Episode 1353 Scott Adams - LeBron, Pelosi, Mask Studies, Police Stuff, and More Ridiculousness

hey everybody come on in come on in it's time for coffee with scott adams the best time of the day and today will be well it's going to be a good one a barn burner if you will hello sweden good to have you in the house arizona nice to have you yes people from all over the world pouring in to enjoy the simultaneous sip and all you need to enjoy it to its maximum potential and really why would you settle for less all you need is a copper bunker glass a tanker chelsea stein that canteen drug or flask vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i think i may have mentioned i like coffee now join me for the unparalleled pleasure the dope meaning of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and it's going to happen right now go so i'd like to say something about that uh chauvin trial that i haven't heard anybody say directly so let me say it the judge was really good in my opinion just the parts we could say and i didn't see much pushback from anybody else i think you know there's a there was uh the dershowitz um observation that maybe he should have done more to keep the jurists away from the news but really really how do you keep these jurors away from the news they had a year of the news before they even got selected nothing changed after that point so they were already tainted there was no way to have a fair election or a fair trial but uh i think the judge did a good job in a difficult trial i would also say that the attorneys both did good jobs i think the defense and the prosecution were both on their game so at least we can take some comfort in that take some comfort and the fact that all the professionals and i think even the the jury we'll talk about that i think they they were serious people doing pretty good work and when you see that in public you forget to call it out sometimes because we like to focus on what went wrong but at least those professionals i thought really um they they should make you proud as an american the judge and both and all of the attorneys should make you proud um there's some more good news the perseverance rover up there on mars just turned some carbon dioxide into oxygen did i mention on mars this is one of those stories where it's so mind-boggling mind-bogglingly awesome that there's nothing you can say about it except say it twice the united states just put some hardware on mars that turned carbon dioxide into oxygen on mars this was after testing out their flying helicopter on mars it's like anything that ends with on mars is just still impresses me i hope i never get bored by any of this stuff well of course the big story is you all saw that as soon as we thought we were over with the george floyd stuff there's a 16 year old young woman who got shot and killed uh by police now if you saw the video and assuming that there's nothing we didn't see on the video that maybe this is the one time video tells us what really happened because video could be quite misleading we know but it looked pretty clear and to me it looked like a case of excellent police work now of course it was widely misreported by the illegitimate news that a policeman killed a woman for no reason right some of the reporting was that the the the knife was already on the ground i'm basically completely misreported uh but now we know from the video that the police officer not only did something that seems clearly within the rules of engagement but really really good police work so here's my question why isn't he being put up for accommodations because i get that the public is really mad at this police officer but his his bosses his supervisors they've seen the video they know that what he did wasn't just ordinary police work it was really good police work as in if i could hire that cop for my police force i'd want that cop that was a split second put his own life on the line because we've all seen the george floyd trial right if you make a mistake in this context you're going to jail this cop put his life completely on the line derek chauvin is now in a 7 by 10 concrete cell 23 hours a day for who knows how long all right this cop took that risk and took one shot i think it was one shot and was accurate and saved a life so i feel as if if his supervisors i know that they're going to take a lot of heat and he's getting doxed and all kinds of things but that shouldn't stop you from putting him in for a commendation oh somebody says it was four shots but it uh it certainly certainly accomplished what he was trying to accomplish so uh although you could argue that four is too many we'll probably hear that argument but it does seem to me that if what we saw on the video is accurate and there's nothing else that we're missing i don't know why he's not being put in for a commendation and i feel like his supervisors owe him that as as just a little bit of counter persuasion in the context of everybody blaming him for being a murderer basically so i feel like that would be fair now if there's something we don't know about the story that would be the usual situation and by tomorrow everything we know may be backwards so keep an open mind that we might not know everything about this even though it looks exactly like we know everything about this how many times have we been fooled when we thought we knew everything about a situation so don't be fooled well the biggest news on social media and it's quite a jaw dropper and this should tell you everything you need to know about the state of corporate news that it was a big story that don lemon and chris cuomo told the truth about a story i'm not making that up that's not an exaggeration it's big news on social media anyway it's big news that don lemon and chris cuomo told the truth about a story that we can all see clearly because it's on the on the the video the about the young woman who got killed by the police and um here's what don lemon actually said um he said that when police roll up on the scene they see people tussling around someone has a knife and their job is to protect and serve every life on that scene protect and serve every life that's what don lemon said police job is to protect and serve every life on the scene that gets really really dangerously close to saying all lives matter isn't it i mean it's not the same you're saying that their duty is to protect and serve every life on the scene but does that imply that every life matters because i feel that that would be kind of racist at least that's what i've been told by cnn so i don't know if this means that um that they've gone full racist because they're doing the thing that i think they consider racist saying that every life matters but maybe that's a different concept so they can lo get away with it over in india the kovit is raging and they've got a new death high and a new infection high and i'm wondering what this does to the skeptics because didn't we believe the ndu was doing fine because uh allegedly they were taking malaria drugs like hydroxychloroquine and allegedly they had lots of sun maybe not as much air conditioning in some cases maybe they had they had some kind of herd immunity already but maybe none of that's true so if there's one thing we know about coronavirus is that we don't know anything about coronavirus every time we think we know something it just turns out not to be the case it's pretty consistent so what do we know about india nothing really right yeah it's a double variant but i can't believe it's only in india right severity seems low somebody says well i imagine that part of this is that their data was really bad before and maybe maybe it's improving or maybe the numbers are just so big that even bad data can't hide it anymore but we don't know exactly what's going on in india and that's kind of like everything else where we don't know exactly what's going on with any country it's just um baffling to me that we still can't sort out why anything is happening why is it going up why is it going down now we think it's because at least in this country vaccinations and that's a pretty good theory i think that's probably true all right singer ted nugent who is a cove denier has coveted and says it's the sickest he's ever been in his life but it looks like he'll survive at least so far so i don't think that'll change his opinion about how dangerous it was as long as he survives but we'll see one of the reasons to not be a coronavirus skeptic i feel like the universe owes it to you to give it to you if you're a skeptic like you've got a little extra danger not in any rational scientific way but does this seem like if you talk out about uh as soon as you become an advocate for something you're gonna get that thing it just feels like he's begging the the universe to give it to him yeah ted nugent is quite a healthy weight and so even though he's a certain age i feel like he'll he'll get through this fine we hope so nancy pelosi went full racist yesterday here's what she said in public she said thank you george floyd for sacrificing your life for justice because of you and because of thousands millions of people around the world who came out for justice your name will always be synonymous with justice that sounds racist to me and i had to i had to think about it for a while to figure out why because my first reaction is just there's something wrong with this but it's hard to put my finger on it exactly and here's what here's what i think bothered me about it it's overtly racist isn't it because i can't imagine this being said about a white person it feels like this is only something a an old white lady would say about a black person and here's what's killing me you've heard the phrase about the soft soft bigotry of low expectations to imagine that george floyd is a hero as opposed to just a victim is sort of promoting him beyond what feels right for a role model and there's a fairly fairly consistent thing that we see on the left is that they're victims they try to turn into heroes and the victims sometimes are not your best role model for example uh even martin luther king was ultimately a victim i mean he was he was killed and in his case you know there's there's more good than bad about emulating him but there's a consistency to victims being martyred and i'm not sure this is a good strategy if you look at the strategy on the right you'll find that the people on the right idolize thomas sowell people are very high on candace owens michael jordan what do those three people have in common three people that people on the right like a lot thomas soul candice owens michael jordan what do they have in common besides being black all right one of the things they have in common is they refuse to be victims and they're uh positive role models meaning that they're just trying to make the world better and you know they're not victims and i just feel as if it is such a disadvantage to idolize victims it's just not a good strategy now i've said this before the victims are real and it's true and we can't forget them and you don't want to minimize them but that's completely different from making them your role models um it would have been far more constructive for the left for themselves the best thing that could have happened is to say that chauvin was guilty according to the jury so you know we've taken care of that the jury has dealt with it he's guilty guilty three times but that doesn't give anybody else a pass and i feel like if you give george floyd a pass for his behaviors that led up to it again it's the cop who went to jail and the jury has spoken but giving giving george floyd a complete pass as pelosi did feels like that setting the bar too low you know something you do only for somebody that you had a negative opinion of that you didn't think the success was somehow an option or something like why would you focus on the on the least the least role model kind of behavior you could ever think of which was you know drug use maybe some criminal behavior resisting arrest i mean that's such a bad strategy so if you care about black america as i do it really it hurts to watch them accept or pursue a strategy that couldn't possibly work for them right this has nothing to do with me like i'm not really directly involved with any of this stuff but i feel bad that they don't have a strategy that could work for them here's a uh little framing thing that might be fun you know we keep hearing about uh everybody's brainwashed right we hear that the the q anon people they're brainwashed we hear that the school kids who are in critical race theory the people on the right say they're getting brainwashed uh antifa what's up with that are they brainwashed how about white supremacists how does a white supremacist stay away supremacist probably brainwashed what would happen let me just put this out here this is a thought experiment okay what would happen if somebody or some organization put together a deprogramming program but it included all of them it's the all of them that's the key part of the idea so somebody builds an actual organization with funding resources maybe they got a web page or a book or whatever and and they're they're they built it all to reprogram people who have fallen into any kind of brainwashed cult like thinking that's unproductive and it would be completely voluntary right of course nobody would have to be deprogrammed you'd have to want it so you know there's that but imagine that you went and said yes my organization deprograms people from brainwashing we include everything from white supremacists to antifa to the school kids who were learning critical race theory to qanon and you don't defend any of your decisions about why anybody's in that group or out so you don't say well here's the reason that we're doing this group you just take it as a given and you just offer the service and you say look i don't it's not even up to us to tell you you're brainwashed if you feel you are we can help you so you have to come to us but we're specializing in these groups because these are the groups who are most likely to need a little help that would completely change and by the way this would be an example of causing people to think past the sale to think past the sale if you're talking about how to de-program somebody you've already gotten them to accept that it needs to be done uh speaking of programming the new the new phrase is get woke go broke don't buy coke i added that last part get get woke go broke don't drink coke so rasmussen is uh following up on some of their reporting from yesterday or their polling uh 33 of black adults say they are less likely to buy coca-cola because of the company's involvement in the georgia election law controversy as new 35 percent of white adults and 44 percent of other non-white adults so black adults and white of white adults almost exactly the same opinion at least you know the 33 to 35 percent of them say they'll buy less coca-cola products because of coke getting involved now if these numbers are anywhere near close and i'm sure that they are at least in terms of what people say they're doing but whether that translates into actual actions is separate but how would you imagine now the first wave of corpus ceos who got involved in the georgia stuff they didn't know exactly how that was going to go maybe they thought it would be a plus because it would make them look good as a company but now they know it's not what happens to the next ceo who thinks they should get involved well the next ceo doesn't have the luxury of knowing it won't work because coca-cola just proved it doesn't work for profits i mean it might work for whatever their social objective is but it's not going to work for the stockholders and ultimately that's that's their primary goal is to make stockholders happy even if they say it's not so what happens to the world now that there's an uh an official national polling company that says effectively through the data it says that getting a little too woke is a disaster for your company what happens to the next one they can't claim they didn't know here it is i mean you could google it you can check it so any any ceo who makes this mistake in the future probably needs to get fired because now you know what the outcome is before you didn't so the ceo of coke you could agree with him or disagree with him but you'd have to agree that he couldn't have known how this would turn out couldn't have known but the next one the next one knows they can't do it i think it's done i mean i think this might put a damper on things you should expect uh a series of dilbert cartoons uh focusing on the ceo getting woke and what that does to profits within dilbert's company so we'll see a little bit of that um not in the same topic the wokeness but i'll come up with some you know analogous wokeness that doesn't get me in trouble um we got some new fake russian news you know i don't feel like we can go one month without some fake russian news so here's the fake russian news which could turn out to be true let me say this as clearly as possible this news which i'm calling fake i'm only calling you fake because it looks so obviously fake but anything's possible right is there some chance i'm wrong yeah yeah just like everything else right there's always some chance but let me tell you the story and let me see if you think this is real news or fake news u.s intel officials have identified russia as the likely culprit now isn't that the beginning of most stories i feel like 25 of all of our national stories are they start with this u.s intel officials have identified russia as the likely culprit and then you just fill in what's the rest of the story but they all seem to they all seem to start with that don't they well we think russia is the culprit we're not going to show you the proof but we've got it not only do we have it but we convinced 16 other intelligence agencies that we really have it and they say we have it too so they agree with us which makes 17 intel intel agencies on the same side how can you doubt us now but here's the story that uh has ident our intel has identified russia as the likely culprit apparently there's a secret suspected neuro weapon yeah a weapon that can scramble people's brains from a distance possibly or probably the same secret weapon that was used against our embassies in cuba and then something in canada happened as well so all these people with headaches and actual verified brain damage and it seems to be coming from a weapon that nobody's ever seen nobody's ever seen it but it's a weapon and it's probably the russians somebody says it's smartphones oh you troublemaker you troublemaker yeah now i don't think it's smartphones but um you do have to wonder uh what are the odds that this is a real story well i would say that given especially the source that i saw it from i'm guessing this is an intel fake news it doesn't look like a real story to me now i want you to all remember that i'm making this prediction because i've been making it since the cuban neuro weapon story that it's completely fake news there is no neuro weapon being aimed at our diplomats or our soldiers that that's my prediction if i'm wrong i'm wrong but i'm going to be spectacularly wrong but i'm not wrong until you see the weapon right if you don't see the weapon you got a little bit of a bigfoot situation why can't we ever get a good picture of the weapon all right um i've told you there's a trap called the skeptics trap which i just gave a name to and it is that once you become known as that skeptic on whatever the topic is you you have a great incentive or pressure to just keep being that skeptic even if the information is no longer supporting your skeptical claim and i feel like this is a trap that is going to happen to a lot of our coronavirus skeptics even if they're right about some stuff so skeptic dr naomi wolf got booted off a twitter temporarily um hold on um so naomi wolf got booted off twitter for tweeting about a study that she claimed came that came out of stanford which she claimed was peer review in which the study claimed that masks don't work so you say to yourself wait a minute that sounds pretty good stanford study peer-reviewed wow we finally have proof that maths don't work except it wasn't really stanford and it wasn't peer-reviewed and it's completely non-credible so totally debunked and i think i'm not positive but i think this is probably the same thing that steve cortez got bumped off of twitter he's back but i think he might have gotten bumped off because the same fake study so there is a there's a fake study that says mass don't work it's attributed to stanford they had nothing to do with it it looks like it's just a fake study so she got trapped by that i don't think she knows yet that it was fake ellen dershowitz says weighed in on this chauvin outcome and he seems confident that it will be reversed in the supreme court largely because of the too much news seeping into the jurors and and they being at personal risk um based on their uh based on their uh knowing they had personal risks so we think that maybe they didn't use the facts now as dershowitz points out and i think this is important it doesn't mean shoving is innocent just because the trial may or may not be reversed because the jurors were too influenced by potentially outside statements by politicians etc that doesn't mean they got the wrong answer it just means you have to reverse it because there would be too much of the wrong kind of pressure so you couldn't feel couldn't feel it's a credible outcome even if it was the right outcome so i always make this distinction between what is credible from what is true or right they don't have to be the same you know right you can have a credible study that's wrong you can have a credible opinion that's wrong yeah and um i'll say again that the jury played this perfectly and uh um until i get counter information which is very likely you know we could find out tomorrow that the jury is a bunch of nerdy wells who just wanted to break the system who knows anything could happen but as of now in the same way that i assume innocence until proven guilty which i did with shelvin i presumed his innocence as hard as i could and then when the jury spoke i accepted that you know i didn't watch the evidence like they did if their opinion unanimously is guilty i'm good with that now there are two possibilities that they voted guilty on all accounts one is that they thought he was guilty on all counts right we're not going to rule that out are we that they actually just voted their conscience they all thought he was guilty on all counts boom go home for the day maybe the other possibility and by the way if that was if that was their legitimate opinion they saw the evidence i didn't not all of it i accept that as a credible outcome but what if they were really sending a message to the rest of us by so quickly voting guilty on all three counts that even the most optimistic of us said huh that's a little bit too on the nose isn't it like it's a little bit too exactly what what the uh let's say the protesters etc wanted it's a little too on the nose feels like a message it feels like a hostas message that that we got that said effectively we don't know what to do we're in trouble we're going to vote three guilties get the message and if that was the message i think the supreme court is going to hear it meaning they're going to hear that maybe the jurors were sending a message just speculation right pure speculation can't read minds i don't know what anybody's thinking i couldn't know that but but so far the facts suggest two interpretations which are both valid at the moment until one of them gets ruled out by future uh somebody says stockholm syndrome maybe maybe a little bit of that what is uh disengagement syndrome i don't know what that means yeah it would be a stealth kind of jury nullification basically they would just kick it up to the higher courts knowing that it would get overturned but in the meantime they've covered themselves perfectly which i would respect i mean if they did it just to protect their families i'm okay with it they have that right let me say this i'd love to see your opinion suppose there were you had a juror let's just take it as a hypothetical who legitimately felt that his day his family would be in danger we won't even make it him or herself we'll just say their family would have been in danger and they vote to save their family but it puts a let's say a person in prison did they make the right decision what do you think did they make the right decision if they protect their family but it puts them hypothetically an innocent man in prison i'm not saying that chauvin's innocent i'm saying hypothetically would that be okay with you somebody says i would drop out of the jury yeah that would be the that would be the smarter play right yeah i think whoever said i would drop out of the jury that's the only legitimate play uh but i don't know if you can do that if you get all the way to the end that's a pretty tough decision if you've gone through the entire trial because you don't want to be the one that wastes everybody's time that's not good either that's not going to help you so if you don't drop out sort of right away i'll tell you when they could have dropped down the day that there was a public statement and they probably heard about it yeah the the day that maxine waters made her statement any of the jurors could have stood up and said i'm out and nobody would have faulted them would you if we had spent millions of dollars in all this time to have this trial but the minute that maxine waters was done speaking in what sounded like a threatening way if one of the jurors had stood up and said your honor i'm out here's the reason and you can't keep me here i'm out and just walked out the door would you blame them would they go to jail would they be in contempt of court i don't think so i don't think so i think all you'd have to do is play the maxine waters video and say look i'm out it wouldn't matter what anybody said no listen to it i'm out i'm out there's no conversation there's no argument there's no debate listen to this i'm out i'm now going to walk out that door i'm no longer on your jury you guys can work it out but i'm out no as long as you did it professionally as long as you did it with full transparency you could just walk right out the door i don't think you would get a penalty for that now of course the judge could probably try to twist your arm with threats or whatever but i don't think he'd stop you in the end he or she would let you walk right out completely legitimate for an american citizen to protect their family completely um all right contempt of court yeah i just don't think that that the judge would pull the trigger on contempt if it's even an option i don't know if it is um somebody says it's a it's a message not stockholm syndrome let's see that opinion jury has not experienced violence or been saved by their captors yeah but you know the stockholm syndrome uh if you're talking more generally if you're just sort of you know trapped with a bunch of people and you've got certain influences on you it's not exactly stockholm syndrome correct but you know you can you can feel that it's in that same direction somehow uh alternate juror would take over well they had already been uh released at one point but yeah if it was before that you could you could do that all right i think that's all i needed to say today so i'm going to go do some other things because i think we've covered all the news that we care about and remember my dilbert nft is for sale until may 1st i don't think people will bid it up until just about the last day so keep an eye on that and i will talk to you tomorrow

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so i'd like to say something about that

uh

chauvin trial that i haven't heard

anybody say directly

so let me say it the judge

was really good in my opinion just the

parts we could say

and i didn't see much pushback from

anybody else i think

you know there's a there was uh the

dershowitz

um observation that maybe he should have

done more

to keep the jurists away from the news

but really really how do you keep these

jurors away from the news

they had a year of the news before they

even got selected

nothing changed after that point

so they were already tainted there was

no way to have a fair election

or a fair trial but uh i think the judge

did a good job in a difficult trial i

would also say that the attorneys

both did good jobs i think the

defense and the prosecution were both

on their game so

at least we can take some comfort in

that

take some comfort and the fact that all

the professionals and i think even the

the jury we'll talk about that i think

they

they were serious people doing pretty

good work

and when you see that in public you

forget to call it out sometimes

because we like to focus on what went

wrong but at least those professionals i

thought really

um they they should make you proud

as an american the judge and both and

all of the attorneys

should make you proud um

there's some more good news the

perseverance rover up there on mars

just turned some carbon dioxide into

oxygen

did i mention on mars

this is one of those stories where it's

so mind-boggling

mind-bogglingly awesome

that there's nothing you can say about

it except say it twice

the united states just put some hardware

on mars that turned carbon dioxide into

oxygen

on mars this was after

testing out their flying helicopter

on mars it's like anything that ends

with

on mars is just still impresses me i

hope i never get bored by any of this

stuff

well of course the big story is you all

saw that as soon as we thought we were

over

with the george floyd stuff there's a 16

year old

young woman who got shot and killed uh

by police

now if you saw the video

and assuming that there's nothing we

didn't see on the video

that maybe this is the one time video

tells us what

really happened because video could be

quite misleading we know

but it looked pretty clear and to me it

looked like a case

of excellent police work

now of course it was widely misreported

by the illegitimate news

that a policeman killed a woman for no

reason right

some of the reporting was that the the

the

knife was already on the ground i'm

basically completely misreported

uh but now we know from the video that

the police officer

not only did something that seems

clearly within the rules of engagement

but really really good police work so

here's my question

why isn't he being put up for

accommodations

because i get that the public is really

mad at this police officer

but his his bosses his supervisors

they've seen the video they know

that what he did wasn't just ordinary

police work it was really good police

work

as in if i could hire that cop for my

police force

i'd want that cop that was a split

second

put his own life on the line

because we've all seen the george floyd

trial right if you make a mistake in

this context

you're going to jail this cop

put his life completely on the line

derek chauvin

is now in a 7 by 10 concrete cell

23 hours a day for who knows how long

all right this cop took that risk

and took one shot i think it was one

shot

and was accurate and saved a life

so i feel as if if his supervisors i

know that they're going to take a lot of

heat and he's getting doxed and

all kinds of things but that shouldn't

stop you

from putting him in for a commendation

oh somebody says it was four shots

but it uh it certainly

certainly accomplished what he was

trying to accomplish so

uh although you could argue that four is

too many we'll probably hear that

argument

but it does seem to me that if what we

saw on the video

is accurate and there's nothing else

that we're missing i don't know why he's

not being put in for a commendation

and i feel like his supervisors owe him

that

as as just a little bit of counter

persuasion

in the context of everybody blaming him

for being a murderer basically

so i feel like that would be fair now if

there's something we don't know about

the story that would be the usual

situation

and by tomorrow everything we know may

be backwards

so keep an open mind that we might not

know everything about this

even though it looks exactly like we

know everything

about this how many times have we been

fooled when we thought we knew

everything about a situation

so don't be fooled well the biggest news

on social media

and it's quite a jaw dropper

and this should tell you everything you

need to know about the state of

corporate news that it was a big story

that don lemon and chris cuomo told the

truth about a story

i'm not making that up that's not an

exaggeration

it's big news on social media anyway

it's big news that don lemon and chris

cuomo

told the truth about a story that we can

all see clearly because it's on the

on the the video the about the young

woman who got killed by the police

and um here's what

don lemon actually said um

he said that when police roll up on the

scene

they see people tussling around someone

has a knife and their job is to protect

and serve

every life on that scene

protect and serve every life

that's what don lemon said police job is

to

protect and serve every life on the

scene

that gets really really dangerously

close

to saying all lives matter isn't it i

mean it's not the same

you're saying that their duty is to

protect and serve every life

on the scene but does that imply that

every life matters

because i feel that that would be kind

of racist

at least that's what i've been told by

cnn

so i don't know if this means that um

that they've gone full racist because

they're doing the thing that i think

they consider racist

saying that every life matters but maybe

that's a different concept so they can

lo get away with it

over in india the kovit is raging and

they've got a new

death high and a new infection high and

i'm wondering what this does to the

skeptics

because didn't we believe the ndu was

doing fine because

uh allegedly they were taking malaria

drugs like hydroxychloroquine

and allegedly they had lots of sun maybe

not as much

air conditioning in some cases maybe

they had

they had some kind of herd immunity

already

but maybe none of that's true so if

there's one thing we know about

coronavirus is that we don't know

anything about coronavirus every time we

think we know something

it just turns out not to be the case

it's pretty consistent

so what do we know about india

nothing really right yeah it's a double

variant

but i can't believe it's only in india

right

severity seems low somebody says well

i imagine that part of this is that

their data was really bad

before and maybe maybe it's improving or

maybe the numbers are just so big that

even bad data can't hide it anymore

but we don't know exactly what's going

on in india and that's kind of like

everything else

where we don't know exactly what's going

on with any country

it's just um baffling to me

that we still can't sort out why

anything is happening

why is it going up why is it going down

now we think it's because

at least in this country vaccinations

and that's a pretty good theory i think

that's probably true

all right singer ted nugent who is a

cove denier has coveted and says it's

the sickest he's ever been in his life

but it looks like he'll survive at least

so far

so i don't think that'll change his

opinion about how dangerous it was

as long as he survives but we'll see

one of the reasons to not be a

coronavirus

skeptic i feel like the universe

owes it to you to give it to you if

you're a skeptic

like you've got a little extra danger

not in any rational scientific way but

does this seem like if you talk out

about

uh as soon as you become an advocate for

something you're gonna get that thing

it just feels like he's begging the

the universe to give it to him

yeah ted nugent is quite a healthy

weight

and so even though he's a certain age

i feel like he'll he'll get through this

fine

we hope so nancy pelosi went full racist

yesterday here's what she said

in public she said thank you george

floyd for sacrificing your life

for justice because of you and because

of thousands

millions of people around the world who

came out for justice your name will

always be synonymous with justice

that sounds racist to me and i had to i

had to think about it for a while to

figure out why

because my first reaction is just

there's something wrong with this

but it's hard to put my finger on it

exactly and here's what here's what i

think bothered me about it

it's overtly racist isn't it

because i can't imagine this being said

about a white person

it feels like this is only something a

an old white lady would say about a

black person

and here's what's killing me you've

heard the phrase about the

soft soft bigotry of low expectations

to imagine that george floyd is a hero

as opposed to just a victim

is sort of promoting him beyond

what feels right for a role model

and there's a fairly fairly consistent

thing that we see on the left

is that they're victims they try to turn

into heroes

and the victims sometimes are not your

best role model

for example uh even martin luther king

was ultimately a victim i mean he was he

was killed

and in his case you know there's there's

more good than bad about

emulating him but there's a consistency

to victims being

martyred and i'm not sure this is a good

strategy

if you look at the strategy on the right

you'll find that the people on the right

idolize thomas sowell

people are very high on candace owens

michael jordan what do those three

people have in common

three people that people on the right

like a lot

thomas soul candice owens michael jordan

what do they have in common

besides being black all right one of the

things they have in common is they

refuse to be victims

and they're uh positive role models

meaning that they're just trying to make

the world better and

you know they're not victims and i just

feel as if

it is such a disadvantage to idolize

victims it's just not a good strategy

now i've said this before the victims

are real and it's true and we can't

forget them and you don't want to

minimize them

but that's completely different from

making them your role models

um it would have been far more

constructive for the left

for themselves the best thing that could

have happened

is to say that chauvin was guilty

according to the jury so you know we've

taken care of that

the jury has dealt with it he's guilty

guilty three times

but that doesn't give anybody else a

pass

and i feel like if you give george floyd

a pass

for his behaviors that led up to it

again

it's the cop who went to jail and the

jury has spoken

but giving giving george floyd a

complete pass

as pelosi did feels like that

setting the bar too low you know

something you do

only for somebody that you had a

negative opinion of

that you didn't think the success was

somehow an option

or something like why would you focus on

the

on the least the least role model kind

of behavior you could ever think of

which was you know drug use maybe some

criminal behavior

resisting arrest i mean that's

such a bad strategy so if you care about

black america

as i do it really it hurts

to watch them accept or

pursue a strategy that couldn't possibly

work for them

right this has nothing to do with me

like i'm not really directly involved

with any of this stuff but i feel bad

that they don't have a strategy that

could work for them

here's a uh little framing thing that

might be fun

you know we keep hearing about uh

everybody's brainwashed right

we hear that the the q anon people

they're brainwashed

we hear that the school kids who are in

critical race theory

the people on the right say they're

getting brainwashed

uh antifa what's up with that are they

brainwashed

how about white supremacists how does a

white supremacist

stay away supremacist probably

brainwashed

what would happen let me just put this

out here this is a thought experiment

okay

what would happen if somebody or some

organization put together

a deprogramming program

but it included all of them

it's the all of them that's the key part

of the idea

so somebody builds an actual

organization with funding

resources maybe they got a web page or a

book or whatever and

and they're they're they built it all to

reprogram people

who have fallen into any kind of

brainwashed cult

like thinking that's unproductive and it

would be completely voluntary

right of course nobody would have to be

deprogrammed

you'd have to want it so you know

there's that

but imagine that you went and said yes

my

organization deprograms people from

brainwashing

we include everything from white

supremacists to antifa

to the school kids who were learning

critical race theory

to qanon and you don't defend

any of your decisions about why

anybody's in that group or out

so you don't say well here's the reason

that we're doing this group

you just take it as a given and you just

offer the service

and you say look i don't it's not even

up to us

to tell you you're brainwashed if you

feel you are we can help you

so you have to come to us but we're

specializing in these groups because

these are the groups who are most likely

to need a little help

that would completely change and by the

way this would be an example of

causing people to think past the sale

to think past the sale if you're talking

about

how to de-program somebody you've

already

gotten them to accept that it needs to

be done

uh speaking of programming the new

the new phrase is get woke go broke

don't buy coke i added that last part

get get woke go broke don't drink coke

so rasmussen is uh

following up on some of their reporting

from yesterday or their polling

uh 33 of black adults say they are less

likely to buy coca-cola because of the

company's involvement

in the georgia election law controversy

as new

35 percent of white adults and 44

percent of other

non-white adults so

black adults and white of white adults

almost exactly the same opinion at least

you know the 33 to 35 percent of them

say they'll buy less coca-cola products

because of

coke getting involved now if these

numbers

are anywhere near close and i'm sure

that they are

at least in terms of what people say

they're doing but whether that

translates into actual actions is

separate

but how would you

imagine now the first wave of corpus

ceos who got involved in the georgia

stuff

they didn't know exactly how that was

going to go maybe they thought it would

be a plus

because it would make them look good as

a company but now they know it's not

what happens to the next ceo who thinks

they should get involved

well the next ceo doesn't have the

luxury

of knowing it won't work

because coca-cola just proved

it doesn't work for profits i mean it

might work for whatever their

social objective is but it's not going

to work for the stockholders

and ultimately that's that's their

primary goal

is to make stockholders happy

even if they say it's not so

what happens to the world now that

there's an uh an official

national polling company that says

effectively through the data it says

that

getting a little too woke is a disaster

for your company

what happens to the next one they can't

claim they didn't know

here it is i mean you could google it

you can check it so any any ceo who

makes this mistake

in the future probably needs to get

fired

because now you know what the outcome is

before you didn't

so the ceo of coke you could agree with

him or disagree with him but you'd have

to agree

that he couldn't have known how this

would turn out

couldn't have known but the next one the

next one knows

they can't do it i think it's done i

mean i think this might put a

damper on things you should expect uh a

series of dilbert cartoons

uh focusing on the ceo getting woke

and what that does to profits within

dilbert's company so we'll see a little

bit of that

um not in the same topic the wokeness

but i'll come up with some

you know analogous wokeness that doesn't

get me in trouble

um we got some new fake russian news

you know i don't feel like we can go one

month without some fake russian news

so here's the fake russian news

which could turn out to be true let me

say this as clearly as possible

this news which i'm calling fake i'm

only calling you fake because it looks

so obviously fake

but anything's possible right is there

some chance i'm wrong yeah yeah just

like everything else right

there's always some chance but let me

tell you the story and let me see if you

think

this is real news or fake news

u.s intel officials have identified

russia

as the likely culprit now isn't that the

beginning of most stories

i feel like 25 of all of our national

stories are

they start with this u.s intel officials

have identified russia as the likely

culprit

and then you just fill in what's the

rest of the story but they all seem to

they all seem to start with that don't

they

well we think russia is the culprit

we're not going to show you the proof

but we've got it not only do we have it

but we

convinced 16 other intelligence agencies

that we really have it and they say we

have it too so they agree with us which

makes

17 intel intel agencies on the same side

how can you doubt us now but here's the

story

that uh has ident our intel has

identified russia as the likely culprit

apparently there's a secret suspected

neuro weapon yeah a weapon that can

scramble people's brains from a distance

possibly or probably the same

secret weapon that was used against our

embassies

in cuba and then something in canada

happened as well

so all these people with headaches and

actual verified brain damage

and it seems to be coming from

a weapon that nobody's ever seen

nobody's ever seen it but it's a weapon

and it's probably the russians

somebody says it's smartphones oh you

troublemaker you troublemaker

yeah now i don't think it's smartphones

but um you do have to wonder uh

what are the odds that this is a real

story well i would say that given

especially the source that i saw it from

i'm guessing this is an intel

fake news it doesn't look like a real

story to me

now i want you to all remember that i'm

making this prediction

because i've been making it since the

cuban

neuro weapon story that it's completely

fake news

there is no neuro weapon being aimed at

our diplomats or our soldiers

that that's my prediction if i'm wrong

i'm wrong but i'm going to be

spectacularly wrong

but i'm not wrong until you see the

weapon

right if you don't see the weapon you

got a little bit of a bigfoot situation

why can't we ever get a good picture of

the weapon

all right um

i've told you there's a trap called the

skeptics

trap which i just gave a name to and it

is that once you become known as

that skeptic on whatever the topic is

you you have

a great incentive or

pressure to just keep being that skeptic

even if the information is no longer

supporting your skeptical claim

and i feel like this is a trap that is

going to happen to a lot of our

coronavirus

skeptics even if they're right about

some stuff so

skeptic dr naomi wolf got booted off a

twitter temporarily

um hold on

um so naomi wolf got booted off twitter

for

tweeting about a study that she claimed

came that came out of stanford which she

claimed was peer review

in which the study claimed that masks

don't work

so you say to yourself wait a minute

that sounds pretty good

stanford study peer-reviewed

wow we finally have proof that maths

don't work except

it wasn't really stanford and it wasn't

peer-reviewed and

it's completely non-credible so totally

debunked

and i think i'm not positive but i think

this is probably the same thing that

steve cortez got bumped off of twitter

he's back

but i think he might have gotten bumped

off because the same fake study

so there is a there's a fake study

that says mass don't work it's

attributed to stanford they had nothing

to do with it

it looks like it's just a fake study so

she got trapped by that

i don't think she knows yet that it was

fake

ellen dershowitz says weighed in on this

chauvin outcome

and he seems confident that it will be

reversed in the supreme court

largely because of the too much news

seeping into the jurors and and they

being at personal

risk um based on their uh

based on their uh knowing they had

personal risks so we think that maybe

they didn't use the facts

now as dershowitz points out and i think

this is important

it doesn't mean shoving is innocent

just because the trial may or may not be

reversed because the

jurors were too influenced by

potentially

outside statements by politicians etc

that doesn't mean they got the wrong

answer it just means you have to reverse

it

because there would be too much of the

wrong kind of pressure so you couldn't

feel

couldn't feel it's a credible outcome

even if it was the right outcome

so i always make this distinction

between what is credible

from what is true or right they don't

have to be the same

you know right you can have a credible

study that's wrong

you can have a credible opinion that's

wrong

yeah and um i'll say again

that the jury played this perfectly

and uh um until i get counter

information

which is very likely you know we could

find out tomorrow that the jury is

a bunch of nerdy wells who just wanted

to break the system

who knows anything could happen but as

of now

in the same way that i assume innocence

until proven guilty

which i did with shelvin i presumed his

innocence as hard as i could

and then when the jury spoke i accepted

that

you know i didn't watch the evidence

like they did if their opinion

unanimously is guilty

i'm good with that now there are two

possibilities that they voted guilty

on all accounts one is that they thought

he was guilty on all counts

right we're not going to rule that out

are we

that they actually just voted their

conscience they all thought he was

guilty on all counts boom go home for

the day

maybe the other possibility and by the

way if that was

if that was their legitimate opinion

they saw the evidence i didn't

not all of it i accept that as a

credible outcome

but what if

they were really sending a message to

the rest of us

by so quickly voting guilty on all three

counts

that even the most optimistic of us said

huh that's a little bit too on the nose

isn't it like it's a little bit too

exactly

what what the uh let's say the

protesters

etc wanted it's a little too on the nose

feels like a message it feels like a

hostas

message that that we got that said

effectively we don't know what to do

we're in trouble we're going to vote

three guilties

get the message and if that was the

message

i think the supreme court is going to

hear it meaning they're going to hear

that maybe the jurors were sending a

message

just speculation right pure speculation

can't read minds i don't know what

anybody's thinking

i couldn't know that but but

so far the facts suggest

two interpretations which are both valid

at the moment until one of them gets

ruled out by

future uh somebody says stockholm

syndrome

maybe maybe a little bit of that

what is uh disengagement syndrome i

don't know what that means

yeah it would be a stealth kind of

jury nullification basically they would

just kick it up to the higher courts

knowing that it would get overturned but

in the meantime they've covered

themselves perfectly

which i would respect i mean if they did

it just to protect their families i'm

okay with it

they have that right let me say this

i'd love to see your opinion suppose

there were

you had a juror let's just take it as a

hypothetical

who legitimately felt that his day his

family would be in danger

we won't even make it him or herself

we'll just say

their family would have been in danger

and they vote

to save their family but it puts a let's

say a person in prison

did they make the right decision

what do you think did they make the

right decision if they protect their

family

but it puts them hypothetically an

innocent man in prison i'm not saying

that chauvin's innocent

i'm saying hypothetically would that be

okay

with you somebody says i would drop out

of the jury yeah that would be the

that would be the smarter play right

yeah i think whoever said i would drop

out of the jury that's the only

legitimate play

uh but i don't know if you can do that

if you get all the way to the end

that's a pretty tough decision if you've

gone through the entire trial

because you don't want to be the one

that wastes everybody's time

that's not good either that's not going

to help you so if you don't drop

out sort of right away i'll tell you

when they could have dropped down

the day that there was a public

statement and they probably heard about

it

yeah the the day that maxine waters made

her statement

any of the jurors could have stood up

and said i'm out

and nobody would have faulted them would

you

if we had spent millions of dollars in

all this time to have this trial

but the minute that maxine waters was

done speaking

in what sounded like a threatening way

if one of the jurors had stood up and

said

your honor i'm out here's the reason

and you can't keep me here i'm out

and just walked out the door would you

blame them

would they go to jail would they be in

contempt of court

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

i think all you'd have to do is play the

maxine waters video and say look

i'm out it wouldn't matter what anybody

said

no listen to it i'm out i'm out

there's no conversation there's no

argument there's no debate

listen to this i'm out i'm now going to

walk out that door

i'm no longer on your jury you guys can

work it out

but i'm out no

as long as you did it professionally as

long as you did it with full

transparency you could just walk right

out the door

i don't think you would get a penalty

for that

now of course the judge could probably

try to twist your arm with

threats or whatever but i don't think

he'd stop you

in the end he or she would let you walk

right out

completely legitimate for an american

citizen

to protect their family completely

um all right contempt of court yeah i

just don't think that

that the judge would pull the trigger on

contempt

if it's even an option i don't know if

it is

um

somebody says it's a it's a message not

stockholm syndrome let's see that

opinion

jury has not experienced violence or

been saved by their captors

yeah but you know the stockholm syndrome

uh

if you're talking more generally if

you're just sort of

you know trapped with a bunch of people

and you've got certain influences on you

it's not exactly stockholm syndrome

correct but you know you can you can

feel that it's in that same direction

somehow

uh alternate juror would take over well

they had already been

uh released at one point but yeah if

it was before that you could you could

do that

all right i think that's all i needed to

say today

so i'm going to go do some other things

because i think we've covered all the

news that we care about

and remember my dilbert nft

is for sale until may 1st i don't think

people will bid it up until just about

the last day

so keep an eye on that and i will talk

to you

tomorrow