Episode 1356 Scott Adams - Turkey Gets Stuffed, Propaganda Updates, Mandatory Kneeling, More Outrages

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after they've been processed in 2021 is exactly the same as it used to be because you know there's one technology that's a little different now i assume that part of the process of processing these these folks involves taking a photograph is that fair to say does a photograph get into the government system every time we process somebody i assume so right now once you have a photograph of somebody who is undocumented and we have a facial recognition which is rolling out everywhere is the ability to just blend into the economy and disappear without being a legal citizen i don't know if that exists anymore i feel as if our electronic let's say requirements of life now will follow you i mean if they take your picture you're effectively tagged it's just like tagging an animal and releasing because anywhere there's a camera you can find them so i would imagine that although we don't have all the assets in place to immediately track every citizen everywhere you know it's coming so i'm not so sure that it matters as much as it used to if you release people into the country now i know you don't like it i just i'm just saying that compared to the risk of the past the technology might be coming to its own and maybe you don't like that either because of privacy etc but just stating it as a fact facial recognition is going to make it really hard to disappear right so uh immigration and facial technology are gonna bump into each other and that's gonna be a big story coming up um new york times is reporting that the death rate for 2020 was uh the highest above normal ever recorded in the country surpassing even the 1918 flu pandemic now i put that out there you know new york times reported it and i tweeted it and and i asked if the skeptics pandemic skeptics have they been convinced you know is this enough to finally convince the skeptics that there was a real pandemic and it really killed a lot of people and the answer is nope not even close not even close so uh and i'm always amused at what level of information it would take to change anybody's mind uh and let me tell you the the pushback number and by the way the pushback is valid all right so even though you know it came from the new york times it looked like it would be a you know a pretty big claim to make if they couldn't back it up but we have questions if you look at the 1918 pandemic the spanish flu you see that they too had a gigantic spike in deaths over the baseline no surprise right but the following year after the gigantic spanish flu spike in deaths it was way under the death rate so the amount of the next year that it was below the average largely compensated for the amount that was above the average the year before so what do we know about the death rate from coronavirus so far nothing we don't know anything because until we have another full year we don't know if we're going to have that same situation where there's a spike and then a gigantic below average year if that happens we're going to be close to break even and it's going to look like what is the theory the the dried tinder theory that the people who died of coronavirus are the people who were very very likely going to die in the next 12 months from whatever comorbidity they had now maybe they didn't know it but the data might actually show that that's what what's happening so can we look at this data and say my god it's clear that this virus was extra extra deadly nope because we don't know how the numbers come out and uh importantly we don't know how many of those deaths are because of the lockdown right that's what you want me to say how many of you were just saying scott say they're also desk because of the lockdown say it say it scott okay i said it i think everybody agrees that there is some number of extra deaths attributed directly to the pandemic lockdown and extra suicides extra you know doses of everything and then here's another question i asked about the the spanish flu pandemic in 1918 how well were we counting deaths because i feel as if a lot of people probably just died at home didn't they in 1918 and if you have a pandemic maybe people end up in the hospital because it takes a little while for them to die and maybe they get counted you see where i'm going in 1918 maybe all that happened was they were good at counting cova deaths but they were bad at counting every other kind of death because maybe just people died at home and didn't get recorded somehow i'm just speculating so i don't know if the 1918 deaths tell us anything and i don't know if the 2020 tell us anything and they're also not done because i i think they cut off in september of 2020.

so every time i think i'm going to learn something because data came out have you noticed it doesn't work no matter what you do oh we got this new fresh data now we know no we don't we don't know anything how did you feel about data five years ago think about it what was your belief about any kind of data that you saw in the news about a big issue five years ago didn't you think it's probably true right you know not always because there were lots of things that weren't true always but five years ago you probably said to yourself well it's probably true it's in the news what do you say now don't you say it's probably not true i feel like that's a big shift right you know there's almost nothing i could see in the news in terms of new data that i would actually just believe the first time i saw it i would say maybe i might talk about it like it's true but in the back of my mind i'd be thinking maybe maybe not so that's a that's a big change in society that we've moved from believing data that our officials give to us versus assuming it's not true and i believe there's some extra freedom in that meaning that maybe it's a good thing maybe it's a really good thing that we don't believe official data maybe that's a big improvement there's something going on in india and like everything else in the world we don't understand it so india we thought was doing unusually well and couldn't explain it but now india is doing unusually not well i'm still not sure we can explain it i think they may have changed some social distancing standards but i don't know if that's the reason because we never know but we do know that their hospitals are overrun so we know something's happening because the hospitals are are you know overfilled and they're running out of oxygen and stuff and there's a big question about whether the united states is doing enough to help in terms of vaccine materials etc now i don't know the details of that it could be that it's just not easy to help and we can't do it but i gotta think that for the long run i can't think of anything that would be better for american homeland security than making a really good try to help india because the only thing that's keeping china from dominating the world is that there are other big countries that ideally can band together the united states and india are natural allies because they both have concern about china they're both democracies and you know we get along great india in the united states so i don't feel that we should be treating india like a normal ally like i i don't think we should treat india like france and we're good to france france is a you know long-term ally i feel like we should be a little extra good to india because they're a little extra important to our long-term future just as we are to theirs we're sort of we're sort of you know bound together by the common threat of china i believe so whatever we can do there to make sure that the population of india goes away saying that the united states did what it could you know people understand that countries will take care of their own population first but still it's probably a little bit we could do that we're not doing and i feel like i'd like the indian public to know that the united states was squarely on their side like unambiguously just on their side so if we could get that done that would be that would be good while i cr i finally crossed a hundred thousand subscribers on youtube yay um and i thought i'd give you a little update on uh shadow banning allegedly now the weird thing about any of this social media shadow banning or whatever it is is that you can never really be sure right there are all kinds of things that look like maybe was this shadow banning i really can't tell but i'll just sort of tell you what's happening as you know a number of my videos get demonetized sometimes taken down more rarely taken down but youtube does watch me pretty carefully and apparently i've been close enough to the line of getting canceled that you know i get demonetized on a regular basis and that's that's sort of their warning that there's something you're doing that's not quite a hundred percent cool with with the rules now almost all i don't know the ratio 95 percent maybe of the things they demonetize get reversed on appeal meaning that they shouldn't have been demonetized is it intentional do you think that getting demonetized 95 of the time is just the organ the is nothing but the algorithm looking for keywords and there's no human intervention in that could be because i talk about a lot of controversial issues so you know the keyword alone could make some advertisers anxious so it could be just that i wouldn't rule that out but i was looking at my traffic over the last year and you can see that my traffic built and built and built through the end of 2020 but just about the time when the big conversation was the big lie do you remember the big lie that's what the mainstream media decided was the term for anybody who is talking about the election integrity in the non-approved way so if you had any non-approved thoughts about election integrity you were in trouble on social media so my traffic was up up up up and roughly my hand is about where the chart was it was a pretty good climb up up up up up until all the conversation was about the integrity of the election and then straight downhill for several months and that as soon as nobody was really talking about the election integrity anymore right back up so i can't tell if there was any human involvement or algorithmic involvement in what was straight up straight down and then back up again but it does coincide with the time that the the powers that be we're trying to suppress uh competing opinions about the credibility of the election was it was that a coincidence was it just because uh the the trump conversation fell off but then i would expect my traffic just to go down forever right if the only thing that changed was that trump is out of office so people who wanted to listen to me for that purpose didn't need to but that would just mean it would go down forever or flatten but but it's it it took off again you just have to wonder right and the fact that we don't know if this is natural or manipulated is really concerning i feel as if i should know if there are human beings suppressing what i'm doing or just the algorithm or just life in general i have no idea in fact i don't even have a good guess of which which one of those things is is causing the change so there's a story about a young woman kirsten heading she was on a soccer team for some college and she refused to kneel as part of the black lives matter stuff she was very much in favor of the concept that you know the the black lives matter as a concept but did not like the organization and didn't think that she wanted to participate so she didn't kneel and she got kicked off the team for not kneeling since when is kneeling mandatory in the united states seriously you know lots of times when i look at people's behavior i ask myself would i do that if i were in that situation would i be the one person who got kicked off the team and the answer is yeah yeah i would have been her so there is a really really big difference between hey we'd like you to kneel we're mad at you that you didn't and you have to the the moment it becomes required required to kneel to an organization or really in the united states you're required to get on your knees to an idea i don't care how good the idea is that's not happening so let me uh let me say as uh full-throatedly as i can that i support this kirsten heating i guess hemming or heating so yeah and i would hire her in a heartbeat if i were hiring whatever it is that she's going to look for a job because that's the person you want you want the person who is going to say yeah now you've gone too far i'm with you on the concept but i'm not going to get on my knees because you're going to make me it's just not going to happen so yeah i would have walked down to the team as well you know twitter has become this weird alternate reality where a number of people that i follow and follow me are in the the skeptical camp and it is amazing to see the data that the skeptics you know put on twitter versus everybody else it's just completely different worlds and the data if you didn't know any better if you weren't good at sort of recognizing bs it looks just as good they're opposites you know one will say that the sky is blue the other other says the sky is orange and they'll just be at the same time about the same data as if as if we can't tell the difference and we can't i i actually don't know sometimes what's true but i've started to block the skeptics who um who have been so wrong for so long you know i say this often but the people who are doubting the official narrative are you know patriots and heroes and you need them even when they're wrong you need the skeptics even when they're completely wrong you just have to have that that tension but we've reached a point where some of the skeptics i'm not going to name names but some of them have been so wrong for so long that i just can't i can't see them anymore i just have to block them out of my life so you may disappear if you're following me if if you've if you've gone too far right i'm still okay with the people doubting mask effectiveness if you want that's fine um but you know there are some things that are just so beyond proven now that uh i don't think skepticism is warranted but it's a judgment call here's a update on uh propaganda some people call it news huffington post ran this headline uh people are tweeting it around cops kill six people in 24 hours after the chauvin conviction don't you feel that headline needed a little context that the police kill six people in 24 hours after the chauvin conviction sort of makes you feel as if as if the the police were just going wild and shooting black people nothing like that actually is you know indicated but uh boy the huffington post doesn't even try to be anything but propaganda so i'm wondering if the fda should require warning labels on news what do you think of that and i'm not sure if they have that power but um let's just talk about this now we've talked about the fact that science has determined that watching only the news on one side of the political aisle gives you brain damage that's the actual word that they use the scientists do brain damage because you can't you can't uh discern reality from fake news if you're only watching one side it doesn't matter which side all the only the right or only the left now i've said before that the people on the right tend to be automatically exposed to the news on the left because that's in the atmosphere it's just sort of around all the time but it doesn't work the other way the people on the left will never watch fox news they'll never click on a link they'll just never see it so they're not going to watch bright bars they're not going to watch anything on the right so although both sides can be silly if you're only watching one side you do get brain damage and i wonder if something like the fda could put a warning label on the news and why not if you knew that consuming only news from one source gave you brain damage and again there's no hyperbole here literally actually those words coming from the scientists brain damage shouldn't you label it now i don't think the label should go too far because then you'd be impinging on you know maybe freedom of speech a little bit too much you know you don't want the government putting too much pressure on freedom of speech but truth and labeling is good telling us when there's a legitimate danger i will still watch it or not watch it i still have a choice you know you're not taking my right to watch it away but what if what if cnn and the other i just used cnn as my example you could apply this to all the news stations what if they had to run a little notice that said consuming news from only one source or one cluster of sources because you know what that means you know only the left only the right or one cluster of similar sources can cause brain damage and make you less capable of functioning as an adult wouldn't that be useful imagine consuming the news with a warning before that they just have to run that says much of this news is unlikely to be true because unfortunately much of the news turns out later to not be true but does the public know that i don't think the public knows that i think some of the public knows it but let's put a warning label on the news and i would put it on all the news i wouldn't i wouldn't discriminate and say it's just cnn or msnbc you'd have to do it on all of them that's my take um so i guess there was some big ufc fight last night i'm not really i don't really follow the sport and the reason i don't follow it is i'm just not a fan of any sport that guarantees brain damage for lots of people i guess that's my theme today brain damage and um you know i'm i'm sensitive to the argument that it's a free country and people can take whatever risks they want but i really don't understand this one like i don't understand how you can watch people get brain damage as entertainment i've watched some pretty bad things as entertainment but i can't watch people getting brain damage as entertainment i watched a clip yesterday and i don't know if this was the fight or it was the fight before the fight but there were two two female combatants and one of them you know they were facing off and one of them does this devastating kick to the head of the other one and you see the other one just wandering around in a daze and can barely stand up and and this daze lasts you know a long time in at least in those terms a long time it's obvious i think can somebody give me a fact check here if somebody gets a strong blow in the face or head and they're walking around like they're confused that is brain damage right i mean we'll call it a concussion or something else but isn't it brain damage and and everybody's cheering yay that was magnificent let's replay that all i saw was somebody get brain damage like forever forever that doesn't go away you know when your concussion wears off you still have the brain damage right it's only a question of how much if you haven't looked into this whole brain damage situation it's a big deal it's a big deal and we we act like it's not so if you want to say it's a free country and people want to damage their brains for your entertainment and their profit i don't know maybe that's okay it's a free country but i don't know how you can watch it like i really i don't i don't understand it at all but it's you know personal personal differences um so biden has a somewhat surprisingly recognized the armenian genocide by the turkish you know historical state and if you don't know about this the the general sense of it is that around world war ii i'm sorry world war one uh turkey was getting rid of armenians and shipping them off to death camps or camps where they died or they're murdering them and and uh basically it was genocide not basically it was genocide and i guess most nations agree on this but in turkey they treat they in turkey they teach their own students it didn't happen so if you're a student in turkey you will literally be taught it didn't happen now given that turkey is a nato ally right and you know we don't want problems with turkey because we need to work with them it was kind of ballsy for biden to you know put the hammer down on him and i'm going to say again you know you've watched me say good things about trump when he was in office and some criticisms so i'm going to be i'll try to be at least a little even-handed i think this should have been done by trump i don't know why trump didn't do this this feels like a biden success that was not a trump success and it should have been somebody said he did that's not true uh no trump did not do this um so but i also have to wonder if there's anything behind it you know is there anything about our our relationship with turkey or anything about the armenian american you know group or anything i feel like there's something more to the story about why it happened because biden's kind of cautious and i don't think he causes trouble unless unless he's got a reason so i feel like there's more to know about this story but on the surface i would say i agree with him now a personal note is that i own some stock in a turkish company that i thought was going to be a good stock for let's say the 20 or 30 year years that i thought i'd hold it which was the turkish cell phone company now the the company itself is doing great except that the foreign exchange you know the the turkish currency just went to hell so anything you invest there is a loser so it's way underwater but um at this point i feel like now that the united states has recognized the armenian genocide and that turkey is still denying it i feel like i just don't want my money there anymore so i'll probably pull it out on monday just for patriotic reasons really i'm not sure it'll be a bad investment in 10 years but who knows so that i don't make any uh investment advice so don't see any investment advice in this i'm just telling you i'm no longer comfortable having any money in turkey feels like a bad place to have money just my personal opinion um i love the few that cnn and fox news have where it feels like everyday fox news hosts are being called racist by cnn and every day that fox news or people are calling cnn as propagandists and i feel as yeah they they found a business model where they can make money off of each other's flaws so part of the content of each of those news networks is insulting the other one it's kind of clever that they they managed to weaponize their hatred of each other and their flaws but it's working so good for them um i would like to make a point which i made in my book how to fail almost everything and still win big it's about optimizers versus simplifiers and i think it explains what's going on with the tony fauci situation uh situation meaning that uh anthony fauci is of course a technical medical not medical but you know an expert on pandemics etc and he's been um telling us that we got to keep our masks on even if we're even if we're vaccinated now that's an optimizer so an optimizer is somebody who doesn't want to leave anything undone if you can get everything done do it even if it's more complicated whereas a simplifier would say you know we'd like to do everything but it's it's going to be too hard so let's just pick the simplest thing we can do that's also big and and see if we can get at least one thing done right and i would say that leaders tend to be simplifiers i'm going to make a generality here that somebody who's a leader or president for example or a governor would be a simplifier because they have to be you can't be a good leader if you're complicating your messages you just got to be a trump-like simplifier reagan was a good simplifier but scientists are optimizers scientists are optimizers and so it's pretty obvious why you get a difference tony fauci is saying if you wanted to optimize you know a reduction of risk you would get the vaccination but you would also wear your mask and part of it is so that other people you know don't feel free that they could take their masks off and maybe they're not vaccinated and um i think that dr nicole sapphire said it best wrapping up this point in a tweet and she said this the best strategy to overcome covet 19 vaccine hesitancy is to assure the public that vaccines will lead to normalizing our lives that would be a simple message right unfortunately the cdc dr fauci biden have all missed the mark with messaging and their lack of their lack of liberation recommendations adds to the hesitancy so the point here being that if you could say to people get your vaccinations and you can take your mask off it's simple right now is it true that we know for sure that taking your mask off would be okay or okay enough the answer is there's a little bit of uncertainty but we do know that the risk would be smallish and so as dr sapphire says and i agree if you're trying to get people to take the vaccination and that's the most important thing let's say from the perspective of our government percentage of people getting vaccinated is the most important thing you can disagree about vaccinations but just follow along with the point if it's the most important thing you don't want to work against yourself by saying you still have to wear masks when you're done even if that would be a little bit better we think maybe not so sure a little bit you're way better letting people die it to that tiny little risk because the greater benefit of getting more vaccinations according to the government would be much better somebody says matthew says i'm spitting facts i don't know what that means sixty percent of new cases had the vaccination i doubt that's true um but there is a period between the vaccination and when you're covered so that that might be part of any data problems there uh somebody says all the evidence shows the coveted shots are dangerous now this is this is that uh two worlds thing you can live on twitter in a certain world in which all of the information says that the shots are more bad than good but you can live in a different world and which is unambiguously true that the vaccinations are good for you in the world those worlds are completely um they're complete you can just go into either of those worlds and live in it like the other one doesn't even exist so if there's somebody on here who says all of the data says that the shots are dangerous you're in a bubble maybe you picked the right bubble that would be lucky but just be aware that the smartest people in the world disagree with you sorry that's just the fact the smartest most well-informed people in the world are overwhelmingly pro-vaccination overwhelmingly not even close so if you're living in a little twitter social media world in which it seems that vaccinations are a bad idea you're not seeing the smart people you you seem to have found a bubble in which there are some smart people but they would be in the skeptical uh camp all right it's like wearing a helmet in a car or somebody says yeah so the point is whether or not being vaccinated is a complete reduction of risk or not you should still simplify and act like it is because that's how to get to the get to the finish line better all right somebody says the smartest people want to enslave us well it's still optional right if the smartest people say um you know x has a risk so far we still have some options about it right now shots won't prevent so there's somebody here saying that the shots won't prevent kovid 19.

you really have a data problem all right if you believe that shots oh in fact i was seen this morning one of the people that i i had to block was presenting graphs that show that the number of infections skyrockets after the vaccines roll out now i don't know of anything that is less likely to be true than that now and they have official sources official sources that show a whole different world than the rest of the world is seeing the rest of the world sees that when the shots roll out the number of infections plunges united states israel etc but there's a whole other world where they're seeing exactly the opposite graphs that as soon as you get a vaccination you get you know you get the disease and the number of infections skyrockets they can't both be true and i feel very confident in saying that vaccinations are not causing more covet and i feel very confident in saying that we do know by now that they work now if you're worried about long-term long-term complications that's something we don't know about right there's no way to know because it's not the long term yet but certainly we know that they uh vastly reduce the risk of getting covert we do know that so if there's anybody here who still thinks that the vaccinations just don't work you are really lost my friends i mean you're really lost because overwhelmingly the smart people know they work all right um so i went over to msnbc and sure enough um they've got a big article there about the biggest hoax of 2020 or one of the two biggest and still they're saying a year later that trump uh recommended drinking or ingesting uh disinfectants they're still saying that as of today msnbc is still telling its audience that trump recommended drinking disinfectants now that's the most debunked lie in the world if anybody's here who doesn't know it just google heal light h-e-a-l-i-g-h-t that's the technology that is the uv light that's injected into the body via via trachea you know a what do you call it a ventilator-like device into your trachea and that was in the news and around social media at the same time that trump was talking about it i had tweeted about it i talked about it it was a real thing and he talked about it as uv light he clearly was aware of that technology whether that becomes a good technology or not probably not i mean most things they test don't work out but it was a real thing and and msnbc is said that he was talking about bleach or disinfectant or something just amazing it's amazing that this that this can happen like right in front of you so the the propaganda is just over the top and i feel like there was something i was going to tell you that i forgot but maybe i didn't oh yes this um given that i've reached 100 000 subscribers on youtube which i think was kind of a kind of a tight rope between getting canceled and not getting cancelled but so far i haven't been cancelled and i was inspired by the story that i told you about the young woman who wouldn't kneel and she sort of inspired me a little bit honestly to do the following tweets all right and i tweeted this we'll see if this gets me canceled i said as a general rule i try to i try to not care about anyone who acts as if they don't care about themselves that's why i don't care about anyone who resists arrest it's still a tragedy but it won't ever be a priority of mine i do care about ending systemic racism by teachers unions so that's in my tweet now let me tell you the technique i had to use to keep myself from getting cancelled here if you don't know how to do this don't do what i did because you could so easily get cancelled for a tweet like this if you don't have enough technique so let me tell you the technique that's in it number one i did not say that i don't care about black lives that would get you canceled because of course i do care about black lives number two i did not say all lives matter because that'll get you canceled so the you know i stayed away from the you know the third rails that are the obvious ones but i'm still in dangerous territory right because i'm saying very clearly that i don't care about anyone who is resisting rest and the theory is why should i care about someone who's not acting as if they even care about themselves i get that it's a tragedy it's a tragedy for the person it's a tragedy for the police officer you know nothing good comes from a shooting tragedy for the family so it's definitely a tragedy but it's not my tragedy and if i'm going to rank all the tragedies to care about it's going to be close to last you have to at least hear about yourself before you can even come to me and ask me to care about you and although i can't read your mind if you're acting exactly like you don't care about your own life i don't care about you i really don't so when i watch any you know police shooting of somebody resisting arrest i just don't care i really don't now i understand this tragedy and i def actually i do care about the family so i care about their surviving family because they didn't do anything right the family was just minding their own business so it's a tragedy for them but i don't care about the perpetrator because they they took that they took that away you know if you're not going to act just at least act like you care about yourself then i'll get involved i'll care about you too but i'm not going to help people who can't do the the smallest thing to help themselves that's just a complete waste of time has anybody here ever tried to help somebody who was a lost cause how did it work out in the comments let me see how many of you have tried it have you tried to help somebody who was just too far gone and you just wasted your time just nothing good came from it how many of you have been in that situation look at the comments yup yup never works out yep you give up yes uh it red pilled me uh oh somebody says it worked out good every once in a while many times yes yes it didn't yes yes yes save your breath yeah i would say the minimum requirement of wasting your not wasting your time let me re-state that the minimum requirement to care about other people enough to help them out is that you have to see they're doing something for themselves like that that they have some intention of things working out there are tons of people who have no intention of success and it's very obvious they have no intention of succeeding no intention of being a good citizen and what can you do that's interesting the best advice you ever gave me was on deciding um let me restate that advice so uh usually here is saying the best advice i ever gave was about deciding and now what that was was the difference between wanting something and deciding to have it right the people resisting arrest and getting hurt they want to be treated right and they want to be safe and they want to probably want to live but they haven't decided because if you decide it's got the seller so i can't tell you how many times over my career somebody has called me a sellout now let me let me summarize by saying uh that that comment sort of labels you as a idiot because you understand that public people are selling things for a living right that we're all selling something what what is styling out means because you have my honest opinion you know that i've probably lost a third of my income by giving my honest opinions so what exactly is selling out i'll tell you what it means everybody who uses that term is so low on the awareness level as a human being that you're somewhere between stupid and all right so try to improve your game criticism's great i don't mind it at all you know i've told you that a good criticism is like money in the bank if somebody criticizes me in a way that i can change something and prove it i was like whoa cha-ching that's a good criticism i'll take it but scott's selling out i tell you it's such a low level of of criticism that uh i just don't know how you you can wake up and keep yourself fed i mean really you're you're barely human at that level uh so i have a i have a suggestion for all the conservatives who are tired of being called racists for just having an opinion on pretty much anything and i'm going to get this this comes from a classmate of mine in seventh grade uh her name was debbie uh i doubt she's watching this now debbie was one of the uh the cue girls you know the attractive girls who who tend to be the mean girls because they can get away with it you know they're popular and they're attractive and one of the things that the mean girls did is uh and it was especially devastating at that age if you tried to talk to them and you were not one of the cool cool boys they would mock whatever you said this way and i'll give you i'll give you my impression so if a guy say a you know seventh grade boy came up to debbie or one of her friends and said hey hey debbie would you would you like to hang out with me this weekend debbie would look at you and in front of her friends would say oh you'd like to hang out with me this weekend and she would just say what you said but like somebody with brain damage and it was devastating because there's nothing you could do to it you just you just like shrink away you're like all right you just you just get out of there it's just absolutely devastating and i was thinking about it because you know every day cnn is blaming blaming a fox news host of being a racist for one thing or another and it would just be hilarious if the way all the conservatives handled those accusations is the way debbie did so that when you know let's say uh jim whatever his name is on on cnn so let's say he's doing an opinion piece and he says uh that cartoonist has said this or that and so he's a racist and my response would just be uh well jim jim had a quote today he said oh jim acosta yes uh jim acosta said and just leave it there don't don't even deal with the facts just go for he's a racist and just every time they say it just do the same debbie mean girl and just leave it there never ever do with any of the content you know that mocking is powerful right if you haven't been mocked by a 14 year old girl when you're a 14 year old boy you haven't been mocked let me tell you that's like the gold standard of mocking really good stuff powerful so uh i'm watching some of you do it in the in the comments and i could tell that i could tell that this is popular uh critical race theory yeah president trump was the gold standard of mocking yeah you're right he probably was better all right so a lot of you are laughing about that all right we'll try it out and uh the next time one of my uh critics uh comes after me i'll do a little video in which i'll respond to my critics with just all right that's all for now and i'll talk to you tomorrow

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well let's see what's going on today

so according to fox news biden's catch

and release program for migrants

so these are the ones who authorities

are processing and then they're released

without court dates so more than fifteen

thousand have been released into the

wild

but here's my question i'm not sure that

releasing

people after they've been processed in

2021

is exactly the same as it used to be

because you know there's one technology

that's a little different now

i assume that part of the process of

processing

these these folks involves taking a

photograph

is that fair to say does a photograph

get into the government system

every time we process somebody i assume

so

right now once you have a photograph of

somebody who is undocumented

and we have a facial recognition which

is rolling out everywhere

is the ability to just blend into the

economy and disappear without being a

legal citizen

i don't know if that exists anymore i

feel as if

our electronic let's say requirements of

life

now will follow you i mean if they take

your picture you're effectively tagged

it's just like tagging an animal and

releasing because anywhere there's a

camera

you can find them so i would imagine

that although

we don't have all the assets in place to

immediately track every citizen

everywhere

you know it's coming so i'm not so sure

that it matters as much as it used to if

you release people into the country

now i know you don't like it i just i'm

just saying that compared to

the risk of the past the technology

might be coming

to its own and maybe you don't like that

either because of privacy etc

but just stating it as a fact facial

recognition is going to make it really

hard to disappear

right so uh immigration

and facial technology are gonna

bump into each other and that's gonna be

a big story coming up

um new york times is reporting that the

death rate for 2020 was

uh the highest above normal ever

recorded in the country

surpassing even the 1918 flu pandemic

now i put that out there you know new

york times reported it and i tweeted

it and and i asked if the skeptics

pandemic skeptics

have they been convinced you know is

this enough

to finally convince the skeptics that

there was a real pandemic

and it really killed a lot of people and

the answer is

nope not even close

not even close so uh

and i'm always amused at what level

of information it would take to change

anybody's mind

uh and let me tell you the the pushback

number and by the way the pushback is

valid

all right so even though you know it

came from the new york times

it looked like it would be a you know a

pretty big claim to

make if they couldn't back it up

but we have questions

if you look at the 1918 pandemic the

spanish flu

you see that they too had a gigantic

spike in deaths

over the baseline no surprise right

but the following year after the

gigantic

spanish flu spike in deaths

it was way under the death rate so the

amount of the next year that it was

below the average

largely compensated for the amount that

was above the average

the year before so what do we know

about the death rate from coronavirus

so far nothing

we don't know anything because until we

have another full year

we don't know if we're going to have

that same situation where there's a

spike

and then a gigantic below average year

if that happens we're going to be close

to break even

and it's going to look like what is the

theory the

the dried tinder theory

that the people who died of coronavirus

are the people who were very very likely

going to die in the next 12 months from

whatever comorbidity they had

now maybe they didn't know it but

the data might actually show that that's

what what's happening

so can we look at this data and say

my god it's clear that this virus was

extra extra deadly

nope because we don't know how the

numbers come

out and uh importantly

we don't know how many of those deaths

are because of the lockdown

right that's what you want me to say how

many of you were just saying scott

say they're also desk because of the

lockdown

say it say it scott okay i said it

i think everybody agrees that there is

some number of extra deaths

attributed directly to the pandemic

lockdown and extra suicides

extra you know doses of everything

and then here's another question i asked

about the

the spanish flu pandemic in 1918

how well were we counting deaths

because i feel as if a lot of people

probably just died at home

didn't they in 1918 and

if you have a pandemic maybe people end

up in the hospital because it takes a

little while for them to die

and maybe they get counted you see where

i'm going

in 1918 maybe all that happened was

they were good at counting cova deaths

but they were bad at counting every

other kind of death

because maybe just people died at home

and didn't get recorded somehow

i'm just speculating so i don't know if

the 1918

deaths tell us anything and i don't know

if the 2020

tell us anything and they're also not

done because i i think they cut off in

september of 2020.

so every time i think i'm going to learn

something

because data came out have you noticed

it doesn't work

no matter what you do oh we got this new

fresh data

now we know no we don't we don't know

anything

how did you feel about data

five years ago think about it

what was your belief about any kind of

data that you saw

in the news about a big issue five years

ago didn't you think

it's probably true right

you know not always because there were

lots of things that weren't true

always but five years ago you probably

said to yourself well

it's probably true it's in the news

what do you say now don't you say it's

probably not true

i feel like that's a big shift right you

know

there's almost nothing i could see in

the news in terms of new data

that i would actually just believe the

first time i saw it

i would say maybe i might talk about it

like it's true

but in the back of my mind i'd be

thinking maybe maybe not

so that's a that's a big change in

society that we've moved

from believing data that our officials

give to us

versus assuming it's not true and i

believe there's some

extra freedom in that meaning that

maybe it's a good thing maybe it's a

really good thing

that we don't believe official data

maybe that's a big improvement

there's something going on in india and

like everything else in the world we

don't understand it

so india we thought was doing unusually

well

and couldn't explain it but now india is

doing

unusually not well i'm still not sure we

can explain it

i think they may have changed some

social distancing

standards but i don't know if that's the

reason because we never know

but we do know that their hospitals are

overrun

so we know something's happening because

the hospitals are

are you know overfilled and they're

running out of oxygen and stuff

and there's a big question about whether

the united states is doing enough to

help

in terms of vaccine

materials etc now i don't know the

details of that it could be that

it's just not easy to help and we can't

do it

but i gotta think that for the long run

i can't think of anything that would be

better for american

homeland security than making a really

good try to help india

because the only thing that's keeping

china from dominating

the world is that there are other big

countries that

ideally can band together the united

states and

india are natural allies because they

both have

concern about china they're both

democracies

and you know we get along great india in

the united states

so i don't feel that we should be

treating india like a normal

ally like i i don't think we should

treat india like

france and we're good to france france

is a

you know long-term ally i feel like we

should be a little extra good to india

because they're a little extra important

to our long-term future

just as we are to theirs we're sort of

we're sort of

you know bound together by the common

threat of

china i believe so whatever we can do

there

to make sure that the population of

india

goes away saying that the united states

did what it could

you know people understand that

countries will take care of their own

population first

but still it's probably a little bit we

could do that we're not doing

and i feel like i'd like the indian

public to know that the united states

was

squarely on their side like

unambiguously just

on their side so if we could get that

done that would be

that would be good

while i cr i finally crossed a hundred

thousand subscribers on youtube

yay um and i thought i'd give you a

little update

on uh shadow banning

allegedly now the weird thing about

any of this social media shadow banning

or

whatever it is is that you can never

really be sure

right there are all kinds of things that

look like

maybe was this shadow banning i really

can't tell

but i'll just sort of tell you what's

happening

as you know a number of my videos get

demonetized

sometimes taken down more rarely taken

down

but youtube does watch me pretty

carefully

and apparently i've been close enough to

the line of getting canceled that

you know i get demonetized on a regular

basis and that's that's sort of their

warning

that there's something you're doing

that's not quite a hundred percent cool

with

with the rules now almost all

i don't know the ratio 95 percent maybe

of the things they demonetize

get reversed on appeal meaning that they

shouldn't have been demonetized

is it intentional do you think that

getting

demonetized 95 of the time

is just the organ the is nothing but the

algorithm looking for keywords and

there's no human intervention in that

could be because i talk about a lot of

controversial issues

so you know the keyword alone could make

some

advertisers anxious so it could be just

that i wouldn't rule that out

but i was looking at my traffic over the

last year

and you can see that my traffic built

and built and built

through the end of 2020 but just about

the time

when the big conversation was the big

lie do you remember the big lie

that's what the mainstream media decided

was

the term for anybody who is talking

about the election integrity

in the non-approved way so if you had

any

non-approved thoughts about election

integrity

you were in trouble on social media so

my traffic was

up up up up and roughly my hand is about

where the chart was

it was a pretty good climb up up up up

up until all the conversation was about

the integrity of the election

and then straight downhill for several

months

and that as soon as nobody was really

talking about the election integrity

anymore

right back up so

i can't tell if there was any human

involvement

or algorithmic involvement in what was

straight up straight down and then back

up again

but it does coincide with the time that

the the powers that be we're trying to

suppress uh

competing opinions about the credibility

of the election

was it was that a coincidence

was it just because uh the the trump

conversation fell off but then i would

expect my traffic just to go down

forever

right if the only thing that changed

was that trump is out of office so

people who wanted to listen to me for

that purpose

didn't need to but that would just mean

it would go down forever

or flatten but but it's it

it took off again

you just have to wonder right and the

fact that we don't know

if this is natural or manipulated

is really concerning i feel as if

i should know if there are human beings

suppressing what i'm doing or just the

algorithm or just life

in general i have no idea in fact i

don't even have a good guess

of which which one of those things is is

causing the change

so there's a story about a young woman

kirsten

heading she was on a soccer team for

some college and

she refused to kneel as part of the

black lives matter stuff

she was very much in favor of the

concept

that you know the the black lives matter

as a concept

but did not like the organization and

didn't think that she wanted to

participate

so she didn't kneel and she got kicked

off the team

for not kneeling since when is kneeling

mandatory in the united states

seriously you know lots of times when i

look at

people's behavior i ask myself would i

do that

if i were in that situation would i be

the one person who

got kicked off the team and the answer

is yeah

yeah i would have been her so

there is a really really big difference

between

hey we'd like you to kneel we're mad at

you that you didn't

and you have to the the moment it

becomes required

required to kneel to an organization or

really in the united states you're

required to get on your knees

to an idea i don't care how good the

idea is

that's not happening so let me uh

let me say as uh full-throatedly as i

can

that i support this kirsten heating i

guess

hemming or heating so yeah

and i would hire her in a heartbeat if i

were hiring whatever

it is that she's going to look for a job

because

that's the person you want you want the

person who is going to say

yeah now you've gone too far i'm with

you on the concept

but i'm not going to get on my knees

because you're going to make me

it's just not going to happen so yeah i

would have walked down to the team

as well you know twitter has become this

weird

alternate reality where a number of

people that i follow and follow me

are in the the skeptical camp and

it is amazing to see the data that

the skeptics you know put on twitter

versus everybody else

it's just completely different worlds

and the data

if you didn't know any better if you

weren't good at sort of recognizing bs

it looks just as good they're opposites

you know one will say that the sky is

blue the other

other says the sky is orange and they'll

just be at the same time about the same

data as if

as if we can't tell the difference and

we can't

i i actually don't know sometimes what's

true

but i've started to block the skeptics

who

um who have been so wrong for so long

you know i say this often but the people

who are doubting

the official narrative are

you know patriots and heroes and you

need them even when they're wrong

you need the skeptics even when they're

completely wrong

you just have to have that that tension

but we've reached a point

where some of the skeptics i'm not going

to name names

but some of them have been so wrong for

so long

that i just can't i can't see them

anymore i just have to

block them out of my life so you may

disappear if you're

following me if if you've if you've gone

too far

right i'm still okay with the people

doubting

mask effectiveness

if you want that's fine

um but you know there are some things

that are just

so beyond proven now that uh i don't

think

skepticism is warranted but it's a

judgment call

here's a update on uh propaganda

some people call it news huffington post

ran this headline

uh people are tweeting it around cops

kill

six people in 24 hours after the chauvin

conviction don't you feel that headline

needed a little context

that the police kill six people in 24

hours after the chauvin

conviction sort of makes you feel

as if

as if the the police were just going

wild and shooting black people

nothing like that actually is you know

indicated

but uh boy the huffington post doesn't

even try

to be anything but propaganda

so i'm wondering if the fda should

require warning labels on news

what do you think of that and i'm not

sure if they have that power but

um let's just talk about this now we've

talked about the fact that science has

determined that watching only the news

on one side of the political aisle

gives you brain damage that's the actual

word that they use the scientists do

brain damage because you can't you can't

uh discern reality from fake news

if you're only watching one side it

doesn't matter which side

all the only the right or only the left

now i've said before that the people on

the right

tend to be automatically exposed to the

news on the left

because that's in the atmosphere it's

just sort of around all the time

but it doesn't work the other way the

people on the left will never watch fox

news

they'll never click on a link they'll

just never see it

so they're not going to watch bright

bars they're not going to watch anything

on the right

so although both sides can be silly

if you're only watching one side you do

get brain damage

and i wonder if something like the fda

could put a warning label on the news

and why not if you knew

that consuming only news from one source

gave you brain damage

and again there's no hyperbole here

literally

actually those words coming from the

scientists

brain damage shouldn't you label it

now i don't think the label should go

too far because then you'd be impinging

on

you know maybe freedom of speech a

little bit too much you know

you don't want the government putting

too much pressure on freedom of speech

but truth and labeling is good telling

us when there's a legitimate danger

i will still watch it or not watch it i

still have a choice

you know you're not taking my right to

watch it away

but what if what if cnn and the other

i just used cnn as my example you could

apply this to all the news stations

what if they had to run a little notice

that said

consuming news from only one source

or one cluster of sources because you

know what that means you know only the

left only the right

or one cluster of similar sources can

cause brain damage

and make you less capable of functioning

as an adult

wouldn't that be useful imagine

consuming the news

with a warning before that they just

have to run that says much of this news

is unlikely to be true because

unfortunately much of the news turns out

later to not be true

but does the public know that i don't

think the public knows that

i think some of the public knows it but

let's put a warning label on the news

and i would put it on all the news i

wouldn't i wouldn't discriminate and say

it's just cnn or msnbc

you'd have to do it on all of them

that's my take um so i guess there was

some big ufc

fight last night i'm not really i don't

really follow the sport

and the reason i don't follow it is i'm

just not a fan of any sport

that guarantees brain damage for lots of

people

i guess that's my theme today brain

damage and

um you know i'm i'm sensitive to the

argument that it's a free country and

people can take whatever risks they want

but i really don't understand this one

like i don't understand how you can

watch

people get brain damage as entertainment

i've watched some pretty bad things as

entertainment

but i can't watch people getting brain

damage as entertainment

i watched a clip yesterday and i don't

know if this was the fight or it was the

fight before the fight

but there were two two female combatants

and one of them you know they were

facing off and one of them does this

devastating kick

to the head of the other one and you see

the other one just

wandering around in a daze and can

barely stand up

and and this daze lasts

you know a long time in at least in

those terms a long time

it's obvious i think

can somebody give me a fact check here

if somebody gets

a strong blow in the face or head

and they're walking around like they're

confused

that is brain damage right i mean we'll

call it a concussion

or something else but isn't it brain

damage

and and everybody's cheering yay

that was magnificent let's replay that

all i saw was somebody get brain damage

like

forever forever

that doesn't go away you know when

your concussion wears off

you still have the brain damage right

it's only a question of

how much if you haven't looked into this

whole brain damage situation

it's a big deal it's a big deal

and we we act like it's not so

if you want to say it's a free country

and people want to damage their brains

for your entertainment and their profit

i don't know maybe that's okay it's a

free country

but i don't know how you can watch it

like i really i don't

i don't understand it at all but it's

you know personal

personal differences um

so biden has a somewhat surprisingly

recognized the armenian genocide by

the turkish you know historical state

and if you don't know about this the

the general sense of it is that around

world war ii

i'm sorry world war one uh

turkey was getting rid of armenians and

shipping them off to

death camps or camps where they died or

they're murdering them and

and uh basically it was genocide

not basically it was genocide

and i guess most nations agree on this

but in turkey they treat

they in turkey they teach their own

students it didn't happen

so if you're a student in turkey you

will literally be taught it didn't

happen

now given that turkey is a nato ally

right

and you know we don't want problems with

turkey because we need to work with them

it was kind of ballsy for biden to

you know put the hammer down on him and

i'm going to say

again you know

you've watched me say good things about

trump when he was in office

and some criticisms so i'm going to be

i'll try to be at least a little

even-handed i think this should have

been done by trump

i don't know why trump didn't do this

this feels like a biden

success that was not a trump success and

it should have been

somebody said he did that's not true

uh no trump did not do this

um so but i also have to wonder if

there's anything behind it

you know is there anything about our our

relationship with turkey

or anything about the armenian american

you know group or anything i feel like

there's something more to the story

about why it happened because biden's

kind of cautious

and i don't think he causes trouble

unless

unless he's got a reason so i feel like

there's more to know about this story

but

on the surface i would say i agree with

him

now a personal note

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is that i own some stock

in a turkish company

that i thought was going to be a good

stock for let's say

the 20 or 30 year years that i thought

i'd hold it

which was the turkish cell phone company

now the

the company itself is doing great except

that the

foreign exchange you know the the

turkish currency just

went to hell so anything you invest

there is a loser

so it's way underwater but um

at this point i feel like now that the

united states has recognized

the armenian genocide and that turkey is

still denying it

i feel like i just don't want my money

there anymore

so i'll probably pull it out on monday

just for

patriotic reasons really i'm not sure

it'll be a bad investment

in 10 years but who knows so that i

don't make any uh

investment advice so don't see any

investment

advice in this i'm just telling you i'm

no longer comfortable having any money

in turkey feels like a bad place to have

money

just my personal opinion um

i love the few that cnn and fox news

have

where it feels like everyday fox news

hosts are being called racist by cnn

and every day that fox news or people

are calling cnn as propagandists

and i feel as yeah they they found a

business model where they can make money

off of each other's flaws

so part of the content of each of those

news networks

is insulting the other one it's kind of

clever that they

they managed to weaponize their hatred

of each other and their flaws

but it's working so good for them um

i would like to make a point which i

made in my book

how to fail almost everything and still

win big it's about

optimizers versus simplifiers

and i think it explains what's going on

with the

tony fauci situation uh

situation meaning that uh anthony fauci

is of course a technical medical

not medical but you know an expert on

pandemics etc

and he's been um

telling us that we got to keep our masks

on even if we're

even if we're vaccinated now that's an

optimizer

so an optimizer is somebody who doesn't

want to leave anything undone

if you can get everything done do it

even if it's more complicated

whereas a simplifier would say you know

we'd like to do

everything but it's it's going to be too

hard so let's just pick the simplest

thing we can do

that's also big and and see if we can

get at least one thing done right

and i would say that leaders tend to be

simplifiers

i'm going to make a generality here that

somebody who's a leader or president for

example

or a governor would be a simplifier

because they have to be

you can't be a good leader if you're

complicating your messages you just got

to be a

trump-like simplifier reagan was a good

simplifier

but scientists are optimizers scientists

are

optimizers and so it's pretty obvious

why you get a difference

tony fauci is saying if you wanted to

optimize

you know a reduction of risk you would

get the vaccination but you would also

wear your mask

and part of it is so that other people

you know

don't feel free that they could take

their masks off and maybe they're not

vaccinated

and um i think that dr nicole sapphire

said it best wrapping up this point in a

tweet

and she said this the best strategy to

overcome covet

19 vaccine hesitancy is to assure the

public that vaccines will lead to

normalizing our lives

that would be a simple message right

unfortunately the cdc dr fauci

biden have all missed the mark with

messaging and their lack of

their lack of liberation recommendations

adds to the hesitancy

so the point here being that if you

could say to people

get your vaccinations and you can take

your mask off

it's simple right now

is it true that we know for sure

that taking your mask off would be okay

or okay enough the answer is there's a

little bit of uncertainty but we do know

that the risk would be smallish

and so as dr sapphire says

and i agree if you're trying to get

people to take the vaccination

and that's the most important thing

let's say from the perspective of

our government percentage of people

getting vaccinated is the most

important thing you can disagree about

vaccinations but

just follow along with the point if it's

the most important thing

you don't want to work against yourself

by saying you still have to wear masks

when you're done

even if that would be a little bit

better we think maybe

not so sure a little bit you're way

better

letting people die it

to that tiny little risk because the

greater benefit of getting more

vaccinations according to the government

would be much better

somebody says matthew says i'm spitting

facts

i don't know what that means sixty

percent of new cases had the vaccination

i doubt that's true um

but there is a period between the

vaccination and when you're

covered so that that might be part of

any data problems there

uh somebody says all the evidence shows

the coveted shots are dangerous

now this is this is that uh two worlds

thing

you can live on twitter in a certain

world

in which all of the information says

that the shots are

more bad than good but you can live in a

different world

and which is unambiguously true that the

vaccinations are good for you

in the world those worlds are

completely um they're complete

you can just go into either of those

worlds and live in it like the other one

doesn't even exist

so if there's somebody on here who says

all of the data says that the shots are

dangerous

you're in a bubble maybe you picked the

right bubble that would be lucky

but just be aware that the smartest

people in the world disagree with you

sorry that's just the fact the smartest

most well-informed people in the world

are overwhelmingly

pro-vaccination overwhelmingly

not even close so if you're living in a

little twitter

social media world in which it seems

that vaccinations are a bad idea you're

not

seeing the smart people you you seem to

have found a bubble in which

there are some smart people but they

would be in

the skeptical uh camp

all right it's like wearing a helmet in

a car or somebody says

yeah so the point is whether or not

being vaccinated

is a complete reduction of risk or not

you should still simplify and act like

it is

because that's how to get to the get to

the finish line

better all right

somebody says the smartest people want

to enslave us

well it's still optional right

if the smartest people say um

you know x has a risk so far

we still have some options about it

right

now

shots won't prevent so there's somebody

here saying that the shots won't prevent

kovid 19. you really have a data problem

all right if you believe that shots oh

in fact i was seen this morning one of

the people that i

i had to block was presenting

graphs that show that the number of

infections skyrockets

after the vaccines roll out now

i don't know of anything that is less

likely to be true than that

now and they have official sources

official sources

that show a whole different world than

the rest of the world is seeing

the rest of the world sees that when the

shots roll out

the number of infections plunges united

states

israel etc but there's a whole other

world where they're seeing

exactly the opposite graphs that as soon

as you get a vaccination you get

you know you get the disease and the

number of infections skyrockets

they can't both be true and i feel very

confident in saying that

vaccinations are not causing more covet

and i feel very confident in saying that

we do know by now

that they work now if you're worried

about long-term

long-term complications that's something

we don't know about

right there's no way to know because

it's not the long term yet

but certainly we know that they uh

vastly reduce the risk of getting covert

we do know that

so if there's anybody here who still

thinks that the vaccinations just don't

work

you are really lost my friends

i mean you're really lost because

overwhelmingly the smart people know

they work

all right um

so i went over to msnbc and sure enough

um they've got a big article there about

the biggest hoax of 2020 or one of the

two biggest

and still they're saying a year later

that trump uh recommended

drinking or ingesting uh disinfectants

they're still saying that as of today

msnbc is still telling its audience

that trump recommended drinking

disinfectants

now that's the most debunked lie in the

world if anybody's here who doesn't know

it

just google heal light

h-e-a-l-i-g-h-t

that's the technology that is the uv

light that's injected into the body

via via trachea you know a what do you

call it a ventilator-like device into

your trachea

and that was in the news and around

social media at the same time that trump

was talking about it i had tweeted about

it i talked about it it was a real thing

and he talked about it as uv light he

clearly was aware of that technology

whether that becomes a good technology

or not

probably not i mean most things they

test don't work out

but it was a real thing and and msnbc is

said that he was talking about bleach or

disinfectant or something

just amazing it's amazing that this that

this can happen

like right in front of you so the the

propaganda is just

over the top and i feel like there was

something i was going to tell you that i

forgot but maybe i didn't oh yes this

um given that i've reached 100 000

subscribers

on youtube which i think was kind of a

kind of a tight rope between getting

canceled and

not getting cancelled but so far i

haven't been cancelled

and i was inspired by the story

that i told you about the young woman

who wouldn't kneel

and she sort of inspired me a little bit

honestly

to do the following tweets

all right and i tweeted

this we'll see if this gets me canceled

i said as a general rule

i try to i try to not care about anyone

who acts as if they don't care about

themselves

that's why i don't care about anyone who

resists arrest

it's still a tragedy but it won't ever

be a priority of mine

i do care about ending systemic racism

by teachers unions so that's in my tweet

now let me tell you the technique i had

to use to keep myself from getting

cancelled here if you don't know how to

do

this don't do what i did

because you could so easily get

cancelled for a tweet

like this if you don't have enough

technique so let me tell you the

technique that's in it

number one i did not say that i don't

care about black lives

that would get you canceled because of

course i do care about black lives

number two i did not say all lives

matter

because that'll get you canceled

so the you know i stayed away from the

you know the third rails that are the

obvious ones

but i'm still in dangerous territory

right because i'm saying very clearly

that i don't care about anyone

who is resisting rest and the theory is

why should i care about someone who's

not acting as if they even care about

themselves

i get that it's a tragedy it's a tragedy

for the person it's a tragedy

for the police officer you know nothing

good comes from a shooting

tragedy for the family so it's

definitely a tragedy but it's not my

tragedy

and if i'm going to rank all the

tragedies to care about

it's going to be close to last you have

to at least hear about yourself

before you can even come to me and ask

me to care about you

and although i can't read your mind if

you're

acting exactly like you don't care about

your own life

i don't care about you i really don't

so when i watch any you know police

shooting of somebody resisting arrest

i just don't care i really don't

now i understand this tragedy and

i def actually i do care about the

family so i care about their surviving

family

because they didn't do anything right

the family was just minding their own

business

so it's a tragedy for them but i don't

care about the perpetrator

because they they took that they took

that away

you know if you're not going to act just

at least act like you care about

yourself

then i'll get involved i'll care about

you too but i'm not going to help people

who can't do the

the smallest thing to help themselves

that's just a complete waste of time

has anybody here ever tried to help

somebody who was a lost

cause how did it work out

in the comments let me see how many of

you have tried it

have you tried to help somebody who was

just too far gone

and you just wasted your time just

nothing good came from it

how many of you have been in that

situation look at the comments

yup yup never works out yep you give up

yes

uh it red pilled me uh oh somebody says

it worked out good

every once in a while many times yes

yes it didn't yes yes yes save your

breath yeah

i would say the minimum requirement of

wasting your not wasting your time let

me re-state that

the minimum requirement to care about

other people enough to help them out

is that you have to see they're doing

something for themselves

like that that they have some intention

of things working out

there are tons of people who have no

intention of success

and it's very obvious they have no

intention of succeeding

no intention of being a good citizen

and what can you do

that's interesting the best advice you

ever gave me was on

deciding um let me restate that advice

so uh usually here is saying the best

advice i ever gave

was about deciding and now what that was

was the difference between wanting

something and deciding to have it

right the people resisting arrest and

getting hurt

they want to be treated right and they

want to be safe and they want to

probably want to live but they haven't

decided

because if you decide it's got the

seller

so i can't tell you how many times over

my career

somebody has called me a sellout now let

me let me

summarize by saying uh that that comment

sort of labels you as a idiot

because you understand that public

people are selling things for a living

right

that we're all selling something what

what is styling out

means because

you have my honest opinion you know that

i've probably lost a

third of my income by giving my honest

opinions

so what exactly is selling out

i'll tell you what it means everybody

who uses that term

is so low on the awareness level as a

human being

that you're somewhere between stupid and

all right so try to improve your game

criticism's great i don't mind it at all

you know i've told you that a good

criticism is like money in the bank

if somebody criticizes me in a way that

i can change something

and prove it i was like whoa cha-ching

that's a good criticism i'll take it

but scott's selling out

i tell you it's such a low level of

of criticism that uh

i just don't know how you you can wake

up and keep yourself fed

i mean really you're you're barely human

at that level

uh so i have a i have a suggestion

for all the conservatives who are tired

of being called

racists for just having an opinion on

pretty much anything

and i'm going to get this this comes

from

a classmate of mine in seventh grade

uh her name was debbie uh i doubt she's

watching this

now debbie was one of the uh the

cue girls you know the attractive girls

who who tend to be the mean girls

because they can get away with it

you know they're popular and they're

attractive and one of the things that

the mean girls did

is uh and it was especially devastating

at that age if you tried to talk to them

and you were not one of the cool

cool boys they would mock whatever you

said

this way and i'll give you i'll give you

my impression

so if a guy say a you know

seventh grade boy came up to debbie or

one of

her friends and said hey hey debbie

would you

would you like to hang out with me this

weekend debbie would look at you and in

front of her friends would say

oh you'd like to hang out with me this

weekend

and she would just say what you said but

like somebody with

brain damage and it was

devastating because there's nothing you

could do to it you just

you just like shrink away you're like

all right

you just you just get out of there it's

just absolutely devastating

and i was thinking about it because you

know every day cnn is blaming

blaming a fox news host of being a

racist for one thing or another

and it would just be hilarious if the

way all the conservatives handled those

accusations

is the way debbie did so that when you

know let's say uh

jim whatever his name is on

on cnn so let's say he's doing an

opinion piece and he says

uh that cartoonist has said this or that

and so he's a racist and my response

would just be

uh well jim jim had a quote today he

said

oh jim acosta yes uh jim acosta said

and just leave it there don't don't even

deal with the facts just go

for he's a racist

and just every time they say it just do

the same

debbie mean girl and just leave it there

never ever do with any of the content

you know that mocking is powerful right

if you haven't been mocked by a 14 year

old girl when you're a 14 year old boy

you haven't been mocked let me tell you

that's like the gold standard of mocking

really good stuff

powerful so uh

i'm watching some of you do it in the in

the comments and i could tell that

i could tell that this is popular uh

critical race theory

yeah president trump was the gold

standard of mocking yeah you're right he

probably was better

all right so a lot of you are laughing

about that all right we'll try it out

and uh the next time one of my uh

critics

uh comes after me i'll do a little video

in which i'll respond to my critics

with just

all right that's all for now and i'll

talk to you tomorrow