Episode 817 Scott Adams - Who REALLY Won in New Hampshire, New Stupid Attack on Trump

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Tube later where we upload it or on podcast what I said about the cup full of hearts makes no sense in your world but remember we're all watching two movies on one screen so don't be surprised if why you see is different from what other people see so in no particular order and you know that gigantic story about the the anti-trump guy who tried to massacre a bunch of trump volunteers you know the thing that everybody is talking about it's a gigantic story I mean why wouldn't it be there's somebody who tried to Massacre a bunch of Trump supporters oh wait it's not a national story it's a kind of a little blip Shara was mentioned the guy that got lost in the wash that's right there's somebody who tried to murder Trump supporters didn't try to mess didn't try to kill a leader tried to kill ordinary voters who are just registering people to vote they weren't causing trouble so that's where the rhetoric against Trump supporters gets you somebody actually tried to kill amazing we'll get to New Hampshire I'm just letting people pile in here my favorite my favorite pundit and I say favorite because he's so absurd is this Stefon Collins a guy who writes he writes in the anti-trump article for cnn.com just about every day and here's how he is trying to create the newest frame in which people can find a way to hate Trump because they're running out of ways it's like oh he's colluding with the Russians okay he's not he did something terribly impeachable okay it wasn't that impeachable it was you know closer to a perfect letter than impeachable so they're they're desperately cycling through well he doesn't seem like he's actually insane so here's what here's what they lid on and you can see that Stephan Colin said is sort of I think maybe testing the water with this so here's the approach quote from his article the sudden storm over stone and so talking about Roger stone and possible pardon triggered by an early hours tweet by the President as part of an accelerated pattern of unmoderated behavior since Trump was found not guilty of impeachable way of a Peet of impeachable offenses wait a minute he was found not guilty of impeachable offenses that's the wrong sentence isn't it wasn't he found not guilty if they were impeachable offenses that would suggest that it was just a mistake and he was actually guilty I like how he sort of stick that in there so you uncritically read it as though it was a travesty of justice yeah so there were impeachable defenses but inexplicably he wasn't a beached how do you explain it it's hard to explain anyway so some of whom expressed the hope that the scar of impeachment the scar of impeachment the the red letter I that's now burned at his chest he will he will forever suffer the scar of impeachment I haven't noticed have you it must be like it must be like a little little scar that's this maybe underneath his arm here where you don't see it I mean there might be a scar of impeachment on Trump but I haven't seen it yet it must be very small and covered with clothing but anyway it looks like the new attack against Trump is that he's unleashed he's going to be he no longer can his his his dictatorial impulses be controlled he can't be controlled he's he's Godzilla no he can't be Godzilla somebody else's Godzilla so it feels like not the strongest attack because it Adam it just doesn't ring true but they're they're trying desperately to find something that connects as a criticism all right the big story one of the big stories from last night is that yang is out Andru yang has dropped out of the race did not really get the the support that he needed to continue but I would like to join all of you in thanking Andrew yang and I and I think most of you would agree with this I think he made the the race better I think he made the conversation in the United States about the topics that he was pushing you bi robots are coming for your jobs etc.

I think he I think he added a real genuine which is the same as rail he really upgraded the conversation now he didn't quite you know make it to the final three but he certainly changed the conversation and I think it might be a permanent kind of a shift in her thinking and he was fun he was great for asian-americans because you know he got as far as he did so everything about him was good it was very positive experience so thank you Andrew for being a good American a great American you know one of the best so thanks for that one of the things that one of my Twitter friends noted is that he had a little program that I was not aware of and I thought I'd give it a shout-out because it was interesting it was a basically a student exchange program within the United States which is not the worst idea I've ever heard enough so normally you do the student exchanges with other countries so that you both get a little flavor of what the other country is about it's good in the long run for you know peaceful relationships and understanding and all that but I guess yang was suggesting that we do it within the United States so that people would get out of their little bubble of their neighborhood or their culture and see what it's like somewhere else it's actually a really good that's a really good suggestion let's keep that one out there all right so thanks Andrew yang let's talk about the the other candidates and where we're at now if I had to pick one variable that makes the most difference in who's going to win the presidency I would say the economy now president Trump has a incredible lead in the economy you know meaning they use an incumbent over well maybe the best economy we've ever had and sure sure you can say Obama had better stats and this or that or it's just a continuation of Obama and people will say that but still when things are going well in the economy is a super strong indicator but the second big variable in a world of many variables the to this stick out are the black vote and economics so if President Trump looked good on those two things you'd have to look for some kind of a special situation to take him out because those are the by far the two most commanding variables not the only variables and there could be lots of surprises between now and Election Day but these are very predictive so let's look at how the other candidates look on those two variables and some others and let's talk about matchup what is what is Trump's biggest negative his biggest negative now you could say you could say there are two I'd say two of his biggest negatives are the deficit that Trump is not as good on reducing the deficit as even his own side would like and certainly you know the people who oppose him would use that as a club but he's running against people who are going to make the deficit worse and they're not even pretending that's not the case they're not even pretending if you look at Bernie Sanders is he gonna make the deficit better or worse well I think you know the answer the question that's not even a political opinion I believe Sanders would probably say the same thing I'm saying which is yeah yeah this this stuff is more expensive than what we're doing now so of course it's going to make the deficit go up so even if you increase if you increase taxes a lot most people think the deficit is going to go up under Sanders so I think President Trump's biggest weakness one of them the deficit the Democrats can't use it's off the table it's his biggest flaw that's not about his personality you know his personal style but his biggest flaw that's on policy they got an opening they got nobody who's gonna do anything now maybe you know maybe when Bloomberg gets gets into the race you know in the actual voting part of the race maybe it would look different but even he's looking to reduce you know to be very aggressive on climate change it's hard to imagine to anybody who's going to be super aggressive on climate change is also going to be good for the deficit so they got nothing for nothing against him on the deficit he's completely free from that criticism essentially and what about the black vote will go through each of the candidates and talk about that I think that's the other biggest thing so I saw on some blog that black support for Bernie plunged to eight percent what eight percent now I don't know how they measure such things because if eight percent is just to share he got from you know the other Democrats I don't know if it means the same as if you were running in the general election he's obviously gonna get more than a percent black support but the the real thing is it it looks like you get reduced by half recently now I'm not sure if you can trust this to statistics on any of this stuff yet the way they ask the questions the earliness of it all that sort of thing but it does seem like Sanders does not have some advantage with the black vote so that would be advantage Trump because Trump has an actual track record in office that even Democrats say oh I gotta admit that's pretty good for the black community there's everything from supporting the historically black colleges prison reform Enterprise Zones and going on a good employment race and and I don't think you can I don't think you can underestimate how important it is that Trump talks about benefiting the black community more than anybody am I am I wrong about that if you were to just look at the all the things that people say all of the Democrats collectively or individually and then look at all the things that President Trump says which of them talks more about benefiting the black community in this country I think it's Trump ten to one I don't think it's even close name the other big policy that any of the Democrats have for helping the black community nothing am I wrong that I can't think of one I can't think of a single Democratic candidate and there are so many of them who have a policy that I would identify as oh yeah that's clearly you know design for the benefit of the black community I though I think I think Trump is actually saying the most as well as somebody said steyr and in reparations but I don't know if anybody takes us seriously do they do you think there are too many black voters who think yeah I'm going to get me some reparations I don't think anybody thinks that's real that's more of a talking thing anyway so I think Bernie's got a problem there with the black vote Lloyd Blanken fine X Goldman Sachs CEO was tweeting this and this is important because he's a rich Democrat all right he's a rich non Trump supporter so a rich Democrat one of the richest says in a tweet if Dems go on to nominate Sanders the Russians will have to reconsider who to work for to best screw up the u.s.

he tweeted and that he said Sanders is just as polarizing his Trump and he'll ruin our economy and doesn't care about our military if I'm Russian I go with Sanders this time around what about I mean right and this is this is a Democrat saying that and I've got a feeling that rich people what they're maybe really worried about is their taxes and their economic situation but that's a pretty strong broadside from our rich Democrat and I got to think there are other rich Democrats who have the same opinion now if let's say one of the Bernie or one of those super or socialists the one the ones who are more socialist gets nominated there's a gigantic attack vector in there I don't know if that makes sense an attack the vector let's assume that made sense that Trump has available to him that he hasn't really busted out yet could be he's just waiting for the right time to take out the Gatling gun but and it goes like this and I've told you this before when the economy is working really really well as it is in the opinion of most citizens right now you don't add risk you don't completely change something that's working well and that's what Bernie and Elizabeth Warren and the other socialist leading ones want to do Trump is not trying to doubt that argument yet that you don't break something that isn't broken or you don't fix something that isn't broken and when he does that's sort of the end of it because older people are the voters more so than the Bernese Bernie seems to have captured the support of all the people who are least likely to vote the the youth people are young and don't have health care I think they're the least likely to vote am i can somebody fact check that whereas Trump has a natural constituency constituency even more so than ever of people who just say okay I'm old don't rock the boat things are going okay Trump owns the things are going okay let's not change it group and that's all the seniors so so good job Bernie in getting such vocal support from people who probably don't vote that much that's going to cost him all right Bernie Sanders hired a band for his last campaign event the name of the band and I'm not making this up what are the odds that Bernie Sanders would hire a band to perform at his event and the name of the band would be the strokes come on the one of two things as possible either the person that I named the mole is working for Bernie meaning secretly giving him bad advice and doing all the wrong things in his social media I don't think such a person really exists but it's fun to think about it because when you see them do stuff like this you say to yourself that looks more like a than an actual thing that would just happen naturally now of course it's a world full of coincidences as I tell you often and so if I had to guess of course it's just a coincidence but I think somebody should have maybe said Bernie maybe maybe we should not associate with strokes you know no Bernie didn't have a stroke but you still think of this cardiovascular system as all one thing sort of sort of blends together in people's minds and remind you of his mortality people are all excited about Buddha judge boudin's edge because he has so much support and he's he's finished one or two and the last in the first two events so hey it's gonna be all him right except that we're gonna run into the states that have an actual minority population for the first time and he's sort of done already so I would say that Buddha Chege is probably 90% certain I would say he's probably a dead man walking in terms of politics because I think as soon as he hits the minority vote you're gonna see his his strength just evaporate so that's my prediction so I think I think his ride was exciting but he's sort of closer to the end of his ride than the beginning of course we need to talk about Biden so there are two views on Biden one is that he had this clever statment strategy where he would lose the first two events but then he would come back strong once the once the states were the bigger minority population we're voting but it looks like his support as cratered and I think that the first two the first two outcomes as somebody smart once said black people watch the news too it's one of those dumb ideas and somebody said if you're if you're a black supporter of Biden let's say you've been supporting him when when you answer the the pollsters up and now you had your television odd he or you heard the news one way or another you saw the news and you saw that Joe Biden doesn't have white support he doesn't have white support so if you're a black supporter of Biden are you gonna climb on a horse that doesn't have white support in the United States that's sort of a problem so I think you know the the rational black voters who are paying attention are saying ah I think I'd rather be with somebody who could get a white vote because I'm gonna need a few of those if I want to if I want to be on the winning team so I would agree with the pundits who are now saying that Biden is completely done and it's just a matter of time before he finds the most graceful way to to make his exit now I would like to claim partial credit for predicting how many people have many people I think a lot of you were with me here how many people from the very beginning when Biden was the overwhelming polling favorite how many people said as clearly as I did he's not going to make it to the nomination yeah I've been saying that since the beginning and it was because he would falter he just doesn't there's just not enough left of him unfortunately age age is taking its toll so now I got the calmly Harris thing completely wrong so I don't want to brag too much about the Biden part and if Biden is completely out which I assume will be the case alas you know I suppose he could throw a Hail Mary and say you know let me tell you who my vice president would be then look at me again so he does have that play to name a vice president but we haven't seen that play ever work for anybody so I think Biden's done let's talk about Club achar Club achar in my opinion is the big winner and I saw some people mocking mocking the idea that she was the big winner because she came in third all right she came in third how can you be the big winner if two people just kick your butt and came in first and second and the answer is this how many times have I told you that the direction of things matters more than where things are where things are is that Biden and Budaj edge just were the two highest vote getters and two events in a row that's where we are but where are we heading that's the Klobuchar story the Klobuchar story is that she just got a huge boost and enough so that she's in the serious competition enough people are paying attention her finish should make all the people who didn't pay attention to her before start paying attention to her but there's a really interesting part of the story now if you read my book when Begley many of you have you know that sometimes it's impossible to tell when something happens by coincidence versus when it has been influenced by some event can't really tell and so this is part of the fun it turns out that if you looked at the signs her supporters Club which are supporters were holding behind her when she gave her speech the I guess they've picked the slogan win big win big that's the Klobuchar slogan now when big Lee comes loosely from President Trump now I believe he was saying wind big leaguer but it sounds like they win big Lee and so I used that humorously as my book title as if he had been saying the big Lee although lately I think he does a big leap but that's another story so here's em and I've told you before now this isn't the first time you're gonna hear this if this were the first time I ever said what I'm gonna say now it would sound a little you'd be a little skeptical but I've been saying this for a while I tell you that one of the ways that I traced my own Rajon is by choice of words when you see an unusual choice of words migrate from you know the things I've said or written into other people's mouths or their presentation it doesn't necessarily mean that you influence them but it's a flag it's a little signal and so I say that's very interesting I wrote a book with all of the best persuasion techniques that President Trump used to win and it becomes sort of a manual that any candidate could could read to improve their persuasion and that I see that something very close to the title of my book just appeared on the sides now I'm not making any claim that they made the signs because of my book at least consciously let me ask you this do you think there's anybody in the Democratic campaigns let's say their campaign staffs do you think that any of the Democrats have anybody on their staffs who have ever read the one book that is biased design the most helpful book any of them could read for improving their communication which is all they're doing they're not governing they're communicating a campaign is nothing but well it's mostly communicating with a little bit of organization in there so what are the odds that a best-selling book that tells you the best way to communicate in a political context would be read by people who do that for a living and read books pretty well there's a pretty good chance that some of them are familiar with the book but if if it were true that Klobuchar had been influenced or let's say she improved her game by reading my book and I'm not saying that's the case I'm saying here's what you would look for what you would look for is that the technique in the book would start coming out in her presentation stronger than you've seen it before did any of you catch her semi victory speech last night in which he was claiming victory for coming in third did anybody see that somebody's asking me if I'm secretly consulting Klobuchar I'm not and I wouldn't lie to you about that I would not say to you I would not look you in the eyes and say I have not if I were even doing a little bit or indirectly her in any way I'm not and nor am i advising any democrat that's not happening but if you heard her speech she started out with a super visual and emotional story about her grandparents you know coal miner you know picking up his sister from from adoption agency because he had to work when he was a kid and and then they worked their way up and it was the American dream etc and that was a super visual yeah it was a super visual and emotional story what did Van Jones call that after Klobuchar gave that Van Jones who I often tell you is sort of the the one-eyed he's the one-eyed Democrat in the land of the blind he just listen to what he says and you're gonna get a clearer view of the field than what any of the other pundits say it's very consistent he doesn't just every time his opinion is just a little more clear a little more on point than just about everybody was talking about this stuff and and one of the things that Van Jones pointed out is how good she was with story and he was like he was kind of blown away a little bit by had the quality of her speech have you ever heard that before has anybody ever said that Klobuchar and she can give a speech that you know touches your heartstrings I've never heard it I've never heard anybody say ban Klobuchar what a orator her speaking you know moves me never heard it before and then she walked up on stage yesterday and she just nailed it I mean I watched I watched just the first part of the speech live and I was sitting there think am i imagining this or is this really good and then I started looking for the visual elements she talked about the grandmother packing a lunch you can see it too can't you you can see the grandmother you can see her packing the lunch and then she talked about the coal miner who you know went down to the cage into the mind you could see it you could feel it you were in the mind with her grandfather you could see the grandfather borrowed a car to drive to get his sister who had been put in an orphanage orphanage yeah because they didn't have enough money for all their kids you could you could see him borrowing the car you could see him driving the car you could see him driving back with his sister it was amazingly visual so look for that if it's true and I'm not saying it is but there are some certainly some breadcrumbs here that would suggest as somebody on the Klobuchar campaign has figured out a way to be a lot more persuasive now I would say that I've called Klobuchar technique the tortoise versus the hare z-- the other candidates of the hares they're they're trying to the other that the hares are running fast and burning brightly and winning the early stuff but Klobuchar just keeps tour to sing along bump bump them hey what's today took another step today bump bump bump how are you guys doing flaming out getting in trouble saying things you shouldn't say I'm just climbing along like a little tortoise do you can try to hit me but my shell will will reject your stuff but boo and she simply didn't make mistakes right I apologize for all my nasal problems live here I've got some surgery lined up to roto-rooter my nasal cavities and then I should be fine after a while but it seems to me that Klobuchar by simply not drawing attacks and not making any obvious mistakes it starting to get a second look so the tortoise strategy looks kind of it looks pretty strong now here's the other interesting thing about her what's what's the big complaint about Trump usually it's about as being mean right he's mean here's me in his big old meanie Trump is most associated with New York City even though he's moved his place of residence we think of Trump as a New Yorker with a sort of a New Yorker personality a little tougher or more in-your-face and then there's Klobuchar who is associated with Minnesota what is Minnesota most famous for among all the states and the Union now if you didn't know this I'd be surprised Minnesota produces the nicest people in the universe I don't know why it just does there's something about Minnesota that produces nice people fairly consistently so she comes from the literally the nicest state that produces for whatever reason the nicest people personality-wise against the Trump personality who's sort of the New York personality that's an interesting matchup because there's there's a pendulum effect you know people might want a fighter until they get a little tired of the fighter and then maybe they did somebody nice after a while so there's certainly a longing for niceness that makes her a good matchup I don't know that you could beat the president by being more more of whatever he is by being more attacking than he is I don't know that you can I don't know that you can over attack know you could over attack I don't know that you could be Trump by being more like Trump I think you have to counter program and with something that's also good that's the antidote to Trump Klobuchar has that she looks she looks like a you know a dependable pair of shoes and she's nice now there's these rumors about you know eating salad with her home and all that I don't know if any that that's going to be a problem it doesn't seem to be dogging her so I think that'll be a thing so anyway she's she's got a lot going on so let's keep an eye on her and see if she's learned to persuade as well as I fear she may have all right yeah let's talk about Bloomberg Bloomberg of course has that stop and frisk problem the black support problem but he's but worse that he's a terrible matchup for Trump if you were to take a blank piece of paper and say to yourself all right your exercise is to invent a candidate and make the candidate the worst matchup you could possibly think of for President Trump what's the worst thing you could do it's like well billionaire and that's pretty bad but worse billionaire with foreign entanglements especially with countries were worried the most about hello China Bloomberg's got China entanglements he's probably got all kinds of entanglements all over the globe do any of those entanglements mean that something bad has happened could happen what happen who knows but it's not a good match up because that's one of the things that people were afraid of with Trump is the the international entanglements so are you going to are you going to oppose him with the guy who has the most international entanglements we've ever seen I doubt anybody has more international entanglements than Bloomberg here's one you don't see coming or maybe you do as as Bloomberg got any me two problems does anybody I don't see it in the headlines maybe there were some stories that were unconfirmed floating around but here's the thing he's an old white billionaire of a certain age let me ask you this question if you're an old white billionaire of a certain age though you have a lot of me toos and you're in your portfolio now maybe they haven't all come out but the odds that the odds of any old white billionaire and I won't even I'm not even going to make this personal about Bloomberg because I have I have no information that would say there's anything with the Emery's bad in fact I like it I think Bloomberg's a solid guy Bloomberg's a solid guy and I would say he's a solid Patriot I don't like I like his political opinion at the moment but he's a solid smart reasonable right minded kind of guy but you know there's just nobody in that demographic who isn't gonna get a me-too coming down in the woods somewhere somewhere now the other the other big thing that's different about him and Trump is climate change and he's going for this you know get rid of most carbon fuels 80 percent or something he doesn't go far enough probably for the Democrats who think it's the end of the world to climate change but I saw a study recently that said that climate change for the country and as a whole was one of the lowest priorities now I'm not sure I totally believe the polls on that because the way people answer questions of what is a priority can be you know I'm not sure that there's a really credible polls but the poll I saw showed climate change almost lasts and economics and immigration taught at the top so that's the problem Bloomberg I'm sure is not going to be as pro-immigration as his own team wants I just don't think he has enough red meat for his own team he's sort of in that weird uninteresting ground in the middle he doesn't have enough for Democrats he's not enough like Trump to be a Republican he's sort of in that dead mins you know in tennis there's that there's a part of the court that's the the dead man zone that if you move into that part of the tennis court somebody's going to win the point because it's not a good place to be it's too close to the net but not close enough I think Bloomberg's there he's in that weird area where he's not going to excite anybody so he's also boring and short compared to trump we would like to think this short doesn't make a difference now bluebirds you know roughly the same size as me now do I think I could not be president because of my height no I could be president I mean if I wanted to I'm pretty sure I could do it I did write win big Lee now I'm not going to do it I have no interest in that kind of work but I don't think my height would stop me so I don't think its height is going to stop them but it's a negative if you stand again on this screen people are you know in there in there let's say they're non critical part of their brain or just gonna say leader I want a leader who looks like a leader I'll take the big one thank you so it does make a difference maybe not the commanding difference the other problem is he's boring he's boring he's boring how do you take the most boring candidate and put him up against Trump the most interesting human being we've ever we've ever known in the history of civilization that's like the worst and also there's a question about his age whether he's losing a step that will always be a question and you remember he was talking about how he would if he became president he would work from a cubicle basically or an open office instead of having you know private offices that's the worst instinct it sounds like you know when when Bloomberg did his little I'm gonna work in a cubicle when I'm mayor I thought to myself that's not bad that's not bad if you're a mayor you're more like a senior vice president at a big company a senior vice president at a big company might want to not have a big office and look like they're special might want to have a cubicle and be a person of the people I can see it I don't think it was important you know I don't think it made a difference but I could see that as a branding thing it would make sense as a mayor but as soon as you say you're gonna be the brand of our country you get the D you're going to be the person we think of when we think of the United States you don't want them in a cubicle you want them in the Oval Office every time because that office is who we are that's our brand you know it'd be great if you take your own brand Mike Bloomberg if you want to make your personal brand I'm a guy who just works in a cubicle and a normal guy and that's okay with me do anything you want with your own brand but if you become president you're my brand you're my brand as president what you do reflects on me if you're a mayor does what the mayor does reflect on other people in the city not really right have you ever bonded have you ever thought of yourself as being part of the brand of your mayor no not once but when you think a president that's an accessory to you you you American citizens a lot of people from other countries watching this but if you're American you're president this part of your brand whether you like it or not and and that's just sort of a dumb old person move to not correct from the fact that what he did as a mayor just doesn't make sense as president it just doesn't make sense and it feels like an old guy who was just playing the hits they always liked a band who used to be popular but he can't write a hit song anymore so he's just gonna play the oldies I just don't think that matches up against Trump I also think Trump has another advantage which is that he's going to be more immune from fake news than ever before if because we've watched the fake news brand Trump as a certain thing and then be wrong time after time after time you know from the rush occlusion to you you name it you know what to talk about I don't know if the attacks on Trump will have the same power they might have before we saw him in office for four years I think I think he's just more immune from every kind of attack I can't even imagine what kind of attack he hasn't already gone through and it didn't take him out last time so he's sort of or Teflon that he ever was and he was pretty Teflon I mean grabbed him by the you-know-what and he still got elected that's pretty tough lon so he's more Teflon than ever but if it's somebody like Bernie Bernie has a real problem running against Trump Bernie has a real problem you know what Bernie's big problem is he's not a good enough liar now I believe that Bernie says some things that stretch credulity he certainly said things that the fact checkers checked him on and said not so much so they're probably there are no politicians who don't violate the fact checking sometimes but Bernie is kind of unique and that he's not the one to go negative as much and he's not gonna lie as much so he's the kind of person if you said hey Bernie you know I don't know if he's ever mentioned this he probably asked but you know that that thing in Charlottesville you got that wrong it turns out turns out that that's a misquote the president never never said that the neo-nazis were fine people he was talking about the other people there that he said were not the races if you tell Biden that maybe he'll still use it anyway because it works right but if you tell Bernie that and he believes oh oh geez that's not even true and it's easy to prove it's not true you just look at the transcript I don't know if Bernie would use it maybe would maybe would but I think Bernie is handicapped by being a little too honest and I don't know if that would work in a general election you know what I mean all right there's one suggestion I just heard this from an opinion person that one of the reasons that Bernie lost some support allegedly this is unconfirmed but recently with the african-american in the population is that Joe Rogan said he might vote for him now does that feel right to you do you think they African Americans support would plummet because Joe Rogan said he might vote for Bernie Sanders I don't think so I don't think people are paying attention at that level because what the heck do the black community have what problem do they have with Joe Rogan so it turns out you know he's comedian and provocative and he's been around for a long time so you can dig through his past and you can find something to be offended by but I don't think most of you are aware of it and it's not real yeah it's just being provocative and being offensive is a lot different from being racist he's not racist or even close at least there's certainly no evidence of it there's lots of evidence against it so Joe Rogan got a lot of heat from that and he clarified his opinion which I hadn't heard before and it goes like this so this is Joe Rogan clarifying his opinion about Sanders and he said on his podcast all I said is I'm probably going to vote for him but he added I like I like Tulsi Gabbard I love I love her I left him I love Andrew yang so he was making the point that he's you know it's not about one candidate there there are several candidates that he likes and then the egos and this is and this is why Joe Rogan is a national treasure because the next thing he says not many people could say I mean you just you can go where other people can't go and this is what Joe Rogan says he goes quote here's the really important point I'm an effing he used the real word I'm an effing Rogan added and went on to say I don't know what's required to be president and that maybe we're better off with Trump maybe we were better off with someone else I don't know so Rogan of course famously has had experience was with hallucinogenics and you know I've always told you that that allows you to to see the world through different filters if you have experience with altered consciousness' you know that you can experience a world that works perfectly you can eat and pro and go to work but it all just looks different if you've never experienced that you think that your point of view might be magic it's like ah how did I get the right point of view when there are seven billion people in the world who got it wrong I'm magic my brain can see things that other people can't I'm the only one with a clear view of the world okay that's a kind of a low level of consciousness the highest level of consciousness is expressed in this statement you ready here's a sentence from one of the highest consciousness people the people who can really see the field clearly Joe Rogan imma effing I don't know what's required to be President and that maybe we were better off with Trump maybe we were better off with someone else I don't know that statement that he doesn't know who would be the best president or the complexity of the policies etc is the highest level of awareness the the level below that is oh I know oh yeah I know this was a good one and I can tell you what the future looks like you could be right you could be wrong but the higher level of awareness is were just not that smart we really don't know what's going to happen so I'm happy that Joe Rogan added some context to that without changing his opinion because he didn't say therefore I'm not going to vote for Bernie Kaplan you stayed with that but then he gave us the context that in his own opinion he's a effing who doesn't know who would be the best president nobody ever said anything more honest than that that is the most honest thing you've heard in public about politics period that's the most clear highest consciousness understanding you've ever seen in public that's it can't beat that all right I was laughing at Pope Francis and I don't want to get religious and this is not an anti-catholic thing by any means I'm Pro religion for those of you don't know I'm not a believer myself but I think religion is mostly you know 90 percent is positive in people's lives it helps them here on earth and that's great so if it's a filter that works for you it's a wait'll to see the world produces benefits obviously does I'm in favor of religion if you don't take it to the extreme but I I observe religion as an observer and I can't help but wondering how these conversations went so Pope Francis says that he's now supporting the ordination of married men as priests in the Amazon so I guess that was a question so the word enough people who wanted to be priests unless you let them also be married which would mean that they would have be having relations with a woman which is apparently not allowed if you're going to be to Catholic priests and I wondered like how does that conversation go it's like well you know you get to be a leader a respected leader in our religion there's just one thing really sounds great what's the one thing well there's one thing you can't do what you can't give sex care sex all right well I I can put up without having sex for a while well I did say a while like forever for the rest of your life what yeah I mean you can be a priest but you can't have sex for the rest of your life and then you can imagine the person saying wow that's tough but you know at least I can you know if I can't have sex with another person at least I can take care of myself right well no so you can't do it with another person but also you can do with yourself would you like the job that's pretty severe can't do you have a intimate relationship with a woman and I can't even take care of it myself I guess I'm gonna have to do it for the money um what's it pay five ten million a year well you're also gonna be closer to poor than rich I don't know how you sell that job frankly but alright so I watched it as an outsider I'm glad that people do it because religion is good I think in the world so that's enough about that some get rich somebody says yeah that would be the exception I think I'm gonna give you a suggestion that's the best suggestion you've heard are you ready here it is during the election season all the candidates like to take issues off the table so if there's something that somebody's killing you with as an issue if you can do something to remove that that's good one of the things that Bernie and some of the other Democrats most of them I think our pushing is legalizing weed at the federal level and we see the Trump is completely vulnerable to that argument because he's kind of quiet on it and he's also a famously anti drunk so he's not really the right person to take that argument to the public even if he agrees with it we don't know if he does but even if he did it would be hard for him to be the anti-drug guy personally in his life it's made a big difference he's never touched any kind of drug so he would be the wrong person I think to promote legalization of any kind because it just goes against his his personal story too hard but at the same time the public wants it and it's a big problem for the election here is my suggestion are you ready President Trump should delegate the decision to Ben Carson now I know this isn't Ben Carson's you know job in the cabinet but ben Carson is a famous medical professional one of the most well maybe the most famous doctor in the world okay can you think of a medical doctor who's not like dr.

oz but but somebody was you know credible ELISA as an actual physician or something I would say ben Carson is one of the most famous medical experts in the world and I think the president should say some version of this I'm too close to this I'm just too close to it it's too personal you know I lost my brother to to alcohol I would I'm not the one who could make a decision on this so I recuse myself I realize it's my decision to make but I have to recuse myself because I can't be objective on this question so I'm going to delegate it to the most credible person I can think of which is Ben Carson now it's kind of a twofer if you haven't if you haven't figured this out on your own you may be aware that Ben Carson is black I think most of you knew that and you may also be aware that especially if with the conversation about stop and frisk and a lot of african-american young men being arrested for minor marijuana possession that's part of the the whole Bloomberg story he has to explain away wouldn't it be the most credible thing you could do to have the recommendation whatever it is I don't know what Ben Carson would recommend but wouldn't the best recommendation in terms of credibility be from a famous african-american doctor how do you beat that because I think has more impact on the african-american community and I think everybody agrees with that and if Trump isn't the one to make the decision well do it the way a manager would do it you would delegate it if you can't do it delegate it and he has the perfect person to delegate it to not again I don't know what Ben Carson's opinions are but that's that's the beauty of it do you think ben Carson makes decisions without looking at the science I doubt it do you think ben Carson makes the decisions without you know looking at the full field the you know everything from the politics to the the science to the medical part to the social elements I he sees the whole field he'd be perfect now in in a in my you know perfect world Trump would delegate it take himself out of the decision Ben Carson would look into it probably would say let's get the federal government out of this business probably wouldn't say he's in favor of marijuana I assume I think he would just say let's get the federal government out of this business states got this you know and that would just be a win best idea if you ever heard isn't it somebody says it's a horrible image somebody's characterizing what I said has he's black so he knows drugs best did I say anything like that did I just say that ben Carson knows the most about drugs because he's black I said nothing like that I'll tell you what Ben Carson does know more about he knows more about being black than somebody who was in black he knows more about being a doctor he knows more about politics than people who are not involved in politics he knows more about the Trump administration than people were not involved with it so so that's that all right let me see if I hit all my points think I did I think you did and that's all we have for today and let's go go forward and have a great day and being and having a such a great simultaneous if it's going to be a great one talk to you tomorrow

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in no particular order and you know that

gigantic story about the the anti-trump

guy who tried to massacre a bunch of

trump volunteers you know the thing that

everybody is talking about it's a

gigantic story I mean why wouldn't it be

there's somebody who tried to Massacre a

bunch of Trump supporters oh wait it's

not a national story it's a kind of a

little blip Shara was mentioned the guy

that got lost in the wash that's right

there's somebody who tried to murder

Trump supporters didn't try to mess

didn't try to kill a leader tried to

kill ordinary voters

who are just registering people to vote

they weren't causing trouble so that's

where the rhetoric against Trump

supporters gets you somebody actually

tried to kill amazing we'll get to New

Hampshire I'm just letting people pile

in here my favorite my favorite pundit

and I say favorite because he's so

absurd

is this Stefon Collins a guy who writes

he writes in the anti-trump article for

cnn.com

just about every day and here's how he

is trying to create the newest frame in

which people can find a way to hate

Trump because they're running out of

ways it's like oh he's colluding with

the Russians okay he's not he did

something terribly impeachable okay it

wasn't that impeachable it was you know

closer to a perfect letter than

impeachable so they're they're

desperately cycling through well he

doesn't seem like he's actually insane

so here's what here's what they lid on

and you can see that Stephan Colin said

is sort of I think maybe testing the

water with this so here's the approach

quote from his article the sudden storm

over stone and so talking about Roger

stone and possible pardon triggered by

an early hours tweet by the President as

part of an accelerated pattern of

unmoderated behavior since Trump was

found not guilty of impeachable way of a

Peet of impeachable offenses wait a

minute he was found not guilty of

impeachable offenses that's the wrong

sentence isn't it wasn't he found not

guilty if they were impeachable offenses

that would suggest that it was just a

mistake and he was actually guilty I

like how he sort of stick that in there

so you uncritically read it as though it

was a travesty of justice yeah so there

were impeachable defenses but

inexplicably he wasn't a beached how do

you explain it

it's hard to explain anyway so

some of whom expressed the hope that the

scar of impeachment the scar of

impeachment the the red letter I that's

now burned at his chest he will he will

forever suffer the scar of impeachment I

haven't noticed have you it must be like

it must be like a little little scar

that's this maybe underneath his arm

here where you don't see it I mean there

might be a scar of impeachment on Trump

but I haven't seen it yet it must be

very small and covered with clothing but

anyway it looks like the new attack

against Trump is that he's unleashed

he's going to be he no longer can his

his his dictatorial impulses be

controlled he can't be controlled he's

he's Godzilla no he can't be Godzilla

somebody else's Godzilla so it feels

like not the strongest attack because it

Adam it just doesn't ring true but

they're they're trying desperately to

find something that connects as a

criticism all right the big story one of

the big stories from last night is that

yang is out Andru yang has dropped out

of the race

did not really get the the support that

he needed to continue but I would like

to join all of you in thanking Andrew

yang and I and I think most of you would

agree with this I think he made the the

race better I think he made the

conversation in the United States about

the topics that he was pushing you bi

robots are coming for your jobs etc I

think he I think he added a real genuine

which is the same as rail he really

upgraded the conversation now he didn't

quite you know make it to the final

three but he certainly changed the

conversation and I think it might be a

permanent kind of a shift in her

thinking and he was fun he was great for

asian-americans because you know he got

as far as he did so everything about him

was good it was very positive experience

so thank you Andrew

for being a good American a great

American you know one of the best so

thanks for that one of the things that

one of my Twitter friends noted is that

he had a little program that I was not

aware of and I thought I'd give it a

shout-out because it was interesting it

was a basically a student exchange

program within the United States which

is not the worst idea I've ever heard

enough so normally you do the student

exchanges with other countries so that

you both get a little flavor of what the

other country is about it's good in the

long run for you know peaceful

relationships and understanding and all

that but I guess yang was suggesting

that we do it within the United States

so that people would get out of their

little bubble of their neighborhood or

their culture and see what it's like

somewhere else it's actually a really

good that's a really good suggestion

let's keep that one out there all right

so thanks Andrew yang let's talk about

the the other candidates and where we're

at now if I had to pick one variable

that makes the most difference in who's

going to win the presidency I would say

the economy now president Trump has a

incredible lead in the economy you know

meaning they use an incumbent over well

maybe the best economy we've ever had

and sure sure you can say Obama had

better stats and this or that or it's

just a continuation of Obama and people

will say that but still when things are

going well in the economy is a super

strong indicator but the second big

variable in a world of many variables

the to this stick out are the black vote

and economics so if President Trump

looked good on those two things

you'd have to look for some kind of a

special situation to take him out

because those are the by far the two

most commanding variables not the only

variables and there could be lots of

surprises between now and Election Day

but these are very predictive so let's

look at how the other candidates look on

those two variables and some others and

let's talk about matchup what is what is

Trump's biggest negative his biggest

negative now you could say you could say

there are two I'd say two of his biggest

negatives are the deficit that Trump is

not as good on reducing the deficit as

even his own side would like and

certainly you know the people who oppose

him would use that as a club but he's

running against people who are going to

make the deficit worse and they're not

even pretending that's not the case

they're not even pretending if you look

at Bernie Sanders is he gonna make the

deficit better or worse well I think you

know the answer the question that's not

even a political opinion I believe

Sanders would probably say the same

thing I'm saying which is yeah yeah this

this stuff is more expensive than what

we're doing now so of course it's going

to make the deficit go up so even if you

increase if you increase taxes a lot

most people think the deficit is going

to go up under Sanders so I think

President Trump's biggest weakness one

of them the deficit the Democrats can't

use it's off the table it's his biggest

flaw that's not about his personality

you know his personal style but his

biggest flaw that's on policy they got

an opening they got nobody who's gonna

do anything now maybe you know maybe

when Bloomberg gets gets into the race

you know in the actual voting part of

the race maybe it would look different

but even he's looking to reduce you know

to be very aggressive on climate change

it's hard to imagine to anybody who's

going to be super aggressive on climate

change is also going to be good for the

deficit so they got nothing for nothing

against him on the deficit

he's completely free from that criticism

essentially and what about the black

vote will go through each of the

candidates and talk about that I think

that's the other biggest thing so I saw

on some blog that black support for

Bernie plunged to eight percent what

eight percent now I don't know how they

measure such things because if eight

percent is just to share he got from you

know the other Democrats I don't know if

it means the same as if you were running

in the general election he's obviously

gonna get more than a percent black

support but the the real thing is it it

looks like you get reduced by half

recently now I'm not sure if you can

trust this to statistics on any of this

stuff yet the way they ask the questions

the earliness of it all that sort of

thing but it does seem like Sanders does

not have some advantage with the black

vote so that would be advantage Trump

because Trump has an actual track record

in office that even Democrats say oh I

gotta admit that's pretty good for the

black community there's everything from

supporting the historically black

colleges prison reform Enterprise Zones

and going on a good employment race and

and I don't think you can I don't think

you can underestimate how important it

is that Trump talks about benefiting the

black community more than anybody am I

am I wrong about that if you were to

just look at the all the things that

people say all of the Democrats

collectively or individually and then

look at all the things that President

Trump says which of them talks more

about benefiting the black community in

this country I think it's Trump

ten to one I don't think it's even close

name the other big policy that any of

the Democrats have for helping the black

community nothing am I wrong that I

can't think of one I can't think of a

single Democratic candidate and there

are so many of them

who have a policy that I would identify

as oh yeah that's clearly you know

design for the benefit of the black

community I though I think I think Trump

is actually saying the most as well as

somebody said steyr and in reparations

but I don't know if anybody takes us

seriously do they do you think there are

too many black voters who think yeah I'm

going to get me some reparations I don't

think anybody thinks that's real that's

more of a talking thing anyway so I

think Bernie's got a problem there with

the black vote

Lloyd Blanken fine X Goldman Sachs CEO

was tweeting this and this is important

because he's a rich Democrat all right

he's a rich non Trump supporter so a

rich Democrat one of the richest says in

a tweet if Dems go on to nominate

Sanders the Russians will have to

reconsider who to work for to best screw

up the u.s. he tweeted and that he said

Sanders is just as polarizing his Trump

and he'll ruin our economy and doesn't

care about our military if I'm Russian I

go with Sanders this time around what

about I mean right and this is this is a

Democrat saying that and I've got a

feeling that rich people what they're

maybe really worried about is their

taxes and their economic situation but

that's a pretty strong broadside from

our rich Democrat and I got to think

there are other rich Democrats who have

the same opinion

now if let's say one of the Bernie or

one of those super or socialists the one

the ones who are more socialist gets

nominated there's a gigantic attack

vector in there I don't know if that

makes sense an attack the vector let's

assume that made sense that Trump has

available to him that he hasn't really

busted out yet could be he's just

waiting for the right time

to take out the Gatling gun but and it

goes like this and I've told you this

before when the economy is working

really really well as it is in the

opinion of most citizens right now you

don't add risk you don't completely

change something that's working well and

that's what Bernie and Elizabeth Warren

and the other socialist leading ones

want to do Trump is not trying to doubt

that argument yet that you don't break

something that isn't broken or you don't

fix something that isn't broken and when

he does that's sort of the end of it

because older people are the voters more

so than the Bernese Bernie seems to have

captured the support of all the people

who are least likely to vote the the

youth people are young and don't have

health care I think they're the least

likely to vote am i can somebody fact

check that whereas Trump has a natural

constituency constituency even more so

than ever of people who just say okay

I'm old don't rock the boat things are

going okay Trump owns the things are

going okay let's not change it group and

that's all the seniors so so good job

Bernie in getting such vocal support

from people who probably don't vote that

much that's going to cost him all right

Bernie Sanders hired a band for his last

campaign event the name of the band and

I'm not making this up what are the odds

that Bernie Sanders would hire a band to

perform at his event and the name of the

band would be the strokes come on the

one of two things as possible either the

person that I named the mole is working

for Bernie meaning secretly giving him

bad advice and doing all the wrong

things in his social media I don't think

such a person really exists but it's fun

to think about it because when you see

them do stuff like this you say to

yourself that looks more like a

than an actual thing that would just

happen naturally now of course it's a

world full of coincidences as I tell you

often and so if I had to guess of course

it's just a coincidence but I think

somebody should have maybe said Bernie

maybe maybe we should not associate with

strokes you know no Bernie didn't have a

stroke but you still think of this

cardiovascular system as all one thing

sort of sort of blends together in

people's minds and remind you of his

mortality people are all excited about

Buddha judge boudin's edge because he

has so much support and he's he's

finished one or two and the last in the

first two events so hey it's gonna be

all him right except that we're gonna

run into the states that have an actual

minority population for the first time

and he's sort of done already so I would

say that Buddha Chege is probably 90%

certain I would say he's probably a dead

man walking in terms of politics because

I think as soon as he hits the minority

vote you're gonna see his his strength

just evaporate so that's my prediction

so I think I think his ride was exciting

but he's sort of closer to the end of

his ride than the beginning of course we

need to talk about Biden so there are

two views on Biden one is that he had

this clever statment strategy where he

would lose the first two events but then

he would come back strong once the once

the states were the bigger minority

population we're voting but it looks

like his support as cratered and I think

that the first two the first two

outcomes as somebody smart once said

black people watch the news too it's one

of those dumb ideas and somebody said if

you're if you're a black supporter of

Biden let's say you've been supporting

him when when you answer the the

pollsters up and

now you had your television odd he or

you heard the news one way or another

you saw the news and you saw that Joe

Biden doesn't have white support

he doesn't have white support so if

you're a black supporter of Biden are

you gonna climb on a horse that doesn't

have white support in the United States

that's sort of a problem so I think you

know the the rational black voters who

are paying attention are saying ah I

think I'd rather be with somebody who

could get a white vote because I'm gonna

need a few of those if I want to if I

want to be on the winning team so I

would agree with the pundits who are now

saying that Biden is completely done and

it's just a matter of time before he

finds the most graceful way to to make

his exit now I would like to claim

partial credit for predicting how many

people have many people I think a lot of

you were with me here how many people

from the very beginning when Biden was

the overwhelming polling favorite how

many people said as clearly as I did

he's not going to make it to the

nomination yeah I've been saying that

since the beginning and it was because

he would falter he just doesn't there's

just not enough left of him

unfortunately

age age is taking its toll so now I got

the calmly Harris thing completely wrong

so I don't want to brag too much about

the Biden part and if Biden is

completely out which I assume will be

the case alas you know I suppose he

could throw a Hail Mary and say you know

let me tell you who my vice president

would be then look at me again so he

does have that play to name a vice

president but we haven't seen that play

ever work for anybody so I think Biden's

done let's talk about Club achar Club

achar in my opinion is the big winner

and I saw some people mocking mocking

the idea that she was the big winner

because she came in third all right she

came in third

how can you be the big winner if two

people just kick your butt and came in

first and second and the answer is this

how many times have I told you that the

direction of things matters more than

where things are where things are is

that Biden and Budaj edge just were the

two highest vote getters and two events

in a row that's where we are but where

are we heading

that's the Klobuchar story the Klobuchar

story is that she just got a huge boost

and enough so that she's in the serious

competition enough people are paying

attention her finish should make all the

people who didn't pay attention to her

before start paying attention to her but

there's a really interesting part of the

story now if you read my book when

Begley many of you have you know that

sometimes it's impossible to tell when

something happens by coincidence versus

when it has been influenced by some

event can't really tell and so this is

part of the fun it turns out that if you

looked at the signs her supporters Club

which are supporters were holding behind

her when she gave her speech the I guess

they've picked the slogan win big win

big

that's the Klobuchar slogan now when big

Lee comes loosely from President Trump

now I believe he was saying wind big

leaguer but it sounds like they win big

Lee and so I used that humorously as my

book title as if he had been saying the

big Lee although lately I think he does

a big leap but that's another story

so here's em and I've told you before

now this isn't the first time you're

gonna hear this if this were the first

time I ever said what I'm gonna say now

it would sound a little you'd be a

little skeptical but I've been saying

this for a while I tell you that one of

the ways that I traced my own

Rajon is by choice of words when you see

an unusual choice of words migrate from

you know the things I've said or written

into other people's mouths or their

presentation it doesn't necessarily mean

that you influence them but it's a flag

it's a little signal and so I say that's

very interesting I wrote a book with all

of the best persuasion techniques that

President Trump used to win and it

becomes sort of a manual that any

candidate could could read to improve

their persuasion and that I see that

something very close to the title of my

book just appeared on the sides now I'm

not making any claim that they made the

signs because of my book at least

consciously let me ask you this do you

think there's anybody in the Democratic

campaigns let's say their campaign

staffs do you think that any of the

Democrats have anybody on their staffs

who have ever read the one book that is

biased design the most helpful book any

of them could read for improving their

communication which is all they're doing

they're not governing they're

communicating a campaign is nothing but

well it's mostly communicating with a

little bit of organization in there so

what are the odds that a best-selling

book that tells you the best way to

communicate in a political context would

be read by people who do that for a

living and read books pretty well

there's a pretty good chance that some

of them are familiar with the book but

if if it were true that Klobuchar had

been influenced or let's say she

improved her game by reading my book and

I'm not saying that's the case I'm

saying here's what you would look for

what you would look for is that the

technique in the book would start coming

out in her presentation stronger than

you've seen it before did any of you

catch her semi victory speech last night

in which he was claiming victory for

coming in third

did anybody see that somebody's asking

me if I'm secretly consulting Klobuchar

I'm not and I wouldn't lie to you about

that I would not say to you I would not

look you in the eyes and say I have not

if I were even doing a little bit or

indirectly her in any way I'm not and

nor am i advising any democrat that's

not happening but if you heard her

speech she started out with a super

visual and emotional story about her

grandparents

you know coal miner you know picking up

his sister from from adoption agency

because he had to work when he was a kid

and and then they worked their way up

and it was the American dream etc and

that was a super visual yeah it was a

super visual and emotional story what

did Van Jones call that after Klobuchar

gave that Van Jones who I often tell you

is sort of the the one-eyed he's the

one-eyed Democrat in the land of the

blind he just listen to what he says and

you're gonna get a clearer view of the

field than what any of the other pundits

say it's very consistent

he doesn't just every time his opinion

is just a little more clear a little

more on point than just about everybody

was talking about this stuff and and one

of the things that Van Jones pointed out

is how good she was with story and he

was like he was kind of blown away a

little bit by had the quality of her

speech have you ever heard that before

has anybody ever said that Klobuchar and

she can give a speech that you know

touches your heartstrings I've never

heard it I've never heard anybody say

ban Klobuchar what a orator

her speaking you know moves me never

heard it before

and then she walked up on stage

yesterday and she just nailed it I mean

I watched I watched just the first part

of the speech live and I was sitting

there think

am i imagining this or is this really

good and then I started looking for the

visual elements she talked about the

grandmother packing a lunch you can see

it too can't you you can see the

grandmother you can see her packing the

lunch and then she talked about the coal

miner who you know went down to the cage

into the mind you could see it you could

feel it you were in the mind with her

grandfather you could see the

grandfather borrowed a car to drive to

get his sister who had been put in an

orphanage orphanage yeah because they

didn't have enough money for all their

kids

you could you could see him borrowing

the car you could see him driving the

car you could see him driving back with

his sister it was amazingly visual so

look for that if it's true and I'm not

saying it is but there are some

certainly some breadcrumbs here that

would suggest as somebody on the

Klobuchar campaign has figured out a way

to be a lot more persuasive now I would

say that I've called Klobuchar technique

the tortoise versus the hare z-- the

other candidates of the hares they're

they're trying to the other that the

hares are running fast and burning

brightly and winning the early stuff but

Klobuchar just keeps tour to sing along

bump bump them

hey what's today took another step today

bump bump bump how are you guys doing

flaming out getting in trouble saying

things you shouldn't say I'm just

climbing along like a little tortoise do

you can try to hit me but my shell will

will reject your stuff but boo and she

simply didn't make mistakes right I

apologize for all my nasal problems live

here I've got some surgery lined up to

roto-rooter my nasal cavities and then I

should be fine after a while but it

seems to me that Klobuchar by simply not

drawing attacks and not making any

obvious mistakes it starting to get a

second look so the tortoise strategy

looks kind of

it looks pretty strong now here's the

other interesting thing about her what's

what's the big complaint about Trump

usually it's about as being mean right

he's mean

here's me in his big old meanie Trump is

most associated with New York City even

though he's moved his place of residence

we think of Trump as a New Yorker with a

sort of a New Yorker personality a

little tougher or more in-your-face and

then there's Klobuchar who is associated

with Minnesota what is Minnesota most

famous for among all the states and the

Union now if you didn't know this I'd be

surprised Minnesota

produces the nicest people in the

universe I don't know why it just does

there's something about Minnesota that

produces nice people fairly consistently

so she comes from the literally the

nicest state that produces for whatever

reason the nicest people

personality-wise against the Trump

personality who's sort of the New York

personality that's an interesting

matchup because there's there's a

pendulum effect you know people might

want a fighter until they get a little

tired of the fighter and then maybe they

did somebody nice after a while so

there's certainly a longing for niceness

that makes her a good matchup I don't

know that you could beat the president

by being more more of whatever he is by

being more attacking than he is I don't

know that you can I don't know that you

can over attack know you could over

attack I don't know that you could be

Trump by being more like Trump I think

you have to counter program and with

something that's also good that's the

antidote to Trump Klobuchar has that she

looks she looks like a you know a

dependable pair of shoes and she's nice

now there's these rumors about you know

eating salad with her home and all that

I don't know if any that that's going to

be a problem

it doesn't seem to be dogging her so I

think that'll be a

thing so anyway she's she's got a lot

going on so let's keep an eye on her and

see if she's learned to persuade as well

as I fear she may have all right yeah

let's talk about Bloomberg Bloomberg of

course has that stop and frisk problem

the black support problem but he's but

worse that he's a terrible matchup for

Trump if you were to take a blank piece

of paper and say to yourself all right

your exercise is to invent a candidate

and make the candidate the worst matchup

you could possibly think of for

President Trump what's the worst thing

you could do it's like well billionaire

and that's pretty bad but worse

billionaire with foreign entanglements

especially with countries were worried

the most about hello China

Bloomberg's got China entanglements he's

probably got all kinds of entanglements

all over the globe do any of those

entanglements mean that something bad

has happened could happen what happen

who knows but it's not a good match up

because that's one of the things that

people were afraid of with Trump is the

the international entanglements so are

you going to are you going to oppose him

with the guy who has the most

international entanglements we've ever

seen I doubt anybody has more

international entanglements than

Bloomberg here's one you don't see

coming or maybe you do as as Bloomberg

got any me two problems does anybody I

don't see it in the headlines maybe

there were some stories that were

unconfirmed floating around but here's

the thing he's an old white billionaire

of a certain age let me ask you this

question if you're an old white

billionaire of a certain age though you

have a lot of me toos and you're in your

portfolio now maybe they haven't all

come out but the odds that the odds of

any old white billionaire and I won't

even I'm not even going to make this

personal about Bloomberg because I have

I have no information that would say

there's anything

with the Emery's bad in fact I like it I

think Bloomberg's a solid guy

Bloomberg's a solid guy and I would say

he's a solid Patriot I don't like I like

his political opinion at the moment but

he's a solid smart reasonable right

minded kind of guy but you know there's

just nobody in that demographic who

isn't gonna get a me-too coming down in

the woods somewhere somewhere now the

other the other big thing that's

different about him and Trump is climate

change and he's going for this you know

get rid of most carbon fuels 80 percent

or something

he doesn't go far enough probably for

the Democrats who think it's the end of

the world to climate change but I saw a

study recently that said that climate

change for the country and as a whole

was one of the lowest priorities now I'm

not sure I totally believe the polls on

that because the way people answer

questions of what is a priority can be

you know I'm not sure that there's a

really credible polls but the poll I saw

showed climate change almost lasts and

economics and immigration taught at the

top so that's the problem

Bloomberg I'm sure is not going to be as

pro-immigration as his own team wants I

just don't think he has enough red meat

for his own team he's sort of in that

weird uninteresting ground in the middle

he doesn't have enough for Democrats

he's not enough like Trump to be a

Republican he's sort of in that dead

mins you know in tennis there's that

there's a part of the court that's the

the dead man zone that if you move into

that part of the tennis court somebody's

going to win the point because it's not

a good place to be it's too close to the

net but not close enough

I think Bloomberg's there he's in that

weird area where he's not going to

excite anybody so he's also boring and

short compared to trump we would like to

think this short

doesn't make a difference now bluebirds

you know roughly the same size as me now

do I think I could not be president

because of my height no I could be

president I mean if I wanted to I'm

pretty sure I could do it I did write

win big Lee now I'm not going to do it I

have no interest in that kind of work

but I don't think my height would stop

me so I don't think its height is going

to stop them but it's a negative if you

stand again on this screen people are

you know in there in there let's say

they're non critical part of their brain

or just gonna say leader

I want a leader who looks like a leader

I'll take the big one thank you so it

does make a difference

maybe not the commanding difference the

other problem is he's boring he's boring

he's boring how do you take the most

boring candidate and put him up against

Trump the most interesting human being

we've ever we've ever known in the

history of civilization that's like the

worst and also there's a question about

his age whether he's losing a step that

will always be a question and you

remember he was talking about how he

would if he became president he would

work from a cubicle basically or an open

office instead of having you know

private offices that's the worst

instinct it sounds like you know when

when Bloomberg did his little I'm gonna

work in a cubicle when I'm mayor I

thought to myself that's not bad that's

not bad if you're a mayor you're more

like a senior vice president at a big

company a senior vice president at a big

company might want to not have a big

office and look like they're special

might want to have a cubicle and be a

person of the people I can see it I

don't think it was important you know I

don't think it made a difference but I

could see that as a branding thing it

would make sense as a mayor but as soon

as you say you're gonna be the brand of

our country you get the D you're going

to be the person we think of when we

think of the United States you don't

want them in a cubicle

you want them in the Oval Office every

time because that office is who we are

that's our brand you know it'd be great

if you take your own brand Mike

Bloomberg if you want to make your

personal brand I'm a guy who just works

in a cubicle and a normal guy and that's

okay with me do anything you want with

your own brand but if you become

president

you're my brand you're my brand as

president what you do reflects on me if

you're a mayor does what the mayor does

reflect on other people in the city not

really right

have you ever bonded have you ever

thought of yourself as being part of the

brand of your mayor no not once but when

you think a president that's an

accessory to you you you American

citizens a lot of people from other

countries watching this but if you're

American you're president this part of

your brand whether you like it or not

and and that's just sort of a dumb old

person move to not correct from the fact

that what he did as a mayor just doesn't

make sense as president it just doesn't

make sense and it feels like an old guy

who was just playing the hits they

always liked a band who used to be

popular but he can't write a hit song

anymore so he's just gonna play the

oldies I just don't think that matches

up against Trump I also think Trump has

another advantage which is that he's

going to be more immune from fake news

than ever before if because we've

watched the fake news brand Trump as a

certain thing and then be wrong time

after time after time you know from the

rush occlusion to you you name it you

know what to talk about I don't know if

the attacks on Trump will have the same

power they might have before we saw him

in office for four years I think I think

he's just more immune from every kind of

attack I can't even imagine what kind of

attack he hasn't already gone through

and it didn't take him out last time so

he's sort of

or Teflon that he ever was and he was

pretty Teflon

I mean grabbed him by the you-know-what

and he still got elected that's pretty

tough lon

so he's more Teflon than ever but if

it's somebody like Bernie Bernie has a

real problem running against Trump

Bernie has a real problem

you know what Bernie's big problem is

he's not a good enough liar now I

believe that Bernie says some things

that stretch credulity he certainly said

things that the fact checkers checked

him on and said not so much so they're

probably there are no politicians who

don't violate the fact checking

sometimes but Bernie is kind of unique

and that he's not the one to go negative

as much and he's not gonna lie as much

so he's the kind of person if you said

hey Bernie you know I don't know if he's

ever mentioned this he probably asked

but you know that that thing in

Charlottesville you got that wrong it

turns out turns out that that's a

misquote the president never never said

that the neo-nazis were fine people he

was talking about the other people there

that he said were not the races if you

tell Biden that maybe he'll still use it

anyway because it works

right but if you tell Bernie that and he

believes oh oh geez that's not even true

and it's easy to prove it's not true you

just look at the transcript I don't know

if Bernie would use it maybe would maybe

would but I think Bernie is handicapped

by being a little too honest and I don't

know if that would work in a general

election you know what I mean all right

there's one suggestion I just heard this

from an opinion person that one of the

reasons that Bernie lost some support

allegedly this is unconfirmed but

recently with the african-american in

the population is that Joe Rogan said he

might vote for him now does that feel

right to you do you think they

African Americans support would plummet

because Joe Rogan said he might vote for

Bernie Sanders I don't think so I don't

think people are paying attention at

that level because what the heck do the

black community have what problem do

they have with Joe Rogan so it turns out

you know he's comedian and provocative

and he's been around for a long time so

you can dig through his past and you can

find something to be offended by but I

don't think most of you are aware of it

and it's not real yeah it's just being

provocative and being offensive is a lot

different from being racist he's not

racist or even close

at least there's certainly no evidence

of it there's lots of evidence against

it so Joe Rogan got a lot of heat from

that and he clarified his opinion which

I hadn't heard before and it goes like

this so this is Joe Rogan clarifying his

opinion about Sanders and he said on his

podcast all I said is I'm probably going

to vote for him but he added I like I

like Tulsi Gabbard I love I love her I

left him

I love Andrew yang so he was making the

point that he's you know it's not about

one candidate there there are several

candidates that he likes and then the

egos and this is and this is why Joe

Rogan is a national treasure because the

next thing he says not many people could

say I mean you just you can go where

other people can't go and this is what

Joe Rogan says he goes quote here's the

really important point I'm an effing

he used the real word I'm an effing

Rogan added and went on to say I

don't know what's required to be

president and that maybe we're better

off with Trump maybe we were better off

with someone else I don't know

so Rogan of course famously has had

experience was with hallucinogenics and

you know I've always told you that that

allows you to to see the world through

different filters if you have experience

with altered consciousness'

you know that you can experience a world

that works perfectly you can eat and pro

and go to work but it all just looks

different if you've never experienced

that you think that your point of view

might be magic it's like ah how did I

get the right point of view when there

are seven billion people in the world

who got it wrong I'm magic my brain can

see things that other people can't

I'm the only one with a clear view of

the world okay that's a kind of a low

level of consciousness the highest level

of consciousness is expressed in this

statement you ready here's a sentence

from one of the highest consciousness

people the people who can really see the

field clearly Joe Rogan imma effing

I don't know what's required to be

President and that maybe we were better

off with Trump maybe we were better off

with someone else I don't know that

statement that he doesn't know who would

be the best president or the complexity

of the policies etc is the highest level

of awareness the the level below that is

oh I know oh yeah I know this was a good

one and I can tell you what the future

looks like you could be right

you could be wrong but the higher level

of awareness is were just not that smart

we really don't know what's going to

happen so I'm happy that Joe Rogan added

some context to that without changing

his opinion because he didn't say

therefore I'm not going to vote for

Bernie Kaplan you stayed with that but

then he gave us the context that in his

own opinion he's a effing who

doesn't know who would be the best

president nobody ever said anything more

honest than that that is the most honest

thing you've heard in public about

politics period that's the most clear

highest consciousness understanding

you've ever seen in public that's it

can't beat that all right

I was laughing at Pope Francis and I

don't want to get religious and this is

not an anti-catholic thing by any means

I'm Pro religion for those of you don't

know I'm not a believer myself but I

think religion is mostly you know 90

percent is positive in people's lives it

helps them here on earth and that's

great

so if it's a filter that works for you

it's a wait'll to see the world produces

benefits obviously does I'm in favor of

religion if you don't take it to the

extreme but I I observe religion as an

observer and I can't help but wondering

how these conversations went so Pope

Francis says that he's now supporting

the ordination of married men as priests

in the Amazon so I guess that was a

question so the word enough people who

wanted to be priests unless you let them

also be married which would mean that

they would have be having relations with

a woman which is apparently not allowed

if you're going to be to Catholic

priests and I wondered like how does

that conversation go it's like well you

know you get to be a leader a respected

leader in our religion there's just one

thing really sounds great what's the one

thing well there's one thing you can't

do what you can't give sex care sex all

right well I I can put up without having

sex for a while well I did say a while

like forever for the rest of your life

what yeah I mean you can be a priest but

you can't have sex for the rest of your

life and then you can imagine the person

saying wow that's tough but you know at

least I can you know if I can't have sex

with another person at least I can take

care of myself right well no so you

can't do it with another person but also

you can do with yourself

would you like the job that's pretty

severe can't do you have a intimate

relationship with a woman and I can't

even take care of it myself

I guess I'm gonna have to do it for the

money um what's it pay

five ten million a year well you're also

gonna be closer to poor than rich I

don't know how you sell that job frankly

but alright so I watched it as an

outsider I'm glad that people do it

because religion is good I think in the

world so that's enough about that some

get rich somebody says yeah that would

be the exception I think I'm gonna give

you a suggestion that's the best

suggestion you've heard are you ready

here it is during the election season

all the candidates like to take issues

off the table so if there's something

that somebody's killing you with as an

issue if you can do something to remove

that that's good one of the things that

Bernie and some of the other Democrats

most of them I think our pushing is

legalizing weed at the federal level and

we see the Trump is completely

vulnerable to that argument because he's

kind of quiet on it and he's also a

famously anti drunk

so he's not really the right person to

take that argument to the public even if

he agrees with it we don't know if he

does but even if he did it would be hard

for him to be the anti-drug guy

personally in his life it's made a big

difference he's never touched any kind

of drug so he would be the wrong person

I think to promote legalization of any

kind because it just goes against his

his personal story too hard but at the

same time the public wants it and it's a

big problem for the election here is my

suggestion are you ready President Trump

should delegate the decision to Ben

Carson now I know this isn't Ben

Carson's you know job in the cabinet but

ben Carson is a famous medical

professional one of the most well maybe

the most famous

doctor in the world okay can you think

of a medical doctor who's not like dr.

oz but but somebody was you know

credible ELISA as an actual physician or

something I would say ben Carson is one

of the most famous medical experts in

the world and I think the president

should say some version of this I'm too

close to this I'm just too close to it

it's too personal you know I lost my

brother to to alcohol I would I'm not

the one who could make a decision on

this

so I recuse myself I realize it's my

decision to make but I have to recuse

myself because I can't be objective on

this question so I'm going to delegate

it to the most credible person I can

think of which is Ben Carson now it's

kind of a twofer if you haven't if you

haven't figured this out on your own you

may be aware that Ben Carson is black I

think most of you knew that and you may

also be aware that especially if with

the conversation about stop and frisk

and a lot of african-american young men

being arrested for minor marijuana

possession that's part of the the whole

Bloomberg story he has to explain away

wouldn't it be the most credible thing

you could do to have the recommendation

whatever it is I don't know what Ben

Carson would recommend but wouldn't the

best recommendation in terms of

credibility be from a famous

african-american doctor how do you beat

that because I think has more impact on

the african-american community and I

think everybody agrees with that and if

Trump isn't the one to make the decision

well do it the way a manager would do it

you would delegate it if you can't do it

delegate it and he has the perfect

person to delegate it to not again I

don't know what Ben Carson's opinions

are but that's that's the beauty of it

do you think ben Carson makes decisions

without looking at the science I doubt

it do you think ben Carson makes the

decisions without you know looking at

the full field the you know everything

from the politics to the the science to

the medical part to the social elements

I

he sees the whole field he'd be perfect

now in in a in my you know perfect world

Trump would delegate it take himself out

of the decision Ben Carson would look

into it probably would say let's get the

federal government out of this business

probably wouldn't say he's in favor of

marijuana I assume I think he would just

say let's get the federal government out

of this business

states got this you know and that would

just be a win best idea if you ever

heard isn't it somebody says it's a

horrible image somebody's characterizing

what I said has he's black so he knows

drugs best did I say anything like that

did I just say that ben Carson knows the

most about drugs because he's black

I said nothing like that I'll tell you

what Ben Carson does know more about he

knows more about being black than

somebody who was in black he knows more

about being a doctor he knows more about

politics than people who are not

involved in politics he knows more about

the Trump administration than people

were not involved with it so so that's

that all right let me see if I hit all

my points think I did I think you did

and that's all we have for today and

let's go go forward and have a great day

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