Scott Adams: Something like half of the country believes occupying a room in the Capitol gives you functional control over the United States government.

It’s not because they would have been in the room, it’s because they would have killed the Senators they found there.

Some of them were intent on killing Pence and Pelosi. Try to keep up, bruh.

Is your point that those who occupied the capital didn’t disrupt our government? That if they gained access to the representatives and carried out their threats everything would still be cool?

Breaching the floor of the Senate” means getting into the the building before it was evacuated, to start “arresting” members of congress to prevent them from voting, and/or steal the certified EC votes. That was the plan of many. They got within a minute or two of success.

Yeah, so storming your living room wouldn’t be a threat to you?

“Serious threat” and “functional control” are not the same thing. Police officers were beaten with lead pipes, attacked with stun guns, and stampeded. The mob was only a few wrong turns away from doing the same to Representatives and Senators.

I think you’re forgetting the part where the commander in chief of the United States refused to leave office after a lawful election, is that part of the funny too?

Fireside Chat: Marc Andreessen & Sebastian Thrun

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looking at us right now if you come to
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your younger self what is the advice he
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would give to our students so the single
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biggest piece of career advice that I’ve
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ever heard that I realized after the
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fact I was implementing I didn’t realize
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it at the time was Scott actually Scott
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Adams the guy who invented Dilbert easy
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to remember who came up with this piece
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of advice because how many how many
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people invented Dilbert he his his big
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advice was it’s not about any particular
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skill it’s about combining skills right
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the world is becoming an ever more
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complicated place everything is slamming
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together right it feels it used to be
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discrete or not combining do a large
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part to what we’ve been talking about
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and so it’s not about any individual
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skill it’s about come it’s about
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combining skills and then constantly
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layering on new skills and so like the
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great example is you can you can be an
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engineer and you manage your track you
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could be a writer the professional
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writer but what if you’re an engineer
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with writing skills right and then you
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can be the engineer who can then
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actually articulate what engineers do
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which might be helpful or you could be a
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writer right who understands engineering
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culture and you could write books about
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technology right and all of a sudden
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like both of those are like highly
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differentiated skills like those those
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are very special skills and then what if
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on top of that you thread it in
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knowledge of Education and then you have
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the ability to write about technology
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and education and all of a sudden that’s
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a very special thing
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and then basically through the course of
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your life you just keep layering in you
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just keep you keep layering in more and
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more skills we were actually I’ll brag
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on Sebastian you know professor turn
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executive turned entrepreneur right it’s
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like no talk it you know talk about like
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a magical combination of skills right
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there’s there’s no possible professor
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who could keep up with him in business
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and there are very few business people
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who can keep up with them on the
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intellectual side of things and so the
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magic is in the combination and and I
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suspect the world’s gonna get more in
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the direction where combinations are
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going to get much more valuable and the
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people who have the combinations of
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skills of attending on the students take
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more than a degrees that’s good time
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would ask one last question sure how do
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you get rid of fear how do I do what
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fear fear seem so fearless what’s that
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yes that means what’s that mean if ei
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are AR see so much of it is it’s you
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actually actually read a study actually
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read a study area there’s a psychologist
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named Dean Simonton who has studied the
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history of creativity across every
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different kind of creative field art
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music and business and everything and
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his his big conclusion out of the entire
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thing is the people who succeed are the
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people who just keep swinging the bat at
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the ball over and over and over again
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it’s just repeated attempts basically
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people who don’t quit and who keep
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swinging and so just it’s just sort of
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this I don’t know maybe it’s maybe it’s
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my Midwestern background or just
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old-fashioned stubbornness but you know
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it’s it’s very easy to opt out it’s very
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easy to get discouraged and give up but
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if you kind of have the mentality which
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I don’t know where it comes from but
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I’ve got it I’ve got the mentality the
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basically says it kind of doesn’t matter
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how many times you get knocked down the
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key the key thing is to just keep
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getting back up and keep swinging and

Scott Adams: Sam Harris is Wrong About Donald Trump

(4 min) The people on the right are nicer to me when they disagree.

Trump departs from the fact checking more aggressively than we’ve seen before, but the results appear to be quite good.

Trump hasn’t broken stuff, which is better than people thought would happen.

It seems to be that Sam’s concern is the departure from the fact is so extreme that it will cause lasting damage.  It will cause others to discard facts or cause people to not care about facts.

When Sam says there is a big problem with the Trump Experience I can’t see it because I see Trump as a unique experience.  I think that the next President will be a reaction to Trump, like Trump was a reaction to Obama.

Sam’s assumption is wrong, but while his brand is “Rationality”, in the realm of politics, facts don’t matter.

(13 min ) The way people make decisions don’t depend on facts.  Politics was always 100% bullshit, so Trump prioritizes winning outcomes in all cases.

Compare that to politicians whose priority is the truth.

In politics, the truth gets your economy in trouble because people loose confidence when you talk truthfully about the problems.

Sam’s prioritization of the truth is valuable in almost all except politics.

(19:55) In politics, there is no truth.  There is no process to get there and even if there was, you wouldn’t want it because it wouldn’t be winning (and half the country wouldn’t believe you).

[Tim: since you can’t tell the truth all the times, disregard it completely]

Trump prioritied the Rust Belt states and made sure his message fit there.  Hillary Clinton didn’t. She prioritized her gender.

Many Republicans would choose Nikki-Haley (showing that Hillary broke the glass ceiling)

(25 min) You’ve got to give Hillary credit for breaking the glass ceiling.

(14:26) If Putin continued to do the same things with elections in the future (and why would he because he seems to like a President Trump)

The best way to deal with interference is not to talk to that in a press conference.  (Its just a good play)

I kind of like Putin’s play to say that we can interview the 12 Indicted hackers if he can interview Americans.  (Uninformed)

Trump Derangement Syndrome and the Crumbling Media (Scott Adams Pt. 2)

Scott Adams (Creator of Dilbert) joins Dave to discuss the trend of ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome,’ the crumbling mainstream media, the Trump/Russia controversy, his predictions for future candidates and the future of Trump, and more.

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Just this week there was this idiotic thing with Trump in Japan, dumping out his food in the fish pond.

What they don’t show you is the moment before the Japanese Prime Minister did the same thing.

(10 min) I don’t think media can make money in the middle of the political spectrum

Trump’s opponents might see sense if Trump does something useful with:

  • North Korea
  • Health Care

As long as Trump stays provocative in the same way, people will get used to it.

(18 min) Scott Adams: Russia is a weird relationship – frenemies, but we have deep connections.  Why wouldn’t be talking to them?  What are we going to do: depose Trump and Pence, put in Paul Ryan.  This would be an act of war.  Are we going to nuke Russia?

If Obama knew that Trump was a Russian spy, they would be out on the street yelling about it.

Why would it be illegal to get true information?

(22 min) If you were to ask someone on the street to sort out the Russian thing it would be a jumble.

Persuasion Democrats with Charisma:

  • George Clooney
  • Mark Cuban
  • Van Jones

All Politicians are celebrities, we’re going to live in a world where facts don’t matter.

Even if you’re pro-Trump, you know that the fact-checkers aren’t wrong all the time, but you like the way that he is persuading in the right way

  • Health Care
  • Growth = 4%

If he is successful, you might go out on top and Anoint his successor and keep the brand clean.