Episode 78 - Scott and Dale Talk About CNN’s Worst Day Ever
NK summit cancellation Trump supporters HAPPY, cause they understand negotiating Trump critics HAPPY, cause they wanted the summit cancelled Prison Reform pending, Van Jones Trump pardoned Jack Johnson…Obama didn’t “Animals” context made it clear media had tried to screw President Trump Elon Musk comments Sarcasm is hard/impossible to discern lately
Bum bum bum bum bum ba bum bum bum bum. Where's Dale? Dale, get over here. Hey there, welcome to Coffee with Scott Adams, featuring no coffee today. I've already had my caffeine, so let's go on.
View segment →Here's why it's a bad day to be CNN today. The first piece of news, the big news, is that President Trump has canceled the North Korean summit. Here's what's interesting about that. The people who were on President Trump's side, his backers, have been saying for a long time, hey, gotta be tough wit…
View segment →But it gets better. In the same week that we saw some big progress with prison reform, which the people have been calling the president a racist for ever, say whoa, that's hard to be against, given that even Democrats like it now. It's not passed, I guess it went through the House with a big majorit…
View segment →Now there's a slightly larger picture. And you also saw that the Reuters poll had shown a crossover where the generic Republican now beats the generic Democrat in a poll, which I believe is probably deeply related to the Kanye and Candace effect, more Candace I think. I would give her more credit fo…
View segment →But here's what I think is the big big picture maybe and maybe a turning point. I'm probably getting over my skis a little bit here because I tend to skew optimistic. So I'm gonna give you a piece of optimism that you know is not quite as certain. But it seems to me that when we had this situation w…
View segment →Now the reason I jumped on this Periscope is I was watching Jake Tapper's show on CNN just a moment ago and they were talking about this so-called Gang of Eight meeting in which the Democrats and the Republicans, mostly Republicans in this case, were going to be put in a room and they were going to…
View segment →So the interesting thing, oh yeah and you also saw that Elon Musk is doing a little startup, we think he's serious, called Pravda which is funny. There would be sort of a Yelp for checking the credibility of journalists and news organizations. Now apparently he's been such a victim of fake news in…
View segment →Now I was thinking of sarcasm which I just mentioned a moment ago. I keep getting comments on Twitter and it's more in the last few weeks than any time I can remember in which people can't tell sarcasm from a real point. And I'm not mocking those people because I can't tell anymore. And I mean that…
View segment →I've called all the people who came out of the so-called PayPal Mafia. I think they're either all of them or most of them are master persuaders because they can all operate on that same level and it's just a level above other entrepreneurs. You see it fairly consistently. You see it with Reid Hoffma…
View segment →All right. I think my afternoon Periscopes get more attention. It might be because more news has broken by then. I'm gonna get off now. I've got some other things to do. I just wanted to get on and if you have a chance today to check out CNN it's going to be like a comedy channel all day long becau…
View segment →Bum bum bum bum bum ba bum bum bum bum. Where's Dale? Dale, get over here.
Hey there, welcome to Coffee with Scott Adams, featuring no coffee today. I've already had my caffeine, so let's go on.
Here's why it's a bad day to be CNN today. The first piece of news, the big news, is that President Trump has canceled the North Korean summit.
Here's what's interesting about that. The people who were on President Trump's side, his backers, have been saying for a long time, hey, gotta be tough with these North Koreans, gotta be willing to walk away from the table. We expected it might happen. In fact, we thought it would happen. And then he walked away from the table just about at the perfect time to do it.
So Trump supporters saw his walking away from the table as good news, a positive thing.
Meanwhile, Trump's detractors were sure that North Korea was pulling a fast one, that they were flattering him and that they were going to lead him on a little bit just to pull the football away, as they have all in the past so many times. And this dumb old Mr. Trump, he doesn't see it coming. Oh my God, he's dumb. He's so dumb. He just can't see what they're doing to him.
And then he canceled the summit, which is exactly what they wanted because they didn't believe it was real.
So I don't know how often this can happen, but he managed with one act, canceling the summit, to please both his biggest critics and his biggest supporters. Pretty good trick, right?
So how does CNN and the traditional critics handle the fact that he just did exactly what they thought he should do and also, for slightly different reasons but pretty related, exactly what his proponents think he should do? There's not much to complain about, right?
But it gets better. In the same week that we saw some big progress with prison reform, which the people have been calling the president a racist for ever, say whoa, that's hard to be against, given that even Democrats like it now. It's not passed, I guess it went through the House with a big majority, but we saw Van Jones being part of that process. We see that it's clearly a nice diverse group, exactly like you'd want. They're working towards solutions that just make sense. You know, they're not Democrat solutions, they're not Republican solutions. Prison reform just makes sense. And so he got that done.
And then you also saw information about urban renewal. We haven't seen enough there, but the fact that it's in the news plays against this big old Trump racist guy.
And then we saw today President Trump approved the pardon, I believe it is, of Jack Johnson. Jack Johnson, okay yes, Jack Johnson. Sorry. So an African-American boxer who was accused of taking a white woman across state lines and went to prison for that. He's long dead, but this was apparently, I guess Sylvester Stallone was behind this, you know, raising the idea. And this is something that even President Obama didn't do and President Trump did it.
Now how do you swing that so that the Jack Johnson thing looks like it's a racist thing? Like how could you possibly twist this into a negative when it's not?
Well let me call in the expert. Dale, what do you think about the pardoning of Jack Johnson? Is there anything bad about that?
I'm glad you asked because it's obvious. It's pretty obvious. You saw the way he signed the thing. You saw the way he signed it, big letters. You know what that means? Narcissist. Narcissist.
Thank you, Dale. Also shut up, Dale. There's nothing to dislike about that.
Now there's a slightly larger picture. And you also saw that the Reuters poll had shown a crossover where the generic Republican now beats the generic Democrat in a poll, which I believe is probably deeply related to the Kanye and Candace effect, more Candace I think. I would give her more credit for being the intellectual spark that caused all this.
There does seem to be a big movement, if it proves out with other polls, a big movement in which the African-American community is starting to like President Trump's policies for them specifically. Unemployment is good and you know the other things I mentioned are moving in at least in the right direction.
But here's what I think is the big big picture maybe and maybe a turning point. I'm probably getting over my skis a little bit here because I tend to skew optimistic. So I'm gonna give you a piece of optimism that you know is not quite as certain. But it seems to me that when we had this situation where the president called MS-13 animals and the entire world watched as that was first taken out of context to paint him as a racist and then slowly because it just became obvious that's not what he was talking about, that he was talking about a gang, I believe that's the first time that his critics, wait for it, saw behind the curtain.
Right, because when the Charlottesville hoax happened his critics bought into it completely. They actually, the critics of President Trump, literally believed he was talking about the actual white supremacists as good people.
Now anybody who's listened to anything I've said or who was not predisposed to think that knows that he was talking about both sides of the statue question. Yes there are good people who want the statues taken away. He doesn't agree with them. And there are good people who want to keep the statues just for historical reasons, not because they're racist. That's what the president said.
But who could hear that? Well only the people who already believed that's who he was. Such as me.
When he was asked later can you explain these comments are you saying white supremacists are good people he said clearly and unambiguously no I'm disavowing that group that's not what I was talking about.
So Charlottesville and many of the other things such as calling Judge Curiel Mexican and talking about rapists coming across the border, when his supporters hear those things they say things like well he's not talking about every Mexican and he's just saying there's too much crime coming. That could not be more obvious.
But his haters can't hear that. You know they just hear I think you must think Mexicans are very rapey. And when they hear him call Judge Curiel Mexican his supporters hear Mexican heritage obviously and that is a legitimate question about bias in a legal context which is what it was because you always ask those questions in the legal context.
But when we got to this animals thing this one once it was put back in context it was a lot more obvious that the media had tried to screw him. And I think that was the first time that even his critics could see it. All those other things were sort of invisible in their confirmation bias and you know they just read them the way they read them.
But when it got to the animals part that's the first time they could see both movies at the same time. They could see why people said he wasn't saying animals and they could see the people who thought that he was talking about them and they could see why they saw it clearly for the first time.
So we could be on the edge of something big in terms of the way people are thinking about it.
Now the reason I jumped on this Periscope is I was watching Jake Tapper's show on CNN just a moment ago and they were talking about this so-called Gang of Eight meeting in which the Democrats and the Republicans, mostly Republicans in this case, were going to be put in a room and they were going to look at some top-secret information and they were going to get to the next level about what's happening with Russia and spies and you name it. I don't even know what they expect to see in those secret documents.
But I just saw your comment about Hawk Newsom. I'm gonna have him on the show again on the Periscope again and we'll talk about that.
So the criticism on CNN is that the Trump administration invited their lawyer, I forget his name but it's the lawyer that is working on the Russian collusion stuff, and you're not allowed to have a lawyer in the top-secret meeting. And normally you would not invite a lawyer. It's very unusual.
But here's the thing. The lawyer wasn't there for the confidential stuff. It was never planned that he would be there. It was planned that he would make some statements, kind of frame things, and then leave, which is what he did. So yeah it was Emmet Flood. And yet I watched minute after minute of criticism about the fact that something unusual had happened which is the lawyer had been invited even though nobody mentioned any reason why that's an actual problem.
That was the best they had today, was that a lawyer sat in a room.
Let me put this in context. The biggest criticism of the president today is that the president's lawyer sat in a room that was the same room that later on when he wasn't there they would talk about confidential stuff. That's it.
Somebody just said keep supporting Israel Scott. I don't even know if that's sarcasm.
So the interesting thing, oh yeah and you also saw that Elon Musk is doing a little startup, we think he's serious, called Pravda which is funny. There would be sort of a Yelp for checking the credibility of journalists and news organizations.
Now apparently he's been such a victim of fake news in his opinion that he's sort of moving closer to the Trump supporting side of the world. Because here's the thing about Elon Musk. I don't care what criticisms you have about him. I don't care what you think he did or didn't do, could have done better or what he did wrong. I don't care about any of that stuff for this point.
Here's the point. He's really freaking smart, all right? Like really smart. And he's engineering smart meaning that he's not going to be as susceptible. He's gonna say well did my eyes, is the economy going up or down? You know so I think he's gonna look at the details.
So while we would not expect Elon Musk to support any of the provocative things that President Trump says I think it's a fact that he notices some things that are important heading in the right direction. There's no way he could miss that.
Now I was thinking of sarcasm which I just mentioned a moment ago. I keep getting comments on Twitter and it's more in the last few weeks than any time I can remember in which people can't tell sarcasm from a real point. And I'm not mocking those people because I can't tell anymore. And I mean that completely seriously. And it's not, I'm not using hyperbole to make some bigger point. I can't tell anymore when people are joking because things are so crazy and our worlds are still so separate that somebody could be mocking the other team by just mimicking their style and I'll look at it and it'll go well yeah that's a ridiculous thing to say but I can't tell if you're mocking the ridiculous people or are you one of them. I actually can't tell.
Some of you know I got busted for forwarding some satire, some parody of Comey. So it was satire of Comey. So I was reading that somebody was doing in a humorous sense you know as if he wrote it in his book and I couldn't tell the difference. I really couldn't. That's why I forwarded it. I thought it was well he probably did say this it sounds just like him.
And I recently did a few tweets in which I used sarcasm and I got some replies that I couldn't tell if they could tell. I don't know.
All right. Um go on Howard Stern and duke it out. I don't know why I would. I'm just looking at your comments right now. Somebody said that Trump and Musk are the same person with different hair.
I've called all the people who came out of the so-called PayPal Mafia. I think they're either all of them or most of them are master persuaders because they can all operate on that same level and it's just a level above other entrepreneurs. You see it fairly consistently. You see it with Reid Hoffman. You see it with Elon Musk. You see it with Peter Thiel.
All right. I think my afternoon Periscopes get more attention. It might be because more news has broken by then.
I'm gonna get off now. I've got some other things to do. I just wanted to get on and if you have a chance today to check out CNN it's going to be like a comedy channel all day long because they're gonna be trying to criticize him for all the things that they agree with. You know pardoning Jack Johnson, yeah pardoning Jackson, backing off on North Korea before we get played, you know prison reform, good economy. It's gonna be a tough tough day for CNN.
So make sure you enjoy some of that while it's fresh 'cause tomorrow it could be another day.
bum bum bum bum bum BA bum bum bum bum where's Dale Dale get over here so Eric welcome to coffee with Scott Adams featuring no coffee today I've already had Michael shoot let's go on so here's why it's a bad day to be CNN today the first piece of news the big news is a president Trump has canceled the North Korean summit here's what's interesting about that the people who were on president Trump's side his backers have been saying for a long time hey gotta be tough with these North Koreans gotta be willing to walk away from the table we expected it might happen in fact we thought it would happen and then he walked away from the table just about there perfect time to do it so Trump supporters saw his walking away from the table as good news a positive thing meanwhile Trump's detractors were sure that North Korea was pulling a fast one that they were flattering him and they were going to they were going to lead him on a little bit just to pull the football away as they have all in the past so many times and this dumb old mr.
Trump he doesn't see it coming oh my god he's dumb he's so dumb he just can't see what they're doing to him and then he canceled the summit which is exactly what they wanted because they didn't believe it was real so I don't know how often this can happen but he managed with one act canceling the summit to please both his biggest critics and his biggest supporters pretty good trick right so how does how does CNN and the traditional critics how did they handle the fact that he just did exactly what they thought that what they thought he should do and also slightly different reasons but pretty related exactly what what is proponents think you should do there's not much to complain about right but it gets better in the same week that we saw some big progress with prison reform which the people have been calling the president a racist for ever say whoa that's hard to be against given that even Democrats like it now it's not past I guess it went through the went through the house with a big majority but we saw we saw Van Johnson being part of that process we see that it's clearly you know it's a it's a nice diverse group exactly like you'd want they're working towards solutions that just make sense you know they're not they're not Democrats solutions they're not Republican solutions prison reform just make sense and so he got that done and then you also saw information about urban renewal we haven't seen enough there but the fact that it's in the news plays against this big old Trump racist guy and then we saw today President Trump approved the pardon I believe it is of Joe Jackson Jack Jackson what's his name let me look on the homepage of see it in because I'm sure that news is there hmm hmm I don't see it Jack Johnson okay yes Jack Johnson sorry so a african-american boxer who was accused of taking a white woman across across state lines and went to prison for that he's long dead but this was apparently I guess Sylvester Stallone was behind this you know raising the idea and this is something that even President Obama didn't do and President Trump did it now how do you how do you swing that so that the the Jack Johnson thing looks like it's a racist thing like that how could you possibly twist this into a negative what it doesn't when it's not well let me call in the expert Dale what do you think about the pardoning of Jack Johnson is there anything bad about that I'm glad you asked because it's obvious it's pretty obvious you saw the way he signed the the thing you saw the way you signed it big letters you know what that means narcissist narcissist Thank You Dale also shut up Dale there's nothing to dislike about that now there's a there's a slightly larger picture and you also saw that the the Reuters poll had gathered up a cross over the generic Republican now beats the generic Democrat in a in a poll which I believe is probably deeply related to the Kanye and Candace effect more more Candace I think I would give her more credit for being the you know the the intellectual spark they caused all this there does seem to be a big movement if it if it proves that with other polls a big movement in which the African immunity African American community is starting to like president Trump's production for them specifically unemployment is good and you know the other things I mentioned are moving in at least in the right direction but here's what I think is the big big picture maybe and maybe a turning point I'm probably getting over my skis a little bit here because I tend to I skew optimistic so I'm gonna I'm gonna give you a piece of optimism that you know is not quite as certain but it seems to me that when we had this situation where the president called ms-13 animals and the entire world watched as that was first taken out of context to paint him as a racist and then slowly because it had - it just became obvious that's not what he was talking about that he was talking about a gang I believe that's the first time that his critics wait for it saw behind the curtain right because when the Charlottesville hoax happened his critics bought into it completely they actually the the critics of President Trump literally believed he was talking about the actual white supremacist as good people now anybody anybody who's listened to anything I've said or who was not predisposed to think that knows that he was talking about both sides of the statue question yes there are good people who want the statues taken away he doesn't agree with him and there are good people who want to keep the statues just for you know historical reasons not because they're racist that's what the president said but who could hear that well only the people who already believed that's that's who he was he that he would not say that such as me when he was asked later can you explain these comments are you saying white supremacists are good people he said clearly and unambiguously now I'm disavowing that group that's not what I was talking about so Charlottesville and many of the other things such as calling Judge Carrie Ella Mexican and and talking about rapists coming coming across the border when his supporters hear those things they say things like well he's not talking about every Mexican and he's just saying there's too much crime coming that could not be more obvious but his haters can't hear that you know they just hear I think you must think Mexicans are very rapey and when they hear them called Judge curial you know Mexican his supporters hear Mexican heritage obviously and that is a legitimate question about bias in a legal context which is what it was because you always ask those questions in the legal context but when we got to this animals thing this one once it was put back in context it was a lot more obvious that the media had tried to screw him and I think that was the first time that even his critics could see it there all those other things were sort of invisible in their confirmation bias and you know they just read them the way they read them but when it got to the animals part that's the first time they could see both movies at the same time they could see why people said he wasn't saying animals and they could see the people who thought that he was talking about him and they could see why they saw it clearly for the first time so we could be on the edge of something big in terms of the way people are thinking about it now the reason I jumped on this periscope is I was watching Jake Tapper's show on CNN just a moment ago and they were talking about this so-called gang of eight meeting in which the Democrats and the Republicans mostly Republicans in this case we're going to be put in a room and they were going to look at some top-secret information and they were going to get to the next level about what's happening with Russia and spies and you name it I don't even I don't even know what the what they expect to see in those secret documents but but I just saw your comment about Hawk Newson I'm gonna have him on the on the show again on the periscope again and we'll talk about that so so the criticism on CNN is that the Trump administration invited their lawyer I forget his name but it's the lawyer that is working on the the Russian collusion stuff and you're not allowed to have a lawyer in the top secret meeting and normally you would not invite a lawyer it's very unusual but here's the thing the lawyer wasn't there for the confidential stuff it was never planned that he would be there it was planned that he would make some statements kind of frame things and then leave which is what he did so yeah it was the flood not cyclo and yet I watched I don't know minute after minute of criticism about the fact that something unusual had happened which is the lawyer had been invited even though nobody mentioned any reason why that's an actual problem that was the best they had today was that a lawyer sat in a room let me put this in context the biggest criticism of the president today is that the president's lawyer sat in a room that was the same room that later on when he wasn't there they would talk about confidential stuff that's it somebody just said keep supporting Israel Scott I don't even know if that's sarcasm so the the interest think they oh yeah and you also saw that Elon Musk is doing a little startup we think he's serious called Pravda which is funny there would be sort of a Yelp for checking the credibility of journalists and news organizations now apparently he's been such a victim of fake news in his opinion that he's he's sort of sort of moving sort of moving closer to the the Trump supporting side of the world because here's the thing about Elon Musk I don't care what criticisms you have about him I don't care what you think he did or didn't do could have Duncan didn't better or what he did wrong I don't care about any of that stuff for this point here's the point he's really freaking smart all right like really smart and he's engineering smart meaning that he's not going to be as susceptible to he's gonna say well did my is the economy going up or down up you know so I think he's gonna look at the details so while we would not expect Elon Musk to support any of the provocative things that President Trump says I think it's a fact that he notices some things that are important heading in the right direction there's no way he could miss that now I was thinking of sarcasm which I just mentioned a moment ago I keep getting comments on Twitter and it's more in the last few weeks than any time I could remember in which people can't tell sarcasm from a real point and I'm not mocking those people because I can't tell anymore and I mean that completely seriously and it's not I'm not using hyperbole to make some bigger point I can't tell anymore when people are joking because things are so crazy and our worlds are still so separate that somebody could be mocking the other team by just mimicking their style and I'll look at it and it'll go well yeah that's a ridiculous thing to say but I can't tell if you're mocking the ridiculous people or are you one of them I actually can't tell some of you know I got busted for for forwarding some satire some parody from Comey so it was not it was satire of BALCO me so I was writing that somebody was doing in a humorous sense you know as if he wrote it in his book and I couldn't tell the difference I really couldn't that's why I forwarded it I thought it was well he probably did say this the sounds just like him and I recently did a few tweets in which I used sarcasm and I got some replies that I couldn't tell if they could tell I don't know all right um go on Howard Stern and Duke it out I don't know why I would I'm just looking at your comments right now somebody said that Trump and musk are the same person with different hair I've called I've called all the people who came out of the so called Pay.
Pal mafia I think they're either all of them or most of them are master persuaders because they can all operate on that same level and it's just a level above other entrepreneurs you see it fairly consistently you said you saw with Reid Hoffman you see it with you see it with Elon Musk see you with Peter Thiel all right I think my afternoon periscopes get more more attention it might be because more News has broken by then I'm gonna get off now I've got some other things to do I just wanted to get on and if you have a chance today to check out the CNN it's going to be like a comedy channel all day long because they're gonna be trying to criticize them for all the things that they agree with you know pardoning Jack Jackson yeah pardoning Jackson backing off on North Korea before we get played you know prison reform good economy it's gonna be tough tough day for CNN so make sure you enjoy some of that while it's fresh cuz tomorrow tomorrow it could be another day
bum bum bum bum bum BA bum bum bum bum
where's Dale Dale
get over here so Eric welcome to coffee
with Scott Adams
featuring no coffee today I've already
had Michael shoot
let's go on so here's why it's a bad day
to be CNN today the first piece of news
the big news is a president Trump has
canceled the North Korean summit here's
what's interesting about that the people
who were on president Trump's side his
backers have been saying for a long time
hey gotta be tough with these North
Koreans gotta be willing to walk away
from the table we expected it might
happen in fact we thought it would
happen and then he walked away from the
table just about there perfect time to
do it
so Trump supporters saw his walking away
from the table as good news a positive
thing meanwhile Trump's detractors were
sure that North Korea was pulling a fast
one that they were flattering him and
they were going to they were going to
lead him on a little bit just to pull
the football away as they have all in
the past so many times and this dumb old
mr. Trump he doesn't see it coming oh my
god he's dumb he's so dumb he just can't
see what they're doing to him and then
he canceled the summit which is exactly
what they wanted because they didn't
believe it was real so I don't know how
often this can happen but he managed
with one act canceling the summit to
please both his biggest critics and his
biggest supporters pretty good trick
right so how does how does CNN and the
traditional critics how did they handle
the fact that he just did exactly what
they thought that what they thought he
should do and also slightly different
reasons but pretty related exactly what
what is proponents think you should do
there's not much to complain about right
but it gets better in the same week that
we saw some big progress with prison
reform which the people have been
calling the president a racist for ever
say whoa that's hard to be against given
that even Democrats like it now it's not
past I guess it went through the went
through the house with a big majority
but we saw we saw Van Johnson being part
of that process we see that it's clearly
you know it's a it's a nice diverse
group exactly like you'd want they're
working towards solutions that just make
sense you know they're not they're not
Democrats solutions they're not
Republican solutions prison reform just
make sense and so he got that done and
then you also saw information about
urban renewal we haven't seen enough
there but the fact that it's in the news
plays against this big old Trump racist
guy and then we saw today President
Trump
approved the pardon I believe it is of
Joe Jackson Jack Jackson what's his name
let me look on the homepage of see it in
because I'm sure that news is there hmm
hmm I don't see it Jack Johnson okay
yes Jack Johnson sorry so a
african-american boxer who was accused
of taking a white woman across across
state lines and went to prison for that
he's long dead but this was apparently I
guess Sylvester Stallone was behind this
you know raising the idea and this is
something that even President Obama
didn't do and President Trump did it now
how do you how do you swing that so that
the
the Jack Johnson thing looks like it's a
racist thing like that how could you
possibly twist this into a negative what
it doesn't when it's not well let me
call in the expert Dale what do you
think about the pardoning of Jack
Johnson is there anything bad about that
I'm glad you asked because it's obvious
it's pretty obvious you saw the way he
signed the the thing you saw the way you
signed it big letters you know what that
means
narcissist narcissist Thank You Dale
also shut up Dale there's nothing to
dislike about that now there's a there's
a slightly larger picture and you also
saw that the the Reuters poll had
gathered up a cross over the generic
Republican now beats the generic
Democrat in a in a poll which I believe
is probably deeply related to the Kanye
and Candace effect more more Candace I
think I would give her more credit for
being the you know the the intellectual
spark they caused all this there does
seem to be a big movement if it if it
proves that with other polls a big
movement in which the African immunity
African American community is starting
to like president Trump's production for
them specifically unemployment is good
and you know the other things I
mentioned are moving in at least in the
right direction but here's what I think
is the big big picture maybe
and maybe a turning point I'm probably
getting over my skis a little bit here
because I tend to I skew optimistic so
I'm gonna I'm gonna give you a piece of
optimism that you know is not quite as
certain but it seems to me that when we
had this situation where the president
called ms-13 animals and the entire
world watched as that was first taken
out of context to paint him as a racist
and then slowly because it had - it just
became obvious that's not what he was
talking about that he was talking about
a gang I believe that's the first time
that his critics wait for it saw behind
the curtain right because when the
Charlottesville hoax happened his
critics bought into it completely they
actually the the critics of President
Trump literally believed he was talking
about the actual white supremacist as
good people now anybody anybody who's
listened to anything I've said or who
was not predisposed to think that knows
that he was talking about both sides of
the statue question yes there are good
people who want the statues taken away
he doesn't agree with him and there are
good people who want to keep the statues
just for you know historical reasons not
because they're racist that's what the
president said but who could hear that
well only the people who already
believed that's that's who he was he
that he would not say that such as me
when he was asked later can you explain
these comments are you saying white
supremacists are good people he said
clearly and unambiguously now I'm
disavowing that group that's not what I
was talking about
so Charlottesville and many of the other
things such as calling Judge Carrie Ella
Mexican and and talking about rapists
coming coming across the border when his
supporters hear those things
they say things like well he's not
talking about every Mexican and he's
just saying there's too much crime
coming that could not be more obvious
but his haters can't hear that you know
they just hear I think you must think
Mexicans are very rapey and when they
hear them called Judge curial you know
Mexican his supporters hear Mexican
heritage obviously and that is a
legitimate question about bias in a
legal context which is what it was
because you always ask those questions
in the legal context but when we got to
this animals thing this one once it was
put back in context it was a lot more
obvious that the media had tried to
screw him and I think that was the first
time that even his critics could see it
there all those other things were sort
of invisible in their confirmation bias
and you know they just read them the way
they read them but when it got to the
animals part that's the first time they
could see both movies at the same time
they could see why people said he wasn't
saying animals and they could see the
people who thought that he was talking
about him and they could see why they
saw it clearly for the first time so we
could be on the edge of something big in
terms of the way people are thinking
about it now the reason I jumped on this
periscope is I was watching Jake
Tapper's show on CNN just a moment ago
and they were talking about this
so-called gang of eight meeting in which
the Democrats and the Republicans mostly
Republicans in this case we're going to
be put in a room and they were going to
look at some top-secret information and
they were going to get to the next level
about what's happening with Russia and
spies and you name it I don't even I
don't even know what the what they
expect to see in those secret documents
but but
I just saw your comment about Hawk
Newson I'm gonna have him on the on the
show again on the periscope again and
we'll talk about that so so the
criticism on CNN is that the Trump
administration invited their lawyer I
forget his name but it's the lawyer that
is working on the the Russian collusion
stuff and you're not allowed to have a
lawyer in the top secret meeting and
normally you would not invite a lawyer
it's very unusual but here's the thing
the lawyer wasn't there for the
confidential stuff it was never planned
that he would be there it was planned
that he would make some statements kind
of frame things and then leave which is
what he did so yeah it was the flood not
cyclo and yet I watched I don't know
minute after minute of criticism about
the fact that something unusual had
happened which is the lawyer had been
invited even though nobody mentioned any
reason why that's an actual problem that
was the best they had today was that a
lawyer sat in a room let me put this in
context the biggest criticism of the
president today is that the president's
lawyer sat in a room that was the same
room that later on when he wasn't there
they would talk about confidential stuff
that's it somebody just said keep
supporting Israel Scott I don't even
know if that's sarcasm so the the
interest think they oh yeah and you also
saw that Elon Musk is doing a little
startup we think he's serious called
Pravda which is funny there would be
sort of a Yelp for checking the
credibility of journalists and news
organizations now apparently he's been
such a victim of fake news in his
opinion that he's he's sort of sort of
moving sort of moving closer to the
the Trump supporting side of the world
because here's the thing about Elon Musk
I don't care what criticisms you have
about him I don't care what you think he
did or didn't do could have Duncan
didn't better or what he did wrong
I don't care about any of that stuff for
this point here's the point he's really
freaking smart all right like really
smart and he's engineering smart meaning
that he's not going to be as susceptible
to he's gonna say well did my
is the economy going up or down up you
know so I think he's gonna look at the
details so while we would not expect
Elon Musk to support any of the
provocative things that President Trump
says I think it's a fact that he notices
some things that are important heading
in the right direction there's no way he
could miss that now I was thinking of
sarcasm which I just mentioned a moment
ago
I keep getting comments on Twitter and
it's more in the last few weeks than any
time I could remember in which people
can't tell sarcasm from a real point and
I'm not mocking those people because I
can't tell anymore
and I mean that completely seriously and
it's not I'm not using hyperbole to make
some bigger point I can't tell anymore
when people are joking because things
are so crazy and our worlds are still so
separate that somebody could be mocking
the other team by just mimicking their
style and I'll look at it and it'll go
well yeah that's a ridiculous thing to
say but I can't tell if you're mocking
the ridiculous people or are you one of
them I actually can't tell some of you
know I got busted for for forwarding
some satire some
parody from Comey so it was not it was
satire of BALCO me so I was writing that
somebody was doing in a humorous sense
you know as if he wrote it in his book
and I couldn't tell the difference
I really couldn't that's why I forwarded
it I thought it was well he probably did
say this the sounds just like him and I
recently did a few tweets in which I
used sarcasm and I got some replies that
I couldn't tell if they could tell I
don't know all right um
go on Howard Stern and Duke it out I
don't know why I would I'm just looking
at your comments right now somebody said
that Trump and musk are the same person
with different hair I've called I've
called all the people who came out of
the so called PayPal mafia I think
they're either all of them or most of
them are master persuaders because they
can all operate on that same level and
it's just a level above other
entrepreneurs you see it fairly
consistently you said you saw with Reid
Hoffman you see it with you see it with
Elon Musk see you with Peter Thiel all
right I think my afternoon periscopes
get more more attention it might be
because more News has broken by then I'm
gonna get off now I've got some other
things to do I just wanted to get on and
if you have a chance today to check out
the CNN it's going to be like a comedy
channel all day long because they're
gonna be trying to criticize them for
all the things that they agree with you
know pardoning Jack Jackson yeah
pardoning Jackson
backing off on North Korea before we get
played
you know prison reform
good economy it's gonna be tough tough
day for CNN so make sure you enjoy some
of that while it's fresh cuz tomorrow
tomorrow it could be another day
