Episode 2229 Scott Adams: Absurd Fake News Today, Per Usual
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Summary
This is the highlight of human civilization, and it's all thanks to a cup of coffee and a morning rant about all the news you didn't get a good night's rest. Today's episode features: - Elon Musk's Accusations - Kamala Harris's Video of her Confession - Backwards Science - Why men over 40 don't live as long as women who don't have an interest in sex - Is there a link between sex and longevity? - And why is it that the more often you are aroused, the longer you live longer?
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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Or at least the highlight of human civilization that also includes coffee.
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If you'd like to take this experience to levels that no one has ever even imagined were possible,
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all you'd eat is a cup or a mug or a glass of tank or chalice or stein,
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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
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And join me now for the parallel pleasure, the dopamine at the end of the day,
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It's called the Simultaneous Sip, and it happens now.
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Well, if you're watching on YouTube, you might notice that there are no comments.
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I've disabled them because there are too many anti-Semites who I don't even think were organic, actually.
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I believe they were being sent to destroy our experience
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because they didn't seem like actual real people.
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But we will now have to deal with them at the moment.
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You may detect this kind of early on, but I decided not to sleep last night.
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You wake up and it's basically two hours after you went to sleep.
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So if I fall asleep sometime during this broadcast, you'll know why.
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Here's the first item I like to call backwards science.
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Those are studies that seem to have the causation backwards.
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So there's a recent study in the Public Library of Sciences.
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And it suggested that for the Japanese men who are over 40,
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maintaining sexual interest might be linked to a longer life,
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So men over 40 in Japan who don't have interest in sex,
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What would be something that would cause you to be uninterested in sex?
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So here's a study that basically tells me unhealthy people don't live as long.
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Somebody actually probably got a grant to study if unhealthy people live as long as healthy people.
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Because let me give you a little mind bender you can try at home.
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If you're a certain age, you've got aches and pains.
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You've got a little, maybe a little congestion.
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And maybe you've got a cough you can't get rid of.
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And then suddenly you get incredibly aroused in some sexual situation.
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Being aroused sexually is like the ultimate painkiller.
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It just makes all your problems go away simultaneously.
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Now I have a theory, which I don't think is too crazy,
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that evolution has granted us with the ability that if we're in a sexual situation,
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we just get rid of all of our problems because it wants us to focus on reproduction.
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So I feel as though, this is just a hypothesis,
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that the more often you are aroused, the healthier you will be.
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So it might also be true that making yourself aroused if you weren't in the mood
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because it would release all the feel-good chemicals.
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All right, Kamala Harris, there's a video of her.
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I don't believe it was a new video, so it didn't happen this week.
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But in the past, she had compared 9-11 to January 6th.
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Now, we're also going to talk about the accusations about Musk.
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For those of you who are following the news, and especially social media,
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does it feel as if we're, not we, but does it feel as if the bad guys are prepping to murder Musk and Trump?
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I feel like there's a narrative that's being created that they're actually traitors.
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And it's very conscious, and you can see all the usual suspects forming around the narrative.
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And honestly, to me, it looks like they're going to kill him.
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Like, actually, literally, it looks like they're planning to kill him.
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Now, I said before that, you know, that's the sort of thing that nobody could get away with
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if the public were informed and, you know, understood the news and stuff like that.
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We live in a world where half of the world would cheer if somebody got murdered on the other side.
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Half of the country would secretly say, ooh, good.
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And really, I mean, half of the country would say that was good.
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So, yeah, I'm really worried about the safety of both Trump and Musk at this point.
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Because what we've seen is there doesn't seem to be a limit to what the Democrats will do.
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I mean, they did run entire operations, ops, to put Trump in jail.
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You know, the whole Russia collusion thing was just a big coordinated op by the Democrats.
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And the reasonable outcome of that could have been Trump being jailed or killed or something.
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And when you see Kamala Harris, I mean, this was an older video, but the intention is the same.
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And comparing January 6th to things that were actually attacks on the country is amazing.
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Now, I continue to use my technique, and others have adopted it, of instead of arguing with Democrats who don't have access to the news,
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and that's the problem with their opinion, they actually don't know what's happened.
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So they can't speak to any context, because they don't see it.
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But at least if you've surveyed both sides, you're likely to get some information that you wouldn't get from any one side.
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So I just express sympathy for Democrats now, at least online, when they say things that are so uninformed that the only possibility is that their news sources are abusing them.
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So to me, they look like victims at this point, just victims of news abuse.
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So Californians got a little problem, and Gavin Newsom in particular, because he at first said he was going to appoint a black woman to replace Feinstein, if she bowed out early.
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But now he might have to back that up or back out of that, because Adam Schiff wants to have that job.
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And as you know, Adam Schiff is one of their designated liars.
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So the Democrats need to have some designated liars in office, because it gives them some comfort.
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Because if you're a regular Democrat, you don't want to have to go on TV and say insanely ridiculous lies.
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But this was not well received by Representative Barbara Lee, who apparently wants that job and would be sort of an obvious one.
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If Newsom stuck to picking a qualified black woman, she'd be high on the list.
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But she's mad because it looks like he might go back on his appointing a black woman promise.
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And she said, Representative Lee said, that the new plan is insulting to countless black women.
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So it's insulting to black women that Adam Schiff would be appointed.
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How have the Democrats lasted as long as they have without being eaten to death on the inside?
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Don't you think every single decision that Democrats make goes to this meat grinder of you're a racist, you're discriminating, you're something?
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How in the world has Gavin Newsom survived in that party?
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I mean, he must have blackmailing somebody because he's the opposite of everything they want.
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So, anyway, good luck there, Governor Newsom, because whatever you do is going to be a disaster.
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Rasmussen did a poll asking people about term limits.
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You would not be surprised that 70% or something wanted term limits.
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But how likely do you think it is that Congress, which would have to make the decision,
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how likely is it that Congress would vote to limit their own careers?
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So how many voters think that Congress would be dumb enough to get together by a big majority
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and vote away their own benefits, the benefit of staying in office and getting money?
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I don't know how you guessed so well, but that was impressive.
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Do you remember after the 2020 election was questioned,
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and there were a number of lawsuits or legal actions taken,
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but some number of them were rejected by the courts,
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because the people who were petitioning the court did not have legal standing.
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Now, I'm no lawyer, but legal standing generally means that you were injured
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or that you had some effect by the issue that you're trying to take to the court.
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You have to be somebody affected by the thing you're taking to court.
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Otherwise, you would have no, as I would say, standing.
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Well, apparently that question, because there were some things in the Fulton County
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that were taken to the courts, and the court said, you do not have standing.
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can you explain to us why a voter doesn't have standing
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The voters themselves were, of course, the victim class.
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So, of course, the voters can bring it forward,
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because, of course, they're the ones who are saying they were victimized.
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So, whatever that case was from back in 2020, it's live again.
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Well, I don't know if it'll turn up any problems,
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but I know it was turned down for an illegitimate reason,
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God, it just feels like everything is moving in that direction.
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I feel like the universe just absolutely wants this to happen.
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if every institution in our country is corrupt,
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except for all those 50 elections in 50 different states
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But 100% of everything else that has that nature,
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that there was a unanimous agreement in the Assembly
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on a bill that would make child sex trafficking in California
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But maybe California is regaining some sanity or something.
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was that he reported that Elon Musk refused to,
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that would have been used for a Ukrainian attack
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And when the Ukrainians didn't know that they didn't have coverage,
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and he realized that it was sort of a Pearl Harbor thing
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they didn't want to be part of starting World War III.
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Now, if you get this story wrong in the biography,
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are believing the version that they probably heard first,
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now knowing that it was never there in the first place,
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Because, you know, the facts are not too important.
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They're still going to make an issue out of it.
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if it had never been mentioned in the biography,
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And the Congress would certainly not be interested
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And they're still going to do something about it,
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even though they know the original story was wrong.
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makes them just look like a patriot or something.
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So they absolutely didn't care about the truth of it.
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And this is the sort of thing that makes it look like
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Two people being targeted for political purposes.
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Do you know who else thinks Trump is being targeted
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because Trump would probably get things settled
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That's about as important a story as you could have.
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Well, you can see that the Democrats have decided
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about whether this Musk stuff should be addressed
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that, of course, Musk should be punished for it.
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Now, Blinken was not going to fall for it at all.
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But then we saw, you know, MSNBC took the same tact, etc.
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almost certainly it came from some Democrat source.
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Or they just knew to do it because it's obvious.
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When he's just telling you something that's true,
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and Blinken wasn't going to buy into that narrative.
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He was just going to say that Starlink is useful.
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and his head starts to turn to the side like this.
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the physical expression that is the real story.