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Episode 1227 Scott Adams: The Legislation no one Read, The Mysteriously Good Coronavirus Outcomes in China

2020-12-22 | 🔗

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Content:

  • – How many people are killed by FAKE NEWS?
  • – No current pandemic issues in China?
  • – Mutated COVID19 in UK
  • – Coronavirus stimulus package
  • – Federal seizure of voting machines
  • – Solarwinds hack, Russia or China?

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All you need is a cover up. Mugger, closet, anger, gels resign again to engender Plaza vessel of Attica. Fill it with a favorite liquid, like coffee, join me now for the unparalleled pleasure. The Deauville easy thing makes everything better except the variant of the corona virus. Sculpt simultaneous up and I was now go well. I hope that made everything better for you all right. Let's talk about the news, I wonder if they were, if there is any way to calculate how many people, the fake news, kills because in theory you could do that right. So take the the vaccines So you ve got a very high number of african Americans who say they don't want to the vaccination and you have to think for the least
Some of that is because the fake news said that Trump. Where's supporting NEO Nazis in Charlottesville, we also known as the fine people hoax, because in fact these are the opposite of what was reported and also the drink. bleach oaks. Imagine if those two stories did exist plus the other whole rest of the story is that Trump said: monster racist and anti science. Imagine if the fake news had not been saying for four years later. Was not only a racist anti science? What will be the difference in the vaccination rate of black Americans because I feel like it would be something right.
And I feel as if you could probably come up with an estimate of like well, we got a sixty percent, but it would have been seventy percent, so ten percent and give vaccinated then you could just sort of work the math and see how many people they killed by IRAN wouldn't be able to do their math and actually estimate how many people eat literally killed. Now the dusky story asking self. This now everybody knows the Tuskegee horrible story about a black chairman who were Lucy. Was it intentionally infected, ripe and That story, I dont believe, would have necessarily been in the news, if Obama, where president because If Obama were present, the story would be everybody Obama's gotta vaccination you'll like it. I think, you'll find
The black citizens of this country probably would have said something along the lines of all right I'll give it a chance, but I do believe that the fake news as an actual death count at this point. That would be hard to dispute Here is my biggest question in the world. Right now is China they have no infections, especially on how do you have international travel resists. The part I have wrong did China stop all international travel at the moment I like currently, is there no travel from outside the country into China. Because ass to be right and how in the world is. Still international travel in China. How is they don't have an infection problem during a pandemic.
Does that tell you that there's something really being that we don't know about this story? Now you may say yourself here: S got what you don't know is that they, the others, some kids conspiracy theories story. twenty million cellphones going dad around the time there were on, was being lockdown implication being that they just NEO killed twenty million people to stop the virus or suppose I did not. I don't think they did, but suppose it it or suppose. That their extreme locked down and one was like a really really extreme, like like you heard they were boarding, people in their boarding up, doorways and stuff- Suppose all of that happened. Let's say they murdered twenty million people. I don't think they did, but let's just say they did and they bore people and they it was extreme extreme extreme lockdown.
Unless their work, because why wouldn't really I mean it should work if you nailed everybody in their homes for three weeks, there would be no virus, but here's the problem, don't they still have international travel. Am I wrong about that now? I dont think that they have quite the testing that they can thoroughly test people getting and off plans. So there's something else going on right. Am I wrong about that? how in the world, can you explain anybody controlling the virus when there's still international travel? I was up. It's only possible if there's some gigantic variable that we don't know about somebody say it's goes, the survival rate is high, so maybe they just don't notice. I don't think so. I think the hospitals would be impacted. It probably know by now.
so you have to sort of assume that there's something bad going on, not just something you don't know about, but at this point. It almost seems obvious that I the virus doesn't have as much effect on chinese ethnic people or they have a treatment that works well and they're, not sharing, which I think would be the highest probability. My guess. Is that are using some other kind of treatment in China? We just don't know about it. That's my guess. here is an example of good persuasion in the form of good framing from Josh Holly in Congress And I just want to tell you that the way he framed topic is better than I've. Seen before us, who is talking about the allegations of election fraud and.
most people when they talk about election fraud, they say Election was stolen. Look at my numbers: lots of people voted for Trump and sizes of the crowds etc. Now you ve noticed that attack has not been extra persuasive right, everybody who says that the election were stolen, is met by some democratic says. There is no proof that right The election was stolen. There's no proof, that's The under the conversation, isn't it. So Jolly does not fall into that bad framing. That is just clear, dead end. And he says this: instead, paraphrasing brought together the idea,
He talks about how, after four years of the Russia collusion hoax, that it's sort of rich, that the Democrats would be saying that the Republican just accept that the election as legitimate after experiencing four years of the other side, doing nothing like that. And altering into hoax hoax, but here's how Polly I can ever pronounced his name Here's how he sums up instead, saying that election was stolen. He says that Republicans, they told their concerns about the election, don't matter that good Republicans or being told their concerns about the elections, don't matter, that's really strong, Because it's true, even if you are a democrat and even if you think there was nothing wrong with the election,
They just want to move on, even if you think the Republicans are just crazy. It is nonetheless true and unambiguously true. They're republicans are told their concerns about the election. Don't matter don't matter, now it would be one thing to say that the election was stolen or not stolen, but we don't even get to that point. We know what we don't even get to determine whether there is any evidence or not. Because things that were tried to get into court were rejected, first standing, doctrinal laches other bullshit. so we ve never really had a hearing in which, Evidence was presented with some summer opportunity for counter evidence and debate. So it's abbot, so
since we ve never had a forum in which the evidence that is still being collected could be presented. Along with the people who have the counter, evidence never been presented, Wouldn't you say that perfectly what perfectly describes the situation is that Republicans are being told that their concerns about the election? Don't matter, that's exactly what's happening, Israel. Strong persuasion said there were well Rasmussen, saying that both the legacy media and Congress of approval levels below twenty percent, to which I said below twenty percent. Are you telling me that Congress and the media are higher than tempers? Doesn't mercy wrong? Have you met anybody who approves of the media or Congress ever. If you go into a hub
This holiday season try this experiment. Around teacher, your relatives that you're not supposed to be saying, does your socially does this, and asked them one at a time, so the others can hear it. So what you think of the job of Congress. See how many of your relatives apparently there twenty percent of people who are say a good job. so, if you can get even one of your relatives to say you know all things being equal, if I'm being fair thinker, I think they're criticized unfairly think they're doing. The job see if you can get one relative to say that. Do you believe that that nearly twenty percent of people said the Congress is pretty good and by the way the media's pretty pretty accurate? I don't know about that. You might get it from the media, but I don't think anybody is going.
and they like Congress, there's this circle of variant now in the UK, maybe other places. therefore a long time, and the question is whether we should close travel. And I guess Kindle is closing travel from Great Britain and the United States is not now which of those decisions sounds better to you. We don't quite know exactly if this is a big new threat, because. be the vaccines work the same. They say it might be more virulent or we more transmissible. That would be horrible, but I dont think we'd know that feels like it's too early to know if it's more transmissible, but why should we do about?
Should we do a candidate did and say? Well, we don't know could be bad, maybe it's not, but will just be careful, enclosed travel or Do you say like we did apparently well? we don't see the reason, the clothes yet so not yet, which one of those two strategies smart and which one is really dumb. You should know the answer. This question, the smart. This the shut it down, because you don't know how big the risk is, it's kind of a no brainer are you telling, May that there's somebody in the UK who just died We need to travel to the United States now, if we Americans were trying to jointly home, there's, probably attesting regimen that they can do and you until the delay of the they have to stay in a room or something so the other. My bees
Trouble getting people back and then, of course, there is also the problem that the other countries that have not closed travel. The UK people could just fly to Germany and then fly here or something like that. So you don't get them all, but you get a lot of them. It feels like it feels like is obvious. The closing travel from the UK, at least until we know more than just seems obvious. you may remember. I was among the first to call for a closing travelling China about a week before the president did, and that was right. Why would I be wrong? This time are right, so we get this giant relief package for the corona virus and its two point three trillion and it looks like it's over five thousand pages, and
than a Yossi apparently ABC is on the same team with everybody it. She said. The monk members account Congress have not read this bill. It's over five thousand pages arrived at two p m today and we are told to expect a vote. in two hours, so Congress got two hours, for every member of Congress to read of five thousand page document and What says is that this isn't governance, its hostage taking, which is pretty good analogy as analogies go, and when I tweeted this people, when, the comments and they said yeah you voted for it if your. If, don't like what you vote for they say you're complaining about it, but then you voted for it. say it in the comments? What does huh
the situation mean to you. She call that a hostage situation deal at the kidnappers, kill the hostage. that your plan, because I feel as though, if you have the money depending on the situation, might want to pay the ransom. Get your ass judge back I don't feel the piracy was being hypocritical, say it's a hostage situation and then treaty, like a hostage situation which is she had to vote for it, she had no choice. Now remember. I was telling you that the republic is dead, because we at the very least we can't be sure that the will of the people was translated into the outcome. You know it could be possible that the election was fair enough, that the actual outcome was represented in the
in the vote- but we don't know- and it seems highly unlikely- that it was because there are so many ways it could have been gained in so many people want to do it, but on top of Having no idea, if were voting for our candidates or not, you actually don't even know if you vote many difference on top at once there in office. They create legislation that even they don't read so. Why you want to have as a republic right and republic would be, where you elected representatives, and they go make decisions on your behalf. Now, if that work, if that's what we're actually observing I'd, say to myself on paper on paper, they'll exporting, it looks pretty.
because we elect smart people and they could probably make better decisions- and we can you know that their checking and with this, of course, so not ignoring the public through just taken the leadership, but what does it mean? To have elected, you're, smart representatives and give them no opportunity to look at the things are voting for the big things. That's not even close to a republic Has first of all, we don't know if we elected these people and second of all, they didn't do it. thing like representing us. They didn't do anything like that nor did they even have the option. All there was the option of a hostage situation. That's it so. We have never been further from something that look like a democratic republic.
Will the people, where we're a million miles from that there's just nothing like representative democracy So much like a congressmen magnates is going to join other Republicans and challenging the electoral college now, I understand that if you get at least senator you force a debate. Now forcing a debate doesn't mean the outcome will change. It just means procedurally after the debate. Now, if we have a debate in Congress, will that be the first trial like thing. In which there are people on both sides, the issue who can ask the experts about the evidence and the witnesses etc. This will be the first time when, because- and I dont know exactly if, if congress- and
debating the electoral college. Did they get to bring in witnesses and if they don't get to brain witnesses, I would think that at least lake and say what the witness, wrote rode down on other affidavit. So. Will this not be the first time there's a trial on the evidence such as it is not proof we don't know if it's prove there is plenty of evidence will be the first time right. In fact, check me on that. Would it be a proper debate. with both sides, because it's the ball size is important. If all you do is another hearing where Republicans talked a friendly witnesses. That means nothing. You ve got to have the other side in this or you don't have anything. There are very few before this sum hearing of confusing this with Senator hearings, maybe no doubt agenda
Flynn- and I guess some other people have been involved in conversation- talk about what to do about the alleged election. irregularities and is the ideas that have been floated are a federal seizure of voting machines in the swing states. So just have the federal government through. I guess it. Executive order just go, take control them, then they can. Ordered and etc that another one is as scarier, which is the military would go into these sit. These swing states that we have some questions. About and they would hold a second election that feels so impractical. I think we can rule that one out, but What about the federal seizure of voting machines? I can't think of any reason not to do that. Can you, because whether or not there is anything on these voting machines
problem. Do we all agree that we we are? Citizens would like to know we'd like that, now a problem on there. I don't want to just gas. The only way you can do that is to have the feds ceaseless machines is or even any argument we have set, yeah I get there. You know what the feds to step up the states, the state's responsibility. But in a situation in which there is extreme doubt about the outcome of the election and the viability of our system thus seems perfectly appropriate. Why You have your any argument against that. Why, wouldn't you say, says. The logs had been wiped if the law seven wiped them. That's reason enough for Congress not to certify everything. Cuz that would be evidence of of bad stuff. I think, while the ceo of fire, I a cyber security company,
there involved in the looking at who was involved in the massive cyber attacks that is being blamed on Russia. but apparently this fellow who is an expert in the company- that's an expert at this and is involved in this very situation. There are not so sure it was Russia, so Palmdale says it's pretty clear. It was Russia and this expert also agrees that it it, fits the russian profile and is very consistent with Russia Tack, He's not willing to say it's definitely Russia. However, here's the interesting He says that with time enough effort, you could actually know for sure do think that's true. Do you think there were some out of time and effort.
That somehow we have not had enough time and effort. Yet we have known about this act. I guess months now, but with should all time we figure out who I was, and we haven't done. It so far feels like if we haven't done so far, there wouldn't be much more trail. There was digitally, so maybe they other assets or other ways do find out with human Intel, but a little suspicious that, if you wait longer, you can be sure where the attack came from. That just feels like something. That's not a thing We don't already now. If we knew already than say I I guess we found them so there's some
that the modern, a vaccine, vaccination and maybe the other ones do, would work against this variant in great Britain and thou? Be good news. I don't know if it's good enough news to continue the way we're going, but the good news- and that is just about all this happened, because as the week of Christmas and its slow lose time, if you looked at poor CNN lately, look at their newspapers, it's all sad, actually so all sad, because they don't have enough trumpet news has dropped us.
when undercover and all Ali taxpayers the of the elections Duff and she used somebody saying something about teslas or something happened with the Tesla stock today that I need to know about not really download that no big deal.
yeah no trump, no drama so apparently Biden plan of starving the news. Business of anything interesting is working really well and he has so far successfully starving the news industry of everything we say: teslas moving to Texas and Teslas put in the ESA ninety five hundred. So there's a news on that. If you not familiar with Hugh look it up, I don't think I'll be looking for a cue as you asking for a web update I'll give you the brief figures that the Krona virus the pandemic. Pretty much put it A business, but they are the tokens the when still exist, because they they live forever, the blockchain, so we are looking for other other uses for a token that exists and could be use. Raven
So there's oboe use thinking of starting any kind of a business that would require a token we could potentially funding with some of the tokens for free. If why you're doing creates a demand for other, targets such as anybody out there who, as a business, they don't want to start their own tokens and get the listed, which is kind of hard. It's really hard, if you just why use ones that exist. We could set up on that and I would make the the when token valuable. If you so smart, but was remote experts. Why wouldn't cove and kill the business more and more to do with the the team and where our efforts were and my own. My own efforts being entirely the stuff, so. Newsome, recall
You know, I know the new some recall petitions and stuff are going on, but I don't really have a big opinion on that. Apparently he has a sixty percent approval rating in California. I don't know if that's true somebody says to check my thyroid. Did you think I haven't goitre? Why do you think I have a goitre our using this? This is a if using my neck. This is a scar from voice surgery. So my vote, courts. So looks like there's some irregularity on my neck. That's that's what that's just the scar. Yeah somebody on Twitter suggested it was time for me to make my move to take over the world and I've been thinking the same thing really. I think it's time for me to take over the world? Now I don't mean in a dictator accounted away, but I feel,
if all the people who are in charge are not believable anymore and that the the real government will the others a good chance, it will migrate to simply smart people that you don't think you're lying. Maybe wrongly might be right, they might have a different bias that you have, but if you're, not getting your leadership from people that you least now our line, you know really getting leadership right. So do you think that Biden will always tell you the truth, and the Democrats think they're tromp was always telling the truth now Let me ask you this: do you think pick pick any one from Twitter who you follow that you think is honest? Do you think that their light you intentionally now. They will not lie to you intentionally, there's those loves lots of people you could identify were not in politics.
I'll just pick one name TIM Pool: if you watch the independent journalists Temple, do you Thank the term poor level just lie now, There is almost no chance of that. I mean you can say Anybody can lie some generic way, but now you know that he might be right? He might be wrong. He might agree with. You might disagree with you You don't really have any doubt. These tell you the truth, TAT Joe Rogan, dear. Do you wonder if Joe Rogan is tell you the truth now now hear that he earned it through your lots of public staff. That makes it very clear. They can be really can be wrong, but he is always tell you what he thinks is true, even if as wrong again, Sir, that just another one etc So there are people who could be wrong, but they're not their knuckle idea, and we probably need to start.
moving a little bit of the the power or the influence of this country over to the people who are trying to screw. You. So maybe maybe there's some kind of a hybrid system that would compensate for the fact that the republic is is over Yeah we're we're sorry running on fumes is just a nursery right now, but that the system, the republic truly doesn't exist were were like the homey apathy version of the republic. You know where you, you keep diluting the water until that there's only the memory of the drug but the drug, isn't there any more. I don't think it's real by the way, but that will help me up. Homeopathy is about our I. It's called free enterprise. What are the I'm saying you making Yea Eric Swaller Well Joke, because his last name
has a sexual connotation and sure enough. He found himself of this situation. What do I blink like that? So I have often been told that I get blinking, I think, is what I'm tired or nervous or something I've been. I feel especially nervous, but I'm a serial blinker, and I don't know it's what I'm doing it. I only know it when I watch it on play back your sinuses erecting up, They feel pretty good at the moment. Pretty good is locals the best way to contact you about business, no use linked so just use linked in. do I see all the messages and linked in? I don't respond to them all, but if it's a business thing also,
so you can guarantee I'll, see you sometime in the next week or so, and that is all I have for you today. Unfortunately, unless you have some amazing questions that I see in the next five seconds. we'll make this a short one. Why only one sip coffee, because that's all you need all you need is one. Am I live in California? as of today, probably going to think about it. If, yes, we yesterday, I said no, but things move fast. Thanks for dunes very face. A lot you had is blocking your books. Well, there you go. There's this books by the way my book had to fail at almost everything is still when big came out in twenty thirteen, when it did my PA what you're told me that it would be an evergreen. Never green is about that.
Just sell well for a year and then disappear, but rather because one. The disorder lives forever and sells well for year after year after year and sure enough the how to fail book actually. The oldest of my books is selling the most briskly and actually picking up steam years later, because there, so much buzz about it. Now so utterly! You ve noticed how many things that book influenced. So anywhere you see anybody talking about something that sounds like a talent stack that was from that book. The time you see somebody talking about systems being better than goals. Almost certainly they read that book before they did the wrong thing. Please, Phil Yourselves does about. The shells are not fill.
Your wife is really how to fail right now and I'll bet shall like. Oh you, you bought two copies here. The most common thing I hear about the book is people buying multiple copies and buying it overtime. Th see today as soon as we're done here, I haven't started, but today it Is there a need to dig in pretty hard last month, bomb haven't heard much about Christine's pilot licence. Well, that's on hold at the moment and. How is the expanse okay? I started watching these bats, that's got the. Say five shows I don't watch the same way as I watch other stuff. This I find stuff I want. I want to feel like I'm in a world, creates a world, and you know those people. You go live on
So I watch the so far less for the plot and more fully absorbing atmosphere. Why not Russia as a new? U S! State! Ok,. who will be president at the end of January. I would expect Biden will get in because that is Josh Hawley said people don't care that Republicans don't like it's just going to happen all right,
How are you scientists is very good, so had the sign, a surgery of. Unfortunately, I have a marker. This suggests my scientist. Problems will re emerge but won't happen railway, that's all I got for now. No one bore you to death I'll. Let you go by FIFA. We're done with. We're done is periscope how'd you week after you said last week, was the worst weak ever spelt the same honestly that same I can honestly say that this month would be one of the two or three worst times in my life, probably, but I'm perfectly healthy and storage.
So I'm very resilient. I've had my entire life and destroyed a number of times, so it's nothing new all Burma a bone. That's offer now. I will talk to you tomorrow.
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