Topics:
- Ana Navarro rant – the extended cut
- President Trump’s tweet “resisters versus producers”
- Time cover photo, the crying child
- Open borders, who supports that?
- Morning Joe, Donny Deutsch compares Trump supporters to Nazis
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Oh yeah, it's time for coffee was Scott Adams in the simultaneous Sept. That's good, simultaneous
all right. We've got a number of things today.
To start with, as everybody seen well. Let me pause this year.
As everybody's, seeing in Navarro's extended cut.
Or make sure you see in the extended cuts, but to do that, I have to turn off my a duty to make sure you check my twitter feed this morning. It's a good one! Thank you! Well hello. I have been on tv and all over the place. Okay and the the indefensible, and now, let's see if you can see this, it's funnier. If you see it, see it's funny or if you see it on your own device, but just so you can see I've been playing like that have been on tv and all over the place. Okay, the the indefensible, how you have to justify it and you have to justify the.
Should logo all right, if you haven't seen that I go to my twitter feed its it's retweeted there now.
The other. The other thing I want to talk about
two other things one is the president's tweet from this morning,
they said, or else this is President Street from the.
Morning, says elect more Republicans in November and will pass the fairest
comprehensive immigration bill anywhere in the world, so that part's, not the interesting part
because, right now we have the dumbest and the worst.
Meaning the policies,
and then says dems- are doing nothing but obstructing. Now here's the good part-
remember their motto resist,
Horses produce so use reframed
Their their valiant resistance into being the opposite.
Being productive
which is first of all hilarious. Second,
It totally works, but it it perfectly sets up.
This observation.
Have you heard of the
Heard of anybody describe emotional intelligence. Do you know what emotional intelligence
This is very similar to the idea of maturity.
And emotionally person has high emotional intelligence, can give up some stuff in the short term will take some pain in the short term.
In order to have gains in the long term. So if you have a good,
visual intelligence. You can go to '
The school and work hard and get good grades because, in the long term, they'll make your life better.
People who do not have good emotional intelligence will skip classes because it's unpleasant they'll sleep in because they can't really see the long term there they just more about.
Happening today, that's also very similar to just the difference between children who can see the long term and adults who can and at this point doesn't it feel to you that.
That that separation has become really real in terms of the long term short term difference between the parties. It seems that the Democrats have become the teenagers in the room. You know the teenagers who say well, I want any candy for dinner,
why can't I eat candy for dinner, and then you say well, it'll be bad for your health in the long run and the teenager says.
But I'm hungry right now and I want candy
No, no in the long run is not good for you. It's. You know it's better to have protein and good diet, but I walk handy right now, so
The president's little re framing of the Republicans producing well, the Democrats are
this thing is really accurate for the for one thing: now, that's it's true generally, because
The party that's out of power, they don't have much many options to produce anything, but in this case they're doing a lot of resisting. So I thought that was a wonder
now. It's the same time we're seeing that North Korea is returning remains of soldiers.
Item, the war and they're also talking about reunifying families, north and South Korea. They got separated by the war.
So things are just happening all over the place in north and S. Korea, all good stuff. All because of this president
and let me give you a little life strategy tip.
That you rarely I don't know if I've ever seen this anywhere. So this will be a life strategy tip that I doubt you've read anywhere, maybe have I haven't
It goes like this whenever, whenever you see a problem that people have used the same solution on and that solution doesn't work, but they keep trying the same solution and it keeps
not working? The first thing I asked myself: this is just my little mental process is what happened? What would happen if you did the opposite?
and I just ask that in general it's sort of a also a cartoonist question, the cartoonist
yes, okay, if that's the normal way
Would be the opposite of that, for example,
in the normal world. You go to a doctor and the doctor is trying hard to make you healthy. So the cartoonist Sass. Well, what? If you went to the doctor- and it was reverse and the doctor did whatever he could to make you less happy right now and
then you've got something to turn into a joke, so my normal mental process over many years of doing creative work,
is that anytime, I see any normal situation. I just automatically say.
What, if that were the opposite? And if you look at sort of the creative approach, if you look at President Trump's success with,
N Korea, all he did was take the normal approach and just he did the opposite. 'cause the normal approach had
build for seventy years in a row,
so in the normal approach was hey, we can't talk to this guy until he gives us everything we want. You know the different leaders for N Korea. We can't talk to them. That would be giving them credibility and all the things they want. We can talk to him
So Trump did literally just the opposite. So if seven
years the old thing didn't work. He just said well what, if I did the opposite
'cause. There really wasn't much of a downside to talking to him, but the upside was
eventually the end of nuclear confrontation and that's what happened. So
Look for that in your daily life. Look for situations in which you ask yourself what, if I just do the opposite of what everybody else is doing. What would that look like.
Let's talk about that time,
using photo of the little girl who is crying because it appears.
She had been separated from her parents at immigration, but
Now we know that she was never separated from her mother that the fake news got
story wrong. Now I see the number of Trump supporters of russian to say. I knew it was all a lie. You know the the fake news is blowing this out of and of proportion etcetera
I'm not going to make you happy right now
I know you like me to tell you.
Things you already agree with, but I
Can't be this inconsistent, I'm,
to be consistent with
everything I've said before here,
not gonna, like it you're, not going like it that photo.
Of the little girl crying because she was separated from her parents wasn't true, she was not separated from her parents, it was a fake picture, but I hate to say it.
It was directionally accurate, it was directionally accurate.
Because children were being separated from their parents. Some of them, I'm sure, cried
So does it really matter in any real way that that particular picture was faked, no
it has no impact. The fact that that picture was sake doesn't change. You know the underlying truth. It's it's a most is a very small point about some fake news, but it doesn't change the
story in any way. So the reason that I say I'm staying consistent is because my entire approach to President Trump
Is that when he says my God there's so many people here in this, in my crowd there
maybe thirty thousand of them and it turns out. There are really twenty three thousand album, but it's an overthrow overflow capacity, and you know the
which is there. Is that a lie? Well technically, it is inaccurate, but directionally. It's true he's got a big crowd and there's lots of Energean directionally. It's it's
close enough. So I would like to be the only consistent person on the planet earth today an say that if a picture is technically inaccurate
But generally it's true of the bigger picture. That's not going to be the thing that I'm going to complain about, because I don't complain about it on the right. I'm not going to complain about it.
On the left now that doesn't make the whole story legitimate, I'm just saying that children were separated from parents. It's the fact. We all agree on if we have a picture that tells that story. Well,
the fact that it's not technically accurate. I don't care now. Do you remember
So it wasn't long ago, certainly in my youth,
The saying that just sounds ridiculous today,
the saying goes like this pictures don't lie.
Right remember when that was the case of pictures, don't lie, and now it turns out that that's all they do
remember the pictures of Trump
Merkel and the G7.
Huddled around in all looking angry, and you thought yourself well that picture doesn't lie
And then you see the very next picture were all there all laughing and and Trump is actually taught touching.
Merkel on hand and in a friendly way, like just moments later well,
sure did, lie totally live number. The the picture about Trump feeding the gold fish with with Japan's ave- and it looks like you, you know these- are,
video, but it looked like he was just being a rude guy, throwing all of his fish fish food in there. Well, when they show the whole picture you can see, the Abbe did at First Trump followed the fall of the system.
So there was a time when pictures did not lie
I believe, we're in the time now yeah somebody just said it before. I did pictures only lie. That's their purpose in the political context, in the political context,
all pictures lie. I say that as someone who is often in the meat
Like I'm often the subject of the story.
And they use my picture where I'm like. You know that there's one picture I took.
In which I was literally posing in different positions when the photographer photo. So I would pose like this.
That that was doing these yeah weird weird poses?
and there was a reason for it- that you don't need the written to know the reason, but some of those some of those funny poses made it into the public domain. I guess, and so when somebody runs a story about Maine, they run this picture, and so when he
got it. You think I don't like that guy. I would want to see a guy looking like that.
You would want to be talking to your friend who looks like this. You say I think I'll need another friend.
The the picture that they run about me of is, of course, you know, ally of sorts. It's it's meant to put me in a certain light and yeah you. You can find example after example, after example, pictures live.
Now, let's talk about open borders,.
For you
the time of Trump's introduction to the political process. Here at least running for president,
People have been talking about something called open borders and every time you know and people were pretending I thought the
there are actually some people who were literally in favor of open borders, and I thought to myself. Well, that's not true. You know there may be. If
crazy people who are in favor of open borders, but not really. You know I thought to myself there's
there are really serious. Adults who are talking about open borders did
you used to think that that that wasn't even a real thing. I went through the
or campaign the election and not one
Did I ever think there were real people who wanted open border,
in the same way. I didn't think the all trump supporters are racist. It just sounded like one of those ridiculous things.
People say about the other side: it's like: oh you're, all racist, Sawyer, all open borders, none of it's real right,
but I'm starting to think that there might
actually be people who are in favor of open borders and so
to ask is there anybody? Is there anybody here, I'm? I doubt it.
But there is there anybody on this periscope who,
who actually literally favors open borders. Somebody said I told you so somebody said I am not sure, that's real, but
Because if I can find it open borders, person I'd like to interview on periscope in
I don't know what you would say 'cause, I don't know the argument before it. I've never heard one.
As anybody ever heard, an actual argument for why
Borders works in the long term,
because in the short term
If you have low emotional intelligence or you're a child.
Open borders sounds great. It's like hey, don't put anybody in jail, let everybody be, let's all love each other. That makes
Cents in the short run, but in the long run, how do the open borders people imagine things going? You know what does it look like their world if they got their way? Well, so I'll be looking for somebody who can present that interview now, you saw, I think you also that the NFL players already talking
like this and then periscope the NFL players, some of them anyway put together a proposition for lowering or at least reforming prisons, in one sense, not in a big sense, but in the small sense,
by letting a lot of a drug offenders who had served a long time or depending on the severity of the the drug, the drug crime, they suggested fairly mass. You call it pardon or commuting of the sentence, and I thought well they
that is productive. You know the people who came up with that idea are. Producers
they're, not resistors their producers, and so immediately. So you know, given that most of you are probably Trump supporters of here on the spare so, and that means that most of you have been accused of being a horrible racists.
If you've been accused of being horrible, racist and then you saw the story yesterday of the
NFL players who are saying hey- let's, let's maybe commute or pardon people who are in prison too long for these drug crimes, because they are disproportionately target
notice. Did you see many trump supporters resist that I saw a few, but they were. They were just the lawn order, people, it's not legal yeah to me, it looked like people were pretty open to that on the Trump side of the the the world, and I and I believe that you're also speed, races right
You're you're also speak in on the other side of that, and I don't know it looked to me like some of you saying that you that you are racist, I'm not sure what that means in your case, but nope nope nope, so one of the nope so not sure, I'm not sure what people are saying no to no. They. You didn't have a problem with it and I I've, but the people I saw
seems to be quite in favor of at least considering that, let's talk about Donny Deutsch,
did all of you see the Donny Deutsch comment. I don't know if it was on morning Joe or something.
In which he said that the people who voted for Trump have to be held responsible for his evil. That's some serious Hitler stuff right. There
No, I called Donny Deutsch the poor man's Anthony Bourdain,
I don't know why I just always thought they were the same guy except one was the poor man's version and.
When you hear something like all, Trump supporters have to be held accountable, that's pretty chilling stuff that is really chilling and
it's pretty pretty Hitler like so Donny Deutsch Hitler has gone on the record as being against people and citizen,
And
I don't know, I don't know how he lives with himself. I'm not sure how you can have that kind of a hateful opinion and live with yourself, but apparently is ok with it yeah, and what exactly is it that Trump supporters are supposed to be responsible for the good economy, the peace in North Korea? You know what what exactly because it seems to me gently. Here's a just a a mental little mental. What do you call it and mental? Then it was the word, not a mental experiment. What's the word for a mental
department, a mind experiment now, there's a phrase for it never mind, but imagine if the press had never complained about Trump as being a racist and just suppose that supposed to press had done nothing but report what they saw.
Would we have this much racial animosity? I don't think so and that's the biggest problem in the world,
So it seems to me that the the
and let me make some some distinction
the issue we had with the children in cages. I think,
almost all trump supporters also did not want children separated from kids. If there's a way to avoid it.
So that was something that I thought the press did a pretty good job of surfacing something that people cared about. The president looked at the the public's reaction and then he and then he tried to adjust. I'm not sure the adjustment will make everybody happy, but to me that look like the system working perfectly. There was an issue, the press service that the public way. Then the public wanted to change the press,
and so the public asking for the change, both his side and the other side and the president implemented a change all within what a week. That would be almost a perfect example. I thought experiment. Thank you.
That would be almost a perfect example of this system work.
Exactly the way you'd want it to surface the problem. Governor reacted now,
so there are real cases where there are problems that have to be surfaced and then dealt with, but
The larger issue of are all trump supporters. You know not season monsters is Trump going to round people up and put him in concentration camps and kill them all. All of that stuff comes from Donny, Deutsch and more
and the the people who are blaming you trump supporters,.
For being Heller's are the ones causing the problem President Trump
If you take every one of the things he said and put it in an objective language. It all just goes away. Let's take Charlottesville, it was the fake news said: oh he's siding with the white supremacists that didn't happen that something they made up. He cited with the people. Jen
Really it was a protest about pro statue or anti statue and he was saying well they're good people on both sides of the question of pro statue at Anti statue, the news,
illegitimately said I Sattler and he's saying that the voice premises are good people. He didn't say that and in fact, when he was asked for a clarification he clarified very clearly now I don't mean that I'm not talking about those.
Right now, it's the news were even a little bit legitimate. They would have said.
The way. You said that was a little confusing, so we asked him to clarify and thank goodness he wasn't supporting the white supremacist. He clarified world good meal, that's what real
News would have looked like what we have now is illegitimate news in which they gin up stories and make things look worse in there. Oh,
likewise, the children in cages had the news been made any attempt to be objective
They still might have raised the story that people wanted to act on and wanted to change, but it wouldn't have looked like this. It would not have looked like this is the next step to the death camps. You know which is essentially how it was covered
the Melania's jacket story?
if we had a a real press. They were looked at that and said. I wonder what that means and then Malani a spokesperson set eyes. Just is just the jack and they probably would have been skeptical that which which they were and then when the president clarified, is at odds it's about the critics really. I said to myself: well, that's how I took it. I I took the jacket to be talking about her critics, because she's been she's been piled on just mercilessly by the critics. Now the way the President said what was
the fake news and that's a subset of the critics, so we're not that far off same concept and rather than the
he is saying, Malani and made a statement about the the press before going to do this generous and good thing of visiting these children. That would have been an objective way to cover it's like, oh she's, making a political statement about her critics on her way to do this good thing. So what the the hypnotized Anti trappers don't understand is that their opinions did not come from themselves. This is the biggest misunderstanding that the left has.
The left believes the anti trumpers. They believe that their opinions came from their own minds. They believe that they looked at data and formed opinions.
Nothing even remotely like that has happened. Nothing like that happened to anybody and by the way, it's the same on both sides right, so both
both sides are under the impression that they've looked at the data made their objective opinions and now they've got an opinion. There's nothing like.
Happening the reality is that there,
Very influential people and organizations on both sides, those influential people and organizations are providing people, their opinions and the people once once provided with an opinion, come to believe it's their own opinion. That's how normal people work, I'm not.
Driving anything that's broken, I'm not telling you something new or revolutionary about people, this
this just how all people are built. We believe
have opinions, and we believe they came from our own mind and thoughts and and resources and everything else not true. There are. There are very few people like the President, like CNN, like Fox NEWS. People like me, who are influential and after we've done, are influencing the people. We've influenced believe they made up their own mind,
Giselle this just not what's happening so when the anti trump per
we're going to get you with our pitchforks in our resistance. They believe that they have come to this independent thought and that they must resist nothing like that happened. They have been given their thoughts and they're acting upon them as they have been provided to them. I need to get off this periscope and do something else in a minute. So I'm going to end it now. Uh.
There's a libertarian on the Rubin report, arguing for open borders, alright, well I'll, look for some people arguing for open borders, and I will get back to you bye for now.
Transcript generated on 2019-11-13.