Episode 431 Scott Adams - Update on War With the Enemy of the People

hey everybody come on in here gather around grab your mug grab your chalice your stein grab your glass grab your thermos because you know what time it is it's time for coffee with scott adams and we are ready to enjoy the simultaneous sip for those of you who are nimble a finger and ready for this raise your chalice and join me for the simultaneous episode good stuff so i note that there's a group of child protesters who are protesting um i guess they're going to mitch mcconnell's office and protesting and you know that they already protested with dianne feinstein that didn't work out so well for them and so the question i ask myself is have the democrats decided to use children to make their argument now i don't want to make the obvious joke that aoc is 29 and she's kind of young and that might explain a lot but it does strike me as curious that the democrats are literally sending children to make their arguments children they can't make their arguments with adults do you really need children now there was a uh hilarious but possibly shocking poll that we just saw go around david axelrod sent a poll around and i tweeted it in which the priorities of the country were ranked of course stuff with the economy and healthcare and stuff were up toward the top but way down at the bottom of the list of priorities second from the bottom was climate change after all that's been said and done about climate change it's at the it's at the very bottom of the list of priorities now i wouldn't make too much out of that because it doesn't mean it's not a problem it just means people have ranked it low and that could be an artifact of the fact that half of the country thinks it's literally a nothing so if you took any of those items on the list that people say are a big problem in half of the country said well it doesn't even exist as a problem it would rank at the bottom so for example if half of the country didn't care about the economy then no matter how much half of the other half cared about it would still be at the bottom because half the country doesn't care about it at all so uh being at the bottom of the priorities is not an indication that that the public doesn't care about it that's that's a false interpretation in my opinion it's it's a it's an indication that half of the country doesn't even think it exists as a problem and half of the country in these are rough numbers you know maybe it's 30 percent maybe it's 40 percent maybe it's 50 and then another big chunk of the country thinks it's the worst problem in the world but since the poll question presumably did not capture the let's say the degree of caring meaning that if half the country say it's irrelevant and half the country say it's the biggest problem in the universe it's still going to get rated as not much of a problem because half of the people said it wasn't anything so that was a little bit misleading poll but interesting to see where it where it ranks all right um so we're watching um cnn and the anti-trumpers in general open what i call the the portal to fake news hell and that's in the form of primarily michael cohen he's sort of he's sort of the first demon out of the portal to fake news hell and they have to they have to work hard to come up with something because the president's got such a strong hand this week first of all whenever the whenever the president goes overseas good things seem to happen at least in terms of the public's opinion of his competency and everything else so the fact that he's overseas at all is positive for the president because it always is the fact that china has the fact that china is starting to talk about meeting at mar-a-lago because everybody's expecting things to turn into an agreement is fantastically good for this president can you imagine anything more mind effing to the anti-trumpers than if we don't know this is going to happen yet so i'm getting ahead of myself but i do predict it will happen what will the anti-trumpers say if trump comes up with a pretty good and i won't even say great if he comes up with a pretty good improvement on our trade agreement with china and let's say it includes a lot of the intellectual property stuff now nobody would expect china not to try to cheat on stuff because you know it's the real world but if we have an agreement that's got some some teeth in it that says if you do cheat these things will happen we might have something really good coming out of this don't know too early to say but suppose it happens what would that do to the people who thought he was a crazy maniac it will show that his approach is the best we've ever seen and by his approach i'm going to describe it this way being respectful and personal to the leaders of countries that are in some ways um antagonistic to us some way sometimes enemies sometimes just uh competitors but he's he's respectful and personal and very complementary to the leader at the same time he acts tough as possible in the negotiations that formula is probably going to be the formula that forever is considered the standard assuming things go well with china and then i'm also going to assume that things go well with north korea because i think they are now i'm still seeing people on social media saying to me scott you idiot you idiot can't you see that the president has accomplished nothing in north korea and that's a real that's a real head shaker because how could you watch the news for the past you know two years and conclude that the president has accomplished nothing with north korea now you could certainly say there's a lot more to go you could certainly say it has not reached the standard that we hope it will get to very reasonable things to say in fact most people would agree but to say that literally nothing good has happened that is not that's not part of the sane world and here's how i like to describe it what the president did was he removed the reason for nuclear war with north korea he took the reason away the reason that it was ever a risk is that north korea was pretty sure we wanted to attack them at any minute do you think that they believe that now nope do you believe that north korea thinks that their nuclear weapons are now a strategic asset or now a strategic liability what do you think is the mental process of kim jong-un and i don't know if anybody else matters in terms of decision making but let's say just kim do you think he sees his own nukes as an asset because he's not at war with anybody what what do you use them for the president's being nice he's offering economic development we have no border disputes south korea is okay with them china's okay with them exactly who would go to war with north korea nobody nobody so at the moment kim's nukes are sort of a bargaining chip but they're also his biggest liability it's the thing that is making him least um let's say least likely to stay in his job because we've offered something much better than having nukes and i think the president has sold that version of reality in a way that kim can look at it and say yeah he's met with me twice i've looked in his eyes we get along great i don't think he means to kill me right if you spend enough time in a room with somebody you could probably detect whether they plan to kill you like literally kill you and i think that if you spend enough time with trump and he and kim get along they have some laughs they figure out what to do about economic development they agree that they need to get to denuclearization you know the details may not matter so much and in the short run in the long run they matter of course i think i think it's the biggest accomplishment maybe any leader has ever has ever achieved somebody said that nixon going to china might be the same level of accomplishment but i don't know if we were on the brink of nuclear war with china maybe some historians can correct me on that but it seems to me that taking somebody from the brink of nuclear war to hey buddy can we talk about nuclear development is the biggest accomplishment of any president i don't know that anybody's ever done anything that clever and that good that you could you could specifically say was the president's action right i don't think anybody is saying well the president was in charge but other things happened and other people were doing things and there were other forces that made the good thing happen i don't think anybody's saying that i think people are saying that his exact personality and his exact strategy with north korea turned a nuclear holocaust into a economic opportunity nobody's ever done anything like that before it's enormous and i would think that we're on a very long path to do not having a nuclear risk whatever that looks like all right uh i'm loving the fact that bernie sanders is getting a lot of heat for apparently he used a lot of private jets when he was helping hillary clinton campaign so because he was busy a flying uh commercial is not really effective so in order to make all the the stops that hillary clinton wanted of him he requested and got private jet service but of course that works against his works against his you know green climate change kind of a vibe so he's getting a lot of heat for that now on a realistic level i'm really not the guy who's going to say that him taking that a leader taking a private jet is ever a bad idea i am of the opinion the rational opinion that if your leader is the one who has the biggest leverage in terms of how things go they should take private planes and their time is worth more than other people's time and you just can't compare what the leader does to to what you know the population as a whole should do so that's that's crazy but it works against bernie and the funniest part was one of bernie's ex-campaign people said that the uh the clinton uh supporters or the clinton campaign people were were just huge they said they're all and they're just like terrible people for letting this story about the the jet requests get out all right um so you may have seen that uh joel pollock retweeted with a with some inflammatory language uh a chris cuomo's little bit he did i think last night in which he played a clip of the president uh saying out of context that you know he played eclipse as if the president had called the protest the neo-nazis in charlottesville fine people now of course that's fake news he did not call the the neo-nazis fine people but cnn reports it that way what it what of course he was speaking about was that there are fine people on both sides of the confederate statue issue more generally now i'm against confederate statues so i'm not on his side on that point but nonetheless it's being reported in a fake news way and so let me let me call out for you some more dog that isn't barking so remember uh it was about a week ago i said i'm going to say in public loudly and clearly that the charlottesville report that the president said the neo-nazis were fine people i'm going to say it's fake news and a hoax i'm going to say it loudly and publicly and watch how none of the outlets that normally cover me is going to cover it now can you think of any other major story that someone as prominent as i am and i'm not you know the most prominent person in the world but you've you've observed that if i say something controversial it's definitely in the news right if i say something that gets me a little bit off the you know off the path it's news every time it's not news everywhere but there's always some you know liberal-leaning publication that'll say ah this idiot is saying x and i predicted that i would say the most outrageous thing you could possibly say which is a major story was fake news and a hoax and that i could back it up and it's obvious that it's a hoax and that there would be no news coverage and you watched it right did you not observe that literally no one touched my comment no one on on the left who believes that the charlottesville hoax is real no no one even mentioned it it's like it didn't happen coincidence it's not a coincidence it's not a coincidence at all and if you think about the unlikeliness of that prediction it was very unlikely that i could say something that insanely radical and get no coverage on it whatsoever and i told you why they can't cover it now doubling down joel has now commented on it and i think he might be writing something about it but again he's a very prominent person in the political world breitbart is a prominent publication and when he says in public that chris cuomo is lying lying he called him a liar do you think that chris cuomo will respond now normally what would happen if somebody reports news and someone else prominent calls them out and says you're you're literally a liar what would be the normal response of the person who's being called a liar they would respond right you're not going to see it so i predict that you will not see something like a a real response yeah there might be like a brush back or something but i don't think chris cuomo can respond in any way because if he does it's going to bring attention to the accusation and the accusation is so much stronger than the fake news that you don't that he's not going to be able to survive even the conversation and when i say survive i mean in terms of his interpretation of the world so watch so watch for the dog that doesn't bark watch out loudly and often we can say the obvious statement that the charlottesville reporting is fake news and a hoax and the most dangerous thing that's ever happened in this country in my opinion so dangerous in fact that i was wondering if there could be a class action suit against cnn now i'm very much against class action suits and lawsuits i just think it's a it's a horrible world to live in you know i don't want to get any and so therefore i i typically resist suing anybody i've never suited anybody by the way in my whole life i've never sued anybody i don't think yeah i've never seen anybody um it's because i just don't like the whole don't like it to happen to me don't let it happen other people don't like to be involved in lawsuits there's just almost always a better way to handle this stuff but from a a legal perspective i wondered you see how dangerous it is to go outside uh wearing a trump hat you know just a any kind of a pro-trump shirt or a magic hat or anything and you've seen how dangerous that is you've seen how it could affect your career you've seen how it could affect your safety now what's the biggest cause of that lack of safety well i would say unambiguously the biggest cause is the charlottesville hoax because it's not it doesn't live alone there are lots of accusations against this president for you know every manner of thing but all the rest of them are a little bit thin so for example would say well what about when he announced he announced he was running and he said that mexicans are rapists and murderers well even the people who were worried about that certainly understand that that was hyperbole and that he did not mean that the women and children coming across the border were also rapists you know no reasonable person could look at that statement and assumed that he thought they were all racist and nobody assumes that that was the one time he didn't use hyperbole if somebody uses hyperbole all the time and that's the most ordinary explanation for what happened during that during his announcement it was a little more hyperbole he made the he made the risk of people coming across the border sound a little higher than you've heard it before normal hyperbole so you know when you see stuff like that you know it's not enough it's not enough to create the the bubble of fear and and just the the crazy stuff that the anti-trumpers are thinking it's the charlottesville hoax that's that's the king of all the hoaxes it's the one that people think this one we don't have to wonder about because we heard it in his own words that's what people think about the charlottesville hoax they believed they heard something racist that was contemporary meaning current and in his own words and unambiguous this time those other things you could see the argument you could say okay maybe i'm taking this out of context but with charlottesville people said this one seems just too obvious it's his own words it's being reported everywhere it's his own words how could i be wrong that's what makes it a hoax because it was out of context it was a hoax and it's the big one it's the mother of all hoaxes the charles charlottesville hoax is the mother of the smaller hoax it's the mother of the covington hoax it's the mother of all hoaxes and it's the one that is the most resistant to any kind of reason uh i just i just had a back and forth with somebody here on on twitter and oh i wish i could maybe i can find it because i wanted to show you what happens when you expose someone who believes in the charlottesville hoax when you when you show them the actual quotes and the context and then you tell them it's obvious that he wasn't talking about um the neo-nazis as being fine people what happens to somebody if you watch my twitter exchange that was this morning they will devolve into word salad and i if you should see it just for entertainment and education purposes um it's on my twitter feed this morning it's somebody i was going back and forth with watch what happened to his last couple of tweets they actually don't even make sense their their words and they form something like a paragraph but they're actually just nonsense and if some did some of you see it if there's anybody on here who witnessed that i'd just look for a confirmation that he did devolve a word salad is when you have words in the sentence but they stop having meaning they just fit together as words but they don't fit together with meaning yeah so you're seeing you've seen some people confirm now that uh he devolved into actual babel just babel now the babel is when you know you've and by the way i'm not making this next part up when you get that kind of babble irrational word salad answer it means somebody has been pushed into cognitive dissonance as a trained hypnotist i've seen this many many times if you're new to it is shocking and you might misinterpret it you might look at it and say ah he must be just a troll and when you you got him with your logic he's trying whatever he can and maybe that's part of it but it's it's a classic signal for someone who's trying to get out of their mental prison but they can't they hit a wall and they they just degenerate into word salad so let me let me give you an argument here for my interpretation of the charlottesville situation versus the hoax interpretation my interpretation was that the president went on television and said that there are good people on both sides of the statue debate this makes perfect sense because he's actually said he's in favor of keeping the statues and if any side was bad that was going to be the side that you thought had a problem right the people who want to keep the statues i'm not in favor of keeping statues i think they're offensive but that i'm just giving you that as background so you know my own bias but since he has been publicly in favor of statues you would think that he would say well they're good people on both sides of the statue question because he is one of those people in his own mind he's a good person don't you think don't you think that the president thinks he's a good person don't you think that he thinks his his buddies his advisors who also want to keep the statues the writers the people on the right who want to keep them don't you think that the president actually thinks they're good people of course he does and that's that there's no mind reading involved in that that's sort of an obvious statement right nobody would really disagree with that so my interpretation is completely normal and consistent with everything we've seen before and everything we saw after because he specifically condemned the neo-nazis and the racists when asked to clarify so the normal explanation is completely normal completely consistent with the past fits all the data completely consistent with his clarification later and everything he's done since then now let's look at the hoax interpretation here's what you need to know here's what you need to believe is true in order to buy into the hoax that the president went on live tv and said racists were fine people you'd have to believe first of all that my more obvious and normal explanation is the wrong one so so right away you're on shaky ground right because there's a normal explanation that explains all the debt all the data yeah you'd have to agree that you'd have to believe that he cited against his own family um let me put it this way here's a quote for you if you if you want to if you want to quote me later here here's the uh the pull quote i wrote it down so i'd say say it right the only difference between antifa and the neo-nazis who were at charlottesville the only difference well not the only difference let me say it again a big difference between antifa and the neo-nazis at charlottesville is which members of the trump family they wanted to kill the big difference between antifa and the neo-nazis marching in charlottesville is which members of the trump family they wanted to kill now i would say that probably the antifa people would have loved to see bad things happening to the president and probably to you know jared because he's central to the you know administration whereas the neo-nazis would be more about deporting ivanka and jared and the president's grandchildren so where the neo-nazis would also want to kill trump's grandchildren antophar would only want to kill trump himself and maybe maybe ivanka and jared so the big difference between them is which members of the trump family they wanted to kill now cnn is reporting that the president said there were good people on both sides do you believe that the president of the united states went on television and said well here's two groups they want to kill different parts of my family one wants to kill you know me and jared and maybe ivanka and then the other side wants to kill doesn't want to kill me but definitely wants to kill uh you know jared and my grandkids but i'm not sure about ivanka because she's converted so yeah but in both cases both sides want to kill members of my family cnn is reporting that the president said they're fine people in both of those groups does that sound reasonable does that sound like something he thought don't think so in order to believe the charlottesville hoax you would have to believe that the president consciously went on television and thought to himself i think i'll say some good things about the racists marching with tiki torches does that sound reasonable does that sound even a little bit reasonable now and even if you believe that then you have to believe the second part that the next day when he was asked to clarify he unambiguously clarified that he disavows completely completely disavows the racists and the neo-nazis so now you'd have to believe if you're going to buy into the charlottesville hoax that this was the one time the one time that we know of maybe you can think of another but i think it's the one time that trump changed his opinion because it was unpopular how often does that happen do you believe that this president if he had really held those views that people imagined he held you think you wouldn't say that a second time do you think that he would have backed off of that that's not the president you're watching the president you're watching doesn't give a flying f what you think of his opinion if he said it once he would say it again if he said something that sounded ambiguous and then he clarified it to be completely consistent with everything he's ever said on the topic completely consistent that should mean something all right in order to believe the charlottesville hoax you would have to also believe that he was sending a secret dog whistle by completely disavowing that group now what kind of a secret dog whistle do you send when the the ambiguous statement you know there's an ambiguous statement and then he clarifies it and he clarifies it as clearly as possible that he completely disavows the racist and the neo-nazis is that a dog whistle because that's like a really bad dog whistle you know here here's let me give you an example if i wanted to dog whistle my approval of you would i call you ugly and stupid so if i said bob is ugly and stupid would you say to yourself oh there's that secret dog whistle i think he's in love with bob i think he and bob got a little going on here because he just called him ugly and stupid well yeah you know where's this this dog whistle that we keep hearing about the next thing you'd have to think about in order to believe the charlottesville hoax you would have to also believe that israel didn't notice that they didn't notice or somehow that they didn't mind that the president of the united states was backing the anti-semites marching in charlottesville do you think israel would give him a pass on that if it were true do you think israel believes cnn's reporting do you think netanyahu sees cuomo saying watching you know reporting that the president praised the people who were marching with anti-semitic statements do you think netanyahu watches that and said oh yeah that's real news not a chance there isn't the slightest chance that israel thinks that news is true is israel stupid no evidence of that does it does israel have a really fine-tuned sensor for detecting anti-semitism i think they do i think they've had some practice and if they don't see it who do you trust on a question of is something anti-semitic do you trust israel or cnn one of them is credible on that question you would have to also believe if you believed in the charlottesville hoax you would have to believe that the 60 million trump supporters are okay with it you'd have to believe that 60 million people would be okay in this country with the sitting president praising white supremacists marching saying anti-semitic things 60 million of them who somehow didn't notice this now if you told me a million people believed it in a hoax i'd say oh yeah a million people believe anything but 60 million and you can't find probably anybody in that group who believes he actually called the racist fighting people 60 million none of them noticed none of them noticed right let's see all right so that's my point now having completely demolished the idea that the president called the charlottesville nazis fine people do you think this will become a story nope it won't i will be completely ignored uh and they will just wait they'll wait a few weeks and then they'll report it again like it's fact um but wait for this if you see any kind of response i don't even say that because there's no chance you won't see any kind of response but if you did see a response it would be word salad so that's my prediction prediction is you'll either see no response or you'll see one that is word salad in other words it just it'll be words that fit together but they don't they don't quite mean anything um all right see you next north korea flame story yesterday vanished after you said it i don't remember what that was say something bad right next to it and get in trouble yeah that's that's an interesting technique so somebody's suggesting that i pair my statements about the charlottesville hoax with something that's just so horrible they have to cover it um oh yeah so we're going to see some more michael cohen uh statements that who knows you know you know anonymous unnamed sources are saying they know what michael cohen's going to say to congress michael cohen is literally famous for being an incompetent liar who will say whatever he needs to say to uh you know to further his interests so it's going to be interesting because he almost certainly is going to come up with some damaging stuff about trump and it's going to be so not believable and it makes me wonder especially in the context of the the smaller thing in the covington thing i wonder if cnn is just going to get their ass kicked for even reporting it i guess everybody has to report it because it'll be public and it'll be news but it's got to be an uncomfortable situation because i think they're going to know that it's not credible but how do they treat it in the context of all the fake news lately all right that's all i got to say for now and i will talk to you all later

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good stuff so i note that

there's a group of child protesters

who are protesting um

i guess they're going to mitch

mcconnell's office and protesting

and you know that they already protested

with dianne feinstein that didn't work

out

so well for them and so the question i

ask myself is

have the democrats decided to use

children to make their argument now

i don't want to make the obvious joke

that aoc is 29

and she's kind of young and that might

explain a lot

but it does strike me as

curious that the democrats are literally

sending

children to make their arguments

children they can't make their arguments

with adults

do you really need children now there

was a

uh hilarious but possibly shocking

poll that we just saw go around

david axelrod sent a poll around and i

tweeted it in which the priorities of

the country were ranked

of course stuff with the economy and

healthcare and stuff were up toward the

top

but way down at the bottom of the list

of priorities

second from the bottom was climate

change

after all that's been said and done

about climate change

it's at the it's at the very bottom

of the list of priorities now i wouldn't

make

too much out of that because it doesn't

mean it's not a problem

it just means people have ranked it low

and that could be an artifact

of the fact that half of the country

thinks it's literally a nothing so if

you took

any of those items on the list that

people say

are a big problem in half of the country

said well it doesn't even exist as a

problem

it would rank at the bottom so for

example

if half of the country didn't care about

the economy

then no matter how much half of the

other half cared about it would still be

at the bottom

because half the country doesn't care

about it at all

so uh being at the bottom of the

priorities

is not an indication that that the

public

doesn't care about it that's that's a

false interpretation in my opinion

it's it's a it's an indication that

half of the country doesn't even think

it exists as a problem

and half of the country in these are

rough numbers you know maybe it's 30

percent maybe it's 40 percent

maybe it's 50 and then another big chunk

of the country

thinks it's the worst problem in the

world but

since the poll question presumably did

not

capture the let's say the degree of

caring

meaning that if half the country say

it's irrelevant and half the country say

it's the biggest problem in the universe

it's still going to get rated as not

much of a problem because half of the

people said it wasn't anything

so that was a little bit misleading poll

but interesting to see where it where it

ranks

all right um

so we're watching um

cnn and the anti-trumpers in general

open what i call the the portal to fake

news hell and that's in the form of

primarily michael cohen he's sort of

he's sort of the first

demon out of the portal to fake news

hell and they have to

they have to work hard to come up with

something

because the president's got such a

strong hand

this week first of all whenever the

whenever the president goes overseas

good things seem to happen at least in

terms of the public's opinion

of his competency and everything else

so the fact that he's overseas at all is

positive for the president

because it always is the fact that

china has

the fact that china is starting to talk

about meeting at mar-a-lago

because everybody's expecting things to

turn into an agreement

is fantastically good for this president

can you imagine anything more mind

effing to the anti-trumpers than

if we don't know this is going to happen

yet so i'm getting ahead of myself but

i do predict it will happen

what will the anti-trumpers say

if trump comes up with a pretty good and

i won't even say great

if he comes up with a pretty good

improvement

on our trade agreement with china and

let's say it includes a lot of the

intellectual property stuff now nobody

would expect

china not to try to cheat on stuff

because you know it's the real world but

if we have an agreement that's got some

some teeth in it that says if you do

cheat these things will happen

we might have something really good

coming out of this don't know

too early to say but suppose it happens

what would that do to the people who

thought he was a crazy

maniac it will show

that his approach is the best

we've ever seen and by his approach i'm

going to describe it this way

being respectful and personal to the

leaders of countries that are

in some ways um antagonistic to us

some way sometimes enemies sometimes

just uh

competitors but he's

he's respectful and personal and very

complementary to the leader

at the same time he acts tough as

possible in the negotiations

that formula is probably going to be the

formula that forever is

considered the standard assuming things

go well with china

and then i'm also going to assume that

things go well with north korea

because i think they are now i'm still

seeing people on social media

saying to me scott you idiot

you idiot can't you see that the

president

has accomplished nothing in north korea

and that's a real that's a real

head shaker because how could you watch

the news for the past you know two years

and conclude that the president has

accomplished nothing with north korea

now you could certainly say there's a

lot more to go

you could certainly say it has not

reached the standard that we hope it

will get to

very reasonable things to say in fact

most people would agree

but to say that literally nothing good

has happened

that is not that's not part of the

sane world and here's how i like to

describe

it what the president did

was he removed the reason for nuclear

war

with north korea he took the reason away

the reason that it was ever a risk is

that north korea was pretty sure

we wanted to attack them at any minute

do you think that they believe that now

nope

do you believe that north korea thinks

that their nuclear weapons

are now a strategic asset or

now a strategic liability what do you

think is the mental process

of kim jong-un and i don't know if

anybody else matters in terms of

decision making but let's say just kim

do you think he sees his own nukes

as an asset because he's not at war with

anybody

what what do you use them for the

president's being nice he's offering

economic development

we have no border disputes south korea

is okay with them

china's okay with them exactly who would

go to war with north korea

nobody nobody

so at the moment kim's nukes are

sort of a bargaining chip but they're

also his biggest liability it's the

thing that is making him

least um let's say

least likely to stay in his job because

we've offered something much better than

having nukes and i think the president

has sold that version of reality

in a way that kim can look at it and say

yeah he's met with me twice i've looked

in his eyes we get along great i don't

think he means to kill me

right if you spend enough time in a room

with somebody you could probably detect

whether they plan to kill you like

literally kill you

and i think that if you spend enough

time with trump

and he and kim get along they have some

laughs they figure out what to do about

economic development

they agree that they need to get to

denuclearization

you know the details may not matter so

much and in the short run

in the long run they matter of course

i think i think it's the biggest

accomplishment

maybe any leader has ever has ever

achieved

somebody said that nixon going to china

might be the same level of

accomplishment but i don't know if we

were on the brink of nuclear war with

china maybe

some historians can correct me on that

but it seems to me

that taking somebody from the brink of

nuclear war

to hey buddy can we talk about nuclear

development

is the biggest accomplishment of any

president

i don't know that anybody's ever done

anything

that clever and that good that you could

you could specifically say was the

president's action

right i don't think anybody is saying

well the president was in charge but

other things happened and other people

were doing things and

there were other forces that made the

good thing happen i don't think

anybody's saying that

i think people are saying that his exact

personality

and his exact strategy with north korea

turned a nuclear holocaust into

a economic opportunity

nobody's ever done anything like that

before it's

enormous and i would think that we're on

a very long path

to do not having a nuclear risk

whatever that looks like all right

uh i'm loving the fact that

bernie sanders is getting a lot of heat

for apparently he used a lot of private

jets

when he was helping hillary clinton

campaign

so because he was busy a flying uh

commercial is not really effective so in

order to make all the

the stops that hillary clinton wanted of

him

he requested and got private jet service

but of course that works against his

works against his

you know green climate change

kind of a vibe so he's getting a lot of

heat for that

now on a realistic level i'm really not

the guy

who's going to say that him taking that

a leader taking a private jet is ever a

bad idea

i am of the opinion the rational opinion

that if your leader is the one who has

the biggest leverage

in terms of how things go they should

take private planes

and their time is worth more than other

people's time

and you just can't compare what the

leader does to to what you know the

population

as a whole should do so that's that's

crazy but

it works against bernie and the funniest

part was

one of bernie's ex-campaign people

said that the uh the clinton uh

supporters or the clinton campaign

people

were were just huge they said

they're all

and they're just like terrible people

for letting this story about the

the jet requests get out

all right um so you may have seen

that uh joel pollock retweeted with a

with some inflammatory language uh

a chris cuomo's

little bit he did i think last night in

which he played a clip

of the president uh saying

out of context that you know he played

eclipse

as if the president had called the

protest

the neo-nazis in charlottesville fine

people

now of course that's fake news he did

not call

the the neo-nazis fine people but cnn

reports it that way

what it what of course he was speaking

about was that there are fine people on

both sides of the

confederate statue issue more generally

now i'm against confederate statues so

i'm not on his side on that point

but nonetheless it's being reported

in a fake news way and

so let me let me call out for you

some more dog that isn't barking so

remember uh it was about a week ago i

said i'm going to say in public

loudly and clearly that the

charlottesville

report that the president said the

neo-nazis were fine people

i'm going to say it's fake news and a

hoax i'm going to say it loudly

and publicly and watch how none of the

outlets that normally cover me

is going to cover it now can you think

of any other major story

that someone as prominent as i am and

i'm not you know the most prominent

person in the world

but you've you've observed that if i say

something controversial

it's definitely in the news right

if i say something that gets me a little

bit off the you know off the path

it's news every time it's not news

everywhere

but there's always some you know

liberal-leaning

publication that'll say ah this idiot is

saying x

and i predicted that i would say the

most outrageous thing you could possibly

say

which is a major story was fake news and

a hoax and that i could back it up and

it's obvious

that it's a hoax and that there would be

no news coverage

and you watched it right did you not

observe

that literally no one touched my comment

no one on on the left who believes that

the charlottesville hoax is real

no no one even mentioned it it's like it

didn't happen

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coincidence it's not a coincidence

it's not a coincidence at all and if you

think about the

unlikeliness of that prediction

it was very unlikely that i could say

something that

insanely radical and get no coverage on

it whatsoever

and i told you why they can't cover it

now

doubling down joel has now commented on

it and

i think he might be writing something

about it but again

he's a very prominent person in the

political world

breitbart is a prominent publication and

when he says in public that chris cuomo

is lying

lying he called him a liar

do you think that chris cuomo will

respond

now normally what would happen if

somebody reports news

and someone else prominent calls them

out and says you're you're literally

a liar what would be the normal response

of the person who's being called a liar

they would respond right you're not

going to see it

so i predict that you will not see

something

like a a real response yeah there might

be like a brush back or something

but i don't think chris cuomo

can respond in any way because if he

does

it's going to bring attention to the

accusation

and the accusation is so much stronger

than the fake news that you don't that

he's not going to be able to survive

even the conversation and when i say

survive i mean

in terms of his interpretation of the

world

so watch so watch for the dog that

doesn't bark

watch out loudly and often we can say

the obvious statement that the

charlottesville

reporting is fake news and a hoax and

the most dangerous thing that's ever

happened in this country

in my opinion so dangerous in fact

that i was wondering if there could be a

class action suit

against cnn now i'm very much against

class action suits and lawsuits i just

think it's a

it's a horrible world to live in you

know i don't want to get any and

so therefore i i typically resist

suing anybody i've never suited anybody

by the way in my whole life i've never

sued anybody

i don't think yeah i've never seen

anybody um

it's because i just don't like the whole

don't like it to happen to me don't let

it happen other people

don't like to be involved in lawsuits

there's just almost always a better way

to handle this stuff

but from a a legal perspective

i wondered you see how dangerous it is

to go outside uh wearing

a trump hat you know just a

any kind of a pro-trump shirt or a magic

hat or anything

and you've seen how dangerous that is

you've seen how it could affect your

career you've seen how it could affect

your safety

now what's the biggest

cause of that lack of safety

well i would say unambiguously the

biggest cause

is the charlottesville hoax because it's

not it doesn't live alone there are lots

of accusations against this president

for you know every manner of thing but

all the rest of them

are a little bit thin so for example

would say well what about when he

announced

he announced he was running and he said

that mexicans are rapists and murderers

well even the people who were worried

about that

certainly understand that that was

hyperbole

and that he did not mean that the women

and children coming across the border

were also rapists you know no reasonable

person

could look at that statement and assumed

that he thought they were all racist

and nobody assumes that that was the one

time he didn't use hyperbole

if somebody uses hyperbole all the time

and that's the most ordinary explanation

for what happened during that

during his announcement it was a little

more hyperbole he made the

he made the risk of people coming across

the border sound

a little higher than you've heard it

before normal hyperbole

so you know when you see stuff like that

you know it's not enough it's not enough

to create the the bubble of fear

and and just the the crazy stuff that

the anti-trumpers are thinking

it's the charlottesville hoax that's

that's the king of all the hoaxes it's

the one that people think

this one we don't have to wonder about

because we heard it in his own words

that's what people think about the

charlottesville hoax they believed they

heard something racist

that was contemporary meaning current

and in his own words and unambiguous

this time those other things you could

see the argument you could say

okay maybe i'm taking this out of

context

but with charlottesville people said

this one seems

just too obvious it's his own words it's

being reported everywhere it's his own

words

how could i be wrong that's what makes

it a hoax

because it was out of context it was a

hoax

and it's the big one it's the mother of

all hoaxes

the charles charlottesville hoax is the

mother

of the smaller hoax it's the mother

of the covington hoax it's the mother of

all hoaxes

and it's the one that is the most

resistant

to any kind of reason uh i just

i just had a back and forth with

somebody here on

on twitter and oh i wish i could maybe i

can find it

because i wanted to show you what

happens when you expose someone who

believes

in the charlottesville hoax when you

when you show them the actual quotes and

the context

and then you tell them it's obvious that

he wasn't talking about

um the neo-nazis as being fine people

what happens to somebody if you watch my

twitter exchange that was this morning

they will devolve into word salad

and i if you should see it just for

entertainment and education purposes

um it's on my twitter feed this morning

it's somebody i was

going back and forth with watch what

happened to his last couple of tweets

they actually don't even make sense

their their words

and they form something like a paragraph

but they're actually just nonsense

and if some did some of you see it if

there's anybody on here who

witnessed that i'd just look for a

confirmation that he did devolve

a word salad is when you have words in

the sentence

but they stop having meaning they just

fit together as words but they don't fit

together with meaning

yeah so you're seeing you've seen some

people confirm now

that uh he devolved into actual babel

just babel now the babel is when you

know you've

and by the way i'm not making this next

part up when you get that kind of

babble irrational word salad answer

it means somebody has been pushed into

cognitive dissonance

as a trained hypnotist i've seen this

many many times if you're new to it is

shocking and you might misinterpret it

you might look at it and say ah he must

be just a troll and when you you got him

with your logic he's

trying whatever he can and maybe that's

part of it but

it's it's a classic signal

for someone who's trying to get out of

their mental prison

but they can't they hit a wall and they

they just degenerate into word salad

so let me let me give you an argument

here

for my interpretation of the

charlottesville situation

versus the hoax interpretation

my interpretation was that the president

went on television

and said that there are good people on

both sides of the statue

debate this makes perfect sense

because he's actually said he's in favor

of keeping the statues

and if any side was bad that was going

to be the side that you thought

had a problem right the people who want

to keep the statues

i'm not in favor of keeping statues i

think they're offensive

but that i'm just giving you that as

background so you know my own bias

but since he has been publicly in favor

of statues

you would think that he would say well

they're good people on both sides of the

statue question because he is one of

those people

in his own mind he's a good person don't

you think

don't you think that the president

thinks he's a good person

don't you think that he thinks his his

buddies his advisors who also want to

keep the statues

the writers the people on the right who

want to keep them don't you think that

the

president actually thinks they're good

people of course he does

and that's that there's no mind reading

involved in that that's sort of an

obvious statement right nobody would

really disagree with that

so my interpretation is completely

normal

and consistent with everything we've

seen before

and everything we saw after because he

specifically

condemned the neo-nazis and the racists

when asked to clarify

so the normal explanation is completely

normal

completely consistent with the past fits

all the data

completely consistent with his

clarification later and everything he's

done since then

now let's look at the hoax

interpretation

here's what you need to know

here's what you need to believe is true

in order to buy into the hoax

that the president went on live tv and

said racists were fine people

you'd have to believe first of all that

my more obvious

and normal explanation is the wrong one

so so right away you're on shaky ground

right

because there's a normal explanation

that explains all the debt all the data

yeah you'd have to agree that you'd have

to believe

that he cited against his own family

um let me put it this way

here's a quote for you if you if you

want to if you want to quote me later

here here's the uh the pull quote

i wrote it down so i'd say say it right

the only difference between antifa and

the neo-nazis

who were at charlottesville the only

difference

well not the only difference let me say

it again

a big difference between antifa

and the neo-nazis at charlottesville is

which members of the trump

family they wanted to kill

the big difference between antifa

and the neo-nazis marching in

charlottesville

is which members of the trump family

they wanted to kill

now i would say that probably the antifa

people

would have loved to see bad things

happening to the president

and probably to you know jared

because he's central to the you know

administration

whereas the neo-nazis would be more

about deporting

ivanka and jared and the president's

grandchildren

so where the neo-nazis would also want

to kill trump's grandchildren

antophar would only want to kill trump

himself

and maybe maybe ivanka and jared

so the big difference between them is

which members

of the trump family they wanted to kill

now cnn is reporting that the president

said there were good people on both

sides

do you believe that the president of the

united states went on television and

said well

here's two groups they want to kill

different parts of my family

one wants to kill you know me and jared

and maybe ivanka

and then the other side wants to kill

doesn't want to kill me

but definitely wants to kill uh you know

jared and my grandkids

but i'm not sure about ivanka because

she's converted so

yeah but in both cases both sides want

to kill members of my family

cnn is reporting that the president said

they're fine people in both of those

groups

does that sound reasonable does that

sound like something he thought

don't think so

in order to believe the charlottesville

hoax you would have to believe that the

president

consciously went on television

and thought to himself i think i'll say

some good things

about the racists marching with tiki

torches

does that sound reasonable does that

sound even

a little bit reasonable now and even if

you believe that

then you have to believe the second part

that the next day when he was asked to

clarify he unambiguously clarified

that he disavows completely

completely disavows the racists and the

neo-nazis

so now you'd have to believe if you're

going to buy into the charlottesville

hoax

that this was the one time the one time

that we know of maybe you can think of

another but i think it's the one time

that trump changed his opinion because

it was unpopular

how often does that happen do you

believe that this president

if he had really held those views that

people imagined he held

you think you wouldn't say that a second

time

do you think that he would have backed

off of that that's not the president

you're watching

the president you're watching doesn't

give a flying

f what you think of his opinion

if he said it once he would say it again

if he said something that sounded

ambiguous and then he clarified it

to be completely consistent with

everything he's ever said on the topic

completely consistent

that should mean something all right

in order to believe the charlottesville

hoax you would have to also believe

that he was sending a secret dog whistle

by completely disavowing that group

now what kind of a secret dog whistle do

you send

when the the ambiguous statement

you know there's an ambiguous statement

and then he clarifies it and he

clarifies it

as clearly as possible that he

completely

disavows the racist and the neo-nazis

is that a dog whistle because that's

like a really bad

dog whistle you know here

here's let me give you an example

if i wanted to dog whistle my approval

of you

would i call you ugly and stupid

so if i said bob is ugly and stupid

would you say to yourself oh there's

that secret dog whistle i think he's in

love with bob

i think he and bob got a little going on

here because he just called him ugly and

stupid

well yeah

you know where's this this dog whistle

that we keep hearing about

the next thing you'd have to think about

in order to believe the charlottesville

hoax

you would have to also believe that

israel didn't notice

that they didn't notice or somehow that

they didn't mind

that the president of the united states

was backing

the anti-semites marching in

charlottesville do you think israel

would give him a pass on that if it were

true

do you think israel believes cnn's

reporting

do you think netanyahu sees cuomo

saying watching you know reporting that

the president praised

the people who were marching with

anti-semitic statements do you think

netanyahu watches that and said oh yeah

that's real news

not a chance there isn't the slightest

chance

that israel thinks that news is true

is israel stupid no evidence of that

does it does israel have a really

fine-tuned

sensor for detecting anti-semitism

i think they do i think they've had some

practice

and if they don't see it who do you

trust

on a question of is something

anti-semitic

do you trust israel or cnn

one of them is credible on that question

you would have to also believe if you

believed in the charlottesville hoax

you would have to believe that the 60

million

trump supporters are okay with it

you'd have to believe that 60 million

people

would be okay in this country with the

sitting president

praising white supremacists marching

saying anti-semitic things

60 million of them who somehow didn't

notice

this now if you told me

a million people believed it in a hoax

i'd say oh yeah a million people believe

anything but 60 million

and you can't find probably anybody in

that group

who believes he actually called the

racist fighting people

60 million none of them noticed

none of them noticed right

let's see

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all right so that's my point

now having completely demolished the

idea

that the president called the

charlottesville

nazis fine people

do you think this will become a story

nope it won't i will be completely

ignored

uh and they will just wait they'll wait

a few weeks and then they'll report it

again like it's fact

um but wait for this

if you see any kind of response i don't

even say that because there's no chance

you won't see any kind of response

but if you did see a response it would

be

word salad so that's my prediction

prediction is you'll either see no

response

or you'll see one that is word salad in

other words it just

it'll be words that fit together but

they don't they don't quite mean

anything

um

all right

see you next north korea flame story

yesterday vanished

after you said it i don't remember what

that was

say something bad right next to it and

get in trouble

yeah that's that's an interesting

technique so somebody's suggesting that

i

pair my statements about the

charlottesville hoax

with something that's just so horrible

they have to cover it

um

oh yeah so we're going to see some more

michael cohen uh

statements that

who knows you know you know anonymous

unnamed sources are saying they know

what michael cohen's going to say

to congress michael cohen is literally

famous for being an incompetent liar

who will say whatever he needs to say to

uh

you know to further his interests so

it's going to be interesting because

he almost certainly is going to come up

with some damaging

stuff about trump and

it's going to be so not believable and

it makes me wonder especially in the

context of the

the smaller thing in the covington thing

i wonder if cnn

is just going to get their ass kicked

for even reporting it

i guess everybody has to report it

because it'll be public and it'll be

news

but it's got to be an uncomfortable

situation

because i think they're going to know

that it's not

credible but how do they treat it in the

context of all the fake news lately all

right that's all i got to say for now

and i will talk to you all later