Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 883 Scott Adams： I'll be Taking Over for our Lying Surgeon General. Come Get New Guidelines.

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00:01:15.940 Yeah.

00:01:16.580 So, let's take an accounting of all of the people and entities who have lied to us during the pandemic.

00:01:25.960 Now, it wouldn't be big news that somebody lied to the public, because that's sort of every day somebody's lying to the public.

00:01:35.400 But it feels to me that lying to the public during the pandemic, about the pandemic, something important about it, that's sort of a bad lie.

00:01:48.500 And so far, we've seen the CDC tell us that masks don't work, an obvious lie.

00:01:54.220 The World Health Organization, WHO, telling us that masks don't work, an obvious lie.

00:02:00.920 China telling us that they've totally taken care of their problem when we're there, an obvious lie, as well as a lot of other obvious lies. 0.66

00:02:11.160 The Surgeon General telling us that masks, we shouldn't wear masks in the general public, because they don't work.

00:02:17.240 That's an obvious lie.

00:02:18.480 And then, of course, the fake news in general, I don't have to give you any examples.

00:02:25.320 But it's kind of remarkable, isn't it, that the entities that we thought we could trust, I mean, really, the Surgeon General,

00:02:36.600 I think even this morning he was back on Fox and Friends, just lying to the public.

00:02:41.560 And the thing is that it's one thing to lie to the public when they don't know you're lying, or they can't prove it.

00:02:49.760 But when they know you're lying, and you don't even have to prove it, because it's just obvious that material stops error, you know, or slows it down.

00:03:02.940 So it's really quite remarkable that they continue to do this right to our faces.

00:03:07.660 So I don't think you could listen to any of these organizations going forward.

00:03:14.020 So I don't think you should trust the Surgeon General, the CDC, or who.

00:03:20.780 You have to listen to them.

00:03:22.640 But you're going to have to use your judgment, it looks like.

00:03:25.460 Because apparently they're not committed to telling the public the truth.

00:03:29.980 For whatever reason or reasons, you don't need to know the reasons.

00:03:33.640 You just have to know that apparently it's not, it's just not an objective to tell you the truth.

00:03:39.740 So keep that in mind.

00:03:43.120 President Trump said something that you wouldn't expect to come out of his mouth.

00:03:50.200 But again, you know, it's part of the reason that he's so appealing to the people who like him.

00:03:56.820 I'm talking about Trump, that he just says stuff that you're only supposed to think.

00:04:03.820 You're not supposed to say it out loud.

00:04:06.040 And then he says it out loud.

00:04:07.460 You think, well, I didn't see that coming.

00:04:09.800 I didn't think he'd say that out loud.

00:04:12.120 He's doing it again, but in a very delightful way, because I like this.

00:04:18.860 And so apparently, I don't know where he was, maybe on Fox and Friends or someplace, wherever he did an interview.

00:04:23.740 Trump said, we want to always make sure that we have a great president.

00:04:31.900 We have somebody that's capable.

00:04:34.480 This is Trump speaking.

00:04:35.780 He says, I personally don't think Joe Biden is capable.

00:04:39.420 The president said in an interview with Fox and Friends.

00:04:42.780 And then he went on and said, quote, I wouldn't mind running against Andrew.

00:04:46.800 Talking about Andrew Cuomo.

00:04:48.720 I have known Andrew for a long time.

00:04:50.840 I wouldn't mind that.

00:04:51.800 But I'll be honest, I think he'd be a better candidate than Sleepy Joe.

00:04:56.480 And here's what's funny about that.

00:04:58.860 That's 100% true.

00:05:01.680 It's 100% true.

00:05:03.460 The president is just saying it straight up, that he doesn't think Joe Biden is capable.

00:05:10.220 And it's just true, right?

00:05:13.320 I mean, we're watching Joe Biden from his basement bunker struggle through to try to get through these little video things without gaffing.

00:05:22.620 And he can't even do that.

00:05:24.120 So the president is just calling it like it is.

00:05:26.420 He's not capable.

00:05:27.360 And the president said something that I've been saying.

00:05:32.060 I've actually said this privately to Democrats, but also publicly.

00:05:36.100 Which is, the country's a little bit exposed here.

00:05:41.660 Because typically we've got, you know, two candidates.

00:05:44.960 Maybe you disagree with their policies, but they could both do the job.

00:05:49.280 You know?

00:05:49.820 They could both do the job.

00:05:51.360 You just would prefer one over the other.

00:05:53.300 But that's not what we have now.

00:05:55.760 We have a dangerous situation where people over 70 are at risk.

00:06:00.780 We've got a president who's over 70.

00:06:03.980 And he's not wearing a face mask.

00:06:06.340 Every time you see him, he's around people.

00:06:09.380 He's at risk.

00:06:11.400 You know, we can't ignore the fact that our leaders, some of them, might not make it.

00:06:16.860 I mean, maybe in other countries more than this.

00:06:19.640 But this is a real risk.

00:06:21.840 And when I talk about the Democrats not having a viable candidate, I'm serious about that.

00:06:29.340 That's not joking around.

00:06:31.200 That's not politics.

00:06:32.680 They need to give us a backup plan.

00:06:35.860 You know, what happens if, you know, worst case scenario, something happens, Trump quits, whatever.

00:06:41.880 We need a backup plan.

00:06:43.920 And I'm talking about before the election, so that we have an actual candidate we can elect.

00:06:48.220 I'm not talking about, you know, Mike Pence is a good backup, I think.

00:06:52.520 In my opinion, you know, I wouldn't choose Mike Pence for president.

00:06:56.540 But is he a solid backup?

00:06:58.880 Yeah.

00:06:59.480 Yeah.

00:07:00.180 He's a very solid backup.

00:07:01.860 So I'm completely comfortable with that.

00:07:03.840 But are you comfortable with Joe Biden being the backup in case something happens between now and Election Day?

00:07:09.840 How could you possibly be comfortable with that?

00:07:13.500 Now, would Andrew Cuomo be a better candidate and a better president than Joe Biden?

00:07:19.580 Yes.

00:07:20.440 Yes.

00:07:21.160 A thousand times yes.

00:07:23.120 And I don't even know that much about Andrew Cuomo.

00:07:26.700 Because I would say the same thing about almost anybody.

00:07:31.640 Right?

00:07:32.520 Almost anybody.

00:07:33.720 You know, the Bernie folks are different because they've got a quite different view of the world.

00:07:39.600 So you could argue maybe that's not better.

00:07:42.540 But to have a mainstream Democrat who just can sort of do the job, you know, a John Kerry, just somebody who could do the job.

00:07:52.580 I feel like the Democrats owe the Republic that.

00:07:56.320 I feel like they owe us that.

00:07:58.620 They owe us a real candidate.

00:08:00.040 And I mean that.

00:08:02.580 They owe us a real candidate.

00:08:04.940 It's no joke now.

00:08:06.520 I mean, this is playing at the top level, at the highest stakes.

00:08:13.380 And Democrats are offering this just no option at all?

00:08:16.580 Really?

00:08:17.760 You could do better than that.

00:08:18.780 So I don't think the president really thinks the Democrats could, you know, switch horses at this late stage.

00:08:28.360 But I think he's being completely honest that he actually would rather run against somebody who's capable.

00:08:33.980 I think that's actually true.

00:08:35.800 Even though, you know, Andrew Cuomo might be able to beat him.

00:08:39.980 You know, if we're being honest, Andrew Cuomo might be able to beat him.

00:08:45.080 But I don't think he's going to get into race.

00:08:50.440 I'm going to mention this just because it's funny.

00:08:54.060 You should put no credibility whatsoever on the next thing I say, even less than the usual.

00:09:00.240 So on the Internet, but not in the regular news, of course, there's some photographs that appear to show Governor Cuomo with his shirt being kind of tight. 0.69

00:09:11.260 But it appears to show that he has nipple piercings. 0.91

00:09:15.820 Now, I'm no expert on nipple piercings. 0.70

00:09:20.100 And why would I care one way or the other?

00:09:23.140 Why would I care? 0.98

00:09:24.320 I don't care if he has nipple piercings. 0.96

00:09:26.180 He can have anything he wants pierced. 0.89

00:09:27.800 I'm completely okay with that.

00:09:29.580 And it shouldn't be a story.

00:09:30.800 But apparently, according to the Internet, you can see it through his shirt.

00:09:36.500 And it makes you wonder if, you know, makes you wonder if he's even more interesting than you thought.

00:09:43.980 In a good way.

00:09:45.220 I have only good things to say about it.

00:09:46.900 And by the way, I was just watching another clip of, you know, Chris Cuomo on CNN interviewing Andrew Cuomo.

00:09:53.760 And I got to tell you, I could not recommend this more highly.

00:09:56.780 Finally, watching Chris Cuomo, like, you know, do his little routine with his brother.

00:10:03.600 You know, sort of the mocking each other and the love-hate stuff is really good.

00:10:08.320 It's just good TV.

00:10:09.620 And you're also learning stuff that you want to know.

00:10:12.780 I could not be more praising how good that is.

00:10:19.340 Just, you know, it's just sort of something we need.

00:10:21.220 Like, I feel like when we're all locked down, watching these two brothers, you know, who love each other and mock each other is just really good for the country's soul.

00:10:33.260 One of Chris Cuomo's little digs at his brother, Andrew.

00:10:39.420 I had to write this one down because it made me laugh.

00:10:42.740 It is just a throwaway line.

00:10:44.460 It was just one of the many things they said.

00:10:46.180 So Chris Cuomo goes to his brother.

00:10:48.720 He goes, I know you like to run around with your ill-fitting jacket.

00:10:54.040 I know you like to run around with your ill-fitting jacket.

00:10:57.760 That is such a brother thing to say.

00:11:00.240 That was great.

00:11:01.080 So I tweeted yesterday, and I mentioned before, that it's jarring to me to watch the professional news people broadcast from home.

00:11:14.100 I think they're using Skype.

00:11:15.380 It looks like they're just using the laptops or whatever.

00:11:17.800 And that part's fine.

00:11:19.160 Everybody understands this is an emergency.

00:11:21.200 But it's weird that they're wearing suits to Skype from their basements or their living room or their basement or something.

00:11:29.620 It's kind of weird to wear a suit.

00:11:33.100 So I have ruled as the creator of Dilbert.

00:11:35.680 I have this authority.

00:11:36.920 You probably didn't know this.

00:11:38.380 But I can rule on office dress.

00:11:42.080 And I rule that no matter what your job is on TV, if you're doing it from home over Skype, the proper dress code is pajama casual.

00:11:55.880 Now, pajama casual is what I'm wearing right now.

00:11:58.160 It's sort of like the mullet of dress codes.

00:12:02.660 Because from here up, oh, I'm all business.

00:12:06.880 But from the waist down, it's pajama time.

00:12:10.540 So it's like the mullet of dress codes.

00:12:15.260 Here's something you didn't see coming.

00:12:17.000 One, Trump is absolutely just killing the rich to transfer money to the poor.

00:12:28.720 Now, the poor in this context is anybody who didn't have much in the way of resources and also lost their job and will lose their job because of the virus situation.

00:12:39.040 So those people are getting large amounts of money.

00:12:43.660 And the people who probably are going to lose everything are the people who owned businesses.

00:12:50.000 So the people who had money are going to lose, in many cases, everything and end up with debt.

00:12:58.080 And the billionaires, even they are probably going to go down by a third in the short term anyway.

00:13:04.300 They'll probably go down by a third.

00:13:05.400 So the people who didn't have anything didn't have anything to lose.

00:13:09.340 So there's not much room to go from not having anything to having nothing.

00:13:13.920 It's sort of the same thing.

00:13:16.080 And in fact, they might get some direct transfers.

00:13:19.000 But the rich are getting killed.

00:13:21.560 Now, I'm not complaining.

00:13:23.840 Because, you know, the rich are the last ones you have to worry about.

00:13:28.120 But take me, for example.

00:13:31.060 My job is basically gone.

00:13:33.900 So my career will never come back after this, I predict.

00:13:37.980 Because most newspapers won't be able to survive the downturn because advertising was already so bad and the model was so bad.

00:13:46.660 So a year from now, I would suspect I will not be a cartoonist because there won't be a market for it the way there used to be.

00:13:56.480 I'd still be doing it probably online and stuff.

00:13:59.660 But in terms of my career is over, basically.

00:14:03.320 I mean, this will be the last few months that there's something like a comic and something like newspapers.

00:14:09.620 So I don't expect newspapers, maybe 75% of them would go out of business, would be my guess.

00:14:15.980 And along with them, 75% of my income.

00:14:19.880 But I'll figure it out.

00:14:21.720 So I won't be in the bread line.

00:14:23.160 So I'm watching CNN try to find something to say bad about Trump.

00:14:34.080 And so Gloria Borgia, one of their main personalities and pundits, 0.98

00:14:40.380 she wrote an opinion piece saying that Trump doesn't have the same amount of empathy as Andrew Cuomo.

00:14:46.140 Well, that's it.

00:14:50.120 That's it.

00:14:51.260 The best thing or the worst thing that Gloria Borgia could come up with about Trump and this handling of the crisis is that,

00:15:01.280 oh yeah, he does have empathy.

00:15:02.560 She didn't say he has no empathy.

00:15:03.900 And she actually gave examples about how he talked about the hospital, Elmhurst, I think, in his old neighborhood.

00:15:11.460 Talked empathetically about somebody he knew personally who is now on a ventilator and in a coma.

00:15:17.480 So she did say he has empathy and that he is actually displaying it.

00:15:24.220 And she didn't really complain about his job, you know, doing the job of the crisis management.

00:15:29.520 But her complaint was that compared to Andrew Cuomo, he seems to not have as much empathy.

00:15:37.280 That's it?

00:15:38.560 Really?

00:15:40.060 That's it?

00:15:41.140 I mean, it should be noted that one of the things that Andrew Cuomo does better than just about anybody in politics is show empathy.

00:15:49.980 He is sort of the, you know, if you were going to have a contest and, you know, put all the politicians in one place and say,

00:15:58.700 all right, show us some sincere empathy.

00:16:03.000 And it was like a contest where you could pick a winner.

00:16:05.720 It might be Andrew Cuomo.

00:16:07.060 Well, he does seem to have exactly the right fit of charisma and personality and empathy.

00:16:15.640 Just the way he presents himself, he feels, he looks like he's, you know, heart and soul, completely engaged and empathetic.

00:16:24.840 So, and the president is not famous for empathy being his, you know, primary characteristic.

00:16:32.060 But he's certainly doing it.

00:16:35.000 He's certainly performing.

00:16:37.300 You know, I'll agree with you that compared to the best political empathizer of all time,

00:16:44.700 you know, Andrew Cuomo is really good at this stuff.

00:16:47.260 He's not that good.

00:16:50.200 But does that matter?

00:16:51.520 I mean, it's like the least important criticism I've ever seen.

00:16:56.140 All right, but who else was criticizing them?

00:16:58.700 So, Chris Eliza, again, CNN critic of the president.

00:17:04.180 He can't find anything to criticize.

00:17:06.540 So, he falls back on hallucinating that he can read the president's mind.

00:17:12.180 And although the actions seem to be okay,

00:17:15.600 there's something he can see penetrating the skull and peering inside,

00:17:21.040 that Chris Eliza can see the president's mind.

00:17:23.340 Oh, do you think I'm making this up?

00:17:24.980 Does that sound too hyperbolic?

00:17:28.860 Am I making too much of what Chris Eliza said?

00:17:32.820 Well, let's read his exact words.

00:17:35.400 These are his exact words, Chris Eliza.

00:17:38.240 In Trump's mind, that's the first part of the sentence.

00:17:42.560 He's actually telling us what's in Trump's mind in a direct sentence.

00:17:46.740 In Trump's mind, the reason that people are watching the briefings is because of him.

00:17:53.340 What?

00:17:54.680 What?

00:17:56.200 Really?

00:17:57.480 Can we see inside his mind, and when we peer inside this mind of a stranger with our ESP,

00:18:04.660 we can tell that the only reason he thinks people are watching the briefings is because of his good performance?

00:18:12.820 Do you think the president is unaware of what, well, let's, here's what Chris Eliza thinks the president doesn't understand.

00:18:22.600 How do I know that the, that Eliza, Eliza thinks the president doesn't understand this?

00:18:28.560 Well, it's the sentence he wrote, which says, quote,

00:18:32.100 quote, he doesn't understand that.

00:18:35.300 Because for him, it's always, always, always about him.

00:18:41.240 Seriously?

00:18:42.460 Is he just imagining that the president can't handle two variables at the same time?

00:18:47.200 Because I also can't read the president's mind, but if I were going to make, let's say, a reasonable assumption,

00:18:55.940 wouldn't you say he can handle more than one variable at the same time?

00:18:59.600 Don't you think the president has some notion that people are watching the briefings to get information as well?

00:19:07.380 Not just for his performance.

00:19:09.640 You don't think the president's caught on, that there's some transfer of information that people would find valuable and useful and would tune in for it?

00:19:18.520 You don't think the president's caught on to that at all, Chris Eliza.

00:19:23.200 He's just blind to that.

00:19:24.500 He just thinks they're watching because his performance is good?

00:19:27.280 And you're so confident in this opinion, you would write it directly and publish it?

00:19:34.860 I mean, what do you even say about that?

00:19:40.920 But anyway, that's the worst complaint they have about him is things they hallucinate.

00:19:46.460 And he's not as empathetic as the most empathetic politician we've ever seen in public.

00:19:53.700 Okay.

00:19:55.620 All right.

00:19:56.460 Okay, I'll accept those criticisms, I guess.

00:20:02.720 Here's a question I would like to know.

00:20:06.940 So this is data that we are not being told and should.

00:20:12.880 How many doctors who have been taking the hydroxychloroquine and the azithromycin,

00:20:20.360 how many doctors who are taking that preventatively, prophylactically, ahead of being affected,

00:20:26.620 how many of them later got infected?

00:20:30.060 Wouldn't you like to know that?

00:20:31.740 Because it seems to me, and maybe they just don't want to admit it yet,

00:20:35.660 there must be a lot of doctors who are taking it just because they're working on the front lines,

00:20:40.880 and of course they're being exposed to it, of course.

00:20:43.640 How many of them went on to get the virus?

00:20:46.340 And then of the ones who got it, how many, you know, advanced to some kind of a ventilator or serious stage?

00:20:54.940 How many doctors have been on the front lines where they're definitely getting exposed at least a little bit

00:21:11.160 and also took it prophylactically long enough that they know they weren't exposed before, I suppose.

00:21:18.160 So maybe we don't have enough numbers, but I think we do.

00:21:22.200 I'll bet we do.

00:21:23.960 So why don't we hear that?

00:21:29.240 Let's see.

00:21:33.080 And this is from Meridian Health Facilities.

00:21:37.700 So a doctor was, I think, on Fox News or someplace.

00:21:41.720 He was talking about it.

00:21:42.620 It might have been CNN.

00:21:44.180 And he said there are more than 300 in the ICU and more than 300 on ventilators.

00:21:51.140 And then he said this.

00:21:52.320 He said, we're probably using the hydroxychloroquine recipe in some way or shape or form

00:21:57.820 in about three-quarters of our patients right now.

00:22:01.220 To which I said, three-quarters?

00:22:05.540 Why would you not use it on all of them?

00:22:07.700 It could be because the other coroner are testing other drugs.

00:22:12.860 Or maybe they're too far gone and they think the hydroxychloroquine only works

00:22:18.000 if you don't have strong symptoms yet.

00:22:21.080 I don't know.

00:22:21.620 But it's a question.

00:22:23.060 What will happen to the other coroner?

00:22:24.800 Is it because they don't have enough?

00:22:26.340 I'd like to know more about that.

00:22:27.800 So the public has responded quite remarkably to all the shortages and needs and stuff.

00:22:36.260 And especially the 3D printer community came up with face mask designs that I think it creates

00:22:47.680 sort of the plasticky parts that you can put the mask in somehow.

00:22:51.340 So somehow they figured it out.

00:22:54.640 But I thought, I wonder if that's the future.

00:22:57.960 Could it be that instead of having all of the components we need for an emergency like this

00:23:04.500 that's just sort of sitting in a warehouse?

00:23:06.240 I'm sure we'll have lots more M95 masks in warehouses from this day on.

00:23:11.720 But in addition to that, wouldn't you like that all the 3D makers have plans just in case?

00:23:19.700 And so at the first sight of the trouble, could the 3D makers just start pumping out stuff that they need for this emergency?

00:23:29.260 Maybe we'll be ready for that the next time.

00:23:32.500 Here's an idea.

00:23:34.980 Restaurants, of course, are just getting devastated.

00:23:39.200 And I'm wondering what kind of things can be done to help them get by.

00:23:43.780 Now, of course, you could buy a gift certificate.

00:23:45.860 You could use delivery.

00:23:50.220 You could do pickup and stuff.

00:23:51.820 So those things are all great if you have a way to keep your local restaurants in business.

00:23:56.420 But there are also tons of restrictions that the local community puts on restaurants,

00:24:02.720 the state, the county, and the city.

00:24:04.800 And one of the restrictions is outdoor dining.

00:24:08.880 So there are always tons of outdoor dining restrictions.

00:24:11.620 And, you know, don't be on the sidewalk.

00:24:14.200 And you don't have a permit for that.

00:24:16.180 And you've got to have this and that.

00:24:17.660 And you've got to make sure your dog can't be next to a table and all that.

00:24:22.340 And I'm wondering if we could just do away with all of that for, you know, a year or whatever.

00:24:28.600 Because the warm weather is coming.

00:24:30.180 And it seems to me that restaurants should be able to spread their tables out into the street or the sidewalk or just maybe the parking lot.

00:24:42.000 Maybe the parking lot.

00:24:43.680 Maybe every restaurant is a drive-up from now on.

00:24:47.400 You could eat in your car, but they'll take it out to you in your car.

00:24:51.400 You know, you just park in the parking lot like a drive-in.

00:24:54.040 And so it's a general question, but I'm wondering how many restaurants would have the space outside them where they could at least temporarily say,

00:25:04.540 we'll serve you outdoors or in your car or you drive-thru.

00:25:10.180 There's a business in town called The Creamery.

00:25:14.620 It's been here for decades before I was here.

00:25:17.900 So I don't know.

00:25:18.420 It might be 50 years old, but it's a local institution.

00:25:20.980 And what it is is a drive-up soft ice cream place.

00:25:26.160 And all summer and even much of the winter, there's a line out in the streets.

00:25:30.940 And you get in your car and you just get in line and they'll take your order while you're in your car.

00:25:36.020 So that by the time you get up to the front in your car, they have it ready for you and they're handing it to you and you drive away.

00:25:43.340 And it is insanely popular, even though it's a little bit inconvenient.

00:25:48.940 But you never get out of your car.

00:25:50.980 And I've often thought that a part of the magic is that the kids are bugging the parents.

00:25:56.340 Hey, go to the creamery, you know.

00:25:58.120 And the parents are thinking, you know, if I had to park and I had to get out of my car, I'd probably just say no.

00:26:06.840 You've had enough ice cream.

00:26:07.980 But because I can just sort of drive up and I'm already in the car and the kids are in the car and it's only across the street, it's hard to say no.

00:26:18.140 Because all you have to do is drive over there and suddenly you've got ice cream.

00:26:22.820 So I think we should think expansively and think about dropping a lot of regulations, including, you know, bring your bicycle, bring your dog, you know, side, eat in your car, just all of that.

00:26:36.740 Just make it all possible and let people see what they can do.

00:26:40.440 So Senator Bill Cassidy is pitching the idea of an online registry for recovered coronavirus patients so that, you know, you'd have a way of knowing who could go back to work, who's relatively safe.

00:26:59.040 We're still thinking that having it gives you some degree of immunity, but I think there's a little bit of a question mark on that.

00:27:09.720 Ford and GM, I guess, are teaming up to build ventilators.

00:27:14.740 That's good news.

00:27:16.020 It's good to see our big businesses stepping up.

00:27:18.940 You know, the president hasn't had to use the War Powers Act too much because the businesses are stepping up.

00:27:27.100 And I'm thinking, you know, a lot of what we think about these big companies will be determined by how they respond.

00:27:36.040 You know, how did they treat their employees?

00:27:38.720 Did they step up to try to make ventilators?

00:27:41.600 That sort of thing.

00:27:42.700 So I think it's just smart of Ford to really be on board and all these other companies.

00:27:49.100 You know, they shouldn't have to be asked.

00:27:50.500 Of course, Mike Lindell is getting some heat because he was at the Rose Garden and then the president let him speak.

00:28:01.300 And he said good things about the president and some things about God.

00:28:05.040 So people want to use that as an excuse to complain about Mike Lindell.

00:28:09.700 And this is what Sean Davis over at the Federalist, he tweeted this.

00:28:19.000 He was, while you were watching Netflix, talking about Lindell here, he said he retooled his entire company to make tens of thousands of masks every day to protect people from getting the Wuhan coronavirus.

00:28:30.860 Has there ever been somebody who was more typically American than Mike Lindell?

00:28:38.360 He's the most American guy.

00:28:40.940 Because, first of all, I think he's admitted he had cocaine problems or whatever.

00:28:44.780 So when he was younger, he had drug problems.

00:28:47.060 So that's the first part that's very American.

00:28:49.320 You know, he started from some disadvantage, formed an American company, makes an American product.

00:28:57.300 And then as soon as there's a big problem in the country, what does Mike Lindell do?

00:29:05.460 Well, he's an American.

00:29:06.760 What's an American do if he has an American manufacturing plant that can do stuff with, you know, cotton? 0.96

00:29:14.060 He makes products with cotton.

00:29:16.480 He just turned over his entire company in like a week and turned it into a mask-making company because he's a patriot.

00:29:24.760 He's a great American.

00:29:27.000 Great, great American.

00:29:31.500 So here's a weird thing that's happening today.

00:29:37.780 Doesn't it feel like it's a little too quiet?

00:29:42.520 Don't you think?

00:29:43.900 Doesn't it feel a little too quiet today?

00:29:46.760 You know, I tweeted that and some people were agreeing because they're feeling it.

00:29:49.960 Because the news has been coming at us like just a fire hose lately.

00:29:54.860 And I look at the news today and it's a Tuesday.

00:29:58.700 It's sort of a big news day.

00:30:00.980 A lot of news happens on Tuesdays.

00:30:03.580 And there's not much.

00:30:06.140 You know, it's just sort of continuation news and people talking about stuff we've been talking about.

00:30:13.960 Not actually any news.

00:30:15.660 Now, it could be just a coincidence.

00:30:18.620 Every now and then you get slow news day.

00:30:20.360 So that would be the most likely explanation is just slow news day, relatively speaking.

00:30:27.480 But it doesn't feel like it, does it?

00:30:30.780 Do any of you feel it?

00:30:33.420 I feel like there's something happening.

00:30:37.480 And it's too quiet.

00:30:38.780 So, I'll just put that out there because I like to, you know, put my predictions out there.

00:30:46.740 Right or wrong.

00:30:48.100 Right or wrong.

00:30:48.920 And I'm not sure we'll ever know if this is right or wrong.

00:30:51.140 Because if we just go back to a big news day by this afternoon, well, that's not that unusual.

00:30:58.240 But look for something that's bigger than normal.

00:31:02.300 There just might be something bigger than normal.

00:31:05.420 Comment.

00:31:05.820 I don't know what it is.

00:31:06.920 I see people talking about civil wars and looting and all of that.

00:31:16.480 Let me say this.

00:31:18.200 While we were all distracted by the coronavirus, we're all distracted by the economy and staying home.

00:31:23.780 We're very distracted in all the right reasons because we should be focusing on that.

00:31:29.500 But here's what we didn't notice while we're focusing on all the bad news.

00:31:34.400 The country, and I can only speak for America because I don't have a sense of what's happening in other countries.

00:31:42.480 I wouldn't be surprised if it's not the same there.

00:31:46.080 But in this country, just think about this following fact and just enjoy it for a moment.

00:31:54.620 Here's the fact.

00:31:57.780 In my lifetime, the country has never been this unified.

00:32:03.240 You know, you could argue that 9-11 was unifying, but not like this.

00:32:07.740 In 9-11, most of us didn't have anything we could do about it.

00:32:12.140 There wasn't anything I could do about 9-11.

00:32:15.100 Some people signed up for the military and they found something to do.

00:32:18.400 But most of us didn't.

00:32:20.500 There wasn't much I could do about it.

00:32:22.520 But with this coronavirus situation, everybody can do something.

00:32:26.260 Every single person needs to do something.

00:32:30.240 Not only can you do something, but you're being called on.

00:32:34.700 You're being called on to do something.

00:32:37.000 And I would argue that America has never been closer as a people, never been stronger in terms of the idea of America than we are right now.

00:32:50.760 Right exactly now.

00:32:52.940 I mean exactly now.

00:32:54.200 Like as I'm talking, this country has never been more united.

00:32:58.980 We all have exactly the same mission, which is to get out of this alive and with our economy as good as we can make it.

00:33:09.500 We've never been this unified.

00:33:12.720 You know, the polls are showing some more support for the president.

00:33:16.200 I think that probably will, you know, continue unless something new happens.

00:33:21.560 And it probably matters that Joe Biden, who should be the big voice of, let's say, the voice of dissent, is basically irrelevant.

00:33:32.960 So the biggest voice that you'd expect to be making news and making noise just sort of doesn't exist.

00:33:40.920 Now, what about Bernie Sanders?

00:33:43.080 Bernie Sanders, you would expect, would continue being Bernie Sanders and maybe criticizing the president and doing all that.

00:33:50.780 Have you seen that today?

00:33:53.200 Have you seen that yesterday?

00:33:55.980 Did you see Bernie Sanders attacking the government of the United States during a pandemic?

00:34:03.020 Well, we all criticize, right?

00:34:04.860 I criticize today lying about the masks and stuff like that.

00:34:08.360 But Bernie Sanders, apparently, is a patriot.

00:34:13.220 I hate to tell you.

00:34:14.600 Because Bernie Sanders is not making it worse.

00:34:17.320 And he's probably working very hard to make it better.

00:34:22.020 So Bernie Sanders, I would like to re-up my respect for you for having the right intentions.

00:34:30.780 I still don't like the policies, per se.

00:34:33.160 But Bernie, I think you're being a positive force right now.

00:34:40.880 And I appreciate it.

00:34:42.420 So, you know, well, we'll always have Jim Acosta.

00:34:47.780 But I think you would agree he's part of the entertainment at this point.

00:34:52.720 You can't take him too seriously, are you?

00:34:55.920 Somebody says, are you watching the news?

00:34:57.840 I don't know if that means are you watching the news right now, as in something might be happening, because I'm not.

00:35:07.800 Oh, somebody says, describe United.

00:35:10.180 Yeah.

00:35:11.160 Here's what I mean.

00:35:13.080 Your neighbor can't get out to shop for groceries.

00:35:19.260 That would be my situation, right?

00:35:21.140 So I'm socially distancing, and I prefer not going to the store, because it would be a little dangerous.

00:35:28.820 I asked somebody to help me, you know, a person in the neighborhood, a young person, to help me get some groceries.

00:35:35.800 And, of course, she said yes.

00:35:38.020 So did either of us ask for our political affiliations?

00:35:43.020 Did I need to know the political affiliation of my neighbor I asked for help?

00:35:49.220 No.

00:35:49.500 Did she need to know my political leanings in order to give me help?

00:35:54.240 No.

00:35:54.980 No.

00:35:56.160 It's not a question.

00:35:57.880 When you see the political squabbling in the news that used to be fun, you know, even a few months ago, any political squabbling, I'd say, oh, this is fun.

00:36:09.600 We've got something to tweet about now.

00:36:11.180 We've got a little red meat in there.

00:36:12.800 Oh, I like this.

00:36:14.340 I like this trouble.

00:36:15.800 It was sort of fun trouble.

00:36:16.920 But now when you read some politician as just being a politician, it just looks sort of gross, doesn't it?

00:36:25.380 Because we're in the middle of this together.

00:36:27.160 It just looks slimy. 0.68

00:36:29.700 It looks disgusting.

00:36:30.740 And you're seeing more and more people who are willing to acknowledge that this isn't a political moment.

00:36:42.460 You know, the Jim Acosta is going to be the outlier.

00:36:46.100 But I think for most of us, most of us are Mark Cuban right now.

00:36:53.300 You know, what are Mark Cuban's political feelings about anything?

00:36:58.040 Well, not exactly maybe what the president agrees with.

00:37:01.420 But is Mark Cuban being political or is he just helping his employees, you know, being a leader in a time of when we need lots of leaders?

00:37:14.020 He's doing that.

00:37:15.820 And it's not political.

00:37:19.700 He's just trying to help his country.

00:37:22.220 You know, what am I doing?

00:37:23.520 Trying to help the country.

00:37:24.460 What are you doing?

00:37:25.660 Trying to help the country.

00:37:27.200 So the point being that our, I think even our racial divisions, our class divisions are looking better than ever.

00:37:40.820 Now, there's sort of a Robin Hood thing happening.

00:37:45.920 Because, as I said, you're watching the rich very willingly give up their money or, you know, a portion of it.

00:37:54.540 They're still going to be rich.

00:37:55.780 But you're watching the rich completely committed to what do you need.

00:38:01.820 I mean, that's what I see.

00:38:03.220 To me, it looks like the rich have universally said, just tell me what you need.

00:38:08.520 Nobody's saying no.

00:38:10.320 Have you seen any rich people be asked for something and then they say no?

00:38:14.220 Well, I mean, maybe it's happening, but I'm not hearing any stories about that.

00:38:18.960 I'm hearing yes.

00:38:20.820 Company, will you do this?

00:38:22.180 Yes.

00:38:22.900 Person A, will you do this?

00:38:24.540 Yes.

00:38:25.660 Now, this is also true of everybody who's not rich.

00:38:29.440 You know, you non-rich person, will you do this?

00:38:32.880 Yes.

00:38:34.040 Yes, I will.

00:38:34.960 There's more yes happening in this country right now.

00:38:39.720 Like, literally, as I'm talking, there are more people saying yes and more people saying, how can I help you?

00:38:47.400 And fewer people saying, you know, what do you believe about politics than ever in my lifetime.

00:38:53.920 So just sort of enjoy it.

00:38:56.160 You know, there's going to be way more bad than good during this next few weeks.

00:39:01.320 Way more bad than good.

00:39:02.460 But that doesn't mean you can't appreciate, you know, the little spots of life that are actually kind of special, that are beautiful in their own way.

00:39:12.880 And somebody says, oh, gee, Scott, you're in a fantasy.

00:39:18.280 Things are falling apart where I live.

00:39:20.020 Well, I don't know where you live, but I doubt that you're going to see looting, you know, you're not going to see society falling apart.

00:39:30.680 I believe that we are stronger than we've ever been mentally, spiritually, and scientifically.

00:39:39.600 And we're probably the strongest we've ever been.

00:39:43.100 The economy is going to take a serious pounding, though.

00:39:46.560 I will.

00:39:47.280 I know I'm going to get, my life will be very different after this, apparently.

00:39:54.440 So, and most of yours will as well.

00:39:58.120 But we're going to be better off in the long run.

00:40:05.760 Why the term social distancing rather than physical distancing?

00:40:11.160 Well, that's a good question.

00:40:13.100 Social does sound friendlier.

00:40:17.280 TDS boomers attack my wife. 1.00

00:40:20.620 Well, I don't know what that's all about.

00:40:23.940 I keep seeing people saying Trump called COVID a hoax.

00:40:27.600 I think we're past that.

00:40:32.740 Are all teachers being paid?

00:40:34.780 I don't know.

00:40:36.020 Good question.

00:40:36.680 My guess is yes.

00:40:47.520 All right.

00:40:48.460 China has blue sky.

00:40:49.980 Yeah, that's weird.

00:40:54.460 Somebody says they don't trust Fauci.

00:40:58.960 Things aren't really falling apart that seem that way.

00:41:02.280 Yeah.

00:41:02.480 I don't believe anything's falling apart.

00:41:06.360 All right.

00:41:07.080 So I've looked at your, somebody says looting in three weeks.

00:41:12.080 Let me give you the anti-looting argument.

00:41:16.820 Looting happens because there are more people than there are law enforcement.

00:41:23.400 I mean, roughly speaking, you know, if you've got a big crowd out there, you don't have many

00:41:28.420 cops, you might get some looting.

00:41:31.860 What's weird about this situation is that the citizens have largely, not largely, but to

00:41:39.680 a great extent, citizens realize their government isn't going to do everything for them this

00:41:44.680 time because they can't.

00:41:46.280 They just can't.

00:41:47.820 So what would happen if looters appeared in your city and police were, let's say police

00:41:54.540 were not taking care of it?

00:41:57.260 You know what would happen, right? 0.75

00:41:59.940 The citizens, armed to the teeth, would walk out onto the streets, they would shoot a couple

00:42:06.440 of looters, and that would be the end of the looters. 1.00

00:42:10.440 If looting were to happen, citizens would shoot them, shoot them dead, not the police. 0.99

00:42:17.460 Citizens would come out with their own guns, and they would say, looting? 0.98

00:42:21.760 No, not on my watch.

00:42:24.000 The looting will be done in 10 minutes. 0.97

00:42:26.680 They will shoot somebody. 0.99

00:42:28.400 The citizens of your world will shoot somebody dead, and then they'll say, who else wants 1.00

00:42:33.780 to loot, and then somebody will do it, and they'll shoot them dead. 1.00

00:42:38.100 After about the second or third person, they shoot dead. 0.99

00:42:40.820 I'm talking citizens.

00:42:42.440 I'm not talking about the law enforcement.

00:42:46.120 Your looting's going to go down quite a bit.

00:42:48.760 So, you know, you can't say that there won't be problems in some corner of the country.

00:42:53.460 It's a big place, so everything's different.

00:42:55.240 You might get some problems.

00:42:56.900 But with our citizens so well-armed, and the mood being we can't wait for the government

00:43:03.840 to do everything, you're probably safer from looting than any time in your life, because

00:43:11.660 no looter is going to be alive for 24 hours.

00:43:15.140 You know, at the first sight of noise, armed citizens are going to walk out in the streets

00:43:20.920 with their guns, and if you happen to be breaking a store window in the period of an emergency

00:43:27.700 in front of a guy with a gun, you'll probably get killed.

00:43:34.320 And by the way, if you're on the jury, and you have to settle the case of the guy who was

00:43:43.040 looting during a pandemic, right?

00:43:46.300 So during a pandemic is the key phrase here.

00:43:48.700 So you know a guy, if you saw a citizen shot somebody who was looting, who didn't really

00:43:54.380 need to, right?

00:43:55.900 You know, he didn't need to shoot him.

00:43:57.160 They were just walking out with some shoes or something, and did.

00:44:01.240 Put me on the jury.

00:44:03.320 Put me on that jury.

00:44:05.180 I'm not convicting that guy.

00:44:07.920 So any citizen who shoots a looter, you know, it's against the law.

00:44:13.660 I don't recommend it, but it's going to happen.

00:44:16.000 And if you put me on the jury, there's just no way I'm going to convict that guy. 0.96

00:44:19.680 Because in the context of an emergency, I kind of needed to shoot that looter. 0.96

00:44:24.840 Sorry. 0.97

00:44:26.760 It's an adult decision.

00:44:28.320 Sorry.

00:44:29.480 It's just the way it's got to go.

00:44:31.040 So no, I don't think there's any chance of looting widespread, because citizens would

00:44:36.080 just take care of that right away.

00:44:37.680 I guarantee it.

00:44:38.640 Somebody says you can't shoot somebody for looting.

00:44:44.480 Let me say this as clearly as possible.

00:44:46.840 It's not legal to shoot somebody just for looting.

00:44:51.320 It will happen anyway.

00:44:53.500 And should.

00:44:54.500 I'd be in favor of it.

00:44:56.100 Honestly.

00:44:56.500 I'm not saying you should do it.

00:44:59.720 That's not a recommendation.

00:45:01.500 I'm saying it will happen, whether you like it or not.

00:45:05.380 And it will be for the best.

00:45:07.300 Because it's going to slow down the looting quite a bit.

00:45:10.120 Trust me.

00:45:11.240 All right.

00:45:11.920 That's all I've got for now.

00:45:13.240 I will talk to you later tonight.

00:45:15.200 You know when.

00:45:16.080 7 p.m. my time.

00:45:18.280 10 p.m. Eastern.

00:45:20.160 Talk to you later.

00:45:20.800 10 p.m.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 31, 2020

Episode 883 Scott Adams： I'll be Taking Over for our Lying Surgeon General. Come Get New Guidelines.

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