Episode 1296 Scott Adams - Democrats Fall for Massive Disinformation Campaign From Their Own Side

hey everybody good morning what a great morning it is just look outside everything's still where it should be yes it may be it might be that somebody snuck into your house last night took all of your furniture replaced it with identical furniture okay that's a steven right joke but it's pretty funny it was funny when he does it obviously not when i do it but trust me it's funny when he does it now what would make this day better it's hard to think of anything because it's going to be a good day but just in case let's make sure we've got a cup or margaret glass i thank her chelsea's time to 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 of the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better except media disinformation campaigns go ah yeah yeah that's good that's good well um it seems that the uh the recall the recall effort for governor newsom here in california looks like it's either going to be successful or it's very close they have more than enough signatures but some of them will be challenged so we don't know if it's quite enough but it's looking it's looking like there's going to be another governor howard kurtz made a interesting observation yesterday i think he says it's no accident that now that trump is off the stage we don't have much to talk about in terms of federal leadership right because biden is sort of hiding kamala harris doesn't say much so we need to talk about politics and we need to make enemies and villains out of people otherwise why bother talking about it and so by default the the state governors are coming under fire in a way that we've never seen before we've never seen so much pressure on three different uh governors right so well if you count uh texas so california texas and new york are getting a lot of national attention and i think howard kurtz is on to something here it's just uh there was a void and it got filled we got filled with whatever was the next thing to talk about so it was the states um which is the important part here is to understand that the things in the news are not the things that are important they're the things that fill up the time they're the things that fill voids and so it's you're not really when you're watching the news you're not watching some kind of top priorities or anything like that often they are but that's not the purpose of the news to show you the top priorities all right here's a question for you it's a persuasion quiz i'm gonna ask you who wins in this setup you've all seen the memes of uh aoc crying at the what i think was uh the offense to some illegal immigrant holding holding pen so the the original photo it seemed that she was crying over the having empathy for the people who were imprisoned essentially not essentially the people were imprisoned and um so now you've got aoc so she's doing her political thing and showing empathy but it got turned into a meme and now the just a little picture of her doing the crying is being pasted in all kinds of humorous situations to make her look silly so who won did the republicans win by taking her meme and showing how silly she is and putting in lots of humorous context did they win the persuasion battle i don't think so i think they lost hard here's why what is the most important thing in terms of persuasion well if fear is not part of it and in terms of this particular topic there's not a lot of immediate fear it's just something that needs to be addressed so fear isn't there what's what's the next most persuasive thing visual visual is persuasive what do you think of every time you see the meme of aoc showing empathy you know where it came from you know what everybody sees the meme knows it came originally from that context all you're doing by sending that meme around is reinforcing the fact that aoc cares about people more than you do it's a visual and it shows empathy it also shows power because we're talking about her right if you're a politician and everybody's talking about you that's power what is the definition of charisma it's the best definition i've ever heard i didn't make this up myself but it's a good definition charisma is power plus empathy that's right every time that meme is shared aoc gets more charisma because you're reinforcing the fact that she has empathy oh you think it's funny and she's maybe it's you know she's faking or is misapplied or something but the visual is her showing empathy and that is way more important than your concept compare these two things a picture of a leader showing empathy versus the other side says wait i got a concept to sell you the concept is that although she's pretending to show her empathy she's not really showing it those two things are not equal one is a picture a picture is really strong that gets in your head and lives there forever a concept just sort of washes over you percep in terms of persuasion so aoc wins every time that meme goes around by repetition empathy visual persuasion against a concept and the concept doesn't really carry very far even when it's true i've been asked often recently if there will be a dilbert nft the answer is yes how many of you don't know what that means probably most if you're not aware there are things called nfts which are essentially digital uh collectibles now you should say to yourself oh how does that make any sense anything digital can be just reproduced you just take a screenshot capture your screen there's nothing digital that can't be reproduced so how in the world could there be a collectible and the answer is blockchain blockchain technology allows you to know for sure who was the first owner legal owner of a digital image it could be a video could be a still image anything and because there is certainty about who owned it you can sell it so you can buy a collectible just like you could buy let's say a baseball card and it could be you know an image of uh william shatner i think he's got some nfts it could be any kind of collectible or a dilbert image for example there'll be a number of them were under development but uh because the the blockchain knows for sure who owns something you can sell it and part of the benefit is that the original creator always gets a share of every future sale pretty good pretty good design right so that incense or incentivizes the creators to make stuff because they'll always share in it after it's gone and people can collect them now people used to collect my physical signature back in the peak of dilbert mania especially in the 90s people would actually buy my autograph at autograph you know swap meets and stuff and sometimes they would check with me they'd send me a an image and say just want to make sure i bought your autograph or sometimes i would draw a little dogberg comic they'd say i just want to make sure this was really you and i would look at it and i'd say sorry sorry definitely not me so you bought a fake autograph and of course there are statistics that physical autographs are very often fake really really often faked as in so often you wouldn't want to know so that's in development i won't tell you the angle we're going to take on the nfts but you'll like it elon musk continues to be interesting and he tweeted today or yesterday i admit to judging books by their cover is that a great tweet i admit to there's no yeah and then later he clarified that he meant that literally books he wasn't making a metaphor about life he would say no literally books i judge them by their cover now the funniest thing about this is that someone else after i tweeted that everyone does that because everyone judges a book by its cover we all do right and it's a pretty good method it's a pretty good method because among other things the cover is going to have you know is this an uh a new york times best-selling author that's on the cover uh what's the name of the author is this somebody you know somebody i should listen to it's right there on the cover and then beyond that i would say that if you can't come up with a good cover well maybe your book's not so good either right maybe your publisher doesn't have their stuff together so maybe they don't even pick good authors so yeah you can judge a lot in the same way that you can judge people by their clothing adjusted by income of course but you can judge people by their clothing you can judge books by their cover you're just not right every time it doesn't mean you're right but it's a pretty good clue somebody responded to my statement that everyone judges books by their covers by saying i don't so there was somebody who said he doesn't judge books by their cover that's sort of a lower level of awareness if i can say it that way you don't have a choice there's no decision making involved you're not you're not you can't opt out of judging things by their visual appearance that's not even a thing you could want to not judge a book by its cover but you can't you can't it's not an option so just the fact that elon musk tweets this it just opens up everything from you know the conversation of free will to how do you make decisions without without science you know backing everything you do because of course science just couldn't do it it's too busy all right so that was fun elon's always fun apparently the biden administration is going to put out a report saying that the khashoggi murder is being blamed on mbs so saudi arabia's leader mbs now uh somebody tweeted olga lautman tweeted i'm relieved khashoggi intel report officially blamed mbs of assassinating khashoggi is coming out but where is the investigation and information into what role trump kushner pompeo etc played because you know you can't just have stories you got to blame people somebody's got to go to jail for just everything yeah in our in today's world if you get a job in politics all the questions will be about when you're going to jail and here's how i answered those people ignoring or playing the mbs thing the way they did the outcome of that was the abraham accords the outcome the predictable outcome and i say it's predictable because i literally predicted it in public a whole bunch of times so when the khashoggi thing first came out and it was obvious that trump was sort of underplaying it i said that's probably the smartest thing he's ever done because that gives the united states tremendous leverage over saudi arabia because we would have a a secret not really a secret but we would have a club if you will at least in public opinion trump decided to not use that club what did he get in return you don't know do you i don't know do you think that trump just think of his personality think of his deal making and think of the fact that he would have been completely aware completely aware that he had now leverage over saudi arabia you think he didn't know that i said it every day on you know on a live stream while it was happening yeah of course he knew it of course he knew that gave him leverage do you think that behind the curtain or at least maybe he doesn't even have to say it right maybe you don't have to say it to saudi arabia because they kind of know it do you think he got something in return well we don't know but we do know that the the peace deals between israel and a number of countries started coming together and that never happened before what would it take for those other countries to feel safe in joining with israel on some kind of a peace deal well probably they needed to know that saudi arabia wasn't going to be a problem and they weren't so i would say that what we're seeing here is that trump played it so well that two members of his administration were nominated for a nobel peace prize i think at least we could speculate we can't know this for sure that the way he handled the khashoggi thing probably mattered it probably mattered to the point of two nobel peace prize nominations totally deserved avi berkowitz and jared kushner for their good work in the middle east there so next topic i guess joe biden's presidential approval is up um you know the the weekly variations probably are not terribly telling but it's up now i think that biden has learned that just staying out of the news himself it just really works for him so so maybe just staying out of the news we'll just keep working um we'll see now rasmussen also did a poll and found out that most voters now believe china is an enemy and they say that president biden's policy toward china is worse than trump's so biden actually is not getting as high marks as trump did on dealing with china arguably the biggest issue in the world arguably so here's the actual numbers from rasmussen so 50 said biden policy was worse than trump on china 50 say china's an enemy 80 say they're an ally 37 say somewhere in between so not quite an ally not quite an enemy but somewhere in between and five percent not said not sure so when you add up the ones that are not the ones saying that they're an enemy some of them are unsure or in between so there's a real dominant opinion that china is an enemy now let me ask you this for those of you who have been watching me the longest when was the last time that i was persuading hard about something and you didn't see it go that way now that doesn't mean that i made a difference but i'm just asking you to make this observation that when i have taken a strong stand on persuasion on whatever it is it always goes my way have you noticed that now some of it might be unpicking the right side it might just be good at picking the winning side right it could be just that but it is also true that i am a trained persuader with a very large platform that is watched or at least it was watched by the white house and other people i don't know if anybody in the biden administration is tuning in i haven't heard that so i don't know that they are but i'll just put it out there i'm not going to take any credit for anything but i don't know there are too many people who pushed harder to make china look like what they really are an enemy to the united states so i will take some credit for having been on the right side and i'll take some credit for having done my best to move the needle and the needle moved but that doesn't mean i can take credit for it obviously a lot of people a lot of people you know gordon chang you can name you can name lots of other names who have been pushing against china so it was a group effort this is a perfect example i would say of this interplay between government and people somebody in the comments says you moved me so there was somebody who was persuaded there so we don't know how many but somebody was um so let's see uh that's enough about china so there was a uh survey about uh what was of most concern to the gop versus what is most concerned to the democrats i'll just read you there the top things on the list so gop was most concerned about illegal immigration police support higher taxes and liberal media bias so those were top concerns weirdly the coronavirus doesn't seem to be on either team's top concerns jack passovic pointed that out how could neither the democrats nor the republicans put coronavirus in their top four i guess everybody thinks it's kind of solved we just have to wait it out so and that would be fair i'm not sure i would have put coronavirus at the top because i also think it's solved i just think it's a waiting game now we don't have to wonder if we'll beat it we're going to beat it right so this is a given now but here's what the democrats had as their top concerns now i'm going to remind you again the gop illegal immigration police support high taxes and media bias hold those in your head and now see if you can find a pattern what the democrats are most concerned are about are trump supporters white nationalism systemic racism and gun violence what do all those things have in common that the gop does not have in common their issues are different that's interesting somebody says the gop is more about freedom no i don't see that i don't see that yeah the biggest difference is that the democrat major concerns are based on media brainwashing and not based on reality it's just not based on reality now is are trump supporters really like the big problem in this country i don't feel it it feels like that's just a fake news sort of uh narrative that just got out of control same thing with white nationalism which is really just another way of saying trump supporters if you're a democrat and again systemic racism gun violence each of these are the biggest issues not because they're not real systemic racism is real and if you're black it's a pretty damn big problem and if you're white and you like or anything else and you like fairness it's a really big problem so i'm not gonna i'm not gonna say systemic racism is small but the way they talk about it is not about the the teachers unions which is the cause of systemic racism or the the biggest perpetuator of it because it doesn't give a poor poor kid of any type a good chance of coming out of it if you don't fix that you're not going to fix systemic racism you're not even going to get close education gap has to be closed or forget it everything else you do is a waste of time you got to close the education gap and for that you need school choice but uh so the democrat and even gun violence uh i would argue um as big a problem as that is is limited to certain places right in your town is gun violence the big problem i mean chicago definitely yeah chicago is definitely terrible but how about your town is where would you list gun violence on your top priorities i can't think of any in my town i can't think of any gun violence in my town the whole time i've lived here and i would think that a lot of you i mean most of you know somebody who got killed by a gun i i do know people have been killed by guns but uh not lately so i wouldn't have put it in my top four so but again that i think that depends where you live so it's kind of really amazing that the democrats are actually hallucinating about what's important they're actually hallucinating we told you yesterday that the something like 44 of democrats believe that over a thousand unarmed black people are killed by police every year the real number is 30.

so i mean that's just a brainwashing problem right you don't go from 30 to a thousand unless somebody's brainwashed you because they were they felt pretty confident about their estimate somebody says 27 not 30.

but it's in that range so luke stark on twitter says you could say the same about republicans meaning the same meaning that the republicans are brainwashed to think that their issues are big cetro is illegal immigration and an imaginary problem well if you said how big of a problem is it at the moment you can make an argument that it's under control just today like literally wednesday you could say well today you know there's a problem but it doesn't seem to be ruining the country in some direct way but the problem with illegal immigration is that it can go from whatever you think is manageable to something that isn't manageable in just a week right and then of course how do you ignore the fact as the comments are saying that we have 11 million or however a million 25 million you know uh people who are undocumented in this country that's a big thing now whether you call that a problem or not i think does depend on what media you're looking at but in terms of illegal immigration even if you thought it wasn't a problem so far it's obviously something that would become a big problem if you handle it wrong obviously police support as as my critic pointed out it's not as if the police have gone away you know the republicans might be a little bit too concerned about police support relative to the actual news but both illegal immigration and police support are about what might happen right if you open the borders it would be a disaster if you did defund police which there's a lot of chatter about it would be a disaster so these belong these belong at the top of people's worry list even if you think it hasn't become a problem yet you don't deal with the problem after it's a problem if you can get it early all right i'm seeing reports hannity reported et cetera that three dozen house democrats signed a letter to see if they can change the situation where the president has the sole power of the nuclear launch and they don't want biden to have the power to launch a nuclear attack by himself in other words be the only decision maker now what do you make of that is that democrats who are saying my god even we don't trust biden's mental capacity to launch a nuclear strike that's one way to look at it that's that's the way republicans are looking at it here's another way to look at it and by the way they did not ask for this when trump was president so just think about this is the problem more of a problem than it was last year it's not more of a problem than it was last year having one person making the decision now the way they're presenting it is that the problem is having one person do it they're not saying biden is a problem they're saying the problem is one person but that was a problem last year too right wasn't that the problem last year that uh that it was one person so you could certainly infer that maybe they're worried about their own their own president the democrats are they don't say that and i think that that would be unfair to assume that's the only reason uh and somebody in the comments pointed out the reason that one person gets to make the decision is because time matters you might have 15 minutes to make a decision you can't find your vice president and find your three other people or whatever to to decide but here's what i would like to toss into the mix the military would not launch a nuclear attack even if the president ordered it if it didn't make sense does anybody disagree with that statement because it's not like biden is talking to the person who pushes the button biden's going to talk to the top generals or top general and he's going to say i've decided this go make it happen he's not talking to the operator right now you can say to yourself but the military general has to comply with an order from the commander-in-chief so therefore it really is just binding making the decision and other people just implementing it not in the real world in the real world that general gets to decide period does anybody disagree with that the general gets to decide even though the constitution doesn't say it's his job he does get to decide now uh somebody's saying they'll they'll only obey a lawful order but let's say it's lawful let's say the president saw some attack or something so it's lawful it just isn't a good idea and you can tell that the president isn't thinking clearly is the general going to launch no no no the general is not going to take that order and make it happen because the general is going to be in the room and say you know might need a second opinion on this one so i'm not terribly worried about this single decision thing with the president because it's not really it's it's the single plus the military and the military you know what are the odds that both of them are crazy at the same time right pretty low i somebody says it doesn't work that way well uh i'm certainly sure that i don't do not know the details of how it works so that that part i'm sure of but i i will not take any disagreement with the fact that the military would have to agree to launch i'm not going to take any criticism on that that's just obviously true yeah and the nuclear football is not like there's a button in it it's it's just begins a process right all right governor cuomo is getting the rose mcgowan treatment so he's been accused of sexual harassment like things by at least one person in the office there's some talk that everybody knew he was like this but somebody named boylan has made the following claims and i think the claims you have to look at the details because if you're only hearing that there are allegations it sounds different than when you look at the specific claims all right so one claim is that on a flight together now i don't know who else was on the flight but obviously at least the pilots and the flight attendants um but he suggested to this subordinate of his that they play strip poker so that's the first example uh which would be pretty creepy right i don't want to minimize that if you're just trying to do your job and your your boss is saying stuff like that pretty creepy all right she also wrote that she complained she complained to friends that the governor would go out of his way to touch her on her lower back arms and legs now um i think in 2021 especially we're all pretty sensitive about touching people right now what uh what do you make of this that he touches people on their lower back arms and legs all right hold that thought we'll get back to it and he reportedly encouraged uh boyland to look up photos of his rumored former girlfriend because he said they could they looked alike and could be sisters uh and then in another act another incident cuomo allegedly uh uh kissed boilin on the lips in an unwanted apparently kiss so here so here are the allegations he once said we should play strip poker he touches her lower back arms and legs and once said you know you look like my old girlfriend and once kissed her on the lips so these are the things for which people want to fire him here's here's the context i would like to add now i want to be careful i'm not defending him hear that as clearly as you can i'm not defending him i'm just talking about it okay so that's not a defense how do you how do you draw the line between something that is clearly just illegal inappropriate firing defense and what is sort of normal mating behavior who makes that decision because there's no doubt that this woman is a victim would anybody disagree with that a victim in the sense that there were these unwanted things that intruded on her career should not have happened nothing should intrude on her career especially of this nature but how do you how do you make men not men anymore because you sort of would have to reprogram us do you think that when cuomo was doing any of these things that he thought she was a victim probably not right he thought i'm just guessing because we can't read any minds right we're not mind readers but put yourself in this situation do you think that he thought he was sexually harassing her i'll bet not i'll bet not which again just to be perfectly clear whether he was aware of how bad he was his behavior was or not is not relevant that's not relevant because he did the things that's relevant it's not it's not relevant what he was thinking so here's the problem without defending anything that cuomo did oh somebody says she was married okay that's that's a whole other level um what is described here is men responding the way they respond in lots of different contexts but of course this is the worst possible way to do it because he had power and she was just trying to do her job so that's pretty bad but i only put this out there that uh let me let me just work through this a few of the examples do you think that when cuomo suggested strip poker that he was in any way serious about that on an airplane where other people obviously were at least the pilots right do you think that was serious no of course not it was creepy and it's also something that men often say without thinking how many times have you been how many women have heard some guy suggest playing strip poker all right men do it sort of as a throwaway line maybe testing to see how she react but it wasn't serious it was no serious thing i would imagine couldn't have possibly been serious secondly when he touches her on her lower back arms and legs that's you know illegitimate in our modern times but how much does he touch the men in his office wouldn't you like to know does he touch the men because some people are just touchy now touching people on their lower back often is in the context of holding a door fairly common have you ever held the door for a woman and then just to make sure that you know you're making sure she goes first you sort of just put your hand behind like just a light touch on the lower back just at a moment just to clarify that you're asking them to go first i think most men have done that right most men have done that at some point in their life but usually with somebody they know better and not necessarily in a work situation which makes it creepy so was he thinking at the time that he was being creepy or was he doing what he always does when he holds the door don't know somebody somebody says he never touches the men idiot in all capital do you think that's true because there are people who do touch men and women now somebody's saying in all capitals and shouting it at me but is that true because um i can tell you that back before it was illegal to touch everybody it wasn't unusual that i would touch a man on the arm in a work situation even even if i were a boss just sort of get attention even in schools you see it like if there's a kid misbehaving one of the best things that teachers learn to keep a kid from misbehaving is you just walk up to them and you put your hand on their shoulder that's it you just put put your hand on the shoulder and the kid will settle down now again i'm not defending him i'm just saying that uh it's a it's a it's a naughty question whether you want to um stop this kind of behavior in all of its forms again agreeing that it's bad behavior inappropriate in the workplace no argument on that right but how do you deal with it let me ask you a question for the for the comments okay in the comments tell me how many of you personally all right and this has to be personal how many of you personally have had a sexual encounter with a boss or a subordinate doesn't have to be a direct subordinate could be just somebody lower level in the company in the comments how many of you yes or no have ever had a sexual contact with a workplace subordinate or superior let's see in the comments i have yes no student yes yes fist pump okay you're funny uh somebody says you're working this too hard i'm almost done the married part you can all put your own judgment on right like i'm not defending any of it so you don't have to argue with me about it um it's it's interesting how many people are not answering the question that's pretty interesting look at all the yeses now you're seeing uh let's see more no's than yes's but there are a lot of yeses all right i'm seeing it both on youtube and periscope look at all the yeses so everybody everybody here who is jumping on cuomo just consider the context just consider the context so i'm not defending him just saying it's a pretty widespread thing all right there's uh we now know that another racism hoax has emerged i guess a few years ago in 2018 an elite massachusetts liberal arts college there was a woman who complained about racism and now we know none of it was true was all made up and it ruined it ruined several people's lives so there were people who i'm still looking at all the yeses somebody says yes and married him a lot of people got married to people that were different levels in their own company somebody says all right uh let's see who is this mr brock rocky says in all capital letters scott defending molesting a married lady am i doing that did you see me do that did you see me defending even though i stopped every 10 seconds to say i'm not defending i'm not apologizing for it it's all bad behavior did anybody see that well you're too dumb to be on this so you are blocked forever smart people only all right uh moving on is there a name for the psychological disorder where you see white supremacists everywhere because you know we had what am i hearing there's something bad happening around my house somewhere okay um so we we had trump derangement syndrome to describe people who were temporarily crazy about trump but now we're seeing like legitimate people who think they see white supremacy everywhere and is there a name for that medical condition and there is apophenia so a-p-o-p-h-e-n-i-a is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between seemingly unrelated things no it's not specific to seeing white supremacy everywhere but the examples you see are when people are putting together unrelated things so they'll say yeah yeah if you look at any one thing not a lot of white supremacists in fact when the kkk had their their big gathering they got what a dozen people so if you look at any one example it seems trivial so you have to look at the whole tapestry it's it's the the connected you know largeness of it it's not just the one example here or there and that actually has a name apophenia so for example um just i guess it was yesterday was it uh who was it sheila jackson who was just corrected on the find people hoax by representative biggs so joel reported on this and i probably have that in my notes somewhere but forgot yeah so uh oh um i'm sorry um yeah so it was uh representative jackson lee of texas and what's her real name jackson lee is her uh is her twitter handle anyway she tried to use the charlottesville fine people hoax at a house judiciary committee hearing yesterday imagine bringing up the fine people hoax after it had been completely debunked at the uh at the trump uh impeachment trial but representative andy biggs responded to it by playing the entire video to show that the whole thing was a hoax so yeah representative jackson lee getting the name correct finally was completely just faced somebody says it's sheila oh it's sheila jackson lee that's the full name thank you all right fact check it's sheila jackson lee anyway she got fact-checked hard and um good for representative biggs so this should happen every time this hoax plays every single time somebody should just say stop and just play the hoax now the find people oaks is one of the biggest parts of the the tapestry that says the world is full of white supremacists of the united states um so apophenia is what it's called um my new first uh choice for leadership in yeah as we're looking for new leaders to emerge is uh representative elise stefanik from upstate new york where i was where i came from went to harvard pretty smart um youngest person youngest woman to be elected in congress i think and she is uh she's she's got some uh some legislation she's promoting here that uh it would limit chinese government involvement in american universities good idea and added her name to another bill that would impose sanctions on any company affiliated with or operated by the chinese military so representative stefanik has correctly identified the biggest problem in the world which is china and his uh promoting legislation which is directly useful and that's a leader that's a leader so we're all kind of just sort of scanning the environment to see if anybody emerges to be a national leader i've said much to your dismay that we only have one at the moment if you don't count trump who's sort of a special case after trump there's only one and it's aoc now again i'm not talking about managing we've got lots of managers who are just sort of doing whatever the polls say or whatever their team says they're just sort of managing the government but there's only one who's going to make noise everybody knows their name is willing to attack their own side if needed as she just did twice in the last couple weeks that's a leader you can hate her you can hate her you can hate her i don't care but that's what leadership looks like there's only one and we're waiting for more right because you don't want to have one one choice maybe elise stefanik is a possibility all right let's talk about the mystery of coronavirus with india and sweden why do india and sweden both have mysteriously good outcomes sweden is mysterious because they didn't do the harsh lockdowns although they are considering it at the moment and india is a mystery because their their problem seems to have decreased just like everyone else's but there's no reason for it they don't have enough vaccinations the the season didn't change they just don't have a reason for it so here's some of the speculation for india the speculation is that at least i guess in mumbai the mumbai slums about half of the population has been infected so they may have antibodies and then also in uh there's at least one other city delay has been 50 infected so in the big population centers they may have so much infection that the virus isn't spreading as well but they also have younger people and i know somebody here is going to say they give hydroxychloroquine i rule that out as an explanation at this point hydroxychloroquine i don't think even makes sense as an explanation right i see it in the comments but i don't think it makes sense because it would just be too obvious if it were right nobody would be talking about india being a mystery if that was the answer to the mystery it would just be really obvious if it was just hydroxychloroquine so i think you could completely rule that out as being a big factor i think you can still allow that it might be a small factor i don't think that's been eliminated from the possibilities that but it's definitely not a big factor we would know that by now absolutely same with ivormectin whatever ivormectin does or doesn't do we would know by now if it's changing the result in some countries and not others and i'm sure we would know that by now and then sweden the other mystery is that why did they do so well without the lockdowns now of course that's being presented on the internet as proof that lockdowns are not effective but as others have pointed out and i didn't really look into this until today do you know the percentage of people in sweden who live alone one person in the household take a guess in the comments let's see your guesses percentage of households in sweden that have one member so this would include largely the seniors and young people uh somebody said 100 don't be crazy all right look at you look at your comments coming in and see how they're all over the place 40 66 45 25 33 etc uh the answer is about 50 let's make sure i'm looking at the right numbers here yeah um and it was uncommon in sweden in 2019 the most recent information for children under 25 to be with their parents so because of the safety social safety net in sweden when a kid turns 18 they pretty much leave the house because they can afford to do it in the united states you can't afford to leave the house necessarily just because you finished college or just because you're 18.

yeah it's 50 percent now what is the primary place that anybody gets an infection in their house that's the primary place i think it's over 50 percent they've narrowed it down to and all of the other causes put together don't equal all the infections that happen in a house now what is a percent for the united states if 50 percent of the people in sweden are living individually how does that compare to the united states let's look at some specific states california it's 25 percent half so sweden has a hundred well no let's not do dumb math we'll just compare sweden has 50 percent of the people with one person in the household california only has 25 percent now for the whole country uh yeah i think it's uh it's higher it's 30 some percent in the united states closer to 37 percent but look at two places that got hit hard uh new york state is 30 30.5 california is 25.

that's gigantic gigantic difference yeah this guy is hopeless so david uh you won't have to worry about me anymore your comment this guy is hopeless has banned you forever all right so do you think that it's possible that the entire sweden uh sweden situation can be described just by having way more people living alone why wouldn't that be the whole explanation because they did they did a lot of social distancing and they did wear masks and places that made sense etc uh and how did they count the homeless that's a good question somebody says they think germany uh found that sharing the house did not increase it the you can do a fact check on do a fact check on there but i'm pretty sure i saw statistics that over 50 came from a household stuff um people ask me uh you don't know this but all day long people pack on me why i'm not uh saying there are two genders and trans people are bad i'm not going to say that you can work on me forever that's not going to change because it's a bad frame it doesn't matter how true it is doesn't matter it's scientifically based or anything like that which is not true but even if it did it wouldn't matter here's what matters we live in a world where kids every day make decisions that affect the rest of their life and a lot of them are permanent right they they do drugs those effects can be permanent they may not pay attention in school those effects are permanent they might they might break the law those effects can be permanent so we live in a world in which people are making choices that could permanently ruin their whole life just all the time but we also live in a world where people make the right choices for themselves and unfortunately um unfortunately you know people will make right choices and wrong choices on every topic so the frame that there are only two genders is so unproductive i don't want to say it's true or false because that doesn't matter what matters is is something helpful is it helpful is it useful has is anybody better off for this argument no not at all the um somebody says don't do the don't do communism kids so here's what use what is useful if you want a society in which you have you know fairness and compassion and empathy and all that the easiest way to think of life is everybody is infinitely different i'm not like other white people sorry sorry i know you would like me to be like the white guy with all the white things but i'm not like anybody i've ever met whether they're white or not i'm as different from every black citizen in this country as i am from every white citizen in this country now not in terms of how society treats me that's a separate question but in terms of who i am i am infinitely different than everybody and so are you it's not because i'm so special we're all unique that's a useful frame that's useful now you might argue when you're oh but you're not that unique and there are groups that have things in common and that's important okay okay it's just not useful to talk like that because i mean the science is still going to do what science does but when we when we imagine that people are on a team you just get in trouble and similarly with the transgender stuff people are trying to convince me scott don't you understand that kids will make the wrong decision and regret it for the rest of their life yes i understand that who doesn't understand that who doesn't feel empathy for that who doesn't think you would like to have less of that everybody nobody's nobody's on any other side if anything tragic happens to a child i think we all wish it didn't happen but we live in a world where you have the freedom to destroy your own life in any way you want i mean there are there are some laws that might make it harder but you do have freedom now um in the in the real world parents of course have a great control over their kids and if the parents also agree to let a child make a decision which ends up ruining the child's life at least the right people were involved at least it was the the people involved made the decisions a lot of them are terrible decisions a lot of them are awful but i don't think you can change that that's one of those things you can't change now you can certainly do everything you could do to make sure people make better decisions that would be good i'd be all for that i do think that you should also consider some kind of moratorium when it comes to people under 18.

i think that that's worth talking about right because it is certainly true that if you're under 18 you should not have the same rights as people who have fully developed brains right so i wouldn't mind seeing a law that says you just can't do it until you're a certain age it might not be 18 it might be 16 you know something that makes sense but uh let's let's not let's get away from this there are two genders even if it's true it's just so harmful it's such a it just turns it into a fight and it doesn't need to be a fight right it just doesn't need to be a fight is there anybody you know on any any political realm who thinks that they would like to see a child make a life destroying decision at age eight no nobody nobody wants to see a child destroy their life at age eight if you can avoid it but you also need to give people their freedom all right so it's always going to be a balance but the there's two genders doesn't get you anything it buys you nothing only trouble all right so that's what i say about that and have i made everybody angry yet probably i think that i think i've said enough have i what made you the most angry about today's live stream of the topics i mentioned if you were here for the whole thing which of my topics bothered you the most because i'll probably do more of those now i'm actually interested to see which one bothered you the most somebody says what about the the girls who want to compete in the olympics the olympics is the olympics should just go away the i think the olympics is some of the worst things that we do to children think about all the children who spent their whole life doing uh ice skating training and then never even made it to the olympics and that was their life goal i think the olympics is child abuse frankly that's just my opinion so i don't think we need to fix the olympics just get rid of them it's just trouble it's not fun anyway all right um the cuomo stuff oh people are saying that the cuomo stuff bothered them the most now did it bother you because you thought that i was defending him or did it bother you is that why so even even though i said 12 times i'm not defending him is the reason that you're bothered is because you say i defended him because i think that's what's happening even though i didn't all right oh ufo investigations i'll talk about that in another day somebody says your obsession with aoc bothers me a lot well you know you get blocked for that right so i'm going to block you for that so everybody who says that i have some kind of obsession with aoc is going to get blocked because i just don't want people like that in my world um did i have an obsession with trump i'm going to talk about the people who know how to do persuasion all right now if you don't want me talking about people's persuasion talents objectively then you definitely should not be part of these live streams the the most useful thing you can get out of this is when i talk about people you don't like using techniques that you could use right so the idea of talking about aoc is so you can learn what she does understand it and borrow this techniques and incorporate them it's the same reason i talked about trump that way so you could take his techniques understand him and incorporate it same thing but you won't have a choice to do that because you got blocked forever all right that's all for now and i will talk to you um i will talk to you later bye for now and you youtubers um uh oh good i'm i'm glad that you like the persuasion conversations you know there's no way to do it well without talking about people you don't like because some of them are really really good at persuasion that's why you've heard of them uh why did cuomo's accusers wait so long who was it in the news who who made just one of the i think one of the best comments on that and said we have to stop asking that question and i agree with that her context was we have to stop asking the question of why the woman put up with it for so long all right because that's always the first thing you ask well why'd they put up with us so long sounds sketchy why would a woman put up with that and i agree with was it wasn't rose mcgowan but it was somebody in the public eye who was kind of smart who said we need to stop asking that question because we do know why people wait too long they got lots of reasons they're afraid they don't want to lose their job they don't want to cause trouble they don't want to ruin their own reputation tons of reasons tons of reasons and you know they also get fooled and stockholm syndrome and all that so we should just stop asking the question what took so long it's just not a fair question uh although it would be interesting to know but it shouldn't shouldn't matter to the situation at all uh why did the youtubers get more time uh the reason is because uh periscope is gonna go away in any day now i think march 1st maybe it goes away so i was favoring youtube uh as a gentle way to encourage periscope people to migrate a little sooner than when periscope gets turned off so it is marketing i'm just making a little bit extra here so people don't get forced to come but maybe they want to get a little extra that's all all right that's all for now

hey everybody

good morning what a great morning it is

just look outside everything's still

where it should be

yes it may be it might be that somebody

snuck into your house last night

took all of your furniture replaced it

with identical furniture

okay that's a steven right joke but it's

pretty funny

it was funny when he does it obviously

not when i do it

but trust me it's funny when he does it

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because it's going to be a good day but

just

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ah yeah yeah that's good

that's good well um

it seems that the uh the recall the

recall

effort for governor newsom here in

california

looks like it's either going to be

successful or it's very close

they have more than enough signatures

but some of them will be challenged

so we don't know if it's quite enough

but it's looking

it's looking like there's going to be

another governor

howard kurtz made a interesting

observation

yesterday i think he says it's no

accident that now that trump is off the

stage

we don't have much to talk about in

terms of federal leadership

right because biden is sort of hiding

kamala harris

doesn't say much so we need to

talk about politics and we need to make

enemies and villains out of people

otherwise

why bother talking about it and so by

default

the the state governors are coming under

fire in a way that we've never seen

before

we've never seen so much pressure on

three different uh governors right so

well if you count uh texas

so california texas and new york are

getting a lot of national

attention and i think howard kurtz is on

to something here

it's just uh there was a void and

it got filled we got filled with

whatever was

the next thing to talk about so it was

the states

um which is the important part

here is to understand that the things in

the news

are not the things that are important

they're the things that

fill up the time they're the things that

fill voids

and so it's you're not really when

you're watching the news you're not

watching some kind of

top priorities or anything like that

often they are

but that's not the purpose of the news

to show you the top priorities

all right here's a question for you

it's a persuasion quiz

i'm gonna ask you who wins in this setup

you've all seen the memes of uh aoc

crying at the what i think was

uh the offense to some illegal immigrant

holding holding pen so the

the original photo it seemed that she

was crying over the

having empathy for the people who were

imprisoned essentially

not essentially the people were

imprisoned and

um so now you've got aoc so she's doing

her political thing and showing empathy

but it got turned into a meme

and now the just a little picture of her

doing the crying

is being pasted in all kinds of humorous

situations to make her look

silly so who won did the republicans win

by taking her meme and showing how silly

she is

and putting in lots of humorous context

did they win the persuasion battle

i don't think so i think they lost hard

here's why what is the most important

thing in terms of persuasion

well if fear is not part of it and

in terms of this particular topic

there's not

a lot of immediate fear it's just

something that needs to be addressed

so fear isn't there what's what's the

next most

persuasive thing visual

visual is persuasive what do you think

of

every time you see the meme of aoc

showing empathy you know where it came

from you know what

everybody sees the meme knows it came

originally from that context

all you're doing by sending that meme

around

is reinforcing the fact that aoc

cares about people more than you do

it's a visual and it shows empathy

it also shows power because we're

talking about her

right if you're a politician and

everybody's talking about you

that's power what is the definition of

charisma it's the best definition i've

ever heard i

didn't make this up myself but it's a

good definition

charisma is power plus empathy

that's right every time that meme is

shared

aoc gets more charisma because you're

reinforcing

the fact that she has empathy oh you

think it's funny and she's

maybe it's you know she's faking or is

misapplied or something

but the visual is her showing empathy

and that is way more important than your

concept

compare these two things a picture of a

leader showing

empathy versus

the other side says wait i got a concept

to sell you

the concept is that although she's

pretending to show

her empathy she's not really showing it

those two things are not equal one is a

picture

a picture is really strong that gets in

your head and lives there forever

a concept just sort of washes over you

percep in terms of persuasion so

aoc wins every time that meme goes

around

by repetition empathy visual persuasion

against a concept and the concept

doesn't really carry very far even when

it's true

i've been asked often recently if there

will be a dilbert

nft the answer is yes

how many of you don't know what that

means probably most

if you're not aware there are things

called

nfts which are essentially

digital uh collectibles

now you should say to yourself oh how

does that make any sense

anything digital can be just reproduced

you just take a screenshot capture your

screen

there's nothing digital that can't be

reproduced so how in the world could

there be a

collectible and the answer is blockchain

blockchain technology allows you

to know for sure who was the first owner

legal owner of a digital image it could

be a video

could be a still image anything and

because

there is certainty about who owned it

you can sell it

so you can buy a collectible just like

you could buy let's say a

baseball card and it could be you know

an image of

uh william shatner i think he's got some

nfts

it could be any kind of collectible or a

dilbert image for example there'll be a

number of them were

under development but uh because the

the blockchain knows for sure who owns

something you can sell it

and part of the benefit is that the

original creator

always gets a share of every future sale

pretty good pretty good design right so

that incense

or incentivizes the creators to make

stuff

because they'll always share in it after

it's gone and

people can collect them now people used

to collect my physical

signature back in the peak of dilbert

mania

especially in the 90s people would

actually buy

my autograph at autograph

you know swap meets and stuff and

sometimes they would check with me

they'd send me a an image and say just

want to make sure i bought your

autograph

or sometimes i would draw a little

dogberg comic

they'd say i just want to make sure this

was really you and i would look at it

and i'd say

sorry sorry

definitely not me so you bought a fake

autograph

and of course there are statistics that

physical autographs

are very often fake really really often

faked

as in so often you wouldn't want to know

so that's in development i won't tell

you the angle we're going to take

on the nfts but you'll like it elon musk

continues to be interesting and he

tweeted today or yesterday

i admit to judging books by their cover

is that a great tweet i admit to

there's no yeah and then later he

clarified that he meant that literally

books

he wasn't making a metaphor about life

he would say no literally books i judge

them by their cover

now the funniest thing about this is

that someone else

after i tweeted that everyone does that

because everyone judges a book by its

cover

we all do right and it's a pretty good

method

it's a pretty good method because among

other things the cover is going to have

you know is this an uh a new york times

best-selling author

that's on the cover uh what's the name

of the author is this somebody

you know somebody i should listen to

it's right there on the cover

and then beyond that i would say that if

you can't come up with a good cover

well maybe your book's not so good

either right maybe your publisher

doesn't have their stuff together so

maybe they don't even pick good authors

so yeah you can judge a lot in the same

way that you can judge people by their

clothing

adjusted by income of course but you can

judge people by their clothing

you can judge books by their cover

you're just not right every time

it doesn't mean you're right but

it's a pretty good clue somebody

responded to my statement that everyone

judges books by their covers

by saying i don't so there was somebody

who said

he doesn't judge books by their cover

that's sort of a lower level of

awareness

if i can say it that way you don't have

a choice

there's no decision making involved

you're not you're not

you can't opt out of judging things by

their visual

appearance that's not even a thing

you could want to not judge a book by

its cover

but you can't you can't it's not an

option

so just the fact that elon musk tweets

this

it just opens up everything from you

know the conversation of free will

to how do you make decisions without

without science

you know backing everything you do

because of course science

just couldn't do it it's too busy all

right

so that was fun elon's always fun

apparently the biden administration is

going to put out a report

saying that the khashoggi murder

is being blamed on mbs so saudi arabia's

leader mbs now uh

somebody tweeted olga lautman tweeted

i'm relieved khashoggi intel report

officially blamed mbs of assassinating

khashoggi

is coming out but where is the

investigation and information

into what role trump kushner pompeo etc

played

because you know you can't just have

stories you got to blame people

somebody's got to go to jail for just

everything

yeah in our in today's world if you get

a job in politics

all the questions will be about when

you're going to jail

and here's how i answered

those people ignoring or playing the mbs

thing the way they did

the outcome of that was the abraham

accords

the outcome the predictable outcome

and i say it's predictable because i

literally predicted it in public a whole

bunch of times

so when the khashoggi thing first came

out and it was obvious that trump was

sort of

underplaying it i said that's probably

the smartest thing

he's ever done because that gives

the united states tremendous leverage

over saudi arabia because we would have

a

a secret not really a secret but we

would have a club

if you will at least in public opinion

trump decided to not use that club

what did he get in return you don't know

do you

i don't know do you think that trump

just think of his personality think of

his deal making

and think of the fact that he would have

been completely aware

completely aware that he had now

leverage

over saudi arabia you think he didn't

know that

i said it every day on you know on a

live stream while it was happening

yeah of course he knew it of course he

knew that gave him leverage

do you think that behind the curtain or

at least

maybe he doesn't even have to say it

right maybe you don't have to

say it to saudi arabia because they kind

of know it

do you think he got something in return

well we don't

know but we do know that the

the peace deals between israel and a

number of countries

started coming together and that never

happened

before what would it take for those

other countries to feel

safe in joining with israel on some kind

of a peace deal

well probably they needed to know that

saudi arabia wasn't going to be a

problem

and they weren't so

i would say that what we're seeing here

is that trump played it so well that two

members of his administration

were nominated for a nobel peace prize

i think at least we could speculate we

can't know this for sure

that the way he handled the khashoggi

thing probably mattered

it probably mattered to the point of two

nobel peace prize nominations

totally deserved avi berkowitz and jared

kushner

for their good work in the middle east

there

so next topic i guess

joe biden's presidential approval is up

um

you know the the weekly variations

probably are not terribly telling

but it's up now i think that biden has

learned that just staying out of the

news

himself it just really works for him

so so maybe just staying out of the news

we'll just

keep working um we'll see

now rasmussen also did a poll and found

out that

most voters now believe china is an

enemy

and they say that president biden's

policy toward china is worse

than trump's so biden actually is not

getting

as high marks as trump did on dealing

with china

arguably the biggest issue in the world

arguably

so here's the actual numbers from

rasmussen so 50

said biden policy was worse than trump

on china

50 say china's an enemy

80 say they're an ally 37 say

somewhere in between so not quite an

ally

not quite an enemy but somewhere in

between

and five percent not said not sure so

when you add up the ones

that are not the ones saying that

they're an enemy some of them are unsure

or in between so there's a real dominant

opinion

that china is an enemy now let me ask

you this

for those of you who have been watching

me the longest

when was the last time that i was

persuading hard about

something and you didn't see it

go that way now that doesn't mean that i

made a difference

but i'm just asking you to make this

observation

that when i have taken a strong stand

on persuasion on whatever it is

it always goes my way have you noticed

that

now some of it might be unpicking the

right side

it might just be good at picking the

winning side right

it could be just that but

it is also true that i am a trained

persuader with a very large platform

that is

watched or at least it was watched by

the white house and other people i don't

know if anybody in the biden

administration is tuning in

i haven't heard that so i don't know

that they are but

i'll just put it out there i'm not going

to take any credit for anything

but i don't know there are too many

people who pushed harder

to make china look like what they really

are

an enemy to the united states so

i will take some credit for having been

on the right side

and i'll take some credit for having

done my best

to move the needle and the needle moved

but that doesn't mean i can take credit

for it obviously a lot of people a lot

of people

you know gordon chang you can name you

can name lots of other names

who have been pushing against china so

it was a group effort

this is a perfect example i would say

of this interplay between government and

people

somebody in the comments says you moved

me so there was

somebody who was persuaded there so we

don't know how many but

somebody was um

so let's see uh

that's enough about china so there was a

uh survey about uh what

was of most concern to the gop versus

what is most concerned to the democrats

i'll just read you there

the top things on the list so gop was

most concerned about illegal immigration

police support higher taxes and

liberal media bias so those were top

concerns

weirdly the coronavirus doesn't seem to

be on either

team's top concerns jack passovic

pointed that out

how could neither the democrats nor the

republicans put coronavirus in their top

four

i guess everybody thinks it's kind of

solved we just have to wait it out

so and that would be fair i'm not sure i

would have put coronavirus at the top

because i also think it's solved i just

think it's a waiting game now

we don't have to wonder if we'll beat it

we're going to beat it

right so this is a given now

but here's what the democrats had as

their top concerns

now i'm going to remind you again the

gop illegal immigration police support

high taxes and media

bias hold those in your head and now see

if you can find a pattern

what the democrats are most concerned

are about are

trump supporters white nationalism

systemic racism and gun violence

what do all those things have in common

that the gop does not have in common

their issues are different

that's interesting somebody says the gop

is more about freedom

no i don't see that i don't see that

yeah the biggest difference is that the

democrat

major concerns are based on media

brainwashing and not based on reality

it's just not based on reality now

is are trump supporters really like the

big problem in this country

i don't feel it it feels like that's

just a

fake news sort of uh narrative that just

got

out of control same thing with white

nationalism which is really just

another way of saying trump supporters

if you're a democrat

and again systemic racism

gun violence each of these are the

biggest issues

not because they're not real systemic

racism is real

and if you're black it's a pretty damn

big problem and if you're

white and you like or anything else and

you like

fairness it's a really big problem so

i'm not gonna

i'm not gonna say systemic racism is

small but the way they talk about it

is not about the the teachers unions

which is the cause of systemic racism

or the the biggest perpetuator of it

because it doesn't give

a poor poor kid of any type a good

chance of coming out of it

if you don't fix that you're not going

to fix

systemic racism you're not even going to

get close

education gap has to be closed or forget

it

everything else you do is a waste of

time you got to close the education gap

and for that you need school choice but

uh

so the democrat and even gun violence uh

i would argue um as big a problem as

that is

is limited to certain places right

in your town is gun violence the big

problem i mean

chicago definitely yeah chicago is

definitely terrible

but how about your town

is where would you list gun violence

on your top priorities i can't think of

any

in my town i can't think of any gun

violence in my town

the whole time i've lived here and i

would think that a lot of you i mean

most of you know somebody who got killed

by a gun

i i do know people have been killed by

guns but

uh not lately so i wouldn't have put it

in my top four

so but again that i think that depends

where you live

so it's kind of really amazing

that the democrats are actually

hallucinating about what's important

they're actually hallucinating we told

you yesterday that the

something like 44 of democrats

believe that over a thousand unarmed

black people

are killed by police every year the real

number is

30.

so i mean that's just a brainwashing

problem right you don't go from 30 to a

thousand

unless somebody's brainwashed you

because they were they felt pretty

confident about their estimate

somebody says 27 not 30. but it's in

that range

so luke stark on twitter says you could

say the same about republicans

meaning the same meaning that the

republicans

are brainwashed to think that their

issues are big

cetro is illegal immigration

and an imaginary problem

well if you said how big of a problem is

it at the moment

you can make an argument that it's under

control

just today like literally wednesday

you could say well today

you know there's a problem but it

doesn't seem to be ruining the country

in some direct way but the problem with

illegal immigration

is that it can go from whatever you

think is manageable to

something that isn't manageable in

just a week right

and then of course how do you ignore the

fact as the comments are saying

that we have 11 million or however a

million 25 million

you know uh people who are undocumented

in this country

that's a big thing now whether you call

that a problem or not i think does

depend on what media you're looking at

but

in terms of illegal immigration even if

you thought it wasn't a problem so far

it's obviously something that would

become a big problem if you handle it

wrong

obviously police support

as as my critic pointed out it's not as

if the police have gone away

you know the republicans might be a

little bit too concerned about police

support

relative to the actual news but both

illegal immigration and police support

are about what might happen

right if you open the borders it would

be a disaster

if you did defund police which there's a

lot of chatter about

it would be a disaster so these belong

these belong at the top of people's

worry list

even if you think it hasn't become a

problem yet

you don't deal with the problem after

it's a problem if you can get it early

all right i'm seeing reports

hannity reported et cetera that

three dozen house democrats

signed a letter to see if they can

change the situation

where the president has the sole power

of the

nuclear launch and they don't want biden

to have the power to launch a nuclear

attack

by himself in other words be the only

decision maker

now what do you make of that is that

democrats who are saying my god

even we don't trust biden's mental

capacity to launch a nuclear

strike that's one way to look at it

that's that's the way

republicans are looking at it here's

another way to look at it

and by the way they did not ask for this

when trump was president

so just think about this is the problem

more of a problem than it was last year

it's not more of a problem than it was

last year having one person making the

decision

now the way they're presenting it is

that the problem is having one person do

it

they're not saying biden is a problem

they're saying the problem is one person

but that was a problem last year too

right

wasn't that the problem last year

that uh that it was one person

so you could certainly infer

that maybe they're worried about their

own their own president the democrats

are

they don't say that and i think that

that would be unfair to assume that's

the only reason

uh and somebody in the comments pointed

out the reason that

one person gets to make the decision is

because

time matters you might have 15 minutes

to make a decision

you can't find your vice president and

find your three other people or whatever

to to decide

but here's what i would like to toss

into the

mix the military would not launch

a nuclear attack even if the president

ordered it

if it didn't make sense does anybody

disagree with that statement

because it's not like biden is talking

to the person who pushes the button

biden's going to talk to the top

generals or top

general and he's going to say i've

decided this go make it happen

he's not talking to the operator right

now you can say to yourself

but the military general has to comply

with an

order from the commander-in-chief so

therefore it really is just binding

making the decision

and other people just implementing it

not in the real world

in the real world that general gets to

decide

period does anybody disagree with that

the general gets to decide even though

the constitution doesn't say it's his

job

he does get to decide now uh

somebody's saying they'll they'll only

obey a lawful order

but let's say it's lawful let's say the

president

saw some attack or something

so it's lawful it just isn't a good idea

and you can tell that the president

isn't thinking clearly

is the general going to launch no

no no the general is not going to take

that order and make it happen

because the general is going to be in

the room and say

you know might need a second opinion on

this one

so i'm not terribly worried about this

single decision thing with the president

because it's not really

it's it's the single plus the military

and the military

you know what are the odds that both of

them are crazy at the same time right

pretty low i somebody says it doesn't

work that way

well uh i'm certainly sure

that i don't do not know the details of

how it works

so that that part i'm sure of but

i i will not take any disagreement with

the fact

that the military would have to agree

to launch i'm not going to take any

criticism on that that's just obviously

true

yeah and the nuclear football is not

like there's a button in it

it's it's just begins a process right

all right governor cuomo is getting the

rose mcgowan treatment

so he's been accused of sexual

harassment like things by at least one

person in the office

there's some talk that everybody knew he

was like this but somebody named boylan

has made the following claims and i

think the claims

you have to look at the details because

if you're only hearing that there are

allegations

it sounds different than when you look

at the specific claims all right so one

claim

is that on a flight together

now i don't know who else was on the

flight but obviously at least

the pilots and the flight attendants

um but he suggested to this subordinate

of his that they play strip poker so

that's the first example

uh which would be pretty creepy right i

don't want to minimize that

if you're just trying to do your job and

your your boss is saying stuff like that

pretty creepy all right

she also wrote that she complained she

complained to friends that the governor

would go out of his way to touch her

on her lower back arms and legs

now um i think in 2021 especially we're

all pretty sensitive about

touching people right now

what uh what do you make of this that he

touches people on their lower back

arms and legs all right hold that

thought we'll get back to it

and he reportedly encouraged uh boyland

to look up photos of his rumored former

girlfriend

because he said they could they looked

alike and could be sisters

uh and then in another act another

incident cuomo allegedly

uh uh kissed boilin on the lips

in an unwanted apparently kiss so here

so here are the allegations he once said

we should play strip poker he touches

her lower back

arms and legs and once said

you know you look like my old girlfriend

and

once kissed her on the lips

so these are the things for which people

want to fire him

here's here's the context i would like

to add

now i want to be careful i'm not

defending him

hear that as clearly as you can i'm not

defending him

i'm just talking about it okay so that's

not a defense

how do you how do you draw the line

between something that is clearly

just illegal inappropriate firing

defense

and what is sort of

normal mating behavior

who makes that decision because there's

no doubt that this woman is a victim

would anybody disagree with that a

victim in the sense

that there were these unwanted things

that intruded on her career

should not have happened nothing should

intrude on her career especially of this

nature

but how do you how do you make men not

men

anymore because you sort of would have

to

reprogram us do you think that when

cuomo was doing any of these things

that he thought she was a victim

probably not right he thought i'm just

guessing because we can't read any minds

right

we're not mind readers but put yourself

in this situation do you think that

he thought he was sexually harassing her

i'll bet not i'll bet not which again

just to be perfectly clear whether he

was aware of how bad he was

his behavior was or not is not relevant

that's not relevant because he did the

things that's relevant it's not

it's not relevant what he was thinking

so

here's the problem without defending

anything that cuomo did

oh somebody says she was married okay

that's that's a whole other level

um what is described here

is men responding the way they respond

in lots of different contexts

but of course this is the worst possible

way to do it because he had power and

she was just trying to do her job so

that's pretty bad

but i only put this out there that uh

let me let me just work through this a

few of the examples

do you think that when cuomo suggested

strip poker

that he was in any way serious about

that on an airplane where other people

obviously were at least the pilots right

do you think that was serious no

of course not it was creepy

and it's also something that men often

say without thinking

how many times have you been

how many women have heard some guy

suggest playing strip poker

all right men do it sort of as a

throwaway line maybe testing to see how

she react but it wasn't serious

it was no serious thing i would imagine

couldn't have possibly been serious

secondly when he touches her on her

lower back arms and legs

that's you know illegitimate in our

modern times

but how much does he touch the men in

his office

wouldn't you like to know does he touch

the men

because some people are just touchy now

touching people on their lower back

often is in the context of holding a

door

fairly common have you ever held the

door for a woman

and then just to make sure that you know

you're making sure she goes first

you sort of just put your hand behind

like just a light touch on the lower

back

just at a moment just to clarify

that you're asking them to go first

i think most men have done that right

most men have done that

at some point in their life but usually

with somebody they know better and not

necessarily in a work situation which

makes it creepy

so was he thinking at the time

that he was being creepy or was he doing

what he always does when he holds the

door

don't know somebody somebody says he

never touches the men

idiot in all capital

do you think that's true because there

are people who do touch

men and women now somebody's saying

in all capitals and shouting it at me

but

is that true because um

i can tell you that back before it was

illegal to touch everybody

it wasn't unusual that i would touch a

man on the arm in a work situation

even even if i were a boss just sort of

get attention

even in schools you see it like if

there's a kid misbehaving

one of the best things that teachers

learn to keep a kid

from misbehaving is you just walk up to

them and you put your hand on their

shoulder

that's it you just put put your hand on

the shoulder and the kid will

settle down

now again i'm not defending him i'm just

saying that uh

it's a it's a it's a naughty question

whether you want to

um stop this kind of behavior

in all of its forms again

agreeing that it's bad behavior

inappropriate in the workplace no

argument on that right

but how do you deal with it let me ask

you a question for the for the comments

okay

in the comments tell me how many of you

personally

all right and this has to be personal

how many of you personally

have had a sexual encounter with a boss

or a subordinate doesn't have to be a

direct subordinate could be just

somebody

lower level in the company in the

comments

how many of you yes or no have ever had

a

sexual contact with a workplace

subordinate or superior

let's see in the comments i have yes

no student yes yes

fist pump okay you're funny

uh somebody says you're working this too

hard

i'm almost done the married part

you can all put your own judgment on

right like i'm not defending any of it

so you don't have to argue with me about

it

um it's

it's interesting how many people are not

answering the question that's pretty

interesting

look at all the yeses now you're seeing

uh

let's see more no's than yes's but there

are a lot of yeses

all right i'm seeing it both on youtube

and periscope look at all the yeses

so everybody everybody here who is

jumping on cuomo

just consider the context just consider

the context

so i'm not defending him just saying

it's a pretty

widespread thing all right there's uh we

now know that another

racism hoax has emerged i guess a few

years ago in 2018

an elite massachusetts liberal arts

college

there was a woman who complained about

racism and now we know

none of it was true was all made up and

it ruined it ruined several people's

lives

so there were people who i'm still

looking at all the yeses

somebody says yes and married him a lot

of people got married

to people that were different levels in

their own company

somebody says all right uh

let's see who is this mr brock

rocky says in all capital letters scott

defending molesting a married lady

am i doing that did you see me do that

did you see me defending even though i

stopped every 10 seconds to say

i'm not defending i'm not apologizing

for it it's all bad behavior

did anybody see that well you're too

dumb to be on this

so you are blocked forever smart people

only

all right uh moving on

is there a name for the psychological

disorder where you see white

supremacists everywhere

because you know we had

what am i hearing there's something bad

happening around my house somewhere

okay um

so we we had trump derangement syndrome

to describe people who were

temporarily crazy about trump but now

we're seeing

like legitimate people who think they

see white supremacy everywhere

and is there a name for that medical

condition and there is

apophenia so a-p-o-p-h-e-n-i-a

is the tendency to perceive meaningful

connections

between seemingly unrelated things

no it's not specific to seeing white

supremacy everywhere

but the examples you see are when people

are putting together

unrelated things so they'll say yeah

yeah if you look at any one thing

not a lot of white supremacists in fact

when the kkk

had their their big gathering they got

what a dozen people

so if you look at any one example it

seems trivial

so you have to look at the whole

tapestry it's it's the

the connected you know largeness of it

it's not just the one example here or

there

and that actually has a name apophenia

so for example um

just i guess it was yesterday was it uh

who was it sheila jackson

who was just corrected on the find

people hoax by representative

biggs so joel

reported on this and i probably have

that in my notes somewhere

but forgot yeah so uh oh um i'm sorry

um yeah so it was uh representative

jackson lee of texas and what's her real

name

jackson lee is her uh is her twitter

handle

anyway she tried to use the

charlottesville fine people hoax at a

house judiciary committee hearing

yesterday imagine bringing up the fine

people hoax

after it had been completely debunked at

the uh

at the trump uh impeachment trial

but representative andy biggs

responded to it by playing the entire

video to show that the whole thing was a

hoax

so yeah representative jackson lee

getting the name correct finally was

completely just faced

somebody says it's sheila oh it's sheila

jackson lee

that's the full name thank you all right

fact check

it's sheila jackson lee anyway she got

fact-checked hard

and um

good for representative biggs so this

should happen

every time this hoax plays every single

time

somebody should just say stop and just

play

the hoax now the find people oaks is one

of the biggest parts of the

the tapestry that says the world is full

of white supremacists of the united

states

um so apophenia is what it's called

um my new first uh

choice for leadership in yeah as we're

looking for new leaders to emerge

is uh representative elise stefanik

from upstate new york where i was where

i came from

went to harvard pretty smart um youngest

person youngest woman to be elected in

congress i think

and she is uh she's

she's got some uh some legislation she's

promoting here

that uh it would limit chinese

government involvement

in american universities

good idea and added her name to another

bill

that would impose sanctions on any

company affiliated with or operated by

the chinese military

so representative stefanik has correctly

identified the biggest problem in the

world which is china

and his uh promoting legislation which

is directly

useful and

that's a leader that's a leader

so we're all kind of just sort of

scanning the environment to see if

anybody emerges

to be a national leader i've said much

to

your dismay that we only have one at the

moment if you don't count trump who's

sort of a special case

after trump there's only one

and it's aoc now again i'm not talking

about

managing we've got lots of managers who

are just sort of

doing whatever the polls say or whatever

their team says

they're just sort of managing the

government but there's only one

who's going to make noise everybody

knows their name is willing to

attack their own side if needed as she

just did twice in the last couple weeks

that's a leader you can hate her you can

hate her you can hate her i don't care

but that's what leadership looks like

there's only one

and we're waiting for more right because

you don't want to have one

one choice maybe elise stefanik is

a possibility all right let's talk about

the mystery of

coronavirus with india and sweden why do

india and sweden

both have mysteriously good outcomes

sweden is mysterious because they didn't

do the harsh

lockdowns although they are considering

it at the moment

and india is a mystery because their

their problem seems to have decreased

just like everyone else's

but there's no reason for it they don't

have enough vaccinations

the the season didn't change they just

don't have a reason for it

so here's some of the speculation for

india the speculation is that at least i

guess in mumbai

the mumbai slums about half of the

population has been infected so they may

have antibodies

and then also in uh

there's at least one other city delay

has been 50 infected

so in the big population centers they

may have so much infection

that the virus isn't spreading as well

but they also have younger people and i

know somebody here is going to say they

give hydroxychloroquine

i rule that out as an explanation at

this point

hydroxychloroquine i don't think even

makes sense as an explanation

right i see it in the comments but i

don't think it makes sense

because it would just be too obvious if

it were

right nobody would be talking about

india being a mystery

if that was the answer to the mystery it

would just be really obvious

if it was just hydroxychloroquine so i

think you could completely rule that out

as being a big factor i think you can

still allow that it might be a small

factor

i don't think that's been eliminated

from the possibilities that

but it's definitely not a big factor we

would know that by now

absolutely same with ivormectin whatever

ivormectin does or doesn't do

we would know by now if it's changing

the result in some countries and

not others and i'm sure we would know

that by now

and then sweden the other mystery

is that why did they do so well without

the lockdowns now of course that's

being presented on the internet as proof

that lockdowns

are not effective but as others have

pointed out and i didn't really look

into this

until today do you know the percentage

of

people in sweden who live alone

one person in the household take a guess

in the comments

let's see your guesses percentage of

households in sweden that have one

member

so this would include largely the

seniors and young people

uh somebody said 100

don't be crazy all right look at you

look at your comments coming in

and see how they're all over the place

40 66

45 25 33 etc

uh the answer is about 50

let's make sure i'm looking at the right

numbers here yeah

um and it was

uncommon in sweden in 2019 the

most recent information for children

under 25

to be with their parents so because of

the

safety social safety net in sweden

when a kid turns 18 they pretty much

leave the house because they can afford

to do it

in the united states you can't afford to

leave the house necessarily just because

you finished college

or just because you're 18.

yeah it's 50 percent now

what is the primary place that anybody

gets an infection

in their house that's the primary place

i think it's over 50 percent they've

narrowed it down to

and all of the other causes put together

don't equal all the infections that

happen in a house

now what is a percent for the united

states if 50 percent of the people in

sweden are

living individually how does that

compare to the united states

let's look at some specific states

california it's 25 percent

half so sweden has

a hundred well no let's not do dumb math

we'll just compare sweden has 50 percent

of the people with one person in the

household

california only has 25 percent

now for the whole country uh yeah i

think it's uh

it's higher it's 30 some percent in the

united states

closer to 37 percent but look at two

places that got hit hard

uh new york state is 30 30.5

california is 25.

that's gigantic gigantic difference

yeah this guy is hopeless

so david uh you won't have to worry

about me anymore

your comment this guy is hopeless has

banned you

forever all right

so do you think that it's possible that

the entire sweden

uh sweden situation can be described

just by having way more people living

alone

why wouldn't that be the whole

explanation

because they did they did a lot of

social distancing and they did wear

masks and

places that made sense etc

uh and how did they count the homeless

that's a good question

somebody says they think germany uh

found that

sharing the house did not increase it

the you can do a fact check on

do a fact check on there but i'm pretty

sure i saw statistics

that over 50 came from a household stuff

um people ask me uh

you don't know this but all day long

people pack on me

why i'm not uh saying there are two

genders and

trans people are bad i'm not going to

say that

you can work on me forever that's not

going to change

because it's a bad frame it doesn't

matter how true it is

doesn't matter it's scientifically based

or anything like that

which is not true but even if it did it

wouldn't matter here's what matters

we live in a world where kids

every day make decisions that affect the

rest of their life

and a lot of them are permanent right

they they do drugs those effects can be

permanent

they may not pay attention in school

those effects are permanent they might

they might break the law those effects

can be permanent

so we live in a world in which people

are making choices that could

permanently ruin their whole life

just all the time but we also live in a

world where people

make the right choices for themselves

and

unfortunately um unfortunately

you know people will make right choices

and wrong choices on every topic

so the frame that there are only two

genders

is so unproductive i don't want to say

it's true or false

because that doesn't matter what matters

is is something helpful

is it helpful is it useful has is

anybody better off for this argument

no not at all the

um somebody says don't do the don't do

communism kids

so here's what use what is useful if you

want a society

in which you have you know fairness and

compassion

and empathy and all that the easiest way

to think of life

is everybody is infinitely different

i'm not like other white people sorry

sorry i know you would like me to be

like

the white guy with all the white things

but i'm not like

anybody i've ever met whether they're

white or not

i'm as different from every black

citizen in this country

as i am from every white citizen in this

country

now not in terms of how society treats

me that's a separate question

but in terms of who i am i am infinitely

different

than everybody and so are you it's not

because i'm so special

we're all unique that's a useful

frame that's useful now you might argue

when you're

oh but you're not that unique and there

are groups that have things in common

and that's important okay okay

it's just not useful to talk like that

because i mean the science is still

going to do what science does

but when we when we imagine that people

are on a team

you just get in trouble and similarly

with the transgender stuff

people are trying to convince me scott

don't you understand

that kids will make the wrong decision

and regret it for the rest of their life

yes i understand that who doesn't

understand that

who doesn't feel empathy for that who

doesn't think

you would like to have less of that

everybody

nobody's nobody's on any other side if

anything tragic happens to a child

i think we all wish it didn't happen

but we live in a world where you have

the freedom to destroy your own life

in any way you want i mean there are

there are some laws that might

make it harder but you do have freedom

now um in the

in the real world parents of course have

a

great control over their kids and if the

parents

also agree to let a child make a

decision which ends up ruining the

child's life

at least the right people were involved

at least it was the the people involved

made the decisions

a lot of them are terrible decisions a

lot of them are awful

but i don't think you can change that

that's one of those things you can't

change

now you can certainly do everything you

could do to make sure people make better

decisions

that would be good i'd be all for that i

do think that you should also consider

some kind of moratorium when it comes to

people under 18. i think that that's

worth

talking about right because it is

certainly true that

if you're under 18 you should not have

the same rights

as people who have fully developed

brains right

so i wouldn't mind seeing a law that

says you just can't do it until you're a

certain age it might not be 18

it might be 16 you know something that

makes sense

but uh let's let's not let's get away

from this

there are two genders even if it's true

it's just so harmful it's such a it just

turns it into a fight

and it doesn't need to be a fight right

it just doesn't need to be a fight

is there anybody you know on any

any political realm who thinks that they

would like to see a child

make a life destroying decision at age

eight

no nobody nobody wants to see a child

destroy their life at age eight

if you can avoid it but you also need to

give people their freedom

all right so it's always going to be a

balance

but the there's two genders doesn't get

you anything

it buys you nothing only trouble

all right so that's what i say about

that

and have i made everybody angry yet

probably

i think that i think i've said enough

have i

what made you the most angry about

today's

live stream of the topics i mentioned if

you were here for the whole thing

which of my topics bothered you the most

because i'll probably do more of those

now i'm actually interested to see which

one bothered you the most

somebody says what about the the

girls who want to compete in the

olympics the olympics is

the olympics should just go away the i

think the olympics is some of the worst

things that we do to children

think about all the children who spent

their whole life doing

uh ice skating training and then never

even made it to the olympics

and that was their life goal i think the

olympics is

child abuse frankly that's just my

opinion

so i don't think we need to fix the

olympics just get rid of them it's just

trouble

it's not fun anyway all right

um the cuomo stuff oh people are saying

that the cuomo stuff bothered them the

most

now did it bother you because you

thought that i was defending him

or did it bother you is that why so even

even though i said 12 times i'm not

defending him

is the reason that you're bothered is

because you say i defended him

because i think that's what's happening

even though i didn't all right

oh ufo investigations i'll talk about

that in another day

somebody says your obsession with aoc

bothers me a lot

well you know you get blocked for that

right

so i'm going to block you for that so

everybody who says that i have some kind

of obsession

with aoc is going to get blocked because

i just don't want people like that

in my world um

did i have an obsession with trump

i'm going to talk about the people who

know how to do persuasion

all right now if you don't want me

talking about people's persuasion

talents

objectively then you definitely should

not be part

of these live streams the the most

useful thing you can get out of this

is when i talk about people you don't

like

using techniques that you could use

right

so the idea of talking about aoc is so

you can learn what she does

understand it and borrow this techniques

and incorporate them it's the same

reason i talked about trump that way

so you could take his techniques

understand him

and incorporate it same thing but

you won't have a choice to do that

because you got blocked forever

all right that's all for now and i will

talk to you

um i will talk to you later bye for now

and you youtubers um

uh oh good i'm i'm glad that you like

the persuasion conversations you know

there's no way to do it

well without talking about people you

don't like

because some of them are really really

good at persuasion

that's why you've heard of them uh

why did cuomo's accusers wait so long

who was it in the news

who who made just one of the i think one

of the best comments on that and said

we have to stop asking that question and

i agree with that

her context was we have to stop asking

the question

of why the woman put up with it for so

long

all right because that's always the

first thing you ask well why'd they put

up with us so long

sounds sketchy why would a woman put up

with that

and i agree with was it wasn't rose

mcgowan but it was

somebody in the public eye who was

kind of smart who said we need to stop

asking that question

because we do know why people wait too

long they got lots of reasons

they're afraid they don't want to lose

their job they don't want to cause

trouble

they don't want to ruin their own

reputation

tons of reasons tons of reasons and you

know they also get fooled and

stockholm syndrome and all that so we

should just stop

asking the question what took so long

it's just not a fair question

uh although it would be interesting to

know but it shouldn't shouldn't matter

to the situation at all

uh why did the youtubers get more time

uh the reason is

because uh periscope is gonna go away

in any day now i think march 1st maybe

it goes away

so i was favoring youtube uh

as a gentle way to encourage periscope

people

to migrate a little sooner than when

periscope gets turned off

so it is marketing i'm just making

a little bit extra here so people don't

get

forced to come but maybe they want to

get a little extra

that's all all right that's all for now