Episode 927 Scott Adams - Is Biden Out of the Race? Kim Jong-Un Brain Dead? Is Immigration Racist?

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for you if the coronavirus only targeted young that males with the economy have shut down I say no because I think if the only people who were dying were young males that we would see this like every other war and we'd say well we don't shut down the economy just because we got a war so it's just a thought I think that biologically society considers young males largely expendable and I actually think that if all of the if all of the risk had just spent on males I don't think we would have close the economy I mean it's just a thought experiment I don't know for sure but I don't think we would have President Trump is making things interesting by tweeting that he was going to do an executive order suspending immigration because of the coronavirus what did people say about that did people say well from the health perspective that's a pretty good idea did they say that no no they didn't do they say you know given unemployment is so high that certainly makes sense did they say that no no no they did not nope they called him a racist Jennifer Rubin always always wants to be first to that so what did she say she said so this is Jennifer Rubin now I honestly don't know the real story with Jennifer Rubin you know she calls herself a conservative but she she only talks smack about President Trump so I don't know what kind of a conservative she is and I don't even know if she believes her own stated opinions and I actually don't know that I mean I actually I don't even have I'm not even leading one way or the other I can't tell can you do you think that Jennifer Rubin believes her own opinions the ones that she expresses in public because I really can't tell and I'd be that seriously I honestly seriously can't tell if she's being serious or if it's just part of the act part of the show you know she's on the team so she's playing team sport can tell but let me tell you what she tweeted she talked about President Trump saying he was going to stop all immigration during the coronavirus and she said replying to his tweet no doubt Trump's base is primarily motivated by racism this is why Trump does this every damn time and so I ask you this have you ever met a conservative who thought their race should determine public policy I've never met one now obviously I've met people who are racist and they come in all types you know they're not just white I don't know if I've met anybody that I wouldn't call a racist on some level you know if you know what I mean you know when you talk to people privately no matter what ethnicity they are they they tend to express preferences you know if you ask anybody of any race are you a racist most people will say no no no I'm not a racist they ask the same person would you do you have any preferences for dating and they'll say oh yeah now often their preferences for dating are not even their own ethnicity ethnicity is quite common for people to say the fact I know several women who say they would only date black men it's just their preference that was that racist well yeah isn't it if you have if you act in a way that shows preference based on race that's sort of racist so I don't know anybody personally who doesn't make their own personal decisions at least about who they who they have the same mating preferences for but in terms of anybody who thinks that the world should be organized that way I've literally never met anybody have you I mean this is a serious question I've been you know deeply embedded talking to Trump supporters of all types and I gotta tell you people will tell me just about anything privately because I think people understand I'm not telling people secrets around so people will reveal things to me because I am sort of famously non-judgmental I've had people reveal to me horrible crimes they've committed horrible things they've thought horrible things they've done and all you know just goes into the vault so it's safe to tell me and I don't judge it I just think everybody you know my opinion is I really knew everybody's internal thoughts they should all be executed you know everybody should have the death sentence for the thoughts but we don't do that there's a good good reason for that so I've just never met anybody a trump supporter well let's just say Trump supporter or a conservative I've never been a conservative who thought there should be any kind of laws or public rules or guidelines or anything that was based on ethnicity I've never seen that and but Jennifer Rubin believes there's no doubt she uses the phrase no doubt Trump's base is primarily motivated by racism do you think that's something that somebody could tell from a distance do you think have you met anybody who is primarily motivated by racism I don't even know if anybody is you know it's certainly not conservatives they're not primarily motivated by racism I've never met that person so what I tweeted about that is that if you think you can read the minds of 60 million people and you can see in them that they're primarily motivated by anything you know whether it's racism or anything else if you could think that you have no doubt about 60 million people's primary motivation and you're so certain of that that you will tweet it in public you're not operating at a high level of awareness I won't say intelligence because I don't think it's an IQ issue you know there are smart people on every every topic all over the place but clearly there's an awareness problem you know like a awareness of reality how could you go through life unless you you know again unless she's just acting you can't rule out the possibility that because I can't read her mind right so I'm trying to be consistent with the fact that we don't know what the strangers are thinking I don't know why she does this it's actually kind of an interesting mystery to me but anyway that's enough about Jennifer Rubin so much going on today let's talk about Kim jong-un I tweeted a little Twitter poll today who do you think is more likely to be seen in public this week Kim jong-un Joe Biden or Jeffrey Epstein it's pretty close call isn't it in the Twitter poll I think Jeffrey Epstein was the winner but here's my here's my take is is still true that Joe Biden hasn't been seen since Thursday can somebody confirm that because I keep looking I'm checking the headlines and I'm not seeing any links to videos of him we'll talk about him some more but I think Joe Biden is done can I can I be the first one to make this prediction in public I don't know that anybody else is making this prediction but my prediction is that at this at this time and the election cycle getting as close as we are to Election Day I think that not seeing the presumed candidate for the Democrats is really telling you pretty directly that he's being replaced so I'm gonna make this my prediction that you will not see Joe Biden again as a candidate the next time you see him if you do will be to announce that he's dropping out pretty bold prediction right but can you think of any other reason that Joe Biden would simply not be in public because even if he were feeling ill I think they would tell us or somebody said video last night can we can we get a fact check on that somebody says he was interviewed on WDIV Detroit yesterday okay so I will keep my I'll keep my prediction alive for the future then so the prediction is a generic one that if he goes if he goes two days without being seen in public between now and the election day it means something it means that there it means that they're getting ready to switch about somebody says they saw videos on there's Twitter or one to two days ago so so I given that the fact checkers here are correcting me that they have seen them on video or recently then that doesn't mean what it would mean if he had not been seen so I'm not I'm not predicting use it withdrawing from the race if it's jus he's been on video in the last two days it's a conditional prediction all right three CNN anchors now have the coronavirus that we know of Brooke Baldwin Chris Cuomo and Richard Quest was just just no she hasn't are there any Fox News anchors who have the coronavirus and if not what's up with that I see somebody in the comments saying that the there's a saliva test coming for a corona virus that would be good I hope so but why do three CNN anchors have it and no fox news anchors that's just a curiosity Brooke Baldwin who for in interest of full disclosure I've spent time with her husband because he did he was doing a documentary and he spent an afternoon with me interviewing me so I know Brooke Baldwin's husband and I've messaged with Brooke a few times have appeared on her show and the messages were mostly about setting up the interview with her husband so just in terms of full disclosure I've had some contacts with her and she's very nice and her husband is very nice so that's that's my bias is that they're both nice people politics aside if you can do that she wrote a great write-up about her experience with the coronavirus then I tweeted maybe yesterday the day before but you can also see it on CNN's website it's really well written so you should you should check it out because it's completely absent of politics there's no politics in it it is just a personal account that is really compelling and well-written and absolutely worth your time all right let's talk about Kim jong-un well what we know about that is that we don't know anything about it we don't know anything about Kim Jong gun so if you think he is dead or you think he's brain dead or you think he's alive it's just a gas I mean the best the best evidence we have is that he didn't attend one event but I mean it's possible he's not attending events just to stay away from coronavirus so if somebody says Jenna daya Bella has it on Fox okay I didn't know that and I and I don't know did she get it while she was staying home well I guess we wouldn't know all right so thank you for that fact check so there are more famous people getting it you know I've said that personally I'm not going to get real panicked about the corona virus and from the health impact part for me personally until there's one celebrity that I know who dies from it it has to be under 70 because you know somebody over 70 dying is no surprise but the first time I hear that somebody famous could be in sports or any any domain and they're under 70 and they die from the corona virus that's when I will get worried because this is my irrational you know the irrational mind there's no logic to this whatsoever so what I'm gonna say I'm completely aware as irrational but it still works and that is what are the odds I would be the first famous person to die from the corona well you'd have to it would be one out of all famous people how many famous people are there in the world that you and I would all know their names and say oh yeah yeah I don't even follow that sport but I know Tiger Woods you know I don't really watch the Kardashians but I know what Kim Kardashian is so there are a lot of celebrities in the world there were a lot of famous people if you want to use a more generic work not a single one of them under 70 has died yet and of all those celebrities until the first one goes what are the odds I'm going to be the first one so that's what I'm thinking I know it's irrational I'm just telling you that's how I'm thinking so I don't I don't know if we there's not much to say about Kim jong-un because I think you just have to wait and see if there's anything there at one point there was this report based on a rumor that Chinese doctor who had corona virus came in to operate on Kim and that's where he got the corona virus but none of that is checking out apparently there's no evidence for anything so but you would think that North Korea would at least show us some signs of life if Kim were in good shape so I'm gonna I'm gonna assume that he's got some health issues but that's all we know now let us speculate who would take over who would take over if Kim leaves and somebody says you're famous Google me you can find out for yourself and I was reading a michaelm Alice's tweet thread so my caballus has a book about North Korea he's visited there and he's got better insight than 99.999 point of us so he was saying that there's no clear succession and that you just don't know and somebody's Joe Diffie was 61 doesn't count because I didn't know who he was until he died but all acknowledge that you know him but it doesn't count because I didn't know who he was would it be his sister now I think there's and I think Michael MELAS said this that the there's a very low chance that a female would be in the leadership ranks in North Korea because there there are sexism so it's very unlikely to be the sister so if it's not the sister and I guess he's only got one one brother left who isn't interested so things could get really interesting over there things could get really interesting it makes you wonder if whoever is next in line would maybe be somebody who didn't have blood on their hands if that's possible I don't know if that's possible over there but imagine if they got a new leader who did not have a reputation for having been involved in some kind of badness that we couldn't really get behind them what if what if they come up with a new leader who has sort of a clean slate and has no reputation for having killed anybody because that that's the only leader who could come to the United States and say hey how about we work together because it would really be hard for any country to fully embrace working with Kim jong-un even though we might hold our noses and try because he has he has blood on his hands but what if they come up with a new leader and either we don't know about any blood on their hands or there doesn't seem to be any that's a leader who could say I think I could work with other countries because then we wouldn't be you know we wouldn't be so concerned about that yes I know John Prine died but I'd never heard of him either so it doesn't count unless I've heard of them I hear Apple is planning to build their 20/20 i.

Phones in Brazil which I think would be I think means moving there at least some of their production out of China you know Apple is the what I've been watching because people have been saying that there's not going to be decoupling unless Apple does it because as long as it Apple is happy to make their i.

Phones in China I think every other company has cover because Apple you know they do a really good job of positioning themselves as kind of a moral company you could argue whether that's true or false but they do a really good job of positioning that way and if Apple is looking to move their supply chain and of China it doesn't have to be for political reasons it could be just reduced their risk then that kind of makes it safe for everybody else to do it so the decoupling is on nothing will happen nothing could stop it now let's talk about Trump's stopping of immigration from the political standpoint I think the Democrats are going to say oh he's gonna win this round because his base will love it because it looks like they'll be thinking well maybe it'll be permanent it won't be permanent but it may be his base we'll think so or some of them so it might help his popularity his popularity with his base might go up and it makes it very hard to argue against it because at this point you know who exactly benefits from stopping immigration during the coronavirus I think it's mostly minorities right wouldn't the people who would be helped to the most be the people who are competing for those jobs I mean it seems to me they're the ones would be helped the most so the president's being called the racist for a policy that clearly is strongly weighted toward helping you know the black population in this country even the other immigrants who are already here given the illegal immigrants who are already here stopping immigration is good even for the people who don't have you know documented citizenship because the last thing they want is more people like that in the country because they'd be competing for the same limited jobs so it's sort of ridiculous that that in this case a policy that's clearly primarily beneficial for the minority population in this country is being called racist but their habit it's a political political year Iran's Revolutionary Guard the new head the guy that replaced Salomon a who was killed in the drone strike so their new chief he unveiled a corona virus detection device that could was a huge breakthrough in corona virus detection and you might be wondering why was it being introduced by Iran's Revolutionary Guard instead of some kind of medical group well it turns out that even Iran's own medical people quickly dismissed this device as being a fraud that's right the guy who replaced the the strategic genius that we killed with the drone so everybody seemed to think the Soliman a was you know hate him or love him he was a sort of a genius and a master manipulator I've often said that it does make sense to kill the top terrorists because the number-two terrorists often is not as amazing as the number-one person and sometimes you need that number-one person to really get things going and keep it keep it going it seems to me that the Iran's Revolutionary Guard chief the replacement of the genius Solomon a is so dumb that he fell for a fake fake device that was probably a shoebox full of twine that he thought could detect coronavirus from a distance that's the guy who's the head of their Revolutionary Guard now he fell for a hoax that there was a device that apparently this same device had been used in other hoaxes it was even or it was even a retread of a so yeah somebody says it's a hydrocarbon detector or something I don't know what it is but or maybe that was what the other the other hoax was so I don't think we have to worry about Iran's Revolutionary Guard employing genius strategies against us cuz it doesn't look like they have a gene just running it some what I'm saying there's a weird little story about Chris Cuomo breaking quarantine because of course he has the corona virus and there's a story that he went and visited some other property he owns that was under construction and he got in an altercation with a a bicycle er who recognized him and thought he should be in quarantine and if that's true then people are wondering what is this video of Chris Cuomo emerging from his basement for the first time if he's been driving around if he's been driving around to places and visiting is he really emerging from his basement from the first time in two weeks and here's my spin on it reality TV is not exactly reality TV if you know what I mean reality TV is always a little bit scripted right if you watch any reality TV show all of the people involved have a little idea where the producers want him to go they might go in their own way about the you know the producers know where they wanted to go so when Chris Bobo on the video emerged from the basement of his house I guess his older daughter was videoing it his reunion with his other daughters as his wife upstairs and of course they couldn't hug or kiss or anything because he's still showing a little distance but it was filmed as though it was the first moment that he had emerged from his basement but is that a lie is it a lie because there's this other video of him being on the bicycle or not a video of him but there's a report that he was out of his basement and going somewhere I'm gonna rank this as gray area all right I rank it as gray area because the way the Chris Cuomo emerges from his basement video was presented it could be interpreted as simply the first time he's going upstairs do you know where his family is now I don't know if he had to go upstairs to get out of the house but it could be interpreted as it really was the first time he was sort of in the same room with his family in two weeks that could be which would be true enough honestly you know for my personal standards that would be true enough remember I'm the guy who says that when President Trump uses hyperbole you know calling it a lie they're sort of making too much of a big deal about it because you know it's you know it's exaggeration if you just understand that you don't really need the fact check it if you understand what it is likewise if it's true that Chris Cuomo got in a you know drove his car somewhere to get out of the house maybe his parent and maybe his family was error in the separate car you don't know you don't know what the story was and just visited a property kept his distance you know we know there was no report that he was getting close to anybody right so if in fact he left his house visited a property kept his distance went back to his house but the only time he'd ever gone upstairs in his own house was the video we saw yeah that's close to reality I'll give him a pass on that so in in the in the realm of news and reality it's close enough to true it's close enough right you know he wasn't upset aerosol week it's close enough I give him a pass I have a theory that all it will take for online education which got a big boost of course from everybody staying home from school etc.

I think the only thing that's left for it to really just replace education in person in the classroom is a search engine I think all you would need is a search engine that could find any class on a topic across all platforms so right now there are a bunch of siloed teaching platforms and there's a lot of stuff on You.

Tube you could if you could find that with a search engine but it would just be the You.

Tube stuff I don't think you could easily search and compare so what what I'd be looking for is something like Yelp for online education you know I want to go up to a site and say I would like to learn you know I don't know data security or something and or your geometry or taking English grammar class or whatever and I want to type into the search engine and I don't want it like a yelp review I wanted to tell me all the all the videos on that all the classes you could find online and then where to find them so in some cases I might have to sign up for udemy or you know any one of dozens of different online you know colleges but I'd know which one I needed and they don't cost much to sign up so you could create you could you know if you said ah darn it I've got to take one class from this online platform then pay money for it and have to take this other class from another online platform and I'd have to be a subscriber to that too but you're not talking about much money you're talking about you could google it but you wouldn't get reviews so it's the reviews it's it's this knowing which ones are the good ones that makes the makes it good yeah so the Khan Academy etc so so there are lots of places you can find things but there's no one place where you can search for I want to class on this top and get a list across platforms with reviews because I don't think people would mind signing up for let's say udemy for whatever it is per month because you could pay for the whole month and it's you know dozens of dollars I don't know what it costs is pretty low amount and it would be cheaper than going to college buy so much that it would still be worth it anyway that's what I think apparently according to Kenmore who tweets out that Peter Thiel's company Palantir has created dashboards that are a single source for health officials to track supply chain stuff for PPE and ventilators and so on so you know I was I was shouting from the early days of the coronavirus where is my dashboard so that I don't have to listen to the task force give numbers and a context I can just look at it and say oh these hospitals are low on PPE but here's the pipeline and I'd know what's going on so I guess palate Peter Till's company did that in the article that also was interesting I guess teal pulled back his employees from overseas earlier than basically anybody so why is that the Peter teal could see the future and we can't well how does he keep doing this you know I mean the reason the Peter teal is a billionaire and you're not is that he could see things early right invested in Facebook early etc and and he did it again so you I guess his company was like the first one to pull their employees back to the United States you know in February and I thought to myself is it a coincidence is it a coincidence he keeps seeing the future and you don't probably not all right see what else we got going on here what's up with the lack of an T file are you surprised that an Tifa are you surprised that an Tifa is not protesting the shutdown - for the economy because what could be more fascist according to them than the government overruling pretty much everything in civil liberties and you know talking about you know chipping us and putting ankle bracelets on us and armbands and you know carry IDs and stuff which by the way I don't think these are all bad ideas I'm just wondering why anti fun doesn't is there some reason an tyfa is so quiet yeah somebody says it's because schools are closed maybe maybe if a lot of them were college kids that could be part of it but you would think this is when they should be most active and it just kind of shows that it was always a fake organization in the first place partly fake in the sense that probably funded by outside sources and also fake in the sense it was more of a lifestyle movement it was about the fun of the event as much as it was about politics I think that's my personal opinion based on hearing interviews with at least one person who was a member who confirmed that in his opinion and the people he talked to an anti foul a lot of it was lifestyle it wasn't even about the end end result late last month this was from I think a Fox News report the Trump admission administration officials ignited a quest to root out with suspected spies from prominent US media outlets and don't you wonder how big a deal that is how big a deal are Chinese spies or just foreign spies in general and our big media outlets including the the other social media platforms plus the news how big a deal do you think that is now I don't know I don't know how big a deal is but I've said before and I'll reiterate that you should expect the in the long run I don't know how long their own long run is I don't know if we're in the long run or approaching the long run but in the long run you should expect all of the social media platforms and news platforms to be essentially captured by intelligence services because it's too valuable not to it would be crazy if the it would be crazy if our CIA is not trying to capture foreign news entities at least the ones that are not owned by their own government it would be crazy if other foreign entities are not trying to put spies into our platforms and given that they have so much to gain and and they can lose the spy now and then you know nobody's going to stop spying because a spy got caught so from the perspective of a foreign country there's this gigantic thing to be gained if you can get some control of any of any parts of the media in another country gigantic gains to be had with no risk at all because we catch spies all the time and you sort of ship in the home or you send some diplomats home but basically we don't do anything we don't do anything so it's a it's a free slap so what are the odds that China and Russia and who knows who else what are the odds that they're not already deeply embedded into our social media and news platforms it would be crazy to assume it's not already happening and if it hasn't already happened completely my prediction is it has to happen in the long run there's no there's no force to counterbalance it it's like you know if the if the agencies try to get in and control any given platform and it doesn't work on the first try what are they going to do if the first attempt doesn't work they're not going to stop there's nothing that would stop them they would just try again different person different way so given that the intelligence agencies have so much to gain nothing to lose that would stop them I mean they can lose spies but that doesn't stop us my agency that's part of the deal you should just assume that they will all be co-opted by intelligence agencies I know I don't see how it could go any other way because there's no counterbalance you can't catch them all and there's too much the game all right I think I've talked about everything that works talked about today I believe I have somebody says why forget Israel Israel is in the category of everybody else in the world who has a good Intelligence Agency you should assume that all of our allies are also trying to influence our social media so why would why would Israel be any different it'd be crazy if they didn't try likewise it would be crazy if France and Great Britain weren't trying a little bit to influence us somebody says where's Adam Schiff he's been kind of quiet doesn't he isn't it weird that all of the Russia collusion stuff and whatever's going to happen with Durham and you know who may or may not go to jail oh I have a question about that I'm wondering about so we're all expecting that you know the coronavirus is sort of keeping the regular news from coming at us as quickly as it would and so we're not really watching as much as we normally would events with the whole steel dossier and the Russian collusion and stuff and I was wondering what the penalty would be if anybody at a high level got convicted for trying to overthrow the President of the United States is there a penalty for that and I'm just going to google it right now so so treason would be if you levied war against your own country in this case the United States or adheres to their enemy giving the aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere is guilty of treason and she'll suffer death or shall be in present less than five years okay so that was the question I wanted to have an answer to because I was wondering if it's always the death penalty apparently it's not it's not the death penalty necessarily so it could be over five years so it says not less than five years or you could be fined but and fine so you can be fine and five years not necessarily death but I don't know if it would be considered treason unless our intelligence agencies were working for the benefit of an enemy whoever oil is levies war against them orienteers to their enemies so I guess enemy would be the key word here and there's there's probably lots of constitutional law and stuff that I don't know about that so or somebody's saying sedition all right sedition see what the penalty for sedition is or even what it is not even sure I know what the sedition is so serious it's a serious felony punishable by fines and up to 20 years in prison is the act of inciting revolt or violence against a lawful authority with the goal okay yeah it's punishable by fines at up to 20 years in present yeah so that would certainly fit the definition of what we believe to be true about the steel dossier that did look like it was wait no is it didn't look like it was inciting a revolt depends if the revolt has to be violent can a can a bloodless coup be the result of sedition I don't know so I guess we got lots of questions on that I was just wondering if it was literally possible that any of the the people involved in the steel dossier from the Russia collusion hoax I was wondering if any of them had at least a risk of the death penalty and I would say not it looks looks like not yeah apparently an internal coup against the president doesn't get you the death penalty according to our laws did you hear the hot mic moment yeah so there was a open mic when John Roberts of Fox News was waiting for the task force or somebody to come on and he was chatting with I guess the tech was working the AV and they were chatting and somehow I listened to the whole thing and somehow people believe there's something in there that's like a new conspiracy theory because the the tech guy said that they'd all been vaccinated because they were joking about coronavirus exposure and the guy said he they'd all been vaccinated to which I said what vaccination so it should be seen in the context of two people who knew each other who didn't think anybody was listening except whoever was in the room and they were just talking crap all right so I don't know what the tech guy meant when he said we've all been vaccinated but it was probably a joke and then John Roberts said something about the the news is that it the thing might be less deadly than we thought but of course here's the problem with I I feel like I'm going to say something this is obvious as when I said face mask obviously work even when every medical expert on TV was telling you they didn't and I was still saying no I'm pretty sure they work this feels like another one of those situations the news that we're hearing is that if it's true that the corona virus is far more widespread than we think then that would also mean it's a rel a weak virus meaning it doesn't kill many people as a percentage and it might not kill any more people than the regular flu at least during during the lockdown it doesn't but if you have one that's the same deadliness as the regular flu but it's far more viral correct me if I'm wrong super viral what only kills the same percentage of people as a regular flu is still super bad compared to the regular flu can anybody fact check me on that is that not screamingly obvious that there's no good news from the fact that lots of people have it without symptoms there's no good news in there right am I wrong because everybody's acting like that's good news and I don't see any good news I see something that's exactly as deadly as it is because it's filling up ER rooms and ICUs and we're also looking at a situation with full you know full mitigation so I think everybody on television who says hey lots of people have it with those symptoms therefore it's not that dangerous I think they're just wrong right then it's exactly as dangerous as we thought look at the comments you'll see some people saying you're wrong and you'll see people saying you're not wrong and somebody somebody says it's just math right I think it is I think it's just math that it's just as bad no matter what we find about how many people have it without symptoms I think all right I've got to go get ready for a podcast with a representative dan Crenshaw don't you want to watch that it'll be recorded I believe so I'll tell you what it is but don't you want to see me Dan Crenshaw interview me on his podcast come on you know you want to see that you know you want to see that I got to go get ready for that I'll talk to you tonight you know what

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the thing that makes everything better

including the pandemic it's called the

simultaneous up it happens now go well

there's so much silly news today that I

almost can't stand it I like the silly

news the stuff that really doesn't make

any difference at all to anything I I'm

much less interested in the bad news

that really affects people that stuff's

just sad well let's start at the top

here's a provocative thought for you

if the coronavirus only targeted young

that males with the economy have shut

down I say no because I think if the

only people who were dying were young

males that we would see this like every

other war and we'd say well we don't

shut down the economy just because we

got a war so it's just a thought I think

that biologically society considers

young males largely expendable and I

actually think that if all of the if all

of the risk had just spent on males I

don't think we would have

close the economy I mean it's just a

thought experiment I don't know for sure

but I don't think we would have

President Trump is making things

interesting by tweeting that he was

going to do an executive order

suspending immigration because of the

coronavirus what did people say about

that did people say well from the health

perspective that's a pretty good idea

did they say that no no they didn't do

they say you know given unemployment is

so high that certainly makes sense did

they say that no no no they did not

nope they called him a racist Jennifer

Rubin always always wants to be first to

that so what did she say she said so

this is Jennifer Rubin now I honestly

don't know the real story with Jennifer

Rubin you know she calls herself a

conservative but she she only talks

smack about President Trump so I don't

know what kind of a conservative she is

and I don't even know if she believes

her own stated opinions and I actually

don't know that I mean I actually I

don't even have

I'm not even leading one way or the

other I can't tell can you do you think

that Jennifer Rubin believes her own

opinions the ones that she expresses in

public because I really can't tell and

I'd be that seriously I honestly

seriously can't tell if she's being

serious or if it's just part of the act

part of the show you know she's on the

team so she's playing team sport can

tell but let me tell you what she

tweeted she talked about President Trump

saying he was going to stop all

immigration during the coronavirus and

she said replying to his tweet no doubt

Trump's base is primarily motivated by

racism this is why Trump does this every

damn time and so I ask you this have you

ever met

a conservative who thought their race

should determine public policy I've

never met one now obviously I've met

people who are racist and they come in

all types you know they're not just

white I don't know if I've met anybody

that I wouldn't call a racist on some

level you know if you know what I mean

you know when you talk to people

privately no matter what ethnicity they

are they they tend to express

preferences you know if you ask anybody

of any race are you a racist most people

will say no no no I'm not a racist

they ask the same person would you do

you have any preferences for dating and

they'll say oh yeah now often their

preferences for dating are not even

their own ethnicity ethnicity is quite

common for people to say the fact I know

several women who say they would only

date black men it's just their

preference that was that racist well

yeah isn't it if you have if you act in

a way that shows preference based on

race that's sort of racist so I don't

know anybody personally who doesn't make

their own personal decisions at least

about who they who they have the same

mating preferences for but in terms of

anybody who thinks that the world should

be organized that way I've literally

never met anybody have you I mean this

is a serious question I've been you know

deeply embedded talking to Trump

supporters of all types and I gotta tell

you people will tell me just about

anything privately because I think

people understand I'm not telling people

secrets around so people will reveal

things to me because I am sort of

famously non-judgmental

I've had people reveal to me horrible

crimes they've committed horrible things

they've thought horrible things they've

done and all you know just goes into the

vault so it's safe to tell me and I

don't judge it I just think everybody

you know my opinion is

I really knew everybody's internal

thoughts they should all be executed

you know everybody should have the death

sentence for the thoughts but we don't

do that there's a good good reason for

that

so I've just never met anybody a trump

supporter well let's just say Trump

supporter or a conservative I've never

been a conservative who thought there

should be any kind of laws or public

rules or guidelines or anything that was

based on ethnicity I've never seen that

and but Jennifer Rubin believes there's

no doubt she uses the phrase no doubt

Trump's base is primarily motivated by

racism do you think that's something

that somebody could tell from a distance

do you think have you met anybody who is

primarily motivated by racism I don't

even know if anybody is you know it's

certainly not conservatives they're not

primarily motivated by racism I've never

met that person so what I tweeted about

that is that if you think you can read

the minds of 60 million people and you

can see in them that they're primarily

motivated by anything you know whether

it's racism or anything else if you

could think that you have no doubt about

60 million people's primary motivation

and you're so certain of that that you

will tweet it in public you're not

operating at a high level of awareness I

won't say intelligence because I don't

think it's an IQ issue you know there

are smart people on every every topic

all over the place

but clearly there's an awareness problem

you know like a awareness of reality how

could you go through life unless you you

know again unless she's just acting you

can't rule out the possibility that

because I can't read her mind right so

I'm trying to be consistent with the

fact that we don't know what the

strangers are thinking I don't know why

she does this it's actually kind of an

interesting mystery to me but anyway

that's enough about

Jennifer Rubin so much going on today

let's talk about Kim jong-un I tweeted a

little Twitter poll today who do you

think is more likely to be seen in

public this week Kim jong-un Joe Biden

or Jeffrey Epstein it's pretty close

call isn't it in the Twitter poll I

think Jeffrey Epstein was the winner but

here's my here's my take is is still

true that Joe Biden hasn't been seen

since Thursday can somebody confirm that

because I keep looking I'm checking the

headlines and I'm not seeing any links

to videos of him we'll talk about him

some more but I think Joe Biden is done

can I can I be the first one to make

this prediction in public I don't know

that anybody else is making this

prediction but my prediction is that at

this at this time and the election cycle

getting as close as we are to Election

Day I think that not seeing the presumed

candidate for the Democrats is really

telling you pretty directly that he's

being replaced

so I'm gonna make this my prediction

that you will not see Joe Biden again as

a candidate the next time you see him if

you do will be to announce that he's

dropping out pretty bold prediction

right but can you think of any other

reason that Joe Biden would simply not

be in public because even if he were

feeling ill I think they would tell us

or somebody said video last night can we

can we get a fact check on that somebody

says he was interviewed on WDIV Detroit

yesterday okay so I will keep my I'll

keep my prediction alive for the future

then so the prediction is a generic one

that if he goes if he goes two days

without

being seen in public between now and the

election day it means something it means

that there it means that they're getting

ready to switch about somebody says they

saw videos on there's Twitter or one to

two days ago so so I given that the fact

checkers here are correcting me that

they have seen them on video or recently

then that doesn't mean what it would

mean if he had not been seen so I'm not

I'm not predicting use it withdrawing

from the race if it's jus he's been on

video in the last two days it's a

conditional prediction all right three

CNN anchors now have the coronavirus

that we know of Brooke Baldwin Chris

Cuomo and Richard Quest was just just no

she hasn't

are there any Fox News anchors who have

the coronavirus and if not what's up

with that I see somebody in the comments

saying that the there's a saliva test

coming for a corona virus that would be

good

I hope so but why do three CNN anchors

have it and no fox news anchors that's

just a curiosity Brooke Baldwin who for

in interest of full disclosure I've

spent time with her husband because he

did he was doing a documentary and he

spent an afternoon with me interviewing

me so I know Brooke Baldwin's

husband and I've messaged with Brooke a

few times have appeared on her show and

the messages were mostly about setting

up the interview with her husband so

just in terms of full disclosure I've

had some contacts with her and she's

very nice and her husband is very nice

so that's that's my bias is that they're

both nice people politics aside if you

can do that

she wrote a great write-up about her

experience with the coronavirus then I

tweeted maybe yesterday

the day before but you can also see it

on CNN's website it's really well

written so you should you should check

it out because it's completely absent of

politics there's no politics in it it is

just a personal account that is really

compelling and well-written and

absolutely worth your time all right

let's talk about Kim jong-un well what

we know about that is that we don't know

anything about it we don't know anything

about Kim Jong gun

so if you think he is dead or you think

he's brain dead or you think he's alive

it's just a gas I mean the best the best

evidence we have is that he didn't

attend one event but I mean it's

possible he's not attending events just

to stay away from coronavirus so if

somebody says Jenna daya Bella has it on

Fox okay I didn't know that

and I and I don't know did she get it

while she was staying home well I guess

we wouldn't know all right so thank you

for that fact check so there are more

famous people getting it you know I've

said that personally I'm not going to

get real panicked about the corona virus

and from the health impact part for me

personally until there's one celebrity

that I know who dies from it it has to

be under 70 because you know somebody

over 70 dying is no surprise but the

first time I hear that somebody famous

could be in sports or any any domain and

they're under 70 and they die from the

corona virus that's when I will get

worried because this is my irrational

you know the irrational mind there's no

logic to this whatsoever so what I'm

gonna say I'm completely aware as

irrational but it still works and that

is what are the odds I would be the

first famous person to die from the

corona

well you'd have to it would be one out

of all famous people how many famous

people are there in the world that you

and I would all know their names and say

oh yeah yeah I don't even follow that

sport but I know Tiger Woods you know I

don't really watch the Kardashians but I

know what Kim Kardashian is so there are

a lot of celebrities in the world there

were a lot of famous people if you want

to use a more generic work not a single

one of them under 70 has died yet and of

all those celebrities until the first

one goes what are the odds I'm going to

be the first one so that's what I'm

thinking I know it's irrational I'm just

telling you that's how I'm thinking so I

don't I don't know if we there's not

much to say about Kim jong-un because I

think you just have to wait and see if

there's anything there at one point

there was this report based on a rumor

that Chinese doctor who had corona virus

came in to operate on Kim and that's

where he got the corona virus but none

of that is checking out apparently

there's no evidence for anything so but

you would think that North Korea would

at least show us some signs of life

if Kim were in good shape so I'm gonna

I'm gonna assume that he's got some

health issues but that's all we know now

let us speculate who would take over who

would take over if Kim leaves and

somebody says you're famous Google me

you can find out for yourself and I was

reading a michaelm Alice's tweet thread

so my caballus has a book about North

Korea he's visited there and he's got

better insight than 99.999 point of us

so he was saying that there's no clear

succession and that you just don't know

and somebody's

Joe Diffie was 61 doesn't count because

I didn't know who he was until he died

but all acknowledge that you know him

but it doesn't count because I didn't

know who he was would it be his sister

now I think there's and I think Michael

MELAS said this that the there's a very

low chance that a female would be in the

leadership ranks in North Korea because

there there are sexism so it's very

unlikely to be the sister so if it's not

the sister and I guess he's only got one

one brother left who isn't interested so

things could get really interesting over

there things could get really

interesting it makes you wonder if

whoever is next in line would maybe be

somebody who didn't have blood on their

hands if that's possible I don't know if

that's possible over there but imagine

if they got a new leader who did not

have a reputation for having been

involved in some kind of badness that we

couldn't really get behind them what if

what if they come up with a new leader

who has sort of a clean slate and has no

reputation for having killed anybody

because that that's the only leader who

could come to the United States and say

hey how about we work together because

it would really be hard for any country

to fully embrace working with Kim

jong-un even though we might hold our

noses and try because he has he has

blood on his hands but what if they come

up with a new leader and either we don't

know about any blood on their hands or

there doesn't seem to be any that's a

leader who could say I think I could

work with other countries because then

we wouldn't be you know we wouldn't be

so concerned about that yes I know John

Prine died but I'd never heard of him

either so it doesn't count unless I've

heard of them I hear Apple is planning

to build their 20/20 iPhones in Brazil

which I think would be I think means

moving there at least some of their

production out of China

you know Apple is the what I've been

watching because people have been saying

that there's not going to be decoupling

unless Apple does it because as long as

it Apple is happy to make their iPhones

in China I think every other company has

cover because Apple you know they do a

really good job of positioning

themselves as kind of a moral company

you could argue whether that's true or

false but they do a really good job of

positioning that way and if Apple is

looking to move their supply chain and

of China it doesn't have to be for

political reasons it could be just

reduced their risk then that kind of

makes it safe for everybody else to do

it so the decoupling is on nothing will

happen nothing could stop it now let's

talk about Trump's stopping of

immigration from the political

standpoint I think the Democrats are

going to say oh he's gonna win this

round because his base will love it

because it looks like they'll be

thinking well maybe it'll be permanent

it won't be permanent but it may be his

base we'll think so or some of them so

it might help his popularity his

popularity with his base might go up and

it makes it very hard to argue against

it because at this point you know who

exactly benefits from stopping

immigration during the coronavirus I

think it's mostly minorities right

wouldn't the people who would be helped

to the most be the people who are

competing for those jobs I mean it seems

to me they're the ones would be helped

the most so the president's being called

the racist for a policy that clearly is

strongly weighted toward helping you

know the black population in this

country even the other immigrants who

are already here given the illegal

immigrants who are already here

stopping immigration is good even for

the people who don't have you know

documented citizenship because the last

thing they want is more people

like that in the country because they'd

be competing for the same limited jobs

so it's sort of ridiculous that that in

this case a policy that's clearly

primarily beneficial for the minority

population in this country is being

called racist but their habit it's a

political political year Iran's

Revolutionary Guard the new head the guy

that replaced Salomon a who was killed

in the drone strike so their new chief

he unveiled a corona virus detection

device that could was a huge

breakthrough in corona virus detection

and you might be wondering why was it

being introduced by Iran's Revolutionary

Guard instead of some kind of medical

group well it turns out that even Iran's

own medical people quickly dismissed

this device as being a fraud that's

right the guy who replaced the the

strategic genius that we killed with the

drone so everybody seemed to think the

Soliman a was you know hate him or love

him he was a sort of a genius and a

master manipulator I've often said that

it does make sense to kill the top

terrorists because the number-two

terrorists often is not as amazing as

the number-one person and sometimes you

need that number-one person to really

get things going and keep it keep it

going

it seems to me that the Iran's

Revolutionary Guard chief the

replacement of the genius Solomon a is

so dumb that he fell for a fake fake

device that was probably a shoebox full

of twine that he thought could detect

coronavirus from a distance that's the

guy who's the head of their

Revolutionary Guard now he fell for a

hoax that there was a device that

apparently this same device had been

used in other hoaxes it was even or it

was even a retread of a

so yeah somebody says it's a hydrocarbon

detector or something I don't know what

it is but or maybe that was what the

other the other hoax was so I don't

think we have to worry about Iran's

Revolutionary Guard employing genius

strategies against us cuz it doesn't

look like they have a gene just running

it some what I'm saying there's a weird

little story about Chris Cuomo breaking

quarantine because of course he has the

corona virus and there's a story that he

went and visited some other property he

owns that was under construction and he

got in an altercation with a a bicycle

er who recognized him and thought he

should be in quarantine and if that's

true then people are wondering what is

this video of Chris Cuomo emerging from

his basement for the first time if he's

been driving around if he's been driving

around to places and visiting is he

really emerging from his basement from

the first time in two weeks and here's

my spin on it reality TV is not exactly

reality TV if you know what I mean

reality TV is always a little bit

scripted right if you watch any reality

TV show all of the people involved have

a little idea where the producers want

him to go they might go in their own way

about the you know the producers know

where they wanted to go so when Chris

Bobo on the video emerged from the

basement of his house I guess his older

daughter was videoing it his reunion

with his other daughters as his wife

upstairs and of course they couldn't hug

or kiss or anything because he's still

showing a little distance but it was

filmed as though it was the first moment

that he had emerged from his basement

but

is that a lie is it a lie because

there's this other video of him being on

the bicycle or not a video of him but

there's a report that he was out of his

basement and going somewhere I'm gonna

rank this as gray area all right I rank

it as gray area because the way the

Chris Cuomo emerges from his basement

video was presented it could be

interpreted as simply the first time

he's going upstairs do you know where

his family is now I don't know if he had

to go upstairs to get out of the house

but it could be interpreted as it really

was the first time he was sort of in the

same room with his family in two weeks

that could be which would be true enough

honestly you know for my personal

standards that would be true enough

remember I'm the guy who says that when

President Trump uses hyperbole you know

calling it a lie they're sort of making

too much of a big deal about it

because you know it's you know it's

exaggeration if you just understand that

you don't really need the fact check it

if you understand what it is

likewise if it's true that Chris Cuomo

got in a you know drove his car

somewhere to get out of the house

maybe his parent and maybe his family

was error in the separate car you don't

know you don't know what the story was

and just visited a property kept his

distance you know we know there was no

report that he was getting close to

anybody right so if in fact he left his

house visited a property kept his

distance went back to his house but the

only time he'd ever gone upstairs in his

own house was the video we saw yeah

that's close to reality I'll give him a

pass on that so in in the in the realm

of news and reality it's close enough to

true it's close enough right you know he

wasn't upset

aerosol week it's close enough I give

him a pass I have a theory that all it

will take for online education which got

a big boost of course from everybody

staying home from school etc I think the

only thing that's left for it to really

just replace education in person in the

classroom is a search engine I think all

you would need is a search engine that

could find any class on a topic across

all platforms so right now there are a

bunch of siloed teaching platforms and

there's a lot of stuff on YouTube you

could if you could find that with a

search engine but it would just be the

YouTube stuff I don't think you could

easily search and compare so what what

I'd be looking for is something like

Yelp for online education you know I

want to go up to a site and say I would

like to learn you know I don't know data

security or something and or your

geometry or taking English grammar class

or whatever and I want to type into the

search engine and I don't want it like a

yelp review I wanted to tell me all the

all the videos on that all the classes

you could find online and then where to

find them so in some cases I might have

to sign up for udemy or you know any one

of dozens of different online you know

colleges but I'd know which one I needed

and they don't cost much to sign up so

you could create you could you know if

you said ah darn it I've got to take one

class from this online platform then pay

money for it and have to take this other

class from another online platform and

I'd have to be a subscriber to that too

but you're not talking about much money

you're talking about you could google it

but you wouldn't get reviews so it's the

reviews it's it's this knowing which

ones are the good ones

that makes the makes it good yeah so the

Khan Academy etc so so there are lots of

places you can find things but there's

no one place where you can search for I

want to class on this top

and get a list across platforms with

reviews because I don't think people

would mind signing up for let's say

udemy for whatever it is per month

because you could pay for the whole

month and it's you know dozens of

dollars I don't know what it costs is

pretty low amount and it would be

cheaper than going to college buy so

much that it would still be worth it

anyway that's what I think apparently

according to Kenmore who tweets out that

Peter Thiel's company Palantir has

created dashboards that are a single

source for health officials to track

supply chain stuff for PPE

and ventilators and so on so you know I

was I was shouting from the early days

of the coronavirus where is my dashboard

so that I don't have to listen to the

task force give numbers and a context I

can just look at it and say oh these

hospitals are low on PPE but here's the

pipeline and I'd know what's going on so

I guess palate Peter Till's company did

that in the article that also was

interesting I guess teal pulled back his

employees from overseas earlier than

basically anybody so why is that the

Peter teal could see the future and we

can't well how does he keep doing this

you know I mean the reason the Peter

teal is a billionaire and you're not is

that he could see things early right

invested in Facebook early etc and and

he did it again

so you I guess his company was like the

first one to pull their employees back

to the United States you know in

February and I thought to myself is it a

coincidence is it a coincidence he keeps

seeing the future and you don't probably

not all right see what else we got going

on here what's up with the lack of an T

file are you surprised that an Tifa

are you surprised that an Tifa is not

protesting the shutdown - for the

economy because what could be more

fascist according to them than the

government overruling pretty much

everything in civil liberties and you

know talking about you know chipping us

and putting ankle bracelets on us and

armbands and you know carry IDs and

stuff which by the way I don't think

these are all bad ideas I'm just

wondering why anti fun doesn't is there

some reason an tyfa is so quiet yeah

somebody says it's because schools are

closed maybe maybe if a lot of them were

college kids that could be part of it

but you would think this is when they

should be most active and it just kind

of shows that it was always a fake

organization in the first place partly

fake in the sense that probably funded

by outside sources and also fake in the

sense it was more of a lifestyle

movement it was about the fun of the

event as much as it was about politics I

think that's my personal opinion

based on hearing interviews with at

least one person who was a member who

confirmed that in his opinion and the

people he talked to an anti foul a lot

of it was lifestyle it wasn't even about

the end end result late last month this

was from I think a Fox News report the

Trump admission administration officials

ignited a quest to root out with

suspected spies from prominent US media

outlets and don't you wonder how big a

deal that is how big a deal are Chinese

spies or just foreign spies in general

and our big media outlets including the

the other social media platforms plus

the news

how big a deal do you think that is now

I don't know I don't know how big a deal

is but I've said before and I'll

reiterate that you should expect the

in the long run I don't know how long

their own long run is I don't know if

we're in the long run or approaching the

long run but in the long run you should

expect all of the social media platforms

and news platforms to be essentially

captured by intelligence services

because it's too valuable not to it

would be crazy if the it would be crazy

if our CIA is not trying to capture

foreign news entities at least the ones

that are not owned by their own

government it would be crazy if other

foreign entities are not trying to put

spies into our platforms and given that

they have so much to gain and and they

can lose the spy now and then you know

nobody's going to stop spying because a

spy got caught so from the perspective

of a foreign country there's this

gigantic thing to be gained if you can

get some control of any of any parts of

the media in another country gigantic

gains to be had with no risk at all

because we catch spies all the time and

you sort of ship in the home or you send

some diplomats home but basically we

don't do anything we don't do anything

so it's a it's a free slap so what are

the odds that China and Russia and who

knows who else what are the odds that

they're not already deeply embedded into

our social media and news platforms it

would be crazy to assume it's not

already happening and if it hasn't

already happened completely my

prediction is it has to happen in the

long run there's no there's no force to

counterbalance it it's like you know if

the if the agencies try to get in and

control any given platform and it

doesn't work on the first try what are

they going to do if the first attempt

doesn't work they're not going to stop

there's nothing that would stop them

they would just try again different

person different way

so given that the intelligence agencies

have so much to gain nothing to lose

that would stop them I mean they can

lose spies but that doesn't stop us my

agency that's part of the deal

you should just assume that they will

all be co-opted by intelligence agencies

I know I don't see how it could go any

other way because there's no

counterbalance you can't catch them all

and there's too much the game all right

I think I've talked about everything

that works talked about today I believe

I have somebody says why forget Israel

Israel is in the category of everybody

else in the world who has a good

Intelligence Agency you should assume

that all of our allies are also trying

to influence our social media so why

would why would Israel be any different

it'd be crazy if they didn't try

likewise it would be crazy if France and

Great Britain weren't trying a little

bit to influence us

somebody says where's Adam Schiff he's

been kind of quiet doesn't he isn't it

weird that all of the Russia collusion

stuff and whatever's going to happen

with Durham and you know who may or may

not go to jail oh I have a question

about that I'm wondering about so we're

all expecting that you know the

coronavirus is sort of keeping the

regular news from coming at us as

quickly as it would and so we're not

really watching as much as we normally

would

events with the whole steel dossier and

the Russian collusion and stuff and I

was wondering what the penalty would be

if anybody at a high level got convicted

for trying to overthrow the President of

the United States is there a penalty for

that and I'm just going to google it

right now

so so treason would be if you levied war

against your own country in this case

the United States or adheres to their

enemy giving the aid and comfort within

the United States or elsewhere is guilty

of treason and she'll suffer death or

shall be in present less than five years

okay

so that was the question I wanted to

have an answer to because I was

wondering if it's always the death

penalty apparently it's not it's not the

death penalty necessarily so it could be

over five years so it says not less than

five years or you could be fined but and

fine so you can be fine and five years

not necessarily death but I don't know

if it would be considered treason unless

our intelligence agencies were working

for the benefit of an enemy whoever oil

is levies war against them orienteers to

their enemies so I guess enemy would be

the key word here and there's there's

probably lots of constitutional law and

stuff that I don't know about that so or

somebody's saying sedition all right

sedition see what the penalty for

sedition is or even what it is not even

sure I know what the sedition is so

serious it's a serious felony punishable

by fines and up to 20 years in prison is

the act of inciting revolt or violence

against a lawful authority with the goal

okay yeah it's punishable by fines at up

to 20 years in present yeah so that

would certainly fit the definition of

what we believe to be true about the

steel dossier that did look like it was

wait no is it didn't look like it was

inciting a revolt depends if the revolt

has to be violent can a can a bloodless

coup be the result of sedition I don't

know so I guess we got lots of

questions on that I was just wondering

if it was literally possible that any of

the the people involved in the steel

dossier from the Russia collusion hoax I

was wondering if any of them had at

least a risk of the death penalty and I

would say not it looks looks like not

yeah apparently an internal coup against

the president doesn't get you the death

penalty according to our laws did you

hear the hot mic moment yeah so there

was a open mic when John Roberts of Fox

News was waiting for the task force or

somebody to come on and he was chatting

with I guess the tech was working the AV

and they were chatting and somehow I

listened to the whole thing and somehow

people believe there's something in

there that's like a new conspiracy

theory because the the tech guy said

that they'd all been vaccinated because

they were joking about coronavirus

exposure and the guy said he they'd all

been vaccinated to which I said what

vaccination so it should be seen in the

context of two people who knew each

other who didn't think anybody was

listening

except whoever was in the room and they

were just talking crap all right so I

don't know what the tech guy meant when

he said we've all been vaccinated but it

was probably a joke and then John

Roberts said something about the the

news is that it the thing might be less

deadly than we thought but of course

here's the problem with I I feel like

I'm going to say something this is

obvious as when I said face mask

obviously work even when every medical

expert on TV was telling you they didn't

and I was still saying no I'm pretty

sure they work this feels like another

one of those situations the news that

we're hearing is that if it's true that

the corona virus is far more widespread

than we think then that would also mean

it's a rel

a weak virus meaning it doesn't kill

many people as a percentage and it might

not kill any more people than the

regular flu at least during during the

lockdown it doesn't but if you have one

that's the same deadliness as the

regular flu but it's far more viral

correct me if I'm wrong super viral what

only kills the same percentage of people

as a regular flu is still super bad

compared to the regular flu

can anybody fact check me on that is

that not screamingly obvious that

there's no good news from the fact that

lots of people have it without symptoms

there's no good news in there right am I

wrong

because everybody's acting like that's

good news and I don't see any good news

I see something that's exactly as deadly

as it is because it's filling up ER

rooms and ICUs and we're also looking at

a situation with full you know full

mitigation so I think everybody on

television who says hey lots of people

have it with those symptoms therefore

it's not that dangerous I think they're

just wrong right then it's exactly as

dangerous as we thought look at the

comments you'll see some people saying

you're wrong and you'll see people

saying you're not wrong and somebody

somebody says it's just math right I

think it is I think it's just math that

it's just as bad no matter what we find

about how many people have it without

symptoms I think all right I've got to

go get ready for a podcast with a

representative dan Crenshaw don't you

want to watch that

it'll be recorded I believe so I'll tell

you what it is but don't you want to see

me Dan Crenshaw interview me on his

podcast come on you know you want to see

that you know you want to see that I got

to go get ready for that I'll talk to

you tonight you know what