Episode 2162 Scott Adams: Would It Surprise You To Know The News Is Mostly Sketchy Today?
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 18 minutes
Words per Minute
137.3155
Summary
Purgosian gets his stuff back, Asa Hutchinson enters the race, and I can tell you the news before it happens. $30M people have signed up for the killer application from Zuckerberg, and it exists.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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well, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein,
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a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
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The dopamine hit of the day thing makes everything better.
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Well, top of the news, Asa Hutchinson has entered the race.
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And by the way, I saw there were some new people here.
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For the new people, would you like to show how smart you will be?
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And by the way, for the new people, this will happen to you too.
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You can see already on Locals, and maybe you'll start seeing it a little bit on YouTube,
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that people, there it is, people are answering a question before I've asked it.
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what percentage of likely voters have a favorable opinion of Hutchinson?
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Now, for the new people, I know this looks like magic to you.
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If you're new to the live stream, it looks like magic.
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If you were watching, I don't know, Crowder or Russell Brand, can they do this?
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I literally tell you the news before it happens.
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If you don't believe that I can tell you the news before it happens,
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CNN is reporting that, you know, the Wagner offices and Purgosian's, I don't know,
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maybe his residence or something, they were all searched.
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And the Russian government is saying that they searched Purgosian's belongings,
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But I'll tell you what, he's got all of his stuff, and he's living his best life.
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That's what you'd believe if you'd been watching CNN.
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Oh, my God, the mental image of Purgosian just driving an RV around Russia.
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It's a good thing I've got an RV so I can hold all my stuff that they gave back.
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When the Russians found that big pile of cash, the first thing they did was give it back to Purgosian.
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They gave him back his stuff without knowing where he was.
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Address it to Purgosian in your RV, wherever you are.
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So, Threads launched, as you know, the Twitter killer application from Zuckerberg.
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And I guess I'm sure this is already a dated number, but over 30 million people signed up right away.
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But out of 30 million people, what number of them said they were thrilled by the product?
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Total number of people were thrilled by the product and pretty happy it exists.
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Has anybody heard even one story, even one, of anybody who went to Threads and said, oh, yeah, this is going to be good.
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Oh, I'm so happy to be on a Twitter with no interesting people.
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Oh, I haven't heard a single person say they liked it.
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Can you think of a product that would have 30 million customers and none of them are happy?
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I mean, there might be some, like, Democrats who are happy that there aren't trolls there.
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How long do you think it will take to put trolls there if it gets filled with Democrats?
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In theory, in theory, Threads should evolve into the Democrat Twitter, right?
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If there's a Democrat Twitter, do you think that any, do you think any Republican trolls might, just for fun,
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might take a wanderer over there, maybe just saunter over to see what's happening on Threads?
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In theory, it'll just be the cesspool of Democrats and trolls and nothing else.
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But I would use it just for, you know, promotion.
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So, use it for promotion, that's fine for that.
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There's a big story today that Jimmy, Jimmy Doerr had a piece where he's, he says that the CDC knew the mandates were based on a falsehood and they lied about it, even knowing it.
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And that we know that now because of documents and emails.
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So, we know that when the CDC said, these vaccinations are great and they're stopping the spread and all that, that they knew it was a lie.
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Do you think Jimmy Doerr showed you the document?
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Or did he show you somebody talking about a document?
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I only looked at it a little bit, but I didn't see any documents.
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And if this had been true, wouldn't you expect it would be in the news?
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My guess is, if I looked at the documents and heard what the CDC said, maybe it's, you know...
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I hope it doesn't sound like I'm supporting the CDC.
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This is just about the quality of news and information.
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But is it likely that there would be a publicly available document that says the CDC clearly knew they were lying at the same time as the document,
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I'm going to say there's something wrong with the story.
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I'm saying that the story has something wrong with it.
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Jimmy Dore put down Scott Adams in a few pieces.
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Now, so far, I have the best opinion of the pandemic, meaning the most accurate predictions.
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Jimmy Dore and a lot of other people fell for some hoaxes about my opinions.
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So usually, I think Jimmy Dore was reacting to the hoax, not my actual opinions.
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I'm not sure that he disagrees with me about anything.
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But he would certainly disagree with the hoax version of my opinion, as do I.
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I also disagree with the hoax version of my opinion.
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But now we've seen I have the best opinion on Trump-related politics,
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Best opinion on Prigozhin and the Ukraine war so far, by far.
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That is after my biggest mistake, which was saying that Russia would be stupid if they attacked Ukraine,
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because it would be a disaster for Russia, and it would be obvious.
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And it was a disaster for Russia, and it was obvious.
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But I do have the unambiguously best predictions on everything important.
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Who had the best opinion about the secret sonic weapon that was attacking the embassies?
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I'm the only one who said it was fake from the first day.
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I would say I seem to be best at telling you what's not true.
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I think I'm less good at telling you what's true.
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because it came from what I thought at the time was a real source.
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But in the end, I had the best opinion on the elections, by far.
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Because I told you from day one that there would be all kinds of claims about election impropriety.
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And I told you that 95% of them would be fake, guaranteed.
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And I didn't know if there would be 5% that were real,
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We can say that with some certainty at the moment.
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which is the only smart take on the election integrity,
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And if you have a situation where there's a reason to rig it,
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and there's payoff and lots of people involved,
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The only thing you can't guarantee is when and how much.
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because it's a situation that guarantees it happens over time.
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If you say it's guaranteed you know that it was rigged,
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but you can be sure that the situation guarantees it will be,
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So by far, that's the best opinion of the election.
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I believe I was the first person in the country to say,
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but we don't know if he's wrong about this yet.