Episode 1359 Scott Adams: Biden Taxing Me Out of the Country, and Lots of Impressive Fake News Too
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Summary
Join me for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine here of the day, the thing that makes everything better, called the " simultaneous sip" and everything in between. Today, I talk about Greg Gottfeld's new Fox News show, Joy Reid's new hairstyle, and Biden's new plan to help India with vaccines.
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Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine here of the day,
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Get ready for the best thing that's going to happen today
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Number one, a big congratulations to Greg Gottfeld.
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His new show, so in addition to being on The Five on Fox News,
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he has his now evening show, the 11 p.m. on the East Coast.
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And apparently he's just destroying the competition.
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He just wiped out all competition at that time.
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So congratulations to Greg Gottfeld for just obliterating the competition.
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I think everybody knew that was going to happen.
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As soon as I heard he was going to have a show in that time spot,
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I thought to myself, oh, this is going to be fun.
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Joy Reid was reporting that when she went for a run yesterday,
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I guess she wore two masks in addition to being fully vaccinated and running outdoors.
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Have you noticed there's a weird evolution happening with Joy Reid?
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and I'm trying to figure out if this is the simulation tapping me on the shoulder.
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Have you seen she's gone to this hairstyle where there's like a big puff over here of hair,
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And she's becoming a little bit more like the pointy-haired boss in Dilbert every day.
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And I swear to God, it's all I can see when I look at her.
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You know, because she used to have a completely different hairstyle.
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But it just keeps moving a little bit closer to the pointy-haired boss.
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And I asked myself, is this a case of code reuse?
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Because the pointy-haired boss would wear two masks and go jogging after being fully vaccinated.
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So parody and reality have now merged, as I said.
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There are only three days left to bid on the Dilbert NFT.
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It's the only Dilbert comic strip that uses the F word.
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But if you would like to own the only Dilbert comic ever that has the F word in it,
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there's also the clean version if you wanted that one,
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just you could Google Dilbert NFT or just go to my Twitter feed,
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I think most of the bidding will happen the last day.
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So you don't want to get to the last day and then find out it's over.
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Apparently Biden has agreed to help India with vaccines
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and sending them equipment to help make their own vaccines and stuff.
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You know, as much as I'm all about America first,
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meaning that I think every country needs to take care of itself first.
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but it's just a better model if countries take care of themselves first.
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However, if you have something big, such as a disaster, a world war,
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that sort of thing, you know, it makes more sense to help each other out.
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Well, I would note that the way you make allies in this world
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You don't really make allies by talking, right?
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Nothing is really going to happen between the United States and France, right?
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because we have a history that is just such a solid story
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of France and the United States being, you know, allied at the right times.
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But this was an opportunity in which India is in really dire straits.
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The United States could help at some expense to people in the United States,
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Although I think we're getting closer to what they call the wall,
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where there will be more vaccines than there are people willing to take it fairly quickly.
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So maybe we're not putting ourselves out too much.
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But I am very much in favor of making India the strongest ally we can make them
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and the United States plus India is kind of necessary.
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And if this is one of the things that makes us closer,
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that makes us more reliable allies in the future, good move.
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So I'm going to say good move for the Joe Biden administration.
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I'm not going to criticize them for everything just by reflex.
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Let's talk about all the fake stories and probable fake stories.
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So here are all the things that are in the news or on social media
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that I think are fake or have been shown to be fake.
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There's a story on social media that controversial right-wing figure Nick Fuentes
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is that there doesn't seem to be a specific trigger for that.
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it looks like he got put on a no-fly zone for saying controversial things.
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First of all, that it's true, that he's on a no-fly zone.
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He did have some video of him being rejected for a flight.
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I think we are confident he got rejected for a flight on Southwest.
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There's no other reason than the things he said in public?
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Now, I'm not saying there's a good reason for him to be on a no-fly list.
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In fact, I'd be really surprised if there's a good reason for that.
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And let me be clear, I'm not defending anything he's done or said.
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He's beyond my safety zone of somebody I can say good things about.
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You know, I don't criticize people for freedom of speech, even if it's offensive.
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I don't believe the story that there's no reason or that it happened.
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But certainly not the way it's being presented.
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And I'm not saying that Nick Fuentes is saying anything that's untrue.
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I think he might actually not know what's going on.
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It looks like he actually doesn't know why it's happening.
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You know the story about John Kerry allegedly telling Iran's foreign minister
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about 200 Israeli strikes on Syrian targets of Iranian assets.
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And John Kerry has said unequivocally that never happened.
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But it also doesn't matter if it happened because it's also been reported that it was in the news
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So if John Kerry did say this, and he says unequivocally he did not,
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even if it did happen, it still isn't the story
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because it was already in the news before it would have happened, if it happened,
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Did you hear the story about every new illegal immigrant
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that may or may not have been in the possession of one immigrant one time.
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but the party that's out of power will have the most fake news.
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So you're going to see a lot of fake news coming out of Fox News.
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but you will see a difference in the balance, I think.
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So the Kamala Harris book thing was never true.
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There's a private school that's saying they won't hire you
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Again, you don't have to look into the details.
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that really said you can't work here if you're vaccinated?
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Now, I don't doubt maybe somebody once speculated about it
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or maybe somebody said it who's associated with the school
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But do you think that will be the actual policy going forward?
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So I would count on that one to turn into fake news if it's not already.
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And then, of course, there are lots of videos of police shooting innocent people
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when, in fact, it doesn't look so innocent to us.
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they don't really understand well enough to get the story right,
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was discussing giving Mexicans a pathway to U.S. citizenship
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That Kamala Harris is discussing giving Mexicans
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The reason given that these trees would, you know,
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Now, again, I'm going to be wrong on some of these.
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But I'm feeling pretty confident this one's not true.
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And this is what he said about Hunter Biden's laptop.
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Everyone knows now that the Hunter Biden documents,
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So there are two ways that you can make a story go away.
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especially if you heard it from some other source.
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then you've got something to argue with, right?
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Well, can you really explain it away or is it real?
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a hundred candidates for what you should care about,
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who decide what of those hundred big things happening
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okay, these three are the ones we'll talk about.
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which is gutted of all reporters and everything,
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something that you would think would be big news
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that you won't be able to get your brain there.
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And again, if you're not following Glenn Greenwald,
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you're missing the best show on Earth right now.
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he's by far the most interesting media personality.
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Mockingbird, that was the name of it in the past.
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I would point you to Glenn Greenwald's writing on this