Episode 622 Scott Adams - CNN Totally Owns Tucker Carlson, Fixing Iran and Urban Blight

hey everybody come on in here I just noticed you well there plenty of seats in the front so come on in Martin good to see you drew Vicki always a pleasure I think I know why you're here probably has something to do with the simultaneous sip the best part of your day the dopamine hit that makes everything better probably grab your a cup your loving your glass hurry hurry there's still time is it a tankard jealous a tankard a jealous some of the word I keep forgetting a vessel of any kind about a thermos flask filling with your favorite liquid and join now for the simultaneous sick you might wonder why the sound was so bad it could be because I was sitting on my microphone that's possible so hold on let's do the simultaneous sip correctly you're ready here it comes oh so good so just before I went live I noticed on Twitter I think if this is true but I would wait for a little more verification it looks like MSNBC retweeted some some twitter user from Media Matters and added a blue checkmark next to the tweet with Photoshop so in other words if someone who is not a blue checkmark on Twitter and msnb Photoshop them a blue check to make their comment look more important now if that's true that's pretty fake news I mean that's sort of a smoking god bless let's wait and see if that's true first all right my favorite story of the day well I've got a few say favourite stories did you see that we've we have we put life on the moon apparently we recently we meaning people who have spaceships put these little things called tardive I've never seen these is a microscopic we put some of these they were dehydrated and flown to the moon so that we may have actually what we did actually we put life on the moon but what kind of life did we pick we picked the only creature in the world whose mouth and face and ass look exactly the same this is a creature so dumb that what it eats the only way it can tell if it's shoving food in its mouth or its ass is by looking at which way its toenails are pointing that's it otherwise its mouth and it's ass are the same and so I said to myself huh I did not know that nature had a creature that can talk about politics on Twitter I'll let that sink in a little bit all right um so of course all the news is about gun violence and mass shootings and white supremacist let's talk about that dr.

Carlson got and got in a little well I was a he's in any trouble but he caused a little controversy a little more than usual and it's because on the show last night he said that white supremacy is that all the all of the hoopla about white supremacy is oaks now he also said this white supremacist exists there aren't very many of them in the country and that in total their impact is is small and so therefore it's a hoax so and then he then he announced that he was going on vacation so how did see then cover this well they started so this is a the anatomy of how fake news is graded it's actually very clever and and it's diabolical to the extreme and sometimes you can't tell when see and then doesn't know what they're doing meaning that it's somewhere accidental based on just ordinary bias now when do they know exactly what they're doing and this is one of those cases were pretty sure they know exactly what they're doing so taqwa of course is a huge critical to see event so you would expect that their opinion people would come at him pretty hard and sure enough they did but the way they did it is is very clever and can teach us something alright so the first thing they did is they connected two random things and acted as if they have meaning so they said that talker must be in trouble they suggested they did not say it's true they simply suggested the Fox News as a history of when it's one of his host says something that other people think is racist there's hosts or or just provocative there's host go on vacation suspiciously to sort of get him out of the line of fire now it's summer and a lot of people go on vacation in the summer and Tucker said he was going on vacation and so CNN with no with no evidence whatsoever makes it seem as though his vacation is sort of a confession that he'd done something bad but there's no evidence of that what there is evidence is that it's August and a lot of people go on vacation in fact if you were going to pick a month to go on a vacation and you were in the news business what month would you pick well he'd pick December does everybody's on vacation but you'd also pick August that would be the time you go on vacation it's the slow news month so first they make this connection that's not a real connection but by simply putting the two in your mind you say oh even Tucker Carlson or at least even his bosses know he's gone too far none of this is an evidence it's completely invented all right so that's the first dirty trick but the but the next one is the best all right so the so they're pushing back there were two opinion pieces I'll talk about brian Stelter Speas on on cnn.com they're both pushing back against Tucker's claim that all the noise about danger from white supremacists is a hoax now here's how they push back on it now one way to push back on it would be to produce one white supremacist and put them on TV and say here people I've now proven that way supremacists exist have you ever seen a white supremacist I never have I've seen every other kind of racist because race is coming you know lots of different flavors yeah there's just all kinds of different races so if he asked me to have I seen racists oh yeah have I seen white nationalist people who would prefer the country and you stay away oh yeah I've seen those have I ever seen a white supremacist I haven't I never have so how how would you what is the easiest way to prove that white supremacists exist put one on TV well where is it where's the white supremacists even Richards to prep the Spencer isn't a white supremacist right if you look into it he would not espouse white supremacy he's more of a white nationalist I think would be a better way to put it so you have to ask yourself where is the well you don't ask yourself this look for the dog that isn't barking if white supremacy is a really big problem it shouldn't be hard to find a few and put them on TV so that we can see number one they exist David Duke actually is not a way supremacist as I understand it he's a racist and I think he's a white nationalist that might explain him so I'm not I'm not gonna try to explain David Duke because I condemn him totally but I don't believe anybody's ever gone on CNN in my memory and said that that one race was superior and should be treated that way I don't think I've seen it anyway so that's the first thing but here's the clever sleight of hand when when I tell you this you're you're all you can be shaking your head so hard and knocking your heads on the counter so hard that this might be dangerous so you might want to put it on the helmet before I read this next part I swear to God brian Stelter wrote this and CNN all right you ready for this he says on white supremacy facts first okay so now Brian's gonna give us some facts about white supremacy and those facts will debunk Tucker Carlson's view that the whole white supremacist thing is a hoax so here are his facts to debunk an audit by the anti-defamation league okay now this is good stuff he's right on point talking about the right topic as we referred to an organization that studies these things okay this is good and what's he say what does the anti-defamation league found the white supremacist murders in the u.s.

quote more than doubled in 2017 okay that's serious and more than doubled now when you say something more than doubled and and the point of saying it more than doubled is to say it's a problem what's the next thing you say after that right after you say it more than doubled you say from this number to this number right so we're so I'll read that part oh that's not there he said it doubled and he didn't say from what to what so I looked at the source it doesn't say from what to what either he says it doubled without giving us a number did it go from 2 to 4 1 to 2 and why are the numbers only from 2017 in 2017 two years ago if we're worried about a sudden increase of something is 2017 what we want no it is not so first of all his numbers are old 2017 would not tell you that there is a recent spike and anything because that leaves out the most recent two years if you talk about a recent spike he got includes last two years secondly he says it doubled without saying what the number is and even the source doesn't say what the number is but I guess it gets creepier here's the rest of the sentence with far-right extremist groups and white supremacists quote responsible for 59 percent of all extremists related fatalities in the US and 2017 okay so if you add together far-right extremists plus white supremacists they're responsible for the majority of the extremists fatalities okay that's that's good to know now he'll next he'll tell us what percentage of that was the white supremacist because that's the topic right the topic is not right-wing deaths doctor was talking about white supremacists so the next thing you'll say is how many of those were the white supremacists let me read that it's not there so you see what he did he he took the white supremacist for which he had no numbers that were current and even no numbers that were not current he added it with another group for which we do have numbers and said if you add those two together it's 59% of all the extremist related fatalities let me read you another sentence that's equally true if you were add together all of the all of the murders caused by cartoonists plus extremists and when they count for fifty nine percent of all the fate of the extremists fatalities in 2017 that's true right if you are add together all of the people who were murdered by dogs dogs with guns actual dogs like physically a dog you know not talking about people I'm talking about actual dogs if you're add to the number the number of people who were killed by dogs with guns to right-wing extremists they would account for almost all of the extremist murders so this is a clever trick by CNN as they start talking about white supremacists to debunk that Tucker says white supremacy is a hoax they show you know example of even one white supremacist no picture of one no writing from one no video of one who makes that claim by the way and I know what you're gonna say what about the shell is filled people marching away tikis we've got lots of video of that there white supremacist right are they are you a white supremacist if you want to remove the Jews from your country because the Jews are doing doing too well is wanting to remove the people who are doing too well as a a statement that you are supreme it's kind of the opposite I would say that if you were look what the the people marching in Charlottesville were saying out loud is that they were saying the that the group that they did not like the Jews and their words were taking their blood and treasure in other words they were being very successful they were actually criticizing the success of a group that's literally the opposite of saying you're awesome and the other group is bad they're actually saying the other group is doing better than them and they would like them out of the country because they're taking all their stuff now they're racists they're white nationalists those are all true but it's the supremacy part that gets weird now so so what you see is that oh and then what the CNN likes to make lots of references to the El Paso killers manifesto Compline problems with that number one it is not an evidence that the shooter wrote that manifesto did you know that did you know it's not in evidence that the shooter wrote the manifesto what is it evidence is that it was uploaded to a Qian from someone who was not this year so we have an evidence that the source the source of it the only source we can trace was a Facebook post there was someone else now there's some possibility that the shooter put it on somebody else's Facebook or you know somehow it got on Facebook from the shooter and then it went to a chin but the evidence suggests he didn't write it have you seen that on CNN probably not we heard this from the founder of a chin and he would know where it came from secondly how many people have read the manifesto I read it and I gotta tell you on your right back so I read the manifesto and I was looking for the part where Trump inspired him to be a white supremacist it's not really there what it is this and I tweeted a link from fire in New York who's talking about this I had the exactly the same reaction as Byron York did if you actually read the manifesto you'd walk away saying what's this got to do with Trump the manifesto literally says indirect words this is not about Trump I had these feelings before Trump indirect words he says it wasn't drunk but if it wasn't Trump who is it most evocative of who is the person that is most referenced in the manifesto well not by name but the person most directly connected with what he's talking about in the manifesto he is Andrew yang because the ughter in El Paso was talking about universal basic income and how it will be necessary because the robots are coming who says that Trump may have said it but it's basically Andrew Yang's whole whole thesis and if the robots come and take away our jobs we'll need some kind of universal basic income andrew Yang's primary platform and the only way that works is if you secure the border because if you're giving away free money to anybody who shows up it doesn't work right everybody understands that now Andrew yang doesn't make that case but I think that's a question he needs to be asked doesn't it it needs to be asked of amber yang how can you do ubi unless you're controlling the border that doesn't make sense those those two are opposites they can't exist at the same time so so the entire so what CNN can do and the anti-trump ORS are doing is that they're suggesting that the manifesto is trump inspired because they know nobody's going to read it and if they did they would find you know maybe one sentence that they could pull out say yeah this this sounds like Trump but there are just as many sentences that sound like Elizabeth Warren or Andrew yang and they'll just ignore those and they know you're not going to read it so they can characterize it any way they want so it's complexity it's long and rambled and it's obviously just a crazy person it's complexity allows them to claim that it supports their point of view it just doesn't it just doesn't as fake news all right so here's here's the basic sleight of hand that the anti-trump errs and really anti Americans I would say because the people who are moving hard against Trump are really moving hard against 60 million people in this country so I would say anti-american if people were criticizing you know thousands of people in America I'd say well thousands that's barely anything compared to 300 million so those people are just criticizing you know some people with bad ideas but if you're criticizing 60 million citizens of this country you're anti-american by definition right criticizing 60 million that's it's a good chunk to the whole country right there all right so here's the sleight-of-hand they use so it starts out with President Trump says I'm a nationalist he doesn't use those words necessarily but his supporters say we're nationalists we care about our country first so CNN will say you're nationalists and I'm noticing that a lot of people at the rallies are white so would it be fair to say that you're nationalists and that most of you are white and people would say well that's true but I don't like where this is going so if you're nationalist and many of you are white basically there's not much difference between that and saying you're white nationalist well of course there is a big difference because white nationalists don't want other people to come unless they're white but a nationalist is open to everybody you know as long as the rules are followed and the borders are controlled so they say nationalist equals white nationalists let's the first lady and and then from white nationalist they just throw into the census white supremacists as if there's no difference so you know white supremacist white nationalist nationalists who happens to be white okay Lee the same thing so they use this you know a sleight of hand to get you all the way to nationalist equals white nationalist white nationalists basically the same with white supremacist white supremacist is Hitler obviously there's a holocaust coming now when you hear that it should make you angry it should make you think oh my god what kind of a country do I live in where news networks can push ridiculous not like that well where'd they learn it where did see you then learn to turn nationalists into white nationalists to turn white nationalists and two white supremacists and turned white supremacists into obviously the president is Hillier here's how they learned it they learned it from the right they learned it from Fox News how many times in Fox News have you seen Democrats say they want health care which Fox News turns into health care so I guess you're a socialist and if you're a socialist you're a communist and if you're a communist you're Stalin and if you're Stalin you want to kill tens of millions of people you're Venezuela right same thing a a person who wants to keep the United States largely the same but have better health care it's not a socialist there you know democratic socialist at best and there's certainly not communists so first of all they're not socialists you're socialists what would make everybody share everything it would be completely incompatible with capitalism so they're pushing some socialist policies within a larger capitalist setting that Fox.

News calls all that socialism and then they just sort of without without making a break call it communism then it turns into Venezuela and then it turns into Stalin and then it turns into tens of millions of people killed you should disregard both sides when they do that all right if they're taking your definition and working it through this word machine until it turns into either Stalin or Hitler you're not talking you're not listening to people you should pay attention to all right and so I would like to offer this challenge I would like somebody to produce a white supremacist who I could deprogram so I'm going to offer to deprogram a white supremacist I'll do it on I'll do around here I'd have to know it's a real white supremacist so here's the first part of the challenge number one I don't think any exist who are not actually observe probably insane so if you if somebody could put a sentence together you know went to college maybe ya know don't even hit the college just somebody who can make a coherent statement and also refers to themselves or at least by their policies or clearly white supremacists I need you to I'm offering to deprogram that person away from their destructive ideology but you have to find me one I've never met one and I don't know that they exist because those tiki torch people were white inferiorities there's a word what's the opposite of supremacy yeah the the tiki torch guys were were worried that white people can't compete that was their whole that's what they were chanting literally that's what they were saying out loud and a chance that the white people can't compete so they don't qualify but if there's any in that group who thinks they're supreme I will do program them I'll offer to do that watch how no white supremacist can be identified now I would say that Tucker Carlson would be accurate in calling the whole white supremacy a hoax if nobody can produce one at all you can't produce one put him on TV let's let's see what they have to say if you can't produce one I'm offering to deprogram that person I'll solve it for you I'll do it right in front of the world and it won't be hard now let's put things in perspective if Tucker Carlson is wrong about white supremacy you know at least the Hoople about it big being a hoax then it would also be true that the numbers are big or climbing so they're either big already or they're climbing because remember Islamic terrorists in this country is very small but we worried that it could you know climb or that the rate would increase so let me give you some numbers which you don't see in most of these these periscopes or you don't see in the news all right so how many people were killed with from by extremists so according to the ADL the same source that brian Stelter was using three hundred and eighty seven people have been killed in the last decade so in ten years three hundred eighty seven people were killed by extremists all of those extremists in the united states of those seventy one percent were a right-wing so that's two hundred and seventy five over ten years let's round it off to twenty eight people per year so isn't a national story that there's something that can you could put a name on that's killing twenty eight people a year well let's see how big related numbers are so we can see if that's a big number or a small number all right so right-wing extremists according to the ADL kill about twenty eight people per year over the past ten years total gun deaths in the united states per year are forty thousand we've got this and of course opioids are like seventy thousand a year I think automobiles or thirty five thousand a year or something like that so just twenty eight people but but remember if that number is climbing quickly then we should worry about it because the range of change this is important is where it starts how many homicides per year because these are total gun deaths how many of the gun deaths are not suicide for accents turns out that there are about 12,000 so twelve thousand murders with with gun weapons compared to twenty eight done by extremists so twenty eight is what percentage of the total gun deaths in the United States per year it's point zero zero one seven of all the gun deaths point zero is zero one seven of all the gun deaths two-thirds of all gung-ho homicides are have black victims two thirds so that's around eight thousand murders per year of black people by both white and black people but I think black people kill more of black people just because that's who's around obviously you're gonna kill more of the type of people who are near you than people who live distantly and so so it's a tiny tiny number and so the real question is if we all agree it's a small number then what matters is how quickly is growing do you know who has the statistics a good statistics of how quickly the white supremacy murder rate is growing nobody doesn't exist yeah if you look for that source you'll find lots of people saying wow it's hard to count because people accounted differently and there were new agencies that came online recently that started counting so you can't really look at the current numbers and compare them directly to the past because they're counting differently now so basically we don't really know so it's a tiny number we don't know if it's going up or not but the most visible sign of it is this El Paso thing which if you actually read his manifesto you would say does it look like waste of privacy to me and that's it that's the whole argument so given all that who's right oh well let me give you some more numbers 85% of well two-thirds of gun deaths are suicide 2/3 2/3 of gun deaths are suicide and 85% of the gun suicides are male what would you say is the big problem when 85% of gun deaths are suicide wouldn't it be more useful to speak of these mass shootings as fancy suicides am I wrong if if you came from outer space and you didn't care about politics and you were just examining the planet with complete unbiased dispassionate logic you're just looking at it and you said to yourself okay it looks like there's massive problem with God and suicide which is really a problem with suicide they're just using guns so if you have this massive suicide problem and this suicide comes in many forms one of these forms is people like to dress up their suicide as having some meaning so that they can find meaning for the first time in their life and so they their warped Minds come up with some political political justification if you happen to be a hypnotist or you study persuasion as I do you know that the human mind does not operate on reasons I'll tell you what did not happen in any of these shootings here's what we know scientifically and historically and commonsensical II we know with complete certainty what did not happen with any of these shootings what did not happen is that a reasonable person looked at the facts of the logic and then decided to kill a bunch of people that never happened what did happen because it's the only way that brains work brains don't have two ways of working in the sense that I'm talking about here they have one way of working first they decide what they're gonna do and then they work backwards to the reasons always now sometimes if you think that sometimes happens then you don't understand your reality in any useful way science has determined with completely conclusively that we decide first on the big stuff like this the big emotional stuff and in a mass murder is the biggest emotional thing you can imagine as more emotional content than anything else because it's death and there's lots of it that cetera so these murders I can tell you with absolute confidence 0% chance of being wrong that they make the decision first and then they go through some tortured logic to describe why they did it and that's why when you read the manifesto it looks like it looks like somebody with tortured logic it looks like somebody who is desperately trying to come up with a reason for the thing they had already decided to do now my take on it is that you have a suicide problem some of the people who who kill themselves want to do it in a certain way that gives them meaning and ties into who they think they are etc but mostly it's just a suicide problem you have to deal with all elements of it but to call it a white supremacy problem I think misses the mark by as far as you can miss it so I'm going to score this argument in favor of Tucker meaning that it when he says there's a white supremacy hoax I don't know that there are no white supremacists willing to kill people I do know I've never seen one and I don't think I'll see one on television and I don't see think I'll see a picture of one and I don't think I'll see a video one and I don't think I'll see maybe even a manifesto from one because even this El Paso's manifesto wasn't about white supremacy it was just about numbers and math and economics so there you go all right let's talk about something a little more uplifting maybe maybe maybe a lot more uplifting that I saw one of the smartest most insightful quotes you'll ever see and it came from actor Danny Trejo tre Jo now if if you're into movies and TV you might know this name so Danny Trillo is Hispanic I assume I think he's Hispanic I'm not gonna guess but I'm just guessing they use Hispanic his last name gives it away anyway he which is only important because the times were it right it's not important and any other way it's only important because of our political climate so apparently he was driving along and you saw an accident in which there was a car flipped over there was a baby and a baby seat was still in the car and he stopped immediately and tried to get the baby out and was somebody else's help he got the baby out now of course because he was the celebrity there he gets all of the it's pronounced Trejo somebody's telling me Danny Trejo he gets all the attention because he was a celebrity obviously the unknown person who helped him get the baby out of the car is also a hero but nobody nobody knows that person's name but here's the best part of the story so actor Danny Trejo gets interviewed afterwards and he said this quote I swear if you never remembered anything else in your whole life and you just said alright I'm gonna ignore everything I've learned in my entire life and then I'm just gonna build my life around this one quote from Danny Trejo you would actually have a pretty good life yeah this quote sums up almost everything here it is quote from actor Danny Trejo hero everything good this happened to me has happened as a direct result of helping someone else everything so he has everything at the end I'm gonna read that again it's probably the best quote you'll ever see in your life in terms of how usefulness right everything good this happened to me has happened as a direct result of helping someone else everything that's it secret of life right there the secret of life right there be because if you help other people they say well there's somebody I want to associate with if you help other people you feel good about yourself you feel important you feel like you have a place do you think the people who are helping other people commit suicide sometimes because there's mental illness is the thing but how many of these mass shooters were working at soup kitchens how many mass murderers are helping other people no none if you want meaning any life help other people if you want financial security learn how to be valuable to other people it's the only way the only way I'm rich is because I helped other people I made them laugh I made them think I entertained them I helped them I helped them somehow now how many times have I been offered promotions back in my corporate world and why would I be offered the promotion and maybe something else well in many cases is because I did extra work and I helped other people with no direct thought of some direct reward and if you are in your corporate situation and people look around and they say hey this person keeps helping me other people as long as you're getting your own work done well what are people gonna think when they want to promote somebody you just killed everybody else you know economically or or career-wise you just eliminated everybody else's appearance of value if you do your work and you're consistently helping other people in whatever way you can you're the boss or you can be if you want to be somebody's gonna offer you the next promotion so Danny Trejo's quote is everything he actually uses the word and everything in this quote twice everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of helping someone else everything it's perfect it's just perfect alright here's the thought that I want to put into the NICS of ideas in the world so we've got these urban blighted areas and you know parts of the country where things aren't working out there's bad economic distress etc and then we're watching Bill Polti go into these areas in some cases and make a difference you saw the cleanup crew make a difference as well but bill told bill pulled a goes in and he can clean up the urban blight I saw article recently that Pontiac Michigan the the value of real estate just started zooming now Pontiac if you don't know this was I think what the first one or two places that bill Polti removed the blight so he removed the blight and there's not one reason that real estate goes up in value but I got to think it's a big one the real estate values went up so Pontiac is heading in the right direction who made that happen bill Polti you know other people work on it too that the mayor had to be part of that at cetera but I was reading this book I was just telling you about about the founding of the nation I'll show it to you again I'm only a little ways into if it's already so interesting that I'm getting all these tidbits out of it that really change that you think it's called the American nations right I'm only a little bit into it it's already having a big impact on me and one of the things I talked about is something I don't think I knew pretty sure I didn't know it and the I didn't know it let me say that for sure if you don't know if you knew it you didn't know it I always wondered why the United States was so successful now you can give a number of reasons you could say okay the United States was successful because we had all these natural resources and maybe because of the ocean barriers you know we we didn't get that direct brunt of a couple of world wars but we had our own Wars you know lots of wars on you know internally and with the Native Americans and the back etc and French the French the Brits we had a lot of Wars but what was it they made America so successful now one thing you say is okay was it was about this Western culture and they brought over but this book is all about the fact that they weren't all the same culture I talked about this yesterday I think some of the more Puritans and they wanted everybody to be treated equal equally but they had to be religious or else you were in big trouble and then there were ones that landed in the more southern part of the country who were slavers they started I was putting white people in slavery and then they literally ran out of white people to enslave that's why the African slave trade happened now the white people they enslaved were what he called indentured servants and the problem was that after the indentured servants served their time they could go get their own land so the intention servants were moving through the system too quickly and there weren't enough new ones so they had to do a different source of labor and that's where the African slavery came from so you can't really compare the Puritan culture to the southern culture completely different I mean the Puritans never would have enslaved anybody so you can't really say there's something about the culture that worked so what was it and this this book I just mentioned the suggestive answer which also suggests a defects the inner cities and other parts of the country are you ready for it part of the reason that people came to the United States is that the the King in Great Britain would say if you go there we'll give you you know a land grant which if you do things right will make you very rich you'll be like a king in your own large piece of territory that I grant you now who does the who would the king in England somebody says it's not Great Britain let's just call it England so the king of England thus prior to the Great Britain words so thank you for that correction so the King of England and who is he going to grant land to in America well it's not going to be to a peasant the King granted land to highly educated people because they also happen to be the you know the the well-connected people in England so what happened was because of a coincidence of how land was granted the United States became hugely educated instantly meaning that the percentage of people with advanced degrees in the early colonial days was sort of through the roof by the by the standards of those times there were simply more educated people as a percentage than maybe anywhere in the world now I don't know if that's true but I think it's close to true that we may have ended up totally by coincidence with more highly educated people that have ever been in one place at the same time except for maybe Microsoft right and then Silicon Valley later now what happened when you put a whole bunch of smart people into a wilderness they do well smart people tend to do well am I wrong have you ever seen an example well name a country where they're highly educated and the economy is doing poorly can you can you name your country that's among the top 10 of education that's you know doing poorly in economics well maybe temporarily if something's going wrong but in general if you put a bunch of smart people in an area they do well now here's the question did all of the colonists need to be smart absolutely not the vast majority of the colonists were were we're dumb just like the rest of the world right most the world is not smart people so most of the colonists were done so wasn't just the percentage of smart people it was that there were a lot of them in numbers so you need numbers so here's the question where in the United States do we have big concentrations of smart people and things are not heading in the right direction no we're pretty much nowhere now somebody says I'm being a bigot but I have not mentioned race whatsoever because it doesn't have anything to do with us so race has nothing to do with this I'm just saying that if you put a bunch of people who went to college into a place that needs help it's gonna do better so what what do we normally do in this country when we're trying to fix an urban area the thing we do when we're trying to fix an urban area as we give them money and resources mostly money and resources and it doesn't seem to work for a variety of reasons what happened when you took Bill pulled a smart and capable well-educated and put him into Pontiac good stuff right now money was also involved but money it turns out is the easy part do you know what was the hard part finding a bill pulled a that was the hard part so I would suggest this if we could find as something similar to the king of in England giving land grants to smart people of every race so ethnicity has nothing to do with any of this right just smart people of any kind could we do the same thing with our blinded areas now doesn't that necessarily have to be an urban area it could be yeah it could be Baltimore but it could also be somewhere else so I suppose you cleared an area a blight and then you said okay all this area that's cleared has almost no economic value but we're going to grant it to only people who have a certain level of let's say educational achievement so you say all you have to be is you have a master's degree I'll just use this as an example so I'm I'm not suggesting that your degree says whether you're smart or not I'm just saying it's an easy way to know that you're at least last March so suppose the city decided we're going to grant this land but instead of doing it the way that you would normally think which is to give it to the community you say no I'm gonna I'm going to create some Kings they could be you know black Kings they could be any kind of King but they're gonna be the people who have advanced degrees and they're gonna get their own little patch of land and they're gonna use their intelligence if they need money they can figure out how to get it because that's what smart people do and either they have it or they know how to get it you put the smart people there and you say here it is if you can make this work you get an amazing advantage out of it so I'm gonna put this idea into the world which is that putting physical resources into communities that have trouble might help a little I'm not saying we shouldn't do it but putting smart people in there especially smart people who you know who can work with the community etc probably would be a bigger deal on probably now I don't know if there's any way to do this in the way our society is is function but what do I always say what I always say is that if you can a B test it that's good enough if you have a plan that could be tested small and find out whether or not it worked you don't have to ask if it's good I mean you you do it you want to do a basic filter to see if it's crazy but if you think it might be good but you're not sure as long as you can test as small go ahead so take a little place that you think has a problem that has land values that approach to zero have your political leaders say all right here's all we're gonna do if you've got an advanced degree and the relevant stuff let's say an engineer what let's say we limit it to that what if you say Fuhrer if you are a certain type of engineer and you have a degree will give you land as long as you promise to live there and develop it what would happen if he came back in 20 years I'm pretty sure people would do okay because smart people tend to succeed no matter where they are somebody said you're a and spelled you were why oh you are I'll tell ya there should be one one rule as I block that person there should be a rule that if you insult somebody's intelligence and you spell a word wrong while you're insulting them it doesn't count that should just be the rule doesn't count if you spelled a word wrong somebody says it's called gentrification nope nope no no no no no no no gentrification is when anybody who is doing well sort of creeps into the neighborhood I am NOT talking about that I'm talking about peeking people who are smarter than there was yuppies who were just happened to have you know a four-year degree I'm talking about real smart people I'm talking about somebody who went to MIT because remember the people who settled America were Oxford shaped they weren't just people who knew how to read that we're talking about Jefferson all right Jefferson wasn't just a guy who could read it was a genius I'm talking about geniuses I'm not talking about the yuppie who works in the cubicle and can afford to pay his car payment that is not who you need to fix the inner cities alright so when you saw recently that Jack Dorsey and Bill pulled a were clearing some blight they they had partnered to clear some blight and Saint Louis and I saw those pictures and I see Jack and you know Bill Polti standing there I think to myself I'm glad there's money I'm glad there's equipment to do that but what you really need is people of you know that level of smart and and you know well-meaning to just live there for a while and try to build something now not those two guys in particular but it just made me think that maybe bringing in some geniuses and again of geniuses of every type none of this is the ethnic none of this is gender we're not talking about any of that it doesn't matter who they are they just have to have a certain skill set and that's it somebody says where does Scott get his degrees I got my undergraduate at a small private college called Hartwick College in Oneonta New York and I got my MBA at Berkeley here in California to answer your question but let me say that I would not consider myself qualified for what I'm talking about I'm talking about people who have more than an MBA I'm talking about Harvard I'm talking about MIT I'm talking about top at the top right if you know if you don't pick top at the top this idea falls apart quickly you know I'm not talking about putting a bunch of b-plus students into Baltimore and see what happens that's that's not going to get you there all right let's talk about Iran quickly so Aram apparently has some technology you must be a Russian technology for spoofing GPS to make you think you're off track and apparently they can spoof communications and they're fooling ships in the area and causing mischief a hundred percent of the people talk about Iran say hey war looks like you know it might be a risk but every single person says the same thing Iran does not want war u.s.

doesn't want war nobody wants war so I'm pretty sure we're not gonna get war I'm not gonna say there isn't you know some bullets fired at some point but the odds of war with Iran I think we should just call it zero because that's what it is that's what it is so let's stop worrying about that in terms of you know some kind of slippery slope toward war because something very different would have to happen something we don't see coming that would turn this even into an even possible war situation and here's here's part of the reason why Iran doesn't want to war because they would be destroyed so that's easy to understand you might ask yourself well why doesn't the u.s.

want war because we might win it fairly you know fairly easily and it would remove this risk and even though people would die or maybe it's worth it but here's the thing you have to compare war to the alternative and the alternative is just wait because it turns out that Iran in terms of the Iranian population are fairly pro-american American people American culture they're not pro-american government but you know half of the country the United States you know the majority of the United States is not in favor of our own government it probably never will be if it's that we roll so the fact that you know there are some Romanians who don't like our government isn't terribly important because they like us and they like they like they like the American culture and people and likewise if you don't if you haven't spent time around a lot of people who have been born in Iran they're pretty awesome people they're pretty awesome I see a lot of them around here and to a person they're just they're pretty awesome people so here's what I would suggest but not in a serious way you know when people suggest what the president should say or do I always say don't suggest what a president should do I don't know just it always feels wrong on several levels to say oh here's what the president should do so instead I'm gonna put this as a thought experiment so the thought experiment is suppose the President does this what if the president did this because it'll help you understand what's going on here the thought experiment so this is not a suggestion it's a thought experiment that goes like this what if President Trump started saying hey Aaron what would you gain by being our enemy what do you have to gain that's it that's the powerful part can you tell us what you want to gain because we might be able to help that's the second part tell us what you want because if you work with us you might be able to get it now they might say we would like to spread Islam around the world to which we say okay we don't think that's the best idea but we'll still help you here's how we'll give you full access to the Internet we'll make sure that every person in your country has freedom of speech because if you want to spread an idea killing isn't really an efficient way to do it in 2019 we saw that Isis tried to do that didn't work out did not work out for Isis but the Internet is really good a spreading ideas so if I ran wants to spread their idea we will help them take their idea into the marketplace of ideas which is the Internet we will will help you build out your internet will we'll do what we can to be supportive of every citizen rumor and getting on the internet and having full access so we can help you if you would like to spread your beliefs we'll give you the tool the only tool the only tool that's effective to do that and we are confident that in the marketplace of ideas it might find the place as will others and we'll work it out so then what is what else does a rayon want they want to survive and we'll say that's fine we don't care if you survive I mean we'd like you to survive and even you could even keep your form of government because we don't care about that that's that's between you and the citizens so we're not gonna fight them on who's in charge so long as you know they're not a problem to us what if they say we want to throw overthrow Israel well they don't really say that publicly and I don't believe that they think it could really happen do you think there's anybody in Iran who in a private conversation that nobody will ever hear do you think that anybody at any level in Iran says you know I think we've got a real good shot of taking Israel back for Islam I'll bet no I'll bet there are zero people who actually think that's going to happen and I don't think they say it out loud currently what they say out loud is that they would like Israel as a as a government entity to go away they can want that all they want and in fact the best way to do that would be to make peace with Israel can you think of a faster way to destroy in quotes the nation of Israel than by making peace in the Middle East it would effectively force Israel in the long run to have a more diverse population and if they have a more diverse population eventually it's going to have to become not exactly the you know the Jewish state and they didn't long but the only way you get there is through peace Israel would just have pressure to be more inclusive and eventually you would get that way suppose Iran wants a better economy of course we can help suppose they want more energy in nuclear power not nuclear weapons nuclear power well Lindsey Graham has already offered to help we just want some control on the weaponized part and if they get those parts I guess the fuel rods if they get that from China and Russia the United States would say okay China and Russia can can keep them from getting the you know that the nuclear weapon parts as long as Iran wants to get their source from those two countries so almost everything that Iran at least publicly would ask for we would be willing to help we're not only not their obstacle we're begging them to help with everything they want now we don't think of it that way because we're just sort of locked into the news coverage of us against them and will there be a war and you just think of two teams against each other I think the president could and again this is just a thought experiment I don't expect him to do this in any way I think the president could say here's the deal Iran we don't understand what you want because everything that we know you want we want to and we would actively help you we want you to communicate better we want you to have a better economy we don't want any risk or we want you to have nuclear energy Israel has already offered to help with desalinization we probably have a mutual interest in in controlling al Qaeda we kind of have a so much in common it's crazy that we're even talking as some kind of Nemesis when it's so clear that we would work better together for everything now you might say in yourself I don't know there's must be something we disagree with and that's that's worth having a war over but I don't know what it is if you and I don't know what that is I don't think anybody knows what it is yeah I think the giving them tons of cash idea was was probably not your best one I think you have to I think you have to do what Trump has successfully done with North Korea which is paint a picture of cooperation and a picture of the future that is clearly a good one and it involves us being helpful instead of us being on the other side we we started that a little bit with Iran but I think that picture could be completed it could be that you know the president is constrained by the you know members of the administration who want to who want to see some missiles fly so that may be part of the constraint I don't know somebody says that Kim is Kim jong-un is different because he's not religious therefore you can work a deal with him I would say that that would be a problem that would be a problem except that everything Iran wants we would be willing to help them with because they can spread their ideology anywhere they want it's just that the internet is how you spread the ideology spreading it with weapons absolutely doesn't work all right I think I've set it all for today I'm gonna go do something else and I will talk to you later

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oh so good so just before I went live I

noticed on Twitter I think if this is

true but I would wait for a little more

verification it looks like MSNBC

retweeted some some twitter user from

Media Matters and added a blue checkmark

next to the tweet with Photoshop so in

other words if someone who is not a blue

checkmark on Twitter and msnb Photoshop

them a blue check to make their comment

look more important now if that's true

that's pretty fake news I mean that's

sort of a smoking god bless let's wait

and see if that's true first

all right my favorite story of the day

well I've got a few say favourite

stories did you see that we've we have

we put life on the moon

apparently we recently we meaning people

who have spaceships put these little

things called tardive I've never seen

these is a microscopic we put some of

these they were dehydrated and flown to

the moon so that we may have actually

what we did actually we put life on the

moon but what kind of life did we pick

we picked the only creature in the world

whose mouth and face and ass look

exactly the same

this is a creature so dumb that what it

eats the only way it can tell if it's

shoving food in its mouth or its ass is

by looking at which way its toenails are

pointing that's it otherwise its mouth

and it's ass are the same and so I said

to myself huh I did not know that nature

had a creature that can talk about

politics on Twitter I'll let that sink

in a little bit all right um so of

course all the news is about gun

violence and mass shootings and white

supremacist let's talk about that dr.

Carlson got and got in a little well I

was a he's in any trouble but he caused

a little controversy a little more than

usual and it's because on the show last

night he said that white supremacy is

that all the all of the hoopla about

white supremacy is oaks now he also said

this white supremacist exists there

aren't very many of them in the country

and that in total their impact is is

small and so therefore it's a hoax so

and then he then he announced that he

was going on vacation so

how did see then cover this well they

started so this is a the anatomy of how

fake news is graded it's actually very

clever and and it's diabolical to the

extreme and sometimes you can't tell

when see and then doesn't know what

they're doing

meaning that it's somewhere accidental

based on just ordinary bias now when do

they know exactly what they're doing and

this is one of those cases were pretty

sure they know exactly what they're

doing

so taqwa of course is a huge critical to

see event so you would expect that their

opinion people would come at him pretty

hard and sure enough they did but the

way they did it is is very clever and

can teach us something alright so the

first thing they did is they connected

two random things and acted as if they

have meaning so they said that talker

must be in trouble they suggested they

did not say it's true they simply

suggested the Fox News as a history of

when it's one of his host says something

that other people think is racist

there's hosts or or just provocative

there's host go on vacation suspiciously

to sort of get him out of the line of

fire now it's summer and a lot of people

go on vacation in the summer and Tucker

said he was going on vacation and so CNN

with no with no evidence whatsoever

makes it seem as though his vacation is

sort of a confession that he'd done

something bad but there's no evidence of

that what there is evidence is that it's

August and a lot of people go on

vacation in fact if you were going to

pick a month to go on a vacation and you

were in the news business

what month would you pick well he'd pick

December does everybody's on vacation

but you'd also pick August that would be

the time you go on vacation it's the

slow news month so first they make this

connection that's not a real connection

but by simply putting the two in your

mind you say oh even Tucker Carlson or

at least even his bosses know he's gone

too far none of this is an evidence it's

completely invented all right so that's

the first dirty trick but the but the

next one is the best all right so the so

they're pushing back there were two

opinion pieces I'll talk about brian

Stelter Speas on on cnn.com they're both

pushing back against Tucker's claim that

all the noise about

danger from white supremacists is a hoax

now here's how they push back on it now

one way to push back on it would be to

produce one white supremacist and put

them on TV and say here people I've now

proven that way supremacists exist have

you ever seen a white supremacist I

never have I've seen every other kind of

racist because race is coming you know

lots of different flavors yeah there's

just all kinds of different races so if

he asked me to have I seen racists oh

yeah

have I seen white nationalist people who

would prefer the country and you stay

away oh yeah I've seen those have I ever

seen a white supremacist I haven't I

never have so how how would you what is

the easiest way to prove that white

supremacists exist put one on TV well

where is it where's the white

supremacists even Richards to prep the

Spencer isn't a white supremacist right

if you look into it he would not espouse

white supremacy he's more of a white

nationalist I think would be a better

way to put it so you have to ask

yourself where is the well you don't ask

yourself this look for the dog that

isn't barking if white supremacy is a

really big problem it shouldn't be hard

to find a few and put them on TV so that

we can see number one they exist David

Duke actually is not a way supremacist

as I understand it he's a racist

and I think he's a white nationalist

that might explain him so I'm not I'm

not gonna try to explain David Duke

because I condemn him totally but I

don't believe anybody's ever gone on CNN

in my memory and said that that one race

was superior and should be treated that

way I don't think I've seen it anyway so

that's the first thing but here's the

clever sleight of hand when when I tell

you this you're you're all you can be

shaking your head so hard and knocking

your heads on the counter so hard that

this might be dangerous so you might

want to put it on the helmet before I

read this next part I swear to God

brian Stelter wrote this and CNN all

right you ready for this he says on

white supremacy facts first okay so now

Brian's gonna give us some facts about

white supremacy and those facts will

debunk Tucker Carlson's view that the

whole white supremacist thing is a hoax

so here are his facts to debunk an audit

by the anti-defamation league okay now

this is good stuff he's right on point

talking about the right topic as we

referred to an organization that studies

these things okay this is good and

what's he say what does the

anti-defamation league found the white

supremacist murders in the u.s. quote

more than doubled in 2017 okay that's

serious and more than doubled

now when you say something more than

doubled and and the point of saying it

more than doubled is to say it's a

problem what's the next thing you say

after that right after you say it more

than doubled you say from this number to

this number right so we're so I'll read

that part oh that's not there he said it

doubled and he didn't say from what to

what so I looked at the source

it doesn't say from what to what either

he says it doubled without giving us a

number did it go from 2 to 4 1 to 2 and

why are the numbers only from 2017 in

2017

two years ago if we're worried about a

sudden increase of something is 2017

what we want no it is not so first of

all his numbers are old 2017 would not

tell you that there is a recent spike

and anything because that leaves out the

most recent two years if you talk about

a recent spike he got includes last two

years secondly he says it doubled

without saying what the number is and

even the source doesn't say what the

number is but I guess it gets creepier

here's the rest of the sentence with

far-right extremist groups and white

supremacists quote responsible for 59

percent of all extremists related

fatalities in the US and 2017 okay so if

you add together far-right extremists

plus white supremacists they're

responsible for the majority of the

extremists fatalities okay that's that's

good to know

now he'll next he'll tell us what

percentage of that was the white

supremacist because that's the topic

right the topic is not right-wing deaths

doctor was talking about white

supremacists

so the next thing you'll say is how many

of those were the white supremacists let

me read that it's not there so you see

what he did he he took the white

supremacist for which he had no numbers

that were current and even no numbers

that were not current he added it with

another group for which we do have

numbers and said if you add those two

together it's 59% of all the extremist

related fatalities let me read you

another sentence that's equally true if

you were add together all of the all of

the murders caused by cartoonists plus

extremists and when they count for fifty

nine percent of all the fate of the

extremists fatalities in 2017 that's

true right

if you are add together all of the

people who were murdered by dogs dogs

with guns actual dogs like physically a

dog you know not talking about people

I'm talking about actual dogs if you're

add to the number the number of people

who were killed by dogs with guns to

right-wing extremists they would account

for almost all of the extremist murders

so this is a clever trick by CNN as they

start talking about white supremacists

to debunk that Tucker says white

supremacy is a hoax they show you know

example of even one white supremacist no

picture of one no writing from one no

video of one who makes that claim by the

way and I know what you're gonna say

what about the shell is filled people

marching away tikis we've got lots of

video of that there white supremacist

right are they are you a white

supremacist if you want to remove the

Jews from your country because the Jews

are doing doing too well is wanting to

remove the people who are doing too well

as a a statement that you are supreme

it's kind of the opposite I would say

that if you were look what the the

people marching in Charlottesville were

saying out loud is that they were saying

the that the group that they did not

like the Jews and their words were

taking their blood and treasure in other

words they were being very successful

they were actually criticizing the

success of a group that's literally the

opposite of saying you're awesome and

the other group is bad they're actually

saying the other group is doing better

than them and they would like them out

of the country because they're taking

all their stuff now they're racists

they're white nationalists those are all

true but it's the supremacy part that

gets weird now so so what you see is

that oh and then what the CNN likes to

make lots of references to the El Paso

killers manifesto Compline

problems with that number one it is not

an evidence that the shooter wrote that

manifesto did you know that did you know

it's not in evidence that the shooter

wrote the manifesto

what is it evidence is that it was

uploaded to a Qian from someone who was

not this year so we have an evidence

that the source the source of it the

only source we can trace was a Facebook

post there was someone else now there's

some possibility that the shooter put it

on somebody else's Facebook or you know

somehow it got on Facebook from the

shooter and then it went to a chin but

the evidence suggests he didn't write it

have you seen that on CNN

probably not we heard this from the

founder of a chin and he would know

where it came from

secondly how many people have read the

manifesto I read it and I gotta tell you

on your right back so I read the

manifesto and I was looking for the part

where Trump inspired him to be a white

supremacist it's not really there what

it is this and I tweeted a link from

fire in New York who's talking about

this

I had the exactly the same reaction as

Byron York did if you actually read the

manifesto you'd walk away saying what's

this got to do with Trump the manifesto

literally says indirect words this is

not about Trump I had these feelings

before Trump indirect words he says it

wasn't drunk but if it wasn't Trump who

is it most evocative of who is the

person that is most referenced in the

manifesto well not by name but the

person most directly connected with what

he's talking about in the manifesto he

is Andrew yang because the

ughter in El Paso was talking about

universal basic income and how it will

be necessary because the robots are

coming who says that Trump may have said

it but it's basically Andrew Yang's

whole whole thesis and if the robots

come and take away our jobs we'll need

some kind of universal basic income

andrew Yang's primary platform and the

only way that works is if you secure the

border because if you're giving away

free money to anybody who shows up it

doesn't work right everybody understands

that

now Andrew yang doesn't make that case

but I think that's a question he needs

to be asked doesn't it it needs to be

asked of amber yang how can you do ubi

unless you're controlling the border

that doesn't make sense those those two

are opposites they can't exist at the

same time so so the entire so what CNN

can do and the anti-trump ORS are doing

is that they're suggesting that the

manifesto is trump inspired because they

know nobody's going to read it and if

they did they would find you know maybe

one sentence that they could pull out

say yeah this this sounds like Trump but

there are just as many sentences that

sound like Elizabeth Warren or Andrew

yang and they'll just ignore those and

they know you're not going to read it so

they can characterize it any way they

want so it's complexity it's long and

rambled and it's obviously just a crazy

person it's complexity allows them to

claim that it supports their point of

view it just doesn't it just doesn't as

fake news all right so here's here's the

basic sleight of hand that the

anti-trump errs and really anti

Americans I would say because the people

who are moving hard against Trump are

really moving hard against 60 million

people in this country so I would say

anti-american if people were criticizing

you know thousands of people in America

I'd say well thousands that's barely

anything compared to 300 million

so those people are just criticizing you

know some people with bad ideas but if

you're criticizing 60 million citizens

of this country

you're anti-american by definition right

criticizing 60 million that's it's a

good chunk to the whole country right

there all right so here's the

sleight-of-hand they use so it starts

out with President Trump says I'm a

nationalist he doesn't use those words

necessarily but his supporters say we're

nationalists

we care about our country first so CNN

will say you're nationalists and I'm

noticing that a lot of people at the

rallies are white so would it be fair to

say that you're nationalists and that

most of you are white and people would

say well that's true but I don't like

where this is going so if you're

nationalist and many of you are white

basically there's not much difference

between that and saying you're white

nationalist well of course there is a

big difference because white

nationalists don't want other people to

come unless they're white but a

nationalist is open to everybody you

know as long as the rules are followed

and the borders are controlled so they

say nationalist equals white

nationalists let's the first lady and

and then from white nationalist they

just throw into the census white

supremacists as if there's no difference

so you know white supremacist white

nationalist nationalists who happens to

be white okay Lee the same thing so they

use this you know a sleight of hand to

get you all the way to nationalist

equals white nationalist white

nationalists basically the same with

white supremacist white supremacist is

Hitler obviously there's a holocaust

coming now when you hear that it should

make you angry it should make you think

oh my god

what kind of a country do I live in

where news networks can push ridiculous

not like that

well where'd they learn it where did see

you then learn to turn nationalists into

white nationalists to turn white

nationalists

and two white supremacists and turned

white supremacists into obviously the

president is Hillier here's how they

learned it they learned it from the

right they learned it from Fox News how

many times in Fox News have you seen

Democrats say they want health care

which Fox News turns into health care so

I guess you're a socialist and if you're

a socialist you're a communist and if

you're a communist

you're Stalin and if you're Stalin you

want to kill tens of millions of people

you're Venezuela right same thing a a

person who wants to keep the United

States largely the same but have better

health care it's not a socialist there

you know democratic socialist at best

and there's certainly not communists so

first of all they're not socialists

you're socialists what would make

everybody share everything it would be

completely incompatible with capitalism

so they're pushing some socialist

policies within a larger capitalist

setting that FoxNews calls all that

socialism and then they just sort of

without without making a break call it

communism then it turns into Venezuela

and then it turns into Stalin and then

it turns into tens of millions of people

killed

you should disregard both sides when

they do that all right if they're taking

your definition and working it through

this word machine until it turns into

either Stalin or Hitler

you're not talking you're not listening

to people you should pay attention to

all right

and so I would like to offer this

challenge I would like somebody to

produce a white supremacist who I could

deprogram so I'm going to offer to

deprogram a white supremacist I'll do it

on I'll do around here I'd have to know

it's a real white supremacist so here's

the first part of the challenge number

one I don't think any exist who are not

actually observe

probably insane so if you if somebody

could put a sentence together you know

went to college maybe ya know don't even

hit the college just somebody who can

make a coherent statement and also

refers to themselves or at least by

their policies or clearly white

supremacists I need you to I'm offering

to deprogram that person away from their

destructive ideology but you have to

find me one I've never met one and I

don't know that they exist because those

tiki torch people were white

inferiorities there's a word what's the

opposite of supremacy yeah the the tiki

torch guys were were worried that white

people can't compete that was their

whole that's what they were chanting

literally that's what they were saying

out loud and a chance that the white

people can't compete so they don't

qualify but if there's any in that group

who thinks they're supreme I will do

program them I'll offer to do that

watch how no white supremacist can be

identified now I would say that Tucker

Carlson would be accurate in calling the

whole white supremacy a hoax if nobody

can produce one at all you can't produce

one put him on TV let's let's see what

they have to say if you can't produce

one I'm offering to deprogram that

person I'll solve it for you I'll do it

right in front of the world and it won't

be hard now let's put things in

perspective if Tucker Carlson is wrong

about white supremacy you know at least

the Hoople about it big being a hoax

then it would also be true that the

numbers are big or climbing so they're

either big already or they're climbing

because remember Islamic terrorists in

this country is very small but we

worried that it could you know climb or

that the rate would increase so let me

give you some numbers

which you don't see in most of these

these periscopes or you don't see in the

news

all right so how many people were killed

with from by extremists so according to

the ADL the same source that brian

Stelter was using three hundred and

eighty seven people have been killed in

the last decade so in ten years three

hundred eighty seven people were killed

by extremists all of those extremists in

the united states of those seventy one

percent were a right-wing so that's two

hundred and seventy five over ten years

let's round it off to twenty eight

people per year so isn't a national

story that there's something that can

you could put a name on that's killing

twenty eight people a year well let's

see how big related numbers are so we

can see if that's a big number or a

small number all right so right-wing

extremists according to the ADL kill

about twenty eight people per year over

the past ten years total gun deaths in

the united states per year are forty

thousand we've got this and of course

opioids are like seventy thousand a year

I think automobiles or thirty five

thousand a year or something like that

so just twenty eight people but but

remember if that number is climbing

quickly then we should worry about it

because the range of change this is

important is where it starts how many

homicides per year because these are

total gun deaths how many of the gun

deaths are not suicide for accents turns

out that there are about 12,000 so

twelve thousand murders with with gun

weapons compared to twenty eight done by

extremists so twenty eight is what

percentage of the total gun deaths in

the United States per year

it's point zero zero one seven of all

the gun deaths point zero is zero one

seven of all the gun deaths two-thirds

of all gung-ho homicides are have black

victims two thirds so that's around

eight thousand murders per year of black

people by both white and black people

but I think black people kill more of

black people just because that's who's

around obviously you're gonna kill more

of the type of people who are near you

than people who live distantly and so so

it's a tiny tiny number and so the real

question is if we all agree it's a small

number then what matters is how quickly

is growing do you know who has the

statistics a good statistics of how

quickly the white supremacy murder rate

is growing nobody doesn't exist yeah if

you look for that source you'll find

lots of people saying wow it's hard to

count because people accounted

differently and there were new agencies

that came online recently that started

counting so you can't really look at the

current numbers and compare them

directly to the past because they're

counting differently now so basically we

don't really know so it's a tiny number

we don't know if it's going up or not

but the most visible sign of it is this

El Paso thing which if you actually read

his manifesto you would say does it look

like waste of privacy to me and that's

it that's the whole argument so given

all that who's right oh well let me give

you some more numbers

85% of well two-thirds of gun deaths are

suicide 2/3 2/3 of gun deaths are

suicide and 85% of the gun suicides are

male

what would you say is the big problem

when 85% of gun deaths are suicide

wouldn't it be more useful to speak of

these mass shootings as fancy suicides

am I wrong

if if you came from outer space and you

didn't care about politics and you were

just examining the planet with complete

unbiased dispassionate logic you're just

looking at it and you said to yourself

okay it looks like there's massive

problem with God and suicide which is

really a problem with suicide they're

just using guns so if you have this

massive suicide problem and this suicide

comes in many forms

one of these forms is people like to

dress up their suicide as having some

meaning so that they can find meaning

for the first time in their life and so

they their warped Minds come up with

some political political justification

if you happen to be a hypnotist or you

study persuasion as I do you know that

the human mind does not operate on

reasons I'll tell you what did not

happen in any of these shootings here's

what we know scientifically and

historically and commonsensical II we

know with complete certainty what did

not happen with any of these shootings

what did not happen is that a reasonable

person looked at the facts of the logic

and then decided to kill a bunch of

people that never happened what did

happen because it's the only way that

brains work brains don't have two ways

of working in the sense that I'm talking

about here they have one way of working

first they decide what they're gonna do

and then they work backwards to the

reasons always now sometimes if you

think that sometimes happens then you

don't understand your reality in any

useful way science has determined with

completely conclusively that we decide

first on the big stuff like this the big

emotional stuff and in a mass murder is

the biggest emotional thing you can

imagine as more emotional content than

anything else

because it's death and there's lots of

it that cetera so these murders I can

tell you with absolute confidence 0%

chance of being wrong that they make the

decision first and then they go through

some tortured logic to describe why they

did it

and that's why when you read the

manifesto it looks like it looks like

somebody with tortured logic it looks

like somebody who is desperately trying

to come up with a reason for the thing

they had already decided to do now my

take on it is that you have a suicide

problem some of the people who who kill

themselves want to do it in a certain

way that gives them meaning and ties

into who they think they are etc but

mostly it's just a suicide problem you

have to deal with all elements of it but

to call it a white supremacy problem I

think misses the mark by as far as you

can miss it so I'm going to score this

argument in favor of Tucker meaning that

it when he says there's a white

supremacy hoax I don't know that there

are no white supremacists willing to

kill people I do know I've never seen

one and I don't think I'll see one on

television and I don't see think I'll

see a picture of one and I don't think

I'll see a video one and I don't think

I'll see maybe even a manifesto from one

because even this El Paso's manifesto

wasn't about white supremacy it was just

about numbers and math and economics so

there you go all right let's talk about

something a little more uplifting maybe

maybe maybe a lot more uplifting that I

saw one of the smartest most insightful

quotes you'll ever see and it came from

actor Danny Trejo tre Jo now if if

you're into movies and TV you might know

this name so Danny Trillo is Hispanic I

assume I think he's Hispanic

I'm not gonna guess but I'm just

guessing they use Hispanic his last name

gives it away anyway he which is only

important because the times were it

right it's not important and any other

way it's only important because of our

political climate so apparently he was

driving along and you saw an accident in

which there was a car flipped over there

was a baby and a baby seat was still in

the car and he stopped immediately and

tried to get the baby out and was

somebody else's help he got the baby out

now of course because he was the

celebrity there he gets all of the it's

pronounced Trejo somebody's telling me

Danny Trejo he gets all the attention

because he was a celebrity

obviously the unknown person who helped

him get the baby out of the car is also

a hero but nobody nobody knows that

person's name but here's the best part

of the story so actor Danny Trejo gets

interviewed afterwards and he said this

quote I swear if you never remembered

anything else in your whole life

and you just said alright I'm gonna

ignore everything I've learned in my

entire life and then I'm just gonna

build my life around this one quote from

Danny Trejo you would actually have a

pretty good life yeah

this quote sums up almost everything

here it is quote from actor Danny Trejo

hero everything good this happened to me

has happened as a direct result of

helping someone else everything so he

has everything at the end I'm gonna read

that again it's probably the best quote

you'll ever see in your life in terms of

how usefulness right

everything good this happened to me has

happened as a direct result of helping

someone else everything that's it secret

of life right there the secret of life

right there be

because if you help other people they

say well there's somebody I want to

associate with if you help other people

you feel good about yourself you feel

important you feel like you have a place

do you think the people who are helping

other people commit suicide sometimes

because there's mental illness is the

thing but how many of these mass

shooters were working at soup kitchens

how many mass murderers are helping

other people no none if you want meaning

any life help other people if you want

financial security learn how to be

valuable to other people it's the only

way the only way I'm rich is because I

helped other people I made them laugh I

made them think I entertained them I

helped them I helped them somehow now

how many times have I been offered

promotions back in my corporate world

and why would I be offered the promotion

and maybe something else well in many

cases is because I did extra work and I

helped other people with no direct

thought of some direct reward and if you

are in your corporate situation and

people look around and they say hey this

person keeps helping me other people as

long as you're getting your own work

done well what are people gonna think

when they want to promote somebody you

just killed everybody else you know

economically or or career-wise you just

eliminated everybody else's appearance

of value if you do your work and you're

consistently helping other people in

whatever way you can

you're the boss or you can be if you

want to be somebody's gonna offer you

the next promotion so Danny Trejo's

quote is everything he actually uses the

word and everything in this quote twice

everything good that has happened to me

has happened as a direct result of

helping someone else everything it's

perfect it's just perfect

alright here's the thought that I want

to put into the NICS of ideas in the

world so we've got these urban blighted

areas and you know parts of the country

where things aren't working out there's

bad economic distress etc and then we're

watching Bill Polti go into these areas

in some cases and make a difference

you saw the cleanup crew make a

difference as well but bill told bill

pulled a goes in and he can clean up the

urban blight

I saw article recently that Pontiac

Michigan the the value of real estate

just started zooming now Pontiac if you

don't know this was I think what the

first one or two places that bill Polti

removed the blight so he removed the

blight and there's not one reason that

real estate goes up in value but I got

to think it's a big one the real estate

values went up so Pontiac is heading in

the right direction who made that happen

bill Polti you know other people work on

it too that the mayor had to be part of

that at cetera but I was reading this

book I was just telling you about about

the founding of the nation I'll show it

to you again I'm only a little ways into

if it's already so interesting that I'm

getting all these tidbits out of it that

really change that you think it's called

the American nations right I'm only a

little bit into it it's already having a

big impact on me and one of the things I

talked about is something I don't think

I knew pretty sure I didn't know it and

the I didn't know it let me say that for

sure if you don't know if you knew it

you didn't know it I always wondered why

the United States was so successful now

you can give a number of reasons you

could say okay the United States was

successful because we had all these

natural resources and maybe because of

the ocean barriers you know we we didn't

get that direct brunt of a couple of

world wars but we had our own Wars you

know lots of wars on you know internally

and with the Native Americans and the

back

etc and French the French the Brits we

had a lot of Wars but what was it they

made America so successful now one thing

you say is okay was it was about this

Western culture and they brought over

but this book is all about the fact that

they weren't all the same culture I

talked about this yesterday I think some

of the more Puritans and they wanted

everybody to be treated equal equally

but they had to be religious or else you

were in big trouble and then there were

ones that landed in the more southern

part of the country who were slavers

they started I was putting white people

in slavery and then they literally ran

out of white people to enslave that's

why the African slave trade happened now

the white people they enslaved were what

he called indentured servants and the

problem was that after the indentured

servants served their time they could go

get their own land so the intention

servants were moving through the system

too quickly and there weren't enough new

ones so they had to do a different

source of labor and that's where the

African slavery came from so you can't

really compare the Puritan culture to

the southern culture completely

different I mean the Puritans never

would have enslaved anybody so you can't

really say there's something about the

culture that worked so what was it and

this this book I just mentioned the

suggestive answer which also suggests a

defects the inner cities and other parts

of the country are you ready for it part

of the reason that people came to the

United States is that the the King in

Great Britain would say if you go there

we'll give you you know a land grant

which if you do things right will make

you very rich you'll be like a king in

your own large piece of territory that I

grant you now who does the who would the

king in England somebody says it's not

Great Britain let's just call it England

so the king of England thus prior to the

Great Britain words so thank you for

that correction so the King of England

and who is he going to grant land to in

America well it's not going to be to a

peasant the King granted land to highly

educated people because they also happen

to be the you know the the

well-connected people in England so what

happened was because of a coincidence of

how land was granted the United States

became hugely educated instantly meaning

that the percentage of people with

advanced degrees in the early colonial

days was sort of through the roof by the

by the standards of those times there

were simply more educated people as a

percentage than maybe anywhere in the

world

now I don't know if that's true but I

think it's close to true that we may

have ended up totally by coincidence

with more highly educated people that

have ever been in one place at the same

time except for maybe Microsoft right

and then Silicon Valley later now what

happened when you put a whole bunch of

smart people into a wilderness they do

well smart people tend to do well am I

wrong have you ever seen an example well

name a country where they're highly

educated and the economy is doing poorly

can you can you name your country that's

among the top 10 of education that's you

know doing poorly in economics

well maybe temporarily if something's

going wrong but in general if you put a

bunch of smart people in an area they do

well now here's the question did all of

the colonists need to be smart

absolutely not the vast majority of the

colonists were were we're dumb just like

the rest of the world right most the

world is not smart people so most of the

colonists were done so

wasn't just the percentage of smart

people it was that there were a lot of

them in numbers so you need numbers so

here's the question where in the United

States do we have big concentrations of

smart people and things are not heading

in the right direction no we're pretty

much nowhere now somebody says I'm being

a bigot but I have not mentioned race

whatsoever because it doesn't have

anything to do with us so race has

nothing to do with this I'm just saying

that if you put a bunch of people who

went to college into a place that needs

help it's gonna do better so what what

do we normally do in this country when

we're trying to fix an urban area the

thing we do when we're trying to fix an

urban area as we give them money and

resources mostly money and resources and

it doesn't seem to work for a variety of

reasons what happened when you took Bill

pulled a smart and capable well-educated

and put him into Pontiac good stuff

right now money was also involved but

money it turns out is the easy part do

you know what was the hard part

finding a bill pulled a that was the

hard part so I would suggest this if we

could find as something similar to the

king of in England giving land grants to

smart people of every race

so ethnicity has nothing to do with any

of this right just smart people of any

kind could we do the same thing with our

blinded areas now doesn't that

necessarily have to be an urban area it

could be yeah it could be Baltimore but

it could also be somewhere else so I

suppose you cleared an area a blight and

then you said okay all this area that's

cleared has almost no economic value but

we're going to grant it to only people

who have a certain level of let's say

educational achievement so you say all

you have to be is

you have a master's degree I'll just use

this as an example so I'm I'm not

suggesting that your degree says whether

you're smart or not I'm just saying it's

an easy way to know that you're at least

last March so suppose the city decided

we're going to grant this land but

instead of doing it the way that you

would normally think which is to give it

to the community you say no I'm gonna

I'm going to create some Kings they

could be you know black Kings they could

be any kind of King but they're gonna be

the people who have advanced degrees and

they're gonna get their own little patch

of land and they're gonna use their

intelligence if they need money they can

figure out how to get it because that's

what smart people do and either they

have it or they know how to get it you

put the smart people there and you say

here it is if you can make this work you

get an amazing advantage out of it so

I'm gonna put this idea into the world

which is that putting physical resources

into communities that have trouble might

help a little I'm not saying we

shouldn't do it but putting smart people

in there especially smart people who you

know who can work with the community etc

probably would be a bigger deal on

probably now I don't know if there's any

way to do this in the way our society is

is function but what do I always say

what I always say is that if you can a B

test it that's good enough if you have a

plan that could be tested small and find

out whether or not it worked you don't

have to ask if it's good I mean you you

do it you want to do a basic filter to

see if it's crazy but if you think it

might be good but you're not sure as

long as you can test as small go ahead

so take a little place that you think

has a problem that has land values that

approach to zero have your political

leaders say all right here's all we're

gonna do if you've got an advanced

degree and the relevant stuff let's say

an engineer what let's say we limit it

to that what if you say

Fuhrer if you are a certain type of

engineer and you have a degree will give

you land as long as you promise to live

there and develop it what would happen

if he came back in 20 years I'm pretty

sure people would do okay because smart

people tend to succeed no matter where

they are somebody said you're a

and spelled you were why oh you are I'll

tell ya

there should be one one rule as I block

that person there should be a rule that

if you insult somebody's intelligence

and you spell a word wrong while you're

insulting them it doesn't count

that should just be the rule doesn't

count if you spelled a word wrong

somebody says it's called gentrification

nope nope no no no no no no no

gentrification is when anybody who is

doing well sort of creeps into the

neighborhood I am NOT talking about that

I'm talking about peeking people who are

smarter than there was yuppies who were

just happened to have you know a

four-year degree I'm talking about real

smart people I'm talking about somebody

who went to MIT because remember the

people who settled America were Oxford

shaped

they weren't just people who knew how to

read that we're talking about Jefferson

all right

Jefferson wasn't just a guy who could

read it was a genius I'm talking about

geniuses I'm not talking about the

yuppie who works in the cubicle and can

afford to pay his car payment that is

not who you need to fix the inner cities

alright so when you saw recently that

Jack Dorsey and Bill pulled a were

clearing some blight they they had

partnered to clear some blight and Saint

Louis and I saw those pictures and I see

Jack and you know Bill Polti standing

there I think to myself I'm glad there's

money I'm glad there's equipment to do

that but what you really need

is people of you know that level of

smart and and you know well-meaning to

just live there for a while and try to

build something now not those two guys

in particular but it just made me think

that maybe bringing in some geniuses and

again of geniuses of every type none of

this is the ethnic none of this is

gender we're not talking about any of

that it doesn't matter who they are they

just have to have a certain skill set

and that's it

somebody says where does Scott get his

degrees I got my undergraduate at a

small private college called Hartwick

College in Oneonta

New York and I got my MBA at Berkeley

here in California to answer your

question but let me say that I would not

consider myself qualified for what I'm

talking about I'm talking about people

who have more than an MBA I'm talking

about Harvard I'm talking about MIT I'm

talking about top at the top right if

you know if you don't pick top at the

top this idea falls apart quickly you

know I'm not talking about putting a

bunch of b-plus students into Baltimore

and see what happens that's that's not

going to get you there all right let's

talk about Iran quickly so Aram

apparently has some technology you must

be a Russian technology for spoofing GPS

to make you think you're off track and

apparently they can spoof communications

and they're fooling ships in the area

and causing mischief a hundred percent

of the people talk about Iran say hey

war looks like you know it might be a

risk but every single person says the

same thing Iran does not want war u.s.

doesn't want war nobody wants war

so I'm pretty sure we're not gonna get

war I'm not gonna say there isn't you

know some bullets fired at some point

but the odds of war with Iran I think we

should just call it zero because that's

what it is

that's what it is so let's stop worrying

about that in terms of you know some

kind of slippery slope toward war

because

something very different would have to

happen something we don't see coming

that would turn this even into an even

possible war situation and here's here's

part of the reason why Iran doesn't want

to war because they would be destroyed

so that's easy to understand

you might ask yourself well why doesn't

the u.s. want war because we might win

it fairly you know fairly easily and it

would remove this risk and even though

people would die or maybe it's worth it

but here's the thing you have to compare

war to the alternative and the

alternative is just wait because it

turns out that Iran in terms of the

Iranian population are fairly

pro-american American people American

culture they're not pro-american

government but you know half of the

country the United States you know the

majority of the United States is not in

favor of our own government it probably

never will be if it's that we roll so

the fact that you know there are some

Romanians who don't like our government

isn't terribly important because they

like us and they like they like they

like the American culture and people and

likewise if you don't if you haven't

spent time around a lot of people who

have been born in Iran they're pretty

awesome people they're pretty awesome

I see a lot of them around here and to a

person they're just they're pretty

awesome people so here's what I would

suggest but not in a serious way you

know when people suggest what the

president should say or do I always say

don't suggest what a president should do

I don't know just it always feels wrong

on several levels to say oh here's what

the president should do so instead I'm

gonna put this as a thought experiment

so the thought experiment is suppose the

President does this what if the

president did this because it'll help

you understand what's going on here the

thought experiment so this is not a

suggestion it's a thought experiment

that goes like this

what if President Trump started

saying hey Aaron what would you gain by

being our enemy what do you have to gain

that's it that's the powerful part can

you tell us what you want to gain

because we might be able to help that's

the second part tell us what you want

because if you work with us you might be

able to get it now they might say we

would like to spread Islam around the

world to which we say okay we don't

think that's the best idea but we'll

still help you here's how we'll give you

full access to the Internet

we'll make sure that every person in

your country has freedom of speech

because if you want to spread an idea

killing isn't really an efficient way to

do it in 2019 we saw that Isis tried to

do that didn't work out did not work out

for Isis but the Internet is really good

a spreading ideas so if I ran wants to

spread their idea we will help them take

their idea into the marketplace of ideas

which is the Internet we will will help

you build out your internet will we'll

do what we can to be supportive of every

citizen rumor and getting on the

internet and having full access so we

can help you if you would like to spread

your beliefs

we'll give you the tool the only tool

the only tool that's effective to do

that and we are confident that in the

marketplace of ideas it might find the

place as will others and we'll work it

out so then what is what else does a

rayon want they want to survive and

we'll say that's fine we don't care if

you survive I mean we'd like you to

survive and even you could even keep

your form of government because we don't

care about that

that's that's between you and the

citizens so we're not gonna fight them

on who's in charge so long as you know

they're not a problem to us what if they

say we want to throw overthrow Israel

well they don't really

say that publicly and I don't believe

that they think it could really happen

do you think there's anybody in Iran who

in a private conversation that nobody

will ever hear do you think that anybody

at any level in Iran says you know I

think we've got a real good shot of

taking Israel back for Islam I'll bet no

I'll bet there are zero people who

actually think that's going to happen

and I don't think they say it out loud

currently what they say out loud is that

they would like Israel as a as a

government entity to go away they can

want that all they want and in fact the

best way to do that would be to make

peace with Israel can you think of a

faster way to destroy in quotes the

nation of Israel than by making peace in

the Middle East it would effectively

force Israel in the long run to have a

more diverse population and if they have

a more diverse population eventually

it's going to have to become not exactly

the you know the Jewish state and they

didn't long but the only way you get

there is through peace Israel would just

have pressure to be more inclusive and

eventually you would get that way

suppose Iran wants a better economy of

course we can help suppose they want

more energy in nuclear power not nuclear

weapons nuclear power well Lindsey

Graham has already offered to help we

just want some control on the weaponized

part and if they get those parts

I guess the fuel rods if they get that

from China and Russia the United States

would say okay

China and Russia can can keep them from

getting the you know that the nuclear

weapon parts as long as Iran wants to

get their source from those two

countries so almost everything that Iran

at least publicly would ask for we would

be willing to help we're not only not

their obstacle we're begging them to

help with everything they want

now we don't think of it that way

because we're just sort of locked into

the news coverage of us against them and

will there be a war and you just think

of two teams against each other I think

the president could and again this is

just a thought experiment I don't expect

him to do this in any way I think the

president could say here's the deal Iran

we don't understand what you want

because everything that we know you want

we want to and we would actively help

you we want you to communicate better we

want you to have a better economy we

don't want any risk or we want you to

have nuclear energy

Israel has already offered to help with

desalinization we probably have a mutual

interest in in controlling al Qaeda we

kind of have a so much in common

it's crazy that we're even talking as

some kind of Nemesis when it's so clear

that we would work better together for

everything now you might say in yourself

I don't know there's must be something

we disagree with and that's that's worth

having a war over but I don't know what

it is if you and I don't know what that

is

I don't think anybody knows what it is

yeah I think the giving them tons of

cash idea was was probably not your best

one I think you have to I think you have

to do what Trump has successfully done

with North Korea which is paint a

picture of cooperation and a picture of

the future that is clearly a good one

and it involves us being helpful instead

of us being on the other side we we

started that a little bit with Iran but

I think that picture could be completed

it could be that you know the president

is constrained by the you know members

of the administration who want to who

want to see some missiles fly so that

may be part of the constraint I don't

know somebody says that Kim is Kim

jong-un is different because he's not

religious therefore you can work a deal

with him I would say that that would be

a problem

that would be a problem except that

everything Iran wants we would be

willing to help them with because they

can spread their ideology anywhere they

want it's just that the internet is how

you spread the ideology spreading it

with weapons absolutely doesn't work all

right I think I've set it all for today

I'm gonna go do something else and I

will talk to you later