Episode 1794 Scott Adams - There Isn't Much News Today So Let's Have Fun

good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of not only american history but civilization itself for those of you outside the united states today is the fourth of july we'll talk about that special day here i don't know if you've even even heard of it but uh or for that matter what could be less important than the holidays in the country that where you don't live probably nothing that's probably the least important thing that ever happened to you but we're going to make this special anyway and all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass of tanker jealousy stein a canteen jugger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day things makes everything better it's called the simultaneous symptom it's going to happen right now go i have been waiting for this and it was as good as i imagined well you know that story about the so-called patriot front the khaki wearing young males who all look like they came out of the same printing press and they're apparently associated with a way super they're being called a white supremacist group and they marched through downtown boston carrying police shields and flags and burying the bearing the group's emblem now what was it they were protesting for or against anybody anybody they were protesting for what they were protesting against what nothing they coincidentally were protesting for or against nothing and appeared just at the time that the democrats are telling you gosh these republicans like to get together and march on things and conquer them because that's what the january 6 hearings are is it a coincidence that the group you most imagine had is well named the repatriate front yeah that's right they're a front for something don't know what but they call themselves a front for something so they appear at exactly the time that their appearance would be most associated somewhat automatically in your mind with republicans trying to conquer their republic by marching on the capital coincidence is it a coincidence that they have no cause and they're marching have you ever said to yourself hey let's get together because nothing's happening and go and go have a march do you ever remember doing that ah we're so we're so calm today there's nothing going on let's get together and all wear the same clothes and put on masks and march in a foreign city where it costs us money in our time why why'd they do that was it a recruiting effort and so here's the weird thing i'm reading the news and i looked at you know left right and axios there's somewhat in the middle and they all cover this story the same way they just tell you what happened what's missing in the story what's missing in the story is who are they why were they there did anybody talk to them and say hey hey why today why today well like what's happening are you protesting for or against abortion rulings what so they can't find their leader and they can't get a quote from the patriot front really there's nobody who can get a quote from their leader saying why were you there marching nobody what the hell is going on there's something so ridiculous about this whole thing and i don't know what it is i mean you know we like to joke that they're all feds but i don't know i mean that's just one of several possibilities it seems at least as likely that it's just a democrat operation or it's a foreign intelligence operation and when i say foreign intelligence operation it doesn't mean that they're from other countries it means that all you need is enough money to bribe a leader and you can have any kind of grassroots movement you want so you only have to convince the leaders you don't have to convince the people buy off a leader you got yourself a protest i don't know if that's what happened but since nobody's asking i guess we have to guess so you have to read an article i don't do this often but there will be a signed reading it's only because it's so good it's good on two levels one the story is amazing it's not too long only take you a few minutes and the writing is excellent so you you i recommend it if you just like good writing just to see what nice clear sentences and clean thinking looks like and it's a sub stack article by mark hyman h-y-m-a-n and i think it's free to subscribe if you want to see the rest of the subscript sub-stack but he's got a story about the uh the pulitzer honoring you know the new york times and the washington post for uh they're reporting about the russia collusion and the nature of the story is that basically the pulitzer is a way to launder fake news now that's not the way mark says it that's that's my interpretation of his his better article so read it in his words you have to see it stated well my own bad description of it is that the pulitzer is basically a fig leaf for making you think that reporting is valid when maybe it wasn't so much and at this point we know that the new york times and the washington post won pulitzer prizes for being duped about the biggest story of the country for being duped completely fooled about what was really going on in the context that at least 30 percent of the country didn't need to do any research at all and and here's here's 30 of the country roughly doing as much research as the people who won nobel or not nobel police surprises i give you now my impression of 30 of the regular public analyzing the russia collusion charges uh i don't think so nope nope i'm not going to do a deep dive on this one because that one is sort of obvious yeah there are all kinds of flavors of i'm sure you've tasted them all you got your subtle your slight you got your hyperbole you've got all manner of massaging the facts and misleading and leaving out context oh there's in every form but you've never seen bigger than the russia collusion story now am i wrong that 30 of the public spotted it from the jump right i mean i did i'm not sure what exactly i was saying at the time but as soon as it came out i said to myself no no i don't believe that trump who is a germaphobe urinated on a hotel bed with a hooker or asked a hooker to urinate out of bed for any reason for any reason as soon as i looked at i was like no that does not look like that's true all right now i have to admit that i did not therefore go all the way to hillary clinton paid for it um my brain did not go there on day one i could just tell that it was fake news by the nature of it you just listened to it you go i don't think so and by the way i'm pretty sure i would have spotted this had the parties been reversed meaning that if the republicans had you know accused biden of the same thing i would have said you know i mean just without even doing any research i don't think so i just don't think so i think i would have spotted it in either direction all right um so the pulitzer is not a credible organization and you hear somebody got one you should not be impressed i say this because i've always wanted to win a pulitzer prize and never have so if you'd like to get your commentary from somebody who is clearly disgruntled this guy why is two thumbs and is disgruntled about not winning a pulitzer prize this guy yes i'm very bitter about it i'm bitter about winning the prize that i have no i put no value in whatsoever it's true by the way i am actually bitter about it i swear to god i'm bitter about it and the reason is the other cartoonists have won the pulitzer so gary chujos won once or twice and uh i think brook breath is one and then lots of uh you know political cartoonists have one and i always said to myself i feel as if dilbert has defined the workplace in a way that if somebody deserved a pulitzer prize for cartooning you know for commentary about the world and even having an effect on the actual workplace honestly with complete humility i deserve a pulitzer prize just based on how they're given and what they're for and the context and um but i don't think i've been nominated so you can't actually win it unless you're nominated i think you nominate yourself so no i'm not high but thanks for asking so somewhere halfway halfway into my live stream pretty much every day or no matter what time of day somebody says i think he's high now if you think that now somebody says gary larson is 100 times better and i agree but you're off point you're off point calvin hobbs is also the best cartoon that's ever been made in my opinion but calvin hobbs doesn't get a pulitzer because the the commentary is not serious about the world right dilbert is actually serious commentary in in humorous form so you have to at least be political or social in nature before a polisher is applicable right yeah so um i feel like i'm in that domain all right here's an interesting factoid a little positivity for you um so because of the uh row decision by the court people are asking ridiculous questions about other things and one of the ridiculous questions is will the supreme court somehow make it illegal to have uh interracial marriage now there are some predictions i make that i'm like oh i'm really like 90 percent sure i'm not 100 sure but this is the only one where i'm going to go out on the limb and say 100 sure interracial marriage will remain legal in the united states does anybody want to argue that point i'm a hundred percent sure it's not a problem anybody talk about a revolution oh my god there's there's probably not a single thing that we've ever discussed that would be more volatile than that all right now i live in california if if i hosted a party at my house and just you know invited 100 people that i know from my social circle or whatever there would be so many interracial marriages now i live in california so maybe there's just more of it but i almost don't see the other kind where i live it's mostly interracial now interracial depends how you define it right so we're we're not counting just black and white you've got to count you know hispanic you've got to count asian you've got to count everything right so interracial marriages where i live i don't know like it is so far beyond anything you could ever reverse just just no way defined racial yeah so everybody might define it a little bit differently but here's the point i was going to say there's a there's this scientific let's say idea that has been confirmed by studies of course we don't believe studies are necessarily true unless they agree with our biases and this one does so i'm going to say it's good somebody says law pleasant and is not mostly interracial i'm going to disagree with you i'm going to disagree with you because i said if i threw a party of my social circle i didn't say you know a generic pleasanton event but i don't think you could have a generic pleasant event that wasn't just full of at least you know asian american plus others hispanic american plus others you know there's less black white where i live but the interracial part is pervasive i i think whoever just said that pleasanton doesn't have interracial marriages i think you're discounting how many different groups are because if you throw in indian-americans you know people born in india or not who is very high interracial marriage very high in a good way so the idea is that proximity makes people less bigoted in other words if you simply spend time around people instead of disliking them more because you know you get to see all their warts or whatever it's the opposite the more time you spend with people who are different from you the more accepting you are does that make sense to you do you believe that i mean does that study sound like that makes sense now some of the the examples they gave i thought were and i'll tell you why one of the examples was that people who served in back when the military were segregated there was a period when there were still segregated units and then integrated units and if you followed up with them you found that the the integrated units uh years later the people who were in it were less bigoted than the people who were never integrated in the first place does that make sense and so that was part of the evidence of that working together makes you less bigoted do you see any problem with that study there's a big problem with that study isn't it well let me ask you at a time when there was a transit transition and there were still segregated units and unsegregate and then you know integrated units do you think there was anything that those units had in common before the study almost certainly the ones that were integrated first were in places where they thought it would work right i'm just guessing that the units that perhaps were made up of or comprised of more you know old southern boys so to speak i've got a feeling that they didn't integrate right away like maybe they needed to wait to see if every if the northern units worked it out and once they did you know everybody could do it but i have a feeling that the ones who decided to integrate first had something in common in other words it was a group of people where you said to yourself well that could work with that group but i'll bet there were other groups yeah i bet there were other groups uh where they just said okay let's wait on this group because these are all just severe racists in this group so i'm not sure i believe the study do you but it but but it also attracts with my own understanding meaning that i would say that's true i would say that exposure makes you more open to other people would you disagree with that is anybody who would disagree with that just sort of common sensically or does your own experience say yeah the more time you spend with other people the more accepting you are now i'm almost positive that this is that that proximity thing is why i'm so much more pro-immigration than a lot of you are i'm almost positive because i have a proximity thing going on if you take the people coming across the border illegally or people who have and have you know recently you know maybe it's the second generation whatever if you take that group as a class i've had you know extensive extensive exposure to them because of where i live and my opinion is they're better than the people who are already here sorry now when i say better i don't mean you know smarter taller better as sports i don't mean their dna is better or anything like that not not in some way that you should care about i don't think they're better here's how i think they're better i just love the fact that they beat the odds that they they took on something enormously risky and dangerous to get to the united states to better their lives in in my opinion i know how distasteful this is for some of you some of you are just going to hate this especially on the 4th of july but to be america is not a border we have to have a border and i'm i'm big on having you know strong borders and protecting them so separate the fact that i think functionally you have to have a strong border more more strong than we have now but i think america is a way of a way of thinking i think america is a vibe i think america is a point of view and the the people who come here illegally not all of them i mean they all come for their own reasons but to me they come with more of an american vibe than the people who are already here and just were born into it and didn't work for it now that's just a bias right could i prove it if i did a study would it be backed up i don't know i have no idea is it is a complete bias that is informed by proximity if you spend enough time around the people who came from below the border recently you will love them that's my opinion if you spend enough time around anybody who came across the border you could have a really good opinion of them and it will definitely influence what you think about how tough we should be in sending people back or amnesty or all that it completely changes once you've had direct exposure now if if the only thing you've done is watch fox news and see these you know these armies of brown people coming across the border it does look like an invasion that looks scary but if you're in it like you're seeped in it as i am not not people who just came across the border but if you seeped in the culture it's very embracing and it's not scary at all like i you know if you wonder what your future looks like if you're not in california california is often your future right for good or bad right what happens here just happens a little faster so where maybe what would you say five years california is about five years maybe depends on the topic ahead of what's going to happen everywhere and if you live here i don't know anybody who is has extended exposure to the recent immigrants who doesn't love them i don't now i'm sure they exist and it has a lot to do with the town i live in right we're pretty open town so things are things are pretty good like mentally where i live there's not a lot of hate a lot of acceptance here so i'm just giving you my view now if you say that's not how it feels where i am well that's the point that is the point it doesn't feel like that where you are because but but here's what i don't see i don't see anybody who is who is really surrounded by the the immigrant culture who doesn't love them i don't know anybody in fact privately when people talk they say yeah they're awesome that's what people say behind their backs so how would you like to be that how would you like to be the immigrant community that when people talk about you behind your back it's almost always positive i mean that's pretty good talk about managing your brand that's pretty good all right elon musk visited the pope and the the big news that came out of that is that um i expected it would be like matter and anti-matter and that when they shook hands there would be some kind of a black hole or explosion and both of them would disappear in a giant fireball that didn't happen which shakes my confidence and everything i knew about reality but i also wonder what was the thinking of either elon musk or the pope don't you say to yourself huh i wonder if the pope converted elon musk from being a non-believer elon musk believes in the simulation i wonder if the pope tried or had any success moving elon musk to become more of a believer and then i asked myself well which one of those two is more persuasive pope a plus you don't become the pope unless you got some serious catholic skills am i right like you know there's a lot of work to become a pope that's not an easy entry-level job so you have to say that the pope probably is a real persuasive person wouldn't you say but he's not as persuasive as elon musk which is interesting very rare situation somebody visiting the pope who's verifiably in my opinion verifiably more persuasive than the pope i'll bet that's almost never happened it has probably almost never happened when the person who's more persuasive is not a believer so what i'm wondering is if elon musk had any luck convincing the pope to abandon his religion i mean there's no reporting on it we don't know what they talked about but i don't know i'd be a little worried if i were a catholic and my pope spent 10 minutes with the most persuasive person on the planet who also thought we lived in a simulation and that my religion wasn't real i'd be worried about it i'd be worried about that no i'm just joking but it is weird that the world's biggest non-believer at least you know most famous for being a non-believer would visit the pope of all things it's a wonderful world i'm glad that you did well in california a lot of californians are getting what they call inflation relief checks inflation relief and so i was quite excited about this because i live in california and so i thought oh i can't wait to get my inflation relief check let's check the eligibility eligibility um i will not be receiving a check i will not be receiving a check but i'm not alone the other people who will not be receiving a check for inflation relief are the poor so the middle class will be doing pretty well but the poor have been completely excluded because since they don't pay taxes they don't have you know direct deposit and bank accounts the government can't easily find them and give them money so instead and wouldn't know how much to give because it's based on your income anyway so the poor get nothing and the rich get nothing but the middle class will do pretty well i don't know is that a partial win i i feel like we could have done better at giving all the money to the poor am i wrong about that would we have been a little bit better giving all the money to the poor instead of oh none of it now i'm all in favor of doing things that are good for the middle class but if you have only one pot of money and you you've got poor people middle class and rich people half of their decision was pretty good let's not give it to rich people okay i mean you could argue that the money came from the rich people so you just be giving it back but all right forget about that the rich people can at least afford it but then when you're deciding you know afford not to get it so and then when you're deciding should we give this money to the middle class or the people who need it much more they decided to give it to the people who didn't need it as much yes you're wrong somebody says in all caps okay yeah i guess the poor people don't vote so there's no no point giving them relief checks well here's a little thing that uh makes me scratch my head have you seen the pictures i don't know if these are real so you know you tell me if this is even fake news it might be fake news but there are long lines for tesla charging in the public charging stations and apparently it takes you half an hour to an hour to get a charge and uh there's long lines suggesting that the people at the end of the line would have to wait you know six hours just to charge their car is that real because um this has got no content the trolls are active today imagine being a troll like that was the best thing you had today was to yell at me in capital letters like well the best thing i got going today in my life as i got on a live stream and made everybody a little less happy with my comments that's what i did say but do you think that it's true that the teslas are lined up for hours to get charged here's my degree in economics my degree in economics tells me the following you would not build a network of charging stations to fulfill 100 of all possibilities that would be cost prohibitive you would build a network of charging stations that could handle 98 of all situations today's the two percent you know the holidays are the two percent that's when everybody's traveling at the same time so it seems to me likely that the charging network is only designed for the 98 of the time when traffic is normal and not designed for the two percent you know i'm just making up two percent but not not designed for that small number of times when everybody's traveling am i right so that's probably a real problem but i can't i'm not i don't trust the news enough to know if it's just something that happened once i mean we might already be past the line i don't know or is it getting worse who knows you know what would be interesting is if just private people started charging people's cars in their own driveway you know just run an extension card out to the driveway put up a sign charge your tesla 20 bucks or whatever it costs and uh couldn't couldn't private people sell charging just park in my driveway plug it in for an hour yeah you could right so maybe something like that will happen so there's an ongoing debate about tick tock and whether or not china has access to information because it's a chinese company and brendan carr he's on the website the fcc and he's asking apple and google to drop the app because it's sending data to china now tiktok had assured us it's not going to do that and but apparently it's confirmed that some of the data was available in china and i think at this point if we were fooled about what uh data is going back to china and tick tock was involved in fooling us you have to you have to take it out of the app store now i don't know if these two things are true so let me say these are allegations see the allegation would be that uh people were concerned that china the the you know the government would have access to all this private information in tick dock and tick tock said to the world and to us no don't worry because we moved our data into china so china doesn't have access to it but it turns out that was incorrect and it apparently it's been verified that's the allegation that that data was available to china now under those circumstances can you let that company remain in business i don't think so what does your business and managerial leadership instinct tell you if a company lied to you about something that basic does the chinese government have our private information no no no no no chinese government heck no there's no way the chinese government is going to get any of this information it did oh well yeah i got a little of it and when i say a little of it they got a lot of it but you know next time we'll fix it well can you fix it for sure next time because you said last time that they couldn't get it and then they did but why would we trust you the second time why would we lie to you have we ever lied to you yeah you literally just lied allegedly you literally just allegedly lied to us you said they didn't get it and then we proved that they were why would you act differently the second time given that the chinese government probably really wants that information why would we trust you that when you say it's not going there and the answer is you can't and they proved that you can't trust them by lying about that very exact thing you don't even have to say they're liars in general so we worry that they would lie about this specific thing you don't even have to do that because you could say they just lied on this very specific thing why in the world would you trust them to not lie again on that very specific thing which is the most important thing probably which is you know exposure to the data in china so trump and his administration wanted to get rid of this and their instinct was to get rid of it now and fast and just you know do it but they were stymied by whatever forces so here we are so if you signed up on tick tock good luck china knows a lot about your preferences i'm seeing a comment that my only contact with the immigrant community is when they mow my lawn and clean my house not true right so i don't think you listen to anything i just said if you live here you're steeped in it it's just everywhere this is everywhere you go you know it's everywhere like it's in the personal life it's in the schools it's every business you go to um when i when i door dash sometimes the person speaks english right so if you live here you're you're you're uh steeped in it it's not something that you see in passing you're you're in it you're swimming in it all right um some of you are wondering what happened with the special live stream i started last night i already explained this to the people on locals but if there's anybody on youtube who saw me tweet about it i started one that i had to bail nf because something came up so that's all you need to know so it doesn't exist if you're looking for it it was never completed and i may or may not complete it today or later i would like to read for you some of the best most important words ever written can you do you want to you want to hang for that for a minute now i want you to listen to this not only for the meaning of the words but for how well it's written because remember you know one of the things that we've learned is you want short clean sentences but in the old days they didn't write these short clean sentences they wrote these amazingly big long complicated ones it's really hard to write a really amazingly long complicated sentence and then have people read it and be inspired and like understand it like you've got to really be a good writer to do that so i'm going to read you some of the best writing i've ever seen in my life which violates a lot of rules of writing and i want you to see if it has a historical meaning that is still relevant today so see if there's any relevance to this today you might recognize this when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's god entitle them a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation my favorite sentence i love that we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and their pursuit of happiness that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men derived their just powers from the consent of the governed that whatever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute a new government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes and accordingly all experience the hath shoon that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to write themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed but what a long train of abuses and use super user patients pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism it is their right it is their duty to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government the history of the present king of great britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations all having a direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states to prove this let facts be submitted to a candid world and so they did and so they did and that ladies and gentlemen is the best writing in the history of the world i would argue and on that note let's have a great fourth of july in the united states and the rest of you i hope you take a moment today to appreciate freedom and that concludes my program for today have a great fourth

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good morning everybody and welcome

to the highlight

of not only american history but

civilization itself

for those of you outside the united

states

today is the fourth of july we'll talk

about that

special day here

i don't know if you've even even heard

of it

but

uh or for that matter

what could be less important

than the holidays in the country that

where you don't live probably nothing

that's probably the least important

thing that ever happened to you but

we're going to make this special anyway

and all you need is a cup or a mug or a

glass of tanker jealousy stein a canteen

jugger flask a vessel of any kind fill

it with your favorite liquid i like

coffee and join me now for the

unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of

the day things makes everything better

it's called the simultaneous symptom

it's going to happen right now go

i have been waiting for this and it was

as good as i imagined

well you know that story about the

so-called patriot front

the khaki wearing

young

males who all look like they came out of

the same printing press

and they're apparently

associated with a way super

they're being called a white supremacist

group

and they marched through downtown boston

carrying police shields and flags and

burying the bearing the group's emblem

now what was it they were protesting for

or against anybody

anybody

they were protesting for

what

they were protesting against

what

nothing

they coincidentally were protesting for

or against nothing and appeared just at

the time

that the democrats are telling you

gosh these republicans like to get

together and march on things and conquer

them because that's what the january 6

hearings are

is it a coincidence

that the group you most imagine had is

well named

the repatriate

front

yeah that's right

they're a front

for something

don't know what

but they call themselves a front for

something

so they appear at exactly the time that

their appearance would be most

associated somewhat automatically in

your mind

with republicans trying to conquer their

republic by marching on the capital

coincidence

is it a coincidence that they have no

cause

and they're marching

have you ever said to yourself

hey let's get together

because nothing's happening and go and

go have a march

do you ever remember doing that

ah we're so we're so calm today

there's nothing going on let's get

together and all wear the same clothes

and put on masks and march in a foreign

city where it costs us money in our time

why

why'd they do that

was it a recruiting effort

and

so here's the weird thing

i'm reading the news and i looked at you

know

left right and axios there's somewhat in

the middle

and

they all cover this story the same way

they just tell you what happened

what's missing in the story

what's missing in the story is who are

they why were they there

did anybody talk to them and say hey hey

why today

why today well like what's happening are

you protesting for or against abortion

rulings

what

so they can't find their leader and they

can't get a quote from the patriot front

really there's nobody who can get a

quote

from their leader saying why were you

there marching nobody

what the hell is going on

there's something so ridiculous about

this whole thing and i don't know what

it is i mean

you know we like to joke that they're

all feds

but i don't know i mean that's just one

of several possibilities it seems at

least as likely that it's just a

democrat

operation

or it's a foreign intelligence operation

and when i say foreign intelligence

operation it doesn't mean that they're

from other countries

it means that all you need is enough

money to bribe a leader

and you can have any kind of grassroots

movement you want so you only have to

convince the leaders you don't have to

convince the people

buy off a leader you got yourself a

protest

i don't know if that's what happened but

since nobody's asking i guess we have to

guess

so you have to read an article i don't

do this often

but there will be a signed reading

it's only because it's so good it's good

on two levels

one the story is amazing it's not too

long only take you a few minutes

and the writing is excellent

so you you i recommend it if you just

like good writing just to see what nice

clear sentences

and clean thinking looks like

and it's a sub stack article by mark

hyman h-y-m-a-n

and i think it's free to subscribe if

you want to see the rest of the

subscript sub-stack

but he's got a story about the uh the

pulitzer

honoring you know the new york times and

the washington post

for

uh they're reporting about the

russia collusion

and the nature of the story is that

basically the pulitzer is a way to

launder fake news

now that's not the way mark says it

that's that's my interpretation of his

his better article so read it in his

words you have to see it stated well my

own bad description of it

is that the pulitzer is basically

a fig leaf

for

making you think that reporting is valid

when maybe it wasn't so much

and at this point we know that the new

york times and the washington post won

pulitzer prizes

for being duped

about the biggest story of the country

for being duped completely fooled

about what was really going on in the

context

that at least 30 percent of the country

didn't need to do any research at all

and and here's here's 30 of the country

roughly

doing as much research as the people who

won

nobel or not nobel police surprises

i give you now my impression

of 30 of the regular public

analyzing the

russia collusion charges

uh

i don't think so

nope

nope

i'm not going to do a deep dive on this

one

because that one is sort of

obvious

yeah there are all kinds of flavors of

i'm sure you've tasted them all

you got your subtle your slight

you got your hyperbole

you've got all manner of

massaging the facts and misleading and

leaving out context oh there's

in every form

but

you've never seen bigger

than the russia collusion story now am i

wrong that 30 of the public spotted it

from the jump

right

i mean i did

i'm not sure what exactly i was saying

at the time but as soon as it came out i

said to myself

no

no i don't believe that trump

who is a germaphobe

urinated on a hotel bed with a hooker or

asked a hooker to urinate out of bed for

any reason for any reason

as soon as i looked at i was like

no

that does not look like that's true

all right

now i have to admit that i did not

therefore go all the way to hillary

clinton

paid for it um

my brain did not go there on day one i

could just tell that it was fake news

by the nature of it you just listened to

it you go i don't think so and by the

way

i'm pretty sure i would have spotted

this

had the parties been reversed

meaning that if the republicans had you

know

accused biden of the same thing i would

have said you know

i mean just without even doing any

research

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

i think i would have spotted it in

either direction

all right

um

so the pulitzer is not a credible

organization and you hear somebody got

one you should not be impressed

i say this because i've always wanted to

win a pulitzer prize and never have

so if you'd like to get your commentary

from somebody who is clearly disgruntled

this guy

why is two thumbs and is disgruntled

about not winning a pulitzer prize

this guy

yes i'm very bitter about it

i'm bitter about winning the prize that

i have no i put no value in whatsoever

it's true by the way i am actually

bitter about it

i swear to god i'm bitter about it and

the reason is the other cartoonists have

won the pulitzer

so gary chujos won once or twice

and uh i think brook breath is one and

then lots of uh

you know political cartoonists have one

and i always said to myself

i feel as if

dilbert has defined the workplace in a

way that

if somebody deserved a pulitzer prize

for cartooning you know for commentary

about

the world and even having an effect on

the actual workplace

honestly

with complete humility

i deserve a pulitzer prize

just based on how they're given and what

they're for and

the context

and

um

but i don't think i've been nominated

so you can't actually win it unless

you're nominated i think you nominate

yourself

so

no i'm not high but thanks for asking

so somewhere halfway halfway into my

live stream pretty much every day

or no matter what time of day somebody

says

i think he's high

now if you think that

now somebody says gary larson is 100

times better and i agree but you're off

point

you're off point

calvin hobbs is also the best

cartoon that's ever been made in my

opinion but calvin hobbs doesn't get a

pulitzer

because the the commentary is not

serious about the world right dilbert is

actually serious commentary in

in humorous form

so you have to at least be political or

social in nature before a polisher is

applicable right

yeah so

um i feel like

i'm in that domain

all right

here's an interesting factoid a little

positivity for you

um

so because of the uh row decision by the

court people are asking ridiculous

questions about other things

and one of the ridiculous questions is

will the supreme court somehow make it

illegal

to have uh interracial marriage

now

there are some predictions i make

that

i'm like oh i'm really like 90 percent

sure i'm not 100 sure but this is the

only one where i'm going to go out on

the limb and say 100 sure

interracial marriage will remain legal

in the united states does anybody want

to argue that point

i'm a hundred percent sure it's not a

problem

anybody

talk about a revolution

oh my god

there's there's probably not a single

thing that we've ever discussed

that would be more volatile than that

all right now i live in california

if if i hosted a party at my house and

just you know invited 100 people

that i know from my social circle or

whatever

there would be so many interracial

marriages

now i live in california so maybe

there's just more of it but i almost

don't see the other kind

where i live it's mostly interracial now

interracial depends how you define it

right

so we're we're not counting just black

and white you've got to count

you know hispanic you've got to count

asian you've got to count everything

right so

interracial marriages where i live

i don't know

like

it is so far beyond anything you could

ever reverse

just just no way

defined racial yeah

so everybody might define it a little

bit differently

but here's the point i was going to say

there's a there's this scientific

let's say idea that has been confirmed

by studies

of course we don't believe studies are

necessarily true unless they agree with

our biases and this one does so i'm

going to say it's good

somebody says law pleasant and is not

mostly interracial

i'm going to disagree with you i'm going

to disagree with you because i said if i

threw a party of my social circle

i didn't say you know a generic

pleasanton event but i don't think you

could have a generic pleasant event that

wasn't just full of at least

you know asian american

plus others hispanic american

plus others

you know there's less black white where

i live but the interracial part

is pervasive

i i think whoever just said that

pleasanton doesn't have interracial

marriages i think you're discounting how

many

different groups are because if you

throw in indian-americans you know

people born in india or not

who is very high

interracial marriage very high

in a good way

so the idea is that proximity makes

people less

bigoted

in other words if you simply spend time

around people

instead of disliking them more because

you know you get to see all their warts

or whatever

it's the opposite the more time you

spend with people who are different from

you the more accepting you are does that

make sense to you

do you believe that i mean does that

study sound like that makes sense now

some of the

the examples they gave i thought were

and i'll tell you why one of the

examples was that people who served in

back when the military were segregated

there was a period when there were still

segregated units

and then integrated units and if you

followed up with them you found that the

the integrated units uh years later the

people who were in it were less bigoted

than the people who were never

integrated in the first place does that

make sense and so that was part of the

evidence of that working together makes

you less bigoted

do you see any problem with that study

there's a big problem with that study

isn't it

well let me ask you at a time when there

was a transit transition

and there were still

segregated units and unsegregate and

then you know integrated units do you

think there was anything that those

units had in common

before the study

almost certainly

the ones that were integrated first

were in places where they thought it

would work

right

i'm just guessing

that the units that perhaps were made up

of or comprised of more you know old

southern boys so to speak

i've got a feeling that they didn't

integrate right away

like maybe they needed to wait to see if

every if the northern units

worked it out and once they did you know

everybody could do it but i have a

feeling that

the ones who decided to integrate first

had something in common

in other words it was a group of people

where you said to yourself well that

could work with that group

but i'll bet there were other groups

yeah i bet there were other groups

uh where they just said okay let's wait

on this group because these are all just

severe racists in this group so i'm not

sure i believe the study

do you but it but

but it also attracts

with my own

understanding

meaning that

i would say that's true i would say that

exposure makes you more open to other

people would you disagree with that

is anybody who would disagree with that

just sort of common sensically or does

your own experience say yeah the more

time you spend with other people the

more

accepting you are

now i'm almost positive

that this is that that proximity thing

is why i'm so much more pro-immigration

than a lot of you are

i'm almost positive because i have a

proximity thing going on

if you take the people coming across the

border illegally or people who have and

have you know recently you know maybe

it's the second generation whatever if

you take that group

as a class

i've had you know extensive extensive

exposure to them because of where i live

and

my opinion is they're better than the

people who are already here

[Laughter]

sorry

[Laughter]

now when i say better

i don't mean you know

smarter taller better as sports i don't

mean their dna is better or anything

like that not not in some way that you

should care about i don't think they're

better

here's how i think they're better

i just love the fact

that they beat the odds that they they

took on something

enormously risky and dangerous

to get to the united states to better

their lives

in in my opinion i know how distasteful

this is for some of you

some of you are just going to hate this

especially on the 4th of july

but to be america is not a border

we have to have a border and i'm i'm big

on having you know strong borders and

protecting them so

separate the fact that i think

functionally you have to have a strong

border more more strong than we have now

but

i think america is a way of

a way of thinking

i think america is a vibe

i think america is a point of view

and the the people who come here

illegally not all of them i mean they

all come for their own reasons but to me

they come with more of an american vibe

than the people who are already here and

just were born into it and didn't work

for it

now that's just a bias right

could i prove it if i did a study would

it be backed up i don't know i have no

idea is it is a complete bias

that is informed by proximity

if you spend enough time around the

people who came from

below the border recently

you will love them

that's my opinion if you spend enough

time around anybody who came across the

border

you could have a really good opinion of

them

and it will definitely influence what

you think about how tough we should be

in sending people back or amnesty or all

that it completely changes

once you've had direct exposure

now if if the only thing you've done is

watch fox news and see these you know

these armies of brown people coming

across the border it does look like an

invasion that looks scary

but if you're in it

like you're seeped in it as i am

not not people who just came across the

border but if you seeped in the culture

it's very embracing

and it's not scary at all

like i

you know if you wonder what your future

looks like if you're not in california

california is often your future

right for good or bad

right what happens here just happens a

little faster so where maybe what would

you say five years california is about

five years maybe depends on the topic

ahead of what's going to happen

everywhere

and

if you live here

i don't know anybody who is

has

extended exposure

to the recent immigrants who doesn't

love them

i don't

now i'm sure they exist

and it has a lot to do with the town i

live in right we're pretty open town

so things are things are pretty good

like mentally where i live there's not a

lot of hate a lot of acceptance here

so

i'm just giving you my view

now if you say that's not how it feels

where i am well that's the point that is

the point it doesn't feel like that

where you are because but but here's

what i don't see i don't see anybody who

is who is really

surrounded by the

the immigrant culture

who doesn't love them

i don't know anybody

in fact privately when people talk they

say yeah they're awesome

that's what people say behind their

backs

so how would you like to be that

how would you like to be the immigrant

community

that when people talk about you behind

your back

it's almost always positive

i mean that's pretty good

talk about managing your brand that's

pretty good

all right

elon musk visited the pope

and the the big news that came out of

that is that um

i expected it would be like matter and

anti-matter and that when they shook

hands

there would be some kind of a black hole

or explosion

and both of them would disappear in a

giant fireball

that didn't happen which shakes my

confidence and everything i knew about

reality

but i also wonder what was the thinking

of either elon musk or the pope

don't you say to yourself huh

i wonder if the pope

converted elon musk from being a

non-believer

elon musk believes in the simulation i

wonder if the pope

tried or had any success

moving elon musk to become more of a

believer

and then i asked myself

well which one of those two is more

persuasive

pope

a plus

you don't become the pope

unless you got some serious catholic

skills am i right like you know there's

a lot of work to become a pope that's

not an easy entry-level job so you have

to say that the pope

probably is a real persuasive

person wouldn't you say

but he's not as persuasive as elon musk

which is interesting

very rare situation

somebody visiting the pope who's

verifiably in my opinion verifiably

more persuasive than the pope i'll bet

that's almost never happened

it has probably almost never happened

when the person who's more persuasive is

not a

believer so what i'm wondering is if

elon musk had any luck

convincing the pope to

abandon his religion

i mean there's no reporting on it

we don't know what they talked about

but i don't know

i'd be a little worried if i were a

catholic and my pope spent 10 minutes

with the most persuasive person on the

planet

who also thought we lived in a

simulation and that my religion wasn't

real

i'd be worried about it

[Laughter]

i'd be worried about that

no i'm just joking

but it is weird that the world's biggest

non-believer at least you know most

famous for being a non-believer

would visit the pope of all things

it's a wonderful world i'm glad that you

did

well in california a lot of californians

are getting what they call inflation

relief checks

inflation relief

and so i was quite excited about this

because i live in california and so i

thought oh i can't wait to get my

inflation relief check

let's check the eligibility eligibility

um i will not be receiving a check i

will not be receiving a check

but i'm not alone the other people who

will not be receiving a check

for inflation relief are the poor

so the middle class will be doing pretty

well but the poor have been completely

excluded

because since they don't pay taxes

they don't have you know direct deposit

and bank accounts

the government can't easily find them

and give them money

so instead and wouldn't know how much to

give because it's based on your income

anyway

so the poor get nothing

and the rich get nothing but the middle

class will do pretty well

i don't know is that a partial win

i i feel like we could have done better

at giving all the money to the poor

am i wrong about that

would we have been a little bit better

giving all the money to the poor instead

of oh

none of it

now i'm all in favor of doing things

that are good for the middle class

but if you have only one pot of money

and you you've got poor people

middle class

and rich people

half of their decision was pretty good

let's not give it to rich people

okay i mean you could argue that the

money came from the rich people so you

just be giving it back but all right

forget about that the rich people can at

least afford it

but then when you're deciding you know

afford not to get it so and then when

you're deciding

should we give this money to the middle

class or the people who need it much

more

they decided to give it to the people

who didn't need it as much

yes you're wrong

somebody says in all caps

okay

yeah i guess the poor people don't vote

so there's no no point giving them

relief checks

well here's a little thing that uh makes

me scratch my head have you seen the

pictures i don't know if these are real

so you know you tell me if this is even

fake news it might be fake news but

there are long lines for tesla charging

in the public charging stations

and apparently it takes you half an hour

to an hour to get a charge

and

uh there's long lines suggesting that

the people at the end of the line

would have to wait

you know six hours

just to charge their car

is that real

because

um

this has got no content

the trolls are active today

imagine being a troll

like that was the best thing you had

today was to yell at me in capital

letters

like well

the best thing i got going today in my

life

as i got on a live stream and made

everybody a little less happy with my

comments

that's what i did say but do you think

that it's true that the

teslas are lined up for hours to get

charged

here's my degree in economics

my degree in economics tells me the

following

you would not build a network of

charging stations

to fulfill 100 of all possibilities that

would be cost prohibitive

you would

build a network of charging stations

that could handle 98

of all situations

today's the two percent

you know the holidays are the two

percent that's when everybody's

traveling at the same time so

it seems to me likely

that the charging network is only

designed for the 98 of the time when

traffic is normal and not designed for

the two percent you know i'm just making

up two percent but not not designed for

that small number of times when

everybody's traveling am i right

so that's probably a real problem

but i can't

i'm not i don't trust the news enough to

know if it's just something that

happened once

i mean we might already be past the line

i don't know or is it getting worse

who knows

you know what would be interesting is if

just private people

started charging people's cars in their

own driveway you know just run an

extension card out to the driveway put

up a sign

charge your tesla 20 bucks or whatever

it costs

and uh

couldn't couldn't private people sell

charging

just park in my driveway plug it in for

an hour

yeah you could right

so maybe something like that will happen

so there's an ongoing debate about tick

tock and whether or not china has access

to information because it's a chinese

company

and brendan carr

he's on the

website the

fcc

and he's asking apple and google to drop

the app

because it's sending data to china

now

tiktok had assured us it's not going to

do that and

but apparently

it's confirmed that some of the data was

available in china

and i think at this point

if we were fooled about what uh data is

going back to china

and tick tock was involved in fooling us

you have to you have to take it out of

the app store

now i don't know if these two things are

true so let me say these are allegations

see the allegation would be that

uh people were concerned that china the

the you know the government would have

access to all this private information

in tick dock

and tick tock said to the world and to

us

no don't worry

because we moved our data into china so

china doesn't have access to it

but it turns out that was incorrect

and it

apparently it's been verified that's the

allegation that that data was available

to china

now under those circumstances

can you let that company remain in

business

i don't think so

what does your business

and managerial leadership instinct tell

you if a company lied to you about

something that basic

does the chinese government have our

private information

no

no

no no no

chinese government

heck no there's no way the chinese

government is going to get any of this

information

it did oh well yeah i got a little of it

and when i say a little of it they got a

lot of it

but you know next time we'll fix it

well can you fix it for sure next time

because you said last time that they

couldn't get it and then they did

but why would we trust you the second

time

why would we lie to you have we ever

lied to you yeah

you literally just lied

allegedly

you literally just allegedly

lied to us you said they didn't get it

and then we proved that they were why

would you act differently the second

time

given that the chinese government

probably really wants that information

why would we trust you that when you say

it's not going there

and the answer is you can't

and they proved that you can't trust

them by lying about that very exact

thing you don't even have to say

they're liars in general

so we worry that they would lie about

this specific thing

you don't even have to do that because

you could say they just lied on this

very specific thing

why in the world would you trust them to

not lie

again

on that very specific thing which is the

most important thing

probably which is you know exposure to

the data in china

so

trump and his administration wanted to

get rid of this and their instinct was

to get rid of it now and fast and just

you know do it

but they were stymied by whatever forces

so here we are

so if you signed up on tick tock good

luck china knows a lot about your

preferences

i'm seeing a comment that my only

contact with the immigrant community is

when they mow my lawn and clean my house

not true

right so i don't think you listen to

anything i just said

if you live here you're steeped in it

it's just everywhere

this is everywhere you go you know it's

everywhere

like it's in the personal life it's in

the schools it's every business you go

to

um when i when i door dash

sometimes the person speaks english

right so if you live here you're

you're you're uh steeped in it it's not

something that you see

in passing you're you're in it you're

swimming in it

all right

um

some of you are wondering what happened

with the

special

live stream i started last night

i already explained this to the people

on locals but if there's anybody on

youtube who saw me tweet about it i

started one that i had to bail nf

because something came up so that's all

you need to know

so it doesn't exist if you're looking

for it it was never completed

and i may or may not complete it today

or later

i would like to read for you

some of the best most important words

ever written

can you do you want to

you want to hang for that for a minute

now i want you to listen to this not

only for the meaning of the words

but for how well it's written

because remember you know one of the

things that we've learned is you want

short clean sentences

but in the old days they didn't write

these short clean sentences they wrote

these amazingly big long complicated

ones it's really hard to write a really

amazingly long complicated sentence

and then have people read it and be

inspired and like understand it like

you've got to really be a good writer to

do that

so i'm going to read you some of the

best writing i've ever seen in my life

which violates a lot of rules of writing

and i want you to see if it

has a historical meaning that is still

relevant today

so see if there's any relevance to this

today

you might recognize this

when in the course of human events it

becomes necessary for one people to

dissolve the political bands which have

connected them with another and to

assume among the powers of the earth the

separate equal station to which the laws

of nature and nature's god entitle them

a decent respect to the opinions of

mankind requires that they should

declare the causes

which impel them to the separation

my favorite sentence i love that

we hold these truths to be self-evident

that all men are created equal that they

are endowed by their creator with

certain unalienable rights that among

these are life liberty and their pursuit

of happiness

that to secure these rights governments

are instituted among men derived their

just powers from the consent of the

governed

that whatever any form of government

becomes destructive of these ends it is

the right of the people to alter or to

abolish it

and to institute a new government laying

its foundation on such principles and

organizing its powers in such form

as to them shall seem most likely to

affect their safety and happiness

prudence indeed will dictate that

governments long established should not

be changed for light and transient

causes and accordingly all experience

the hath shoon

that mankind are more disposed to suffer

while evils are sufferable than to write

themselves by abolishing the forms to

which they are accustomed

but what a long train of abuses and use

super

user patients

pursuing invariably the same object

evinces a design

to reduce them under absolute despotism

it is their right it is their duty

to throw off such government and to

provide new guards for their future

security

such has been the patient sufferance of

these colonies and such is now the

necessity which constrains them to alter

their former systems of government the

history of the present king of great

britain is a history of repeated

injuries and usurpations all having a

direct object the establishment of an

absolute tyranny over these states

to prove this let facts be submitted to

a candid world

and so they did

and so they did

and that ladies and gentlemen

is the best writing

in the history of the world

i would argue

and on that note

let's have a great fourth of july in the

united states

and the rest of you i hope you

take a moment today

to

appreciate

freedom

and

that concludes my program for today have

a great fourth