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Episode 1469 Scott Adams: Don’t Miss My Impression of Negotiating With the Taliban, Plus Persuasion Lessons

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  • Larry Elder’s election slogan
  • California’s livability issues
  • Spanking Biden over Afghanistan
  • Vaccine most hesitant groups
  • NYC vaccine passports
  • Hospital capacity Fake News

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Well, you're, probably hearing a little bit of a hung from my air conditioning that'll turn off in a moment. If you get bad sound on one of these platforms switch to the other, so at the moment on Youtube, you could just find me by searching for real coffee with Scott Adams, or you can find me on locals and yeah subscribers of course. But at the moment both platforms are open, so you can see them both if one of them's not working. Just gonna by Turkey and you'll see the link to the other than I sent today. I right here as the first item today. As you know, Larry Elder is for governor and the recall election with Gavin Newsom he's the leading person, who's not govern ism and looks like he's got a real shot. He's definitely is striking distance
and full disclosure Larry Eldred and reach out to me and asked communicate with his table, which, which I plan to do, but I thought to test this out is slogan. this Curtis slogan. If he hasn't changed in the last few days is meant to win it. I meant to women. Now I thought that was a little bit too much about him and not enough about the state. So I I did a little twitter ball very on scientific and they said which deal better as a slogan for Larry Elder amended to win it or make California livable again, nachos the livable part cuz. That captures all the problems from the the fact that I can't go outside today. Cuz there's too much smoke in the air from forest fires to the fact that I can't go to a restaurant without my mask on to the fact that
Just your crime, you name, it love electricity, water reliably anyway,. So we got because a live, live ability, problems, high taxes, etc. So, as other captured, So what I did in my in my twitter feed at that little ball, ninety percent said they like make California livable again and nine will over nine percent, said his original it was better now. Does that mean he should switch immediately to make California level again? No because it's not a good slogan, it won the ten to one against existing slogan, but don't use that one, it's a bad slogan, because it's too ciampi- and it creates a problem that you don't need a great. Because he's already gonna be painted with whatever hatred the Democrats ever Trump, so you want to put some distance there.
I would modify it instead of saying it make California livable again, which sounds too much like make Amerika great again. Just short of two: let's make California livable, let's make California livable, So now doesn't sound like you trump. but it also puts livable in there and also says, let's meaning, working together. So I guess whether the you know I'm either to win at which a little too much about Larry and into something about making it more livable, but we're all working together. So this is sexy. Now, really really
So this is the way you would work through this process. You would take some reasonable guesses based on what you know about persuasion about people, and then you have to test it. So if you think I can come up with a winning slogan, just by brainstorming, you're wrong, I mean I couldn't benches, be lock more likely just come up with a bunch of ideas intestine until you get one that work so that those are the process works the funniest response to Obama,
having his birthday party and then I guess he pared down from a larger crowd to a still larger and smaller crowd, and he had to go through the embarrassing process of uninviting people who had been invited. Imagine that can imagine having a party inviting all these famous people, then you have to invite the famous people. Ouch does pretty rugged. I can't think of anything. They would be more socially awkward that uninviting all these people already been plans, travel plans, moves are schedule, and these are important people right. So I guess people I gave Axelrod got uninvited, The russian people like that matter because they probably saw Obama plenty, but I think. Stephen Spielberg uninvited one of them we'll go on values. Larry David.
And apparently Larry David was worried that they were going to ask him to do some company there and he couldn't come up with any good jokes for this duration and so when they they call them and told them that he was invited he screamed. Thank you. Thank you that I hung up. The phone poured myself a drink and finished by crossword puzzle now think to yourself is another terrible day. Would you get uninvited Obama's birthday party like you'd, be all excited. I felt exactly like Larry David. Did this remember hearing this story? This is true story about Charles Schulz being invited to the White House. I think.
Regular administration or something and challenges got invited to some state dinner at the White House, and he turned it out, and I asked him why he turn turn down. The invitation to the White House like who turns the limitations of the White House seriously, who turns that down. All shows. Does you know I turned it down said I already did that you ve done there once didn't. I didn't see another reason to do it again. so what were they returned zone Obama's birthday party and feels like you just avoided day a bunch of work? I thought to myself ass. I think that's exactly how I would have felt if I had been invited and then uninvited. I ll just show relieved umbilical, thank God. I don't have to beg conversation with beyond, say just using it as an example,
I think making compensation will be also would be fun. Let's talk about Afghanistan, even Jake Tapirs the violent administration, the serious banking on CNN asking Pointedly how they got him so wrong. Now, of course, Trump is not out of the woods here because he started the process and maybe maybe the government was bound by it, but maybe not I mean we're not, rarely bound by an early any any agreements. So there's plenty going to go round, but Biden gets the most of it cuz it happens on his watch any. I suppose it could have pivoted and could have changed something and then, but he also made the big mistake of predicting. It will go fine. Who was it who advised Biden right? If they ask you how things are going to go in Afghanistan was once we pull enter troops? Tell them it'll, be fine
Who gave a bad advice, or did you come up with another zone? I wanted tat. Look like this. laugh when they said it fell, but will be. By those seriously just just held doubling, find the Taliban flexible, is everything you can say about. The Taliban is those guys are flexible and they know one they ve gone too far. All we ve gone too far in our will back up a little bit. So that's out of Taliban works well,. Do you believe the button ever believe that things will go find that we train the afghan government to defend itself delay? He thought that giving everybody thought that these interim plot that what he said the process of exile. I think every single person knew that the Taliban would take over fairly quickly.
we were surprised at how quickly happened, but you know what's gonna happen right. Did anybody not knows that and of course, as because the afghan government is thoroughly corruption, Campi can't be fixed, so Did Biden just lied to us when by then told us things would be fine Was that what I would call a convenient lie, because the thing that was going to happen is we were going to withdraw and a lot of our allies who fought it with us and should not die or going to be killed. We know that's going to happen. Was it a good lie? Beating it was more benefit than than cost was it a good lie to tell the public? Oh yeah that'll be fine until the processes to four along to stop it because it's gonna happen.
Right. You can't really manage the unmanageable its. It was going to happen anyway. So I think it gives the government by the administration a little bit of cover so that they can say I wish I had known the our allies, we're going to be slaughtered hopes. I mean if we know that in the beginning we want to pull thou because we're not back the people. Hoops who sought, I guess it was just a failure of intelligence. We tried really hard guys. We tried to save you, but we didn't see a common blindsided. It seems to me like it was an intentional lie. We we don't know because we carried idle brain, but it feels like he knew it was going to happen, and he just all this? I wasn't gonna happen so that you can say well, I did say, come
I've known all our allies, we're gonna be slaughtered. I want to try in order to prevent it, but now we're out of Afghans them. So I'm not even sure I mind. Do you. Let me ask you in the comments, if you knew for sure the bite and just I too, the country so yeah I'll be fine, but it was the only way to get us out of their ok with it, because I actually em that was a bold face. Lie, I'm ok with it. does it will. It would have been under this hypothesis, a better life for the benefit of the country there then maybe terrible for the afghan people
but I would be America first. There will be something that was gonna happen anyway, sooner or later so I mean you could have. I think you can allow for differences of opinion on this, but sometimes a government needs the ideal and military military operations are the one place that we do give explain. We expressly give government permission to lie to us right. A new kind of we can say is in our interest and we find later the you lied to us, but is because it was in our interest. We're gonna be ok with it really in the real world. We are. And I'm wondering what the now we're hearing that the afghan government is negotiating with the Taliban,
what that looks like in the context of the Taliban being on the verge of taking over everything, no matter what happens that negotiation go well. I'd like to give you my impression of negotiating the Taliban. That's why you come here is for the impressions and the impressions go like this scene. Mr Taliban, thank you for coming here to negotiate with the afghan government and your first offer is very generous. You ve offered. Behind all of our children, user heads soccer bulls for your fighters and. I'd like to push back on that a little bit and say that perhaps you could spare two of my children to Mi5 used three of their heads for soccer balls and two of them just just leave them. Taliban says
I understand your offer. I can see why you make that offer My next offer. I would- it was all five or your children's heads for soccer balls, rapierlike in front of you and the afghan government guy says: ok, ok, they could make his progress. How bout. you, you ve all five of my children, but you don't hurt my wife, the Taliban says: ok, ok, good offer, here's. What will do? will use your children's. Has four soccer balls, will rapier wife in front of you and killer, and that I'll kill you so it doesn't bother you and the Afghan get Guy says that would solve my problem. It is the best offer I'm gonna get, I guess I'll take it. I guess I'll take it, and that is what I call negotiating with the Taliban scene.
Well or maybe they're just negotiator, you can kill my in laws, so I would like to give you the most optimistic sought about Afghanistan. This will not happen, I'm not predicted this will happen, but it could happen not impossible Did you see the video of the Taliban of finding all these perfectly intact stocks of weapons that we left behind? Like all these big ass weapons? You know that the rifles that are as big as a car, Stuff you see that the Taliban, just happily picking up all the major weapons, but how many of those weapons do you think, have tracking devices and I'm just asking we left all this heavy equipment there. You don't think we have any tracking device.
Nobody thought of that now I don't know, maybe observing the comments I thought of that. half a view of the cobbler slaughter that. Now I don't know how hard it would be to locate the tracking devices in each of them, but I don't feel that the Taliban are two sophisticated. I feel like they got some good every equipment you can probably high the tracking device in one of them go near. Secondly, the process of taking over a country guarantees that your fighters are visible. and that where you meet people there would be visible. And your armies would no longer be spread out. Hiding they'd be right where you could see them if we wanted to
couldn't we weigh three weeks and destroy the Taliban completely just because they be visible either through the tracking devices that may or may not exist. Or the fact that once there, the legitimate government, the round the open. they would probably have military exercises. They would all just be in one place. It uses bomb altogether, all together, I don't think it's worth saving anything. You have still. I don't think the government showed that it was worthy of saving. And I don't think we have an interest there. I'm just say if it was a clever, clever plan, one of them kind of clever. Let's not You saw me speculating, I think he was even yesterday, that I didn't Understand the question of how vaccinations could make more variants, because that's a common thing, that's on the internet
a lot of people say no, the vaccinations just create this filter it might stop the regular virus, but the the variants will will be no unleashed to which I said, explain to me how having less infection cuz. That's what the the vaccine will do. It cause fewer people to be infected. You can still get infected if you have it, but vastly reduce the rate of infection at least help and reducing the rate of infection create more variants. It seems too, without being a scientist that the more or a virus. There is in the world that the the total amount of virus and people the more variants out of that be wrong. So the vaccine reduces The total amount of people who could have the virus is still more than ever, but less than a would be without the vaccination,
isn't that a smaller pool of potential variants. Well, it turns out that there was a recent study University of Maryland In which they showed the full vaccination against covered actually suppresses variance, exactly like, I said exactly like I assumed a good. How could more variance? Not cream How can more virus not create more varies and how could reducing the total amount of variants do anything but require decrease the risk of variants? So, of course you know those are not the only variables sure I'm missing some mechanisms there. I can say that fairly confidently, but didn't seem to me that anybody ever described a mechanism in which various could be increased by vaccination. I turn experts say it
but when it came to war, explain why what is at issue? I never never explanation. So if this this study holds up and, of course, remember studies, baby, fifty percent, reliable I've been criticized. Quite rightly I'll, say this would be one of those criticisms unequivocally that I often say with a study agrees with these sounds, pretty good studied disagrees with me. I say well sketch study. So I was a take that same warning with a study. It might not be true, but it does agree with me, so that makes us more credible them. A bright wine seem well. I've watched sum of bread content on that, but I dont think I ever saw the mechanism anyway. My common sense told me that would come out this way. And so did the study, but we don't know if either of us right.
You probably on the internet, a graph. The shows you who's the most sceptical of vaccinations, and you find that the people with the least education are the most sceptical awake, also Phds. So the two most sceptical groups are the least edgy edit and the most educated. The people who are most comfortable with vaccinations are the people were. a masters degree or a four year college degree, so they're not as educators phds, but their far more educated than the uneducated. So was I tell you: well, it's been it's been passed round the internet as evidence that the Phds, the most important people are most sceptical and therefore so should you be because the smart people are sceptical Do by whose on board without thinking yes, there,
These are the most sceptical shouldn't you be right. Well, let me tell you some real world information about Phds. number one. What is your phd end? If european unity is economics, like Andres Back House mention all the time from? It is that Europe is that's your ph d, then yes, yes, you should definitely listen to that person. I'm a little bit more weight. Then somebody who doesn't have a degree of economics because Economics teaches you decision making. Petition she had to weigh the costs and benefits of things now suppose you had a phd in literature. What good is that you make better better medical decisions? Cuz you got to pee,
letters in that in the real world. How many have had this example watch watch the comments now. How many of you have worked in the big corporation and work with people who have phds. Where they were there. The smartphones. Did you notice that all the people with a pvc is made all the good decisions and the people who didn't have them couldn't make their decisions nope nope? people who have a masters degree. The people were the least skeptical would be people like me, So I was also a masters degree in business oh. If you have an mba, what are you learn decision making you literally gotten degree and how to make good decisions, risk analysis. I've got to one degree in economics, teaches you had a big decisions. One degree an mba teachers.
Make decisions. So if you put me in the same room with a phd in literature, but would you just it's not even close? It's not even close. You would trust me every time if you're smart, which is not right, I'm right being right is slightly different than the incredible well now slightly different, completely different than the incredible. But these are not credible They have the right Phd and if you just average Phds together using you get some weird soup of, People were highly trained to make decisions. So Nellis compare me with my two degrees indecision can I m listening is as well as I say, Andres back out with a Phd in Economics, nope nope of nowhere near as good as he is doing the same thing. I'm trade that the very thing I'm trade, that he does better than me because he has. I agree and proves it all the time
so you don't don't, believes its phds or where you did you get here your decision making from about this, so vaccine passports be ruled out in New York City, probably other places, and I am in favour of that surprised. I'm just saying this dignity all riled up, so there's a twist at the end, But I am in favour of New York City of a vaccine passports, so you can do Indoor stuff, mostly, I guess to get one of those passwords? Why am I in favour of it because I live there? I live in New York City and I do think that we should be testing differ Processes in different places so of New York City wants to test this. I think they should, because, wouldn't you like to know if it works.
Why my anticipation is that it won't work, meaning that there will be no noticeable difference in the infection rates But don't you want to test it, because, even if you are completely against vaccination passports- and I oppose them- I'm one of the people opposed them, but even if completely against them, though you will love, they work. because we might have to make the decision, even if you don't like it, you can Jane you can easily imagine that will be forced into making a decision. We don't want to make it all which the illicit there's another variant? And it's just that just the death. Maybe I like to know if it worked and it's not my city so glad somebody's try, it least will will find out, but I would add this to that. and the girl. Let me say clearly: I oppose vaccine passports of the United States, although
Somebody was a visit from another country. Maybe they need to be vaccinated well with the right kind of action, But here's what I would add to us. I think if your doktor write, you a note, the says you're, the kind of person was low, be a miser you're, not obese you're, the you're, not too old,. say under forty or fifty whatever you doctor decides. And you don't have other major co morbidity is why get your door write you a letter, the says: you're as good as but as good as vaccinated, because both can as you can get it, I guess be vaccinated a little less chance of getting it, but I would think that that should count if you can get a doctor to say for whatever reason, the risk is low. The whole point of the passport is too if only low risk people in the room right. So why not add that
I know you can add at that people who have already got infected and can prove it, and I would add those as well. I mean your doktor can also To find out, you have antibodies, write you a letter so yeah, If you're gonna do vaccine passports, you need to include all the low risk people, because otherwise it is crazy. About Haswell Hospital Capacity- let's put this under No other do think me hospital capacity. This is fake news. Why? Which part is fake? This is a fake news that hospitals are being crushed or is a fake news that they're not because you seem balls you're, saying reports. The sum hospitals are crushed and some are not well. It turns out that there's a hospital capacity checker, it's very good, actually is
There is a city seaside shows you every hospital in the United States and cholera codes them by how our impact of their so I check my local area and sure enough. There are, the rules that are a capacity yikes, her hospitals in my area, which I don't think it's a hospital at all, but the hospitals are at capacity. but fake news, fake news, always some of them are Others are low. They're not hike high capacity their because are not even like towards the top like rain. The belt.
Was up Y y. You is one hospital at capacity and the one right next to it is not, and how do you judge that? Because don't you send people to other hospitals for young fir sharing capacity? Somebody says because it smaller less actually not a bad SIRI location, while I'm saying that the locations are near each other, the other almost walking distance and one is one in that capacity in the others, not literally walking distance. Yes, so I think that some of the answer has to do with specialty. Some of it has to do with. I would guess some hospitals are specialty for recovered more capacity if you knew one hospital- was grave handling covered. Wouldn't you
send everybody there until it reached capacity. I mean if it's the best hospitals, rack capacity, kind of means, you're doing everything right, doesn't it, but I don't know if that's the case, maybe it's not the best ones that are capacity. So here's what's true and what's false, some. Hospitals right capacity in the very same areas Hospitals are nowhere near capacity. Can somebody give me a little explanation of why that is? Wouldn't you expect all of the hospitals to be sort of moving in unison because, as One feels up the capacity moves over to the others, and maybe there little lag, but wouldn't they be moving together, largely but they're not Summer largely fallen somebody up now If I had seen the results like me, entire area was very similar
as I owe word trouble, but if it's only some hospitals and many twenty percent, maybe look like I noted with them. So I would say that the news we're getting about hospital capacity is either incorrect or lacks some kind of contact. So we can't really figure out if it's a problem or not the usual problem, that Data I was feeling that we, ABC long term trend towards depopulating cities- big as you know, started with a pandemic, of course, but I feel as if the long term risk of living in the dense place isn't worth anymore, because you don't need to live in a dense place to have a job, because you can do everything remotely thou, so that's different. You dont want to commute. Of course you don't
The crime, but mostly I don't want to live in an area that easy target work were entering a time when an ordinary person can build a weapon of mass destruction. Let me say that again were rapidly entering a time when an ordinary person. create a weapon of mass destruction or private biological agents and small drone, and you could just pakistani now. If you had such ability you could personally make a mass weapon. Where would you use it? When you come to my town? where everything sort of spread out, no, no, I rises. No, no! You would never attack my town, because a number of people you can kill would be allow those were sort of spread out here. You would only attack a city
so I've got a feeling that just living in the city will be one attack after another until it just become depopulated to say many jobs cannot be done on line. You old fool right, but if you depopulate city, you have far fewer absolutely did we done in general, so I think cities are just go in long term will disappear, but slowly. Here's an interesting data. I am sitting by talk about this, but, as you know, a vaccine hesitancy has been very high and the black population of the United States Now we all know why, right you don't have to be like a genius to figure out why black people would have less trustingly government as anything ever happened to black people of this country, because that because of the government.
oh yeah yeah, like everything so yeah, makes complete sense that the black population, as well as it makes sense that the conservative population would be the most hesitant but, Here's, the interesting part the hesitancy has dropped rapidly among black people. whereas everybody else's hesitancy is also trending down, meaning that every day that goes by, we know more about the risk of the vaccination. So it makes sense that everybody's hesitancy is going down, does the work and- and we haven't seen people dropping dead, the on the streets. So much So, but why is black hesitation dropping faster than everybody else's? By a lot I mean it's a very dramatic if you look like And I say two reasons: number one would be whoever had the most hesitancy, probably gonna get the faster rate of drop, just as we inform people so might be, just that they started from different bases. Everybody else could be the whole
But I would add one little bit about, which is, I think, the black population in this country, like many others, are real called a micro culture. Meaning that mostly you talk to yourself, which is be true for lots of micro cultures within the United States of Europe, hispanic courier. You were listening, the emigrant culture, you you probably talk to other immigrants love, so it doesn't surprise me that, black folks in the United States may have been talking to each other, but now the other sort of the information is so widespread that everybody is getting from everywhere at this point, so that it makes sense that would be a delay, just as the communication would have to penetrate was a culture that talks to itself
and then once a dead, then it makes a difference has probably was happily so. There was a interesting meme there would round. It looks like we didn't lose our signal here after twenty eight minutes, so I think the locals platform must have fixed that bug. It wasn't. A bug actually was attesting attesting limit. Because we're Sunday looks like they took their limit off anyway. There was a meme that went around. They got a lot of play. I won't talk well, how persuasively was so here's here's? What was his little black and white meme and was photo rod sailing from the old. Twilight, zone series and so on. image, so that was the first a goodly and here's the text, you said imagine accidents so safe, you have to be threatened to take it and then there's a picture. Rod sorely needs
Oliver says for a disease, so deadly you have to be tested to do you have it. I saw really together as one imagine a vaccine so safe. You have to be threatened to take it for disease, so deadly you have to be tested to know. You haven't spray good persuasion, now it's good persuasion and won't change aid by his mind, because people are locked in under opinions on the vexed nations and stuff. For the most part. I mean it's a very slow change, but let me know What works about it? Number one is visual, so the picture, rod solely with the little sorely lines like something where it is going on. Dragoon. If you ve ever seen the difference between a tweet there has of image verses, a tweet is just text the viral tweets are.
Firstly, the once with images, so just adding an image to tweezer user. Your first recommendation, if you're trying to build users or followers on on add images image is get you retreats. So I signed up for re at stock service stock photo. I stuck, I guess I'm using, and so if I have a tweet that I think could be viral and it's just going to be taxed I'll, get some generic image and watch the retreats just go through the roof. You can testify health is very, is a very obvious effect added image in your retreats, just jump. So if you're trying to build twitter followers without images, you're really just marching through quickly The next thing is that the image, a rod throwing is a great priming image curse the over a certain age, your young people,
no raw drawing but over a certain age is a very familiar. let's say it's an image. You, like you, understand it as soon as you see it, you you start hearing the music doo doo doo, Doo, Doo, Doo, doo doo, anything go it's crazy world! Anything bizarre could happen. So as perfect bribing, she got a visual, that's good great! Really you got bribing to make Think Twilight, Zone VIII before they ruined the language and then he uses the word imagine says: imagine a vaccine so safe. I think that word imagine is strong persuasion. Now, I'm speculated here. This is not based on some scientific thing. I've seen but. It makes sense based on everything I know as a trained hypnotist. I tell you to often then, if you put somebody's mind into imagination mode, you can persuade them better than if you have them in
the goal, thinking mode and you can tell us somebody's in imagination, mode versus critical. Thank you. You can. You can identify somebody's in imagination boat. Then they let the rules go for awhile, ok, I'll imagine! This is my imagination. when you imagining everything's everything's possible, including changed your mind, if you're in data mode you're, probably lock them, and they are going to reject any data that does it agree with the anyway. So I think just telling somebody to imagine probably I dont have science for this, but my guess is that a primes you to be more persuaded
So I like that, for the next part, is oversimplification, especially if that over simplification makes it sound clever. Have you ever heard that people who are funny of good sense, humor, I considered smarter, is true? If you can make somebody laugh, they think you're, smarter, you just seem smart now doesn't mean there's more, but you do seem smarter. Apparently the studies show that. So, if you can do a clever oversimplification, which is what this mean did you sound clever and you sound funny and you sound smarter now, if you sound smart people more likely to accept what you said and if you sound funny, people are more likely to accept what you said. We, like it said the same reason you like rhymes peril,
Their science says: if you make something rhyme as in, if the glove doesn't shit, you must have quit. But we think is more persuasive. Just cause arrives, that's that's been tested, I mean it's weird once been tested. serve you, so I read it again and watch how clever the simplification is Imagine the vaccine so safe. You have to be threatened to take it for a disease, so deadly you have to be tested to know you have it now form of it is not a rhyme, but it's. Rhyme, like because of you is the same form for the first sentence as the second to imagine something. That's so weird! Imagine something so weird, so I think it sort of hits what a rhyme does to your brain without being arrived at is clever. Now, here's apart this completely illegitimate
Imagine a vaccine, so safety after he threatened to take it well, people are really being threatened. They are so we having their the rights reduced. I'm not sure threatened is the right word, but as it is, good over simplification and for a disease, so deadly have to be tested to know you have at well, that's an oversimplification. If you go to the hospital with low low oxygen and no other obvious problem, you know you probably don't need to test. You probably start treating when before you test. I'm guessing if you came in with all of the symptoms of Covid nineteen and you're like near death store, wouldn't they slap the rajendran regeneron into your iv before they even had the test to know. If you really had covid, I think they would. I don't know, but so anyway, these Rover simplifications disappointed big false, but there still still persuasive.
Are you something that we need for our government? We need subsidies and negotiate with our own government. Now you save yourself, you know you don't need that. That's what Congresses for Congress negotiates with itself and with the president for the benefit of the people. Now they no. They don't. Congress negotiates herself there trying to keep their jobs, try to get elected there. There incentive, are not yours. Will you not even on the same game there trying to keep their jobs you're trying to stay alive this different, so What what would happen if you had somebody who couldn't negotiate with your own government literally negotiate? Now I don't know you could actually do that. But here here's the point We have the situation coming up where our elect, systems we know are not transparent and they're not ordered table now, they're, not transparent.
In the sense that you don't know what's happening in the electronics. You don't know what the software is really doing. You don't know what the servers are doing any of that any of the accounting stuff cuz. We can't just the code and apparently you care, ordered everything because or lesser wreckers lost people, don't label things and there's about twenty two for reasons that you can actually all these things, and especially the digital, portion is our daughter, so here's what I do. if I were a negotiator for the public, I would say, oh we're not going to vote until you make the elections transparent and audible I would literally say here's the deal which is not going to vote negotiating on behalf of the public, I'm going to say we're done, you fix the election and that will vote. So that's what I go. Negotiate, no vote until you fix the election.
There's a code I saw that's attributed to Mark TWAIN, but apparently he never said this like they were voting made any difference. They wouldn't let us do it. that's another one of those over simplifications like it's, not true, but is so simplified that ourselves clever. So whoever sent That's very clever! I hears the other thing I would negotiate with the government, so you government is asking you to give vaccinated, wear, masks the United States, but at the same time they refuse to give us the relevant data to sport that soon the relevant data to support that I been tell you to get vaccinations and wear masks would be the number of deaths and hospitalizations in every state from covered filtered by Asian and be a by weight obesity.
So if you don't give us that information every day, we're not gonna give vaccinated and we're not gonna wear masks, even though we know we should write, lots of times. Negotiating is a process of telling telling somebody that you'll hurt yourself rather than make that deal says you ve gotta, be willing to hurt yourself. Negotiate well. Actually, so I would say if I were to go, shooting with a government is like yeah great. I know you want us to get vaccinations and we're messed how about now? How about? No, until you give us the minimum, which is everyday. national NEWS tells the hospitalizations and the dust from covered by state filtered by age, India. My then all then we'll be on board we did a negotiator. I saw username abacus on Twitter.
Saying this replied something I tweeted. He says. Now we're getting medical advice from cartoons, Are you smart of every fifth greater? Well, what do you think about that? Getting medical advice from a cartoonist is that a fair statement? Yes, yes very fur is definitely share to question the medical qualifications of a cartoonist. You should, if you're, not if you're, not questioning my medical qualifications, why aren't you you should be? If you take you, advice from cartoonists, better have a good reason, but so I agree with that part for sure. but is also a fact that if you took my advice instead of the experts, you would have done better. This is the fact you can. My track record, you can see what I recommended you see with the experts recommended each school Barrett
and it probably isn't the next, because giving back to the earlier point number one. I pick my spots. So do you ever see me give an opinion on everything that there is medical about the cove itself now, because I not an expert- and I wouldn't have anything to add, but there are these specific thing, Such as well are you for you, ve heard all the examples. There are special, the things that you can just tell our lies. For example, when the government first told us that mass don't work and you should use them by the way, I'm not going to argue whether they do or doubt, because I won't matter to this next. Point I knew the government was lying, and so I call the doubt now it could turn out,
Possible that there were right the first time and mass sir useless could be open to that, but I knew that they didn't believe it. I knew that, and so I called it out publicly and I was right- they didn't believe it. They changed day changes as a admitted that lying to conserve supply. So my qualifications and the only thing I put forward as expertise, is that I can identify bullshit better than other people. So if you look into somebody to identify bullshit, I wouldn't go no doctor they're not trained to do that. I go to me or I'll go to Andres Back House Phd in economics. Somebody astray. to do it. So if you want medical advice, don't listen to a cartoonist. If you want,
somebody who will bullshit on somebody else's medical advice talk to me. I can do that. I can. I can call bullshit unstuck. But so so, partly the reason in my medical, my medical track record is better. The experts is that I only pick the things I'm pretty sure abortion. So it's easy is easy to cherry pick. The things I talk about so yes, absolutely by track record, is better than the excellent it's just. The fact was because I pick easy targets right. I believe that is just about everything I want to talk about today, threading. I must call BS encore long. I think area based on them. PS meter? Ok, hasn't those a mask effectiveness.
It is, he can't do studies of covert mask effectiveness. They can't do that because you need a control group and they're not going to some people, do not wear masks. When you get the boost a job, we get the same kind of question. If you I would say I got the Madonna to two shots of our. If I get a booster, would I get the same one? My understanding is that you might get some benefit from getting a second one. Can anybody confer
I think that's a supposition. This untasted I saw some. I saw some speculation from some people who knew what they were doing, that adding them together might make them more effective. But, as I say in the comments that would also be something they had never been tested. Now we ve never tested boosters right because we didn't do the initial. Whatever way. for the emergency authorization did not include boosters, so the booster take some risk with it
but also I would imagine combining any two different vaccinations is something that hasn't been tested. So I would guess that there's some added risk, but remember the risk of all this stuff with stars high on day one. You know when your first roll it out, but as you can observe data over time, the the the risk of the unknown. You have drops pretty fast. So after six months of vaccinations, the risk of the unknown is pretty low. When you talk masks without specifying the greatest mask, you know it's all be us now now, that's not fair. The experts
Say Sydney Powell was a mark, for I want to read this mark for election interference. What's your blind spot, how would I know my blind spot? Is that the problem, it's not really blind spot. If you know it anyway, I can say that the experts say that all the mass makes some difference in summer, better than others. Some suggestion that J J vaccine would be should be a booster but again who test the last of the anti mask at the moment, because I would agree with those who say that the difference in the mask wearing no longer year, whatever difference it, gives you probably doesn't justify the lack of freedoms that would be caused by
as my current thinking, J J, J Kebby booster. Now I wouldn't call them. If you added the J J shot to either maternal or Pfizer, you would probably wouldn't call it a booster. Does it's not boosting them is just adding its own thing, so I dont know that that means you can't do it. I think you just maybe wouldn't call it a booster, but when that same way mask Our child abuse. So there's a suggestion for a Larry elder, say: Slogan, bring back California.
maybe sounds a little bit too much like again just looking at some way of comments, Thrace That's why not take five? Well, you probably will get five. I mean they are talking about incident vaccinations now, and I don't know if that's good or bad build California better and I'm not sure I like build. Don't, doesn't sound like an inspiration award, make
make us a good word, but it was used. Imagine a livable, California, S, not bad, so somebody said. Imagine a livable, California smell bad, a measure of bad. That's what I would test. I can't tell you that's good or bad. Both that's test worthy make the golden state Golden again. Now I don't think you won't make and again in their it's too trompe. It just adds a reason to not vote for you don't need that free, California. Now that's interesting, free California,. The sea after the apprentice and above all, you're still willing to engage the medical industry or what was my option and vice versa.
Disavow all men, medical care, because medical industry makes mistakes, how a new plan just ignore healthcare. Well, there are people who die from medical accidents a better, never go to a doctor. Probably works for some people presume makes you happy. While I tell you I ate, like a mole fo, you can't you can't stop eating and progress as stuff of your body just needs food like crazy. Where it wants, it often leaves us all for now. I will talk to you all tomorrow.
Transcript generated on 2021-08-15.