Episode 1822 Scott Adams: Most Of The News Today Is Fake And Kind Of Funny
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Summary
Joe Biden is quarantined in his basement, and the media is trying to figure out how to make him disappear. Plus, a new political party formed by a man who thinks he can take votes away from the other party and make them vote for him.
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Well, once again, let me inform you, I do not have monkeypox, but if you want to know
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what a bad luck looks like, bad luck looks like injuring your lip during a monkeypox.
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I know, it looks like I put my lip in the wrong place, doesn't it?
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All right, you seem like you're in Texas, somebody says.
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Good morning, everybody. How would you like to enjoy today's show more than any show you've ever enjoyed?
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And all you need is a cup or mug or a glass, a canteen jug or a glass.
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I'm going to get this right. I'm trying to remember my own stuff.
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And all you need, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a canteen jug or a flask.
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You can't take your chalice or stein, a vessel of any kind.
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the dopamine to end of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
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It's called the Simultaneous Sip, and it happens now.
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No, coffee does not go in a dainty cup unless you're visiting the Queen.
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Well, I have a question about the Democrat strategy.
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I feel as if the strategy is not to remove Biden from office for incompetence,
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For example, first he got COVID, and then he had to quarantine.
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But then he got out, and then they said, well, we're going to have to give him COVID again.
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But what I'm expecting is somewhere around the end of this next quarantine period,
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I think we're going to hear that he has something called serial COVID.
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So if you add the comorbidity of TDS to the serial repeating COVID,
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well, Joe Biden is just going to have to hide in his basement forever.
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Now, I'm not sure about this next part, but does it seem to you he's getting thinner?
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Has anybody noticed he seems to be getting thinner?
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Yeah, I think they're slowly trying to make him disappear.
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Like they'll feed him a little less, and he'll just get a little smaller.
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And one day you'll see a video of him in his basement.
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And, you know, it's not until you get down to like 65 pounds that you can, you know,
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You know, first his public persona, and then they'll shrink him with lack of food
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until he's a little ball about this big, and they'll have, you know, just keep him alive
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Well, what do you think would happen in a hypothetical matchup for president between Biden and Trump
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Well, according to Rasmussen, if the election were held today, 40% of likely voters would
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But another 10% would choose some other candidate if it were just those two and somebody else.
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So what do you think of Yang's new political party?
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Yeah, I think I heard somebody say he would take votes away from Republicans, but it was
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the Republicans who were going to vote for a Democrat anyway.
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You know, if Yang can control 10% of the vote, he's a kingmaker, right?
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If, you know, you've got all these sort of in-between confused people.
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What if Yang's real play is to only try to control the sensible people?
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If 10% of the country identify with a political party, but they're willing to listen to a better
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He could control the whole country like Joe Manchin.
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So everybody who says this Yang thing is just, you know, a sideshow and no importance, it's
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In the sense that if he succeeds, he will be effectively the president, just by having
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And here's something that I think Andrew Yang could do that so far nobody else was able to do.
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There have been third party attempts, but they always seem, you know, sort of,
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So what would happen if you had a third party where the only thing they're trying to do is
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You know, I guess the Democrats think they are that, but evidence suggests maybe not so much.
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So I think if you ignore this Yang situation, you do it at your peril.
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Because if he gets just 10% of people on board, and it's the reasonable people who could switch
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Well, how would you like a story about how I'm so right?
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No, your favorite story is when I'm wrong, and I admit it.
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Because it turns out that there's a new Harvard University study, and they tried to look into
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Now, they used an interesting term here, rioters.
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So I don't know if that excludes people that they thought were just protesting.
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So I have a little question about how they defined that.
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But they found out that only 8% of the people who they called rioters believed they were there
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And 92% of them believed they were there to save the democracy.
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Now, is there anybody you know who said, hey, I think that J-6 committee is making us think
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The sale is what did the people who were at the event believe?
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Because they started with they want an insurrection, and then let's look at all the facts.
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No, you don't start with they want an insurrection.
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And when anybody did, well, I guess this is probably the first one.
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But I don't think there's been another study, and certainly not from Harvard University,
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which at least the left would be inclined to believe, that says that basically 92% of
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their people believed Trump, that there was some sketchiness to the election, and that
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They were not there to overthrow the government.
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Now, what does the January 6th committee and all of the mainstream news do with the fact
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that the very foundation, the most important part of their narrative, has collapsed, and
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If you call anything coming out of Harvard left-leaning, and I think you could make that assumption.
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Now, even the person involved in the study said he was quite surprised.
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And the results were that, quote, many believed they were defending democracy from, quote, imminent
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The only way the mainstream news can handle this new information is by completely disappearing
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Do you think there's any way that if Harvard University did a study, and it came out showing
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that 92% of the attendees wanted a literal insurrection to install a dictator?
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I think they might cover it if the people said they were there for an insurrection.
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But what if the people say that they were not there for an insurrection, they were there
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to fix the republic, exactly what it looked like?
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To me, I mean, that's exactly what it looked like to me.
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Is there anybody who even doubted that, who's watching this?
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Is there anybody here who didn't have the same impression that they were there for good
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We don't know if they had bad information, but if they did.
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The degree to which the fake news no longer needs to pretend is sort of stunning, isn't
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Are you surprised that the fake news doesn't need to pretend anymore?
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Well, it's hidden in the sense that you'd have to go to Breitbart in this case.
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So I found out about the Harvard study by looking at Joel Pollack's article in Breitbart.
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And Jonathan Turley's been on this point as well.
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Who in the country of, let's say, a political public figure?
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What political public figure has been telling you, and I haven't heard one other person
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say it, of political, you know, let's say public figures.
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What other public figure told you that they were thinking past the sale and that the most
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In the whole fucking world, I think it was only me.
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And then I've got a second question about the 8% who did think they were there for an insurrection.
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Do you think that if you really drilled down with the 8% that you would find out that they
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Yeah, I know some of you are saying the 8% are feds.
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Do you think that if you had asked them, they would have said, well, our end goal is to
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Do you think they would have said their end goal is to install Trump as an actual dictator?
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I mean, I've seen no indication that he would want to be the dictator.
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If it were practical, maybe that's another conversation.
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But given that it's so obviously impractical, who did they think was going to be the dictator?
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Or were they going to overthrow it for some other form of democracy?
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See, if you drill down on the insurrectionists, I think you would find out that they're either
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literally crazy, or what they wanted was a little bit closer to fixing the republic after all.
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It's just they had a different view of what that looks like.
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I feel like the insurrectionists were probably closer to the regular people than we think.
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They just like to use more hyperbole, and maybe they're in militias, and they just talk that way.
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And the other thing that I've been saying forever, that the Democrats don't seem to recognize,
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is that there's a way that Republicans talk about overthrowing their government
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that is, first of all, very healthy, because Republicans are always on the verge of,
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They're not really that serious about overthrowing the government.
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They're just making it clear that there's a line.
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All right, here's my next fake news story from Newsweek.
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I'm not sure if this is, yeah, I'll call it fake news.
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Tell me what you think the story would be about if you saw this headline in Newsweek.
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Fentanyl surge started and peaked under Trump, despite the GOP blaming Biden.
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Do you think the story says, if you're coming in late, it's a burn?
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I burned myself on twice-heated soup and a piece of spinach that wouldn't leave my lip.
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So the Newsweek story about fentanyl surge under Trump,
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it says that Trump seized more fentanyl coming across the border than Biden did.
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They are a discredited organization, I give you that.
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do you think that Newsweek is a discredited news organization?
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I mean, those of us who are a little more sophisticated in our knowledge,
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So I think that when they see a fentanyl surge,
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they're going to think it's a surge in overdose deaths, don't you?
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But in fact, the overdose death rate is the highest under Biden.
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So not only did Trump do a stronger job of seizing fentanyl at the border,
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but there were also more overdose deaths under Biden.
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And they made them look like they were negative.
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because the title simply just doesn't match the content.
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All right, here's another fake news out of CNN.
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So I love learning who the opinion hit piece people are.
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I might be pronouncing it wrong, not intentionally,
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You know, he'll just attack Trump for anything, and Republicans.
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And CNN and all of the fake news had a little trouble yesterday,
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because their fake news was that the GOP doesn't like veterans
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and vetoed or didn't vote for a bill to protect them and their health
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And of course, because Jon Stewart was saying that the GOP voted against something
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and they were painting the GOP as a bunch of political bastards
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The real story, of course, was that the Democrats put a whole bunch of pork,
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like 400 billion or some gigantic number, I don't know what it was,
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I don't care how good the bill is, you can't do that.
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who is their, I would say he's among their lowest level attack dogs,
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I feel like he gets the assignment that you can't win unless you just lie.
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unless you're willing to stretch or lie or omit,
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which is the Republicans didn't like all the pork in the bill.
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Dean Obadiah characterized the GOP's action as,
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It looks like it's exactly the opposite of that.
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Now, it's hard to imagine anybody would do that,
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and conclude that they were just operating out of principle,
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A requirement for a one-page executive summary.
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So, if you're trying to clean up San Francisco,