Episode 698 Scott Adams - Russian Asset Tulsi Gabbard, “GET OVER IT” Shirts, Hunter Gatherer,

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well once again we are blessed Thank You president Trump for all you have done for us to entertain us thank you once again for your bounteous harvest of news that is not just enjoyable but dare I say delicious yes the news is delicious let us enjoy some news number one the Trump administration is suing CNN for I don't know fake news or something this is probably one of the funniest things they've ever done suing CNN for faking now I guess they're using the project Veritas insider hidden camera reports as sort of the the trigger for this so now there's a visual now did Project Veritas tell us anything that a hundred percent of us didn't already know well not really but putting it in a visual sense and put it in putting it in pictures having an actual face to go with it watching the insiders say it with their own words it's different it's different than just knowing it so it took it to another level in the print the president apparently is taking advantage yes by suing CNN for I don't miss reporting or or fake news or something along those lines I don't even think it matters so here's the best part though that's not the best part the best part is not that the president pursuing CNN for fake news that's just the setup here's the best part CNN can't report it CNN can't report it because if they report it it just makes them look terrible but if they are you had to be yet you're probably ahead of me right but if they don't report it it validates the claim but if they don't report it and the president says well see there it was big news and they don't even report it fake news now honestly I can't even tell I can't even tell if they are even a little bit serious about this yeah I'm sure the lawyers will get paid and CNN will probably have to pay some lawyers too but I don't know if they're serious about this because it seems like every news organization could be sued for bias one way or another but the hilarity of it that they can't report it and it's national news they can't report it that's just the funniest thing maybe the funniest thing you've seen all month now remember I keep telling you that reality and entertainment you know the government and entertainment have just merged the funniest thing that's happening almost every day is whatever Trump is doing am i right or sometimes it's whatever crazy Hillary is doing we'll get to that but there's nothing there's nothing if you go to Netflix right now and say I'm in the mood for some funny entertainment good luck good luck find a funny movie in 2019 you can't they yeah you've even seen the reporting this us even the directors who was the director of what was the least or the the Joker movie he used to make funny movies and he said hey you just can't make them anymore nothing's funny yeah so you end up with Bill burr and Dave Chappelle and then you're done there's like nothing's funny it's like the the world isn't producing funny content except for those two guys anymore and then the Trump administration here's the other thing they did so you probably saw the news about Nick Mulvaney chief of staff so he did a press conference which apparently didn't go so well which is funny because in my opinion it was genius so part of the problem with any administration is that it's a lot of different people with competing opinions and it looks like maybe they're not all in the same page about how to describe what happened with the Ukraine phone call Mick Mulvaney did so far in my opinion the best job any of them have done except for maybe the President himself all right because the president has his own way and he I think the president also handled it perfectly I thought Nick Mulvaney also handled it very well but it looks like maybe there was somebody in the White House who disagreed and sort of put pressure on them to walk it back in some way that didn't even make sense so what Mulvaney originally said was genius and I will paraphrase it to improve it even more basically what Mel vainly said is if you're having a conversation with another world leader it's always quid pro quo that is exactly the right framing if you took the quid-pro-quo out of the equation for any two leaders who are having a get-together or a conversation what would you have left no reason to talk if you took the quid pro quo in here I'm talking about the implied quid pro quo that's always there because because remember the president is not being accused of directly saying if you do this we'll do that everybody agrees he did not directly say that but everybody also agrees that there's always an implied Withrow quo I've got a little something here waiting for you there's a little something I want later it's always there so what would be even the point of meeting with another world leader unless both leaders came to it with an implied quid pro quo quo and the the implied part could be even general which is hey if you play with us you know play nicely with us on this topic I'll sort of owe you something for later right doesn't have to be direct but if you took the quid pro quo out of the meeting there's no point in talking then that's the only reason the talk am I wrong there's literally no reason to have a conversation if you take that out so Mulvaney got close to what I said now let me be immodest here may I be immodest the way I said it is the end of the conversation right if you put me on the stage with somebody who has the other the other view that it's the end of the world and you should be impeached and I say that you know there's no such thing as a conversation between leaders that doesn't have an implied quid pro quo if you were to take that out there's no point in having a conversation ever any leader no point in talking about anything ever even socially it's a waste of time what does the other person say after I say that well they better change the subject because it's the end of the conversation all right Mulvaney was right there he was right on the edge of saying it as clearly as I just said it it's still good I would say he still did one of the best jobs except for the president in in in making that case now the president's version is it's a perfect call here's the transcript see for yourself there was no print quid pro quo in the sense that I did not directly ask for something that's pretty good it's pretty good but then everybody finds all this little evidence of conversations before and they're tracking the time line and all that so the president's approach which is pretty good pretty good just coming around and saying yes that's exactly what I did I had that phone call see for yourself but it did leave him open for a little bit of criticism because they find the timeline doesn't match and you know who knew about the funds being withheld and all that whereas the way I did it there's nothing left I've removed all of the opportunity for criticism because I just said yeah that's every meeting between leaders you couldn't take that out if you wanted to you couldn't remove the quid pro quo it's not possible and then on top of that you'd want to say it is a top this is also something Mulvaney didn't quite say but he could I think he had at it but you could do better then it is a top priority for any president to find out if anybody's compromised in our government and Biden certainly is on the at least Paul wise he's on the cusp of looking like he could be the next president so find again if that guy has any entanglements with foreign countries is pretty close to the top priority for the sitting president you got to look into that so totally appropriate call the funniest part is that F the Mulvaney thing I guess Mulvaney used the phrase get over it meaning that ya leaders leaders talk this way just get over it so the Trump campaign which is the funniest campaign of all campaigns ever Brad power scale I think probably is behind a lot of this they did a t-shirt.this it just says get over it and and there's a little Trump haircut sitting on one of the the first letter of get just get over it now the get over it shirt is again right on message because you know you heard everything I said which is this is just how leaders talk you couldn't remove this even if you wanted to and so he's quid pro quo well get over it get over it is sort of this summary after you've said yeah that's just the way the world works you know thanks for waking up and being an adult and noticing that everything is quid pro quo even if you don't stay in it yeah yeah welcome to the adult world get over it it's pretty good it's funny it probably raises money I have to admit the moment I saw it that wanted it as soon as I saw that t-shirt I was like I kind of want that I'm not gonna wear it cuz I don't want to get punched in public it's too dangerous but I wanted it so that's pretty good it's not often I see a t-shirt where I say yeah I kind of want that alright I would like to talk about loser think it's a little thing which I have to show you the cover of the book hold on don't go anywhere don't go anywhere stay well back you didn't go anywhere did you all right now I want to give you three examples of loser think which is concept out of my new book which you can pre-order now the best book I've ever written probably the best thing you'll ever read in your entire life don't don't let other people read this before you do you're just gonna be well you'll be unarmed you'll be going into debates without knowing how to do it right alright one of the concepts that I talk about here and the idea behind loser think is that if you have exposure to different fields you can see around corners and you can see situations more clearly so for example if you had experience let's say as a lawyer and then you also knew economics let's say you also knew psychology you'd be way ahead of somebody who only knew one of those things and an loser think I don't teach you everything that those fields would teach you just the important concepts I'll give you some clear examples of this I've got three examples of people who either exhibited loser think or did not let's take number one the doral decision the decision to hold the g7 at the doral Country Club what do people who have only let's say their only filter is government or reporting let's say they're they know the news they know history and they're good at reporting and government stuff and then they see this story about the president chose his own his own property Doral Country Club for the g7 what would they naturally think about that they'd say that's a problem right if that was your experience if you if you knew journalism government in history and that was that was your main focus and you looked at that you'd say this is terrible this is terrible it looks like it's just an inside job he's looking to profit from it and sure he said we'll do it at cost but you're still saying to yourself yeah but it brings attention to his property right now what if you had an additional skill let's say your skill stack included journalism and the media a little bit about government a little bit about psychology history etc but suppose you also understood negotiating yeah suppose you understood persuasion which in negotiating are sort of the same same general area if you do and I do and the President does you would say that this is the most brilliant thing you've ever seen in your life well I'm exaggerating a little bit but you know I do that sometimes here's the thing when you're negotiating you always want the home-court advantage you want to be somewhere where you are most comfortable your own property and you you want the other people to be impressed by your surroundings you want something about you you know yourself your personality but also your property to literally surround them and develop them and become part of their world you can't set the table better than this so much so I would say that every time that a president of our country hosts someone in this country they should always take the home-field advantage let me ask you this question would it be better for the President of the United States to meet another world leader at a hotel ballroom or in the Oval Office you see it now right if you meet with the President of the United States in the Oval Office the president has a huge advantage in this situation because you're in the Oval Office you're literally surrounded what by that president's power and prestige that makes a big difference if you meet them in the arrest and have lunch well then your the table is being set by just randomness yes you're just somewhere else you have no advantage in that situation so that's my first example of loser think now remember loser thing doesn't mean that the people who are doing it are losers nothing like that I'm saying that as a method of understanding your world it takes you down the unproductive path it's a losing path it's better to increase your talent stack so you can see around corners a little bit better alright so what was missing for the Doral story was an understanding of negotiating it is a magnificently correct decision the decision to do it at Doral isn't just pretty good it isn't just now he can get away with it it's magnificent it's one of the best smartest cleanest wins you've ever seen reported by people who don't have a full understanding of the world because they've got a blank spot there and the negotiating part of their their brain map can't see it this is visible to them alright here's another one so elizabeth warren plans to fundamentally change the system and she uses words like that where she's going to fundamentally change our economic system if you did not have a degree in economics as I do I've got a degree in economics and I've got a know an MBA Business School so I have I have that part of my mental map is largely filled in so when Elizabeth Warren says something like this I want to fundamentally change the system people who have my background whether they say it in these words or not are having the following a thought when is a good time to make a radical change to your system is a good time to do it when it's working great or what is not working great now people say hey Scott you said to me that it was actually a really good time to do a trade war with China because you said that our economy is strong that's a good time to take a risk because your economy is so strong that if that goes wrong you're still okay because the economy started so strong that is correct the trade war is a change within the system so the system didn't change at all we're just tweaking one variable within the system that's normal business now the China trade war is bigger than normal variable but it's still within the system no matter what we do with China the system will still be the system what Warren wants to do is take the system throw it away and replace it with something we have not tried in this country in quite the way she wants to do it that is a radical and unpredictable change which is way beyond the the level of risk there anybody who had a degree in economics would accept there's almost nobody who if they were being honest let's say you know in the political sense you will of course find people who will take any position on anything right because it's politics but even somebody who pretended to disagree with what I'm saying if I could take them privately and say look nobody will ever hear what you're gonna say to me this is just between us I swear trust me it's just us nobody else will hear your opinion do you think it's a good idea with your degree in economics to change the entire system when everyone agrees the system has never worked as well as it's working today yeah three point five percent unemployment I mean really that's just crazy and you don't change your whole economy when it's the best it's ever been ever it's just the dumbest thing in the world now let's say that you had no experience in economics and now experience in anything else in which you would do risk management decisions let's say you were a journalist let's say you had a degree in history let's say you have a demeans anthropology in which of those in which of those domains would you have learned risk management none right risk management wouldn't be part of what you do but let's say you were a doctor let's say you were an emergency room doctor or even the most extreme case a battlefield doctor you know you you work in a war zone well in those cases you're doing risk management decisions all the time you know do I work on this patient this one might die but this one's 85 participants 20 so you're doing all this risk management decisions that might get you to the point where you would recognize that Warren's plan is completely the worst risk management decision you could ever make it's the worst now compare that with Julian Castro who was asked about ubi during the last debate what do you remember what who lian's response was he just gave a sort of a dismiss as one sentence and he said well you know that might be worth a pilot a little test program a pilot program did you catch that it was one of the smartest things said at the debate and it was just he just mumbled it in one sentence because well you know maybe to a pilot program on that Julian Castro showed you had to do it no I don't know what his background is was this able ought to be I don't know what Julian Castro's background is but maybe somebody can tell me in the comments while I'm doing this but based on that comment the fact that hooli and said let's do a pilot program what does that tell you about Julian Castro it tells you he understands risk management that's exactly what you do if what if Elizabeth Warren had been saying look I know this is a radical thing we can't do this all at once but I'm going to pick out this part of the economy I'm just gonna work on this one thing let's let's do a pilot let's try a small let's try it in one state let's let's see what we can learn and then we'll decide later if we want to do it bigger if Elizabeth Warren had said something like that well maybe she wouldn't be getting as much attention as she is because that's a little bit too normal being extreme gets you a little more attention but I would certainly say to myself oh there's a leader I could trust because they understand risk management alright here's another example of loser think and this is this is a positive example I was watching meaning I'm gonna give somebody a compliment here so I was watching Tucker Carlson last night and he does a little game show thing I think on Fridays or something in which he has other hosts or personalities from Fox News compete in a little trivia contest and one of the questions was the name of Tiger Woods upcoming autobiography and Gregg Jarrett was competing against here my Bernie I wish I could but he was competing against somebody else and but I'm only going to talk about the Gregg Jarrett part so neither neither the competitors had heard of the name of the book but it was multiple choice so the magellan Turner I'm sorry yes it was Jillian Turner and neither of them knew the answer but there were four choices and Gregg Jarrett looked at the four choices rang in and said the answer is back one word just back and he said I and he said I don't know what the answer is but like the other three titles are hackneyed which is sort of a writer's term nobody room but nobody writers never uses that word and you know he was the best-selling author he's got a new book that's a best-seller right now last book bestseller so Gregg Jarrett I believe has a legal background he has a media background he knows that all right you so he noticed the publish world so he knows how words work right he's an attorney he's a TV personality and he's an author so when he looked at the list the word back jumped out as obviously the title that anybody would have chosen under that situation because back referred to Tiger Woods coming back but also he had a problem with his back and also a one-word title is very strong if you could make a title with one word one word lose I think it's not an accident that my titles are good if I do say so myself it's because I work with professionals who really know how to put titles on books right it's not like I come up with one title and everybody says yes it's a whole process a lot of people get involved in fact you know the the subtitle is different from the title the people involved in that I mean it's a whole process to come up with a title Gillian Turner as far as I know I'm not aware of her having a best-selling book probably didn't have experience in getting a book published and picking a title Gregg Jarrett had an extra skill he is a best-selling author he has had I know because best-selling authors all have this conversation long conversations with editors and publishers about what the title will be so when he looked at the list he and I said the same thing at the same time because I did not know the title of Tiger Woods book book but as soon as I saw the last list I said oh it's obviously back no question about it in my opinion it was clear as day that added that multiple choice the answer was going to be back and then Gregg Jarrett speaks almost like it's coming out of my mouth well the top three are hackneyed and back fits a couple of different ways it's clever that's the answer all right so that's my point Gregg Jarrett having a deeper talent stack that happened to be just perfect to this question because he knew publishing it shows you the power of having an extra talent now didn't have to be the most experienced publishing person in the world you just had to have a little exposure to picking titles and and it would have been obvious to you which of the 1 which of those choices jumped out alright enough about that more about the funny day so let's talk about Hillary Clinton saying that Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian asset I don't know where to start this is so this is some of the funniest news ever let's start with Don Lemon I turned on the radio as I was driving yesterday and I heard Don Lemon say this and I've been laughing to myself for hours he said that he thinks maybe Hillary Clinton is playing 3d chess pause pause for effect let that sink in Don Lemon says he thinks Hillary Clinton is playing 3d chess by accusing tulsi gabbard of being a Russian asset because what she's doing is making it more difficult for Tulsi to mount a third party run by making Tulsi go on record as saying she doesn't plan to do that oh you had to hear it live to hear him say it and I felt as though I could I could hear him it was almost like he was talking and knowing it was ridiculous at the same time because nobody has been rougher on Trump supporters for that 3d chess and 4d chess analogy because we're always saying that the president is thinking at in fact I did it today talking about Doral I said the president is ahead of everybody because he noticed that it's important to have it at his space that just makes a difference so hearing Don Lemon resort to the 3d chess analogy for something which is clearly not 3d chess I'm pretty sure the Hillary Clinton was not trying to prevent Tulsi from a third run and guess what if she had been trying to prevent it it wouldn't have made any difference do you think tulsi gabbard would have said you know I was really planning to do it a third party run but then Hillary said something that one time that's not gonna change anything if tulsi gabbard planned on a third party run she would have a third party run there's nothing that Hillary's gonna say that's gonna change it this is the most ridiculous comment from somebody who I think had an embarrassing day here's why it was embarrassing imagine if you had been fighting to get Hillary elected for however many years imagine too that you were sorry that she hadn't been elected for the three years that trump's been there would you say to yourself after hearing hillary clinton go full full conspiracy theory and blaming tulsi gabbard and also who was a Jill Stein of being Russian assets after you heard that if you were a Clinton supporter a Hillary supporter right up to that day and then you heard that news what did you say to yourself how did you process that did you say to yourself well I've been right all along as Hillary Clinton is on the ball for a mental game or her mental stability totally where I wanted to be and it looks like she's playing 3d chess again look at her with that 3d chess maybe maybe you do that but don't you think and this is just a question because I can't read minds but don't you think that all over the country there are people who in their own quiet moments are hearing Hillary accuse people of being Russian assets tulsi gabbard and Jill Stein do you think that her supporters in their private moments are saying to themselves oh looks like we dodged a bullet there sure maybe I don't like President Trump or his policies but I don't think I wanted that either whatever that is whatever we're seeing you know whatever it is that we're seeing Hillary Clinton do now remember that's who she would have been in office that craziness that you're seeing that would have happened even while she was president could you could you possibly watch Hillary Clinton's performance this week in her private life and say to yourself you know I I wish she'd been president I don't see how anybody could have that thought I think they would all have to say as much as I don't like President Trump I have to admit there were two bad choices that election I don't think there's anybody saying man if only we'd gotten her in there don't you think it would have some effect on their confidence about how right they are about anything it should shake your confidence to watch the candidate that you've been fighting for for years go bonkers exactly a time when she would have been in her third year of the presidency do you want that making decisions well think so all right so a little more on Tulsi so Tulsi quite cleverly took this opportunity to boost her visibility I'm pretty sure it will help her I think Tulsi will get a bump for this the biggest problem that tells the Gabbard has is that Republicans like her have you noticed that from the very beginning it's been literally annoying me how many people have said to me what about Tulsi Gabbard Scott you know you never talked about Tulsi and I didn't just because I wasn't talking about people with 1% support just never seemed relevant to me but the number of Republicans who were in love with her and that's the best way I can say it she's because I don't think it's like it doesn't feel like some kind of a lust they just think she's attractive kind of thing the way the way Republicans talk about her is like they're in love not like they're in lust it really looks different there's something about her that makes men crazy and you know I normally I wouldn't even talk about that right I mean that's that's not my thing and I'm trying not to be sexist about this I'm just trying to be observational my observation is so I'm not making any comments about tell C's appearance that's not my deal I'm not about that but my observation is that people keep coming to me telling me they're in love with her and the Republicans I've never seen anything like it literally I've never seen anything like it so she has some effect on people mostly men as far as I can tell that or at least more men that is hard to deny there's some kind of X Factor thing going on there that I can't say I see it exactly I mean I can I can see it but I don't have the same reaction to it so she quite cleverly used this to boost her exposure I think her her rank will go up I don't know if it's enough but I think her rank will go up and I love that she said she talked to by tweets she talked to Hillary Clinton and said you the queen of warmongers embodiment of corruption and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party personification of the rot that's good stuff now I have not seen anything from Tulsi prior to this that made me think oh she's good at this persuasion stuff there was something she was doing right the X Factor stuff but I didn't really see you know persuasion talent but then this tweet comes out and I'm thinking damn this is fire you know you kind of expect it from somebody in the military don't you expect a military personality something who's been shaped by experience in the military is that they would be extra controlled until they don't need to be right wouldn't that be sort of a basic characteristic that you would learn it would be like hold hold hold hold hold hold kill that's why you learned right don't kill until you're ready to kill don't pull the trigger unless you're ready to kill and it looks to me like Tulsi in my opinion was just a spectator in this process hold o this this debate didn't didn't have much to go on hold and there's Clinton she picked the Clinton pops her head out of the the foxhole and suddenly Tulsi says no now somebody says we told you so I'll give an A+ for a Tulsi for the week I think she won the week easily easily won the week of the Democrats and I'd be surprised if she doesn't hit 5% on the next you know she's gonna be in the top six I think probably because of this just gives her a little more attention so there's that so I hear the Huffington Post is for sale by Verizon oh the poor Huffington Post my nemesis for years the the organization which has been slandering me for years they're not making it financially oh oh I feel so sad for them so I've I put in my bid I've been $1 for the Huffington Post and I will take it over and fire everybody so if Verizon would like to get rid of this this financial sinkhole I will take it off their hands for a $1 and I'll do what they don't want to do which is I'll fire everybody I'll just go in there and say I'm your new boss I just want your company for a $1 you're all fired get out of here you stinking fake news people all right did you watch oh here let me give you another example of loser think when people are looking at the hunter Biden thing the the other team likes to say oh yeah well you can make fun of hunter Biden but what about Ivanka and the in the example that people keep giving me on social media as that Ivanka was granted a bunch of trademarks in China recently now if you're deep in loser think you say to yourself my god China is giving Ivanka trademarks not just one but multiple trademarks has she sold out is she working for trying it China now because they gave her a bunch of trademarks no let me explain how trademarks work I have trademarks in China quite a few do you know what do you know what it takes to get a trademark in China let me show you the process for getting a trademark in China it looks like this I got some paperwork I got my trademark paperwork it says what do you want I want I want to have a trademark on this name or this product what categories this will be just for ashtrays and automobiles those are the only categories I need my trademark are you using the trademark actively yes I am now I put this in the mail or my lawyer does and you send it off to China then China in some some office gets your it gets your trademark requests and says huh let's see in my database if anybody else is using this nope nobody else is using a trademark called Ivanka Trump granted done that's it I just described the entire process you fill out some paperwork China looks at it and says does somebody already have this one nope we don't have somebody called Ivanka Trump in China trying to sell things with the name of Anka Trump on it approved that's it that's the whole process and why do somebody to get a trademark in China it's because the Chinese will otherwise is steal your product the reason you get a trademark in China even if you never want to do business in China is because you don't want the Chinese Dilbert comic to emerge if I did not have a trademark in China they could make Dilbert products and just call it chill Burt or Bill burr or Gilbert or anything they wanted they could actually even call it Dilbert if I hadn't already taken the trademark the same with copyrights and other things so the people who don't understand a little bit about intellectual property here the story that Ivanka Trump that got trademarks in China and they say my god they're in bed together they're in bed together it's like President Xi and Ivanka they've got some kind of unholy deal together now somebody in Ivanka's organization probably a lawyer filled out some paperwork somebody at the lowest level of Chinese government looked at the name on the paperwork looked at the database and said no we don't have an Ivanka Trump approved that's it that's the entire process yeah this it's like a big deal to people who don't understand what a trademark is all right enough about that as if y'all seen the video of the Mexican police shooting it out with the cartel and losing losing a shootout to the cartel and you know there's a bunch of phone videos I bet so you don't see any of it too well but you can tell that the cartel actually has these fairly large trucks which they've rigged up with armor on the sides and they've got these military-grade machine guns and military-grade handheld machine guns as well and they they just hang gun the police and the police had some pretty good guns but nothing like that and and they're just driving down the streets of this Mexican city with a mounted machine gun in the back of a truck this is a civilized or allegedly civilized country right on our border with a paramilitary that's completely owning the police and murdering them at will now here's the question at what point does that get our attention at what point does the United States say well it would be nice to deal with the government of Mexico on a variety of things and we will when when it works but there are other things there are other things that we just have to do ourselves now one of the things that we might have to do ourselves is to start sending some snipers and some drones to just start up start picking away at the cartels I don't know why we're not murdering them like actually murdering them what would stop us from sending our I know SEAL Teams and drones and snipers and whatever else we have to just put them in place and have them start picking off the cartel just actually murdering them wherever we can find them why don't we Bob them do you think we don't know where the cartels facilities are well we just carpet-bomb the whole thing whole damn thing just just kill everybody there why not I don't really understand what prevents us there must be a reason I think there is a reason well I would say that we could declare the cartels a I think they have to be declared terrorists and I think we've come close to that but I haven't and I don't understand the why we won't act unilaterally is it because we're afraid of the Mexican military I mean what-what exactly stops us from attacking terrorists right on our border turkey does it we're letting Turkey do it with the Kurds if turkey can do with the Kurds why can't we do it with the cartels remember they're sending us fentanyl if fentanyl were not part of the equation I might say well you know drugs are gonna get here anyway blah blah both fentanyl is just straight-up weapon of mass destruction and the Chinese are the Chinese are sending it to the Mexican cartels and the cartels are shipping it in so really we should look at this as a Chinese attack on the homeland and if the Chinese are using the Mexicans as their go-between in their attack on our homeland we can kill him we could just kill their entire if we found out that you know some of the drug cartel people had a I don't know a mansion or a facility somewhere we could just blow up the whole thing kill everybody who was anywhere near it I don't think we have to worry about anything I think we have a full I think we have a full full you know free shot it's a free pass anyway so there's bored of that story than I understand so probably somebody smart needs to explain to me why we're not already acting militarily against the cartels here's an interesting question for you find somebody who has a strong opinion on the Syrian situation doesn't matter which position they take maybe they're pro Trump maybe anti Trump but they have a strong opinion on it and then ask them to draw a map of Syria and the neighboring countries as just a little a little experiment to see how much they know about the region just say okay it doesn't have to be to scale or anything but could you draw like a conceptual map and then draw Turkey and the neighboring countries I just want to see if you know what the neighborhood looks like very few people could do that but they would still have a strong opinion about what should happen over there you sort of have to see it on a map and be able to conceptualize it on a map davit but to have a strong opinion on it same with Yemen in Saudi Arabia you probably say to yourself hey why is Saudi Arabia messing with Yemen have you seen a map look at the map if you look at the map you'll know exactly why Saudi Arabia is massacring people in Yemen because they can't accept an unfriendly entity right on their border nobody can well except the United States apparently we left the cartels ship us weapons of mass destruction every day and we let them live sorry the destiny came does it sound like I had a little bit of blood thirst when it involves fentanyl being shipped to our borders because I do I do have a little bit of a blood thirst I cop to that so I was watching some video of Syria in which dead bodies were being paraded through the streets to show how awful the Turks are and even the news said we can't quite can't quite verify that these people are first of all really dead and second of all that they died because of Turkey so even the news is saying we think people are dying but we don't have any confirmation isn't that a hell of a what what kind of a massacre has no confirmed two deaths I mean I assume people are dying because there's military action but we don't have any confirmed deaths it's the biggest it's the biggest you know it's the biggest going on and we can't get decent news because everybody is talking about the Kurds being left to be massacred and obviously that's worth worrying about but does anything like that happening anything I didn't just don't know if anything like that is happening yeah and the and the Kurds are a legitimate threat to Turkey if the if the roles were reversed if this were the United States and we had known terrorists on her border who were working with people who were not terrorists but but some of them were would we act the same way turkey is acting of course we would if you reverse the situation inside okay now you're Turkey you've got to take care of the Turkish people what are you gonna do you've got terrorists on your border who are creating a homeland you don't let us stand the Turks are doing exactly what we would do in that situation exactly what we would do so it's hard for me to come down hard on the Turks for doing exactly what we would do it's it's part of the same reason that I'm supportive of Israel in general even when they're you know somewhat let's say somewhat militaristic because it's what we would do if we were in their situation we'd act a lot like they act so I try not to get into the hypocrite territory by acting as if we would do anything differently my take on this is that the president should the Box probably some people got killed probably some people would get killed under every scenario there's probably no scenario in which nobody gets killed you get that right the people who are saying hey the president made a big mistake the way he did this because some people are getting killed well nobody wants people to get killed but what was the plan where nobody got killed nobody has that plan there were only plans in which people get killed the president chose a plan in which Americans didn't get killed but other people did that sort of his job that's the president's job now of course all the people like Romney and and the people were complaining about our honor the United States has lost this honor and that's a valuable asset is it is it really in what imaginary world were other countries dealing with us based on our honor that is a complete imaginary sensory situation sure there are other countries who have positive feelings about the United States and pulling out of this courage situation might make them think less of us is somebody not going to do a trade deal with us because of that is somebody going to leave NATO because of that is there anything anybody's gonna do in any way that makes any difference because of that no no is there any fighting force that wouldn't want to join up with us if we had a common enemy now because fighting a common enemy it always makes sense to team up with the United States why wouldn't you so I cannot identify anything in the real world that isn't anyway even hypothetically damaged by what the President did and I think that you know here's his choice got X number of people killed every other path no matter what he'd done would get X other people killed do you think Turkey was gonna wait forever and just let the Kurds set up a homeland and and and be able to export terrorism across their border no no no that path was not available nobody had that option do you think the Kurds were willing to be flexible before we said we're out of here no if we had said we're thinking of pulling it out we're gonna give you lots of time Kurds you have all the time you need to work something out we'll work with you we don't want to just pull out can you be flexible what would the Kurd say no we're not going to be flexible do you think that they were ready to deal no the president shaking the box and say all right you're on your own is the only thing that made the Kurds flexible short of that nothing good was going to happen so yes it caused some lives to be lost but every path had that downside and I wonder if we'll ever find out who got killed in that area all right what else we got I'm having a good time watching Fox headlines they're funnier than usual so they they may use my pond in a headline no it's my I'm not saying that they got it from me because it's an obvious pun but it's one you heard me make I said the hunter Biden was more a gatherer than a hunter hey for a hunter he's kind of a gatherer and so Fox headline today is a hunter gatherer talking about hunter Biden because there's there's a report so so Fox News is saying this that hunter Biden was paid eighty-three thousand dollars a month even more than we thought by burr yzma since 2014 to be quote a ceremonial figure with a quote powerful name a report said Friday so I read this and I thought our report said Friday okay where's the link to the report who what exactly the report was that I don't think the story says now maybe it says that I missed it but I looked for it do you believe any news organization that says a report said and they don't mention what the report is or who did it or where it came from I'm not so sure that's a report that I find credible you got a name the report and maybe it's in the story like in a footnote or something I just couldn't find it my guess is that it has to be there I can't believe an editor and a fox would let somebody write a report said and then quote it without telling us whose report it was so maybe that was just a an editing error or maybe it's my error so I'm not gonna say it's Fox there I'll say that I couldn't see at least obviously where that report was does anybody know anybody else know where that report came from if you if you if you do know say so in the comments somebody said that John Solomon reported this weeks ago but they don't name him all right so they also said here's another headline on the Fox News page it said longtime Trump critics comments start frenzied at President bashing Network what do you think is the president bashing Network so so Fox News refers in the headline to a president bashing Network and you all know who it is that's pretty funny if you think about it now as I've said the news is our new form of humor and I think Fox News embraces this far more than the other networks when I watch Fox News which is the primary thing I watch I always make sure that I sample see and then all the time to make sure I see both sides but more time I spend on Fox News by far now partly the reason I do that is that it's so well produced and so well staffed the the talent and the way they produce it at Fox it was sort of unparalleled there's a reason they're number one just just the professionalism on on every level from the human talent to the the way they produce it to the technology it's the best of the business but they certainly understand that there's a humor element of the news and and you see them playing to it with their headlines here because when they say the president bashing Network you know that first of all they they know you know what they're talking about but secondly that's sort of with a wink is that it sort of that you know the president bashing Network wink and you're supposed to laugh likewise with hunter-gatherer that's obviously intentionally to make you laugh so Fox News understands who there's audiences really well and they understand that that the humor of it is part of the entertainment so I always appreciate that so the Brooklyn Nets fans brought some pro Hong Kong signs at a Le.

Bron James game I guess Brooklyn Nets were playing must be the Lakers where Le.

Bron plays at Barclays Center and so I think this is going to be a thing now the the protesters I think you're gonna follow Le.

Bron probably all season or at least as long as the Hong Kong problem goes on which is probably all season so that's fun imagine trying to be Le.

Bron and trying to concentrate on your playing basketball when big chunk of your audience is hanging up signs about Hong Kong and how you messed that up because you know even Le.

Bron even Le.

Bron is is thinking he messed up don't you think I'm not reading his mind but I'm just saying if you were Le.

Bron or anybody were Le.

Bron and you're in his position would you think well I had a good week or what do you think it looks like I messed up this week I mean I think he thinks he messed up so these signs get to remind him of one of his maybe his biggest public unforced error all right he has to feel bad about it you think because it's all negative attention and it's taking away from the team the sport it's taking away from everything he cares about so you have to think he thinks it wasn't a good week and reminding of it him of it with these signs and t-shirts that's got an effect his playing I would think it's gonna affect his mental game but to be fair you know while we can we can disagree with him on his political statements I think we'd all agree Le.

Bron James is probably one of the most mentally solid athletes of all time right so it could be that he's one of these rare people who could maybe even raise this game maybe even likes it maybe he likes you know playing against the protesters so it might actually make him better you never know Le.

Bron's not like other people he's he's a super athlete and mentally he's super strong as well sports wise he thinks people who disagree with him are misinformed well I don't believe he thinks he nailed it this week I think he knows he missed the layup this week yeah but-- i don't know where boo the cat is she's usually in here i guess she got a better offer today all right was there anything else going on so if somebody says are you still two left or Bernie and Warren yes but I'm better at math so where Bernie and Warren want to do some things where the math doesn't work I could still like their goal so I share Bernie and Warren's goal of making education widely available for cheaper for free and I think health care is a basic right I don't know how to get there if I knew how to get there I would tell you cleverly how my plan is better than their plan but I don't know how to make the math work but I've said this before there there's somebody in the news who's lying to you badly and I I'm not exactly sure who let me give you two facts and see if you can make them make sense there are two things we are told reliably that there's something like 18% of the united states does not have health care right so everybody has health care health care insurance except for eight percent of the know the country so what would that tell you about how much extra each of us would have to pay whether it's in taxes or some other kind of way how much would each of us have to pay to make up for that 18% I don't know ten twenty percent extra because if if you add the extra eighteen percent maybe there's some extra economies of scale because of size or whatever maybe not I don't know but somewhere in that 18 percent range right if 18 percent don't have insurance then all the people knows presumably they're also the people who are poor so they're not paying any taxes so if 18 percent of the people are poor and not paying taxes and don't have health care what would it cost the rest of the people who are not as for and have health care to cover them isn't it around 18 percent so if I were to raise my health care expense by 18 percent it would be the say three four hundred dollars a month I don't know I'm somewhere in that range now keep that in mind that it might cost you a few hundred dollars per month more if you were asked to cover the 18 percent who don't have insurance now how does that work with the fact that I turn on fox news and you'll hear experts and and even warn herself and burning themselves telling you it's going to cost a thirty trillion dollars and that there's not enough there's not enough money in the entire country even if every rich person gave up all their money there's not enough money to pay for covering that extra 18 percent do you see where I'm going with this somebody is lying to you by trillions and I don't know who it is I don't know who it is it's either true that we have only 18 percent you know some some I see people saying it's a little higher than 18 percent but the math will still work either way it's either true that 18% don't have healthcare or it's true that giving everybody healthcare will cost trillions and trillions and there's no way we have that much money they're not both true they can't be do you see that do you see that those two things which are both reported as uncontested fact can't both be true somebody is lying to you in such a massive way it's trillions its trillions of dollars they're lying to you and I don't know its side I actually don't because both of those things can't be true at the same time here's my suspicion the 18% is the one that's true because I think you can measure that fairly accurately what the what both Warren and Bernie are doing incompetently like so incompetently I almost want to like give up on supporting Trump go to Bernie go to Elizabeth Warren and say please dear God can I fix your message because you are so ruining this you know you're actually making it harder for more people to get insurance because you've totally ruined the message here's the message that Elizabeth Warren says Elizabeth Warren how're you gonna pay for this is the middle class gonna pay more ah their costs will go down now we didn't ask you their costs we said will their taxes go up Elizabeth can you answer that question their costs will go down Elizabeth do you have a hearing problem because I'm asking you or are the taxes going out for that group their costs will go down there you go what the hell is wrong with you what the hell is wrong with you here's the correct answer allow me to be Elizabeth Warren and not a freakin idiot this is what you would say yes the whole point is that people won't have to pay their own costs and employers won't have to pay for it so there'll be less money paid into the healthcare the government will do that and the way that looks is that your total costs will go down even though your taxes will go up a little bit so yes what we plan to do is have your taxes go up a little bit but the savings that you'll have overall will go up a lot that's our plan so we want you to save a lot of money if you're in the middle class a lot your taxes will go up but you're gonna save a lot but Elizabeth Warren can you guarantee that that will be true for every voter who's in the middle class no there are lots of different situations probably somebody in the middle class will pay a little bit more but not a lot there I just fixed it if you take if you take that message to the people and say yeah the middle class a little bit more taxes save a lot on health care that's my plan I don't even know if that could be accomplished I'm not even saying it's true but the message is better compare that to Elizabeth Warren are you going to raise our taxes go clause will now go up what is wrong with her and even Bernie who does Bernie does a better job because he at least sees a little bit honest about it's gonna be real expensive I'm gonna I'm gonna really screw the rich people at least he's honest right like I don't I don't need to know the exact numbers he's telling me he's gonna screw me to give health care to other people I get it all right you don't need to give me an exact number for that I kind of know what that looks like so so that's your assignment for today here's your assignment find out who is lying is a lie that we only have eighteen percent who don't have insurance or is it a lie that it will cost trillions of dollars to insure them they can't both be true tell me which is true and get back to me that's all I got for today I hope you pre-ordered my book lose to think that's what makes me come back for the fun of it well I'd come back anyway because I enjoy doing this but it does make it easier for me to do this when I feel that I've got some support so that's that see ya see you later so awkward trying to sign off of these things because that bum doesn't work

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for us to entertain us thank you once

again for your bounteous harvest of news

that is not just enjoyable but dare I

say delicious

yes the news is delicious let us enjoy

some news number one the Trump

administration is suing CNN for I don't

know fake news or something this is

probably one of the funniest things

they've ever done suing CNN for faking

now I guess they're using the project

Veritas insider hidden camera reports as

sort of the the trigger for this so now

there's a visual now did Project Veritas

tell us anything that a hundred percent

of us didn't already know well not

really but putting it in a visual sense

and put it in putting it in pictures

having an actual face to go with it

watching the insiders say it with their

own words it's different it's different

than just knowing it so it took it to

another level

in the print the president apparently is

taking advantage yes by suing CNN for I

don't miss reporting or or fake news or

something along those lines

I don't even think it matters so here's

the best part though that's not the best

part

the best part is not that the president

pursuing CNN for fake news that's just

the setup here's the best part

CNN can't report it CNN can't report it

because if they report it it just makes

them look terrible but if they are you

had to be yet you're probably ahead of

me right but if they don't report it

it validates the claim but if they don't

report it and the president says well

see there it was big news and they don't

even report it fake news now honestly I

can't even tell I can't even tell if

they are even a little bit serious about

this yeah I'm sure the lawyers will get

paid and CNN will probably have to pay

some lawyers too but I don't know if

they're serious about this because it

seems like every news organization could

be sued for bias one way or another but

the hilarity of it that they can't

report it and it's national news

they can't report it that's just the

funniest thing maybe the funniest thing

you've seen all month

now remember I keep telling you that

reality and entertainment you know the

government and entertainment have just

merged the funniest thing that's

happening almost every day is whatever

Trump is doing am i right

or sometimes it's whatever crazy Hillary

is doing we'll get to that but there's

nothing there's nothing if you go to

Netflix right now and say I'm in the

mood for some funny entertainment good

luck good luck find a funny movie in

2019 you can't they yeah you've even

seen the reporting this us even the

directors who was the director of what

was the least or the the Joker movie he

used to make funny movies and he said

hey you just can't make them anymore

nothing's funny yeah so you end up with

Bill burr and Dave Chappelle and then

you're done there's like nothing's funny

it's like the the world isn't producing

funny content except for those two guys

anymore and then the Trump

administration here's the other thing

they did so you probably saw the news

about Nick Mulvaney chief of staff so he

did a press conference which apparently

didn't go so well which is funny because

in my opinion it was genius so part of

the problem with any administration is

that it's a lot of different people with

competing opinions and it looks like

maybe they're not all in the same page

about how to describe what happened with

the Ukraine phone call Mick Mulvaney did

so far in my opinion the best job any of

them have done except for maybe the

President himself all right because the

president has his own way and he I think

the president also handled it perfectly

I thought Nick Mulvaney also handled it

very well but it looks like maybe there

was somebody in the White House who

disagreed and sort of put pressure on

them to walk it back in some way that

didn't even make sense

so what Mulvaney originally said

was genius and I will paraphrase it to

improve it even more basically what Mel

vainly said is if you're having a

conversation with another world leader

it's always quid pro quo that is exactly

the right framing if you took the

quid-pro-quo out of the equation for any

two leaders who are having a

get-together or a conversation what

would you have left no reason to talk if

you took the quid pro quo in here I'm

talking about the implied quid pro quo

that's always there because because

remember the president is not being

accused of directly saying if you do

this we'll do that everybody agrees he

did not directly say that but everybody

also agrees that there's always an

implied Withrow quo I've got a little

something here waiting for you there's a

little something I want later it's

always there so what would be even the

point of meeting with another world

leader unless both leaders came to it

with an implied quid pro quo quo and the

the implied part could be even general

which is hey if you play with us you

know play nicely with us on this topic

I'll sort of owe you something for later

right doesn't have to be direct but if

you took the quid pro quo out of the

meeting there's no point in talking then

that's the only reason the talk am I

wrong

there's literally no reason to have a

conversation if you take that out so

Mulvaney got close to what I said now

let me be immodest here may I be

immodest the way I said it is the end of

the conversation right if you put me on

the stage with somebody who has the

other the other view that it's the end

of the world and you should be impeached

and I say that you know there's no such

thing as a conversation between leaders

that doesn't have an implied quid pro

quo if you were to take that out

there's no point in having a

conversation ever any leader no point in

talking about anything ever even

socially it's a waste of time what does

the other person say after I say that

well they better change the subject

because it's the end of the conversation

all right

Mulvaney was right there he was right on

the edge of saying it as clearly as I

just said it it's still good I would say

he still did one of the best jobs except

for the president in in in making that

case now the president's version is it's

a perfect call here's the transcript see

for yourself

there was no print quid pro quo in the

sense that I did not directly ask for

something that's pretty good it's pretty

good but then everybody finds all this

little evidence of conversations before

and they're tracking the time line and

all that so the president's approach

which is pretty good pretty good

just coming around and saying yes that's

exactly what I did I had that phone call

see for yourself

but it did leave him open for a little

bit of criticism because they find the

timeline doesn't match and you know who

knew about the funds being withheld and

all that whereas the way I did it

there's nothing left I've removed all of

the opportunity for criticism because I

just said yeah that's every meeting

between leaders you couldn't take that

out if you wanted to you couldn't remove

the quid pro quo it's not possible and

then on top of that you'd want to say it

is a top this is also something Mulvaney

didn't quite say but he could I think he

had at it but you could do better then

it is a top priority for any president

to find out if anybody's compromised in

our government and Biden certainly is on

the at least Paul wise he's on the cusp

of looking like he could be the next

president

so find again if that guy has any

entanglements with foreign countries is

pretty close to the top priority for the

sitting president you got to look into

that so totally appropriate call the

funniest part is that F

the Mulvaney thing I guess Mulvaney used

the phrase get over it

meaning that ya leaders leaders talk

this way just get over it

so the Trump campaign which is the

funniest campaign of all campaigns ever

Brad power scale I think probably is

behind a lot of this they did a

t-shirt.this it just says get over it

and and there's a little Trump haircut

sitting on one of the the first letter

of get just get over it now the get over

it shirt is again right on message

because you know you heard everything I

said which is this is just how leaders

talk you couldn't remove this even if

you wanted to

and so he's quid pro quo well get over

it get over it is sort of this summary

after you've said yeah that's just the

way the world works you know thanks for

waking up and being an adult and

noticing that everything is quid pro quo

even if you don't stay in it yeah yeah

welcome to the adult world get over it

it's pretty good it's funny

it probably raises money I have to admit

the moment I saw it that wanted it as

soon as I saw that t-shirt I was like I

kind of want that I'm not gonna wear it

cuz I don't want to get punched in

public it's too dangerous but I wanted

it so that's pretty good it's not often

I see a t-shirt where I say yeah I kind

of want that alright I would like to

talk about loser think it's a little

thing which I have to show you the cover

of the book hold on don't go anywhere

don't go anywhere stay

well back you didn't go anywhere did you

all right now I want to give you three

examples of loser think which is concept

out of my new book which you can

pre-order now the best book I've ever

written probably the best thing you'll

ever read in your entire life don't

don't let other people read this before

you do you're just gonna be well you'll

be unarmed you'll be going into debates

without knowing how to do it right

alright one of the concepts that I talk

about here and the idea behind loser

think is that if you have exposure to

different fields you can see around

corners and you can see situations more

clearly so for example if you had

experience let's say as a lawyer and

then you also knew economics let's say

you also knew psychology

you'd be way ahead of somebody who only

knew one of those things and an loser

think I don't teach you everything that

those fields would teach you just the

important concepts I'll give you some

clear examples of this I've got three

examples of people who either exhibited

loser think or did not

let's take number one the doral decision

the decision to hold the g7 at the doral

Country Club what do people who have

only let's say their only filter is

government or reporting let's say

they're they know the news they know

history and they're good at reporting

and government stuff and then they see

this story about the president chose his

own his own property Doral Country Club

for the g7 what would they naturally

think about that they'd say that's a

problem right if that was your

experience if you if you knew journalism

government in history and that was that

was your main focus and you looked at

that you'd say this is terrible this is

terrible

it looks like it's just an inside job

he's looking to profit from it and sure

he said we'll do it at cost but you're

still saying to yourself yeah but it

brings attention to his property right

now what if you had an additional skill

let's say your skill stack included

journalism and the media a little bit

about government a little bit about

psychology history etc but suppose you

also understood negotiating yeah

suppose you understood persuasion which

in negotiating are sort of the same same

general area if you do and I do and the

President does you would say that this

is the most brilliant thing you've ever

seen in your life

well I'm exaggerating a little bit but

you know I do that sometimes

here's the thing when you're negotiating

you always want the home-court advantage

you want to be somewhere where you are

most comfortable your own property and

you you want the other people to be

impressed by your surroundings you want

something about you you know yourself

your personality but also your property

to literally surround them and develop

them and become part of their world you

can't set the table better than this so

much so I would say that every time that

a president of our country hosts someone

in this country they should always take

the home-field advantage

let me ask you this question would it be

better for the President of the United

States to meet another world leader at a

hotel ballroom or in the Oval Office you

see it now right if you meet with the

President of the United States in the

Oval Office the president has a huge

advantage in this situation because

you're in the Oval Office

you're literally surrounded what by that

president's power and prestige that

makes a big difference if you meet them

in the arrest

and have lunch well then your the table

is being set by just randomness yes

you're just somewhere else you have no

advantage in that situation so that's my

first example of loser think

now remember loser thing doesn't mean

that the people who are doing it are

losers nothing like that I'm saying that

as a method of understanding your world

it takes you down the unproductive path

it's a losing path it's better to

increase your talent stack so you can

see around corners a little bit better

alright so what was missing for the

Doral story was an understanding of

negotiating it is a magnificently

correct decision the decision to do it

at Doral isn't just pretty good

it isn't just now he can get away with

it it's magnificent it's one of the best

smartest cleanest wins you've ever seen

reported by people who don't have a full

understanding of the world because

they've got a blank spot there and the

negotiating part of their their brain

map can't see it this is visible to them

alright here's another one

so elizabeth warren plans to

fundamentally change the system and she

uses words like that where she's going

to fundamentally change our economic

system if you did not have a degree in

economics as I do I've got a degree in

economics and I've got a know an MBA

Business School so I have I have that

part of my mental map is largely filled

in so when Elizabeth Warren says

something like this I want to

fundamentally change the system people

who have my background whether they say

it in these words or not are having the

following a thought when is a good time

to make a radical change to your system

is a good time to do it when it's

working great or what is not working

great now

people say hey Scott you said to me that

it was actually a really good time to do

a trade war with China because you said

that our economy is strong that's a good

time to take a risk because your economy

is so strong that if that goes wrong

you're still okay because the economy

started so strong that is correct the

trade war is a change within the system

so the system didn't change at all we're

just tweaking one variable within the

system

that's normal business now the China

trade war is bigger than normal variable

but it's still within the system no

matter what we do with China the system

will still be the system what Warren

wants to do is take the system throw it

away and replace it with something we

have not tried in this country in quite

the way she wants to do it that is a

radical and unpredictable change which

is way beyond the the level of risk

there anybody who had a degree in

economics would accept there's almost

nobody who if they were being honest

let's say you know in the political

sense you will of course find people who

will take any position on anything right

because it's politics but even somebody

who pretended to disagree with what I'm

saying if I could take them privately

and say look nobody will ever hear what

you're gonna say to me this is just

between us I swear trust me it's just us

nobody else will hear your opinion do

you think it's a good idea with your

degree in economics to change the entire

system when everyone agrees the system

has never worked as well as it's working

today yeah three point five percent

unemployment I mean really that's just

crazy and you don't change your whole

economy when it's the best it's ever

been ever it's just the dumbest thing in

the world now let's say that you had no

experience in economics and now

experience in anything else in which you

would do risk management decisions

let's say you were a journalist let's

say you had a degree in history let's

say you have a demeans anthropology in

which of those in which of those domains

would you have learned risk management

none right

risk management wouldn't be part of what

you do but let's say you were a doctor

let's say you were an emergency room

doctor or even the most extreme case a

battlefield doctor you know you you work

in a war zone

well in those cases you're doing risk

management decisions all the time you

know do I work on this patient this one

might die but this one's 85 participants

20 so you're doing all this risk

management decisions that might get you

to the point where you would recognize

that Warren's plan is completely the

worst risk management decision you could

ever make it's the worst now compare

that with Julian Castro who was asked

about ubi during the last debate what do

you remember what who lian's response

was he just gave a sort of a dismiss as

one sentence and he said well you know

that might be worth a pilot a little

test program a pilot program did you

catch that it was one of the smartest

things said at the debate and it was

just he just mumbled it in one sentence

because well you know maybe to a pilot

program on that Julian Castro showed you

had to do it no I don't know what his

background is was this able ought to be

I don't know what Julian Castro's

background is but maybe somebody can

tell me in the comments while I'm doing

this but based on that comment the fact

that hooli and said let's do a pilot

program what does that tell you about

Julian Castro it tells you he

understands risk management that's

exactly what you do if what if Elizabeth

Warren had been saying look I know this

is a radical thing we can't do this all

at once but I'm going to pick out this

part of the economy

I'm just gonna work on this one thing

let's let's do a pilot let's try a small

let's try it in one state let's let's

see what we can learn and then we'll

decide later if we want to do it bigger

if Elizabeth Warren had said something

like that well maybe she wouldn't be

getting as much attention as she is

because that's a little bit too normal

being extreme gets you a little more

attention but I would certainly say to

myself oh there's a leader I could trust

because they understand risk management

alright here's another example of loser

think and this is this is a positive

example I was watching meaning I'm gonna

give somebody a compliment here so I was

watching Tucker Carlson last night and

he does a little game show thing I think

on Fridays or something in which he has

other hosts or personalities from Fox

News compete in a little trivia contest

and one of the questions was the name of

Tiger Woods upcoming autobiography and

Gregg Jarrett was competing against here

my Bernie I wish I could but he was

competing against somebody else

and but I'm only going to talk about the

Gregg Jarrett part so neither neither

the competitors had heard of the name of

the book but it was multiple choice so

the magellan Turner I'm sorry yes it was

Jillian Turner and neither of them knew

the answer but there were four choices

and Gregg Jarrett looked at the four

choices rang in and said the answer is

back one word just back and he said I

and he said I don't know what the answer

is but like the other three titles are

hackneyed which is sort of a writer's

term nobody room but nobody writers

never uses that word and you know he was

the best-selling author he's got a new

book that's a best-seller right now last

book bestseller so Gregg Jarrett I

believe has a legal background he has a

media background he knows that all right

you so he noticed the publish

world so he knows how words work right

he's an attorney he's a TV personality

and he's an author so when he looked at

the list the word back jumped out as

obviously the title that anybody would

have chosen under that situation because

back referred to Tiger Woods coming back

but also he had a problem with his back

and also a one-word title is very strong

if you could make a title with one word

one word lose I think it's not an

accident that my titles are good if I do

say so myself it's because I work with

professionals who really know how to put

titles on books right it's not like I

come up with one title and everybody

says yes it's a whole process a lot of

people get involved in fact you know the

the subtitle is different from the title

the people involved in that I mean it's

a whole process to come up with a title

Gillian Turner as far as I know I'm not

aware of her having a best-selling book

probably didn't have experience in

getting a book published and picking a

title Gregg Jarrett had an extra skill

he is a best-selling author he has had I

know

because best-selling authors all have

this conversation long conversations

with editors and publishers about what

the title will be so when he looked at

the list he and I said the same thing at

the same time because I did not know the

title of Tiger Woods book book but as

soon as I saw the last list I said oh

it's obviously back no question about it

in my opinion it was clear as day that

added that multiple choice the answer

was going to be back and then Gregg

Jarrett speaks almost like it's coming

out of my mouth

well the top three are hackneyed and

back fits a couple of different ways

it's clever that's the answer all right

so that's my point

Gregg Jarrett having a deeper talent

stack that happened to be just perfect

to this question because he knew

publishing it shows you the power of

having an extra talent now

didn't have to be the most experienced

publishing person in the world you just

had to have a little exposure to picking

titles and and it would have been

obvious to you which of the 1 which of

those choices jumped out alright enough

about that more about the funny day so

let's talk about Hillary Clinton saying

that Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian asset I

don't know where to start this is so

this is some of the funniest news ever

let's start with Don Lemon I turned on

the radio as I was driving yesterday and

I heard Don Lemon say this and I've been

laughing to myself for hours he said

that he thinks maybe Hillary Clinton is

playing 3d chess pause pause for effect

let that sink in Don Lemon says he

thinks Hillary Clinton is playing 3d

chess by accusing tulsi gabbard of being

a Russian asset because what she's doing

is making it more difficult for Tulsi to

mount a third party run by making Tulsi

go on record as saying she doesn't plan

to do that oh you had to hear it live to

hear him say it and I felt as though I

could I could hear him it was almost

like he was talking and knowing it was

ridiculous at the same time because

nobody has been rougher on Trump

supporters for that 3d chess and 4d

chess analogy because we're always

saying that the president is thinking at

in fact I did it today talking about

Doral I said the president is ahead of

everybody because he noticed that it's

important to have it at his space that

just makes a difference so hearing Don

Lemon resort to the 3d chess analogy for

something which is clearly not 3d chess

I'm pretty sure the Hillary Clinton was

not trying to prevent Tulsi from a third

run and guess what if she had been

trying to prevent it it wouldn't have

made any difference do you think tulsi

gabbard would have said you know I was

really planning to do it a third party

run but then Hillary said something that

one time that's not gonna change

anything

if tulsi gabbard planned on a third

party run she would have a third party

run there's nothing that Hillary's gonna

say that's gonna change it this is the

most ridiculous comment from somebody

who I think had an embarrassing day

here's why it was embarrassing imagine

if you had been fighting to get Hillary

elected for however many years imagine

too that you were sorry that she hadn't

been elected for the three years that

trump's been there would you say to

yourself

after hearing hillary clinton go full

full conspiracy theory and blaming tulsi

gabbard and also who was a Jill Stein of

being Russian assets after you heard

that if you were a Clinton supporter a

Hillary supporter right up to that day

and then you heard that news what did

you say to yourself how did you process

that did you say to yourself well I've

been right all along as Hillary Clinton

is on the ball for a mental game or her

mental stability totally where I wanted

to be and it looks like she's playing 3d

chess again look at her with that 3d

chess maybe maybe you do that but don't

you think and this is just a question

because I can't read minds but don't you

think that all over the country there

are people who in their own quiet

moments are hearing Hillary accuse

people of being Russian assets

tulsi gabbard and Jill Stein do you

think that her supporters in their

private moments are saying to themselves

oh

looks like we dodged a bullet there sure

maybe I don't like President Trump or

his policies but I don't think I wanted

that either whatever that is whatever

we're seeing you know whatever it is

that we're seeing Hillary Clinton do now

remember that's who she would have been

in office that craziness that you're

seeing that would have happened even

while she was president could you could

you possibly watch Hillary Clinton's

performance this week in her private

life and say to yourself you know I I

wish she'd been president I don't see

how anybody could have that thought I

think they would all have to say as much

as I don't like President Trump I have

to admit there were two bad choices that

election I don't think there's anybody

saying man if only we'd gotten her in

there don't you think it would have some

effect on their confidence about how

right they are about anything it should

shake your confidence to watch the

candidate that you've been fighting for

for years go bonkers exactly a time when

she would have been in her third year of

the presidency do you want that making

decisions well think so all right so a

little more on Tulsi so Tulsi quite

cleverly took this opportunity to boost

her visibility I'm pretty sure it will

help her I think Tulsi will get a bump

for this the biggest problem that tells

the Gabbard has is that Republicans like

her have you noticed that from the very

beginning it's been literally annoying

me how many people have said to me

what about Tulsi Gabbard Scott you know

you never talked about Tulsi and I

didn't just because I wasn't talking

about people with 1% support just never

seemed relevant to me but the number of

Republicans

who were in love with her and that's the

best way I can say it

she's because I don't think it's like it

doesn't feel like some kind of a lust

they just think she's attractive kind of

thing the way the way Republicans talk

about her is like they're in love not

like they're in lust

it really looks different there's

something about her that makes men crazy

and you know I normally I wouldn't even

talk about that right I mean that's

that's not my thing

and I'm trying not to be sexist about

this I'm just trying to be observational

my observation is so I'm not making any

comments about tell C's appearance

that's not my deal I'm not about that

but my observation is that people keep

coming to me telling me they're in love

with her and the Republicans I've never

seen anything like it literally I've

never seen anything like it so she has

some effect on people

mostly men as far as I can tell that or

at least more men that is hard to deny

there's some kind of X Factor thing

going on there that I can't say I see it

exactly I mean I can I can see it but I

don't have the same reaction to it so

she quite cleverly used this to boost

her exposure

I think her her rank will go up I don't

know if it's enough but I think her rank

will go up and I love that she said she

talked to by tweets she talked to

Hillary Clinton and said you the queen

of warmongers embodiment of corruption

and personification of the rot that has

sickened the Democratic Party

personification of the rot that's good

stuff now I have not seen anything from

Tulsi prior to this that made me think

oh she's good at this persuasion stuff

there was something she was doing right

the X Factor stuff but I didn't really

see

you know persuasion talent but then this

tweet comes out and I'm thinking damn

this is fire

you know you kind of expect it from

somebody in the military don't you

expect a military personality something

who's been shaped by experience in the

military is that they would be extra

controlled until they don't need to be

right

wouldn't that be sort of a basic

characteristic that you would learn it

would be like hold hold hold hold hold

hold

kill that's why you learned right

don't kill until you're ready to kill

don't pull the trigger unless you're

ready to kill and it looks to me like

Tulsi in my opinion was just a spectator

in this process hold o this this debate

didn't didn't have much to go on hold

and there's Clinton she picked the

Clinton pops her head out of the the

foxhole and suddenly Tulsi says no now

somebody says we told you so I'll give

an A+ for a Tulsi for the week I think

she won the week easily easily won the

week of the Democrats and I'd be

surprised if she doesn't hit 5% on the

next you know she's gonna be in the top

six I think probably because of this

just gives her a little more attention

so there's that so I hear the Huffington

Post is for sale by Verizon

oh the poor Huffington Post my nemesis

for years the the organization which has

been slandering me for years they're not

making it financially oh oh I feel so

sad for them so I've I put

in my bid I've been $1 for the

Huffington Post and I will take it over

and fire everybody

so if Verizon would like to get rid of

this this financial sinkhole I will take

it off their hands for a $1 and I'll do

what they don't want to do which is I'll

fire everybody I'll just go in there and

say I'm your new boss I just want your

company for a $1 you're all fired get

out of here you stinking fake news

people all right

did you watch oh here let me give you

another example of loser think when

people are looking at the hunter Biden

thing the the other team likes to say oh

yeah well you can make fun of hunter

Biden but what about Ivanka and the in

the example that people keep giving me

on social media as that Ivanka was

granted a bunch of trademarks in China

recently now if you're deep in loser

think you say to yourself my god China

is giving Ivanka trademarks not just one

but multiple trademarks has she sold out

is she working for trying it China now

because they gave her a bunch of

trademarks no let me explain how

trademarks work

I have trademarks in China quite a few

do you know what do you know what it

takes to get a trademark in China let me

show you the process for getting a

trademark in China it looks like this I

got some paperwork I got my trademark

paperwork it says what do you want I

want I want to have a trademark on this

name or this product what categories

this will be just for ashtrays and

automobiles those are the only

categories I need my trademark are you

using the trademark actively yes I am

now I put this in the mail or my lawyer

does and you send it off to China then

China in some some office gets your

it gets your trademark requests and says

huh let's see in my database if anybody

else is using this nope nobody else is

using a trademark called Ivanka Trump

granted done that's it I just described

the entire process you fill out some

paperwork China looks at it and says

does somebody already have this one nope

we don't have somebody called Ivanka

Trump in China trying to sell things

with the name of Anka Trump on it

approved that's it that's the whole

process and why do somebody to get a

trademark in China it's because the

Chinese will otherwise is steal your

product the reason you get a trademark

in China even if you never want to do

business in China is because you don't

want the Chinese Dilbert comic to emerge

if I did not have a trademark in China

they could make Dilbert products and

just call it chill Burt or Bill burr or

Gilbert or anything they wanted they

could actually even call it Dilbert if I

hadn't already taken the trademark the

same with copyrights and other things so

the people who don't understand a little

bit about intellectual property here the

story that Ivanka Trump that got

trademarks in China and they say my god

they're in bed together they're in bed

together it's like President Xi and

Ivanka they've got some kind of unholy

deal together now somebody in Ivanka's

organization probably a lawyer filled

out some paperwork somebody at the

lowest level of Chinese government

looked at the name on the paperwork

looked at the database and said no we

don't have an Ivanka Trump approved

that's it that's the entire process yeah

this it's like a big deal to people who

don't understand what a trademark is all

right enough about that

as if y'all seen the video of the

Mexican police shooting it out with the

cartel and losing losing a shootout to

the cartel and you know there's a bunch

of phone videos I bet so you don't see

any of it too well but you can tell that

the cartel actually has these fairly

large trucks which they've rigged up

with armor on the sides and they've got

these military-grade machine guns and

military-grade handheld machine guns as

well and they they just hang gun the

police and the police had some pretty

good guns but nothing like that and and

they're just driving down the streets of

this Mexican city with a mounted machine

gun in the back of a truck this is a

civilized or allegedly civilized country

right on our border with a paramilitary

that's completely owning the police and

murdering them at will

now here's the question at what point

does that get our attention at what

point does the United States say well it

would be nice to deal with the

government of Mexico on a variety of

things and we will when when it works

but there are other things there are

other things that we just have to do

ourselves now one of the things that we

might have to do ourselves is to start

sending some snipers and some drones to

just start up start picking away at the

cartels I don't know why we're not

murdering them like actually murdering

them what would stop us from sending our

I know SEAL Teams and drones and snipers

and whatever else we have to just put

them in place and have them start

picking off the cartel just actually

murdering them wherever we can find them

why don't we Bob them do you think we

don't know where the cartels facilities

are well we just carpet-bomb the whole

thing whole damn thing just just kill

everybody there why not

I don't really understand what prevents

us there must be a reason I think there

is a reason well I would say that we

could declare the cartels a I think they

have to be declared terrorists and I

think we've come close to that but I

haven't and I don't understand the why

we won't act unilaterally is it because

we're afraid of the Mexican military I

mean what-what exactly stops us from

attacking terrorists right on our border

turkey does it we're letting Turkey do

it with the Kurds if turkey can do with

the Kurds why can't we do it with the

cartels remember they're sending us

fentanyl if fentanyl were not part of

the equation I might say well you know

drugs are gonna get here anyway blah

blah both fentanyl is just straight-up

weapon of mass destruction and the

Chinese are the Chinese are sending it

to the Mexican cartels and the cartels

are shipping it in so really we should

look at this as a Chinese attack on the

homeland and if the Chinese are using

the Mexicans as their go-between in

their attack on our homeland we can kill

him we could just kill their entire if

we found out that you know some of the

drug cartel people had a I don't know a

mansion or a facility somewhere we could

just blow up the whole thing kill

everybody who was anywhere near it I

don't think we have to worry about

anything I think we have a full I think

we have a full full you know free shot

it's a free pass anyway so there's bored

of that story than I understand so

probably somebody smart needs to explain

to me why we're not already acting

militarily against the cartels here's an

interesting question for you find

somebody who has a strong opinion on the

Syrian situation doesn't matter which

position they take maybe they're pro

Trump maybe anti Trump but they have a

strong opinion on it and then ask them

to draw a map of Syria and the

neighboring countries

as just a little a little experiment to

see how much they know about the region

just say okay it doesn't have to be to

scale or anything but could you draw

like a conceptual map and then draw

Turkey and the neighboring countries I

just want to see if you know what the

neighborhood looks like very few people

could do that but they would still have

a strong opinion about what should

happen over there you sort of have to

see it on a map and be able to

conceptualize it on a map davit but to

have a strong opinion on it same with

Yemen in Saudi Arabia

you probably say to yourself hey why is

Saudi Arabia messing with Yemen have you

seen a map look at the map if you look

at the map you'll know exactly why Saudi

Arabia is massacring people in Yemen

because they can't accept an unfriendly

entity right on their border nobody can

well except the United States apparently

we left the cartels ship us weapons of

mass destruction every day and

we let them live sorry the destiny came

does it sound like I had a little bit of

blood thirst when it involves fentanyl

being shipped to our borders because I

do I do have a little bit of a blood

thirst I cop to that so I was watching

some video of Syria in which dead bodies

were being paraded through the streets

to show how awful the Turks are and even

the news said we can't quite can't quite

verify that these people are first of

all really dead and second of all that

they died because of Turkey so even the

news is saying we think people are dying

but we don't have any confirmation

isn't that a hell of a what what kind of

a massacre has no confirmed two deaths I

mean I assume people are dying because

there's military action but we don't

have any confirmed deaths it's the

biggest it's the biggest you know it's

the biggest

going on and we can't get decent news

because everybody is talking about the

Kurds being left to be massacred

and obviously that's worth worrying

about but does anything like that

happening anything I didn't just don't

know if anything like that is happening

yeah and the and the Kurds are a

legitimate threat to Turkey if the if

the roles were reversed if this were the

United States and we had known

terrorists on her border who were

working with people who were not

terrorists but but some of them were

would we act the same way turkey is

acting of course we would if you reverse

the situation inside okay now you're

Turkey you've got to take care of the

Turkish people what are you gonna do

you've got terrorists on your border who

are creating a homeland you don't let us

stand the Turks are doing exactly what

we would do in that situation exactly

what we would do so it's hard for me to

come down hard on the Turks for doing

exactly what we would do it's it's part

of the same reason that I'm supportive

of Israel in general even when they're

you know somewhat let's say somewhat

militaristic because it's what we would

do if we were in their situation we'd

act a lot like they act so I try not to

get into the hypocrite territory by

acting as if we would do anything

differently my take on this is that the

president should the Box probably some

people got killed probably some people

would get killed under every scenario

there's probably no scenario in which

nobody gets killed you get that right

the people who are saying hey the

president made a big mistake the way he

did this because some people are getting

killed well nobody wants people to get

killed but what was the plan where

nobody got killed nobody has that plan

there were only plans in which people

get killed the president chose a plan in

which Americans didn't get killed but

other people did that sort of his job

that's the president's job now of course

all the people like Romney and and the

people were complaining about our honor

the United States has lost this honor

and that's a valuable asset is it is it

really in what imaginary world were

other countries dealing with us based on

our honor that is a complete imaginary

sensory situation sure there are other

countries who have positive feelings

about the United States and pulling out

of this courage situation might make

them think less of us is somebody not

going to do a trade deal with us because

of that is somebody going to leave NATO

because of that is there anything

anybody's gonna do in any way that makes

any difference because of that no no is

there any fighting force that wouldn't

want to join up with us if we had a

common enemy now because fighting a

common enemy it always makes sense to

team up with the United States why

wouldn't you so I cannot identify

anything in the real world that isn't

anyway even hypothetically damaged by

what the President did and I think that

you know here's his choice got X number

of people killed every other path no

matter what he'd done would get X other

people killed do you think Turkey was

gonna wait forever and just let the

Kurds set up a homeland and and and be

able to export terrorism across their

border no no no that path was not

available nobody had that option do you

think the Kurds were willing to be

flexible before we said we're out of

here

no if we had said we're thinking of

pulling it out we're gonna give you lots

of time Kurds you have all the time you

need to work something out we'll work

with you

we don't want to just pull out can you

be flexible what would the Kurd say no

we're not going to be flexible do you

think that they were ready to deal no

the president shaking the box and say

all right you're on your own

is the only thing that made the Kurds

flexible short of that nothing good was

going to happen

so yes it caused some lives to be lost

but every path had that downside and I

wonder if we'll ever find out who got

killed in that area all right what else

we got I'm having a good time watching

Fox headlines they're funnier than usual

so they they may use my pond in a

headline no it's my I'm not saying that

they got it from me because it's an

obvious pun but it's one you heard me

make I said the hunter Biden was more a

gatherer than a hunter hey for a hunter

he's kind of a gatherer and so Fox

headline today is a hunter gatherer

talking about hunter Biden because

there's there's a report so so Fox News

is saying this that hunter Biden was

paid eighty-three thousand dollars a

month even more than we thought by burr

yzma since 2014 to be quote a ceremonial

figure with a quote powerful name a

report said Friday so I read this and I

thought our report said Friday okay

where's the link to the report who what

exactly the report was that I don't

think the story says now maybe it says

that I missed it but I looked for it do

you believe any news organization that

says a report said and they don't

mention what the report is or who did it

or where it came from

I'm not so sure that's a report that I

find credible you got a name the report

and maybe it's in the story like in a

footnote or something I just couldn't

find it my guess is that it has to be

there

I can't believe an editor and a fox

would let somebody write a report said

and then quote

it without telling us whose report it

was so maybe that was just a an editing

error or maybe it's my error so I'm not

gonna say it's Fox there I'll say that I

couldn't see at least obviously where

that report was does anybody know

anybody else know where that report came

from if you if you if you do know say so

in the comments somebody said that John

Solomon reported this weeks ago but they

don't name him all right so they also

said here's another headline on the Fox

News page it said longtime Trump critics

comments start frenzied at President

bashing Network what do you think is the

president bashing Network so so Fox News

refers in the headline to a president

bashing Network and you all know who it

is

that's pretty funny if you think about

it now as I've said the news is our new

form of humor and I think Fox News

embraces this far more than the other

networks when I watch Fox News which is

the primary thing I watch I always make

sure that I sample see and then all the

time to make sure I see both sides but

more time I spend on Fox News by far now

partly the reason I do that is that it's

so well produced and so well staffed the

the talent and the way they produce it

at Fox it was sort of unparalleled

there's a reason they're number one just

just the professionalism on on every

level from the human talent to the the

way they produce it to the technology

it's the best of the business but they

certainly understand that there's a

humor element of the news and and you

see them playing to it with their

headlines here because when they say the

president bashing Network you know that

first of all they they know you know

what they're talking about but secondly

that's sort of with a wink is that it

sort of that you know the president

bashing Network wink and you're supposed

to laugh

likewise with hunter-gatherer that's

obviously intentionally to make you

laugh so Fox News understands who

there's audiences really well and they

understand that that the humor of it is

part of the entertainment so I always

appreciate that

so the Brooklyn Nets fans brought some

pro Hong Kong signs at a LeBron James

game I guess Brooklyn Nets were playing

must be the Lakers where LeBron plays at

Barclays Center and so I think this is

going to be a thing now the the

protesters I think you're gonna follow

LeBron

probably all season or at least as long

as the Hong Kong problem goes on which

is probably all season so that's fun

imagine trying to be LeBron and trying

to concentrate on your playing

basketball when big chunk of your

audience is hanging up signs about Hong

Kong and how you messed that up because

you know even LeBron even LeBron is is

thinking he messed up don't you think

I'm not reading his mind but I'm just

saying if you were LeBron or anybody

were LeBron and you're in his position

would you think well I had a good week

or what do you think it looks like I

messed up this week I mean I think he

thinks he messed up so these signs get

to remind him of one of his maybe his

biggest public unforced error all right

he has to feel bad about it you think

because it's all negative attention and

it's taking away from the team the sport

it's taking away from everything he

cares about so you have to think he

thinks it wasn't a good week and

reminding of it him of it with these

signs and t-shirts that's got an effect

his playing I would think it's gonna

affect his mental game but to be fair

you know while we can we can disagree

with him on his political statements I

think we'd all agree LeBron James is

probably one of the most mentally solid

athletes of all time right so it could

be that he's one of these rare people

who could maybe even raise this game

maybe even likes it maybe he likes you

know playing against the protesters so

it might actually make him better you

never know

LeBron's not like other people he's he's

a super athlete and mentally he's super

strong as well

sports wise he thinks people who

disagree with him are misinformed well I

don't believe he thinks he nailed it

this week I think he knows he missed the

layup this week yeah but-- i don't know

where boo the cat is she's usually in

here i guess she got a better offer

today all right was there anything else

going on so if somebody says are you

still two left or Bernie and Warren yes

but I'm better at math so where Bernie

and Warren want to do some things where

the math doesn't work I could still like

their goal so I share Bernie and

Warren's goal of making education widely

available for cheaper for free and I

think health care is a basic right I

don't know how to get there if I knew

how to get there I would tell you

cleverly how my plan is better than

their plan but I don't know how to make

the math work but I've said this before

there there's somebody in the news who's

lying to you badly and I I'm not exactly

sure who let me give you two facts and

see if you can make them make sense

there are two things we are told

reliably that there's something like 18%

of the united states does not have

health care right so everybody has

health care health care insurance except

for eight

percent of the know the country so what

would that tell you about how much extra

each of us would have to pay whether

it's in taxes or some other kind of way

how much would each of us have to pay to

make up for that 18% I don't know ten

twenty percent extra because if if you

add the extra eighteen percent maybe

there's some extra economies of scale

because of size or whatever maybe not I

don't know but somewhere in that 18

percent range right if 18 percent don't

have insurance then all the people knows

presumably they're also the people who

are poor so they're not paying any taxes

so if 18 percent of the people are poor

and not paying taxes and don't have

health care what would it cost the rest

of the people who are not as for and

have health care to cover them isn't it

around 18 percent so if I were to raise

my health care expense by 18 percent it

would be the say three four hundred

dollars a month

I don't know I'm somewhere in that range

now keep that in mind that it might cost

you a few hundred dollars per month more

if you were asked to cover the 18

percent who don't have insurance now how

does that work

with the fact that I turn on fox news

and you'll hear experts and and even

warn herself and burning themselves

telling you it's going to cost a thirty

trillion dollars and that there's not

enough there's not enough money in the

entire country even if every rich person

gave up all their money there's not

enough money to pay for covering that

extra 18 percent do you see where I'm

going with this

somebody is lying to you by trillions

and I don't know who it is

I don't know who it is it's either true

that we have only 18 percent you know

some some I see people saying it's a

little higher than 18 percent but the

math will still work either way it's

either true that

18% don't have healthcare or it's true

that giving everybody healthcare will

cost trillions and trillions and there's

no way we have that much money they're

not both true

they can't be do you see that do you see

that those two things which are both

reported as uncontested fact can't both

be true somebody is lying to you in such

a massive way it's trillions its

trillions of dollars they're lying to

you and I don't know its side

I actually don't because both of those

things can't be true at the same time

here's my suspicion the 18% is the one

that's true because I think you can

measure that fairly accurately what the

what both Warren and Bernie are doing

incompetently like so incompetently

I almost want to like give up on

supporting Trump go to Bernie go to

Elizabeth Warren and say please dear God

can I fix your message because you are

so ruining this you know you're actually

making it harder for more people to get

insurance because you've totally ruined

the message here's the message that

Elizabeth Warren says Elizabeth Warren

how're you gonna pay for this is the

middle class gonna pay more ah their

costs will go down now we didn't ask you

their costs we said will their taxes go

up Elizabeth can you answer that

question their costs will go down

Elizabeth do you have a hearing problem

because I'm asking you or are the taxes

going out for that group their costs

will go down there you go

what the hell is wrong with you what the

hell is wrong with you here's the

correct answer allow me to be Elizabeth

Warren and not a freakin idiot this is

what you would say yes the whole point

is that people won't have to pay their

own costs and

employers won't have to pay for it so

there'll be less money paid into the

healthcare the government will do that

and the way that looks is that your

total costs will go down even though

your taxes will go up a little bit so

yes what we plan to do is have your

taxes go up a little bit but the savings

that you'll have overall will go up a

lot that's our plan so we want you to

save a lot of money if you're in the

middle class a lot your taxes will go up

but you're gonna save a lot but

Elizabeth Warren can you guarantee that

that will be true for every voter who's

in the middle class no there are lots of

different situations probably somebody

in the middle class will pay a little

bit more but not a lot there I just

fixed it if you take if you take that

message to the people and say yeah the

middle class a little bit more taxes

save a lot on health care that's my plan

I don't even know if that could be

accomplished I'm not even saying it's

true but the message is better compare

that to Elizabeth Warren are you going

to raise our taxes go clause will now go

up what is wrong with her and even

Bernie who does Bernie does a better job

because he at least sees a little bit

honest about it's gonna be real

expensive I'm gonna I'm gonna really

screw the rich people at least he's

honest right like I don't I don't need

to know the exact numbers he's telling

me he's gonna screw me to give health

care to other people I get it all right

you don't need to give me an exact

number for that I kind of know what that

looks like so so that's your assignment

for today here's your assignment find

out who is lying is a lie that we only

have eighteen percent who don't have

insurance or is it a lie that it will

cost trillions of dollars to insure them

they can't both be true tell me which is

true and get back to me that's all I got

for today I hope you pre-ordered my book

lose to think that's what makes me come

back for the fun of it

well I'd come back anyway because I

enjoy doing this

but it does make it easier for me to do

this when I feel that I've got some

support so that's that see ya

see you later so awkward trying to sign

off of these things because that bum

doesn't work