Episode 1443 Scott Adams： Violent Protest Investigation, China is Not Safe For Business
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Summary
A new poll shows that 66% of likely U.S. voters think Congress should investigate last year's violent protests. The Milwaukee Bucks are the first team to win the NBA Championship in 50 years. And China is not safe for business.
Transcript
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Hey, everybody. It's time for Coffee with Scott Adams.
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Sometimes the best part of your day, and sometimes the best part of every day.
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Yeah. And sometimes it's just the best thing ever.
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It's hard to decide which it is today, but it's one of those things, for sure.
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And all you need to guarantee the high quality of the day
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is a cuppa, mug, or a glass, a tanker, jell-sever, stein, a canteen, jug, or a flask, or a vessel.
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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
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The thing that makes everything better except China.
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It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go.
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They say that 66%, so two-thirds of likely U.S. voters,
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think Congress should investigate last year's violent protests.
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I'm talking about the, you know, last year there were the BLM and Antifa, mostly.
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In which more than 2,000 police officers suffered injuries.
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Why is that the first time I've ever seen that statistic?
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And the number of people who want Congress to investigate last year's violent protests,
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is much higher than the 49% who say they want to support Nancy Pelosi's looking into the January 6th capital protests.
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And 42% say they don't support looking into January 6th.
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there's a little sign in the back that might be useful to you.
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because it seems to me that whatever was driving the protests last year could not have been legitimate.
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Is there anybody who would disagree with that statement?
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That whatever was behind the protests last year,
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Well, I would say I would want to look into that.
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If 2,000 police officers were injured in events that are suspicious and maybe organized,
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and maybe organized in ways we don't understand.
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the Milwaukee Bucks are the NBA champions for the first time in 50 years.
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And it's based on an unscientific poll that was done by a China file.
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And they talked to 121 people who were China-connected.
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There were scholars and journalists and former diplomats, etc.
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And they asked them if they were likely to visit China after the pandemic restrictions are off.
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And 40% of them said they probably or definitely would not.
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And some of them were concerned about the safety, being jailed on trumped-up charges.
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But I would say that the best way to take down China is by the following sentence.
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In the military, risk means something very different.
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And you might want to take a big risk in the military if there's a big reward.
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In your personal life, you might take risks with your hobbies and your extreme sports and stuff.
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But in the domain of business, people don't like risk.
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Because if you take a risk in business, and it's a risk everybody knows is a risk,
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it's a well-known risk, and it doesn't go well, what happens?
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So once it becomes known, or just a standard business phrase,
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that China is not safe for business in a variety of ways,
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then that should pretty much put China in a business.
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But once other countries realize that the risk of IP theft,
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the risk of imprisonment, the risk of them spying,
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the risk of them getting access to your communications,
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If you take a risk that's not known, and it doesn't work out,
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well, you know, nobody's going to fire you for that.
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You took a risk, it didn't work out, nobody knew.
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But if you know that working in China is not safe, and it doesn't work out, you get fired.
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This used to be the case with using IBM equipment.
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Back a million years ago when I worked in the corporate world,
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it would be said that if you bought hardware from IBM, you'd never get fired.
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Because it either works, or IBM comes in and makes it work.
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So you're not going to get fired because it didn't work.
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Their competition, well, the competition might give you a better price.
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But you don't know for sure it's going to work, because they're not IBM.
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once it becomes known that something has a risk to it,
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And China has gone way beyond the point where you could say that it's safe.
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I would just like to say one other thing to the people complaining about the audio.
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And I wanted to test to see if the reason I had technical difficulties before
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was because of the content or because of the technology.
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Just make it a well-known fact that China is not safe for business,
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And China, if you're listening, and I think you might be,
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you really shouldn't have killed my stepson with fentanyl.
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I'm going to take down your whole fucking country.
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And that is something you're going to see a lot more of in the next month.
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and we're going to join to make sure that I've done a film with you.
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put that a little bit better formii free to achieve it,