Episode 1313 Scott Adams: Wokeness Cult Deprogramming, CNN Cancels Abe Lincoln, North Korea Misses Trump
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Summary
In this episode, Scott Adams talks about the rise in white supremacist groups under President Trump, and why he thinks there's a good chance it's not because of the Trump administration, but because it's because of Joe Biden's presidency.
Transcript
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Ah. Have you ever had this experience where you go to bed, and I have this weird thing where I hate to sleep.
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And the reason is that when I'm asleep, I feel like it's like being dead.
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You know, I'd rather be awake and, you know, enjoy life.
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And I've had this problem lately where I'll wake up, and I'll try to guess what time it is, and I'll think,
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And then I'll check the clock to see if how I feel is matching the time on the clock.
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And the last couple of nights, I wake up, and I think, yeah, I think I could get up now.
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It's probably early, but I think I could just get up.
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Like, I'll wake up at 11.30 p.m., and I'll think,
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And this morning, I just said, screw it, and I just got up.
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The Intercept has a story about white supremacy and militia groups,
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The white supremacy and militia groups were growing under Obama,
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facilitated by social media and in relation to America having its first black president.
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But once Trump got in there, the ranks grew much quicker,
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Where's the part that says that this growth in white supremacy is because of Trump?
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Because they kind of suggest that it's because of Trump.
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I don't feel like you should be hinting that in a tweet.
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And isn't it, if you were to compare these two hypotheses,
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one is that the number of white supremacists went up because of Trump,
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and then the other is that it went up for the same reason that Trump got elected.
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In other words, there were forces that caused Trump to rise.
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At the same time, those forces caused this other thing to go up.
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How do you know one causes the other versus they're both caused by the same thing?
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unrestricted immigration would be bothering people
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What would you guess is the number of white supremacists under?
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that says the number of white supremacists went up
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And would they suggest that there's a reason for it,
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I think it's pretty clear that this is just propaganda.
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And white supremacy is sort of the perfect boogeyman,
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You don't want to sell a story that people are not primed to already believe.
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So people want to believe that this is a problem.
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So there will be plenty of stories of an individual
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who did a white supremacist thing or was a white supremacist.
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because this claim is that it went up under Trump.
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Is there, like, some kind of published membership logs of white supremacists?
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Or is it the number of violent things that happened
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you can very easily be convinced it's a pretty big deal.
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Sort of like how Russia collusion was sold to you.
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It had just the right elements to make you think,
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because I can't explain how Trump could have won in 2016.
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well, there was that time that Flynn had a conversation with somebody.
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It checks all the boxes for a perfect fake news narrative
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Major publications are writing how it could be a big deal,
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I can't remember if it was the Wall Street Journal
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and that's why we don't already have these tests.