Episode 598 Scott Adams - Trump’s “Go Back” Tweet, Possible Iran Nuclear Deal

bum-bum-bum-bum-bum Oh everybody everybody come on in here you're not gonna win you don't want to miss this one no you don't this is the coffee with Scott Adams of all coffee's with Scott Adams the greatest there will ever be possibly never won this important and you know how it starts I think you do you do not have a starts it starts with this you need a cup or a mug or glass you might need a Stein or a chalice or a tankard possibly a thermos maybe a flask for our men and women in uniform grab your canteen a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and get ready to join me in the for the unparalleled pleasure that dopamine hit of the day the part that gets everything going it makes everything better it's the simultaneous step go go go ah to those of you who made it just in time for the simultaneous sip notice how much better your day will be Wow it's gonna be a good one so I haven't checked the news is there anything in the news about President Trump that I should know about let me check check in the news that's right president Trump has stirred the pot he's used the troller in chief he's at it again so in case there are two or three people in the entire universe who are not aware the president did some tweeting he did some tweeting and I'm gonna read you the entire it's a three part tweet I could read you the whole thing in case anybody said and then we're gonna talk about it because it seems the people people's hair is on fire all right so this is what the president tweeted so interesting to see progressive Democrat congresswoman who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe the worst most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world if they even have a functioning government at all now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States that the greatest and most powerful nation on earth how our government is to be run why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came then come back and show us how it is done these places need your help badly you can't leave and you can't leave fast enough I'm sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements to work out the free travel arrangements alright so how does see you then cover this story well see it uncovers the story the way they cover all stories about President Trump the way they cover the fine people hoax the way they covered the feeding the goldfish story you could probably think of a few more the way you cover this story is you leave out stuff because if you don't leave out stuff it doesn't sound nearly as bad as if you do leave in stuff so let me translate for you what this tweet means now a lot of people have been translating it from English into racist and I'd like to translate it into one additional language and it's called New Yorker you know I want to show you how this works well go to the white board so this is what these words mean if you were to say go back where you came from and that's all you said that would be racist by general agreement you know we don't know what you're actually thinking but Society would generally say well that's sort of racist if the person you're talking to happens to be a different race than the speaker however if you say what the president said go back where you came from fix it and then come back and show us how it's done that's called New Yorkers trash talk New Yorker trash talk all right so if you include the entire boat and I'm paraphrasing here but that's the essence of it it's New Yorker trash talk and it doesn't mean anything really because he's not actually telling her that to go back or telling anybody to go back anywhere nobody's literally being told to go anywhere because that's ridiculous it would be ridiculous nobody's going anywhere nobody's expected to go anywhere nobody is going anywhere it's New Yorker trash talk but if he'd said it the way to see it and reports it without the second part go back where you came from well I think we'd all agree that that would be a little bit too far wouldn't it so with great interest I decided to check CNN's reporting to see how often they add the second part where he says come back after you figure it out and come back and fix it for us you would think that the comeback part would make it pretty clear that this is just you know regular New York trash talk somebody says Scott you're going down if you back this one I'm gonna delete you you are gone I just don't like the gloom eNOS will I go down if I back this here's why I deleted him I don't back things if if your framing of this situation is who is black who is who is backing somebody or who is not backing somebody or who is endorsing the tweet or not endorsing it I don't want to talk to you anymore because you have a frame that's bad for the world bad for the world so if if somebody wants to tattoo this tweet on me you're welcome to do it because it's a terrible world full of terrible people but I'm gonna block you okay all right so let's talk about this strategically what we can't know is what the president is thinking but we can know that there's a reasonable interpretation and an unreasonable one the reasonable one is that he's just trolling he knows exactly what this tweet is gonna do and we'll get to this strategy behind it in a moment but he had to know I think it's fair to say would you all agree on the following statement the president had to know this would be super provocative and that he would be accused of exactly what he's being accused of what do you agree that that part we probably all agree on he knew what the outcome would be so let's see let's look at this tweet in terms of how it played out and how it's likely to play out now if I describe what happened and is likely to happen you understand you're all smart enough to know that's different from saying I embrace the message or as my message or I'm backing him I'm simply describing it and then I'm describing what might happen you we're all adult enough to simply describe things right to understand them let's do that so what's the first thing that this we did after is set your hair on fire it took all of your attention if you go to seeing it well let me do that let me go to CNN and I want to just take a peek and what they're okay my browsers are not working for some reason come here a browser let's go to CNN top page and see what they're talking about today I'm looking for the news about the ice raids because that's pretty big news right seems like just before this tweet came out that was the biggest thing going on and maybe that wasn't the best thing for the president so let's let's see what happened oh it's about the president's racist tweets Oh second thing is about a or C responding to it next thing is about a Fox News host laughing office tweet brian Stelter is left speechless about the tweet the other analysis about the tweet and then there's an opinion about the tweet and there's Trump tweeting again then so that's the that's the top left of CNN so did you see how much of that was about the ice raids none zero but let's keep going because the middle column on their top page is sort of the news that's not as important as the top left but still pretty important can Cachola on trump's racist tweets okay we're still on that and then acting immigration chief says he doesn't know the details of the ice raids that's not much oh and then way down Biden unveils his health care plan Biden unveils his health care plan it is so far down the news funnel there's like it doesn't even exist I actually read the news this morning before before I got out of this periscope and I didn't even see that the leading Democrat announced his plan for fixing one of the leading issues in the entire nation yeah and it just doesn't matter nobody cares nobody cares all right so the first thing that the president did was he erased the rest of the news there is other news but he erased it nobody's gonna care about the rest of the news for a while all right so if he was trying to just distract from the ice raids which were getting pretty bad publicity it worked unless you think that this new thing is even worse than the ice raids in which case you'd have to say well then it didn't work you made things worse you you made it twice as bad you had a problem - a problem but here's what we know president Trump's approval rating among the Republican just hit something like 90% does anybody believe they're Republicans who have supported the president up to this point are gonna are gonna bailout because CNN won't report the entire tweet maybe a few I think some people will say this is the last straw I backed him up until now but now I'm going over the edge somebody say 94% 94% approval that would be pretty spectacular so I would say that Republicans are trained we are trained to know that the news is not reporting the entire quote and if they did you would see it completely different because you know what racists don't say here's what racists don't say make sure you come back if you leave out the second part of the quote where he says go back to wherever you came from and fix it and then come back and show us how if you leave out the come back part sounds pretty bad yes of course see and then we'll leave that out continually and they will not they will not apologize all right so you're saying exactly the same play as the fine people hoax and the feeding the feeding the goal was at the goldfish or whatever he was feeding in Japan same as the Covington kids give me some more examples what are some more examples where the story the entire story is from only showing half of the quote yeah the koi pond I'm sorry not goldfish it was a koi pond and the koi fish he was he was fixing he had to come back hoax somebody's saying we should call this the hashtag comeback hoax maybe so all right so here's the first question you should ask yourself would Trump have said the same thing to Peter Thiel if Germany was a mess and more of a mess than this let's say if Germany was a basket case of a country and Peter Thiel was he's not I'm just using this as an Apple Peter teal does not rip on the United States but suppose he did suppose you ripped on the United States could you imagine trash-talking President Trump under those conditions saying to Peter Thiel hey why don't you go back where he came from fix that and then you know when you're so smart come back and fix it here could you imagine him saying that to someone who is not a person of color yes yes you could could you imagine that president Trump would use a birtherism attack against a white candidate you don't have to imagine he used it against Ted Cruz so obviously he spreads the love around so but done that this will matter right nobody's gonna say well hypothetically if had been Peter Thiel in the universe where Peter Thiel says bad things about the country he doesn't and in in a world where Germany was more of a basket case it isn't what if it had been it would be easy to imagine now you also have the the fact-checking because apparently only one of the the squad as they're called you know I'm talking about the Fab Four the squad I think Tucker Carlson calls them the four morons of the apocalypse but they have lots of names but you know it's the four freshmen Congress women and only one of them was born in another country representative Omar was from Somalia and I guess she became a citizen a seventeen but probably came to the country even younger now what assumes that this is mostly about Somalia but since he said congresswomen what was he thinking what was the President of thinking when he said when he put it in the plural when in fact only one of the four Congress women was from another country well probably the same thing most of you thought let's check this let's check this in your comments how many of you thought that at least one other of the Fab Four was from another country or at least boarded in another country so let me see in the comments how many of you believed that at least one other person besides Omar of the Fab Four was born in another country all right and I'm seeing in the comments some people are saying that it's too late I don't know if I can pronounce yet slide to lay B so I looked it up look it up again where was probably everybody's looking at this today because I think she was born and she was born in Detroit Michigan all right but how many of you thought the Rashida to libe was born in another country I did I did now I was wrong look how many people in the comments believed that Rashida Talib was born in another country quite a few do we think that the president knew the facts and was just pretending he didn't well probably not because if you look at the comments most of us thought she came from another country but here's the fun part she didn't what does it tell you that you think an American congresswoman was born in another country part of why you think that is that you think that she's acting in an American Way that's part of the reason right nobody's looking at you know nobody's looking at other members of Congress and wondering where they were born there's something about her her actions which which mislead you there's something that feels on American about the way she presents herself the way she talks about the country that that fools you into thinking that she maybe she wasn't even born here because it feels to you it's incorrect this is not true but it feels to you like there's a lack of loyalty to the country that would be hard to explain if you were born here and and brainwashed like the rest of us to you no salute the flag and love your country now I've talked quite a bit about the impact of brainwashing our our youth so they become good citizens and I would speculate that if somebody came after the brainwashing phase in other words if somebody came to America at age 19 or whatever that they would have missed the brainwashing now they might actually be better Americans than the brainwashed because in many cases they would choose to come here because they liked it so if you know if I had to decide who's more American somebody who made a decision to sacrifice to come here versus someone who got brainwashed and they were just born here I would say I'm pretty favorable about the person who made a decision to come here because that was an adult decision an adult decision to love the United States I'm okay with that I love that but you've missed some of the brainwashing so so it's easy to imagine that you maybe didn't get socialized you're brainwashed the same way maybe you have a little lack of patriotism I would say it's certainly not true if you made an adult choice to come here let's say you were you know hypothetically this does not apply to any of the congresswoman but if you came here as let's say you came here at age 16 because your parents told you to you would have missed the brainwashing but you also would have missed you would not have been your decision necessarily so you can imagine that other people would get in their heads that you were you were not quite on the team necessarily your loyalties might be split none of that applies to the actual people we're talking about all right but these are all the the biases and things that float around in your head so the point here is this my guess and solely a guess because we can't read the president's mind is that he thought at least two of them were born in other countries and about a whole lot of Republicans think the same thing I don't know how many Democrats think yet but because of the way they act Omar and Slade you kind of think maybe they were born in another country now aoc I think we just know more about her so but I have to actually check to make sure that she wasn't born in Puerto Rico now Puerto Rico would still be considered born in the United States but it was her parents because she's talked about her Porto Rican roots so I actually had to look it up I don't know how many of you how many of you knew that a OC was born in New York but her parents were born in Puerto Rico how many of you thought that she too was born in Puerto Rico which would be fine you know I'm not I'm not making a comment on that but how many thought that fact was true probably a few anyway so the president often gets the details of the fact checking wrong but as I often say he is directionally accurate this too is a wrong fact which is directionally accurate what he's questioning here is not the actual you know birth certificate he's questioning people's loyalty and whether they're American enough so that's that's the question but you got a detail wrong which makes it look far worse than it is so that detail getting wrong accentuates the fact that it's taken in a context in the first place because they don't show the second part of the quote and then because of the fact that's wrong had it been two of them were born in another country you'd say okay he's just talking about these two but given that he said multiple people but only one of them was actually born in another country that's what gives you permission to say ah it must be a racist thing because that's the only way to explain this fact but there's two ways to explain it one is just wrong fact all right here's what is the clever part about this this is part you're waiting for this is why you come on this periscope to to get the bottom line on on the persuasion here all right so now let's talk persuasion and strategy so we've talked about the facts we've talked about how people feel about it is it going to work in other words is there some objective the president would have that is served by this well the Democrats are going to say there he goes again with his racist whistles or in this case they're saying it's not even a whistle it's a direct racist statement to make his base happy at the same time the president is tweeting out that he's got the highest Republican approval level of any president ever so do you think that the president's strategy is was to act racist to get Republicans to support him no he had every Republican that's going to support him he had them all if that was his strategy that he would be a very stupid man can we agree on that let's see if we can agree on this if it were true that the president and then last thing this is true I'm saying hypothetically if the president thought to himself hey I think I'm gonna say something that's pretty blatantly racist and if it's not blatant it's certainly a whistle that they're gonna hear so either way they're gonna get the message so I'm gonna do this really racist thing because this will get me more Republican supporters if he thought that could we all agree that would be the dumbest man who ever lived we'd agree with that right now would that approach get him more Democrats to cross over and vote no it would not so we can all agree that if he was thinking that to intentionally be racist and you'd have to say anybody who wrote this tweet knew it was gonna be provocative I think we can agree on that he didn't tweet this because he thought it would be ignored he tweeted this to get attention to this message listen we'll talk about why so one one theory that the this the CNN people are gonna have to wrestle with is if it's true their interpretation in my mind if their interpretation is true he is also no too stupid to eat and get dressed so it must also be true that if we were to see what's happening behind closed doors there's somebody every day who comes up to him and says mr.

president I know you can't tie a necktie after all these years but we'll get rid of the dumb person here okay you're gone this is there must be somebody behind closed doors who's teaching how to tie his news necktie everyday because he would be he would be too dumb to tie a necktie there must be somebody who it was like talking in his ear to say walk up to the the thing with the microphone and start talking just just read what's on the teleprompter he would have to be so dumb that he wouldn't be able to function in public if what CMM says is true if it's true now we'll get rid of for those of you who are new I block the people who complain about the sound even when is true so so one theory from CNN is that he's the dumbest person in the world and on top of that he's also racist now I've often said that being racist in the way that he's being being accused and being dumb would be pretty similar you know that they would be pretty similar but let's say that he's both according to CNN now if that were true and remember I always tell you that you can check your worldview by you can check your worldview by whether it predicts now if this if their interpretation is correct what would you predict about this president well you'd predict that he would do more things that are so stupid it would look like he's a five-year-old you know bumping into things but we don't really see that we see him doing things that even adults like Lindsey Graham would would admit are good ideas we see things that other Republicans who nobody is calling the racist also think are good ideas the essential of the Central Park five is actually somebody's mentioned that that's a perfect comparison to this Central Park five is where the president did not mention race he mentioned crime and everybody said why are you being a racist which wasn't even in it at all there was there was no mention of race whatsoever there were some criminals or alleged criminals in the news and some actual criminals that I'm not sure if they caught or not but there were criminals in the news and the ones that were most in the news were black and he did reference that as an example of how bad things are but he never mentioned their race that was never part of the discussion in anybody who thinks that a discussion of crime is also a discussion of race is a racist so weirdly enough the Central Park five uncovered that all of trumps critics were racist because when he said hey crime is bad they said stop talking about black people which of those two people is racist I'll say it again one person says crime is bad we should do something about it the other person says why are you talking about black people which of those two people is the racist that one's an easy one isn't it all right so this is the same play where you take things have in context but here's the fun part as you know the president has gotten in the middle between Pelosi and let's save her representing the Democrats who are not so happy with the squad here's the fun part this is this is the active part of the tweet this is the whole point right everything we've talked about up to now is sort of fun context and in flavoring but the the meal is driving a wedge between Pelosi and the rest of the country and the gang of five gang a four or whatever there and what this does it quite brilliantly confuses the entire situation because remember this is coming on the heels of AOC implying that Pelosi was a racist jumping the shark right what when AOC says that maybe Pelosi is a racist what did that do to all of the Democrats who believe that Trump is a racist but Democrats are not it was their first taste of what it's like to be on the receiving end when Kamala Harris suggested that Joe Biden's history of his comments on busing were let's say racially imperfect but not racially imperfect but in terms of policy they were imperfect about something about race that was the that was also a time when Democrats said whoa are you are you telling me this stuff can be turned against us too we're just normal Democrats we're just minding our own business now now AMC is saying maybe we're not quite right on race what's going on here so that the president jumps in as you remember and he vigorously defended and this is one of the funniest things he's ever done Pelosi and he says Pelosi is not a racist do you see where this is going wait for it wait until somebody s Pelosi if Trump is being racist about this she either has to back here's the fun part Pelosi either has to back a OC which he doesn't want to do or she has to back Trump which he doesn't want to do Trump has put Pelosi you know and Biden too and maybe the rest of the Democratic candidates in the position where there are two sides and neither of them are tenable is that even a word if something can be untenable something can be tenable right that's really ordered I think now compare Trump's situation he's got an unprecedented number of Republicans who support him despite every other accusation that's been leveled against him are they going to change their mind because of this no president Trump's poll numbers probably don't change at all none of this is going to change his support because nobody takes it seriously it looks more like CNM taking stuff and a context but what's going to happen to the Democrats the Democrats are watching before their eyes as this whole you're a racist you're racist everybody's a racist thing is tearing their own party apart and it's confusing the whole picture what Trump has done is taken the the least popular group within the Democrat Party meaning the least popular not only among the Democrats themselves but of course Republicans too he's taken the least popular among them and put here's the key all of the attention on them if there's one thing that I've taught you it's that facts don't matter to our decision-making process in politics my facts do matter to outcomes I always have to say that in case you forget they do matter to outcomes but the way we think about things the way we decide to vote to the things we decide to support facts not so important what does matter is what we put our energy up president Trump always operates on the energy level it's how he took out Jeb Bush it's why he does these giant rallies its energy is why he has the tech summit at the the White House of all these you know these folks who were controversial its energy everything he does is energy this this tweet is was to create a tremendous amount of energy and focus it on the one place the Democrats do not want to focus there is nothing there was less like to talk about than the schism between Pelosi and and the the squad what has Trump cause them to talk about that now they're gonna have a day or so of just talking about Trump's quote and a context and when they do that when they're done with that they're sort of gonna have to ask Pelosi what she thinks they're sort of had gonna have to ask every person who's running do you back the squad or do you back to Pelosi she Trump is making people's take sides in a fight that they can't win but his but his support probably won't change at all it probably won't change at all so the other thing so there's those are the two things that happen one is that the focus is being put exactly where the Democrats don't want it it's gonna stay there a while because he put you through so much red meat into the into the shark pond that there's just no way they can avoid this they can't avoid it and it's everything that they shouldn't be talking about they won't be talking about overcrowded you know border security they won't be talking about anything he doesn't want to talk about you'll just be talking about that all right but here's the other thing it feels like a almost a they swing from the fence using a baseball analogy it feels like what the president saw was a pretty big crack in the the Democrats and that crack had to do with the fact that their primary weapon hey you're a racist had been turned against them by their own party that's a big problem because it D legitimizes the entire approach and in effect it D legitimizes their primary weapon their primary weapon is hey you people on the other side our races as soon as I start accusing each other a big racist they don't have it they don't have a weapon so this looks like the president seeing a crack and just running up to it and punching it as hard as they can to see if he can finish him off this looks like a decapitation strike a decapitation strike it looks like he said well if I take a run at it and it doesn't work out I've got lots of news cycles between now and the election day for this to get erased but if I do take a run at it and it makes the whole thing fall apart you know if he finally makes a decapitation strike and just destroys the Democrats by making them fight with each other over who wins AOC or Pelosi if he can make that the primary fight instead of the fight between any of them and him he wins now do you think that the let's put it this way is it obvious to you that the president in not just these tweets but in general is it obvious to you that the president is trying to stoke the fight between Pelosi and Biden the let's say the the more rational conservative middle people of the Democrats and their radical side isn't is it not obvious he's trying to make them fight it is obvious not it's obvious not just in this tweet but it's obviously there's other comments does this tweet get him more of what he obviously wants which is more conversation about these fringe characters which by the way I saw it I saw a poll that said even Democrats by a huge majority don't like the squad they do not like Democrats there's a they have very small support even among Democrats they're very unpopular because I think the Democrats know that the squad is going to cost them the election if there were no squad would with the reasonable people in the the Democrat candidates have good chance of beating Trump did have a pretty good chance I'm not sure that it would be enough but they'd have a pretty good chance I mean at least they would be in the striking distance but if he can if he can keep hammering at this difference and he's trying to brand the Democrats by the the four worst Democrats right the four worst Democrats are so bad that he can imply that they were born in another country and people say sounds right they don't sound very loyal to this country I mean the very fact there's so many of you believed that t'lay be I wish I could pronounce her name right I'm not I'm not intentionally saying it's wrong but the fact that so many of you thought she was born in another country it's because you thought her loyalties weren't in place it's not because of her ethnicity I don't think anybody thinks that they see a member of Congress who looks like a slightly different ethnicity the first thing you think is not I think that we're born in another country am i right is there anybody who would see I don't know who Leanne Castro or something you know if you saw him in Congress would you ever say well Julian Castro must have been born in another country you wouldn't it wouldn't even you wouldn't even think about it you would just think they were born in this country of course but with Slaby Talib to lead or somebody's helping me pronounce it here Talib I think somebody else is saying slave slave yeah whatever it is and I apologize for saying it wrong I'm not trying to do that so yeah so the things that their news will not report and that's why you come to me is that so many people thought they were born in other countries that president's incorrect fact or an incorrect assumption whatever it was still feels true if feels like they were born in other countries because of their lack of their perceived lack of loyalty to patriotism and to this country now have you noticed that already the Fab Four have been forced here's the bet this might be the best part have you noticed that the news is going to continually ask the Fab Four about their loyalty to this country and the Fab Four will have to declare their loyalty to the country or say they're not if they declare their loyalty to the country they lose their base if they say that they're not loyal to if they say they are loyal to the country they lose the basis they say they're not loyal they lose everything so the two choices that they have is to lose their base or to lose everything so the only two choices I think that they're gonna say oh yeah we're a were more American than you are one of the most American people we love Flags more than you do look let me let me let me salute this flag right in front of you I am so gonna salute this flag I'm gonna salute this flag harder than you are mr.

Trump watch me salute in this flag so everybody is in an awkward situation now it doesn't seem like it yet because at the moment the news is simply talking about the tweet do you know what phase two is phase two is asking all the Republicans about the tweet like they did with the head of whatever immigration or something so asking asking Republicans to comment it is phase one do you know a Phase two is asking Democrats what they think of it that's where the fun is trump is literally two moves ahead move one he loses because the tweet looks bad so in his first move he sacrifices a piece it moved to they talked to all the Republicans and the Republicans are embarrassed by the tweet and even they disowned it president Trump loses another piece so he's playing chess and he's giving up two pieces right off the bat two pieces and I would say those are clearly lost pieces right nobody's gonna disagree the tweet loses in the piece on the on the board and then when the Republicans talk they further distance themselves from it and then he loses another piece and then is the part where they realized that the Democrats can't hold together through this controversy or at least there's gonna be a bigger rip than there was before and the not only has he branded the Democrats with this very unpopular wing of the squad but they're gonna have to work it out and that is the end game the end game after sacrificing two pieces is he's going to leave the Democrats critically wounded and that I would say is probably the play so let me let me complete the picture if if CNN's interpretation of these events is correct the president is the dumbest person in the world and so dumb I think you'd agree that he'd have trouble getting dressed and certainly there's no way he could lead the country to successful outcomes before going on to a landslide victory to a second term would you agree if CNN is right that he's so dumb they thought that tweet would be a good idea to just throw up some racism well if he's really that dumb in that racist nothing good could happen from here on him right I mean that makes sense nobody that dumb could get good results if I'm right in this analysis and let's just call it a filter let's not even call it right or wrong let's not personalize it let's just say that the evidence supports at least two hypotheses one hypothesis is that he's so dumb and racist he thought saying dumb racist things in public was going to help him and the other is that this is a intentional employ to get close to what feels like it could be sort of almost except for the part where he said once you figured out in your other country come on back and show us how to do it so tactically it wasn't what people are reporting they're reporting it out of context so he goes up to the line he knows that he's stirring people up and he's completely going to create a situation where the Democrats have to fight this out they can't ignore it the news will make such a big deal about this that Pelosi and Biden and all of the Democrats are going to have to answer the question which team are you want and if they throw the Socialists under the bus then the people running for president have to explain why the people they're throwing the throwing under the bus are influencing all their policy decisions and if they if they don't throw them well basically it's a it's a lose-lose situation all right and how about those ice raids which we're not hearing about at all and by the way CNN is doing the same thing with the ice raids that they're doing with this story which is they leave out the second part so here's the part that that that CNN reports ice is gonna be knocking on doors and taking families out and maybe separating them and deporting people okay that's all true and terrible all right so let me let me say as clearly as I can I'm very Pro immigrant but I also think you need a some kind of rules I think those rules should be generous but you should have rules so that the United States is in charge of our immigration and we're not delegating it to the randomness of who decides to come so I like the United States to have control over the decision but once we have full control over our borders I'd like to crank it up you know we should do as much as we can within the parameters of what makes sense so certainly I'd like to see lots of immigration but within controlled parameters I think that's reasonable what was I even talking about I had this great point I was going to oh so we're talking about the the ice raids so when see you then talks about them they'll just say the first part that the ice people are dragging immigrants out and ship in the back and it leads you to believe that it's the beginning of all I don't know 12 million or 20 million people being deported which of course is ridiculous and that's what it looks like CNN would like you to believe this is the beginning of lots of this the part they leave out is that these are people who specifically have recent deportation orders they're not the people who have been here 20 years they're not the people who came in and you know are successfully working and they have a family it's not those people and they leave that part out to turn it into if Scott believes there is a trump plan he's disappointed I'm not sure I use I try to stay away from strategy and plan because a lot of life is responding to the situation as best you can so you don't often have a long-term plan because as soon as the bullets start flying yeah the plan goes out the window and Trump tweeted the a or C is a communist did that just happen well hold on hold on hold on people let's see if Trump tweeted that here's his communist let's see Trump alright I guess it's a quote from somebody else so Trump tweeted quote we all know that a OC and this crowd are a bunch of Communists they hate Israel they hate our own country they're calling the guards along our border the border patrol agents concentration camps guards they accuse people who support Israel as doing it for the Benjamins what which is which is a good thing to bring up what does it mean for America to have free health care for illegal nope no criminalization of coming into our country see how that works for controlling immigration they talk about Israel like they're a bunch of thugs not victims of the entire region they wanted to impeach the president the politics will destroy the country okay so it's Lindsey Graham who is the source of the quote so you have to read pretty far to find out that it's Lindsey Graham and then in there's earlier quote today said if Democrats want to unite around the foul language and racist hatred spewed from the mouths and actions of these very unpopular representatives so what the president's done is he's dragged the Fab Four into the mud with him and I think the calculation here is that the president can be accused of being the racist all day long and he just gets reelected but these four can't they're not going to be able to survive being accused of being racists they won't be able to survive in their own party so I think the president is joining forces with Pelosi even though she hates it to accuse the Fab Four a big racists so let me summarize the president through his tweets and especially his recent supportive of Pelosi not being a racist has joined with Pelosi against her will to call Pelosi as enemies racists and he and he can back it up the the the squad as they're called they do have a body of comments that a reasonable person could interpret as racist unfortunately the president has lots of comments which are also interpreted as racist by also people who were reasonable probably wrong but reasonable people so I think that he's dragged this conversation into the mud and he's the only one who is good at wrestling in mud so congratulations everybody you created this big pile of mud you threw the president into it and then he dragged um to see who can win in a mud fight and I would not bet against President Trump in a mud fight somebody says excuses excuses got given up so I'm gonna add so what am i I'm just blocking all the people were just unpleasant people so if you have a reason for your opinion please offer it I always like reasons if you come here just to say I'm dumb give it up I'm a whatever then we just don't want you here and it's not that I say you shouldn't have an opinion I just don't want to hear it's just a Entertainment decision it's no fun all right so some of the tells that I surfaced the other day for somebody who is not using thinking when everybody anybody says so look for this woman this is on this somebody is going to say Scott what the president said is racist period if they add the period it means they don't want to talk about reasons they don't want to talk about context they don't talk about anything if they say end of story it means they don't want to talk about reasons and when people say Scott you're an apologist it's because they don't want to talk about reasons they don't want to talk about what I said they don't want to talk about facts they don't want to talk about anything that would reveal they don't have a counter opinion so when they come after me for being an apologist or they say Scott just stop just stop yeah or a full stuff that's the other one .

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so here's somebody saying scotty the shill so so that person is triggered into cognitive dissonance but they're blocked period yeah end of line it's the end of the conversation you're an apologist stop making excuses it all means the same thing all of it means the same thing it means that I can't talk about this on the level of reasons and details in context and I just give up but I'm still mad so I'm going to be mad at you instead of the situation all right let's talk about something else potentially gigantic that's gonna be totally buried in the news so speaking of Lindsey Graham Lindsey Graham and Jack Keane who I believe is General Jack Keith if I'm correct retired general so both of them authored an article there was in The Wall Street Journal and listen to how interesting this is it's about the Iran nuclear situation so Lindsey Graham and Jack Keane now one assumes that they're working on the same side as the president so if you see that Lindsey Graham and Jack keen wrote an article about foreign policy and it's in it's in The Wall Street Journal what do you assume about it well what you assume about it is that it's an a/b test an a/b test so if the president suggested this idea it would be a little too dangerous because if the public hated this idea the president would be forever tagged with this idea and then he'd have to defend it without even knowing if it was a good idea but if Lindsey Graham and Jack keen write an article and it's published in The Wall Street Journal then people say oh well it's not the president it's two people who would like to maybe influence the plaza president and if people take to this article and it gets a lot of clicks and people say huh that's a pretty good idea then the president can adopt it but the president is insulated at the moment cleverly because if the idea dies in public he doesn't ever have to take responsibility for it but I assure you that the president has heard this idea it's fair to speculate that that's true not guaranteed but I would say it's in the high ninety percent chance that Lindsey Graham has spoken to the president on this exact topic the president is letting him test it down in public here's the idea and by the way mark Schneider who talks about the green nuclear deal and it's my source for all things nuclear along with Michael Luna Shellenberger who is great on this too this is an idea that may sound familiar the idea is to be okay with Iran having nuclear energy but have the fuel rods supplied by an outside country that is not the United States because obviously Iran would not want to depend on the United States for any part of their nuclear energy program now since Iran is saying that the reason that they want to develop nuclear is for internal energy purposes Lindsey Graham and Jack keen have suggested in this Wall Street Journal article that the United States might be okay with them developing a robust nuclear energy program so long as the parts that could be weaponized the the fuel comes from a third party which they suggest could be Russia and/or China if they're smart they'll use both of them because then you have two sources so you never have one of you don't you never want a single source for anything beyond that even the United States would probably sell them fuel rods so even if let's say you know for some reason Russia and China decided not to well as long as they're really just using it for domestic energy and we can confirm that even the United States would sell them fuel rods because it's just stuff you sell but we'd have to be sure that they needed them now they don't need to buy from us because they don't trust this and they would never be okay with that but as long as they can buy from the cup of the countries that already have nuclear China and Russia and surely those countries have the capability and the reason to provide fuel rods then Iran will never have the type of materials in their own control that could make a nuclear bomb they would have a robust energy program and they wouldn't have to depend on the United States for anything pretty good right now what the article from Graham and key and points out quite cleverly is that even if Iran says no to this deal or even the outlines of this as a deal if say if they say no to it it will have revealed quite clearly and I think this is accurate it will reveal that they didn't want nuclear technology for energy that they wanted it for a bomb so somebody's yelling at me Iran wants a bomb all in capital Evers they want a bomb maybe it's entirely possible that Iran only wants a bomb and that's the whole purpose right it's possible but what's fun about this and clever about it is that they don't say that they say they wanted for domestic energy purposes so this offer would test that it would allow them first of all it would allow them an escape hatch that's compatible with everything they've said as far as I could tell if Iran had the option of developing nuclear energy which is what they say they want and they had a real path to it no jokes you know no tricks that's real past all that happening if they say no to it the only conclusion you could make is that their real game is nuclear weapons and if we come to that point where they're they can't hide it anymore or they can't be clever anymore they can't they can't you know redirect our attention to domestic energy if we know what the game is then we can be a lot more serious about how we treat it and the country and the world will say okay you tried to make a deal right now the world looks at the situation that says president Trump you're just making things worse nobody's talking you don't see any negotiations this is just getting worse etc but if we put this offer on the table and Iran turns it down just turns it down flat as in we don't even want to talk about it if that happens and there's no limit to what we can do in terms of responding to Iran it would take all the limits off because that would be a statement in clear terms that their plan is to build a nuclear weapon and and we're not going to stand for that somebody's talking about Bitcoin we'll see what bitcoins doing today let's check out an Bitcoin that's a good one to check on every once in a while down 6% so that's not too cool Twitter's up Twitter's up a full disclosure I bought a bunch of Twitter stock about 30% ago so I'm making a killing on Twitter stock because it looked undervalued to me by the way I don't see anything that's ever gonna happen to Twitter I don't see any of the competitors ever really getting that getting much of a hold and and I do think that Twitter is different from the other social platforms I think Twitter I believe Twitter could actually get a handle on the the real or perceived bias and I think there's probably a path where Twitter gets to a good place long before Google and long before Facebook I think Google and Facebook have some real issues with the government and with the public that they're going to have to work out Twitter also has a lot of questions to answer something I'd like answered but I think they have a real shot at figuring it out internally with maybe a little government help we'll see all right let's see what else you got to say so those were the main things I wanted to talk about today I hope you all saw a bill pulled days live money awarded to a veteran it was just the greatest live-streaming ever so bill Polti as you know is decided he's gonna give away a hundred thousand dollars of his own money maybe more we'll see and he's giving it to people who just make a case weren't they just say I desperately need xmn money for whatever purpose he's got some people who help him look through the requests he picks one on once in a while and I watched live yesterday as he brought somebody on the line and had them describe their problem and then gave him I think $5,000 and watching the gentleman just break down in tears was amazing so Baba so that's happening and we see a lot of people picking up on it and finding their own ways to give etc and I think bill Polti who you should follow at-at polt a pul T at Polti followed him and you'll see some of these these giveaways coming up in the following months and it will be amazing it will be amazing all right that's all I got for today go off and have an amazing time and I will talk to you tomorrow

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so I haven't checked the news is there

anything in the news about President

Trump that I should know about let me

check check in the news that's right

president Trump has stirred the pot he's

used the troller in chief he's at it

again

so in case there are two or three people

in the entire universe who are not aware

the president did some tweeting he did

some tweeting and I'm gonna read you the

entire it's a three part tweet I could

read you the whole thing in case anybody

said and then we're gonna talk about it

because it seems the people people's

hair is on fire all right so this is

what the president tweeted so

interesting to see

progressive Democrat congresswoman who

originally came from countries whose

governments are a complete and total

catastrophe the worst most corrupt and

inept anywhere in the world if they even

have a functioning government at all

now loudly and viciously telling the

people of the United States that the

greatest and most powerful nation on

earth

how our government is to be run why

don't they go back and help fix the

totally broken and crime-infested places

from which they came then come back and

show us how it is done these places need

your help badly you can't leave and you

can't leave fast enough I'm sure that

Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to

quickly work out free travel

arrangements to work out the free travel

arrangements alright so how does see you

then cover this story well see it

uncovers the story the way they cover

all stories about President Trump the

way they cover the fine people hoax the

way they covered the feeding the

goldfish story you could probably think

of a few more the way you cover this

story is you leave out stuff because if

you don't leave out stuff it doesn't

sound nearly as bad as if you do leave

in stuff so let me translate for you

what this tweet means now a lot of

people have been translating it from

English into racist and I'd like to

translate it into one additional

language and it's called New Yorker you

know I want to show you how this works

well go to the white board so this is

what these words mean if you were to say

go back where you came from

and that's all you said that would be

racist by general agreement you know we

don't know what you're actually thinking

but Society would generally say well

that's sort of racist if the person

you're talking to

happens to be a different race than the

speaker however if you say what the

president said go back where you came

from fix it and then come back and show

us how it's done

that's called New Yorkers trash talk New

Yorker trash talk all right so if you

include the entire boat and I'm

paraphrasing here but that's the essence

of it it's New Yorker trash talk and it

doesn't mean anything really because

he's not actually telling her that to go

back or telling anybody to go back

anywhere nobody's literally being told

to go anywhere because that's ridiculous

it would be ridiculous nobody's going

anywhere nobody's expected to go

anywhere nobody is going anywhere

it's New Yorker trash talk but if he'd

said it the way to see it and reports it

without the second part go back where

you came from well I think we'd all

agree that that would be a little bit

too far wouldn't it so with great

interest I decided to check CNN's

reporting to see how often they add the

second part where he says come back

after you figure it out and come back

and fix it for us you would think that

the comeback part would make it pretty

clear that this is just you know regular

New York trash talk somebody says Scott

you're going down if you back this one

I'm gonna delete you you are gone I just

don't like the gloom eNOS will I go down

if I back this here's why I deleted him

I don't back things if if your framing

of this situation is who is black who is

who is backing somebody or who is not

backing somebody or who is endorsing the

tweet or not endorsing it I don't want

to talk to you anymore because you have

a frame that's bad for the world bad for

the world

so if

if somebody wants to tattoo this tweet

on me you're welcome to do it because

it's a terrible world full of terrible

people but I'm gonna block you okay all

right so let's talk about this

strategically what we can't know is what

the president is thinking but we can

know that there's a reasonable

interpretation and an unreasonable one

the reasonable one is that he's just

trolling he knows exactly what this

tweet is gonna do and we'll get to this

strategy behind it in a moment but he

had to know I think it's fair to say

would you all agree on the following

statement the president had to know this

would be super provocative and that he

would be accused of exactly what he's

being accused of what do you agree that

that part we probably all agree on he

knew what the outcome would be so let's

see let's look at this tweet in terms of

how it played out and how it's likely to

play out now if I describe what happened

and is likely to happen you understand

you're all smart enough to know that's

different from saying I embrace the

message or as my message or I'm backing

him I'm simply describing it and then

I'm describing what might happen you

we're all adult enough to simply

describe things right to understand them

let's do that so what's the first thing

that this we did after is set your hair

on fire it took all of your attention if

you go to seeing it well let me do that

let me go to CNN and I want to just take

a peek

and what they're okay

my browsers are not working for some

reason come here a browser let's go to

CNN

top page and see what they're talking

about today I'm looking for the news

about the ice raids because that's

pretty big news right seems like just

before this tweet came out that was the

biggest thing going on

and maybe that wasn't the best thing for

the president so let's let's see what

happened oh it's about the president's

racist tweets Oh second thing is about a

or C responding to it

next thing is about a Fox News host

laughing office tweet brian Stelter is

left speechless about the tweet the

other analysis about the tweet and then

there's an opinion about the tweet and

there's Trump tweeting again then so

that's the that's the top left of CNN so

did you see how much of that was about

the ice raids none zero but let's keep

going because the middle column on their

top page is sort of the news that's not

as important as the top left but still

pretty important can Cachola on trump's

racist tweets okay we're still on that

and then acting immigration chief says

he doesn't know the details of the ice

raids that's not much oh and then way

down

Biden unveils his health care plan Biden

unveils his health care plan it is so

far down the news funnel there's like it

doesn't even exist I actually read the

news this morning before before I got

out of this periscope and I didn't even

see that the leading Democrat announced

his plan for fixing one of the leading

issues in the entire nation yeah and it

just doesn't matter nobody cares nobody

cares all right so the first thing that

the president did was he erased the rest

of the news there is other news but he

erased it nobody's gonna care about the

rest of the news for a while all right

so if he was trying to just distract

from the ice raids which were getting

pretty bad publicity it worked

unless you think that this new thing is

even worse than the ice raids in which

case you'd have to say well then it

didn't work you made things worse you

you made it twice as bad you had a

problem - a problem but here's what we

know president Trump's approval rating

among the Republican

just hit something like 90% does anybody

believe they're Republicans who have

supported the president up to this point

are gonna are gonna bailout because CNN

won't report the entire tweet maybe a

few I think some people will say this is

the last straw I backed him up until now

but now I'm going over the edge somebody

say 94% 94% approval that would be

pretty spectacular so I would say that

Republicans are trained we are trained

to know that the news is not reporting

the entire quote and if they did you

would see it completely different

because you know what racists don't say

here's what racists don't say make sure

you come back if you leave out the

second part of the quote where he says

go back to wherever you came from and

fix it and then come back and show us

how if you leave out the come back part

sounds pretty bad yes of course see and

then we'll leave that out continually

and they will not they will not

apologize all right so you're saying

exactly the same play as the fine people

hoax and the feeding the feeding the

goal was at the goldfish or whatever he

was feeding in Japan same as the

Covington kids give me some more

examples what are some more examples

where the story the entire story is from

only showing half of the quote yeah the

koi pond

I'm sorry not goldfish it was a koi pond

and the koi fish he was he was fixing he

had to come back hoax somebody's saying

we should call this the hashtag comeback

hoax

maybe so all right so here's the first

question you should ask yourself would

Trump have said the same thing to Peter

Thiel if Germany was a mess and more of

a mess than this let's say if Germany

was a basket case of a country

and Peter Thiel was he's not I'm just

using this as an Apple Peter teal does

not rip on the United States but suppose

he did suppose you ripped on the United

States could you imagine trash-talking

President Trump under those conditions

saying to Peter Thiel hey why don't you

go back where he came from fix that and

then you know when you're so smart come

back and fix it here could you imagine

him saying that to someone who is not a

person of color yes yes you could could

you imagine that

president Trump would use a birtherism

attack against a white candidate you

don't have to imagine he used it against

Ted Cruz so obviously he spreads the

love around so but done that this will

matter right nobody's gonna say well

hypothetically if had been Peter Thiel

in the universe where Peter Thiel says

bad things about the country he doesn't

and in in a world where Germany was more

of a basket case it isn't what if it had

been it would be easy to imagine now you

also have the the fact-checking

because apparently only one of the the

squad as they're called you know I'm

talking about the Fab Four the squad I

think Tucker Carlson calls them the four

morons of the apocalypse but they have

lots of names but you know it's the four

freshmen Congress women and only one of

them was born in another country

representative Omar was from Somalia and

I guess she became a citizen a seventeen

but probably came to the country even

younger

now what assumes that this is mostly

about Somalia but since he said

congresswomen what was he thinking

what was the President of thinking when

he said when he put it in the plural

when in fact only one of the four

Congress women was from another country

well probably the same thing most of you

thought let's check this

let's check this in your comments how

many of you thought that at least one

other of the Fab Four was from another

country or at least boarded in another

country so let me see in the comments

how many of you believed that at least

one other person besides Omar of the Fab

Four was born in another country all

right and I'm seeing in the comments

some people are saying that it's too

late I don't know if I can pronounce yet

slide to lay B so I looked it up look it

up again where was probably everybody's

looking at this today because I think

she was born and she was born in Detroit

Michigan all right but how many of you

thought the Rashida to libe was born in

another country I did I did

now I was wrong look how many people in

the comments believed that Rashida Talib

was born in another country quite a few

do we think that the president knew the

facts and was just pretending he didn't

well probably not because if you look at

the comments most of us thought she came

from another country but here's the fun

part

she didn't what does it tell you that

you think an American congresswoman was

born in another country part of why you

think that is that you think that she's

acting in an American Way that's part of

the reason right nobody's looking at you

know nobody's looking at other members

of Congress and wondering where they

were born there's something about her

her actions which which mislead you

there's something that feels on American

about the way she presents herself the

way she talks about the country

that that fools you into thinking that

she maybe she wasn't even born here

because it feels to you it's incorrect

this is not true but it feels to you

like there's a lack of loyalty to the

country that would be hard to explain if

you were born here and and brainwashed

like the rest of us to you no salute the

flag and love your country now I've

talked quite a bit about the impact of

brainwashing our our youth so they

become good citizens and I would

speculate that if somebody came after

the brainwashing phase in other words if

somebody came to America at age 19 or

whatever that they would have missed the

brainwashing now they might actually be

better Americans than the brainwashed

because in many cases they would choose

to come here because they liked it so if

you know if I had to decide who's more

American somebody who made a decision to

sacrifice to come here versus someone

who got brainwashed and they were just

born here I would say I'm pretty

favorable about the person who made a

decision to come here because that was

an adult decision an adult decision to

love the United States I'm okay with

that I love that but you've missed some

of the brainwashing so so it's easy to

imagine that you maybe didn't get

socialized you're brainwashed the same

way maybe you have a little lack of

patriotism I would say it's certainly

not true if you made an adult choice to

come here let's say you were you know

hypothetically this does not apply to

any of the congresswoman but if you came

here as let's say you came here at age

16 because your parents told you to you

would have missed the brainwashing but

you also would have missed you would not

have been your decision necessarily so

you can imagine that other people would

get in their heads that you were you

were not quite on the team necessarily

your loyalties might be split none of

that applies to the actual people we're

talking about all right but these are

all the the biases and things that float

around in your head so the point here is

this

my guess and solely a guess because we

can't read the president's mind is that

he thought at least two of them were

born in other countries and about a

whole lot of Republicans think the same

thing I don't know how many Democrats

think yet but because of the way they

act Omar and Slade you kind of think

maybe they were born in another country

now aoc I think we just know more about

her so but I have to actually check to

make sure that she wasn't born in Puerto

Rico

now Puerto Rico would still be

considered born in the United States but

it was her parents because she's talked

about her Porto Rican roots so I

actually had to look it up I don't know

how many of you how many of you knew

that a OC was born in New York but her

parents were born in Puerto Rico how

many of you thought that she too was

born in Puerto Rico which would be fine

you know I'm not I'm not making a

comment on that but how many thought

that fact was true

probably a few anyway so the president

often gets the details of the fact

checking wrong but as I often say he is

directionally accurate

this too is a wrong fact which is

directionally accurate what he's

questioning here is not the actual you

know birth certificate he's questioning

people's loyalty and whether they're

American enough so that's that's the

question but you got a detail wrong

which makes it look far worse than it is

so that detail getting wrong accentuates

the fact that it's taken in a context in

the first place because they don't show

the second part of the quote and then

because of the fact that's wrong had it

been two of them were born in another

country you'd say okay he's just talking

about these two but given that he said

multiple people but only one of them was

actually born in another country that's

what gives you permission to say ah it

must be a racist thing because that's

the only way to explain this fact but

there's two ways to explain it one is

just wrong fact all right here's what is

the clever part about this this is part

you're waiting for this is why you come

on this periscope to to get the bottom

line on on the persuasion here all right

so now let's talk persuasion and

strategy so we've talked about the facts

we've talked about how people feel about

it is it going to work in other words is

there some objective the president would

have that is served by this well the

Democrats are going to say there he goes

again with his racist whistles or in

this case they're saying it's not even a

whistle it's a direct racist statement

to make his base happy at the same time

the president is tweeting out that he's

got the highest Republican approval

level of any president ever so do you

think that the president's strategy is

was to act racist to get Republicans to

support him no he had every Republican

that's going to support him he had them

all if that was his strategy that he

would be a very stupid man can we agree

on that let's see if we can agree on

this if it were true that the president

and then last thing this is true I'm

saying hypothetically if the president

thought to himself hey I think I'm gonna

say something that's pretty blatantly

racist and if it's not blatant it's

certainly a whistle that they're gonna

hear so either way they're gonna get the

message so I'm gonna do this really

racist thing because this will get me

more Republican supporters if he thought

that could we all agree that would be

the dumbest man who ever lived we'd

agree with that right now would that

approach get him more Democrats to cross

over and vote no it would not

so we can all agree that if he was

thinking that to intentionally be racist

and you'd have to say

anybody who wrote this tweet knew it was

gonna be provocative I think we can

agree on that

he didn't tweet this because he thought

it would be ignored he tweeted this to

get attention to this message listen

we'll talk about why so one one theory

that the this the CNN people are gonna

have to wrestle with is if it's true

their interpretation in my mind if their

interpretation is true he is also no too

stupid to eat and get dressed so it must

also be true that if we were to see

what's happening behind closed doors

there's somebody every day who comes up

to him and says mr. president I know you

can't tie a necktie after all these

years but we'll get rid of the dumb

person here okay you're gone this is

there must be somebody behind closed

doors who's teaching how to tie his news

necktie everyday because he would be he

would be too dumb to tie a necktie there

must be somebody who it was like talking

in his ear to say walk up to the the

thing with the microphone and start

talking just just read what's on the

teleprompter he would have to be so dumb

that he wouldn't be able to function in

public if what CMM says is true if it's

true now we'll get rid of for those of

you who are new I block the people who

complain about the sound even when is

true so so one theory from CNN is that

he's the dumbest person in the world and

on top of that he's also racist now I've

often said that being racist in the way

that he's being being accused and being

dumb would be pretty similar you know

that they would be pretty similar but

let's say that he's both according to

CNN now if that were true and remember I

always tell you that you can check your

worldview by

you can check your worldview by whether

it predicts now if this if their

interpretation is correct what would you

predict about this president well you'd

predict that he would do more things

that are so stupid it would look like

he's a five-year-old you know bumping

into things but we don't really see that

we see him doing things that even adults

like Lindsey Graham would would admit

are good ideas we see things that other

Republicans who nobody is calling the

racist also think are good ideas the

essential of the Central Park five is

actually somebody's mentioned that

that's a perfect comparison to this

Central Park five is where the president

did not mention race he mentioned crime

and everybody said why are you being a

racist which wasn't even in it at all

there was there was no mention of race

whatsoever there were some criminals or

alleged criminals in the news and some

actual criminals that I'm not sure if

they caught or not but there were

criminals in the news and the ones that

were most in the news were black and he

did reference that as an example of how

bad things are but he never mentioned

their race that was never part of the

discussion in anybody who thinks that a

discussion of crime is also a discussion

of race is a racist so weirdly enough

the Central Park five uncovered that all

of trumps critics were racist because

when he said hey crime is bad they said

stop talking about black people which of

those two people is racist I'll say it

again one person says crime is bad we

should do something about it

the other person says why are you

talking about black people which of

those two people is the racist that

one's an easy one isn't it all right so

this is the same play where you take

things have in context but here's the

fun part as you know the president has

gotten in the middle between Pelosi and

let's save her representing the

Democrats who are not so happy with the

squad here's the fun part

this is this is the active part of the

tweet this is the whole point right

everything we've talked about up to now

is sort of fun context and in flavoring

but the the meal is driving a wedge

between Pelosi and the rest of the

country and the gang of five gang a four

or whatever there and what this does it

quite brilliantly confuses the entire

situation because remember this is

coming on the heels of AOC implying that

Pelosi was a racist jumping the shark

right what when AOC says that maybe

Pelosi is a racist what did that do to

all of the Democrats who believe that

Trump is a racist but Democrats are not

it was their first taste of what it's

like to be on the receiving end when

Kamala Harris suggested that Joe Biden's

history of his comments on busing were

let's say racially imperfect but not

racially imperfect but in terms of

policy they were imperfect

about something about race that was the

that was also a time when Democrats said

whoa are you are you telling me this

stuff can be turned against us too

we're just normal Democrats we're just

minding our own business now now AMC is

saying maybe we're not quite right on

race what's going on here so that the

president jumps in as you remember and

he vigorously defended and this is one

of the funniest things he's ever done

Pelosi

and he says Pelosi is not a racist do

you see where this is going

wait for it wait until somebody s Pelosi

if Trump is being racist about this she

either has to back here's the fun part

Pelosi either has to back a OC which he

doesn't want to do or she has to back

Trump which he doesn't want to do

Trump has put Pelosi you know and Biden

too and maybe the rest of the Democratic

candidates in the position where there

are two sides and neither of them are

tenable is that even a word if something

can be untenable something can be

tenable right that's really ordered I

think now compare Trump's situation he's

got an unprecedented number of

Republicans who support him despite

every other accusation that's been

leveled against him are they going to

change their mind because of this no

president Trump's poll numbers probably

don't change at all none of this is

going to change his support because

nobody takes it seriously it looks more

like CNM taking stuff and a context but

what's going to happen to the Democrats

the Democrats are watching before their

eyes as this whole you're a racist

you're racist everybody's a racist thing

is tearing their own party apart and

it's confusing the whole picture what

Trump has done is taken the the least

popular group within the Democrat Party

meaning the least popular not only among

the Democrats themselves but of course

Republicans too he's taken the least

popular among them and put here's the

key all of the attention on them if

there's one thing that I've taught you

it's that facts don't matter to our

decision-making process in politics my

facts do matter to outcomes I always

have to say that in case you forget they

do matter to outcomes but the way we

think about things the way we decide to

vote to the things we decide to support

facts not so important what does matter

is what we put our energy up

president Trump always operates on the

energy level it's how he took out Jeb

Bush it's why he does these giant

rallies its energy is why he has the

tech summit at the the White House of

all these you know these folks who were

controversial its energy everything he

does is energy

this this tweet is was to create a

tremendous amount of energy and focus it

on the one place the Democrats do not

want to focus there is nothing there was

less like to talk about than the schism

between Pelosi and and the the squad

what has Trump cause them to talk about

that now they're gonna have a day or so

of just talking about Trump's quote and

a context and when they do that when

they're done with that they're sort of

gonna have to ask Pelosi what she thinks

they're sort of had gonna have to ask

every person who's running do you back

the squad or do you back to Pelosi

she Trump is making people's take sides

in a fight that they can't win but his

but his support probably won't change at

all

it probably won't change at all so the

other thing so there's those are the two

things that happen one is that the focus

is being put exactly where the Democrats

don't want it it's gonna stay there a

while because he put you through so much

red meat into the into the shark pond

that there's just no way they can avoid

this they can't avoid it and it's

everything that they shouldn't be

talking about they won't be talking

about overcrowded you know border

security they won't be talking about

anything he doesn't want to talk about

you'll just be talking about that all

right but here's the other thing it

feels like a almost a they swing from

the fence using a baseball analogy it

feels like what the president saw was a

pretty big crack in the the Democrats

and that crack had to do with the fact

that their primary weapon

hey you're a racist had been turned

against them by their own party that's a

big problem because it D legitimizes the

entire approach and in effect it D

legitimizes their primary weapon their

primary weapon is hey you people on the

other side our races

as soon as I start accusing each other a

big racist they don't have it they don't

have a weapon so this looks like the

president seeing a crack and just

running up to it and punching it as hard

as they can to see if he can finish him

off this looks like a decapitation

strike a decapitation strike it looks

like he said well if I take a run at it

and it doesn't work out I've got lots of

news cycles between now and the election

day for this to get erased but if I do

take a run at it and it makes the whole

thing fall apart you know if he finally

makes a decapitation strike and just

destroys the Democrats by making them

fight with each other over who wins

AOC or Pelosi if he can make that the

primary fight instead of the fight

between any of them and him he wins now

do you think that the let's put it this

way is it obvious to you that the

president in not just these tweets but

in general is it obvious to you that the

president is trying to stoke the fight

between Pelosi and Biden the let's say

the the more rational conservative

middle people of the Democrats and their

radical side isn't is it not obvious

he's trying to make them fight it is

obvious not it's obvious not just in

this tweet but it's obviously there's

other comments does this tweet get him

more of what he obviously wants which is

more conversation about these fringe

characters which by the way I saw it I

saw a poll that said even Democrats by a

huge majority don't like the squad they

do not like Democrats there's a they

have very small support even among

Democrats they're very unpopular because

I think the Democrats know that the

squad is going to cost them the election

if there were no squad would with the

reasonable people in the the Democrat

candidates have

good chance of beating Trump did have a

pretty good chance I'm not sure that it

would be enough but they'd have a pretty

good chance I mean at least they would

be in the striking distance but if he

can if he can keep hammering at this

difference and he's trying to brand the

Democrats by the the four worst

Democrats right the four worst Democrats

are so bad that he can imply that they

were born in another country and people

say sounds right they don't sound very

loyal to this country I mean the very

fact there's so many of you believed

that t'lay be I wish I could pronounce

her name right I'm not I'm not

intentionally saying it's wrong but the

fact that so many of you thought she was

born in another country it's because you

thought her loyalties weren't in place

it's not because of her ethnicity I

don't think anybody thinks that they see

a member of Congress who looks like a

slightly different ethnicity the first

thing you think is not I think that

we're born in another country am i right

is there anybody who would see I don't

know who Leanne Castro or something you

know if you saw him in Congress would

you ever say well Julian Castro must

have been born in another country you

wouldn't it wouldn't even you wouldn't

even think about it you would just think

they were born in this country of course

but with Slaby

Talib to lead or somebody's helping me

pronounce it here Talib I think somebody

else is saying slave slave yeah whatever

it is and I apologize for saying it

wrong I'm not trying to do that so yeah

so the things that their news will not

report and that's why you come to me is

that so many people thought they were

born in other countries that president's

incorrect fact or an incorrect

assumption whatever it was still feels

true if feels like they were born in

other countries because of their lack of

their perceived lack of loyalty to

patriotism and

to this country now have you noticed

that already the Fab Four have been

forced here's the bet this might be the

best part have you noticed that the news

is going to continually ask the Fab Four

about their loyalty to this country and

the Fab Four will have to declare their

loyalty to the country or say they're

not if they declare their loyalty to the

country they lose their base if they say

that they're not loyal to if they say

they are loyal to the country they lose

the basis they say they're not loyal

they lose everything so the two choices

that they have is to lose their base or

to lose everything so the only two

choices I think that they're gonna say

oh yeah we're a were more American than

you are one of the most American people

we love Flags more than you do

look let me let me let me salute this

flag right in front of you I am so gonna

salute this flag I'm gonna salute this

flag harder than you are mr. Trump watch

me salute in this flag so everybody is

in an awkward situation now it doesn't

seem like it yet because at the moment

the news is simply talking about the

tweet do you know what phase two is

phase two is asking all the Republicans

about the tweet like they did with the

head of whatever immigration or

something so asking asking Republicans

to comment it is phase one do you know a

Phase two is asking Democrats what they

think of it that's where the fun is

trump is literally two moves ahead move

one he loses because the tweet looks bad

so in his first move he sacrifices a

piece it moved to they talked to all the

Republicans and the Republicans are

embarrassed by the tweet and even they

disowned it president Trump loses

another piece so he's playing chess and

he's giving up two pieces right off the

bat two pieces

and I would say those are clearly lost

pieces right nobody's gonna disagree the

tweet loses in the piece on the on the

board and then when the Republicans talk

they further distance themselves from it

and then he loses another piece and then

is the part where they realized that the

Democrats can't hold together through

this controversy or at least there's

gonna be a bigger rip than there was

before and the not only has he branded

the Democrats with this very unpopular

wing of the squad but they're gonna have

to work it out and that is the end game

the end game after sacrificing two

pieces is he's going to leave the

Democrats critically wounded and that I

would say is probably the play so let me

let me complete the picture if if CNN's

interpretation of these events is

correct the president is the dumbest

person in the world and so dumb I think

you'd agree that he'd have trouble

getting dressed and certainly there's no

way he could lead the country to

successful outcomes before going on to a

landslide victory to a second term would

you agree if CNN is right that he's so

dumb they thought that tweet would be a

good idea to just throw up some racism

well if he's really that dumb in that

racist nothing good could happen from

here on him right I mean that makes

sense nobody that dumb could get good

results if I'm right in this analysis

and let's just call it a filter let's

not even call it right or wrong let's

not personalize it let's just say that

the evidence supports at least two

hypotheses one hypothesis is that he's

so dumb and racist he thought saying

dumb racist things in public was going

to help him and the other is that this

is a intentional employ to get close to

what feels like it could be sort of

almost

except for the part where he said once

you figured out in your other country

come on back and show us how to do it so

tactically it wasn't what people are

reporting they're reporting it out of

context so he goes up to the line he

knows that he's stirring people up and

he's completely going to create a

situation where the Democrats have to

fight this out they can't ignore it the

news will make such a big deal about

this that Pelosi and Biden and all of

the Democrats are going to have to

answer the question which team are you

want and if they throw the Socialists

under the bus then the people running

for president have to explain why the

people they're throwing the throwing

under the bus are influencing all their

policy decisions and if they if they

don't throw them well basically it's a

it's a lose-lose situation all right and

how about those ice raids which we're

not hearing about at all and by the way

CNN is doing the same thing with the ice

raids that they're doing with this story

which is they leave out the second part

so here's the part that that that CNN

reports ice is gonna be knocking on

doors and taking families out and maybe

separating them and deporting people

okay that's all true and terrible all

right so let me let me say as clearly as

I can I'm very Pro immigrant but I also

think you need a some kind of rules I

think those rules should be generous but

you should have rules so that the United

States is in charge of our immigration

and we're not delegating it to the

randomness of who decides to come so I

like the United States to have control

over the decision but once we have full

control over our borders I'd like to

crank it up you know we should do as

much as we can within the parameters of

what makes sense so certainly I'd like

to see lots of immigration but within

controlled parameters I think that's

reasonable what was I even talking about

I had this great point I was going to oh

so we're talking about the the ice raids

so when see you then talks about them

they'll just say the first part that the

ice people are dragging immigrants out

and ship in the back and it leads you to

believe that it's the beginning of all I

don't know 12 million or 20 million

people being deported which of course is

ridiculous and that's what it looks like

CNN would like you to believe this is

the beginning of lots of this the part

they leave out is that these are people

who specifically have recent deportation

orders they're not the people who have

been here 20 years they're not the

people who came in and you know are

successfully working and they have a

family it's not those people and they

leave that part out to turn it into if

Scott believes there is a trump plan

he's disappointed I'm not sure I use I

try to stay away from strategy and plan

because a lot of life is responding to

the situation as best you can so you

don't often have a long-term plan

because as soon as the bullets start

flying yeah the plan goes out the window

and Trump tweeted the a or C is a

communist did that just happen

well hold on hold on hold on people

let's see if Trump tweeted that

here's his communist let's see Trump

alright I guess it's a quote from

somebody else so Trump tweeted quote we

all know that a OC and this crowd are a

bunch of Communists they hate Israel

they hate our own country they're

calling the guards along our border the

border patrol agents concentration camps

guards they accuse people who support

Israel as doing it for the Benjamins

what which is which is a good thing to

bring up what does it mean for America

to have free health care for illegal

nope no criminalization of coming into

our country see how that works for

controlling immigration they talk about

Israel like they're a bunch of thugs not

victims of the entire region they wanted

to impeach the president the politics

will destroy the country okay so it's

Lindsey Graham who is the source of the

quote so you have to read pretty far to

find out that it's Lindsey Graham and

then in there's earlier quote today said

if Democrats want to unite around the

foul language and racist hatred spewed

from the mouths and actions of these

very unpopular representatives so what

the president's done is he's dragged the

Fab Four into the mud with him and I

think the calculation here is that the

president can be accused of being the

racist all day long and he just gets

reelected but these four can't they're

not going to be able to survive being

accused of being racists they won't be

able to survive in their own party so I

think the president is joining forces

with Pelosi even though she hates it to

accuse the Fab Four a big racists so let

me summarize the president through his

tweets and especially his recent

supportive of Pelosi not being a racist

has joined with Pelosi against her will

to call Pelosi as enemies racists and he

and he can back it up the the the squad

as they're called they do have a body of

comments that a reasonable person could

interpret as racist unfortunately the

president has lots of comments which are

also interpreted as racist by also

people who were reasonable probably

wrong but reasonable people so I think

that he's dragged this conversation into

the mud and he's the only one who is

good at wrestling in mud so

congratulations everybody

you created this big pile of mud

you threw the president into it and then

he dragged um to see who can win in a

mud fight and I would not bet against

President Trump in a mud fight somebody

says excuses excuses got given up so I'm

gonna add so what am i I'm just blocking

all the people were just unpleasant

people so if you have a reason for your

opinion please offer it I always like

reasons if you come here just to say I'm

dumb

give it up I'm a whatever then we just

don't want you here and it's not that I

say you shouldn't have an opinion I just

don't want to hear it's just a

Entertainment decision it's no fun all

right so some of the tells that I

surfaced the other day for somebody who

is not using thinking when everybody

anybody says so look for this woman this

is on this somebody is going to say

Scott what the president said is racist

period if they add the period it means

they don't want to talk about reasons

they don't want to talk about context

they don't talk about anything if they

say end of story

it means they don't want to talk about

reasons and when people say Scott you're

an apologist it's because they don't

want to talk about reasons they don't

want to talk about what I said they

don't want to talk about facts they

don't want to talk about anything that

would reveal they don't have a counter

opinion so when they come after me for

being an apologist or they say Scott

just stop just stop

yeah or a full stuff that's the other

one . . so here's somebody saying scotty

the shill so so that person is triggered

into cognitive dissonance but they're

blocked period yeah

end of line it's the end of the

conversation

you're an apologist

stop making excuses it all means the

same thing all of it means the same

thing it means that I can't talk about

this on the level of reasons and details

in context and I just give up but I'm

still mad so I'm going to be mad at you

instead of the situation all right let's

talk about something else

potentially gigantic that's gonna be

totally buried in the news

so speaking of Lindsey Graham Lindsey

Graham and Jack Keane who I believe is

General Jack Keith if I'm correct

retired general so both of them authored

an article there was in The Wall Street

Journal and listen to how interesting

this is it's about the Iran nuclear

situation so Lindsey Graham and Jack

Keane

now one assumes that they're working on

the same side as the president so if you

see that Lindsey Graham and Jack keen

wrote an article about foreign policy

and it's in it's in The Wall Street

Journal

what do you assume about it well what

you assume about it is that it's an a/b

test an a/b test so if the president

suggested this idea it would be a little

too dangerous

because if the public hated this idea

the president would be forever tagged

with this idea and then he'd have to

defend it without even knowing if it was

a good idea but if Lindsey Graham and

Jack keen write an article and it's

published in The Wall Street Journal

then people say oh well it's not the

president it's two people who would like

to maybe influence the plaza president

and if people take to this article and

it gets a lot of clicks and people say

huh that's a pretty good idea then the

president can adopt it but the president

is insulated at the moment cleverly

because if the idea dies in public he

doesn't ever have to take responsibility

for it but I assure you that the

president has heard this idea it's fair

to speculate that that's true not

guaranteed but I would say it's in the

high ninety percent chance that Lindsey

Graham has spoken to the president on

this exact topic

the president is letting him test it

down in public here's the idea and by

the way mark Schneider who talks about

the green nuclear deal and it's my

source for all things nuclear along with

Michael Luna Shellenberger who is great

on this too this is an idea that may

sound familiar

the idea is to be okay with Iran having

nuclear energy but have the fuel rods

supplied by an outside country that is

not the United States because obviously

Iran would not want to depend on the

United States for any part of their

nuclear energy program now since Iran is

saying that the reason that they want to

develop nuclear is for internal energy

purposes Lindsey Graham and Jack keen

have suggested in this Wall Street

Journal article that the United States

might be okay with them developing a

robust nuclear energy program so long as

the parts that could be weaponized the

the fuel comes from a third party which

they suggest could be Russia and/or

China if they're smart they'll use both

of them because then you have two

sources so you never have one of you

don't you never want a single source for

anything beyond that even the United

States would probably sell them fuel

rods so even if let's say you know for

some reason Russia and China decided not

to well as long as they're really just

using it for domestic energy and we can

confirm that even the United States

would sell them fuel rods because it's

just stuff you sell but we'd have to be

sure that they needed them now they

don't need to buy from us because they

don't trust this and they would never be

okay with that

but as long as they can buy from the cup

of the countries that already have

nuclear China and Russia and surely

those countries have the capability and

the reason to provide fuel rods then

Iran will never have the type of

materials in their own control that

could make a nuclear bomb they would

have a robust energy program and they

wouldn't have to depend on the United

States for anything

pretty good right now what the article

from Graham and key and points out quite

cleverly is that even if Iran says no to

this deal or even the outlines of this

as a deal if say if they say no to it it

will have revealed quite clearly and I

think this is accurate it will reveal

that they didn't want nuclear technology

for energy that they wanted it for a

bomb so somebody's yelling at me

Iran wants a bomb all in capital Evers

they want a bomb maybe it's entirely

possible that Iran only wants a bomb and

that's the whole purpose right it's

possible but what's fun about this and

clever about it is that they don't say

that they say they wanted for domestic

energy purposes so this offer would test

that it would allow them first of all it

would allow them an escape hatch that's

compatible with everything they've said

as far as I could tell if Iran had the

option of developing nuclear energy

which is what they say they want and

they had a real path to it no jokes you

know no tricks that's real past all that

happening if they say no to it the only

conclusion you could make is that their

real game is nuclear weapons and if we

come to that point where they're they

can't hide it anymore or they can't be

clever anymore they can't they can't you

know redirect our attention to domestic

energy if we know what the game is then

we can be a lot more serious about how

we treat it and the country and the

world will say okay you tried to make a

deal right now the world looks at the

situation that says president Trump

you're just making things worse nobody's

talking you don't see any negotiations

this is just getting worse etc but if we

put this offer on the table and Iran

turns it down just turns it down flat as

in we don't even want to talk about it

if that happens

and there's no limit to what we can do

in terms of responding to Iran it would

take all the limits off because that

would be a statement in clear terms that

their plan is to build a nuclear weapon

and and we're not going to stand for

that somebody's talking about Bitcoin

we'll see what bitcoins doing today

let's check out an Bitcoin

that's a good one to check on every once

in a while down 6% so that's not too

cool

Twitter's up Twitter's up a full

disclosure I bought a bunch of Twitter

stock about 30% ago so I'm making a

killing on Twitter stock because it

looked undervalued to me by the way I

don't see anything that's ever gonna

happen to Twitter I don't see any of the

competitors ever really getting that

getting much of a hold and and I do

think that Twitter is different from the

other social platforms I think Twitter I

believe Twitter could actually get a

handle on the the real or perceived bias

and I think there's probably a path

where Twitter gets to a good place long

before Google and long before Facebook I

think Google and Facebook have some real

issues with the government and with the

public that they're going to have to

work out Twitter also has a lot of

questions to answer something I'd like

answered but I think they have a real

shot at figuring it out internally with

maybe a little government help we'll see

all right let's see what else you got to

say so those were the main things I

wanted to talk about today

I hope you all saw a bill pulled days

live money awarded to a veteran it was

just the greatest live-streaming ever so

bill Polti as you know is decided he's

gonna give away a hundred thousand

dollars of his own money maybe more

we'll see

and he's giving it to people who just

make a case weren't they just say I

desperately need xmn money for whatever

purpose he's got some people who help

him look through the requests he picks

one on once in a while and I watched

live yesterday as he brought somebody on

the line and had them describe their

problem and then gave him I think $5,000

and watching the gentleman just break

down in tears was amazing

so Baba so that's happening and we see a

lot of people picking up on it and

finding their own ways to give etc and I

think bill Polti who you should follow

at-at polt a pul T at Polti followed him

and you'll see some of these these

giveaways coming up in the following

months and it will be amazing it will be

amazing all right that's all I got for

today go off and have an amazing time

and I will talk to you tomorrow