Episode 493 Scott Adams: Cher’s TDS Cure, Bad Studies, Omar’s Death Threats, Pelosi

Date: 2019-04-15 | Duration: 30:54

Topics

The press has nothing that it wants to report right now Things are going President Trump’s way right now The press doesn’t seem to support the left’s healthcare plans Is it because they can’t tell a lie THAT big? The press can no longer say border security doesn’t matter CHER tweets about Los Angeles sanctuary city status Mayor Pete definitely has some charisma A gay veteran who is also smart, with clever empty statements Andrew Yang goes full racist and gets away with it Says he’s an Asian that likes math…Is that racist against whites? Myth: Moderate drinking is good for you People who aren’t alcoholics…live longer Doesn’t mean booze is good for you
Myth: Women are attracted to guys that are jerks Myth: Men are attracted to women who are the “B” word Is it still embarrassing to support President Trump? People wrong about everything for the last two years If you aren’t embarrassed about being anti-Trump for last 3 years

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hello Andrew come on in where is everybody are you in church are you sleeping late come on oh there's Dan there's Chris good to see you Nancy Dale and uh nacho dollar ly Beth come on in grab your Container full of liquid it might be a cup or a glass or a mug it might be a Stein or a flask it could be a tankered or a chalice or a thermos I like mine filled with coffee but whatever you've got in yours it's time to join me for the simultaneous sip oh it's going to be good here it
comes good stuff woo so the news continues to be hilarious unintentionally um and the hilarious thing about it is that the reason that

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thing about it is that the reason that there's so little actual news happening right now have you you noticed that I've talked about it for a few days that the news just got kind of quiet and if you think about it there's a perfectly good reason because most of the press exists to say bad things about the president and that requires them to say bad things about the world that he could have fixed or he ruined or he broke but pretty much everything's going the right direction if you were to look at the number of bullets being fired by the United States or at the United States is it more or fewer than when Trump took office probably far fewer bullets and bombs so war is far less in the age of trump far less probably I don't know when was the last time in history the United States was involved in less war

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United States was involved in less war than it is right now you know we're we're involved in a lot of countries but the number of you know bombs and bullets is probably pretty low historically speaking for the United States then of course the economy is zooming and there's nothing to talk about except things that are good for the president pretty much right down the line it's all good for the president but it gets even funnier because there are some sort of Evergreen complaints to make about the president that the news can always rely on the most reliable thing that the news can say about this President is that everything the president does is racist what did he do in the last 24 hours well he tweeted support of Tiger Woods Tiger Woods being a person of color that's right the president was was tweeting what a great Champion he was and rooting for the black

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and rooting for the black guy what can what can the Press say about that well it doesn't really fit with their whole he's a racist kind of thing what else is in the news well we've got Herman Kain president Trump nominee to to be at the
the fed and Herman Kane is getting some push back from Democrats Herman Kane is black who is it who opposes the nomination of this qualified black man to a high office Democrats who is who is promoting the career and and uh and good work of this black man president Trump what the hell are they going to say they got nothing to talk about there's just nothing to talk
about um do you remember NFL kneeling it's over right the NFL people were kneeling and now they're not or at

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were kneeling and now they're not or at least nobody's talking about it just sort of went away what else we have going on oh they it's awkward for the press to talk about the Mueller report because it didn't go their way worse yet it's hard to talk about Bob bar because Bob bar said there was spying and it's time to investigate the investigators in effect absolutely everything is going the president's way so they can't really talk about it the way they would like to what about uh what about Pelosi and the Democrats well the only news about them is that Pelosi is insulting other Democrats by saying that there are only you know five people in the AOC wing and she's basically minimizing them that's not bad for president Trump is it what about uh climate change have you noticed that things have

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change have you noticed that things have gotten a little quieter on climate change do you know why things are quieter on climate change because Trump solved it now I know very few people in the world will uh agree with the fact that I just said Trump solved climate change but he did yeah somebody says how um what many people don't know because the Press is completely not reporting it is that the Trump Administration is based on their actions pro- nuclear specifically not the old kind of nuclear that was dangerous and nobody wanted well some people wanted it but it was it was more risky but the new generation for nuclear technology that is free from risk of meltdown it's designed so that's not even an option and it uses nuclear waste from older sites as its

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from older sites as its fuel it's everything good and apparently um I think Canada's already put one in operation other countries are building them so Generation 4 is definitely uh coming it's coming in other countries it's coming here and it is absolutely the right solution for climate problems and it's probably right in two different ways and by the way I haven't heard anybody talk about this so the two ways that climate that um Generation 4 nuclear solves climate risk and by the way it doesn't even matter if the climate is a risk because you would still do generation for nuclear anyway but one way is that it could replace carbon sources of energy the that's the obvious benefit but the other other benefit is that there are Technologies in case we need it you I know some of you say we don't need it but in case we need it we would

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need it but in case we need it we would we might need someday 10 years 20 years to directly remove any extra CO2 from the environment now you don't want to take down so much that the plants die so you got to be careful with it but we would be careful and the big the big cost of removing CO2 is energy if you've got cheap energy suddenly it becomes a lot more economical and possible to start sucking CO2 directly out of the air if you have if you have nuclear energy suddenly you can uh desalinate oceans so if climate change was going to cause some disruption because of water being in the wrong place or not enough of it well nuclear kind of solves that too because you could just desalinate a bunch of sea water so the Trump Administration has some things going um

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Administration has some things going um they've authorized some a test site for nuclear fuel of this new kind Etc so it seems that there is motion and apparently it's bipartisan both the Democrats and Republicans agree that this is a way to go so climate change has largely been solved in the in in the sense that we have a practical way forward that almost certainly will will be the right way and it was the Trump administration because they were not caught up on the the
the psychological um fear of nuclear apparently all right so that's going well what else is going well so um I'm a big critic of the president when it comes to health care I believe that the president has not done enough on health care I think the Republicans have not done enough and I think the Democrats have not done enough but here's what's interesting have you noticed that the Press who leans very

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noticed that the Press who leans very heavily to Democrats have you noticed that the Press does not support as far as I can tell based on the way they talk about it the way the pundits talk about these things it appears that the Press on the left does not support the health care programs on the left am I wrong just watch how the Press covers the health care topic they'll talk about it and they'll say Bernie wants this and you know maybe AOC wants this or whatever they'll talk about it but the Press is not on board with those plans because they can't bring themselves to tell a lie that big because we you know in the sense that we don't know how to pay for it and the Democrats are not suggesting a way to pay for it that that adds up so even health care which should be the weakest point for the president is not as weak as it should be because

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is not as weak as it should be because even the Press can't take the other side cuz nobody knows what the heck to do meanwhile the administration is actually doing a few good things in terms of Market competition so they're they're dropping some regulations that might actually make a difference uh the ability to pool um small businesses together to buy healthc care that's new that's something the administration allowed uh the creating associations across state lines that's new the the Improvement in the rate of uh of approvals for generic drug drugs that's new that came from the administration and it it directly has an impact on lowering drug prices so even even the very worst topic for this President Healthcare it doesn't look much better for the Democrats it's just a bad topic that nobody can solve but the fact that this Pro president has not solved it per se is

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president has not solved it per se is not looking that bad compared to no other plan to do anything and the fact that they are doing things that kind of work then you take the other biggest problem that this president has had since day one his other biggest problem was immigration and what was his sort of meta theme the big theme was that if you don't control your border you lose your country and if you if you don't make it a negative to try to get in you'll get more people trying to get in and it will just get worse now I would say everything the president has said could happen is happening right in front of us the Press can no longer say that border security doesn't matter the way they used to say it it's obvious it matters now uh and then the president's clever plan to uh to invite the S Sanctuary cities to take all the immigrants uh has had the desired effect I think of

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uh has had the desired effect I think of making people think about the reality in a way that they have had the luxury of not having to think about it in real terms you always have the luxury of just talking in you know high level terms about we should be nice we're a country of immigrants blah blah blah but there's no there's no meat on that you know it's just a half pinion a half pinion is when you just look at the benefits of something and you ignore the costs or vice versa but the but Trump calling their their bluff if you will to move everybody to a sanctuary city does make them think about the reality of it and take for example the some of the most basic things that people on the left want well one of the things they want is to preserve the character of their neighborhoods that's sort of something the people on the left want it's like hey let's you know let's not change our neighborhoods let keep the character of the neighborhoods well all that's going

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the neighborhoods well all that's going to change if you bring in any outside population no matter how awesome those people are just having more people who have a different background is going to change the nature of your place so I think you're going to see people starting to worry about traffic start people starting to worry about you know uh an assault on their systems Etc so I think that the president's argu M about immigration has now been proven a lot closer to being the the adult opinion than the other side um you may have seen I've seen a number of you trying to prompt me to talk about this that even Sher who is one of the more famous critics of the president even Sher is saying wait a minute wait a minute if you turn all these immigrants loose into Los Angeles what happens to the 50,000 people in Los Angeles who don't have jobs by the way can you hear hear me or

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jobs by the way can you hear hear me or are you hearing only background noise I can't tell if if I'm being overwhelmed by the background noise right now but tell me if I am so even share has basically said hey maybe we should rethink this and take care of the people we already have as opposed to bringing in new people and so I'm starting to wonder I'm starting to wonder if uh the president's clever persuasion move to say hey we'll move them to the sanctuary cities I wonder if that made a difference I wonder if it moved the dial it sort of feels like it did anyway so yesterday I made a special point to listen to a speech by Pete Buddha Buddha judge um I'd seen only clips of him answering a question here or there I'd seen photographs of him I'd seen written

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seen photographs of him I'd seen written I'd seen written words from him but I had not I had not seen him speak and so I was very curious because he's getting all the attention he's moved up to is he third in the poll or fourth he's he's so he's now in the leader group and so I said well okay I'm going to have to pay attention to him now going to start listening to Mayor Pete So I listened to his speech and I got to tell you um he definitely has some Charisma I would say that mayor Pete has more
Charisma probably than anybody else he's running against I mean Bernie has his own thing going but he's sort of not as interesting and young and you know he's a little less provocative than than and Bernie is old and white uh and straight so he's just not

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white uh and straight so he's just not as interesting so I'm going to say that Pete Budaj here's my I'll give you my review of him as a candidate uh very very smart very smart I love the fact that he's gay and a
a veteran that is such a powerful combination because if you're if you're conservative veteran almost trumps everything else right everything but crime you know if you're on the right and somebody says this person's a veteran you pretty much have a good impression of that person unless they've committed a crime you know that's sort of the the line people would draw so he is fascinating as a checking off the box he checks just the right boxes at just the right time to be dangerous but here's my overall

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impression his speaking style is mostly empty clever phrases he has more empty clever phrases than anybody you'll ever listen to now because they're clever they're fun to listen to and they're fun to repeat and to you know they'll be very tweetable very quotable but they're completely empty and it's just sort of a here's a clever concept you see what I did with those words yeah you see that watch this here's another one I'm taking this and I'm transposing it next to that I'm referring to this and I've made a pretty intellectual connection between those things how about that huh huh and the people in the is like damn that's clever that is clever I'm so glad we have somebody who's smart and clever cares about the country I love this but here's the thing it's just all empty it's it's like background noise I

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empty it's it's like background noise I don't remember a single freaking thing he said I have no memory of anything he said I only have this general impression I remember there were clever words in it well that's it I remember there were clever words now uh somebody says like Jordan Peterson now completely different than Jordan Peterson Jordan Peterson if you listen to him he he will take the top of your head clear off uh I've never seen anybody speaking of Jordan Peterson I've never seen anybody who could so quickly um just scramble your brain and real time I mean he's a professional he he knows how to do that psychologist uh and an expert in communication so that's a whole different deal I would not compare in any way Jordan Peterson's intellectual conversations which I would put at a 10 in terms of

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which I would put at a 10 in terms of being accessible right Jordan Peterson is the most accessible to the Ordinary People intellectual that's a very rare place to be there are intellectuals who are probably smarter and no more but they can't communicate the way he does all right let's talk about Andrew Yang so Andrew Yang has once again Gone full racist and it's sort of shocking because he's getting away with it he he made a uh a quip at a public event recently in which he said he was the opposite of President Trump and then he went on to explain what that means he said the opposite of trump Trump is that he's an Asian who likes math is that
okay is that okay because that sounds pretty racist to me because you know the the implication of course is that Asians

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the implication of course is that Asians are better at math and Trump is a white boy who's you know doesn't care about math or isn't good at it now Yang didn't say what I just said those are my words not his but how does he not know that it sounds like that how how does Andrew Yang not know that to my my brain it just sounded racist against white men or white people I guess so I want to like him because he's got a lot of good ideas smart guy got a lot of good ideas I want to like him but it's not going to get there that way all right so let's talk about um so anyway the news is sort of quiet because uh Trump is succeeding at a level that we've never really seen before correct me if I'm wrong have we ever seen a president as successful as

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ever seen a president as successful as president Trump already is because remember war is down economy is up climate change we have a plan to solve it I mean it's pretty good and even even Health Care the people who need hospital care get it they just don't have any insurance to pay for it so even Healthcare people are largely covered they're just you know the economics of it are not right anyway I want to talk about two studies that make me laugh whenever I see them because people believe they're true the first one is well one only one of them is a study but the first one is that moderate drinking is good for you because when they do a study of moderate drinkers they find that they live longer apparently now if you see a study that says we we've divided the world into two categories the moderate Drinkers and then the the people who are

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Drinkers and then the the people who are not moderate drinkers which one of those would you expect to live longer well the people who are not moderate drinkers include people who have diabetes it also includes alcoholics all right so if you were to take any group let's say uh people who play Bingo people who have red hair if you could take any group in the world and compare them to the group that includes all the alcoholics and all the people with diabetes wouldn't they have a a better life expectancy you know just the redheads all the left-handed people in the world will live longer than whatever category has all the alcoholics and all the people with diabetes in it so what I see that study it makes me laugh because to me it's the most obvious fake study studies I think it's been studied more than once it's so obviously fake but

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than once it's so obviously fake but it's it's entered the the the world as something that's been shown lots of times to be
true all right um yes and people people who have major health problems don't drink moderately so the entire category of people who are already unhealthy happens to be in the other group so of course the moderate drinkers are going to are going to look like they're healthier because they didn't have any problems to start with um now the other one that that makes me laugh uh somebody says you appear to have confirmation bias against [Laughter] alcoholism I I do uh the other the other one is not a study but more maybe there's some study I don't know about more of a common belief so how many of you have this common belief that uh women prefer men who are

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belief that uh women prefer men who are jerks and Men often prefer women who are uh the b word how many of you believe that's true that men are attracted to women who are kind of you know the b word as in b TCH and that women are attracted to men who are jerks I'm seeing I'm looking at your answers so I'm seeing some knows yeah the bad boys so to speak uh I'm seeing some yeses in some NOS all right the ones who say no are by far the more aware people here's what's really going on power corrupts and the more power you have the more corrupt you will be and who has more power in the dating world the people who have the most power in the dating world are the people who look

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the dating world are the people who look the best the people who are the most attractive so if you're either an attractive man or an attractive woman do you need to try as hard you don't if you're very attractive can you be a jerk to other people and they'll still want to be with you yes you can so I think that when When You observe that it seems that women like bad boys and it seems that women yeah it seems that men like women who are unkind to them it's just an illusion because the only people who can be unkind and still have somebody with them are very attractive people if you are unattractive and also unkind you're probably not in a relationship anyway those two studies about the alcohol being good for you in moderation and people liking people who are bad for them are just completely you know Illusions as far as as I can tell

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uh somebody says wrong it's called game well that's part of it but the the total number of men who actually play that game is pretty pretty small if you're talking about
nagging all right so uh I believe that that is all the news that is fit to print nothing much else is happening
and so I will keep it short today and let us let us enjoy the fact except for Charlie's theen somebody says uh let us enjoy the fact that everything is working well you you let let me revisit a few things I said um the worst prediction I ever made and one that people retweeted with the phrase this did not age well uh I think I predicted that by the end of the first year of the Trump term

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end of the first year of the Trump term that it would become embarrassing to be a Democrat and to be opposed embarrassing to be opposed to the president so I predicted that after the first year things would go so well for the president that everybody who' been against him it would just be sort of embarrassing well that first Fier year came and went and people retweeted my tweet and said well this didn't age well you sure missed this one man you missed it by a mile turns out it took two years two and a
a half at this point in time it's got to be a little embarrassing to have opposed the president because if you oppose the president you thought the economy would go bad you'd get us into a war you thought that uh he was wrong on immigration becoming a problem if we don't deal with it and you thought that he was a Russian puppet basically if you had been against this president for the last I know three years or whatever you were wrong about

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years or whatever you were wrong about everything you were just wrong about freaking everything and and as you're watching him uh you know be the the president who made prison reform happen and he's promoting Tiger Woods and he's trying to get Herman Kane into a higher office and you you're watching the you have to be shaking your head and saying what what what did I believe to be true for the last three years all the evidence all of the evidence is against everything I believe let's take any belief one of the beliefs is that he was literally um mentally unfit is there anybody who's looking at what he's done over the last few years in terms of accomplishing things who can honestly say oh yeah the last three years clearly show he's mentally unfit I don't think anybody's holding that in their head anymore except as you know a cheap political attack people thought he was literally

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attack people thought he was literally Hitler hasn't worked out that way so there's almost nothing that I can think of that people's original you know view of the world that managed to survive two and a half years so let me say it if you're not embarrassed at being anti-trump for 3 years if it doesn't embarrass you to have been wrong about literally everything from you you name it just everything if that doesn't embarrass you well congratulations you've learned how not to be embarrassed at things that should embarrass you anyway I'm can to leave it at that uh have a great day