Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 953 Scott Adams： I Score President Trump's Coronavirus Performance, 4th Branch of Government, Solve Some Hoaxes and More

00:00:00.000 Hey Carl, come on in.

00:00:10.740 Do you know what time it is?

00:00:14.000 It's whiteboard o'clock.

00:00:17.600 No, it's better than that.

00:00:19.980 It's double whiteboard time.

00:00:23.680 Yeah, two whiteboards.

00:00:26.120 One on each side.

00:00:27.060 It's going to blow your mind.

00:00:28.760 Full of tantalizing and provocative ideas that are going to make you think, make you hate, make you cry.

00:00:41.160 Well, it probably won't make you cry.

00:00:43.380 It might make you do those other things, though.

00:00:45.480 Let's talk about some stuff that's happened since the last time I saw you.

00:00:52.460 Well, I went shopping today.

00:00:55.700 Pretty big news.

00:00:56.920 Yes, yes, I did.

00:00:58.040 Put on my mask.

00:00:59.580 Went to the grocery store.

00:01:01.480 I have not been to anything like a building with a ceiling or anything except my house in quite a while.

00:01:10.440 And I got to tell you, I was thinking, you know, I was thinking to myself, you know, how bad is it going to be shopping in the grocery store?

00:01:22.060 It's going to be like some kind of dystopian nightmare, water world, end of the world, hellscape kind of situation.

00:01:31.160 But I had optimistically been saying, in general, that there might be some things that end up better after the virus crisis.

00:01:43.720 There might be some things that we say, hey, let's just rethink this from scratch, because we wouldn't ordinarily, but since everything's broken, let's rethink everything.

00:01:54.780 And let me tell you, I just had the best grocery shopping experience of my life, and I just wanted to continue.

00:02:05.440 Let me tell you how good this was.

00:02:07.180 As I approached the front door, there were carts right by the door.

00:02:15.000 There have never been carts right by the door.

00:02:19.040 Usually you have to go hike over yonder and get yourself a cart.

00:02:23.200 But they were right by the door for the first time.

00:02:25.360 Not only were they by the door, but two very nice employees with masks were sterilizing them as the other customers dropped them off. 0.63

00:02:37.460 So for the first time in my life, I picked up a sterilized, freshly sterilized cart right by the door.

00:02:47.760 How happy was I?

00:02:49.580 Before I've even walked in the door, I said to myself, I can't go back.

00:02:53.920 I can't go back to the days of grimy, everybody's touched this cart, I don't know which baby has drooled on it.

00:03:01.860 I can't go back to that.

00:03:03.980 But I figure, okay, but sure, there's one thing that's good about it, but the rest of the shopping experience is going to be tough.

00:03:12.040 So I got ready.

00:03:13.520 Now, I know most of you have been shopping already, but, you know, I've been hiding for a few months.

00:03:20.660 So it's the first time I've been in the store.

00:03:22.400 So I go in, and I noticed, first of all, that everybody has a mask on, including me, as they should.

00:03:30.760 And I said to myself, will this be the first time I've ever purchased groceries that didn't have a thousand people's human spittle on them?

00:03:43.980 And I thought, I think it is.

00:03:48.000 This might be my first spittle-free shopping experience of all time.

00:03:54.680 Now, I don't have, you know, Howie Mandel OCD.

00:04:00.320 Yeah, I can shake hands.

00:04:02.420 I'm pretty anxious to wash my hands soon after shaking hands.

00:04:05.960 But I'm not, you know, I'm not too concerned about germs and whatnot.

00:04:12.220 I, you know, have a healthy regard for them.

00:04:15.020 But I have to tell you, having now shopped in a store where all the employees and the other customers had masks on, I don't want to go back.

00:04:27.460 I mean, I really don't want to go back.

00:04:31.220 I mean, a lot.

00:04:32.540 I mean, I'm not even joking.

00:04:34.840 If we could always wear a mask in the grocery store, I'd just keep mine in the glove compartment of my car. 1.00

00:04:41.820 I'll wear my damn mask. 0.99

00:04:43.340 As long as you get all those other yahoos to wear a mask, and all of my food will have, you know, only the pesticides on it that I like so much and not the human spittle. 1.00

00:04:52.840 So, now I've got this sterilized cart.

00:04:56.580 I think I'm in heaven.

00:04:58.080 Didn't even have to walk to get it.

00:04:59.860 There's no spittle on my food.

00:05:01.560 Wait, it gets better.

00:05:02.820 This gets better.

00:05:04.840 They're limiting the size of the crowds.

00:05:08.680 Right.

00:05:10.180 I didn't even have to fight for anything.

00:05:13.120 Nobody was in front of me.

00:05:15.420 Oh, sure, there were some people passing by.

00:05:18.920 But they weren't much in my business.

00:05:20.740 And then I go to check out.

00:05:23.700 And they've marked the floor.

00:05:25.200 I tweeted it, you know, and apparently a number of stores are doing this.

00:05:29.260 So, they marked the floor with squares so you know what square to stand on so that you're six feet away from the next customer in line.

00:05:38.360 And people were actually using it.

00:05:40.580 And I thought to myself, oh, my God, I'd never have to be crowded again.

00:05:48.120 I'd never have to have the six-year-old who pushes the mom's cart into the back of my ankle while I'm waiting to pay for the groceries. 0.99

00:05:56.880 I'll never have that feeling again of being just sort of pushed and somebody's breathing down my neck and I'm a little tight and I'm all a little squeezed in there.

00:06:06.980 I'll never have that again.

00:06:08.640 I can stand six feet away from the nearest person.

00:06:11.700 Listen, I've never been happier.

00:06:16.260 It was the happy...

00:06:17.540 Wait, it gets better.

00:06:19.760 It gets better.

00:06:21.500 One of my pet peeves is that they'll always ask me if I want a paper bag or plastic.

00:06:29.020 I always say plastic because the paper bags, the handles break off.

00:06:34.360 And I like to be able to, you know, pick up like two in each hand and you can only do that with the plastic ones.

00:06:39.280 Now it turns out that they only have the plastic ones because the paper bags are kind of less, I guess they're, I don't know, less good or something.

00:06:48.800 So every time that I would go into Safeway, I would say, I'd like a plastic bag, please.

00:06:55.280 What do you think they say when there are two choices and you pick one of them clearly and without even being asked?

00:07:04.020 I would like the plastic bags, please.

00:07:06.080 Well, 75% of the time, this is what would happen.

00:07:10.920 Dum-da-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum. 0.99

00:07:12.400 This is time passing.

00:07:14.000 Dum-da-dum-dum-dum-dum. 0.99

00:07:15.140 What kind of bag would you like?

00:07:17.080 Plastic or paper?

00:07:19.580 I just said plastic.

00:07:22.600 But of course, they do this all day long.

00:07:25.080 And they forget what you said and it runs in with the last 400 people they waited on.

00:07:29.860 So they do have to ask again.

00:07:31.200 I totally get that.

00:07:32.280 But as the customer, what is better, not having to answer it or not having to answer it twice?

00:07:42.120 Sometimes three times.

00:07:44.040 Sometimes the banger will come up and I'll have to answer the same question for the third time.

00:07:49.120 Yep, still a plastic bag.

00:07:51.420 Just like the last two times I was weighing in on this question.

00:07:54.420 But now, no paper bags.

00:07:57.160 Just plastic.

00:07:58.480 Again, one of the biggest annoyances of shopping.

00:08:01.620 Wiped away.

00:08:03.640 I go out to the parking lot.

00:08:05.940 I was parked right next to the cart area where you take the carts back because the store wasn't that full.

00:08:14.780 Just best shopping experience of all time.

00:08:19.400 I hope it never goes back.

00:08:20.960 Anyway, that's not what I came here to talk about.

00:08:26.940 Let's check your hoax detection equipment.

00:08:32.920 How many of you fell for the hoax that was going around the Internet recently that said that the CDC mysteriously and quietly cut the number of people they estimated dying from coronavirus from the 60-some thousand to 30-some thousand?

00:08:49.540 Effectively cutting it in half.

00:08:51.640 How many believed that hoax that was going around for the last couple of days?

00:08:57.980 If you believe that one, you sort of need to check your hoax detector.

00:09:06.320 Here's what you should have known right away.

00:09:08.660 If that had been real, it turns out it was just people were looking at a page that showed, I don't know, partial data or for less than the entire period.

00:09:20.780 So it wasn't what people thought it was.

00:09:22.280 But if you believed that the CDC quietly cut the number in half, you would have to ask yourself why none of the major news sources are reporting it.

00:09:35.940 Because it would be the biggest story in the country immediately.

00:09:40.580 So if you waited a few hours, you know, the first few hours, you might say to yourself, hey, they haven't covered it yet.

00:09:47.700 Maybe they're looking into it.

00:09:49.520 But after about a day has gone by, and neither CNN nor Fox News nor Breitbart nor Hoffman Post nor anybody, if nobody's covered it, and it's only on Twitter, it probably didn't happen.

00:10:05.920 All right, so if you were one of the people who got taken in by that, the test that you should have put on it is that there's no major news source reporting it.

00:10:17.140 If even one of them reported it, then you'd be on at least reasonable grounds because a major news source was agreeing with you.

00:10:25.080 That doesn't mean it was true, but at least you'd have a little bit of support.

00:10:28.160 All right, I'm going to give a Trump report card on how he's done on this coronavirus business.

00:10:36.960 Are you ready for this?

00:10:38.480 Are you ready?

00:10:39.520 Controversy.

00:10:41.040 Provocative.

00:10:42.660 Hope you can handle it.

00:10:44.240 I know you can.

00:10:45.980 All right, let's see how Trump did on...

00:10:48.780 I tried to break it into sort of logical categories.

00:10:52.760 And let's see how he did.

00:10:54.400 How did he do on early awareness?

00:10:56.020 It was reported that his security briefings, which they say he doesn't read or pay attention to,

00:11:03.080 that they had been warning him for, I don't know, weeks and weeks about this coronavirus.

00:11:08.120 Is that true?

00:11:10.180 Probably.

00:11:11.400 Here's the context.

00:11:13.380 A lot of people get warned...

00:11:14.660 Well, the president gets warned about a lot of stuff when it's just sort of an early indication.

00:11:20.040 That doesn't mean he needs to do something.

00:11:22.340 His experts were telling him he didn't need to worry.

00:11:25.160 So, early awareness, I give the president, who is not himself an expert on virology, an A,

00:11:34.160 because he took it seriously at exactly the same time as the top experts in the world.

00:11:41.340 Fauci, Birx, etc.

00:11:42.800 So, he didn't take it seriously before they did.

00:11:47.360 That would be bad performance.

00:11:49.380 Nor did he not take it seriously after they talked to him and talked to him.

00:11:55.460 So, the best you could perform as a non-expert is that you got it as early as the experts got it.

00:12:02.840 Now, should the experts have gotten it much earlier?

00:12:05.880 Yes.

00:12:06.940 But, they have an excuse, too, because China may have been, you know, concealing some of the information.

00:12:13.440 But, even still, maybe the experts could have been a little bit more on the ball.

00:12:18.760 You know, you can imagine the experts only get a, I don't know, a C, would you say?

00:12:25.400 A, grade of a C, because even though China was hiding the information, there should have been enough warning signs, it feels like,

00:12:35.540 that the experts should have seen this a little bit earlier.

00:12:38.340 But, not the president.

00:12:40.480 You know, not the politicians.

00:12:41.940 I don't, I wouldn't put anybody else in that category either.

00:12:44.560 Because, if they took the same path as the experts did, that's as good as the politician can do.

00:12:52.760 And, Trump closed travel early.

00:12:55.500 I think he deserves credit for that.

00:12:58.220 Now, we're all getting tired of him reminding us of that.

00:13:02.120 But, it's also completely fair.

00:13:04.420 I think it's completely fair to say that he took an action that was super unpopular.

00:13:09.700 And, I don't think there were many people in the room who agreed with it when he did it.

00:13:14.080 So, that's an A+.

00:13:15.980 Probably his best grade is that.

00:13:19.920 And, you can't take that away from him.

00:13:21.420 I'm going to give him some lower grades as we go.

00:13:24.180 So, this isn't all going to be good news.

00:13:26.380 But, I do agree that you just have to, you just have to give him the A-plus on that.

00:13:31.720 Closing the travel.

00:13:33.700 Ventilators?

00:13:34.940 A-plus.

00:13:36.600 I'm going to say A-plus.

00:13:37.860 Now, you could argue, hey, where were all the ventilators ahead of time?

00:13:41.840 But, I would argue that being prepared means that you don't run out of ventilators.

00:13:48.400 Did we run out of ventilators?

00:13:50.480 We did not.

00:13:51.860 Did we have extra ventilators?

00:13:54.100 In the long run, we did.

00:13:55.180 So, I would say that the President, you know, you could argue that he should have had a warehouse, a bunch of warehouse of ventilators, but nobody else did.

00:14:04.540 You know, were there other countries that had warehouses full of ventilators?

00:14:07.740 The fact that he got private industry to whip up a bunch of ventilators, in fact, so many of them that we have three times more than we'll need.

00:14:17.120 I've got to say, pretty good, pretty good.

00:14:20.660 I'm going to give him an A for ventilators.

00:14:23.580 Because I don't think it was reasonable that he knew we would need so many ventilators.

00:14:28.160 That's a hard ask, to think that the President knew that.

00:14:32.800 But, we were prepared enough to respond to it.

00:14:35.740 So, I give him an A.

00:14:36.740 And also, American industry.

00:14:38.660 Now, there's a real question whether it was ever important.

00:14:41.920 I mean, there's a real question whether the ventilators are hurting people more than they're helping.

00:14:46.480 And those are good questions.

00:14:48.100 But, it was identified at one point as being critical.

00:14:52.400 Well, the President made it happen.

00:14:54.900 We have triple the ventilators we need.

00:14:57.340 A plus.

00:14:59.160 PPE.

00:15:01.640 My biggest complaint with PPE is that we didn't have visibility.

00:15:05.660 We couldn't tell if we had enough, where we had enough, etc.

00:15:08.500 I would say that after an initial bad start, it looks like we have enough.

00:15:15.500 So, it looks like whatever the governments were doing, the states were doing most of the buying,

00:15:20.120 the federal government was backstopping it.

00:15:23.600 I would say that this was a little bit of a closer to a pass-fail situation.

00:15:29.580 If you run out of PPE, you failed.

00:15:33.820 If you didn't run out, well, I think you passed.

00:15:37.720 So, I'm not sure that's a given, an A, B, or C, or D, whatever.

00:15:42.260 It feels like that was pass-fail, and it passed.

00:15:45.880 In the end, we have enough.

00:15:47.240 And I think that they did a lot of smart stuff, and I think that they spared nothing to get it done.

00:15:55.600 And I think that also I would give him an A for cutting red tape.

00:15:59.200 It seems to me that there was a tremendous amount of red tape that just got washed off just with a brush of a hand,

00:16:08.020 and it hasn't come back to bite us, you know, so far, you know, knock on wood,

00:16:13.840 so far there's no damage from any red tape that got cut that we know of.

00:16:18.920 Now, I would say that you could argue that the PPP payments didn't have the controls they needed up front,

00:16:25.260 but we quickly are adjusting.

00:16:27.440 It looks like, you know, there's some clawing back of the money, etc.

00:16:30.140 And I've told you from the start that when everything is sort of a time of war and it's fog of war

00:16:39.260 and you've never done things before, that the way you should judge everything is how quickly you can correct.

00:16:46.520 How do you respond to something that didn't work?

00:16:50.000 And I would always look at that over the first attempt,

00:16:53.560 because the first attempt sometimes is a guess in these murky situations.

00:16:57.660 Did Trump take expert advice?

00:17:02.300 Yes.

00:17:03.640 In fact, Trump has taken expert advice so clearly

00:17:08.700 and I would say in such a consistent and dedicated manner

00:17:15.120 that it's even becoming a problem.

00:17:18.680 Because there are some people who wish he were not taking their advice

00:17:22.680 and maybe could loosen things up and go back to work.

00:17:25.620 So, but if you have to say, does the leader take the advice of experts?

00:17:33.000 Yes.

00:17:33.900 You know, if you think that's important, you could argue whether he should or not.

00:17:38.200 That's a separate argument, don't you think?

00:17:41.400 But you can't argue that he is

00:17:43.660 and that you can't argue that the population of the United States,

00:17:49.520 by an overwhelming majority, wants that to happen.

00:17:52.640 So, most of the country wants it to happen.

00:17:56.020 He did it.

00:17:57.040 I give him an A.

00:17:58.800 A.

00:18:00.380 All right.

00:18:01.060 Financial relief.

00:18:02.280 It's harder for me to judge.

00:18:04.440 I would say, again, that the smart thing that's happening

00:18:07.360 is I would say that Steve Mnuchin is very qualified, as far as I can tell.

00:18:13.640 If anybody has a counter-argument to that, I'll listen to it.

00:18:17.840 But every time I see Fauci do, I'm sorry, Mnuchin do something,

00:18:23.240 I feel like he's good at this.

00:18:26.640 Am I wrong?

00:18:27.760 I feel like he's sort of the right guy in the right place at the right time.

00:18:31.880 So, that's great.

00:18:33.000 But, you know, Congress has a big role in this.

00:18:36.000 It's not all Trump or Mnuchin.

00:18:38.960 And I think that there were some missteps,

00:18:41.280 and it was slow, and it's, you know, clunky,

00:18:44.340 and didn't get to the right people and stuff.

00:18:46.660 But a lot of that is just built into how hard it is.

00:18:49.680 It was just a hard problem with a very short deadline.

00:18:52.980 So, how do you grade somebody who is just part of a lot of people?

00:18:59.720 You know, Trump isn't Congress, Trump isn't Mnuchin,

00:19:02.600 but Mnuchin works for him.

00:19:04.120 So, what's Trump's grade for sort of a messy process?

00:19:09.700 I'd say the process itself, I'd give a solid B plus to,

00:19:16.440 again, using the same standard,

00:19:18.720 which is that it was very messy when it started,

00:19:21.400 but did they adjust?

00:19:23.880 And it looks like they did.

00:19:24.980 It looked like there were lots and lots of adjustments.

00:19:27.540 And it looks like they're still adjusting

00:19:29.020 and will continue to adjust.

00:19:31.220 So, as long as you see them monitoring and adjusting,

00:19:34.700 that feels like the right stuff, right?

00:19:38.760 It feels like they've got a system that makes sense.

00:19:41.580 You don't know how quickly things should have been, you know,

00:19:44.600 would some other president have gotten a different result?

00:19:47.340 You don't know.

00:19:48.500 So, I'm going to say that's at least a B.

00:19:52.300 But that's, you know, also involved Congress, et cetera.

00:19:54.980 But it's at least a B.

00:19:58.240 Testing, I would give a near-failing grade.

00:20:01.080 I would say a D, maybe, generously.

00:20:05.800 A D as in dog.

00:20:07.160 So, this is probably the worst area.

00:20:10.240 Not only because we don't have much visibility,

00:20:14.700 but, and I'm just annoyed at this part.

00:20:17.860 I saw Senator John Corden.

00:20:20.980 He was tweeting how the U.S. had done, I don't know,

00:20:25.780 6.7 million tests.

00:20:28.420 And that was a lot.

00:20:29.360 And we tested more than anybody has ever tested.

00:20:31.620 But, if you dig down just a little bit, you know,

00:20:35.920 and you factor in the fact that our population is large compared to most,

00:20:43.160 we really haven't done much testing.

00:20:45.580 And I can't tell you that we have a plan to do more testing,

00:20:48.340 or enough testing.

00:20:49.640 Obviously, there'll be more.

00:20:51.500 But we don't really have any visibility on it,

00:20:53.660 and I don't think we're close.

00:20:55.500 And even Bill Gates said,

00:20:56.860 no, we're not even prioritizing things right to be useful.

00:21:00.360 So, I would say testing would be a,

00:21:03.580 that's the lowest grade.

00:21:06.580 I would say the therapeutics and the vaccines,

00:21:08.860 it does look like the federal government is doing.

00:21:11.460 Oh, let me, one more thing about testing.

00:21:14.020 The president has said that that was the state's responsibility

00:21:17.780 and helped them know what resources were available

00:21:21.660 for the states to contact, you know,

00:21:23.560 in terms of labs and getting test kits and stuff like that,

00:21:26.520 which I don't think was as helpful as it could have been.

00:21:30.120 So, even though you would say,

00:21:31.660 well, that was more what the states were supposed to do,

00:21:34.460 you can't blame Trump, he's the federal government,

00:21:38.280 but I can because it's an emergency.

00:21:41.800 So, in an emergency,

00:21:43.940 there's no such thing really as job responsibility,

00:21:47.640 you know, not really.

00:21:49.080 If the federal government can do something

00:21:51.500 that can't be done by others,

00:21:53.540 and I think that was the case with testing,

00:21:55.860 then they sort of are obliged to do it

00:21:57.800 because emergency, right?

00:22:00.380 You know, you just are obliged to do it because you can.

00:22:03.940 So, that's the low grade.

00:22:05.720 I think the therapeutics and the vaccines,

00:22:07.740 I don't know, we'll see.

00:22:09.320 We haven't seen anything yet.

00:22:10.860 So, it's hard to give a grade for that.

00:22:13.420 But it does look like the federal government

00:22:15.740 is clearing the deck and doing everything it can

00:22:18.460 to make it easy.

00:22:19.820 So, I would say of the things we know they've done,

00:22:22.860 probably A, probably really good.

00:22:27.220 Psychology, I would say the president does a good job

00:22:29.880 on this, of being optimistic

00:22:32.300 and keeping the economy talked up

00:22:35.120 while still being realistic enough,

00:22:38.980 you know, in terms of his actions.

00:22:41.900 So, I think that the president actually hits

00:22:43.700 a really good balance,

00:22:44.860 and he's blamed for being too optimistic,

00:22:47.440 and he definitely was in the early days

00:22:49.420 of the coronavirus.

00:22:50.600 So, I think he was too optimistic early on,

00:22:53.760 as often is pointed out.

00:22:55.720 But at the moment, he's hitting a really good note

00:22:58.560 of, yeah, you know, it's tough,

00:23:00.960 every life is important,

00:23:02.640 but we're on the good side of this.

00:23:04.200 You know, he's just,

00:23:05.140 it's exactly what you need right now.

00:23:06.880 So, I'd give him an A

00:23:07.980 for managing the economy

00:23:10.100 and our stress

00:23:11.700 in terms of how we're thinking about it.

00:23:15.000 I don't think he gets enough credit for that.

00:23:18.560 I think the government did,

00:23:20.000 the federal government did a good job

00:23:21.460 with the guidelines,

00:23:22.680 even if you don't love them.

00:23:24.500 I love the fact that the federal government said,

00:23:26.760 hey, states,

00:23:27.940 let us take the heat.

00:23:30.140 We'll do these guidelines.

00:23:31.780 You can have a little bit of flexibility within it,

00:23:34.420 but, you know,

00:23:35.080 but we'll take the heat.

00:23:36.740 So, as long as you stay within these,

00:23:39.760 then each of you governors

00:23:41.040 are not going to be

00:23:44.440 individually as responsible

00:23:46.280 for how it turns out.

00:23:48.140 So, I think that's,

00:23:49.240 I think that was really, really smart.

00:23:52.060 So, I'm not going to say

00:23:52.900 it was Trump's idea necessarily

00:23:54.540 to have guidelines.

00:23:55.640 I doubt it was.

00:23:56.780 But I would say that

00:23:57.500 the federal guidelines,

00:23:59.340 I hate that this is so nerdy and wonky

00:24:01.660 and it's like a cubicle point.

00:24:04.420 It's like guy in cubicle kind of a point.

00:24:07.020 But I think these guidelines

00:24:08.880 were a huge hit

00:24:10.040 in the sense that

00:24:12.040 they really let everybody focus

00:24:14.160 and understand

00:24:15.720 what mattered.

00:24:17.860 Now, you could argue about the details of it,

00:24:20.120 but just the fact that

00:24:21.360 they executed it

00:24:22.960 as well as they did,

00:24:25.060 I think really strong.

00:24:26.220 I'd give it an A.

00:24:28.400 On messaging,

00:24:29.500 I think the president's been spotty.

00:24:32.000 You know,

00:24:32.560 his whole disinfectant thing,

00:24:35.040 I thought he could have cleaned that up,

00:24:36.780 but he didn't.

00:24:37.800 I thought a lot of his press conferences

00:24:39.760 could have been shorter.

00:24:41.600 Now,

00:24:41.920 it looks like he's adjusted now

00:24:43.520 and I think he's on the right track.

00:24:45.960 He probably bragged a little bit too much

00:24:48.240 in some of them

00:24:49.060 when we just wanted to hear

00:24:50.200 what the numbers were.

00:24:51.820 And I thought that

00:24:52.660 the communication about the,

00:24:55.240 you know,

00:24:55.860 the sufficiency of the PPE

00:24:58.300 and all that stuff,

00:24:59.380 I thought that was terrible.

00:25:00.280 So, I would say that

00:25:01.680 the president always hits

00:25:03.480 home runs,

00:25:05.500 but he had a lot of strikeouts too.

00:25:08.180 So, there were,

00:25:08.780 he was sort of Babe Ruth on this one.

00:25:10.940 You know,

00:25:11.120 Babe Ruth, I think,

00:25:11.960 had records for home runs,

00:25:13.520 but also strikeouts

00:25:15.000 because he swings for the,

00:25:16.740 he would swing for the fence so much.

00:25:19.460 So,

00:25:20.720 those are my grades.

00:25:22.060 So,

00:25:22.680 I would say overall,

00:25:23.760 the president gets strong grades.

00:25:26.140 Now,

00:25:26.520 some of you are going to say,

00:25:27.680 but,

00:25:27.920 but,

00:25:28.200 but,

00:25:28.400 you know,

00:25:29.880 should we be going back to work

00:25:31.420 and didn't he take it too serious,

00:25:33.720 too seriously?

00:25:35.120 And some of you say,

00:25:36.140 not seriously enough.

00:25:38.160 Maybe.

00:25:39.480 But,

00:25:40.000 he is following the experts

00:25:41.140 and if you were just going to

00:25:43.260 grade the president's performance

00:25:45.140 on coronavirus,

00:25:46.760 I'd say quite strong.

00:25:48.900 Unless you think testing is the key,

00:25:50.620 in which case,

00:25:51.860 quite bad.

00:25:52.960 All right,

00:25:53.140 but here's a fun point.

00:25:55.620 I tweeted this,

00:25:57.020 tweeted earlier.

00:25:57.540 I'm going to,

00:25:57.980 I'm going to tie this

00:25:58.840 into the other topic.

00:26:00.880 I tweeted earlier

00:26:01.860 that Twitter

00:26:03.640 has become

00:26:04.520 the fourth branch

00:26:05.620 of government.

00:26:07.300 And what I mean by that

00:26:08.620 is that Twitter

00:26:09.300 acts as a check and balance

00:26:12.020 on the,

00:26:13.020 the other parts

00:26:13.880 of government.

00:26:14.720 So,

00:26:15.420 if,

00:26:15.800 and also on the press.

00:26:17.540 So,

00:26:18.180 in the old days,

00:26:19.320 the,

00:26:19.520 the press

00:26:20.220 and the government,

00:26:21.380 who often

00:26:22.140 worked together

00:26:23.440 a little too well,

00:26:24.880 could control

00:26:25.680 what you do.

00:26:27.120 And if it didn't come

00:26:28.160 through the news,

00:26:29.780 it didn't come

00:26:30.500 from the government,

00:26:31.840 well,

00:26:32.420 how would you know

00:26:33.240 what was happening?

00:26:34.500 But because Twitter

00:26:35.400 allows everybody

00:26:36.300 to be weaponized,

00:26:37.960 you,

00:26:38.200 you know,

00:26:38.720 just yesterday,

00:26:40.500 I think,

00:26:41.460 the Tara Reid story,

00:26:43.000 Tara Reid

00:26:44.920 gave some interview

00:26:46.140 or something,

00:26:46.960 the AP

00:26:47.420 published a headline,

00:26:49.280 and within a minute,

00:26:51.380 Tara Reid

00:26:51.980 is reading the headline,

00:26:53.920 gets on Twitter,

00:26:55.080 and tweets

00:26:55.600 that the headline

00:26:56.240 is false.

00:26:58.300 Would you have known that

00:26:59.700 without Twitter?

00:27:01.920 You heard it right

00:27:02.600 from the actual source.

00:27:03.980 Now,

00:27:04.240 there's more to this story,

00:27:05.320 but that's not important

00:27:06.140 to my point.

00:27:07.040 My point is

00:27:07.740 that Twitter

00:27:08.340 has allowed you

00:27:09.180 to see behind the curtain

00:27:10.260 because there's always

00:27:11.420 somebody who was there.

00:27:12.420 You know,

00:27:13.660 the news can report

00:27:15.320 one thing,

00:27:16.580 but it takes five minutes

00:27:17.760 to say,

00:27:18.400 but I was there.

00:27:20.860 I was actually there,

00:27:22.820 and that's not what happened.

00:27:24.740 So,

00:27:25.360 I think Twitter,

00:27:26.800 somewhat accidentally,

00:27:28.620 has evolved

00:27:29.620 to be like

00:27:30.300 a fourth branch

00:27:31.300 of government.

00:27:32.460 Now,

00:27:32.940 when I said that

00:27:33.580 on Twitter,

00:27:34.260 a lot of people said,

00:27:35.160 hey,

00:27:35.700 you can't say that

00:27:37.040 because they're,

00:27:38.580 we didn't elect them.

00:27:40.400 They were not elected.

00:27:41.360 Twitter is not elected.

00:27:43.500 To which I say,

00:27:44.700 have you heard

00:27:45.060 of the Supreme Court?

00:27:47.620 They're not elected.

00:27:49.440 You could say,

00:27:50.400 well,

00:27:50.740 but they're appointed

00:27:51.360 by people who are,

00:27:52.820 all right,

00:27:53.760 but the point is,

00:27:55.700 you know,

00:27:56.620 we can make the government

00:27:57.840 anything we want.

00:27:59.060 There's no rule

00:27:59.800 that says

00:28:00.340 every part of it

00:28:01.520 has to be elected.

00:28:03.320 I would say

00:28:04.100 that the Twitter

00:28:05.340 is essentially

00:28:06.200 an extension

00:28:06.840 of the population,

00:28:08.280 the voters.

00:28:08.720 So the voters

00:28:10.220 were always part

00:28:11.260 of the Constitution.

00:28:12.780 The voters

00:28:13.300 always had the right

00:28:14.160 of free speech.

00:28:15.380 So Twitter

00:28:15.740 is just magnifying

00:28:16.760 really the power

00:28:18.340 of the public

00:28:19.440 to be a check and balance

00:28:20.900 of the government.

00:28:22.120 But,

00:28:22.780 let's take that idea

00:28:24.140 and take it

00:28:25.780 to the coronavirus

00:28:26.560 situation.

00:28:28.000 Here's the problem

00:28:29.020 with our form

00:28:29.840 of government

00:28:30.420 at the moment.

00:28:32.800 Let's say if you,

00:28:33.940 let's say

00:28:34.280 there are three branches

00:28:35.140 of government.

00:28:35.920 could the existing

00:28:37.560 three branches

00:28:38.440 of government

00:28:39.220 get us to a good

00:28:41.160 outcome with the

00:28:42.040 coronavirus?

00:28:43.200 I would say

00:28:44.160 no.

00:28:45.580 I think you need

00:28:46.480 a fourth branch

00:28:47.400 of government,

00:28:48.460 let's say Twitter,

00:28:50.340 to get us a good

00:28:51.400 result and here's why.

00:28:53.080 Because we have

00:28:54.040 the wrong system

00:28:55.120 for this specific

00:28:56.420 problem.

00:28:57.560 Our system

00:28:58.200 of government

00:28:58.700 is really,

00:28:59.560 really good

00:29:00.020 for a bunch

00:29:00.560 of stuff.

00:29:01.620 For example,

00:29:02.460 if your country

00:29:03.200 is attacked,

00:29:04.380 your federal

00:29:04.980 government is a

00:29:05.880 really good

00:29:06.380 choice for

00:29:07.740 putting an army

00:29:08.640 together to

00:29:09.380 defend your

00:29:09.840 country.

00:29:10.900 So federal

00:29:11.840 government,

00:29:12.440 real good

00:29:13.240 national defense

00:29:14.480 and armies.

00:29:16.320 But,

00:29:17.820 you know,

00:29:18.600 the who decides

00:29:19.560 depends on

00:29:20.520 what the question

00:29:22.080 is.

00:29:22.480 There are some

00:29:23.040 things that are

00:29:23.560 driven down to

00:29:24.240 the city or

00:29:25.520 the state,

00:29:26.240 some things

00:29:26.940 driven down to

00:29:27.680 the individual,

00:29:28.560 etc.

00:29:29.060 So the who

00:29:30.160 decides is a

00:29:31.320 big deal.

00:29:31.800 and this is

00:29:33.560 more important

00:29:34.180 because of the

00:29:34.760 coronavirus story,

00:29:36.740 somebody is

00:29:37.780 going to have 0.79

00:29:38.200 to die. 0.99

00:29:39.880 Meaning that no 0.98

00:29:40.960 matter what we

00:29:41.620 do, in terms of

00:29:42.920 either going back

00:29:43.700 to work soon

00:29:45.060 or not going

00:29:46.760 back to work

00:29:47.420 soon, those two

00:29:49.280 decisions will

00:29:50.920 determine who

00:29:52.160 dies.

00:29:53.180 Not specifically,

00:29:54.700 but it will

00:29:55.160 determine which

00:29:55.980 group gets the

00:29:56.880 most impact.

00:29:57.640 So, name

00:29:59.760 any elected

00:30:00.620 official, given

00:30:02.220 our three

00:30:02.800 branches of

00:30:03.460 government, tell

00:30:04.780 me which

00:30:05.320 official within

00:30:06.420 our existing

00:30:07.120 three branches

00:30:07.980 is capable of

00:30:09.660 making a public

00:30:10.520 decision about

00:30:12.380 which of these

00:30:13.200 three groups is

00:30:14.120 going to be the

00:30:14.880 victim in order

00:30:16.360 to get to the

00:30:17.020 other side.

00:30:18.140 So do we make

00:30:18.920 a decision that's

00:30:19.660 bad for poor

00:30:20.360 people?

00:30:21.420 Which elected

00:30:22.060 official is going

00:30:22.720 to do that?

00:30:23.920 I'd say none.

00:30:25.140 Which elected

00:30:25.800 official is going

00:30:26.500 to say, well,

00:30:26.980 we're going to

00:30:28.100 make some

00:30:28.460 decisions, it's

00:30:29.200 going to be

00:30:29.480 really bad for

00:30:30.140 unhealthy people.

00:30:32.060 Nobody can do

00:30:32.740 that.

00:30:33.200 Our system doesn't

00:30:34.100 let you do that

00:30:34.780 because you can

00:30:35.260 never run for

00:30:35.880 office again.

00:30:38.160 It's just

00:30:38.800 impossible.

00:30:39.500 You couldn't do

00:30:39.980 it.

00:30:40.620 So you can't go

00:30:41.540 after old people,

00:30:42.420 unhealthy people,

00:30:43.080 or poor people,

00:30:43.940 but this

00:30:45.180 coronavirus

00:30:45.620 situation,

00:30:47.160 unfortunately,

00:30:49.400 has put us in

00:30:50.180 a situation where

00:30:51.100 you absolutely

00:30:52.060 have to choose.

00:30:53.740 You actually

00:30:54.560 have to choose.

00:30:55.940 Are we going

00:30:56.440 to screw the 0.77

00:30:57.060 poor people, 0.98

00:30:57.880 screw the 0.95

00:30:58.280 unhealthy,

00:30:58.920 screw the

00:30:59.520 old?

00:31:00.240 And of course,

00:31:00.920 there's lots of

00:31:01.760 overlap, right?

00:31:02.840 The poor people 0.63

00:31:04.400 have more health

00:31:05.720 problems, so

00:31:06.640 they're also

00:31:07.280 unhealthy.

00:31:09.020 So which

00:31:10.420 politician gets

00:31:11.320 to decide who

00:31:11.940 to screw?

00:31:12.740 We don't have

00:31:13.460 that system.

00:31:15.920 And the

00:31:16.520 problem is that

00:31:17.160 leadership doesn't

00:31:18.320 work for the

00:31:19.720 coronavirus because

00:31:21.140 no leader can

00:31:22.080 say, yeah, I'm 0.97

00:31:23.600 going to screw 0.99

00:31:24.040 the poor 0.72

00:31:24.420 people, but

00:31:25.420 you old

00:31:25.920 people and 0.98

00:31:26.380 unhealthy

00:31:26.740 people, you

00:31:27.640 win.

00:31:28.340 It's the

00:31:28.800 poor people who

00:31:29.580 are going to

00:31:30.080 have a problem.

00:31:31.380 Can't do it.

00:31:32.680 So what's the

00:31:33.560 opposite of

00:31:34.340 leadership?

00:31:34.940 Since leadership

00:31:35.600 can't work, and

00:31:37.340 we have a system

00:31:38.120 with three branches

00:31:39.340 of government and

00:31:40.380 leadership, and

00:31:41.640 it's just the

00:31:42.140 wrong system.

00:31:43.240 It can't make a

00:31:44.280 decision like this.

00:31:46.540 So what's the

00:31:47.280 opposite?

00:31:48.160 I don't know if

00:31:48.720 this is a word,

00:31:49.420 but let's call it

00:31:50.260 a followership.

00:31:51.140 Maybe things

00:31:53.540 depend on public

00:31:54.440 opinion.

00:31:55.640 Maybe Twitter is

00:31:56.940 a big part of

00:31:57.520 that, because

00:31:58.520 Twitter is

00:31:59.220 building public

00:32:00.100 opinion.

00:32:01.000 I'm sure even

00:32:01.580 the protests

00:32:04.300 probably get

00:32:05.100 organized on

00:32:05.840 social media,

00:32:06.880 probably a lot

00:32:07.480 of them on

00:32:07.880 Twitter.

00:32:08.940 So Twitter and

00:32:10.440 opinion polls

00:32:11.340 become sort of

00:32:13.000 that fourth

00:32:13.620 branch of

00:32:14.200 government which

00:32:15.540 can actually

00:32:16.500 make these

00:32:17.080 decisions.

00:32:18.800 Because Twitter

00:32:19.900 is sort of

00:32:20.720 forming its

00:32:21.380 own opinion,

00:32:22.180 if you will.

00:32:23.240 And people

00:32:24.060 are starting

00:32:24.560 to take

00:32:27.280 matters into

00:32:27.860 their own

00:32:28.260 hands, if

00:32:28.780 you will.

00:32:30.000 Now, what

00:32:32.300 is it that

00:32:32.940 gives any

00:32:33.560 kind of

00:32:33.920 government

00:32:34.400 moral

00:32:35.840 authority?

00:32:37.220 I would say

00:32:38.000 that any

00:32:38.440 government, no

00:32:39.300 matter what

00:32:39.740 level of

00:32:40.220 government you're

00:32:40.760 talking about,

00:32:41.700 the only thing

00:32:42.540 that gives

00:32:43.000 them moral

00:32:43.640 authority is

00:32:45.540 capability.

00:32:47.160 If they

00:32:47.560 demonstrate that

00:32:48.320 they're capable,

00:32:49.040 capable, then

00:32:49.920 people will

00:32:50.380 say, ah,

00:32:51.420 okay, you're

00:32:52.600 capable.

00:32:54.320 I might be

00:32:55.440 able to come

00:32:55.800 up with some

00:32:56.340 complaints about

00:32:57.160 you, I might

00:32:58.460 not love what

00:33:00.020 you do, maybe

00:33:01.660 it's not what I

00:33:02.440 would do, but I

00:33:03.900 do admit that

00:33:05.360 you're very

00:33:05.780 capable of

00:33:06.660 this.

00:33:07.460 Being capable

00:33:08.220 is what gives

00:33:08.920 you moral

00:33:09.840 authority.

00:33:10.500 This assumes

00:33:11.180 that your

00:33:11.460 intentions are

00:33:12.160 right as

00:33:12.740 well.

00:33:12.900 And my

00:33:16.120 point is that

00:33:16.840 our federal

00:33:17.340 government, and

00:33:19.180 our government

00:33:19.680 in general, is

00:33:21.020 not capable of

00:33:22.100 making a

00:33:22.540 decision about

00:33:23.240 who dies,

00:33:24.940 except in

00:33:25.760 terms of

00:33:26.540 war, but

00:33:27.100 that's a

00:33:27.600 little more

00:33:27.940 clear-cut.

00:33:30.300 And so, I

00:33:32.400 believe our

00:33:32.820 government is

00:33:33.500 losing moral

00:33:34.520 authority, not

00:33:36.480 because they're

00:33:36.940 bad people, not

00:33:38.440 because they

00:33:38.980 don't try, not

00:33:40.980 because they

00:33:41.480 don't want to

00:33:42.160 have a good

00:33:42.600 outcome, not

00:33:43.920 because they

00:33:44.400 aren't bringing

00:33:44.880 the best minds

00:33:45.960 and the smartest

00:33:47.400 people and the

00:33:48.240 best experts in

00:33:49.100 the world.

00:33:49.800 They're doing

00:33:50.500 everything right.

00:33:52.300 I mean, everything

00:33:52.880 that you can

00:33:53.440 imagine they

00:33:53.960 would do.

00:33:54.660 They're just the

00:33:55.480 wrong tool for

00:33:56.540 the job.

00:33:57.840 You can't ask

00:33:59.140 your elected

00:33:59.880 government in

00:34:01.320 this democratic

00:34:02.240 republic system,

00:34:03.940 you just can't

00:34:05.120 ask them to

00:34:06.940 be a screwdriver

00:34:08.280 when you need

00:34:10.060 a hammer.

00:34:10.980 It's just the

00:34:11.840 wrong tool.

00:34:13.000 But who can

00:34:13.760 you ask?

00:34:14.200 You can ask

00:34:14.660 the public.

00:34:15.860 You can ask

00:34:16.740 the public,

00:34:18.040 what do you

00:34:18.500 want to do?

00:34:19.740 And then the

00:34:20.280 public, because

00:34:21.460 we are capable,

00:34:23.340 will actually

00:34:24.040 decide.

00:34:25.280 Now, it may

00:34:25.960 not look like

00:34:26.720 a vote with

00:34:27.900 a majority or

00:34:29.040 anything like

00:34:29.480 that, but the

00:34:30.740 public is going

00:34:31.460 to start taking

00:34:32.420 things into

00:34:33.740 its own hands.

00:34:35.600 In other words,

00:34:36.400 there is some

00:34:37.060 point, and you're

00:34:38.160 starting to see

00:34:38.820 the first

00:34:39.580 suggestions of

00:34:40.980 it, there is

00:34:41.960 a point at

00:34:42.600 which the

00:34:43.780 public will

00:34:44.420 simply say,

00:34:45.980 government, I

00:34:47.400 gave you every

00:34:48.120 chance, government.

00:34:49.820 I gave you

00:34:50.760 every chance, and

00:34:52.220 I even allowed

00:34:53.020 you moral

00:34:53.860 authority.

00:34:55.140 Because in

00:34:56.080 the initial

00:34:57.060 stages, it

00:34:57.860 appeared to

00:34:58.460 us, us the

00:34:59.960 public, that

00:35:01.460 you were

00:35:01.760 capable.

00:35:02.960 And in fact,

00:35:03.980 the government

00:35:04.580 did many things.

00:35:05.520 I just gave

00:35:06.600 them high

00:35:07.280 grades on a

00:35:07.860 lot of them,

00:35:08.640 that were very

00:35:09.160 capable.

00:35:10.100 In fact, nothing

00:35:11.540 short of

00:35:12.120 impressive.

00:35:13.300 Amazing, really.

00:35:14.720 In some

00:35:15.460 aspects, what

00:35:16.860 the governments

00:35:17.460 did, just

00:35:19.220 amazing.

00:35:20.560 But they

00:35:22.060 are not

00:35:22.640 capable of

00:35:23.780 making the

00:35:24.340 go-back-to-work

00:35:25.140 decision in a

00:35:27.240 way that allows

00:35:28.220 them to keep

00:35:28.660 their jobs,

00:35:29.360 etc.

00:35:30.580 So the public

00:35:31.460 is going to

00:35:31.880 need to do

00:35:32.260 that for them.

00:35:32.940 I've said it

00:35:33.300 before, in a

00:35:34.340 weaker form,

00:35:35.340 now I'm

00:35:35.660 going to say

00:35:35.960 it in a

00:35:36.320 stronger form,

00:35:37.660 you as a

00:35:38.440 citizen of

00:35:39.000 the United

00:35:39.300 States need

00:35:40.460 to help

00:35:41.080 your leaders.

00:35:43.400 You need to

00:35:44.100 help your

00:35:44.540 leaders follow

00:35:45.480 you.

00:35:46.560 Because if

00:35:47.340 you think it's

00:35:48.000 time for the

00:35:48.960 United States

00:35:49.500 to go back

00:35:50.240 to work, and

00:35:51.360 your eyes are

00:35:52.120 wide open, you

00:35:53.460 know that you

00:35:53.940 might die.

00:35:55.300 You know that

00:35:55.820 somebody in

00:35:56.220 your family

00:35:56.700 might die.

00:35:58.660 As the

00:35:59.240 president said

00:35:59.940 tonight on

00:36:00.660 his town

00:36:01.420 hall, which I

00:36:02.020 thought he did

00:36:02.460 quite well, I

00:36:03.360 thought the

00:36:03.660 town hall,

00:36:04.340 was a strong

00:36:05.580 performance for

00:36:06.440 the president.

00:36:09.140 But the

00:36:10.600 president was

00:36:11.180 noting that he

00:36:12.300 knows personally

00:36:13.120 three people,

00:36:14.400 I think he

00:36:15.180 said three who

00:36:15.740 have died from

00:36:16.480 coronavirus, and

00:36:17.800 he said he'd

00:36:18.280 lived his whole

00:36:18.820 life and never

00:36:19.500 heard anybody

00:36:20.200 who died over

00:36:22.100 the regular

00:36:22.600 flu, and I've

00:36:23.520 said the same

00:36:24.040 thing.

00:36:24.620 Like, how can I

00:36:25.180 get to this

00:36:25.620 point in my

00:36:26.060 life?

00:36:26.800 I don't know

00:36:27.260 anybody who

00:36:27.740 died of the

00:36:28.180 flu, but I'm

00:36:29.880 hearing of all

00:36:30.380 these people

00:36:30.780 dying of

00:36:31.220 coronavirus, even

00:36:32.160 in my life,

00:36:33.280 people I'm

00:36:34.000 hearing of

00:36:34.760 them dying

00:36:35.140 of it.

00:36:36.300 So the

00:36:37.660 president made

00:36:39.240 that point, and

00:36:40.340 I thought it

00:36:40.880 was a good

00:36:41.200 one.

00:36:41.440 Anyway, the

00:36:44.700 public does

00:36:45.740 get to decide

00:36:46.760 this one.

00:36:47.580 You need to

00:36:48.500 get to, the

00:36:50.240 public needs to

00:36:50.900 get to the

00:36:51.300 point where

00:36:52.600 it's driving

00:36:53.440 the car.

00:36:54.820 We're not

00:36:55.380 quite there,

00:36:56.100 because I

00:36:56.440 don't think the

00:36:56.860 public knows

00:36:57.620 that it's

00:36:59.000 gaining moral

00:36:59.820 authority by

00:37:00.920 the, let's

00:37:02.320 say, imperfect

00:37:04.220 actions of

00:37:05.020 its government.

00:37:06.080 And I

00:37:06.440 think where

00:37:06.760 the governments

00:37:07.220 lose their

00:37:07.840 moral authority

00:37:08.560 is in all

00:37:09.040 these gray

00:37:09.580 areas.

00:37:10.720 It's sort

00:37:11.340 of a gray

00:37:11.800 area, isn't

00:37:12.380 it, whether

00:37:12.940 you can go

00:37:13.420 to the beach

00:37:13.980 or go to

00:37:14.940 the park or

00:37:16.580 go to a

00:37:17.320 drive-in

00:37:18.360 church service

00:37:20.860 or something.

00:37:22.060 I mean, you

00:37:22.600 could say those

00:37:23.260 are gray areas,

00:37:24.040 but not really.

00:37:25.180 I think those

00:37:25.920 have to default

00:37:27.600 toward freedom.

00:37:29.080 Now that I've

00:37:29.900 said that, let

00:37:31.000 me tell you the

00:37:31.720 worst argument

00:37:32.440 I'm hearing for

00:37:34.180 why we should

00:37:35.020 be allowed to

00:37:36.080 go back and

00:37:36.840 do everything

00:37:37.260 we want.

00:37:39.100 And that's the

00:37:39.780 argument for

00:37:40.380 freedom.

00:37:42.180 It's really a

00:37:43.380 bad argument.

00:37:45.660 Freedom is the

00:37:46.740 worst argument.

00:37:48.460 I'm saying it

00:37:49.280 this way to get

00:37:49.860 you all worked

00:37:50.400 up before I

00:37:51.340 tell you what

00:37:52.260 I mean.

00:37:53.400 Yep, everybody

00:37:54.180 was saying that

00:37:54.840 we should go

00:37:56.580 back to work.

00:37:57.600 The government

00:37:58.040 shouldn't stop

00:37:58.820 us.

00:37:59.140 It's our

00:37:59.400 constitutional

00:37:59.980 right.

00:38:00.860 And it's

00:38:01.180 about freedom.

00:38:02.500 That is the

00:38:03.260 worst argument.

00:38:05.780 And again, I

00:38:06.760 want to go back

00:38:07.320 to work too,

00:38:09.120 but safely.

00:38:09.960 I say that

00:38:10.760 because I'm

00:38:11.580 mocking people

00:38:12.160 who say, but

00:38:13.080 safely.

00:38:13.740 Like there's

00:38:14.340 anybody who

00:38:14.780 doesn't want to

00:38:15.240 go back safely.

00:38:16.480 Is anybody on

00:38:17.380 the other side?

00:38:18.600 Have you heard

00:38:19.040 anybody say, I'd

00:38:19.720 like to go back

00:38:20.280 to work, but if

00:38:21.880 we could find an

00:38:22.780 unsafe way to do

00:38:24.040 that, I think

00:38:25.000 I'd choose that.

00:38:26.260 No.

00:38:27.280 We all want to

00:38:28.020 go back to

00:38:28.540 work.

00:38:28.840 We all want to

00:38:29.380 do it safely.

00:38:30.580 Maybe we could

00:38:31.200 just stop saying

00:38:32.040 it.

00:38:32.860 We don't need to

00:38:33.760 say it anymore.

00:38:34.980 We've all said

00:38:35.800 it.

00:38:36.520 Let's get back

00:38:37.060 to work.

00:38:37.800 Anyway, freedom

00:38:38.880 is the worst

00:38:39.580 argument, and

00:38:40.260 here is my

00:38:40.960 argument.

00:38:41.920 Why?

00:38:43.880 Because both

00:38:44.640 sides are

00:38:45.920 fighting for

00:38:46.460 freedom.

00:38:47.980 Who in the

00:38:48.680 world believes

00:38:50.620 that the only

00:38:51.320 people who want

00:38:51.940 the freedom are

00:38:52.720 the people

00:38:53.100 marching?

00:38:53.480 do you think

00:38:54.660 that the

00:38:55.180 governor doesn't

00:38:55.900 want freedom?

00:38:57.760 Really?

00:38:58.760 Do you think

00:38:59.360 that all the

00:38:59.960 people who

00:39:00.520 think, well,

00:39:01.060 maybe we should

00:39:01.760 stay inside for

00:39:02.680 another month,

00:39:03.880 you don't think

00:39:04.580 those people want

00:39:05.200 freedom?

00:39:07.160 In what world

00:39:07.980 is there only one

00:39:08.820 side that wants

00:39:09.460 freedom?

00:39:10.800 Can you at least

00:39:11.820 admit that that's

00:39:13.200 the wrong frame?

00:39:14.360 It's not the

00:39:14.880 freedom lovers

00:39:15.540 versus the people

00:39:16.360 who hate freedom. 1.00

00:39:17.520 That's the dumbest 1.00

00:39:18.520 thing you could 1.00

00:39:19.320 ever think about

00:39:19.960 this.

00:39:20.920 What it is, is

00:39:22.180 the people who

00:39:22.860 think the best

00:39:23.700 way to get to

00:39:24.240 freedom is to

00:39:25.720 just let us have

00:39:26.460 it, let us go do

00:39:27.540 our thing and

00:39:28.140 suffer the

00:39:28.640 consequences.

00:39:30.160 That's one version

00:39:31.000 of freedom.

00:39:32.080 And the other

00:39:32.440 people say, it's

00:39:33.840 going to be a lot

00:39:34.640 better freedom,

00:39:35.820 like a real

00:39:36.500 freedom, if we

00:39:37.380 beat this thing

00:39:38.180 with a little bit

00:39:38.940 of stick-to-it-ness

00:39:40.500 now.

00:39:41.420 Now, that might

00:39:41.960 be right.

00:39:43.140 It might be

00:39:43.680 wrong.

00:39:44.480 I personally am

00:39:45.560 a little bit more

00:39:46.540 aligned with the

00:39:47.300 let's-get-going

00:39:48.000 crowd, at least

00:39:49.040 the young people.

00:39:49.960 For God's

00:39:50.820 sakes, let the 0.56

00:39:51.820 young people go 1.00

00:39:52.480 back to work.

00:39:53.360 That's just

00:39:53.800 crazy.

00:39:54.880 I don't know 0.77

00:39:55.720 what.

00:39:56.440 I've never heard

00:39:57.200 one argument for

00:39:58.680 why the young 0.81

00:39:59.220 people can't go

00:39:59.840 to work.

00:40:02.940 And I think

00:40:03.680 that has to do

00:40:04.180 with the

00:40:04.440 government being

00:40:05.080 the wrong

00:40:05.520 instrument as

00:40:06.260 well.

00:40:06.700 Because I don't

00:40:07.360 think the

00:40:07.720 government can

00:40:08.320 discriminate by

00:40:09.140 age or health

00:40:11.580 ability.

00:40:13.280 So that's another

00:40:13.920 reason the

00:40:14.460 government can't

00:40:15.040 make the decision.

00:40:15.820 We have to push

00:40:17.000 them for it.

00:40:17.500 Anyway, the freedom

00:40:19.040 argument is 0.81

00:40:19.580 ridiculous because 0.86

00:40:20.420 everybody wants 0.99

00:40:21.080 freedom.

00:40:21.600 They're only

00:40:21.920 talking about

00:40:22.500 different ways to

00:40:23.260 get there.

00:40:24.460 And the other

00:40:25.400 reason it's 0.84

00:40:25.920 ridiculous is that 0.94

00:40:26.820 you live in a 0.99

00:40:27.560 thing called

00:40:28.000 civilization.

00:40:30.460 Civilization exists 0.99

00:40:31.700 almost entirely to

00:40:33.100 rob you of your

00:40:33.900 freedom.

00:40:35.520 Can you drive your

00:40:37.140 car on any side of

00:40:38.580 the road you want?

00:40:40.180 No.

00:40:41.120 Can you drive on

00:40:42.920 any side of the

00:40:43.540 road you want

00:40:44.100 without a license?

00:40:46.020 when you're 10

00:40:48.260 years old with

00:40:50.180 no insurance?

00:40:52.140 No.

00:40:53.520 Civilization is 0.89

00:40:54.400 nothing but

00:40:55.260 winnowing down

00:40:57.440 your rights into

00:40:58.220 this little generic

00:40:59.360 group that won't

00:41:00.260 kill anybody. 0.73

00:41:01.440 That's all we do 1.00

00:41:02.340 is take away

00:41:02.960 rights.

00:41:04.040 You don't have

00:41:04.760 many rights at

00:41:05.620 all.

00:41:06.440 If you were to

00:41:07.060 consider all the

00:41:07.820 things that a

00:41:08.380 person could do,

00:41:09.980 you can't move

00:41:10.940 into your neighbor's

00:41:11.900 spare bedroom,

00:41:13.020 you can't hit

00:41:15.060 people, you can't

00:41:16.360 say certain things

00:41:17.400 about them.

00:41:18.700 I mean, if you

00:41:21.160 look at it as a

00:41:21.800 percentage of all

00:41:22.760 the things that

00:41:23.380 could be done, the

00:41:25.360 things that you're

00:41:26.020 free to do is

00:41:27.040 almost vanishingly

00:41:28.120 small.

00:41:29.240 And I would argue

00:41:30.300 that we're basically

00:41:31.560 okay with that.

00:41:33.180 Because I don't

00:41:33.940 hear a lot of

00:41:34.400 people saying,

00:41:35.540 Scott, I want my

00:41:36.800 freedom to drive on

00:41:38.060 the other side of

00:41:38.700 the road.

00:41:39.420 I know it's

00:41:40.040 dangerous.

00:41:40.920 I know it's

00:41:41.400 dangerous.

00:41:42.240 But freedom.

00:41:43.340 Freedom!

00:41:44.900 No.

00:41:46.060 Nobody argues

00:41:46.880 that.

00:41:47.600 Because it simply

00:41:48.560 just sort of works

00:41:49.420 better if we drive

00:41:51.120 on the correct side

00:41:51.980 of the road and

00:41:52.780 don't run into

00:41:53.340 each other.

00:41:54.280 This coronavirus

00:41:55.120 thing is temporary

00:41:57.040 by its nature.

00:41:59.360 Are we going to 1.00

00:41:59.960 be so dumb that 1.00

00:42:00.780 we'll make 1.00

00:42:01.220 permanent changes 0.99

00:42:02.120 that we're dumb 0.99

00:42:03.280 ones? 0.99

00:42:03.660 Well, maybe a

00:42:04.400 little, but we'll

00:42:05.080 fix it.

00:42:06.660 Are you concerned

00:42:07.780 that the Democrats

00:42:09.220 are going to take

00:42:10.020 advantage of the

00:42:10.660 crisis and get

00:42:12.560 their universal

00:42:13.520 health care or

00:42:14.260 whatever?

00:42:14.840 Well, they might.

00:42:16.020 But taking

00:42:16.560 advantage of a

00:42:18.100 crisis is what

00:42:18.880 everybody's doing.

00:42:20.520 You know?

00:42:21.240 The people who

00:42:21.900 are making money.

00:42:24.360 I just saw the

00:42:25.140 line at the

00:42:25.920 bicycle shop.

00:42:27.420 My local bicycle

00:42:28.300 shop, because

00:42:29.020 bicycles are

00:42:29.860 essential.

00:42:31.080 They're transportation.

00:42:32.300 It's got a line

00:42:33.180 around the corner.

00:42:34.120 They'll probably

00:42:34.420 have the best

00:42:34.940 year ever because

00:42:35.940 they're a bicycle

00:42:36.680 shop.

00:42:37.060 So, you know,

00:42:39.040 some people are

00:42:39.680 doing great.

00:42:40.800 I don't even

00:42:41.340 know why I

00:42:41.660 brought that

00:42:42.020 up.

00:42:44.100 Where has

00:42:44.840 Scott been the

00:42:45.680 last 50 years?

00:42:47.760 Don't know what

00:42:48.440 you're talking

00:42:48.840 about.

00:42:52.580 So let me give

00:42:53.420 you the better

00:42:53.960 argument for going

00:42:54.800 back to work.

00:42:55.480 Freedom is a

00:42:56.720 intellectually empty

00:42:58.120 argument.

00:42:59.080 It is, however,

00:43:00.520 a persuasive

00:43:01.660 emotional argument.

00:43:03.500 So, when I

00:43:05.120 watch the

00:43:05.600 protesters, and

00:43:07.060 I see them, I

00:43:07.840 have to admit,

00:43:08.760 when I see them

00:43:09.420 with their flags

00:43:10.160 and with their

00:43:10.940 rifles, I kind

00:43:14.160 of like it.

00:43:15.120 I kind of like

00:43:15.760 it.

00:43:16.760 I'm not going

00:43:17.520 to lie.

00:43:18.400 I love watching

00:43:20.260 these patriots

00:43:21.480 come demonstrate

00:43:23.600 for freedom.

00:43:25.200 I love that they

00:43:26.000 bring their legal

00:43:26.860 firearms.

00:43:28.020 I love that the

00:43:28.900 more Trump

00:43:29.720 supporters there

00:43:30.460 are with guns,

00:43:31.700 the lower the

00:43:32.540 level of violence

00:43:33.260 is.

00:43:34.500 And it works

00:43:35.220 every time.

00:43:36.560 I'm probably

00:43:37.240 jinxing myself,

00:43:38.700 but I love the

00:43:39.640 fact that the

00:43:40.620 people who

00:43:40.960 actually know

00:43:41.480 how to use

00:43:41.980 firearms, and

00:43:42.920 they go to the

00:43:43.940 gun range, and

00:43:44.820 they take it

00:43:45.260 seriously, you

00:43:46.520 could pack the

00:43:48.900 protest with

00:43:50.280 those people, and

00:43:52.040 it just gets

00:43:52.540 safer.

00:43:53.920 Every gun you

00:43:55.200 add just makes

00:43:55.840 it safer, because

00:43:56.940 those are the

00:43:57.420 kinds of people

00:43:58.260 there.

00:43:59.260 So, do I love

00:44:00.860 those people?

00:44:01.400 Yeah, I do.

00:44:03.060 I kind of do.

00:44:03.900 I kind of love

00:44:04.420 those people.

00:44:05.220 I love their

00:44:06.000 protest.

00:44:07.060 I love their

00:44:07.720 American flags.

00:44:08.800 I love their

00:44:09.220 patriotism.

00:44:10.180 I love their

00:44:10.580 love of freedom.

00:44:12.000 I love their

00:44:12.560 guns.

00:44:13.880 I don't mind

00:44:14.880 saying so.

00:44:17.400 But, that's

00:44:19.080 emotional.

00:44:21.160 That's a purely

00:44:22.200 emotional reaction,

00:44:23.380 which I think most

00:44:24.060 of you share,

00:44:24.680 right?

00:44:25.600 Don't you kind of

00:44:26.600 love it when you

00:44:27.180 see them protest?

00:44:27.820 protest, even if

00:44:29.040 you think maybe

00:44:29.680 they shouldn't,

00:44:30.820 even if you wish

00:44:31.700 they wore their

00:44:32.340 masks, don't you

00:44:33.800 still just

00:44:34.600 emotionally, don't

00:44:36.320 you kind of love

00:44:36.860 it?

00:44:37.360 You do.

00:44:38.160 Right, admit it,

00:44:38.740 you do.

00:44:39.660 But that's

00:44:40.240 emotional.

00:44:41.320 Intellectually,

00:44:42.480 the reason to go

00:44:45.320 back to work is

00:44:46.600 that there's a

00:44:47.120 crossover point, and

00:44:48.800 nobody knows where

00:44:49.580 it is.

00:44:50.980 Nobody knows the

00:44:51.860 exact right time to

00:44:52.820 go back to work.

00:44:53.540 You know, I feel

00:44:54.820 like we're there, at

00:44:56.160 least where I live.

00:44:57.600 You know, your town

00:44:59.080 may be different.

00:45:00.280 But, in my

00:45:02.400 opinion, the best

00:45:04.360 argument for going

00:45:05.200 back to work is

00:45:05.980 that you have to

00:45:06.540 eventually, nobody

00:45:08.100 knows the exact

00:45:08.920 right time, and

00:45:10.800 let's just try it.

00:45:13.300 You know, it's

00:45:13.920 time to try it, for

00:45:15.220 sure.

00:45:15.960 So, I don't think

00:45:16.880 you have to make

00:45:17.460 it, you don't have

00:45:18.160 to say, people die

00:45:20.120 from the bad

00:45:20.860 economy, too.

00:45:21.840 We know, we

00:45:22.860 know.

00:45:23.540 We know a bad

00:45:24.900 economy kills you.

00:45:26.280 We have to go

00:45:26.840 back, but we have

00:45:27.960 to do it safely.

00:45:28.920 We know.

00:45:29.760 We know.

00:45:31.080 We know.

00:45:32.900 We get it.

00:45:35.120 Well, let's just

00:45:35.980 let the people do

00:45:36.780 their thing, right?

00:45:38.280 Let's take the

00:45:39.100 decision away from

00:45:39.980 the politicians.

00:45:41.320 I'm not suggesting

00:45:42.360 civic disobedience.

00:45:46.940 I'm saying that

00:45:48.000 the public has a

00:45:51.540 limit to their

00:45:52.240 patience.

00:45:52.740 and that that

00:45:54.380 limit will be

00:45:55.800 expressed by,

00:45:58.360 let's say, more

00:45:59.180 and more civil

00:45:59.980 disobedience in

00:46:01.080 terms of the

00:46:01.800 guidelines.

00:46:03.180 But I think

00:46:03.880 people are still

00:46:04.540 going to be

00:46:04.940 respectful.

00:46:06.080 Because even

00:46:06.540 people who want

00:46:07.380 to do civil

00:46:08.020 disobedience still

00:46:09.900 have a deep

00:46:10.820 love for their

00:46:11.360 country in most

00:46:12.000 cases.

00:46:12.740 They're still

00:46:13.160 going to wear

00:46:13.460 their masks

00:46:14.040 because they

00:46:14.660 still love their

00:46:16.780 fellow humans.

00:46:18.400 Some may, some

00:46:19.160 may not.

00:46:19.640 But you get to

00:46:20.780 choose where you

00:46:21.360 go.

00:46:22.080 You do have that

00:46:22.820 freedom.

00:46:25.120 So, that's my

00:46:27.600 advice to you.

00:46:28.580 If you want to

00:46:29.260 persuade, use the

00:46:30.440 freedom argument.

00:46:31.500 But just know it's

00:46:32.780 about emotion.

00:46:34.140 If you want to be

00:46:35.140 intellectually honest

00:46:36.420 about it, say,

00:46:37.700 nobody knows when to

00:46:38.840 go back.

00:46:40.280 But let's try it.

00:46:41.600 See how it works.

00:46:42.940 There's no reason

00:46:43.760 not to send young

00:46:44.500 people back.

00:46:46.000 Hospitals seem to be

00:46:47.200 in good shape.

00:46:48.140 Let's just try it.

00:46:49.600 And I would argue

00:46:50.500 that, you know, if

00:46:52.600 you're looking at

00:46:53.140 the long arc of

00:46:54.300 history, the people

00:46:56.000 who are arguing

00:46:56.600 that we should

00:46:57.280 definitely go back

00:46:58.140 right now versus

00:46:59.720 four weeks from

00:47:00.620 now, I don't know

00:47:03.220 if you were to

00:47:04.060 look at this from

00:47:04.760 outer space, that

00:47:06.420 there's really a

00:47:07.200 difference between

00:47:07.920 now and four weeks

00:47:09.180 from now.

00:47:10.080 There's a big

00:47:10.900 difference in how

00:47:11.520 it feels at the

00:47:12.420 moment.

00:47:13.380 There's a big

00:47:14.040 difference on our

00:47:14.660 stress level.

00:47:15.420 And there's, you

00:47:16.740 know, the clear

00:47:17.600 financial difference.

00:47:19.200 But I think if

00:47:19.800 you're looking at

00:47:20.440 it from, you

00:47:21.380 know, ten years

00:47:22.000 from now, you're

00:47:22.660 going to say, yeah,

00:47:24.080 I think I vaguely

00:47:24.860 remember it was

00:47:25.580 longer than I

00:47:26.240 wanted it to be.

00:47:27.520 I just don't know

00:47:28.380 this will be the

00:47:28.960 thing that makes a

00:47:29.740 difference.

00:47:30.640 So I would go

00:47:32.720 sooner than later.

00:47:34.840 But if, you

00:47:36.440 know, my state

00:47:37.160 were going to

00:47:37.660 lock down until

00:47:38.820 the end of May,

00:47:40.240 and it's not my

00:47:42.660 choice.

00:47:43.740 It's not my

00:47:44.320 choice.

00:47:45.480 But I also

00:47:46.760 don't think in

00:47:47.480 the end that

00:47:49.040 anybody will

00:47:49.620 starve.

00:47:50.800 You know, we'll

00:47:51.120 make sure of

00:47:52.040 that.

00:47:53.220 Nobody's going to

00:47:53.780 let anybody

00:47:54.140 starve.

00:47:55.080 All right.

00:47:57.460 Somebody says,

00:47:58.280 great job,

00:47:58.840 Scott.

00:47:59.100 What is your

00:47:59.540 preferred strain?

00:48:01.300 Well, it

00:48:01.840 depends if it's

00:48:02.520 the morning or

00:48:04.000 the afternoon.

00:48:08.740 Newsom's tweet is

00:48:09.620 totally ratioed.

00:48:10.700 Did Newsom do

00:48:11.340 something that got

00:48:12.040 him in trouble?

00:48:12.480 No.

00:48:14.700 Scott, in that

00:48:15.560 case, why aren't

00:48:16.320 you calling for

00:48:17.020 suspending rent and

00:48:18.160 mortgage payments?

00:48:19.560 You haven't heard me

00:48:20.320 say that?

00:48:21.040 Let me say this as

00:48:21.880 clearly as possible.

00:48:23.240 I don't think anybody

00:48:24.220 should pay rent or

00:48:27.200 mortgage payments

00:48:28.360 during the period of

00:48:30.300 the close down.

00:48:30.880 I think it would be

00:48:32.600 almost immoral to

00:48:35.000 pay your rent or

00:48:36.900 to pay your

00:48:37.720 mortgage.

00:48:38.540 Now, I know

00:48:38.980 there are a

00:48:39.320 million different

00:48:39.920 situations.

00:48:41.480 So there's a

00:48:41.920 big difference

00:48:42.460 between a rich

00:48:43.280 landlord who can

00:48:44.780 absorb it and

00:48:46.560 you know, you're

00:48:47.380 renting from one

00:48:48.340 person whose only

00:48:49.220 income is that you

00:48:50.160 pay the rent.

00:48:51.220 So, yeah, people

00:48:53.560 are going to have

00:48:53.880 to work it out on

00:48:54.600 the individual level.

00:48:55.500 But, given that

00:48:57.220 it's a gigantic

00:48:57.960 problem with a

00:48:58.860 million variables,

00:49:00.040 if you can push

00:49:00.960 that problem onto

00:49:01.880 the banks, that's

00:49:03.440 where you want to

00:49:04.060 push it.

00:49:04.800 Because if you push

00:49:05.520 it to the banks,

00:49:06.320 the banks are

00:49:06.820 literally too big to

00:49:07.780 fail, meaning that

00:49:09.080 the government has

00:49:10.160 to save the banks.

00:49:11.620 It just has to.

00:49:12.220 So, you can just

00:49:13.560 sort of consult, you

00:49:14.720 can take a hundred

00:49:17.660 million individual

00:49:18.860 problems, which is

00:49:20.160 the people who

00:49:20.680 couldn't pay their

00:49:21.280 rent, couldn't pay

00:49:22.400 their mortgage, you

00:49:23.440 can take all a hundred

00:49:24.320 million of them and

00:49:25.740 batch them into sort

00:49:26.700 of one much bigger

00:49:28.240 problem that moves

00:49:30.160 to the banks.

00:49:31.620 Because you don't

00:49:32.660 pay your landlord,

00:49:33.900 and then the

00:49:34.280 landlord can't pay

00:49:35.180 his own mortgage,

00:49:38.200 and then the bank

00:49:39.060 doesn't get their

00:49:39.660 money.

00:49:40.440 But it's easier for

00:49:41.340 the government to

00:49:42.100 bail out the bank

00:49:43.060 if it has to be

00:49:44.220 done.

00:49:45.860 The banks could

00:49:46.860 also probably

00:49:48.720 survive by just

00:49:50.120 saying, just take

00:49:51.560 three months off for

00:49:52.460 a payment, and we'll

00:49:53.780 go back to where we

00:49:54.660 were like it never

00:49:55.680 happened.

00:49:56.900 They probably would

00:49:57.920 be okay, because

00:49:59.240 the only thing that

00:50:00.380 they lost was three

00:50:01.340 months of operating

00:50:02.220 income, and their

00:50:04.720 expenses were probably

00:50:05.640 down at the same

00:50:06.260 time.

00:50:07.040 So, yes, as

00:50:08.380 clearly as I can say

00:50:09.480 it, I'd love to ask

00:50:11.260 an economist for

00:50:12.080 second opinion, but

00:50:13.760 I would love there

00:50:15.740 to be no rent

00:50:16.940 and no mortgage

00:50:18.300 payments for these

00:50:19.760 periods.

00:50:20.540 Now, maybe you

00:50:21.340 could adjust it for

00:50:22.680 only people who

00:50:23.560 lost their jobs.

00:50:24.920 That would be

00:50:25.720 fair, right?

00:50:26.840 I would say that

00:50:27.880 unless you lost

00:50:28.720 your job, you

00:50:30.840 should still pay

00:50:31.560 your rent.

00:50:32.500 If you still have

00:50:33.300 a salary, you

00:50:35.420 should still pay

00:50:36.020 your rent.

00:50:36.940 So I'm really only

00:50:37.680 talking about the

00:50:38.340 unemployment.

00:50:38.620 point.

00:50:39.640 All right, or

00:50:40.340 the people got

00:50:41.340 just whacked by

00:50:42.840 the, by it.

00:50:45.100 Do I have a

00:50:45.840 mortgage?

00:50:46.240 I do not.

00:50:51.480 Deflation will be a

00:50:52.520 big problem going

00:50:53.240 forward.

00:50:54.380 Maybe.

00:50:55.340 Could be.

00:50:57.720 Nephew in Michigan

00:50:58.580 says everyone is out

00:50:59.600 doing normal,

00:51:00.360 running around.

00:51:01.400 Normal in the sense

00:51:02.380 of using stores?

00:51:03.240 Because even if I

00:51:05.760 wanted to go,

00:51:06.920 even if I wanted to

00:51:09.800 go to a store,

00:51:10.440 most of them are

00:51:10.960 closed.

00:51:15.280 Renters will never 1.00

00:51:16.140 pay back rent,

00:51:17.360 but owners will

00:51:18.140 always have to pay

00:51:19.140 principal, but they

00:51:20.700 won't always have to

00:51:21.580 necessarily pay it on

00:51:22.860 the same schedule.

00:51:25.160 Could be pushed

00:51:25.880 out.

00:51:30.420 Ah, yes.

00:51:31.260 Okay, yes.

00:51:31.700 I meant to limit my

00:51:32.840 answer to the

00:51:33.720 unemployed or

00:51:34.580 financially strapped.

00:51:36.220 I should have said

00:51:36.780 that off, right off

00:51:37.960 the bat.

00:51:41.760 Do I normally buy my

00:51:43.120 own groceries?

00:51:43.880 Today was the first

00:51:44.620 day since the, the

00:51:46.220 virus.

00:51:47.160 So I, I told myself

00:51:48.580 that on May 1st, I

00:51:49.760 was going to

00:51:50.320 personally start

00:51:52.480 making my own

00:51:53.400 decisions about what

00:51:55.260 I'm doing.

00:51:55.660 so if a store were

00:51:58.280 open, I would go to

00:51:59.600 it, but there's not

00:52:00.400 much open, so I

00:52:01.780 have, there's very

00:52:02.380 little that I can do

00:52:03.480 individually that I'm

00:52:05.760 not ever doing.

00:52:06.980 I mean, I'll be as

00:52:07.960 careful as I can.

00:52:11.400 All right.

00:52:13.540 Somebody says,

00:52:14.420 70,000 Americans are

00:52:15.800 dead, Scott.

00:52:17.740 You're saying that

00:52:18.640 like there's a point

00:52:19.740 to it that is not

00:52:21.420 entirely obvious.

00:52:25.080 Well, Snickers

00:52:27.180 must think.

00:52:30.300 That's my intruder.

00:52:31.600 That's her intruder

00:52:32.480 bark.

00:52:33.820 Can you hear it?

00:52:37.380 Snickers is very

00:52:38.280 upset about something.

00:52:40.000 Do you want to see

00:52:40.540 what it is?

00:52:41.640 You want to go with

00:52:42.240 me?

00:52:42.480 Might be an intruder.

00:52:44.240 You, you might, you

00:52:45.580 might see me get 1.00

00:52:46.280 killed on camera. 0.98

00:52:49.320 That's quite a bark.

00:52:50.540 She doesn't do that. 1.00

00:52:51.300 Unless there's

00:52:51.700 something really bad.

00:52:53.420 All right.

00:52:53.660 Well, if you don't

00:52:54.200 hear from me in the

00:52:54.900 morning, the intruder

00:52:56.780 got me.

00:52:57.580 I better go see what

00:52:58.360 that's about.

00:52:59.320 And I will see you

00:52:59.860 in the morning.

00:53:01.180 Bye for now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 04, 2020

Episode 953 Scott Adams： I Score President Trump's Coronavirus Performance, 4th Branch of Government, Solve Some Hoaxes and More

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