Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 13, 2020


Episode 849 Scott Adams： Biden's Addled Brain, Chinese Bots, Loserthink, Ventilators, #WuhanFlu


Episode Stats

Length

52 minutes

Words per Minute

147.30154

Word Count

7,705

Sentence Count

599

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary

Joe Biden is the dumbest presidential candidate in the history of candidates, and now he's got a coronavirus, and he's out to prove to the world that he doesn't understand the strategy to stop it. Scott Adams explains why he can't be president.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Well, I hope you're all here to find love in the time of coronavirus.
00:00:15.220 Well, we're limping along. We'll get through this thing together.
00:00:22.180 But one way we're going to enjoy the day.
00:00:24.840 All right. Despite all of the events in the news, it's with a little thing called the simultaneous sip.
00:00:33.900 Now, I know you're thinking, but Scott, the simultaneous sip can't cure the coronavirus, can it?
00:00:42.320 To which I say, you don't know until you try.
00:00:45.840 So, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
00:00:52.520 Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
00:00:56.740 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
00:01:02.500 It's called the simultaneous sip. Go.
00:01:04.800 Well, the dumbest presidential candidate in the history of candidates, Joe Biden, whose addled brain is barely functioning at this point, I think we could agree.
00:01:25.620 He has decided to go public and prove to the world that he doesn't understand the strategy against the coronavirus.
00:01:37.500 All right. I'm going to read his something he said yesterday and tell me if you think he understands what the strategy is, because the CDC has a strategy and it's to flatten the curve.
00:01:50.620 Those are their exact words. Nobody is trying to keep the virus from getting in because that can't be done.
00:01:59.080 And nobody thinks it can be done. There are no experts who think we can stop the spread of the disease. None.
00:02:05.560 If you think that, it's time to change your mind.
00:02:10.160 The disease is coming. It could be 40 to 70 percent of the public get it.
00:02:15.300 And that's actually the only way it will ever stop because you have to have enough herd immunity that the odds of spreading it aren't that high because it always hits somebody who's already got it and is immune.
00:02:25.920 So that's the strategy. The strategy is to slow it down.
00:02:31.000 And that's it. That's the only strategy. And everybody agrees that's the strategy.
00:02:34.540 The CDC says it clearly and often. Here's what Joe Biden says, quote, a wall will not stop the coronavirus.
00:02:44.440 All right. We're done there, right? Aren't we done? He can't be president.
00:02:47.740 We're in the middle of a crisis. And he can't tell the difference between slowing something down because that's the best we can do and stopping it.
00:02:57.780 A wall will not stop a coronavirus. How does that have anything to do with anything?
00:03:03.600 OK, let's let's say that's just politics and we'll let that pass.
00:03:06.560 And then he went on and said, but banning all travel from Europe or any other part of the world will not stop it.
00:03:17.700 Biden continued taking aim at the temporary travel policy.
00:03:22.380 Joe Biden, you just proved you can't be president.
00:03:24.900 Because if you think that the travel ban was to stop it, you're missing the whole important part, which is that it can't be stopped.
00:03:39.320 The important part is slowing it down and flattening the curve.
00:03:43.300 And Joe Biden, if you don't know that by now, you really can't be president.
00:03:50.180 And was there nobody on his team who could advise him that the strategy is to flatten the curve?
00:03:59.780 Nobody noticed. Nobody's paying attention.
00:04:03.560 Has anybody watched any of the CDC stuff at all?
00:04:09.840 Somebody asked me, what's this going to look?
00:04:11.840 What will it look like if Kamala Harris becomes the vice president and looks like she's a nursemaid?
00:04:20.180 For a declining Biden.
00:04:22.920 And I said, unfortunately for them, it's going to look like a driving Miss Daisy situation.
00:04:29.480 It's going to look, you know, with the genders reversed.
00:04:32.740 It's going to look like Biden is Miss Daisy and Kamala is driving the car.
00:04:38.720 And I don't know how we got here.
00:04:43.860 You have to, don't you have to blame the Democrats?
00:04:46.680 Now, I realized that when Trump was running for office, the Democrats were yelling, you Republicans, can't you see?
00:04:56.680 Are you blind to what's happening here?
00:04:59.860 My cat's bumping the camera, if that's why it moves.
00:05:06.040 To which I said, no, actually, I can't see it.
00:05:10.080 No, I can't see it.
00:05:11.660 You're telling me that Trump is a monster and he'll destroy the world.
00:05:15.140 But I'm looking at the same things you're looking at.
00:05:18.000 And I don't see it.
00:05:20.500 And then he became president and things were going well, except for the one thing he couldn't control, the virus.
00:05:27.460 And he did the one thing he could do that he could control, which is close travel fairly quickly.
00:05:36.460 So is that the same as watching Joe Biden run for president?
00:05:41.720 It clearly is in some stage of, I'm just going to say it, some stage of mental decline.
00:05:48.500 You know, I was going to use a word, but I think I won't use a medical word because obviously I can't diagnose him.
00:05:56.480 But there's something going on.
00:05:58.480 Anyway, that's enough on that.
00:06:00.560 I would ask Democrats not to put the country in this kind of danger.
00:06:06.320 I mean, what would happen?
00:06:08.320 You know, I don't even want to put this thought into the universe.
00:06:10.640 But let's say if Trump retired tomorrow, just to put it that way, what would be the backup plan?
00:06:18.240 I mean, of course, vice president.
00:06:19.720 But for 2021, could we survive a President Biden whose brain is clearly not working?
00:06:31.740 What do you say, Democrats?
00:06:34.680 You know what I need to do is I need to give someone as a guest or.
00:06:39.160 Or, now this is interesting.
00:06:41.320 I've never talked to anybody in person who supported Biden and also thought his brain was working.
00:06:48.600 Have you?
00:06:51.160 How can it be that I've never talked to anybody who think Biden's brain is working?
00:06:57.440 Now, I have talked to people who support Biden.
00:07:01.880 But I've never heard them say directly, yeah, I'm looking at him and he looks fine to me.
00:07:07.260 Because I don't think it's a thing.
00:07:10.920 I don't think there's any Democrat who can look you in the eyes and be honest.
00:07:15.580 I mean, anybody can lie, but.
00:07:17.560 And be honest and say, you know, I don't see anything wrong.
00:07:20.400 I'm watching the videos you are.
00:07:21.960 I guess those videos are just sort of taken out of context.
00:07:25.560 So, you know, you're being fooled.
00:07:27.040 There's nothing wrong with Joe Biden.
00:07:29.260 Have you ever, have you, have you been in person with somebody you know?
00:07:32.660 You know, not just somebody on TV who could lie, of course, but somebody you know.
00:07:39.240 Will they look you in the eye and say, I'm looking at those videos.
00:07:42.440 He looks fine to me.
00:07:45.160 I don't know.
00:07:46.320 Is that ever going to happen?
00:07:47.420 Let's stop arguing about whether people are panicking or not panicking.
00:07:56.300 That's word thinking.
00:07:58.160 Let's just call it preparing.
00:08:00.220 Every time somebody says, so-and-so is panicking, or are you panicking, or who's panicking, or panic, panic, panic.
00:08:09.060 Immediately just replace the word with preparation.
00:08:11.760 Because nobody knows the right amount of emotional investment.
00:08:17.560 You know, don't worry about my internal state.
00:08:20.560 Worry about what I do.
00:08:23.320 And let's just call it preparing.
00:08:26.260 So every time somebody uses that other P word, immediately correct them and say, well, the only thing we know is that we're preparing.
00:08:33.160 You know, I don't think we can define the exact proper amount of worry, which, by the way, should be different for each person, depending on your situation.
00:08:43.860 All right.
00:08:45.120 Joel Pollack wrote an amazing piece in Breitbart today.
00:08:49.980 And you can see it in my Twitter feed.
00:08:52.560 I retweeted it.
00:08:53.520 I tweeted it.
00:08:54.080 And he's comparing the timelines of impeachment with the timelines of the beginning of the coronavirus before the United States was fully engaged.
00:09:06.960 And there's a complete overlap.
00:09:10.620 In other words, when the government of the United States should have been putting its focus on the coronavirus really early,
00:09:18.140 it was instead distracted by the impeachment process.
00:09:24.800 And I don't think, you know, of course, the Democrats have always been saying, hey, we can we can walk and chew gum at the same time.
00:09:32.120 But they didn't.
00:09:33.880 You don't have to wonder, could they walk and chew gum at the same time?
00:09:39.720 That question doesn't have to be asked anymore.
00:09:41.940 You don't have to ask, is it possible?
00:09:44.540 You can simply look at what happened.
00:09:46.860 It didn't happen.
00:09:48.520 They walked and they did not chew gum.
00:09:52.160 Now, maybe they could have.
00:09:54.820 Maybe.
00:09:55.940 Maybe if you talk to them, say, you know, we could have done both things.
00:10:01.100 But we didn't.
00:10:03.000 So it doesn't matter if you can walk and chew gum if you're not willing to.
00:10:07.580 If all you're going to do is walk and not chew the gum, don't tell us you can if you don't.
00:10:16.840 And they didn't.
00:10:17.920 And you could argue, and Joel puts this thought out there in the universe, that we can now put a price on the impeachment in lives.
00:10:30.880 Actual people who would die who might not have died otherwise because of a slow preparation and lack of focus on this emerging problem at the time.
00:10:42.420 Could it be that impeachment will kill a million Americans?
00:10:48.300 Did you just scoff at that?
00:10:50.600 Did you just scoff when I said that impeachment might kill a million Americans?
00:10:54.940 Because you shouldn't have.
00:10:57.240 I think that's the upside.
00:10:58.800 I don't think it'll be more than that.
00:11:00.020 But if you were to price, you know, sort of a freakonomics, economic pricing of the impeachment, you would have to look at the opportunity cost.
00:11:11.980 That's how economists think.
00:11:13.760 They say if we're doing this, we can't simultaneously be doing this other thing because you can't be everywhere at once.
00:11:20.620 It's true with money, but it's true with any resource.
00:11:23.220 If you're doing something, you can't be doing something else with the same resources.
00:11:26.240 So, I think the argument is fairly solid that a late start will make a big difference in the outcomes, and we probably got started later than we should have.
00:11:40.160 I mean, we should have been printing ventilators like crazy in mid-January so we didn't have to worry about it in February and March.
00:11:48.320 All right.
00:11:49.340 Here's a question that's really making me angry.
00:11:52.340 And I don't know the answer to this, which is why are we not seeing reporting on the ground of an actual manufacturing company in the United States who is going, you know, balls to the wall to ramp up to make ventilators, even if they've never made a ventilator before?
00:12:12.660 Now, is that because it's not happening?
00:12:17.340 Is that because there's only one little ventilator company in the United States and all the rest of them are in other countries, and that poor little company can't do anything, so it's better to ignore it and just people are going to die because we don't have enough ventilators?
00:12:31.960 What exactly is happening with the ventilator situation?
00:12:37.020 I'd like to see a news crew camped outside of an American manufacturing plant and watch them work 24 hours a day making ventilators that they maybe even never made two weeks ago.
00:12:50.940 Where's my Apple ventilator?
00:12:53.580 Serious question.
00:13:23.580 You know, just to have it sitting there just in case.
00:13:25.960 Yes.
00:13:26.400 Yes, I would.
00:13:27.740 So Apple computer, if you're listening, I would buy an Apple ventilator.
00:13:33.180 Now, you're saying to yourself, how hard is it to make a ventilator, right?
00:13:37.940 So an alert follower of my Twitter account showed me, tweeted out an article from 2010.
00:13:46.680 All right.
00:13:46.920 So context is important.
00:13:49.160 This is 10 years ago.
00:13:51.300 10 years ago, MIT had a contest, I guess, to see if students could develop a low-cost ventilator for exactly this reason, an emergency low-cost ventilator.
00:14:05.020 Students made one with $100 in parts.
00:14:12.160 And I think they used mostly off-the-shelf parts.
00:14:14.620 I don't think they invented parts.
00:14:16.700 I think they just bought parts and assembled them in a little do-it-yourself kit.
00:14:21.440 And they actually made working ventilators in a reproducible way for $100.
00:14:28.340 Now, obviously, an Apple-made ventilator would not be $100.
00:14:35.380 It would be maybe $1,000 or whatever.
00:14:37.480 But the point is, apparently, it's not hard to make them.
00:14:41.100 There doesn't seem to be too much to it.
00:14:45.020 Now, someone else weighed in, and here's a fact check for you, saying,
00:14:48.640 Scott, Scott, Scott, it's not good enough just to have ventilators.
00:14:52.200 You also have to have trained operators.
00:14:54.720 If you don't have a trained operator, it's not going to help you with your ventilators.
00:15:00.820 To which I say, seriously, we couldn't, you know, you couldn't do a telemedicine call to a doctor and say,
00:15:08.880 Hey, I got my ventilator.
00:15:10.060 Am I putting this on right?
00:15:11.880 And the doctor says, No, you better tighten up the mask a little bit.
00:15:15.040 But if I were there, I'd make sure there were no holes.
00:15:17.800 You know, stuff like that.
00:15:19.640 Is that really a problem?
00:15:21.760 That these ventilators that students can make for $100 and just get a little mask thing?
00:15:28.520 You don't think we can figure out how to put that little mask thing on our faces without a trained operator
00:15:32.680 and hit the button and turn it on?
00:15:35.120 I don't know.
00:15:36.220 I got questions.
00:15:38.260 In World War II, this country ramped up to produce, you know, tanks and weapons and all kinds of stuff.
00:15:45.040 And we did it pretty quickly.
00:15:46.900 Over in China, you saw them ramp up to create hospitals.
00:15:50.320 They built hospitals in two weeks.
00:15:53.780 It almost sounds like I misspoke.
00:15:59.180 China built entire hospitals in two weeks.
00:16:03.960 Now, of course, they were temporary, etc., but good enough for the job.
00:16:08.880 We can't build enough ventilators with this much warning.
00:16:14.580 If you give the United States a 30-days warning of a problem, we can't build stuff anymore.
00:16:23.380 There's nobody in this country who can build stuff really fast.
00:16:26.540 Maybe.
00:16:28.040 Maybe.
00:16:28.880 I mean, could it be that our manufacturing capability, you know, just generally, has dropped so low
00:16:35.000 that we can't ramp up quickly and build a little device that a student can make for $100?
00:16:40.760 And we can't crank these out by the hundreds of thousands with two weeks of notice?
00:16:47.300 What's wrong with our country if we can't?
00:16:49.720 And I don't know that we can't.
00:16:51.220 Let's have some—I'm asking for some reporting on that.
00:16:53.700 So, news business, please find some companies in that business and ask them what's happening.
00:17:01.720 And, you know, and can we help?
00:17:04.560 If you said to me, Scott, there's a ventilator company down the road from you, and, you know,
00:17:10.800 the only thing they need is more labor because you need somebody to assemble the parts,
00:17:15.040 and we can't build a robot to do it this quickly, so we just need lots of people just to assemble them.
00:17:20.940 So, I'd be down there in a heartbeat.
00:17:24.660 I would stand up, I would go to my car, and I would drive down there, and I would start assembling for free.
00:17:31.900 You don't even need to pay me.
00:17:33.400 I'll work all day.
00:17:34.920 I'll assemble some ventilators for you.
00:17:36.960 Just tell me what I need to do.
00:17:39.440 All right?
00:17:40.340 So, very disappointed in the media for not focusing on that problem.
00:17:44.140 Maybe they will.
00:17:44.620 So, I've started a new policy today.
00:17:50.680 You can, of course, make your own decisions.
00:17:53.220 But I'm blocking anybody on Twitter who comes into my mentions, into the comments,
00:17:59.260 and keeps saying that this is the common flu, and it's going to be like the common cold,
00:18:06.960 and we're all panicking, and we should stop worrying because it's not going to be a problem.
00:18:13.380 That is exactly what maybe a, I don't know, a Chinese agent might say.
00:18:19.480 So, I'm going to block everybody, no matter how long you followed me.
00:18:23.320 I'm going to block you from coming into Twitter and saying it's just the common cold, it's regular flu,
00:18:28.840 or even comparing it to the regular flu.
00:18:30.760 So, anybody who compares it to the swine flu, compares it to Ebola, as if that's making a point,
00:18:37.760 that it's not so bad, I'm just blocking you all for now.
00:18:41.720 All right?
00:18:41.920 Because this is a crisis, it's an emergency, and normally I would say, hey, free speech,
00:18:46.820 say whatever you want, but that's dangerous.
00:18:49.980 It's dangerous for that kind of opinion to be out there.
00:18:53.580 Now, are they right?
00:18:56.040 Are they right that, you know, a year from now we might say,
00:18:59.600 my God, we panicked and everything was fine?
00:19:02.800 Are they right?
00:19:04.340 Well, it's not impossible, but it is also the dumbest thing in the world.
00:19:12.200 It's the dumbest thing in the world to act as if you know it's not going to be a problem.
00:19:17.260 Because you don't know.
00:19:19.740 You don't know.
00:19:21.420 So, maybe you should be prepared.
00:19:22.900 Anyway, so I'm blocking anybody who is acting exactly like a Chinese agent, even if they're not.
00:19:31.240 There's just no excuse for acting like one.
00:19:36.400 Here's a question for you.
00:19:38.980 Can two people share a ventilator?
00:19:41.920 Now, obviously, two people can't have a face mask, the same face mask on for the ventilator.
00:19:46.740 But, because it's an emergency, is there any situation in which you could add, like, an adapter to a ventilator
00:19:56.200 that would keep the two people's air separate, let's say?
00:20:00.260 I don't even know if that's important.
00:20:01.840 If both people do have coronavirus, does it matter anymore if you get exposed?
00:20:06.960 I don't know how that works.
00:20:07.840 But, could you put an adapter that's just a hose adapter so two people can use the same ventilator?
00:20:15.820 I think the answer is probably not for any variety of reasons of cross-contamination, you know, not enough power, etc.
00:20:25.060 But, if the only problem is that the ventilator wouldn't last as long, you know, if you overtaxed it or something like that,
00:20:33.920 or maybe each person would only get 80% as much air, you know, there may be an engineering reason why it can't work as well.
00:20:40.560 But, I'll just put it out there.
00:20:42.420 You know, in a normal world, nobody would ever have the thought, it just wouldn't even be a thought,
00:20:48.840 that you would ever put two people on a ventilator, right?
00:20:51.800 Because, in a normal world, you would just never do that.
00:20:55.340 But, is the only reason we haven't considered it?
00:20:58.580 Because we have normal world thoughts.
00:21:00.800 You know, should we at least toss it into the mix, that somebody could develop a...
00:21:06.860 And, maybe somebody's making a ventilator now that's a, you know, a central processor with a number of hoses.
00:21:14.020 Is that a thing?
00:21:15.340 Could you build that?
00:21:16.780 I don't know.
00:21:17.860 I'm not suggesting it's possible.
00:21:19.780 I'm just saying, let's put all the ideas into the mix.
00:21:23.800 And, in the deeply unlikely, you know, 1% case, that having a, you know, a hose, double hose, coming off of a single ventilator might actually make sense.
00:21:37.380 1% chance.
00:21:38.640 I mean, it's not very high likelihood.
00:21:40.760 But, I'll put it out there.
00:21:42.180 Maybe somebody sees it and says, my God, I never thought about that.
00:21:45.460 You never know.
00:21:46.000 So, this report from UC San Francisco on what is likely to happen in the United States.
00:21:54.040 It goes like this.
00:21:55.300 So, their estimate is that 40 to 70% of the U.S. will be infected over the next year and a half.
00:22:05.380 40 to 70%.
00:22:06.780 Now, you need, you would need that many people to get infected to have any hope that it slows down or stops.
00:22:14.360 Because, you have to have enough people who can't get it again because they've already been exposed and have some immunity, presumably.
00:22:21.160 I mean, I think we're agreed that it creates immunity if you've had it once.
00:22:24.820 But, I guess we should get a confirmation of that as well.
00:22:27.760 So, and they estimate that 1.5 million Americans may die compared to a seasonal flu that might be 50,000.
00:22:40.120 See, this is why I'm blocking people who are comparing.
00:22:43.520 Because, they're doing that dumb thing where they're comparing the number of people who have died already from this flu to the total number who will ever die from the other flu.
00:22:52.800 So, it's like a few hundred compared to 50,000.
00:22:55.580 But, the real number, of course, is the risk number.
00:22:59.540 That it could be 1.5 million people, mostly old people, compared to 50,000.
00:23:06.600 That's not really close.
00:23:08.520 Those are different problems.
00:23:12.220 Fatality range, they're still saying is in the range of 10 times as much as the regular flu.
00:23:18.280 There's some reason to hope that that could be downgraded when we have more information.
00:23:22.680 This assumes no drug is found, and I think that's fair.
00:23:27.440 So, 1.5 million people dying who might not have died otherwise, or at least not so, well, they all, everybody dies, everybody dies.
00:23:36.960 But, it wouldn't have happened that quickly, or for that reason.
00:23:40.560 Here's something I would like my government to do for me.
00:23:49.160 So, schools are closing in various places in the country, not everywhere.
00:23:54.240 So, last I checked, three states had closed, and a lot of individual private schools and stuff are probably closed.
00:24:00.740 So, schools are closing.
00:24:03.120 I don't see much hope that that won't be widespread.
00:24:08.220 In other words, I think most of the states, if not all, are going to close schools.
00:24:12.920 We'll probably have to.
00:24:14.220 So, I think school closings are coming.
00:24:18.500 Here's what I need from my government to make that work.
00:24:21.980 If you have kids, you know, between a certain age, let's say they're old enough to be a little bit independent, you know, let's say 11 years old to 18.
00:24:34.820 So, you've got a kid in the house, 11 to 18, and you say, okay, kids, you're going to stay home from school.
00:24:42.620 And the kids say, yay.
00:24:44.540 All right?
00:24:45.160 Yay, stay home from school.
00:24:46.300 And then you say, and you're not going to be able to leave the house.
00:24:52.120 And they say, what?
00:24:54.820 Yeah, kids, you're actually going to stay in this house for 30 to 90 days.
00:25:04.240 Tell that to your 11-year-old.
00:25:06.660 And then they say, well, but, you know, our friends will be able to come over, and, you know, at least we'll be with our friends.
00:25:14.420 And then you, as the parents, say, okay, I don't think you're hearing this yet.
00:25:20.380 Not with friends.
00:25:22.460 You're not going to be with your friends, and you're not going to be in school.
00:25:26.220 You're going to be so bored that your head is going to explode.
00:25:30.480 And then they'll say, okay, but can I go visit one friend?
00:25:34.240 And if you're a parent, you know you're going to break down.
00:25:37.100 You're going to break down.
00:25:37.960 Because your kid is going to nag you and nag you and say, but just one friend.
00:25:43.360 I just want to go visit one friend.
00:25:45.040 I'm going crazy.
00:25:46.400 I have nothing to do.
00:25:47.720 I'm just, you know, playing with my phone.
00:25:49.980 Can I just visit one friend?
00:25:52.020 And you're going to say, all right, all right.
00:25:54.340 But hard rule.
00:25:56.420 One friend.
00:25:57.840 So you can go to their house, and then you can come directly back.
00:26:01.860 One friend.
00:26:02.540 And your kid goes to their house, and 50 frickin' friends show up.
00:26:08.740 Because they're kids, right?
00:26:11.120 Kids say, hey, come over to my house.
00:26:14.140 My mom said it's okay.
00:26:15.860 Or didn't say it's okay, and they come anyway.
00:26:18.820 You can't keep kids from bunching if they have phones.
00:26:23.980 So unless you took their phones away, which nobody's going to do, right?
00:26:27.120 Nobody's going to take kids' phones away, especially in that teenage range.
00:26:30.940 It's just impossible.
00:26:33.000 If you don't take their phones away, they call each other, and they say, hey, I got
00:26:37.900 permission to go to one friend's house.
00:26:40.540 Meet me there.
00:26:42.380 Kids will not comply.
00:26:45.240 They will not comply.
00:26:47.200 There isn't the slightest chance that when they walk out of the house, they will comply.
00:26:51.360 They will not.
00:26:52.700 So you have to plan a world in which there's massive noncompliance.
00:26:56.680 I want my government to do this.
00:26:58.840 Assuming more schools close, or even the amount they have.
00:27:03.480 I want my government to issue an executive order telling kids how much or if they should
00:27:10.200 socialize.
00:27:10.880 In other words, I want my government to tell me, as a parent, what to tell the kid.
00:27:16.780 Because the only hope I have is to tell my kid, my God, I would let you go play with your
00:27:23.440 one friend.
00:27:24.100 I really would.
00:27:25.040 I mean, I think it's reasonable.
00:27:26.140 But it's the law.
00:27:29.800 There's an executive order.
00:27:31.200 It's the law.
00:27:32.080 We could get arrested.
00:27:33.860 Now, could it be a law when you get arrested?
00:27:36.540 No.
00:27:37.440 But these are kids.
00:27:38.920 You're going to have to lie to them.
00:27:41.220 You're going to have to lie to them and tell them it's a law.
00:27:45.580 Otherwise, there's no chance of compliance.
00:27:47.480 And even then, there's not much chance.
00:27:49.280 But it would help.
00:27:50.080 So I would like my government to, assuming schools close, to do some kind of an executive
00:27:58.280 order.
00:27:58.900 Obviously, there's no such thing as a binding order of this type.
00:28:02.860 It wouldn't really be legally binding.
00:28:06.360 But parents could use it.
00:28:08.900 They could still tell their kid, look, there's an executive order from the president that says
00:28:13.720 you've got to stay inside.
00:28:15.560 It's not me.
00:28:17.040 Take the pressure off the parents.
00:28:18.600 That's all I'm asking.
00:28:20.080 Um, apparently, China, I'd seen stories about this, but I honestly didn't believe it.
00:28:29.300 You know, I'd heard stories that Chinese officials were starting to blame the United States for
00:28:35.260 putting the virus in China or starting it ourselves or something like that.
00:28:40.340 And I thought, no, they're not.
00:28:43.080 That's crazy.
00:28:44.020 The Chinese government is not blaming the United States for the Wuhan virus.
00:28:49.540 That would just be nuts.
00:28:52.280 And then I thought, it's actually happening.
00:28:56.240 China, real officials, you know, people with titles on Twitter and stuff, are actually blaming the United States for the Wuhan virus.
00:29:04.520 To which I say, thanks a lot.
00:29:09.060 Oh, man.
00:29:10.180 I just stopped myself from really swearing a lot.
00:29:13.720 My cursing reflex was just right on the barrel there.
00:29:23.480 Thank you, China, for guaranteeing decoupling.
00:29:27.920 You know, there were a lot of reasons to decouple before this virus came out.
00:29:34.460 And I've been one of the most vocal people saying we should do it.
00:29:38.400 Now, that doesn't mean we do it tomorrow.
00:29:40.560 It just means that that should be a national strategy to get our stuff out of China,
00:29:44.820 move our manufacturing back, and become less dependent.
00:29:47.540 Because they actually, not only did they blame us for it, but here's the good part.
00:29:56.900 The good part being the bad part.
00:30:00.120 China actually has threatened to withhold antibiotics for political reasons.
00:30:09.680 What?
00:30:11.080 Are you kidding me?
00:30:12.560 We have critical manufacturing in a country that just threatened to use access to medicine
00:30:20.800 as a weapon against us?
00:30:24.840 Decoupling is on.
00:30:26.880 There isn't anything that could stop decoupling now.
00:30:30.480 Let me state this as a fact and see if any of you disagree with it.
00:30:35.060 Four months ago, when I was putting hashtag decouple in every other tweet,
00:30:40.640 and I was saying, people, people, people, we have to decouple.
00:30:44.200 You know, other people were saying it too.
00:30:45.460 I'm not the only one.
00:30:46.940 But wasn't the general reaction to that, well, that's a little extreme.
00:30:52.880 We're not going to decouple from China.
00:30:55.560 You know, I mean, we've got our problems.
00:30:57.760 We'll work through it.
00:30:59.220 It's normal.
00:31:00.380 We're not going to decouple.
00:31:03.700 What do you think now?
00:31:04.680 Now that we put critical pharmaceuticals in China,
00:31:11.780 and they just threatened to use that against us.
00:31:15.680 Now, maybe they won't.
00:31:17.580 My guess is they won't use it against us.
00:31:19.880 It would be too dangerous.
00:31:21.320 But once they've threatened, that's the end of the story.
00:31:26.700 You know, you've got lots of variables that you say,
00:31:29.540 oh, how do I weigh this variable, and should we decouple,
00:31:33.060 and maybe we shouldn't, and, well, we can work this thing out,
00:31:36.440 and we can work that thing out, and we can put up with this.
00:31:39.660 So, you know, we don't really need to decouple.
00:31:42.060 I see your argument, but, you know, it's sort of a gray area.
00:31:46.620 Not anymore.
00:31:48.240 It's not a gray area now.
00:31:50.720 When a country threatens to withhold antibiotics during a pandemic,
00:31:56.160 that removes all doubt.
00:31:58.740 There's no longer any doubt.
00:32:01.760 Decoupling has to happen, and more importantly, it will.
00:32:07.020 There isn't any chance we're keeping our shit in China anymore.
00:32:11.660 That's over.
00:32:13.060 So whatever you're planning in terms of, you know,
00:32:15.540 looking at the future of the world
00:32:16.880 and what's going to happen with the economy, et cetera,
00:32:19.880 I'm hoping it's good news
00:32:22.000 that we're bringing manufacturing back to the United States.
00:32:25.120 But if you're wondering if we're going to decouple from China,
00:32:28.920 you know, it'll probably be gradual.
00:32:31.840 But it's no longer if.
00:32:33.760 It's no longer if.
00:32:35.180 Once they've threatened our health,
00:32:38.200 it doesn't matter if it's an empty threat.
00:32:42.120 It doesn't matter if they meant it.
00:32:43.960 It doesn't matter if they really would have no intention of doing that.
00:32:47.840 None of that matters.
00:32:48.820 The threat is the end of the story.
00:32:53.440 No conversations need to be happened.
00:32:55.700 No debate needs to happen anymore.
00:32:58.040 We need to be on the same side on this.
00:33:00.460 It's time to decouple.
00:33:02.820 All right.
00:33:03.320 It'll happen.
00:33:03.860 I see Trump blaming Obama for the CDC not being ready for the pandemic.
00:33:15.260 And, you know, you can make the argument
00:33:18.860 that the other guy should have been more prepared,
00:33:21.920 but Trump's had three years on the job.
00:33:24.820 And, you know, it took eight years of Obama
00:33:27.140 and three years of Trump to not be prepared enough, I guess.
00:33:30.900 I mean, there is obviously preparation,
00:33:34.120 but some deficiency in preparation, testing, for example.
00:33:39.280 Now, I don't have any tolerance for this anymore.
00:33:44.580 I have no tolerance for blaming the past.
00:33:49.540 I don't have any tolerance for Trump blaming Obama,
00:33:52.800 but I also don't have any tolerance for anybody blaming Trump.
00:33:57.660 It's just backwards thinking during an emergency.
00:34:00.900 We only need to focus forward.
00:34:04.020 If you're spending any of your time tweeting
00:34:05.900 or, you know, blaming the last administration
00:34:08.680 or even blaming what Trump should have done in 2017
00:34:12.320 as if we knew what to do then,
00:34:15.060 it's just wasted time.
00:34:18.060 Please don't waste my time blaming the past.
00:34:20.500 Let's look forward.
00:34:21.480 There's a weird thing happening
00:34:25.640 that it's terrible to mention,
00:34:31.960 but I'm going to do it anyway,
00:34:33.600 that the Wuhan virus,
00:34:38.700 and I don't mean this to be a joke,
00:34:40.820 it's just this weird element of the simulation that we live in
00:34:44.060 that this could ever happen.
00:34:45.740 Our biggest problem had been climate change.
00:34:50.060 And it looks like the Wuhan virus is almost designed to solve it.
00:34:56.400 Now, I don't think it's designed.
00:34:58.180 I'm not making that claim.
00:34:59.660 I think it's probably natural.
00:35:00.600 But it does seem to really help for climate change
00:35:06.720 because it's slowed down the whole economy.
00:35:09.680 And, you know,
00:35:10.400 I'm not sure international travel will ever be the same.
00:35:14.400 But there's an even darker side to this.
00:35:17.560 There's a hashtag trending.
00:35:20.200 If you haven't heard this, this is dark.
00:35:22.360 This is really dark stuff.
00:35:23.640 Apparently, young people who are relatively immune to the Wuhan virus,
00:35:31.000 I've started a hashtag called Boomer Remover.
00:35:36.120 And you've got to really have a dark sense of humor to laugh at that.
00:35:40.740 And I do, happily.
00:35:42.940 So even though it's about removing me,
00:35:45.440 because I'm at the tail end of the boomers,
00:35:47.400 you can't ignore the fact that it's weird
00:35:54.480 that young people were blaming a certain generation for climate change.
00:35:58.900 And then this virus comes.
00:36:01.100 It totally removes the smog
00:36:03.740 because all the industrial stuff stopped in the most polluted places,
00:36:08.220 you know, China in particular.
00:36:09.980 And then it started killing the people that they blame for the problem.
00:36:13.040 Has there ever been a virus more suited, accidentally, I think,
00:36:21.080 more suited to solve some other problem?
00:36:24.880 And so the young people are actually so cold that they're saying,
00:36:29.160 well, you boomers ruined the world for us.
00:36:32.020 Here's a virus that's going to take you out and leave us with your stuff.
00:36:35.920 Maybe not so bad.
00:36:38.820 Wow.
00:36:41.400 Wow.
00:36:41.920 Wow.
00:36:43.040 I don't even know what to say about that.
00:36:45.960 That's just mind-boggling.
00:36:49.160 Martha McCallum on Fox News asked CMS Administrator Seema Verma
00:36:56.160 if there were enough ventilators in the country.
00:37:00.940 And she asked her four times.
00:37:04.520 And each time she refused to answer the question directly.
00:37:07.900 Instead just talked about some talking points.
00:37:10.420 Until Martha was pretty frustrated.
00:37:14.640 But if you avoid a question four times, that is your answer.
00:37:18.820 You can't avoid a question four times and then say,
00:37:21.580 well, I guess there was no answer.
00:37:23.280 No, the answer is the avoiding the question four times.
00:37:26.300 The answer is no.
00:37:29.100 The answer is no.
00:37:30.940 We do not have enough ventilators.
00:37:32.700 But it could be.
00:37:35.980 It's not the dumbest thing in the world for the government maybe not to worry us about it if you can't fix it.
00:37:43.600 So if you can't fix it, maybe somebody in the comments says it's confirmed that the Brazilian president has coronavirus.
00:37:52.880 I was expecting that.
00:37:56.500 I don't know if that's just a comment here.
00:37:59.440 I'm not saying that's true.
00:38:01.220 But check your news.
00:38:03.720 I've been expecting that news.
00:38:06.500 I've been expecting to hear that the Brazilian president has it because some of the members of his staff did.
00:38:12.420 But check that.
00:38:15.140 I'm not sure if that's true yet.
00:38:17.820 So I wonder if 3D printers will ever become part of emergency preparation.
00:38:27.480 Can you imagine having a 3D printer?
00:38:29.680 And I guess you'd have to project into the future where the 3D printers are just better.
00:38:34.800 And there's a problem that comes up and the government just sends a blueprint down to everybody's 3D printer on how to print your own $100 ventilator.
00:38:49.280 Could you get to a point where you could print a ventilator?
00:38:52.840 Now, before that, you would probably get to a point where you could print a mask maybe.
00:38:57.920 Maybe print some toilet paper.
00:38:59.480 So I'm wondering if the far future, it won't help us this time, but I'm wondering if the future 15 years from now is that each, maybe it's each town, not each house, but each town has a 3D printer.
00:39:15.920 And as soon as the emergency breaks out, these printers activate and they start printing out the very thing you need for this very problem.
00:39:23.660 Because each problem needs a different set of supplies.
00:39:27.260 So you might have a problem where you need a different set of supplies, and they're going to be limited because nobody expected the emergency.
00:39:34.860 So maybe there's a world where 3D printers become the emergency plan.
00:39:42.220 Democrats apparently are handicapping these emergency congressional legislation things
00:39:50.840 that are trying to, you know, settle the markets and handle the epidemic, etc.
00:39:58.600 And the Democrats are adding pork to it.
00:40:02.020 I don't know if it's pork or just stuff they want.
00:40:05.580 And it's slowing it down.
00:40:08.220 And so I see news about this, and the news will report,
00:40:11.620 well, the Democrats collectively tried to add this thing,
00:40:15.640 and that's going to slow it down during an emergency.
00:40:18.740 And I thought to myself, show us names.
00:40:23.180 I want to see a one-page slide that says,
00:40:28.200 Congress, you know, somebody proposed this bill to fund the pandemic one way or the other.
00:40:32.980 These three Democrats proposed things that are slowing it down.
00:40:39.020 You know, maybe they're good things in and of themselves,
00:40:41.800 but they couldn't get passed by themselves, so they're trying to tack it onto this other thing.
00:40:47.340 This is an emergency.
00:40:50.800 Let's show the public exactly who is slowing things down.
00:40:55.820 Now, if they can make their case, well, maybe they get an audience for that,
00:41:00.820 and people say, yeah, yeah, it should be slowed down,
00:41:03.480 because we should add this extra, you know, element to the bill.
00:41:07.920 Maybe they can make their case.
00:41:10.060 But why don't you know the names, the actual name,
00:41:13.560 the person who's trying to slow down these bills by adding stuff?
00:41:18.960 Now, in a normal world, you don't care.
00:41:20.860 It's like, ah, Democrats are doing this, Republicans are doing this,
00:41:23.680 but this isn't normal.
00:41:24.600 Well, this is an emergency.
00:41:27.040 In an emergency, you have to list all of your resources,
00:41:30.920 and one of the resources is the American public
00:41:33.820 and social media and the news.
00:41:37.560 Tell us who is slowing things down.
00:41:42.000 Can you give us a picture and a name?
00:41:44.580 News media?
00:41:45.920 Show us the people.
00:41:47.560 Is it all of them?
00:41:48.660 Do all of the Republicans want these things?
00:41:50.880 I'm sorry, do all of the Democrats want these items added to the emergency bills?
00:41:57.260 Well, that'd be good to know.
00:41:59.080 Or is it there are some specific leaders or specific people
00:42:03.380 who are trying to add these things?
00:42:05.740 Because I need to know their names.
00:42:07.940 Don't you?
00:42:09.160 Because you're in this now.
00:42:10.360 We're not spectators anymore.
00:42:11.780 We're all in it.
00:42:12.760 This is global.
00:42:15.680 Show me their names.
00:42:16.780 We'll see what we can do about that.
00:42:23.680 That's mostly what I got today.
00:42:25.760 You know, one of the weird things about this emergency
00:42:30.820 is that 98% of my day can be exactly like it always is,
00:42:35.360 except for the thoughts.
00:42:36.760 You know, my thoughts are sort of preoccupied by this.
00:42:39.880 But 98% of my day is completely normal.
00:42:42.720 And then 2% of the time I think,
00:42:44.900 uh-oh, there are some real big problems
00:42:47.780 and they're really close.
00:42:49.500 So I'm in this two worlds mind
00:42:52.640 where everything's normal
00:42:53.800 and it's also a big emergency
00:42:56.060 sort of at the same time
00:42:57.520 and my head is going,
00:43:00.200 phasing back and forth
00:43:01.220 depending on what I'm doing at the moment.
00:43:03.480 So that's weird.
00:43:04.660 But one good thing that's come out of it,
00:43:06.520 I think I mentioned this before,
00:43:08.200 I'm taking very seriously
00:43:10.500 the building up of my personal immunity.
00:43:15.280 So I've always been, you know,
00:43:17.140 a fitness advocate and follower,
00:43:20.360 but I'm taking it to the next level.
00:43:22.740 So I am seriously getting enough sleep,
00:43:27.060 which I've never done before, actually.
00:43:28.960 In no time in my life
00:43:30.340 have I ever attempted to get enough sleep.
00:43:33.880 I've never even tried
00:43:34.720 because I, you know,
00:43:36.640 I'm one of these people
00:43:37.300 who can operate on low sleep
00:43:39.120 and I know it's not good for me,
00:43:41.820 but I like being awake.
00:43:43.860 I just prefer it.
00:43:45.440 You know, I like being in the world.
00:43:47.220 I hate, I just don't like sleeping.
00:43:49.220 So in the past, I just didn't do much of it.
00:43:51.540 Six, four hours a night, I'm good.
00:43:54.460 I'm fine.
00:43:55.940 But now I'm getting serious about it
00:43:57.680 because it has a big impact on your immunity,
00:44:00.820 your momentary immunity.
00:44:04.680 So I'm getting enough sleep
00:44:05.800 and I'm also taking a walk in the sunshine.
00:44:08.740 I'm doing a light exercise.
00:44:10.360 I'm not exhausting myself.
00:44:11.880 That's bad for my immunity.
00:44:13.580 But a little light exercise,
00:44:15.040 get out in the sun,
00:44:15.940 get your vitamin D,
00:44:16.920 builds up your immunity a little bit.
00:44:18.300 So I'm doing that.
00:44:18.900 And I'm eating right
00:44:20.220 and I'm, you know,
00:44:21.240 doing light weight training, etc.
00:44:24.040 So here's the weird part.
00:44:27.580 I've never felt better.
00:44:30.160 I'm in the middle of a global pandemic.
00:44:34.100 But personally,
00:44:35.240 if you asked me,
00:44:36.620 how do you feel, Scott?
00:44:37.520 I'd say,
00:44:38.560 well, I'm a little embarrassed by this,
00:44:40.240 but honestly,
00:44:41.640 I've never felt better.
00:44:42.800 And even the social distancing,
00:44:46.480 you know,
00:44:46.780 if I had to choose,
00:44:48.360 I would interact more with people.
00:44:50.500 I'm just a natural social creature
00:44:52.360 in some context.
00:44:53.880 I'm more of a,
00:44:55.560 you know,
00:44:55.700 I need a lot of alone time too,
00:44:57.420 but I'm very happy to interact with people
00:44:59.380 not during my alone time.
00:45:04.240 But have you noticed
00:45:05.580 that the less you deal with people,
00:45:08.280 the less stress you have?
00:45:11.660 Because stress comes almost,
00:45:13.940 90% of stress comes from other people.
00:45:17.080 So I've decreased my exposure
00:45:20.800 to other people in person,
00:45:23.040 and I feel like it's less stressful.
00:45:26.500 Even if those people are good people,
00:45:28.740 they're not trying to create problems,
00:45:30.560 it's just normal.
00:45:32.460 People create stress in other people.
00:45:34.600 We don't,
00:45:34.940 we can't turn that off exactly.
00:45:36.820 Just being normal creates stress.
00:45:39.420 So,
00:45:41.120 that's the irony,
00:45:44.460 is that I've never felt better.
00:45:45.680 Now,
00:45:46.360 and I'm getting a little bit addicted
00:45:48.760 to the feeling.
00:45:49.960 It actually feels so good
00:45:51.540 that it's like being on drugs.
00:45:54.940 I heard somebody tell me this,
00:45:57.040 a similar story,
00:45:58.800 some time ago,
00:45:59.740 and I scoffed at it.
00:46:01.040 I was like,
00:46:01.300 I don't know.
00:46:03.880 You know,
00:46:04.280 I don't think being
00:46:05.520 super healthy and well-rested and stuff
00:46:08.460 feels as good as drugs.
00:46:11.000 And then I got healthy and well-rested,
00:46:13.760 it actually feels as good as drugs.
00:46:15.900 Like,
00:46:16.260 actually,
00:46:16.740 literally.
00:46:17.680 It literally feels
00:46:19.460 as good as being like
00:46:21.300 a little buzzed on a drug.
00:46:23.740 Just because my health is just peaking.
00:46:25.840 It's just,
00:46:26.160 it couldn't be possibly better at the moment.
00:46:29.560 All right.
00:46:29.920 I'm off the,
00:46:32.740 I'm off the prednisone,
00:46:34.100 by the way.
00:46:34.580 I think I've been off it long enough
00:46:36.040 that it's not having too much effect on me.
00:46:40.700 Yeah,
00:46:45.440 I am a hermit,
00:46:46.700 somebody's saying in the comments.
00:46:50.020 I can be a hermit,
00:46:52.240 but not indefinitely.
00:46:54.360 I need,
00:46:54.900 I need people.
00:46:56.600 So,
00:46:57.040 I'm an introvert,
00:46:57.920 but I still need a healthy dose of social interaction like most people.
00:47:01.880 Let me tell you the funniest thing that I heard yesterday.
00:47:06.860 I won't tell you who said it,
00:47:09.380 because that person may or may not be watching this video right now.
00:47:14.300 But,
00:47:14.860 it was a conversation about running out of toilet paper,
00:47:17.760 and somebody who will remain endless said he's training himself to scoot across his front lawn like a dog,
00:47:25.680 just in case the toilet paper runs out.
00:47:28.300 Aren't you glad you waited for the end of the periscope for that?
00:47:31.680 And,
00:47:32.200 and I,
00:47:33.720 my immediate feeling was,
00:47:35.880 well,
00:47:36.180 that's a terrible plan.
00:47:38.420 What kind of dumb plan is it,
00:47:40.180 that if you run out of toilet paper,
00:47:42.160 you're going to train yourself like a dog to scoot across your front lawn instead?
00:47:47.960 And I said,
00:47:48.340 that's the dumbest plan I've ever heard.
00:47:50.740 Don't your neighbors have lawns?
00:47:53.640 Don't they,
00:47:54.580 you know,
00:47:54.860 aren't they ever asleep?
00:47:56.640 Why would you do it to your own lawn?
00:47:59.400 Now,
00:47:59.600 the lawn part and the dog scooting part,
00:48:01.760 perfect sense.
00:48:03.220 But why would you do it on your own lawn?
00:48:05.320 Your neighbors sleep?
00:48:06.740 Go next door.
00:48:07.940 You know,
00:48:09.080 that's all I'm saying.
00:48:10.480 All right,
00:48:10.860 just joking.
00:48:11.740 If we can't have fun during the coronavirus,
00:48:14.480 we're dead inside.
00:48:16.660 And if you're dead inside,
00:48:17.820 it doesn't matter if you're dead on the outside.
00:48:20.160 So let's not lose our sense of humor entirely.
00:48:24.300 Not entirely.
00:48:26.100 It's a serious deal,
00:48:27.860 but we're still human.
00:48:28.780 We can't lose our humanity.
00:48:31.700 Oh,
00:48:31.960 by the way,
00:48:32.560 somebody mentioned AOC.
00:48:34.220 There's a funny video of AOC saying you shouldn't touch your face,
00:48:38.800 and then they do a quick cut of all the time she's touching her face
00:48:42.800 while telling you not to touch your face.
00:48:45.740 So that's funny,
00:48:46.740 but not meaningful in any way.
00:48:48.120 But here's what is meaningful.
00:48:49.180 AOC did a prime,
00:48:53.520 was it prime time?
00:48:54.500 I think so,
00:48:55.440 interview with Brett Baier on Fox News.
00:48:59.180 That's right.
00:49:01.020 AOC went into the lion's den
00:49:04.360 and did an interview on Fox News.
00:49:07.140 Now,
00:49:07.320 why this is important is that
00:49:09.140 Democrats in general
00:49:10.940 are very reluctant to appear on Fox News
00:49:15.060 because it feels like the enemy,
00:49:16.700 and they probably don't think they'll get a fair shake,
00:49:19.120 and all that stuff.
00:49:20.060 But AOC broke the seal.
00:49:25.060 Now,
00:49:25.740 what do I tell you about
00:49:27.060 master persuaders,
00:49:28.600 people who are good at it?
00:49:29.840 They take free money.
00:49:31.880 If there's a pile of money on a table,
00:49:34.620 everybody will walk by it
00:49:36.300 except the people who are good at this.
00:49:39.260 The people who are good at it
00:49:40.520 will walk by and they'll say,
00:49:41.560 what?
00:49:42.300 Big pile of money on the table?
00:49:43.980 Can I have it?
00:49:45.040 Does this belong to anybody?
00:49:46.840 No, it doesn't.
00:49:48.660 And that's what AOC did.
00:49:50.420 By appearing on Fox News
00:49:51.760 when other Democrats did not,
00:49:55.840 she raised her national profile
00:49:58.280 in a very substantial way.
00:50:00.940 And yeah, of course,
00:50:01.980 all the people on Fox News are saying,
00:50:04.220 blah, blah, blah,
00:50:04.840 we don't like you,
00:50:05.740 what you said is bad, etc.
00:50:07.980 You won't remember that.
00:50:10.060 You won't remember that.
00:50:11.600 What you will remember
00:50:12.620 is that AOC went on Fox News
00:50:14.640 and wasn't afraid.
00:50:16.060 And got interviewed by Brett Baer.
00:50:18.900 So first of all,
00:50:19.740 if you're going to go on Fox News,
00:50:21.580 who are you going to pick?
00:50:23.960 You've decided to go on Fox News.
00:50:26.320 You're AOC.
00:50:27.580 Do you pick Sean Hannity?
00:50:30.540 No.
00:50:31.640 No, you don't.
00:50:32.980 Do you pick Tucker Carlson?
00:50:35.840 No.
00:50:37.080 No, you do not.
00:50:38.960 Because they're opinion people
00:50:40.880 and you don't know how that's going to go.
00:50:42.360 But Brett Baer,
00:50:45.200 he's famously, you know,
00:50:49.120 competent,
00:50:50.680 famously independent,
00:50:53.080 fair-minded,
00:50:54.520 you know, news guy.
00:50:55.800 So Brett Baer's a news guy,
00:50:57.160 not the opinion guys.
00:50:58.580 So she picked,
00:51:00.500 in my opinion,
00:51:01.520 you know,
00:51:01.800 maybe Chris Wallace would be another,
00:51:03.540 would be, you know,
00:51:04.440 a good choice with this.
00:51:05.300 But she chose well.
00:51:07.100 She chose the right person.
00:51:08.500 I'm sure other people had asked her.
00:51:10.440 But she chose the right one.
00:51:12.040 So I'm just pointing that out as technique.
00:51:14.940 You can go back to hating her like you used to.
00:51:17.740 All right.
00:51:23.300 What else we got going on?
00:51:26.740 Somebody says to me,
00:51:27.980 wasn't she a racist POS?
00:51:30.420 Yes.
00:51:32.580 Yes.
00:51:34.100 Yes, she is.
00:51:36.000 Now,
00:51:36.460 you can hold both thoughts.
00:51:38.760 Am I not allowed to hold both of these thoughts?
00:51:41.980 That AOC's,
00:51:43.560 you know,
00:51:44.700 statements and preferences,
00:51:46.920 et cetera,
00:51:47.800 suggest strong racism.
00:51:51.300 But that doesn't stop the fact
00:51:53.240 that she's also tremendously talented
00:51:55.140 as a public figure.
00:51:57.040 Those can both be true.
00:51:58.780 What's wrong with that?
00:52:00.420 I'm not going to be the person
00:52:02.180 who's just going to take a side.
00:52:04.520 So if you need that,
00:52:05.840 go somewhere else.
00:52:07.260 If you need me to say
00:52:08.620 there's some good
00:52:09.240 and there's some bad
00:52:10.040 about both sides,
00:52:11.720 came to the right place.
00:52:13.800 All right.
00:52:15.880 And I will talk to you later.