Episode 1085 Scott Adams - Trump's Presser, Biden Goes Full Gopher, Antifa Costume Play, CNN Helps

well hello to all of you dog pony soldiers too it's good that we dog-faced pony soldiers could all come together and today could be an amazing amazing coffee with scott adams why well no reason it's just going to be really good and if you'd like to enjoy it to its fullest let me recommend that what you need is a copper micro glass attacker challenger stein a canteen jugger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better including shadow banning sip go ah the simultaneous sip does get better every time first time i told you that you thought oh scott it can't get better every time i mean sooner or later you're going to have one that's subpar but no never happens one time after another the simultaneous sip crushes it well um the biggest news uh and i don't know how many of you had this on your predict it but uh it seems that the candidate for the libertarian party was bitten by a possibly rabid bat and and why wouldn't she be because it's 20 20.

in 2020 if the simulation isn't going to serve you up a major candidate for president who was bit by a maybe rabid bat well then the simulation is not trying and i think it's trying this year oh is it trying we've had more news this year than well all the other years put together multiplied by three let's talk about some of that news today the headlines on fox news are all a bunch of fake news so fox has gone full fake news on the bill clinton um epstein island stuff and here's what i mean by fake news do i know if bill clinton was ever on the island i do not do i know that it wasn't on the island i do not but what i do know is that the person who the and as far as i can tell the only evidence they use on the on the island is from what i'd call an unreliable witness the same person who accuses um who accuses dershowitz of being there and dershowitz has pointed out that her credibility is whatever is less than zero so if you here's my problem with fox news on their coverage what they're covering is true what they're leaving out is almost criminal what they're leaving out is that the one accuser who saw bill clinton on that island has no credibility none and there's a background for that ellen dershowitz does it i think the key reason that you should be aware of is that i think she also accused al gore of being there and i believe that there is a body of records proving that he was not there in the times that she said he was so if caught in one lie that is identical to the type of lie well the type of accusation that's a zero credibility situation that's not a well she got one wrong before but that doesn't mean she's wrong about everything else no it's a zero it's a zero credibility which doesn't mean it didn't happen remember we live in a anything's possible world where candidates for president can be re bitten by a possibly rabid bat so nothing's off the table i'm just saying that if you run this story without very prominently saying the only evidence it has zero credibility that's just fake news so if you think your fake news is only coming to you from the left there's a prime example of fox news faking it up for you and again the news is accurate but leaving out that context just turns it into fake news in my opinion so here's a story that should worry the hell on you so one of my followers and might be on this periscope right now d d texas grandma 65 grandma spelled gma noted that she was following me but then somehow got unfollowed so automatically unfollowed so this prompted me to circle back to a story that i'd been talking about maybe a year ago i can't remember in which i noticed that i had been unfollowed from ambassador grinnell richard grinnell now i don't know what title you would give him ex-ambassador or do you still call them ambassadors after they're not ambassadors i don't know what the rule on titles is but you know what i'm talking about he was he was acting out of the dni for a while but i had been unfollowed from him i think twice and so a year ago i'd asked if other people had been unfollowed and turns out there wasn't a massive number of people in the comments said oh yeah i just checked i was totally at following him and now i'm not so i decided to recheck that so a year has gone by just to see if it's still happening and sure enough i don't know i don't know if it's like a new wave of unfollows or if it's still some trickle from the past but once again my comments were filled with people who said what the i was following but now i'm not and now i had to follow him back again and so i thought i would just test one more account just to see if i could guess somebody who is likely to have the same situation and the criteria i used was okay what is it about ambassador and or richard grinnell again i don't know i don't know how the titles work for ambassador but let's say he's always an ambassador if he ever was one let's let's go with that standard um so i thought you know what does he have in common or what is there about him that would make him a target for this and the obvious answer is that he's a unusually good public spokes spokesperson supporting president trump and i thought all right well i'll pick somebody else who is in that category of an unusually good communicator in favor of president trump so i did a second tweet this morning asking people how many had been unfollowed from back gates so congressman gates and turns out a lot a lot now keep in mind the people who are answering are just the people who see my twitter feed and also followed back gates and also saw that tweet and also checked you know and also thought to put a comment about it so if i can turn up that many people in 60 seconds who can who say oh yeah that happened to me is it possible they're all imagining that i mean it is possible by the way it is possible it is completely within the realm of possibility that we're all imagining it but i don't think so i don't think so it would be quite shocking if it were the case but actually you can't rule it out i'm going to give you another hypothesis which i also do not rule out but i think it could be ruled out pretty quickly if i just ask people on twitter and it goes like this at least one person has had the following experience on an android device and the claim is this that there's something about the app running on an android device and i don't know if it's every android device every release i don't know if it's the app or if they're using the browser to get to it so there's a lot i don't know but the claim is this and you've had this experience have you ever had the experience where you're in some kind of an app it doesn't have to be twitter and you go to click something and just before you click it the screen moves and you click the wrong thing how many times does that happen probably a lot right you your finger is moving in to press a button and then the screen scrolls and you press the wrong button you're like ah wrong button i deleted a couple of messages yesterday by wrong finger in them anyway so there's a belief or let none not a belief a hypothesis there's a hypothesis that there might be one one interface situation where people are automatically unfollowing who do not mean to do so but how likely is that i don't think any of that explains it to me it looks like the a hypothesis has to be that there is some way that somebody is influencing twitter could be somebody from the outside doesn't have to be an insider it could be somebody from the outside but something's happening clearly we don't know if it's third party apps because that's my other hypothesis when you sign up for some third-party apps say tick doc just to pick a random example i'll just randomly pick tick tock let's say you had the tick tock app and you wanted to sometimes share your tick tocks on twitter well i believe it asks you if if tick tock can have control of your twitter account yeah think about that that gives the chinese government control i think i would need a fact check on this but if you have tick tock and twitter both apps on your phone and you've told tick tock you can manage your twitter some of your twitter actions could the chinese government through tick tock cause you to unfollow ambassador grinnell could it i think yes but i would need some kind of a fact check on that all right um yesterday twitter purged a bunch bunch of accounts you saw a lot of people complaining hey my my number of followers went down i don't think i'd worry about any of that yet because there's no evidence to suggest that's anything but maintenance yeah it's probably just getting rid of bots probably uh just maybe cleaning out some uh you know dormant accounts that sort of thing so i lost just in case you want to know if it was just you i think i lost it's hard to know because i'm adding people at the same time they're subtracting people but if i were to baseline it fewer than a thousand users maybe out of half a million so well it wasn't a big percentage and i think you would be better off if they call the herd once in a while anyway as long as they're doing it for the right reasons so i wouldn't worry about any of that yet did all of you see the press conference that the president did yesterday which was more like a monologue and a lot less like a press conference so of course most of the i think most of the networks probably didn't cover it because they like the question part where they can try to embarrass the president they don't like the monologue part where he just talks about his accomplishments but i gotta say uh that was one of the strongest press conferences that i've seen and again i'm not sure if you want to call it a press conference it was more like a monologue but the monologue part was extraordinarily good and it was extraordinarily good for a number of reasons one was his his tone and presentation it was uh i would call it serious and powerful you know with sort of some joking at the end which was extra good but when he was talking about his accomplishments you know he would say stuff like you know we we've done x and i'd say wow that's pretty good you know that's pretty good thing to stick in there and then he'd say another accomplishment and i think that's two and those are both pretty good pretty strong and then there'd be another one and they were they all seemed to have a flavor to them of strength right when you talked about the tennessee valley authority which frankly most of us maybe none of us really understand what the hell that is but it's some kind of a quasi-public private government situation i don't know i was too bored to look into it but when the president said you know we have some problems with their leadership i fired the chairman of the board i thought to myself that's pretty good that's pretty good what would you love to see more than the president firing somebody who had it coming according you know allegedly it's a real strong move so i don't know if the you know the details of the situation but in terms of the press conference leading off with a strong manager move of this guy wasn't doing it right and so i fired the chairman of the board and i'm going to keep firing all the board members because i guess that was the power that the government has i'm going to keep firing board members until they change the situation and then apparently he got what he wanted which was also strong because i think the problem was they were firing americans who were higher paid to replace them with lower paid employees from other countries and then asking the americans who are being fired to train their lower cost replacements now if your president isn't willing to fire people over that you need a new president because if you're the jobs president and the you know america first president that is a really strong play so just the optics of it and i would say the competence of it because it just looks like oh shoot that's exactly what you need you need somebody who's going to fire those guys until they stop this and there's a list of other things i forget the details but every one of them was wrong and then he ended with a joke at the end i'll give i think this is maybe maybe i don't know why if you would agree but maybe the strongest public appearance he's ever made i i don't think i've ever seen better than that you know i we like the rallies and the fun and the controversial ones but when he turns off the controversy and and at the press conference he just turned off the controversy in my opinion you know relative to any trump uh situation but when he turns it off and he just goes i'm doing the job for you it's really strong but we do like the provocation as well now here's the funniest thing he did one of his executive orders was is going to be he just announced it but hasn't done it an executive order to uh require that pre-existing conditions are covered by insurance now how did the press cover that now you are aware that the president is often accused of being the guy who's going to take that right away the right to be covered even if you have pre-existing conditions is it wasn't that one of the biggest the biggest claims against this president is that that he was the one who would be behind taking away your pre-existing coverage rights and then the way that the press covered it when he says i'll do an executive order which is a really public thing i mean basically you would you would be roasted if you made such a direct executive order made a public deal about not taking away existing uh you know what i said the coverage for existing conditions and how did the news cover it the news covered it as it was stupid because that's already the law under obama's past work now do you feel like that's the right context to cover this to say that uh it's a it's an unnecessary executive order because it's already the law now here's the beauty part because it was wrong but it's that little bit of wrong part yes it is true that you don't need an executive order for something that's already the law of the land so in that sense it's sort of wrong which is what causes cnn to cover it and then while they're covering it they have guaranteed that their audience hears this message under a trump administration you're really really protected on your uh on your earlier conditions so trump managed to do something that didn't make sense an executive order for something that's already the law of land at least it doesn't make sense from a cnn world view i actually think it makes complete sense but that little bit of wrongness made them boost his signal perfectly this could not have worked out better for the president if you are ever going to be criticized let's hope it's this way how about this you're running for president and you say not only am i in favor of peace but i'm gonna pass a resolution saying that i'm peaceful and then the news says you idiot you don't need a resolution to say how peaceful you are because you're already being peaceful well if the message you wanted for the public is hey i'm the peaceful candidate that's how you get there so i thought that was a fairly brilliant move by the president to add an executive order that is unnecessary but absolutely persuasive because i don't think anybody is going to walk away from that thinking oh he's going to do an executive order and then do exactly the opposite if he gets reelected it doesn't feel like that's even slightly possible this is clearly why he wants he wants these conditions to be covered that could not be any more clear all right uh according to rasmussen i said this before but it's blowing my mind 30 36 of black likely voters approve of the president's job performance at the moment 36 if that number is anywhere close to true the election's over now i think the election's over anyway i don't think biden actually has any real chance and anybody pretending he does at this point you have to sort of check yourself at this point this isn't a real election unless they substitute somebody in who might have a chance this is going to be a stroll to re-election this is not a sprint the president could stop for a smoke break and still get elected president the the glide path for the president is pretty clear at this point just show up do the kind of work he did at the the press conference yesterday which was outstanding message wise and and tone wise and everything else and i think he's there but here's a question we must ask ourselves why is there such a delay in the vice president pick now obviously some of the delay might be because it's a weekend and they would wait for something like a tuesday or a monday to control the weekly news cycle so it could be just you know it takes a while to get things done could be took longer than they thought possible but i think all the smart people are saying it looks like they might be delaying because they've got a problem knowing who should be at the top of the ticket if you know what i mean and you don't want to waste your best candidate in the second place if that's the one you think should have been in the first place so you can see where they're jockeying saying to themselves well maybe it's not kamala harris for the vp role and by the way if biden announces it's not kabul harris i think you're going to have to start seeing kamala harris as maybe the replacement for the top spot that might be a signal but could also be a signal not of course could go either way but i would certainly my antenna antennae would go up and say what what why are you holding kamala harris out uh available for a job if not the vice presidency and why would uh why would black likely voters have such a high approval of trump 36 being at least historically high and i have some hypotheses i've often told you that one of the keys to persuasion is simplicity and another key is repetition build the wall build the wall build the wall if you hear it enough and it's simple and it's unambiguous it just it just becomes part of you after a while there's nothing that you can hear that much without being forced to incorporate it into your worldview and give it a priority that maybe it didn't deserve but think about this have you seen how disciplined trump has been for the past several years when he talks about unemployment he always always leads with what he did for the african-american employment rate now if you're as president the the first thing that comes out of your mouth every time you talk about good employment is what you've done for the black community the first few times you hear this what do you think to yourself well politician right politician pandering right that's a little pandering yeah of course he's going to do a shout out to a group that he wants to get some folks for so that's why you hear the first few times after you've heard it 50 times you start thinking oh i guess that's just a pandering thing he's going to do every time after you hear a thousand times it's just true right so this the tr you've watched the transformation from a pantry kind of thing that any president would say to he has said it so many times so consistently so disciplined and in my opinion quite incredibly like it doesn't look fake or artificial in the least he has transformed that impossible thought into you believe it now right do you believe that the president literally cares that black lives matter in in the context of unemployment especially he cares he cares and the thing that people seem to forget is that the truth the presidency is pretty transparent and you can't do a good job for the country you can't do a good job for yourself unless you've done a good job for the country the only way this president comes out ahead is if he does the work that's the only way it's so transparent there's no scenario in which trump is thinking to himself i think i'll just ride this and milk it and see if i can make some money in my side job as as the uh you know the trump guy i i can't even imagine it there's no way he would be so unaware of his environment i guess that he would not understand that the one and only path he has for the rest of his life his other business interests to do well the one and only path is to do a really good job for the public short of that it just doesn't work you know you can't just leave the job and say well you know don't you love me anyway even though you don't like what i did that's that's not a thing he has to do a good job he has to and he has to do it for you know black americans for you know for everybody um so i think the fact that he always highlights it went from a pantry sounding thing to a well he's got to mean it at this point i mean that's pretty disciplined to say it so often the other thing that doesn't get enough play is that if you're a black voter or just a black citizen do you want open borders no do you want less choice in school that's what the democrats are offering you less choice in school if you're black do you want that no no you don't do you want fewer cops while you live in your high crime neighborhood in too many cases no not most people most people want some good policing they just want it to be better of course we all do um so if you tell yourself that this 36 black approval at the rasmussen gets as an outlier i would say to you could be anything's possible you could have a presidential candidate bitten by a bat that might be rabid maybe not anything's possible but i feel like let me put it a different way i never understood why it wasn't already 36 in my mind if you have you know any appreciation for what uh black voters want out of life and again not treating them as a monolith i don't want to go all joe biden on you but it is true that uh while there are many diverse voices in every group uh you know it is true that the black community one would expect would see the same benefits that you and i see why would it be different and i think the whole cries of racism are disappearing every day that biden does another what did trey gowdy call it he appeared on the five yesterday great appearance on the five and uh and he went through the list of what he called joe biden's racially curious comments which is just the freaking best framing for this because i don't think anybody thinks joe biden is some kind of a racist but if you make enough quote racially curious comments then it starts sounding like a dog whistle doesn't it but because it's biden the people who's who are on the left must be thinking to themselves okay there are a lot of racially curious statements he's made throughout time do they form this pattern because if this were a republican it would be a pattern right but because his biden is it a pattern or is it a coincidence is it confirmation bias is it just one of those things but if it were a republican oh that's this would definitely be a dog whistle situation but now it's fighting i have to think that every time biden makes another racially curious comment that it makes people say uh maybe it's just the way people talk right maybe it's just the way people this age talk and maybe trump is not sending secret you know racist whistles maybe he just talks in a way that's you know less delicate or more offensive and that's all there is to the story because it might be all right uh the babylon bee if you're not following the babylon bee which is like i guess i'd call it like the onion except with a conservative flavor they are really good so if you like your humor on politics in particular do a follow on the babylon bee but here's one of their headlines today so headline from the babylon being a tweet biden tells staffers to pick any black person for a vp since quote they all think the same anyway now if okay just for context this is alleged to be what joe biden thinks that the black community thinks the same so i'm not laughing at the black community i'm laughing at joe biden just to remove any uh any doubt about what that means uh kanye has has published his platform and you could go take a look at it it seems that his platform is highly uh bible compatible so much so that with each thing in his platform he shows you the applicable bible verse that supports it uh some of the things he wants is prayer in school and one of his big planks is fixing the school system so it works for everybody now uh i i'm not really into the prayer in school debate you know i'm not a believer and i don't object to it so you know work it out among yourselves i feel like i could be on the sideline on that one because i don't need the prayer for myself but i but i understand his benefits so just work it out among yourselves whatever you do is fine with me and but here's the part i like kanye's platform is actually the best platform i've ever seen for the black community and i don't know if he'll ever get credit for that but which is the other platform that's focusing on schools as as like a key lever you know kanye covers the other stuff he even says that he would treat america first so kanye actually says explicitly that he's going to negotiate etc and treat america first as the best model to move forward i i think you should read it so just google it or i think mike cernovich tweeted it if you want to find it on his uh twitter feed i think i retweeted him and it's worth reading it's worth reading if you have a few minutes read kanye west's thing uh now i don't know if you saw tucker carlson's um he did uh what do you what would you call it a mo i guess a monologue on kanye west if you didn't see it it's some of tucker's best work like really really good work i'm just talking about the writing you know the writing of that piece in which he went through you know the the kanye situation he talks about how until kanye said he liked the president he wasn't crazy in other words the media treated him as just creative and provocative until he seemed like he was on the other side and then the headlines are that he's crazy now kanye himself cops do some you know mental challenges so i don't think it's you know inaccurate to agree with the person who has a self-assessment but it was very interesting to see that before it didn't matter and now and now they're throwing them under the bus so i would say kanye has the best emphasis on schools so he understands priorities best if you wanted somebody to champion you you should pick somebody who has their priorities right and if kanye had said black lives matter is my primary uh thing you should dismiss him as somebody who doesn't know what's important but instead he talks about education hits the nail on the head of what's important and bringing some kind of a spiritual revival to the united states you could argue would be a good thing i know that those of you are atheists bristle at this but so long as it's not anti-atheist and it's not it's not it's not even slightly anti-atheist i think you might be able to coexist with that the funniest thing in the news is that a t-shirt outfit called teespring t-e-e spring uh banned anti-fog shirts while they look into it now they're acting as if they're gonna look into it so you know maybe it's not permanent but anti-fog got all uh anti-falling all crazy about it because they said hey but you have t-shirts from this or that right-leaning group or extremist group or what else hey why not our shirts and uh here would be my answer to that i think antifa is the only one they mentioned that's literally a domestic terrorist group i i think if you're teespring you can get rid of a domestic terrorist group from your your shirts doesn't feel like a reach to me so i would like to suggest that if they stick with this and they don't bend to the pressure that's no doubt coming to their way that you might consider doing a little shopping at teespring send a little money their way i suggested that if they make a shirt called we cancelled antifa then it might sell a few copies might sell a few now i would not wear a a cancelled anti-fuzz shirt in public because it'd be like wearing a magic shirt maga hat you get your ass beat but i might buy one i might buy it and put it in the closet just to support teespring if they stick with this if they don't stick with it well who cares um as i tweeted this morning i have i've developed this habit that i'm not sure i'm proud of every morning the first thing i do is i get my coffee i sit down on my computer and literally the first thing i do after that is i look at the news usually twitter and it's filled with the video from the night before the highlight clips from the big game in portland now i call it the big game because i don't think it looks like politics anymore i don't think it looks like a social movement even in the least the whatever antifa is is closer to some kind of a role-playing costumed sport and it went to a new level last night maybe recently where apparently antifa has developed their own shield like a plywood shield like like old-timey costume uh role players would have if they were playing nice you know knights of old and then they've got the antifa on there and that they've got their little crew of shield people with their plywood pushing against police and i turn it on and this is not even slightly not even slightly an exaggeration when i watch the clips usually you know in andy noclip for example when i when i look at the clips i look at them like i'm watching sport highlight clips and i'm watching the police beat up antifa and it looks exactly like watching a football game with tackles and you see the highlight reel of look at this spectacular tackle and i'm watching the same sport except it's police also wearing protective gear just like football also trying to control territory in space just like football you got fouls just like football you've got announcers you know with loudspeakers just like football you got play by play you got highlight clips it's a sport now if you tell me that's not a sport watching the two teams with strategy and costumes and meeting at the same field every night if you tell me that's not a sport you're gonna have to define sport a little bit more clearly because it's not politics there's no politics in that it's not crime exactly because if it were they would all be arrested instead of just you know the the bad apples that are doing something specifically so if it's not exactly crime it's certainly nothing like a social protest you know in any way that we can understand it it's a sport and i'm not going to see it any other way now of course those of you who are jerks just said to yourself scott how can you treat this as a sport people are getting killed and the police are being injured why do you call this a sport scott how can you not take this seriously well you're just a jerk because i am complicated enough that i can hold in my mind that it is a super tragedy and it really makes me mad when the police are injured in particular especially with these lasers i think the police should be able to shoot to kill anybody who has a laser even if they're just brandishing it even if you don't see it being used i think the police should be able to shoot to kill now you might disagree and it might be a terrible strategy because it would make the police look like a police state it would not be good for the country but it would be good for the police and i'm going to say that sometimes sometimes the citizens need to support the police it's not just always the other way around right you know you can't you can't be sending your troops out there in the form of the police you can't be sending your troops out there unsupported and if you can't let them shoot a protester who's got a laser in their hand just as if it were a handgun if they can't shoot that guy they ought to have the right so the best i can do is to say if you put me on a truck on a jury i will i will say shot a guy with a deadly weapon i don't need to hear any more evidence if you'd like to present the evidence sure if you need to but i'm not going to listen to it because if police shoot somebody with a one of those lasers at a protest has to be out of protest i'm not even going to listen to the evidence at all innocent boom i'll go right to the verdict in fact i'll stand up in the jury box and say not guilty and then they'll say um sir the trial hasn't started yet and i'll say just try to save time anybody here doesn't want to save some time because there's no freaking way i'm going to vote against a cop who takes out one of these kids with a laser uh blow it take his head right off it's fine with me now it would be bad for your career bad for your life might even be bad for the country but i'd still back you still back you if it happens all right um and and i've often said that you know one of the big complaints from protesters which i think has merit is that the police might treat different ethnicities differently apparently the death rate is not treated differently you know the number of people killed doesn't seem to matter based on your race but probably there's some maybe a little extra abuse not maybe there's certainly extra abuse in black communities obviously it's because they're high crime neighborhoods that's a big part of the story but let's say you just thought that was a problem and you want to reduce the gap well one way would be to have less abuse against black citizens that would be ideal as long as you know everything else works out that's of course what you want but the other way to reduce the gap would be for the police in portland to just beat the out of these protesters with the lasers like once a day just to get the numbers up because the higher we get with the police beating up white antifa protesters with the lasers yeah they have to be doing something bad the more of those we get the closer the gap will be so there may be two problems one is too many black people getting beaten up by the police say the protesters i don't know one way or the other but the other is not enough white people getting beaten up so we could close the gap from both sides if we work at it so let's get some more white people getting beaten up by the police if they're anti-fog people with lasers that would be fine for me all right i asked on twitter a little unscientific poll i said would you hire a job candidate whose social media supported antifa ninety-four percent of you said no that you would not consider a job candidate who had pro-antifa stuff on their website now if i were to ask the same question of people on the left because most of my followers would be trump supporters i would imagine and but if you ask the same question on the left you know would you hire a trump supporter you'd probably get the same answer you you get a pretty good answer so we've we've come to the point where your politics plus your social media make you unhirable by half of the public but here's what i was thinking all i would take is one major company with some serious gonads to announce in public just sort of preemptively i'm just brainstorming here but preemptively announced in public that they would not consider hiring anybody who was associated with antifa can you imagine it imagine a fortune 500 company where their leadership has enough balls to say the obvious which is we just have to tell you it's hard enough getting employees and if you're supporting antifa you can't be on our list because we just can't support that what would that do just one just one fortune 500 company make an announcement we're just putting it out there if you support antifa we're never going to hire you it's it's it's absolutely off the table now the first thing that would happen is it would make it safe for other companies but the other the other thing that's even bigger is that the parents of antifa which you know are supporting them right you know the parents are sort of on board a little bit even if it's only by lack of action it's going to activate the parents because the parents are going to say uh did i just find out that my child can never be gainfully employed by a big company where where the pay is good and the benefits are good and therefore he will never lose leave my basement i think he could move the needle it would just take one big company to make that statement and suddenly parents everywhere would say um hello uh jennifer we'd really like you to have a job someday so maybe you should rethink this whole thing could make a difference all right here is the update on the remember peter navarro name check me on cnn and told cnn they should watch my video on the risk management part of the decision about hydroxychloroquine obviously i don't make medical recommendations but i can break down the argument based on what the experts are telling we naive citizens and based on the information we have which is you know less than what the experts have what do you do so that that's what i did the decision-making part not the medical part i just i just listened to the medical part and so navarro points to that cnn mocks me the daily beast mocks me the hill mocks me but nobody that i've seen if you you can tell me if there's any any uh difference there nobody that i've seen has criticized the video and what i said in it nobody as far as i can tell nobody do you know how infrequent it is for me to put out something that visible and have nobody criticize it no matter what it is it could be a comic could be a book anything you always get low reviews on something there's always somebody who's going to say this is no good right but not this and i don't know if it's because i i don't know if it's because of nobody looked at it because it wasn't linked in some of the articles or if everybody agrees or maybe i just didn't see any criticism it's possible to so another day goes by where that just sits there as the truth and the truth is the least important thing in the world so nobody cares let me correct for many of you a big misconception that you have and i'm watching some people on uh twitter who are making this analytic mistake it's based on a lack of knowledge about something in particular so i'm going to fill in a knowledge gap for many of you so many people would say do not take a medicine unless it has gone through the gold standard type of uh you know double-blind placebo test in fact i had a conversation with my most trump-hating democrat friend last night by text in which um he he said with no uncertain terms no doctor ever should recommend a a medicine that has not gone through the highest standard of tests now my friend is really well read uh highly educated more educated than i uh and very very deeply involved in reading the news and following the news so this is a really smart really well informed person who used his smartness and well-informed status to tell me that is crazy for a trump a peter navarro or even a doctor to recommend using can you believe it the horror a drug that has not gone through the clinical testing for the purpose it was it was prescribed to which i said have you heard of off-label off-label prescriptions he said he hadn't in a private prior conversation he said he hadn't had never heard of it and and then last night i said do you know that twenty percent of all prescriptions are off label which means that twenty percent of all the prescriptions one in five in this country have not gone through that standard that my friend and a lot of people on twitter say is the only way you should ever uh prescribe something because their blind spot is that if a drug has been proven safe for anything and the cost is reasonable that your doctor working with you can make a risk management decision that goes like this i've got this drug that was on that was only gold standard tested for another thing but we did find out the side effects are nothing to worry about so given that the side effects are trivially dangerous you know barely enough that it's not even worth mentioning and it might work and there's some reports that it works but they're not the gold standard let's give it a try and how often does that happen well it turns out that some of your most popular drugs that are commonly prescribed did not go through any gold standard testing except for other purposes so hydroxychloroquine has been tested in the past for its own use you know lupus etc i assume i think that's true and uh if anybody claiming that it should not be prescribed because it has not passed the gold standard test which is true it has not but it's also because they haven't tested it in the right application so if you see anybody saying that it hasn't gone through the rigorous trials they are ignorant of how medicine works and you can fill them in with that 20 percent over-the-counter prescriptions that did not go through that process and it is so safe so routine so rational that 20 of prescriptions are in that category if you i mean ask yourself if this were a problem would 20 of prescriptions be in this category no no all right how about this um so do you have this problem where you want to make a joke about bad things that are happening but you don't know where the line is because you don't want to be canceled because you don't want to be that person but sometimes it's so funny you can't help it well when i heard about as you know the libertarian party candidate being bitten by a possibly rabid bat i looked at the comments and i saw that matt schwartz asked how's the bat now i didn't feel proud that i laughed at that how's the bat and i felt even less proud when i responded to it with the answer to how's the bat i said ahead in the polling i don't feel good about it but if you laughed at it well maybe that's something big news of course is so we've got some big fake news about russia china and iran and the thought is that they're all trying to influence the election and but the problematic one seems to be russia because according to the fake news the russians are trying to support president trump president trump's response to that is he's the been the toughest on russia he gives a number of examples that's not really the answer to whether russia is trying to help you because it could be true that the president is their toughest toughest sanctions toughest opponent toughest president on them that could be true and there's a really good argument for it it could be true at the same time they prefer him because remember russia has two bad choices they they either keep the the the devil they know which is trump at least they can talk to him at least they can deal with him even though he's you know being a pain in the ass to putin at least they can deal with him he's predictable you know where he stands you know he'll make a deal compared to biden because biden would just go after him because apparently that's you know that's their technique in favor of china biden would be pro-china no doubt russia's biggest risk and uh so it could be true that russia wants trump at the same time is true that trump doesn't want that and is sanctioning the hell out of them for whatever the hell they're doing um but here's my prediction you will never see a compelling example of this alleged russian interference because if you did you would see that it's trivial the same way if you had seen and almost nobody did the memes that the so-called russian troll farm put out in 2016 those memes looked like a sixth grade project that was underfunded they didn't even look like adults had made them they were that bad they certainly had no impact i definitely never saw them until it all came out and i got to see a bunch of them all at once and they weren't even in the same direction some of them were anti-hillary some of them were anti-trump i mean it was you could argue that the troll farm was trying to influence the election because they made you know u.s campaign topic memes but you can't argue it mattered not when you see them i mean if you've never seen them you could say well yeah it seems entirely possible that a sophisticated kgb operation with the top minds in the world and great hackers could come up with memes that are just so powerful so good they can influence our election yeah i mean in in in the abstract that seems like totally a thing and then you see what they actually produced and you say oh this is a little sad and maybe it's not putin ordering this maybe it's somebody who thought they could please putin by doing it on their own which is what it looked like and it's common apparently it's common for everybody to jockey for favor with putin by just trying to do something that they think he would like and then hey look what i did so don't expect you will ever see some examples of russian interference and if you do it's going to be so trivial that you're going to say uh this is what you're talking about so that's my that's my prediction um about uh iran um we may be seeing some more explody stuff uh as jake novak had pointed out even months ago there seems to be at least a suggestion that either israel or the united states or both have some extra knowledge about where iran is keeping their bad stuff you know their bomb making stuff their weapons etc so somehow we know more than we used to know and it looks like maybe where we or israel is acting upon it so that's an interesting story um all right i think that uh i've covered everything i'd like to cover oh there's sturgis motorcycle rally well that's a funny story yeah sturgis you know all the motor the bikers come to sturgis at the same time and have a big event and uh there's some fun talk that anti-fog could show up but antifa is not going to show up there i would not expect the anti-fun to show up in sturgis but that's a funny thought all right that's all for now come on man i'll talk to you later

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um the biggest news uh and

i don't know how many of you had this on

your predict it

but uh it seems that the

candidate for the libertarian party was

bitten by a possibly rabid

bat and

and why wouldn't she be because it's 20

20.

in 2020 if the simulation isn't going to

serve you up a major candidate for

president who was bit by a

maybe rabid bat well then the simulation

is not trying

and i think it's trying this year oh is

it trying

we've had more news this year than

well all the other years put together

multiplied by three let's talk about

some of that news

today the headlines on fox news are all

a bunch of fake news

so fox has gone full fake news on the

bill clinton

um epstein island stuff and here's what

i mean

by fake news do i know if bill clinton

was ever on the island i do not

do i know that it wasn't on the island

i do not but what i do know is that the

person who the

and as far as i can tell the only

evidence they use on the

on the island is from what i'd call an

unreliable witness

the same person who accuses um

who accuses dershowitz of being there

and dershowitz has pointed out that her

credibility

is whatever is less than zero

so if you here's my problem with fox

news on their coverage

what they're covering is true

what they're leaving out is almost

criminal

what they're leaving out is that the one

accuser who saw bill clinton on that

island

has no credibility none

and there's a background for that ellen

dershowitz

does it i think the key reason that you

should be aware of

is that i think she also accused al gore

of being there

and i believe that there is a body of

records proving that he was not there

in the times that she said he was so

if caught in one lie that is identical

to the type of lie

well the type of accusation

that's a zero credibility situation

that's not a well she got one wrong

before but that doesn't mean she's wrong

about everything else

no it's a zero it's a zero credibility

which doesn't mean it didn't happen

remember we live in a anything's

possible world where

candidates for president can be re

bitten by

a possibly rabid bat

so nothing's off the table i'm just

saying that if you run this story

without very prominently saying the only

evidence

it has zero credibility that's just fake

news

so if you think your fake news is only

coming to you from the left

there's a prime example of fox news

faking it up for you

and again the news is accurate but

leaving out that context just turns it

into fake news

in my opinion

so here's a story that should worry the

hell on you

so one of my followers and might be on

this periscope right now

d d texas grandma 65

grandma spelled gma noted that

she was following me but then somehow

got unfollowed

so automatically unfollowed so this

prompted me to circle back to a story

that

i'd been talking about maybe a year ago

i can't remember

in which i noticed that i had been

unfollowed from

ambassador grinnell richard grinnell now

i don't know what title you would give

him ex-ambassador

or do you still call them ambassadors

after they're not ambassadors

i don't know what the rule on titles is

but you know what i'm talking about

he was he was acting out of the dni for

a while

but i had been unfollowed from him

i think twice and so a year ago i'd

asked if other people had been

unfollowed and turns out there wasn't a

massive number of people

in the comments said oh yeah i just

checked

i was totally at following him and now

i'm not

so i decided to recheck that so a year

has gone by

just to see if it's still happening and

sure enough

i don't know i don't know if it's like a

new wave of unfollows or if it's still

some trickle from the past

but once again my comments were filled

with people who said

what the i was following

but now i'm not and now i had to follow

him back again

and so i thought i would just test one

more account

just to see if i could guess somebody

who is likely

to have the same situation and the

criteria i used was

okay what is it about ambassador

and or richard grinnell again i don't

know

i don't know how the titles work for

ambassador but let's say he's always an

ambassador if he ever was one

let's let's go with that standard um

so i thought you know what does he have

in common

or what is there about him that would

make him a target for this and the

obvious answer is that he's a

unusually good public spokes

spokesperson supporting president trump

and i thought all right well i'll pick

somebody else who is in that category

of an unusually good communicator in

favor of

president trump so i did a second tweet

this morning

asking people how many had been

unfollowed

from back gates so congressman gates

and turns out a lot

a lot now keep in mind the people who

are answering

are just the people who see my twitter

feed and

also followed back gates and also saw

that tweet

and also checked you know and

also thought to put a comment about it

so

if i can turn up that many people in

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60 seconds who can who say oh yeah that

happened to me

is it possible they're all imagining

that

i mean it is possible by the way

it is possible it is completely within

the realm of possibility that we're all

imagining it

but i don't think so i don't think so

it would be quite shocking if it were

the case but actually you can't rule it

out

i'm going to give you another hypothesis

which i also do not rule out

but i think it could be ruled out pretty

quickly if i just ask people on

twitter and it goes like this

at least one person has had the

following experience

on an android device and the claim is

this

that there's something about the app

running on an

android device and i don't know if it's

every android device

every release i don't know if it's the

app or if they're using the browser to

get to it

so there's a lot i don't know but the

claim is this

and you've had this experience have you

ever had the experience where

you're in some kind of an app it doesn't

have to be twitter

and you go to click something and just

before you click it the screen moves

and you click the wrong thing how many

times does that happen

probably a lot right you your finger is

moving in to

press a button and then the screen

scrolls and you press the wrong button

you're like ah

wrong button i deleted a couple of

messages yesterday

by wrong finger in them anyway so

there's a belief

or let none not a belief a hypothesis

there's a hypothesis that there might be

one

one interface situation where people are

automatically unfollowing who do not

mean to do so

but how likely is that

i don't think any of that explains it to

me it looks like

the a hypothesis has to be

that there is some way that somebody is

influencing twitter could be somebody

from the outside

doesn't have to be an insider it could

be somebody from the outside

but something's happening clearly we

don't know if it's

third party apps because that's my other

hypothesis

when you sign up for some third-party

apps say

tick doc just to pick a random example

i'll just randomly pick tick tock let's

say you had the tick tock app

and you wanted to sometimes share your

tick tocks on twitter

well i believe it asks you if if tick

tock can have control of your twitter

account

yeah think about that that gives the

chinese government

control i think i would need a fact

check on this

but if you have tick tock and twitter

both apps on your phone and you've told

tick tock you can

manage your twitter some of your twitter

actions

could the chinese government through

tick tock

cause you to unfollow ambassador

grinnell

could it i think yes

but i would need some kind of a fact

check on that

all right um yesterday

twitter purged a bunch bunch of accounts

you saw a lot of people complaining hey

my

my number of followers went down i don't

think i'd worry about any of that yet

because there's no evidence to suggest

that's anything but maintenance

yeah it's probably just getting rid of

bots probably uh

just maybe cleaning out some uh

you know dormant accounts that sort of

thing so i lost

just in case you want to know if it was

just you i think i lost

it's hard to know because i'm adding

people at the same time they're

subtracting people

but if i were to baseline it fewer than

a thousand

users maybe out of half a million

so well it wasn't a big percentage and

i think you would be better off if they

call the herd once in a while anyway

as long as they're doing it for the

right reasons so i wouldn't worry about

any of that

yet did all of you see the press

conference that the president did

yesterday

which was more like a monologue and a

lot less like a press conference

so of course most of the i think most of

the networks

probably didn't cover it because they

like the question part

where they can try to embarrass the

president they don't like the monologue

part

where he just talks about his

accomplishments but i gotta say

uh that was one of the strongest

press conferences that i've seen

and again i'm not sure if you want to

call it a press conference it was more

like a monologue

but the monologue part was

extraordinarily good

and it was extraordinarily good for a

number of reasons

one was his his tone and presentation

it was uh i would call it

serious and powerful

you know with sort of some joking at the

end which was extra good

but when he was talking about his

accomplishments

you know he would say stuff like you

know we we've done x and i'd say

wow that's pretty good you know that's

pretty good thing to

stick in there and then he'd say another

accomplishment and i think

that's two and those are both pretty

good

pretty strong and then there'd be

another one

and they were they all seemed to have a

flavor to them

of strength right when you talked about

the tennessee valley authority which

frankly most of us maybe none of us

really understand what the hell that is

but it's some kind of a quasi-public

private government situation i don't

know

i was too bored to look into it but when

the president said

you know we have some problems with

their leadership

i fired the chairman of the board i

thought to myself

that's pretty good that's pretty good

what would you love to see more

than the president firing somebody who

had it coming

according you know allegedly it's a real

strong move so i don't know if the

you know the details of the situation

but in terms of the press conference

leading off with a strong manager move

of this guy wasn't doing it right and so

i fired the chairman of the board and

i'm going to keep firing all the board

members because i guess that was the

power that the government has

i'm going to keep firing board members

until they change the situation

and then apparently he got what he

wanted

which was also strong because i think

the problem was they were firing

americans who were higher paid to

replace them with lower paid

employees from other countries and then

asking the americans who are being fired

to train their

lower cost replacements now if your

president

isn't willing to fire people over that

you need a new president because

if you're the jobs president and the you

know america first president

that is a really strong play

so just the optics of it and i would say

the

competence of it because it just looks

like oh shoot

that's exactly what you need you need

somebody who's going to fire those guys

until they stop this

and there's a list of other things i

forget the details but every one of them

was wrong and then he ended with a joke

at the end

i'll give i think this is maybe

maybe i don't know why if you would

agree

but maybe the strongest

public appearance he's ever made i i

don't think i've ever seen better than

that

you know i we like the rallies and the

fun and the controversial ones

but when he turns off the controversy

and

and at the press conference he just

turned off the controversy in my opinion

you know relative to any trump uh

situation but when he turns it off

and he just goes i'm doing the job for

you

it's really strong but we do like the

provocation

as well now here's the funniest thing he

did one of his executive orders

was is going to be he just announced it

but hasn't done it

an executive order to uh

require that pre-existing conditions

are covered by insurance now how did the

press cover that now you are aware

that the president is often accused of

being the guy who's going to

take that right away the right to be

covered even if you have pre-existing

conditions

is it wasn't that one of the biggest the

biggest

claims against this president is that

that he was the one

who would be behind taking away your

pre-existing

coverage rights and then the way that

the press covered it when he says i'll

do an executive order which is a really

public thing i mean basically

you would you would be roasted if you

made such a direct

executive order made a public deal about

not taking away

existing uh you know what i said the

coverage for existing conditions

and how did the news cover it

the news covered it as it was stupid

because that's already the law under

obama's

past work now do you feel like that's

the right context to cover this

to say that uh it's a it's an

unnecessary executive order

because it's already the law now here's

the beauty part

because it was wrong but it's that

little bit of wrong part

yes it is true that you don't need an

executive order for something that's

already the law of the land

so in that sense it's sort of wrong

which is what causes cnn to cover it and

then while they're covering it

they have guaranteed that their audience

hears this message

under a trump administration you're

really really

protected on your uh on your

earlier conditions so trump

managed to do something that didn't make

sense

an executive order for something that's

already the law of land

at least it doesn't make sense from a

cnn world view i actually think it makes

complete sense

but that little bit of wrongness made

them boost his signal

perfectly this could not have worked out

better for the president

if you are ever going to be criticized

let's hope it's this way

how about this you're running for

president and you say

not only am i in favor of peace but i'm

gonna

pass a resolution saying that i'm

peaceful

and then the news says you idiot

you don't need a resolution to say how

peaceful you are

because you're already being peaceful

well if the message you wanted for the

public is hey i'm the peaceful candidate

that's how you get there so i thought

that was a fairly

brilliant move by the president

to add an executive order that is

unnecessary but absolutely

persuasive because i don't think anybody

is going to walk away from that thinking

oh he's going to do an executive order

and then do exactly the opposite if he

gets reelected

it doesn't feel like that's even

slightly possible

this is clearly why he wants he wants

these conditions to be covered

that could not be any more clear

all right uh according to rasmussen

i said this before but it's blowing my

mind

30 36 of black

likely voters approve of the president's

job performance at the moment

36

if that number is anywhere close to true

the election's over now i think the

election's over

anyway i don't think biden actually has

any real chance

and anybody pretending he does at this

point

you have to sort of check yourself at

this point this

isn't a real election unless they

substitute somebody in

who might have a chance this is going to

be a stroll to re-election

this is not a sprint the president could

stop for a smoke break

and still get elected president the the

glide path for the president

is pretty clear at this point

just show up do the kind of work he did

at the

the press conference yesterday which was

outstanding

message wise and and tone wise and

everything else

and i think he's there

but here's a question we must ask

ourselves

why is there such a delay in the vice

president pick

now obviously some of the delay might be

because it's a weekend

and they would wait for something like a

tuesday or a monday to

control the weekly news cycle so it

could be just you know it takes a while

to get things done

could be took longer than they thought

possible

but i think all the smart people are

saying it looks like they might be

delaying because they've got a problem

knowing who should be at the top of the

ticket if you know what i mean

and you don't want to waste your best

candidate

in the second place if that's the one

you think should have been in the first

place

so you can see where they're jockeying

saying to themselves well

maybe it's not kamala harris for the vp

role

and by the way if biden announces it's

not

kabul harris i think you're going to

have to start seeing kamala harris as

maybe the replacement for the top spot

that might be a signal but could also be

a signal not

of course could go either way but i

would certainly my antenna

antennae would go up and say what

what why are you holding kamala harris

out

uh available for a job

if not the vice presidency

and why would uh why would black likely

voters

have such a high approval of trump 36

being at least historically high

and i have some hypotheses i've often

told you that one of the

keys to persuasion is

simplicity and another key is repetition

build the wall build the wall build the

wall if you hear it enough

and it's simple and it's unambiguous it

just

it just becomes part of you after a

while

there's nothing that you can hear that

much without

being forced to incorporate it into your

worldview and give it a priority that

maybe it didn't

deserve but think about this have you

seen how disciplined trump has been for

the past

several years when he talks about

unemployment

he always always leads

with what he did for the

african-american

employment rate now if you're

as president the the first thing that

comes out of your mouth

every time you talk about good

employment is what you've done for the

black community

the first few times you hear this what

do you think to yourself well

politician right politician pandering

right

that's a little pandering yeah of course

he's going to do a shout out to a group

that he wants to get some folks for

so that's why you hear the first few

times after you've heard it

50 times you start thinking oh i guess

that's just a pandering thing he's going

to do every time

after you hear a thousand times

it's just true right

so this the tr you've watched the

transformation from

a pantry kind of thing that any

president would say

to he has said it so many times

so consistently so disciplined

and in my opinion quite incredibly like

it doesn't look fake or artificial

in the least he has transformed that

impossible thought into

you believe it now right do you believe

that the president literally cares

that black lives matter in in the

context of unemployment

especially he cares he cares

and the thing that people seem to forget

is that the truth the presidency is

pretty transparent

and you can't do a good job for the

country

you can't do a good job for yourself

unless you've done a good job for the

country the only way this president

comes out ahead

is if he does the work that's the only

way

it's so transparent there's no scenario

in which trump is thinking to himself

i think i'll just ride this and milk it

and see if i can make some money in my

side job as

as the uh you know the trump guy i i

can't even imagine it

there's no way he would be so unaware of

his environment i guess that he would

not understand

that the one and only path he has

for the rest of his life his other

business interests

to do well the one and only path is to

do

a really good job for the public

short of that it just doesn't work you

know you can't just leave the job and

say well

you know don't you love me anyway even

though you don't like what i did that's

that's not a thing

he has to do a good job he has to

and he has to do it for you know black

americans for

you know for everybody um

so i think the fact that he always

highlights it

went from a pantry sounding thing to a

well he's got to mean it at this point i

mean that's

pretty disciplined to say it so often

the other thing that doesn't get enough

play is that if you're

a black voter or just a black citizen

do you want open borders no

do you want less choice in school that's

what the democrats are offering you

less choice in school if you're black do

you want that

no no you don't do you want

fewer cops while you live in your high

crime neighborhood in too many cases

no not most people

most people want some good policing they

just want it to be better of course we

all do

um so if you tell yourself that this

36 black approval at the rasmussen gets

as an outlier i would say to you

could be anything's possible

you could have a presidential candidate

bitten by a bat

that might be rabid maybe not anything's

possible

but i feel like let me put it a

different way

i never understood why it wasn't already

36

in my mind if you have you know any

appreciation for what

uh black voters want out of life

and again not treating them as a

monolith

i don't want to go all joe biden on you

but it is true

that uh while there are many diverse

voices

in every group uh you know

it is true that the black community

one would expect would see the same

benefits

that you and i see why would it be

different

and i think the whole cries of racism

are disappearing every day that biden

does another

what did trey gowdy call it he appeared

on the five

yesterday great appearance on the five

and uh

and he went through the list of what he

called joe biden's

racially curious comments which is just

the freaking best framing

for this because i don't think anybody

thinks joe biden is some kind of a

racist

but if you make enough quote racially

curious comments

then it starts sounding like a dog

whistle doesn't it

but because it's biden the people

who's who are on the left must be

thinking to themselves

okay there are a lot of racially curious

statements he's made

throughout time do they form this

pattern

because if this were a republican

it would be a pattern right

but because his biden is it a pattern

or is it a coincidence is it

confirmation bias is it just

one of those things but if it were a

republican oh that's

this would definitely be a dog whistle

situation

but now it's fighting i have to think

that every time biden makes another

racially curious comment

that it makes people say uh maybe it's

just the way people talk

right maybe it's just the way people

this age

talk and maybe trump is not

sending secret you know racist whistles

maybe he just talks in a way that's you

know less delicate or more offensive

and that's all there is to the story

because it might be

all right uh the babylon bee if you're

not following the babylon bee

which is like i guess i'd call it like

the onion except

with a conservative flavor

they are really good so if you like your

humor

on politics in particular do a follow on

the babylon bee but here's one of their

headlines

today so headline from the babylon being

a tweet

biden tells staffers to pick any black

person for a vp

since quote they all think the same

anyway

now if okay just for context

this is alleged to be what joe biden

thinks

that the black community thinks the same

so i'm not laughing at

the black community i'm laughing at joe

biden just to remove any

uh any doubt about what that means uh

kanye has

has published his platform and you could

go take a look at it it seems that his

platform

is highly uh bible compatible

so much so that with each thing in his

platform

he shows you the applicable bible verse

that supports it

uh some of the things he wants is prayer

in school

and one of his big planks is fixing the

school system

so it works for everybody now

uh i i'm not really into the

prayer in school debate

you know i'm not a believer and i don't

object to it

so you know work it out among yourselves

i feel like i could be on the sideline

on that one

because i don't need the prayer for

myself but i

but i understand his benefits so just

work it out among yourselves whatever

you do is fine with me

and but here's the part i like kanye's

platform is actually the best platform

i've ever seen for the black community

and i don't know if he'll ever get

credit for that but

which is the other platform that's

focusing on schools

as as like a key lever

you know kanye covers the other stuff he

even says

that he would treat america first so

kanye

actually says explicitly that he's going

to negotiate etc

and treat america first as the best

model to move forward

i i think you should read it so just

google it

or i think mike cernovich tweeted it if

you want to find it on his

uh twitter feed i think i retweeted him

and it's worth reading it's worth

reading if you have a few minutes read

kanye west's

thing uh now i don't know if you saw

tucker carlson's

um he did uh what do you what would you

call it a mo

i guess a monologue on kanye west

if you didn't see it it's some of

tucker's best work

like really really good work i'm just

talking about the writing

you know the writing of that piece in

which he went through

you know the the kanye situation he

talks about how

until kanye said he liked the president

he wasn't crazy

in other words the media treated him as

just creative and provocative

until he seemed like he was on the other

side and then

the headlines are that he's crazy now

kanye himself

cops do some you know mental challenges

so i don't think it's you know

inaccurate

to agree with the person who has a

self-assessment

but it was very interesting to see that

before it didn't matter

and now and now they're throwing them

under the bus

so i would say kanye has the best

emphasis

on schools so he understands priorities

best if you wanted somebody to champion

you

you should pick somebody who has their

priorities right

and if kanye had said black lives matter

is my

primary uh thing you should dismiss him

as somebody who doesn't know what's

important

but instead he talks about education

hits the

nail on the head of what's important and

bringing some kind of a spiritual

revival to the united states you could

argue would be a good thing

i know that those of you are atheists

bristle at this

but so long as it's not anti-atheist

and it's not it's not it's not even

slightly anti-atheist

i think you might be able to coexist

with that

the funniest thing in the news is that a

t-shirt outfit called

teespring t-e-e spring

uh banned anti-fog shirts

while they look into it now they're

acting as if they're gonna look into it

so

you know maybe it's not permanent but

anti-fog

got all uh anti-falling all

crazy about it because they said hey but

you have

t-shirts from this or that right-leaning

group or extremist group

or what else hey why not our shirts and

uh here would be my answer to that

i think antifa is the only one they

mentioned that's literally

a domestic terrorist group i

i think if you're teespring you can get

rid of a domestic terrorist group from

your

your shirts doesn't feel like a reach to

me

so i would like to suggest that if they

stick with this and they don't bend

to the pressure that's no doubt coming

to their way that you might consider

doing a little shopping at teespring

send a little money their way

i suggested that if they make a shirt

called we cancelled

antifa then it might sell a few copies

might sell a few now i would not wear a

a cancelled anti-fuzz shirt in public

because it'd be like wearing a magic

shirt maga hat you get your ass beat

but i might buy one i might buy it and

put it in the closet

just to support teespring if they stick

with this if they don't stick with it

well who cares

um as i tweeted this morning

i have i've developed this habit that

i'm not sure i'm proud of

every morning the first thing i do is i

get my coffee i sit down on my computer

and literally the first thing i do after

that is i look at the news

usually twitter and it's filled with the

video

from the night before the highlight

clips from the big game in portland

now i call it the big game because i

don't think it looks like politics

anymore

i don't think it looks like a social

movement even in the least

the whatever antifa is

is closer to some kind of a role-playing

costumed sport and it went to a new

level last night

maybe recently where apparently antifa

has developed their own shield

like a plywood shield like

like old-timey costume uh role players

would have if they were playing

nice you know knights of old and then

they've got the antifa

on there and that they've got their

little crew of shield people with their

plywood

pushing against police

and i turn it on and this is not even

slightly

not even slightly an exaggeration when i

watch the clips usually

you know in andy noclip for example

when i when i look at the clips

i look at them like i'm watching sport

highlight clips

and i'm watching the police beat up

antifa

and it looks exactly like watching a

football game

with tackles and you see the highlight

reel of

look at this spectacular tackle and i'm

watching the same sport

except it's police also wearing

protective gear

just like football also trying to

control territory

in space just like football

you got fouls just like football

you've got announcers you know with

loudspeakers

just like football you got play by play

you got highlight clips

it's a sport now if you tell me that's

not a sport

watching the two teams with strategy and

costumes and meeting at the same field

every night

if you tell me that's not a sport you're

gonna have to define

sport a little bit more clearly because

it's not politics

there's no politics in that it's not

crime exactly because if it were they

would all be arrested

instead of just you know the the bad

apples that are doing something

specifically

so if it's not exactly crime it's

certainly nothing like a

social protest you know in any way that

we can understand it

it's a sport and i'm not going to see it

any other way

now of course those of you who are jerks

just said to yourself scott how can you

treat this as a sport people are getting

killed

and the police are being injured why do

you call this a sport

scott how can you not take this

seriously

well you're just a jerk because i am

complicated enough

that i can hold in my mind that it is

a super tragedy and it really makes me

mad

when the police are injured in

particular especially with these lasers

i think the police should be able to

shoot to kill anybody who has a laser

even if they're just brandishing it even

if you don't see it being used

i think the police should be able to

shoot to kill now

you might disagree and it might be a

terrible strategy because it would make

the police look like a

police state it would not be good for

the country but it would be good for the

police

and i'm going to say that sometimes

sometimes the citizens need to support

the police

it's not just always the other way

around right you know you can't you

can't be sending your troops out there

in the form of the police

you can't be sending your troops out

there unsupported

and if you can't let them shoot a

protester who's got a

laser in their hand just as if it were a

handgun

if they can't shoot that guy they ought

to have the right

so the best i can do is to say if you

put me on a truck

on a jury i will i will say

shot a guy with a deadly weapon i don't

need to hear any more evidence

if you'd like to present the evidence

sure if you need to

but i'm not going to listen to it

because if police

shoot somebody with a one of those

lasers at a protest has to be out of

protest

i'm not even going to listen to the

evidence at all

innocent boom i'll go right to the

verdict in fact i'll stand up in the

jury box

and say not guilty and then they'll say

um sir

the trial hasn't started yet and i'll

say just try to save time

anybody here doesn't want to save some

time because there's no freaking way

i'm going to vote against a cop who

takes out

one of these kids with a laser uh blow

it take his head right off it's fine

with me

now it would be bad for your career bad

for your life might even be bad for the

country

but i'd still back you still back you if

it happens

all right um

and and i've often said that you know

one of the big complaints from

protesters which i think has

merit is that the police might treat

different ethnicities differently

apparently the death rate is not treated

differently

you know the number of people killed

doesn't seem to matter

based on your race but probably there's

some

maybe a little extra abuse not maybe

there's certainly extra abuse

in black communities obviously it's

because they're high crime neighborhoods

that's a big part of the story

but let's say you just thought that was

a problem and you want to reduce the gap

well one way would be to have less abuse

against black citizens that would be

ideal

as long as you know everything else

works out that's of course what you want

but the other way to reduce the gap

would be for the police in portland

to just beat the out of these

protesters with the lasers like once a

day

just to get the numbers up because the

higher we get with the police beating up

white antifa protesters with the lasers

yeah

they have to be doing something bad the

more of those we get the closer the gap

will be

so there may be two problems one is

too many black people getting beaten up

by the police say the protesters

i don't know one way or the other but

the other is not enough white people

getting beaten up so we could close the

gap from both sides if we work at it

so let's get some more white people

getting beaten up by the police

if they're anti-fog people with lasers

that would be fine for me

all right i asked on

twitter a little unscientific poll i

said

would you hire a job candidate whose

social media supported

antifa ninety-four percent of you said

no

that you would not consider a job

candidate who had

pro-antifa stuff on their website

now if i were to ask the same question

of

people on the left because most of my

followers would be

trump supporters i would imagine and but

if you ask the same question on the left

you know would you hire a trump

supporter

you'd probably get the same answer you

you get a pretty good answer

so we've we've come to the point where

your politics plus your social media

make you unhirable by half of the public

but here's what i was

thinking all i would take is one major

company

with some serious gonads to announce in

public

just sort of preemptively i'm just

brainstorming here

but preemptively announced in public

that they would not consider hiring

anybody who was associated with antifa

can you imagine it

imagine a fortune 500 company where

their leadership has enough balls to say

the obvious

which is we just have to tell you it's

hard enough getting employees

and if you're supporting antifa you

can't be on our list

because we just can't support that what

would that do

just one just one fortune 500 company

make an announcement

we're just putting it out there if you

support antifa

we're never going to hire you it's it's

it's

absolutely off the table now the first

thing that would happen

is it would make it safe for other

companies but the other the other thing

that's even bigger

is that the parents of antifa which you

know

are supporting them right you know the

parents are sort of on board a little

bit

even if it's only by lack of action it's

going to activate the parents

because the parents are going to say uh

did i just find out that my child can

never be gainfully employed by

a big company where where the pay is

good and the benefits are good and

therefore

he will never lose leave my basement i

think he could move the needle

it would just take one big company

to make that statement and suddenly

parents everywhere would say

um hello uh jennifer

we'd really like you to have a job

someday so

maybe you should rethink this whole

thing could make a difference

all right here is

the update on the remember peter navarro

name check me on cnn and told cnn they

should watch my video

on the risk management part of the

decision about hydroxychloroquine

obviously i don't make medical

recommendations

but i can break down the argument based

on what the experts are

telling we naive citizens and based on

the information we have

which is you know less than what the

experts have what do you do

so that that's what i did the

decision-making part

not the medical part i just i just

listened to the medical part

and so navarro points to that

cnn mocks me the daily beast

mocks me the hill mocks me but nobody

that i've seen if you you can tell me if

there's any

any uh difference there nobody

that i've seen has criticized the video

and what i said in it nobody

as far as i can tell nobody do you know

how infrequent it is

for me to put out something that visible

and have nobody criticize it

no matter what it is it could be a comic

could be a book anything

you always get low reviews on something

there's always

somebody who's going to say this is no

good

right but not this and i don't know if

it's because

i i don't know if it's because of

nobody looked at it because it wasn't

linked in some of the articles

or if everybody agrees or maybe i just

didn't see any criticism

it's possible to so another day goes by

where that just sits there

as the truth and the truth is the least

important thing in the world so nobody

cares

let me correct for many of you a big

misconception

that you have and i'm watching some

people on

uh twitter who are making this analytic

mistake

it's based on a lack of knowledge about

something in particular

so i'm going to fill in a knowledge gap

for many of you

so many people would say do not take a

medicine

unless it has gone through the gold

standard

type of uh you know double-blind placebo

test

in fact i had a conversation with my

most

trump-hating democrat friend

last night by text in which um

he he said with no uncertain terms

no doctor ever should recommend

a a medicine that has not gone through

the highest

standard of tests now my friend

is really well read uh highly educated

more educated than i

uh and very very deeply

involved in reading the news and

following the news so this is a really

smart

really well informed person who used his

smartness and well-informed

status to tell me that is crazy for

a trump a peter navarro or even a doctor

to recommend using can you believe it

the horror a drug

that has not gone through the clinical

testing for the purpose it was

it was prescribed to which i said

have you heard of off-label off-label

prescriptions

he said he hadn't in a private prior

conversation he said he hadn't

had never heard of it and and then last

night i said

do you know that twenty percent of all

prescriptions are off label

which means that twenty percent of all

the prescriptions

one in five in this country have not

gone through that standard

that my friend and a lot of people on

twitter say is the only way you should

ever

uh prescribe something because their

blind spot is

that if a drug has been proven safe for

anything and the cost is reasonable

that your doctor working with you can

make a risk management decision that

goes like this

i've got this drug that was on that was

only gold standard tested for another

thing

but we did find out the side effects are

nothing to worry about

so given that the side effects are

trivially

dangerous you know barely enough that

it's not even worth mentioning

and it might work and there's some

reports that it works but they're not

the gold standard

let's give it a try and how often does

that happen well it turns out that some

of your

most popular drugs that are commonly

prescribed

did not go through any gold standard

testing except for other purposes

so hydroxychloroquine has been tested in

the past

for its own use you know lupus etc i

assume i think that's true

and uh if anybody claiming that it

should not be prescribed

because it has not passed the gold

standard

test which is true it has not but it's

also because they haven't tested it

in the right application so

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if you see anybody saying that it hasn't

gone through the rigorous trials

they are ignorant of how medicine works

and you can fill them in with that 20

percent

over-the-counter prescriptions that did

not go through that process

and it is so safe so routine

so rational that 20 of prescriptions are

in that category

if you i mean ask yourself if this

were a problem would 20 of prescriptions

be in this category

no no

all right how about this

um so

do you have this problem where you want

to make a joke about bad things that are

happening

but you don't know where the line is

because you don't want to be canceled

because you don't want to be that person

but sometimes it's so funny you can't

help it

well when i heard about as you know

the libertarian party candidate

being bitten by a possibly rabid

bat i looked at the comments

and i saw that matt schwartz asked how's

the bat

now i didn't feel proud that i laughed

at that

how's the bat and i felt even less proud

when i responded to it with

the answer to how's the bat i said ahead

in the polling

i don't feel good about it but if you

laughed at it

well maybe that's something

big news of course is so we've got some

big fake news about

russia china and iran and

the thought is that they're all trying

to influence the election

and but the problematic one seems to be

russia

because according to the fake news the

russians are trying to support

president trump president trump's

response to that is

he's the been the toughest on russia he

gives a number of examples

that's not really the answer to whether

russia is trying to help you because it

could be true

that the president is their toughest

toughest sanctions toughest opponent

toughest president on them

that could be true and there's a really

good argument

for it it could be true at the same time

they prefer him because remember russia

has two bad choices

they they either keep the the the devil

they know

which is trump at least they can talk to

him at least they can deal with him

even though he's you know being a pain

in the ass to putin

at least they can deal with him he's

predictable you know where he stands

you know he'll make a deal compared to

biden

because biden would just go after him

because apparently that's

you know that's their technique in favor

of china

biden would be pro-china no doubt

russia's biggest risk

and uh so it could be true

that russia wants trump at the same time

is true

that trump doesn't want that and is

sanctioning the hell out of them for

whatever the hell they're doing

um but here's my prediction you will

never see

a compelling example of this alleged

russian

interference because if you did you

would see that it's

trivial the same way if you had seen and

almost nobody did

the memes that the so-called russian

troll farm

put out in 2016 those memes

looked like a sixth grade project that

was

underfunded they didn't even look like

adults had made them

they were that bad they certainly had no

impact i definitely never saw them until

it all came out and i got to see a bunch

of them all at once

and they weren't even in the same

direction some of them were anti-hillary

some of them were anti-trump i mean it

was

you could argue that the troll farm was

trying to influence the election

because they made you know u.s campaign

topic memes but you can't argue it

mattered not when you see them i mean if

you've never seen them you could say

well yeah it seems entirely possible

that a sophisticated kgb

operation with the top minds in the

world and

great hackers could come up with memes

that are just so powerful

so good they can influence our election

yeah i mean in

in in the abstract that seems like

totally a thing

and then you see what they actually

produced and you say

oh this is a little sad and maybe it's

not

putin ordering this maybe it's somebody

who thought they could

please putin by doing it on their own

which is what it looked like

and it's common apparently it's common

for everybody to jockey for favor with

putin

by just trying to do something that they

think he would like and then hey

look what i did so don't expect you will

ever see

some examples of russian interference

and if you do it's going to be so

trivial that you're going to say

uh this is what you're talking about

so that's my that's my prediction

um about uh iran

um we may be seeing some more explody

stuff

uh as jake novak had

pointed out even months ago there seems

to be

at least a suggestion that

either israel or the united states or

both

have some extra knowledge about where

iran is keeping their bad stuff

you know their bomb making stuff their

weapons etc

so somehow we know more than we used to

know and it looks like

maybe where we or israel is acting upon

it

so that's an interesting story um

all right i think that uh i've covered

everything i'd like to cover

oh there's sturgis motorcycle rally well

that's a funny story

yeah sturgis you know all the motor the

bikers come to

sturgis at the same time and have a big

event

and uh there's some fun talk that

anti-fog could show up but

antifa is not going to show up there i

would not expect the anti-fun to show up

in sturgis but that's a funny thought

all right that's all for now come on man

i'll talk to you later