Episode 2221 Scott Adams: No Real News Today So Let's Mock The Fake Stuff
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Summary
On today's episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, Scott talks about the recent death of James Clapper, and whether or not it's a coincidence or not. Plus, a story about a mud pandemic, and a conspiracy theory about a man who may or may not have been James Clapper.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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It's called coffee with Scott Adams, and on a slow nudes day like today,
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it's exactly where you want to be, because what would you rather be doing?
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Sleeping in? No, nonsense. You want to be here.
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And if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that even Canada could not understand,
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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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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
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It's the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
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I will sip you late. It's called the Simultaneous Sip, and it happens now. Go.
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I saw a reference to the men who live alone die younger, and the joke was,
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But that's one of those backwards correlation ones.
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People who look like they're going to die pretty soon or people who look healthy?
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I got a feeling that nobody marries somebody who looks like they're going to die.
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So, there's a big old festival called Burning Man, and things went wrong.
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That there's a big festival that famous people went to, and something went wrong?
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Well, there was a flood that turned their dirt into mud, and now, oh, God.
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You can't actually talk about Burning Man for more than 30 seconds without falling asleep.
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Well, there's a festival that's called Burning Man, and there's mud.
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Nobody cares about Burning Man unless you're there.
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Can we stipulate that we don't care what happens?
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We don't care if they're muddy, and we don't really care if we don't care at all, basically.
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So, on social media, I saw a report of a study that says ivermectin really worked well.
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There's a study that has something to do with something about the pandemic.
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Well, how will I know if it's a randomized controlled trial or not?
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But what if it's done by really credible people?
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There's no credible data that has ever come out of the pandemic.
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We will forever go to the end of our days, not really knowing what happened, but that allows
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everybody to assume they're the ones who got it right.
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How many of you heard an audio, which I'm suspecting is not real, but I don't know in what way it would
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have been faked, that alleges that James Clapper is on there being allegedly interviewed about something.
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And if any of it were true, it would be shocking to the point of unbelievable.
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And what do I say when you see news stories that are unbelievable?
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Now, the online defense is that it wasn't really James Clapper.
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Do you know who would start an argument that it was really another guy?
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Oh, and the other guy that people say it is, it's really sad, but tragically, he died recently.
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Yeah, the person who they say it was died in May.
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So, coincidentally, the person who was, who sounds exactly like Clapper, who really wasn't,
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he sounds exactly like him and also coincidentally died.
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That's two really big coincidences for the same person.
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Died recently, just one we'd want to talk to him, and also sounds exactly like somebody
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I'll bet you you could take seven, eight billion people, and you wouldn't find one that sounded
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There's not a single credible part of this story.
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The essence of it is that some prominent deep state member, whose name I won't mention because
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it's not credible enough, is behind a bunch of blackmail schemes of notable people you've
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The only thing it has in its favor is that it's bipartisan.
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So it doesn't seem to be, you know, just pro-Democrat or pro-Republican.
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Sounds like something that would involve both parties.
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So that's the only thing that gives it a little feel of maybe true, but it's way beyond, it's
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If you'd like to know for sure, if it's Clapper, that would be easy.
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Because there are programs, I think you'd probably, you know, Google it and it would
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There is a way to check if somebody's word pattern usage matches their past pattern of
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And if somebody's just speaking off the top of their head, which is what the audio purports,
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So if anybody cared, you just go find one of those language matching apps, match it
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up to things he's said before, and you would know for sure.
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I just don't want to repeat it more than I have to.
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But it would be shocking and change the world if it were true.
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Israel is having a problem with African immigrants.
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And hundreds were involved in brawling and rioting.
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And so Netanyahu says he's going to deport the Africans.
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Do you think he's really going to deport Africans from Israel?
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Maybe he'll deport people who were captured on video causing trouble.
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But do you think he's going to take every African and a few hundred had a riot?
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Can he get away with that politically, domestically?
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Because I've got a feeling that the Israelis are pretty much against discriminating, or at
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Because of their history, presumably they would be very against targeting any group of
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But who knows if that's really going to happen?
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It might be a canary in the coal mine for something happening over here, but I doubt it.
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Representative Nancy Mace, who continues to be one of the more interesting people in
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politics, only because she says stuff you're not supposed to say on TV.
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So here's something she said out loud on CNN, and CNN aired it without bleeping it.
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So she said, she was talking about how the Republicans are handling the issue of abortion,
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and she said, quote, we cannot be assholes to women.
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That's my exact opinion, the political part of my opinion.
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I don't give you my own opinion on abortion, because as I often say, leave it to women.
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If women want it to be legal in my state, I'll agree.
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If they want it to be illegal in my state, I'll just say it wasn't my decision.
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So, but Nancy Mace is a woman, and she's got a credible right to her opinion on this.
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And I like the fact that she's calling it out, the political element of it.
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The political element of it is, you're going to have to make sure that women are okay with
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whatever it is the Republicans say, or you're not going to win any elections.
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Now, that's different from the issue of what you think about abortion itself.
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The messaging has to be a little smarter on the Republican side.
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And it's probably 50% less good than it could be, the messaging part, without changing the message.
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So, I saw a tweet from Joe Biden saying that diversity is the thing that he's working for.
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He's trying to get that diversity up in the country.
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They have picked up that point, the systems are better than goals.
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And, you know, they're like a whole explosion of books on the very point, the systems are better than goals.
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Apparently, the president of the United States.
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One of the most basic understood truths of business and life and being effective is that you need a system.
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Now, what would you do if you treated diversity as a goal?
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You would take from people who have what you want.
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Now, this would be true of equity or diversity, because diversity is just part of equity.
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So let's just say equity instead, because I'd say diversity is a subset of the larger question of equity.
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So equity, if that's your goal, what do you do about it?
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Well, if it's a goal, and some people have more and some people have less, it's pretty obvious.
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You take from the people who have more, you give it to the people who have less, boom, problem solved.
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That's what a goal-oriented approach gives you.
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One approach, take money from the people who have it, give it to the people who don't.
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Now, suppose you had instead a systems approach.
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What would be a system, something that you could do every day,
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that would get you not only something closer to equity,
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at least in terms of a directional thing that everybody wants to be better.
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So personal development, a lifetime of personal development,
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because you would be so much more powerful than the forces against you.
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But it also makes you much more likely to get closer to that equity range,
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or at least have a good life for yourself and your family,
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So the big problem with Democrats is they have goals,
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and Republicans continue to let them slide on that.
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And the problem is that you haven't collected your complaints
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Something you're paying attention to every day,
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So Republicans are pretty close to an A, grade A,
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for understanding that a system is better than a goal.
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Maybe you should think through all the ramifications.
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what do you do if there are too many people in prison?
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So every time you have a goal-oriented approach,
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We have to be a little bit more honest about this.
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And it's stupid according to literally everybody.
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Oh, shoot, when you say it that way, it is stupid.
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Because do you think there are a lot of Republicans
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who don't want people to do well because they're minorities?
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So the public schools were a system, but then they broke.
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So then the Republicans, more so than the Democrats,
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So what's the point of having a goal of getting everybody well-educated
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So the Republicans immediately moved to an alternate system,
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And then you see the homeschooling system thriving
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you should call it out for being part of the stupid approach to life.
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You don't even have to talk about the individual case.
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goals without a system are how stupid people act.
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including get you closer to something like equity,
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If you argue that, you're in the wrong argument.
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They made you think past the sale into their argument.
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oh, wait, is that a goal-oriented approach you have there?
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Diversity should be something that happens on its own
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because everybody had a good system for advancement.
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because everybody has a chance to get educated.
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plenty of people are going to be on the other side,
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There won't be a single person who disagrees with me.