

00:31:52.780 won't need it,

00:31:53.760 just to be

00:31:54.320 careful.

00:31:55.500 And Bob

00:31:55.940 will say,

00:31:56.580 it's just the

00:31:57.560 flu.

00:31:58.560 I go, Bob,

00:31:59.140 Bob, okay,

00:31:59.900 did you hear the

00:32:00.700 part where all

00:32:01.580 the experts in

00:32:02.340 the world say

00:32:03.080 it's not just

00:32:05.040 the flu?

00:32:06.180 This is like a

00:32:07.060 special danger.

00:32:08.320 So you should

00:32:08.800 get ready, Bob.

00:32:10.160 And Bob will

00:32:10.720 say, eh, you

00:32:12.840 can't worry

00:32:13.920 people who are

00:32:14.500 not watching the

00:32:15.160 news.

00:32:15.480 Have you noticed

00:32:15.880 that?

00:32:18.220 Now, some

00:32:19.040 people in the

00:32:19.500 comments say,

00:32:20.120 I'm not worried

00:32:20.660 about it, and

00:32:21.140 we'll talk about

00:32:21.660 that.

00:32:22.580 So apparently,

00:32:23.760 most of you know

00:32:24.820 I live in the

00:32:25.320 Bay Area, outside

00:32:26.380 of San Francisco.

00:32:27.300 There are a couple

00:32:27.700 of cases reported

00:32:28.600 now, and there's

00:32:29.820 another cruise ship

00:32:30.780 that may or may

00:32:31.800 not be infected

00:32:32.580 off the coast

00:32:33.520 that wants to

00:32:34.460 get into San

00:32:35.060 Francisco.

00:32:36.160 So it's here.

00:32:37.060 So if you're

00:32:39.080 waiting for your

00:32:39.740 town to get

00:32:40.420 the first

00:32:40.960 coronavirus

00:32:41.820 confirmation,

00:32:43.820 I'll tell you

00:32:44.980 what it's like.

00:32:46.400 It's here for

00:32:46.920 me.

00:32:48.300 So I'm just

00:32:52.280 going to jump

00:32:52.840 around some

00:32:53.280 topics.

00:32:54.260 There's something

00:32:54.920 about this

00:32:55.460 coronavirus that

00:32:56.340 feels like it's

00:32:56.960 a Green New

00:32:57.640 Deal virus.

00:32:59.580 Because the

00:33:01.780 Green New

00:33:02.180 Deal was all

00:33:03.920 about reducing

00:33:04.620 our use of

00:33:06.180 fossil fuels,

00:33:07.060 and this

00:33:08.160 virus did it 0.56

00:33:09.040 really quickly.

00:33:10.300 So you saw

00:33:11.140 that the

00:33:11.480 pollution cleared

00:33:12.080 up in China,

00:33:12.800 etc.

00:33:13.180 Now people are

00:33:13.860 going back to

00:33:14.360 work, so we

00:33:15.000 do expect the

00:33:15.740 level of

00:33:16.340 pollution to

00:33:16.900 go back up.

00:33:18.500 But I think

00:33:19.640 we may be at

00:33:22.220 a permanent

00:33:23.000 turning point in

00:33:24.480 terms of

00:33:24.980 traffic.

00:33:26.820 Would you

00:33:27.400 agree with

00:33:27.760 that?

00:33:28.540 Are we not

00:33:29.360 at a permanent

00:33:30.320 turning point in

00:33:32.840 terms of

00:33:33.340 traffic?

00:33:34.260 I think we

00:33:34.920 are.

00:33:35.520 We may also be

00:33:36.460 at a turning

00:33:36.880 point in

00:33:37.520 how much

00:33:37.940 AC we

00:33:38.740 use and

00:33:40.100 how often

00:33:40.680 we keep

00:33:40.980 the windows

00:33:41.440 closed and

00:33:42.440 stuff like

00:33:42.980 that.

00:33:43.240 So there

00:33:43.420 could be a

00:33:43.780 lot of

00:33:43.960 different

00:33:44.240 changes.

00:33:45.500 But one

00:33:45.760 of the

00:33:46.000 unintended

00:33:46.540 outcomes of

00:33:49.740 the virus

00:33:50.340 might be

00:33:50.840 that we're

00:33:51.360 permanently

00:33:51.880 more

00:33:52.500 telecommuting.

00:33:53.140 and that

00:33:55.640 could be one

00:33:56.040 of the

00:33:56.220 biggest

00:33:56.440 changes in

00:33:57.180 the world

00:33:57.520 in terms

00:33:57.940 of carbon

00:33:58.440 use.

00:34:02.760 There's

00:34:03.200 some

00:34:03.380 indication

00:34:03.800 that the

00:34:04.280 summer

00:34:04.700 reduces

00:34:06.200 the risk

00:34:09.020 of the

00:34:09.440 virus

00:34:10.080 transmitting.

00:34:11.040 People

00:34:11.240 aren't quite

00:34:11.740 sure why.

00:34:12.620 They've got a

00:34:13.100 number of

00:34:13.500 ideas.

00:34:13.880 One of

00:34:14.100 them is

00:34:14.400 humidity.

00:34:15.680 So I

00:34:16.140 just bought

00:34:16.940 a humidifier

00:34:17.680 for my

00:34:18.080 house.

00:34:19.180 Now,

00:34:19.980 what are

00:34:20.360 the odds

00:34:20.860 that if

00:34:22.260 it's true,

00:34:22.800 I think the

00:34:23.180 experts agree

00:34:23.860 that humidity

00:34:24.520 will decrease

00:34:25.800 the transmission.

00:34:28.740 But does it

00:34:29.580 therefore follow

00:34:30.360 that adding a

00:34:31.480 humidifier to

00:34:32.340 your house

00:34:32.780 would make

00:34:33.400 any difference

00:34:33.920 at all?

00:34:35.160 And I

00:34:36.620 don't know,

00:34:37.140 maybe it only

00:34:37.780 makes a

00:34:38.160 difference if

00:34:38.700 everyone does

00:34:39.540 it.

00:34:39.780 If you only

00:34:40.180 do it in

00:34:40.580 one place,

00:34:42.000 it might

00:34:42.640 make such a

00:34:43.180 small difference

00:34:43.660 it's not

00:34:44.060 worth it.

00:34:45.620 Maybe it's

00:34:46.300 hard to do

00:34:46.800 for more than

00:34:47.420 one room

00:34:47.880 at a time.

00:34:49.060 People are

00:34:49.560 coming in

00:34:49.960 and out.

00:34:50.560 Maybe it

00:34:50.860 doesn't make

00:34:51.240 any difference

00:34:51.680 because people

00:34:52.400 are always

00:34:52.780 in and out

00:34:53.360 anyway.

00:34:54.600 But I

00:34:55.080 got one.

00:34:56.440 Now,

00:34:56.820 I was

00:34:57.040 interested to

00:34:57.600 find that

00:34:57.980 there was

00:34:58.360 no shortage,

00:34:59.180 at least on

00:34:59.640 Amazon.

00:35:00.180 So I

00:35:00.440 ordered it

00:35:00.840 on Amazon,

00:35:01.680 says it'll

00:35:02.060 be here

00:35:02.320 tomorrow.

00:35:03.220 Didn't cost

00:35:03.680 that much.

00:35:04.680 I'm going

00:35:04.920 to put one

00:35:05.280 in.

00:35:05.680 It's just

00:35:05.980 one of the

00:35:06.320 things I

00:35:06.680 can do.

00:35:07.720 And a

00:35:09.120 lot of the

00:35:09.440 things that I

00:35:09.900 plan to do

00:35:10.780 about the

00:35:12.100 coronavirus,

00:35:13.120 I am

00:35:13.620 completely

00:35:14.140 aware,

00:35:15.440 completely

00:35:15.960 aware that

00:35:17.200 there's very

00:35:17.820 small chance

00:35:18.740 that any of

00:35:20.020 the things I

00:35:20.460 do are the

00:35:21.000 thing that

00:35:21.360 makes a

00:35:21.680 difference.

00:35:22.700 But I'm

00:35:23.260 going to take

00:35:23.660 over a

00:35:24.060 sense of

00:35:24.520 control because

00:35:26.180 that's good for

00:35:26.960 my mental

00:35:27.700 state and

00:35:29.140 for the

00:35:29.700 benefit of

00:35:30.160 myself as

00:35:30.840 well as the

00:35:31.540 benefit of

00:35:32.120 you.

00:35:32.400 two, I

00:35:33.240 would like to

00:35:33.740 keep my

00:35:34.100 mental state

00:35:34.720 as calm

00:35:35.680 and functional

00:35:37.260 as possible.

00:35:38.460 So I'm

00:35:38.980 going to do

00:35:39.420 stuff that I

00:35:41.160 consciously know

00:35:42.020 probably doesn't

00:35:42.660 make a lot of

00:35:43.360 difference, but

00:35:44.440 it makes a

00:35:44.840 difference and

00:35:45.940 it's something and

00:35:47.140 I'm going to do

00:35:47.620 it.

00:35:48.200 So it's going to

00:35:48.840 make me feel

00:35:49.340 good, that

00:35:49.900 will make me

00:35:50.320 more productive

00:35:51.000 and capable to

00:35:52.340 help all of

00:35:53.640 you.

00:35:54.100 So think about

00:35:54.800 that as a

00:35:55.400 mental strategy.

00:35:56.660 Find something

00:35:57.180 you can do and

00:35:58.500 then go do it

00:35:59.180 so you feel like

00:36:00.180 you have a little

00:36:00.600 sense of control.

00:36:04.920 Here's my

00:36:05.620 opinion, subject

00:36:07.340 to change.

00:36:10.260 Here's what I

00:36:10.980 think you should

00:36:11.600 not care about.

00:36:13.940 Number one is

00:36:14.560 the vaccine.

00:36:16.340 I don't think

00:36:17.200 you should count

00:36:17.760 on it.

00:36:18.700 I don't think

00:36:19.200 there's necessarily

00:36:20.020 even a high

00:36:20.640 chance we'll

00:36:21.160 ever have one.

00:36:23.260 But I don't

00:36:23.940 think that that

00:36:24.520 means it's the

00:36:25.060 end of the

00:36:25.400 world.

00:36:27.080 So I don't

00:36:27.720 think the

00:36:28.160 vaccine is

00:36:28.880 coming.

00:36:29.120 The other

00:36:29.340 thing I think

00:36:30.440 you should

00:36:30.940 ignore as

00:36:32.700 being possibly

00:36:33.820 good is

00:36:35.160 containment.

00:36:37.080 I don't

00:36:37.720 think there's

00:36:38.100 any chance

00:36:38.620 it will be

00:36:39.060 contained.

00:36:40.820 And I

00:36:42.140 don't think

00:36:42.680 that there's

00:36:43.620 no chance

00:36:46.380 it's going to

00:36:46.700 be contained.

00:36:47.560 And I don't

00:36:47.880 think the

00:36:48.200 vaccine will

00:36:48.960 save us.

00:36:50.700 Here's what I

00:36:51.500 believe is the

00:36:52.600 real strategy

00:36:53.500 that the

00:36:54.460 government can't

00:36:55.380 tell you.

00:36:56.820 I almost

00:36:58.300 hate to say

00:36:58.820 this, but I

00:36:59.340 think if you're

00:37:00.580 watching this

00:37:01.020 periscope, you're

00:37:01.660 probably among

00:37:02.320 the smarter

00:37:03.400 level-headed

00:37:04.380 people, I

00:37:05.440 like to think.

00:37:06.880 And I will

00:37:08.360 start with this

00:37:09.000 assumption.

00:37:10.340 I agree that

00:37:12.120 our government

00:37:12.800 should lie to

00:37:14.300 us whenever

00:37:15.340 that's for the

00:37:16.000 greater good.

00:37:17.180 Now, you

00:37:17.600 could argue that

00:37:18.680 there should

00:37:19.040 never be a

00:37:19.720 never, your

00:37:20.820 government should

00:37:21.300 never lie to

00:37:21.880 you.

00:37:22.600 But I'm not

00:37:23.340 going to have

00:37:23.560 that conversation

00:37:24.200 today.

00:37:24.840 I think there

00:37:25.400 are special

00:37:25.940 cases where it's

00:37:27.480 just better

00:37:27.940 for the

00:37:28.260 government to

00:37:28.820 lie to you.

00:37:29.880 And this

00:37:30.700 might be one

00:37:31.240 of them.

00:37:31.720 It's probably

00:37:32.340 one of them.

00:37:33.840 I think that

00:37:34.760 the government

00:37:35.160 knows that the

00:37:35.880 vaccine isn't

00:37:36.660 going to stop

00:37:37.200 it.

00:37:38.400 I think the

00:37:39.280 government knows

00:37:39.980 that closing

00:37:41.760 borders, as

00:37:42.960 mildly as we've

00:37:44.240 done it, isn't

00:37:44.880 going to stop it.

00:37:45.860 Because we've

00:37:46.540 stopped travel from

00:37:47.920 the high-impact

00:37:49.360 places, but it's

00:37:50.240 in 80 countries

00:37:51.080 now.

00:37:51.780 It's in 80

00:37:52.480 countries, including

00:37:53.340 ours.

00:37:53.700 And we're

00:37:55.380 not stopping

00:37:56.040 travel, apparently,

00:37:57.100 from Italy.

00:37:59.120 So I just saw

00:38:00.800 a tweet from

00:38:01.360 somebody who was

00:38:02.440 on the medical

00:38:03.500 team, went over

00:38:04.280 to Italy, came

00:38:05.400 back to the

00:38:05.840 United States, and

00:38:06.580 nobody even asked

00:38:07.320 her where she

00:38:07.760 was.

00:38:08.540 She was literally

00:38:09.220 in the middle of

00:38:10.420 the coronavirus

00:38:11.160 epidemic, for

00:38:13.160 medical treatment

00:38:14.360 reasons, and

00:38:15.720 nobody asked her

00:38:16.460 when she came

00:38:16.880 back.

00:38:17.640 Now, how many

00:38:18.120 of those are

00:38:18.640 there?

00:38:19.260 I don't know

00:38:19.940 how many there

00:38:20.500 are, but there

00:38:20.940 are enough that

00:38:22.000 the virus is

00:38:22.660 coming.

00:38:22.900 So here's

00:38:23.940 what I believe

00:38:24.620 is the

00:38:25.180 unstated, real

00:38:27.600 strategy.

00:38:28.420 This is based

00:38:29.120 on picking up

00:38:29.920 what all the

00:38:30.800 experts are

00:38:31.320 saying individually

00:38:32.280 and trying to

00:38:33.720 collate it.

00:38:34.560 It seems to me

00:38:35.580 that the strategy

00:38:36.360 is a controlled

00:38:38.180 spread, because 0.78

00:38:40.880 there is no hope

00:38:41.520 of stopping it.

00:38:43.040 There are only

00:38:43.520 two options.

00:38:46.100 Spreads quickly,

00:38:47.080 because we don't

00:38:47.720 do anything, or

00:38:49.280 we fight like

00:38:50.960 hell to slow

00:38:52.580 it down so

00:38:53.400 it doesn't

00:38:53.800 overwhelm our

00:38:54.580 systems.

00:38:56.000 So the goal

00:38:57.400 is to get

00:38:58.980 infected, because

00:39:00.580 until you get

00:39:01.420 infected, until

00:39:02.460 enough people are

00:39:03.480 infected, and

00:39:04.080 apparently 80%

00:39:04.940 don't even have

00:39:06.180 anything like a

00:39:06.920 symptom, or

00:39:07.800 they're mild.

00:39:09.360 So you need 80%

00:39:10.740 to get it once,

00:39:12.080 to have some

00:39:12.900 immunity, which

00:39:13.760 apparently is not

00:39:14.520 complete immunity,

00:39:16.060 and it doesn't

00:39:17.160 last forever, but

00:39:18.400 it gives you some

00:39:19.040 immunity so that if

00:39:20.360 somebody does get

00:39:21.260 it, they're less

00:39:22.540 likely to have

00:39:23.200 anybody they

00:39:23.760 could give it

00:39:24.300 to.

00:39:25.360 Apparently, that's

00:39:26.240 the only thing

00:39:27.060 that stops the

00:39:27.660 virus.

00:39:28.820 It's the only

00:39:29.400 thing.

00:39:30.200 Because even the

00:39:31.340 good weather and

00:39:32.240 going outdoors will

00:39:33.680 slow it down, but

00:39:35.040 then it's going to

00:39:35.580 come raging back in

00:39:37.020 the winter.

00:39:37.980 And I've not heard

00:39:39.840 any expert who

00:39:40.700 disagrees that it

00:39:42.480 needs to run its

00:39:43.220 course.

00:39:44.400 Have you?

00:39:45.080 So if you don't

00:39:46.660 hear that, the

00:39:48.100 real strategy is to

00:39:49.560 not panic you,

00:39:51.520 because there's

00:39:52.780 nothing you can do

00:39:53.500 about it, aside

00:39:54.780 from washing your

00:39:55.820 hands and the

00:39:56.720 small stuff you can

00:39:57.520 do about it.

00:39:58.220 But there's not

00:39:58.800 much you can do

00:39:59.740 about the fact that

00:40:01.780 much of the country

00:40:02.560 is going to get it

00:40:03.400 like every other

00:40:04.240 virus.

00:40:06.100 Now, if that

00:40:08.940 sounded like a

00:40:10.460 doomsday thing,

00:40:11.220 it's the opposite.

00:40:12.540 It's the opposite of

00:40:13.680 doomsday.

00:40:14.900 It's actually the

00:40:16.420 only plan that

00:40:17.140 makes sense, in my

00:40:18.060 opinion.

00:40:19.320 And that's an

00:40:19.880 opinion based on

00:40:20.620 just watching the

00:40:21.420 experts.

00:40:21.920 I'm certainly no

00:40:22.520 expert.

00:40:23.760 But somebody says

00:40:25.260 they're trying to

00:40:28.240 not get it.

00:40:29.120 You should all try

00:40:29.840 that.

00:40:30.920 You should all try

00:40:31.920 to not get it,

00:40:33.540 even if,

00:40:34.800 individually, it

00:40:35.780 might be better if

00:40:36.560 you got it and got

00:40:37.580 it over with.

00:40:38.880 Because it's the

00:40:39.760 difference between

00:40:40.440 what's good for you

00:40:41.440 versus what's good

00:40:42.640 for the society.

00:40:44.780 What's good for you

00:40:46.220 would be to get a

00:40:47.900 mild case and get

00:40:48.780 it over with.

00:40:50.400 Don't do that.

00:40:52.220 What's good for

00:40:52.900 society is that you

00:40:54.540 fight and fight

00:40:56.560 and fight to put

00:40:58.420 it off.

00:40:59.420 Because you want to

00:41:00.100 spread it out.

00:41:01.320 If you don't spread

00:41:02.000 it out, you're going

00:41:03.100 to overwhelm our

00:41:04.240 facilities and the

00:41:05.780 hospitals and then

00:41:07.100 everything just

00:41:07.760 falls apart.

00:41:08.780 But I don't think

00:41:09.340 that's going to

00:41:09.740 happen because we're

00:41:10.440 going to spread it

00:41:10.960 out.

00:41:11.140 And the United

00:41:12.020 States is doing a

00:41:12.700 good job.

00:41:13.480 Now, here's my

00:41:14.380 opinion of why

00:41:15.380 this is the real

00:41:16.860 strategy, but it's

00:41:18.200 not one you can

00:41:18.920 tell the public.

00:41:19.920 If you told the

00:41:20.540 public that, I

00:41:22.500 think it would

00:41:22.920 cause the wrong

00:41:23.520 behavior.

00:41:24.220 People would say,

00:41:24.760 ah, let's just get

00:41:25.460 it then, or let's

00:41:26.700 not care about it.

00:41:27.520 And those are the

00:41:28.000 wrong moves.

00:41:29.680 But the fact that

00:41:32.340 the airports are

00:41:33.320 not all closed is

00:41:36.500 everything you need

00:41:37.200 to know.

00:41:38.780 Closing it from

00:41:39.720 China probably was 0.80

00:41:41.420 in a few of the

00:41:42.780 other hotspots.

00:41:43.740 It makes sense

00:41:44.660 because that could

00:41:45.660 have caused us to

00:41:46.420 suddenly surge.

00:41:48.700 But I feel like

00:41:49.580 we're letting it in

00:41:50.480 intentionally.

00:41:52.340 In other words,

00:41:53.620 the actions we're

00:41:55.040 taking are clearly

00:41:57.060 meant to allow

00:41:59.400 some risk into

00:42:00.420 the country, but

00:42:01.220 a small one.

00:42:02.360 Now, the small

00:42:02.940 risk is not a risk

00:42:04.260 of something

00:42:04.700 happening or not

00:42:05.400 happening.

00:42:05.920 It's a guarantee.

00:42:07.920 It's a guarantee

00:42:09.120 that if you let

00:42:10.000 world travel happen

00:42:11.880 and the only things

00:42:13.140 that you stop are

00:42:13.860 the hotspot travel,

00:42:15.860 you're still going

00:42:16.440 to get a guarantee.

00:42:17.240 There's no question

00:42:18.220 about it.

00:42:20.820 So here's somebody

00:42:22.220 in the comments

00:42:22.640 that says, let's

00:42:23.280 just get it.

00:42:24.460 And did you hear

00:42:25.440 me?

00:42:26.720 If we all got it

00:42:27.920 right away, it

00:42:28.440 would be the end

00:42:28.960 of civilization.

00:42:30.340 Probably not,

00:42:31.120 but it would be

00:42:31.560 pretty bad.

00:42:32.580 You need to fight

00:42:33.800 like heck to not

00:42:34.960 get it.

00:42:36.080 Spread it out.

00:42:37.420 Don't overwhelm

00:42:38.320 the resources.

00:42:43.240 So, let's see,

00:42:44.220 what else we got

00:42:44.720 here?

00:42:47.400 CNN had a headline

00:42:48.780 that said that

00:42:49.620 Dr. Gupta,

00:42:52.200 their medical TV

00:42:53.500 doctor, who was

00:42:54.260 a real doctor,

00:42:54.940 their headline

00:42:57.660 said that he

00:42:58.220 debunked Trump's

00:42:59.760 hunch that the

00:43:01.540 coronavirus would

00:43:02.520 be lower than

00:43:03.620 the 1% death

00:43:04.520 rate after we've

00:43:05.540 found out all

00:43:06.380 the people who

00:43:06.820 have no

00:43:08.420 symptoms.

00:43:09.280 So the president

00:43:10.080 was saying that

00:43:11.660 he thinks the

00:43:12.340 death rate is

00:43:12.880 lower because we're

00:43:14.260 going to find a

00:43:14.740 whole bunch of

00:43:15.220 people we didn't

00:43:16.020 know had it that

00:43:17.520 weren't in the

00:43:18.200 denominator.

00:43:19.520 Now, he was

00:43:20.900 widely mocked for

00:43:21.760 that, saying,

00:43:22.920 my God, the

00:43:24.260 scientists say

00:43:25.000 it's, I don't

00:43:25.620 know, 3% or

00:43:26.540 whatever they were

00:43:27.040 saying at the

00:43:27.500 time, and Trump

00:43:28.780 says it's less, and

00:43:29.780 he's not a

00:43:30.300 scientist, and he's

00:43:31.200 so anti-science, and

00:43:32.360 what kind of an

00:43:33.360 idiot, and then a 0.95

00:43:34.400 few hours later,

00:43:35.680 scientists started

00:43:36.700 lowering their

00:43:37.540 estimates.

00:43:39.040 In other words,

00:43:40.700 President Trump

00:43:41.460 was completely

00:43:43.760 correct.

00:43:44.600 It wasn't just a

00:43:45.800 hunch.

00:43:46.720 He was listening to

00:43:47.700 the experts, and he

00:43:48.540 was watching the

00:43:49.340 estimate go down

00:43:50.300 and down and

00:43:50.760 down every day.

00:43:51.440 If you're watching

00:43:52.580 an estimate go

00:43:53.240 down every day, and

00:43:54.840 there's an obvious

00:43:55.680 reason why it's

00:43:56.440 going down, which

00:43:57.300 is more testing, it's

00:43:59.540 not a hunch, per se,

00:44:01.440 that it's going to

00:44:02.000 keep going down.

00:44:02.780 It's just a pretty

00:44:03.540 good guess.

00:44:04.640 And the President

00:44:05.440 made his pretty

00:44:06.240 good guess.

00:44:07.400 I think it was a

00:44:08.400 totally responsible

00:44:10.160 thing to say as

00:44:11.120 President, because

00:44:12.340 there's an estimate

00:44:13.060 of where things are

00:44:13.780 going, and it

00:44:14.260 would look like it

00:44:14.860 might go in the

00:44:15.360 right direction.

00:44:16.540 That's exactly what

00:44:17.380 you want your

00:44:17.820 President to say.

00:44:19.300 If the President

00:44:19.900 thinks things are

00:44:20.880 going to go

00:44:21.440 in the right

00:44:21.820 direction, the

00:44:22.960 experts do, there's

00:44:24.520 a reason for it, of

00:44:25.920 course you should

00:44:26.700 say it out loud.

00:44:28.640 Now, did Dr.

00:44:30.740 Gupta debunk, because

00:44:33.520 that's the word used

00:44:34.320 in the headlines,

00:44:35.180 Trump's hunch?

00:44:36.440 And the answer is,

00:44:37.920 no, he didn't.

00:44:39.160 If you read the

00:44:39.860 article, he didn't

00:44:40.560 debunk it at all.

00:44:42.160 He didn't really talk

00:44:43.360 about it in those

00:44:44.020 terms.

00:44:44.840 So the headline says

00:44:45.900 that Gupta is

00:44:46.600 debunking Trump, but

00:44:47.760 the article doesn't

00:44:48.900 doesn't do that.

00:44:50.360 Typical BS.

00:44:56.600 There's an

00:44:57.160 interesting story out

00:44:58.620 of Africa.

00:45:00.440 Reportedly, there

00:45:01.120 are only three cases

00:45:02.200 out of Africa, which

00:45:03.340 makes no sense.

00:45:05.400 It should be ravaging

00:45:06.620 the continent by now

00:45:07.800 because they don't

00:45:08.340 have the same

00:45:08.920 quarantine and medical

00:45:11.040 facilities and testing

00:45:12.280 and all that stuff we

00:45:13.020 have.

00:45:13.480 Only three cases?

00:45:14.440 Is it because it's

00:45:15.680 hot and humid?

00:45:17.040 Is it because?

00:45:18.580 We've confirmed that

00:45:19.760 there are genetic

00:45:20.760 differences in terms

00:45:22.820 of who can get it.

00:45:24.220 But one expert said

00:45:25.420 there's nothing about

00:45:26.240 the coronavirus that

00:45:27.380 we've identified that

00:45:29.240 has a genetic

00:45:30.100 preference.

00:45:31.800 But just because we

00:45:32.980 haven't identified it

00:45:33.860 doesn't mean it's not

00:45:34.740 the case.

00:45:35.880 It could be that

00:45:37.280 Africa gets through

00:45:38.860 this pretty well.

00:45:40.180 I mean, fingers

00:45:41.040 crossed.

00:45:41.600 We'll see.

00:45:42.380 It's going to be

00:45:42.940 pretty bad if it

00:45:43.560 doesn't.

00:45:47.140 Let's see what else

00:45:48.140 we've got here.

00:45:49.860 The other possibility

00:45:51.040 is that when we

00:45:52.320 start testing, we're

00:45:53.800 going to find out

00:45:54.400 that so many people

00:45:55.540 already have the

00:45:56.400 coronavirus that

00:45:58.240 we're in way better

00:45:59.860 shape than we

00:46:00.420 thought.

00:46:01.540 It could be, for

00:46:02.880 example, that, no,

00:46:06.100 I guess we would

00:46:06.680 know that by now.

00:46:08.140 If there's enough

00:46:09.020 testing, maybe we

00:46:09.900 don't.

00:46:10.360 It could be that,

00:46:11.520 I'm just going to

00:46:12.100 throw this out there,

00:46:12.800 maybe so many

00:46:13.560 people in

00:46:14.020 Africa already 0.99

00:46:14.720 have it, but

00:46:16.120 have it mildly

00:46:16.960 that it doesn't

00:46:18.020 catch on in any

00:46:19.420 deadly way there.

00:46:20.800 Possible, but I

00:46:22.120 would think they

00:46:22.520 would have tested

00:46:22.980 that by now.

00:46:28.380 Kellyanne Conway

00:46:29.260 says, oh, here's

00:46:30.560 another thing on

00:46:31.280 masks.

00:46:33.960 Those N95 masks, 0.99

00:46:36.880 you know, a lot of

00:46:37.340 experts have been

00:46:39.120 contacting me privately

00:46:40.340 to give their

00:46:41.260 opinions on the

00:46:42.060 masks.

00:46:43.060 I didn't realize

00:46:43.560 that the N95 masks 0.77

00:46:44.780 you can buy at a

00:46:45.440 hardware store.

00:46:47.160 I thought these

00:46:47.980 were some kind of

00:46:49.300 high-end medical

00:46:51.560 special masks, the

00:46:53.320 ones everybody wants,

00:46:54.220 but apparently you

00:46:54.700 could just buy them

00:46:55.300 at the hardware

00:46:56.500 store because people

00:46:57.860 use them for

00:46:58.400 construction to keep

00:46:59.480 the dust down.

00:47:01.000 Now, there's some

00:47:01.740 thought that they

00:47:02.420 don't have enough

00:47:03.620 of a filter for a

00:47:04.820 virus because virus

00:47:05.680 is smaller than the

00:47:06.580 filter, even of the

00:47:07.920 high-end masks.

00:47:09.540 But here's just the

00:47:10.600 new thing I'm going

00:47:11.240 to add to it.

00:47:12.040 I heard directly from

00:47:14.440 somebody whose job

00:47:15.300 it was to work in

00:47:16.980 the ER or work in

00:47:19.460 surgery rooms and

00:47:21.300 make sure that people

00:47:22.060 have the right

00:47:22.480 protective gear.

00:47:24.400 And apparently, did

00:47:25.360 you know this, that

00:47:26.940 surgeons will typically

00:47:29.520 wear the non-N95

00:47:31.320 masks?

00:47:32.460 In fact, the only time

00:47:33.380 they use the high-end

00:47:34.340 mask, even when

00:47:35.620 they're doing

00:47:36.200 surgery, the only

00:47:38.180 time they use the

00:47:38.840 good mask is if

00:47:39.960 there's something

00:47:40.360 special, yeah, like

00:47:42.220 the dust.

00:47:43.080 Let's say they're

00:47:43.520 grinding a bone and

00:47:45.180 there's some bone

00:47:45.800 dust or there's some

00:47:47.120 fumes or something

00:47:48.780 coming out.

00:47:49.640 But for an ordinary

00:47:50.720 operation, they just

00:47:52.200 use the same cheap

00:47:53.220 old face masks

00:47:54.580 everybody else does.

00:47:55.680 So that should tell

00:47:56.480 you something.

00:47:57.720 All right.

00:47:59.400 I don't know what.

00:48:01.100 Kellyanne Conway had

00:48:02.680 a funny tweet.

00:48:03.580 So Elizabeth Warren

00:48:05.300 is claiming that

00:48:06.800 misogyny and sexism

00:48:09.460 were part of the

00:48:10.520 reason that she had

00:48:11.160 to leave the race and

00:48:12.080 was not victorious.

00:48:14.100 And Kellyanne Conway

00:48:15.100 tweets this.

00:48:17.700 If true that

00:48:18.460 Elizabeth Warren,

00:48:19.300 Kirsten Gillibrand,

00:48:20.440 Kamala Harris, and

00:48:21.120 Amy Klobuchar lost,

00:48:22.780 quote, because they

00:48:24.040 are women, then the 1.00

00:48:26.720 Democrats aren't just

00:48:27.700 hapless, they're

00:48:28.760 sexist. 0.58

00:48:29.840 These women lost

00:48:31.240 among Democrat

00:48:32.020 voters in Democrat

00:48:33.720 primaries and

00:48:35.420 caucuses.

00:48:36.660 And I thought, oh

00:48:38.220 yeah, every time

00:48:39.620 Warren says that

00:48:40.860 sexism is what kept 1.00

00:48:42.220 her from being

00:48:42.760 president, you have

00:48:44.200 to ask yourself,

00:48:45.220 who is sexism? 0.99

00:48:47.320 Because I don't

00:48:47.800 think the Republicans

00:48:48.700 were part of that

00:48:49.480 process.

00:48:50.880 So apparently

00:48:51.360 Democrats don't

00:48:52.320 think that any of

00:48:54.060 those women were 1.00

00:48:54.800 the ones that were

00:48:55.800 qualified.

00:48:57.920 Now, here's

00:48:59.360 something that

00:48:59.860 Elizabeth, I'm

00:49:01.700 going to say

00:49:02.020 something that

00:49:02.540 nobody says.

00:49:03.960 All right.

00:49:05.460 I don't know

00:49:06.200 why.

00:49:07.620 When you hear me

00:49:08.500 say this, you're

00:49:09.120 going to say, oh

00:49:10.060 yeah, I'm thinking

00:49:10.860 that.

00:49:11.900 Why doesn't

00:49:12.600 anybody say that?

00:49:14.080 It's something I

00:49:14.860 guess you can't

00:49:15.400 say on TV or in

00:49:16.420 public, but I'm

00:49:17.000 going to say it

00:49:17.400 anyway.

00:49:18.540 For every voter

00:49:19.720 who would say, I'm

00:49:21.680 not going to vote

00:49:22.340 for a candidate

00:49:22.960 because this person

00:49:23.980 is a woman, there

00:49:26.320 are two that will

00:49:27.480 vote for her 1.00

00:49:28.220 because she is.

00:49:29.340 I'm not wrong.

00:49:32.280 And those two

00:49:33.140 aren't necessarily

00:49:33.860 both women.

00:49:35.540 You don't think

00:49:36.440 there were plenty

00:49:37.340 of men who

00:49:38.620 said, yeah, it's

00:49:39.280 time for a woman. 0.99

00:49:40.660 Time for a woman. 0.99

00:49:41.620 I'm going to take

00:49:42.380 that under

00:49:42.800 consideration.

00:49:43.580 That's a variable.

00:49:44.860 I'm going to put

00:49:45.380 that in there.

00:49:45.940 I think we should

00:49:46.440 have a woman

00:49:46.880 president.

00:49:48.040 Yes.

00:49:49.140 How about when

00:49:49.800 President Obama

00:49:50.860 ran for office?

00:49:52.560 Did he fail to

00:49:53.840 win two terms

00:49:54.900 because the public

00:49:56.640 would not vote for

00:49:57.580 him because he's

00:49:58.420 black?

00:49:59.720 Oh, there must

00:50:00.380 have been somebody.

00:50:01.820 There must have

00:50:02.520 been somewhere.

00:50:04.820 There were

00:50:05.220 Republicans who

00:50:06.080 didn't vote for

00:50:06.860 Obama because he's

00:50:08.260 black.

00:50:08.740 That's fair to

00:50:09.720 assume.

00:50:10.120 We've got a racist

00:50:11.280 enough country that

00:50:12.520 that's true.

00:50:14.340 But there were

00:50:16.300 two people who

00:50:17.220 voted for him

00:50:18.480 for being black

00:50:19.520 for everyone who

00:50:20.460 voted against him.

00:50:23.220 And I would put

00:50:23.900 myself in that

00:50:24.580 category.

00:50:25.020 I didn't vote,

00:50:25.700 but I'm in the

00:50:26.720 category of people

00:50:27.600 who said,

00:50:28.260 sounds like an

00:50:29.460 advantage.

00:50:30.460 As long as he

00:50:31.480 doesn't say it's

00:50:32.220 an advantage,

00:50:32.800 and I make that

00:50:33.340 point a lot.

00:50:34.200 As long as Obama

00:50:35.880 wasn't selling his

00:50:37.080 blackness as an 0.78

00:50:38.800 asset, that allowed

00:50:40.740 me as a citizen to

00:50:41.960 say, yeah, that

00:50:42.880 gives us a little

00:50:43.820 extra.

00:50:44.620 If it makes people

00:50:45.420 more comfortable

00:50:46.160 that we're an

00:50:46.820 inclusive country,

00:50:48.160 he's got the

00:50:48.920 skills, people

00:50:49.700 voted for him,

00:50:50.900 it's a benefit.

00:50:51.700 It's an absolute

00:50:53.440 plus.

00:50:54.980 Why wouldn't I

00:50:55.740 vote for the

00:50:56.440 candidate who

00:50:57.020 has a little

00:50:57.460 extra, a little

00:50:58.480 extra plus?

00:51:00.140 So when I hear

00:51:01.420 Warren say that

00:51:02.380 there's misogyny,

00:51:04.500 oh my God, I

00:51:05.320 almost lost it.

00:51:06.900 Whew.

00:51:07.960 I caught myself.

00:51:11.140 I almost just

00:51:12.420 launched into a

00:51:13.860 profanity-laden

00:51:15.620 monologue, because

00:51:18.240 this does bother

00:51:19.320 me more than I'm

00:51:20.160 letting on, because

00:51:21.860 it's so dishonest.

00:51:23.540 It's dishonest.

00:51:25.600 Elizabeth Warren,

00:51:27.020 the only reason

00:51:27.840 you got that far

00:51:28.840 is because you

00:51:29.960 were a woman.

00:51:31.800 Sorry.

00:51:32.640 The only reason

00:51:33.480 you got that far

00:51:34.520 is because you

00:51:35.720 were a woman.

00:51:36.560 And the reason

00:51:37.260 that you didn't

00:51:38.520 go farther is

00:51:40.020 because you

00:51:40.340 weren't good

00:51:40.760 enough.

00:51:41.740 That's it.

00:51:42.880 That's the whole

00:51:43.500 thing.

00:51:45.260 I've been telling

00:51:46.280 you I tempered

00:51:47.720 early.

00:51:47.920 I'm prednisone

00:51:48.800 for my sinus

00:51:49.780 things, getting

00:51:50.340 ready for some

00:51:51.080 upcoming surgery.

00:51:52.620 And one of

00:51:54.760 the side effects

00:51:55.580 is anger.

00:51:58.000 Now, somebody

00:51:58.440 is saying, do

00:51:59.540 it, don't hold

00:52:00.080 back.

00:52:00.820 The only reason

00:52:01.840 I'm holding

00:52:02.160 back is not

00:52:03.520 because it was

00:52:05.980 a genuine

00:52:06.520 emotion, and

00:52:08.440 not because I'm

00:52:09.320 being kind to

00:52:10.920 anybody listening

00:52:11.640 or whatever.

00:52:12.360 The reason I'm

00:52:12.980 holding back is

00:52:13.580 I don't think

00:52:14.060 it's real.

00:52:15.420 Because I'm

00:52:16.160 on prednisone,

00:52:17.000 and one of the

00:52:17.440 side effects is

00:52:18.160 it can make

00:52:18.720 you flash to

00:52:20.720 anger.

00:52:21.960 And I felt

00:52:22.920 myself starting

00:52:23.940 to flash to

00:52:24.780 anger for a

00:52:25.900 reason that I

00:52:26.960 didn't know was

00:52:27.740 real.

00:52:28.960 So this is one

00:52:29.940 of the most

00:52:30.200 valuable lessons

00:52:30.940 you'll ever have

00:52:31.460 in your life.

00:52:33.300 Your attitude

00:52:34.520 is caused by

00:52:35.660 environment and

00:52:37.360 chemistry and

00:52:38.280 what you ate and

00:52:39.200 how tired you are

00:52:40.040 and all that

00:52:40.420 stuff.

00:52:41.020 If you believe

00:52:41.820 the reason you're

00:52:42.540 mad at a thing

00:52:43.580 is because of

00:52:44.900 the thing, you

00:52:46.360 have not

00:52:46.760 understood the

00:52:47.400 most basic

00:52:48.280 concept of

00:52:50.300 life.

00:52:51.620 Your anger or

00:52:53.340 your attitude is

00:52:54.400 sort of self-

00:52:55.040 generated, I

00:52:56.140 mean, given that

00:52:56.980 it's influenced by

00:52:57.740 the chemistry that

00:52:58.480 you choose to put

00:52:59.100 in your body and

00:53:00.380 whatever's there.

00:53:01.900 But once you

00:53:03.340 learn that your

00:53:04.140 anger is entirely

00:53:06.040 about you and

00:53:07.920 that the events

00:53:08.560 are just the

00:53:09.100 events, there are

00:53:10.460 certainly things

00:53:11.040 that are worth

00:53:11.420 getting mad at,

00:53:12.160 but it's good

00:53:13.740 to know the

00:53:14.120 difference.

00:53:14.780 When are you

00:53:15.180 really mad because

00:53:16.520 it's a bad thing

00:53:17.340 and when are you

00:53:17.960 mad because you

00:53:19.000 didn't get enough

00:53:20.340 sleep?

00:53:21.260 Alright, that's

00:53:24.060 all I got for

00:53:24.540 now and I will

00:53:26.140 talk to you

00:53:26.880 later.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 06, 2020

Episode 842 Scott Adams： Biden, Coronavirus, MSNBC Trying to do Math and Other Disasters

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