Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 944 Scott Adams： FBI Flynn-Flammers, A Slew of Fake News and some Funny Stuff Before Bed

00:00:00.000 oh this would be great ASMR if you don't know what ASMR is you gotta google see

00:00:22.320 See, what did I get?

00:00:28.420 Yes, it's Dave Rubin's new book.

00:00:35.900 It's called Don't Burn This Book.

00:00:38.540 I will be talking to Dave Tuesday.

00:00:42.220 And we'll hear more about this, but I'm going to do my homework first.

00:00:46.640 Hey, how's it going, everybody?

00:00:49.840 What a day.

00:00:50.840 Do you remember maybe a week ago I told you that the next couple of weeks would be insane?

00:01:00.100 But it would be insane in a good way.

00:01:03.420 I'm not sure that's 100% true.

00:01:06.540 But it's definitely true that the past week or so, it's just been crazy.

00:01:14.100 And, of course, one of the things that's making it interesting is this General Flynn stuff.

00:01:20.840 Now, I hope you're all up to date on this, because there's something so perfect about this day, if you've been following the whole Flynn saga.

00:01:34.240 Because, you know, it was early on, it was rumored that he was just sort of framed and they were just trying to take him out or get some dirt on Trump.

00:01:44.100 And I remember when I first heard it, I said to myself, well, yeah, maybe, maybe.

00:01:51.860 But it didn't seem totally credible when I first heard it.

00:01:57.620 And partly because who does that?

00:02:00.020 Who just decides to take out a general because he's part of a campaign?

00:02:07.120 And part of it is, in the back of my mind, I was thinking, if there's somebody you're going to try to take down,

00:02:16.460 you know, if you had to pick anybody in the world, let's say the United States,

00:02:21.080 and there was somebody you wanted to take down,

00:02:24.440 and there was somebody that if you tried to take them down,

00:02:28.400 you might not have finished the job.

00:02:30.740 Who would be the worst person to try to take down and not quite get the job done?

00:02:38.840 Well, maybe a top military-trained mind of the United States, possibly a general.

00:02:46.580 That would be a really bad person to try to take out and not quite get it done.

00:02:54.540 So today the big story is that some of the notes have been revealed.

00:02:58.100 And, you know, they had read notes from the time of the interviews and before.

00:03:03.140 And I think it was the lawyer Baker's notes who said,

00:03:06.840 if you haven't seen this story, it's just going to make you laugh

00:03:13.560 because, you know, everything is a Dilbert cartoon, ultimately.

00:03:19.580 You know, maybe it's just my filter on the world, you know, and why wouldn't it be?

00:03:23.780 But I just see the world as this giant Dilbert cartoon.

00:03:27.720 So where the rest of you see important people doing awesome things because they're strangers.

00:03:33.700 You know, you always think that strangers are doing awesome things.

00:03:37.120 It's only the people that you know who are morons and incompetent.

00:03:40.600 And you say to yourself, why?

00:03:42.240 Why is it that everybody I know personally is a moron and incompetent?

00:03:48.200 Well, not everybody, but you know what I mean.

00:03:50.700 But yet, there are people I don't know, strangers in important jobs,

00:03:56.080 and they're so wildly awesome and competent.

00:04:01.460 Maybe not every time.

00:04:03.400 I'm just saying that sometimes it's a little more like a Dilbert comic,

00:04:08.460 no matter where you go.

00:04:09.760 Well, that's my experience.

00:04:12.800 There's no level anywhere, no level, where you can get away from it.

00:04:19.800 Case in point.

00:04:22.640 Top FBI lawyer.

00:04:25.860 I think he's an FBI lawyer.

00:04:28.000 But anyway, he was part of this group that was going to talk to Flynn.

00:04:31.700 And he writes a note to himself.

00:04:33.600 And on his note, he writes,

00:04:36.480 What is our goal?

00:04:38.200 Truth slash admission?

00:04:40.260 Or to get him to lie so we can prosecute him or get him fired?

00:04:45.240 Now, if you don't think that in approximately, I think it will be about six to eight weeks,

00:04:58.400 if you don't think there's going to be a Dilbert cartoon about the guy who's taking notes at the meetings,

00:05:04.480 but really he shouldn't, you know, he really shouldn't be taking the notes.

00:05:09.160 Because for one, he might not get it right, and then there'd be a record of something that might not even be accurate.

00:05:16.600 I mean, that's a risk.

00:05:19.140 Or, or you could be in the middle of a plot to overthrow the government of the United States,

00:05:25.880 and one of your treasonous co-conspirators decides to write a note to himself.

00:05:33.760 Note to self.

00:05:35.600 Is this one of these meetings where we're just...

00:05:39.100 Oh, my God.

00:05:45.540 This guy.

00:05:46.260 It's like, can't you just see it?

00:05:53.300 Like, like if he was at the meeting, I guess you...

00:05:56.360 Can't you just see this guy at the meeting?

00:06:00.560 Question.

00:06:02.820 Clarification.

00:06:04.800 I'm just point of order.

00:06:06.920 I'm just...

00:06:08.000 I'm wondering if we're committing treason against the United States of America.

00:06:14.340 And this is our first domino.

00:06:17.160 Or were we just talking to this guy to try to get him fired?

00:06:21.540 I'm just trying to get on the same page.

00:06:24.380 Are we just taking him out?

00:06:26.220 Just trying to get fired?

00:06:27.860 Or is this actually connected to our plot to take out the legally elected president of the United States

00:06:35.340 by going through his generals first?

00:06:38.040 Literally.

00:06:40.540 And the fact that this guy's at the meeting...

00:06:43.440 Like, is it...

00:06:45.180 Am I exaggerating?

00:06:46.900 Is this not a Dilbert comic?

00:06:50.720 That there's always this guy?

00:06:55.140 Can you imagine...

00:06:56.580 Can you imagine like, you know, Brennan and all these other guys who are thinking,

00:07:01.280 you know, I think we got away with it.

00:07:04.300 They're thinking, they're thinking, got clean away.

00:07:11.500 Yeah.

00:07:12.280 It was close.

00:07:14.460 It looks like...

00:07:15.160 It looked like they were...

00:07:16.080 They were sniffing on our trail there for a while.

00:07:19.260 Looked like they were getting close.

00:07:21.780 Nope.

00:07:22.260 We got away.

00:07:23.720 We got away.

00:07:24.900 What?

00:07:27.680 They found what?

00:07:30.360 A note, you say.

00:07:32.140 What was on the note?

00:07:35.660 What?

00:07:36.140 What?

00:07:41.760 So, you know, it's a bad day to be anybody associated with this, except for General Flynn.

00:07:50.840 Now, there's a punchline to all this.

00:07:55.960 By the way, I've never seen anybody more exonerated.

00:08:00.500 Like, if there was some kind of...

00:08:02.680 If there was some kind of Nobel Prize or Nobel Prize for being exonerated,

00:08:09.180 and like it was a scale,

00:08:11.560 and some people were a little bit exonerated,

00:08:14.680 it's like, well, you know, he's not that guilty.

00:08:18.020 Maybe let's exonerate him a little bit.

00:08:23.020 You've got to figure that there's a scale of exoneration, right?

00:08:26.700 Well, this guy just broke the gauge

00:08:30.900 for the most exonerated you could ever fucking be. 0.75

00:08:35.320 But it gets better.

00:08:36.760 There's a punchline.

00:08:38.160 The punchline's coming up.

00:08:39.800 It gets better, I promise.

00:08:41.000 So, General Flynn, who's having what's got to be one of the best days

00:08:46.440 anybody ever had in the history of days,

00:08:48.960 I'm just imagining,

00:08:50.480 he sends a tweet.

00:08:52.660 Oh! 0.60

00:08:53.920 I have dubbed this tweet the tweet of the century.

00:09:00.240 Now, Twitter hasn't been around for 100 years,

00:09:02.880 but still, I'm going to go out on a limb

00:09:05.900 and say that this tweet from General Flynn

00:09:09.360 is the tweet of the century.

00:09:12.520 And I hope you can see it, all right?

00:09:14.460 So, I'll just describe it.

00:09:15.840 So, there's no words.

00:09:16.960 There's no text.

00:09:18.360 So, what you see is just,

00:09:20.040 you're looking into the woods here,

00:09:21.640 and keep watching.

00:09:22.500 Thank you.

00:09:32.880 Oh, that's just the best tweet ever.

00:09:40.740 Oh, I could not enjoy this day better.

00:09:46.020 So, meanwhile,

00:09:47.420 stock market is up.

00:09:57.840 I think you've been laughing about that for a while.

00:10:01.180 Stock market is up.

00:10:02.880 So,

00:10:03.920 here's a question that I haven't heard anybody ask.

00:10:14.240 So, it looks like there are three or four therapeutics

00:10:17.740 for the coronavirus that look promising.

00:10:20.380 And I haven't heard anybody ask

00:10:22.640 if we can take them all at the same time.

00:10:25.020 Because, I have to admit,

00:10:27.680 so far I'm a little bit underwhelmed

00:10:30.220 by the early information we have

00:10:33.100 about all of it,

00:10:34.080 from hydroxychloroquine to remdesivir,

00:10:37.120 whatever.

00:10:39.100 You know, the good news on remdesivir

00:10:41.020 is that there didn't seem to be

00:10:43.960 any statistical difference

00:10:45.380 in the death rate.

00:10:46.520 But, people were getting, you know,

00:10:49.660 getting cleared of it, I guess,

00:10:51.380 and getting out of the hospital sooner.

00:10:53.160 And I thought to myself,

00:10:54.440 yeah, but if it's the same death rate,

00:10:59.480 I'm like,

00:11:00.440 you might be forgetting

00:11:01.540 one thing that your trial found

00:11:04.620 while you're talking about all the good news

00:11:07.640 is that it didn't make a difference

00:11:09.920 in the death rate.

00:11:12.540 Now, I don't know what difference it did make.

00:11:15.420 I mean, I'm happy that people went home earlier.

00:11:18.740 I'm glad that they,

00:11:20.080 maybe their cough went away a little bit sooner.

00:11:22.940 I'm glad that they could breathe

00:11:24.460 a little bit easier,

00:11:25.520 maybe a full four days earlier than otherwise.

00:11:30.560 But, it's kind of about keeping people alive.

00:11:34.640 So, unless there's more to this remdesivir story

00:11:39.780 than we've heard,

00:11:41.340 it feels a little bit exaggerated.

00:11:45.740 But, I would not doubt

00:11:49.140 that it has some effect.

00:11:52.220 So, my question is,

00:11:55.140 if the hydroxychloroquine has some effect

00:11:58.020 and the interferon has some effect,

00:12:00.140 we heard that,

00:12:01.280 there was some other thing that has some effect,

00:12:02.820 is there anybody smart enough?

00:12:06.820 Or, is there even a way to know?

00:12:08.740 Because we wouldn't have time to test it.

00:12:10.900 You know, I don't think we'd be able to test

00:12:12.500 just pumping all of that stuff into somebody

00:12:15.180 and see what happens.

00:12:16.880 Would we?

00:12:17.820 I mean, maybe we would.

00:12:19.320 I suppose we would test it

00:12:20.560 at the same time we were giving it to people, probably.

00:12:23.280 But, or,

00:12:25.020 is this the sort of thing

00:12:25.940 you could run through a supercomputer

00:12:27.280 and say, well, these kinds of things

00:12:30.360 almost never interfere with these kinds of things,

00:12:34.620 even if you add this other kind of thing.

00:12:37.460 So,

00:12:38.780 is it the sort of thing we have,

00:12:41.040 AI at this point,

00:12:43.200 that we can at least narrow down the odds

00:12:46.100 and say, well, we can't be positive,

00:12:48.660 but it's a very low chance

00:12:50.080 that these particular things will interact?

00:12:52.280 So, it could be,

00:12:56.360 and I understand that there's some trials

00:12:58.240 that are winding up pretty soon,

00:12:59.800 so in the next few weeks, I think,

00:13:02.600 we're going to have really good information,

00:13:04.980 and if it turns out

00:13:06.200 we can take these as a cocktail,

00:13:09.560 and I would think it's more likely

00:13:11.160 we can than that we can't,

00:13:13.020 wouldn't you think?

00:13:13.960 If you had to guess,

00:13:16.040 given that the actual medical professionals

00:13:19.960 have been wrong about just about everything so far,

00:13:22.940 we can guess, right?

00:13:24.640 Let's be doctors for a minute.

00:13:26.520 If you had to guess,

00:13:28.560 let's say all of these,

00:13:29.740 let's say there are three or four things

00:13:31.420 that are all sort of pretty good,

00:13:34.240 but not great.

00:13:36.360 What do you think are the odds

00:13:38.680 that they could all work together?

00:13:43.320 Oh, you know,

00:13:45.840 actually, that's a good point,

00:13:47.180 because here I was assuming

00:13:49.280 that these were new drugs,

00:13:51.080 and therefore there would not be

00:13:53.320 any kind of drug interaction documentation,

00:13:56.860 but of course, yes,

00:13:58.080 they're all existing drugs,

00:13:59.700 so the fact that they exist already

00:14:02.480 means that the drug interaction

00:14:04.380 documentation has been done,

00:14:07.560 but those drug interaction things

00:14:16.600 couldn't possibly already know

00:14:19.620 what would happen with that combination.

00:14:22.760 The odds that that combination

00:14:24.700 is actually documented,

00:14:27.560 if there are three or four of them,

00:14:29.940 they have never been used

00:14:30.960 in that combination before.

00:14:32.180 All right.

00:14:38.560 So that's my question,

00:14:39.800 but it could be we're right on the edge

00:14:43.020 of having something

00:14:43.720 that will take the edge off that virus.

00:14:46.400 Yes, it will.

00:14:49.580 59,000 people dead,

00:14:52.300 and nobody thinks it's going to let up.

00:14:55.620 So remember,

00:14:57.680 was it only a week ago

00:14:59.360 that people were saying,

00:15:02.580 you know,

00:15:02.960 we told you if it's only going to be

00:15:04.600 60,000 dead,

00:15:06.700 you know,

00:15:07.500 that's not much worse

00:15:09.000 than the regular flu,

00:15:10.860 but we're going to be past

00:15:12.900 60,000 tomorrow,

00:15:14.860 and we're not May.

00:15:17.580 May should have another

00:15:19.760 50,000,

00:15:22.640 would you say?

00:15:24.940 Do you think the month of May

00:15:26.260 will have 2,000 a day,

00:15:29.940 which is sort of what we've had?

00:15:32.140 Let's say it trails off.

00:15:33.820 Let's say we did get on top of it,

00:15:35.740 and let's say it averages,

00:15:36.940 you know,

00:15:38.500 1,000 a day

00:15:39.460 when we really get on top of it.

00:15:42.420 We'd still be pushing

00:15:43.660 100,000

00:15:45.100 in the best success story,

00:15:48.420 and that's before the summer even starts.

00:15:51.240 But more likely,

00:15:52.640 we're going to blow through

00:15:53.960 100,000

00:15:54.760 well before June,

00:15:57.140 and unless these therapeutics

00:16:00.740 really stop people from dying,

00:16:03.920 which was my question

00:16:05.860 about the remdesivir,

00:16:09.260 I don't know,

00:16:09.960 it looks like

00:16:11.340 the plan,

00:16:12.960 if everything went

00:16:14.060 according to plan,

00:16:16.220 I feel like the plan

00:16:17.820 is for 200,000

00:16:19.820 to 300,000 people to die.

00:16:21.380 I feel like,

00:16:23.560 you know,

00:16:23.780 without that being actually said.

00:16:26.400 Here's an,

00:16:27.940 you've heard a lot of updates

00:16:29.820 about testing,

00:16:32.100 and it's probably very confusing to you.

00:16:35.260 And so,

00:16:36.380 I did the,

00:16:37.700 I did the work

00:16:38.800 of researching it.

00:16:40.080 So I've dug down,

00:16:41.580 I learned everything there is

00:16:42.620 to know about testing,

00:16:43.700 all the various kinds,

00:16:44.980 the different sciences,

00:16:45.780 the,

00:16:46.340 you know,

00:16:47.180 the kits,

00:16:47.840 where they're made,

00:16:48.900 you know,

00:16:49.160 the swabs,

00:16:49.920 the shortages.

00:16:50.960 I've summarized this for you

00:16:52.920 as,

00:16:54.060 testing is bullshit,

00:16:55.840 it's all bullshit. 0.65

00:16:57.580 Everything,

00:16:58.240 everything you've ever been told

00:16:59.480 about testing

00:17:00.360 is probably just bullshit,

00:17:01.960 as far as I can tell.

00:17:04.120 Because there's certainly

00:17:05.040 nothing happening

00:17:05.900 that has any correlation

00:17:07.020 to what you're hearing.

00:17:08.940 So,

00:17:09.620 as far as I can tell,

00:17:11.160 it's all been bullshit

00:17:12.080 from the start,

00:17:13.200 and I don't see any reason

00:17:14.480 that that will change.

00:17:15.980 Now,

00:17:16.560 eventually it will change,

00:17:18.480 but I think it's going to be,

00:17:20.140 I think we're talking months.

00:17:23.460 Everything suggests

00:17:24.560 that that will be months.

00:17:28.400 So I don't think testing

00:17:29.640 is going to be the magic bullet,

00:17:31.260 because it's just,

00:17:31.960 just not going to be fast enough.

00:17:34.100 All right.

00:17:36.100 There's a new story

00:17:37.780 this is like a classic

00:17:39.460 CNN story.

00:17:41.920 You judge whether it's true.

00:17:44.840 So,

00:17:45.260 apparently the president

00:17:46.520 was shouting

00:17:47.560 at his campaign manager,

00:17:48.980 Brad Parscale,

00:17:50.180 you know,

00:17:50.540 he was on the phone,

00:17:52.100 and the aides were in the room,

00:17:53.580 and I guess somebody leaked it,

00:17:55.560 and he was shouting,

00:17:56.600 and he was shifting the blame

00:17:57.800 to Parscale

00:17:59.240 for the,

00:18:00.460 you know,

00:18:00.960 the lower poll numbers

00:18:02.620 he's getting recently.

00:18:04.440 And,

00:18:04.600 reportedly,

00:18:05.620 Trump berated Parscale

00:18:07.200 for a recent spate

00:18:08.260 of damaging poll numbers,

00:18:10.020 even at one point

00:18:11.180 threatening to sue Parscale.

00:18:13.660 Do you think that happened?

00:18:16.980 I don't know.

00:18:18.200 I mean,

00:18:18.440 I suppose anything's possible.

00:18:21.260 And then they say,

00:18:22.800 this is from CNN,

00:18:23.940 it's not clear

00:18:25.080 how serious

00:18:25.640 the president's threat

00:18:26.560 of a lawsuit was.

00:18:28.920 Well,

00:18:29.920 I'm going to take

00:18:30.760 a stab at it.

00:18:32.240 Not too serious,

00:18:34.200 is my guess.

00:18:35.700 I'm just going to,

00:18:37.840 because

00:18:38.420 I'm no,

00:18:40.420 I'm no

00:18:42.300 strategist.

00:18:44.500 I'm no strategist.

00:18:45.960 But if I were running

00:18:47.600 for re-election,

00:18:49.300 this wouldn't be

00:18:50.460 the optimal time

00:18:51.960 to sue your campaign manager.

00:18:53.800 So I'm just going to,

00:18:54.820 I'm just going to say

00:18:56.160 that maybe the president

00:18:57.160 had that same thought.

00:18:59.320 It's kind of an obscure thought.

00:19:00.820 Maybe,

00:19:01.140 maybe you didn't think of it,

00:19:02.220 but I think he probably did.

00:19:03.980 I think he probably did.

00:19:05.440 Probably said to himself,

00:19:06.580 I've got this election

00:19:08.300 coming up.

00:19:09.700 Probably not the best time

00:19:10.940 to get rid of my campaign manager.

00:19:12.580 So was there

00:19:14.340 a tense phone call

00:19:15.720 between the president

00:19:16.540 and Brad Parscale?

00:19:19.060 Could be.

00:19:20.860 Do you think

00:19:21.700 that it was captured

00:19:23.280 by this reporting accurately?

00:19:26.500 Probably not.

00:19:28.540 Probably not.

00:19:30.260 Let me,

00:19:30.820 let me read to you

00:19:31.680 the name of the sources.

00:19:33.540 Oh,

00:19:34.520 unnamed.

00:19:35.800 How interesting.

00:19:37.520 The sources are unnamed.

00:19:39.380 It's a story

00:19:40.080 about the president

00:19:41.120 flipping out

00:19:42.420 behind closed doors.

00:19:45.140 How long will it be

00:19:46.340 before the president says

00:19:47.560 none of that happened

00:19:48.900 and then Brad Parscale says

00:19:50.960 that's funny

00:19:51.860 but none of that happened?

00:19:53.960 Probably tomorrow sometime.

00:19:57.280 Now,

00:19:57.940 I don't,

00:19:58.620 I don't doubt

00:19:59.520 that the president

00:20:00.640 yells at,

00:20:02.080 you know,

00:20:02.840 pretty much everybody

00:20:03.980 at one,

00:20:04.420 one time or another.

00:20:05.920 So that part might be true.

00:20:07.560 Who knows?

00:20:07.960 So Twitter's mad

00:20:11.420 at Ben Shapiro

00:20:13.080 because he had the audacity

00:20:16.800 to consider the costs

00:20:19.020 and the benefits

00:20:19.860 of reopening the economy.

00:20:23.460 And for the sin

00:20:24.780 of including

00:20:26.040 all of the costs

00:20:27.200 and all the benefits

00:20:28.080 in his calculation,

00:20:29.000 because people

00:20:32.900 were mad at him

00:20:33.580 for other reasons,

00:20:34.400 I guess.

00:20:35.960 He's the worst person

00:20:37.100 in the world

00:20:37.820 and he wants to kill 0.67

00:20:39.240 your grandmother.

00:20:41.240 That makes sense, right?

00:20:42.960 If somebody considers

00:20:44.060 all the costs

00:20:44.860 and all the benefits

00:20:45.780 and says they should be

00:20:47.980 all weighed,

00:20:50.020 therefore,

00:20:51.280 logically,

00:20:51.780 he wants to kill

00:20:52.500 your grandmother.

00:20:53.120 Well,

00:20:55.000 I didn't even know

00:20:55.700 that until today,

00:20:56.640 but I found that

00:20:57.420 on the internet.

00:20:59.560 I cannot speak

00:21:00.580 for Ben Shapiro,

00:21:02.800 but I can say this.

00:21:04.360 The adults

00:21:05.340 in the room,

00:21:06.840 the adults

00:21:07.660 can pick

00:21:10.900 who's going to die. 0.90

00:21:12.700 And if nobody else

00:21:13.920 can do it,

00:21:15.060 I guess we have to

00:21:16.320 find some leaders

00:21:17.240 who can.

00:21:18.440 Because we're coming

00:21:19.840 to, you know,

00:21:20.780 decision points.

00:21:22.280 You know,

00:21:22.500 do you die

00:21:23.040 from the economy

00:21:23.920 killing you?

00:21:25.360 You know,

00:21:25.660 or does grandma

00:21:26.700 get a few years

00:21:27.800 shaved off?

00:21:29.340 And of course,

00:21:30.140 there's risk

00:21:30.640 to everybody else

00:21:31.480 and there's the organ damage

00:21:32.720 and, you know,

00:21:33.860 there's a million,

00:21:34.860 a million things.

00:21:37.560 I would guess,

00:21:38.960 without personally

00:21:39.940 asking Ben Shapiro,

00:21:42.300 that if I said to him,

00:21:43.380 Ben,

00:21:43.940 do you think

00:21:44.560 we should consider

00:21:45.300 only some of the costs

00:21:46.600 and some of the benefits

00:21:48.400 or maybe just

00:21:49.520 look at them all?

00:21:51.320 I'm just guessing.

00:21:52.080 And he would say,

00:21:53.040 well,

00:21:53.220 why don't we look

00:21:53.820 at them all,

00:21:54.360 Scott?

00:21:54.620 That's exactly

00:21:55.260 what I would say.

00:21:56.880 I'm just guessing.

00:21:57.980 I'm not reading his mind

00:21:59.980 so I could be way off

00:22:00.940 on that.

00:22:02.320 But I'm not.

00:22:04.340 So,

00:22:05.420 it's just weird

00:22:07.220 to see somebody

00:22:07.900 get pilloried

00:22:09.080 for being the adult.

00:22:11.220 I mean,

00:22:12.240 you know,

00:22:12.560 I give him credit.

00:22:13.760 You don't have to agree

00:22:14.840 with,

00:22:16.280 in fact,

00:22:16.780 I don't know

00:22:17.200 exactly what it is

00:22:18.280 he thinks

00:22:18.660 we should be doing

00:22:19.340 that's different.

00:22:20.380 But,

00:22:21.340 you have to appreciate

00:22:23.300 that somebody

00:22:24.920 can say,

00:22:25.720 here's my choice.

00:22:27.140 It's going to be tough

00:22:27.980 on a certain class

00:22:28.860 of people.

00:22:29.840 All things considered,

00:22:31.820 somebody's got to

00:22:32.600 make the decision.

00:22:34.200 That's the way

00:22:34.800 I'd go.

00:22:36.200 Now,

00:22:36.560 even if you don't

00:22:37.220 agree with it,

00:22:37.760 you have to respect

00:22:38.540 that, right?

00:22:39.800 Because that's,

00:22:40.920 ultimately,

00:22:41.760 somebody's going

00:22:42.320 to have to do that.

00:22:43.040 It'll be the president.

00:22:44.600 But,

00:22:44.880 you know,

00:22:45.820 have some empathy

00:22:47.140 for how hard that is.

00:22:49.100 And if you're not

00:22:49.560 willing to do it yourself,

00:22:51.280 don't feel like

00:22:52.000 you can criticize

00:22:52.740 the president

00:22:53.440 when he doesn't.

00:22:55.000 Because he's going

00:22:55.580 to have to do that.

00:22:57.360 You know,

00:22:58.040 that's a,

00:22:58.540 that's a super tough

00:23:00.180 decision.

00:23:03.080 So,

00:23:03.600 it looks like

00:23:04.120 Biden has lost

00:23:06.460 to CNN.

00:23:08.000 So,

00:23:08.440 Chris Silliza,

00:23:09.720 who I would say

00:23:10.700 would be their,

00:23:11.380 sort of their

00:23:13.260 chief hitman

00:23:14.080 on the political side.

00:23:16.480 If you want a bad

00:23:17.100 story about Trump,

00:23:18.780 you know,

00:23:19.040 call Chris Silliza.

00:23:21.660 So,

00:23:22.260 he's one of their,

00:23:22.900 you know,

00:23:23.200 stars who

00:23:24.160 most often

00:23:25.220 talks about

00:23:25.940 what bad thing

00:23:26.880 Trump has done today.

00:23:28.560 But,

00:23:29.700 he's,

00:23:30.220 he's after the

00:23:31.760 Biden campaign.

00:23:33.700 So,

00:23:34.240 credit to

00:23:35.740 Chris Silliza.

00:23:37.760 So,

00:23:38.920 this would be

00:23:40.160 a,

00:23:40.720 a fair

00:23:43.100 and balanced

00:23:43.800 approach.

00:23:44.880 And,

00:23:44.960 what he said

00:23:45.580 was that the,

00:23:47.260 so the New York

00:23:48.040 Times did

00:23:49.200 their,

00:23:49.700 their look

00:23:50.500 into the

00:23:50.980 accusations

00:23:51.540 by Tara Reid.

00:23:52.880 And they said,

00:23:54.060 they basically,

00:23:54.920 they couldn't prove

00:23:55.680 it happened

00:23:56.100 and they couldn't

00:23:56.840 prove it didn't

00:23:57.360 happen.

00:23:57.740 So,

00:23:57.920 basically,

00:23:58.240 they didn't

00:23:58.700 have a conclusion.

00:24:00.200 So,

00:24:00.420 that was what

00:24:00.800 the New York

00:24:01.180 Times said.

00:24:02.780 What Biden's

00:24:04.020 campaign has

00:24:04.980 directed

00:24:05.560 the talking

00:24:07.280 points to be,

00:24:08.760 they've actually

00:24:09.680 written talking

00:24:10.500 points

00:24:11.000 with a lie

00:24:12.700 in it.

00:24:13.280 It actually

00:24:13.640 directed all

00:24:14.620 the Biden

00:24:15.300 supporters to

00:24:16.040 use this

00:24:16.560 lie.

00:24:17.740 They listened

00:24:18.020 to this

00:24:18.360 lie.

00:24:20.540 It says,

00:24:21.240 Biden believes

00:24:21.920 that,

00:24:22.280 this is the

00:24:22.880 talking points,

00:24:23.600 right?

00:24:24.140 Biden believes

00:24:24.900 that all women 0.95

00:24:25.460 have the right

00:24:25.940 to be heard

00:24:26.500 and to have

00:24:27.340 their claims

00:24:27.940 thoroughly

00:24:28.460 reviewed.

00:24:29.620 In this case,

00:24:30.380 a thorough

00:24:30.800 review by the

00:24:31.660 New York

00:24:32.020 Times has

00:24:33.220 led to the

00:24:33.900 truth,

00:24:34.560 colon,

00:24:35.320 this incident

00:24:36.100 did not

00:24:36.820 happen.

00:24:37.220 And the

00:24:41.380 New York

00:24:41.620 Times,

00:24:42.060 of course,

00:24:43.000 did not

00:24:43.580 conclude it

00:24:44.400 did not

00:24:44.860 happen.

00:24:45.600 They just

00:24:45.880 said,

00:24:46.160 well,

00:24:46.360 we don't

00:24:46.660 know.

00:24:47.440 That's it.

00:24:48.460 So,

00:24:48.840 the Biden

00:24:49.380 campaign is

00:24:50.160 quite cleverly,

00:24:51.520 by the way,

00:24:52.380 if I'm going

00:24:53.340 to be fair

00:24:54.080 and judge

00:24:55.220 it,

00:24:55.900 which I

00:24:56.760 like to

00:24:57.160 do,

00:24:57.920 on its

00:24:58.320 effectiveness

00:24:58.940 as a

00:25:00.520 dirty trick,

00:25:01.900 separate from

00:25:02.700 whether it's

00:25:03.280 an ethical

00:25:04.600 thing to

00:25:05.040 do,

00:25:05.280 effectiveness

00:25:07.180 wise,

00:25:08.440 it's pretty

00:25:08.900 good.

00:25:10.120 It's pretty

00:25:10.520 good.

00:25:11.440 Because you

00:25:12.300 have to

00:25:12.540 understand,

00:25:12.940 most people

00:25:13.400 are low

00:25:14.160 information.

00:25:14.980 They're not

00:25:15.240 going to go

00:25:15.560 to the

00:25:15.820 New York

00:25:16.080 Times article.

00:25:17.460 But by

00:25:18.000 the third

00:25:18.540 time that

00:25:19.280 you hear

00:25:19.560 somebody say

00:25:20.440 that the

00:25:21.220 New York

00:25:21.540 Times

00:25:21.920 investigated

00:25:22.760 and found

00:25:23.280 out it

00:25:23.620 didn't

00:25:23.840 happen,

00:25:25.000 even though

00:25:25.840 all three

00:25:26.220 of them

00:25:26.460 will be

00:25:26.780 lies,

00:25:28.080 by the

00:25:28.500 third time

00:25:29.180 an

00:25:29.460 unsophisticated

00:25:30.440 viewer

00:25:30.840 hears that,

00:25:32.860 it's just

00:25:33.460 a fact.

00:25:33.960 so they've

00:25:36.020 actually come

00:25:36.580 up with a

00:25:37.040 way to

00:25:37.540 inoculate

00:25:38.260 him with

00:25:39.820 their base,

00:25:40.980 and I

00:25:42.280 think it's

00:25:42.740 a good

00:25:43.040 one.

00:25:44.040 I've got to

00:25:44.680 say,

00:25:45.080 it's totally

00:25:45.680 solid.

00:25:46.580 Now,

00:25:46.900 it will be

00:25:47.500 debunked

00:25:48.840 mercilessly.

00:25:50.620 I mean,

00:25:50.840 CNN is

00:25:51.440 debunking

00:25:51.940 it,

00:25:52.780 right?

00:25:53.340 Chris

00:25:53.660 Eliza is

00:25:54.760 directly

00:25:55.320 debunking

00:25:55.920 it and

00:25:56.440 saying that

00:25:56.920 the campaign

00:25:57.900 is just

00:25:58.420 telling their

00:25:59.500 people to

00:26:00.020 lie and

00:26:01.200 showing you

00:26:01.880 the evidence.

00:26:02.760 I mean,

00:26:02.980 he shows you

00:26:03.440 the actual

00:26:03.860 words.

00:26:05.040 Pretty

00:26:05.400 interesting.

00:26:08.000 But it's

00:26:08.720 totally going

00:26:09.280 to work.

00:26:10.500 Very

00:26:10.880 clever. 0.51

00:26:12.120 All right.

00:26:15.580 Here's

00:26:16.100 something I'm

00:26:17.060 seeing a lot

00:26:17.660 of.

00:26:18.820 People saying

00:26:19.840 that the

00:26:20.280 real reason

00:26:20.900 for the

00:26:21.280 coronavirus

00:26:21.720 shut down

00:26:22.740 or the

00:26:23.220 real reason

00:26:23.760 for this

00:26:24.220 or that

00:26:24.580 is that

00:26:25.340 they want

00:26:25.720 to control

00:26:26.240 you.

00:26:27.600 And it's

00:26:27.960 about power.

00:26:29.840 I don't

00:26:30.480 know that

00:26:31.060 anything about

00:26:32.140 the coronavirus

00:26:32.840 is about

00:26:33.820 power.

00:26:36.520 I don't

00:26:37.500 get that.

00:26:39.040 Meaning

00:26:39.440 I'm not

00:26:40.240 detecting that.

00:26:41.440 It doesn't

00:26:41.800 pass any

00:26:43.340 of my

00:26:43.800 experience

00:26:44.500 filters.

00:26:46.180 I don't

00:26:46.880 detect any

00:26:47.620 of that.

00:26:49.360 So I

00:26:50.980 say that

00:26:51.540 just because

00:26:52.200 a lot of

00:26:52.680 what I like

00:26:53.240 to do

00:26:53.500 here is

00:26:54.200 detect

00:26:56.200 BS

00:26:56.860 when I

00:26:57.980 can.

00:26:58.240 and then

00:26:59.080 you can

00:26:59.380 see later

00:27:00.620 when we

00:27:00.980 find out

00:27:01.340 what's

00:27:01.560 true,

00:27:02.060 you can

00:27:02.740 find out.

00:27:03.980 But I'm

00:27:04.900 going to

00:27:05.060 call BS

00:27:05.760 on anybody

00:27:07.040 having a

00:27:08.160 motive about

00:27:08.900 coronavirus

00:27:09.460 except

00:27:10.300 trying to

00:27:12.060 get through

00:27:12.460 it.

00:27:13.560 Right?

00:27:14.220 I feel

00:27:15.020 like the

00:27:16.060 public is

00:27:16.820 pretty much

00:27:17.640 on the

00:27:17.960 same team

00:27:18.840 that we

00:27:20.360 all want

00:27:20.840 the best

00:27:21.260 way through

00:27:21.740 it.

00:27:22.620 We just

00:27:23.380 disagree

00:27:23.800 maybe what's

00:27:24.460 the best

00:27:24.820 way.

00:27:25.780 You can

00:27:26.200 ignore the

00:27:27.400 politicians

00:27:27.960 just lying

00:27:29.200 at each

00:27:29.580 other in

00:27:29.960 public.

00:27:30.680 That's not

00:27:31.240 really anything

00:27:32.000 but a

00:27:32.380 show.

00:27:32.860 That's for

00:27:33.220 politics.

00:27:34.860 So I

00:27:37.300 don't know.

00:27:37.860 I doubt

00:27:38.640 that at

00:27:39.140 least with

00:27:39.460 the

00:27:39.600 coronavirus

00:27:39.960 and the

00:27:40.620 shutdown,

00:27:41.600 I doubt

00:27:42.160 that anybody

00:27:42.860 had that

00:27:43.440 conscious

00:27:43.900 thought that

00:27:45.880 hey, this

00:27:46.840 would be a

00:27:47.200 way to

00:27:47.460 control

00:27:47.820 people.

00:27:50.900 All

00:27:51.020 right.

00:27:51.200 so the

00:27:55.200 Trump

00:27:55.580 War Room

00:27:56.180 which tweets

00:27:59.000 for the

00:27:59.720 Trump

00:27:59.920 campaign

00:28:00.480 had a

00:28:01.740 terrific

00:28:02.160 tweet today

00:28:02.880 and I

00:28:04.420 will read

00:28:04.740 it to

00:28:04.960 you and

00:28:05.440 the

00:28:06.020 timing,

00:28:07.380 the comedic

00:28:07.920 timing is

00:28:08.520 even right

00:28:08.980 because they

00:28:09.340 leave a

00:28:09.920 space and

00:28:11.060 I always

00:28:11.360 appreciate

00:28:11.760 that because

00:28:12.980 when you're

00:28:13.320 writing humor

00:28:14.260 in a tweet

00:28:15.020 sometimes you

00:28:16.340 want a

00:28:16.540 little timing

00:28:17.560 space so

00:28:18.240 it's like

00:28:18.540 space

00:28:20.060 there's

00:28:22.220 the reveal

00:28:22.980 so they

00:28:24.120 did this

00:28:24.820 really well

00:28:25.700 whoever

00:28:26.120 tweeted this

00:28:27.280 knows what

00:28:28.260 they're doing

00:28:28.660 and it

00:28:29.060 goes like

00:28:29.440 this

00:28:29.840 Joe Biden

00:28:31.400 is using

00:28:32.000 crooked

00:28:32.380 Hillary as 0.98

00:28:33.080 a character

00:28:33.560 reference

00:28:34.160 space

00:28:35.620 space

00:28:36.240 space

00:28:36.540 space

00:28:36.920 that's it

00:28:38.260 that's the

00:28:38.740 tweet

00:28:39.060 isn't that

00:28:43.300 great

00:28:43.680 Joe Biden

00:28:45.700 is using

00:28:46.220 crooked

00:28:46.580 Hillary as 0.98

00:28:47.160 a character

00:28:47.620 reference

00:28:48.140 space

00:28:49.220 space

00:28:49.520 space

00:28:49.880 that's it

00:28:50.780 that's the

00:28:51.280 tweet

00:28:51.560 that's sort

00:28:53.760 of a

00:28:54.180 what I like

00:28:56.040 about it

00:28:56.440 is sort

00:28:57.320 of everything

00:28:57.940 it's got

00:28:59.760 in the

00:29:02.340 in my

00:29:03.280 world when

00:29:03.820 I write

00:29:04.400 comics

00:29:04.860 there are

00:29:05.780 times when

00:29:06.320 I'll get

00:29:06.940 my funniest

00:29:07.720 the funniest

00:29:08.900 part of the

00:29:09.300 comic sometimes

00:29:09.980 comes before

00:29:10.820 the end

00:29:11.400 and when

00:29:12.160 that happens

00:29:12.840 I do

00:29:14.220 what I call

00:29:14.920 sort of the

00:29:15.360 afterglow

00:29:16.040 which is

00:29:16.780 sort of the

00:29:17.300 just the

00:29:18.380 finish

00:29:18.920 or the

00:29:19.340 dessert

00:29:19.740 so maybe

00:29:21.080 the joke

00:29:21.620 happens

00:29:22.100 the next

00:29:22.620 last panel

00:29:23.800 and then the

00:29:24.720 last panel

00:29:25.280 is just a

00:29:25.980 little extra

00:29:26.580 on top of

00:29:27.160 the joke

00:29:27.600 and that's

00:29:28.900 what this

00:29:29.240 tweet did

00:29:29.740 because the

00:29:30.260 first part

00:29:30.840 is a joke

00:29:31.420 and then the

00:29:32.360 second part

00:29:32.920 is that's it

00:29:33.600 that's the

00:29:34.060 tweet

00:29:34.300 and then you

00:29:34.800 get a little

00:29:35.120 dessert

00:29:35.600 well tweeted

00:29:37.640 so correct

00:29:43.180 me if I'm

00:29:43.680 wrong

00:29:44.020 and I think

00:29:44.920 that your

00:29:45.400 mileage may

00:29:46.160 vary on

00:29:46.680 this but

00:29:47.160 so last

00:29:48.400 week

00:29:48.780 it looked

00:29:51.260 like the

00:29:53.300 following

00:29:53.720 three things

00:29:54.760 were not

00:29:55.380 looking good

00:29:55.940 so last

00:29:58.660 week we

00:29:59.240 weren't sure

00:29:59.760 that herd

00:30:00.640 immunity was

00:30:01.360 even possible

00:30:02.060 hydroxychloroquine

00:30:04.760 was taking a

00:30:05.680 hit you know

00:30:06.420 for maybe

00:30:06.880 killing people

00:30:07.800 or not

00:30:08.160 looking good

00:30:08.720 but that

00:30:09.640 was questionable

00:30:10.260 and then the

00:30:11.460 remdesivir

00:30:12.060 last week

00:30:12.860 there was

00:30:13.780 that leaked

00:30:14.360 report

00:30:15.200 that made

00:30:16.960 that look

00:30:17.400 maybe not

00:30:18.180 so good

00:30:18.620 so in a

00:30:20.620 week

00:30:21.000 we've learned

00:30:23.200 well I would

00:30:24.020 say that

00:30:24.520 nothing is

00:30:26.600 certain

00:30:26.880 because since

00:30:28.100 what we think

00:30:29.340 we know

00:30:29.740 changes every

00:30:30.460 week

00:30:30.820 so I would

00:30:32.040 be foolish

00:30:32.520 to say that

00:30:33.220 this is the

00:30:33.740 week it all

00:30:34.220 got right

00:30:34.740 so let's

00:30:35.800 just say

00:30:36.240 so let's

00:30:38.960 just say

00:30:39.480 that it's

00:30:41.500 changed

00:30:42.020 and who

00:30:43.020 knows if

00:30:43.380 it'll change

00:30:43.760 again

00:30:44.060 but Nate

00:30:45.660 Silver

00:30:46.020 you know

00:30:46.840 him from

00:30:47.480 well you

00:30:49.360 know him

00:30:49.620 from politics

00:30:50.360 and statistics

00:30:51.320 so he's

00:30:52.220 an expert

00:30:52.680 on statistics

00:30:53.800 and what

00:30:54.400 not

00:30:54.660 and even

00:30:55.660 when I

00:30:56.020 disagree with

00:30:56.600 him which

00:30:57.060 I sometimes

00:30:57.560 do

00:30:57.820 famously

00:30:59.140 famously

00:31:00.820 in 2016

00:31:01.600 he's

00:31:03.460 always

00:31:03.780 smart

00:31:04.500 and he's

00:31:05.480 always a

00:31:05.940 good read

00:31:06.460 and he's

00:31:06.780 always got

00:31:07.180 a filter

00:31:08.860 on things

00:31:09.540 that I

00:31:10.180 wouldn't

00:31:10.480 have seen

00:31:10.980 because I

00:31:11.560 don't have

00:31:11.960 his depth

00:31:13.320 of experience

00:31:14.020 in this

00:31:14.600 field

00:31:14.920 and he

00:31:16.420 pointed out

00:31:17.040 that the

00:31:18.460 questions about

00:31:19.300 whether people

00:31:20.060 were reinfected

00:31:22.060 happened to

00:31:23.260 be by

00:31:25.080 coincidence

00:31:25.680 but probably

00:31:26.560 not

00:31:27.000 the number

00:31:28.920 of people

00:31:29.380 who were

00:31:29.700 showing up

00:31:30.280 as maybe

00:31:30.700 reinfected

00:31:31.660 which would

00:31:32.740 say herd

00:31:33.240 immunity

00:31:34.320 might not

00:31:34.860 work

00:31:35.260 happened to

00:31:36.520 be about

00:31:36.920 the same

00:31:37.380 as the

00:31:37.760 error rate

00:31:38.500 on the

00:31:38.860 tests

00:31:39.300 so in

00:31:40.300 other words

00:31:40.820 you could

00:31:41.300 fully explain

00:31:42.440 the anomalies

00:31:44.420 in the herd

00:31:45.200 immunity

00:31:45.720 just because

00:31:47.040 the tests

00:31:47.500 are not that

00:31:48.040 accurate

00:31:48.420 so you

00:31:49.960 would get

00:31:50.340 you would

00:31:50.700 expect

00:31:51.100 actually

00:31:51.600 statistically

00:31:52.380 that you

00:31:53.440 would get

00:31:53.720 exactly the

00:31:54.380 result they

00:31:54.860 got

00:31:55.240 but if you

00:31:56.440 interpreted it

00:31:57.240 to mean

00:31:57.580 that people

00:31:58.160 had been

00:31:58.460 reinfected

00:31:59.300 it's probably

00:32:00.320 more appropriate

00:32:01.140 to say

00:32:01.800 it was a

00:32:02.740 test problem

00:32:03.560 because it

00:32:04.100 was about

00:32:04.400 the same

00:32:04.760 number

00:32:05.060 now

00:32:06.180 you know

00:32:07.280 I leave

00:32:07.840 you to

00:32:08.120 fact check

00:32:08.620 that I'm

00:32:09.100 just passing

00:32:09.660 along

00:32:10.160 that

00:32:11.120 even

00:32:12.460 I don't

00:32:13.040 know

00:32:13.220 48 hours

00:32:14.160 ago

00:32:14.500 I told

00:32:15.740 you that

00:32:16.080 the odds

00:32:16.500 of herd

00:32:17.100 immunity

00:32:17.520 were only

00:32:18.580 maybe 75%

00:32:20.200 because I

00:32:22.000 was hearing

00:32:22.340 these reports

00:32:23.040 of like

00:32:23.380 well maybe

00:32:24.000 not

00:32:24.480 but after

00:32:25.520 hearing

00:32:25.900 Nate

00:32:26.280 Silver's

00:32:27.020 reframing

00:32:28.200 of it

00:32:28.560 I still

00:32:29.520 don't

00:32:29.800 know

00:32:30.240 but I'm

00:32:31.300 going to

00:32:31.540 bump up

00:32:31.960 my odds

00:32:32.500 to basically

00:32:33.320 100%

00:32:34.080 you know

00:32:34.440 you can

00:32:34.660 make it

00:32:34.940 99%

00:32:35.540 if you

00:32:35.780 don't want

00:32:36.960 it to be

00:32:37.280 100%

00:32:37.580 but so I

00:32:38.620 would say

00:32:38.920 that herd

00:32:39.280 immunity

00:32:39.660 is as

00:32:41.420 of today

00:32:42.040 and only

00:32:43.340 today

00:32:43.740 this is

00:32:44.340 the first

00:32:44.960 time

00:32:45.420 I'm

00:32:46.260 willing to

00:32:46.760 say

00:32:47.060 I am

00:32:48.180 positive

00:32:48.700 there's

00:32:49.080 herd

00:32:49.300 immunity

00:32:49.880 as of

00:32:50.940 yesterday

00:32:51.420 I wasn't

00:32:51.980 positive

00:32:52.420 right now

00:32:53.240 I'm

00:32:53.360 positive

00:32:53.700 because

00:32:54.720 Nate

00:32:55.300 pushed me

00:32:56.080 over the

00:32:56.420 line

00:32:56.620 there

00:32:56.840 so

00:32:57.820 and you

00:33:00.180 saw what

00:33:00.520 happened to

00:33:00.880 the stock

00:33:01.260 market

00:33:01.580 right

00:33:01.880 the stock

00:33:03.080 market

00:33:03.360 just went

00:33:03.780 nuts

00:33:04.180 so

00:33:05.160 the stock

00:33:06.260 market

00:33:06.580 thinks

00:33:06.940 good things

00:33:07.600 will happen

00:33:08.000 but I don't

00:33:08.740 think any

00:33:09.120 of the things

00:33:09.540 are going to

00:33:09.820 be about

00:33:10.340 testing

00:33:10.840 I think

00:33:11.320 testing

00:33:11.700 will just

00:33:12.060 be the

00:33:12.420 disappointment

00:33:13.540 in all

00:33:14.100 this

00:33:14.360 there is

00:33:18.460 a video

00:33:19.580 which

00:33:20.560 some of

00:33:22.180 you may

00:33:22.620 have seen

00:33:23.360 if you

00:33:24.400 if you

00:33:24.820 get all

00:33:25.120 the

00:33:25.240 conspiracy

00:33:25.680 theory

00:33:26.440 stuff

00:33:26.860 you know

00:33:27.720 some of

00:33:28.080 you are

00:33:28.300 always

00:33:28.500 looking in

00:33:28.940 the right

00:33:29.200 places

00:33:29.560 for the

00:33:29.880 conspiracy

00:33:30.300 theory

00:33:30.760 stuff

00:33:31.080 I saw

00:33:33.400 today

00:33:33.740 a video

00:33:34.240 which

00:33:35.440 I'm

00:33:36.380 pretty sure

00:33:37.000 is fake

00:33:37.580 so I'm

00:33:39.140 going to

00:33:39.360 tell you

00:33:39.680 that in

00:33:40.060 my opinion

00:33:40.720 it looks

00:33:42.240 I'd say

00:33:43.540 certainly

00:33:44.020 fake

00:33:44.500 so if

00:33:45.940 you see

00:33:46.320 it

00:33:46.580 I will

00:33:47.100 inoculate

00:33:47.680 you from

00:33:48.340 believing

00:33:48.720 it

00:33:48.960 okay

00:33:49.220 so the

00:33:50.260 video

00:33:50.660 purports

00:33:51.260 to be

00:33:51.820 somebody

00:33:52.760 with a

00:33:53.240 I don't

00:33:53.560 look like

00:33:53.940 their phone

00:33:54.700 surreptitiously

00:33:56.040 recording

00:33:56.840 some kind

00:33:57.920 of a

00:33:58.180 lecture

00:33:58.520 and you

00:34:00.080 know

00:34:00.140 it's not

00:34:00.440 a good

00:34:00.700 picture

00:34:01.120 and you

00:34:01.580 can't

00:34:01.820 quite

00:34:02.020 see

00:34:02.300 the

00:34:02.620 slides

00:34:03.480 too

00:34:03.720 well

00:34:04.080 and you

00:34:05.020 know

00:34:05.100 the guy

00:34:05.400 talking

00:34:05.960 you know

00:34:06.440 he's a

00:34:06.740 little

00:34:06.820 far away

00:34:07.460 because he's

00:34:07.900 up on

00:34:08.760 the

00:34:08.960 front

00:34:09.800 of the

00:34:10.020 class

00:34:10.400 and

00:34:11.700 the

00:34:13.320 audio

00:34:13.900 suggests

00:34:15.320 and I'm

00:34:15.760 only going

00:34:16.080 to give

00:34:16.280 you the

00:34:16.740 high level

00:34:17.700 because I

00:34:18.040 don't actually

00:34:18.500 want to

00:34:18.840 spread the

00:34:19.240 rumor

00:34:19.480 right

00:34:20.420 so

00:34:20.800 there's

00:34:21.560 something

00:34:21.820 horrible

00:34:22.240 in there

00:34:22.700 I don't

00:34:23.740 want to

00:34:24.000 say it

00:34:24.360 because it

00:34:24.680 just makes

00:34:25.060 it worse

00:34:25.360 right

00:34:25.600 so I'll

00:34:26.300 give you

00:34:26.580 a hint

00:34:27.100 so that if

00:34:27.800 you see

00:34:28.180 it you'll

00:34:28.640 know oh

00:34:29.500 that's the

00:34:30.040 one

00:34:30.340 so it

00:34:32.080 hints that

00:34:32.700 the

00:34:33.020 military

00:34:35.120 was considering

00:34:36.320 creating a

00:34:37.980 very bad

00:34:38.640 a very

00:34:39.800 bad

00:34:40.400 virus

00:34:42.280 weapon

00:34:42.700 so that's

00:34:44.460 the only

00:34:44.700 thing I'll

00:34:45.040 tell you

00:34:45.380 right

00:34:45.560 so if

00:34:46.240 you see

00:34:46.500 a grainy

00:34:47.000 video

00:34:47.560 of some

00:34:48.540 somebody

00:34:49.220 allegedly

00:34:50.660 showing other

00:34:51.520 military

00:34:52.020 people

00:34:52.520 hey

00:34:53.520 we've

00:34:54.540 developed

00:34:54.860 this

00:34:55.200 awful

00:34:55.600 thing

00:34:56.040 and that's

00:34:56.920 all I'm

00:34:57.240 going to

00:34:57.400 tell you

00:34:57.660 about it

00:34:58.100 as far

00:34:59.080 as I

00:34:59.380 can tell

00:34:59.780 it's

00:35:00.120 fake

00:35:00.460 it looks

00:35:01.480 very fake

00:35:02.000 to me

00:35:02.540 okay

00:35:02.840 all right

00:35:08.920 did you

00:35:11.400 know that

00:35:11.860 Chinese

00:35:12.500 companies

00:35:13.680 are snapping

00:35:14.400 up oil

00:35:14.940 fields

00:35:15.400 because

00:35:17.180 they're

00:35:17.920 cheap

00:35:18.220 so there's

00:35:19.220 some big

00:35:19.640 Chinese

00:35:20.400 developer

00:35:20.980 I saw

00:35:21.340 this in

00:35:21.700 Jack

00:35:21.940 Posomik's

00:35:22.680 tweet

00:35:23.500 that

00:35:25.500 there's

00:35:27.340 some

00:35:27.520 Chinese

00:35:27.900 rich

00:35:28.220 guy

00:35:28.520 who's

00:35:28.800 buying

00:35:29.120 up

00:35:29.360 oil

00:35:29.720 fields

00:35:30.140 in Texas

00:35:30.860 and I'm

00:35:32.500 thinking to

00:35:32.860 myself

00:35:33.240 okay

00:35:34.460 that sounds

00:35:35.020 bad

00:35:35.420 but let

00:35:37.000 me ask

00:35:37.320 you another

00:35:37.640 question

00:35:38.120 why do

00:35:39.940 we let

00:35:40.260 them buy

00:35:40.700 anything

00:35:41.360 can

00:35:43.220 somebody

00:35:43.800 answer

00:35:44.980 why we

00:35:45.860 let them 0.55

00:35:46.280 buy

00:35:46.560 anything

00:35:47.040 in this

00:35:48.500 country

00:35:48.820 I mean

00:35:49.180 other than

00:35:49.620 products

00:35:50.140 they can

00:35:50.480 take

00:35:50.700 with them

00:35:51.060 because

00:35:52.040 we can't

00:35:52.960 buy

00:35:53.200 stuff

00:35:53.620 in

00:35:53.840 China

00:35:54.260 right

00:35:54.620 if we

00:35:56.860 could

00:35:57.240 I would

00:35:57.640 say

00:35:57.760 oh

00:35:57.920 that's

00:35:58.120 fair

00:35:58.340 they buy

00:35:59.060 some

00:35:59.280 stuff

00:35:59.540 here

00:35:59.820 we buy

00:36:00.320 some

00:36:00.560 stuff

00:36:00.800 there

00:36:01.100 but

00:36:02.060 given

00:36:02.860 the

00:36:04.100 relative

00:36:05.280 sizes

00:36:06.000 of the

00:36:06.640 economies

00:36:07.360 and the

00:36:07.940 populations

00:36:08.540 don't

00:36:10.220 we all

00:36:10.700 expect

00:36:11.060 that if

00:36:11.980 we wait

00:36:12.360 long

00:36:12.680 enough

00:36:13.060 China's 0.76

00:36:14.360 economy

00:36:14.780 will

00:36:15.260 dwarf

00:36:15.720 the

00:36:15.940 United

00:36:16.220 States

00:36:16.780 just

00:36:18.000 because

00:36:18.240 of math

00:36:18.760 and

00:36:18.960 demographics

00:36:19.540 right

00:36:20.160 we all

00:36:21.260 expect

00:36:21.620 that

00:36:21.860 that's

00:36:22.160 sort

00:36:22.740 of a

00:36:22.980 given

00:36:23.220 you know

00:36:23.760 unless

00:36:24.120 something

00:36:24.480 strange

00:36:25.280 happens

00:36:25.700 well

00:36:26.660 what happens

00:36:27.280 when China

00:36:28.020 is so

00:36:28.400 big

00:36:28.780 that the

00:36:29.740 amount

00:36:30.020 of money

00:36:30.400 that they

00:36:30.800 can spend

00:36:31.360 on stuff

00:36:31.960 is even

00:36:32.900 more

00:36:33.280 gigantic

00:36:34.020 compared to

00:36:35.640 what it is

00:36:36.040 now

00:36:36.340 which is

00:36:36.740 already

00:36:37.060 massive

00:36:37.820 how much

00:36:39.880 of the

00:36:40.160 United States

00:36:40.800 could they

00:36:41.200 buy

00:36:41.600 and just

00:36:42.620 own it

00:36:44.380 you know

00:36:45.240 I mean

00:36:45.720 they could buy

00:36:46.200 all the good

00:36:46.660 stuff

00:36:47.060 right

00:36:47.860 they could

00:36:48.520 buy all the

00:36:48.940 good real

00:36:49.340 estate

00:36:49.680 they could

00:36:50.340 buy all the

00:36:50.760 good companies

00:36:51.520 what

00:36:52.900 couldn't

00:36:53.200 they buy

00:36:53.660 if they

00:36:54.940 had enough

00:36:55.320 money

00:36:55.600 so the

00:36:57.920 question I

00:36:58.400 ask you

00:36:58.760 is

00:36:59.060 if we

00:37:00.640 can't

00:37:00.980 buy stuff

00:37:01.640 in their

00:37:02.000 country

00:37:02.400 and I

00:37:03.280 think that's

00:37:03.740 the case

00:37:04.180 right

00:37:04.480 I mean

00:37:05.400 I'm not

00:37:05.840 going out

00:37:06.240 on a

00:37:06.460 limb to

00:37:06.840 say you

00:37:07.120 can't

00:37:07.360 buy a

00:37:07.780 nice

00:37:08.580 little

00:37:08.820 piece

00:37:09.120 of real

00:37:09.440 estate

00:37:09.760 in Shanghai

00:37:10.440 so if

00:37:11.820 we can't

00:37:12.380 why in

00:37:12.860 the world

00:37:13.280 do we

00:37:13.580 let them 0.55

00:37:13.940 buy here

00:37:14.500 now I

00:37:16.000 get that

00:37:16.420 rich people

00:37:16.920 like it

00:37:17.360 because I

00:37:17.680 can sell

00:37:18.220 stuff to

00:37:18.720 them

00:37:18.920 but

00:37:20.500 really

00:37:22.160 they're

00:37:22.520 literally

00:37:23.300 buying

00:37:24.160 the

00:37:24.440 country

00:37:24.880 right

00:37:25.840 so if

00:37:26.820 they own

00:37:27.160 a piece

00:37:27.680 of the

00:37:27.940 country

00:37:28.340 they sort

00:37:29.620 of

00:37:29.940 you know

00:37:30.680 they've got

00:37:32.000 a lot of

00:37:32.280 control

00:37:32.640 just by

00:37:33.080 being

00:37:33.380 rich

00:37:34.320 and here

00:37:34.840 and landowners

00:37:35.700 seems like a

00:37:37.820 bad idea

00:37:38.360 says me

00:37:41.100 all right

00:37:42.060 let me make

00:37:42.520 sure that I've

00:37:43.180 talked about

00:37:43.620 all the

00:37:43.980 delightful

00:37:44.340 things that

00:37:44.880 I was

00:37:45.120 going to

00:37:45.340 take

00:37:45.600 talk about

00:37:46.700 I don't

00:37:48.480 want to

00:37:48.720 I don't

00:37:49.020 want to

00:37:49.240 leave a

00:37:49.540 thing out

00:37:50.040 because

00:37:52.200 how

00:37:53.160 he would

00:37:54.000 feel so

00:37:54.960 so used

00:37:56.880 all right

00:37:58.000 oh yes

00:37:59.500 I wanted to

00:38:00.720 remind you

00:38:01.340 that

00:38:01.760 so I'm

00:38:02.660 moving

00:38:02.960 some

00:38:04.100 bonus

00:38:04.560 content

00:38:05.080 over to

00:38:05.720 locals

00:38:06.360 l-o-c-a-l-s 1.00

00:38:09.000 dot com

00:38:09.940 and I've

00:38:11.220 got a

00:38:11.560 subscription

00:38:12.180 site there

00:38:13.180 for

00:38:13.780 I'll be

00:38:14.560 moving all

00:38:15.060 of my

00:38:15.260 video content

00:38:16.000 I'll still

00:38:16.440 be doing

00:38:16.760 it here

00:38:17.040 every day

00:38:17.440 so you

00:38:17.720 still

00:38:17.920 can watch

00:38:18.320 it the

00:38:18.580 same

00:38:18.760 ways

00:38:19.040 but if

00:38:19.860 you wanted

00:38:20.260 to find

00:38:20.780 it there

00:38:22.340 if you

00:38:22.680 wanted to

00:38:22.960 watch it

00:38:23.320 at higher

00:38:24.160 speeds

00:38:24.740 so you

00:38:25.100 could hear

00:38:25.540 me talk

00:38:25.940 faster

00:38:26.360 you could

00:38:28.740 do that

00:38:29.080 there

00:38:29.380 you could

00:38:30.280 message me

00:38:31.420 you could

00:38:32.260 see some

00:38:32.780 stuff that

00:38:33.860 you won't

00:38:34.260 see anywhere

00:38:34.960 else

00:38:35.300 but best

00:38:36.180 of all

00:38:36.680 those people

00:38:37.680 who are

00:38:38.160 nice enough

00:38:39.180 to contribute

00:38:39.860 to me

00:38:40.440 on Patreon

00:38:41.080 need not

00:38:42.500 do that

00:38:42.980 so if

00:38:43.800 you're on

00:38:44.060 Patreon

00:38:44.420 feel free

00:38:45.680 to cancel

00:38:46.120 that

00:38:46.500 and I

00:38:48.160 know some

00:38:48.480 people have

00:38:48.840 some problems

00:38:49.420 with Patreon

00:38:49.940 anyway

00:38:50.360 and if you

00:38:51.880 like subscribe

00:38:53.240 to Locals

00:38:54.080 and cancel

00:38:55.560 Patreon either

00:38:56.240 way I would

00:38:57.340 say

00:38:57.560 so

00:38:58.740 that's all

00:39:03.240 for now

00:39:03.640 if you need

00:39:04.440 to find that

00:39:05.060 link go to

00:39:05.780 my Twitter

00:39:06.860 it's in the

00:39:07.560 profile

00:39:07.960 you can see

00:39:09.040 that

00:39:09.280 tell us

00:39:10.880 what happened

00:39:11.260 to last

00:39:11.640 night's

00:39:11.920 periscope

00:39:12.440 oh it

00:39:12.820 was just

00:39:13.140 a technical

00:39:14.540 glitch

00:39:15.060 it just

00:39:16.060 ended

00:39:16.460 and if I

00:39:17.480 get that

00:39:17.840 far into

00:39:18.420 one and

00:39:18.920 it gets

00:39:19.180 a technical

00:39:19.780 glitch

00:39:20.220 and it

00:39:20.620 ends

00:39:21.020 I don't

00:39:23.180 restart

00:39:23.740 because I

00:39:24.360 think well

00:39:24.960 20 minutes

00:39:26.220 is good

00:39:27.820 enough

00:39:28.200 research

00:39:33.040 chlorine

00:39:34.160 dioxide

00:39:34.800 I don't

00:39:35.480 know why

00:39:36.020 but

00:39:37.520 okay

00:39:38.720 the China

00:39:40.340 book

00:39:40.620 unrestricted

00:39:41.460 warfare

00:39:41.820 yeah I'm

00:39:42.560 familiar with

00:39:43.260 that

00:39:43.560 Zoom

00:39:47.360 Hollywood

00:39:47.780 media

00:39:48.320 must be

00:39:49.660 stopped

00:39:50.040 yeah

00:39:50.420 Zoom

00:39:52.160 apparently

00:39:52.820 has made

00:39:53.280 some changes

00:39:53.880 but we

00:39:55.120 don't know

00:39:55.580 if they're

00:39:55.960 the good

00:39:56.260 kind

00:39:56.620 yeah

00:40:02.420 somebody's

00:40:02.900 pointing out

00:40:03.360 that we're

00:40:04.540 always afraid

00:40:05.340 the United

00:40:05.900 States is

00:40:06.360 always afraid

00:40:06.920 of some

00:40:07.260 other country

00:40:07.900 you know

00:40:08.640 eating our

00:40:09.260 lunch

00:40:09.640 and it

00:40:09.940 used to

00:40:10.220 be Japan

00:40:10.900 and then

00:40:12.060 Japan just

00:40:13.400 stopped being

00:40:14.740 such a threat

00:40:15.520 and then it

00:40:16.800 became China

00:40:17.680 you know

00:40:18.800 and is it

00:40:19.300 possible that

00:40:20.080 China will be 1.00

00:40:20.940 like the

00:40:21.300 coronavirus

00:40:21.700 ironically

00:40:22.780 and just

00:40:24.300 sort of

00:40:25.440 trail off

00:40:25.960 on its own

00:40:26.520 because everything

00:40:27.060 has a season

00:40:27.800 well we'll

00:40:28.880 find out

00:40:29.440 meat supply

00:40:31.460 yeah I guess

00:40:32.080 the president

00:40:32.540 ordered the

00:40:33.520 unions and

00:40:34.800 the workers

00:40:35.200 to go back

00:40:35.740 to work

00:40:36.220 even if

00:40:36.920 it's not

00:40:37.360 safe

00:40:37.800 I don't

00:40:40.520 love that

00:40:41.040 situation

00:40:41.620 but I

00:40:43.560 don't disagree

00:40:44.360 that the

00:40:45.560 government

00:40:45.940 should use

00:40:47.340 its powers

00:40:47.860 to keep

00:40:48.260 the food

00:40:49.400 supply

00:40:49.940 solid

00:40:50.760 so this

00:40:53.080 is one

00:40:53.380 of the

00:40:53.640 you know

00:40:54.280 this is a

00:40:54.820 war situation

00:40:55.860 you know

00:40:56.720 when the

00:40:57.620 president referred

00:40:58.320 to this as a

00:40:58.960 war

00:40:59.240 it really

00:41:00.680 is a war 0.51

00:41:01.360 and these

00:41:02.080 are commander

00:41:02.720 in chief

00:41:03.200 decisions

00:41:03.760 and the

00:41:04.620 commander

00:41:05.000 in chief

00:41:05.460 basically

00:41:06.160 just told

00:41:06.900 the meat

00:41:07.320 workers

00:41:07.740 that

00:41:08.620 congratulations

00:41:09.480 you're on

00:41:09.880 the front

00:41:10.200 line

00:41:10.540 and they

00:41:12.080 didn't sign

00:41:12.540 up for that

00:41:13.140 but none

00:41:14.700 of us

00:41:14.980 signed up

00:41:15.420 for it

00:41:15.840 you know

00:41:16.280 I didn't

00:41:16.720 sign up

00:41:17.140 to be in

00:41:17.560 a higher

00:41:18.360 risk group

00:41:19.080 right

00:41:19.380 asthma

00:41:20.140 at a certain

00:41:20.580 age

00:41:20.880 nobody

00:41:22.160 signed up

00:41:22.960 for any

00:41:23.660 of this

00:41:24.060 so it's

00:41:25.360 not fair

00:41:25.980 certainly

00:41:27.320 not fair

00:41:28.000 that the

00:41:28.500 meat

00:41:28.820 workers

00:41:29.280 would

00:41:30.560 take

00:41:31.540 a far

00:41:32.400 bigger

00:41:32.660 burden

00:41:33.040 than

00:41:33.360 a number

00:41:33.980 of other

00:41:34.320 people

00:41:34.600 not as

00:41:35.100 big as

00:41:35.540 the front

00:41:36.780 line

00:41:36.940 health care

00:41:37.380 workers

00:41:37.720 but pretty

00:41:38.340 big

00:41:38.700 and

00:41:40.040 it's not

00:41:41.020 fair

00:41:41.340 and I

00:41:42.960 think the

00:41:43.340 only thing

00:41:43.800 that we

00:41:44.060 can say

00:41:44.580 is

00:41:45.700 thank you

00:41:46.520 thank you

00:41:47.840 for your

00:41:48.200 service

00:41:48.580 this is

00:41:49.480 like one

00:41:50.000 of those

00:41:50.280 weird

00:41:50.560 times

00:41:51.060 when

00:41:53.380 saying

00:41:53.940 thank you

00:41:54.460 for your

00:41:54.880 service

00:41:55.380 makes sense

00:41:57.280 in a

00:41:57.620 non-military

00:41:58.440 context

00:41:58.880 because we

00:41:59.660 are at

00:42:00.100 war

00:42:00.360 and the

00:42:01.480 commander-in-chief

00:42:02.380 just ordered

00:42:03.340 the meat

00:42:03.920 workers

00:42:04.300 to the

00:42:05.020 front lines

00:42:05.640 and we

00:42:07.540 should just

00:42:08.000 respect it

00:42:09.000 thank them

00:42:11.320 I don't

00:42:13.180 think we

00:42:13.660 should stop

00:42:14.220 it

00:42:14.500 because I

00:42:16.160 think even

00:42:16.760 just the

00:42:17.400 psychology

00:42:18.080 of keeping

00:42:19.280 the food

00:42:20.560 chain

00:42:20.980 solid

00:42:21.520 I mean I

00:42:22.420 think the

00:42:22.860 public wants

00:42:23.660 to know

00:42:24.180 that the

00:42:25.340 government

00:42:25.780 is going

00:42:26.840 to do

00:42:27.060 whatever it

00:42:27.560 takes

00:42:27.860 to keep

00:42:28.780 the food

00:42:29.680 chain

00:42:29.940 working

00:42:30.300 so I

00:42:31.060 think the

00:42:31.500 public wants

00:42:32.180 to see a

00:42:32.640 little strength

00:42:33.500 when it

00:42:34.460 comes to

00:42:34.900 food

00:42:35.420 maybe not

00:42:36.860 you know

00:42:37.320 overshooting the

00:42:38.500 mark with

00:42:38.940 privacy and

00:42:39.600 stuff like

00:42:40.040 that

00:42:40.340 public can

00:42:41.360 get a

00:42:41.980 little

00:42:42.160 antsy

00:42:43.140 about that

00:42:43.620 and should

00:42:44.060 but when

00:42:45.460 you talk

00:42:45.740 about the

00:42:46.100 food supply

00:42:46.880 and it's

00:42:49.040 a war

00:42:49.620 somebody's

00:42:52.680 going to

00:42:52.840 be a

00:42:53.080 victim

00:42:53.340 you know

00:42:54.440 I think

00:42:55.380 we just

00:42:55.740 have to

00:42:56.060 respect

00:42:56.360 them

00:42:56.640 that's

00:42:57.080 it

00:42:57.260 we just

00:42:58.180 have to

00:42:58.520 respect

00:42:58.840 them

00:42:59.140 and thank

00:42:59.640 them

00:43:00.320 and on

00:43:01.620 that thought

00:43:02.120 I would

00:43:03.840 like to

00:43:04.200 wish you

00:43:04.740 a great

00:43:05.520 night

00:43:05.880 and

00:43:07.220 I hope

00:43:08.900 tomorrow

00:43:09.340 has as

00:43:10.140 much good

00:43:10.660 news as

00:43:11.120 today

00:43:11.480 because today

00:43:12.100 was pretty

00:43:12.540 cool

00:43:12.880 and I think

00:43:14.080 we're going

00:43:14.380 to be heading

00:43:14.760 in a good

00:43:15.160 situation

00:43:15.720 remember I

00:43:16.840 told you

00:43:17.280 these two

00:43:18.540 weeks

00:43:18.960 are going

00:43:19.840 to be

00:43:20.040 some good

00:43:20.460 stuff

00:43:20.860 there's

00:43:21.820 more coming

00:43:22.300 I'll see

00:43:23.460 you in the

00:43:23.960 morning

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 30, 2020

Episode 944 Scott Adams： FBI Flynn-Flammers, A Slew of Fake News and some Funny Stuff Before Bed

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