Scott Adams talks about a new biofuel that's 45% more efficient and cleaner than old fashioned diesel, and the new FCC Chairman nominee, Brendan Carr. He also talks about being racially discriminated against in his career, and how he dealt with it.
00:03:08.900Meanwhile, Brendan Carr, who's been nominated for FCC chairman, he's on the FCC.
00:03:16.620But he is one of the people that should be in the pirate ship or the founders.
00:03:22.580If you're not watching Brendan Carr's work, especially on social media, but, you know, mostly behind the scenes doing the real work, he's one of the good guys.
00:05:18.440And so I quit and I became a cartoonist and started competing against other cartoonists who were sometimes in the DEI category and they were doing great.
00:05:34.280However, the entire Dilbert career was thrown in the trash because of one comment I made that wouldn't have really bothered anybody if they understood it in context.
00:05:49.300But if we live in the DEI world, then when you complain about racism, but you're white and male, the world says he is a racist.
00:07:19.080There's a story that I believe is fake news that said that Mitch McConnell was not in favor of recess appointments and that there wouldn't be any.
00:07:31.380I think that was withdrawn as fake news because there's no confirmation of it this morning.
00:07:37.680And whoever, the person who first brought it up has removed it.
00:07:42.220So I think you can put that on your mind.
00:10:07.440And he's saying, I think we should nominate this person.
00:10:10.700And the other one is Corey Lewandowski.
00:10:18.520Now, the reason it's funny is not because Corey Lewandowski is not good at his job.
00:10:27.040Apparently, he's so good at his job that he's back on the job.
00:10:31.860So even Corey Lewandowski, who you would consider especially good at his job, because he's back, right?
00:10:40.180He wouldn't be back if he weren't good at it.
00:10:41.820But when you're in the room and the other person who disagrees with you is generally considered the smartest person on the planet,
00:10:50.740you know, maybe not in pure IQ, but certainly in understanding how things work and how to make something work and how to engineer a good solution.
00:11:19.700Do the other people in the room say, you know, I got to disagree with Elon on this one.
00:11:26.240How exactly does that conversation go?
00:11:28.720If you put me in a room with Elon Musk and he went first and he said his idea and my idea was the opposite of that, do you know what I'd do?
00:11:37.820I'd shut the fuck up because I'd shut the fuck up because I'm pretty sure I don't have better ideas than he does.
00:11:43.760Like I might say, well, you know, maybe you should consider this variable, but I sure as hell wouldn't put myself out there in direct disagreement with one of the smartest people on the planet.
00:20:59.040I think it might be that dark triad thing that Jordan Peterson always talks about.
00:21:04.000I think there might be some narcissistic, gaslighting, psychopath kind of thing going on that may have taken control.
00:21:14.340You know, the people who are making the decisions probably are in deep therapy about their, well, maybe they're the ones who don't go to therapy.
00:21:23.640So, meanwhile, here's a fun story, two fun stories that fit together well.
00:21:29.600Did you know that many years ago, Joe Scarborough did an interview with a younger RFK junior, and the two of them were in great agreement on their personal beliefs that childhood vaccinations cause autism?
00:21:44.900And the reason that Joe Scarborough believes that's true is that his son was born in 1991, two years after the massive amount of vaccinations started being common.
00:21:59.040And he says his son is on the spectrum as a form of Asperger's.
00:22:05.120So, not only is Joe Scarborough open to the idea that vaccinations cause harm, at least at one point, he was pretty sure it harmed his own son.
00:23:04.980And I'm going to say that I was one of the people that for 20 years, whenever I heard somebody was a vaccine denier, I had a negative opinion.
00:23:24.020I lived in a world where I could observe that every other domain was completely corrupt, because I was in those other domains, so I could see how bad they were.
00:23:33.120But I wasn't really in any kind of a science domain, so I figured, oh, science must be right, but everything else is broken.
00:24:21.680All right, also talking about Morning Joe, apparently Morning Joe and Mika kind of quietly asked if they could go visit Trump at Mar-a-Lago, and he said yes.
00:24:39.280Now, what do you think that's all about?
00:24:42.800So, then they came back, and apparently they had not spoken to Trump in seven years.
00:24:47.100I didn't know that, and they said it was, you know, important to speak with him, and, you know, they wanted to, they wanted to, quote, restart communications, according to Mika.
00:24:57.300They made sure that you knew, just so you know.
00:25:00.880They don't see eye-to-eye on a lot of issues with Mr. Trump, but they did think it was important to restart communications, and Trump took the meeting, and they came back, and now they've opened up a channel.
00:25:24.000You've heard the rumors that MSNBC is up for sale, or they'd like to sell it.
00:25:30.540Now, I don't know if that's true, but if I owned that property and I saw what it was doing, I'd certainly want to sell it, if you could find somebody dumb enough to buy it.
00:25:39.760But, who's going to buy a pure propaganda network?
00:25:49.720What would make them less pure propaganda?
00:25:53.540Well, for one thing, maybe they would sometimes talk to some credible Republicans, which probably would not even be willing to go on their show.
00:26:01.640But, if you can convince Trump that talking to MSNBC is worth your time, then the senators might say, well, if Trump does it, I can do it, etc.
00:26:14.800So, it could be that what they're trying to do is paint the turd in case they can sell it.
00:26:23.560So, if somebody says, hey, you're all propaganda, who wants to buy a propaganda network?
00:26:29.760They can say, oh, well, I think we used to be kind of biased, but now, look, we have a relationship with Trump, and we had a bunch of Republicans on, and so we're showing all sides now.
00:26:40.640So, we're more like news and news opinion now.
00:26:45.140I think it's something they had to do to sell it, just by guess.
00:26:51.180Or, at the very least, it's something they had to do to stay on the air, because if they haven't talked to the president in seven years, and their show is mostly about the president, well, it makes them a little bit irrelevant if they don't have any relationship whatsoever with him.
00:27:08.540So, was Trump smart to take the meeting, and I assume he was professional and friendly?
00:27:37.280But watching MSNBC trying to figure out what's going to work is tough.
00:27:41.840If they give any time to Republicans, they're going to lose the rest of their left-leaning audience, because their left-leaning audience is not turning on MSNBC to see both sides.
00:27:52.460They've been filtered down to people who only want to see one side.
00:27:57.040Otherwise, they'd be watching something else.
00:27:59.040So, they should lose all of their remaining audience if they try to find the middle, like CNN sometimes does.
00:28:06.320And then they're just going to lose to CNN, basically.
00:28:08.960So, I don't see how they survive, actually.
00:28:10.860Speaking of CNN, Jake Tapper had Adam Schiff on, and he brought up the fact that Schiff had been basically lying about the whole Russia occlusion thing.
00:28:39.940Now, Jake was, you know, professional about it.
00:29:26.720And the guy who did that went to jail.
00:29:31.880And nobody said that had anything to do with Trump.
00:29:35.180So Schiff is maybe the biggest famous liar in the country.
00:29:40.020Anyway, it makes you wonder how that segment got booked.
00:29:51.080You know, do you think the CNN management was sitting around in a meeting and they're saying, you know, hey, our ratings are way down because no one trusts our news to be real.
00:30:24.620Meanwhile, speaking of Jen Psaki, Fox News is reporting that she said somewhere that Democrats are lost in the wilderness without a clear leader after Trump's victory.
00:31:17.400There have certainly been governors who ran and, you know, while they were running, they were in control of the party.
00:31:24.120But if you're not running for president, like really actively running, can you be a governor of a state and be seen as the leader of the national party?
00:31:40.080I mean, you could have somebody like, you know, Hochul or Governor Newsom can make news and they can do interviews and the interviews will be quoted and it may be something that other Democrats agree with.
00:31:54.020But you're never really going to see a governor as a national leader, are you?
00:31:59.640I feel like it's in the name that they're not because you can't be both the national and the state person.
00:33:03.360I know you don't like talking about it because you're a man and you say, you know, men should stay out of it or at least, you know, move to the back row.
00:33:11.860To which I'd say, well, now that I'm president, I do have an opinion.
00:34:26.080If I were just the cartoonist running for office, mildly interesting.
00:34:33.700If I were the cartoonist who was canceled during the darkest years of the American Republic, in my opinion, I guess you'd count, maybe you'd count slavery as the darkest opinion.
00:34:44.780And then, you know, maybe a few down from that, maybe the fourth darkest time in American history, something like that.
00:34:52.000But I think that I could take that story and say, which I would, you realize that I was railing against discrimination.
00:35:01.080I said, if it's true that black Americans have this bad opinion of white Americans, which is what a survey said, if the survey is true, this would suggest that we shouldn't have more separation because it looks like it'd be a real problem.
00:35:18.060And, by the way, I would advise black people, if they're thinking of moving into a new town, and one of the towns is known for having a heavy emphasis of Ku Klux Klan membership, and the other one is not, I would say every time you should pick the one not.
00:35:36.440Because, although I'm not saying anything bad about any one person in that town, I'm saying that as a collective risk, if you've got that many people in the town who are racist against you, well, you should avoid that town.
00:35:52.220Likewise, anybody else who has some big community of people of which 25% or a third of them think that you're not worth life, you should avoid them really hard.
00:36:05.220You should avoid them as hard as you can.
00:36:08.700But, again, it has nothing to do with any individual.
00:36:11.720I say, as I say often, discriminating against an individual doesn't help you.
00:36:50.940But staying away from communities which have said out loud on a survey, or in the case of the KKK, put on outfits and marched around with burning crosses, if that's happening, stay away.
00:37:06.700Now, I think I could turn the controversy about me into a platform where people will listen to whatever the hell I say.
00:37:34.220I would say we should get a team of bipartisan economists.
00:37:39.120And the bipartisan economists, every year, should look at our current situation and decide who can come in, in general, and what kind of skills we should be filtering for.
00:38:34.700But they do have a big hole there, and it wouldn't be hard to fill it if they had any quality candidates, which I'm wondering about.
00:38:41.980So instead, the Democratic strategy seems to be to turn into Triumph the Insult Dog.
00:38:49.200Do you remember Triumph the Insult Dog was a hand puppet on Conan O'Brien?
00:38:54.140And he was a recurring character, and all he would do is just insult people.
00:39:01.200Your immigration policy, I poop on it.
00:39:03.760So maybe that wasn't their best strategy for winning the national race, insult dog triumph, which is interesting because you can't spell Trump without triumph, or you can't spell triumph without Trump.
00:39:21.620According to Trump, you know, some people said, does he really think he can get Matt Gaetz approved as attorney general?
00:39:29.440Well, because that's a pretty provocative choice.
00:39:33.440Trump is certainly sending every signal that he's not only serious about it, but very serious about it, as in he's going to make this happen.