Episode 741 Scott Adams - Hong Kong, Kamala Harris, Google Bias, and other Disasters

oh hey Jennifer company 20/20 come on in here good to see all of you Erica always a pleasure do you have your copy of loser think yet it's Christmas season and this is the perfect book for reading and giving away so make sure you get yours because everybody's talking about it hmm you might wonder why you're here it's because today is black coffee Friday you don't have to have black coffee but it's delicious join me now for the simultaneous M all you need is a cup or a mug or glasses and if there's time chalice Tigra thermos last canteen Grail goblet vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and get ready for the dopamine the end of the day the thing that makes everything better this simultaneous sip go oh yes it's always good why do I act surprised thank you for buying my book and Jonah well let's talk about what's in the news as you may have know last week Rasmussen had a poll showing that President Trump had 34% or so support from African Americans and people like me said well that's not true I saw that poll and the first thing I thought was yeah how did he ask that question and then an emerson poll came out soon after asking the same question and getting same answer 33 34 % support for President Trump among African arrogance and I thought to myself what are the odds that there would be two poles that would get the same result yesterday there was a third three poles three different companies have all found unprecedented support for President Trump by african-americans now does that translate into votes some of it but we don't know now are you surprised that the president has spent three years fighting to reduce immigration primarily for the benefit of the african-american population as well as others but there's a bigger bigger impact and you're doing a prison reform and lowering unemployment and helping the historically black colleges and having Opportunity Zones I don't know this might be real if it turns out that it's real that the president has a third of the support from the african-american communities I think Candace Owens needs some kind of a Nobel Peace Prize I don't think they give Nobel Peace Prizes for domestic politics but Candace Owens as James things I mean lots of other people are involved but she's probably the most effective effective let's say advocate for the president all right so a weird and unusual and wonderful thing happened in Hong Kong where most of the situation is dire and terrible but after President Trump signed the legislation that was overwhelmingly passed by Congress there were two bills that were sort of putting some pressure on China for what's happening in Hong Kong I guess one put some pressure on the individuals or involved in other limits the Li I guess limits the things that we sell to the police force now neither of those things has much impact you know China is not going to be too influenced by those tiny little bills signed in America but they don't like it they don't like it at all and what was interesting is that the Hong Kong protesters gathered on Thanksgiving which is not their Thanksgiving obviously it's our Thanksgiving with American flags and big posters of that beam of president Trump's head photoshopped onto the body of a muscular boxer that's actually sliced alone and they're there holding up the the poster as sort of a showing the power of President Trump and I don't know about you and apparently they were they were singing the national anthem or something and I watched some of that coverage just you know the photographs and the articles and they have to I gotta tell you I had a strong emotional reaction to it I don't know if they happen to any of you but watching people on the literally the opposite side of the world what they're basically saying and maybe I'm reading too much into it so just tell me if you agree I think what they're saying is that their only hope is President Trump now they wouldn't word it that way I'm sure but the more I think about this situation the more I think that there's literally only one person on the planet that has any chance should he try to do it of protecting Hong Kong think about that there's seven billion people on the planet or so Hong Kong is in desperate times obviously if China gets there you know their way with Hong Kong a lot of those protestors their lives are over and they gathered to say to wave American flags and show pictures of our president because I think they understand he's actually the only person and of seven billion people he's the only one who can save them now I don't even know if he can save them I don't know if he if it's practical I don't know if it's good for the country I'm not saying it's gonna happen but I found it very powerful that they've they that they focused on President Trump as their sort of symbol of hope there's a lot there it takes a while to sort of process that thought that the United States through its electoral process produced a leader who is the only leader in the whole world there's nobody else who could make any difference realistically who could save them it's it's a remarkable situation certainly worth watching now there was a tweet from an individual who's in the Chinese government Li Shan Zhou I hope I'm prevent pronouncing it right zi h AO and he's the they have big big titles over there so he's the deputy director general information Department Ministry of Foreign Affairs for China and his profile on Twitter says try my best to tell the story of China and spread the voice in China so he's a he's sort of like one of the spokespeople for China and he decides to tweet this he said in Washington talking about Washington DC and I'm gonna read it the same way it's written so his English is a little bit broken so I would just could read it the way he wrote it he says in Washington the White seldom go to Southeast area as it's an area for the black president Trump even demanded for women lawmakers of color to leave us and respect for President Trump us and the black there please follow quote America first policy and take care of racial discrimination and then it goes on in a thread to talk about the bad conditions for african-americans in this country so their response to us meddling in their foreign affairs is to interfere with our election now it's interesting that they went for this target president Trump is doing everything he can that's you know practical to help the African American community and apparently the polls are showing that they're recognizing that we have three polls now showing yes unparalleled unprecedented support for a Republican and China's decided to go after that you know they see that weakness domestically there like a Ellis let's stoke that racial division but is there anything that's happening in this country that could be at the moment that could be compared to what China is doing with Hong Kong what they're doing with the Weger splitting with concentration camps what they're doing with a flume Gong which is literally murdering them for parts and selling off their organs is there anything we're doing in this country this even slightly slightly as bad as any of the four whole Holocaust going on in in China the four are the weaker is the Fallujah the what the fence and all they're sending to this country and then Hong Kong now I'm calling it a for Holocaust to trap idiots into debating it now if if I've taught you anything one of the best ways to get attention is to be wrong because when you say something that's just true it just kind of lays there so well it's true doesn't have any power but if you say something provocative that's a little bit wrong people will pay attention because they want to tell you you're wrong so I've been talking about the four Chinese Holocaust in progress and by throwing the Hong Kong into the mix because they haven't killed a lot of people yet people to stop and say I don't know about this Hong Kong is a fourth Holocaust yeah the other three I can see the point there but that fourth one I don't know I don't think that belongs on the list that's right you have fallen for my trap so I'll be saying publicly there are four Holocaust and letting people debate it it's almost too easy alright dr.

Robert Epstein you might remember him he did some testifying in Congress about Google's potential bias so now he's operating a study in which he has a whole bunch of people that are identified only within the study but not publicly who are simply using Google and using regular search terms and stuff and they're trying to see if they can get different results over time as the election approaches than they would on the other search engines and the hypothesis here is that if Google continues to show a bias that is not present in Bing or Yahoo or Dachau that that will show something it will show that Google is intentionally biasing their search now here's what's interesting they're definitely going to find out that but Google is massively biasing their search then what Google massively biased their search last election did that hurt Google in any way doesn't look like it what would stop Google from just doing it completely getting caught and just saying well no we didn't do that you know you can't look at our internal stuff we didn't do that I don't think there's anything to stop them it looks like it just go ahead and do it I saw the news today that Jack Dorsey CEO Twitter you tweeted I think that he's using Duck.

Duck.

Go on his phone and as his browser because of the privacy stuff and I just downloaded the Duck.

Duck.

Go app on my phone I was already using the browser of my computer's but I thought oh yeah I should I should move to that on my phone as well so for privacy reasons and because Google is really on American on American in the sense that they're messing with our elections which is about the most unamerican thing you could do I'm also looking into doing some research on some alternates for You.

Tube as you know You.

Tube is throttling my content and it's just shrinking instead of growing even though it's growing in viewers and shrinking and revenue you know so obviously there's something going on there so there are several platforms on the way and already up and I'm going to take a look at those and see which one to move to yeah mines calm is one rock fin is another and I don't know the differences between them and there's at least one startup that I know of that's coming online as well so there there's some alternatives to You.

Tube and I will be probably selecting one of them or possibly using all oh yes bid shoot is the other now there's a problem with the alternates if you if you go full bit shoot and you're saying we're not we're not going to six hammer uses shoot see the trouble with Bishop is that they do attract a lot of bad elements I think what I'm likely to do somebody's mentioning think spot and I don't know about think spot is is who what is think spot is that Jordan Petersons think I'm gonna look it up here so I know what I'm talking about think spot is yeah Jordan Peterson's thing that is that what he's working on with Dave Rubin so I'm looking at a something on medium so there's a blog a medium that and the title is Jordan Peterson's think spot is doomed to fail it's doomed to fail I think people say that about everything what about Vimeo I don't know so I think what I'll do is maybe for 2020 I'll be looking to put my content on more platforms and if any of those other platforms work out well then I just get off of You.

Tube but in the meantime I'll probably just have multiple platforms there's report that the Kamala Harris campaign is totally falling apart and I guess Mike Bloomberg just hired one of her top campaign advisors as I suspected you know how I was telling you that that camel Harris seemed like a talented politician but I couldn't understand why her campaign was the worst I've ever seen the worst just the worst there's no there's no campaign that's ever been as bad as Conley Harrison's and I had speculated that the campaign staff was bad and I learned at some point I learned that her sister was a I guess the chairman chair of the campaign or something but today I learned it's even worse than that so indeed Cobble Harris's sister is a leader of the campaign but there's a another leader so the other leader is apparently associated with the political advising company that's that brought cobble Harris to the Senate and got her to this point so she's got two advisors that are not on the same page and she can't really get rid of either one of them because one's a sister and one is you know this political group that got her where she is now and I guess she's running out of money and people aren't talking and coordinating and their message is bad and their slogans have changed basically it's just a complete mess now it kind of highlights the problem with a senator running for president Dustin do you know how senators don't do a lot of hiring and firing yeah they do some but it's not like running a business Trump is famous for firing like crazy he's how many people has Trump fired fire fire fire and one of the smartest things I ever heard this is something that navall says that that the real talent in hiring and firing is the firing part because when you hire people you know they usually look good on paper maybe they can get through the interviews but you don't really know how they're gonna do in your company you can sort of find out how they did in their past jobs but you don't really know how they're gonna do in your company so the real skill given that hiring is a lot of guessing the real skill is firing so if you can do it quickly and kindly in a way that you know doesn't make you enemies for life then you're a good manager so you look for the firing skill as the real skill it's it's sort of you know look for the blank space situation does Trump have good hiring skills well a lot of people would say no but that's mostly guessing right does Trump have good firing skills well his firing skills were a lot better than his hiring skills and the firing skills are more important so table Harris has apparently no firing skills because she's got two people in her campaign that either one of them needs to be fired or both probably both but certainly her sister no doubt about it her sister needs to be fired I mean that's what it looks like from a distance so there's some some talk that Harris won't even you know make it long enough to get into the to get into any kind of a brokered convention because she's running out of money and she's got no message no nothing I feel as if I could fix her whole campaign in like an hour you know if she spent an hour with me I feel like I could fix all of that all she needs is a better message and to ignore her advisors and just take on her a better message because she's got everything else she's got you know the Democratic Party likes her she's got the right Democratic thing she's the right age people are saying don't do it don't do it well I don't think you have to worry about her contacting me for advice I would say the odds of that was very low very low somebody's saying why she'll smoke all your weed somebody said you don't don't you don't like to lose do you know I don't like to lose yeah you know when I predicted that she would be the the the nominee I don't think anybody could have predicted it would be the worst campaign staff in the history of all campaign staffs I mean I didn't see that comment so you're right it is it is tempting for me to want to fix or just well enough that she can win the nomination and losing the general I don't think there's any chance that Trump's gonna lose in the general election why are you sideways somebody asks I'm not so there's something happening on your end if she can't run her campaign how could she around the country well that's a good question poorly it appears it's gots the mole so there's not much news going on at the moment so we're mostly going to enjoy our four-day weekend and our simultaneous set do you think this translates into a promising presidency now let me let me say as clearly as possible calmly Harris would not be a good president and she doesn't have a chance of beating Trump in the general election but I did think she'd do well enough to get the nomination will Hillary run you know what you know what's weird is that from the longest time I'd been thinking that Hillary was too old but apparently she's actually kind of young compared to the other people in the race she's what 71 or something so Hillary would actually be one of the youngest people in the race of the people who would get a lot of support but I can't imagine her doing it it just seems too difficult to imagine because if you were her could you take a chance of losing again somebody says down 2% is down 2% or 0.2% there's one thing I want to check on the stocks right now it looks like stocks all turned down yeah a little bit but let me check oh no what a mine is up all right so there are two things that are relative relevant to Bitcoin prices so Bitcoin went up 6% yesterday and another 3% today if you put them together it's one of the biggest two days and I don't know a number of weeks so one of the things I said about Bitcoin is that if it's true that what the president says that they're going to designate the cartels as as terrorists it could be that the cartels will have billions of dollars that they don't have anything that they can put it into a bank because the banks just will be out of and a play so where are they gonna put their money if you're a cartel and you've got a billions billions of dollars where are you gonna put it I was I was suggesting it might be Bitcoin now I don't know because I'm not a drug dealer but I don't think they put it in any other crypto they might spread it around a little bit but at the very least they put some amount in Bitcoin because they'd have to and then we have this other news bringing Jack Dorsey back into it again apparently Jack Dorsey just spent a number of weeks in different places in Africa and has decided he's going to move there for part of the year so he's gonna spend substantial time in Africa we don't know the details but trying to be a positive force and when talking about that Jack Dorsey mentioned Bitcoin so Bitcoin in Africa could be a solution to what corruption a solution to no banking I suppose it could be some kind of a solution so so imagine if Africa goes Bitcoin and the cartels go Bitcoin and both of these pieces and news came out and sure enough Bitcoin is up on the news I should say that I own I own some Bitcoin just so you know for full disclosure I'll also tell you that you should not make any financial recommendations based on what cartoonists say on periscope and this is not financial advice I am NOT advising you indeed if you buy any kind of cryptocurrency doesn't matter which it is it's not really investing it's more like guessing so buyer beware I will tell you one of my investments so I made the worst investment in the world a number of years ago by buying the Turkish cell phone company so the thought was that no matter what happens in Turkey there will probably be more people born you know it's likely that they'll have a high birth rate and they'll all need phones and their cell phone company has kind of a monopoly there and so a while ago I bought shares that you can buy in the United States of the Turkish cell phone company Turk cell and lately that's up sharply probably because the dangers the dangers between the United States and Turkey seem to have passed in other words US and Turkey don't look like they're heading for something bad at the moment so that's up I do not recommend anybody buy any of the stocks that I mentioned or any of the essence that I mentioned on this periscope I'm just telling you what I did and I feel I feel that it's it's necessary to share with you some of my predictions so it's very rare for me to buy an individual stock I did buy Apple individual stock quite a while ago that's worked out really well in fact it's the best stock investment I've ever made I still have that but don't do what I do because that would be a bad idea all right I'm just looking at your why don't you talk about when done well I will be talking about went up a little bit more in fact if your holidays as your holidays are coming up you might want to use one of our products called approach which I've talked about before so approach allows you to see a little map and you just send out a link from the app and you're you can see your friends on the map or your family members converging at a point so it's fun to watch a variety of people you know coming to Christmas or coming to an event and if you use that app which is free you can you can do an in-app purchase and buy a little header so that your company will show and if you're a small business and you service homes you probably want this app snapchat has a feature like that snapchat has snap map so if you're on snapchat and if you've shared your location you can see your friends on a map but that's more of a where where's alt where are all my friends at the moment but what this does is it's a temporary tracking as a timer so it times out it's just saying see see the people that you want coming to an event and they don't have to be on any service or sign up for anything they don't even have to have the app out of the app is called approach by when hub it's a free app and you just can send out a link email it or text it and everybody who hits it can see each other on the map and if they don't have the app they can still track a little browser map so it still works even if you don't have the app somebody says it's too invasive well it's it's only for people who are willing to share their location when people already know their location so the the point of it is that if you've invited somebody to your house or your friends are all meeting at the movies or something they've already shared their location because you know that they're gonna be traveling from wherever they are to the same place so it's just being a little more specific about something that you already know where they are they're on their way to this restaurant they're on their way to the party if you have a phone you've already been invaded yeah I feel like I've kind of given up on any kind of thoughts about privacy have you I feel like privacy isn't really a thing that I need to work because it's already gone yeah so the idea is that if you shared your location of the app you can get rid of all those text messages and say I'm already in the restaurant you know I got a table I'm in the back you know I'll be there late you don't have to do any of those messages people the host or anybody else can just look at the map say uh Thorin looks like Bob's gonna be late that app approach could end marriages lol no it couldn't because it's optional every time every time you use it and it times out so we built it so you couldn't track people permanently you don't have that option it's just on the way to a meeting all right I'm just looking at here yeah the when we have some news on when hub but I've got a meeting coming up so we'll wait on that alright I don't have anything else to talk about well Africa become a social justice Mecca yeah what was the name of the Turkish cellphone company it's one word its Turkish cell and the cell part is like cell phone C elo Turkish cell one word but I'm not recommending it I'm just telling you I bought it and so far it's been a terrible investment so do do with that what you want all right that's enough for me I will talk to you all later after you're done with the all year shopping

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Jonah well let's talk about what's in

the news as you may have know last week

Rasmussen had a poll showing that

President Trump had 34% or so support

from African Americans and people like

me said well that's not true I saw that

poll and the first thing I thought was

yeah how did he ask that question and

then an emerson poll came out soon after

asking the same question and getting

same answer

33 34 % support for President Trump

among African

arrogance and I thought to myself what

are the odds that there would be two

poles that would get the same result

yesterday there was a third three poles

three different companies have all found

unprecedented support for President

Trump by african-americans now does that

translate into votes some of it

but we don't know now are you surprised

that the president has spent three years

fighting to reduce immigration primarily

for the benefit of the african-american

population as well as others but there's

a bigger bigger impact and you're doing

a prison reform and lowering

unemployment and helping the

historically black colleges and having

Opportunity Zones I don't know this

might be real if it turns out that it's

real that the president has a third of

the support from the african-american

communities I think Candace Owens needs

some kind of a Nobel Peace Prize I don't

think they give Nobel Peace Prizes for

domestic politics but Candace Owens as

James things I mean lots of other people

are involved but she's probably the most

effective effective let's say advocate

for the president all right so a weird

and unusual and wonderful thing happened

in Hong Kong where most of the situation

is dire and terrible but after President

Trump signed the legislation that was

overwhelmingly passed by Congress there

were two bills that were sort of putting

some pressure on China for what's

happening in Hong Kong I guess one put

some pressure on the individuals or

involved in other limits the Li I guess

limits the things that we sell to the

police force

now neither of those things has much

impact you know China is not going to be

too influenced by those tiny little

bills signed in America but they don't

like it they don't like it at all and

what was interesting is that the Hong

Kong protesters gathered on Thanksgiving

which is not their Thanksgiving

obviously it's our Thanksgiving with

American flags and big posters of that

beam of president Trump's head

photoshopped onto the body of a muscular

boxer that's actually sliced alone and

they're there holding up the the poster

as sort of a showing the power of

President Trump and I don't know about

you and apparently they were they were

singing the national anthem or something

and I watched some of that coverage just

you know the photographs and the

articles and they have to I gotta tell

you I had a strong emotional reaction to

it I don't know if they happen to any of

you but watching people on the literally

the opposite side of the world

what they're basically saying and maybe

I'm reading too much into it

so just tell me if you agree I think

what they're saying is that their only

hope is President Trump now they

wouldn't word it that way I'm sure but

the more I think about this situation

the more I think that there's literally

only one person on the planet that has

any chance should he try to do it of

protecting Hong Kong think about that

there's seven billion people on the

planet or so Hong Kong is in desperate

times

obviously if China gets there you know

their way with Hong Kong a lot of those

protestors their lives are over and they

gathered to say

to wave American flags and show pictures

of our president because I think they

understand he's actually the only person

and of seven billion people he's the

only one who can save them now I don't

even know if he can save them I don't

know if he if it's practical I don't

know if it's good for the country I'm

not saying it's gonna happen but I found

it very powerful that they've they that

they focused on President Trump as their

sort of symbol of hope there's a lot

there it takes a while to sort of

process that thought that the United

States through its electoral process

produced a leader who is the only leader

in the whole world there's nobody else

who could make any difference

realistically who could save them it's

it's a remarkable situation certainly

worth watching now there was a tweet

from an individual who's in the Chinese

government Li Shan Zhou I hope I'm

prevent pronouncing it right zi h AO and

he's the they have big big titles over

there so he's the deputy director

general information Department Ministry

of Foreign Affairs for China and his

profile on Twitter says try my best to

tell the story of China and spread the

voice in China so he's a he's sort of

like one of the spokespeople for China

and he decides to tweet this he said in

Washington talking about Washington DC

and I'm gonna read it the same way it's

written so his English is a little bit

broken so I would just could read it the

way he wrote it he says in Washington

the White seldom go to Southeast area as

it's an area for the black president

Trump even demanded for women lawmakers

of color to leave us and

respect for President Trump us and the

black there

please follow quote America first policy

and take care of racial discrimination

and then it goes on in a thread to talk

about the bad conditions for

african-americans in this country so

their response to us meddling in their

foreign affairs is to interfere with our

election now it's interesting that they

went for this target president Trump is

doing everything he can

that's you know practical to help the

African American community and

apparently the polls are showing that

they're recognizing that we have three

polls now showing yes unparalleled

unprecedented support for a Republican

and China's decided to go after that you

know they see that weakness domestically

there like a Ellis let's stoke that

racial division but is there anything

that's happening in this country that

could be at the moment that could be

compared to what China is doing with

Hong Kong what they're doing with the

Weger splitting with concentration camps

what they're doing with a flume Gong

which is literally murdering them for

parts and selling off their organs is

there anything we're doing in this

country this even slightly slightly as

bad as any of the four whole Holocaust

going on in in China the four are the

weaker is the Fallujah the what the

fence and all they're sending to this

country and then Hong Kong now I'm

calling it a for Holocaust to trap

idiots into debating it now if if I've

taught you anything one of the best ways

to get attention is to be wrong because

when you say something that's just true

it just kind of lays there so well it's

true doesn't have any power but if you

say something provocative that's a

little bit wrong people will pay

attention because they want to tell you

you're wrong

so I've been talking about the four

Chinese Holocaust in progress

and by throwing the Hong Kong into the

mix because they haven't killed a lot of

people yet people to stop and say I

don't know about this Hong Kong is a

fourth Holocaust yeah the other three I

can see the point there but that fourth

one I don't know I don't think that

belongs on the list that's right you

have fallen for my trap so I'll be

saying publicly there are four Holocaust

and letting people debate it it's almost

too easy

alright dr. Robert Epstein you might

remember him he did some testifying in

Congress about Google's potential bias

so now he's operating a study in which

he has a whole bunch of people that are

identified only within the study but not

publicly who are simply using Google and

using regular search terms and stuff and

they're trying to see if they can get

different results over time as the

election approaches than they would on

the other search engines and the

hypothesis here is that if Google

continues to show a bias that is not

present in Bing or Yahoo or Dachau that

that will show something it will show

that Google is intentionally biasing

their search now here's what's

interesting they're definitely going to

find out that but Google is massively

biasing their search then what Google

massively biased their search last

election did that hurt Google in any way

doesn't look like it what would stop

Google from just doing it completely

getting caught and just saying well no

we didn't do that you know you can't

look at our internal stuff we didn't do

that I don't think there's anything to

stop them it looks like it just go ahead

and do it I saw the news today that Jack

Dorsey CEO Twitter you tweeted I think

that he's using DuckDuckGo on his phone

and as his browser because of the

privacy stuff and I just downloaded the

DuckDuckGo app on my phone I was already

using the browser of my computer's but I

thought oh yeah I should I should move

to that on my phone as well so for

privacy reasons and because Google is

really on American on American in the

sense that they're messing with our

elections which is about the most

unamerican thing you could do

I'm also looking into doing some

research on some alternates for YouTube

as you know YouTube is throttling my

content and it's just shrinking instead

of growing even though it's growing in

viewers and shrinking and revenue you

know so obviously there's something

going on there so there are several

platforms on the way and already up and

I'm going to take a look at those and

see which one to move to yeah mines calm

is one rock fin is another and I don't

know the differences between them and

there's at least one startup that I know

of that's coming online as well so there

there's some alternatives to YouTube and

I will be probably selecting one of them

or possibly using all oh yes bid shoot

is the other now there's a problem with

the alternates if you if you go full bit

shoot and you're saying we're not we're

not going to six hammer uses shoot

see the trouble with Bishop is that they

do attract a lot of bad elements I think

what I'm likely to do somebody's

mentioning think spot and I don't know

about think spot is is who what is think

spot is that Jordan

Petersons think I'm gonna look it up

here so I know what I'm talking about

think spot is yeah Jordan Peterson's

thing that is that what he's working on

with Dave Rubin so I'm looking at a

something on medium so there's a blog a

medium that and the title is Jordan

Peterson's think spot is doomed to fail

it's doomed to fail I think people say

that about everything

what about Vimeo I don't know so I think

what I'll do is maybe for 2020 I'll be

looking to put my content on more

platforms and if any of those other

platforms work out well then I just get

off of YouTube but in the meantime I'll

probably just have multiple platforms

there's report that the Kamala Harris

campaign is totally falling apart and I

guess Mike Bloomberg just hired one of

her top campaign advisors as I suspected

you know how I was telling you that that

camel Harris seemed like a talented

politician but I couldn't understand why

her campaign was the worst I've ever

seen the worst just the worst there's no

there's no campaign that's ever been as

bad as Conley Harrison's and I had

speculated that the campaign staff was

bad and I learned at some point I

learned that her sister was a I guess

the chairman chair of the campaign or

something but today I learned it's even

worse than that so indeed Cobble

Harris's sister is a leader of the

campaign but there's a another leader so

the other leader is apparently

associated with the political advising

company that's that brought cobble

Harris to the Senate and got her to this

point so she's got two advisors that are

not on the same page and she can't

really get rid of either one of them

because

one's a sister and one is you know this

political group that got her where she

is now and I guess she's running out of

money and people aren't talking and

coordinating and their message is bad

and their slogans have changed basically

it's just a complete mess now it kind of

highlights the problem with a senator

running for president Dustin do you know

how senators don't do a lot of hiring

and firing yeah they do some but it's

not like running a business

Trump is famous for firing like crazy

he's how many people has Trump fired

fire fire fire

and one of the smartest things I ever

heard this is something that navall says

that that the real talent in hiring and

firing is the firing part because when

you hire people you know they usually

look good on paper maybe they can get

through the interviews but you don't

really know how they're gonna do in your

company you can sort of find out how

they did in their past jobs but you

don't really know how they're gonna do

in your company so the real skill given

that hiring is a lot of guessing the

real skill is firing so if you can do it

quickly and kindly in a way that you

know doesn't make you enemies for life

then you're a good manager so you look

for the firing skill as the real skill

it's it's sort of you know look for the

blank space situation does Trump have

good hiring skills well a lot of people

would say no but that's mostly guessing

right does Trump have good firing skills

well his firing skills were a lot better

than his hiring skills and the firing

skills are more important so table

Harris has apparently no firing skills

because she's got two people in her

campaign that either one of them needs

to be fired or both probably both

but certainly her sister

no doubt about it her sister needs to be

fired I mean that's what it looks like

from a distance

so there's some some talk that Harris

won't even you know make it long enough

to get into the to get into any kind of

a brokered convention because she's

running out of money and she's got no

message no nothing I feel as if I could

fix her whole campaign in like an hour

you know if she spent an hour with me I

feel like I could fix all of that all

she needs is a better message and to

ignore her advisors and just take on her

a better message because she's got

everything else she's got you know the

Democratic Party likes her she's got the

right Democratic thing she's the right

age people are saying don't do it don't

do it

well I don't think you have to worry

about her contacting me for advice I

would say the odds of that was very low

very low somebody's saying why she'll

smoke all your weed somebody said you

don't don't you don't like to lose do

you know I don't like to lose

yeah you know when I predicted that she

would be the the the nominee I don't

think anybody could have predicted it

would be the worst campaign staff in the

history of all campaign staffs I mean I

didn't see that comment so you're right

it is it is tempting for me to want to

fix or just well enough that she can win

the nomination and losing the general I

don't think there's any chance that

Trump's gonna lose in the general

election why are you sideways somebody

asks I'm not so there's something

happening on your end if she can't run

her campaign how could she around the

country well that's a good question

poorly it appears

it's gots the mole so there's not much

news going on at the moment so we're

mostly going to enjoy our four-day

weekend and our simultaneous set do you

think this translates into a promising

presidency now let me let me say as

clearly as possible calmly Harris would

not be a good president and she doesn't

have a chance of beating Trump in the

general election but I did think she'd

do well enough to get the nomination

will Hillary run you know what you know

what's weird is that from the longest

time I'd been thinking that Hillary was

too old but apparently she's actually

kind of young compared to the other

people in the race she's what 71 or

something so Hillary would actually be

one of the youngest people in the race

of the people who would get a lot of

support but I can't imagine her doing it

it just seems too difficult to imagine

because if you were her could you take a

chance of losing again somebody says

down 2% is down 2% or 0.2% there's one

thing I want to check on the stocks

right now it looks like stocks all

turned down yeah a little bit but let me

check oh no what a mine is up all right

so there are two things that are

relative relevant to Bitcoin prices so

Bitcoin went up 6% yesterday and another

3% today if you put them together it's

one of the biggest two days and I don't

know a number of weeks so one of the

things I said about Bitcoin is that if

it's true that what the president says

that they're going to designate the

cartels as as terrorists it could be

that the cartels will have billions of

dollars that they don't have anything

that they can put it into a bank because

the banks just will be out of and a play

so where are they gonna put their money

if you're a cartel and you've got a

billions billions of dollars where are

you gonna put it

I was I was suggesting it might be

Bitcoin now I don't know because I'm not

a drug dealer but I don't think they put

it in any other crypto they might spread

it around a little bit but at the very

least they put some amount in Bitcoin

because they'd have to and then we have

this other news bringing Jack Dorsey

back into it again apparently Jack

Dorsey just spent a number of weeks in

different places in Africa and has

decided he's going to move there for

part of the year so he's gonna spend

substantial time in Africa we don't know

the details but trying to be a positive

force and when talking about that Jack

Dorsey mentioned Bitcoin so Bitcoin in

Africa could be a solution to what

corruption a solution to no banking I

suppose it could be some kind of a

solution so so imagine if Africa goes

Bitcoin and the cartels go Bitcoin and

both of these pieces and news came out

and sure enough Bitcoin is up on the

news I should say that I own I own some

Bitcoin just so you know for full

disclosure I'll also tell you that you

should not make any financial

recommendations based on what

cartoonists say on periscope and this is

not financial advice I am NOT advising

you indeed if you buy any kind of

cryptocurrency doesn't matter which it

is it's not really investing it's more

like guessing so buyer beware

I will tell you one of my investments so

I made the worst investment in the world

a number of years ago by buying the

Turkish

cell phone company so the thought was

that no matter what happens in Turkey

there will probably be more people born

you know it's likely that they'll have a

high birth rate and they'll all need

phones and their cell phone company has

kind of a monopoly there and so a while

ago I bought shares that you can buy in

the United States of the Turkish cell

phone company Turk cell and lately

that's up sharply probably because the

dangers the dangers between the United

States and Turkey seem to have passed in

other words US and Turkey don't look

like they're heading for something bad

at the moment so that's up I do not

recommend anybody buy any of the stocks

that I mentioned or any of the essence

that I mentioned on this periscope I'm

just telling you what I did and I feel I

feel that it's it's necessary to share

with you some of my predictions so it's

very rare for me to buy an individual

stock I did buy Apple individual stock

quite a while ago that's worked out

really well in fact it's the best stock

investment I've ever made I still have

that but don't do what I do because that

would be a bad idea

all right I'm just looking at your why

don't you talk about when done well I

will be talking about went up a little

bit more in fact if your holidays as

your holidays are coming up you might

want to use one of our products called

approach which I've talked about before

so approach allows you to see a little

map and you just send out a link from

the app and you're you can see your

friends on the map or your family

members converging at a point so it's

fun to watch

a variety of people you know coming to

Christmas or coming to an event and if

you use that app which is free you can

you can do an in-app purchase and buy a

little header so that your company will

show and if you're a small business and

you service homes

you probably want this app snapchat has

a feature like that snapchat has snap

map so if you're on snapchat and if

you've shared your location you can see

your friends on a map but that's more of

a where where's alt where are all my

friends at the moment but what this does

is it's a temporary tracking as a timer

so it times out it's just saying see see

the people that you want coming to an

event and they don't have to be on any

service or sign up for anything they

don't even have to have the app out of

the app is called approach by when hub

it's a free app and you just can send

out a link email it or text it and

everybody who hits it can see each other

on the map and if they don't have the

app they can still track a little

browser map so it still works even if

you don't have the app somebody says

it's too invasive well it's it's only

for people who are willing to share

their location when people already know

their location so the the point of it is

that if you've invited somebody to your

house or your friends are all meeting at

the movies or something

they've already shared their location

because you know that they're gonna be

traveling from wherever they are to the

same place so it's just being a little

more specific about something that you

already know where they are they're on

their way to this restaurant they're on

their way to the party if you have a

phone you've already been invaded yeah I

feel like I've kind of given up on any

kind of thoughts about privacy have you

I feel like privacy isn't really a thing

that I need to work

because it's already gone yeah so the

idea is that if you shared your location

of the app you can get rid of all those

text messages and say I'm already in the

restaurant you know I got a table I'm in

the back you know I'll be there late you

don't have to do any of those messages

people the host or anybody else can just

look at the map say uh Thorin looks like

Bob's gonna be late that app approach

could end marriages lol no it couldn't

because it's optional every time every

time you use it and it times out so we

built it so you couldn't track people

permanently you don't have that option

it's just on the way to a meeting all

right I'm just looking at here yeah the

when we have some news on when hub but

I've got a meeting coming up so we'll

wait on that

alright I don't have anything else to

talk about

well Africa become a social justice

Mecca yeah what was the name of the

Turkish cellphone company it's one word

its Turkish cell and the cell part is

like cell phone C elo Turkish cell one

word but I'm not recommending it I'm

just telling you I bought it and so far

it's been a terrible investment so do do

with that what you want all right that's

enough for me I will talk to you all

later after you're done with the all

year shopping