Episode 2157 Scott Adams: Talking About The News. Grab Some Coffee And A Pet
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 33 minutes
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143.30527
Summary
In this episode of the podcast, Joel talks about the White House s new plan to block off the sun to combat climate change, and why the French are rioting because of it. Plus, we talk about the growing Muslim population in the United States, and whether or not that's good or bad.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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And as you know, and I'm sure you do know this by now,
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Or, if, for example, you were sipping coffee and had a blanket on you in the morning
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White House report signals openness to manipulating sunlight to prevent climate change.
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That the White House has signaled an openness to block the sun?
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If you read this, wouldn't you assume that they were kind of serious about blocking the sun?
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Do you think that the details of the story will support this headline?
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Being open to look into something is very different than being open to doing it.
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You wouldn't study it if you thought it was a good idea.
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Do you think it's impossible that they could come up with some kind of temporary thing
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that would, you know, cede the clouds or whatever they need to do and still not be dangerous?
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You know, obviously you have to worry if they do it wrong, it's the end of human civilization.
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I think it's just one of those two on the nose.
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The White House wants to block out the sun to change climate change.
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I think maybe they're just studying it because they study everything.
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You know that there is a massive protest in France that are ongoing.
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Now, of course, you know that the riots are over.
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The shooting of a young man, I think, from northern Africa, Muslim, I think.
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But I'm not even sure that's the reason people are rioting.
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Now, some of the rioters probably want to take over the country
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It's probably people have all kinds of different reasons
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or they're just mad about white people or whatever they're doing.
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The percentage of their population is Muslim right now.
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What is the percent of Muslim residents of the United States?
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So France has 10 times the amount of Muslim population.
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And that's the population that seems to be the most worked up at the moment.
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You know, it was some time ago, I don't remember who said it,
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that the entire country would eventually become Muslim.
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I think if you had 10%, you'd end up going Muslim.
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that's just the percentage that they try to take power.
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When I say they, I mean if there's any members of the group
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who think that the country should become an Islamic rule,
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if they wanted to take over once they got some power
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France is pretty much guaranteeing Trump gets into office, isn't he?
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I mean, there are lots of things that could keep him out.
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Now, the other thing is that people aren't paying attention.
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So, a riot in another country doesn't interest me.
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If we're bringing Christian immigrants across the border,
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we would have our own different set of challenges
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You know, the Christians that are coming across
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So, here's a way I would handle it if I were Trump.
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I think you should get some kind of independent body
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to determine how many of what kind of immigrants
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And it could be different for different groups.
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But, I wouldn't be opposed to having different limits
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based on how much of a disruption you think it would be.
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probably has everything to do with assimilation rates
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and some that are designed to resist assimilation.
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Somebody comes from Australia to the United States.
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But, you know, Asian immigrants have done an amazing job.
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But the Islamic immigration is a different animal
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because the Islamic system will kill you if you leave it.
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So if you bring people in who have an assimilation,
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you can assume that's going to go smoothly in the long run.
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If you bring a group in who's stated philosophy and religion is,
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But even then, I would make sure that you, you know,
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I'd make sure that we're bringing in people from everywhere
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You just got to make sure your rates and your numbers make sense
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for the philosophy of the people you're bringing in.
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I think Trump or Ramaswamy could sell the hell out of that.
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So, what do you think is going to happen in France?
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Does it look to you like this is just going to get bigger and bigger
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Or do you think there'll be some kind of France-first movement?
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Will there be a Trump, you know, Marie Le Pen or something,
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will there be a Trump-like character that rises there?
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I heard that Brexit is unpopular in Great Britain.
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That there are more people in Britain who wish they had not done Brexit?
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Yeah, then the Muslim population would be not too compatible
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But it does make you like Muslims better, probably.
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Twitter, of course, is having some issues today,
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and it is just weird watching people flip out about it.
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Does it really matter that much if Twitter has some glitches?
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I mean, I experienced some little irregularities yesterday,
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But anyway, I was looking at some of the takes.
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that Elon Musk, his experience running Twitter,
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is proof that rich people shouldn't run companies.
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All right, but here's one that's more puzzling.
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I'm very accustomed to disagreeing with stupid people.
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come on the first time so it wouldn't have stayed
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which ironically is probably where there are more
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so I was reading all the social media about Ukraine
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it's hard to be certain about things in Ukraine
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so the reporting on Ukraine is absolutely useless
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so they're either successfully probing for weaknesses
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and any moment they're going to run through with their entire army