Episode 325 Scott Adams: Dale Reads “MuellerPorn” on CNN.com, Healthcare, France, More
Date: 2018-12-04 | Duration: 31:28
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Dale reads and enjoys “Mueller Porn” from CNN Government status report on low cost healthcare Canada’s Fentanyl problem and China French riot against their climate change gas tax apparently, at a 16% increase in gas cost… …people stop caring about climate change Climate change math (the economics) indicate climate change is an illusion GDP will increase and compound many times over in 80 years Climate change will cause a 10% GDP pullback in 80 years Nobody is pushing back on that interpretation Cohen emailed the Kremlin at their GENERIC email address I thought he had Russian contacts? Dems decide negotiating is a loser proposition
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but I'm pom pom pom pom pom pom pom hey Molly hey angel angels savvy whoever I'm not sure which one is your first name Sharona you're always quick Jeremy good to see you I believe some of you are sitting there with your coffee and your devices waiting for me to come on you've learned that if it's 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time 7 a.m. Pacific time you know what time it is it's time for coffee with Scott Adams and so will you please join me for what could be one of the best parts of your day please raise your glass your mug your cup your container you're jealous you're Stein fill it with your favorite beverages I like coffee and join me for the simultaneous ascent good stuff now
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I'd like to ask my co-host Dale I'd like to ask Dale to do a reading from a CNN the story that's titled the Mullard may be poised to lift the lid on his investigation now as you know Dale considers and the article about Muller on CNN to be a form of pornography and so I thought I would ask Dale to read it in his inimitable way so we could see the world through his eyes if you're Dale how much do you love this article titled Muller may be poised to lift the lid on his investigation let me get Dale for you in a moment I'll be right back
hello I would like to read for you today from an article entitled Muller whoa
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excuse me I got a little little flustered Muller oh I'm sorry I'll try to read his name again without shuddering in in pleasure Muller okay I'm not there yet Mahler may be poised to lift the lid lift the lid you got to be you know I mean on his investigation oh it gets better it just matter American may get his most intimate Oh America may get us most intimate look yet inside robert muller secretive russia investigation in the next four days with a series of disclosures i'm talking multiple disclosures here not just long a series they have the potential to be greatly
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court filings focusing on trolls first national security advisor Michael Flynn and Tuesday and it's a campaign Cameron Michael for Paul Manafort on Friday could offer tantalizing new details of Muller's deep dive how deep is the dive you know they need is it the deep dive or is it a deep dive into the 2016 campaign if the special counsel lives up to his reputation I think we know his reputation is don't we don't we oh yeah his filings will feature surprising revelations and rich texture to color the picture he has already painted in the indictments and witness testimony of a culture of wait for it endemic dishonesty I didn't trump's orbits about multiple again not just one not just one multiple so far unexplainable ties where the
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so far unexplainable ties where the Russia
here's the money shot he may also begin to add context to the answers to some of the intriguing clues he has dropped in a probe that has so far seen three people sentenced one convicted of trial at trial and seven guilty pleas and he was charged early sex PayPal and entities of the total of 192 criminal accounts this is getting close to president Trump wait for it wait for it with each twist of the investigation a fascinating trove trove I say trove is building of hints and implied connections odd coincidences and appear at shady links shady links between the key players that is crying out for explanation here comes catch my
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out for explanation here comes catch my breath it is now clear that Muller is building a layered at narrative a layered narrative starting at the edge or he is edging he's starting at the edge of the drama my first exposing right exposing Russian election interference and I'm not making this up folks and fingering the culprits I swear to God I am just reading this fingering the culprits in Moscow's spy agencies he has bolstered his story with successful swoops I gives former Trump aids like Manafort and his deputy Rick aids showing their ties to pro-russian fingers in Ukrainian Baba and here's the good part the continuum
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and here's the good part the continuum running through the investigation showing links between Trump associates and businesses and Russia that has been often subtle
my god stepping up the pace of his probe since the midterm elections Moeller has moved in a direction that appears increasingly threatening to the president including his crossing of trump's red line or are on the red line well sorry interest in this family real-estate empire this is just too good
all right the rest of its just boring so I think I won't read it and see now have I told you that it seems to me that that people reading see and then about the
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people reading see and then about the molar probe are actually literally reading it like porn that it just feels good to read these fantasies about which trouble the president is allegedly in and I'll drink to that
so you may have not seen I tweeted this but most so you probably didn't see it that the President had authorized had authorized the pump open so listen to this this is a president a government report it says not in October through executive order the administration directed the government the Department of Health and Human Services to go to come up with listen to this a high quality care and affordable prices based on promoting choice and competition so there's actually a status report coming
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there's actually a status report coming out from the government in which and I didn't know this but apparently President Trump ordered last year that the government work on creating their colleague at a health care plan but essentially packaging things that the government can do by increasing competition and getting rid of obstacles by choice and competition mostly to create lower-cost health care by promoting choice and competition now the report itself is a lot of big words and concepts and I don't really understand what they've done but apparently they've done a lot in terms of chipping away at the the market forces that were imperfect so I still think the administration has not come anywhere near where they need to be on promoting startups for healthcare especially and bringing down the
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especially and bringing down the barriers but they're working on it so the good news is the the government has an effort this seems to be exactly in the right place but seems like a lot more ting a lot more to do and they need to package that reports a little bit better because it's just a bunch of concepts and big words it's hard to read but nothing on that so it turns out that Canada is having a fentanyl problem that is very large it's as a percentage of the United States it's you know because the population is smaller than the United States it's fewer numbers but as a percentage is horrible as well and they are also talking about getting tough with China so even Canada the nicest people in the world are thinking that they need to get a little bit tougher with Canada and one of their top officials was asked I forget which the name of his office but was asked if he thought that China was intentionally
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thought that China was intentionally trying to weaken the West with fentanyl and he said he doesn't know so in other words even the government's at the top level they're not quite sure if China is intentionally trying to weaken other countries with fentanyl but that it's possible they don't rule it out that's scary there's a report today in Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal I think had something to in which the to movement has made it very difficult for women to pursue their careers because apparently Wall Street and a lot of the finance people they talk openly now about not inviting women to dinner not having private meetings with women not mentoring women and cancelling events if women will be there and women have noticed that it will be a huge problem for their careers now as you
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problem for their careers now as you might know that when the me tube movement first started picking up steam that was my prediction my prediction was that it would be a catastrophe for women who were trying to advance in their careers and one of the big problems is that if you want to be mentored and things are imbalanced right now most of the top jobs executive jobs are held by men and a lot of companies not every company but you are you're cut off from the people who would benefit you the most you can't really have a you can't really have a meeting with a woman alone and expect that that will be a safe situation or at least men don't believe it's safe I was try to think the last time that I had any kind of a meeting alone with a woman who was not Christina and I can't remember it's it's been
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and I can't remember it's it's been years a couple of years and it was for whatever the me to thing first kicked off and that was really the last time I had any kind of a meeting alone with a woman and I don't think that I would I don't think that I would all right
I've been I haven't been talking or it had not been talking about the riots in France and apparently there were 36,000 people rioted in France about the increase in the gas tax and the reason I hadn't paid attention to it is because it just seems not interesting people don't like taxes so they protested and I thought to myself that's not really the biggest story in the world people don't like a new tax so they protest bla bla bla but then somebody told me I won't tell you that
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somebody told me I won't tell you that the backdrop for this is that the gas tax was specifically designed for reducing climate change the idea was that if they taxed gas people would get more efficient vehicles it would force them toward efficiency that would lower the amount of co2 in the air and that would have a beneficial effect on climate change and so I said to myself what that can't be the story because if that were the story I would have noticed because I watched the news and even though I had only skimmed the stories about the French protest I thought to myself wait a minute if climate change was behind this whole protest that would sort of be in the headlines every time you turn it on TV they'd be talking about it bla bla bla climate change and so I was skeptical and I said to myself all right well I'll google it and I'll
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all right well I'll google it and I'll Google and see what comes up so I Google I googled it without the term climate change and a bunch of articles come up for major publications and I read it and there's nothing there about climate change there's something there about gas tax but no explanation of why you would raise the gas tax and I thought to myself well so it's not really about climate change it's just because the prices went up and people don't like that and then I thought to myself well what if I Google you know Paris gas riots climate change and only then did I find an article from a major publication in this case NBC News in which they said the context is that McCrone wanted to do something about climate change and so he wanted to raise the taxes but what he did was he decided that to fight climate change by raising taxes on the the the lower end of the
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taxes on the the the lower end of the income spectrum and it made me laugh because I thought was there no point where he saw this problem coming where you you you raised the taxes on the low income people to make things better for the top one percent and so you could argue you could argue that the real reason the protesters are protesting is just because they don't want to pay more money so you could make a story that just says oh it's just about money but if you leave out why they're talking about money in the first place which is climate change you've really missed a lot of context and here's the context of the story that I think is interesting
climate change itself might actually be good for income redistribution because I
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good for income redistribution because I said this before the people who are gonna lose property are rich people because they're the ones on the coasts poor people don't lose their million-dollar home in the hurricane because they didn't have one so of course they'll lose what they have as well but I've got a feeling that any disruption that comes from climate change is going to increase the number of jobs because people are gonna have to rebuild where things knock down people are gonna have to relocate people are gonna have to make changes build you know build walls against you know build dikes and that sort of thing so the
interesting thing was that we saw the limit to how much people are willing to worry about climate change when you you increase their gas tax by 16 percent they don't care about climate change at all they just care that they can they can't eat today so that story was
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can't eat today so that story was shocking in how I won't say the coverage is biased because it's not biased for well I biased feels like the wrong word for it they've left out the important context and that context should be in the headline it should be you should lead with there was a tax you know to support climate change remediation and France erupted and said get rid of it because that apparently they've backed off that plan so it it's really hard to read the news and think that you're getting anything like a real picture now on top of that I'm gonna bring this up again because even though I've talked about this a few times the longer the longer time goes by the more powerful this point is so the point is getting more powerful as I go it goes like this my first reaction to the
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like this my first reaction to the latest climate report when it said that GDP would go down by 10 percent was that by their own numbers they're saying it's no big deal because we're talking about the GDP in 80 years which will be up many multiples of what it is now and if it was only 10 percent less than the many multiples it's going to go up you wouldn't even notice so my take on it was I think they just told us it's not much to worry about because it's 80 years and it's a very tiny effect and by then we'll have technology to you know terraform the earth and then I forwarded an article by someone who actually knows what they're talking about as opposed to me which confirmed exactly what I was saying that the math of it suggests is not a problem now wouldn't you expect massive pushback from what I said and from the article that I forward around massive pushback people coming on and
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massive pushback people coming on and saying some version of scoff you so dumb you've done the math wrong you have not understood the proper context or you know ho ho ho look at this graph you missed or something like that right shouldn't there be people pushing back against two people in the public eye who said oh thanks for the numbers you just proved that the biggest problem in the world was an illusion now I'm not saying that the planets not warming and I'm not saying that people have nothing to do with it that's I'm not I'm not talking about the science per se I'm talking about the projections that the most credible projections this latest report said from a financial point of view which is really the only point of view that captures all the effects including people dying because all of this is sort of captured in the finances of it is trivial that the the biggest problem in
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trivial that the the biggest problem in the world once you actually do the math turns out to be trivial who is pushing back against that can you imagine me saying such a such a contrary thing about such an emotional topic and getting no pushback do you see how big a deal it is that nobody's arguing that point the biggest problem in the world has just been shown by the people who say it's a problem to be no big deal and I called it out and other people call the down with the since then and nobody's pushing back now you've watched me for a long time probably most of you most of you on here have been watching for a while and you see that I get pushed back from everything absolutely everything there's nothing I can say no matter how reasonable or no matter how
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matter how reasonable or no matter how stupid there's nothing I say that doesn't get pushed back except that now I might be wrong maybe I missed something maybe maybe there some pushback I haven't seen but if somebody's seen something let me know but the the pushback is not on the question of whether the climate is warming we're not talking about that I'm talking about the math of it the economics I believe I believe I've been shown correct on the most important prediction I've ever made and the most contrary prediction that anyone ever made do you know anybody who made the prediction that the economics of climate change wouldn't be so bad was there anyone else with anybody else in the world who said even using their own numbers doesn't look that bad to me I think I was the first now other people
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think I was the first now other people have said it in the past but Bjorn Lomborg being the most famous one and he influenced me so I'm gonna say that that he gets credit for being there first but I think I was there first in the response to this latest report on the climate all right I love you may this is a very small part of the Moller story and maybe you missed this but I think maybe only Fox News reported this but apparently we know that when Cohen was trying to work out with some deal with Russia for a Trump property you know a building in Moscow that Cohen was trying to make Kremlin connections and the way he did it was he sent an email to the generic Kremlin email I don't know what
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generic Kremlin email I don't know what that email is but let's say it's Kremlin gov because it sounds funny now here is this guy who's all connected and allegedly the Trump campaign is all his own mobbed up and connected to the the Russian insiders and to Putin and Trump's own lawyer the guy who is allegedly the most connected he's at the center he knows everything the closest he could get to to Putin was to send an email to their public email address now yeah it if if I were if I were mullah and and I'm in the meeting like it's the first time I found this out you know in molars having the beatings like her all right well what do you think I can't do a molar impression because I don't know what he sounds like which is a compliment to Muller because he stays out of the end of the limelight
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he stays out of the end of the limelight so you got to give him that but you got it you imagine him in that meeting saying well we've got this color now well squeeze them in we'll squeeze them we'll find out about his close ties to the Kremlin and how he contacted does anybody have any digital information about how he contacted Putin and then one of his people says well I might have some information I we discovered that he contacted the Kremlin by email wow that's great we got him now we got him now
now what was it in the email well it said we should work together on a building oh god now got him now go on how did we find this email and and who exactly did he address it to Wow that's just funny you should ask he adjusted to Kremlin gov they're a generic email address that you can see on the website the generic email we kind
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on the website the generic email we kind of were expecting that he would use his super super secret connections sorry am I still getting paid seem so that's hilarious all right let's talk about the government shutdown that might be looming over funding the wall all right so here's the funny thing about this situation coming up about the funding the wall versus closing the government so Trump is saying if I don't get my funding for the wall I will close the government and here's the interesting thing the anti-trump worse have been saying for two years now that a trade war nobody wins in a trade war nobody wins and here's their argument their argument is if you if you have a trade war and you push the other side
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trade war and you push the other side well then they'll they'll have a trade war back and then nobody wins so basically they've been saying for two years that negotiating is a loser's game that you shouldn't negotiate that you shouldn't push against the other side because what if they push back it's a lose-lose scenario so that's that's what they believe about trade wars they're of course completely wrong about that but that's the brand that they've created they've they've you know they've decided to die on that hill at the same time in a separate context they're looking at negotiating with the Republicans and Trump about whether to close the government or give him funding for the wall shouldn't they follow their own advice and give the president anything he wants because nobody wins when you negotiate there are no winners and
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negotiate there are no winners and indeed they're right if the government is shut down that's not good it's not good for the government it's not good for the country so if the Democrats are true to their philosophy they you don't want to negotiate because if you do the other side will negotiate back and then nobody wins they should just cave in on the wall using their own their own philosophy of negotiating because if they don't nobody wins it's only five billion dollars at least to get it started why would why would they want to negotiate when nobody wins with it with a government shutdown now somebody saying it's a bad example because the government shutdown is of course not exactly the same as trade but I would argue that the reason you think
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I would argue that the reason you think it's not the same is the problem the problem is and the reason that people are wrong on this is that it actually is the same it's exactly the same so although the you know in terms of the analogies are lots of differences trade trade is not government negotiation about the budget and you could list you know hundred differences between them but this one thing the important part is actually the same if you don't push on the other side and you're not willing to take a penalty for doing so you're not really negotiating if you're not willing to accept pain to produce more pain on the other side you don't have anything you're not you're not in the negotiations at all you're just giving them what they want so in that way it's the same somebody says Trump is done
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false equivalency it's a false equivalency it's a false equivalency I have a chapter in my new book on false equivalencies in how when people say that they're usually not part of the the reasonable conversation it's the beginning of the end for Trump
this is reading your predictions on the Flynn report now I don't have any predictions on that new book probably won't we see it till October next year
beta beta will not be a force to reckon with all right
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with all right I don't have much else to say but I will talk to you tomorrow